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FROM master and student to rival on rival, things get interesting when leading openside flanker David Pocock and his Wallabies understudy Michael Hooper clash in the Super Rugby this weekend.
The Brumbies, who lead the Australian conference by five points, travel to Perth to meet Western Force on Saturday, in the first week back after the international break.
For Hooper, it's a chance to prove what he's learnt after three weeks working alongside Pocock - both Wallabies and Force captain - in the Australian squad.
"He was really helpful for me in that set-up and surroundings and he took me in straight away and showed me the ropes," the 20-year-old said on Monday, when he rejoined his Brumbies teammates.
"So yeah, it will be odd playing him this week considering we only broke up yesterday."
Hooper has been a revelation for the Brumbies this season, and was duly rewarded with a Wallabies cap, playing his first minutes at the tail-end of Australia's 9-6 loss to Scotland on June 5 in Newcastle.
He was a solid contributor during the first Test against Wales - and although a forgettable final five minutes in the second may have cost him a run in the third, Hooper said the opportunity had been rewarding.
The Force are in 13th spot on the Super ladder and are last of the Australia teams, are expected to lift as they farewell lock Nathan Sharpe in his last game at nib Stadium.
Sharpe has postponed his retirement to help the Wallabies during the Rugby Championship, but it will be his last game in front of a home crowd.
Those factors have Brumbies coach Jake White wary of an ambush, despite having notched the points against the Force 19-17 in their opening round battle in February.
"(Our returned Wallabies) bring energy back ... but there's a mass amount of energy that (the Force) get back as well," he said.
Bringing his squad together for the first time since the break on Monday, White said only time will tell how the international window will affect the Brumbies' momentum, with three games left to play.
White will have some tweaking of his usual line-up to do, with winger Joe Tomane remaining sidelined with an ankle injury and also questions over No.8 Fotu Auelua, who hurt his hamstring playing in Canberra's local competition.
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The City of Richmond has once again claimed a spot in Canada's top 10 cities for its annual Culture Days activities.
Richmond ranked fifth among mid-size cities across the country.
Culture Days is a national celebration of arts and culture and was founded in 2009.
“Richmond has a proud history of supporting a vibrant arts and culture community and has placed among Canada’s Top 10 cities every year since 2010,” said Mayor Malcolm Brodie.
“This ranking once again highlights the quality of our events and creative festivities and demonstrates our city’s commitment and support to engage the community in the arts scene.”
This year's Culture Days saw 1,500 community members attend Culture Days, which offered 63 different activities.
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After the announcement of the candidature of Mr Naidu, the Prime Minister in a series of tweet said, he knows Mr Naidu for years and has always admired his hard work and tenacity.
Voting for the V-P elections will be held on August 5 and counting of votes will be held the same day.
The Congress had been looking to score a victory in at least the vice-presidential election and hence fielded a candidate whose Gandhi surname they could use to stir old feelings of loyalty in its voter base. Naidu will now file his nomination papers tomorrow.
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Given that he's now the BJP's choice to contest the vice-presidential polls, it's obvious that this is a party decision that the leader had to accept keeping his own political aspirations aside.
Besides the senior BJP leaders, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, the Telugu Desam Party and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam have also pledged their support to Naidu.
All members of the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, including nominated members, form the electoral college for electing the Vice President. Party sources said BJP's Andhra unit also had complaints against Naidu as he was seen as someone not allowing the party to grow because of his close ties with TDP chief and state chief minister Chandrababu Naidu- as they both belong to the same community.
Not that the decision upset Naidu because he was an integral part of the Advani-headed core team that dominated the BJP's policy-and-decision-making apparatuses for years.
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The earlier published letter of alleged US withdrawal from Iraq not standing at all. According to the U.S. Defense Secretary, there were no plans for the US pullout.
“There’s been no decision to leave Iraq. Period,” Secretary Mark Esper told reporters at the Pentagon on Monday, in what appears to have been an off-camera briefing.
US-led coalition in Iraq announced it was preparing to “move out” of the country out of respect for Iraqi independence. However, Pentagon officials later explained it was an unsigned draft sent by “mistake.”
In that letter, the head of Combined Joint Task Force Iraq, General William H. Seely III, allegedly informed the Iraqi government of preparations to reposition the coalition forces “in due deference to the sovereignty” of Iraq.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley said that the letter Seely had sent was only a draft and that releasing the letter was a “mistake.” The Iraqi military officials confirmed receiving it, however.
The US President Donald Trump rejected the withdrawal on Sunday, threatening Iraq with sanctions and saying the US will not leave until the Iraqis “pay us back” for an airbase that he said to cost billions of dollars to build.
“We have a very extraordinarily expensive airbase that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it […] We will charge them sanctions like they’ve never seen before ever. It’ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame”, Trump said Sunday, while traveling back to DC from Florida.
On Sunday, the Iraqi parliament delivered a resolution asking the government to ask all foreign troops – including the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) – to leave Iraqi soil. The decision comes after last week’s assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike outside the Baghdad International Airport.


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Security staff at UK hospital systems South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust and City Hospitals Sutherland NHS Foundation Trust in England are now wearing body cameras, according to an article on the Campus Life Security website.
Staff wearing the cameras will operate the equipment in stand-by mode when patrolling.
If they begin to record an incident, they must first announce they are recording.
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust officials said the hospitals already have CCTV systems but the use of the body-cams can act as a deterrent to crime.
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Harnessing Twitter to empower scientific engagement and communication: The ISTH 2020 virtual congress experience
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Sheriff jailed: Judge revokes bond, says she will reconsider if Arnold resigns
NASHVILLE — Sheriff Robert Arnold will be locked up or agree to resign while he awaits his Feb. 7 JailCigs jury trial after domestic assault accusations of his wife, a judge ruled Wednesday morning.
"I find sufficient probable cause that Robert Arnold committed (domestic assault against his wife)," U.S. Magistrate Judge Alistair Newbern ruled Wednesday morning.
She also ordered that Arnold be escorted out of her courtroom by a U.S. marshal, who placed handcuffs on the sheriff's wrists, which were held behind his back.
Newbern revoked Arnold's $250,000 bond in the JailCigs case and ruled probable cause exists that the Rutherford County sheriff was involved in witness tampering and intimidation as well as an assault on his wife. The judge also expressed concerns about Arnold abusing the authority of his office, such as with his deputies responding to the reported domestic assault or through retaliation of anyone cooperating with the JailCigs investigation.
However, the judge left opened the possibility of Arnold being released if he resigns from office and agrees to stay away from his wife and Rutherford County deputies.
Messages seeking to find out if Arnold would resign were left with his Nashville attorney, Tom Dundon, but he was unavailable for comment.
When Arnold learned about his indictment in the JailCigs case May 27, state Sens. Bill Ketron and Jim Tracy and Rutherford County Mayor Ernest Burgess called for the sheriff to resign.
The next day Arnold responded through a text message to The Daily News Journal: "On the record, I have no intentions of resigning."
The Rutherford County Commission also unanimously voted 21-0 on a resolution asking Arnold to resign.
Who's in charge
Second-in-command Chief Deputy Randy Garrett will take charge of the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office while Arnold is in jail, Burgess said. Garrett accepted the second-in-command position from Arnold after the sheriff won his seat as a Republican in the August 2010 election.
The Sheriff's Office confirmed that Garrett is in charge.
"Chief Deputy Randy Garrett said the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office has a dedicated staff who will continue to serve the citizens of Rutherford County," Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lisa Marchesoni said in a statement. "In Sheriff Arnold’s absence, Chief Deputy Garrett will oversee operations of the Sheriff’s Office."
Arnold will continue to receive his annual salary of $127,078 while behind bars, Burgess said.
"That's the way I read the state statute," the mayor said during a Wednesday morning phone interview before Arnold's federal court hearing in Nashville. "He's still the sheriff until he is convicted of a felony. When that occurs, he is removed as sheriff."
State law does provide that an acting sheriff can be in charge whenever the sheriff is incapacitated, such as being detained while awaiting trial, the mayor said.
In Arnold's case, he and his uncle John Vanderveer and Joe Russell, the Sheriff's Office accounting chief, face a 14-count federal indictment accusing them of illegally profiting from inmates through the sale of JailCigs, an electronic cigarettes business.
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The three pleaded not guilty to charges that include conspiracy, wire fraud, honest services fraud, extortion under color of federal law and attempted witness tampering.
When it came to the domestic assault issue, Newbern read her ruling out loud on Wednesday morning after holding a hearing that lasted more than five hours the day before.
Newbern mentioned how the sheriff's wife had given statements to the Tennessee Bureau of investigation that matched up with what she said on a phone recording with former Eagleville Police Chief Elijah Stuard.
Both accounts retold a physical altercation that took place on Labor Day between Arnold and his wife, the judge said while reading statements from the sheriff's wife, Megan Arnold.
"This really scared me," the judge said while reading aloud to repeat what Arnold's wife had said.
The judge also noted the wife's statement suggesting Arnold attempted to prevent her from giving statements about what happened.
Newbern also noted testimony of how the sheriff on the Labor Day incident in question had communicated a message to Deputy Sgt. Todd Hammond to "mess with Megan" in responding to Arnold's home about possible domestic violence. After Hammond had left, the sheriff communicated another message to thank Hammond and tell the sergeant, "Just having fun."
Hammond told the TBI that he didn't see evidence that domestic assault had occurred, according to court testimony.
When it came to Newbern's concerns about Arnold abusing his authority and how deputies might fear retaliation, she mentioned how the sheriff fired former Sheriff's Office third-in-command Virgil Gammon after Gammon provided information to investigators examining Arnold's involvement with JailCigs.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott keeps steamrolling his way towards the 2018 Republican senatorial nomination.With the way he has been creating jobs, backing law enforcement, bromance with President Trump, and helping to improve the state economy, there is no way on God’s green earth that Scott will not win the nomination when he decides to run against incumbent Senator Bill Nelson (D).
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I said I would post last night but wound up working until 2a.m. The house I'm rewiring is within visual range of theirs. The owner/customer and the 2 next door neighbors think the same thing I do; this is another big sham. Nobody in that neighborhood thinks the parent/s weren't involved. But hey, according to several of the post on this thread we should be thoughtful for them. Why stop there? Lets BS ourselves into believing their were WMD's in Iraq, the Fed reserve isn't screwing us, and our politicians represent us. I bet most of the people asking us here to "pray for the parents" don't even have kids. That would be an understatement, most likely can't even take care of themselves. But what the hell, you've got an internet connection and get to hide behind a screen and pretend you're opinion about people you've never met in a place you've never been matters. BRAVO, a real contribution, all of you.
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Says the person with no ties to this other than what they read on MSM. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you live here off of Parvin and Brighton in NKC. What's that? Oh you don't, you've got a friend/family member who does? No? You're smart enough to post on an internet site about something you have no direct ties to yet dumb enough to believe the very MSM that drew you to this site. God, Allah, Karma, what ever you pretend to believe in, help us all.
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The news scroll at the bottom of the show I am watching has new info
....the parents are no longer cooperating with detectives....
Now that could just mean that they are sick of being questioned and want the police to look elsewhere..they did stay all day yesterday at the cop shop.
Or it could be incriminating.
Police had said earlier Thursday that the parents of the baby are no longer cooperating with authorities, and that their claims that whoever took their daughter stole their cellphones hasn't produce any leads.
"Tonight, they decided to stop talking to detectives, and I don't have to illustrate how that affects the investigation. That speaks for itself," he said.
FOX 4's John Pepitone describes a heated conversation police had with the baby's parents at the wooded area where police were searching. According to witnesses, the parents, Jeremy Irwin and Debbie Bradley, were seen having an animated discussion with police before speeding off in their car.
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Less than 40 minutes later, police announced Thursday night that command post was folding.
The parents of missing Missouri baby Lisa Irwin are upset with "tough tactics" used by the police to extract information from them about what happened to their 10-month old.
The couple was displeased with how they were treated on Thursday during a day-long interrogation. Tactics allegedly used by the police included trying to turn the parents against one another, directly accused the mother of having failed a polygraph test, and accusing her of having something to do with the disappearance of her baby girl.
The parents say they are cooperating with the investigation but a statement from the Kansas City police claims the couple "no longer want to talk to detectives."
The mother of a 10-month-old girl who went missing from their Kansas City home said police told her she failed a lie detector test and accused her of being involved in her baby's disappearance.
Deborah Bradley said Friday that police never showed her the results of the test and denied knowing anything about what happened to her daughter, Lisa Irwin. Bradley and the baby's father, Jeremy Irwin, say Lisa was abducted from her crib late Monday or early Tuesday.
"They said I failed (a polygraph test)," Bradley, 25, told the Associated Press. "And I continued to say that's not possible because I don't know where she's at and I did not do this."
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The mother said detectives told her: "'You did it. You did it. And we have nothing.'"

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Simple Things Festival came back to Colston Hall for it’s third year with another incredible line-up of acts. Taking place in venues across the city, the festival endeavours to showcase the best in contemporary music, and 2015 was no exception.
Once again the whole of Colston Hall – including the Main Hall, The Lantern, Foyer Performance Space and Terrace – was taken over on the Saturday.
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When Billy Butler led off the bottom of the ninth with a single Thursday in a tie game against the Mariners, it gave him his third career five-hit game. It was also the end of his day; the Royals pulled him in favor of Pedro Ciriaco.
The switch didn’t work out — Ciriaco was left stranded at second — but it also didn’t cost the Royals, as they went on to win on a Mike Moustakas homer in the bottom of the 13th.
Had Butler remained in, he would have had a chance to go for the first six-hit day for a Royal since Joe Randa had one in 2004. They’re have been two six-hit games in the majors this season; Jean Segura went 6-for-7 for the Brewers on May 28 and Alex Rios went 6-for-6 for the White Sox on July 9. There hadn’t been a single six-hit game in any of the previous three seasons.
For Butler, it was the 29th time this season that he’s been removed early from a game. It happened less when Jarrod Dyson — manager Ned Yost’s favorite pinch-runner — was on the DL and when he was playing more regularly in the outfield, but now that rosters have expanded, Butler will probably get resume getting pulled for pinch-runners more frequently.
Mariners’ right-hander Felix Hernandez is looking at a 3-4 week recovery period, the team announced on Friday. Hernandez has been officially diagnosed with bursitis in his right shoulder after getting pulled from his last start against the Tigers on Tuesday.
It’s not the first shoulder issue the 31-year-old righty has dealt with during his career. Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times notes that Hernandez was previously diagnosed with bursitis during a minor league stint in 2005, several weeks prior to making his major league start for Seattle. This time around, however, the injury is coupled with a few years of not-so-sharp stuff, waning velocity and career-low numbers, and while it’s certainly not a worst-case diagnosis, it seems like greater cause for concern.
Without Felix, the Mariners will keep rolling with James Paxton, Hisashi Iwakuma, Ariel Miranda, Yovani Gallardo and Chase De Jong in their rotation. They’ll also keep Ben Gamel in right field, with starting right fielder Mitch Haniger expected to miss 3-4 weeks after sustaining a Grade 2 strain in his right oblique on Tuesday.
The Rays acquired minor league reliever Drew Smith from the Tigers on Friday, per a team announcement. The move will close the loop on the trade the two teams began in January for backup outfielder Mikie Mahtook.
Smith, 23, pitched his first full season in Single-A West Michigan in 2016, turning in a 2.96 ERA, 4.3 BB/9 and 11.5 SO/9 in 48 2/3 innings. The right-hander is still several levels away from making any impact on the Rays’ major league roster, but appears to be progressing steadily in two seasons of pro ball and has delivered two runs, four walks and 12 strikeouts in his first 11 2/3 innings at High-A Lakeland this season. Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports that he’ll be reassigned to the Rays’ High-A Charlotte this week.


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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer merging German offices
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is planning to consolidate an office in Germany, stating its goal as boosting its presence in the country's industrial heartland, Rhineland. The offices that will be consolidated are the Düsseldorf and Cologne offices, and the decision is not yet made, which office will close. With an office lease expiring in 2017, however, Cologne is viewed as the likely office to close.
The firm's heritage in Germany is tied directly with its legacy firms Deringer Tessin Herrmann & Sedemund and Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löbber. The two firms merged with Freshfields in 2000. Deringer was headquartered in Cologne beginning in 1970 up until the merger. Bruckhaus meanwhile was based in Hamburg. The merger made it the largest international firm operating in Germany and has instructed the culture of the firm since.
Several firms have been attempting to make their German operations very lean. Clifford Chance, Mayer Brown, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Olswang are just a few firms that have undertaken efforts to trim operations or else close or consolidate offices in the country.

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In March, we bathed in the spring breeze and kept moving forward. The “small tail” left in February was completed this week.
Last year we participated in the Cambodia Exhibition, India Exhibition and Pakistan Exhibition. This March is another new chapter. In the new week, we will set off again and sail to the Philippines market.
The 2019 Philippine Building Materials Exhibition (WORLDBEX 2019) will be held at the SMX Convention Center and the WTCWorld Trade Center from March 13th to March 17th, 2019.
In March, a poetic season, today is not only the February 2nd of the lunar calendar, but also the 3.8 Goddess Day (International Women's Day). Without the sun, flowers will not open; without love, there will be no happiness; without women, there will be no love; Without a mother, there would be no poets or heroes.


49 CFR § 178.338-14 - Gauging devices.
(a) Liquid level gauging devices.
(1) Unless a cargo tank is intended to be filled by weight, it must be equipped with one or more gauging devices, which accurately indicate the maximum permitted liquid level at the loading pressure, in order to provide a minimum of two percent outage below the inlet of the pressure control valve or pressure relief valve at the condition of incipient opening of that valve. A fixed-length dip tube, a fixed trycock line, or a differential pressure liquid level gauge must be used as the primary control for filling. Other gauging devices, except gauge glasses, may be used, but not as the primary control for filling.
(3) If a fixed length dip tube or trycock line gauging device is used, it must consist of a pipe or tube of small diameter equipped with a valve at or near the jacket and extending into the cargo tank to a specified filling height. The fixed height at which the tube ends in the cargo tank must be such that the device will function when the liquid reaches the maximum level permitted in loading.
(4) The liquid level gauging device used as a primary control for filling must be designed and installed to accurately indicate the maximum filling level at the point midway of the tank both longitudinally and laterally.
(b) Pressure gauges. Each cargo tank must be provided with a suitable pressure gauge indicating the lading pressure and located on the front of the jacket so it can be read by the driver in the rear view mirror. Each gauge must have a reference mark at the cargo tank design pressure or the set pressure of the pressure relief valve or pressure control valve, whichever is lowest.
(c) Orifices. All openings for dip tube gauging devices and pressure gauges in flammable cryogenic liquid service must be restricted at or inside the jacket by orifices no larger than 0.060-inch diameter. Trycock lines, if provided, may not be greater than 1/2-inch nominal pipe size.
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Unedited Masters : Nashville 1970 Revisited CD from Venus
November 6, 2013
- Sylvia (takes 7, 9 : unedited 4:31)
- Life (Takes 1, 2 : unedited 6:04)
- It's Your Baby, You Rock It (backup vocals overdub : unedited 3:12)
- It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing) (unedited undubbed master)
- There Goes My Everything (Take 1 (different mix) 2:49)
- Faded Love (unedited undubbed master 4:22)
- Snowbird (Take 2 (faded & different mix) 2:06)
- Patch It Up (backup vocals overdub 3:21)
- You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (undubbed master 2:31)
- Cindy, Cindy (Take 1 (faded) 3:49)
- Where, Did They Go Lord (Take 1 (different mix) 2:22)
- It Ain't No Big Thing (But It's Growing) (master (different mix) 2:49)
- Heart Of Rome (Take 3 & Work part take 1 (overdubbed) 4:34)
- When I'm Over You (unedited undubbed master 3:40)
- Help Me Make It Through The Night (unedited undubbed master 3:21)
- Merry Christmas Baby (Take 1 (unedited) 8:43)
- Separate Ways (unedited overdubbed master 2:59)
- Burning Love (Take 4 3:37)
For November release is 'Elvis Country : Pure', the album without the inserted 'I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago' between tracks, in fact for the first time without the song on the album at all! Pure 'Elvis Country', while we won't say 'as it should be' (As some fans do believe) but non the less a refreshing change and one that allows and reveals the full beauty of the songs as you hear them completely for the first time.
Elvis Country Pure CD.
- Tomorrow Never Comes
- Little Cabin On The Hill
- Whole Lot-ta Shakin' Goin' On
- Funny How Time Slips Away
- I Really Don't Want To Know
- There Goes My Everything
- It's Your Baby, You Rock It
- The Fool
- Faded Love
- I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
- Make The World Go Away
- Faded Love (Country Version)
- The Fool (Take 1)
- A Hundred Years From Now (Tkes 1 & 2)
- Little Cabin On The Hill (Take 1)
- Faded Love (Takes 2,1 Undubbed)
- I Really Don't Want To Know (Rough Mix)
- Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Rough Mix)
- Make The World Go Away (Takes 1,3)
Elvis Country Pure CD : Back cover.
Elvis In Motion Book & DVD coming soon from Venus
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Never before have we seen an Elvis Presley concert from the 1950's with sound. Until Now! The DVD Contains recently discovered unreleased film of Elvis performing 6 songs, including Heartbreak Hotel and Don't Be Cruel, live in Tupelo Mississippi 1956. Included we see a live performance of the elusive Long Tall Sally seen here for the first time ever. + Plus Bonus DVD Audio.
This is an excellent release no fan should be without it.
The 'parade' footage is good to see as it puts you in the right context with color and b&w footage. The interviews of Elvis' Parents are well worth hearing too. The afternoon show footage is wonderful and electrifying : Here is Elvis in his prime rocking and rolling in front of 11.000 people. Highly recommended.
Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD Video with Sound.


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Treatise of Implant Dentistry
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Publisher: Carimate 2009
Number of pages: 289
This book has been written to do justice to all those who contributed to the evolution of implant dentistry, from its origins to the present day. For every technique, we will provide useful information, also offering opinions, reservations and recommendations.
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Download or read it online for free here:
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The guideline includes recommendations for patients of all ages and covers primary care received from NHS dental staff (dentists, independent contractors contracting within the NHS, dental hygienists and therapists) practising in England and Wales.
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Although fitness and health have similar properties, they are two very different concepts. While health refers to the absence of diseases, fitness refers to the degree of body functioning and the ability of the body to handle physical demands.
by R.V. Pierce - World's Dispensary
An extensive dissertation on Physiology, Hygiene, Temperaments, Diseases and Domestic Remedies. It is for the welfare of every person to understand the means for the preservation of health. This edition was published in 1895.
by L.L. Carstensen, C.R. Hartel - National Academies Press
Examines how individual and social behavior play a role in understanding diverse outcomes in old age. It also explores the implications of an aging workforce on the economy. A useful resource for policymakers, researchers and medical professionals.


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So it's been a (long) while since my last post. I just haven't had a ton to say. In a bit of a rut I guess.
But I've been up to a few things. I fell into a dark game pit called This War of Mine. I have NEVER been half as invested in a game as I am in that game. When things spiraled out of control and I lost my last survivor on day 42, I was heartbroken. And angry, Either way, I'm trying again, but it's one of the most stressful games I've ever played.
In other exciting news, I'm going to JAPAN!! I am so excited! I'll be leaving July 8 and be coming home July 18. So a fairly short trip, but I'm so excited. I haven't been overseas in 5 years, so this trip should satisfy my wanderlust for a while. Plus my boyfriend is starting school in July for a solid 3 years with no summer break (accelerated program).
Also, starting planning for Edmonton Expo in September. I have tentative accommodations and tons to do on the two cosplays I'd like to make for the con. I want to complete both Jafar and Hannah from Rat Queens. So much to do, since I haven't started either.
Anyway, that's all that's all I have now. I promise to a better blogger in the future!

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Debbie Anderson is a freelance writer and editor who’s been blogging at San Diego Momma since 2007. She’s a partner in the video production company, Two Funny Brains, is co-writing a blogging-centric humor web series titled BlogTHAT, and contributes content to a variety of web sites, including Savvy Source, and The Trend Tribe. Debbie's been featured in Writer's Digest, San Diego Reader, and San Diego Magazine, and was named Top 25 blog by Red Tricycle, nominated for an InfluenceSD "Best in Lifestyle" blog award, and appeared on NBC, Fox, and The CW Network as a blogger spokesperson.
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One of the biggest issues with practising and teaching sight reading is a student’s tendency to continually re-play the bits they stuff-up! This is a great app that actually deletes the bars as you go.
Well worth checking out (click below).
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No, that's Mumbai last week
Nope, not Houston either. São Paulo
No no; that's Karachi last week
We can tell from the Chinese banner it's not Houston
Guess again; that's Mexico City in June
No, that's an artist's idea of the Biblical Great Flood
Ah, glorious downtown Houston at last!
Ah, glorious downtown Houston at last!
You will note a certain sameness about the photographs. That's because rain is the same wherever you go. If it falls on impermeable surfaces it's going to back up. If this happens in a city then all debris on the streets whirls and swirls in the rainwater into storm drains, completely clogging them, so the rainfall gets even more backed up.
This is how even a few inches of rain can flood a city.
New Orleans, August 5, 2017
A similar optical illusion has been at work in New Orleans, which allowed at least one rascal official to get away with blaming climate change for repeated post-Katrina flooding in the city. It turned out the pumping system had never been fully operational even before it completely broke down this August. (No, Houston doesn't have a pumping system.)
Granted, the rainfall in São Paulo in the above photograph, taken in February 2015, was actually significant, as Al Jazeera reported:
Downpours have wreaked havoc across Sao Paulo, causing widespread flooding. Almost 100mm of rain fell in little over an hour on Wednesday, turning streets and avenues into rivers.
Sao Paulo’s Emergency Management Centre recorded 96mm of rain in just 60 minutes. Dozens of cars were submerged, trapping their occupants as the water rose quickly around them.
The severe floods have arrived during what has become the worst drought to hit Sao Paulo in more than 80 years.
Ironically, it is still not enough to replenish the city’s reservoirs to any great extent.
Unfortunately, the main reservoir is located 60km to the north and did not see anywhere near enough useful rainfall during the storm.
There are further showers in the forecast across the area over the next few days, but the city is likely to face water rationing over the coming months, because water levels are likely to remain critically low.And the rain that inundated Houston during Harvey was considerable.
But if they were sticking a rain gauge in the plugged-up streets of Sao Paulo and going by that alone, it would have given a skewed idea of the total rainfall. And if they'd used a rain gauge at say, Tidwell Street in Houston during the first hour of Harvey's rains, then stuck a gauge in the prairie west of Houston, there would have been very different readings -- at least of the flood level. That's because a prairie can absorb a lot of rainfall. An August 29 Associated Press report (Houston drainage grid 'so obsolete it's just unbelievable') mentions that "studies show prairies can absorb as much as 11 inches of rain per hour.
I'm not certain the particular prairie outside Houston can absorb that much rain every hour; an August 29 Washington Post report (How ‘Wild West’ growth may have led to devastating flood in Houston) noted that Houston:
is built on a low-lying coastal plain on “black gumbo” -- clay-based soil that is among the least absorbent in the nation.Of course the soil could be different in the prairie outside Houston. But most certainly prairie land has permeability, which ground covered with impervious materials does not. And prairies contain vegetation that keeps the soil aerated and thus able to absorb rain better than farmland abandoned in regions prone to severe drought. The soil in such regions can become like cement.
How can this happen?
From a discussion between Mark Fischetti and meteorologist Dr Jeff Masters published August 28 in Scientific American (Why Hurricane Harvey became so extreme):
How can Harvey produce such extreme rainfall even though it is no longer over the ocean?
The answer to this is fascinating. Normally a hurricane pulls moisture up from the ocean and releases it as rain all around the storm’s area, particularly in the northeastern quadrant. But Harvey has dropped so much water over such a large area of southeastern Texas that the storm is pulling that water back up into itself and dumping it again as more rain. The flood area is so far and wide that it is acting like part of an ocean, feeding warm moisture up into Harvey.
“You only need about 50 percent of the land to be covered with water for that to happen,” Masters said. “Obviously we have more than that in Texas.”
Could Harvey exist as a self-perpetuating rain machine over land?
Masters said meteorologists cannot answer this question yet. “If it were to stay perfectly still, could it maintain itself for a long period of time?” he asks. “That’s an interesting theoretical question. We just don’t know.”NPR has reproduced an interactive series of satellite photographs showing various towns in Texas before and after the flooding from Harvey. Without looking at the differences in the before/after photos it's hard to imagine the scope of the flooding.
Now of course there is a difference between rain and flooding, so if flooding was spilling from Houston into the prairie, the prairie wouldn't have been able to absorb the water as quickly as during a rainfall. But the point is that the satellite photos bring home the large amount of land covered by the flooding during Harvey. So while we tend to speak of such bodies of water as "floodwaters," they also form a lake, an artificial lake. It is this lake that under certain conditions can create a weather system that keeps dumping rain on the same area.
How common is this? Obviously common enough for Masters to treat the phenomenon as settled science. And note that the artificial lake doesn't need to drown an entire region for the phenomenon to kick in; again, Masters observed that only about 50 percent of the land needs to be covered with water for it to happen.
And so we arrive at another striking similarity about the photographs I featured. With the exception of the city in China, which was one of many flooded cities in the nation at the time, all these flooded urban environments are megacities. Which is to say that when plugged up by flooding and debris during rains the megacities would generate what are in effect large lakes.
So we might speculate that until the lakes drain off in some fashion, the megacities would be susceptible to the phenomenon Masters outlined if wind conditions were right.
Could it be this is how the Biblical flood happened and other floods from epic rainfall in ancient times, such as the one described in the story of Gilgamesh?
Of course there was no asphalt in those days to make the city streets impervious to drainage, and I don't think there was anything like concrete paving, although I've never looked into the question.
But if all those rainfall-induced floods struck at urban environments, it would be interesting to learn how fast those cities turned into artificial lakes during heavy rains, which could have happened if they had crummy drainage. Could the flooded cities have attracted a 'perpetual' rain phenomenon, one that gave rise to floods that wiped out virtually all life in the region of the rainfall?
Well, all this is speculation from way out on a limb, so to return to firm ground there is the example of Houston before us. We know that the city turned into a lake and that this gave rise to the strange phenomenon noted by Jeff Masters.
Yet the phenomenon still isn't well known. Yesterday Seth Borenstein writing for the Associated Press sought to describe what made Harvey such a nasty storm, but he only knew parts of the story including this one:
If it had only continued a bit farther, over northern Texas, Harvey would not have been as wet. But by stalling near the coast, the storm was allowed to draw more and more moisture from the gulf and sustain extraordinary rainfall rates, including more than 4 inches per hour over the Beaumont-Port Arthur area, Masters said.Ironically Borenstein quoted Masters at one point in the report, but obviously he was unaware of what Masters had told Scientific American.
Until more people know that a rainstorm can also draw moisture from its own rainfall if the rain is pooled in large enough amounts, a great danger from urban flooding will go unaddressed.
As cities continue to expand, as impermeable materials in those cities cover more and more ground, we are challenging Nature to improvise with its weather systems. That can be a terrible idea.


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After months, if not years, of speculation, news on just-style last week was dominated by the confirmation that Kate Bostock, the general merchandise executive director at Marks & Spencer, is to leave the company after first quarter general merchandise sales plunged.
The UK's largest clothing retailer is shaking up its senior management team as it continues to try to steady its business after booking its worst first quarter performance in three years, with like-for-like general merchandise sales tumbling 6.8%.
In a number of special reports, we look at the feedback from leading retail analysts, timeline the company’s clothing performance, and comment on the challenges the new executives will continue to face as they attempt to turn around the clothing division.
M&S faces continuing challenges in clothing
Marks & Spencer trading update: what the analysts say
Marks & Spencer in five-year clothing struggle
Over at luxury fashion brand Burberry, the UK’s second largest clothing company, first-quarter revenue growth was described as “robust” even though it slowed to 11%. Despite a “more challenging external environment,” the firm is focusing on the positives – including “enormous” opportunities in China, higher selling prices and opportunities for British-made goods.
In the money: Burberry continues to eye growth in Asia
Overall, UK retailers were saved by the Jubilee holiday last month as a so-called “bunting boost” helped drive demand at the beginning of the period – but the wettest June on record also meant sales of summer clothing and footwear were a washout, according to figures from the British Retail Consortium.
UK: June is a washout for clothing retailers
And with just a couple of weeks to go before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, there was outrage in the US after it was revealed that Olympic uniforms designed by Ralph Lauren Corp for American athletes were made in China. US lawmakers criticised the US Olympic Committee for the decision.
US: Lawmakers outraged by China-made Olympic outfits
The latest inter-governmental report on the world's cotton trade has lifted its forecast for global cotton stocks in the upcoming season, in a move that adds further weight to projections that international prices are set to stay low for another year. The International Cotton Advisory Council (ICAC) expects stocks to grow by 10% to 15.1m tons in the 2012/13 season, which begins on 1 August – up from a forecast of 14.5m tons just a month ago.
WORLD: Cotton trade projections point to low prices
Meanwhile, other reports on just-style looked at opportunities for textile and clothing firms in Croatia, which is set to become the 28th member state of the European Union on 1 July 2013.
And the Indian textile and apparel industry was told it needs to evolve and adapt quickly to overcome changing patterns in demand from its major export markets.
Croatia clothing sector could exploit EU accession
Indian makers must face up to new challenges
Until next time...


At least 20 villages along the middle reaches of Shaying River, the largest branch of China's most-heavily polluted Huaihe River, have been plagued by cancer for more than ten years.
According to investigations by Huo Daishan, director of the research center of the Huaihe River environment, cancer patients are increasing in more than 20 villages in Shenqiu County of central China's Henan Province alone.
Huangmengying, a 2,400 population village in the county, has seen 114 deaths caused by cancer in the past 14 years. On September 1 alone, three villagers died of the disease, following five cancer-caused deaths since July 1. Another ten villagers have been diagnosed with cancer.
Wang Linsheng, a local official with Huangmengying, said that more and more people here began to suffer from colonitis, rectum cancer or esophageal cancer since the water in the Shaying River turned dark and odorous in the 1990s.
Kong Heqin, a rectum cancer patient for four years, said that she had been feeling sick ever since she married and moved to Huangmengying ten years ago.
"I never went to hospital before my marriage," she said." But now, I've borrowed nearly 70,000 yuan (US$8,500) to pay for my disease. I would have committed suicide long ago if someone would have cared for my two children."
Villagers call the 200-meter-long street where Kong lives "cancer street." Six residents died from cancer in recent years; two others currently suffer from the disease.
Although Shenqiu is one of China's most impoverished counties, sales of barreled purified water in the villages have been flourishing. Li Hua, host of a grocer in one of the villages called Mengzhai, sells dozens of barrels each day.
But Li fails to benefit much from the booming sales.
"It is very hard for the low-income farmers here to afford purified water every day. They often buy water on credit and delay the payment for a long time," he said.
Purified water means life or death to the 26-year-old Meng Qingkun, who got spondylitis, an inflammation of the vertebrae, in 2002. Doctors told him to move out the village because his disease was caused by the heavy metals in the drinking water. But Meng chose to stay where he is for he has lost ability to work and "spent all his money on purified water."
China has spent more than huge sums of funds in the past ten years in an effort to relieve and prevent severe pollution in the Huaihe River, but little progress has been made.
Liu Jiaqiang, director of the Environmental Protection Bureau with Shenqiu County, said that groundwater of all the 21 towns in Shenqiu County has been polluted by the Shaying River, which receives vast amounts of sewage from the cities in upper reaches.
Thanks to Huo and his fellow staff's unremitting efforts, the regional government undertook an investigation on the water quality and health conditions in Huangmengying in July. The government allocated funds to dig a deep well for the village.
The official in charge of the investigation said that polluted drinking water rich in manganese and nitrite was the major cause of the frequent occurrence of cancer in the village.
However, the local government of Shenqiu County has never undertaken a comprehensive investigation on the people's health along the Shaying River.
Gu Jianjun, vice-director of the Health Bureau of the county, said that he heard of rumors about the cancer-stricken cases several years ago, and the local government once planned an investigation. But the project was abandoned because of lack of funds, personnel and "support from superior departments."
Besides economic reasons, the local government's real concern is how to account for lack of results achieved by the ten-year-long clean-up of the Huaihe River, said an insider who declined toby named.
"Both the county-level and regional government hesitate to undertake comprehensive investigation in the cancer-stricken villages, because they want to avoid admitting that the efforts in pollution relief have not been paid off," he said.
(Xinhua News Agency October 1, 2004)


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You're welcome Jonathan. And put me on the list of Fanboys who want a poster!
My primary reason for joining was obviously to learn more about Tableau. I was very intimidated at first, because there is obviously a core group of users who contribute the most--as an "outsider", I wasn't sure if I would be accepted. All I can say, is this "core group" has been extremely helpful to me and I've never really been made to feel like an idiot (even if I deserved it). As a member of several forums outside of my professional realm (mostly guitar forums), I for one appreciate this as many forums have a sort-of "clique-ish" vibe. I haven't felt that here.
I also really appreciate the detailed explanations provided by folks like Jonathan Drummey, Jim Wahl, Joshua Milligan (and many others--I guess J names are on the brain). This can be a complex tool, and often answers/solutions are equally complex so I thank anyone who takes the time to explain the WHY in addition to the HOW.
Anyway, I love this forum. As I have said before, I have probably learned more about Tableau here than anywhere else and I hope that continues.
Cheers, and thanks to all who contribute in a positive way.
Matthew, thanks for the shout out! I would echo what everyone has said -- the community is a great place and the credit really goes to everyone involved, the contributors and helpers, those who ask questions, Dustin Smith, tracy.fitzgerald, and the rest of the Tableau team who have worked tirelessly to improve the entire experience.
It is a great place to learn, grow, and share. Johan's list of benefits for contributors seems to hit the mark. Obviously those looking for answers to questions have great benefit to as they hopefully find not only the answers they seek, but also explanation that will help them as they seek to learn, grow, and help others. Christian Chabot set forth an incredible vision of how seeing and understanding data can improve the world -- and this community plays no small part in that.


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Have you ever wondered if your dog understands you more than you think? There are a number of clues your dog reveals to you that will make this apparent. Dogs use body language to communicate with the humans they live with. Your fury friend also use various vocal sounds to communicate what they are thinking.
These signs of communication become very apparent especially if they haven't seen you in a long time such as when you come home from work or even after you have played a round of golf. Typically a dog will greet you and often jump up and look for a sign that you understand that he or she needs to be touched. The jumping action often means that their front paws will touch you. This is a good thing. This may also mean they want to go for a walk. Your dog may also bark at you. This means they are anxious for your attention. Providing attention to them is good for their mental health. Taking them for a walk is also good for their health and will be good for yours as well.

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Pugwash move on up
PUGWASH Whelan’s, Dublin Thurs 9pm 116 01-4780766/ 1890-200078 With an excellent new album, Eleven Modern Antiquities (see review, page 14), in the shops from today, extensive radio play for the latest single, Take me Away, and a demeanour that would put a smile on at least two faces on Mount Rushmore, it seems that, after years of giving his all to giving it a go, Thomas Walsh (above, right) is now ready to move up a notch or two. A full Irish tour to promote the album is unlikely, so what we’re left with (so far, anyway) is this Dublin gig, which promises to reach the parts other gigs can’t. Some guests are scheduled (Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon (above, centre) is on the album, so he may turn up), which adds to the fun. Factor in some of the best Beatles/XTCinfluenced pop music you’ll hear in an age and you have a certifiable hit.


At one time or another we all lie. It is mostly to ourselves about one thing or another, but sometimes to others. In some cases, it is a “kind” lie such as, “no, that color looks great on you” or “I’ll only be a minute” (Underestimation of time).
When we do, and we recognize it, we ask for forgiveness from those we might have offended or hurt, and, from God and we move on.
Now, there are two important stories in the news about lying. One is a pretty sure bet and the other is not so clear at this point.
First, we have Lance Armstrong. After years of denials, he came clean, so to speak, with Oprah Winfrey to admit something almost everyone in and out of the sport of cycling knew—that he was using banned and illegal substances throughout his cycling career and especially during his run of 7 Tour De France titles.
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” This quote is attributed to Vladimir Lenin, but even that appears to be untrue. But nevertheless, we have seen this borne out in the Armstrong story.
So, now he confesses. But with his lying, he left a wake of destruction of other people’s lives, his sport (and sports in general) and ultimately in him as a person. Whatever good he has done in overcome cancer, his LiveStrong foundation and other chartable acts will be long overshadowed by the “big lie.”
We’ll be hearing of Lance Armstrong for many weeks before it dies back to where it came.
This brings me to the strange case of Notre Dame star linebacker and Mormon, Manti Te’o. His alleged girlfriend, Lenay Kekua, who died of Leukemia in September never, existed. Fake messages, fake pictures and a fake persona. You can read about the whole story in any paper or online site you chose, but the publication that broke the story is Deadspin.
The big questions are:
“What did Manti know and when did he know it?” Was he “in” on it or was he completely a victim?
Now, the whole story is a lie, but it is unclear who all is implicated in it. It appears that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, a supposed friend of Te’o and a part of a famous football family, is the perpetrator.
The real problem of the story centers around Manti’s insistence that he spoke to her every night for four months, that he listened to her sleep on his cell phone and that they met at Stanford in 2009 after a Notre Dame-Stanford football game.
Even his parents, who live in Mormon enclave, Laie, Hawaii, home of the PCC and BYU-Hawaii, talked about their meetings. Where did they get that information?
So, the story has to have one of two explanations:
1. Te’o was totally fooled by the hoax, perfectly pulled off by Tuiasosopo. Which, of course, makes him appear dumb as rocks. Or,
2. He was in on it, at the very least playing along. This makes him a liar.
So, in my mind, I have to ask myself this question. Why would he lie? This is a star football player that could have probably had any girl, let alone just about any Mormon girl, he wanted. Why would he need to make up one?
There are two sides to Te’o that people describe. There is the humble, nice, would go out of his way to be nice to people kind of guy, and religious. Just the Mormon example you would want attending a Catholic University. There are others who describe him as attention-seeking, which this kind of a story with its sad details and tragic ending would garner.
We all know that star college athletes get very special treatment. They often get a pass for bad behavior, even at religious-oriented schools like BYU. Many people have come to Te’o’s defense, as they did for Lance Armstrong. When the truth finally comes out, Te’o will still be drafted high by an NFL team because he is a walking money machine, Both for him and football.
So, at this point, only two people know the real truth, Te’o and Heavenly Father.
Finally, as always we are not the final judge of Te’o’s life. Chances are he will redeem himself from this situation and go on to have a storied career in the NFL, making millions of dollars and having legions of adoring fans. There will always be an asterisk next to his name noting the hoax that happened in college.
Te’o is not the only Mormon athlete to turn down BYU and go to another school. He is not the only star athlete to not serve a mission for the Church (can you say Jimmer Ferdette?). But one has to wonder, even a little bit, if this would have happened if he had gone to BYU instead of Notre Dame? Or, if that really has anything to do with it.
Remember, we are all liars at one time or another. The online world we live in now, makes lying easy, possibly without consequences.


NOTE: This blog entry originally appeared in November of 2010
by Chad Campbell, senior producer
I’ve been a fan of Ben Folds since the height of his band’s popularity in the mid and late 1990s. Ben Folds Five (which inexplicably had only three members) featured piano, bass and drums (no guitar) playing rock with a bit of jazz and punk thrown in - delightful counter-programming during the heyday of grunge. I’d been trying to get him on our show for a while now and it turns out he had another more important fan of his music. British novelist Nick Hornby (author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About a Boy) wrote a book called Songbook which collected 31 of his favorite songs and Hornby’s thoughts on them. One of the songs he wrote about was Smoke by Ben Folds Five. Hornby praised Folds for the cleverness of the lyrics but that was the one tune on their CD Whatever and Ever Amen NOT written by Ben Folds. He wrote an email to set Hornby straight and a friendship was born. Folds and Hornby formed a long-distance mutual admiration society, kept in touch and worked on small projects together - then decided to collaborate on an entire album. The result is their CD called Lonely Avenue. The deluxe version includes a booklet featuring four Hornby short stories. Nick Hornby wrote the lyrics, some containing R-rated words and sent them off to his friend Ben Folds. Their 11 songs range from the silly to the heartbreaking but they’re all well-crafted SHORT stories.
Click here to see a video of Folds and Hornby describe the project.
Click here for Nick Hornby’s website.
Here’s the official video of the Hornby/Folds song From Above.
Here is the video made by a fan for the Hornby/Folds song Saskia Hamilton.
And here is the video for Brick, the biggest hit for Ben Folds Five.


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Stanisław Wojciech Rogalski (born 25 May 1904, died 6 February 1976). A graduate of the Adam Mickiewicz Gymnasium in Warsaw, he joined the army after abandoning his studies at Warsaw Polytechnic (which he eventually completed in 1929) and graduated from the Pilot Training School in Bydgoszcz in 1925. During his activity in the Aviation Section of the Mechanic Students’ Club at the Polytechnic, he developed, together with Stanisław Wigura, a prototype of a two-seater sports plane. After Jerzy Drzewiecki joined the team in 1927, another design was developed – this time it was a high-wing cantilever monoplane, called RWD-1. After 1933, and establishing the Experimental Aviation Works at Okęcie, as many as 25 versions of the RWD were developed (a trainer aircraft plus a mail airplane, a tourist airplane and military airplane, called Czapla [heron]).
The RWD-6 plane, flown by Polish pilots, was stunningly successful in a number of different competitions: In 1932, Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura won the third International Tourist Plane Competition, and two years later Jerzy Bajan and Gustaw Pokrzywka followed suit. Stanisław Skarżyński crossed the Atlantic in an RWD-5 in 1933. In total, over one thousand airplanes were produced before the war broke out. Many of them, as well as the licenses to produce them, were sold overseas.
After the outbreak of the war, Rogalski, together with project documentation, fled to France through Romania and then on to England. In 1941, he found himself in Turkey where he managed a design office. In 1948, he moved to the US, where he became involved in the aviation industry, pursuing at the same his academic career (for instance, at Princeton University). He contributed to the construction of the United States Air Force’s General Dynamics F-111 supersonic swept-wing fighter and attack aircraft and was appointed consultant to NASA in the construction of the lunar rover wheeled vehicle used during three of NASA’s explorations of the surface of the Moon.


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City to consider temporary shelter for high fire season
As Santa Barbara enters high fire season, city officials are brainstorming what they can do with the many homeless encampments around the city and Highway 101 that pose fire hazards, especially following the Loma Fire that burned 10 acres last week on the Mesa.
The CDC stated that clearing homeless encampments increases the potential for infectious disease spread. That guidance remains in place, meaning service providers are still recommended to improve sanitation in the encampments rather than remove them.
This guidance has been in place over the course of the entire pandemic, but several encampment fires have occurred just this month in the city and county.
Therefore, the Santa Barbara City Council is calling a special meeting for 6 tonight to consider establishing an area where unsheltered residents can sleep. The meeting can be viewed on City TV Channel 18 or streamed live at www.santabarbaraca.gov/cap.
“The fire last Thursday was frightening for a lot of people. I really give credit to our first responders, fire and police,” Santa Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo told the News-Press Monday. “That has us thinking we really need to take some action … Homelessness does have impacts, as we saw. Even if this particular fire was started by an arsonist, there have been fires out of the homeless encampments, and we need to take action.”
The mayor said she envisions an area in a city parking lot, such as the Carrillo Commuter Lot, or one of the city’s parks as the designated shelter for those who have been living in homeless encampments.
She said she wants the area to allow unsheltered individuals a place to sleep and provide food and bathrooms for them. But she noted the effort requires volunteers and 24-hour professional security.
“The promise I can make is that anything we put together would have security and monitoring, and we wouldn’t want that facility to have negative impacts on the neighborhood,” Mayor Murillo said. “But people really need to step up. If they’re really concerned about the homeless, they would support us creating this facility to help people. It’ll help them, and it’ll help everyone.”
The mayor added that the facility or lot designated for homeless individuals living in encampments would be just a temporary service for the summer months of high fire season.
The Santa Barbara City Fire Department was unable to provide any statistics on encampment fires locally ahead of today’s meeting.
But City Fire Marshal Joe Poire provided some background as to the most common causes of the fires.
He told the News-Press that cooking and warming fires “easily account for at least half of the total,” but other fires can start from smoking methamphetamine, which was the cause of the fire near Donovan Electric on the lower Westside that occurred in early April.
In addition, Chief Poire said arson stems from a variety of reasons: societal revenge, spite revenge or serial fire setters.
Those seeking societal revenge typically feel they’ve been wronged by society in some way, are down on their luck, angry with police enforcement actions or denied benefits from a social service or nonprofit. These individuals see justification in their actions or the ability to outsmart authorities.
The fire marshal said spite revenge is “very common when one homeless person burns another’s camp,” but that motive can also range from “revenge for an insult, to a failure to pay for prostitution services, to reneging on a drug deal.”
He added that serial fire setters have “a mental illness that is complex, but we see it a lot.”
Furthermore, when City Fire and Santa Barbara Police arrive at these scenes, Chief Poire said the fire setters scatter, so officers sometimes wait for hours for them to slowly drift back. They can be held liable for the fires depending on the circumstances — for example, the fire marshal referred the Donovan Electric fire case to the district attorney, asking for a complaint for 452 PC Unlawfully Causing a Fire.
“It is one of the lesser arson sections and is designed to have a charge for those who commit acts that are so reckless that any reasonable person would know they would be likely to cause a fire,” Chief Poire said. “It can be a felony.”
René Eyerly, the city’s environmental services manager, told the News-Press that the city expects the CDC’s encampment guidance to change after June 15, but until then, the city provides outreach through CityNet for case management at all encampments and offers shelter beds and motel rooms as bridge housing before requiring the unsheltered to leave an encampment.
“CalTrans has a restrictive site-by-site approval process for clean up,” Ms. Eyerly said. “We have been able to partner with them on a pilot to clear the Garden and Castillo Street ramps, though they are being re-inhabited. It takes ongoing maintenance of the sites to prevent the unhoused from setting up camps again.”
CalTrans District 5 Director Tim Gubbins told the News-Press that CalTrans made sure to follow all CDC protocols throughout the whole pandemic, working with local agencies and nonprofits in the city/county to make sure those in the encampments could be offered the help they need.
“There’s been a lot of concerns with this,” Mr. Gubbins said. “The governor, in his May revised (budget) last Friday, proposed a substantial increase in the amount of money that would be designated for the homeless, so if that survives the budget process — which needs to be ratified by the legislature — then there will be more resources, more tools for the community to use.
“We look forward to working with the city and county to figure out how we can get these people into the help they need and out of an area that is not safe for them or the travelers.”
The details of the possible encampment shelter facility will be ironed out at tonight’s special meeting open to the public.
“People want to get it off their chests that it was frightening to see that hillside on fire,” Mayor Murillo said. “We’ll deal with the person who has been arrested. That’s one thing. But we don’t want any more fires in the brush. It’s dangerous for everybody.”


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Yes, there are lots of things to do in the "Natural State", if you are brave enough, young enough, have money enough. Alas, I am none of the above. For me it's all about the heat, humidity and bugs. I'd rather stay inside. Unfortunately, heat and humidity also causes the grass, and weeds, to grow so I must venture forth on occasion-- try every 3 days. That's how often I must mow. Sigh
So what is this hideous weather good for? Reading! Lots of new books hit the shelves for the summer months. Many of my favorite authors have just had or are having books released in the upcoming weeks. No matter what your favorite genre, there's something new out there. New worlds to explore, some with new friends and some with old ones, all without venturing out into the heat and humidity! Yippee! So check out my links and see which of my writing friends have something to titillate you. For you vampire buffs, Charlaine Harris's Dead in the Family and Laurell K. Hamilton's Bullet are available for your reading pleasure. For July, MaryJanice Davidson's, Undead and Unfinished will hit the shelves.
Stay cool and happy reading!


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Ahh... I am having so much fun making fabric poppies that I could not resist the impulse of mixing colors...!
So that is what I did in my first attempt: One of my favorite combinations, red-orange-fuchsia, in this retro style mixed with the elegancy of clear glass beads in the center :)
Take a look!
They are perfect for:
- Hair accessories: headbands, hair clips, barrettes
- T-shirts, blouses, hats, scarfs
- Home decoration, pillows, frames
- Wedding decoration, bridal flowers
- Jewelry, necklaces, chokers
- Scrapbooking, cards, albums
What do you think of this new line of flowers?
I cannot wait to go on mixing!