This month we have driven around all the apiary sites to do the oxalic acid treatment on the hives to help the fight against the dreaded varroa mite. We administer the acid crystals by sublimation as we feel this is a more effective way to deal with this pest. The poly nucs are dealt with by the trickle method as so far we cannot find a way of sublimation without burning the poly nuc. We have also checked on the hives to make sure they all have plenty of stores and fed fondant where we thought they might need a bit extra.
The arrival of the Thornes sale order has meant I spent a day drilling holes and inserting eyelets into a couple of thousand side bars. I then spent the next few days assembling the frames and wiring them ready for the foundation in the spring.
A couple of the apiaries needed a trim back as they had got over grown during the summer. One of the apiaries was looking a bit crowded, so a move was needed and as we had cleared space at another apiary it made sense to move them there. It was raining, blowing and the hives were heavy. Moving hives on your own is no fun, but at least knowing how heavy they were I can be sure that they have enough stores to last them for a while. The apiary pictured below, once it had been tidied up, has now received four more colonies to boost it to ten. I think i will see how they go before I add anymore. There is room for a few more but I would like to see how the ten manage first.
Snowdrops and catkins were out so spring must be just around the corner, and I cannot wait to get back into the bees. The weather here is so mild that one morning we saw our first queen bumble bee scouting around, probably the earliest I have ever seen a bumble bee.
The Walton on Thames Farmers Market is on the first Saturday of February, and Sally has been busy stocking up on candles and cosmetics while I have been bottling honey. She is currently producing flavoured lip balms as we have been asked a few times for some. The cosmetics and honey continue to sell well and we are in the middle of negotiating a couple more shops to stock some of our products.
As for 2015, we are looking forward to managing a couple of new apiaries that we have acquired. Fifty complete new hives have been got ready over the winter along with the stands and frames, ready for some of the nucs we are over wintering.
An increase in honey production and nucs both for sale and our own increase is going to be needed this season. Queen rearing will also be on a bigger scale, so we have bought and made a large number of mating nucs. Our over wintered nucs have all been spoken for this year already, which is good and gives us an early boost to the bank balance, especially with all the new equipment we have bought over the past few months.
Equipment we plan to buy this year is going to cost a fair bit, but we feel it is much needed as we expand further, looks like Sally will have to continue with the "day job" for a little bit longer!! I will feature the new additions in future blogs as and when we get them.
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Football: Danny Welbeck scores hat-trick in Arsenal's 4-1 win; Real Madrid and Atletico both victors
Arsenal's Danny Welbeck (top) scores a goal past Galatasaray's goalkeeper Fernando Muslera during their Champions League match at the Emirates Stadium in London on Oct 1, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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PARIS (AFP) - Danny Welbeck answered former coach Louis van Gaal's criticism in style on Wednesday, Oct 1, 2014, scoring a hat-trick in Arsenal's 4-1 romp over Galatasaray in their Champions League group match while both Madrid clubs also recorded wins.
Welbeck, let go by van Gaal as the Manchester United handler considered his scoring record was not what it should be, became only the sixth Englishman to score a Champions League hat-trick, celebrating Arsene Wenger's 18th anniversary in charge of the club in style.
"That instinct of a goalscorer in Danny Welbeck was more aggressive and he finished well," Wenger said.
"He has such good pace it gives him time to finish calmly.
"We had good pace in all areas and overall the performance was good."
Borussia Dortmund, who outclassed Arsenal in their opening game, top the group as they eased to a 3-0 win away at Anderlecht, Adrian Ramos scoring a double after Italian international Ciro Immobile had given them an early lead.
Holders Real were far from impressive in eking out a 2-1 win over Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets, Cristiano Ronaldo missing a penalty and having a goal disallowed before converting another opportunity from the penalty spot to take him to within three goals of overtaking Raul as the all-time leading scorer in the competition.
Frenchman Karim Benzema grabbed a late winner against their obdurate hosts, who had served warning of their resilience in coming within minutes of drawing away at Liverpool in the opening game.
Meanwhile, the English side's poor start to the season continued as they went down 1-0 to Basel in Switzerland.
Real coach Carlo Ancelotti was far from disappointed with his side's stuttering performance although there was a measure of relief in coming away with the three points.
"For us the result is good. We started by trailing 1-0 but then pressured Ludogorets and managed to score for 1-1 and then take the lead.
"We could have scored more goals but in general I am content. I am glad that we won."
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, though, was left fuming by his team's display.
Mario Balotelli put in an underwhelming performance up front and with their next two Champions League games against Real Madrid, Rodgers will hope his side have rediscovered some semblance of the form that took them so close to the Premier League title last season.
"The goal we conceded was far too soft and it is not the first one," said a frustrated Rodgers.
"When you concede a soft goal like that it is difficult, away from home against a side who have a good record against English teams."
Real's neighbours Atletico enjoyed a more noteworthy victory, not only putting behind them a surprise opening defeat by Olympiakos, but also becoming the first side in 11 games to breach the Juventus defence as Arda Turan scored the only goal of the game in Madrid.
Atletico's group looks like being a really tight affair as, with Olympiakos slipping to a 2-0 defeat to Malmo in Sweden, all four sides are on three points.
"I am happy with the sacrifice shown by the guys," said Atletico coach Diego Simeone.
"Commitment is not negotiable among this group and they have put in a huge effort against a great team."
Group C, too, could go down to the wire as Zenit St Petersburg and Monaco top it with four points after they played out a 0-0 draw in Russia but German side Bayer Leverkusen are in the mix after beating last season's Europa League finalists Benfica 3-1 with Korean star Son Heung Min their inspiration.

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She's 25 and on the rise: How L.A. choreographer Micaela Taylor became a hot name in dance
By Makeda Easter
March 20, 2019 8 AM PT
Micaela Taylor thought the accolades might come by the time she was 30. But at 25, the choreographer and dancer is already watching the recognition grow — fast — for her unique style of movement she calls "contemporary pop."
Taylor leaped into Dance magazine's "25 to Watch" in 2019. Her seven-member company TL Collective will premiere its evening-length work "Drift" at Ford Theatres on March 30. And in the summer, the company will take the work to Massachusetts for the historic Jacob's Pillow dance festival.
"Her name keeps coming up over and over," said Dance magazine's editor in chief, Jennifer Stahl. "And then her work itself, it's very intriguing. The movement language she works with has a very fresh quality. … It's got a kind of quirky sense of individuality."
Athletic and graceful. Precise and fluid. Taylor's choreography settles in the dichotomies. Her movement is most clearly based on classical contemporary technique — long extensions and beautiful lines, quick pirouettes. But it also draws from elements in hip-hop: chest popping and the musicality of street dance. Onstage, Taylor is a magnetic presence, her long limbs accentuating her calculated movements.
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Taylor was rehearsing an excerpt from "Drift," a piece based on her experiences with isolation and vulnerability, with five of her dancers at a mid-Wilshire studio. Soft-spoken and focused, she easily transitioned between the role of dancer and choreographer, ensuring her movement matched the group's while simultaneously examining the choreography in the mirror to make minor adjustments.
At one point, Taylor worked with Matt Luck and Elizabeth Finfgeld on an expressive, mime-like duet. The two dancers made exaggerated faces at each other while rapidly moving through precise poses. In another moment, Taylor worked with dancer Jen Lacy on using her chin to initiate a dramatic fall to the ground.
Near the end of rehearsal, the company ran through the near-15 minute excerpt. The music, which Taylor said she composed herself on GarageBand, was dark and distorted, mixing crashing sounds, screams, chants. In moments of unison, the dancers looked like synchronized androids. Even brief periods of rest seemed perfectly calculated.
After running the exhausting excerpt, the dancers collapsed on the floor, some propping their feet up on the studio's ballet bars.
Micaela Taylor, right, watches and directs dancers Matt Luck and Elizabeth Finfgeld during the TL Collective dance company's rehearsal.
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Born and raised in Windsor Hills to pastor parents, Taylor showed off her natural inclination toward dance when she was about 3. When Taylor got up onstage at church, her mother was the first to notice that she was on rhythm. "She saw it and invested in that and put me in a hip-hop class," Taylor said.
Taylor began training in hip-hop and African dance at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy and Lula Washington Dance Theatre. The goal then was to become a commercial dancer, performing in music videos and going on tour with artists.
But around 12 she observed a ballet class at L.A.'s Dance Arts Academy — the same place she holds rehearsals some 13 years later — and immediately saw the importance of classical training.
"I needed this training to enhance even my hip-hop," she said. Although a late bloomer, Taylor shifted her focus to train exclusively in ballet and modern dance.
The movement language she works with has a very fresh quality. … It's got a kind of quirky sense of individuality.
Jennifer Stahl, editor in chief, Dance magazine
After graduating from the L.A. County High School for the Arts, Taylor attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. In an environment where she heard comments that commercial dance "wasn't real dancing," the desire to be a backup dancer faded. "I kind of lost the respect for hip-hop and jazz, unfortunately," the choreographer said. "Because it takes great training to be precise and strong as a hip-hop dancer as well."
Taylor landed her first professional gig immediately after graduating from college, working with Ate9 Dance Company, a contemporary troupe based on the Gaga dance technique developed by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin. Somehow, though, her hip-hop roots found a way back one day while winding down after rehearsal.
"When I moved, I just wanted to hit the hi-hats and isolate and pop-lock," she said. Taylor realized that the "natural ability that I have to groove and to rock out to music can be utilized with the training I had now gained."
Another pivotal moment came when Taylor had the opportunity to choreograph Ate9 dancers. It was the first time she created work for professional dancers and saw her ideas truly come to life. She was also experiencing the ups and downs of dancing with a professional company for the first time.
"The competitiveness can be so overwhelming that you don't really feel known or that you're really connecting with anybody on a deeper level," she said. "That sparked me to want to create a different — not just dance moves but atmosphere for dancers."
Los Angeles choreographer Micaela Taylor, 25, is gaining attention in the dance world.
After dancing with the L.A. contemporary company BodyTraffic, Taylor organized a group of dancer-friends to form TL Collective (short for "to love") in 2016. They rehearsed for what turned into a performance at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica.
While the company performed around L.A., Taylor also worked as an independent choreographer, creating work for L.A. Contemporary Dance Company and other groups.
In 2018 Taylor was commissioned to choreograph for BodyTraffic and won the Springboard Danse Montreal "Emerge" choreographic award, allowing her to create work for the New York-based Gibney Dance Company's current season.
Taylor has realized at a young age the challenges of running her own company. To help fund "Drift," she used the crowd-funding site Kickstarter to raise more than $9,400 to pay dancers and fund travel. "Internally, there's this battle that I have to overcome daily, which is, 'What are you doing?'" she said, laughing. "You're young and you don't have much experience. … You're not rich."
She really has a very well-defined and advanced ability to make dance.
Olga Garay-English, executive director Ford Theatres
Olga Garay-English, executive director of Ford Theatres, first experienced Taylor's choreography at the annual Dance/USA conference last June. During a question-and-answer session, she learned about Taylor's struggles with expensive rehearsal space.
"Here's an obviously extremely talented young woman," Garay-English said, "and she's prevented from really spending the kind of dedicated time she should be spending on creating her work."
So Garay-English offered Taylor an artist-in-residence position at the Ford Theatres, which allows the choreographer and her company to rehearse for free every day in March leading up to the evening-length performance. The position also provides an artist fee to help fund Taylor's work.
"It was just clear that she really has a very well-defined and advanced ability to make dance," Garay-English said. "She really just needs to be nurtured and supported."
Taylor credits her success to her faith. God, she said, gave her the confidence she needed. "I don't think without God I would have even taken that leap of faith, but I was reassured that things would work out."
And now, the young choreographer has a new set of goals for 30.
She wants to establish the TL Collective as a nonprofit. She wants to break ground in Europe. She also wants to return to her early dream and become a successful choreographer for TV, film and music. She wants the TL Collective to be recognized as one of the biggest dance companies in L.A. and beyond.
"Sky's the limit," she said. "I have big, big dreams. Just barely touched the surface right now."
TL Collective rehearses at the Dance Arts Academy in Los Angeles.
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Micaela Taylor 'Drift'
Where: Ford Theatres, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood
When: 5 p.m. March 30
Tickets: $15-$20
Info: (323) 461-3673, www.fordtheatres.org
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Aloys Lenz (February 2, 1910 – March 1, 1976) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

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Lenz was deputy district chairman of the CDU in the district of Cologne. From 1947 to 1950 he was a member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia, where he represented the constituency of Cologne-Land-South. Lenz was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election in 1949 to 1969. During this period he was always elected directly to parliament in the constituency of Cologne-Land. From 10 February 1953 to 21 January 1970 he was also a member of the European Parliament.

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It had all started when Brad Miller called his cousin, the Police Commissioner, and asked if he could put some officers in his pub to watch the clientele. Someone was stealing from the customers who came for Karaoke Night. They would leave their purses or briefcases on the table while they sang and thought that they were safe, but many had complained to Brad afterwards that they were missing money and credit cards. Brad was sick and tired of someone stealing from his patrons. He watched closely every night, but didn't have any luck catching anyone. Now he was worried that he would lose business if it continued. It had to stop.
The Police Commissioner called Simon Banks who then called his team into the conference room.
"Sir, we already have cases," Rafe said.
"Did I ask you if you wanted another case? I didn't think so." They grumbled but it quickly subsided. It was good to be Captain of Major Crimes. "This is the new assignment. Brad Miller, who owns Brad's Pub on Craycroft and 22nd Street, has someone stealing from his customers."
"Since when does that fall under the purview of Major Crimes?" Brown mumbled.
Simon glared at them. "Since the Commissioner is Brad Miller's cousin, and we've been ordered to solve this case," Simon snarled around the cigar in his mouth.
"Sir, I have three other cases going right now," Conner reminded Simon carefully.
"I don't care." Simon glared at her.
"Sir, does this include me since I'm not at the academy yet and I'm not officially here in any capacity?" Blair asked.
"No, you don't have to go. I've got Taggart to go along with Jim," Simon snapped. "In fact, what are you even doing here?"
Blair wished he hadn't reminded Simon of his presence, but Jim had asked him to come in today after all.
"Jim needed help with his paperwork, so I offered to do it."
"Ellison, stop asking him to do your work. He's not official yet. He hasn't even decided if he's going to the academy. He can't just be here." Simon clearly wasn't happy about this situation.
Blair stood up, ready to tell Simon he had decided to go to the academy, but Jim pushed him back into his chair. "Sir, I know he hasn't decided yet and I don't want him to rush into it. This is something he needs to think long and hard about."
Blair looked like Jim had just poured coffee on his new laptop.
"I agree. All the more reason for him not to be here doing your work. I don't want to see it happen again. Sandburg, go home. Ellison, you're up for Karaoke Night. Starts in one hour," Simon commanded. "The rest of you are with Ellison. Sit at different tables. Oh, and you may have to do something wild, like sing to blend in."
Everyone got up, complaining about the assignment.
"This is an order. You're on the clock in one hour," Simon shouted over the sound of their grumbling.
Jim shoved his chair back and stormed out of the room.
Blair looked at Simon. "It doesn't sound dangerous, sir and if I promise not to do anything stupid, will you let me tag along with Jim tonight to keep an eye on him?"
"Fine, but stay out of trouble," Simon warned, clearly at the end of his tether.
When Blair caught up to Jim, he told him the news and said, "I'm tired of you not letting me speak for myself. Things have to start changing if I'm really going to be your partner."
"Chief, I have to think about this assignment. Could we pick this up later?"
"You can bet we will! You're not listening to me and what I want."
"Sandburg, I don't have time for this. We really need to get going."
Blair ignored him and crossed his arms in front of his chest. He looked pissed off. Jim never really listens to anything I have to say he thought. Yeah, business as usual.
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"So what are you going to sing tonight?" Blair asked an overly quiet Jim. He wanted to hear something from him even if it was grumbling.
"What are you talking about? Are you nuts? I'm not singing. I don't even sing at home when I'm alone."
Blair just shook his head and smiled. "Did you forget what our fearless leader said?"
"Oh, shut up." Jim forgot he was angry and almost smiled. Blair really was funny sometimes. Even when he was trying to be serious, he had a way of making Jim smile.
"I will not shut up. Simon said we have to sing and blend in. Weren't you listening in the conference room?" Blair was flinging his arms around wildly as he spoke.
He looked kinda cute when he got worked up Jim thought.
"I didn't need to listen, because I knew you would nag me about what he said. I'll sing something if I have to." Jim worried at his lip. "I just don't know what." Since when do I think about how cute Blair looks?
Right then someone began singing Annie Lennox's Sweet Dreams… badly. The sound made Jim cringe.
Blair saw the look on Jim's face. "Dial it down, big guy."
Jim did just that. If everyone sounded like this woman, he was in trouble. Sometimes it sucked to have heightened senses.
"Better?" Blair asked hopefully, because even if he was pissed at Jim, Jim was still his… And just what did he want Jim to be? His what? Jim was already his best friend and his Sentinel. Why did Blair keep thinking he wanted him to be more than that?
"Yeah, it's bearable now," Jim admitted grudgingly.
Blair leaned in close and whispered, "She's bad, right? It's not just me?"
"She's bad, Chief."
"I can't wait to see what Henri and Rafe are going to sing. H said something about them doing a duet. He sings really well, so we might be in for a treat. I mean that seriously," Blair said.
"I hate Karaoke." Jim sighed.
"Look at it from a positive angle: it might be fun! If H and Rafe don't do a good job, we've got something to blackmail them with."
"You would look at it that way," Jim growled.
Brad brought them both a Coke and they sipped on their drinks. Jim looked around the room and didn't see anyone that seemed out of place. No one looked shifty as far as he was concerned. Maybe the person wasn't here tonight. He could hope. Wait a minute. If we don't catch the perp tonight, we have to keep coming back until we do find him or her. Maybe I should be hoping we do catch them.
Blair did his own scoping out of the Pub. He locked onto Rafe and Brown sitting at a table together, laughing and talking, perhaps trying to pick out a song to sing. Blair wished he could be doing the same thing with Jim. But no, Jim had to be stubborn as usual and they were going to have a lousy fucking night. Blair was going to have to be careful what he thought about. He didn't want to give off pheromones. Jim's Sentinel nose would smell them a mile off. Down, boy
Jim watched everyone and trained his hearing on the crowd, and away from the stage, so that he could listen for anything unusual.
Blair was getting bored from just watching and said, knowing it was probably a mistake to dredge up the old argument, but unable to let it go, "So about what we were discussing earlier? Where do you want to go from here? Would you really want to give up your job and move away from all your friends?"
Jim sighed then glanced over at Blair and smiled. "You can't let it go, can you? I just think you've done enough for our friendship already. Yes, I think I should quit the department and we should move to another city and start fresh."
Blair looked at Jim as if someone had slipped something into his Coke. Certainly he had to be drugged to be saying this. Why in the hell would he be willing to give up his career and move for me? What am I missing?
"We're not selling the loft… Well, I wouldn't be selling anything, but we're not moving," Blair said sternly.
"You gave up so much and I think you need to think about yourself for a change," Jim was being unusually sweet.
Blair looked closely at Jim and realized that Jim might have a thing for him too. Hot damn.
"Jim, do you want us to be more than friends?" Blair took a chance and just asked him outright.
"This isn't the place to discuss it, we're on duty," Jim whispered.
Blair whispered back, "You're on duty; I'm just along for the ride. Now answer my question."
"And what if I did? Do you have a response for that?" Jim tried to look as if Blair's answer wasn't the most important thing in his world even though it was the most important thing in his life. He hoped he wasn't reading things wrong.
Blair smiled at him, letting him know that he did have an answer, and Blair thought it was a mighty fine answer too. "I'd like to move this friendship up to another level also. I've been attracted to you for some time."
It was Jim's turn to smile. "Well, aren't we just slower than molasses in the wintertime? I'm sorry it took me so long to say something."
"I'm in love with you," Blair confessed. He literally beamed with happiness.
"And I'm in love with you. So what do we do now? Doesn't this put a damper on the academy?" Once again, Jim gnawed at his lip. "I would think it does."
"Jim, I think that you have it backwards. Being in love doesn't mean we can't work together at the station. Work and personal life are two separate things. I really, really want to be a cop, and I hope that you'll agree to let me be your partner," Blair held his breath.
Jim stopped looking at Blair and instead watched a man move closer to a purse that was sitting unattended on a nearby table. Rafe and Brown watched Jim as he watched the man and all three saw him take a wallet out of the purse.
Rafe jumped up, raced over and grabbed the guy. "You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say may be used against you. You have a right to have a lawyer present and if you can't afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you. Do you understand the rights that I have just told you?" Rafe always seemed to take great pleasure in reading the bad guys their rights.
"Yeah, I understand. I should have known you guys were cops. You weren't singing, and everyone sings here," the perp said.
Brown walked up. "We'll take him to the station, Jim. You stay and have a couple of drinks. Relax. You look like you need it."
"Thanks, that'd be great if you don't mind handling the paperwork." Jim smiled as he patted Rafe on the shoulder.
The two men walked out with the perp handcuffed between them while an obviously happy owner came over to Jim and Blair.
"I knew you'd catch him! That guy's been coming here for the past few months but I never suspected him. I wonder how long he's been doing this?" Brad asked.
"I guess they'll find out when they question him." Jim wondered if the perp had enough smarts to keep his mouth shut and lawyer up, but somehow he doubted it.
"I insist that you have some dinner, on the house. I'll bring you two of my specials. In fact, I'll get two more for the other two officers on the other side of the room." Brad was grinning broadly as he walked towards the kitchen. The pub was known for its fantastic sandwiches. Brad was only too happy to make them each something to eat.
Jim took a drink of his soda and realized it was nice to not have to rush to the station to do paperwork for a change.
"So have you realized that you're wrong about the academy?" Blair asked.
"Blair, I know you don't understand where I'm coming from, but I don't want you to give up another thing for me. And being a cop would do just that. I want us to start over again. You can teach somewhere. You were born to teach."
"Did you ever consider that I want to be a cop?" Blair inquired. "I really like the roller-coaster, instead of the merry-go-round."
"I think you're doing it out of guilt or loyalty.Probably loyalty It's not right. I want you to think about somewhere else you would like to live and work, and start over."
Brad walked up to the table and said, "Here you go, guys. On the house." He set the plates on the table, and Jim started eating the homemade fries right away. Once again, he was ready to move on to the next thing instead of discussing it with Blair.
"Thank you," Blair remarked. "Can I still get a song in for Karaoke Night?"
"Sure, there's no one left to go, so it's all yours." Brad handed him the book of songs, and Blair leafed through it until he found the right song. Then he stood up, determination in every line of his body.
It was a really nice body, Jim thought, smiling to himself. His friend… his soon-to-be lover got up to sing. Jim glanced at the page in the book and couldn't figure out what song Blair had chosen.
The music started. Blair knew he was going to have to change some of the words for Jim, but he hoped that this would work.
He pulled the mike to his lips and began to sing his song.
Now I'm the king of the swingers
Oh, the jungle VIP
I've reached the top and had to stop
And that's what botherin' me
I wanna be a cop, man
And stroll right into town
And be just like the other cops
I'm tired of monkeyin' around!
Oh, oobee doo
I wanna be like you
I wanna walk like you
Talk like you, too
You'll see it's true
A guy like me
Can learn to be a good cop too
Blair glanced into the audience and saw Jim smile. He knew it was working. He hoped that Jim would listen with his heart and not just his super hearing.
An guy like me
When he finished, everyone in the place clapped. Joel and Conner walked up to him and hugged him.
"Blair, what a great song to tell Jim he needs you as his partner." Joel couldn't keep the big smile off his gentle face.
"Yeah, and I think it might have worked." Blair had his fingers crossed.
Conner gave him another hug and said, "We're behind you 100%, Sandy. You know where we are if you need help with the grump."
Blair smiled all the way to the table where Jim was sitting, a matching smile on his own face.
"Nice song, Chief," he kidded.
"I thought it was perfect for what I needed to say. I do wanna be just like you," Blair assured him.
"You already are, partner. And I do mean partner, in all things." Jim said, finally acknowledging the feelings he'd kept hidden for so long.
Blair smiled and almost blushed. Almost being the key word. After all, he wasn't in high school anymore. "So where do we go from here?"
"Well, we're going to have dinner with Joel and Conner because they're on their way over to the table. Sorry… We'll have to continue this later on."
Conner said, "Hi, mates, do you mind if we join you?"
"No, by all means, sit down," Jim said pleasantly.
They all began to eat their dinner, and Jim finally said, "Is it just me, or are these the best French fries you've ever had?"
Conner laughed. "I totally agree with you, Ellison. And the sandwiches are great too. I tasted some of Joel's and he tried some of mine. This Brad guy can really make a mean sandwich."
"Wow, it was nice how easily the arrest came down. It's even nicer that Rafe and Brown took care of it," Blair commented.
"So are you going to the academy, Sandy?" Conner finally couldn't hold it in any longer. She was only human, after all.
"Yes, I haven't worked out all of the details yet, but yes, I'm going to the academy. And then Jim will have to put up with me every day of the week," he teased.
Joel smiled. "I don't think Jim will mind at all, will you, Jim?"
"We haven't decided if this is going to be the way we go yet. So he's a little premature in saying this."
"I'm not premature at all. I'm going to the academy, I'm going to take the Detective's exam, and I'm going to be your partner. That's all there is to it. End of discussion," Blair stated firmly. He couldn't believe that the man had just told him a moment ago that they were partners in all things.
Conner laughed and said, "I think he has his mind made up, Jimbo."
"We'll see, I'm not done with the discussion yet," Jim growled.
Joel got the impression that maybe they needed some alone time to talk about things, so he said, "Conner, would you like to go somewhere and have a drink with me?"
"Why don't we have a drink here?" Conner asked. She jumped when Joel kicked her under the table and scowled at him. "What did you-?" Suddenly she realized she had missed something. "Uh… yeah, that would be nice."
They both got up and Jim and Blair smiled at their good friends. "Thanks, Joel," Jim said.
"Yeah, thanks," Blair added as he got up and hugged both Conner and Joel goodbye.
As soon as they walked out the door, Jim said, "Do you hug everyone like that?"
"You know me, Jim, I'm a touchy-feely sort of guy. Why does that bother you?" Blair wondered if Jim was just bringing this up to stall the discussion.
"I just thought about how nice it would be to be comfortable enough to hug anyone whenever the spirit moved me," Jim explained.
"You just need to let your guard down sometimes. You're too uptight, big guy." Blair shrugged. That was his reasoning, anyway.
"I wish I could be looser, but it's not in my nature," Jim replied.
"I could help you get looser." Blair wiggled his eyebrows.
"I'm not sure I'm ready for you yet," Jim joked.
"Are you nervous about us, Jim?" Blair became serious.
"Well, yeah," Jim answered.
"Why?" Now that they'd both admitted their feelings, it seemed like the easiest thing in the world to him.
"Because I love you and I don't want to screw anything up and ruin that. I want things to be perfect, so you won't need to dump me."
Blair smiled at Jim's nervousness and said, "Everything will be fine with us, Jim. Just relax and let things happen."
Jim wished he could be as calm about things as Blair was, but that just wasn't easy for him. He was so nervous about this new change that he could actually feel his insides shaking. He wondered if Blair was at all nervous. He sure didn't show it on the outside.
Blair watched Jim and could see the wheels turning in his head. He decided to put a stop to it right away. No more upsetting thoughts for tonight.
"Jim, stop worrying about things that don't need to be worried about. Just think about all of the fun we're going to have instead. How does that sound?"
"I think that it sounds good, but my brain keeps telling me everything that can go wrong. I just wish we could skip to the next part," he admitted freely. And what exactly is the next part?
"I love you, big guy," Blair said softly.
"And I love you. Could we take this home to discuss?" Jim suggested.
"Not quite yet. You still owe me a song," Blair reminded Jim.
Jim got up, picked the song number out, told Brad which one he wanted, and got on the stage, pulling the mike close to his lips.
I have climbed highest mountains
I have run through the fields
Only to be with you
I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls
These city walls
Jim knew he had a decent voice, because he'd been in all the singing functions in high school. But he was still nervous singing in front of all of these strangers, not to mention Blair.
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
And he really hadn't found what he was looking for. Yet… Tonight was going to be his lucky night.
I have kissed honey lips
Felt the healing fingertips
It burned like a fire
This burning desire
Blair did make him burn with desire. Desire he didn't even know he could feel.
I have spoke with the tongues of angels
I have held the hand of a devil
It was warm in the night
I was cold as a stone
Blair had taken him from the stone cold Ellison, to an understanding and loving Jim Ellison.
I believe in the Kingdom Come
When all the colors will bleed into one
Bleed into one
Well, yes I'm still running
I won't be running anymore after tonight, he thought, and the smile on his face told everyone who was listening how he felt.
Jim saw Blair was very moved by his song choice, and he was delighted that he had made Blair that happy.
He walked back to the table and said, "Now can we go?"
"Yes. I'm game for anything that involves you," Blair confessed.
Jim blushed, and they went out to the truck. He knew they were going to have the first of some very good times.
And for once, Jim was going to let Blair lead.
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My Sentinel story from Give and Take TS.
From giveandtakets
Prompt: by Niki
Prompt: Blair and Jim use Karaoke Night during a stakeout to air out a problem.
Extra Bonus: If someone from Major Crimes does a song.
Title: I Wanna Be Like You
Author: Patt
Email: PattRose1@aol.com
Warnings: Bad language. Pre-slash.
Rating: FRAO
Summary: Jim and Blair are forced to face each other's thoughts and feelings.
Acknowledgments: Thank you Tinnean, Kelly and Annie for the beta.
Notes: I really liked this prompt, Niki. It was a lot of fun to work with. Thank you.
"What do you mean you don't want me to take the Detective exam or go to the Academy?" It didn't take a Sentinel to see that Blair was pissed. "What else am I going to do? I can't go back to the University."
"We could move somewhere else and start over," Jim replied.
"Why would we want to do that and what am I supposed to do for a job if we do?" Blair asked heatedly.
Jim tiredly ran his hand over his face and sighed. They'd been over this before. "Can we talk about it later? I would prefer not to discuss it while we're on stakeout," he stated flatly.
"Like the fact we're on stakeout makes any difference. You don't want to talk about it at home either. What is your fucking problem?" Blair was still fuming.
"We're on stakeout… Do you know what that is, Sandburg?" Jim asked sarcastically. At times like this, sarcasm was Jim's friend.
"Yeah, I know what it is. It's what I've been doing for four fucking years with you and now suddenly you don't want me to do it. Explain that to me. Are you embarrassed to have me as a partner?"
Okay, so maybe sarcasm wasn't the way to go. Jim sighed again and softly said, "You would never embarrass me, Chief. Look, we'll discuss this when we get home, okay?"
There would be no such discussion, Blair knew that, but he had no intention of dropping this. Not yet, anyway.
Blair looked back at the stage in frustration. It was still boring as hell. And on top of everything, tonight was Karaoke Night and most of the people couldn't carry a tune to save their lives. Both he and Jim were about crazy from the so-called singing.
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Typically, privately held companies are small family firms, or companies that are jointly owned by a small group of people. However some private companies are subsidiaries of larger, public companies, with the public company holding all of the stock. A publicly held company has to be a corporation. Privately held companies can be partnerships or sole proprietorships. Public companies are subject to many more financial regulations and reporting requirements.
Corporation that offer their stock to the public have to comply with federal rules for financial disclosure. The companies have to divulge financial information to the government, including quarterly and annual financial reports. The disclosures let the current stockholders and potential investors assess the value of the company. Privately held firms don't have to report any of this. State securities laws may not apply to private companies either, except in cases of outright fraud.
When financial analysts set a value on a business, a privately held company typically does worse than a comparable public corporation.
Public companies have greater liquidity because anyone can invest in them.
Public companies like to report high profits to impress shareholders. Private companies don't need to impress anyone. They may add in extra expenses to cut their taxable profits, and their apparent value.
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Issuing an IPO is expensive, though, and it can be a disaster, if there's no interest in the stock. Once the company goes public, it will need to comply with the added regulations and disclosure requirements that apply to publicly traded companies. Meeting those rules can also be extremely expensive.
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Documentary Takes Racy Look at Nicaragua's Land Boom
Tim Rogers April 16, 2010 April 16, 2010
A new documentary chronicling the volatile and frenzied land boom that swept up Nicaragua's southern Pacific coast several years ago is already causing a stir after the recent release of the film' edgy trailer, along with a sensationalist poster warning investors to "bring your gun."
"LAND" is a 90-minute, Canadian produced documentary that follows Nicaragua's roller-coaster land rush from 2005 to 2008.
The nine-minute trailer shows older footage of a greener and less-crowded looking San Juan del Sur five years ago, and features the equally raw opinions of foreign investors and local residents – not all of whom are thrilled about their new neighbors. Peppering the simmering real estate tensions are a dash of revolutionary politics, a twist of Nicaraguan lawlessness and a pinch of foreboding as Daniel Ortega returns to power.
LAND is scheduled for its theatre release in Canada next month, and is negotiating a U.S. theater release later this summer. The film has also been selected for screening at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto later this month, and is short-listed for the Cannes Film Festival in France in May.
"This is a modern wild-west story; a convolution of morals in frontier country," Canadian director and producer Julian Pinder told The Nica Times this week in a phone interview from Toronto.
Pinder, 28, said unlike other documentaries that have a clear political agenda or club viewers over their heads with a message, LAND is more about exposing subtleties and gray areas.
"So many social-issue films try to expose bad guys or extol the past, but I really wanted to tell a story and let people figure it out for themselves and make their own judgments," Pinder said.
To make the story compelling, Pinder turned to the actors on the ground. He said he tried to show the wide range of opinions and voices from "both worlds" – everyone from "the developers – some less likable than others – to the local kids who are getting f**ked over."
In the trailer, Pinder also interviews several fringe characters with extreme views.
For Pinder, who has done previous documentary work in Kosovo and Bosnia, the Nicaraguan project became a personal story of sorts.
Pinder first came in Nicaragua in 2004 not as a filmmaker but as a surfer. He said he fell in love with the country, attracted to its revolutionary history, the "chaotic" sharp edges, and the affordable real estate. He quickly bought a small plot of land near the beach in Gigante, north of San Juan del Sur.
"I bought before the big rush. It was quite primitive then, different from what it became," Pinder said.
As he witnessed more developers and investors arrive, Pinder became uncomfortable.
"It was difficult to deal with as someone who loved country previous to its development," the filmmaker said. "I didn't like what I had seen in other parts of the world and didn't like what I was seeing in Nicaragua. It was not responsible; it was a sh*t show.
Seeing 16 year-old (Nicaraguan) girls with 60-year-old (foreign) men was off-putting."
So when Pinder decided to start filming in 2005, he did so through a tinted lens. He said he was strongly "anti-development" and was hoping Ortega would win the 2006 presidential elections and "kick out all the bullsh*t and make things right."
Four years later, Pinder's perspective on the situation has changed. He says his previous views "were wrong in hindsight," especially that of Ortega, whom he now calls "sullied" and "disappointing."
In the course of making the film, Pinder said his other preconceptions of "good guys and bad guys" also changed. He says he now realizes that developers, whom he previously lumped together under the label "bad guys,"come in all flavors. The same is true, he said, for the locals – even those who claim they've been wronged by foreign developers.
That point really hit home when Pinder found himself in a legal battle of his own over the plot of land he bought in Gigante. After two years of legal proceedings against a local man who claimed Pinder was stealing land from him, the filmmaker said he finally settled out of court by agreeing to build a well on his neighbor's land.
"I went through a learning process and I came out of it with different film from the one I initiated," Pinder said. "I also now have a different concept of the way the world works, and of human nature."
Despite some innocence lost, Pinder says he still thinks the development boom in and around San Juan del Sur has "brought more bad than good."
"I get a lot of sh*t from people, even from lefties, who say if you do development responsibly it creates employment and brings evolution and progress. But who is watching over all this and who is to say what is responsible or not, or what helps the locals or not?" Pinder said.
"San Juan del Sur used to be a fishing village and people were damn happy to fish before the gringos came and starting building sh*t," he said.
But in the end, Pinder said, LAND is not just about development in San Juan del Sur and the surrounding area, rather a much larger story about power, identity, dreams and what people are willing to do to achieve them.
"The film becomes a global metaphor," Pinder said. "And things are not so black and white."
To see the trailer of Land, visit http://Sandinistas Turn Back Clock vimeo.com/10118478.
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Q: Date format issue in d3 js I am working in D3 js and trying to render Multi-Series Line Chart graph but I got stuck that why month jan and Aug is not displaying in x-axis.
please help what i need to do?I want to create a simple 7 point, 3 series chart with data that looks like in below:
below is my Edited code sample
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          { "date": "20140125", "a": "1", "b": "0", "L": "0" },
         { "date": "20140225", "a": "2", "b": "0", "L": "0" },
        { "date": "20140326", "a": "4", "b": "3", "L": "2" },
         { "date": "20140426", "a": "3", "b": "3", "L": "2" },
        { "date": "20140527", "a": "2", "b": "3", "L": "3" },
        { "date": "20140629", "a": "0", "b": "4", "L": "3" },
        { "date": "20140725", "a": "0", "b": "3", "L": "1"}];

         var margin = { top: 40, right: 100, bottom: 45, left: 50 },
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    height = 300 - margin.top - margin.bottom;

    var parseDate = d3.time.format("%Y%m%d").parse;

    var x = d3.time.scale()
    .range([0, width]);

    var y = d3.scale.linear()
    .range([height, 0]);

    var color = d3.scale.category10();

    var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
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    .orient("bottom")
    .ticks(d3.time.months, 1)
        .tickFormat(d3.time.format("%b"));

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     .html(function (d) {
         return "Request: " + d.request + "";
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     var svg = d3.select("#divApprovalChainMonthly").append("svg")
    .attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
    .attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
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    .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");

    color.domain(d3.keys(data[0]).filter(function (key) { return key !== "date"; }));
    svg.call(tip);
    data.forEach(function (d) {
        d.date = parseDate(d.date);
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    var cities = color.domain().map(function (name) {
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    x.domain(myExtent);

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      .attr("class", "x axis")
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A: Your graph starts at the 25th of Jan
If you use floor the month you can start with the tick of the month showing
var myExtent = d3.extent(data, function (d) { return d.date; });
myExtent[0] = d3.time.month(myExtent[0]);
x.domain(myExtent);

And you can also format the value (as in this case 2014 shows instead of Jan)
var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
    .scale(x)
    .orient("bottom")
    .ticks(d3.time.months, 1)
        .tickFormat(d3.time.format("%b"));

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Ian Poulter's Body Measurements, Including Height
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English golfer who was named the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year in 2000.
He was introduced to golf at age three by his father.
His best major championship was with a third-place finish in the 2012 PGA Championship.
He fathered four children with his wife, Katie; he grew up with an older brother, Danny.
He lost the 2012 PGA Championship to fellow English golfer Rory McIlroy .
86 kg, 190 pounds
I can only compare myself to the players I was playing against. To say I won the Order of Merit playing only seven events out of 17 was to me a big achievement.
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I want to be the best at what I do when I go out to play golf, and so when I was building my house, I wanted the best.


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Hey all just wanted to say hi. Its been a really long time but I haven't forgotten. I wanted to give you a heads up as well that I will still remain offline for a while longer as I'm working on realistic Virtual Reality. I'm really hoping to get CCP onboard as well to incorporate it into their upcomming mmo world of darkness. Anyway I hope you all are still doing well and please wish me luck to get this done as soon as possible.
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All issues / Volume 1 (2007) / Issue 7 (July)
Polymeric materials from natural resources - emerging as the times require
M. Q. Zhang
This is a revised manuscript submitted to the the Editorial Corner.
Radiation induced crosslinking effect on semi - interpenetrating polymer networks of poly(vinyl alcohol)
S. Mishra, R. Bajpai, R. Katare, A. K. Bajpai
Semi-IPNs with varying contents of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA), poly acrylamide (PAM) and crosslinker N,N'-methylene bis acrylamide (MBA) were prepared by redox polymerization method. The structural and morphological properties were studied by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) methods, respectively. It was found that the surface of the hydrogel is heterogeneous with separated domains. XRD result shows the semi-crystalline nature of the semi-IPNs. The prepared semi-IPNs of different compositions were subjected to gamma irradiation (2 to 250 kGy) and the radiation induced effects on their strength of the semi-IPNs were studied by measuring the surface microhardness using a Vickers microhardness tester. Significant changes were observed in the Vickers microhardness, which were correlated with molecular architecture of the prepared semi-IPNs.
Non-isothermal crystallization kinetics of syndiotactic polystyrene polystyrene functionalized SWNTs nanocomposites
H. Xiong, Y. Gao, H. M. Li
Non-isothermal crystallization kinetics were characterized by using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis on neat semicrystalline syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) and its nanocomposites with polystyrene (PS) functionalized full-length single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT-PS), which was prepared by copper (I) catalyzed click coupling of alkyne-decorated SWNTs with well-defined, azide-terminated PS. The crystallization behavior of neat sPS polymer was compared to its SWNT based nanocomposites. The results suggested that the non-isothermal crystallization behavior of sPS/SWNT-PS nanocomposites depended significantly on the SWNT-PS content and cooling rate. The incorporation of SWNT-PS caused a change in the mechanism of nucleation and the crystal growth of sPS crystallites, this effect being more significant at lower SWNT-PS content. Combined Avrami and Ozawa analysis was found to be effective in describing the non-isothermal crystallization of the neat sPS and its nanocomposites. The activation energy of sPS determined from non-isothermal data decreased with the presence of small quantity of SWNT-PS in the nanocomposites and then increased with increasing SWNT-PS content.
Electrical conduction of polyimide films prepared from polyamic acid (PAA) and pre-imidized polyimide (PI) solution
T. Y. Kim, W. J. Kim, T. H. Lee, J. E. Kim, K. S. Suh
Electrical conduction characteristics in two different polyimide films prepared by the imidization of polyamic acid (PAA) and pre-imidized polyimide (PI) solution were investigated. It is found that the current density of the polyimide film from PAA was higher than that of the polyimide film from PI at the same electric field, even though the conduction mechanism in both polyimide films follows the ionic hopping model. The hopping distance was calculated to be 2.8 nm for PAA type and 3.2 nm for PI type polyimide film. It is also found that the decay rate of the residual electrostatic charges on the polyimide films becomes faster in the PAA type than in the PI type polyimide film.
Preparation of polyamide 6/silica nanocomposites from silica surface initiated ring-opening anionic polymerization
M. Yang, Y. Gao, J. P. He, H. M. Li
Polyamide 6/silica nanocomposites were synthesized by in situ ring-opening anionic polymerization of ε-caprolactam in the presence of sodium caprolactamate as a catalyst and caprolactam-functionalized silica as an initiator. The initiator precursor, isocyanate-functionalized silica, was prepared by directly reacting commercial silica with excess toluene 2,4-diisocyanate. This polymerization was found to occur in a highly efficient manner at relatively low reaction temperature (170°C) and short reaction times (6 h). FTIR spectroscopy was utilized to follow the introduction and consumption of isocyanate groups on the silica surface. Thermogravimetric analysis indicated that the polyamide 6 was successfully grown from the silica surface. Transmission electron microscopy was utilized to image polymer-functionalized silica, showing fine dispersion of silica particles and their size ranging from 20 to 40 nm.
Polycondensation of pyrrole and benzaldehyde catalyzed by Maghnite–H+
A. Belmokhtar, N. Sahli, A. Yahiaoui, M. Belbachir
Rapid synthesis of poly[(pyrrole-2,5-diyl)-co-(benzylidene)] was achieved under microwave irradiation via the condensation of pyrrole and benzaldehyde in 1,2-dichloroethane using acid exchanged montmorillonite clay called Maghnite–H+ (Mag–H+) as an efficient catalyst. The effect of the amount of catalyst and of time on the polymerization yield and on the viscosity of the polymers was studied. Compared with conventional static interfacial polymerization, the microwave-radiation polymerization reaction proceeded rapidly and was completed within 35 s. The conjugated polymer was characterized by means of 1H-NMR, X-ray diffraction, FT-IR spectroscopy and AFM. The X-ray data showed the presence of a backbone form of the [(pyrrole-2,5-diyl)-co-(benzylidene)] formed.
Structure dependence of photochromism and thermochromism of azobenzene-functionalized polythiophenes
X. Y. Zhao, M. Z. Wang
Two novel azobenzene-functionalized polythiophenes, poly[4-((4-(phenyl)azo)phenoxy)butyl-3-thienylacetate] (P4) and the copolymer of 3-hexylthiophene and 4-((4-(phenyl)azo)phenoxy)butyl-3-thienylacetate (COP64) have been synthesized. The structure dependence of photoluminescence features and thermochromic behaviors of both azobenzene-functionalized polymers was investigated. The results show that polymer structure has a strong influence on the conformation and optical properties of the resulting polythiophene derivatives. The photochemical control of photoluminescence property was achieved with homopolymer P4 using photoactive azobenzene side chains.
Injection moulding of long glass fibre reinforced polyamide 6-6: guidelines to improve flexural properties
E. Lafranche, P. Krawczak, J. P. Ciolczyk, J. Maugey
Based on a previous optimisation of set-up parameters for injection moulding of polyamide 6-6 (PA 6-6) reinforced with 40-wt% of 10 mm long glass fibre, the aim of this paper is to define suitable guidelines to further improve the mechanical performances of PA 6-6/glass long fibre thermoplastic (LFT) injection mouldings. Different solutions have been considered: screw and non-return valve design modification so as to adapt them to LFT processing, increase of the initial fibre content (up to 50 wt%) and length (up to 25 mm) in the LFT pellets. Using a LFT dedicated plasticating unit has allowed decreasing the fibre breakage amount by about 80% at the nozzle exit, however without improving the flexural properties. Increasing the initial fibre content has logically permitted to improve the flexural properties. Increasing the initial fibre length has not brought any improvement of the properties and has even amplified the structural heterogeneities and anisotropy of the parts. These trends have been explained on the basis of cavity pressure records highlighting significantly different rheological behaviours, and of resulting residual fibre lengths and through-the-thickness fibre orientation profiles modifications.
Effect of wood filler treatment and EBAGMA compatibilizer on morphology and mechanical properties of low density polyethylene/olive husk flour composites
M. Kaci, H. Djidjelli, A. Boukerrou, L. Zaidi
This paper deals with plastic-wood composites based on low density polyethylene (LDPE) and olive husk flour (OHF). The problem of incompatibility between the hydrophilic wood filler and the LDPE hydrophobic matrix was treated by two methods: a chemical modification of the olive husk flour with maleic anhydride to esterify the free hydroxyl groups of the wood components and the use of a compatibilizer agent, i.e. an ethylene-butyl acrylate-glycidyl methacrylate (EBAGMA) terpolymer. The changes in the structure, the morphology, and the properties resulting from these treatments were followed by various techniques, especially FTIR spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), tensile measurements and water absorption. The experimental results indicated that both methods, i.e. the chemical treatment of the olive husk flour with maleic anhydride and the inclusion of EBAGMA terpolymer, improved the interactions between the two composite components and promoted better dispersion of the filler in the matrix. Moreover, ultimate tensile properties were also increased. However, the use of EBAGMA terpolymer as compatibilizer produced better enhancement of the properties of LDPE/OHF composites compared to those treated with maleic anhydride.
In air synthesis of Psy-cl-poly(AAm) network and its application in water-absorption from oil-water emulsions
B. S. Kaith, K. Kumar
In this current investigation psyllium has been functionalized with acrylamide in the presence of potassium persulphate (KPS)-hexamethylene tetramine (HMTA) as an initiator-crosslinker system. After the initial optimization of different reaction parameters the resultant hydrogel was used for the absorption of water from different water-oil emulsions as a function of time, temperature, pH and NaCl concentration. 4216% of water absorption with 4.279·10–2 mol·l-1 HMTA concentration has been observed.


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Buzz Aldrin, second man on moon, recalls 'magnificent desolation'
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fifty years after their history-making voyage to the moon, Buzz Aldrin recalls the first moments of the Apollo 11 launch being so smooth that he and his two crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins, were unsure precisely when they left the ground. He remembers the white-knuckle descent to the moon's dusty surface in the four-legged lunar module Eagle, as Armstrong took manual control of the landing craft to pilot it to a safe touchdown, just seconds from running out of fuel.
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fifty years after their history-making voyage to the moon, Buzz Aldrin recalls the first moments of the Apollo 11 launch being so smooth that he and his two crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins, were unsure precisely when they left the ground.
He remembers the white-knuckle descent to the moon's dusty surface in the four-legged lunar module Eagle, as Armstrong took manual control of the landing craft to pilot it to a safe touchdown, just seconds from running out of fuel.
And as the second human ever to step on the moon - Armstrong was first down the ladder - Aldrin recounts feeling sure-footed in the one-sixth gravity of the lunar surface while gazing at the "magnificent desolation" around him.
Aldrin says he and his crewmates were so absorbed in doing their jobs that they were oddly disconnected from how momentous the occasion was as it unfolded for hundreds of millions of people on Earth, watching it all on live television.
"I sometimes think the three of us missed 'the big event'," Aldrin said during a 50th anniversary gala at the Ronald Reagan Library outside Los Angeles. "While we were out there on the moon, the world was growing closer together, right here."
Aldrin, now 89 and one of just four living people ever to have walked on the moon, recounted highlights of his Apollo 11 experiences in an interview with an organizer of Saturday's event, which was closed to the media. A transcript was furnished to Reuters.
It was 50 years ago to the day on Tuesday that Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins were launched into space atop a Saturn 5 rocket from Florida's Kennedy Space Centre.
'ON OUR WAY'
"We did not know the instant of leaving the ground. We only knew it from the instruments and voice communications which confirmed liftoff," he recalled. "We sort of looked at each other and thought, 'We must be on our way.'"
After reaching lunar orbit, leaving Collins behind as pilot of the command module Columbia, Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the moon's surface in the Eagle. Armstrong ended up piloting the craft to a safe landing after overriding a computer guidance system that was heading it to a field of boulders.
During those tense moments, Aldrin's voice was heard in the TV broadcast calling out navigation data as Eagle moved downward and forward over the surface to touchdown.
"We knew we were continuing to burn fuel. We knew what we had, then we heard '30 seconds left.' If we ran out of fuel, we knew it would be a hard landing. We saw the shadow cast in front of us. That was new, not something we saw in the simulator," Aldrin recounted.
"I saw dust creating a haze, not particles, but a haze that went out, dust the engine was picking up," he said.
In the final seconds of descent, Aldrin confirmed an indicator light showing that at least one of the probes dangling from Eagle's footpads had touched the surface - calling out "Contact light."
Seconds later came Armstrong's famed radio announcement to mission control in Houston - "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
The relief of the two astronauts was mutual. "Neil remembers we shook hands, and I recall putting my hand on his shoulder and we smiled," Aldrin said.
Hours later, Armstrong's words upon becoming the first human to set foot on the moon - "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" - were immortalized. As Aldrin recalls, "Neil thought of that. It wasn't on the checklist."
Aldrin's turn came next.
"I then got in position to come down ... came down the ladder, and jumped off, being careful not to lock the door behind me," he said, recounting "it was easy to balance" as he moved about the lunar surface to set up NASA experiments.
To this day, Aldrin added, he stands by his own best known, though somewhat less famous catch phrase from the moon - his impromptu description of the moonscape as a scene of "magnificent desolation."
"I guess I said that because it was magnificent," he said. "We had gotten there, and it looked pretty desolate. But it was magnificent desolation. I think Neil remarked the beauty, too."
(Writing by Steve Gorman; editing by Bill Tarrant and Sonya Hepinstall)


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D2L: Innovation Meets the Art of Teaching
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John Baker, President and CEO
Within the first few weeks, the new assistant professor of an Australian middle years college started to notice the adversity posed by the diverse demographics of students from a vast spectrum of socio-economic backgrounds. The primary challenge for educators was to deliver quality education and equal academic opportunities across the diverse student base. This challenge of imparting quality education across different demographics intrigued John Baker, president and CEO of D2L, during his college years. The question that encouraged Baker to establish D2L was—how can one use technology to transform learning dramatically and create equal academic opportunities?
Soon after its inception in 1999, D2L launched its flagship LMS platform Brightspace LMS, used by schools, higher education, and businesses for online and blended classroom learning. As the president and CEO of D2L, Baker believes, one of the most important things one can do to help each other is ensuring that everyone has access to the best possible learning opportunities. "We're solving teachers' biggest challenges by offering all the core functionality they require within one platform: the most engaging learning activities, easy assessment tools, a parent engagement solution, and more," says Baker. Currently, D2L is working with educators around the globe to help learners at a scale which was hard to imagine in 1999.
Brightspace LMS platform offers personalized learning environments to students. The new type of learning environment encourages continuous engagement through interactive tools, active links, Microsoft Outlook, Dropbox, and YouTube. As a result, students can develop their skills and knowledge to better prepare for life after school. The LMS also gives the academic institutions instructional consistency across campuses, ensuring that the best practices are upheld in every class while retaining the art of teaching.
We're solving teachers' biggest challenges by offering all the core functionality they require within one platform: the most engaging learning activities, easy assessment tools, a parent engagement solution, and more
The LMS platform consists of three major components. The first component is Brightspace Core, aimed at K12 education. Brightspace Core combines a learning environment, e-portfolio, learning repository, video recorder, virtual classroom, e-textbook platform called Binder, and mobile apps, all in one cloud-based platform. The second component is Engagement Plus, aimed at the higher education sector, which includes a cloud-based lecture capture system, interactive elements for engaging course design, and a course catalog/registration system. Lastly, the third component is Performance Plus, a personalized and adaptive learning path; it is a bundle of learning analytics to help automate tasks and identify risks, and the adaptive learning engine personalizes the content for each learner. Recently, D2L has launched two new versions to meet the current needs of the education sector. The Emerald Release provides an intuitive social and mobile-friendly teaching and learning experience for users around the world, while the Magenta Release gives students structured and meaningful feedback using an easy-to-understand rubric process—an option to be even more objective with anonymous grading.
D2L's technology is currently being used by more than 1,100 clients and 15 million learners in higher education, schools, healthcare, government, and the enterprise sector. In 16 years, the D2L team has grown to include over 800 employees around the world and set up offices in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia, Brazil, and Singapore. Baker wants to credit his team for the enormous success of D2L. "When you see all the stories of how we can impact when we work together, you can understand why this is a mission for us—a way for us to contribute to progress and build a brighter future," says Baker. In a time when LMS is essential for the evolution of education, Brightspace's every iteration makes it more 'human' while providing resources required in modern education.
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D2L'S Chief Strategy Officer Appointed to Canadian Federal Government's Future Skills Council
Kitchener, Waterloo-D2L, the global learning technology leader, today announced that its Chief Strategy Officer, Jeremy Auger, has been appointed to the Canadian federal government's Future Skills Council by Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, the Honourable Patricia A. Hajdu.
The Council will provide advice on skills development and training priorities for the future of work and areas for policy and program innovation. It will examine such issues as emerging and persistent skills gaps, identification of transferable skills and competencies sought across multiple sectors, new skills development approaches and technologies, and innovative measurement approaches, in order to offer timely and reliable evidence on in-demand skills and effective training models.
"It's a real honour to serve on the Council on behalf of the team here at D2L, who are deeply engaged in strategizing and planning around the future of work and learning — not just in Canada, but around the world," said Auger. "The globally disruptive, technology-driven changes that are upon us will have a tremendous impact on the way we — and our children — learn and work, and I'm pleased to do my part to guide the discussion around that future."
In a world where disruptive technologies such as AI, machine learning, the internet of things, 3D printing, quantum computing and nanotechnology are changing the way we live, work and learn, it is a challenge for Canadian workers and employers to keep pace with this momentous change. The new Council will help the federal government better understand economic drivers now and into the future — and will help shape the labour force response to support inclusive growth to the benefit of all Canadians.
"As technology, automation and demographic shifts continue to change the nature of work and the skills required of the workforce, our systems of education and training need to adapt, which is why we strongly support this kind of action and focus by the federal government," said Auger. "Together, we can innovate to address education and reskilling needs for the future of our country."
Auger drives company-level strategy within D2L and provides executive leadership of government relations and public affairs, mergers and acquisitions, corporate communications, labs, IP strategy, and philanthropy. He participates on several boards, including as Chair of the Economic Development Advisory Board for the City of Kitchener (Canada), a board member for the IMS Global Learning Consortium, a national board member for the IT Association of Canada (ITAC), and member of several other for-profit and nonprofit boards.
Jeremy has an Honours BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and a Master of Science in Management from Wilfrid Laurier University.
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Judge prevents Trump from suspending TPS, calls it a race-biased measure
A young girl looks on as other immigrants and activists protest near the White House to demand that the Department of Homeland Security extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 195,000 Salvadorans on January 8, 2018, in Washington, D.C. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images.
District Court Judge Edward Chen argued that the government's decision to suspend Temporary Protected Status was based "on animus against non-white and non-European immigrants."
by Yamily Habib
Judge prevents Trump from suspending TPS,...
The "star" measures of the Trump administration against immigrants have been the fundamental characteristic of the government since its inauguration. Between a migratory ban against people from Muslim-majority countries, the suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and the Zero Tolerance policy, this government can easily go down in history as one of the most racist in the contemporary history of the United States.
One of the least discussed measures lately is the suspension of the federal Temporary Protected Status program for Central American and Sudanese immigrants.
Known as TPS, the program allowed immigrants fleeing natural disasters or political crises to obtain a residence status that included work permits and a prolonged stay, but not a path to citizenship.
Under this program, hundreds of thousands of people have resided in the country for years, becoming investors, workers, and parents of children who are U.S. citizens.
The Trump administration took the initiative to suspend TPS for around 200,000 Salvadorans, 2,500 Nicaraguans, 45,000 Haitians, 9,000 Nepalese and 50,000 Hondurans, who were given a one-year "grace period" to "put their affairs in order" and leave the country.
Subsequently, it also suspended the program for citizens from Sudan.
The Department of Homeland Security argued at the time that "the program had been wrongly extended for years," and that conditions in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan were adequate enough for residents to return, USA Today reported.
However, District Judge Edward Chen ruled that "the administration may have side-stepped federal rule-making guidelines, imposed undue political pressure on staffers, and even violated the Equal Protection Clause by basing its decision on animus against non-white, non-European immigrants."
Chen's response was the result of a class-action lawsuit filed by immigrants and relatives that was filed during the month of March and which alleged that the government "had suspended the protections as a result of a predetermined agenda that violated the law," CNN explained.
The judge has ruled that the evidence introduced maintains that the administration "may have violated the Constitution at the time of suspending the TPS" by implementing and attempting to justify "a pre-ordained result desired by the White House."
For its part, the government has decided to fight the decision of the district court, ensuring that it "completely refutes the notion that the White House or the Department of Homeland Security did anything improper."
Meanwhile, citizens of the four countries involved in the lawsuit can remain in the country as long as the dispute remains standing, as it is likely to reach the Supreme Court in the coming months.
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Coast Guard pioneer, race riot survivor laid to rest
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — The first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard and one of the last survivors of a race riot in Oklahoma has been laid to rest with military honors.
A funeral was held Wednesday in White Plains, New York, for Olivia Hooker. She was 103 years old when she died on Nov. 21.
The Coast Guard says Hooker enlisted in the Coast Guard Women's Reserve in 1945 and rose to the rank of yeoman second class before her discharge in 1946.
Hooker also survived one of the worst race riots in U.S. history. She was 6 years old in 1921 when the late-spring riot destroyed much of a Tulsa neighborhood that had been known as "Black Wall Street."
Hooker was a psychologist and a professor of psychology at Fordham University, where she retired at age 87 in 2002.


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Between a Life and its Dream
Author: Creative Feel	Published on: March 24, 2017 Published in: In the magazine
An inside look into life in the ghettos of Ghana and a glimpse at the themes that typify these places, is what visitors to the Absa Gallery in Johannesburg can expect from Between a life and its dream (Scrawl paintings) – the gripping solo exhibition of 2015 L'Atelier Merit Award winner, Gideon Appah.
Ghanaian-born Gideon Appah first drew the attention of the international art world when he became the first non-South African artist to qualify for and win the 1st Merit Award at the Barclays L'Atelier in 2015. The award won him a three-month residency at the Bag Factory Artists' Studios in Joburg. Since his win, he has participated in numerous exhibitions and art fairs around South Africa, including Leonardo Da Vinci Gallery and DF Contemporary Gallery in Cape Town, and in Johannesburg with Gallery2, at Turbine Art Fair and at FNB Joburg Art Fair. 'Things took off after winning the award, yet, I have a lot to learn and a lot to explore,' Appah said earlier this year. Since graduating from the College of Art, KNUST, Kumasi in Ghana in 2012, Appah's career has quickly taken off. 'I was the first out of my graduate class to have a show immediately after completing our studies,' he says. The exhibition, which consisted of a selection of Appah's installation pieces, was held at the Goethe Institut in Accra. 'It was my first contact as an artist interacting with an art audience.' In 2014, Appah was a finalist at the inaugural Kuenyehia Art Prize for Contemporary Ghanain artists.
Appah's work has been described as urban, gritty and chaotic, and 'draws inspiration from a personal and social experience between myself and Sodom and Gomorrah (which is the biggest slum in Ghana), as well as other settlements in Ghana. Labour, radicalism, anxiety, pleasure and the shanty nature of the habitation make up my works,' he says. A multi-media artist, Appah works with mostly salvaged materials, melding them with acrylic and oil paints, colour wax, pastels, pieces of rags, torn papers, billboard paper, posters and corroded surfaces. 'I enjoy creating a galaxy of works with these mediums,' he says.
'Before I start, I gather all the materials I need, like print-outs of lottery numbers, carton boxes labels, billboard paper, printed out words, photographs, coloured papers, etc. From there, I just tear them up either horizontally or vertically or anyway I want – it depends on what am looking for. I try to get these materials as dirty as I can by smearing them with a local Ghanaian dye called "Asiduro" and coloured wax. I do this to the canvasses as well. I explore and experiment without inhibition, fear, or conformity: images and words, free flow, splashes and drips of paint, distortion, torn images, discarded and salvaged objects, collage and text.'
The works become palimpsests of imagery, reminiscent of the lottery boards that fascinate him, and appear to have been washed down with time. 'These boards communicate the stories of many people unknown and unidentifiable as they keep evolving. There is a strong conversation the images, letters, words and marks on these lottery spaces are communicating. I reflect these conversations in my work.' His work, says Appah, is a commentary on his thoughts on the nature of the deterioration of Accra's urban landscape. 'My work has an urban feel to it because it borrows visual-cultural elements mostly from slum settlements in some places in Ghana… my current projects are conceptually born out of the influence of imagery and marks of temporary structures, informal signage and a general deterioration of parts of Accra's urban landscape.'
This year, Appah will premiere his new series called 'scrawl paintings'. 'I chose the word "scrawl" because of the nature of how the works will be made. This word means a lot because of temporary or permanent mark makings which normally appear scrawled on walls and wooden structures. It will be my first series, which will be mostly paintings, sculptures and installations.' It is a snapshot of these works that visitors can expect to see in Between a life and its dream (Scrawl paintings), which comprises a series of works on paper and works on canvas. The exhibition forms part of Appah's prize for winning the Merit Award in the 2015 L'Atelier art competition, and is another example of how the competition seeks to further the profile and exposure of the young and emerging artists who participate in this renowned event. Aside from his exhibition at the Absa Gallery, Appah is also preparing for his first show in Europe, in May, as well as a show at the newly opened AGOG Gallery in Maboneng, Johannesburg.
With his unique artworks that are universally appealing, thought-provoking and arresting, Appah has secured a firm spot on our list of young artists to watch in 2017. The exhibition runs from 19 March – 20 April 2017
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In April, I took a trip to a couple flower markets in Carlsbad with Kimberly, flower guru and owner of The Dainty Lion & my wedding coordinator Samantha of Samantha Louise Moments, to brainstorm some blooms for my bridal bouquets! Going to the market with someone who knows the ropes opened my eyes to a world beyond roses and Baby's Breath and really got my wheels turning on how I wanted my own wedding florals to look.
In season were ranunculus, which were blooming in full force. Kimberly said that this a great time of year to grab them up, as their main blooming season here in California is March through May. I had no idea ranunculus came in such a wide variety of colors! From bight warm colors, to a range of soft pastels and deep moody reds, there is room for these blooms in any bouquet.
I never thought I was a rose person until one of our last stops, when I saw a variety of David Austin roses, which completely stole my heart. They are full like peonies, and not commercial like the standard "dozen red roses". Both romantic and whimsical, these stems were some of the most stunning I've laid eyes on, and might have to remove the "no rose" request from my bouquet criteria!
The lesson of the day was that of the protea! I've been seeing these popping up all over blogs and in weddings, so I couldn't wait to learn more about these unique blooms! They are a favorite of Kimberly's, and she said this is a very exciting time to visit the markets, because protea are out in full force. She recommends them for a great low maintenance arrangement. "Protea are great for those of us who want low maintenance flowers. With a wide variety of protea available you can create a complex and lasting bouquet to enjoy" Both eye catching and curious, protea are great for a bride looking to turn heads with her floral arrangements.
I highly recommend stopping into the flower markets in Carlsbad for inspiration whether or not you're in the market for wedding florals, or visit The Dainty Lion to "ooh and ahh" from the comfort of your sofa!
These flowers are all so pretty!!! I love the tips she shared with you about caring for flowers. I'll have to remember them when I get my next bouquet.