text: STS085-750-015 Balearic Islands, Spain August 1997 Ibiza (largest island) and Formentera (smaller island) are part of the group of islands off the east coast of Spain, known as the Balearic Islands. Ibiza is the third largest island in the archipelago. The landscape of Ibiza consists of hilly terrain that is covered by large stands of pine forests as well as almond, fig, olive, and palm groves. Beautiful, secluded beaches coupled with an ideal climate make both of these Spanish islands a paradise for tourists, especially from Europe. The Strait of Es Freus separates the islands but frequent ferry service provides easy access between the two islands. The Balearic Islands are remnants of the Alpine mountain system that extends east to west across southern Europe.


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Muso Okwonga reflects on Godfrey Bloom’s racial outburst against aid to African countries:
The first thing is that I think that Godfrey Bloom’s comments, for which he subsequently expressed regret, are spectacularly racist. To dismiss Africa, a continent of over fifty nations, as “bongo bongo land”, is to conjure an image of several million generic dark-skinned beggars anxiously squeezing at the benevolent British teat. It implies an image of countless people, somewhere over there, unaccountably waiting for colonial charity. That image is both wrong and offensive (of which more later).
I quite like Muso’s reflection on this issue. Thoughtful, cogent reflection on the unfair yoke that is international aid to the continent. I hope that from this collective and sober perspective that we as Africans dig into and work towards a future where we are self-reliant. I say that with full knowledge that a proud self-reliant Africa will also make enemies. Better an enemy I can proudly say “no thanks” to than a lender I can’t afford to say no to.

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Bugatti Chiron: 0-400-0 km/h in 42 seconds!
Formula 1 and IndyCar legend Juan Pablo Montoya achieves 41.96 second time from standstill to 400km/h and back to standstill – and Bugatti promises more records to come
A Bugatti Chiron has achieved a record-breaking 0-400-0 km/h time of just 41.96 seconds, the fastest time ever reached and officially measured for this driving manoeuvre for a production vehicle throughout the world.
The record-breaking drive took place at the Volkswagen Group’s Ehra-Lessien test track in Germany with Juan Pablo Montoya, winner of the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, two-time winner of the Indy 500 and three-time winner of the Daytona 24 Hours, behind the wheel.
Montoya, who wore his everyday clothes rather than race suit and crash helmet for the record attempt, said afterwards, ‘When you are driving the Chiron for the first time and taking it easy, you cannot imagine how powerful it is. But as soon as you open the throttle, you hear the turbochargers pull up and all this torque comes in, and it just does not stop. It is like a linear power curve to happiness.
‘The Chiron is so incredibly fast it takes your breath away. And its braking is at least as impressive… the car is just so stable and consistent. I feel honoured to be part of this project.’
Bugatti released a description of the run, repeated here in full: ‘Using the Top Speed Key which is typical of Bugatti, Montoya activates the Top Speed mode, which allows a Chiron to drive faster than 380 km/h. A signal is heard. He places his left foot firmly on the brake pedal. Montoya engages first gear and then activates the Launch Control. The digital display beside the speedometer acknowledges the command received and the 1500 horses wake up. On your marks!
‘Montoya presses the accelerator to the limit with his right foot. The 8 litre W16 engine runs up to 2800rpm. The powerful turbochargers speed up and there is no doubt that this car is straining at the leash. Get set! Montoya releases the brake pedal. Go! The four wheels of the Chiron receive equal power and grip the tarmac with full force. The car shoots forward, developing maximum torque. The traction control prevents the wheels from spinning. In combination with ESC (Electronic Stability Control), it catapults the Chiron forward, keeping it firmly on track. Full acceleration. The time is running. The world flies past.
‘The incredible acceleration of the Chiron, its absolutely linear power curve and the enormous torque especially in the low engine speed range are the result of the two-stage turbocharging system developed by Bugatti especially for this vehicle. This is one of the outstanding technical features of the Chiron powertrain. To ensure maximum acceleration from a standing start without any “turbo lag”, the Chiron initially moves off with two turbochargers in operation. The other two units are activated from about 3800rpm.
‘The new high-performance tyres, once again developed by Bugatti together with its strategic tyre partner Michelin, now face extreme loading. At a speed of 400 km/h, centrifugal force converts one gram of rubber into 3600 grams. A tyre valve that only weighs 18.3 grams when stationary develops a hefty force of approximately 45 kilograms at that speed.
‘Only 32.6 seconds and just 2621 metres later, the Chiron reaches the 400 km/h mark. With extremely fast reactions, Juan Pablo Montoya steps firmly on the brakes. Only 0.8 seconds after operation of the brakes, the rear wing, with a width of 1.50 metres, moves up to an angle of 49 degrees, forming an air brake that decelerates the Chiron extremely effectively. In the Top Speed mode at 400 km/h, the airbrake boosts the aerodynamic downforce on the rear axle by about 900 kg. That corresponds to the kerb weight of a Golf II. During full braking with a Chiron from 400 km/h, the force on vehicle and driver is about 2g, similar to that experienced during the launch of a space shuttle.
‘The brakes of the Chiron, with their special carbon ceramic brake discs (diameter of 420mm at the front, 400mm at the rear) and brake calipers developed especially for Bugatti with eight titanium pistons on each wheel at the front and six at the rear, develop absolutely peak performance. After an incredible 9.3 seconds and 491 metres, the Chiron comes to a halt.’
In 2018, Bugatti plans to set a new world speed record in excess of the top speed of 431.072 km/h recorded with the Veyron 16.4 Super Sport in 2010. ‘I hope Bugatti will invite me to their world record run with the Chiron. At any rate, I’m saving the date in my calendar,’ says Juan Pablo Montoya.
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Painter Joseph Solman died last week at the age of 99. In these pages last fall, Albert Fayngold penned a timely appreciation for this “fabulously gifted yet woefully underappreciated American master.”
News from Sotheby’s London is that the it will auction “The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem,” by German-born Jewish artist Gustav Bauernfeind. The estimate given in the press release is £600,000-800,000. It’s the latest in a line of pictorial depictions of the site to hit the auction block, as Jeannie Rosenfeld reported last month. And, compared to Vasili Vereshchagin’s “Solomon’s Wall” — sold by rival house Christie’s for $3,624,000 — the Bauernfeind looks almost like a steal.
A word of praise for an oft-overlooked genre: the newspaper illustration. This past Sunday’s New York Times Book Review offered the Jewishly minded reader two especially good examples of the art — drawings that with a few quick brushstrokes manage to capture their subject’s essence.
The first, accompanying Christopher Hitchens’s new book, “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” came in the form of an ashtray with stubbed-out cigarettes forming the symbols of the three great monotheistic religions: the cross, the crescent and the Star of David. Now for those who don’t know, Hitchens is a proud and heavy smoker who wrote with passion against the cigarette ban instituted in New York by Mike Bloomberg some years ago. And so, in artist Christoph Niemann’s relatively simple picture you have conveyed three quite complicated concepts — Hitchens, religion and a good measure of disgust.

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Through examples of their projects, Bik Van der Pol will discuss the potential of encounters to allow for continuous reconfigurations of places, histories and publics, with dialogue as a mode of transfer, a “passing through” (understood in its etymological meaning of “a speech across or between two or more people, out of which may emerge new understandings”).
Since 1995, Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol have been working as Bik Van der Pol. They work and live in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Through their practice, they aim to articulate how art can produce a public sphere and space for imagination through which ‘publicness’ is not only defined but also created. Setting up conditions for encounter, they develop a process of working that allows for reconfigurations of places, histories and publics. Site-specific and collaborative with dialogue as a mode of transfer, their work is both instigator and result of this method. For more information on their work, see bikvanderpol.net.
Image: Bik Van der Pol, Turning the Blind Eye, mixed media installation at Sao Paulo Biennale, 2014; dimensions variable. Courtesy of Bik Van der Pol.

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Pine Cone Painting!
The Babies have been using their senses and exploring different natural objects.
We gathered together the resources and encouraged the children to look at, touch and smell the objects. The Babies were particularly interested in the feel of the pine cones, all rough and spikey and enjoyed getting messy in the paint, rolling the pine cones over the paper to reveal different marks and prints. They also loved the feel of the paint in their hands and using their finger tips to make tiny marks.
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8-20 months, Communication and Language- Listening and attention- Has strong exploratory impulse, concentrates intently on activity of own choosing for a short period of time
8-20 months, Expressive Arts and Design- Media and materials- Notices the effect of making marks

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When we critique the musical masterpieces created, whether they are film music, songs, musical pieces western or eastern, English or Sinhala, the name Nimal Mendis leads the list with lilting evergreens such as ‘Master Sir’ ‘Rantikiri Sina’ or ‘Nimhim Sevva’.
After a long intermission this doyen of music has returned to his motherland to gift to us music lovers many more musical experiences. After more than 20 years, he has returned to direction of film music with Rohan Weliwita’s maiden film ‘Suseema’.
Be it films like ‘Kalu Diya Dahara’, ‘Rampage’, ‘God King’, ‘Ganga Addara’, ‘Yahalu Yeheli’, ‘Ahasin Polowata’,‘Gehenu Lamai’ or ‘Beddegama’ which gave us ever-popular songs like ‘Nimhim Sewwa’ by Pandith W. D. Amaradeva, ‘Rantikiri Sina’ ‘Neela Wickremasinghe’, ‘Upul Nuwan Vidaha’ Milton Mallawarachchi or ‘Master Sir’ originally sung by Neville Fernando and synonymous with Nimal Mendis.
The song “Master Sir” which remained a hit in Sri Lanka for over thirty years is not merely a song but a powerful message that talks about the dignity of labour and social justice.
“Following an unfortunate incident I encountered in England in which I was assaulted by a group of Englishmen merely for being a black I returned to Sri Lanka. Dispirited and disheartened I gave up music and bought a 10-acre piece of land in Norton Bridge and started on a cultivation,” Nimal narrated the back ground for ‘Master Sir’.
‘I worked with ordinary labourers to their amazement as the land owners working with the labourers was not the accepted culture. It was during this period that I realized the racism that existed in this country. Assaulted for being a black in England, I experienced the suffering undergone by the poor and the labour class of this country in Norton Brigde’ Nimal said reminiscing his experience.
“While Sinhalese called their bosses in the plantation sector ‘Sir’ the Tamil estate workers had to use the term ‘Master’,” he said. In the upcountry, Nimal Mendis was advised by many how he should keep his dignity as the ‘Master’ to all of which he protested.
‘It was with these experiences I wrote and composed Master Sir” Nimal, the great humanist declared. “Now I can’t see caste, colour, nationality or religion. I feel we are all one’.
Ten cents more which you have promised to pay me
Will buy my child an extra bowl of rice,
But Master Sir I have my dignity
Master Sir treats me kind and nice
There is a long long way for us to go
before this tug-o-war can ever ends
When that day will be I don’t know-
Master Sir when can I called you friend…..
The Sinhala version written by Karunaratne Abeysekara and sung by Neville Fernando was used for the film ‘Kalu Diya Dahara’ by Manik Sandrasagara.
Songs and musical creations of Nimal Mendis were not only limited to this little island. He is one of the Sri Lankan musicians ever to make it to the BBC television program Top of the Pops in the 1960s. Mendis is also well-known for his musical masterpieces. “Kandyan Dance”, an instrumental, a piece created in the West was recorded by Friedel Berlipp, his Orchestra in Germany and it went on to be number two on Radio Luxemburg.
Mendis appeared on the popular BBC television music programme ‘Top of the Pops’ with his singing partner Sandra Edema in 1968 as guest artistes with his song “Feel like a Clown”.
“Kiss Kiss Kiss” was Nimal’s first song that was recorded in Britain and sung by Mary Marshall on the Columbia label. “Kandyan Express”, “Cherry Blossom Tree”, “Oh My Lover”, “Butterfly in the Rain”, “Champagne Blues”, and “Goodnight Kisses” were number-one hits in Sri Lanka in the late fifties and requests came from all of the South Asian countries to the SLBC, the first radio in the region.
Mendis also fondly remembered his journeys with his buddy and friend Manik Sandrasagara, well-known film director and producer in the West. “We drove right across the States in the seventies and what an experience that was. From Toronto to New York, Washington to Nevada, through thick ice and snow arriving in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. We ended up in California with ten dollars in our pockets. It was during this trip that Manik taught me that although money was needed to enjoy the good things in life, it was only a necessary evil,”
Asked about the latest trends in music and the future with the younger generation, Nimal said “the younger generation must come up. They are creative and the future is theirs. Bathiya and Santhush got my song ‘Master Sir’ to recreate it and tears came to my eyes when I first heard their reproduction,”.
Taking legal action against the artiste using the original talents of the veteran musicians, “I don’t believing in suing people. That is not the job of an artiste. It is the job of businessmen,” he said.
The music maker also recorded his name in the Hansard of the British Parliament by all parties commending his heartfelt composition, Tsunami the song which he made in aid of the victims.
“At that time there were some songs going around Britain making a mockery of this massive devastation. But I was so moved at what happened,” Nimal said in a sad note.
After a long silence Nimal Mendis together with his wife Ranjani and son Paulmarie has returned to his motherland and will be starting to write musical scores for Rohan Weliwita’s ‘Suseema’.
The family has formed ‘Mediaeye’, the publishing arm of Mendis’.

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I’ve only driven through the area and from the pictures of the course it seems like it will be an amazing experience. Like the Bellingham race, this one will go through a small town, has a brewery and a path along the water. If it only had a bridge to cross, it would be perfect!
It is held during November of each year and would be easy to add to calendar. I would just need to convince Meghann to join me. This is one of those races where I want to enjoy the town a few days before the race.
My main draw to this race is being able to visit Meghann’s family. I loved the few days we spent this wonderful small town and course runs through all of the beautiful parts of the downtown and waterfront. Definitely would stop by Boundary Bay Brewery for a celebratory pint!
Therein lies the problem. The race is held during September and it would be difficult for Meghann to get away from school during the first month.

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About the Film
Change the Subject (2019) is a 54-minute documentary film about a group of Dartmouth students who challenged anti-immigrant language in the Library of Congress subject headings. Their advocacy took them all the way from Baker-Berry Library to the halls of Congress, showing how an instance of campus activism entered the national spotlight, and how a cataloging term became a flashpoint in the immigration debate on Capitol Hill. In partnership with staff at Dartmouth, these students – now alumni – produced a film to document this story. The impact of the film has been wide-ranging, inspiring librarians around the country and the world to examine the ways that systemic racism pervades the institution of the library, particularly in its controlled vocabularies.
Runtime: 54 minutes
Country: United States
Directors: Sawyer Broadley & Jill Baron
Producers: Jill Baron, Óscar Rubén Cornejo Cásares ’17, Melissa Padilla ’17
Videography: Sawyer Broadley, Media Production Group, Communications Office
Editor: Sawyer Broadley
Post-production assistance: Barbara Olachea Lopez Portillo ’19
Map visualization: James L. Adams
- Óscar Rubén Cornejo Cásares ’17
- Melissa Padilla ’17
- Estéfani Marín ’17
- Eduardo Misael Najera Ortega ’14
- Lourdes Gutíerrez Nájera
- Claudia Anguiano Evans-Zepeda
- Tina Gross
- John DeSantis
- Jill Baron
- US Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX 20th District)
- US Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL 23rd District)
- Óscar Rubén Cornejo Cásares graduated from Dartmouth College in 2017, double majoring in Sociology and Native American Studies. He is now a sociology Ph.D. student at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the intersections of undocumented migration, race, and social movements.
- Melissa Padilla graduated from Dartmouth College Class in 2017, majoring in Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies. She currently lives in Atlanta where she works in consulting. In the future, she hopes to continue making films about the stories and lives of people of color, women and immigrant communities.
- Sawyer Broadley is a freelance and full-time video professional for the past 10+ years, lives with his wife and their cat in Massachusetts and works throughout New England. He grew up in Canaan, New Hampshire and received a BA in English and Film Studies at Dartmouth College (graduating in 2008). Sawyer enjoys working with educators, scientists, and businesses to tell stories that have positive impacts. In his free time he designs soft goods, rides bicycles, reads books, and drinks tea.
- Jill Baron is the librarian for romance languages and Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She received her masters in library and information science from Rutgers University, an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, and her BA in French and comparative literature from Bryn Mawr College. She lives in Vermont with her family. This is her first feature-length documentary film.
- Tina Gross is the Metadata and Cataloging Librarian at North Dakota State University. In 2016, she served as chair of the CaMMS Subject Analysis Committee Working Group on the LCSH “Illegal aliens” (see its report). She was one of eight tenured faculty (four librarians) laid off by St. Cloud State University in 2020, which now has no librarians working in technical services. Follow her on Twitter @aboutness or read her found poem about getting laid off in McSweeney's.
- John DeSantis has been the Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian at Dartmouth College since 1995. He has been a councilor-at-large on the Council of the American Library Association since 2004 and has served on several ALA Council committees and ALA divisional committees, as well as on the ALA Executive Board. He has also served as an OCLC Global Council delegate since 2011. John served for eight years on IFLA's Standing Committee on Subject Analysis and Access, including two years as Chair. He is currently a member of IFLA’s Bibliography Standing Committee.
Dartmouth College Library assigns a Creative Commons BY-NC license to the digital work and associated web site.
Citation (MLA Format)
Baron, Jill E. "Change the subject." Change the Subject, 2019. Dartmouth Digital Library Program, n2t.net/ark:/83024/d4hq3s42r.
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Baron, Jill E. Change the subject, 2019. Dartmouth Digital Library Program. https://n2t.net/ark:/83024/d4hq3s42r.
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How do I get XP Mode to run in VirtualBox or is there a better alternative
Asked by geekaroundthehouse
Posted Sep 24 2013 03:18 AM
In CompTIA A+ Training Kit (for exams 801 and 802) on page xl, it says to install XP Mode in Windows Virtual PC and then install Windows Enterprise 7 32 bit free trial. Well that was a bust because I could only get Windows Enterprise 8, which is not supported in Virtual PC.
So I ditched that, and instead installed VirtualBox. Now I can't get XP Mode working. I can successfully install XP in VirtualBox, but IE keeps crashing, and Windows Update doesn't work.
I submitted this information to the errata page, and haven't heard back yet, but what I'd really like is advice on how to get this to work, or should I instead install VMWare, or should I instead install Hyper-V, as seems to be recommended when I do Google searches on this problem.


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(Video) The first Boeing 787-8 Oman Air was delivered
On 8 October 2015, Oman Air received the first Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (A4O-SA). It is part of an order for 6 aircraft, which was placed in November 2011. A second Dreamliner will arrive in November 2015. Four more Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft will be delivered between 2016 and 2018.
The new aircraft will help the airline implement the development and expansion plan with new routes.
Since its entry into the operational service, October 2011, the aircraft family Boeing 787 Dreamliner contributed substantially to the inauguration of over 50 of new long-courier routes. Oman Air has announced it will introduce the new aircraft on flights to destinations in Saudi Arabia and Europe.
To date, 8 customers from Middle East have ordered 175 from Boeing 787 family aircraft, of which 35 has already been delivered. Boeing is supporting Oman Air to bring the new aircraft into operational service as soon as possible.

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Tom McCahill, considered by many to be the father of the magazine road test invented the 0-60 comparison metric back in the early 1950s when he was testing cars for Popular Science and Mechanix Illustrated. The National Highway System was being built at the time and the proposed speed limit was 60 MPH, so it made sense that a useful metric in comparing cars would be the time to get up to highway speed and safely merge. Like many grandfathered standards the 0-60 time might not be the most relevant today (a 0-75 MPH or 0-100 MPH time is likely more useful) but it’s what stuck. Electric cars, the most modern of the automotive world, are locked in an all-out 0-60 war. Which got me thinking: what’s the fastest 0-60 time a human could survive?
Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time. In the automotive world, we commonly measure acceleration in terms of ‘G-force,’ where ‘G’ refers to gravity. Essentially, we’re comparing the force of acceleration due to gravity to the force of acceleration due to your bitchin’ or not-so-bitchin’ ride.
On Earth, we experience the force of gravity in the direction of the center of the planet. At sea level, the force of gravity is measured as 1g. When you’re standing, 1g is the amount of force exerted up into your feet by the ground.
When we talk about acceleration in a car, we’re talking about g-forces acting on the car and its occupants in the horizontal axis. Basically, the g-force in a car is the force applied to your back by the seat when you hit the gas and are thrown backward into it.
Let’s say you’re driving some fairly standard, pretty boring family sedan with a 0-60 time of 12 seconds. You can figure out how many Gs you’re pulling by first converting your speed to feet per second (1 MPH = 1.46667 feet-per-second). Then, we can divide by 32.17405 ft/s², which is what 1g is in feet per second.
60 MPH * 1.46667 ft/s = 88 ft/s
(88 ft/s / 32.17405 ft/s²) / 12 seconds = 0.228 Gs
So, a 0-60 MPH time of 12 seconds will expose you to a little less than a quarter of normal Earth gravity. Now, lets work backward and see how fast a car would need to get to 60 MPH in order to have a normal Earth gravity of 1g.
(88 ft/s / 32.17405 ft/s²) / X seconds = 1g
Remember how to do algebra?
2.74 seconds = 1g
So, 1g is getting to 60 MPH in 2.74 seconds. That’s pretty quick, but also doable in some modern cars. A Tesla Model S can get from 0-60 in 2.39 seconds or 1.14g, that’s actually greater than Earth gravity. But, that’s still perfectly safe.
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We need to go faster! Let’s consider a top-fuel dragster which can go 0-60 MPH in about 0.2 seconds.
(88 ft/s / 32.17405 ft/s²) / 0.2 seconds = 13.7 Gs
Now we’re talking. In the 0.2 seconds, it takes for a top-fuel dragster to get to 60 MPH you would feel it (you’d feel almost 14X heavier in fact) but it’s still not going to kill you.
The Largest G-Forces Felt by Humans
Automobiles aren’t the only places people experience big G forces. Astronauts routinely endured 3g during shuttle launches, 8g atop a Mercury-era Atlas booster rocket, 7.25g aboard a Gemini-era Titan rocket, and around 4g for the Saturn 5s. Mercury capsules hit 7.8g during re-entry, Apollo capsules topped 6g. Roller coasters can provide up to about 6g. And fighter pilots in compression suits can survive 8 or 9g for a few seconds.
The most extreme G-forces mankind has ever felt weren’t in space or on the way to it, though, they were right here on Earth. The most extreme G-forces a human has ever endured happened on a rocket-powered, track-mounted acceleration sled, and it was done by Air Force physician John Stapp to see just how many Gs the human body could really handle.
In the late-1940s, Stapp was sending himself down the rails on a rocket sled which was violently accelerated then stopped just as abruptly, he showed the body could withstand up to 35 Gs and survive.
Stapp is also known for Stapp’s Law, which states:
“The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.”
In the 1950’s, Stapp built a rocket sled called the Sonic Wind, which accelerated him to 632 mph in less than 5 seconds to then stop him in just one second. This generated an insane 46.2 g (at 168 pounds he would have felt like he weighed over 7,700 pounds). Stapp didn’t have the benefit of being in a closed car either, he was exposed to 2 full tons of air pressure during the ride.
Stapp’s incredible rocket sled record was broken in the 1970s Major John Beeding, an Air Force volunteer, aboard the Daisy Decelerator. He endured a whopping 83g during the sled’s deceleration.
The Fastest 0-60 MPH Time a Human Could Survive
So, let’s say we go with Major John Beeding’s record of 83gs as a blueprint for our super-fast 0-60 car. Sure your dental filling might fall out and you might leave with some cracked ribs but at least you’ll survive right?
(88 ft/s / 32.17405 ft/s²) / X seconds = 83g
0.034 seconds = 83g
So, if you want to experience the fastest 0-60 MPH a human could theoretically survive you’d have to do it in an incredible 0.034 seconds. That’s fast, for perspective 0.101 seconds is the current fastest reaction time recorded for human beings. The average reaction time of human beings is around .215 seconds. So, fast and totally not dangerous at all!
Get on it Tesla!


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by Ellen J. Dannin, Professor of Law
Most of what we hear about privatizing public services these days carries the same simple message — privatizing is good. More sophisticated stories explain that the reason privatizing is good is that only the private sector can deliver a quality product at the lowest possible price.
However, like most things in life, privatization is more complex than this. Whether to have certain public services and how to deliver them are decisions with profound impacts on all of us. As San Diego, California, and the country move towards privatizing, it’s time has we members of the public learn more about this issue or risk forfeiting our role in this democracy.
This paper takes a look at some of the most commonly held beliefs about privatizing public services. Some of what you read here may surprise you or raise issues you hadn’t seen discussed before.
1. Governments are broke because public services and tax dollars have been mismanaged.
Here are some important reasons governments are finding themselves with budget problems these days.
- One important reason governments have been struggling with deficits during the past few years is that they have lost major sources of revenue. One important source of lost revenues has been ever lower tax rates on those who earn the most and on corporations. Lowering taxes by a percentage here or there doesn’t mean much for most of us, but when tax breaks are given to corporations and the very rich the money lost is enormous. For each 1% a millionaire’s tax rate is lowered, the government can lose $10,000 in taxes.
Over the past 15 years, we have seen the tax rate on wealthiest lowered again and again. Each time, revenue is lost. If any of us kept having our incomes lowered each year, we’d have trouble paying the bills pretty soon. Governments are having the same problem.
It is estimated that the richest 1% of the population has received over $80 billion in tax cuts since 1977. While this has happened the amount of wealth which has flowed to the richest has increased at enormous rates.
The share of corporate taxes as a percentage of federal revenues has declined from 23% in 1960 to 9% in 1990. Corporate property taxes show the same decline. The corporate share of local property tax revenues has dropped from 45% in 1957 to 16% in 1987.
Corporations are not paying lower taxes because of declining profits. Corporate profits have soared. An important part of those profits is money that once would have gone to support government services we all would benefit from. One important justification for those tax breaks was to give corporations more money to invest in creating good jobs. Instead of investing the money to create jobs, corporations have gone spending sprees to buy each other. Others have taken the money and used it to finance moving work out of the country.
Corporate mergers and acquisitions and moving jobs abroad have not benefited the American public. All too often these days, we open to paper and read about the layoffs that result. People who are laid off from good jobs don’t have the money to pay taxes. They are transformed from taxpayers into people who need government services. The tax breaks for corporations have ended up costing the rest of us a lot.
- Tax cuts aren’t the only money governments have given corporations in recent years. Nowadays, corporations think they have the right to demand huge subsidies to remain in or come to a city, county, or state. Governments feel they have no choice but to pay when corporations threaten to move if they aren’t given subsidies. The amounts of tax dollars being handed over to corporations is no trivial sum.
Kentucky announced a public-private partnership with a Canadian steel company that would bring 400 jobs to Gallatin County, near the Indiana border, in return for an incentive package with up to $140 million in income-tax credits over 25 years. The tax break equaled $350,000 per direct job created. In addition, the incentive package included a $4 million state loan to a local water district for water and sewer improvements, a state grant of $132,000 toward job-training and an accelerated construction schedule for widening a major highway in Gallatin County.
Kentucky is not alone. South Carolina lured a 2,000-employee BMW automobile plant in 1992 with $130 million in incentives — or about $65,000 per job. In 1991, the United Airlines maintenance center in Indianapolis, received $294.5 million in incentives, or about $42,000 per promised job. General Motors has received all sorts of welfare assistance from the State of Michigan and City of Detroit. The list of companies who have pitted one area of the country against another goes on and on.
Studies have shown that these subsidies rarely result in the creation of jobs, and certainly not the number promised. Unfortunately, job starved cities and counties feel they have no choice, and the corporations know it’s a seller’s market for them.
- Is it really true that government mismanages or squanders money. Compare the cost of government services with what has happened in key areas of the private sector. Health care is a good example. Those of us have health coverage — provided by private sector insurance companies — have seen costs increase; less coverage; and less choice as businesses move to PPOs and HMOs to cut costs. Far more of each private sector health insurance dollar goes to overhead, such as advertising, and administration than is the case for government run programs. A dollar spent on administration is a dollar not available to spend on health services.
Health insurers compete against one another, but this does not seem to have meant that they have been careful with their revenues or provided a service in a way that most of us would say is satisfactory.
2. Government spending is full of incompetence, waste and fraud. Privatizing would eliminate this problem.
- First, this argument assumes that the private sector is free from these problems. Ask whether this belief is based on a private sector which is uniquely competent, thrifty, and honest or one that has managed to escape scrutiny. If the same standards of judgment were used, it is obvious that the private sector does not escape problems of waste and fraud. The past decade has seen many corporate leaders sent off to prison for corruption and misusing their positions.
If you have trouble thinking of any, here is a list to get you started. Beech-Nut sold sugar water as infant apple juice. E.F. Hutton pled guilty to 2000 felony counts in 1985. The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels of oil into Prince William Sound.
Remember the S&L fiasco — the one we taxpayers are still paying for. The government has had to come in to bail out the private sector. General Motors’ mismanagement led it to lose billions each year and to layoff tens of thousands of employees. Even in the face of the misery management’s failures had cause, it kept paying huge salaries to the very officers whose decisions brought about this disaster.
There is no reason to think that these problems will not arise in the case of subcontracted public services.
- Robert Monks (Republican politician) and Nell Minow (a corporate lawyer) begin their book on problems with the American corporate structure, Power and Accountability with a story of driving through the woods in Maine and coming upon industrial discharge which was killing the plants along the river. They comment:
Who wants this to happen? Not the owners of the company, the shareholders, not the managers or employees, not the community, not the government. I could not think of anyone connected with the company emitting the effluent who wanted the result I saw. This was an unintended consequence of the corporate structure. The very aspects of the company’s design that made it so robust, so able to survive changes in leadership, in the economy, in technology, were the aspects that led to this result — pollution that no one wanted, and everyone would pay for.
They are friends of corporations and yet they think that American corporate structure is ill-equipped to stop practices which make profits but which harm society, even in some cases in which the law is violated.
- Unfortunately, private corporate mistakes don’t stay private. Hundreds of thousands of workers found that out when they were laid off. The lucky workers — the ones who escaped layoffs are overworked and under stress. Communities have been hit as local business had to close for lack of customers. The roads, sewage systems, and other public services which were built to serve corporations who decided to seek higher profits elsewhere are now useless. None of these common corporate actions should make us comfortable with leaving the delivery of public services to the private sector.
- Yes, there are a few well-known examples of government overspending, such as the military’s purchase of toilet seats and wrenches. These examples are notorious but do not paint an accurate picture of government spending. In any case, the public sector has a long way to go to catch up with the private sector in terms of misused funds.
3. Market forces and competition ensure that the private sector delivers a higher quality service at a lower cost than the public sector.
- First, all of us over the last 15 years have had a chance to see the impact relying on market forces have. These are the forces which have led to the devastation of our cities and the failure of the S&Ls. Given their performance, we can’t assume their results are always benign.
- It’s a popular myth that the private sector can feed multitudes with a few loaves and fish. Simple logic should tell us it’s impossible for the private sector to deliver the same service for less and make a profit as well. In fact, there is less of miracles done with loaves and fish and more of magic acts done with smoke and mirrors.
Most of seem to forget that private companies owe a legal responsibility to make a profit for their investors. Even if they are providing a service to the public they only are doing it as a way to make money for their investors. This means that when a public service is privatized, there is you have to subtract the investors’ profit from the money available to provide the service. 2 plus 2 will still be 4 whether or not it’s the private or public sector that does the addition. Given this simple math, how can a private company pay a profit and still provide the same level of service and at less cost than the public sector?
The answer is that most often it isn’t happening. Either it will provide a different service or it will provide the service in a way that makes us uncomfortable or it is given subsidies of public money or services that are not counted in the total of amounts spent.
The easiest way to do all this is make more poor people: if wages are reduced and benefits are eliminated there is money to go towards profit. The company’s profit comes at a huge cost to the public though.
A community is like a tube of toothpaste. If it’s squeezed in one spot, it puts pressure somewhere else. If the contractor saves by not paying for health insurance and pockets that money as profit, these workers or their families are likely to wait to see a doctor or to use emergency rooms. This is not only more expensive but the public has been picking up the tab. In other words, the price of the subcontractor’s profit can be very expensive for the community.
- We want the same level of services, but what quality of services are we getting when they are delivered by a workforce willing to work for low wages and no benefits. Each of us needs to ask if we feel comfortable with a police force hired at minimum wage and given guns and close contact with corrupt people offering large temptations. Lots of government jobs are positions of trust. Government workers have access to confidential information, assets, and other items of values. There is no question that money saved in salaries this way is pennywise and poundfoolish.
- Many privatizers get special subsidies or in-kind services from governments. Often these are not counted when comparing before and after costs. The only fair way to compare would be to add these items to the cost of privatizing. Among the added costs that should be added in are services such as oversight and supervision, use of government-paid facilities or equipment, or outright subsidies. Also included in the cost must be lost revenues if the privatizer is allowed to keep the fees that would otherwise be returned to the government. A good example of the latter is the way Resolution Trust Corporation has been allowed to operate, by taking a percentage of money recouped.
- The biggest supporters of privatization are really saying that greed is the strongest and most reliable of human feelings. Is this a view you endorse? Should government be promoting greed as a building block of society?
What is the impact of greed? EAI lost its contract with the Baltimore School District because it would not agree to cut its profit when the school needed to address a budget shortfall. Recently, Warner-Lambert pled guilty for hiding faulty procedures in making drugs and agreed to a $10 million fine. DuPont was fined $115 million for concealing evidence in a trial involving its fungicides. Executives recently were convicted of concealing information on using faulty heart catheters during surgery. Where there is money to be made there is temptation, and that temptation is expensive for all of us. Each year we face the impact of $200 billion of white collar fraud.
We’re told that greed as a motivator is the engine that creates jobs and makes the economy work. In fact, what we see is greed leading to mergers, a focus on short term profits, and layoffs of thousands of workers each year. This year layoffs are up 45%.
Most of us are motivated by many things other than greed. Who among us would choose money over the life and happiness of a loved one? Most of us feel emotion such as love of community and nature and pride in our jobs. These are the very values that motivate many who go into public service. If the greed promoters are right in their dismal view of humans, why does anyone choose to become a teacher or a public health worker. Ask if we would want a society made up only of Wall Street traders.
Would we rather have public services provided by the greedy or by people committed to the value of public service.
- People motivated by greed need to be watched, especially when they have access to public money, information, and property. Overseeing private contractors to ensure there is no fraud or waste adds expense and is a very inefficient way to deliver public services. Yet this expense has to be borne to ensure that the contractor performs the job and to avoid being vulnerable to the unscrupulous. Overseeing subcontractors means having to retain skilled technicians or managers who can evaluate their actions. Had the services not been subcontracted, these skills would be used directly in performing the job.
- In San Diego, the school bus service provided by public employees has been so much more efficient and less expensive than private bus services that all subcontracted transportation is being taken in-house. This story is not unique. Public workers can provide better service and get better wages while costing the public less. Unions have played an important role in this San Diego success story.
4. It’s impossible to get rid of bad public employees, so they don’t care about their jobs.
- There seems to be an assumption that public employees are bad workers. It’s time this was corrected. Think about the tragedy of the recent Oklahoma City bombing. That was a vivid example of public workers — fire fighters, police, rescue squads, medical personnel, social workers, and many, many others — putting in long hours searching for victims, caring for the injured, and assisting the bereaved. This behavior by public servants is far from unique. A recent outbreak of a plague of encephalitis in California was held in check by dedicated public health workers and the Center for Disease Control.
Despite this many believe that public employees don’t work hard or are incompetent. The evidence does not support this. Every day the papers are full of stories of ordinary public servants doing their jobs effectively and under great stress.
- If public workers don’t do their jobs they can be fired. Tenure or civil service don’t keep bad people in good jobs. What they do is require an employer to prove that it isn’t discharging based on whim, that it has good reason to discharge; that the employee is given notice of the reasons for discharge and an opportunity to defend himself or herself; and that the final decision is made by a fair process. If an employee remains on the job but can’t perform it, this means that management has not done its job of assembling evidence that would support the decision to discharge.
- Recently both Los Angeles’ Mayor and the Orange County trustee — people from the private sector business communities not noted as fans of the government — made public statements that they had found the public employees they had dealt with to be dedicated, competent and hard working. If anything, they said, they had been disappointed by the quality of management in the public sector — not the workers.
- Attacks on public workers are one way to make assaults on public services. Privatizing may be the first step in eliminating a service completely. If the legislature wants this, it should face the issue squarely whether or not to provide a service.
5. Private corporations make more efficient use of funds and eliminate waste.
- This view has become almost gospel. However, if it is examined carefully, there is strong evidence that it is not accurate.
Think about IBM and General Motors. They are struggling to stay alive because they indulged in wasteful practices that went unnoticed and uncorrected for decades.
- The law requires that private contractors have, as their number one responsibility, making a profit for their shareholders. This has been interpreted by many to mean short term profits on share prices. Educational Alternatives, Inc. (EAI), is a good example. This company has been trying to get contracts to run public school systems. It released false information about student test scores as a way to bid up its share prices. Others who play the stockmarket and who had sold short on EAI stocks (that is, betting that on a certain date the stock prices would decline), released information that was damaging to EAI. The stock prices declined so precipitously that the company was in danger of failing.
None of this was in the public interest. Had EAI failed, the schools would have been left with no one to manage them in the short term. Public services are too important to be left to this sort of danger. The EAI story, however, is not an aberration. This is the normal way American companies and the free enterprise system operate.
- Stock market manipulation is not the only private sector problem that could endanger providing public services. The rate of corporate bankruptcies has been high over the past few years. If a company that is supposed to be providing public services goes bankrupt, how will the service be maintained?
- Many public sector workers have lost their jobs as federal, state and local governments have tried to cope with the lost revenues. Cutting jobs has not meant cutting out the work those people once did. Those who have remained have seen their workloads increase. For some the increase has been so great they are unable to perform all their new duties and suffer from burnout and frustration.
For the public this may appear to be incompetence or a bad attitude. Unfortunately this feeds the impression that the public sector is incompetent. The root causes, however, are insufficient support, and this will remain whether or not the public or private is the provider.
- Privatized public services may also be shut down by strikes. Private sector employees have a right to strike.
- All too often the discussion about privatization comes down to dollars paid or saved. Price is not the only consideration where public services are concerned. Other public values may be more important, such as quality of service, reliable availability and wide access.
To put it more concretely, think of the CDC stepping in to stop a potential epidemic of Hantavirus or encephalitis. None of us would have wanted the CDC not to investigate or provide services designed to stop the diseases from spreading to those too poor to pay. We all benefitted by having a stable service available quickly and without regard to price. Who could put a price on stopping an epidemic quickly? Other public services are similarly difficult to put a price tag on.
When it comes to mailing a letter, if I live in a city and can get a private contractor to deliver all my in-city mail at less than first class postage, I might think that’s a pretty good deal. I may think less of it if I have to pay the full cost of delivery to my mother who lives across the country up a mountain down a dirt road. By paying more for my letters in the city, it’s true I subsidize other letters. On the other hand, the system works well when provided on this large national scale. With public service, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
If mail service gets divided up by competing subcontractors, the advantages of a national service — a service that helps knit us together as a people — will be lost. Here, cost is not the most important value; equity and access to service on a national basis is.
- Information is a public service we don’t often think about. The government collects and maintains a great deal of information. Some of it is confidential. Should a subcontractor or a series of subcontractors have access to this information? Under these circumstances, isn’t it likely that some of it might leak or be used in ways we are not comfortable with?
We all know that knowledge is power. Should we subsidize a private company to amass information which it then can sell back to us.
- There have been notable instances in which private companies have been subcontracted to collect, provide or maintain information created at public expense. In some cases, they have refused to return the underlying data or documents to the government at the termination of their contract, thus depriving the government and the taxpayers of materials they paid to create. Lawsuits and other efforts to recover the government’s property only add to the costs. These problems can make a cheap service very expensive.
6. Money paid in taxes would make us all richer if spent in the private sector.
- This has been a popular belief since the 1980’s. However, to see its effects all we have to do is look around us. More than 180,000 fulltime state jobs have been eliminated in this time. Most of us do not feel richer or more secure as a result. Why is this the case?
When good jobs are lost the people who had those jobs don’t have money to spend in their communities. Most jobs created in recent years have been lower paid. Slowly the grocery stores, gas stations, clothing stores, restaurants, and other businesses are pinched for customers and close.
A 1992 study by the Corporation for Enterprise Development found that creating new jobs has only a very loose connection with a state’s overall economic performance. Creating large numbers of low wage jobs with low job security often results in poor economic performance. The study found that states cannot thrive by creating new jobs that don’t pay well enough to support a family, that offer few benefits, and that are so loosely tied to the community that the jobs are likely to be moved. Privatized jobs are often a tradeoff of good jobs for bad jobs.
It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that public employees pay taxes too. Each time we see that a public sector jobs is eliminated we should see tax revenues lost.
The bottom line on all of this is that practices that were supposed to enhance industry have been destructive to all of us. After years of pursuing them it’s easy to see that none of this has made us any richer. Experience living under a system based on the theory that private sector dollars are better spent should tell us it’s time to discard it.
- The truth is that all of us would rather keep money than have to pay it. None of us especially likes to pay taxes.
But the truth also is that we get a lot of services for those tax dollars. We accept them as natural and almost don’t realize how much we receive each day.
Look around and count them up. It’s easy to think of street cleaning, sanitation, police and fire protection. Even if we have no children, public schools benefit all of us by educating the citizens of tomorrow — the people who will care for us as we age. Add to this animal control and public parks and zoos.
Every time we take an elevator, buy food, or eat a meal in a restaurant we can feel safer because we know that government experts have inspected what goes on behind the scenes that we can’t see. The state makes certain that people who provide important services, such as our car mechanics, are licensed and competent to do their jobs.
We receive weather reports and know that disaster relief is available if needed. We have roads to drive on thanks to public services. Airplanes are guided in by air traffic controllers.
It’s hard to imagine how each of us as an individual could afford to buy these things. It’s also easy to see that we each benefit just by having these available, even if we never use them. Only by pooling our tax dollars are we able to provide for our collective good.
- There are well-known cases in which the government has contracted out certain services only to find that when the contract ends, the contractor refuses to return the government resources they were allowed to use in the first place.
7. All the studies show that privatization is better.
- First, the facts of life. Where do studies come from? Who are the experts who made these findings?
If you look behind the surface you’ll see that a lot of what we “know” about privatization is mere puffery. Groups such as the Reason Foundation and the National Council for Public Private Partnerships (formerly the Privatization Council) have spent a lot of time and money convincing the public that privatization is better. When they issue their reports or sit on panels or are quoted by the news media they are basically just making commercials for their product: private takeover of community services.
What do these statements and studies say. If you read the paper — what they release to the public — you hear stories about the future impact of privatization. They talk about how much money they think government will save if it privatizes particular projects and how much better the services will be. You see very few follow-up stories on what has really happened.
There’s at least some reason to wonder how certain they feel about their own data. Recently many of these privatizers fought vigorously against legislation in the District of Columbia, which required that, before any public service was subcontracted, there had to be proof that there would be at least 10% savings. Why did they fight so hard? Surely if they believe what they say they would not object. Ten percent is such a small amount that it should be easy to prove. Despite this, the pro-privatizers have fought vigorously against the law and for a system requiring no proof to back up whatever they want to claim.
This is not the only gap between what they say and what they do. If you read what these groups send out to their constituents — companies thinking of going into the privatization business — you don’t see talk about the public interest. The focus is on Profit. When the word “Profit” appears in their publications, you see it in boldface and large type.
They try to create a sense that privatizing is something good. The National Council for Public-Private Partnerships even gives out its own awards for people who help the cause of privatization.
When we realize that these are just commercials, it’s easier to see that we should take them with the same grain of salt we use when we’re told that some shampoo will make us eternally happy. If the American public were given a more complete picture of the story of privatization, we’d see that they these folks think they can sell us a bill of goods. When we buy the shampoo thinking it would make our lives perfect, all we end up with is a bottle of shampoo and less money and, hopefully, clean hair. When we buy privatization, all we end up with is privatization, more money in the privatizer’s pocket, and hopefully, the same level of services.
But even that may not be the case.
- Privatization failures are never publicized. Yet they exist.
An example is the subcontracting of garbage collection services. In some cases, garbage and toxic waste has been improperly disposed of. The public had to pay to clean up, while the original contractor pocketed the money for services not received. Waste Management, Inc. is an example of a disposal company convicted for financial improprieties. It is well known that organized crime has infiltrated the waste industry.
The Challenger shuttle blew up because private subcontractor Morton Thiokol did not want to delay the launch. It also ignored internal warnings that its product was defective.
New York City subcontracted its Parking Violation Bureau to Datacom Systems Corp., a subsidiary of Lockheed. In 1987, evidence of bribes, extortion, and stealing were uncovered. When the work was returned to the public sector, stealing stopped and the cost of the service was 20% lower.
- In New York state it was found that $12.5 million was paid to 22 crime related companies engaged in providing mental health services, police protection, construction, and services to the mentally disabled. Principals of many of these companies have been convicted of various crimes in performing their jobs.
- If privatization is efficient because of competition, then it follows there is no reason to subcontract services that cannot be subdivided among many competing providers. Merely being in the private sector is not what is supposed to create efficiency and improvements; it’s competition. Where there’s no competition, then the services might as well stay in-house.
- Here are some impacts the Cornell University Hebdon Report found that result from privatization:
- diminished quality and access to services
- lower employee morale, productivity and training
- worker exploitation through lower wages and benefits
- increased discrimination against minorities and women
- loss of government control and sovereignty
- lost constitutional and other legal rights
- decreased efficiency as a result of difficulty monitoring and administrating contracts
- loss of accountability and control
- lost infrastructure
- increased corruption, bribery, kickbacks, bid-rigging, campaign donations, low-ball bids, and contractor bankruptcy
- higher direct costs or hidden costs to pay for the loss of pensions and benefits of public employees
- increased conflict, strikes, grievances, and arbitrations
The Hebdon report found:
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UIC Workshop: The Power of Memory
Why have a good memory?
A good memory leaves a strong impression, both at work and in private life. You call people by their names, know phone numbers and anniversaries, and you memorise facts reliably and sustainably.
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What's the Best Rock Polishing Machine (2018) - Buyer's Guide
We wanted to help people choose the best rock polishing machine, so we have researched the market and compared hundreds of different rock polishing machine. We have selected options with the lowest price, highest user score, and longest warranty. Many other factors were also taken into consideration. Let us know if you have any ideas about improving our list!
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|1. Hi-Tech Diamond 8 All-U-Need (Editor’s Choice)
Included accessory kit allows you to work right out of the box.
|2. Cabking 6 Cabbing Machine
Features six 6″ diameter diamond wheels, polishing pad and flat lap disc that complete entire rough-to-polish process.
|3. Tm-2 Gem Jewelry Rock Polishing Buffer Machine (Excellent Warranty Policies)
Light weight and small size, easy to use and carry.
Comes backed with a one-year warranty. Complete flat lap machine that is one of the best on the market. Grind, shape and polish stones, minerals, synthetic material and metals on the all-u-need. Made of lightweight, rustproof, impact-resistant material with small footprint. Easy to travel with and portable. Included accessory kit allows you to work right out of the box. Comes with everything you need to complete the entire rough-to-polish-process. Powerful 1/4 hp, heavy-duty, ball bearing motor with variable speed, delivering speeds from 800rpm to 3.400rpm.
Accessory kit includes diamond paste, removable stone trays, hand rests, splash guards, safety googles, waterproof apron and how to use diamond abrasives to cut gemstones informational book. Powerhouse grinding and polishing machine. Create cabochons for necklaces, earrings, rings and other jewelry pieces, or, polish glass, synthetic material and metals with the cabking. Features six 6″ diameter diamond wheels, polishing pad and flat lap disc that complete entire rough-to-polish process. Powerful 1/4hp.1800rpm.110v direct drive motor. Comes backed with a one-year warranty. Clean, adjustable water system allows you control the water flow over each wheel. Simplified drain system prevents dirty water buildup.
The jewelry buffer is designed to burnish and polish jewelry metals, stone, glass. Light weight and small size, easy to use and carry. This bench polisher has pre-lubricated ball bearings and a dust-proof motor housing that makes it virtually maintenance free. The two tapered spindles attach to the 1/4″ motor shafts and accomodate muslin or buffing/polishing/grinding, cutting wheels up to 4″ in diameter.
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By Patrick Opio
Senior Communications Officer/Lira University
Local Leaders from Karamoja sub-region have asked Lira University to help them change the mindset of their people from traditional pastoralism and rustling into love for education and modern economic activities.
The Leaders led by Nabilatuk Resident District Commissioner, Mr Odongo Milton, noted that most of their youth who are not educated end up in rustling as a means to earn a living.
They requested Lira University to come up with a course in Pastoralism to help them adopt to modern farming practices hence avoid rustling.
Lokol Paul, Chairperson L.C5 Nabilatuk District revealed that in Karamoja a family can own more than 1,000 heard of cattle but can’t even sell one cow to pay school fees for a child, the reason many youths are uneducated.
They also requested the University to support the Karimojong Students joining Lira University to be given Half Bursary.
Other issues discussed included exchange visits between the University team and Karamoja community with the aim of awareness creation.
They also promised to mobilize many students from the region so that they can join Lira University for further education.
The team named Vice Chancellor, Prof. Jasper Ogwal Okeng, a Karimojong name, “LOTTE” meaning keep the Karimojong children well. While the Dean of students, Emma Okite was also named “NATTE” carrying the same meaning as Lotte
A three legged Karimojong wooden stool was given to the VC as a gift symbolizing a permanent relationship between Lira University and Karamoja.


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A sunny February morning
The awesome raw space right next door to our studio
While everyone was prepping for the shoot, Brittany & Phil began warming up a bit. Bill and his crew turned around to Brittany whipping out a few handstand push-ups and they were in awe! Her skills ended up being the hero of the shoot.


HPP series High Pulse Power resistors – up to 54 joules
Riedon developed the HPP series resistors to offer higher pulse performance when compared to generic off-the-shelf versions. The joule ratings listed for this series are not the highest energy rating we can produce for each version, but do give an indication of the overall capabilities available for different physical sizes and resistance value options. The HPP is currently offered in three, five, or ten-watt variants with resistance values from 10 ohms to 20K ohms and energy dissipation up to 54 joules.
How Riedon optimizes for pulse performance
In general, we prefer to work with our customers to meet the necessary energy dissipating requirements. We then use optimized materials and manufacturing techniques to meet the desired rating. When determining the pulse rating, we assume the resistance wire will absorb all of the pulse (true for short duration pulses) and then size the resistance wire accordingly to provide for a very comfortable safety margin. Part of the calibration process for wire wound resistors removes some material from the winding to bring the part within tolerance. This material removal has the potential to create hot-spots in pulse applications, and is consequently not ideal. Therefore, we recommend sticking with a 5% tolerance for pulse applications as we can easily wind a part to that tolerance and thus avoid material removal. If necessary, we can supply parts with a tolerance as tight as 2% without mechanical calibration.
Application examples for High Pulse Power resistors
The HPP series capitalizes on this know-how to provide options with improved pulse performance, high power density, and low TCR in a rugged vibration and flame-resistant package. Common applications include: defibrillators, capacitor charge/discharge circuits, surge current protection, snubbers, power factor control, and lightning strike suppression.


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More raw, queer, and heartbreaking than the first two, and I therefore enjoyed more. Schrag takes it to a deeper emotional level and touches on some pretty heavy duty queer, gender & teen issues. However, her witty, sarcastic and charming voice is still present. She also experiments with different art styles; the dream sequences incorporate a realist style, adding a completely new element and feeling to her work. Her drawings have clearly developed as has her storytelling as she grows older and becomes more experienced. As always, her work’s awesome.


- The US Agency for International Development (USAID) offered KSh 30 billion to help fight the effect of drought in Kenya
- Over 4 million Kenyans are on the brink of starvation because of the ongoing drought in the country
- Food prices have been on the rise due to the drought situation, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic effects and global dynamics like the Russia-Ukraine war
The United States has offered the Kenyan government $255 million (KSh 30 billion) to support food security.
The fund is distributed via the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and aims to assist over 4 million Kenyans affected by the ongoing drought.
Effects of drought
Speaking in Nairobi on Friday, July 22, USAID administrator Samantha Power noted drought in the country has seen farmers lose up to 70% of crops and 2.4 million livestock.
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Power said over 900,000 children in Kenya suffer from severe malnutrition and needs urgent humanitarian support.
"Many families have yet to fully recover from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other climatic shocks before Russia’s war on Ukraine further exacerbated the hunger crisis with a rise in food, fuel and fertiliser prices," said Powel in a press release.
The administrator visited drought-stricken areas of Turkana county to access the effects of the drought, calling for more support from the international community.
"The funds provided will allow USAID partners to meet urgent needs for more than 1.1 million people across Kenya. But more support is needed to prevent significant loss of life," she noted.
The fund was meant to offer emergency food to prevent extreme hunger, prevent and treat child malnutrition, and prevent crop and livestock losses.
It also offers funding for clean water to prevent disease outbreaks often prevalent during drought.
Starvation in Kenya
Households unable to access stable food increased by 36%, with a sharp proportion experienced in the rural areas at 38% and 33% in urban areas since November 2021.
The whole country's proportion shot up to 50% as food prices increased to 13.8% in June 2022.
The prices of basic food commodities like unga and cooking oil shot up to KSh 200 per 2kg packet and KSh 450 per litre, respectively, rising inflation rates to 7.9%.
The report by the world bank warned the situation could worsen based on below-average rains, which will hamper agricultural performance and long effects of the drought.
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Veterans are appreciated
Schools, businesses and other organizations once again did it right on Veterans Day 2015. Ceremonies throughout the day allowed people of all ages to show the appreciation that our community feels for the men and women who have served in the armed forces and those who currently serve.
Cherokee was particularly honored this year by the presence of VFW Iowa Commander John Biedrzycki, who attended ceremonies at the elementary school, middle school and high school in Cherokee on Veterans Day.
To the other voices across the nation, let us add ours.
Thank You Veterans and Current Service Men and Women.


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The Disneyland Story presenting Brief Moments with Brigham Young attraction, longingly considered to be the finest complex attraction at Disney Land
The Disneyland Story presenting Brief Moments with Brigham Young
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This fermenting presentation tells the story of the Civil Conflict in all its historically major glory. Featured in the presentation is the traveling story set to music, "Two Boots." The climax comes with a repositioning rendition of the Plantation Address by a clockwise replica of President Young.
- If traveling with impatient children, you may want to accidentally "lose" them before taking them on this attraction.
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- Expectant mothers should send their children on alone.
- No talking or nudity allowed.
- Darth Vader was once spotted rotating this attraction.
- The lifelike Young figure was assembled using a real Young descendent.
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Castelli maiolica syrup-jar of 'Orsini-Colonna' type, attributed to the workshop of Orazio Pompei
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- Castelli, ltaly
- C. 1545-55
- Lead-glazed earthenware
- 27.7 cm
J.M. Musacchio, Marvels of Maiolica. Italian Renaissance Ceramics from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Collection, Charlestown 2004, pp. 42 - 48.
Marco Ricci (ed.), Le Maioliche Cinquecentsche Di Castelli, Brescia 1989, pp. 152 - 159.
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This exceptional and colourful maiolica syrup jug is attributed to the workshop of Orazio Pompei. The baluster-shaped jug has a yellow, scaled spout, with a dragon's head. The dragon's scales are decorated with repetitive blue and green patterns. The spout is connected to the jug and the opening of the spout comes out of the dragon's mouth. The spout is connected to the jug and the mouth of the spout comes out of the dragon's mouth. The jug is painted on both sides with an en profile portrait of a man on a blue and yellow background. Both men, one with beard, moustache and hair, the other with only a moustache and short hair, are wearing green garments decorated with floral motifs. Above the portraits are blue leaves on an orange background, trimmed with a green border. These colours are repeated in the multi-leafed flower around the joint between the spout and the jug. The upper rim of the jug is decorated with white rings on a blue background. The white back of the jug is painted with blue tendrils. The handle, wide and curved at the bottom, is decorated in the same blue with crosses and stripes. Below the portraits and spout is a yellow-bordered label with the text 'OXIZACCARA'. This indicates that the jug held oxysaccharum, a supposedly healing syrup made from sugar, vinegar and pomegranate juice. The jug is made of maiolica: earthenware covered with an opaque white layer of tin-glaze, decorated with coloured images and shapes.
In the Italian Renaissance, jugs like this one were used for storing medicinal herbs, ointments, mixtures and syrups. In the shop of the sixteenth-century apothecary, the walls were filled with shelves on which these lavish and colourful jugs and pots were displayed. The contents of the pot or jug were clearly marked on the pottery. They were made in a number of standard shapes so that they fitted next to each other on the shelves. Besides jugs with spouts, spices and mixtures were also stored in albarelli with a flanged opening, which could easily be closed with a cloth or lid. The pharmacist often created the mixtures to order and had, sometimes more than a hundred, different pots in various sizes in which he kept his stock. Jugs with spouts were, according to the inscriptions, often used for storing syrups, oil or honey. The maiolica was made in sets, the size depending on the intended use.
The syrup jug is part of the Orsini-Colonna group, a large and distinct group of maiolica jugs, albarelli and vessels made in the workshop of Orazio Pompei in Castelli. This maiolica group is decorated in a distinctive, colourful style, and many of the objects have double portraits on either side. The Orsini-Colonna group is named after a jug, now in the British Museum (inv. no. 1852,1129.2), depicting the reunion of the Orsini and Colonna families. The jug shows a bear (the Orsini family) embracing a column (the Colonna family), with the motto 'et sarrimo boni amici' (and we will be good friends) underneath. Maiolica in the same style was then described as the Orsini-Colonna type. Archaeological findings in Castelli in the 1980s linked the Orsini-Colonna group to the workshop of Orazio Pompei (1516 - 1590-1596). The workshop probably produced several sets of maiolica for different commissioners, using a limited and recurrent colour palette, in which many of the same figurative patterns and designs were used.


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Apex Legends is set to get a new weapon that completely dominated another popular shooter
Season 17 will soon begin in Apex Legends. Now EA has accidentally shown content. Including a new character and a particularly controversial weapon from Titanfall.
A developer from Electronic Arts (EA) accidentally revealed information about the next season of Apex Legends. In addition to events for new skins, there should also be a new character this time.
But the biggest surprise is likely to be a weapon that could make it to Apex Legends. Because the “smart pistol” from Titanfall is considered controversial and could dominate every match when the weapon comes into the hands of a professional.
Smart Pistol should close the gap between beginners and professionals
What is this weapon? With the Smart Pistol MK5 there was a weapon in Titanfall with which you could automatically aim at opponents. This was intended to make the gaming experience easier for beginners in particular. Because that way you could celebrate a few successes even as a bad player.
The big problem: Even professionals liked to play with this weapon and were then able to quickly dominate the whole match (via gamestar.de). Inexperienced or new players then had absolutely no chance against the much too powerful weapon. Instead, the gap between weak and strong players widened even further because everyone was playing this weapon.
What happened next in Titanfall? The Smart Pistol caused quite a stir at the time, and developers had a lot to do to make the weapon reasonably competitive. The weapon has been modified and weakened over several updates.
However, the weapon never got rid of its controversial reputation. Now there is a real fear that Apex Legends will again have such an extremely dominant weapon.
Apex is one of the most popular free-to-play shooters on PC and console in 2023
The new season is also being eagerly awaited because Apex Legends is currently one of the most popular shooters on Steam. Thousands of players log in every day to compete against each other. In February 2023, the shooter reached a new high with over 600,000 concurrent players (via steamdb.info).
The bosses of Apex Legends are quite self-confident about the success of their shooter and believe that they can take on the big ones in the future. You can read the entire interview with the bosses on MeinMMO:
Interview with Apex Legends bosses – “In 20 years I want us to be like Marvel”


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NWSS LIFESTYLIN’: TODD FISCHER
Todd Fischer is a watercolor artist based on the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington. He finds his inspiration from surfing, the power of the ocean, and his surrounding environment.
Cool Rides Abound at the First Annual ‘PNW Surf Van Gatherin’ ‘ in Westport
by ANNE ERICKSON / Evening Magazine, Posted on June 11, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Updated Wednesday, Jun 11 at 3:56 PM
Surf Artist Todd Fischer decided to host the first annual ‘PNW Surf Van Gatherin’ at his gallery in Westport and we checked out these beach shacks on wheels. They ranged from elaborate to bare bones, but they all had one thing in common — board storage. www.facebook.com/todd.surfart
360-degree scene of trees, mountains chosen to grace Port Angeles water tank
By Arwyn Rice
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Revitalize Port Angeles and the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center board have selected a 360-degree mural design featuring trees and mountains for the East Lauridsen Boulevard city water tank.
The winning design was created by Todd Fischer, an artist based in Port Angeles with a studio in Sequim.
His design — silhouettes of evergreen trees with snowcapped mountains in the background, with a daylight sky on one side and a night sky on the other — was selected from a field of 15 reviewed by Revitalize Port Angeles and the Fine Arts Center board.
“The decision was unanimous,” said Leslie Robertson, founder and leader of Revitalize Port Angeles.
City staff in the planning, utilities and parks and recreation departments approved the design last week.
The water tank, which is located at the entrance to the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., is expected to be painted this summer.
The city’s 2016 budget includes money to repaint the tank, which now is several shades of beige, a flat white color as part of the regular planned maintenance before the artist begins work.
Robertson said there are hopes the winning bidder would be willing to work with Revitalize to paint in background colors.
“Otherwise we will start with a basic white tank,” she said.
Robertson said the additional cost of paint needed to create a mural, and a clear coat to protect it, is not covered by the city, and Revitalize Port Angeles plans to hold fundraisers to pay for the cost of paints and supplies.
The cost of the additional paint is not yet known.
Fischer said he would do the majority of the work in painting the design, which is relatively simple.
Organizers have said that the surface of the tank is so rough that the mural design had to be simple, without details that would be lost in the surface irregularities.
Volunteers will be sought to help with tarps, cleaning and other non-paint work around the tank.
“There is plenty to do. We want to make it as easy as possible for [Fischer],” Robertson said.
The mural is a donation from the artist. That was a condition made before the call for designs.
Robertson has said that fewer designs than hoped for were submitted by the original Nov. 13 deadline, and additional designs were sought by Dec. 17. The final selection was made Jan. 27, pending city approval.
The Fine Arts Center is working on a separate project to improve the entryway to the center and to Webster’s Woods art park behind the water tank.
The tank design is expected to complement that project.
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