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I’ve been a fan of genre crossing for a long time. I love it when movies bend the rules in order to tell a different type of story. I enjoy the challenges a hero faces when all of a sudden the plot flips from ordinary Horror to something altogether unpredictable. For today’s edition of Monday Mayhem, I’d like to have a look at zombie movies I’d love to see at the theater. If someone already came up with these ideas, let me know. I’m always in the mood for another zombie movie.
Zombies in Space—How about a zombie outbreak that takes place on a space station? Even more so, how about a zombie apocalypse taking over a human colony on another planet? We’re always wondering about what would happen if a zombie virus hits earth. What about astronauts on the space shuttle? No one can deny the close proximity of everyone involved would prove to be the worst aspect of the scenario. How would zombies react in zero gravity? I can see it now, the undead attempting to bite a floating human and it can’t quite grasp the concept of catching its food while hovering over it. I’d find it comical as well as challenging for the zombies. I’m sure humans would win.
Zombies of the Round Table—You know this was coming. The Knights of the Round Table going up against the zombies that have taken over the land. This movie would come complete with fire breathing dragons and the princess in the tower the knights had to save from the horde of undead trying to make a meal out of her. I can picture it now, sword battles and an archer’s dream. The logistics behind a movie like this would make any accountant’s head spin. Weapons, setting, zombie costumes, battle scenes, castle configuration, CGI, the list would go on and on. I’d go see it, for sure.
Zombies of the Wild, Wild West—I can hear you guys now, “Really, Jack? Really? Haven’t we learned anything from Cowboys & Aliens?” Okay, this may be a stretch. I would still enjoy a story like this. I would. Imagine a spaghetti western crossing with a zombie apocalypse. The Good, the Bad and the Zombie. Who doesn’t want to watch something like this? Show of hands? Believe me, a gunslinger sitting at a poker table in a saloon will beat six zombies bursting through the doors without breaking a sweat. This movie would raise the bar for zombie kills done in a one-hundred minute film.
Zombies vs. Vampires—I saved the best for last. Who wouldn’t want to see a movie where zombies and vampires tear each other apart? I know I would. When Underworld released, I was one of the first fans to hit the theater. In this case, vampires battled Lycans (werewolves). Not as genre crossing as the rest of the lot, zombies vs. vampires would prove a challenge even to seasoned producers. For instance, an astute writer will ask the question, “Who would be strong enough to win?” As an aside—zombies would win out of pure numbers. Vampires would win out of pure cunning. It would be an amazing movie, nonetheless.
I’m hoping one day that some of these ideas will become movies. I would totally spend money to see them. I must say though, if a bright young producer decided to create a zombie musical to satisfy the craving of all the middle aged folks old enough to remember Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, I’d probably skip it. One video with dancing zombies is enough in my book. Besides, no one could do the zombie walk quite like Jackson could—not including Jennifer Garner in 13 Going on 30.
What kind of movie would you like to see incorporating zombies?
20 thoughts on “Zombie Movies I’d Like to See”
Oh yeah! Zombies vs Vampires is what I’d like to see the most! 🙂
All of these would make awesome zombie movies! 🙂
I feel the same way about ideas 2 and 3. Although Game of Thrones has taken a little of the novelty out of the medieval zombie…
Zombies in the wild west would be fantastic though ^_^
Shakespeare, definitely Shakespeare. Ophelia rising from the water, the ghost of Hamlet’s father taken to a whole new level! Imagine the late Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern staggering towards you. Imagine Zombie-Hamlet’s soliloquoy: “To be and/or not to be…” I can hardly wait.
I’m still waiting for the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
A remake of ‘Riverworld’ with zombies would be interesting. Good post, got me thinking.. and something frivolous how about a remake of ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ where Ms. Golightly is dating rich zombie boyfriends…lol!
Too funny. How about Zombies in “Cats” the musical
How about Zombies on Broadway? Singing, dancing zombies tearing apart singing, dancing non-zombies. I hate musicals, but that would make it interesting. Or, even better– Zombie Mary Poppins!! 😀
Zombies of the Wild, Wild West—
Fistful of Brains.
Wouldn’t Serenity county as a zombie planet colony movie? It would be cool to see a film set during the the Miranda incident.
I’m with Charles – I think a King Arthur of the Zombies would be fun! Great post, Jack!
In regards to Zombies Vs. Vampires-have you seen this episode of “The Deadliest Warrior”? Good stuff … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U96KV3ggztM
When the film industry has already produced a film called Cowboys Vs. Aliens, you just know Cowboys Vs. Zombies has to be around the corner.
Sounds like something would watch!
The Camelot vs. Zombies could certainly be a lot of fun.
There are a couple of Star Wars zombie books called Red Harvest and Death Troopers. The latter has Han and Chewie. And both are a lot better than I imagine they sound. They’re not too silly or too serious, but manage to ride a fine, pulpy line like any good Star Wars story I suppose.
Thanks for the eclectic and fascinating writing 🙂
Thank you for reading! 🙂
Charles’ idea of Zombie Dinosaurs is unique! Zombie wardens in jail – this could be an interesting film or even a series.
I’d love to see the Camelot zombie movie. Rather surprised there hasn’t been a wild west one. Some other interesting crossovers: Samurai Vs Zombies and Zombie Dinosaurs. How about one where there’s only one zombie left on Earth, but all of the humans are dead too? So, you get to see how this solitary, mindless creature survives in a world that is basically throwing off the effects of mankind’s existence.


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COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed our lives. The restrictions and limitations that have come with it forced us to introduce new solutions or renew interest in those already known to reduce the risk of the virus spreading. One of those solutions turned out to be remote work, to which, if only feasible, companies started to switch very quickly after the pandemic outbreak, becoming a new norm of performing employee duties.
However, it is worth remembering that remote working involves certain risks and its implementation should be accompanied by appropriate procedures aimed at both improving the processes used by the entities and protecting them against possible threats. One of such risks is the violation of data security, including the personal data of both employees and persons whose data are processed by employees while performing their work duties. Unfortunately, however, many companies underestimate this problem, as evidenced by an increasing number of complaints concerning the processing of personal data during remote work submitted to data protection authorities around the world.
Remote work under the so-called Anti-Crisis Shield
Until the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Polish law did not regulate the issue of remote working. The Polish Labour Code contained provisions concerning only so-called teleworking (i.e., work performed regularly outside the workplace, using electronic means of communication), while the remote working, which often involves occasional and irregular work from a place other than the permanent workplace (e.g., from home), was permitted only based on internal regulations or arrangements between the employer and the employee. The epidemic hazard state announced in March 2020 changed this situation, forcing the introduction of appropriate regulations in this area.
The possibility of instructing the employee to perform remote work was introduced by the Act of 2 March 2020 on special solutions related to the prevention, prevention, and combating of COVID-19, other infectious diseases, and crises caused by them (“the COVID-19 Act”). According to Article 3 sec. 1 of the said Act, to prevent COVID-19, the employer could order the employee to perform, for a fixed period, the work specified in the employment contract, outside the place of its permanent performance.
This provision, in the aforementioned wording, expired 180 days after the entry into force of the said Act, i.e., on 4 September 2020. And then, the next day, this provision has been reintroduced (and redrafted) by the Act of 24 July 2020 amending an act on posting of employees within the framework of providing services and certain other acts. As a result, the current version of Article 3 sec. 1 of the COVID-19 Act provides that the employer may commission remote work to an employee „until the end of a state of epidemic emergency or state of epidemic announced due to COVID-19” and „within 3 months after their cancellation”.
The provisions regulating remote work were also introduced under the Act of 4 June 2020 on interest rate subsidies on bank loans granted to provide financial liquidity to entrepreneurs affected by the effects of COVID-19, i.e., the so-called Anti-crisis Shield 4.0. The said Act imposed on employers many obligations related to remote work.
First of all, it states that the employer should check whether the employees have the technical and premises conditions to perform work outside the office, as well as whether the employee can perform remote work and has the skills to use the IT system. This means that before instructing an employee to perform his/her duties remotely, the employer should check both the skills of the employee and the conditions under which the remote work will be performed.
At the same time, the employer is obliged to provide the employees with the means and materials needed for remote work as well as logistical support. At the same time, the employees have been allowed the employees to use their own resources under the condition of keeping the secrets, confidentiality, and personal data protection. Additionally, an obligation was introduced to train employees in remote work, including personal data protection and related issues.
Remote work and personal data protection under GDPR
Since May 2018, the General Regulation on Personal Data Protection (the „GDPR”) has been in force, introducing a number of new obligations, including the analysis of internal data processing and the preparation of necessary documentation. In light of the new regulations, the personal data controller must adjust the level of security of personal data to the applicable guidelines and check it regularly.
Considering these issues in the context of remote work, it is necessary to determine first what personal data processing is. According to Article 4 point 2 of the GDPR, ‘processing’ means “any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction”. Then, the extent to which an employee may process the data must be determined, as it may be different from the one associated with on-site work. In this context, the employer needs to assess whether the employee in question has all the necessary authorizations to carry out the activities in question and, if needed, change their scope.
Another issue that has to be tackled is the introduction of appropriate technical and organizational safeguards, as referred to in Article 32 of the GDPR. For this purpose, one should follow the general principles that can be found in Article 5 of the GDRP, in particular:
It is also important to keep a meticulous record of who, when, to what extent, and on what basis processes the personal data. This not only ensures that the principle of accountability is respected but also allows to fulfill the obligation that rests on the administrator under Article 32(4) of the GDPR. According to this provision, “the controller and processor shall take steps to ensure that any natural person acting under the authority of the controller or the processor who has access to personal data does not process them except on instructions from the controller unless he or she is required to do so by Union or Member State law”.
The above shows that the issue of personal data protection associated with remote work is much more complicated than it might seem. However, the most important thing is that remote work is properly controlled to avoid any subsequent problems. Adequate data protection serves to protect the interests of not only the data subjects but also of the employer in terms of legal liability. If the rules and procedures are not written down, it may be difficult for the employer to demonstrate that, as a data controller, its actions have met the standards provided under the GDPR.
It is worth adding here thath2. employees should also be instructed on how to perform remote work and the risks it entails so that they also feel responsible for protecting the data. Therefore, it is recommended for companies who adopt remote work to inform their employees about the rules and procedures associated with this mode of work, including information about security and data protection. Also, after accepting the instruction to work remotely, each employee should sign a GDPR compliance statement.
The article is for information purposes only and under no circumstances constitutes a legal opinion or advice. For more detailed information or legal assistance, contact DT’s lawyer.
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Illustrated Tirthankar Charitra
Shri Amar Muni
The Basis of Becoming a Tirthankar: The Twenty Auspicious Practices
To reach the status of a Tirthankar it is not enough to do certain practices during certain birth. It is the result of a progressive process of unvieling the potential energy through endeavors in right direction during a series of incarnations. It seems that the chief disciples or gods must have expressed their curiosity about the journey towards ultimate purity and the Tirthankars must have provided the details. That is why details of earlier births of all Tirthankars are available.
The counting of these births starts from the birth in which the soul gets the first glimpse of righteousness. This is considered to be the most important turning point for a soul because once the right direction is attained, liberation is certain.
The Earning of Tirthankar-nam-karma
The loftiest of the pious category of Karmas is said to be the Tirthankar-nam-karma. It is important to know when and how it is acquired because this is the basis over which the status of Tirthankar is founded. This Karma is acquired one birth earlier. It is the physical or normal human body that acquires this Karma. The aural alternate body (Vikriya Sharir) does not have the capacity to acquire this Karma. The future Tirthankar descends from the dimension of gods or ascends from the dimension of hell. In both these dimensions the souls have aural bodies. As the aural body does not have the capacity of long-term spiritual practices, this Karma is not acquired during this immediately preceding birth. That is the reason that all the Tirthankars do their final spiritual practices of acquiring this Karma during their last but second birth as human beings. During that birth they acquire a high degree of purity perception. They become Kshayak Samyaktvi (the level of purity where the past Karmas are destroyed not suppressed).
The Acharyas say that the goal of spiritual pursuit should not be the status of a Tirthankar. Though its status is very high the Tirthankar-nam type of Karma is still a Karma and as such a tie. On the path of purity and effort to earn pious Karma is not advisible. The spiritualists never indulge in any activity that leads to bondage, irrespective of its being pious.
All activities by spiritualists are directed toward shedding of the Karmas. As a result of certain activities or practices certain Karmas are wiped and as a consequence this specific bondage is achieved without striving for it. These practices are numbered twenty. These are also known as the twenty practices leading to the Tirthankar status and are believed to be the fundamental guiding factors for attaining the status of Tirthankar.
1. Worship of the Arihant (Tirthankar).
2. Worship of the Siddha (liberated soul).
3. Faith in discourses.
4. Worship of the teacher.
5. Worship of the senior ascetic.
6. Worship of the scholar.
7. Worship of those whom indulge in penance.
8. Continued application of knowledge for maximum possible time.
9. Purity of perception.
10. To praise the virtues of others and be happy at the progress of others.
11. To practice the six essentials including Pratikraman (self analysis) in the prescribed way and at the prescribed time.
12. Observe all the vows and codes of conducts with ever increasing indulgence.
13. Detachment – always practice apathy for attachment, fondness, conceit, and greed. Develop the attitude of being detached.
14. To activate the potential or to practice penance with all intensity.
15. To give due importance and respect to the four pronged religious organization.
16. To look after and take care of the detached.
17. To enhance knowledge regularly.
18. To have faith on the sermons of the detached.
19. To give charity to the deserving.
20. Devotion for Tirthankar’s sermons and the discipline of the order.
In the eight chapter of the Jnatasutra and in Avashyak Niryukti these twenty practices are mentioned. Intense practice of even one or two of these practices may lead to earning Tirthankar-nam-karma. In the Mahapuran and the Tattvarth Sutra there is a mention of sixteen practices of feelings or attitudes. These encompass all the above twenty practices. Importance had been given to spiritual practices in both of these sets of practices.

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Banana Kick has worked closely with Fuel for School, a partnership between The Real Junk Food Project and Richmond Hill Primary School in Leeds, to maximise their exposure when they participate in the Tour de Yorkshire 2017 – taking their message to over 2 million people across the three day event.
The programme, led by headteacher Nathan Atkinson,
- Remove hunger as a barrier to learning
- Highlight the importance of nutrition and the associated benefits linked to learning
- Highlight the vast amounts of wasted (yet perfectly edible) food across local and wider communities
Over 630 children at Richmond Hill now start their day in school with toast and a drink. The food provided is wasted food that would otherwise have been destined for landfill.
This work has truly enriched the wellbeing of children, their families and the local community.
Over 55 schools now take part in the project, which equates to around 13,000 school children receiving weekly food deliveries. In January alone, the project saved 200 tonnes of food from landfill and diverted it to school children.
The Fuel for School mission is to take this initiative to a much wider audience, and to further raise awareness of wasted food and how it can be used to provide a healthy breakfast for school children and improve educational performance.
For the Tour de Yorkshire publicity caravan, Banana Kick has created a unique fully wrapped school mini bus.
Nathan Atkinson, headteacher at Richmond Hill Primary School, said, “The creative excellence at Banana Kick has enabled us to create a vehicle that will enrich the publicity caravan at the Tour de Yorkshire. Our team are really looking forward to engaging with the public along the route of the Tour and sharing the work and food of Fuel for School along the way.”
The bold and bright bus complete with school bell will be packed with kids, teacher and, of course, Fred The Fox (Feed, Recycle, Educate, Dine), the Fuel for School mascot.
At key locations along the route, spectators will be treated to free fruit along with promotional giveaways, encouraging people to support the charity.

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Remembering Police Officers who
have otherwise died, on or in
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Died 26 December 2018, aged 24
Died whilst travelling home after a night shift at Milton Keynes when his car left the road and collided with a tree near Towcester, Northamptonshire.
Dan joined the force in 2012 as a Special Constable and was appointed full time constable in 2014, working as a Uniformed Response Officer based at Milton Keynes.
He was survived by his parents, his sister and her family, and his fiancee.
LEST WE FORGET
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How to Install a Generator
A home power generator, or stand-by generator, can be a lifesaver during blackouts or natural disasters. It can allow you to return to the comforts of a normal life without fear of food spoiling, data being lost, or important health-related electronics losing power. Installing a generator is a multi-part process, and will require some amount of work. Keep in mind location when looking for the right generator, as these units can be quite large, and give off emissions that could endanger health. Once you've got the necessary equipment, and you're ensured that your home service panel is up-to-date, the installation process is quite simple.
Determine the appropriate location to place your generator. Remember that generators use fuel to generate electricity, and as a result they emit gaseous fumes which may be noxious or cloying. Placing a generator outdoors is usually the best option, though they can also be installed in basements or garages with proper ventilation.
Level the area you intend to use for the generator. Placing the generator on uneven ground can cause a myriad of complications, and excess plant life near or below the generator may pose a small fire hazard. Use your shovel or rake to pound and flatten the ground before moving the unit into place.
Install the necessary fuel source. The most common type of generator uses gasoline to generate power. These generators can usually be filled directly, though some require you to fill an external unit before attaching it to the generator. Another common generator type uses propane to generate electricity, these units require a propane tank to function, so it might be a good idea to keep a spare around.
Route the unit to your circuit breaker's transfer switch. The transfer switch connects to your outside power source and sends a signal to the generator when power is no longer being received. This allows your generator to power on automatically. The transfer switch also allows you to limit the number of circuits being routed to your generator to conserve power while ensuring that the important areas of the house stay connected. Double check the circuits leading to your transfer switch to ensure that the appropriate areas of the house will be covered.
Connect the generator to your home's central service panel, or create a workable network using external power cords. If you house has a flanged outlet, you can use this to forgo the need to use extension cords to power external devices not covered by your transfer switch. Simply connect the "male" end of the large extension cord to the generator, and connect the female end of the cord to the flanged outlet on the outside of the house. These outlets are easily found because they are very large and feature 4 prongs instead of three.
Things You Will Need
- Shovel or rake
- Flanged outlet to home service panel (optional)
- Always exercise caution when working with electricity. Try to keep yourself grounded, and avoid overloading any power source with too many high-demand appliances. If you're unsure about the state of your electrical system, transfer switch, or flanged outlet, contact a professional electrician to safely evaluate the situation.


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I’ve always lived in fear of mayonnaise, thinking its some special sauce that awesome people make. Turns out I can do it too. Admittedly, I only tried because I ran out of the bout stuff. This just tastes….well.. better. The mayonnaise recipe is loosely based on Allison Holst’s one… But tweaked to ingredients I always have at home.
1/4 t salt
1/4 t sugar
1/2 t mustard (I used honey mustard and dry hot mustard)
4 t cider vinegar
Cup olive oil
Bung everything in the food processor (except the oil) I have a whizzy attachment to my stick blender I wanted to try. Probably too much like hard work. But it is cool.
Put a little oil in. Whizz like crazy. Put more oil in. Whizz. Keep adding more oil in larger amounts until its all added.
I used these swanky Tupperware containers. Mainly as I got them cheap at a party for spending too much money. They were larger than I was expecting, but have been great for shaking dressings and storing. And I have dropped them. Full. And the lids don’t come off!
I use this on pasta salad. I made pasta tonight… But needed mayonnaise… To make this dressing! Crazy.
1/2 c mayonnaise
Juice of one small lemon
2 Tbs olive oil
And shake it up – so simple.
So I made a pasta salad. And even packed it for tomorrow. And the next day. I will make my challenge of 5+ a day.
I’m so organised this week. See… Lunch boxes. Husband lunch container. Lasagne. Fruit. Super super organised.

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Darren Beriro, from BGS, and Samuel Grinsted, from FFCC, tell us more about the progress of the pilot to date and provide insights into the data improvements required by local decision makers.
Using a framework to manage competing demands on land use
Devon’s diverse landscapes of national parks, coast, farming and rural communities face competing land use pressures. These include building new houses where people want to live, protecting our biodiversity and restoring nature, local food production and developing renewable energy infrastructure. The region is subject to complex governance arrangements involving multiple stakeholders including central and local government, landowners, farmers, businesses and communities.
FFCC, supported by the National Land Data Programme, is running a pilot project in Devon to test a land use framework. A land use framework is an approach to help make better decisions on land use, it can help guide local and national decision makers with a clear set of principles and practices. These practices are supported by tools, such as maps and spatial modelling, to help reconcile conflicting demands and balance different needs.
Identifying land use data challenges
Interviews were conducted with a range of stakeholders in Devon to identify data challenges they face in making effective land use decisions. Stakeholders included:
- a green infrastructure manager looking to identify biodiversity net gain solutions;
- a land owner looking to deliver data driven sustainable land use practices through collaborative partnerships;
- a large estate farmer looking to optimise the benefits from diversification and enhancing woodland cover; and
- a flood risk manager looking to model future growth and climate change scenarios to mitigate the impacts of flooding and communicate risks to the public.
Common themes from these interviews suggest that simple and intuitive online maps and visualisation tools would help decision makers to easily and quickly interpret spatial data to give confidence in their decision making. A single point of access to data sets and guidance was seen as beneficial to saving time by allowing users to find data and share information more effectively. It was also recognised that through better collaboration across agencies, decision makers could share expertise in creating, processing and analysing spatial data, which is in high demand but often difficult to find and use.
What’s next – creating a prototype decision support tool
The BGS and FFCC will work with local stakeholders to codesign a land use decision support tool that could help decision makers manage real world land use challenges they are facing, for example around carbon sequestration and offsetting. This will include a week-long design sprint in February which will inform the development of a clickable prototype decision support tool by April. Testing the tool with local decision makers will help demonstrate how land use data and modelling can improve joined-up decision making and help identify data improvement requirements, with the results compiled in a case study which will be published by June 2023.
The prototype tool will enable decision makers to evaluate the impacts of different land use change scenarios using spatial modelling to support the transition to low carbon uses of land while achieving other national priorities including housing development and nature recovery.


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Something that I've not yet featured in a blog post and there really is no better place to start than with a recent wedding I shot for a wonderful couple.
Gary and Becky first came to me in July 2012 looking for a wedding photographer. After seeing some of my previous work and looking at some of our sample products they decided I was the photographer for them. So nearly two years had passed and the big day was upon us. The venue was the beautiful Eastwood Hall. I have shot weddings here in the past but never on a warm, sunny day. ( The last time I was here it snowed )
We did the usual shots before the bride arrived and the guests were ushered inside. The ceremony itself was perfect and once Gary kissed his bride we made our way outside for group photographs, drinks and a relax. One thing I always say to couples is to relax and enjoy yourself. The day goes so quickly its not worth stressing about and even though I was photographing late into the night it goes pretty quick for me too.
The best part of the day for me, besides the actual wedding is the part where I get to take the Bride and Groom away from it all and get some nice relaxed shots of the couple together. Being a little later in the evening the sun was throwing that lovely golden light around and we had the whole grounds to play with, the results were truly stunning. For anyone who has been to Eastwood Hall you know what I mean, for those of you who haven't you really should check it out for yourself. With the bridal shots complete all that was left was to celebrate and these guys really knew how to do that...
So there you have it, a fantastic day, a lovely couple and some beautiful images to go with it. I'd like to say a big thank you to Gary and Becky, congratulations and all the best for the future.

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Cornwall Crown stays charges against five of eight accused in abduction
Many of the people arrested and charged with abducting, assaulting, and plotting to kill a man this past January have had the charges against them dropped by the Crown.
Jordan Thompson, 24; Kaitlyn Gougoula, 19; Bobbie Sylvester, 37; Ryan Royer, 25; Toshina Hill, 30; Daniel Roach, 39; Jessica Lemieux, 29; and, Michael Pare, 49, were all arrested by the Cornwall police after an investigation into an altercation reported at a residence on Guy Street on Jan. 7.
At the time, the police alleged the group prevented a man from leaving the residence, confined him using duct tape and assaulted him with a variety of weapons. The victim was treated for his injuries, which were not life-threatening, at Cornwall Community Hospital. Police said officers believe this was an isolated incident.
The group of eight were charged with a variety of offences including aggravated assault, forcible confinement and conspiracy to commit murder.
But as of April 8, the Crown had stayed all of the most serious charges against Hill, Roach, and Pare. Crown attorneys don’t often speak to the circumstances of why charges may be stayed— but it lies within the Crown’s prerogative to stay charges when it believes the evidence against the accused is insufficient to lead to a likely conviction.
Other defendants from the Jan. 7 incident are still making their way through the court system.
Thompson, for instance, is scheduled for a court appearance on April 11 to enter a plea, though to what charges is unclear.
Gougoula and Royer both have future court appearances as well. So does Sylvester, who has no less than five different trials for various charges scheduled over the next year.


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A palladium-catalyzed ortho-C-H amidation of anilides by N-nosyloxycarbamates was developed for the synthesis of 2-aminoanilines. This reaction can be carried out under relatively mild conditions and exhibits excellent regioselectivity and functional group tolerance. The amidation reaction is probably initiated by rate-limiting C-H cyclopalladation (k H/kD = 3.7) to form an arylpalladium complex, followed by nitrene functionalization.
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This article was written by Siyuan Chen, a Ph.D. student from Tsinghua University in China who is currently on a placement at the Sustainable Gas Institute. Siyuan in this article describes an energy model that his team is working on that aims to address the huge air pollution problem in China.
Air pollution problem in China
Over the last few years, air pollution has become a severe problem in China, especially the haze problem. From 2013 to 2016, Beijing experienced haze weather for 183 days each year on average. The wide range of haze weather causes many problems including traffic jams, flight delays, and increasing respiratory disease. There are many reasons for the severe air pollution problem in China, which include vehicle exhausts, construction dust, factory fumes, and coal combustion. However, coal combustion is considered as the major contributor to air pollution, and in China, more than half of the coal consumption is for electricity generation.
Therefore, cleaner production in the power sector plays an important role in tackling the air pollution problem. So how can China ensure it reduces the environmental impact of power generation, and how can energy systems modelling help?
Action plan for air pollution prevention and control
In order to solve this urgent air pollution problem, the Chinese government launched the “Action plan for air pollution prevention and control” in 2013. The action plan aims to reduce the inhalable particulate concentration by over 10% in 2017 compared with 2012 levels. At that time, ultra-low emission technologies of coal-fired power plants were developed and first deployed in 2014. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions from coal-fired power plants equipped with these emission control devices are lower than 35 and 50 mg/m3 with 6% oxygen content respectively, which is as clean as gas-fired power plants. In order to address the air pollution problem, the Chinese government plan to retrofit all qualified coal power plants with ultra-low emission technologies by 2020.
However, the policies are still vague and the impacts of this change are unknown. So it is essential to find a cost-effective clean production pathway for China’s power sector to address the air pollution problem.
Power generation expansion planning considering environmental issues
Power generation expansion planning is used to determine the optimal type, location, and construction time of power generation technologies whilst ensuring that the increasing power demand is met. Recently, environmental issues have been taken into consideration due to the growing concern of global warming and air pollution.
To deal with China’s air pollution, it is important to conduct power generation expansion planning with environmental constraints. At Tsinghua University, we have developed a model, known as the Long-term Multi-regional, Load-dispatch and Grid-structure based power generation planning model (LoMLoG), to support the decision-making process to help planners understand the environmental issues.
The model takes into account the following four factors:
1. Uneven distribution
Natural resource and electricity demand in China have an uneven spatial distribution. China has abundant resources in western areas, such as fossil fuel and non-hydropower renewables in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia and hydropower in Yunnan and Sichuan. However, power demand in eastern coastal areas (e.g. Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong) is much greater than in these resource-rich regions. Based on these regional characteristics, China is divided into seventeen areas reflecting power demand and natural resources.
2. Power transmission
With the rapid development of long-distance Ultra-High-Voltage power transmission lines in recent years, eastern coastal areas of China are capable of importing electricity from western areas which have abundant natural resources, instead of constructing power generation facilities locally. Long-distance cross-region power transmission options could have a great influence on regional power generation structure and give new insights to policymakers for air quality control. Therefore, we have included power transmission among regions in this model.
3. A temporal module
Electricity demand has high volatility in a 24-hour period on a day-to-day basis, and also from season-to-season. It, therefore, needs an accurate and reliable electricity supply to match the needs. From the electricity supply side, renewable energy also has a high temporal variation and can be used only when resources are available, which increases the uncertainty of the power system. In order to handle this problem, a temporal module is introduced. We have therefore divided each year into four seasons and each day is divided into twenty-four hours to capture the high time resolution of the power system.
4. Emissions targets
According to the 13th Five-year Plan for Eco-environmental Protection issued by the State Council, national sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions must be reduced by 15% in 2020 compared to 2015 levels. The emission reduction targets set by the government are therefore also incorporated into the model as must-achieve goals so that air pollution can be controlled.
Cleaning up the power sector
Our model presents a cleaner way for the power sector to reduce and control air pollution. The results show that ultra-low emission coal power plants would account for 60.5% of total coal power plants by 2020. The capacity of renewable energy (wind, solar PV, hydropower) would account for 36% of total power generation units. Due to the large-scale deployment of ultra-low emission technologies in coal power plants and rapid growth of renewable energy, SO2, and NOx emissions would decrease by 44% and 21% in 2020 compared to 2016 levels.
The regional capacity expansion pathway of power sector is also shown in the results. Thanks to the construction of long-distance Ultra-High-Voltage power transmission lines across China, eastern coastal areas with greater air pollution could import a great deal of electricity from western and Northern China, which helps them to decrease local coal power generation and air pollutants emissions accordingly.
Air pollution control is generally the short-term goal of China’s energy system. In the long term, climate change issues will need more attention. China has made a firm commitment in the Paris Agreement and has become an important participant, contributor, and torchbearer in the global endeavor for environmental civilisation. Therefore, it is vital to find a low-carbon transition pathway for China’s power sector, which would be the focus of future work.
Sustainable Gas Institute (SGI) has developed a global whole system model (MUSE) to simulate energy transitions towards a low carbon world. The model has rich types of technology and novel modelling methods, which can be a good reference for China’s low-carbon energy transition. During my research stay in SGI, I would like to learn these advanced methodologies and conduct cooperative research work on China’s low-carbon energy transition pathway.


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Coaches from Rochdale to Manchester cover the 10 miles (16 km) long journey with our travel partners like National Express. There are direct coach services available. Travellers depart most frequently from Rochdale and arrive in Manchester, Shudehill Interchange.
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All National Express coaches have air conditioning and free WiFi access as well as onboard entertainment. Most coaches have seat belts and power outlets in every seat, so you can charge your phone or laptop during a long journey. You can select from three ticket options for the Rochdale to Manchester coach: Restricted Fare, Standard Fare, and Fully Flexible Fare. If you’re looking for more flexibility on cancelling or changing your coach ticket easily, we recommend booking the Fully Flexible Fare option.
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Taking coaches from Rochdale to Manchester is straightforward and very quick with journey times that take from 40 minutes to 55 minutes. There are three departures every day of the week, all of which are direct services. All coaches start their journey at Rochdale Interchange and terminate at Manchester Chorlton Street Coach Station. Both of these are short walks from the city centres.
All coaches to Manchester from Rochdale are operated by National Express. From its headquarters in Birmingham, this large transport company provides a wide network of coach routes across the United Kingdom and Europe. Its fleet of coaches is modern with comfortable seating and onboard services that include air conditioning or heating, WiFi, toilets, luggage space and, on some coaches, individual power sockets.
All coaches from Rochdale to Manchester have short journey times of between 40 minutes and 55 minutes. These are all direct routes with no connections required.
There are three coaches to Manchester from Rochdale every day of the week. The first departure is in the early hours of the morning. There are then two further coaches with mid-morning departure times.
Departure bus station: Coaches to Manchester from Rochdale depart from Rochdale Interchange. This is a modern transport hub located approximately five minutes on foot from the city centre. It is served by both local and long-distance buses. It has a taxi rank, toilets, ATM, payphones, waiting areas and a small travel shop. Further shops and cafes can be found in the streets around the Interchange.
Arrival bus station: All coaches from Rochdale to Manchester complete their journey at Manchester Chorlton Street Coach Station, which is operated by National Express, the main provider of coach services from the station. This is located near Manchester Piccadilly Train Station and is approximately 10 minutes' walk from the centre of the city. It is also linked to the city centre by local buses. Among the facilities at the coach station are car and bicycle parking, payphones, a taxi rank, waiting areas, toilets, an ATM, a newsagent, coffee shop and snack bar.
When travelling this route, Omio customers are departing most frequently from Rochdale and arriving in Manchester, Shudehill Interchange.
You can find the most popular departure coach station for this trip, Rochdale, located approximately 0.5 miles (848 m) from the city centre of Rochdale. The most popular arrival coach station in Manchester, called Manchester, Shudehill Interchange, is located around 0.3 miles (489 m) away from its city centre.
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text: LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Japanese stocks ended with sharp gains Wednesday, as exporter shares rallied on a drop in the yen, and further news of production recovering following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The Nikkei Stock Average NIK, -0.98% finished with a 2.6% gain at 9,708.79, while the Topix rose 1.9% to 866.09. The moves came as the U.S. dollar neared the ¥83 mark, trading at ¥82.93, after opening the week below ¥82. This boosted major exporters, with Nintendo Co. JP:7974 NTDOF, +1.55% ending 2.6% higher, Elpida Memory Inc. JP:6665 ELPDF rising 3.6%, Sharp Corp. 6753, -1.87% SHCAF, -2.81% jumping 4.1%, and Nissan Motor Co. 7201, -1.57% NSAN closing with a 3.8% rise. Shares of Hitachi Ltd. 6501, -1.12% HIT, -0.77% soared to close up 8.7% after reportedly announcing a partial resumption of operations at a plant in Chiba prefecture. However, stock in Tokyo Electric Power Co. 9501, -1.15% TKECF, -1.02%, operator of the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, ended limit-down with a loss of 17.7%, its latest in a string of sharp falls due to the nuclear crisis.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - With goals by former Earthquakes player Víctor 'Boomer' Arbeláez (6th minute) and a header by Francisco 'Pancho' Mendoza (35th minute), Chivas USA's reserve team defeated the San Jose Earthquakes reserves 2-0 in the inaugural match of the Major League Soccer reserve division.
The game was played at Spartan Stadium, where earlier in the afternoon more than 11,000 fans watched Chivas USA's first team earn their very first point with a 3-3 draw against Western Conference rival San Jose.
Chivas USA now returns to Los Angeles to play their second home game on Saturday April 16, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. PT versus FC Dallas. The match marks the return to Los Angeles of Guatemalan idol Carlos 'Pescadito' Ruiz, along with the first visit in 2005 of U.S. national team striker Eddie Johnson. For ticket information, call: 1-877-CHIVAS-1.

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A portion of this nation is possessed by some of the most idiotic propositions to afflict a people. We’re going to spend our time deciding whether the boys can go in the girls’ restroom or locker room at school, and vice versa. At one time this was grounds for at least suspension from school. Now prohibiting this practice is grounds for a lawsuit against the school.
To be fair, it is only boys who believe they are girls, or girls who believe they are boys who are entitled to chose a restroom or locker room different from their obvious sex. Even if you buy that idiocy, how do you prove the difference between those who truly believe they are of a different gender as opposed to a guy with the very normal desire to check out the coeds as they shower? And what about the privacy and dignity of the middle-school girls who are forced to experience the male physique up close and personal?
So in the spirit of this lunacy, a group supporting transgenders is suing the Trump administration for information relative to his reversal of an Obama policy that permitted such behavior. Not only that, this group is sending out messages on Twitter offering to help transgendered students who are prohibited from using the restrooms and locker rooms of their choice.
“Lambda Legal filed a complaint with the New York District Court on Wednesday alleging that the Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) violated the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by failing to provide them with information they had asked for five months previously. Lambda Legal had requested documents explaining why the Trump administration had repealed the Title IX regulations in February that had been put in place by former president Obama.”
That was just Mr. Obama proceeding down the well-trodden path established by Mr. Clinton of never passing up the opportunity to advance the sexual revolution, regardless of location. At least Mr. Obama didn’t have people disrobe in the Oval Office as far as we know.
Here’s where things can get really nasty. Check out Lambda Legal’s Tweet:
— Lambda Legal (@LambdaLegal) August 23, 2017
They want to help students “use the right bathroom.” What do you even say to such a statement?
But there’s more:
“‘These transgender students, along with younger transgender children, experience alarming rates of harassment, bullying, and discrimination in their schools, which often goes unaddressed by school administrators. Many are denied access to sex-segregated facilities, such as school restrooms and locker rooms, in accordance with their gender identities,’ Lambda Legal wrote in its complaint.”
This is called sexual anarchy, and an invitation to sexual harassment on a level never before experienced.
And what teacher in their right mind would want to be responsible for supervising a restroom or locker room shower filled with mixed-sex underage students?
And Lamda is still not finished.
“The outcome of the suit remains uncertain, but Lambda Legal says it will persist in filing lawsuits to help transgender students use the bathroom of their choice.”
What is needed is a judge to look the plaintiffs in the eye, ask them, “Are you nuts?” And bang the gavel dismissing such cases.
Source: Daily Caller

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WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — The Town of Wrightsville Beach says work on the drawbridge to the island will close a lane of traffic for several hours Tuesday night.
According to a news release crews will do repairs to the bridge house beginning Tuesday at 9 p.m. The eastbound outside lane will be closed during the repairs to provide for the safety of the work crews and for the safe travel of vehicles. One vehicle travel lane will remain open.
The lane closure is scheduled to end Wednesday at 5 a.m.
For additional information, please phone Frank Granda, Transportation Supervisor II, Division 3 Bridge Maintenance at (910) 371-6580.


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ISR Trans specializes in rail transportation of oil and petrochemical products, as well as of coal, gravel, wood and metal. The rolling stock of ISR Trans consists of more than ten thousand tank cars and gondolas. A new lighter pattern was required for use in the design of numerous cargo containers, stationery, advertising and souvenir products and interiors of the company’s offices.
The pattern hints at railroad tracks, motorways and road junctions. The airy drawing can be easily applied to any surface and is instantly recognized from a distance.

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ALA Editions/ALA Neal-Schuman is pleased to present a selection of free programs at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition exploring the profession’s issues and trends. The programs scheduled to take place at the ALA Store, located near the main entrance to the Exhibit Hall on the lower level of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, are:
Saturday, June 22
Shop and browse the ALA Store at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition for products that meet the widest range of your promotional and continuing education/professional development needs—as well as fun gift items. Located near the main entrance to the Exhibit Hall on the lower level of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the ALA Store hours are:
"Probably the best thing you can do to set yourself up for success is to create dedicated time during your week to use your organization system," says Kate Hall.
In his foreword to Foundations of Information Ethics, Robert Hauptman sums it up best: "An ethical attitude to the production, dissemination, storage, access, and retrieval of information and data is beneficial and necessary to a well-functioning information society; this is affirmed by crisis after crisis concerning false news, fake facts, social media privacy invasions, and everything else." John T. F. Burgess and Emily J. M.
Author of bestsellers such as Be A Great Boss: One Year to Success and Renew Yourself: A Six-Step Plan for More Meaningful Work, Catherine Hakala-Ausperk should already be familiar to many readers. Her newest book though represents an even more focused, hands-on approach to library leadership.
Formally launched in 2014, ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries works to identify emerging trendsrelevant to libraries and the communities they serve, promote futuring and innovation techniques to help librarians and library professionals shape their future, and build connections with experts and innovative thinkers to help libraries address emerging issues.
How does a library amplify the skills and enthusiasm of its staff while also identifying what the community wants? In their new book Transform and Thrive: Ideas to Invigorate Your Library and Your Community, Dorothy Stoltz and her coauthors Gail Griffith, James Kelly, Muffie Smith, and Lynn Wheeler argue that adhering to a handful of straightforward principles will point the way forward.

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By Claire Sosienski Smith
Hello and welcome to my ted talk okay buckle up and keep your hands mostly inside the car but I know we are all impulsive creatures!! What? No one gave me a ted talk? That is a non-problem. I’m going to keep referring to all my extended conversations as ted talks and you cannot stop me!!
This is zine culture to me. It’s self-publishing, including spur of the moment diatribes on whatever you want. I say ‘to me’ not because I love gazing at my own navel but because I’m not entirely comfortable outlining exactly what zine culture is to everyone. Some general definitions are that it is personal and radical and firmly rooted in a DIY ethos. This definition is affected by its history, but that is complicated too: are zines a remnant of 90s DIY punk culture, taking on a life of its own when the RIOT GRRRL movement used zines as a way to get girls to the front of the punk scene? Are they the updated scrapbooks that women have been making and sharing since women weren’t allowed to be in public male spaces? Are they another form of letter-writing, just broadcast more widely?? Zine culture is such a conglomerate messy old thing with a victorious heart and its aim has always been rooted in counter-culture, a way of challenging the mainstream ways of sharing knowledge.
I am going to pause here to suggest that in this moment of brands infiltrating all channels of communication, we need to be aware that there are some things that zines are not. Yes, the term itself is half of the word magazine, but we’re a dissected chunk from them that grew better and stronger!! What are magazines doing jumping on the zine train now? Oh, trying to appropriate a radical aesthetic to sell more things??? Quelle surprise!! If they’re too lazy to say the whole word magazines, then a glossy publication that makes profit is a ‘mag’ not a ‘zine.’ Guess I can be a gatekeeper when I want to!!
Hey, it fits into that messy definition I outlined earlier, that zines need something to define themselves against. Zines are trying to give a voice and way to organise to people who are not represented in traditional media channels. Zines are like that really cool friend who you can’t quite tell whether you are desperately in love with or just want to actually BE. She is a good presence in your life regardless. Zines are about presence, about taking up space, about The Present and the future, nodding to the past that brought us a method that means if you have something to say and access to a printer – or now just the internet – you can get it out. Better out than in!! What you have to say is important and publishing your words in zines reinforces this unapologetic and unpolished action of being here. Zines are tangible, which is important for people whose identities and narratives are so often appropriated, talked over, or completely erased.
Zines are not competitive, zines are not for making a profit (the price for a zine should be recuperating your expenses, including your labour and ideally the labour of those who contributed?? But in this world, zines often end up being voluntary contributions of art), zines are not edited, airbrushed or perfected pieces. Zines are an expression of selfhood and community, of your thoughts and what gives you purpose, feeling your feelings and not apologising for the mess. There is always space for more zines. This brings me to the crux of my ted talk: make your own zine. You can do this by folding and stapling / sewing / just keeping the paper loose, writing on the pages and handing it to another person. Maybe it becomes a zine in that act of handing it to another person. Radical connection in the face of isolation. I leave you with my very simple guide on how to use a Microsoft Publisher template (I know, a brand, I’m inconsistent and complacent) to print your zine. It’s a matter of clicking on the right template, compiling your work and printing it out double sided.
That’s all there is to it. There is no reason why you can’t make a zine. I know I would love to see it, but more than anything, I hope that you will love seeing it, holding something in your hands that you made. That feeling will remind you that what you contribute to the world is valuable and worthwhile, just like your zine-loving corporeal form.


CFD and related technology appears throughout the Aerospace America 2017 Year in Review issue. Here are the highlights I found in the order they appear in the magazine. Plus I’ve included a few non-CFD items that caught my eye.
I’ve made no secret of the fact that the annual year in review issue of AIAA’s Aerospace America is the only issue I don’t toss in the recycling bin. Every issue since 1980 (when I first joined the professional society as a student) is shelved in my home office.
Why? Other than my well-documented inability to throw things away, these issues provide concise, annual snapshots of the aerospace industry. Each technical committee (TC) within the society writes an article summarizing the year’s milestones in their respective area of expertise.
- NASA’s OpenMDAO, a Python-based, open-source framework for MDO, continues to be broadly used throughout industry (e.g. NASA’s X-57).
- FUNtoFEM couples NASA’s FUN3D CFD code with structural analysis for aeroelastic computations. This work was done at Georgia Tech.
- uCRM is an open model from the University of Michigan and NASA based on NASA’s Common Research Model (typical transport aircraft) for aerostructural studies.
- Obligatory [to me] CFD Vision 2030 tie-in: “Beyond the typical codification of the inputs and outputs of a particular physical simulation, standards for MDAO may need to include sensitivities, uncertainties, and overall descriptions of the parameterization (possibly including the geometry itself) and the optimization problem. To enable tight coupling of diverse disciplines and codes, the data standards need to extend to include memory resident information and coding structures.
- A DARPA program sponsored development of several frameworks for uncertainty quantification (UQ) one of which, SEQUOIA, was able to shape engine nozzles in a way that increased thrust without adding weight.
- Another UQ framework from the same program, QUANTUM, solved an optimization problem for a turbulent jet with 1 million parameters.
- CFD Vision 2030 tie-in: “In order to facilitate both optimization and UQ at the system level, Vision 2030 CFD must be able to provide sensitivities of multiple derived quantities of interest with respect to large numbers of independent parameters at reasonable computational cost.”
- [Observation: How long before folks run out of words containing “Q” for use with cool acronyms for UQ tools? There’s a reason Q is worth 10 points in Scrabble.]
- As CFDers, we’re likely familiar with the concept of model-based engineering but not perhaps from the perspective of systems engineering. The component of MBE that may impact us the most is the concept of a digital twin, a digital model of a physical system, on which analysis such as CFD can be performed as the physical system changes over time and the digital twin is updated accordingly.
- Embry Riddle Aeronautical University performed computational simulations of a jet noise reduction concept called fluidic inserts.
- CRAFT Tech, U. of Mississippi, and U. of Texas Austin began work on another jet noise reduction technique called contoured inserts to be used to retrofit aircraft.
- Helios, the rotorcraft CFD code from CREATE, was used for high-fidelity simulations of interactional aerodynamics.
- Speaking of CREATE…
- Kestrel 8.0 now supports multi-species flow for use with hypersonic flows.
- Helios 8.0 includes enhanced turbulence and transition models.
- Genesis is [to me] a new tool that combines design and CFD for use by students.
- Wind tunnel testing of a NASA CRM-based wing with artificial ice shapes is expected to provide data for use in evaluating simulation tools.
- The NASA Juncture Flow experiment is collecting validation-quality data for trailing edge separation near the wing-body juncture. This data will help improve CFD modeling techniques for this type of flow. (See also this technical paper.)
- A joint experimental and computational study of high-speed, turbulent, separated flows was performed to provide inputs for LES simulations.
- The 1st AIAA Geometry and Mesh Generation Workshop included one of the first higher-order finite-element full aircraft simulations and the latest in mesh adaptation. This workshop, the first of a planned series, addresses geometry and meshing concerns laid out in NASA’s CFD Vision 2030 Study. (More at www.gmgworkshop.com.)
- Intelligent Light completed funded work on new methods for visualizing high order CFD results and curved meshes.
- Pointwise completed funded work on integrating overset grid assembly with mesh generation software.
- Boeing and INRIA demonstrated impactful mesh adaptation results at two CFD workshops.
- One of the quickest growing computational frameworks for CFD is Kestrel which was updated significantly during the year.
- Computational chemistry results were used to better model reaction rates for hypersonic flows as simulated by CFD.
- [Not CFD but I had to read this sentence three times to make sure I understood what it was saying. I quote it verbatim but the emphasis is mine.] Researchers in Japan studied synthetic meteorites in an arc heated wind tunnel in preparation for a planned artificial meteor shower at the 2020 Olympic Games.
- NASA flight tests of airframe noise reduction techniques have produced a database to help validate computational aeroacoustic simulation methods.
- While nothing was explicitly said about CFD, it’s my opinion that hypersonics will be a growth area for CFD simulations in aerospace in the coming years.
- In which we read that Walmart filed a patent for a floating warehouse from which drones would deliver packages.
- Data for CFD validation of scramjet fuel injectors was gathered in tests at NASA’s arc-heated scramjet facility.
As this list hopefully has demonstrated, CFD and related technologies have a broad impact throughout aerospace technologies. Let me know if I missed a citation.
And one last plug for the magazine: reading this entire issue makes clear the breadth of fascinating work being doing within this industry.


5/8" cylindrical carbide burr 1/8" shank When we created our circular ash table, we used multiple passes with a router to make the cut for the curved outer edge Once you add this technique to your woodworking arsenal, you’ll realize you can make shapes and forms that solid wood just can’t handle. kitchen cabinet router bits,Carpenters today are indeed a different breed than those of a hundred years ago Doing this operation with a hammer is slow.
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chicago electric 12 miter saw blade guard They also come in a beautifully-crafted wooden shadow box that you can mount on the wall This Router Bits Market study truly serves as a snapshot of the industry. kitchen cabinet router bits,You’ll find 8 stops for the most common fixed angles In wood, the lip and spur drill bit is another solution: The centre of the drill bit is given not the straight chisel of the twist drill bit, but a spur with a sharp point and four sharp corners to cut the wood.
iscar carbide end mill inserts,They have good heat resistance and can be coated with black oxide to reduce corrosion and wear woodturning hollowing tools The hammering action of the tool drives the carbide tip into the material while the rotating action channels away debris along the flutes. finger grip router bits,Carbide Inserts Molding planes were specific to a particular type of molding, with a carpenter needing separate planes for each profile they would cut.
fabric mill end This shows how much effort is exerted by leverage in the lever cap This I cannot get from any machining process. woodturning tools carbide tip,Soft low-carbon steel bits are inexpensive, but do not hold an edge well and require frequent sharpening A handheld drill may not always give you the force or control you need to use a Forstner bit, so a drill press is a better option for some applications The strategy? The tension between the cap iron (erroneouly called the chip breaker) and the cutting iron.
sj-5 single cut - carbide burr tungsten die grinder bit,The room itself was designed with the alcove, waiting for the built-ins to finish things off Manufacturers are good at not stating what chatter actually is but use chatter as a catchall term for several surface defects left after planing. kitchen cabinet router bits,Some have cast me as a man that hates machines, someone that refuses to accept progress, eschews the use of machine methods for working wood It’s almost 30 years ago since I started entertaining the thought of teaching woodworking to others.
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end mill holders,How could this be? And for about 30 or more years I never met a woodworker that could sharpen his or her saws Someone said that Britain and the US are two nations divided by a common language. how do you sharpen woodturning tools,For me, it’s an invasive, exhaustive subject that embraces the best of the past and the present but also the future The “T-square” jig is an ideal way to guide the router for cutting dados.
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Longview is actually a metropolis spread between Harrison County and Gregg County in Texas. This particular city is regarded as the business center for the Longview Metropolitan Statistical Area and is one of its principle cities. Having a human population of around 77, 000 folks, Longview has a majority population led by Whites, Hispanics, Native Americans, African Americans, Pacific Islanders and also Asians respectively.
The Longview sports activities scene is rather different and unusual. In addition to the regular collegiate sports involving football, volleyball, Football, golf, softball, soccer along with other varsity games, they hold a number of annual events which vary from boat races, balloon races, motorbike rallies, athletic events. Each one of these events take place over the year and commemorate some aspect of sports combined with their own culture.
During the month of January the East Texas Boat, RV and also Camping Expo takes place. This particular three day affair is held on the last week of January every year. The foundation of this event was placed by the owners of Longview Marines, Gene Brady as well as Dale Clark and it has been active since 1982. This expo brings RVs, yachts, boats and also motorcycles, ATVs from all over Eastern Texas under one roof attracting nearly over 10, 000 participants each year.
Another key magnet in this area is definitely the Annual Memorial Day Motorbike rally. This rally brings individual bikers as well as motorcycle riders and many of these clubs from all over Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. This particular event started in 2006 and also has been a significant attraction in this region. The event includes many motorcycle games, a fabulous bikers show, music and parades and the huge attraction called the Teresi Dyno-Drag. In this interactive event, motorcyclists test their skills in racing and discover just how fast they are able to really go in a quarter mile stretch.
Probably the most exciting fests that take place within Longview would be the Alley Fest that is held in the beginning of summer season. This fest started out in 1978 and hosts and art display, a fabulous music event, a food contest along with a marathon run which is a 1 mile, 5K and also 10K course. The newest arrival to the fest has been the Kids Marathon run where children between ages of 5 to 12 take part in the 25. 2 miles run.
The most famous amongst every one of these is definitely the Great Texas Balloon race which is held during the month of July annually at the East Texas Regional Airport. This affair is considered as the “longest running hot-air balloon race inside Texas”. This specific race started out during 1978 over the launch of the Longview Mall as a huge celebration. It continued after that and has expanded right into a competitive event involving top notch benchmarks. This event is said to entice world class hot air balloon pilots from all around the globe and comprises of balloon fights and balloon glows. The extra appeal with this event is to see how these balloons get filled with air and also controlled. This is an event which is held in colaboration with the North American Balloon Association and also attracts eighty exclusive sport balloons.
The Longview News Journal stands out as the main newspaper publication of this area and goes back to 187. This particular publication provides all the local news, sports and also community information.


Young Musician on a Mission Releases Original EP: "DayBreak"2014-11-26
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"Immature" the Most Loved Boy Band Trio Ever is Back With a New Single, New Sound, Upcoming Tour Dates, and Lots of Surprises For the Fans They Never Stopped Loving2014-11-26
| "We wanted to give our fans and new comers a few free songs in 2014 to hear our new direction and sound. The first one is called "Let Me Find Out" produced by T Black" from Marques "Batman" Houston, Jerome "Romeo" Jones and Kelton "LDB" Kessee.
Opera Singer Poses Semi-Nude for a Charitable Cause in 2015 Bari-chunk Calendar2014-11-24
| G&W Entertainment has released a new 2015 calendar featuring opera singer Adelmo Guidarelli, the star of their award winning show Operation Opera, posing semi-nude in opera settings.
Music Trivia App Rock'N'Roll Knowitall Releases Update, Partners With Online Store EMP For Contest2014-11-24
| Music app Rock'n'Roll Knowitall unveils app update and teams up with EMP for an exciting new competition featuring 300 new questions and multiple prizes.
Powersoft Captures Nuance and Detail of The Earth Harp and Other Artistic Performances at Pennsylvania's Mercyhurst University2014-11-23
| Clean and Pristine Audio is the name of the game for Fact AV Technologies at the Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center and other venues within the University's Institute for Arts & Culture.
Rapper/Entertainer Teflon Don To Re-brand and Expand, To Launch New Projects and Public Speaking2014-11-22
| Memphis entertainer and rapper Teflon Don re-brands image, prepping for new projects and public speaking engagements.
Reggae Star Omari Banks Releases New Single Featuring Peetah Morgan2014-11-21
| By many accounts both music lovers and insiders have deemed this past year as the resurgence and revitalization of Reggae music.
Antelope Audio Zen Studio Wins Mix/PAR 2014 Innovative Product Award2014-11-21
| Zen Studio is Chosen as the Most Innovative Interface in Publication's First Readers' Choice Awards
Retail Radio Supports Great New Artists2014-11-19
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The Biggest Concert of the Year, "Amor A Nuestra Musica," a Christmas Spectacular Produced by Spanish Broadcasting System & SBS Entertainment2014-11-19
| "We're thrilled that 2014 has been turned out to be a great year of spectacular events for SBSE. We are producing 'Amor A Nuestra Musica' as a small token of gratitude to our fans," says Sr. VP of SBS Entertainment Lucas Pina.
Master MC Presents His Brand New Musical Production "EVOLUTION"2014-11-19
| The great Singer, composer and Latin Hip-hop super star, winner of numerous recognition's at musical level, presents his brand new musical production titled "Evolution".
Launch of New Book to Fund Music School2014-11-16
| Students to discover and develop new talents
The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Presents "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" by Dr. Seuss2014-11-14
| "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" - by Dr. Seuss is the first concert in the KSO Family Discovery Series for 2014-15 and was adapted for orchestra and stage by Tyler White and Tim Marrone.
The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Appoints New Assistant Conductor, Daniel Brier2014-11-13
| In his Assistant Conductor role with the KSO, Mr. Brier will work chiefly with the orchestra's Family Discovery and Youth Concerts, conducting the performances and coordinating with staff for planning and programming.
Canadian Music Sensation, Roxanna, Announces Public Television Special Premiere2014-11-13
| Canadian music artist Roxanna to star in a 90 minute television special called Exotica Live upon the release of her new album
The Best Online Shopping Experience for Musical Gear Anywhere2014-11-12
| Chuck Levin's launches new interactive e-commerce website designed to complement & enhance Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center's reputation for industry leading customer service, product selection.
Indies Sync Up 4 Success2014-11-11
| Sha-La Music's Robert Allen joins forces with Eddie Caldwell's Music of The Sea in new publishing deal.
DJ GQ And Akon Take The Mixtape Game To EDM2014-11-10
| Celebrity DJ GQ And International Superstar Akon Collaborate On A Pop EDM Based Mixtape


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Ag Manta and his brother, Vin, were riding their bicycles on Main Street, Manayunk, early Saturday morning, June 30th when, as Ag recounts it, he was intentionally hit from behind by the driver of a gray Toyota Scion.
The crash happened at 1:30am at the corner of Main Street and Ridge Avenue. The driver and passenger were both white males who appeared to be in their 20s, and had been instigating the cyclists before the crash.
“I was flown from my bike and the driver sped though three red lights to get away,” Manta says. “It was a gray 2014-2016 Scion tC. We didn’t get plates but there were multiple witnesses and the front right exterior of the car was torn off.”
While he was mostly uninjured, his bike was pretty messed up. He’s asking that anyone with information about the assault come forward. A piece of the car’s bumper came off in the intentional crash, and can be seen below.
He has been in contact with the Philadelphia Police Department and a lawyer, but can use some help.
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A man says he sustained second- and third-degree burns at work after he was sprayed with hot liquid asphalt.
Kenneth Hodges filed a lawsuit Dec. 22 in Jefferson County District Court against Martin Product Sales, Martin Gas and Martin Midstream Partners.
Hodges claims he worked as a welder for Echo Maintenance at the Martin Gas Standolind Cut Terminal on Jan. 19, 2008. There, Martin Gas employees instructed him to drill and tap a fitting on a liquid asphalt line, according to the complaint.
Before Hodges and his co-workers began work on the line, Martin Gas employees told them they had depressurized the line, the suit states. However, when Hodges attempted to tap the line, hot liquid asphalt sprayed his face, chest and arms, the complaint says.
In addition to his burns, Hodges claims he experienced physical pain, suffering, mental anguish and physical impairment and incurred medical costs. In addition, he lost wages and his earning capacity, according to the complaint.
Hodges blames Martin for failing to properly and safely de-pressurize the line prior to requesting work from Echo Maintenance employees, for failing to properly inspect and tag the line and for failing to warn Hodges and his co-workers that the line could be pressurized.
Hodges seeks an unspecified judgment and punitive damages, pre- and post-judgment interest, attorney's fees, costs and other damages the court deems just.
David Dies of Dies and Parkhurst in Orange is representing Hodges.
The case has been assigned to Judge Donald Floyd, 172nd District Court.
Jefferson County District Court case number: E185-531.


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"The prime minister has issued a letter of appreciation to the team members of the evacuation operations. This letter would be handed over to the crew by the Minister of State for Civil Aviation," the PMO statement said.
Air India had conducted an emergency evacuation operations from Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China.
"Despite being aware of the aforementioned severe situation in the region, the Air India sent two B-747 aircraft with teams of Air India as well as teams from Ministry of Health for two consecutive days, on January 31 and February 1, returning the next day," the statement pointed out.
In its February 5 meeting, the Union Cabinet had congratulated crew members of the two Air India special flights that evacuated 647 Indians from Wuhan, saying they did not express any fear and gave primacy to their duties.
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How would you describe the solar PV market in the Middle East right now? Have we reached the tipping point yet?
We have seen a lot of positive initiatives and policies to encourage the adoption of solar energy. The transition is accelerating and we are seeing good momentum. However to date, the market hasn’t reach maturity yet and there are a lot of opportunities.
GCC countries have some of the highest solar exposures in the world so the potential to be unlocked is huge. In fact, renewable energy deployment and investment is expected to reach $16bn in 2020, according to a study by Strategy & Middle East. The study also shows that the region’s share of global investment is still little compared to other countries, hence the importance to continue creating a supportive, coherent framework to facilitate renewables investment.
Is rooftop solar gaining momentum in Dubai and why?
Solar rooftop has definitely gained momentum in Dubai in recent years. The emirate has been putting a lot of efforts to have all rooftops fitted with PV panels. For instance, according to DEWA, Dubai has achieved 55MW (as of July 2018) of installed capacity connected to the grid, with a growing interest estimated to be over 400MW to date.
The momentum can also be explained by the different reasons: regulation (solar electricity is utilized when required, with any surplus being exported to the grid and credited back to the user), applicable utility tariff (electricity from solar rooftop systems can today be sold at significant discounts to the utility rate), cost (rapid declines in the cost of technology ensure relatively rapid payback and the ability to out-compete conventional energy sources), and climatic conditions (Dubai averages over 10 hours of sunlight per day and roughly 350 sunny days per year).
What is the potential for rooftop solar in Dubai?
The addressable rooftop solar market is of 1-1.5 GW in Dubai alone, according to Taqati. This market will be addressed over the next 5-10 years, starting with the commercial and industrial sectors first. The residential market will be another large market for solar rooftop.
Is financing readily available for large rooftop solar projects in Dubai?
Financing is available and does not constitute the main challenge to grow the market. For instance, we have the Green Fund, a key driver of Dubai’s clean energy, which was launched in November 2015 to accelerate funding for green projects and programmes.
Investing in solar distributed generation assets is attractive to investors because it generates long term, stable cash flows, while offering capital gains at exit. As such, numerous local and international banks have developed sound policies to become “greener” and provide green funding. At the same time, financial products are being structured to be offered to broad pool of local and international investors.
On the other hand, private initiatives such as what we do at SirajPower with our financing capabilities (offering leasing solutions with no up-front cost but lower tariff to our customers) will help the market to grow rapidly.
Does the cost of building rooftop solar projects have much further to fall?
The cost of building solar rooftops is mostly driven by the cost of technology, i.e. the solar modules. Price of solar modules has dropped significantly over the last two years mostly driven by supply and demand dynamics. However, it is unlikely that the cost will further decrease over the next years and no disruptive technology is expected to change the fundamentals of our business model either. For the rest of the costs, this is already optimum.


text: High grain yields of upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) can be achieved in no-tillage systems. However, managing nitrogen (N) fertilization for rice in succession to forage grasses is a challenge because forage residues change N cycling and increase microbial immobilization of N, thereby reducing N availability to the subsequent cash crop. In the present study, two field experiments were conducted to determine if applying all or part of the N fertilizer on preceding palisade grass (Urochloa brizantha) and ruzigrass (Urochloa ruziziensis) or their desiccated residues immediately before rice seeding can supply N to the subsequent rice crop. Forage biomass yield (8–16 Mg ha− 1), N accumulation, and N supply to the subsequent upland rice were highest when all of the N fertilizer was applied on forage grasses at 50, 40 or 35 days before rice seeding (DBS), as opposed to the conventional split application at rice seeding and at tillering. On average, the grain yield of upland rice was 54% higher in succession to palisade grass compared with ruzigrass. The grain yield of rice was higher when N was applied to palisade grass at 35 DBS and ruzigrass at 50 DBS, reaching 5.0 Mg ha− 1 and 3.7 Mg ha− 1, respectively. However, applying N to ruzigrass was less effective for increasing upland rice yields since the yields did not differ from the treatments with the conventional split application. Adjusting the time of N application to forage grasses to increase the grain yields of subsequent upland rice is a sustainable alternative that can promote the economic viability of upland rice production.

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