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Commentary: Christopher Blevins is ready to take on MTB history
Blevins is the best hope in generations to bring the U.S. back to the pinnacle of international cross-country MTB racing.
August 30, 2021 Fred Dreier
Blevins helped the U.S. to Team Relay silver, but settled for 22nd in his rocky under-23 race. Photos by Michal Serving
Pop quiz: Who was the last elite American man to win a cross-country MTB World Cup?
Who was the last elite American man to finish on the podium in cross-country at MTB worlds?
What U.S. MTB hero reportedly rides hundreds of miles in bike shorts with the padded chamois removed?
If you answered "Tinker Juarez" to all three questions, congrats, you're the winner!
Here's Tinker crushing it at Vail in 1994. Photo: Tim DeFrisco/Allsport
Yep, Tinker's win at the World Cup in Silverstar, British Columbia way back in 1994 marks the last time a U.S. man won a XC World Cup, and Tinker's second-place finish at the MTB worlds that year (1994) in Vail, Colorado was the last time an American man stood on the podium. Ned Overend is the last U.S. man to have won a World Cup round in Europe, which also happened in 1994 in Lenzerheide.
And, as you probably know, the legend John Tomac is the last elite American to have won the rainbow stripes in XC, way back in 1991.
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Back in my old role as MTB editor at VeloNews, these factoids formed the foundation for one of the storylines that I followed every year: The struggle of U.S. XC men, and their seemingly Quixotic attempts to return America to the pinnacle of sport created on our trails. This challenge, at the time, felt akin to surfing a 100-foot wave, or climbing Mt. Everest in Tevas.
During my time as MTB editor, U.S. men rarely, if ever, got within spitting distance of the front of a European World Cup or a world championships race in XC. Yep, XC was a European's game, and the U.S. riders just weren't good enough. And that tradition continued long after I left VeloNews in 2009.
I managed the MTB beat for VeloNews from 2004 until 2009, and even then, the exploits of Tinker, Tomac, and Ned felt like ancient history. I marveled at the grainy images of MTB racers clad in loud neon racing kits and ping pong ball-like foam helmets, pedaling their Koga rumble discs on the same bikes that I saw for sale at swap meets or pawn shops. Even in 2005, the era of Ned and Tinker and U.S. dominance felt like the Paleozoic era of the sport.
For your enjoyment, here's a classic photo of 'Deadly' Nedly Overend winning the 1990 world championships. Credit: Nathan Bilow/Allsport
I bring these memories up today, because this 27-year era in cycling history — one, which at times, felt like it would continue forever — may be coming to an end. On Friday, Christopher Blevins blasted to the UCI world championship victory in short-track cross country, toppling some of the strongest riders in the field to claim the inaugural rainbow jersey in the discipline. The win was pure class by Blevins, who used his powerful legs, acrobatic handling skills, and tactical savvy to claim the win.
I recommend watching the replay on FloBikes — heck just watch the final lap. Blevins rode like a genius, firing his biggest bullet at precisely the correct moment to topple Henrique Avancini and Maximilian Brandl just before the finish.
Is Blevins the proverbial Neo of American XC racing — the apparent "chosen one" to lead us out of this era of darkness (sorry, not sorry, for the Matrix reference)?
Heck yeah, I sure think he is. You can call me a Blevins Believer.
OK, I'm very cognizant of the caveats to my enthusiasm. Blevins won the short-track XC and not the big show, the traditional XC. The sport's best-ever racer, Nino Schurter, wasn't on the start line. Mathieu van der Poel was home icing his sore back. Tom Pidcock was riding for stage wins at the Vuelta. And a handful of other top European riders chose to sit out the STXC to save their legs for Saturday's main event.
Still, I'm cautiously optimistic, and here's why. Blevins is scoring huge results in just the early years of what will hopefully be a long and fruitful pro career. He's only 23 years old, and he's already dazzled us with his exploits across almost all disciplines of bike racing: MTB, road, and even cyclocross. And Blevins has been very open about his motivation to try and return the U.S. men to the top of the sport.
He has the natural gifts and the technical skills to thrive. And he appears to have the vision and the dedication to chip away at the World Cups, and to eke out his place in the international field, one starting grid position at a time. And then there's the final component — Blevins races for a European team that is dedicated to funding his success in Europe.
The mens elite podium, 1st place Christopher BLEVINS of the USA, 2nd place Henrique AVANCINI of Brazil, 3rd place Maximilian BRANDL of Germany, during the Cross Country Short Track XCC at the 2021 MTB World Championships, Mountain Bike cycling event on August 26, 2021 in Val Di Sole, Italy. (Photo by Javier Martinez de la Puente/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
These three qualities are of the utmost importance in XC racing. In previous years we've seen U.S. MTB riders who have had had one or two of these important qualities, but not all three. Supreme MTB talents have been lured away by the road. Dedicated hard workers have come up against the sponsorship conundrum — U.S. sponsors will fund riders to succeed in North America but not overseas.
And others have simply thrown their hands up after battling for inches in the European World Cups. Learning the tricks of racing a World Cup can take years to master — molding a physical engine to withstand the furious opening laps, and the steely composure to elbow your way into the singletrack aren't qualities that occur overnight.
Blevins seems to have the whole package here, and I cannot wait to see him work his way to the front of the World Cup pack. After all, Blevins wasn't even born when the U.S. won its last men's World Cup, and three full generations of U.S. riders separate him from that halcyon era.
I'm a Blevins Believer, and I cannot wait to pin his photo next to those spectacular images of grainy neon.
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A South Tyneside engineering firm has secured a major contract which will help it secure 200 jobs and creating 35 new roles.
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Friday, 29th January 2021, 12:00 pm
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UTS Engineering, based on Jarrow's Bede Industrial Estate, has secured £5million worth of work with one of the UK's largest water companies. This is to be carried out over the next five years.
The name of the water company awarding the contract is yet to be revealed.
However, the project covers a variety of pipe products and services. These include specialised manufacture of pipework and fittings, as well as 24-hour emergency service to respond to burst pipes and other major incidents which might occur.
UTS Engineering has won a £5 million contract which will create 35 new jobs>. Picture by Stu Norton.
UTS specialises in this field. The company already gives emergency response to other water companies. It provided them with assistance in trying circumstances over the Christmas period, and during all of the UK's lockdowns since March 2020.
The firm was founded in the mid 1990's as a supplier of components to the UK water industry. It has gone from strength to strength and now sells to pipeline projects around the world.
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"This contract not only helps secure just under 200 existing jobs, but we will also be looking to create another 35 local jobs."
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Alma Rubens – The Tragic End of Mrs. Ricardo Cortez
July 24, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments
I hadn't thought much of Alma Rubens in the several years since publishing Tammy Stone's biographical piece about her in the old Profiles & Premiums Newsletter. When I was digging through NewspaperArchive.com a few days ago for background information about Ricardo Cortez for my Symphony of Six Million (1932) article I was struck by a line in Wood Soanes' October 2, 1932 piece about the Symphony star:
The manliness with which Cortez conducted himself throughout the affair with the late Alma Rubens earned him commendation in many quarters outside of Hollywood. Even before all of the facts of the case were known, this troubled young husband had the sympathy of his screen followers as much as the ill-starred wife did from those who knew her plight.
"Hollywood can be cruel to romance," Cortez said as we discussed the dark days of his life. "I've been given a lot of credit that I don't deserve."
Alma Rubens was a major film star by age 19 in 1916 after co-starring in a couple of Douglas Fairbanks hits. She already had two husbands behind her by the time of her January 1926 marriage to Cortez and was by that time, by her own account, already a drug addict. By the time of her death, January 22, 1931, she had already separated from Cortez with papers announcing her plans to sue for divorce as late as September 1930.
Cortez later claimed that he'd had no idea of how seriously ill Alma was until just two hours before she passed. She'd been in a coma for 60 hours before her death. After her death Alma Rubens' mother sued Photoplay Magazine for an April 1931 article she claimed was libelous for stating, among other claims, that Rubens and Cortez were already divorced. Cortez testified in June 1932, the million dollar suit was reported as settled and taken off the judicial calendar at the start of February 1933.
Alma Rubens completed her memoirs just over one month before she died. They're available in book form today as Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird , but I fell into them online last night as they were originally published in The San Antonio Light just a couple of months after her death. I probably would have just bought the book and waited had I realized how hard this task was going to be on my eyes! Perhaps attesting to how big a deal Rubens' passing was it should be noted that the Light serialized all 44 chapters of what it called "Alma Rubens' Own Story" daily between March 16 and May 7, 1944.
It'll be impossible to forget Alma Rubens after reading her life story in her own words. I spent the better part of two hours shaking my head in disbelief as the poor woman perpetually slipped back into addiction time and time again. At one point the star who claimed to have made as much as $3,000 per week at one time was forced to put her maid to work as her supplier because Rubens had no cash on hand for dealers but the maid was willing to take her expensive clothes in return for drugs.
As I read the Alma Rubens story I initially had no idea how close she was to her own death as she wrote it. Everytime I reached the bottom of a new entry to find the message To be continued I was stunned as the timeline of Rubens' narrative came closer and closer to the day she died.
It was only after reaching the final installment on May 7 that an Editor's Note explained the timing of Rubens' memoir. She completed the book one day before she left New York, December 15, 1930, to return West where she was greeted by her mother and family doctor on December 19 in Los Angeles. On January 5, 1931 she'd be arrested in San Diego on a federal charge of smuggling and possession of narcotics--specifically Rubens was nabbed with a hundred grains of morphine sewed into the lining of an evening gown found in her overnight bag.
"I've been framed," Rubens claimed. "They haven't given me a chance. I'm making a hard fight, but if the newspapers, the public and the officers won't give me a square deal, what can I do?" While Rubens honestly and bluntly admits exactly what she is and what's she done throughout her life story, it doesn't take a very careful reading between the lines the see she usually managed to find someone else, whether it be doctors, pushers or even husbands, to share the blame for her addiction and constant relapses.
This January 27, 1929 headline seems to be the first public indication of Alma Rubens' troubles. Prior to that her absenses were explained as vacations and health issues. This kind of put it all out there for the public.
From jail in San Diego on January 5, 1931 she claimed "I'm not taking drugs and never shall. I'm off the hop for good. I never though I would see the day when I wouldn't take a drink, but I didn't today."
This same woman concluded her autobiography on December 14, 1930 by writing, "God pity me, God forgive me, and God help all poor mortals who fall into the clutches of the monster--dope" (7 May). This was her final sentence of a long account of addiction to morphine, cocaine and heroin filled with sanitarium stays perpetually followed by relapses. In retrospect the events of January 5 were a loud announcement that nothing had changed. Despite being back West with her mother it seemed her downward spiral was all set to repeat itself.
Except Rubens caught a cold. She got sick shortly after she was released from jail on a $5,000 bond to await trial. The cold turned to pneumonia and Rubens, her body weakened by all those years of addiction, died, January 22. With the exact timeline spelled out it's no wonder estranged spouse Cortez didn't know until the last minute.
"Alma Rubens Own Story" is a complete biography told by Miss Rubens from the time of her birth up until those few weeks before her death. It's opinionated and filled with memories which seem at times too vivid for somebody in Rubens' condition. The graphic details of her sanitarium stays kept bringing to mind the later film The Snake Pit (1948). In fact, it read like source material. But her time institutionalized is told in detail that I'm not quite sure somebody as bad off as Rubens would be able to recall. Typically she's barely functioning during this period, yet she remembers several specific incidents and conversations that always seem to find her being bullied or taken advantage of. This presumed paranoia only adds to Rubens' shocking story.
Sadly Rubens comes close to glamorizing her highs, especially when she writes of her almost being predestined to the lifestyle years before she'd touched a narcotic: "Even then, governed as I was by that almost uncontrollable impulse to do the forbidden, the bizarre, the unusual, I could mentally transport myself into the character of a dope fiend, a huge vampire bat, and as such, in my imagination, I could flit hither and yon, making my deathly visitations at will just for the sheer thrill of feeling my own power" (20 Mar).
Rubens is hot and cold with little in between when it comes to husband Ricardo Cortez. She almost seems to glory in exposing him as the son of a New York butcher; as a Jew and not a Spaniard. She claims not to have known of Cortez's actual heritage until after they'd been married for over a year. She also tells a specific story purporting to be how she discovered the truth. At a restaurant one night a waiter, recognizing Cortez, sat down with them and tried conversing with him in Spanish. Rubens glories in telling her readers that Cortez had no clue what he was saying. She says she needled Ricardo over this in a fun loving way but that he had no humor about it.
Newspaper photo of Ricardo Cortez with Alma Rubens (sorry about the poor quality!)
But Rubens also writes, "To do Mr. Cortez justice he never suspected that I was an addict, not for a long time, and when he did begin to suspect it, he did everything he could to help me" (4 Apr). Then later, after her release from an Institution and meeting up with Cortez in New York she realizes that their marriage is all but over. "Poor Ric--I don't wonder he lost patience with me ... At first I used to cry about him, but gradually his image faded--until I would scarcely have known him had we met in the street" (4 May).
Towards the end of her life Alma Rubens is trying her hardest to get clean with hopes of taking a part she claims to have been offered in Lady Chatterley's Lover. Problem is she cannot remember her lines. The last few chapter entries obsess over cleaning up, remembering her lines, doing Lady Chatterley, but then she writes "At the last instant of my endurance I took a sniff of cocaine, or a shot of morphine, but these doses were as weak as I could make them" (5 May). The line is somewhat shocking as immediately after she continues to talk about how she's worked so hard to have gotten herself clean. Then there's a knock at her door and she's moments from another relapse.
The San Antonio Light published two photos of Alma Rubens when they announced the coming publication of "Alma Rubens' Own Story." The Light's editors stressed that you could not look at one photo without taking in the other. The first photo was of Rubens in the early 1920's, at the height of her career, before any problems. The second photo was from weeks before her death and the woman pictured was far from glamorous. In fact, I focused on the later photo first and it didn't immediately click that it was Alma Rubens.
In her final chapter Alma Rubens wrote, "That's all I wanted--death, cool, restful death, and oblivion. I would leave behind me my poor, feeble attempt at the story of my life" (7 May). Let's hope she found what she wanted.
"Former Film Star Held on Narcotics Charges." The Billings Gazette 5 Jan 1931: 9.
Rubens, Alma. "Alma Rubens Own Story." The San Antonio Light 20 Mar 1931: 21.
Soanes, Wood. "Ricardo Cortez Utilizes Wall Street Training With Talent for Films." Oakland Tribute 2 Oct 1932: 18.
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FlickChick says
Wow – what a harrowing story. Thanks for posting.
Cliff Aliperti says
Thanks. Yes, depressing stuff … but I couldn't stop reading.
JOBILL says
It is a shame that they couldn't make a go of it…They were the both of them two
good people…And maybe they should have been honest with one another..
I wonder if Cortez ever talked about her later in his life. I haven't gone looking for that info, so I wonder if it's out there.
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Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Nakai
Tetsuo Nakai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Information processing device, information processing system, computer readable medium, and control method
Abstract: An information processing device includes a near field communication unit and a display. The near field communication unit repeatedly transmits a read command by sequentially switching system codes corresponding to all respective types of electronic money which are usable in the information processing device at predetermined time interval, and detects electronic money corresponding to an electronic money medium which is held over the near field communication unit. A brand of the detected electronic money and a balance of the electronic money are displayed on the display.
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventors: Yasuhiro Nakai, Masao Saeda, Tetsuo Fukumoto
Packaging material and packed product in which viscous product is packed by packaging material
Abstract: A packaging material 1 is configured to pack a viscous product having one surface, an opposite surface, and side surfaces. The packaging material 1 includes a sheet 2 having a first surface portion 7 configured to cover the one surface of the viscous product, side surface portions 8-1 to 8-4 configured to cover the side surfaces, and second surface portions 9-1 to 9-4 disposed at the opposite surface, and tear tape 3 adhered to the sheet to cut the sheet. The tear tape is provided to start from the side surface portion or the second surface portion and to be branched into a first branched tape 3a and a second branched tape 3b across the first surface portion.
Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.
Inventors: Tomonori Ishii, Taho Ohmura, Nobuaki Shirashoji, Tetsuo Nakai, Kazutaka Makino, Yukihiro Yamada
Applicant: MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
Sintered diamond having high thermal conductivity and method for producing the same and heat sink employing it
Abstract: This invention relates to a high thermal conductivity composite material which comprises diamond particles and a copper matrix useful as electronic heat sinks for electronics parts, particularly for semiconductor lasers, high performance MPUs (micro-processing units), etc., also to a process for the production of the same and a heat sink using the same. According to the high thermal conductivity diamond sintered compact of the present invention, in particular, there can be provided a heat sink having a high thermal conductivity as well as matching of thermal expansions, most suitable for mounting a large sized and high thermal load semiconductor chip, for example, high output semiconductor lasers, high performance MPU, etc. Furthermore, the properties such as thermal conductivity and thermal expansion can freely be controlled, so it is possible to select the most suitable heat sink depending upon the features and designs of elements to be mounted.
Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Inventors: Katsuhito Yoshida, Hideaki Morigami, Takahiro Awaji, Tetsuo Nakai
Coated PCBN cutting tools
Abstract: A coated sintered body can be used for a cutting tool for precision machining of hardened steel. The coated PCBN cutting tool includes a substrate which contains not less than 35 volume % and not more than 85 volume % of CBN, and a hard coated layer formed on the substrate. The hard coated layer comprises at least one compound layer consisting of at least one element selected from the group 4a, 5a, and 6a elements of the periodic table and Al, and at least one element selected from C, N and O. The thickness of the layer is not less than 0.3 &mgr;m and not more than 10 &mgr;m. The center-line mean roughness of the hard coated layer is not more than 0.1 &mgr;m.
Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.
Inventors: Michiko Ota, Tomohiro Fukaya, Junichi Shiraishi, Tetsuo Nakai, Hisanori Ohara, Haruyo Fukui
High strength sintered impact having excellent resistance to cratering
Abstract: A sintered material containing high-pressure phase-type boron nitride and a binder is provided. The high-pressure phase-type boron nitride is contained in an amount of from 50% to 78% by volume, and the balance is a binder phase. The binder phase comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of nitride, carbide, carbonitride, and boride of Ti, nitride, boride and oxide of Al, carbide and boride of W, nitride, carbide, carbonitride and boride of Co, and carbide and boride of Ni, or a mutual solid solution thereof. The binder phase forms a binder phase which is continuous in a sintered material texture. The weight of metal components Al, W, Co and Ni which are present as compounds in the sintered material is from 3% to 20% based on the sintered material.
Inventors: Satoru Kukino, Tomohiro Fukaya, Junichi Shiraishi, Tetsuo Nakai
Sintered diamond tool and method for manufacturing the same
Abstract: A diamond sintered body tool (20) having superior adhesion resistance, chipping resistance and high strength includes a tool base material (22) including a diamond sintered body, and a surface layer (21) formed on a surface of the tool base material (22). The surface layer (21) includes at least one of silicon, a silicon oxide, a silicon carbide, a silicon nitride and a solid solution thereof. The tool base material (22) has an inner portion (22b) including a first content of an iron group metal, and a surface portion (22a) surrounding the inner portion (22b ) and including a second content of the iron group metal lower than the first content.
Inventors: Yasuyuki Kanada, Yoshihiro Kuroda, Noboru Yamazaki, Yasunobu Ogata, Kunihiro Tomita, Tetsuo Nakai, Makoto Abe
Polycrystal diamond tool
Abstract: The present invention provides a diamond sintered compact tool. Which is excellent in economy as well as cutting edge strength. A diamond sintered compact cutting tool comprising a diamond sintered compact sintered at an ultra-high pressure and high temperature and a WC—Co cemented carbide substrate directly bonded to the diamond sintered compact during a step of sintering and brazed to a tool base through the WC—Co cemented carbide substrate, in which a ratio of the thickness of the WC—Co cemented carbide substrate to the thickness of the diamond sintered compact layer satisfies the relation of: 0.8≦WC—Co cemented carbide substrate/diamond sintered compact layer≦3.0 and the diamond sintered compact layer has a thickness of 0.05 mm to 0.5 mm, preferably 0.05 mm to 0.45 mm, more preferably 0.12 mm to 0.36 mm.
Inventors: Katsuhito Yoshida, Junichi Shiraishi, Tetsuo Nakai
Diamond sintered compact and a process for the production of the same
Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a material for a diamond sintered compact tool, which has a high strength and is available as a material for a cutting tool. Accordingly, the present invention is concerned with a diamond sintered compact comprising a WC-Co type cemented carbide substrate having slight undulation and a diamond sintered compact bonded to one surface of the substrate by sintering during a step of sintering at an ultra-high pressure and high temperature, which has a plate thickness is 0.5 mm to 5 mm and an outer diameter is at least 20 mm and whose diamond sintered compact layer has at least 50% of a thickness area within a range of 0.05 mm to 0.4 mm and contains Co diffusing from the cemented carbide substrate.
Inventors: Katsuhito Yoshida, Michinari Asano, Junichi Shiraishi, Tetsuo Nakai
Cutting tool made of A12O3-coated cBN-based sintered material
Abstract: A cutting tool according to the present invention is coated with one or more Al2O3 layers on at least a part of the surface of a cBN-based sintered material substrate taking part in cutting. The sintered material substrate is made of cBN in an amount of from 20% to 99% by volume and Al2O3 having an average crystalline particle diameter of not more than 1 &mgr;m in an amount of from not less than 1.0% to less than 10% by volume. The Al2O3 layer has a thickness (d) of from 0.5 &mgr;m to 50 &mgr;m. The average crystalline particle diameter (s) of Al2O3 is from 0.01 &mgr;m to 4 &mgr;m if the thickness (d) of the Al2O3 layer is from 0.5 &mgr;m to 25 &mgr;m or from not less than 0.01 &mgr;m to not more than 10 &mgr;m if the thickness (d) of the Al2O3 layer is from more than 25 &mgr;m to 50 &mgr;m.
Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Inc.
Inventors: Satoru Kukino, Junichi Shiraishi, Tetsuo Nakai
Abstract: A polycrystal diamond tool is provided whose heat resistance, strength and anti-adhesion property are improved by modifying the porosity of a diamond sintered compact and which comprises a diamond sintered compact, sintered under ultra-high pressure and high temperature, brazed onto a tool substrate, in which the cutting edge vicinity part consists of 85 to 99 volume % of the diamond sintered compact material consisting of diamond grains bonded with each other and the balance of pores, and the other part than the cutting edge vicinity part consists of diamond grains and the balance of a brazing material.
Inventors: Katsuhito Yoshida, Yasunobu Ogata, Junichi Shiraishi, Tetsuo Nakai
High strength sintered body
Abstract: A sintered body contains a high pressure form boron nitride in the range of 20 to 70% by volume, a first binding material surrounding the high pressure form boron nitride with a thickness in the range of 5 nm to 300 nm and a second binding material of the balance. The first binding material is composed of at least one of nitride and boride of Ti and Al. The second binding material is composed of at least one selected from the group consisting of nitride, carbide, carbonitride, boride and oxide of Al and transition metals belonging to the group 4a, 5a and 6a in the periodic table and mutual solid solution thereof. Supposing that X is the amount of Al contained per unit volume in the first binding material and Y is the amount of Al contained per unit volume in the second binding material, the ratio X/Y is not less than 1.
Diamond sintered body having high strength and high wear resistance, and tool including the same
Abstract: A diamond sintered body having high wear resistance, chipping resistance, shock resistance and thermal conductivity is provided. The diamond sintered body includes sintered diamond particles and a sintering aid as the remainder. The content of the sintered diamond particles is at least 80% by volume and less than 99% by volume. The sintered diamond particles have a particle size in the range from at least 0.1 &mgr;m to at most 70 &mgr;m. The sintered diamond particles next to each other are directly bonded. The sintering aid includes at least one kind selected from tungsten, iron, cobalt and nickel. The percentage of the tungsten in the sintered body is in the range from at least 0.01% by weight to at most 8% by weight.
Inventors: Yasunobu Ogata, Satoru Kukino, Yasuyuki Kanada, Junichi Shiraishi, Tetsuo Nakai
Abstract: The present invention provides a coated sintered body which can be used in precious machining hardened steel. The coated PCBN cutting tool comprises a substrate which contains not less than 35 volume % and not more than 85 volume % of CBN, and a hard coated layer formed on the substrate. The hard coated layer comprises at least one compound layer consisting of at least one element selected from a group of 4a, 5a, 6a elements of the periodic table and Al, and at least one element selected from a group of C, N and O. The thickness of the layer is not less than 0.3 &mgr;m and not more than 10 &mgr;m. The center-line mean roughness of the hard coated layer is not more than 0.1 &mgr;m.
Hard sintered body tool
Abstract: A tool manufactured by brazing a hard sintered body such as a diamond or cBN to a tool substrate through a bonding layer comprising at least one of Ti and Zr by 15-65 wt % and Cu. Two ridges of the tool substrate on both sides each has a first ridge adjacent to and aligned with a ridge of the hard sintered body and a second ridge provided nearer to an inscribed circle of the tool than is the ridge of the hard sintered body. Also, an upright side face and a bottom of each seating groove formed in the tool substrate intersect each other at an angle smaller than the intersecting angle between a back side and a bottom of each hard sintered body.
Inventors: Yasuyuki Kanada, Kunihiro Tomita, Tetsuo Nakai
Method of cutting hardened steel with high accuracy
Abstract: A method of cutting hardened steel using a cBN sintered tool which can improve the surface roughness while maintaining high dimensional accuracy. The upper limit of the tool feed rate is set at such a value that a theoretical surface roughness calculated from the feed rate is between 2/3 and 1/1000 of the target surface roughness. The amount of change of the feed rate between the upper and lower limits of the tool feed rate is set to be between 0.002 and 0.05 mm/rev, and the amount of every feed rate change is set not to be equal to the original feed rate multiplied by an integer. The feed rate is changed forcibly for every number of workpieces for which the total cutting length is between 10 and 1000 meters.
Inventors: Takashi Harada, Tetsuo Nakai, Tomohiro Fukaya, Junichi Shiraishi
High-pressure phase boron nitride base sinter
Abstract: A high-pressure phase boron nitride-based high-hardness high-strength sintered body for cutting tools represented by a milling tool and an end mill etc., which is improved in wear resistance and chipping resistance, is obtained. The high-pressure phase boron nitride-based sintered body according to the present invention comprises a plurality of grains (1) of high-pressure phase boron nitride and a binder phase (2, 3), and the content of the aforementioned grains (1) is at least 20.0 volume % and not more than 99.7 volume %. The aforementioned binder phase (2, 3) includes a first binder phase (2) enclosing the aforementioned grains (1) and a second binder phase (3) other than that. The first binder phase (2) consists of the form of at least either a nitride of at least one of Ti, TiAl, Zr and Hf or a solid solution thereof.
Inventors: Satoru Kukino, Tetsuo Nakai, Junichi Shiraishi, Tomohiro Fukaya, Shinya Uesaka
Hard and tough sintered body
Abstract: A sintered body consists of high-pressure phase boron nitride, a residual binder phase and an unavoidable impurity, and contains high-pressure phase boron nitride powder which is previously coated with a binder before sintering. The coating binder consists of an element belonging to the group 4a, 5a or 6a of the periodic table or the like, and has an average thickness of 5 to 300 nm. Binder powder other than the coating binder consists of an element belonging to the group 4a, 5a or 6a of the periodic table or the like, and a contact ratio of high-pressure phase boron nitride particles in surface-to-surface contact with each other is at least 20% and less than 50%. The resulting high-pressure phase boron nitride-based hard and tough sintered body for a cutting tool is improved in wear resistance and chipping resistance.
Inventors: Tomohiro Fukaya, Tetsuo Nakai, Junichi Shiraishi, Satoru Kukino, Shinya Uesaka


Case Study: Replacing Manual Processes | GoWall — Better Meetings. Guaranteed.
A global, non-profit organization identified ineffective meetings as the cause of gaping productivity losses, and decided to make a change. Looking deeper, they found one practice that was directly impacting productivity—the use of handwritten "post-it notes" during meetings. Participants would place their notes on a whiteboard, and a meeting leader would group the notes by topic for everyone to view and discuss.
The "post-it" process was useful for promoting group interaction, but it was not practical for meetings with remote attendees. Other challenges included interruptions during and after the meeting due to illegible handwriting. And, the process made inefficient use of administrative personnel who had to decipher, transcribe and organize notes at the end of meetings.
GoWall's easy-to-use interface transformed a clunky, manual process by automating participant input and output. Disparate post-it notes were replaced by a centralized, digital wall where every piece of input was collected and collated. The new process using GoWall also enabled a more inclusive environment—and more extensive input—by making it possible for remote participants to join.
The organization was also able to eliminate the burden and cost of post-meeting transcription by admin staff that was already stretched thin.


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← (577) CIVIL PARTNERSHIP STATISTICS
(580) THE LORD PRESIDENT RETURNS →
(578) ROBERTSON v SUNDAY HERALD AGAIN
The former Secretary-General of NATO, Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, lost a defamation action he brought against the owners of the Sunday Herald newspaper in respect of an article published in the paper in 2003, reporting and commenting on the settlement of an earlier defamation action between the parties. The latter action related to an anonymous reader posting on the Sunday Herald website which falsely alleged a link between Lord Robertson and the Dunblane primary school shootings in 1996 (see previously No 381). Lord Robertson argued that the article repeated the defamation and further defamed him by suggesting that his approach to the case had been bullying and irrational in pursuit of a specious claim, and sought £25,000 damages. Lord Reed rejected the claim in an opinion issued on 28 June 2006 ([2006] CSOH 97). From a legal point of view, the most interesting aspect of the case is Lord Reed's discussion of the rule that reporting a defamatory allegation can be found to convey the same imputation – and therefore liability – as the allegation itself. For this purpose, a publication must be considered as a whole, holds Lord Reed, although there may be practical difficulties in concluding that a report which contains a defamatory statement is none the less incapable of conveying a defamatory imputation. In this particular case, however, the whole tenor of the Herald article was that the allegations against Lord Robertson were untrue.


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  "name": "History API",
  "property": "history",
  "caniuse": "history",
  "tags": ["history"],
  "authors": ["Hay Kranen", "Alexander Farkas"],
  "notes": [{
    "name": "W3C Spec",
    "href": "https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/browsers.html#the-history-interface"
  }, {
    "name": "MDN documentation",
    "href": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.history"
  }],
  "polyfills": ["historyjs", "html5historyapi"]
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Detects support for the History API for manipulating the browser session history.
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define(['Modernizr'], function(Modernizr) {
  Modernizr.addTest('history', function() {
    // Issue #733
    // The stock browser on Android 2.2 & 2.3, and 4.0.x returns positive on history support
    // Unfortunately support is really buggy and there is no clean way to detect
    // these bugs, so we fall back to a user agent sniff :(
    var ua = navigator.userAgent;

    // We only want Android 2 and 4.0, stock browser, and not Chrome which identifies
    // itself as 'Mobile Safari' as well, nor Windows Phone (issue #1471).
    if ((ua.indexOf('Android 2.') !== -1 ||
        (ua.indexOf('Android 4.0') !== -1)) &&
        ua.indexOf('Mobile Safari') !== -1 &&
        ua.indexOf('Chrome') === -1 &&
        ua.indexOf('Windows Phone') === -1) {
      return false;
    }

    // Return the regular check
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Finding the right balance between quality and affordability in a recruitment partner becomes even more important in today's health care market. That's why StarMed created a better, value-added recruitment model that delivers exceptional results but on a pay-for-performance basis – Performance-Based Recruiting. Our unique hybrid approach blends the advantages of a more refined and efficient recruitment practice (similar to a retained search model), with less financial risk (consistent with a contingent search model).
The Keys to Our Performance-Based Model.
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Emerging Artist Willis Found an Apartment and Support from Community Advocates
Most artists follow a highly unique path in which they can develop and express their craft and creativity. But even by those standards, Willis' personal journey as an artist is exceptional.
"I'm not a conventional artist," Willis explained. "People like my work because it's different from what has been shown all the time, I guess. I have to be different. I have no other choice."
His personal story is as distinctive as his artwork. Until Willis made contact with the continuum of care provided by Community Advocates' homeless outreach and supportive housing programs, he lacked a permanent home for years.
"They have helped me out a lot," Willis said. "I am eternally grateful that everything has unfolded the way it did."
Years ago, Willis had been accepted to art school and tried to make it work. But after a series of personal losses and emotional distress, he quit school. He wasn't able to work much, thanks to a joint injury. And he lost a steady place to live.
"I was living in a shelter, and with friends and family, moving around a lot," he said.
He found Repairers of the Breach, Milwaukee's daytime shelter and resource center, initially only when he needed something to eat; later, to shower or use a printer. He also began participating in their art therapy program twice a week, a lifeline for an artist who needed to create but who didn't even have a safe space to keep his supplies or artwork.
"I was painting outside, mainly, or at MATC or the library, and stashing my materials at Repairers of the Breach, because the people there knew that I was a good person," Willis said.
While at Repairers of the Breach, he met Mary Ann Patti, Program Manager for Community Advocates' Homeless Outreach Nursing Center, which engages individuals who are living on the streets while living with a mental illness. Patti was handing out sandwiches and water and providing connections to other resources and services. They met, and life moved on.
"I was not motivated," Willis said of that time in his life. "I was kind of confused a bit. I was kind of hostile toward people. I felt that everyone I came into contact with, I was sort of skeptical of their company, of strangers."
A few years later, finding a permanent place to stay sounded like a better idea to Willis. He was accepted into Community Advocates' Autumn West Safe Haven, a low-barrier housing refuge for men and women who'd been experiencing long-term homelessness and persistent mental health challenges.
Willis' case manager, Samantha, "referred me to Autumn West, but I didn't get in right away. I had to wait for like three weeks until there was an opening. During those weeks I was sleeping outside or whatever. They took me, drove me there, gave me a tour of the place, and I was really pleased. It was very quiet and peaceful. They had a lot of stuff there that would help people in their lives, various resources. I was very pleased."
Willis moved in and Autumn West staff helped him transition into his new life. He hadn't been able to work because of his joint injury, so they helped him apply for income support.
"I was there when I got everything settled," he said. "They helped me out with everything I pretty much needed."
After about half a year, Willis was able to move into his own apartment, thanks to Community Advocates' Project Bridge Supportive Housing Program.
"I never had my own place, but it was pretty cool," Willis said. "It was something I felt I needed. I could do my studies and not be bothered by bad influences or unwanted distractions. It was very welcoming. I was very surprised. They asked me questions, like what kind of living situation do you want? So it was pretty much to my own liking. It worked out well, I would say."
Reflecting on his experiences with Community Advocates, Willis said, "I would encourage everyone if they hear about the program to check it out and find out how it can help them in multiple ways. Everyone has a story and everyone has different needs. I'm sure the program will affect people in different ways because everyone is from different walks of life. The program helped me out a lot. I feel it can help more people. If people hear about it and need it they should go for it and hopefully their life will turn out the way they want it."


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Nestle to help develop dairy alternatives
Chief executive Mark Schneider was quoted as saying that "innovation in milk products and plant-based dairy alternatives is core to Nestle's portfolio strategy."
September 29, 2020, 12:45 IST
Bern, Switzerland : Swiss food giant Nestle, which has made billions with dairy products, said Monday it will host start-ups that want to develop vegetarian alternatives.
Nestle could thus find itself at the forefront of a sector that has strong growth potential, an analyst commented.
It plans to open its research and development (R&D) centre in Konolfingen, Switzerland to "start-ups, students and scientists" a statement said.
In addition to testing sustainable dairy products, the group plans to encourage work on plant-based dairy alternatives, it added.
The group unveiled a vegetable-based milk that had already been developed with the process, and technical director Stefan Palzer told AFP it planned to focus on 100-200 such projects a year.
Jon Cox, an analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux, noted that while Nestle had missed some consumer trends in the past, it has now "taken something of a lead in the plant-based alternative market for food".
And "given its pretty much unlimited resources, Nestle is going to come out one of the winners in the space," Cox forecast in an e-mail.
Nestle said that "internal, external and mixed teams" would work at the R&D centre over six-month periods.
Nestle would provide "expertise and key equipment such as small to medium-scale production equipment to facilitate the rapid upscaling of products for a test launch in a retail environment," it added.
The Swiss food giant has long been known for its dairy products, but faced a boycott in the 1970s for allegedly discouraging mothers in developing countries from breastfeeding even though it was cheaper and more nutritious than powdered formula.
On Monday, the group's statement also underscored that the research initiative was part of its commitment to help fight global warming.
"As a company, we have set ambitious climate goals. This is part of our promise to develop products that are good for you and good for the planet," it said.
vegetarian alternatives


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Q: Period in URL segment causes 404 error I have a custom route:
<Route("maintenance/test/{one}/{two}/{three}")>
Function Test(ByVal one As String, ByVal two As String, ByVal three As String) As JsonResult
    Return Json(True, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet)
End Function

When I hit the route it works as expected:

localhost:1337/maintenance/test/1/2/3

However, if any of the parameters contains a period, such as:

localhost:1337/maintenance/test/1/2./3      (note period after 2)

I get a 404 "The resource cannot be found" error.
It seems IIS is picking up the URL and trying to serve a static file instead of passing it onto MVC.
Things I've tried (to no avail):

*

*Adding a trailing slash to force IIS to recognize it as a URL and not a resource

*Adding runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" to web.config's <system.webServer><modules> as per this answer.

*Adding a TransferRequestHandler handler as per [this answer]:(https://stackoverflow.com/a/12151501/118697)

    <add name="ApiURIs-ISAPI-Integrated-4.0"
         path="/people/*" verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG,PUT,DELETE,PATCH,OPTIONS"
         type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler"
         preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />

*

*Updating MVC 5 to the latest (5.2.3)

A: My original assumption that IIS was treating the request as a resource request was incorrect.
It turns out ASP.NET blocks any request for a URL with a ./ in the same way it blocks legacy reserved words.
The solution then is to enable relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping:
<httpRuntime relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping="true" />

Sources:

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*Haacked - Allowing reserved filenames in URLs

*This answer on SO (despite the fact that the comments say it doesn't work with MVC 5)

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Cymindis axillaris é uma espécie de insetos coleópteros pertencente à família Carabidae.

A autoridade científica da espécie é Fabricius, tendo sido descrita no ano de 1794.

Trata-se de uma espécie presente no território português.

Referências

Ligações externas
 Cymindis axillaris - Biodiversity Heritage Library - Bibliografia
 Cymindis axillaris - NCBI Taxonomy Database
 Cymindis axillaris - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
 Cymindis axillaris - Encyclopedia of Life

Coleópteros de Portugal
axillaris
Coleópteros descritos em 1794

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We are thrilled that George McWhirter, Vancouver's first Poet Laureate, has agreed to judge Pulp Literature's Magpie Award for Poetry for a second time.
Last year's finalists received not only his approbation, but in-depth and often extensive comments from a leader in the world of Canadian Literature.
We are most grateful and honoured to BC's much-honoured poet, novelist, editor, and translator for saying yes to year 2 of the contest.
The closing date for entries to the Magpie Award for Poetry is April 15.
Here you will find an excerpt of George McWhirter's superb translation of "Solar Poems" by Homero Aridjis, at blogcitylights.
And here you will find a copy of his stunning poem "My Mother's Red Shawl" on Alex Waterhouse Hayward's blog.


Leading off this week's column: National Peanut Butter Day has come and gone, but this post from Agilent Technologies offers some cool facts about peanut butter that are worth reading.
Tekronix' post asks if cathode coatings are the answer to longer lasting batteries.
Here's another cool intro to soldering/desoldering from JBC Soldering.
3D Printing Industry's post about 3D-printed skin as an alternative to skin testing has us thinking about other uses for this new process.
Can you get a science lesson from a cup of coffee? Laughing Squid's post shows how lessons about entropy and the nature of the universe are brewing in a hot cup of joe.
And we close out this week's column with a post about Steinel's special savings on heat gun kits.


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Jennifer Auerbach
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Sally Bohls
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Planning a Successful Double-Reed Beginner Class
It's the first day of school and the beginner oboe and bassoons are sitting in their chairs waiting to learn… Now what? How can you start their double-reed instruction off right? This clinic will outline what to do in that first day, week, month and semester of beginner double-reed class. Band books are not always able to present note introductions for oboe and bassoon in the most ideal way. We will give a complete outline of a first semester class per our original double-reed class method.
Jennifer Auerbach - Biographical Information
Jennifer Auerbach is the CEO and founder of the Bocal Majority organization. She holds a bachelor's degree in bassoon performance from Chicago Musical College and master's and doctoral degrees in music theory from the University of North Texas. She has taught private bassoon lessons in the Dallas metroplex since 1998 to students in grades 6 through 12 and takes great pride in helping them get to the next level of their playing. She has given numerous clinics at the Texas Music Educators' Convention, the International Double Reed Society on the topic of bassoon and double-reed pedagogy. Along with her partner, Sally Bohls, she has co-authored a beginner double-reed classroom method book. Her goal is to provide high level information in a positive and uplifting teaching environment.
Sally Bohls - Biographical Information
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The Arctic is on fire: Siberian heat wave alarms scientists
MOSCOW: AP 24 June : The Arctic is feverish and on fire — at least parts of it are. And that's got scientists worried about what it means for the rest of the world.
The thermometer hit a likely record of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Russian Arctic town of Verkhoyansk on Saturday, a temperature that would be a fever for a person — but this is Siberia, known for being frozen. The World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday that it's looking to verify the temperature reading, which would be unprecedented for the region north of the Arctic Circle.
"The Arctic is figuratively and literally on fire — it's warming much faster than we thought it would in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and this warming is leading to a rapid meltdown and increase in wildfires," University of Michigan environmental school dean Jonathan Overpeck, a climate scientist, said in an email.
"The record warming in Siberia is a warning sign of major proportions," Overpeck wrote.
Much of Siberia had high temperatures this year that were beyond unseasonably warm. From January through May, the average temperature in north-central Siberia has been about 8 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit) above average, according to the climate science non-profit Berkeley Earth.
"That's much, much warmer than it's ever been over that region in that period of time," Berkeley Earth climate scientist Zeke Hausfather said.
Siberia is in the Guinness Book of World Records for its extreme temperatures. It's a place where the thermometer has swung 106 degrees Celsius (190 degrees Fahrenheit), from a low of minus 68 degrees Celsius (minus 90 Fahrenheit) to now 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit).
For residents of the Sakha Republic in the Russian Arctic, a heat wave is not necessarily a bad thing. Vasilisa Ivanova spent every day this week with her family swimming and sunbathing.
"We spend the entire day on the shore of the Lena River," said Ivanova, who lives in the village of Zhigansk, 270 miles (430 kilometers) from where the heat record was set. "We've been coming every day since Monday."
But for scientists, "alarm bells should be ringing," Overpeck wrote.
Such prolonged Siberian warmth hasn't been seen for thousands of years "and it is another sign that the Arctic amplifies global warming even more than we thought," Overpeck said.
Russia's Arctic regions are among the fastest warming areas in the world.
The temperature on Earth over the past few decades has been growing, on average, by 0.18 degrees Celsius (nearly one-third of a degree Fahrenheit) every 10 years. But in Russia it increases by 0.47 degrees Celsius (0.85 degrees Fahrenheit) — and in the Russian Arctic, by 0.69 degrees Celsius (1.24 degrees Fahrenheit) every decade, said Andrei Kiselyov, the lead scientist at the Moscow-based Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory.
"In that respect, we're ahead of the whole planet," Kiselyov said.
The increasing temperatures in Siberia have been linked to prolonged wildfires that grow more severe every year and the thawing of the permafrost — a huge problem because buildings and pipelines are built on them. Thawing permafrost also releases more heat-trapping gas and dries out the soil, which increases wildfires, said Vladimir Romanovsky, who studies permafrost at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
"In this case it's even more serious, because the previous winter was unusually warm," Romanovsky said. The permafrost thaws, ice melts, the soil subsides and then it can trigger a feedback loop that worsens permafrost thawing and "cold winters can't stop it," Romanovsky said.
A catastrophic oil spill from a collapsed storage tank last month near the Arctic city of Norilsk was partly blamed on melting permafrost. In 2011, part of a residential building in Yakutsk, the biggest city in the Sakha Republic, collapsed due to thawing and subsidence of the ground.
Last August, more than 4 million hectares of forests in Siberia were on fire, according to Greenpeace. This year the fires have already started raging much earlier than the usual start in July, said Vladimir Chuprov, director of the project department at Greenpeace Russia.
Persistently warm weather, especially if coupled with wildfires, causes permafrost to thaw faster, which in turn exacerbates global warming by releasing large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that's 28 times stronger than carbon dioxide, said Katey Walter Anthony, a University of Alaska Fairbanks expert on methane release from frozen Arctic soil.
"Methane escaping from permafrost thaw sites enters the atmosphere and circulates around the globe," she said. "Methane that originates in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic. It has global ramifications."
And what happens in the Arctic can even warp the weather in the United States and Europe.
In the summer, the unusual warming lessens the temperature and pressure difference between the Arctic and lower latitudes where more people live, said Judah Cohen, a winter weather expert at Atmospheric Environmental Research, a commercial firm outside Boston.
That seems to weaken and sometimes even stall the jet stream, meaning weather systems such as those bringing extreme heat or rain can stay parked over places for days on end, Cohen said.
According to meteorologists at the Russian weather agency Rosgidrome t, a combination of factors — such as a high pressure system with a clear sky and the sun being very high, extremely long daylight hours and short warm nights — have contributed to the Siberian temperature spike.
"The ground surface heats up intensively. .… The nights are very warm, the air doesn't have time to cool and continues to heat up for several days," said Marina Makarova, chief meteorologist at Rosgidromet.
Makarova added that the temperature in Verkhoyansk remained unusually high from Friday through Monday.
Scientists agree that the spike is indicative of a much bigger global warming trend.
"The key point is that the climate is changing and global temperatures are warming," said Freja Vamborg, senior scientist at the Copernicus Climate Change Service in the U.K. "We will be breaking more and more records as we go."
"What is clear is that the warming Arctic adds fuel to the warming of the whole planet," said Waleed Abdalati, a former NASA chief scientist who is now at the University of Colorado.
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Manker E14, Nichia 219b variety, Flashlight Review.
Finally I get to see the Manker E14 (219B)! Another review light from GearBest! First of all, thanks to GearBest for providing this light. Second of all, I'm pleased to say that I already have experience with this light in the Astrolux S41 format and I liked that one enough to willingly accept the Manker version (the E14) as a review light from GearBest. I love the S41, let's look at the Manker E14..


Silvered: This light, chalky Grey- Bronze sits between our Pewter and Limed shades. Our craftsmen have captured the natural slivering, effect of unfinished oak, oxidised by exposure to the weather for many years, by sealing it with a thin lime wash to offset the darkening that occurs when oiling such oak. Silvered is a perfect neutral foundation upon which to build an interior design scheme.


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Q: Is this version of the Gaussian distribution function correct? I am currently doing an exercise in which the following is said:

Let $f(x, t)$ be the Gaussian distribution function with variance $t$:
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          f(x, t) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2 \pi t}} e^{-x^2/2t} $$

But when I look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution the function seems to be different :/ For example, $t$(the variance) is not in the square root with $2 \pi$ in the Wiki link :/

A: You are implicitly assuming that:
$$t = \sigma^2.$$
Therefore:
$$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2 \pi t}} e^{-x^2/2t} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2 \pi}~~ \sigma} e^{-x^2/2\sigma^2}.$$

A: Write your $t$ as $t=\sigma ^2$ and you will see that both are equivalent


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Q: Why isn't my scheduled task triggered reliably? It's 19:01 now. This is what the Scheduled Tasks window on my Windows Server 2016 shows:

As you can see, the highlighted task is:

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*triggered to run at xx:15 every hour,

*is scheduled to run again at 19:15 and

*last ran at 16:15.

When I checked about an hour ago, the "Next Run Time" was "08.02.2017 18:15:00". However, as you can see in the screen shot, it did not run, and the task history does not tell me why.
For completeness, the remaining settings of the task are:

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*General tab: SYSTEM account, "run with highest privileges".

*Conditions tab: none checked.

*Settings tab: "Allow task to be run on demand", "Stop the task if it runs longer than 3 days" and "If the running task does not end when requested, force it to stop" are checked. If the task is already running, "Do not start a new instance" is selected.

What steps can I take to find out why the task does not start sometimes?

A: It seems there are some recent changes on task scheduler behaviour (windows 10, windows server 2016). Your task will probably start today at 14:15, and then it will repeat every hour for 1 day. But, if you change something and save the task, or if the operative system restarts, the task will only run after it reaches a trigger point, which will be the next 14:15 hour schedule.
I think this is an important change that I have not seen documented by Microsoft, and in my opinion it should be. It changes a behaviour that was standard for many years...
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Posted: 09.04 - By Michelle Maisto
Back in March, The New York Times reported that, "Under the Bloomberg administration, spending on technology across all city agencies has risen steadily to an estimated $1 billion this year, even as spending in other areas has been trimmed." Among the agencies that have benefited from the reported "technological revolution" underway in New York is the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and, under it, the Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation.
Currently, 70 public health inspectors are using mobile devices—both Fujitsu Stylistics LT P600s and Acer TravelMate C104s—to conduct inspections. The devices run custom software and print to Pentax PocketJet II printers, which weigh, with a battery, only 1.09 pounds. Once a week the inspectors stop by the office to dock their devices, which synch with an Oracle database, uploading inspection data from the field while downloading the week's assignments.
"On a lot of the inspections we issue notices of violations, which are like a summons," says Robert Edman, executive director of the Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation. With the PocketJet printers, the violations are "printed in the field and that information is electronically transmitted to our administrative tribunal. With the use of the handhelds, we want to reduce errors, and it's a clearer report for the restaurateurs and for the judges."
Previously, with paper forms, inspectors had to fill out duplicate paperwork—and of course, there was the issue of handwriting and human error. "Before, if an inspector didn't put an inspection date on their form, the whole violation could be thrown out, dismissed," says Kathleen Nolan, director of the office of community sanitation. "The software automatically puts in the time and date, and all the information, as far as the [restaurant's] ownership, is downloaded through [the device], so they can't fake any of that—it's all current data from the previous Friday."
The software also ensures that all of the fields appropriate to the situation are filled in. "The inspection is driven by what's on site," says City Research Scientist Muhammad Ghani. "So if the inspector files one violation, the system will prompt him for additional information, depending on what the situation is. So if you have a big restaurant, it'll ask you a lot of questions, versus a small restaurant, where only a limited amount of food is being served. It's process-driven. It's not just a set of questions running on a program."
As for the financial investment, "The system pays for itself as we proceed," says Edman. While there were a few hiccups in the intial phase, once the application was rolled out in full, ROI was achieved in a year. And in addition to reduced errors, clearer documents, more easily accessible information and a reduction in file storage space, Edman believes the inspectors are covering more assignments than they did using paper forms. "Going forward," he says, "we plan to build on this application for other inspection programs."
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4th "Pirates" Adventure Sails to Cinemas in 3D!
A larger-than-life Jack Sparrow, in his three-dimensional swashbuckling glory? Get this and more when Walt Disney Pictures' "Pirates of the Cariibean: On Stranger Tides" sails to theaters in full, immersive 3D.
"On Stranger Tides" is the first "Pirates" flick shot with digital 3-D cameras. The filmmakers make good use of the 3-D imagery in action sequences, which include a shot where Penelope Cruz's character, Angelica, tries to stab Depp's Capt. Jack through a closed door, her sword leaping off the screen right at the audience.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Rob Marshall were interested from the start in doing the movie in 3D, which can boost revenues since fans pay a few dollars more than they do to see 2D versions.
"But the technology scared us a little, only because, you saw 'Avatar,' that was all done on sound stages. Nobody had ever taken these cameras out into the jungles and did a big adventure picture," Bruckheimer says.
"Rob did an enormous amount of research with the cinematographer, and we finally went to Disney and said, 'Look, we really think we can do this.' And they thought about it for a while, because it increases the costs, but in the end, they agreed with us and said, 'Let's go for it.'"
Meanwhile, Johnny Depp's tour guide on his "Pirates of the Caribbean" voyages is plotting the course for a fifth installment even before the fourth movie voyages into cinemas.
Bruckheimer says he has a screenplay in the works for a fifth "Pirates" tale after May's "On Stranger Tides" comes out. Based on the Disney theme-park ride, the original three "Pirates" blockbusters ended up as a trilogy continuing the same key characters and story line. Bruckheimer says "On Stranger Tides" and future "Pirates" flicks will be stand-alone stories continuing the adventures of Depp's woozy buccaneer Capt. Jack Sparrow.
Bruckheimer and Marshall showed off footage recently at CinemaCon, a Las Vegas convention of theater owners. At test screenings of "On Stranger Tides," "the audience told us what they loved about it is that it was fresh, it was new, it was a whole new story," Bruckheimer said in an interview alongside Marshall. "So that will carry over into the next one, too, to give it something fresh and different. As long as the audience embraces this one, we'll certainly try to make another one. It's really up to Johnny. He loves the character."
Geoffrey Rush reprises his role as Jack's rival, Barbossa, who has switched sides, no longer a pirate but a privateer sailing on the orders of the British monarchy. Penelope Cruz co-stars as the fiery daughter of the pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane).
Marshall popped the question about co-starring in the "Pirates" sequel over dinner with Cruz while he was directing her in the musical "Nine."
"She jumped out of her chair and said, 'Oh, my God. I'd love to. I've always wanted to do an adventure like this.' So it was perfect," Marshall said. "I had mentioned her to Jerry and Johnny, and immediately they said yes, that seems exactly right. Because there are not that many people that really can match him. He's so unique, and he has so many different characteristics. Charisma and sex appeal. He's funny and he's athletic and he's a strong actor. So who can match that?"
(Opening across the Philippines on May 20, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International through Columbia Pictures.)
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Dóchas Conference 2017 – 'Reclaiming the Story'
12 Fri, May 02:00 PM to 12 Fri, May 05:30 PM
There are two ways to look at a challenge; as an obstacle to be overcome immediately or as a path that leads to changes and new ways of thinking. Dóchas' 2017 Conference will explore these new pathways to change.
We know we are facing a new political reality where the space for civil society to promote the values of social justice, and to campaign to tackle the root causes of poverty, inequality and climate change, is both changing and shrinking. Brexit and the US elections are symptomatic of this new political reality. So how do we need to respond, organise, and change, in order to build a strong story of change, and then shout about it.
Kumi Naidoo, Director of Africans Rising and former International Director, Greenpeace, will deliver the keynote address
James Crowley, author & founder of the Crowley Institute, on Navigating Change
Mandeep Tiwana, CIVICUS, on Protecting Civil Society Space
Ellen Dorsey, Executive Director, the Global Wallace Fund
Jess Day, Digital Campaigner and Founder of the Let Toys Be Toys campaign
Spoken word artist Erin Fornoff
Professor John Gaventa, Director of Research, Institute of Development Studies
Ruairí McKiernan, social innovator and campaigner.
Laura Sullivan, Regional Director for Europe and the Americas, ActionAid International
Keynote address - Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Africans Rising and former International Executive Director of Greenpeace (including Q&A)
Session 1: Navigating for Change
Featuring James Crowley of the Crowley Institute and Professor John Gaventa, Director of Research, Institute of Development Studies.
How are NGOs thinking about and adapting to change to understand possible pathways to better leadership, accountability and effectiveness?
Session 2: Protecting Civil Society Space
Featuring Ellen Dorsey (Wallace Global Fund), Mandeep Tiwana (CIVICUS) and Ruairi McKiernan.
We need to break out of silos and work collectively as a diverse and vibrant civil society if we are to defend rights-based principles and civil society space. What are some of the successes, challenges and opportunities?
Session 3: Breaking out of our echo chamber
Featuring Jess Day (digital campaigner and founder of the 'Let Toys Be Toys' campaign.
Whilst there has been a lot of innovation in the sector on using new forms of social media, and bringing back storytelling as a way of getting our message across, are we actually succeeding in using these tools to reach outside of our existing supporter base? This session will explore ways to understand the barriers to supporting your cause, and ways to craft your message to reach audiences outside of the 'usual suspects'.
Wrap-up panel discussion featuring James Crowley, Ellen Dorsey, Jess Day, Laura Sullivan
In the run up to the conference, we've commissioned a series of guest blogs.
We asked leading figures across civil society 4 questions - around what they think of the challenges facing civil society, what NGOs need to change to fight these problems head on, how activists need to protect civil society space, and ultimately, how we can reclaim the story.
We had some fascinating insights and contributions from our contributors:
Dr. Burkhard Gnärig (Founder and Executive Director of the International Civil Society Centre) - "The problem is not that we don't tell our story – the problem is that we don't LIVE the story we tell"
Anne-Birgitte Albrechtsen (Chief Executive Officer, Plan International) - "We need to work better together, take a stand on key issues as one voice, and support one another"
Adriano Campolina (Chief Executive, ActionAid International) - "NGOs are perceived as disconnected and even part of the problem"
Winnie Byanyima (Executive Director, Oxfam International) - "The global economic model marches to the beat of those with extreme wealth"


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With Christmas here and 2022 coming to a close, it is a good time to look back and reflect on Milan's year. Most importantly, this was t...
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Back to Training: Adapting to the Change in Schedule
Most of the players returned to Milanello on Friday to train in the cold. Many had been in warmer climates, vacationing during their break....
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