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Before I spend too many words praising Addams Family 2 – which I will be doing – I want to start by referring back to the last time the Addams Family was a main subject of this blog. I have been relatively consistent since my writing of that piece in situating the creative rights of artists to make use of old media over that of firms to continue to profit off their purchased ownership of them. I persist that Adult Wednesday Addams was sufficiently transformative that, even within the bounds of copyright law as conceived, it should constitute IP protected parody. This film is a product of MGM’s ownership claim which I do think is harmful to a franchise venerable enough (Charles Addams having died over 30 years ago) that it really should be public domain. With that said, The Addams Family 2 is a remarkably good family film and the things they do with Wednesday, in particular, as a character are interesting. This film presents a favorable counter-point to the failings of The Mitchells vs the Machines and in light of my criticism of the latter for the ways in which it reinforced patriarchy and demanded that children must recognize parental hardship in the face of mistreatment I think it’s valuable to show how this film, through the use of a lighter touch and a different family dynamic managed to use the same premise: father arranges a road trip in a bid to connect to his increasingly distant daughter, to much better effect.
The fascinating thing is the extent to which these two movies mirror each other. There is, as mentioned above, a very similar inciting incident. Wednesday is increasingly distant from her family, whose foibles have become terribly irritating to her. Gomez is anxious that his daughter is acting aloof and impulsively decides to take the family on a cross-country roadtrip. Meanwhile a tech billionaire has devised a new product which works poorly and Wednesday holds the key. His interactions with the family drive the a-plot of the movie and provide an action frame upon which to hang an exploration of a father-daughter dynamic. This is all hauntingly familiar to anyone who has watched The Mitchells vs the Machines. There are, however, two very significant differences between these films and they are the sources of the strength of the Addams Family 2 over the older film. The first is that The Addams Family 2 uses a much lighter touch with the conflict between Wednesday and Gomez and a much healthier relationship dynamic between Gomez and his wife than the triangle formed by Katie, Rick and Linda in The Mitchells vs the Machines.
Unlike Katie and Rick, there’s nothing really wrong in the relationship between Wednesday and Gomez. He’s a loving and doting father who still sees Wednesday as his little girl. Wednesday sees the impulsive, passionate, affectionate Gomez as embarrassing and cloying. Like Rick, Gomez has to learn to trust his daughter to make good decisions for herself but Wednesday doesn’t need to come to any sort of cathartic understanding of Gomez’s perspective. She just has to come to accept that heredity isn’t a straight jacket and that she doesn’t have to renounce her family ties to create her own identity. This understanding on her part is sufficient to resolve her conflict with Gomez and restore the family to harmony. Morticia, meanwhile, is not caught in the middle. She acts as a confidant and helper to both Wednesday and Gomez, giving Wednesday an important plot MacGuffin that serves to cement her place in the family but also talking through parenting strategies with Gomez and, in fact, sharing agency over his mistakes.
It’s unsurprising that any modern configuration of the Addams Family has Morticia and Gomez being the sort of couple who talk through their fears together and who come to mutually agreed parameters with how to act that they both follow through on, but it is refreshing in comparison to Rick’s boorish anachronism. And this changed dynamic helps to drive home that Wednesday’s parents truly love her unconditionally and want the best for her. If they fail it’s because they’ve not calibrated how ready she is to decide, for herself, what is best.
The other significant difference is the handling of the villain. In Mitchells vs the Machines I was always very dissatisfied with the easy way Mark Bowman is let off the hook. Although his decision to discard PAL was the inciting moment of the a-plot action, he is quickly eclipsed as the villain. He regrets easily and at the end of the film has learned the error of his ways.
There’s no such kindness given to Cyrus Strange. He’s a rotter through and through. In the initial moments of the film Wednesday, at a school science fair, devises a machine to transplant animal traits into humans. The example provided is transferring the ability to solve Rubik’s cubes from her pet octopus into her oafish uncle Fester. Strange, played with airs of Steve Jobs and Tony Stark in equal measures, witnesses the demo and immediately tries to con Wednesday into giving her invention to him. She refuses, claiming it’s built around a “family secret.”
However Pugsley, Gomez and Morticia attend the science fair too, despite Wednesday’s admonitions for them to stay away, and between Pugsley’s pyromaniacal reconfiguration of another student’s baking soda volcano and Gomez and Morticia’s PDAs they manage to both destroy the venue and mortify their daughter.
Gomez then proposes a road trip to bring the family back into harmony and as they are leaving they’re confronted by a lawyer claiming that Wednesday is not, in fact, an Addams but has been switched in the hospital – a danger later made more plausible when Fester admits that he snuck into the hospital on the night Wednesday was born and upset all the babies, a situation he resolved by juggling said newborns. He says he’s mostly sure he put all the babies back where they went. Gomez and Morticia aren’t particularly interested in discussing their anxieties about being hounded by a lawyer seeking a paternity test with their aloof daughter but she overhears them discussing the issue and goes on a quest to discover the truth of her parentage.
Of course it’s all a con. Strange heard about the disruption at the hospital and used it as a basis to supplant Wednesday’s family in the belief it would gain him access to her technology. Although his aesthetics – black turtlenecks and holographic displays – point to the stereotypical billionaire-entrepreneur-inventor character, Strange is more of a Dr. Moreau. His great plot is to create human-animal hybrids to staff militaries and call centers. That’s right, the evil plot of the villain of this movie is to try and do the thing from Sorry to Bother You. He fakes a DNA test and tries to persuade Wednesday that she is really his long-lost daughter. This goes poorly for him and by the end of the movie Strange has been transformed so that his appearance corresponds to the ugliness of his heart. His lies are exposed and he is killed by Uncle Fester, now transformed into a tentacular kaiju by the side-effects of Wednesday’s treatment. None of this is ground-breaking to anybody who has paid attention to the themes of the Addams Family in the last (checks calendar) 57 years. The Addams Family are strange but loving. The beauty of their hearts becomes revelatory despite their outward strangeness while their enemies all start quite mundane but their own inward monstrosity slowly is revealed through the awful ways they treat the lovable oddballs of the cast. This works as well with the animated characters today as it did during both the Julia / Huston / Lloyd / Ricci movies and the original TV show. The gloss of tech billionaire helps to drive home the mundanity of Strange and makes the revelation of his monstrosity thus that bit more poignant.
The funny thing about the Addams Family movie is how low-stakes it all kind of seems. Wednesday is always so obviously an Addams. It’s present in the steampunk lab she sets up in the science fair and her “tremble brief mortals” monologuing about her experiment. It is deployed in a moment of legitimate humour when, in an effort to hide her from the lawyer, the Gomez enrolls Wednesday in a Texas child beauty pageant. Another girl in the group politely asks Wednesday what her talent is and Wednesday reveals that it’s min reading before promptly and horrifically invading the other girl’s mind, sending her screaming from the room in abject terror.
Later, during the same sequence, Wednesday is in the midst of the other girls on stage but, ignorant of the expected dance moves and blocking she keeps getting shoved around by the other girls until, at the moment of the climax of the musical number, she reveals a dagger secreted in her boot and cuts a rope backstage, spilling buckets of *ahem* red paint on each of the other girls in a delightfully deranged callout to Carrie.
In general the movie subverts the expectation of conflict. In one scene Wednesday commands Lurch to show a gang of bikers what his cold dead hands can do. He sings a disco number and ultimately replicates one of the best scenes from Tangled (only better because I Will Survive is a bop whereas I’ve Got a Dream is one of the Disney Princess line’s weakest songs.) In a later scene Lurch is sent into conflict with a bruiser in the employ of Strange but the villain’s thug immediately changes sides – it transpires that he was previously Lurch’s room mate at the asylum Gomez retrieved Lurch from and they’re quite fond of each other. In fact this show delights in setting up conflict and then giving us a moment of harmony instead as much as it does in setting up something mundane and pleasant – a science fair, a marriage proposal, a beauty pageant, and so on – only to transform it into absolute carnage. There is a winking kind of edge to the humour in this film which, at its best, manifests like the Carrie homage and, at its worst, is pretty much bog-standard weed jokes trading off the stunt-casting of Snoop Dogg as Cousin It. Which really isn’t all that bad when you get right down to it.
I wouldn’t say that Addams Family 2 is without flaws. Some of the fine details of the beauty pageant scene will almost certainly have reasonable critical readings that will point to some issues with perspective and power relations in the United States and the use of a vial containing a drop of blood from every member of the Addams Family as both a metaphor for the bonds of family and as a literal tool to save Fester from the unintended consequence of Wednesday’s hubris is a bit overly treacly for a movie that generally slashes away the maudlin with a riot of camp excess. However what we end up with, though imperfect, remains one of the better realizations of a non-toxic family comedy about a daughter growing up and a father struggling to come to terms with this. Wednesday is a freak. And so are her family. And their freakishness is not the same as hers and it bugs her. She doesn’t like PDAs and REALLY doesn’t want a hug.
But what makes it good is that, while Wednesday learns it may occasionally, rarely, be OK to give her freakish dad a hug because she loves him and cares for his feelings, she doesn’t have to be like her parents. She can be other than them. And being different, being other, doesn’t invalidate the bonds between them.
And that’s alright as a message by me.
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It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School website. Here you can start to discover what makes St. Joseph’s such a special place, why children love it here and why they remember it with such affection after they have left.
St Joseph’s is a school filled with a buzz of happy activity and the warmth of positive relationships between pupils and adults. The children are taught a broad and balanced curriculum by wonderful teachers, and the academic standards are high. Yet, St Joseph’s is about so much more than that; it is about our Catholic faith that teaches children to follow the example of Jesus. It is about giving everyone the opportunity to shine and be proud, having the confidence to have a go at anything and the belief that you can succeed. We continue to teach the children to have pride in themselves and to work harmoniously with each other. Our school continues to be a place of acceptance and respect for the beliefs of others and a sense of pride when others do well. It is about the fun, magic and laughter of school life and the making of all those memories that last into old age.
I believe that it is these things that make our children lively, confident, and thoughtful and is why they move on to fulfilling lives built upon the Gospel values and strong foundations laid in the school.
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The Juventus man has been the Red Devils’ top target for much of the summer, but the Old Lady’s reluctance to discuss a deal has caused the saga to drag on.
Louis van Gaal is understood to want the Chilean, but a lack of transfer activity is frustrating him as he looks to build a squad capable of at least a top four finish.
With a deadline of later this week having been set for Vidal, United may well turn their attention back to now Arsenal target Carvalho.
The Sporting Lisbon man was linked with a switch to Old Trafford earlier this year, but the club’s interest cooled and the Gunners have since been mooted as the most likely destination for the rugged midfielder.
He is still seen as an option at United, and could be the man to inject some energy into their central ranks alongside new signing Ander Herrera.
Sporting are believed to be ready to sell due to financial worries, with offers of around £25m liable to be accepted.

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Variations in signal-to-noise characteristics of tissue-equivalent attenuators for mammographic automatic exposure control system performance evaluation
Morrison CK, Macdonald EB, and Bevins NB. Variations in signal-to-noise characteristics of tissue-equivalent attenuators for mammographic automatic exposure control system performance evaluation. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2022.
Journal of applied clinical medical physics [electronic resource] / American College of Medical Physics
PURPOSE: This work investigates the impact of tissue-equivalent attenuator choice on measured signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for automatic exposure control (AEC) performance evaluation in digital mammography. It also investigates how the SNR changes for each material when used to evaluate AEC performance across different mammography systems.
METHODS: AEC performance was evaluated for four mammography systems using seven attenuator sets at two thicknesses (4 and 8 cm). All systems were evaluated in 2D imaging mode, and one system was evaluated in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) mode. The methodology followed the 2018 ACR digital mammography quality control (DMQC) manual. Each system-attenuator-thickness combination was evaluated using For Processing images in ImageJ with standard ROI size and location. The closest annual physicist testing results were used to explore the impact of varying measured AEC performance on image quality.
RESULTS: The measured SNR varied by 44%-54% within each system across all attenuators at 4 cm thickness in 2D mode. The variation appeared to be largely due to changes in measured noise, with variations of 46%-67% within each system across all attenuators at 4 cm thickness in 2D mode. Two systems had failing SNR levels for two of the materials using the minimum SNR criterion specified in the ACR DMQC manual. Similar trends were seen in DBT mode and at 8 cm thickness. Within each material, there was 115%-131% variation at 4 cm and 82%-114% variation at 8 cm in the measured SNR across the four imaging systems. Variation in SNR did not correlate with system operating level based on visual image quality and average glandular dose (AGD).
CONCLUSION: Choice of tissue-equivalent attenuator for AEC performance evaluation affects measured SNR values. Depending on the material, the difference may be enough to result in failure following the longitudinal and absolute thresholds specified in the ACR DMQC manual.
Medical Subject Headings
Humans; Phantoms, Imaging; Mammography; Signal-To-Noise Ratio; Quality Control; Radiographic Image Enhancement
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It all started at a party with a bottle of protein powder. Erin Parker, a Stanford graduate and enthusiastic proponent of “bikini bodybuilding,” was visiting a friend’s party while holding some protein powder. These amino acids proved relatively unpopular with the other guests in attendance, but one other person at the event was at least curious about the woman holding protein.
Nidhi Kulkarni, an MIT computer science graduate and competitive rower, walked up to Parker and began asking questions about the powder, such as how to use it to more effectively put on high-quality weight. The two nurtured a friendship, and several months later, joined together to build a new workout app for women called Spitfire.
Parker and Kulkarni are on a mission to provide women with a very different type of workout app, culled from their own experiences as strength builders and athletes. Instead of showing a couple of ineffective exercises, Spitfire presents comprehensive “plans” that teach women how to reach their long-term goals, even when they will require immense work. Each plan is inspired by an actual woman, and none of the images in the app use models (in fact, many are of the founders themselves).
Their hope is to encourage women to believe that they can achieve incredibly difficult challenges with more realistic depictions of the steps ahead, building “spitfires” in the process.
They see a wide hole in the market for this sort of experience. Despite the abundance of exercise apps for women in Apple’s App Store, there are few that show the intensity required for high performance. In particular, “there is this image of women doing these exercises with little pink barbells” that just infuriates Parker. “There are plenty of apps that promise results in 5 or 7 minutes,” but these apps then proceed to show “women on the floor lifting their legs up a couple of times, exercises that are completely fake. All the legit stuff that actually gets you results are never shown.”
Like the goals at the heart of the app, though, these two co-founders also had a long road themselves to see their vision reach the app store. Parker was once determined to become an investment banker, but over the course of the past two years, has picked up Ruby on Rails and iOS development all the while continuing an intense workout regimen. Kulkarni, one of the top graduates from MIT’s computer science department, also walked onto the university’s crew team, competing at the Division I level for several years. Through Spitfire, they hope to imbue their own grit into an app usable by women everywhere.
The exercise plan
Spitfire’s primary mission is simple: set a goal and choose the right plan to get there. When users first log in to the app, they are asked a series of questions on what they want to do. First, users are asked to set a goal. Today, there are two options, strength and physique, but the founders hope to add others like endurance, power, flexibility, and agility in later updates.
Next, they have to select whether they want to focus around gym equipment or body-only exercises. Once these simple questions are answered, the app will recommend one of five plans that best match.
These plans are the core of the product. Within each plan, there are tasks to complete each day for several weeks, and clicking through the days offers exercise tips as well as photos to guide exercise novices through any complicated maneuvers. As you complete tasks, a progress bar fills up, and you can fill in notes for each task such as the weight of your barbells or the number of repetitions.
Each plan was inspired by an actual person, and you can read their biographies. The hope is to show users that there is nothing “elite” about the kind of high-intensity strength training promoted by Parker and Kulkarni, but rather that such exercises are accessible to anyone. “We want to demystify the process,” says Parker.
For instance, one plan for strength training was inspired by a nationally recognized weight-lifter named Emily, while another plan was inspired by a software developer named Pamela who lost 50 pounds through her own approach to exercising. The founders currently develop their own content, but over time, they hope that about half the plans in the app will come from users themselves, inspired to share their own approaches to a variety of goals.
The spitfire inside
For Parker, the journey to startup founder was quite circuitous. Coming to Stanford in 2007, she was focused on getting a position in her dream job as an investment banker. She got a coveted internship offer her sophomore year at JP Morgan, only to find the environment deeply stifling.
“Every time I was asked to do a comp, I would try to make the models better, but my boss just kept telling me to do what he said.”
While Parker had mentors in college who were involved in startups, the pivotal moment came during a weekend known as Rails Bridge, which had reached out by email to encourage women to learn how to code. There, Parker learned how to build a basic app using the popular Ruby ecosystem, and found that she had a natural aptitude for coding. She took the next year to focus on programming while holding various side jobs to pay the bills, all the while continuing an intense fitness regimen. When one of her fitness demo apps started to get traction through TestFlight, she knew that she had found something special, but would need a co-founder to move it forward. She found that person in Kulkarni.
Kulkarni has nurtured a long-time passion for computer science. She was first exposed to the field in high school, and continued her studies at MIT. In addition to the punishing workload of Course 6, Kulkarni walked onto the women’s crew team, where she regularly woke up at dawn to practice. That regimented schedule didn’t prevent her from reaching the pinnacle of student performance at the school and graduating into an engineering job at Okta, the enterprise identity management system startup. She was quite pleased with her job in the initial months, and even got promoted as the company accelerated its customer integrations. Yet over time, she wanted to try something new and began looking for other options. When she saw the designs for Spitfire, she was hooked, and she and Parker officially started working together last November.
Of course, it is still early stages for Spitfire. The founders hope to add several features in the next few months, including the ability for users to develop their own completely customizable plans, and to provide more social features for strength-training females to find one another. The company is also completely bootstrapped while they continue to experiment with the product and its business model. Like the plans in Spitfire, these two co-founders have a large ambition for how women should build their exercise routines. Just don’t expect any little pink barbells to make an appearance.


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Publication Date: March 9th, 2016
A cosmic battle to end all battles with Howard in the middle! Can he put an end to THE COLLECTOR once and for all with the help of the Guardians of the Galaxy and Silver Surfer?
Seriously, I’m asking you. I’m on, like, page 12 of this script and I. Am. Stumped.
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The Governor of Nigeria's Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has commended Nasrul-Lahi-il Fathi Society NASFAT for its giant strides in Ghana.
Governor Aregbesola beieves achievements made by NASPA so far in the area of Dawah, education, economic empowerment among others are worth emulating.
In a speech read on his behalf by represented by Nigeria's Commissioner for Education, Mr. Abdul-Wasiu Omotunde-Young, at the 4th NASFAT’s Biennial Conference in Accra-Ghana,he called management of on Islamic societal organisation to remain focused by inviting people to all that is good.
The event also the Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana, Ambassador Femi Abikoye who said he was full of joy for having such a huge conference in Ghana.
“Ghana is a second home to millions of Nigerians with over Four million Nigerians in Ghana" he said
"We have a lot of areas of collaboration. NASFAT has done several million naira worth of bilateral relations with this conference. You have also done well in improving the socio-economic, trade, investment and religious relationship."
The Guest Speaker, Sheikh FazluRahman Ali Hassan urged Muslims to be the Prophet’s character personified.
Speaking on the topic, ‘Managing the Expansion of Dawah’, Sheikh Hassan said that Muslims should be more organized and united in order to grow the Ummah.
He said, “As Ummah, we need to work collectively, share good practices and utilise our talents maximally to make progress. What we do is more important than what we say and we must practice the true teachings of Islam.”
Sheikh Hassan warned against describing terrorists as Muslim terrorists, asking the audience to be careful of biased reporting.
In his address, the President of NASFAT, Engr. Kamil Bolarinwa said that diversity should not in any way undermine the practice and observance of our religion.
He said, “We need to be models of positive values such as tolerance, peace, justice, equity, respect for others, integrity and the likes.”
He called on Muslim elites to do more for Islam.
“NASFAT is committed to continuing quality education in all areas,” he said. “And that’s why we set up Fountain University and intend to make it one of the best in the world.”
Alhaji Abdul-Lateef Olasupo, NASFAT’s BOT Chairman, in his welcome address urged members to continue to serve Allah through service to humanity with their resources.
He said, “We must continually strive to be enthusiastic missionaries, share the good values and develop the distinguishing competencies in members.”
NASFAT, which has its roots from Nigeria has been operating in Ghana as benevolent groups for more than 10 years.
its major focus of the group is individual morality and piety along with education and socio-economic empowerment of its members.


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Impact of Mobile Assisted Language Learning on Learner Autonomy in EFL Reading Context
Traditional classrooms confine English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading to the textbook and the classroom setting, something that demotivates active reading. With the advent of mobile technology, however, such boundaries can be broken to include external reading materials where students could read and share anytime and anywhere. This paper investigates the role of mobile technology in enhancing Learner Autonomy (LA) in the EFL reading context among students in the Preparatory Year (PY) of Najran University in Saudi Arabia. A reading class of 30 students utilised mobile applications (WhatsApp and internet search engines such as Google) to access external reading materials and interact with their peers and teachers outside the classroom. Qualitative data collection underwent a number of procedures. The baseline data was constructed from the students’ portfolios, which reported the participants’ traditional reading practices and use of mobiles. Then, the participants were encouraged to use internet search engines and WhatsApp group to share their readings. Finally, five participants were interviewed. The data analysis revealed that the participants’ LA is improved through the use of selected mobile applications in terms of taking responsibility for and making decisions about reading materials and the time and place of reading. The study recommends further investigation into the role of mobile applications for generating learners’ own tasks and writing skills.
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The National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative (NDVFRI) was an initiative funded through a $1,344,025 grant awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
Based at Baylor University from 2005 until April 2009, the NDVFRI was the first of its kind, creating a clearinghouse and resource center dedicated to domestic violence fatality review. Currently 30 states have some form of domestic violence fatality review. Nearly all of the remaining states have expressed interest in conducting reviews and receiving technical assistance to do so. Domestic violence fatality review requires a paradigm shift from a culture of blame to a culture of safety in which deaths are reviewed through a lens of preventive accountability. With vigor, trust, honesty, and candor, communities can establish reliable systems that value accountability and help prevent future death and injury from domestic violence.
Specifically, the Initiative focused on the following objectives:
- Preventing domestic violence homicides and domestic violence in general,
- Preserving the safety of battered women,
- Holding accountable the perpetrators of domestic violence,
- Identifying gaps in service delivery as well as ways to remedy these shortcomings among agencies and organizations, and
- Providing technical assistance to the states developing and continuing their fatality review work.


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Robots with 6 degrees of freedom can now perform movements that are so complex that they are suitable even for difficult tasks such as palletizing, handling, gluing and welding. Due to their skills and flexibility, they are used for many tasks with numerous, different tools. However, in order to be able to make optimal use of these capabilities, the robots must be precisely recalibrated every time the tool is changed. Recalibration is often extremely time-consuming and inaccurate, so that industrial processes cannot be carried out smoothly and there are delays in production.
Servotronix has developed an effective method based on teach-in positions with which new tools for robots with 6 degrees of freedom can be calibrated in no time without having to rely on the dimensions provided by the manufacturer or external sensors.
Robots with 6 degrees of freedom can be calibrated in different ways. This can be done by scanning reference parts, using distance sensors or laser interferometry, just to name a few examples. Furthermore, external sensors such as camera systems can be attached to various locations on the robot to determine the exact position of a reference object, from which the robot can be calibrated.
However, all of these methods are very time consuming and complex. Servotronix has developed a much simpler method.
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- Page 2: Determine tool working point
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Go beyond historical questions
Lily Fetalsana-Apura reads Joshua 1:1–9, a text that has been used to legitimize Western conquests and imperialism, as a resistance text. Using contextual hermeneutics, the author reads the Former Prophets as countering and resisting impositions of surrounding imperial forces. Read in the context of four hundred years of colonial victimization and a continuing struggle against neocolonialism, Fetalsana-Apura interprets Joshua 1:1–9 as exhorting strength and courage against exploitation and domination by empire. She reveals the Western context and interests reflected in many books and commentaries and outlines instead how the text’s meaning can be translated as resisting empire to marginalized and exploited communities such as the Philippines.
- A critique of Western biblical studies that exclusively focus on historical and theological readings
- An outline of exegetical and hermeneutical procedures for contextual interpretation
- Identification of themes and concepts in the Deuteronomistic History that subvert imperial ideology
Lily Fetalsana-Apura is an assistant professor in the Silliman University Divinity School in the Philippines. She teaches biblical studies courses.
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Since opening our doors in 1908, AdventHealth has offered one of the most comprehensive childrenâ™s health programs in Central Florida. Today, we continue this legacy of pediatric excellence at the MagnetÂ® recognized Walt Disney Pavilion at AdventHealth for Children.
Our campus is home to 30 pediatric sub-specialties led by a team of 400+ nurses and physicians. We provide specialized care in various state-of-the-art settings, including an 81-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with private family-centered rooms, an Advanced Center for Pediatric Surgery handling nearly 4,000 cases each year, and one of the few pediatric oncology programs in the area.
Weâ™re also Central Floridaâ™s only pediatric provider for bone marrow transplant, kidney transplant, Gamma Knife services, trilogy radiation and Level III epilepsy care. But perhaps most exciting of all, is that this is the firstâ”and onlyâ”hospital to bear the DisneyÂ® name.
â¢ Full Time or Part Time or PRN (Shift Information)
You Will Be Responsible For:
Human Resource Management â“ Monitors performance of the staff and takes corrective action for improvement as appropriate. Uses independent judgment to:
Selects applicant for interview and hire and assures appropriate orientation.
Financial Management â“ Understands health care economics, public policy, and finance as it pertains to the delivery of patient care.
Understands the broad impact of reimbursement on the delivery of patient care services, including but not limited to Medicare, Managed care, Medicaid, third party providers, challenges to current health care policies, and key legislative initiatives at the local, state, and national level.
Performance Improvement â“ Demonstrates familiarity with the performance improvement model of the organization.
Champions performance improvement activities on the unit through problem identification, assessment, data gathering, change implementation, and evaluation of outcomes.
Critical Thinking/Technology â“ Utilizes critical thinking skills in the performance of their duties. Demonstrates and understanding of technology utilized in the organization.
Plans, organizes and leads the unit through application of critical thinking skills
Leadership and Clinical Practice Knowledge â“ Provides leadership for the effective and efficient operation of assigned unit. Assures clinical practice is of the highest quality.
Leads the employees in a manner which develops the employee to their optimal level of performance
What Will You Need:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN) or Master of Science degree in Nursing (MSN) either upon hire/promotion or within 36 months of hire/promotion
Minimum two years acute care nursing practice experience
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE PREFERRED:
Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN) or Master of Science degree in Nursing (MSN) at time of hire/promotion highly preferred
Prior management experience
Specific education and experience as delineated by the unit of employment (see competencies)
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, OR REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
Current valid State of Florida or multi state license as a Registered Nurse
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, OR REGISTRATION PREFERRED:
Professional certification from a national organization
The Nurse Manager (NM) is a registered professional nurse who has the most direct impact on the care and services that patients and families require throughout their hospital experience. The NM is directly responsible to the Director of Nursing (DON) or Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and is responsible for the continual operation of a specified nursing unit. The NM is able to demonstrate critical thinking skills, creativity, and has the knowledge to manage resources to achieve quality performance, positive employee relations, and compliance with hospital guidelines. The NM is skilled in coaching, motivating, mentoring, and leading a professional and technical team in the delivery of services for our patient population. The NM assures quality of care is delivered for our patients and demonstrates effective stewardship of scarce resources. The NM is the change agent for the assigned areas of responsibility and is responsible for implementing any changes that the unit is required to undergo. The NM actively participates in outstanding customer service, including service to patients, families, physicians, and other contacts, and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful to all.
Internal Number: 20027197
AdventHealth Greater Orlando (formerly Florida Hospital) is one of the largest faith-based health care providers in the United States. For 150 years, we have carried on a tradition of providing whole-person care that not only addresses patients' physical ailments, but also supports their emotional and spiritual well-being. We demonstrate the same level of compassion and care for our employees as well, doing all that we can to help them realize their full potential – both personally and professionally.

domain: medical


Here's a recent audio interview (starts at 4 minutes in) with Pearl Thompson and Lisa Johnson of the 108 Rock Star Guitars book. Not much Pearl, mostly Lisa, but better than nothing. (Thanks Alex)
And it sounds like Pearl has some new material coming out. Lisa posted this on Facebook: "Truly
an EXQUISITE performance by Pearl at the 108 Rock Star Guitar Book
Launch event!!! You are all going to LOVE his new material."


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Wolves in talks to sign Leander Dendoncker from Anderlecht who has been targeted by Manchester United and West Ham
- Wolverhampton Wanderers have made a move for Leander Dendoncker
- The Belgium international was tracked by West Ham and Crystal Palace last term
- Manchester United also weighed up a move in the January transfer window
Wolverhampton Wanderers are in talks over a move for versatile Belgium international midfielder Leander Dendoncker.
The 23-year-old from Anderlecht has been targeted as he can also play at centre-back.
Dendoncker was watched extensively by West Ham last season but manager David Moyes opted against a deal.
Wolves are in talks with Anderlecht over a move for the versatile Leander Dendoncker
He is heading to the Midlands for talks and a planned medical.
As well as West Ham, Dendoncker has also been tracked by Crystal Palace this summer, while Manchester United were also weighing up a deal as recently as the January transfer window.
Dendoncker was part of the Belgium squad that reached the World Cup semi-finals this summer, making one appearance after featuring the full 90 minutes in the group stage victory over England.
Dendocker has been tracked by many Premier League clubs during his time at Anderlecht
Wolves have been busy in the transfer market ahead of Thursday's deadline, having completed the signing of Adama Traore from Middlesbrough for £20million on Wednesday.
Traore becomes the 10th arrival of a busy summer transfer window at Wolves ahead of their first campaign back in the top flight since suffering relegation in 2011-12.
Portugal internationals Rui Patricio and Joao Moutinho have also joined while Diogo Jota and Willy Boly have signed permanent deals after loan spells last season.
Wolves boss Nuno Santo is still looking to strengthen his side heading into deadline day
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domain: sports


text:
If you knew Suzy
Suzy is still looking for a home. She is a beautiful long-haired cat, perhaps a year old, with a number of Maine Coon attributes. More shy than outgoing, Suzy would probably be best as the only feline in the household where she would certainly add affection and companionship. Please consider giving her a home.
RappCats is an all-volunteer non-profit organization that helps stray, abused, abandoned and unwanted cats in Rappahannock County. If they’re old enough, all our cats are current on their shots and have been spayed/neutered. We are also in constant need of foster homes to care for cats awaiting adoption. For more information or to adopt, contact us at 540-987-8099 or email@example.com.

domain: pet


text:
While digital preservation efforts are being led by members of the cultural heritage community working at institutions traditionally responsible for saving materials, the challenges of digital preservation require the involvement of new participants.
Digital preservation is a series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for the highest utility—and for as long as possible or necessary. Archivists work to save bits and bytes beyond the limits of media failure, software obsolescence, and technological change. The phrase “digital preservation,” however, has been questioned because it may not sufficiently describe what needs to occur for digital materials to be accessible over time.
As our understanding of digital preservation, curation, and stewardship matures, archivists and other information professionals have begun to question some of our assumptions about preservation. To address current needs, the practices we have developed and taken for granted for decades are transforming in the digital environment.
As with many archival projects, large institutions lead the way to new discoveries, workflows, and practices. Discussions about digital preservation have been too frequently (but understandably) presented in terms that apply only to large, well-funded institutions.
The archival field lacks people with the expertise needed to extend the digital preservation agenda. Formal training opportunities for digital preservation are still rare, so much is learned on the job. New archivists may be uncertain as to where to acquire specific skills, and seasoned archivists need to broaden their knowledge or expand their roles professionally.
Off-site and remote storage facilities are not new. They were developed in the 1930s and continue to be important for preservation and long-term retention of materials. They provide a long-term solution for paper and microfilm records, sound and video recordings, and now data.
The Information Age spawns questions for the future. How will we ensure long-term access to information, growing exponentially every day? How will we migrate data as technology moves from one medium to the next? Who determines what’s saved, and what criteria will be used to make those decisions? Most importantly, what is the cost of preservation? Who will pay for it?
The challenge that many archival repositories face is assimilating digital preservation activities into everyday workflows. In my past positions, preservation of digital assets was an afterthought—if thought about at all. As a consultant, I’ve found that planning for long-term digital preservation is still unclear in most digital initiatives. Awareness about digital preservation is growing, though work and education are still needed.
Archivists can use several elicitation techniques to gather requirements for their projects. These methods, ranging from document analysis to in-depth interviews, provide ideas for needed projects.
Goals and objectives are instrumental in strategic planning for archives because they turn the project’s vision into measurable targets. Goals are the ends towards which a project is directed; objectives are more detailed than goals and explain how goals will be accomplished. With both in hand, archivists build and support the vision for what they wish to achieve with their projects.
Although some archivists debate the necessity for item-level access, it is often more challenging to describe images in the aggregate. Collection-level description can be useful for images of the same subject, but problematic for collections with a variety of subjects, as it neither improves retrieval nor limits the handling of the originals. Group arrangement and description are necessary for large collections or when resources are limited.
Traditionally, archivists have dismissed arrangement at the item level as having little utility and being impractical for modern collections. However, archival surveys conducted over the years have found that a significant proportion of archivists have adhered to item-level description—even though it is contrary to the traditional archival practice of collection-level description. The same discrepancy between literature and practice appears to be true for visual collections.

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text:
Syringomyelia is a relatively common condition, especially in breeds like the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and the Griffon Bruxellois, in which it is suspected to be an inherited disorder. Other names that have been used to describe this condition include syringohydromyelia, Arnold-Chiari or Chiari-like malformation, and caudal occipital malformation.
What is syringomyelia and what causes it?
Syringomyelia is a neurological condition where fluid filled cavities develop within the spinal cord (the bundle of nerves that run inside the spine). The most common reason for the fluid build-up is that there is an abnormality where the skull joins onto the vertebrae (the bones of the spine) in the neck, causing fluid in the brain (called cerebrospinal fluid or CSF) to be forced down the centre of the spinal cord, where it causes the tissues to become distended and cavities to form.
What are the most common signs of syringomyelia?
Clinical signs or symptoms can vary widely between dogs and there is no relation between the size of the syringomyelia (cavity in the spinal cord) and the severity of the signs – in other words a dog with severe fluid build-up can have relatively mild symptoms, and vice versa. The most common symptom that develops is intermittent neck pain, although back pain is also possible. Affected dogs may yelp and are often reluctant to jump and climb. They may feel sensations like ‘pins and needles’ (referred to as hyperaesthesia). Another common sign is scratching of the neck and shoulder region called ‘phantom scratching’, as there is generally no contact of the foot with the skin of the neck. Occasionally dogs become weak or wobbly if there is significant damage to nerves within the spinal cord. Cavalier King Charles Spaniels will typically show clinical signs between 6 months and 3 years of age. Not all dogs with syringomyelia will show signs of pain or other clinical symptoms, so the presence of syringomyelia can be an incidental finding on an MRI scan or specialised X-rays, when neurological investigations are being performed.
Other neurological conditions, such as slipped discs (cervical and thoracolumbar disc disease), can mimic the signs of syringomyelia and it is important for us to rule them out before concluding that your pet is suffering from syringomyelia.
How can syringomyelia be diagnosed?
The best method of diagnosing syringomyelia is an MRI scan of the brain and spine. It is necessary to perform this investigation under a general anaesthetic. The scan and anaesthetic are safe procedures, and patients undergoing an MRI scan for this condition are monitored by our Specialist-led team of anaesthetists. In the future it is possible there will be a genetic test to identify dogs with syringomyelia.
How can syringomyelia be treated?
Medical therapy is usually the treatment of choice in dogs suffering from syringomyelia. Several types of medication are used to manage episodes of pain, including a drug called gabapentin. This drug is safe, with few side effects apart from possible sleepiness. Other medications that may be used include anti-inflammatory drugs, corticosteroids and drugs that reduce the production of fluid in the brain and spinal cord.
Occasionally medical management is unsuccessful and surgery needs to be considered. The aim of surgery is to improve the shape of the back of the skull and reduce the flow of fluid down the centre of the spinal cord. Many dogs will improve following surgery, although some patients will have persistent signs despite surgery, whereas others may show improvement initially but then develop recurrence of their symptoms.
If you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.


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Clearwater Island Lodge
Clearwater Island Lodge is located 100 kilometres north of Darwin Northern Territory on Melville Island part of the Tiwi Islands Group.
It is strategically situated on the outskirts of Pirlangimpi a small aboriginal community steeped in thousands of years of tradition.
On offer for you are a selection of carefully thought out tours with professional accredited guides who know their stuff, or have us custom create a package to suit your interests.
Clearwater Island Lodge is a multi award winning location and is renowned as having some of the finest angling available in today’s world. Fishing, sightseeing, bush tucker and art appreciation are some of the activities on offer.
Whether you are a serious angler or just wanting to get away from it all with friends and family, Clearwater Island Lodge has set the benchmark for what can only be described as” unique “ in every aspect - an experience that will leave you wanting more.

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7:30pm - 9:00pm
Letting Go of Bad Habits: The Confidence to Change
May 1 Believing We Can Change
May 8 Why are Habits Hard to Break
May 15 The Power of Intention
May 22 Overcoming Discouragement and Procrastination
May 29 Insecurity vs Confidence
June 5 The Power of Joy
June 12 Imagination and Our Potential
About the Series:
Without a clear vision of what is possible and methods to accomplish our true potential, it is difficult to make the most of our life and be of greatest benefit to others. Buddha’s teachings on the mind give us the confidence to change by showing us how our mind works, where it gets stuck and what to do about it. Meditation gives us the practical methods to bring this change about. Join us for this 7-week course where we will explore the practices and meditations within Buddhist psychology that can help us to become the person we wish to be!
What to Expect at a Class:
Our Monday evening introductory meditation class begins with a guided meditation, followed by a talk on a certain topic (listed above), and ends with another guided meditation. Class is followed by refreshments and time to chat with the teacher and other students. Everyone is welcome. No previous experience is necessary.

domain: psychology


text:
Lakota, ND Threshing Rig Accident, Jun 1908
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
William Crocker Had Hand Badly Injured in Threshing Rig.
Lakota, N. D., June 5.---William Crocker, senior member of the transfer firm of Crocker & Showalter, was severely injured while unloading a threshing rig. In some manner his left hand was caught in the tackle and before it could be freed the forefinger was so badly injured that it had to be amputated, and the other fingers of the hand were badly lacerated and burned by the rope.
The accident was particularly unfortunate coming at this time as Mr. Crocker expects to be married within a day or two to Miss Mae Bradley. However, there will be no postponement of the ceremony on account of Mr. Crocker's misfortune.
The Grand Forks Daily Herald, Grand Forks, ND 6 Jun 1908

domain: history


|Publication number||US8183872 B2|
|Application number||US 12/499,477|
|Publication date||May 22, 2012|
|Filing date||Jul 8, 2009|
|Priority date||Jul 9, 2008|
|Also published as||CA2730535A1, CA2730535C, CN102149954A, CN102149954B, EP2304294A1, EP2304294B1, US20100007325, WO2010004418A1|
|Publication number||12499477, 499477, US 8183872 B2, US 8183872B2, US-B2-8183872, US8183872 B2, US8183872B2|
|Inventors||Jason Dennis Stark|
|Original Assignee||Eaton Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (17), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (3), Classifications (7), Legal Events (2)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application 61/079,245, filed Jul. 9, 2008, and which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to a hose with fault detection capability.
High pressure reinforced hydraulic hose is typically used on a variety of fluid power operated machines, such as earth-moving machines, to provide a flexible connection between several moving parts of a hydraulic circuit employed on or within the machine. Such hoses may include a hollow polymeric inner tube on which successive cylindrical layers of reinforcing material, such as wire or textile, are concentrically applied to contain the radial and axial pressures developed within the inner tube. Many applications require hose constructions with both high burst strength and long term fatigue resistance. Using conventional technology, the burst strength of a hose design may be increased by adding additional reinforcing material and/or layers, a practice which is generally discouraged because of its negative impact on the flexibility of the hose, or by universally increasing the tensile strength of each layer of reinforcement material, which may come at the expense of hose fatigue resistance. To determine the robustness of a hose design, a hose manufacturer typically performs, among other tests, an impulse test and a burst test on the hose. An impulse test measures a hose design's resistance to fatigue failure by cyclically subjecting the hose to hydraulic pressure. A burst test, on the other hand, is a destructive hydraulic test employed to determine the ultimate strength of a hose by uniformly increasing internal pressure until failure. Based on these and other tests, a manufacturer can estimate a hose life that can be used to determine when a hose has reached the end of its life and may require replacing.
A hose fault detection system includes a hose and a fault detector. The hose includes at least one conductive layer with an electrically conductive characteristic. The fault detector is electrically connected to the conductive layer and is configured for detecting an electrical change based on the electrically conductive characteristic to signify a potential impending failure of the hose.
In another embodiment, a hose fault detection system includes a hose assembly and a fault detector. The hose assembly includes a first conductive layer, second conductive layer, and an intermediate layer that is disposed between the first and second conductive layers. Each of the first and second conductive layers has an electrical characteristic. The fault detector is configured for detecting an electrical change based on the electrical characteristic to signify a potential impending failure of at least one of the first and second conductive layers of the hose. The fault detector includes a sensing device, a recording device and a digital processor. The sensing device is in electrical communication with the first and second conductive layers to measure the electrical characteristic. The recording device is configured for storing the measured electrical characteristic.
In yet another aspect of the invention, a hose fault detection system includes a hose assembly and a fault detector. The hose assembly includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a socket, and a nipple. Each of the first and second conductive layers has an electrical characteristic. The socket is in electrical communication with the second conductive layer. The nipple is in electrical communication with the first conductive layer. The fault detector is configured for detecting an electrical change based on the electrical characteristic to signify a potential impending failure of at least one of the first and second conductive layers of the hose. The fault detector includes a sensing device, a first lead wire, and a second lead wire. The sensing device is configured to measure the electrical characteristic between the first and second conductive layers. The first lead wire electrically interconnects the sensing device and the socket. The second lead wire electrically interconnects the sensing device and the nipple.
The above features and advantages and other features and advantages of the present invention are readily apparent from the following detailed description of the best modes for carrying out the invention when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.
Referring now to the figures, which are exemplary embodiments and wherein like elements are numbered alike:
Referring now to the discussion that follows and also to the drawings, illustrative approaches to the disclosed systems and methods are shown in detail. Although the drawings represent some possible approaches, the drawings are not necessarily to scale and certain features may be exaggerated, removed, or partially sectioned to better illustrate and explain the disclosed device. Further, the descriptions set forth herein are not intended to be exhaustive or otherwise limit or restrict the claims to the precise forms and configurations shown in the drawings and disclosed in the following detailed description.
The intermediate layer 24 operates to at least partially insulate electrically the first and second conductive layers 22, 26 from one another. The intermediate layer 24 may have any of a variety of constructions. For example, the intermediate layer 24 may include a single layer of an electrically resistive material. The intermediate layer 24 may also include multiple layers, wherein at least one of the layers exhibits electrical insulating properties. Certain composite materials may also be employed in the intermediate layer 24, such as a woven fabric bonded to a polymeric material. Composite materials having various other constructions may also be utilized. Composite materials may also be used in combination with other materials to form the intermediate layer 24.
The conductive layers 22, 26 generally extend the entire length and span the entire circumference of the hose 16. This is generally the case when the conductive layer 22, 26 also functions as a reinforcement layer. The intermediate layer 24 may also extend over the entire length and circumference of the hose 16. There may be instances, however, where at least one of the conductive layers 22, 26 extends only over a portion of the hose 16 length and/or a portion of the hose 16 circumference. In those instances, the intermediate layer 24 may also be configured to generally extend over the region of the hose 16 containing the partial conductive layer 22, 26. The partial intermediate layer 24 may be positioned within the hose 16 so as to separate the conductive layers 22, 26 from one another.
Referring also to
The conductive layers 22, 26 may each have the same configuration, or each layer 22, 26 may be configured differently. For example, the first and second conductive layers 22, 26 may each include the braided material shown in
The hose assembly 12 may include a nipple 36 that engages the inside of the hose 16 and a socket 40 that engages an outer surface 41 of the hose 16. The nipple 36 may include an elongated cylindrical end portion 42 that engages an inner surface 43 of the hose 16. It should be appreciated that in the embodiments shown in FIGS. 1 and 5-9, the nipple 36 engages the inner surface 43 of the inner tube 20 of the hose 16. A cylindrically shaped end portion 44 of the socket 40 may engage the outer cover 28 of the hose 16. The socket 40 and nipple 36 may be constructed from an electrically conductive material. The socket 40 and nipple 36 may be secured to the hose 16 by crimping the cylindrically shaped end portion 44 of the socket 40 overlaying the hose 16. The crimping process deforms the cylindrically shaped end portion 44 of the socket 40, thereby compressing the hose 16 between the nipple 36 and the socket 40. The portions of the nipple 36 and the socket 40 that engage the hose 16 may also include a series of serrations 46 that at least partially embed into the relatively softer hose material when the socket 40 is crimped to help secure the fitting to the hose 16. The serrations 46 may be configured to prevent the serrations 46 from penetrating the inner tube 20 and outer cover 28 and contacting the conductive layers 22, 26.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 5-9, a nut 54 may be rotatably attached to the nipple 36. The nut 54 is configured to secure the hose assembly 12 to another component (not shown).
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 5-7, the first conductive layer 22 may be configured to extend beyond an end of the inner tube 20 of the hose 16. The first conductive layer 22 may engage the nipple 36 to create an electrical connection between the nipple 36 and the first conductive layer 22. Similarly, referring to
Referring again to
The hose fault detection system 10 may include the fault detector 14 for monitoring the integrity of the hose 16. The fault detector 14 may be configured to cause a notification signal to be generated when a fault is detected within the hose 16. The notification signal may include audible and visual signals, as well as other types of signals. This means that the fault detector 14 may include a visual fault indicator 14A that corresponds to the visual signals and/or an audio fault indicator 14B that corresponds to the audio signals. Additionally, the fault detector 14 may include a reset button 15.
A method for determining the presence of a fault within the hose 16 may include monitoring an electrical property of at least one of the first and second conductive layer 22, 26, including but not limited to, electrical resistance and capacitance. An impending fault occurring within the hose 16 may produce a detectable change in the monitored electrical property, which may indicate that a hose failure is about to occur.
There are a wide variety of mechanisms by which a hose 16 failure may occur. A hydraulic hose 16 may be subjected to cyclic pressure changes that may result in a progressive fatigue induced degeneration of one or more of the layers within the hose 16, which typically precedes a complete failure of the hose. For purposes of discussion, a complete failure of the hose 16 occurs when an opening develops in a wall of the hose 16 that allows fluid to escape from the hose 16. The ability to detect degeneration occurring within the hose 16 may provide an opportunity to remove the hose 16 from service prior to a complete failure.
Progressive hose 16 degeneration may produce a corresponding detectable change in the electrical characteristics of the conductive layers 22, 26 which, when detected, may forewarn of an impending complete hose 16 failure. For example, if the intermediate layer 24 of the hose 16 were to develop a tear 68 or other similar fault that results in the first conductive layer 22 electrically contacting the second conductive layer 26, such as shown in
Various methods may be used to determine the presence of a fault within the hose 16. For example, a newly constructed hose 16 may have an initial baseline electrical characteristic. This baseline electrical characteristic may be preprogrammed into the fault detector 14, or the fault detector 14 may be configured to perform an initial measurement to establish the baseline electrical characteristic. Once the baseline electrical characteristic has been established, the fault detector 14 may continuously or periodically send out a predetermined signal consistent with the electrical characteristic being monitored. A return signal received by the fault detector 14 may be used to determine the current electrical characteristics of the hose, which may be compared against the baseline electrical characteristic. Changes exceeding a predetermined magnitude may indicate an impending hose 16 failure for which the fault detector 14 can cause of warning to be issued.
Rather than comparing the currently measured electrical property with a baseline property, the fault detector 14 may also be configured to issue an impending hose failure warning upon the monitored electrical property attaining, exceeding or falling below a certain value. For example, when monitoring electrical resistance, the fault detector 14 may be configured to issue a warning when the electrical resistance falls below a certain level.
Referring also to
With reference to
With continued reference to
Referring again to
It is not necessary that the nipple 36 be electrically insulated from the first socket member 40A since the nipple 36 is not electrically coupled to the second conductive layer 26 of the hose. It may, however, be desirable in certain instances to position the collar 38 between the lug 48 of the first socket member 40A and the nipple 36 for a various reasons, such as to facilitate attachment of the first socket member 40A to the nipple 36. The collar 38 may be made from any of a variety of materials depending on the requirements of the particular application. It is not required that the collar 38 be electrically insulating, although it may be.
Referring again to
With reference to
The arrangements described above are merely illustrative examples of possible configurations. It shall be appreciated that the arrangement of the fault detection system 10, as well as the configuration of the individual components, including but not limited to the hydraulic hose 16 and fittings, can have different configurations without departing from the scope of the claimed device. Further, although the above examples focus on a hydraulic hose 16 it shall be understood that the herein describe device may be employed with any hose configured for transporting a fluid or gas.
With regard to the processes, systems, methods, etc. described herein, it should be understood that, although the steps of such processes, etc. have been described as occurring according to a certain ordered sequence, such processes could be practiced with the described steps performed in an order other than the order described herein. It further should be understood that certain steps could be performed simultaneously, that other steps could be added, or that certain steps described herein could be omitted. In other words, the descriptions of processes herein are provided for the purpose of illustrating certain features, and should in no way be construed so as to limit the scope of the claims.
It is to be understood that the above description is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive. Many arrangements and applications other than the examples provided would be apparent to those of skill in the art upon reading the above description. The scope of the disclosed system and processes should be determined, not with reference to the above description, but should instead be determined with reference to the appended claims, along with the full scope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled. It is anticipated and intended that future developments will occur in the arts discussed herein, and that the disclosed systems and methods will be incorporated into such future embodiments. In sum, it should be understood that the herein disclosed system and processes are capable of modification and variation and are limited only by the following claims.
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Blueberry Bush Care in Michigan
Hello, I posted this in another forum last night but have not received any responses yet so I figured i'd post it here too.
I just bought 2 blueberry bushes, one Blueray and one pink lemonade one. I have 2 questions.
I am planting them in 4 gallon pots, it says the plants can be planted outside in March in my zone, so would it be safe to plant them and immediately move the pots outside even though its currently snowing or should I wait until it warms up a bit before I move them outside? If its safe to move them outside do I have to harden them off like you do when moving regular houseplants outside in the spring? Its supposed to be in the upper 30's next week.
Both plants have leaves on them but the instructions say to cut the branches back to half length before planting. If I do that all the current leaves will be cut off, should I really trim it back that far or should I leave it so that it keeps its currently open leaves?
Thanks for the help!

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White House unveils new plan for student loan forgiveness, addresses racial wealth gap
President Biden acknowledged that many borrowers likely feel “a little bit angry.” He added, “I must admit, I do, too.”
While Black and brown student loan borrowers still were reeling from the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down President Joe Biden’s education debt forgiveness program, the president announced countermeasures that will reduce monthly loan payments and delay reporting delinquent student loan accounts.
The Court’s ruling sidetracks the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to improve the economic health of Black Americans. But within hours of the high court’s decision, the president announced a multi-faceted plan to provide critical economic relief for student loan borrowers.
When the White House unveiled its student relief program that would cancel up to $20,000 in debt for eligible borrowers, the administration noted the initiative would significantly close the wealth gap between Black and white Americans.
“Black student borrowers are more likely to have student debt due greatly in part to the discrimination that limited wealth creation,” said Andre Perry, an economic researcher and senior fellow at Brookings Institution, which conducts nonpartisan research on global, national and local policies.
Perry told theGrio that by striking down Biden’s plan to cancel student debt for up to 43 million borrowers, “the Court turns a blind eye to why so many Black people have greater debt.”
President Biden’s new actions after Supreme Court student debt ruling
In responding to the Supreme Court ruling that he described as “disappointing,” Biden acknowledged that many borrowers likely feel “a little bit angry.” He added, “I must admit I do too.”
The plan he revealed Friday appeared to be an attempt to salvage his effort to give borrowers a way to navigate the student loan debt crisis in the absence of his estimated $430 billion debt relief program.
One component of the plan that the administration named SAVE, for Saving on a Valuable Education, reduces monthly student loan payments. Under the Department of Education’s Income-Driven Repayment Program, borrowers pay 10% of their discretionary income toward their undergraduate loans. Biden’s new plan reduces that to 5%.
A White House fact sheet asserted that the updated income-driven repayment plan will “cut borrowers’ monthly payments in half, help the typical borrower save more than $1,000 per year on payments, allow many borrowers to make $0 monthly payments, and ensure borrowers don’t see their balances grow from unpaid interest.”
The president also announced that Education Secretary Miguel Cardona initiated a new rulemaking process under the Higher Education Act to provide an “alternative path” to debt relief for as many working and middle-class borrowers as possible.
However, Biden emphasized that the rulemaking process would take considerable time. Additionally, eligibility for that relief and its potential savings remain unclear.
Meanwhile, to mitigate the strain of making loan payments, the White House also unveiled a plan to “on-ramp” repayment of student loan debt with a temporary 12-month program in which the Department of Education declines reporting delinquent borrowers to credit bureau agencies. However, interest still will accrue on loans. The program will run from Oct. 1, 2023 to Sept. 30, 2024.
Borrowers can learn more information about the new programs and sign up at StudentAid.Gov.
Student debt cancellation and closing the racial wealth gap
As the Biden-Harris administration works to secure relief for borrowers in the absence of its student debt program, civil rights groups and advocates remain incensed by the Supreme Court’s ruling.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson told theGrio, “This is perhaps the most corrupt Supreme Court in history.”
Johnson noted that in addition to the student loan decision, the high court also “ruled to limit access to voting, therefore suffocating our democracy,” and on Thursday ruled to “ban affirmative action.”
“The real question for the Supreme Court is, ‘What is ultimately its goal?’” asked the civil rights leader, before adding, “These political decisions are inconsistent with precedent and inconsistent with a thriving, functioning democracy.”
Johnson said President Biden’s student debt program would’ve been critical in closing the racial gap.
“Student loan debt is one of the largest debts that African Americans have, bar none,” he told theGrio.”We know in this country, the number one wealth creator is homeownership and small businesses, but you cannot go into homeownership or become a small business owner if you’re saddled with debt.”
When asked by theGrio during Friday’s press briefing if the White House believed its economic policies or the new actions could have a significant effect on closing the racial wealth gap, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council Bharat Ramamurti acknowledged the economic disparities for Black borrowers as a “serious issue.”
“That is one of the many reasons why the president pursued this debt relief pathway, and he’s continuing to pursue this alternative pathway now,” he said.
Ramamurti cited data showing that Black borrowers often have to borrow more money for higher education, and it takes them longer to repay because “they have less family wealth.” He also said data shows that Black borrowers are also “helping other people in their family pay off their debts.”
Days before the Supreme Court’s ruling, Jared Bernstein, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, told theGrio that regardless of the outcome of the student loan legal battle, President Biden’s policies have been intentional to drive equity in education, including investing in HBCUs, increasing Pell Grants and improving the income-based repayment program.
“We’ve made this much more affordable to student borrowers, and that, again, disproportionately will help Black debtors,” said Bernstein.
In his remarks on Friday, President Biden said that many Americans had hope that student debt relief would soon be a reality, but the Supreme Court’s ruling “[snatched] it away from them.”
“Today’s decision has closed one path. Now we’re going to pursue another,” said Biden, who vowed, “I’m never going to stop fighting for you.”
He added, “We’ll use every tool at our disposal to get you the student debt relief you need and reach your dreams. It’s good for the economy. It’s good for the country.”
Gerren Keith Gaynor is a White House Correspondent and the Managing Editor of Politics at theGrio. He is based in Washington, D.C.
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Wachovia downgrades Siebel Systems (SEBL ).
Analyst Kash Rangan says downgrading to underperform from market perform, as the company now sees $75 million in first-quarter license revenues, vs. guidance of $100 million to $120 million.
Also, the company now sees $297 million to $300 million total first-quarter revenue, vs. $325 million to $345 million guidance. The company now sees first-quarter pro forma breakeven to 1 cent earnings per share, vs. 5 cents to 6 cents guidance.
Rangan says poor execution, deal slippage, and seasonality led to shortfall. Due to uncertainty about the company's ability to execute across geographies, verticals, products, and cuts 2005 estimates to $388 million license revenue (from $524 million), $1.3 billion total revenue (from $1.451 billion), and 20 cents earnings per share (from 30 cents).

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In May 2019 we toured the Western Balkan (Albania, Northern Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia. The 1200 km trip started in Tirana (Albania) and ended in Split (Croatia).
- (re)read the blogposts we wrote during this trip (in Dutch, Google Translate available)
- the route we followed,
- view a photo page
- a special on the popular Ciro Trail


- Blade is made of high quality mixture of epoxy resin and fiberglass.
- Blade is covered with thin (1 millimetre) layer of neoprene with Teflon sputter.
- Unique camouflage surface changes colors depending on the amount of light (becomes lighter when sunny and darker when overcast).
- Blade dimensions ~ 80 cm long x 20 cm wide
- Blade angle ~ 20 degrees.
- Rubber rails attached to the blade provide maximum efficiency in water flow redirection.
- Pair of blades weighs ~ 0,85 kg (Medium stiffness).
Delivery time 3-7 days (depending on the destination).


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Ballroom Polka performed by Full Circle at the IPA warm-up dance in Chicago - January 14, 2012. Originally recorded by Steve Adamczyk and the Hungry 6. www.gonefullcircle.com. Lenny Gomulka, Roger Malinowski, Al Piatkowski, Jimmy Weber, Mike Matousek and Mike Stapinski. Polka Music and Polka Dancing. Polkas on YouTube. Gone Full Circle.


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7. Michael Waltrip Racing: $80 Million (down 20 percent in value from 2013, due significantly in part to the attempt to manipulate the Richmond race Chase qualifying outcome there in late summer of that year)
6. Team Penske: $108 Million
5. Richard Childress Racing: $128 Million
4. Stewart-Haas Racing: $148 Million
3. Roush Fenway Racing: $157 Million
2. Joe Gibbs Racing: $171 Million
1. Hendrick Motorsports: $348 Million
How is it that HMS is so far ahead of the rest of the pack?
Easy, says TheRichest.com: “Highest NASCAR winnings. Highest merchandise sales. Highest sponsorship revenue. Hendrick holds bragging rights for all of those accomplishments.”
And let’s not forget NASCAR’s most popular driver the last 11 years running (likely soon to be 12 years straight) in Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Much would need to be worked out, starting with how much garage and grandstand access would be afforded for a 2021 season opener that likely would occur during a still ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
He was a spectator (with racing legend Mario Andretti) at four-time champion Jeff Gordon’s final Cup race as a full-time in the 2015 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. In 2011, Hamilton swapped cars with three-time champion Tony Stewart at Watkins Glen International.
Having rubbed shoulders with other racing greats so often, it would seem right for Hamilton — who is one victory from tying Michael Schumacher’s career record and also could tie the F1 record with a seventh championship this season — to spend some time with the greatest basketball player of all time.


text: Well here's something you won't see everyday. I am in a Marie Antoinette shoe swap. I have to make two shoes that are fitting for a queen. I have finished one and thought I would let you all take a look. I think the easy part was putting the shoe together. I had more trouble deciding what to decorate it with, but then my lace order came and it all came together. Hope you enjoy, as you will be seeing one more.

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Elevate Your Dinner Game with Crock Pot Hamburger Potato Casserole
Are you searching for a comforting and hearty meal that’s easy to prepare and bursting with flavor? Look no further than our Crock Pot Hamburger Potato Casserole! This dish combines the classic flavors of ground beef, potatoes, and creamy soups, all cooked to perfection in your slow cooker. Whether you’re feeding a hungry family or hosting a cozy dinner party, this casserole is sure to impress. Join us as we dive into the details of this delicious recipe, including ingredients, instructions, cook notes, variations, and even keto and low-carb versions.
1 tablespoon butter
1 large yellow onion, sliced
1.5 lbs lean ground beef
1.5 lbs russet potatoes, washed and sliced thin
10.5 oz cream of mushroom soup
10.5 oz cheddar soup
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1. Sauté the Onions:
In a skillet over medium heat, melt the butter.
Add the sliced onions and sauté until they are soft and translucent, about 5 minutes.
Remove the onions from the skillet and set aside.
2. Brown the Ground Beef:
In the same skillet, add the ground beef.
Cook the beef, breaking it apart with a spatula, until it is browned and cooked through.
Drain any excess fat from the skillet.
3. Layer the Ingredients in the Crock Pot:
Spray the inside of your crock pot with non-stick cooking spray.
Place a layer of sliced potatoes on the bottom of the crock pot.
Top the potatoes with half of the cooked ground beef.
Sprinkle half of the sautéed onions over the beef.
Repeat the layers: potatoes, beef, and onions.
4. Prepare the Sauce:
In a mixing bowl, combine the cream of mushroom soup, cheddar soup, salt, pepper, onion powder, and garlic powder. Mix until well combined.
Pour the sauce over the layers in the crock pot, ensuring that everything is evenly coated.
5. Cook the Casserole:
Cover the crock pot and cook on low heat for 6-8 hours, or until the potatoes are tender and cooked through.
In the last 30 minutes of cooking, sprinkle the shredded cheddar cheese over the top of the casserole.
Once the cheese is melted and bubbly, the casserole is ready to serve.
6. Serve and Enjoy:
Spoon the casserole onto plates or into bowls.
Garnish with additional shredded cheese and chopped green onions, if desired.
Serve hot and enjoy the comforting flavors of this delicious dish!
Cook Notes and Variations
Vegetarian Option: Omit the ground beef and use a meatless alternative or additional vegetables such as mushrooms, bell peppers, or zucchini.
Gluten-Free Version: Ensure that the cream of mushroom and cheddar soups are gluten-free, or make your own gluten-free cream soup substitute using cornstarch and broth.
Spice It Up: Add a kick of heat to the casserole by incorporating diced jalapeños or a dash of hot sauce to the sauce mixture.
Keto Versions and Low-Carb Versions
Replace the Soups: Use keto-friendly cream of mushroom and cheddar soups or make your own using keto-friendly ingredients such as almond flour, coconut milk, and cheese.
Substitute Potatoes: Replace the russet potatoes with cauliflower florets or turnips for a lower-carb option.
Skip the Potatoes: Omit the potatoes altogether and double up on the ground beef or add extra vegetables to bulk up the casserole.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. Can I use other types of potatoes?
Yes, you can use Yukon Gold or red potatoes instead of russet potatoes for a different texture and flavor.
2. Can I make this recipe ahead of time?
Absolutely! You can prepare the casserole ingredients and layer them in the crock pot the night before. Simply cover the crock pot insert and refrigerate overnight. In the morning, remove the crock pot from the refrigerator, add the sauce, and cook as directed.
3. Can I freeze leftovers?
Yes, this casserole freezes well. Allow any leftovers to cool completely, then transfer them to an airtight container or freezer-safe bag. Store in the freezer for up to 3 months. To reheat, simply thaw in the refrigerator overnight and reheat in the microwave or oven until heated through.
4. What can I serve with this casserole?
This casserole pairs well with a simple side salad, steamed vegetables, or crusty bread for soaking up the creamy sauce. You can also top it with chopped fresh herbs or a dollop of sour cream for added flavor.
With its layers of tender potatoes, savory ground beef, and creamy sauce, our Crock Pot Hamburger Potato Casserole is a comforting and satisfying meal that’s perfect for any occasion. Whether you’re cooking for a crowd or enjoying a cozy night in, this easy-to-make dish is sure to please. Plus, with its versatility and customizable ingredients, you can easily adapt it to suit your taste preferences or dietary needs. So why wait? Gather your ingredients and let your crock pot do the work as you savor the delicious flavors of this classic comfort food!
Indulge in the ultimate comfort food with our Crock Pot Hamburger Potato Casserole. This hearty and flavorful dish is sure to become a staple in your recipe collection. With its simple preparation and delicious results, it’s perfect for busy weeknights or lazy weekends. So grab your crock pot and get ready to enjoy a meal that’s as satisfying as it is delicious!

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