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"Are You Safe at 4 feet?"
by Thomas M. McCauley, P.E.
The purpose of this paper is to make those who must establish arc flash boundaries and select Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) aware of the ambiguities that exist in the current standards that address this area. There is no definitive calculation for establishing arc flash boundaries or incident energy. There are a number of calculation methods available from different standards bodies that yield different results. These standards bodies need to work together to establish a single set of calculation methods for determining the critical parameters to protect workers from arc flash injuries.
The discovery and harnessing of electricity is one of the most significant events for the human race comparable to the discovery and harnessing of fire. Most of the devices we use today are powered by electricity. So electricity is a huge benefit for mankind. However, with its power also comes danger.
When people think of the dangers associated with electricity they usually think in terms of electric shock - of their child poking a hairpin or some such object into an electrical outlet and receiving a serious, if not fatal, shock. Electrical shock is also a real danger when working on live electrical equipment. Death due to electrical shock is not usually the result of very high voltage or current. Currents as low as about 50 MA can be fatal.
Arc Flash is a very different phenomenon. In this case, the currents are very large indeed - in the thousands of Amperes but this current does not pass through the body. Instead, it creates an arc in the air which generates a very high temperature (up to 35,000 Deg F) plasma that expands explosively and may carry with it molten metal and other debris. When this expanding high-temperature plasma strikes a person, the person may be thrown backward and may receive very severe burns if not wearing the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
A number of bodies with consensus standard making powers came into existence as the use of electricity became more wide spread after the opening of the Pearl Street station in New York in 1890.


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Influence of Shot Peening on AlSi10Mg Parts Fabricated by Additive Manufacturing
Assessment of Cutting Performance of Cemented Tungsten Carbide Drills in Drilling Multidirectional T700 CFRP Plate
Using (VA)RTM with a Rigid Mould to Produce Fibre Metal Laminates with Proven Impact Strength
Effect of Laser Welding Process Parameters and Filler Metals on the Weldability and the Mechanical Properties of AA7020 Aluminium Alloy
MDPI — JMMP
JMMP
Tanabe, I.
Hoshino, H.
forced cooling
difficult-to-machine materials
Ikuo Tanabe
Hideo Hoshino
J. Manuf. Mater. Process. 2018, 2(2), 39; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmmp2020039
Development of a New Forced Cooling Technology Using a High-Pressure Coolant for Machining Difficult-To-Machine Materials
Ikuo Tanabe 1,* and Hideo Hoshino 2
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka 940-2188, Japan
Center for Integrated Technology Support, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka 940-2188, Japan
Received: 9 May 2018 / Accepted: 6 June 2018 / Published: 12 June 2018
In recent years, titanium and nickel alloys have become relevant in the production of aeronautic and astronautic parts. Since both nickel and titanium alloys have a very small thermal conductivity, the used tool will suffer huge damage from the heat generated during a grinding process. Therefore, there is a requirement for a durable tool with excellent cooling capacity. In this research, a new forced cooling technology that uses high-pressure coolant for machining difficult-to-machine materials was developed and evaluated. Here, a through hole on the rake face near the turning tool tip was machined by electrical discharge machining. Then, high-pressure coolant was supplied to the turning tool from the machined hole. Several values of pressure were experimentally performed. It is concluded from the results that the technology could effectively cool the area near the tip of a turning tool, and that the chip was also effectively removed by the high-pressure coolant.
forced cooling; cutting; difficult-to-machine materials; coolant
Recently, titanium and nickel alloys have become relevant as they are widely used as aircraft materials. Moreover, methods to achieve a high-precision machining of these materials have been studied [1,2,3]. However, these materials have low thermal conductivity causing most of the heat generated during machining to be conducted to the tool. This causes the vicinity of the tool tip to become hot, leading to potential failure of the tool due to affected hardness and mechanical strength. Thus, an effective cooling technique, such as forced cooling, against it is desired. To this end, high-pressure-coolant-aided machining has been researched since the 1950s [4]. Moreover, optimization of conventional high-pressure coolant machining of difficult-to-machine materials has been widely performed, and alternative cooling methods such as cryogenic machining are currently being explored [5,6,7,8,9]. In the same way, extensive discussion of the usage of MQL as an environmentally-friendly alternative to flooded coolant environments has also been presented in compilations that are readily available [9]. From this, it has been observed that high-pressure or jet coolant streams are an option to alter the thermal behavior near the machining zone, including both neat oils and water-soluble oils, and provide an improved tool-life through changes in chip geometry and breakability, friction interactions and other parameters [9]. On the other hand, supply of high-pressure coolant has been mostly focused on positioning coolant outlets on the tool and near the machining zone [10]. This has been observed to be optimized to alter most of the cutting zone thermal behavior (e.g., coolant internally supplied through the tool shank straight into the cutting zone by nearby outlets) [9,10]. It has also been presented that internally supplying coolant from the insert instead of just supplying it in the cutting zone vicinity could be possible during machining (i.e., parting-off operations) [11].
Therefore, it was thought that internally supplying coolant through the insert or cutting tool could be an alternative in heavy-duty machining conditions of hard-to-machine materials (e.g., turning operations). In this research, a new forced cooling technology that uses high-pressure coolant internally supplied from the cutting tool for the machining of difficult-to-machine materials during turning was developed and evaluated. Here, for the manufacturing of said cutting tool, a through hole on the rake face near the tip of a turning tool was machined by electrical discharge machining. Then, high-pressure coolant was supplied to the turning tool from the machined hole. Particularly, this method proposes an alternative to conventional methods that do not necessarily reach the tool tip-chip interface which is the main relevant area during cutting. This method was thought to have the following benefits by suppressing the contact of the tool rake face and the chip as shown in Figure 1: (1) suppression of frictional heat generated between the tool rake face and chip; (2) suppression of frictional heat conduction to the tool; and (3) efficient forced cooling near the tool tip. In order to verify this, experimentation was carried out by mounting the proposed tool on a vertical lathe and cutting Ti6Al4V workpieces. Here, tool temperature, tool life, and chip geometry measurements were conducted and evaluated.
2. Evaluation of the Proposed Forced Cooling Method
2.1. Proposed Forced Cooling Method in a Vertical Lathe
Turning was carried out by mounting the proposed forced cooling device on a vertical lathe, and its cooling effect was evaluated. Here, Figure 2 shows a photograph of the vertical lathe and the workpiece used in the experimental section, and Table 1 shows the specifications and cutting conditions of the vertical lathe. The aforementioned machining conditions, tool temperature, and tool life were measured to evaluate the cooling effects of the proposed machining system by comparing dry cutting, conventional wet cutting with high-pressure coolant, and the proposed wet cutting method. The pressure of the coolant to be supplied through the hole machined over the insert rake face was used as an experimental parameter, and the conditions with the best forced cooling effect were selected in the next section. However, in the case of the conventional cutting fluid the coolant pressure was set at 8 MPa with a flow of 0.5 ℓ/min, which are the commercially recommended parameters for this turning operation. Both wet cutting methods utilized a JIS A1 water-soluble emulsion as the cutting fluid. Finally, the workpieces used were of Ti6Al4V alloy and the inserts used were tungsten carbide inserts. Here, the electrical discharge machining operation was ordered according to the insert material.
These processing conditions were thought to be capable of reliably lifting up the generated chips from beneath while maintaining the strength of the tool by force cooling the machining zone. This was thought to be highly relevant since calculations based on cutting theory under the aforementioned processing conditions and a feed speed of 0.8 mm/min show extreme thermal conditions [11,12]. For instance, the heat input to the tool on a dry machining operation would be 150 W and the tool tip temperature would reach 2271 °C in this case, which highly risks the strength integrity of the tool. Moreover, if the feed speed is changed to 0.2 mm/min, the tool tip temperature would reach 1192 °C. Consequently, areas of the cutting zone that might not be reachable under conventional high-pressure coolant delivery techniques need to be addressed through forced cooling methods similar to the proposed system. The current study attempts only to study the cooling effects of a new coolant delivery method and uses a conventional JIS-defined emulsion coolant. Thus, this paper does not cover highly-relevant areas for the machining of difficult-to-machine materials such as the usage of alternative coolants that might address thermal alleviation and equipment water-caused corrosion (e.g., strong alkaline water or microbubble-infused strong alkaline water) [13,14,15,16].
2.2. Tool Temperature Evaluation
The Ti6Al4V workpieces were cut under the cutting conditions shown in Table 1, and the tool temperature at that time was measured. Here, Figure 3a shows the temperature-measuring thermocouple located in the vicinity of the cutting tool tip (Point A). It must be noted that the temperature measurement in the case of conventional wet cutting was difficult given that the coolant delivery method applied coolant directly onto this point. However, it can be argued that, by comparing it to dry cutting, the proposed method forced cooling effect is large given that the temperature increase at Point A after 30 s was of about 5 °C while the cooling delivery method supplied coolant closer to the tool tip. Figure 3b shows the results of an inverse analysis procedure that used the experimental values of Figure 3a together with FEM (Finite Element Method) analysis. Particularly, these results were extrapolated through an FEM-based inverse analysis that used two different points (Point A and Point B) near the tool tip to estimate the temperature [17]. In the case of conventional wet cutting, it was difficult to extrapolate the tool tip temperature for the reasons previously presented. From Figure 3b, it was possible to observe that an increase in pressure leads to an improved cooling capacity.
2.3. Tool-Life Evaluation
The tool life using the proposed forced cooling method was evaluated with the same cutting conditions (Table 1) as in the previous section. Here, the same three types of cutting—dry cutting, conventional wet cutting, and the proposed wet cutting—were analyzed utilizing Ti6Al4V workpieces. For this, tool-life was set to be defined as the increase in the tool flank wear and Figure 4 shows the results of the tool life test. It must be noted that, for this research, rake face wear was not analyzed due to the aforementioned standard definition. Here, it can be observed that in the case of the wet cutting (20 MPa) proposed in this report, the tool life was increased by about 10.2 times when compared to dry cutting, while the tool life was increased by about 2.7 times when compared to conventional wet cutting (8 MPa). This was considered to be the result of considerably suppressing the decrease in the hardness of the tool due to temperature rise and maintaining the tool rigidity [18].
Finally, Figure 5 shows both the generated chip on the presented turning operation and the resultant flank tool wear at the tool-life limit of each of the selected cutting regimes. From the Figure, it can be seen that the proposed wet cutting considerably reduces the flank tool wear when compared with the other cutting regimes at much lower cutting volumes. Moreover, it was observed that the proposed tool did not present cracks near the machined hole. On the other hand, in terms of chip geometry, the chip breaking function of the conventional wet cutting method was confirmed to be present. Even with the wet cutting proposed in this report, sufficient chip breaking function was demonstrated at a 20 MPa coolant pressure. In addition, chips generated with the proposed wet cutting (20 MPa) were observed to present intermittent bended sections. This was thought to be a deformation of the chip above the tool rake surface caused by the high-pressure coolant supplied from the machined coolant hole during cutting, which effectively had a lifting effect.
The results of this study are summarized as follows:
It was concluded that a coolant delivery method that consists of machining a hole at the tool tip from which high-pressure coolant is supplied achieves an improved tool-life. Here, given that coolant was directly supplied between the tool rake face and the workpiece, heat generation during the machining of difficult-to-machine materials can be suppressed to a certain extend.
From intermittent bended sections found in the generated chip it was concluded that the high-pressure coolant pushes the chip from the bottom and effectively reduces the frictional heat generation over the rake face.
Coolant can be supplied between the tool rake face and the workpiece by devising a high-pressure coolant delivery method as observed in (1) and, (2) while maintaining the tool hardness and integrity.
I.T. conceived of the presented idea. I.T. and H.H. manufactured the experimental set-up, and experimented for evaluation of the proposed system. Two authors provided critical feedback and helped shape the research and manuscript.
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Figure 1. Schematics of the proposed forced cooling method with high-pressure coolant.
Figure 2. Vertical lathe used for experimentation.
Figure 3. Temperature change on the tool using high-pressure coolant (In the case of Ti6Al4V).
Figure 4. Experimental results of tool-life test.
Figure 5. Photographs of (a) the generated chip using multiple cutting methods and (b) tool wear at their tool-life limit (Wet cutting pressure: 8 MPa, proposed system pressure: 20 MPa).
Table 1. Specification of vertical lathe and cutting conditions used in the experiment.
Specifications of vertical lathe Table diameter 1100 mm
Max. turning diameter 1250 mm
Max. mass of workpiece 3000 kg
Max. cutting torque 10,000 N·m
Vertical travel of ram 800 mm
Max. feed speed 500 mm/rev
Main motor 30 kW
Max. height of machine 3790 mm
Floor space 3955 × 3840 mm
Cutting conditions Workpiece material Ti-6Al-4V
Insert type Tungsten Carbide
Depth of cut 1.0 mm
Feed speed 0.8 mm/rev
Cutting speed 60 m/min
Cooling fluid JIS A1 cutting fluid emulsion
Fluid pressure 1, 8, 20 MPa
Quantity of flow 0.5 ℓ/min
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For those that missed it, Tuesday night featured only the seventh-ever MLB matchup of Japanese starting pitchers. Yu Darvish of the Texas Rangers stepped up to the mound and took on Hiroki Kuroda of the New York Yankees (still can't get used to this).
After the first-inning homerun Kuroda gave up to Ian Kinsler, the game settled down into what will be remembered as a classic pitcher's duel between the up-and-comer and the wily veteran. The 37-year-old Kuroda struck out five, walked one, and forced 12 grounders and two popups against the MLB's best offense. Dodgers fans know that while he wasn't always successful in big moments, he never shied away from them either.
It was an impressive outing from Kuroda, who has thus far alternated good and bad starts this year. As has been a common theme throughout his MLB career, his outing just wasn't good enough.
Despite giving up seven hits, the 25-year-old Darvish was dominant, shutting out the MLB's second-best offense over 8 1/3 innings and striking out 10, the most by a Texas pitcher this season. The manner in which he worked out of jams — including a third-inning, bases-loaded, no-outs situation — was ace-worthy. He is now 3-0 on the season and sports a glittering 2.42 ERA.
The best part, after the game, he said he believes that there is "still more" in him. Love how he abused the Yankees and then immediately was talking about how he can do better.
Every day the Daisuke Matsuzaka comparisons fade quicker into oblivion.
Just for the sake of reference, the last matchup of Japanese-born starters was a day after my 28th birthday on July 22, 2010, when it was Kuroda throwing eight scoreless innings (for the Los Angeles Dodgers) in a 2-0 win over New York (the Mets) and Hisanori Takahashi.
I'm not sure if I can call the switch a complete success, but for right now the Mariners seem to be winning (relative to last season) with Ichiro Suzuki batting out of the three hole. While it's early still, the 38-year-old is on pace to blow away his previous career high of 69 ribbies, though he's also stealing at a career-low pace.
The other Suzuki, Kurt of the Oakland A's, finally lived up to his "clutch" moniker with a pinch-hit RBI double in the bottom of the eighth against the Chicago White Sox. Suzuki has really struggled this year, batting .200 over 60 at-bats.
While I'm glad he's back at the MLB level, Travis Ishikawa has struggled at the plate and could be hacking his way back to the minors if he doesn't figure it out soon. Kosuke Fukudome has struggled at the plate as well.
It's too bad Norichika Aoki doesn't have a full-time gig, because he's proven he can play at this level in the limited at-bats he's gotten with the Brewers. He's sporting a .837 OPS.
Takashi Saito suffered another set back in his rehab of a calf injury. Darwin Barney has thus far followed up a terrific rookie campaign with an even better sophomore effort. As of Wednesday morning, he was batting .292 and showing more discipline at the plate.
And finally, looks like Hideki Matsui is hanging around for one more shot at the bright lights of the MLB. It was reported Tuesday that he has signed a minor league deal with the Tampa Bay Rays. He'll start off at Triple AAA, and if he shows he's still got it, Godzilla could get called up to the majors later this year.
Matsui, 37, hit .251 with 12 homers and 72 RBIs with the Oakland A's last season and drew zero interest from MLB teams during the offseason, mostly because he's only played 68 games in the field over the past four years.
I'm always saddened to see a great player in the latter stages of his career. I hope he has enough left to make it back to the majors and remind everyone why he won the World Series MVP three years ago.


Department for Business, Work & Organizational Psychology, Applied University Fresenius, Heidelberg, Germany (Schmidt), Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany (Seeger, Herr), Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Vianen), Institute of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (Loerbroks), Department of Occupational Health, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ingelheim (Germany) (Schneider).
Objective:This study investigates the associations between Effort-Reward-Imbalance [ERI], Overcommitment [OC], Job-Demand-Control [JDC] and Organizational Injustice [OIJ]) with employee well-being, absenteeism and presenteeism, as well as the costs incurred.Methods:Cross-sectional data from 1440 German pharmaceutical company employees assessing job-stress, employee well-being, absenteeism, and presenteeism were used. Linear regression and interval regression analyses assessed separate and independent associations and sample-specific costs were estimated.Results:All four stressors were related to employee well-being, presenteeism and absenteeism when analysed separately. OIJ showed the strongest independent association with absenteeism (coef. = 0.89; p < 0.01), while OC was most strongly independently associated with lower well-being (coef. = −0.44; p < 0.01). and higher presenteeism (coef. = .28; p < 0.01). Absenteeism costs per employee/year were higher than presenteeism costs.Conclusions:Occupational health interventions reducing job stress will have strong potential for productivity raise and lower costs.


Atlanta, GA — Carroll Organization, one of the country's leading privately-held real estate companies focused on multifamily investment, management, and development closes an exciting first six-months of 2017 successfully completing seven acquisitions totaling over $370 million. Carroll acquired properties in Dallas, Orlando, Tampa, and Charleston. These properties will be a part of Carroll's latest investment vehicles, Carroll Multifamily Real Estate Fund IV, LP and Carroll Multifamily Real Estate Fund V, LP. In addition, the firm exited two properties totaling over $135 million producing an average gross return of 38% and 2.4x equity multiple. Carroll Organization has a lot of positive momentum going into the second half of the year with numerous acquisitions and dispositions in the pipeline.
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Carroll has now purchased twenty-two properties totaling over $1.2 billion since the beginning of 2016 and is continuing to actively purchase high-quality multifamily communities in the Southeast and Southwest, and other strategic target markets across the country. Carroll sourced many of its deals "off-market" directly from developers and owners, and is recognized in the industry as a best in class renovator and operator. To date, Carroll has successfully exited thirty-one assets valued over $1.2 billion. These realized investments have produced an average gross IRR of 30% and 1.9x equity multiple.


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FAIRBORN, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio say an officer responding to a report of gunfire at a residence has been shot and injured and a suspect has been taken into custody.
Fairborn police Sgt. Mark Stannard says the officer was shot when someone inside the residence began firing at approaching officers shortly before 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. Stannard says the officer was taken to a hospital with injuries that aren't life-threatening.
Police say the suspect barricaded himself inside the apartment in a standoff that lasted more than six hours in the city roughly 12 miles (19 kilometers) northeast of Dayton.
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CVE-2011-2494: kernel/taskstats.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain sensitive I/O statistics by sending taskstats commands to a netlink socket, as demonstrated by discovering the length of another users password (a side channel attack).
CVE-2012-2744: net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c in the Linux kernel, when the nf_conntrack_ipv6 module is enabled, allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via certain types of fragmented IPv6 packets.
CVE-2012-3510: Use-after-free vulnerability in the xacct_add_tsk function in kernel/tsacct.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a taskstats TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID command.
CVE-2011-4110: The user_update function in security/keys/user_defined.c in the Linux kernel 2.6 allowed local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and kernel oops) via vectors related to a user-defined key and updating a negative key into a fully instantiated key.
CVE-2011-1044: The ib_uverbs_poll_cq function in drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c in the Linux kernel did not initialize a certain response buffer, which allowed local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory via vectors that cause this buffer to be only partially filled, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-4649.
CVE-2012-3400: Heap-based buffer overflow in the udf_load_logicalvol function in fs/udf/super.c in the Linux kernel allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UDF filesystem.
CVE-2012-2136: The sock_alloc_send_pskb function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel did not properly validate a certain length value, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and system crash) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging access to a TUN/TAP device.
CVE-2012-2663: A small denial of service leak in dropping syn+fin messages was fixed.
- kbuild: Fix gcc -x syntax (bnc#773831).
- knfsd: An assortment of little fixes to the sunrpc cache code (bnc#767766).
- knfsd: Unexport cache_fresh and fix a small race (bnc#767766).
- knfsd: nfsd: do not drop silently on upcall deferral (bnc#767766).
- knfsd: svcrpc: remove another silent drop from deferral code (bnc#767766).
- sunrpc/cache: simplify cache_fresh_locked and cache_fresh_unlocked (bnc#767766).
- sunrpc/cache: recheck cache validity after cache_defer_req (bnc#767766).
- sunrpc/cache: use list_del_init for the list_head entries in cache_deferred_req (bnc#767766).
- sunrpc/cache: avoid variable over-loading in cache_defer_req (bnc#767766).
- sunrpc/cache: allow thread to block while waiting for cache update (bnc#767766).
- sunrpc/cache: Fix race in sunrpc/cache introduced by patch to allow thread to block while waiting for cache update (bnc#767766).
- sunrpc/cache: Another fix for race problem with sunrpc cache deferal (bnc#767766).
- Fix kabi breakage in previous nfsd patch series (bnc#767766).
- nfsd: Work around incorrect return type for wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout (bnc#767766).
- nfs: Fix a potential file corruption issue when writing (bnc#773272).
- nfs: Allow sync writes to be multiple pages (bnc#763526).
- nfs: fix reference counting for NFSv4 callback thread (bnc#767504).
- nfs: flush signals before taking down callback thread (bnc#767504).
- nfsv4: Ensure nfs_callback_down() calls svc_destroy() (bnc#767504).
- SCSI/ch: Check NULL for kmalloc() return (bnc#783058).
drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c: correct the size argument to kmalloc (bnc#783058).
block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices (bnc#738400).
dm: do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the underlying device (bnc#738400).
vmware: Fix VMware hypervisor detection (bnc#777575, bnc#770507).
- zfcp: Fix oops in _blk_add_trace() (bnc#772409,LTC#83510). kernel: Add z/VM LGR detection (bnc#767277,LTC#RAS1203).
be2net: Fix EEH error reset before a flash dump completes (bnc#755546).
- mptfusion: fix msgContext in mptctl_hp_hostinfo (bnc#767939).
powernow-k8: Fix indexing issue (bnc#758985).
net: Fix race condition about network device name allocation (bnc#747576).
- xen/x86-64: provide a memset() that can deal with 4Gb or above at a time (bnc#738528).
- xen: fix VM_FOREIGN users after c/s 878:eba6fe6d8d53 (bnc#760974).
- xen/gntdev: fix multi-page slot allocation (bnc#760974).


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India's state-funded helmet promises 'fresh air' in battle on winter smog
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Reuters- By Krishna N. Das
Vehicles are seen on a highway on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, December 2, 2021. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
NEW DELHI, Aug 29 (Reuters) – As India's capital of New Delhi prepares for winter – and the accompanying season of acrid smog – the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it says can remove 80% of pollutants.
State agencies have pumped thousands of dollars into Shellios Technolabs, a startup whose founder Amit Pathak began work on the helmet, which he calls the world's first of its kind, in a basement in 2016.
That was the year of the first headlines about the filthy air that makes New Delhi nearly unbreathable from mid-December to February, as the heavy cold traps dust, vehicle emissions and smoke from burning crop waste in nearby states.
"Inside a home or office, you could have an air purifier," said Pathak, an electrical engineer. "But the guys on the bike, they have no protection at all."
So his company designed a helmet with an air purification unit, fitted with a replaceable filter membrane and a fan powered by a battery that runs six hours and can be charged through a microUSB slot.
Sales of the helmet began in 2019, and tests on New Delhi's streets by an independent laboratory confirmed it can keep more than 80% of pollutants out of users' nostrils, Pathak added.
A 2019 test report seen by Reuters shows the helmet cut levels of lung-damaging PM 2.5 airborne particles to 8.1 micrograms per cubic metre from 43.1 micrograms outside.
India's science and technology ministry says the helmet offers "a breath of fresh air for bikers". That may not come a moment too soon in a country that was home to 35 of the world's 50 worst polluted cities last year.
Pathak sees a big opportunity amid annual demand for 30 million helmets, but declined to reveal his production or sales figures.
Each helmet retails at 4,500 rupees ($56), or nearly four times the cost of a regular one, effectively putting the device beyond the reach of many riders in India.
Since the weight of 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) is heavier than existing devices, Shellios has tied up with a big manufacturer to develop a lighter version from a thermoplastic material rather than fibreglass, a step that will also cut the cost.
The new version is expected to come out within a few months.
Pathak said the company had also drawn interest from southeast Asian nations such as Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
($1=79.8210 rupees)
Reporting by Krishna N. Das; Additional reporting by Anushree Fadnavis and Sunil Kataria; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
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Harvey Weinstein arrested on rape, criminal sex…
Harvey Weinstein arrested on rape, criminal sex act charges
Harvey Weinstein arrives at the first precinct while turning himself to authorities following allegations of sexual misconduct, Friday, May 25, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2017, file photo, Harvey Weinstein arrives at The Weinstein Company and Netflix Golden Globes afterparty in Beverly Hills, Calif. Law enforcement officials say Weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities Friday morning to face criminal charges in a months-long investigation into allegations that he sexually assaulted women. The officials say the charges relate to related to a former actress, Lucia Evans, who said Weinstein assaulted her in his New York offices in 2004. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) – Harvey Weinstein was arrested Friday on rape, criminal sex act and other charges from encounters with two women, police said Friday as the former movie mogul faced the first criminal case stemming from misconduct claims that scores of women made against him.
Seven months after the allegations destroyed his career and set off a national reckoning known as the #MeToo movement, Weinstein, 66, left a Manhattan police station in handcuffs, with a strained smile, to head to court for arraignment.
Besides the rape and criminal sex act charges, Weinstein also was arrested on lower-level sex abuse and sexual misconduct charges, the New York Police Department said.
Weinstein, 66, turned himself in at the police station early Friday. With a throng of cameras on hand, the once-powerhouse producer found himself at the center of a spectacle he didn't control.
He didn't respond to shouts of "Harvey!" as he lumbered into the police station, wearing a blazer and carrying books including "Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution," about the Broadway musical duo of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and "Elia Kazan," about the famed film director,
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that the criminal sex act charge stems from a 2004 encounter between Weinstein and Lucia Evans, a then-aspiring actress who has said the Hollywood mogul forced her to perform oral sex on him in his office. She was among the first women to speak out about the producer.
The rape charge relates to a woman who has not spoken publicly or been identified, according to the official, who wasn't authorized to discuss the case and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Weinstein's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, declined to comment when first contacted about the charges late Thursday, but has previously said that Weinstein has consistently denied any allegations of "nonconsensual sex."
Evans confirmed to The New Yorker that she was pressing charges.
"At a certain point, you have to think about the greater good of humanity, of womankind," she told the magazine.
Evans told The New Yorker in a story published in October that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex during a daytime meeting at his New York office in 2004, the summer before her senior year at Middlebury College.
"I said, over and over, 'I don't want to do this, stop, don't,'" she told the magazine. "I tried to get away, but maybe I didn't try hard enough. I didn't want to kick him or fight him."
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance had been under enormous public pressure to bring a criminal case against Weinstein. Some women's groups, including the Hollywood activist group Time's Up, accused the Democrat of being too deferential to Weinstein and too dismissive of his accusers.
A grand jury has been hearing evidence in the case for weeks.
In March, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took the extraordinary step of ordering the state's attorney general to investigate whether Vance acted properly in 2015 when he decided not to prosecute Weinstein over a previous allegation of unwanted groping, made by an Italian model. That investigation is in its preliminary stages.
More than 75 women have accused Weinstein of wrongdoing around the globe. Several actresses and models accused him of criminal sexual assaults, but many of the encounters happened too long ago for any prosecution. Film actress Rose McGowan said Weinstein raped her in 1997 in Utah, "Sopranos" actress Annabella Sciorra said he raped her in her New York apartment in 1992 and Norwegian actress Natassia Malthe said he attacked her in a London hotel room in 2008.
McGowan told the AP on Thursday that "the justice system has been something very elusive."
"I hope in this case, it works. Because it's all true. None of this was consensual," she said.
The statute of limitations for rape and certain other sex crimes in New York was eliminated in 2006, but not for attacks that happened prior to 2001.
New York City police detectives said in early November that they were investigating allegations by another accuser, "Boardwalk Empire" actress Paz de la Huerta, who told police in October that Weinstein raped her twice in 2010. She is not one of the victims in the case on Friday; hers was still pending, officials said.
Authorities in California and London also are investigating assault allegations. Britain has no statute of limits on rape cases; some of the allegations under investigation there date to the 1980s.
Harvey and his brother Bob Weinstein started his now-bankrupt company after leaving Miramax, the company they founded in 1979 and which became a powerhouse in '90s indie film with hits like "Pulp Fiction" and "Shakespeare in Love." The Weinstein Co. found success with Oscar winners "The Artist" and "The King's Speech."
– Associated Press writer Jocelyn Noveck contributed to this report.


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The Taliban dispersed women protesters in Kabul with firing shots into the air
Afghan women will be never silenced
A group of women demonstrated in Kabul to protest the killing of former Afghan soldiers and strict Taliban rules.
The women chanted "Justice, justice, we are tired of crime, we are tired of captivity, we are tired of ignorance, long live humanity." They called for "a rule of law." They protested the Taliban's mistreatment of former militants despite a general amnesty.
Another group of women protested the Taliban's strict rules against women, especially their new law that women should drive with a Muharram (close male relative), calling it discriminatory.
At the same time, female protesters complained of violent treatment by the Taliban and firing shots into the air by their gunmen. The Taliban say they are investigating allegations of abuse.
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6 weird and wonderful hair loss remedies from history
The thinning of hair, for both men and women, is nothing new. This has been occurring for thousands of years, but for those who do not find their bald patches or thinning regions overly dignified, ways to combat the problem have only relatively recently become viable.
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Treatments and preventions have always been available, as far back as 400 B.C., but of course, they have all had very 'interesting' levels of success, as you might expect. Fortunately, for those who are looking to hair thickening sprays today, there are wonderful options available to overcome the issue at hand. This got us to thinking about the weird and wonderful remedies that have arisen through the ages. We have listed six of them below, so why not take a look and see how it used to be done…
Tea. Yes, the quintessentially English beverage that is enjoyed in the thousands of cups-full, daily, was, in 19th-century England used as a hair loss treatment. Tea was used by people suffering from thinning hair by rub "cold India tea", teamed with wedges of lemon, into their scalps. Did it work? We're pretty sure you can guess the answer, which was a resounding no!
The Ancient Egyptian Solutions
For those enduring hair loss during the times of the Ancient Egyptians, there were, believe it or not, remedies on offer. The Ebers Papyrus, a medical text that dates as far back as 1550 B.C., highlights a host of recommended 'cures'. A mix of fats from a tomcat, snake, hippopotamus, crocodile, and ibex was on option. Another was to use the leg of a female greyhound which had been sautéed in oil with the hoof of a donkey. Thirdly, they had the option to try a mixture of porcupine hair which was boiled in water then applied to the scalp for four days! Again, none of these were overly successful.
Hippocrates' Theory
Hippocrates, a renowned historical figure, who was an ancient Greek physician born around 460 B.C., is regularly considered as the father of Western medicine. He personally suffered from male pattern baldness, and so prescribed himself, along with others with the same issue with a topical blend of spices, beetroot, opium, horseradish, and pigeon droppings. And guess what? Hairlines did not stop receding, post-potion.
When the famous dictator of Rome started losing his hair, he gave everything a go in order to try and reverse the effects of his balding. To begin with, he grew his thinning hair long at the back of his head and brushed it over his scalp in what was an early version of the comb-over. Following the failure of this idea, his lover Cleopatra suggested a home remedy consisting of horse teeth, ground-up mice, and bear grease. As you would expect, this did little for hair recuperation, and so the Roman dictator took to covering his scalp with a laurel wreath, which is widely seen in historical pictures of the leader.
Toupees
Popular in ancient times, hairpieces were revived during the 17th century by royals. King Louis XIII of France was one such royal who sported a toupee in order to hide his balding scalp. Massive wigs, often featuring elaborate curls that had been peppered with white powder, soon became all the rage among the noble figures in England and France. Wealthy American colonists took on the trend of donning this accessory as a status symbol up until the American Revolution, which killed off fashions with monarchy-inspired roots.
In the United States, the 19th century witnessed the emergence of so-called "snake oil" salesmen. These people were, to every intents and purposes, swindlers masquerading as doctors who peddled sham potions that promised to treat all that ails you. A number of these tonics were cited to be formulated to reverse hair loss, including an ointment called Seven Sutherland Sisters' Hair Grower, inspired and promoted by a family of sideshow performers with cascading locks.
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Almonds represent a rich source of omega 3 fatty acids, and also vitamin E, which, as the antioxidant, protects our cells against the oxidative stress.
Freshly squeezed orange juice contains plenty of vitamin C. It is essential for the synthesis of collagen (the most widely represented protein in the body) and carnitine, which carries fatty acids into the mitochondria, thus contributing to the production of the main source of cellular energy, the ATP molecule. Moreover, vitamin C is directly involved in the synthesis of neurotransmitters that allow communication between neurons. It plays an important role in the immune system and stimulates the formation of osteoblasts, cells that include calcium in the bone tissue.
Coconut is an excellent source of medium-chain fatty acids and fiber. Dried apricots, dates and honey provide fiber and enough glucose that our cells need to produce energy. An adequate level of blood glucose is the most important for the normal functioning of the neurons, as they can only use glucose as the only source for energy recovery.
Although I mentioned only some of the most important positive effects of the ingredients used, the above list became slightly longer than I initially expected. Contrary to the long introduction, the preparation of these balls is extremely fast and simple. They are, therefore, a wonderful snack that can find its permanent place in every school bag, car or in a slightly more hidden desk drawer.
Place all the ingredients in a food processor or a blender. Blitz until the mixture starts to clump together.
Shape into 22 bite-size balls.
* You may want to soak the dates for about two hours prior to making this recipe. This will help them blend easily.
Keep them in a sealed container in the fridge for a couple of days or place them in the freezer where they will last for about a month.


I slammed my caster wheels back to the ground and quickly spun around with a broad grin.
"It's okay," my mother said, "she's got her anti-tippers on".
The employee smiled and shook his head.
Apparently, he was unimpressed with my wheelies. But soon enough, he brought me over to the reason I was waiting. Back to my car.
After almost two months, I was finally going back to my car. The parts had come in. The parts were actually installed in my car, and I could finally drive again. He led me back to my car where I just stared excitedly at it.
"Can I get in it?" I asked.
He said yes and I never transferred from my wheelchair faster. The employee explained the push/pull controls and put in a guard for the gas pedal. Then I asked if I could try the controls out. He said it was fine and I backed out of the area and took my car for a spin around the parking lot.
I left my wheelchair behind.
For a few minutes, it was just me and the car. And it was wonderful. Not for the lack of the wheelchair, but because my car had suddenly been made so accessible to me that I wasn't worried about getting around. I had my freedom back.
Of course, later I learned that they didn't actually expect me to take the car around the parking lot. Oh well.
I've been driving every day since I've gotten my car back. And it's wonderful.
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Exceptional read, I just now passed this onto a friend who had been doing some homework on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I uncovered it for him smile Therefore let me rephrase that: Thanks a lot just for dinner!


Erin Slaughter is a native Texan currently pursuing an MFA at Western Kentucky University, where she teaches undergraduate writing classes. In 2016, she co-edited an anthology, Lavender Bluegrass: LGBT Writers on the South, won the Heartland Review's Flash Fiction contest, and was a finalist for Rabbit Catastrophe Press' REAL GOOD POEM Prize. You can find her work in Indianola Review, River Teeth, Boxcar Poetry Review, Off the Coast, Harpoon Review, and elsewhere. She lives in downtown Bowling Green with a cat named Amelia.
Who is your favorite female writer and why?
I would say that my favorite writers change pretty often, as I read and discover new things and as the direction of my writing evolves. Right now, I really admire Zadie Smith. The scope of her work is so varied in theme, genre, stylistic choices, etc. but everything she writes retains something that's distinctly her. As a writer who works in multiple genres, that's been a useful lesson for me.
What literary work by a female writer had the most effect on you as a writer and/or person?
Miranda July's short story collection No one belongs here more than you. That pretty yellow book destroyed me in the best way. July condenses the incredible weirdness of being a person and injects it directly into the atmosphere of each story.
How did your work in Alyss come about?
My piece Unfamiliar Skin originally began as a project for a Sociology of Sexuality course I took in college. I had an incredible professor who cultivated an atmosphere of openness, humor, and respectful debate in the classroom. It was a place where people felt comfortable sharing stories about their experiences with their own sexuality and gender identity, and even stories about being victims of sexual violence. All in all, it was one of the most important classes I've ever been a part of.
The essay I turned in at end of that class contained some sections that remain in "Unfamiliar Skin," but it was very different. At different points, the essay has been a series of vignettes about every person I've slept with, a contemplation on body image, a story about struggling with sexual identity, and an exploration of impulsiveness. I think as it is now, it retains parts of all of those themes, and maybe a bit more. It's now part of the memoir I'm working on, so it's still not really complete. It continues to evolve as I evolve in relation to myself and others.
What has been your greatest writing life moment so far?
Winning a contest (my first), selling a story for actual money, and being named a finalist in another contest were all big accomplishments for me this year. But I think the most fulfilling experience was meeting my MFA cohort, and realizing that everything I've pursued with writing–from being the weird kid reading poems to my fourth-grade class, to my first publication at nineteen in a (now defunct) online magazine and onward–has brought me to these five beautiful people who I click with so well, who support me and challenge me, who make me a better writer and person.
What is your favorite piece by another writer from a previous issue and why?
"Almost Someone Coming Home" by Alexandria Smyth in Issue Deux. It gave me chills as I was reading. So, so beautiful.
What are you currently working on ?
Right now I'm writing a book-length memoir called The Dead Dad Diaries, and putting together two separate poetry chapbooks, which I hope to finish and send off to publishers very soon.
Who/what is your favorite Alice/Alyss?
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Is Moby-Dick worth reading?
Yes, Moby-Dick is worth reading.
No, Moby-Dick is not worth reading
Moby-Dick is contemporarily relevant philosophically
Moby-Dick is incredibly well-written and redefined the construct of novels
Moby-Dick is culturally significant in popular culture and the American canon of literature
Moby-Dick is incredibly and often unnecessarily verbose and puzzling
Moby-Dick is no longer relevant to modern readers
Moby Dick, written in 1851 by Herman Melville, is outdated not just because when it was written but because of its racial content that contributes little towards the development of morals and beliefs for the students reading this but because it lacks lessons meaningful in today's society.
Moby Dick is an obsolete writing that, while a good read during its time, lacks any meaningful contribution for todays readers beyond being considered old literature.
The story of Moby Dick revolves around whaling which in today's society is a dying profession. Japan and Iceland are two of the only countries that are still whaling, allowed only with the permission of 'scientific permits.[1] In the past, whales were hunted for their blubber to make oil.[2] At the height of whaling, from the 1700s to the very early 1900s, most homes still used gas lights and hadn't yet made the switch to electricity. These gas lights used whale oil to operate. The labeling of whales as an endangered species occurred only recently due to overhunting.[3] Teaching history through straight-forward factual accounts is more informative, as the relevance of whale hunting is beginning to wane in today's society. Not only that but Moby Dick is a collection of metaphors formed into a narrative to define man's struggle, morality, and mortality. While these metaphors may have once been relevant, in modern society the story lacks the impact it used to have.[4]
While Moby Dick is a classic piece of literature, that does not reduce its importance or its relevance. The book's following of Ishmael's narrative allows for students to both speculate and discuss the intent of the narrative. Since the readers do not know if Ishmael is truly his name or his origin, the literature is interpretive. [5] The book contains many metaphors about religion, meaning, and morality. These metaphorical qualities not only add to the story's character but allows insight into the characters and who they are as people. Ishmael's experience on the ship also highlights the diversity of characters, races, and experiences in the novel. Though it does have a large focus on Ishmael's line of thinking and the knowledge he possesses, Moby Dick is an excellent introduction to classic American and romantic literature.
[P1] Moby Dick lacks the cultural relevance today that it had in the past.
https://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/endangered_species/cetaceans/threats/whaling/
https://wwf.panda.org/?13796/The-History-of-Whaling-and-the-International-Whaling-Commission-IWC
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/big-fish-history-whaling/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40753648?seq=8#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=8MwvZhV8eLsC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=meaning+of+Moby+dick&ots=Xvjo9Gqhnp&sig=dk2TVsWDH-lO_uAXGhz6V7LE1BM#v=onepage&q=meaning%20of%20Moby%20dick&f=false
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Q: How to create Illuminate\Routing\Route object by route name with parameters? I want to create Illuminate\Routing\Route object by route name with parameters, I stuck here :
$parameters = ['firstParam', 'secondParam'];
$route = \Route::getRoutes()->getByName($routeName);

I can create Illuminate\Routing\Route object but then how to bind parameters ?
When I call :
$route->parameters();

I get this error "Route is not bound. ", so does anybody how to bind parameters ?
PS. I can see function :
setParameter(string $name, mixed $value)

but I don't want to use param name, I just want create route object by route name and params...
I want something like :
Route::create($routeName, ['paramFirst', 'paramSecond']);

A: You may get Illuminate\Routing\Route object by route name  without parameters. But you may set parameters to $parameters public property.
//Illuminate\Routing\Route object

$route = Route::getRoutes()->getByName('route_name');

//Set parameters
$route->parameters = ['id' => 2];

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Robbert van de Corput (born 7 January 1988), who performs under the stage name Hardwell, is a Dutch big room house and electro house DJ, record producer and remixer. He was voted the World's No. 1 DJ on DJ Mag in 2013, and again in 2014. He is currently ranked at No. 3 on DJ Mag Top 100 DJs 2016 poll. Hardwell is best known for his sets at major music festivals such as Ultra Music Festival, Sunburn and Tomorrowland. Hardwell first gained recognition in 2009 for his bootleg of "Show Me Love vs. Be". He founded the record label Revealed Recordings in 2010 and his own radio show and podcast Hardwell On Air in 2011.
If we knew that we wouldn't end up together we would've known the pain it is to be apart.
We would've known exactly where we went wrong and how to fix it so the pain would end.


HOLLAND (WTOL) - Springfield Schools hosted a Safety Forum specifically for parents Thursday night so they can find out first-hand, how the school plans to keep students safe in an emergency.
"It's unfortunate that in this day and age we have to educate a kindergartener or a second grader, 8th grader even a high schooler and prepare them to know this violence could happen at school and what to do with it," said Brenna Kobak, mother to a Springfield Schools 8th grader.
Michelle McDevitt, a police officer, Director of Safety at Lourdes University and mother to a sophomore at Springfield High School, said having a game plan if something happens at school is crucial for survival.
"It may not be perfectly followed when it goes there, but at least you have some kind of system in place," said McDevitt.
Springfield Schools doesn't just plan for a possible active shooter, but because of the location of the school, they look at multiple situations that could unfold just because of the location.
"Springfield schools is along the train tracks, we're very close to Toledo Airport and we're right on Airport Highway, so we prepare for all kinds of events that could put a student or staff at harm," said superintendent Matt Geha.
To ensure Springfield Schools doesn't become part of the norm, a proposed school safety levy will be on the November ballot.
"We will be strengthening our safety and security especially if our additional point nine levy passes for us to do some of these extra safety and security pieces that have the school system be stronger structurally but also gives comfort to students and parents so the education can actually take place," said Geha.
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Hee Haw je první EP australské rockové skupiny The Boys Next Door, vydané v roce 1979 u vydavatelství Missing Link Records. Nahráno bylo v červnu toho roku. O produkci alba se starala skupina The Boys Next Door spolu s Keithem Glassem a nahrávacím technikem byl Tony Cohen. V prosinci 1983 vyšlo album v reedici, ale jako jeho interpret zde byla uvedena skupina The Birthday Party (název, který si skupina vzala krátce po původním vydání alba).

Seznam skladeb

Obsazení
 Nick Cave – zpěv, klavír
 Mick Harvey – kytara, klavír
 Rowland S. Howard – kytara, zpěv, saxofon
 Tracy Pew – baskytara, klarinet
 Phill Calvert – bicí

Reference

EP The Birthday Party
EP z roku 1979
Alba v angličtině
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Q: Angular 6 observables - extract data from .subscribe() function and use it elsewhere I'm banging my head against the wall with observables. Almost all of the documentation I can find is in the older rxjs syntax.
I have an API call which is an observable. I'm calling it elsewhere and subscribing to it - trying to populate a table with the data from this GET request.
If I simply console.log my getData function, it logs the subscription rather than my data.
I can successfully console.log data within the .subscribe function, but I want to use data outside of .subscribe().
How do I extract data out of the .subscribe() function and use it elsewhere? Or, must all of my logic be contained within the .subscribe() function to use data?
getData2() {
    return this.m_dbService.get('api/myApiPath').subscribe(
        data => (console.log(data)), //This properly logs my data. How to extract `data` out of here and actually use it?
        error => { throw error },
        () => console.log("finished")
    );
}

workbookInit(args){
     var datasource = this.getData2();   // this returns the subscription and doesn't work.
}

A: just return the HTTP req from getData() and subscribe it inside the workbookInit function.
getData2() {
    return this.m_dbService.get('api/myApiPath')
}

workbookInit(args){
    this.getData2().subscribe(
        data => {
           var datasource = data
        },
        error => { throw error },
        () => console.log("finished")
}

A: What you probably want to do is to populate another Observable with the data so that you can access it elsewhere in your project without the need for calling the API more than once.
To do this, you create what is known as a Subject (in this case a BehaviorSubject) and you can populate that with data when your API call returns a response.
Then, in order to access this data elsewhere, you can create a "get" function to return the Subject (which is itself an Observable) whenever you need the data.
Here is an example:
my-data.service.ts
myData: BehaviorSubject<number> = new BehaviorSubject<number>(0);

callApi() {
    this.dbService.get('apiUrl').subscribe(
        (data) = > this.myData.next(data) // Assuming data is a 'number'
    );
}

getMyData() {
    return this.myData.asObservable();
}

Now to use this in a component:
this.myService.getMyData().subscribe(
    (data) => { /* Use the value from myData observable freely */ }
);

Or you could rely on the Angular async pipe (which is a very convenient method for dealing with observables in your code).

A: You should not subscribe to the Observable inside getData2. Return it as is instead, then do the following:
var dataSource;
this.getData2().subscribe(res => dataSource = res);

Please note that the variable dataSource will be set when the request is done (asynchronously), so you can't use it immediately in the same block scope.
If you want to use it immediately, then put your code inside the subscription.

A: If you have an observable that provides data to populate a table, the best way is not to use subscribe(), but use the observable directly in your html template by using the async pipe. You'll have less to worry about and your code will be much simpler.


19/06/2009 · cbse has given a list of topics for 10th grade math projects. its in the ncert math lab manual. In case you dont have one, here is an online version..... Pythagoras Theorem and its Extension. Objective. To understand the Pythagoras theorem using geometrical representation by using areas of squares on each side of a right triangle, and extending it to three dimensional objects using volumes.
5/10/2016 · This is very simple project you can easily understood by watching this video.... MATHS PROJECT. BANKING INTRODUCTION WHAT IS A BANK? A bank is a financial institution licensed by a government. Its primary activities include borrowing and lending money.
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7/12/2018 · Friends, Here I am sharing an amazing Maths Project for Class 9 students. The topic of this science project for class 9th students is - Cyclic Quadrilateral.


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Peter Bjorn And John / Breakin' Point
Album: Breakin' Point Collection: General
Artist: Peter Bjorn And John Added: 07/2016
Label: Pbj Musik Ab
Week Ending: 20 Nov 13 Nov 6 Nov 30 Oct 23 Oct 16 Oct 9 Oct 2 Oct
1. Dec 01, 2016: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants!
What You Talking About? 4. Nov 04, 2016: The Road Trip
What You Talking About?
2. Nov 17, 2016: I Like to Dance: Shake Off Your Pants!
Dominos 5. Nov 04, 2016: Time Traveler
Pretty Dumb, Pretty Lame 6. Nov 03, 2016: Melange
DJ Postnatal
Here's another well-mastered, upbeat release from the Swedish trio. The album opens with perhaps the strongest track, weaving in and out of more and less forceful but still well-constructed songs with ever-catchy hooks. Get some energy, harmony, and falsetto into your life!
RIYL The New Pornographers, Jens Lekman, The Arcade Fire
FCC clean
Recommended tracks: 1, 4, 6, 7, 10
1. (3:16) Groovy, clappy dance number to start featuring a piano line. My fave!
2. (3:53) Softer ballad with a faster chorus urging you to seize love when you have the chance.
3. (3:46) Poppy, sweet, saccharine foot-tapper with violins backing up.
4. (2:59) A short number with an 80s cop show piano beat, lots of percussion and sparkly synths.
5. (3:30) Title track that might be a modern version of a prison song. Whistles with a downtrodden feel.
6. (3:45) Beautiful harmonies with wistful lyrics and a fast-paced drumline.
7. (3:55) Mid-tempo with trademark harmonies and a twangy guitar.
8. (3:31) Bright strings and tambourines sounding a lot like the Arcade Fire.
9. (3:15) A sweet, happy ode to someone with fireworks in their eyes.
10. (2:44) Begging that other person to make a choice about love! Guitar, drums, heavy breathing.
11. (3:02) A slower poppy guitar line switching between minor and major key.
12. (3:23) A light-hearted ditty featuring cowbell to end it.
1. Dominos 7. Nostalgic Intellect
2. Love Is What You Want 8. In This Town
3. Do-Si-Do 9. Hard Sleep
4. What You Talking About? 10. It's Your Call
5. Breakin' Point 11. Between The Lines
6. A Long Goodbye 12. Pretty Dumb, Pretty Lame


Yesterday at CES 2018, Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) revealed that its breakthrough HUAWEI Mate 10 Pro will be available in the U.S. through major electronics retailers, including Best Buy, Amazon, Microsoft, Newegg and B&H beginning on February 18, with pre-orders beginning February 4. Huawei also unveiled the world's first hybrid smart home network solution. The HUAWEI WiFi Q2 series is a true plug-and-play Wi-Fi system designed for the entire house.


So that's the game, and no doubt lots of pundits with sprawling op-ed real estate are going to implore the Democrats to stop being such obstructionists and start coming up with their own ideas. Needless to say, Democrats do have an idea for a retirement program. It goes a little something like this: Let's have a universal pension system, financed with payroll taxes, that insures against outliving your savings, disability, death of a spouse or parent, and provides a minimum guaranteed benefit upon retirement. It's a pretty good plan! The only weird thing about it is that it already exists, but I don't see why that's a flaw.
So let's dispense with the "Democrats have no ideas" charade. They have a great idea. But there's another point to make here: obstructionism simply isn't a losing tactic. Recall back to the health care battles in 1993-94. In the early days, Republicans did have their own reform alternatives to the Clinton plan, but slowly retracted them, and beginning in January of 1994, decided it was in their best interest to obstruct the president at all costs. Minority Leader Bob Dole even voted against a health care proposal he had earlier co-sponsored. Meanwhile, Republicans started chanting over and over again, at every turn, that there was no health care "crisis" in America, even though most Americans disagreed. I trust the parallels are obvious.
And yet the Republicans won that battle. Granted, they won for a number of reasons—not least that the Clinton administration made a number of missteps—but the point is that they didn't pay a price for their obstructionism, even when every single pundit in the world was warning them about their "no crisis" line and demanding that they offer an alternative. Democrats are in an even stronger position today. Social Security is healthy, successful, and popular. As BusinessWeek recently reported, voters of all demographics like having a safety net that mitigates the most severe risks of a market economy. No Democrat should ever provide "political cover" to a president who wants to destroy a program that has enjoyed wide bipartisan support for 70 years.


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Bama Central
BamaCentral
Talk of the Tide
Alabama begins preparing for season opener against Duke
Christopher Walsh
Nick Saban's opening comments from his press conference Thursday:
"We started work today on Duke, really for the first time. We used a couple of days this week to really focus on improving and how much we can improve and had each coach on the staff do a little mini-scenario for each player as to what we really need to focus on. We did some work on next year's opponents, but now that we start for Duke, the big question is, what kind of identity is this team going to create for itself, in terms of what they want to accomplish, the standard that they do it to. It's not always about whether you won or lost but how did you win? It's just how did you play? What is your reputation as a player?
"And I think questions that players should ask is, did I play well? Was I accountable to do what I was supposed to do? Did the guy next to me play well. Because, you know, football is a funny game. Ten guys can do what they're supposed to do and if one guy doesn't the play doesn't work. The quarterback gets sacked. Somebody is wide open on defense to make a big play. So everybody's got to do their job. It's a great team game, and if you don't want to play it as a team game, then you can go play tennis or golf where it's just about you. And those are great games and I love them both. And can we win as a team? Can everybody put the team first, play together, do what they have to do to support each other so that we can have great team chemistry. And do we have enough tough guys that are really warrior types in terms of how they compete on a consistent basis so we can sustain the season. That's really where we're at. This is the first opportunity this team has to be judged as to how they play and who they are so we've got lots of work to do, but we're certainly interested in finding out like a lot of other folks probably are."
With Four Returning Starting Linemen, Alabama's Running Game Could be Scary Good
Even though Jedrick Wills Jr. has moved on, Evan Neal looks ready to be a rock at tackle
If You Aren't Sold on Alabama Basketball Yet, Consider This: The Tide's Best Player May Be on the Bench
Despite being ineligible to play this season, guard Jahvon Quinerly is still working on his game and helping his new team
With Najee Harris Returning, Alabama Might Have Deepest Backfield in College Football
Crimson Tide has strong group of veteran, young running backs on roster
Is Alabama Basketball Back? A Midseason Review
With the Crimson Tide's huge 83-64 victory over No. 4 Auburn Wednesday night, it begs the question: is Alabama basketball really back?
Joey Blackwell
Tide in Transition: Alabama has to Regroup in the Secondary, but is Prepared to do Just That
Crimson Tide's defensive backs won't just be Patrick Surtain II and a bunch of question marks
How to get copies of "Decade of Dominance"
Christopher Walsh's latest book about Crimson Tide football and Nick Saban now available
Cary L. Clark
Crimson Tide Roll Call: Jan. 21, 2020
Your daily briefing on what's going on with Alabama athletics, including full TV listings
Alabama Women's Basketball Falls to No. 23/25 Tennessee at Buzzer-Beater
The Lady Vols sealed the win on Rennia Davis' 30-foot fade away
Allie Wright
Jalen Hurts to Wear Special Alabama/Oklahoma Helmet in Senior Bowl
Quarterback to wear logos of both Crimson Tide and Sooners during Senior Bowl game, practices
Former Alabama Player Freddie Roach Poised to Join Coaching Staff
Crimson Tide likely to have new defensive line coach for 2020 season


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Q: How do I customize my Soldier's Emblem? In Battlefield 4 Beta you can create and change emblems for your player to use. How do I make them?

A: First, log into Battlelog and click on "Soldier" section.

Next, click on "Customize" and "Emblem" (you can also change Dog Tags here).

You then get a image editing section. You can create a number of emblems from the shapes and colours shown. I have already had a few (feeble) attempts.

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Rocky Mountain Roughriders AAA Hockey
RoughRiders Selected in Phase I of USHL Draft
05/07/2019, 11:30am MDT
By Derek Robinson
The Rocky Mountain RoughRiders would like to congratulate the RoughRiders that were selected in the USHL Phase I Draft that was held on Monday, May 6, 2019. Phase I of the USHL Draft is ten rounds of "Futures" age players only, which are U17 players for next year's season; 2003 birth year players for the 2019 draft.
Calvin Osterberger was selected in the 5th Round by the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders. Osterberger, a 5'9" Forward from Boise, ID played on the 15U team during the 2018-19 season. "We are so excited for Cal and congratulate him on achieving his goal of getting drafted in Phase 1. It's cliche, but Cal truly is a better person than he is a hockey player. His intangibles coupled with his skill and work ethic make him the total package. Cedar Rapids has a future leader on their hands," said Coach O'Leary.
Dana "Ocean" Wallace was selected in the 8th Round by the Youngstown Phantoms. Wallace, a 6'1" Forward from Boulder, CO, was a member of the Rocky Mountain RoughRiders 12U Tournament team, 13U team and 14U team from 2015-2018. "We are very proud of Ocean. He has worked very hard up to this point and he is passionate about hockey. Ocean will develop into an excellent USHL player as he continues to pursue his dream of playing college hockey," said Coach Vanover.
Congratulations to each of these players and their families. The RoughRiders wish each of you continued success in your future hockey careers.
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Photography is definitely something I have always loved doing. My dad gave me my first SLR film camera when I was 14 and I took pictures of everything. When I was 19 I left home and got a job as a runner in a Post Production house in Soho, London. I worked my way up the ranks and became a Video Editor. I worked on TV shows, commercials and films and met lots of cool people. I really enjoyed the social side but the work itself didn't excite me. What I enjoyed more was filming and editing my partner Toby's motorbike racing videos, (we used to go racing almost every weekend)!
In 2001 Toby and I left England to go travelling. I spent that next year taking pictures all around S.E.Asia. After travelling, we ended up in Sydney for a couple of years, then in late 2003 we moved to New Zealand. Those first few years I worked as an online editor at TVNZ making TV shows. The end of the week would come and we'd more often than not spend the weekend at any one of NZ's many motorbike racetracks, Toby raced and I filmed and took photos. It was at this point I knew that my love for sports photography was born. It was a match made in heaven for Toby and I, both being able to do what we loved - together!
In 2008 our lives changed forever - we had our first child, a little girl, followed in 2010 by another. Fair to say at this point my photography took a change in direction. From motorbikes to kids and it was at this time that I realised that my passion for photography wasn't just for sport, I actually loved taking photos of people as well!
After spending 7 years at home raising my girls I knew that once they were both at school it was time to go back to work. I also knew that going back to a job that I didn't LOVE was never going to be an option so at the beginning of race season 2014, (girls a bit older and not needing my constant supervision) I decided to start taking photos at the track again, this time of the people and not so much the bikes. I took candid, natural shots of all the riders and behind the scenes in the pit area. The response was HUGE and Mad Love Media was born.
'Mad Love' to me equals passion which can relate to anything and 'Media' because I don't just take photos... I can film and edit too.
It has taken me a while to accept that what I see through the lens is not the same as what most other people see. I see beauty in most things, I love light, colour, compostion, shadows and definitely raw emotion, I basically love taking pictures of life as it is, as it happens. I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE taking photos and feel blessed to be in a position where I can do something that makes people smile (or cry) every time. Capturing people at their most natural is what I do best. I document events in their truest most natural form. I defy anyone that says they are not photogenic, we are all beautiful, let me take your pic to prove it!
I am currently working an exciting new venture and will be sharing it with you all very soon. So if you'd like me to take some photos of you or some photos for you please don't hesitate to get in touch.


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és un exjugador de tennis professional francès.

Va destacar en categoria júnior arribant a ser número 1 del rànquing individual l'any 1997, guanyant el US Open (1997) individualment, i sent finalista en el Roland Garros (1997) en dobles junt a Julien Jeanpierre. En el circuit professional no va tenir gaire èxit i només va aconseguir un títol individual l'any 1999, i va arribar a ocupar el lloc 39 del rànquing individual l'any 2000. Va guanyar la medalla de bronze olímpica en els Jocs Olímpics de Sydney de 2000 en categoria de individual derrotant el suís Roger Federer en la final de consolació.

Jocs Olímpics

Individual

Palmarès

Individual: 2 (1−1)

Trajectòria

Individual

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Enllaços externs

Tennistes francesos
Medallistes francesos als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 2000
Esportistes de Casablanca
Tennistes africans


Svaroopa®-style Yoga is a unique style of hatha (posture-based) yoga that helps unravel tension in the deepest layers of the body. Svaroopa®-style yoga works for every body. It creates healing and personal transformation, while opening you to an illuminative inner experience of your own essence, which is the goal of all yoga. Core tensions begin in the muscles around the base of the spine and negatively affect the whole body.
Svaroopa®-style Yoga releases these core tensions, beginning with the tailbone and sacrum, and then carrying the changes through the rest of the spine, the rib cage, neck and shoulders. As the spinal tension releases, the beneficial effects radiate throughout your entire body. Your body feels both more relaxed and alive, and your mind and emotions feel more settled and at peace. A typical session uses props such as chairs, blocks and blankets. Maureen will customize the poses, or asanas, to fit your needs and your body, to help you find a sense of ease, relief, and peace.


Energy production facilities are extraordinarily complex entities. As they grow in complexity with each capital improvement, tracking the documents associated with each element in one of these facilities can be incredibly difficult. Since regulations for these capital improvement projects continues to increase, managing the documents throughout the project lifecycle becomes increasingly critical.
Invoices: every item used in the facility must be connected to a drawing and a part number.
Drawings: this includes the original drawings and the as-builts after the construction process. Drawings are also a part of the handover process.
Human Resources: who was where, at what time, and did they meet appropriate certifications.
Transmittals: documentation sets that must be approved by regulatory bodies, customers and suppliers.
Project Management: documentation supporting construction timeframes and potential risk.
Once an organization understands the documents, internal workflow processes become critical. Having accountable workflow processes answer the question, "Who is responsible for approving what information in what timeframe?" These workflow requirements utilize the documents created internally as well as the data that drives decisions.
Workflow also applies to tracking document generation, modification and record declaration. While documents can change over time, records become part of the body of information used during the project.
How do organizations manage these facilities in light of these complex information, data and documentation environments?
Rapid deployment – Pre-built capabilities eliminate the need for custom solution development for each project, enabling you to create projects quickly and efficiently.
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The Windward Group has a wealth of experience working with energy companies. With countless oil and gas companies using Documentum, EPFM is a familiar technology that provides significant time to market value, reducing risk and enabling energy companies to be responsive to market needs.