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What is Joe Biden's gun control plan?
PRESIDENT-elect JOE Biden has revealed how he plans to tackle gun violence in the US.
Biden, who moves into the White House on January 20, wants to ban assault weapons, enforce stricter background checks, and end the sale of firearms and ammunition online.
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What is Biden's gun control plan?
Joe Biden's plan to end gun violence in the US would involve sweeping changes to federal gun laws, which include universal background checks and an assault weapons ban.
It would also close several loopholes in existing legislation and repeal a law that makes it harder to sue gunmakers and retailers when they manufacture or sell guns they should have known would have been used criminally.
Biden's plan would make sweeping changes to federal gun laws, which include universal background checksCredit: Getty Images - Getty
It would also repeal a law that makes it harder to sue gunmakers when they manufacture guns that they know would be used for criminal purposes Credit: EPA
Biden would prohibit anyone who's been convicted of a hate crime from owning or buying a gunCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Biden's proposal seeks to:
Ban the importation, manufacture, and sale of high-capacity magazines. The ban would be designed to prevent gunmakers from flouting the law by making minor changes that don't limit the weapon's lethality.
Reduce stockpiling of weapons. The Democrat supports legislation limiting the number of guns an individual is legally allowed to by per month to just one.
Require background checks for all gun sales. Biden would enact a universal background check law with few exceptions like gifts between close family members. This would close the so-called "gun show and online sales loophole" Biden and President Barack Obama narrowed during their administration.
End online sales of firearms and ammunition. The former vice president plans to enact a law that would ban all online sales of guns, ammo, kits, and gun parts.
Close the "hate crime" loophole. Biden would prohibit anyone "who has been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in its commission" from buying or owning a gun.
Biden's gun control plan aims to prevent events like the Charleston shootingCredit: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
What is Joe Biden's stance on gun control?
Although Biden is a gun owner himself, he's long supported a stricter interpretation of the Second Amendment.
He voted with Democrats to place a 10-year ban on semi-automatic weapons and voted in favor of the Brady handgun bill that same year.
Biden called assault rifles 'a threat to national security'Credit: Getty Images - Getty
The Brady bill requires a five-day waiting period for gun purchases so that sellers can run a background check.
Biden criticized America's "problem with guns" in an August 2019 op-ed published in the New York Times.
"We have a huge problem with guns, assault weapons - military-style firearms designed to fire rapidly - are a threat to our national security, and we should treat them as such," he wrote.
Biden speaks to supporters
"Anyone who pretends there's nothing we can do is lying - and holding that view should be disqualifying for anyone seeking to lead our country."
During a primary debate last June, Biden claimed "our enemy is the gun manufacturers, not the NRA - the gun manufacturers."
What is the NRA?
The National Rifle Association is a gun rights advocacy group based in the US.
The organization said it had about 5.5million members in 2018.
About one in five US gun owners consider themselves NRA members, according to a 2017 Pew Research Center study.
Biden is set to move into the White HouseCredit: AP:Associated Press
What has the NRA said about Joe Biden?
The NRA believes that Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris "want to destroy the Second Amendment."
With only two days left in this election, Biden reiterated his intent to attack law-abiding gun owners if elected," the NRA wrote on its website.
What is the Second Amendment?
A supporter of Donald Trump holds a gun in front of the Oregon State Capitol building on November 7, 2020, in Salem, Oregon
The Second Amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress on September 25, 1789.
It reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The language of the amendment "has created considerable debate regarding its intended scope," according to the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
"On the one hand, some believe that the Amendment's phrase 'the right of the people to keep and bear Arms' creates an individual constitutional right for citizens of the United States," the LII writes.
" Under this 'individual right theory,' the United States Constitution restricts legislative bodies from prohibiting firearm possession, or at the very least, the Amendment renders prohibitory and restrictive regulation presumptively unconstitutional.
"On the other hand, some scholars point to the prefatory language 'a well regulated Militia' to argue that the Framers intended only to restrict Congress from legislating away a state's right to self-defense."
"While many Americans might expect that our courts would intervene to stop such draconian and unconstitutional policies, Biden has a plan for that too. In numerous appearances, Biden and Harris have both refused to reject the idea of packing the United States Supreme Court to ensure that their unconstitutional polices are not struck down."
The NRA warned that "a plan to pack the Court is a plan to destroy the Second Amendment."
"Biden and Harris have both made their own position on the Second Amendment clear: they don't believe law-abiding Americans have any right to possess firearms at all," the NRA says.
The NRA gave their support to the president, saying Trump "has been a strong defender of the right to keep and bear arms."
President-elect Joe BidenCredit: Reuters
What have presidents said about school shootings?
Over the decades many presidents have had to react to tragic mass shootings, including Donald Trump.
Last year 29 people were killed and dozens wounded in two mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that took place in one weekend.
"These barbaric slaughters are an assault upon our communities, an attack upon our nation, and a crime against all of humanity," Trump said of the shootings at the time.
"We are outraged and sickened by this monstrous evil, the cruelty, the hatred, the malice, the bloodshed, and the terror.
"Our hearts are shattered for every family whose parents, children, husbands, and wives were ripped from their arms and their lives.
"America weeps for the fallen.
Biden criticized America's 'problem with guns' in a New York Times op-ed in August 2019 Credit: Getty Images - Getty
"We are a loving nation, and our children are entitled to grow up in a just, peaceful, and loving society.
"Together, we lock arms to shoulder the grief, we ask God in Heaven to ease the anguish of those who suffer, and we vow to act with urgent resolve."
Trump has a mixed record on gun control, according to FactCheck.org.
US Election 2020 – Stars head to polling stations and urge people to vote as Trump and Biden go head to head in final push


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The Foundations Of Islam by Imam Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab(d.1206H)
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The Foundations of Islam by Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab(rahimahullah), Translated by Abu Rumaysah(Daar as Sunnah) Paperback 160 Pages A classical and concise treatise of Imaam Muhammad bin Abdil-Wahhaab known as Masaa-il-ul-Jaahiliyyah or "Aspects of the Days of Ignorance." The source treatise consists of 128 aspects that the disbelievers adhered to at the time of the advent of Prophet Muhammad (SAWS) which he came to oppose them in. The author extracted these aspects from the Qur'aan and Sunnah and summarized them in a short treatise as individual points
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Until You Return To Practising Your Deen By Shaykh Muhammad Abdul Wahab Marzooq AL-Banna (Rahimahullah)
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It's not for nothing that rice and beans is such a staple dish in so many parts of the world (Kelly has already written about this here). Not only is it the ultimate budget food, but when eaten together, rice and beans form a complete protein (you could argue that the inclusion of chicken in this dish is a bit of protein overkill). It's also wide open to interpretation — just have a look at all the variations listed in this article (or see this lentil‐rice salad with chorizo). Another option would be to make this smoked paprika roasted chicken from Simply Recipes for dinner one night, then use the leftover shredded chicken in this dish the next day.
Far from being a bland, stodgy bowl of starch, this recipe is full of flavor, not least because of the whopping 2 1/2 tablespoons of ancho chile powder or smoked paprika called for. I was afraid it would be too spicy or overpowering for my small children, but they loved it. We had big bowls of it on its own as a cheap and cheerful midweek meal, but a simple salad of chopped romaine with this tangy avocado dressing or some cheese quesadillas served alongside would round things out nicely.
For a vegetarian version, simply omit the chicken and only use 1 1/2 tablespoons of ancho chile powder or smoked paprika; I think next time I'll substitute some feta cheese for the chicken. Rick Bayless says he also sometimes adds a big handful of spinach along with the green onions or herbs.
Heat the oil in a medium‐large heavy pot over a medium‐high heat. Sprinkle both sides of the chicken breasts first with salt, then with 1 tablespoon (yes, tablespoon!) of the ground ancho chile powder or smoked paprika. Place them in the hot oil in a single layer (do this in two batches if need be so you don't crowd the chicken in the pot). Brown for 2 to 3 minutes per side. Remove to a plate to cool, leaving behind as much oil as possible.
Add the onion and rice to the pot. Stir for a few minutes, until the rice turns opaque. Add the garlic and the remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons (again, that's not a typo) ancho chile powder or smoked paprika and cook for 1 minute. Add the stock and salt (use less salt if your stock is already quite salty). Stir well. When the mixture comes to a boil, reduce the heat to medium‐low and cover the pot. Cook for 10 minutes.
Uncover, sprinkle on the green onions or cilantro and test a grain of rice: it should have no more than a hint of chalkiness in the center; if it's still too firm, cook for another 5 minutes or so. Otherwise, simply re‐cover the pot, remove it from the heat and let it stand for 5 to 10 minutes to finish cooking the rice in its own trapped steam. Fluff the rice mixture with a fork and serve with the salsa on the side.


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Actress Loulou Taylor bitten six times in seal attack
The seal was first spotted in the shallows before it latched onto a young boy. It could be seen entering the water before making a beeline for the youngster.
Beachgoers rushed to his rescue before it turned on Loulou. The terrifying moment was caught on camera by one witness.
The seal nips at the youngster's heels as he tries to run away before attacking him in the waves.
Several men were seen pushing the seal pup away before dragging the boy from the sea.
The animal then swam directly towards Loulou, who was on her own further out at sea.
She let out a shriek as she tried to fight off the animal.
Several people rushed to help her, before a man grabbed the animal and threw it back into the sea once everyone was out of the water.
Loulou said on Instagram that she was bitten six times and had to go to a hospital for treatment. She also included an image of the 'Jaws' poster with the great white shark replaced by a seal. She said that algae bloom that releases neurotoxins are to blame for the increase in seal attacks. The actress explained that it was "more than likely global warming/water pollution".
According to reports, two people were treated for bite wounds following the seal attack.
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Lejaren A Hiller: Computer Music Pioneer
Summary of exhibition held in the University at Buffalo Music Library, May 24-September 7, 2004. This exhibit presents a brief biography of Lejaren Hiller, including documents from the University at Buffalo Music Library. It contains a section on Hiller's collaboration with John Cage on their composition, HPSCHD.
Lejaren Hiller Resources
Guide to holdings by and about Lejaren Hiller in general collections and archival collections, including books, scores, recordings, and audio.
Levine Packer (Renée) Papers (Mus. Arc. 75)
Renee Levine Packer was the managing director of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts. Her papers include correspondence with major artists.
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Collection consists of 1 scrapbook of clippings about Pearl Radcliffe Lindal's career as a songwriter and eleven of her songs as published in collections. Material inserted into the scrapbook includes correspondence and additional prose writings by Lindal.


Today we are going to talk about a very essential and popular item in every electrical system. Its importance spreads over power plants, houses and small apartments.
We can't deliver electricity to any load without it; a circuit breaker. Therefore, Yasser one of the member of our community blog sent us this guide in which he hits some points regarding it. Enjoy!
MCB stands for Miniature Circuit Breaker. It is a vital circuit breaking component found in today's modern electrical distribution system. It replaces earlier method of circuit breaking done via melting fuse wire.
A melting fuse wire system is replaceable type of circuit breaking in which the fuse wire melts and permanently breaks the circuit upon an overload current event. Due to this hence it is quite cumbersome to each time replace and fix a new fuse wire.
A miniature circuit breaker on other hand is reusable type of circuit breaking device that is nowadays widely used in homes and offices.
While the main purpose of this article is about selection of MCBs, it is worth summarizing the working principle of MCBs in brief.
MCB is a compact cased device that has an electro-mechanical mechanism inside that provides overload protection.
When it comes to the usage of home appliances, one of the most important areas is that of short circuits.
There are a number of reasons behind this issue, but the important point is that the issues can be resolved by opting for some measures.
The first thing to know about the domestic appliances that you use have a certain operating limit. Due to large scale consumption, some devices have "overshooting" issues.
The overshooting has a significant outcome; there is a direct contact between two points of different electric potential, leading to a short circuit.
In the case of DC supply, the reason is either the contact between two poles or between the ground and the pole insulated from it.


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Drakelands Mine, also known as Hemerdon Mine or Hemerdon Ball Mine, is a tungsten and tin mine. It is located  northeast of Plymouth, near Plympton, in Devon, England. It lies to the north of the villages of Sparkwell and Hemerdon, and adjacent to the large china clay pits near Lee Moor. The mine had been out of operation since 1944, except for the brief operation of a trial mine in the 1980s. Work started to re-open it in 2014, but it ceased activities in 2018. It hosts the fourth largest tin-tungsten deposit in the world.

A new company, Tungsten West plc, now plan to re-open the mine in 2022, after investing to alter the processing plant. A ground up review lead to the recognition that the ore is not in fact Wolframite, but is in fact a related ore, Ferberite, and changes were needed to improve extraction efficiencies. In addition, a subsidiary will enhance the mine with aggregate sales as a by-product of mining.

Geology
The Hemerdon deposit is centered upon a sub vertical, NNE-SSW striking, 100+ m wide Early Permian granite dyke hosted by Devonian metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks. Mineralisation is overwhelmingly associated with moderately to steeply NW-dipping greisen-bordered quartz-ferberite± cassiterite sheeted veins. The resource size and dyke host are, to date, unique in SW England.
The Hemerdon Ball granite is an outlying cupola intrusion surrounded by Devonian slates, known regionally as killas. Fractures in the granite and killas have been penetrated by mineralising fluids containing metallic ores in the area around the mine. Two types of vein are discernible with three different orientations. Quartz and quartz-feldspar veins form a stockwork with minor mineralisation, whilst greisen bordered veins are found in a sheeted vein system with ferberite and minor cassiterite mineralisation.

The mineralisation begins at surface and extends to depths of at least . The vein system is hosted in a dyke like granite body, extending from the Hemerdon Ball towards the Crownhill Down granite. It is flanked by killas, formed by contact metamorphism, which also contains veins although wolframite and cassiterite is found as a lower percentage of the rock bulk. Kaolinisation occurs to depths of up to  in the granitic body.

The locality is renowned for its high quality scorodite specimens, which are among the best in Europe. Pharmacosiderite, Cassiterite, Ferberite and Wolframite of specimen quality have also been recovered from the mine. Scorodite and Pharmacosiderite are secondary arsenate minerals, that form in the upper oxidation zones of ore bodies. They are formed from alteration of arsenopyrite, and are found in the weathered zone of the deposit. At depths beneath the existing pit it is likely they will become scarce.

History

1867–1959

The Hemerdon tungsten-tin deposit was discovered in 1867.  In 1916, due to war associated tungsten shortages, an exploration and development program was initiated, which outlined a tin-tungsten stockwork suitable for open-cast extraction. In 1917, Hemerdon Mines Ltd decided to construct a 140,000-tonne per year mill, and shortly afterwards open-cast ore mining operations began. The mine was operated in 1918–1919, during which time it processed 16,000 tonnes of ore. When the British government stopped accepting tungsten ores under the war pricing scheme the mine was forced to suspend mining operations.

Several attempts were made to establish a higher and stable price for tungsten from the government, including an application supported by Winston Churchill for recognition of wolfram mining as a key industry. However, after further price decreases, milling operations were suspended and the mill components were sold off.
In 1934 increased tungsten prices resulted in renewed prospecting of the deposit, along with metallurgical testwork. In 1939 further shortages of tungsten due to WW2 led to Hemerdon Wolfram Ltd constructing a 90,000-tonne per year mill with 55% wolfram recovery, which began operation in 1941.

The Ministry of Supply carried out extensive evaluation of tungsten deposits in the UK, and it was concluded by 1942 that Hemerdon offered the most potential for producing tungsten on a large scale. The government took over the mine from Hemerdon Wolfram Ltd. A resource of 2.5 million tonnes of 0.14% tungsten trioxide in addition to tin was outlined, and a new plant was hastily constructed.

The new plant took over operation from the old plant in 1943, and theoretically should have been able to treat over 1 million tonnes per year; however labour shortages and mechanical faults resulted in a much lower production. Ore output from a mixture of underground and open-cast mining methods was documented as over 200,000 tonnes, with a resulting 180 tonnes of tin/tungsten concentrate during the period of government operation. Operations ceased in June 1944 due to access to overseas supplies being restored.

The plant was kept in place after the war, and the government was rumoured to have planned restarting production during the tungsten shortages associated with the Korean War. However, nothing came of this and following the Westwood Report in 1956, the government decided to seek a private partner to move the mine's development forwards. After further decreases in the tungsten price, resulting in the closure of the Castle-an-Dinas Mine tungsten mine in Cornwall, the government sold off all the plant in 1959.

1960–2006
However, in the mid-1960s work on the prospect was recommenced by British Tungsten Ltd, owned by Canadian entrepreneur W. A. Richardson. In 1969 a planning application for open-cast working of tin, tungsten and china clay was submitted, but it was withdrawn before a decision could be made. Further work commencing in 1970 by British Tungsten Ltd increased the resource to 5.6 million tonnes of ore.

The leases were transferred to Hemerdon Mining and Smelting Ltd in 1976. They initiated a drilling programme shortly before they entered a joint venture to develop the project with international mining firm AMAX in 1977. An extensive exploration programme costing in excess of $10 million was completed between 1978 and 1980. By the end of 1978, deeper drilling enlarged the resource size to 20 million tonnes of ore. In 1979 this was expanded to 45 million tonnes. At the end of the exploration programme in 1980, over  of diamond drilling had been undertaken, outlining a resource of 0.17% tungsten trioxide and 0.025% tin over 49.6 million tonnes.

Bulk sampling of the deposit using an underground drift for ore, and a pilot HMS and Gravity plant for processing, was undertaken in 1980. On average recoveries of around 65% were made, although in excess of 70% was achieved. The final revision of the mining feasibility study concluded in 1982 that a within a global resource of 73 million tonnes of ore, at grades of 0.143% tungsten trioxide and 0.026% tin, there was an in pit reserve of 38 million tonnes, at grades of 0.183% tungsten trioxide and 0.029% tin.

The venture was joined by Billiton Minerals Ltd, providing further finance and expertise, and forming a consortium that planned to commence production in 1986.  The initial planning application was made in 1981, but a public enquiry and 'calling in' of the application by the Secretary of State resulted in an initial refusal of the application in 1984. This resulted in Billiton Minerals Ltd pulling out of the consortium. Hemerdon Mining and Smelting Ltd also sold their 50% stake in the project to AMAX. After making a revised application, permission was finally obtained in 1986. By then a collapse in the prices of both tin and tungsten had damaged the economic feasibility of making an investment in opening the mine. Its tungsten assets were passed on to a newly formed holding company, Canada Tungsten Ltd, in 1986.

Canada Tungsten implemented the planning permission that was obtained in 1986, and kept the project in its portfolio of prospects for many years. Before AMAX was sold to Phelps Dodge, it gradually transferred Canada Tungsten into the ownership of Aur Resources. In 1997, a new company, North American Tungsten plc, purchased all the tungsten assets from Aur Resources, and was listed with the aim of reopening the Cantung mine, and developing the Hemerdon and Mactung prospects.

However, during a review of peripheral assets in 1999, it decided that with the depressed prices of tungsten, the Hemerdon prospect was not central to its future. With upkeep costs of in excess of C$150,000 per annum, almost a third of the company's annual costs, attempts were made with the mineral rights holders to reduce fees. The negotiations were unsuccessful and therefore during 2000, two of the three mineral rights were surrendered. To further reduce costs, it disposed the remaining assets of the Hemerdon prospect in 2003.

The concrete roads constructed around the Second World War mills up to the open-cast area at the top of the hill were used by the Plymouth Motor Club and Plymouth Kart Club for speed hill climbs until approximately 1972.

2007–2018
Sustained tungsten metal price rises resulted in a five-fold increase in the price of ammonium paratungstate (an intermediate product of tungsten), from around US$60 per STU in 2003, to in excess of US$240 per STU from 2006. This has resulted in increased tungsten mining exploration and development activities globally since 2005.

In June 2007, ASX-listed specialty metal exploration and development company, Wolf Minerals, suspended trading of shares pending the acquisition of mineral leases. On 5 December 2007, trading recommenced following the public announcement of acquiring the mineral leases for the Hemerdon Mine project. The mineral leases were made for a period of 40 years, with the Hemerdon Mineral Trust and the Olver Trust. An agreement with Imerys to purchase remaining mineral rights and freehold land was also made. Following agreements with local landowners to acquire surface rights, Wolf Minerals renamed the project the Drakelands Mine to "recognise the local community".

SRK Consulting were commissioned to produce a JORC-compliant resource using previous drilling data. This was released in March 2008. Subsequently, it has been updated twice by SRK Consulting to incorporate new drilling data and revised geological modelling. The resource of over 300,000 tonnes of tungsten metal makes Drakelands the fourth largest tungsten deposit in the world. In 2009, funding for a DFS (definitive feasibility study) was achieved with the support Resource Capital Funds and Traxys, completed in May 2011. Mining operations commenced in 2014, with first ore into the plant June 2015 and first concentrate production scheduled for September 2015. The project has planning permission dating back to 1986, which is valid until 2021. If production levels were achieved as anticipated, the mine would have been the largest tungsten concentrate producer in the world. A planning application was submitted to extend the pit slightly further to the southwest to further increase reserves.

Wolf Minerals ceased trading operations on 10 October 2018, as the mine never achieved extraction or financial targets. Despite such losses, the site is still thought to have potential as the site retains large ore deposits and valuable infrastructure.

2019–2022
Tungsten West plc, which floated on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market on 21 October 2021, have taken over the mine. They have conducted a review starting from the basics, of what is required to fix the problems that caused Wolf Minerals to fail. A better understanding of the mineralogy, with associated changes to the processing stream, and aggregate sales should lead to the mine re-opening at scale in 2022.

Processing

The Drakelands processing plant relies on a number of different processes to recover tin and tungsten and discard gangue minerals such as arsenopyrite and haematite. Broadly speaking, the process involves crushing and sizing, followed by gravity separation on fine material and dense media separation (DMS) on coarse material. The concentrates from these processes are then milled, followed by flotation and roasting, finishing with magnetic separation and further gravity separation to produce the final tungsten and tin concentrates respectively.

The processing plant was built by GR Engineering Services from Perth and consists of a primary/secondary crusher building near the mine and stockpile, feeding the main processing plant via conveyor, and a tertiary crusher building. Design recoveries of tin and tungsten are in the range of 58–66% depending on feed type (soft granite near-surface, hard granite towards depth), with grades of over 60% tungstate and tin as final products.

Crushing and sizing
Two Sandvik hybrid rolls crushers perform the primary and secondary crushing duties at gaps of approximately 60 and 40 mm respectively. These crushers were preferred over jaw crushers as they should cope better with the high clay content of the ore in the early years of operation. The secondary crusher product is conveyed into a Sepro scrubber where the material is washed to remove fines sticking to the coarser material. The majority of material from the scrubber reports to a double-deck screen, sizing at 9 and 4 mm. Oversize material from the scrubber and this screen (over 9 mm) is conveyed to two Sandvik cone crushers with a closed size setting of 12–15 mm, before returning onto the scrubber screen. Material between 9 and 4 mm in size reports to the DMS circuit. The undersize material from the scrubber screen (less than 4 mm) is pumped onto a second screen where it is sized at 0.5 mm. The oversize for this screen makes up further DMS feed, and the undersize from this screen (less than 0.5 mm) reports to a large holding tank that stores feed for the gravity circuit.

Gravity separation
Wolframite and cassiterite are heavy minerals, making them very suitable for recovery by gravity separation. The gravity separation process at the Drakelands processing plant starts two steps of desliming using Multotec deslime cyclones, designed to cut at 63 and 45 micron respectively. The underflow from these spirals goes to three banks of eleven 3-start MG6.3 Mineral Technologies spirals (99 spirals in total), producing a rougher concentrate that reports to the cleaner spirals, a middlings product that goes to a bank of 33 middlings spirals and tailings that go to the 25 m diameter thickener. The middlings spirals (also MG6.3) tailings go to the thickener, and the concentrate is sent to the cleaner spirals. The cleaner spirals (four MG6.3) tailings are recycled to the rougher spirals and the concentrate is sent to Holmans tables for further refining.

After dewatering using Multotec cyclones, two Holman's Wilfley shaking tables are used to produce a rougher table concentrate. This concentrate is sized at 90 μm using a Derrick screen and dewatered using cyclones followed by two further steps of cleaning/recleaning (also on Holman's Wilfley shaking tables) to produce the final coarse and fine gravity concentrate. The tailings and middling from the rougher table reports back to the rougher spiral feed, whilst cleaner table middlings/tailings are sent back to the rougher tables and re-cleaner table middlings and tailings are sent back to the cleaner tables.

Dense media separation
The −9 +0.5 mm fraction produced by the crushing/washing/sizing circuit is stored in a feed bin with approximately 4-5h capacity. A prep screen washes any remaining <0.5 mm material that inadvertently reported to the DMS feed into an effluent tank. The over-0.5 mm product reports into two mixing boxes where it is mixed with primary DMS dense medium, before being pumped up to the primary DMS cyclones. There are two identical DMS circuits consisting of three Multotec cyclones fed by VSD pump set at 180 kPa and a cut density close to 2.7 g/cm3, so as to separate out the majority of silicates whilst not losing any particles containing heavy minerals. The floats and sinks from these cyclones report to drain/rinse screens where the respective products are separated from the medium. Primary DMS floats go to the tailings storage facility via conveyor and large storage tanks, whilst sinks are sent to the secondary DMS circuit for further refining.

The secondary DMS circuit further refines the primary DMS sinks, producing a final DMS concentrate (sinks). The cut point of this circuit is around 3.2 g/cm3, allowing rejection of binary particles with excessive silicate content as well as any heavier gangue particles. The floats are sent to an Ersel ball mill operating in closed circuit with a double-deck sizing screen. The over-1.7 mm portion of the mill product returns to the mill for further grinding, the −1.7 +0.5 mm product makes up scavenger DMS feed, and the below-0.5 mm product is combined with DMS effluent cyclone underflow to make up additional feed to the fines storage tank. The scavenger DMS circuit is identical to the secondary DMS circuit but operates on a finer feed. Floats report to the mill for further grinding and sinks make up an additional stream of DMS concentrate.

The medium in the primary DMS circuit consists of a mixture of milled ferrosilicon and magnetite, with the exact mix regulated to maintain appropriate medium stability. The secondary and scavenger DMS correct mediums consist purely of atomised ferrosilicon. All correct mediums are kept at the correct density using a set of densifiers, supplemented by low intensity wet magnetic separators (LIMS) removing ferrosilicon from the dilute medium. The non-magnetic proportion of the LIMS feed reports to the same effluent tank that also contains the below-0.5 mm proportion of the feed removed by the prep screen. The DMS effluent is dewatered using a set of cyclones, with the underflow reporting to the fines storage tank feeding the gravity circuit.

Concentrate processing
The feed into the concentrate processing section is made up of fines concentrate (less than 0.5 mm) and DMS concentrate (−9 +0.5 mm), containing mainly of wolframite, cassiterite, iron oxides, and some silicates and arsenic minerals. The DMS concentrate is fed into a regrind ball mill which operates in closed circuit with a 450 micron Derrick sizing screen. The fines concentrate reports onto this Derrick screen directly to avoid over-grinding of the finer portion of this stream. The undersize of the regrind mill sizing screen is pumped via a dewatering cyclone into a conditioning tank. In this tank, several chemicals are added to enable sulphide flotation in three Outotec Denver flotation cells, targeting removal of arsenopyrite. The sulphide concentrate (floats) is pumped to the thickener for disposal, and the underflow (roaster feed) is dewatered using a filter belt. In the soft granite the arsenic occurs mainly as scorodite, which cannot be floated.

The roasting process involves drying using a Drytech pre-dryer that thoroughly dries the pre-concentrate before feeding into a reduction kiln. This kiln uses diesel as a reductant to generate carbon monoxide, which reacts with haematite and other iron oxides in the feed at approximately 700 °C, to create magnetite or maghemite whilst leaving other minerals largely unaffected. This process changes paramagnetic haematite into ferromagnetic maghemite/magnetite. Wolframite, like hematite, is paramagnetic and without this reduction step separation of haematite and wolframite would be impossible using magnetic separators.

The reduced ore from the kiln is cooled and fed onto a low intensity magnetic separator (LIMS) which is designed to remove the now highly magnetic iron oxides, which are sent to the tailings thickener. The non-magnetic product from the LIMS is sized at 150 μm on a dry Derrick screen before free-flowing to a multi-stage high gradient disc electromagnetic separator (VOG HIMS), with the goal of separating tungsten from non-magnetic minerals such as cassiterite and silicate. These HIMS produce six streams of varying quality tungsten concentrate grading up to over 60% tungstate.

Removal of wolframite and other paramagnetic minerals leaves a coarse and a fine non-magnetic stream rich in tin and silicates. Refining of this stream to remove silicates (mainly quartz and tourmaline) is done using Holmans Wilfley shaking tables. The tailings from this process are combined with the LIMS tailings before pumping to the tailings thickener. The concentrate is filtered on a belt filter before drying in a smaller dryer.

See also
Mining in Cornwall and Devon
Dartmoor tin-mining

References

Notes

External links

Tungsten West company website
Mindat online database on Hemerdon Mine
BBC Devon – Hemerdon Mine History

Tungsten mines in England
Tin mines in Devon

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The deteriorating conditions that had been forecast for days hit on Saturday, exacerbating the bush fires blazing across southern Australia. Across the country, the horror summer claimed three more lives on Saturday. A a man who was attempting to defend a friend's rural property in Batlow, NSW was found unconscious in a ute. The bodies of father and son Dick and Clayton Lang were found in and near a burnt out car on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. But the number of people listed as missing in Victoria dropped, with now only six people who cannot be accounted for. As of 11pm, there were 10 fires burning with an emergency alert warning in NSW, some of which were creating their own weather patterns. There were another 12 fires at emergency alert level in Victoria and another at evacuate now. The emergency level blazes include five in the Snowy Mountain region and five near the NSW far south coast. As the southerly change moved its way up Eastern Australia, it pushed the fires north with it and and created dangerous conditions. Several sites have set record temperatures, including Penrith which hit 48.9 degrees, Canberra at 44 degrees and Albury at 46 degrees. NSW Rural Fire Service community safety officer Marty Webster says there was an "enormous" amount of fire in southern NSW and conditions had been worsening in line with forecasts. "Our grave concern is for people who haven't acted on our advice and are in bushland areas," he said. NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean has pleaded for users in NSW, the ACT and Victoria to reduce their power usage after bushfires in the Snowy Mountains region cut off a major interstate transmission line. LIVE: Updates on the bushfires burning around Australia NSW Rural Fire Service commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said the weather hit the state about 5pm and moved slowly up the coast. "It's going to be a very long afternoon and evening and, as that southerly approaches, it's going to be a volatile southerly with wind strengths up to 80km/h or more," he said. "A long, difficult few hours, a dangerous set of a few hours given the amount of emergency alerts out there. "Of course, we expect that that could deteriorate further this afternoon with more fires starting to spread and increase in activity." Meanwhile, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced extra federal help, and up to 3000 army reservists and an extra naval ship will join bushfire disaster and recovery efforts. Four extra firefighting planes will also be leased to tackle the blazes. Australian Defence Force bases from Brisbane to Adelaide will be opened to accommodate bushfire victims left without somewhere to stay. READ MORE: Defence is poised to set up a national task force to coordinate personnel involved in bushfire assistance across the country. It will also deploy more planes and helicopters to help with transport and evacuation in bushfire areas. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the state was in for a long night with the worst of the conditions yet to hit. "And I make no bones about that," she said on Saturday afternoon. "To date, fortunately, we have had no advice on any lives under threat or lost. However, it's a very volatile situation. "We ask everybody to follow the RFS advice to take cover if you are still in one of the fire zones or to ensure that you are in one of the safe zones that have been designated in your community." On the NSW far south coast, the Clyde Mountain and Currowan fires are both burning at emergency alert level and out of control late Saturday. All areas between Nowra and Kioloa east of the Princes Highway should seek shelter as the Currowan fire approaches. The window of opportunity to leave had closed, the Rural Fire Service said at 3.30pm. It is too late to leave the Coolendel and North Nowra areas. The fire has crossed the Shoalhaven River and areas between Nowra and the Kangaroo Valley should continue to monitor conditions and be alert to embers and spot fires. It is also too late to leave North Batemans Bay, Surfside, Long Beach, South Durras and Maloneys Beach as the Clyde Mountain fire approaches. At 9.30pm Saturday, five fires at emergency warning levels were burning out of control in the Snowy Mountain region. They were: Dunns Road, Adaminaby Complex, Doubtful Gap Trail, Good Good and Inaloy Trail fires. The Dunns road fire is threatening Ellerslie, Adelong, Mundaroo, Ournie, Mannua, Wondalga, Kunama, Batlow and surrounding areas. It is now too late to leave those towns. The Adaminaby fire is threatening Yaouk in the north and Lake Eucumbene in the south including Adaminaby and Shannons Flat, where it is too late to leave. There are no active fires in the ACT but the Adaminaby Complex poses the greatest current risk of crossing into the territory. READ MORE: By about 3.30pm on Saturday the expected southerly shift had hit Merimbula, Victoria. Soon after, the sky turned a vibrant orange as smoke billowed through from the devastating fires in Victoria. People were largely caught unawares by the conditions with many returning to their homes from the shops, while others were spotted walking their dogs. Conditions quickly deteriorated and the smoke became thicker with ash and debris enough to burn eyes, while the sky darkened to an ominous red by 5pm and hazing to near-black by about 5.15pm. In South Australia, two people have died in a bushfire on South Australia's Kangaroo Island. There is a watch and act alert in place for the fire which has destroyed about 100,000 hectares. The NSW bushfire death toll sits at 17.
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January 4 2020 - 11:10PM
Horror conditions hit southern Australia as bushfires blaze
Daniella White
The deteriorating conditions that had been forecast for days hit on Saturday, exacerbating the bush fires blazing across southern Australia.
Across the country, the horror summer claimed three more lives on Saturday. A a man who was attempting to defend a friend's rural property in Batlow, NSW was found unconscious in a ute. The bodies of father and son Dick and Clayton Lang were found in and near a burnt out car on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. But the number of people listed as missing in Victoria dropped, with now only six people who cannot be accounted for.
As of 11pm, there were 10 fires burning with an emergency alert warning in NSW, some of which were creating their own weather patterns. There were another 12 fires at emergency alert level in Victoria and another at evacuate now.
The emergency level blazes include five in the Snowy Mountain region and five near the NSW far south coast. As the southerly change moved its way up Eastern Australia, it pushed the fires north with it and and created dangerous conditions.
Several sites have set record temperatures, including Penrith which hit 48.9 degrees, Canberra at 44 degrees and Albury at 46 degrees.
NSW Rural Fire Service community safety officer Marty Webster says there was an "enormous" amount of fire in southern NSW and conditions had been worsening in line with forecasts.
"Our grave concern is for people who haven't acted on our advice and are in bushland areas," he said.
NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean has pleaded for users in NSW, the ACT and Victoria to reduce their power usage after bushfires in the Snowy Mountains region cut off a major interstate transmission line.
LIVE:Updates on the bushfires burning around Australia
NSW Rural Fire Service commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said the weather hit the state about 5pm and moved slowly up the coast.
"It's going to be a very long afternoon and evening and, as that southerly approaches, it's going to be a volatile southerly with wind strengths up to 80km/h or more," he said.
"A long, difficult few hours, a dangerous set of a few hours given the amount of emergency alerts out there.
"Of course, we expect that that could deteriorate further this afternoon with more fires starting to spread and increase in activity."
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced extra federal help, and up to 3000 army reservists and an extra naval ship will join bushfire disaster and recovery efforts.
Four extra firefighting planes will also be leased to tackle the blazes. Australian Defence Force bases from Brisbane to Adelaide will be opened to accommodate bushfire victims left without somewhere to stay.
Kangaroo Island fire causes utter devastation, claims lives of two valiant farm firefighters
Worst is yet to come as NSW bushfires rage
Canberra steps up bushfire assistance
Defence is poised to set up a national task force to coordinate personnel involved in bushfire assistance across the country.
It will also deploy more planes and helicopters to help with transport and evacuation in bushfire areas.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the state was in for a long night with the worst of the conditions yet to hit.
"And I make no bones about that," she said on Saturday afternoon.
"To date, fortunately, we have had no advice on any lives under threat or lost. However, it's a very volatile situation.
"We ask everybody to follow the RFS advice to take cover if you are still in one of the fire zones or to ensure that you are in one of the safe zones that have been designated in your community."
On the NSW far south coast, the Clyde Mountain and Currowan fires are both burning at emergency alert level and out of control late Saturday.
All areas between Nowra and Kioloa east of the Princes Highway should seek shelter as the Currowan fire approaches. The window of opportunity to leave had closed, the Rural Fire Service said at 3.30pm.
EMERGENCY WARNING: Currowan Fire. The fire continues to burn quickly towards the coast. All coastal areas east and west of the Princes Hwy between Nowra and Kioloa should seek shelter as the fire approaches. #NSWRFSpic.twitter.com/5zj1Bn9Dmm
— NSW RFS (@NSWRFS) January 4, 2020
It is too late to leave the Coolendel and North Nowra areas.
The fire has crossed the Shoalhaven River and areas between Nowra and the Kangaroo Valley should continue to monitor conditions and be alert to embers and spot fires.
It is also too late to leave North Batemans Bay, Surfside, Long Beach, South Durras and Maloneys Beach as the Clyde Mountain fire approaches.
At 9.30pm Saturday, five fires at emergency warning levels were burning out of control in the Snowy Mountain region. They were: Dunns Road, Adaminaby Complex, Doubtful Gap Trail, Good Good and Inaloy Trail fires.
It's about to hit #Adaminaby We are just north of town with @NSWRFS and @ACT_ESA crews #NSWbushfires@SBSNewspic.twitter.com/A7DEofCk7D
— Brett Mason (@BrettMasonNews) January 4, 2020
The Dunns road fire is threatening Ellerslie, Adelong, Mundaroo, Ournie, Mannua, Wondalga, Kunama, Batlow and surrounding areas. It is now too late to leave those towns.
The Adaminaby fire is threatening Yaouk in the north and Lake Eucumbene in the south including Adaminaby and Shannons Flat, where it is too late to leave.
There are no active fires in the ACT but the Adaminaby Complex poses the greatest current risk of crossing into the territory.
More emergency alerts as Vic fires worsen
PM defends walking off from distraught mum
Locals prepare to flee to NSW beaches
By about 3.30pm on Saturday the expected southerly shift had hit Merimbula, Victoria.
Soon after, the sky turned a vibrant orange as smoke billowed through from the devastating fires in Victoria.
People were largely caught unawares by the conditions with many returning to their homes from the shops, while others were spotted walking their dogs.
Conditions quickly deteriorated and the smoke became thicker with ash and debris enough to burn eyes, while the sky darkened to an ominous red by 5pm and hazing to near-black by about 5.15pm.
In South Australia, two people have died in a bushfire on South Australia's Kangaroo Island. There is a watch and act alert in place for the fire which has destroyed about 100,000 hectares.
The NSW bushfire death toll sits at 17.
This story Horror conditions hit southern Australia as bushfires blaze first appeared on The Canberra Times.


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In years past, the holiday feast with your family hasn't gone so well. Not
everyone gets along! This year, you resolve, will be different. You're going to
find the optimal seating arrangement and avoid all those awkward conversations.

You start by writing up a list of everyone invited and the amount their
happiness would increase or decrease if they were to find themselves sitting
next to each other person. You have a circular table that will be just big
enough to fit everyone comfortably, and so each person will have exactly two
neighbors.

For example, suppose you have only four attendees planned, and you calculate
their potential happiness as follows:

    Alice would gain 54 happiness units by sitting next to Bob.
    Alice would lose 79 happiness units by sitting next to Carol.
    Alice would lose 2 happiness units by sitting next to David.
    Bob would gain 83 happiness units by sitting next to Alice.
    Bob would lose 7 happiness units by sitting next to Carol.
    Bob would lose 63 happiness units by sitting next to David.
    Carol would lose 62 happiness units by sitting next to Alice.
    Carol would gain 60 happiness units by sitting next to Bob.
    Carol would gain 55 happiness units by sitting next to David.
    David would gain 46 happiness units by sitting next to Alice.
    David would lose 7 happiness units by sitting next to Bob.
    David would gain 41 happiness units by sitting next to Carol.

Then, if you seat Alice next to David, Alice would lose 2 happiness units
(because David talks so much), but David would gain 46 happiness units (because
Alice is such a good listener), for a total change of 44.

If you continue around the table, you could then seat Bob next to Alice (Bob
gains 83, Alice gains 54). Finally, seat Carol, who sits next to Bob (Carol
gains 60, Bob loses 7) and David (Carol gains 55, David gains 41). The
arrangement looks like this:

          +41 +46
     +55   David    -2
     Carol       Alice
     +60    Bob    +54
          -7  +83

After trying every other seating arrangement in this hypothetical scenario, you
find that this one is the most optimal, with a total change in happiness of
330.

What is the total change in happiness for the optimal seating arrangement of
the actual guest list?

## Part Two
In all the commotion, you realize that you forgot to seat yourself. At this
point, you're pretty apathetic toward the whole thing, and your happiness
wouldn't really go up or down regardless of who you sit next to. You assume
everyone else would be just as ambivalent about sitting next to you, too.

So, add yourself to the list, and give all happiness relationships that involve
you a score of 0.

What is the total change in happiness for the optimal seating arrangement that
actually includes yourself?

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Hopefully not wet and wild.
Summon the power of the sea before jumping into the pool and spicing up the party while also making people wonder if you're wearing really rad underpants or if you keep an Aquaman outfit on underneath your clothes all the time.
Covered in Aquaman's scales along with his aquatic super seal, I'd say these should be worn if you're ever on a boat trip out at sea. Just to be safe.
My husband loves Aquaman and he's going to love these briefs!
Wearing them is like going under water, smooth and comfy; I understand now how Aquaman feels.


In 2005, Highpoint Editions proudly presented Breathing Spaces, an exhibition featuring prints from a three-year collaboration between Boston-based artist Joel Janowitz and Master Printer Cole Rogers. Among the lithographs and monotypes on view are scenes from the Wellesley greenhouse (a space that Janowitz has long explored) and images of dogs engaged in gestural play. Janowitz is well known for his masterful ability to instill a realistic setting with a dream-like, meditative mood, and these qualities are prominent in the new work.
The story of Joel Janowitz's collaboration at Highpoint begins in 2002, when Cole Rogers and Executive Director Carla McGrath invited the artist to visit Highpoint and begin a new body of prints. Janowitz traveled to Highpoint that July, where he worked on a variety of litho plates and stones. The greenhouse imagery and "Dark Dog" images produced during the visit would set the theme for the overall project.
After Janowitz departed, Rogers and staff pulled additional lithographs from these original sources. Some of them were mailed to the artist, who layered on additional monotype in his Boston studio; others were editioned here at HP. Over time, more prints and drawings were sent back and forth in this fashion. Another short trip to Minneapolis by Janowitz added to the momentum and informed the project even more.
The resulting prints faithfully capture Janowitz's unique artistic vision and delicate, painterly hand. As different environments coexist in a greenhouse space, clear representation and mysterious abstraction come together in these new prints. In Janowitz's greenhouses, lighting and color have been exaggerated or muted to an unnatural degree. Yet, the viewer is able to gather a complete picture of the space—one that is inviting and evocative of misty air and thriving plantlife, but viewed through the lens of another time or place.
More information on Janowitz is available on his Artist page.


For every ton of paper made from recycled materials saves 17 trees, 6.953 gallons of water, 463 gallons of oil, 587 pounds of air pollution, 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space, and 4,077 kilowatt hours of energy.
In one year, recycling allows aluminum companies to save the equivalent of more than 19 million barrels of oil – enough energy to supply electricity to about 18 million households for a year.
Recycling one glass bottle or jar saves enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
Recycling one pound of steel can power a 60-watt light bulb for more than a day.
Making cars from recycling aluminum decreases related air pollution by 95 percent.
Making recycled paper generates 74 percent less air pollution and 35 percent less water pollution, and uses 64 percent less energy than making paper from virgin timber.
If all morning newspapers in the US were recycled for one day, the equivalent of 41,000 trees would be saved and 6 million tons of waste would never end up in landfills.
Motor oil never wears out, it just gets dirty. Oil can be recycled, re-refined, and used again, reducing our reliance on imported oil.
Recycling creates jobs and economic development.
Home recycling deverts tons of materials from landfills daily.
The recycling industry supports 4.3% or more jobs in many states.
The average wage paid in the recycling industry is +$36,00.00 per year.


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Ocean Park art in Orange County
by Sarah A. Spitz March 1, 2012 November 10, 2014
This is one of roughly 80 works by artist Richard Diebenkorn that will be on display at the Orange County Museum of Art as part of the exhibit 'The Ocean Park Series.'
(photo by Orange County Museum Of Art)
Richard Diebenkorn put Santa Monica's Ocean Park on the map the world over. Every major museum owns at least one of the iconic paintings in his "Ocean Park Series" — only two own more than one. He worked on them in his studios on Main Street at Ashland Avenue over a 20-year period. There are nearly 500 pieces in the series; 140 paintings, many drawings, collages, paintings on cigar box lids and prints, his most celebrated body of work.
At Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in Newport Beach, 80 selections from the "Ocean Park Series" are together for the first time, all in one place. It's a monumental, historic achievement.
In this 50th anniversary year of OCMA (through its various incarnations), the show is also a homecoming for Diebenkorn, championed early on by OCMA's forerunner (Pavilion Gallery), which presented a survey of his work in 1965. LACMA followed suit in 1977, with a widely acclaimed career retrospective.
There's a personal connection to his art for me: For many years, when meeting in former KCRW General Manager Ruth Seymour's office, we'd look up from our basement bunker to see part of an Ocean Park painting that Ruth had replicated on the inner wall of the well beneath the grate that gave us the only outdoor light we received downstairs. It was a reminder of the nearby neighborhood above ground.
A shorthand version of Diebenkorn's trajectory sees him moving from abstract expressionism in the late 1940s, early '50s to figurative/representational painting in the '50s and '60s, back to abstraction in the late '60s, '70s and beyond. But this is far too simplified a description for an artist so deeply consumed with achieving "rightness" — the changing quality of light, dimensionality, layering of colors, sense of place, geometric balance within the frame, or as he put it, "The idea is to get everything right — it's not just color or form or space or line — it's everything all at once."
Diebenkorn was influenced by many artists but his eyes were opened especially by Cezanne and Matisse; he underwent another visual revelation while flying over the Southwest, struck by the flat plane of the landscape, the gridlines of the "Earth's skin" and the intersection of geographic features. These all play into the "Ocean Park Series."
Diebenkorn pursued his own path, continuing to paint after painting was declared dead, painting figures when abstraction reigned, returning to abstraction and architectonic shapes when hyper-real Pop and conceptual art were capturing the art world's attention.
Already a recognized artist, he'd also taught elsewhere by the time he joined the UCLA art faculty in 1965; he and his wife Phyllis settled into Santa Monica Canyon. By 1966, he found his first Ashland studio, later moving into Sam Francis' studio on Main Street, where the first Ocean Park painting was born in 1967.
The paintings are strikingly large — Diebenkorn was 6 foot 2, and he could paint as far as he could reach; and the new Sam Francis studio offered considerably more space and much more light.
About that light, Diebenkorn's friend and colleague Peter Levitt writes in the exhibition catalog: "I remember… the unique and beautiful quality of the light, how from morning to night the sky's variable shades of blue seemed to retain a moist translucence, as if the color rose from the nearby sea to cool the heated summer air. And yet … the air retained enough of the desert dryness, where it was also born, to almost flatten out the blue color of the sky… . The angle and intensity of what I came to think of as 'Ocean Park light' were so much a part of our daily lives that we could tell the time of day by the hour it bounced off the stucco walls of the modest ocher, russet, or pale blue homes, or the white wooden cottages that made that neighborhood a world."
Diebenkorn captures that world and that light in "The Ocean Park Series," on view at the Orange County Museum of Art through May 27. Call (949) 659-1122 or visit www.ocma.net.
Sarah Spitz is a former freelance arts producer for National Public Radio and a producer for public radio station KCRW-Santa Monica. She reviews theatre for LAOpeningNights.com.
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June 19, 2011(ADDIS ABABA) – The Ethiopian parliament during its 27th Cabinet meeting this week added a total of five domestic and international groups to its terror list, according to a statement by the government.
Accordingly, the home-grown political organizations namely - the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and Ginbot 7 are labeled as terrorist groups under the country's anti-terrorism Proclamation.
"The Oromo rebel group (OLF) overall carried out 106 deadly terrorist acts inside Ethiopia" the Ethiopian government said.
In 2007, the ONLF rebel group carried-out attack on a Chinese-run oil venture which killied 74 people including nine Chinese working for the Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration company.
The session also enlisted some international terrorist group, Al-Qaeda and the Al-Qaeda-linked Somali Islamic militants Al-Shabab to its list of terrorist organisations.
The house said the move will help Ethiopia under-cut terror threats in its soil and also to the region that has become highly vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
The horn of Africa country has been targeted by regional terrorists groups that had links to al-Qaeda after intervention in the US-backed invasion in neighbouring Somalia in 2006.
Islamic extremists led by Al-Shabab waged attacks against Ethiopia following the entry of Ethiopian forces to Somalia, which aimed to cripple the insurgency against the internationally-backed Somalia transitional government.
Al-Qaeda along its regional affiliates poses direct threat against U.S. interests and allies in East Africa. Ethiopia, U.S. close ally on the war-on-terror, is well focused to threats posed by the Somalia-based Al-Shabab.
In a statement the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) office based in Eritrean capital, Asmara, downplayed the decision saying "it only is the latest episode in the drama of the government aimed to divert the Ethiopian peoples and international community from its hapless groping to check the looming popular uprising".
"Hence the issue of labeling the OLF as a terrorist linked organisation is another way of diverting attention from the legitimate quest of the Oromo people for freedom and democracy. It is also an attempt to divert the attention of the international community by raising the issue of terrorism so that the regime will have free hand to suppress the popular uprising using their usual brute force" it said.
The east African region is considered as one of the safe havens for international terrorist groups.
Africa's porous borders, poor security at sea and airports as well as luck of coordinated counter-terrorist task forces, conflict and political instability among others have created conducive environment to terrorist groups.


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Six years ago, a market leader of respiratory care devices and $10 billion in annual sales, decided to re-imagine its flagship product.
The flagship product is the PB980 ventilator, familiar to clinicians in hospitals throughout the U.S. and 150 countries worldwide.
After spinning off from Tyco International and inheriting this brand along with other Tyco Healthcare brands in 2007, the company management concluded that increased competition and the possibilities afforded by advancing ventilator technologies were raising the bar within this vital product category.
The company imagined a slimmer, sleeker successor. A primary goal was to enhance safety by creating the ideal user experience, consisting of an intuitive design with easy interactions. In particular, they sought to address the perceptions of one important user category – neo-natal intensive care specialists –who perceived the existing product as bulky and taking up too much space in equipment-intensive NICU rooms.
Like any major medical product manufacturer, the company faced the enormous challenge of making certain that the product being brought to market aligned with user needs identified through design research at the beginning of a lengthy and complex development process.
After being selected as the company's industrial design partner, MindFlow Design began conducting design research to study how respiratory therapists, nurses and biomedical technicians used the PB980 ventilator and its competitors' ventilators in multiple hospital settings. MindFlow Design also solicited the opinions of the company's sales, marketing and research and development teams. Once stakeholder needs were fully understood, MindFlow Design presented its concept for a thinner, sleeker ventilator that would revitalize the brand while simultaneously addressing adverse perceptions of size and bulk.
At the start of the engagement, the client empowered MindFlow Design to fulfill the role of advocate throughout the process for the original design intent, preserving alignment with the executive team and internal stakeholders' original expectations. It would have been easy for the design to stray off course without consistent design leadership over the duration of the project.
The client expected that the redesign would be a multi-year project, and indeed it was. Over the six-year product development span there would be changes in project team members and an increase from 10 to 70 in the number of company engineers involved, leading to periodic requests to alter the new design. Fortunately, MindFlow Design's engagement was continuous rather than periodic, so when such requests were made, we were present to provide guidance aimed at accommodating the change while preserving the design intent.
One of the reasons the company chose MindFlow Design was for its design-related engineering capabilities, which the client felt were integral to the process. MindFlow Design co-developed the device's graphical user interface, battery charging system and special NICU cart, as well as a lift system for loading it into vehicles. A MindFlow Design engineer worked side-by-side with company' engineers at their offices for two years, evidence of a fruitful and deepening strategic partnership where constant communication was critical.
MindFlow Design believes that the company's consistency in adhering to its original design precepts will help the PB980 earn outstanding marketplace success.


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  Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(myJpgPath, options);
  jpgView.setImageBitmap(bm);

Can anyone help?

A: You can just use bitmapdrawable, e.g.
ImageView jpgView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.ImageView01);
String myJpgPath = "/sdcard/pic.jpg";
BitmapDrawable d = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), myJpgPath);
jpgView.setImageDrawable(d);

A: The image won't be shown if you open the emulator directly from the eclipse, by clicking run. You'll be able to access the SD card if you start the emulator using the command line, then click your app on the emulator.

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Efficiency & Environment, Top Stories
Diesel drivers 'should pay up to £800 more in road tax'
A pollution tax of up to £800 should be put on sales on new diesel cars to clean up the air. That's the suggestion of think tank Policy Exchange, which […]
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A pollution tax of up to £800 should be put on sales on new diesel cars to clean up the air.
That's the suggestion of think tank Policy Exchange, which believes that could help generate £500 million a year of additional revenue.
It says the money could be used to fund a new diesel car scrappage scheme with matched funding from car manufacturers, providing £2,000 grants to motorists who scrap old diesel cars or vans and buy a new lower-emission vehicle.
Policy Exchange claims the switch to petrol or alternatives such as hybrid or electric cars could lead to a "dramatic improvement" in air pollution levels.
The fresh call follows a similar proposal from a committee of MPs last year.
Richard Howard, Head of Environment and Energy at Policy Exchange, said: "London and many of the UK's other major cities are facing an air pollution crisis, with residents exposed to illegal and unhealthy levels of NO2 pollution.
"If we are to clean up air pollution, then government needs to recognise that diesel is the primary cause of the problem and to promote a shift to alternatives. This needs to be done in a way which does not unduly penalise existing diesel drivers, who bought their vehicle in good faith and gives motorists sufficient time to respond."
ELN has contacted the Treasury for a comment.
Last year Chancellor George Osborne announced changes to the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) which removed exemptions for low emission cars. From 2017, all cars expect electric vehicles will pay £140 a year.
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Alfonso Michele Litta (* 19. September 1608 in Mailand; † 28. August 1679 in Rom) war Erzbischof von Mailand und Kardinal.

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Familiärer Hintergrund
Alfonso Michele Litta, so sein voller Name, entstammte einer Mailänder Adelsfamilie, die im 19. Jahrhundert mit Lorenzo Litta einen weiteren Kardinal hervorbrachte.

Frühe Jahre
Schon in seiner Jugend stand es mit Littas Gesundheit nicht zum Besten. Er studierte in Salamanca und Bologna und erhielt schließlich die niederen Weihen durch Federico Borromeo, den damaligen Erzbischof von Mailand. Danach war Litta am vatikanischen Gericht in Rom tätig und war in verschiedenen Städten Gouverneur. Als Gouverneur von Camerino lernte er 1639 den dortigen Bischof Emilio Altieri, den späteren Papst Clemens X., kennen und war bald mit ihm befreundet. 1643 war er als päpstlicher Vizelegat in Bologna, Ferrara und der Emilia-Romagna. Erst 1648 empfing er mit fast vierzig Jahren die Priesterweihe.

Erzbischof von Mailand und Kardinal
Am 17. Juni 1652 wurde Alfonso Litta schließlich zum Erzbischof von Mailand ernannt, eine Woche später, am 24. Juni 1652, spendete ihm Kardinal Giulio Roma die Bischofsweihe, Mitkonsekratoren waren Giovanni Battista Spada, Titularpatriarch von Konstantinopel, und Carlo Carafa, Bischof von Aversa. Er hielt insgesamt 15 Synoden ab, darunter zwei große (1658 und 1669).

Papst Alexander VII. erhob ihn am 14. Januar 1664 zum Kardinal in pectore. Erst 1666 wurde seine Kreierung öffentlich bekannt gegeben. Litta erhielt als Kardinalpriester die Titelkirche S. Croce in Gerusalemme. Er nahm an den Konklaven von 1667 und 1669–1670 teil. Trotz seiner schlechten Gesundheit reiste er anlässlich des Jubeljahres 1675 nach Rom und nahm ein Jahr später am Konklave teil, das Innozenz XI. wählte.

Tod
Alfonso Litta starb am 28. August 1679 und wurde zunächst in der Kirche San Carlo al Corso in Rom bestattet. Erst später wurden seine Gebeine nach Mailand überführt. Sein Grab, das er selbst entwerfen ließ, befindet sich im Mailänder Dom.

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Q: Custom Kernel module not being loaded I've modified a kernel module (qcaspi) and recompiled it, however my modifications aren't being called (checked dmesg) when the OS boots up.
Instead, the old kernel module is being run.
If I reload the module with rmmod and modprobe then my changes DO get called.
What's going on there? Where is the OS finding the old module if I modified it and now have a new .ko file?

A: Thanks to the comments I was able to find a solution.
update-initramfs -v -u
This updates the archived kernel modules, the -v is for the verbose option.
Takes a few seconds but once done, I can restart my OS and my new driver gets called right away, instead of the older archived version :).


Ban Muang is reporting that the passport office hopes to have between 3000 and 4000 Thais apply for passports at their mobile 'issuing office' set up at the provincial HQ in Prachuap Khiri Khan this week.
This is the third time that the well-received service is in town. Ban Muang says that it will run every day until next Monday, including on the weekend. Hours are from 8.30am to 4.30pm and the service promises to complete each application, if the ID cards are valid, within only 20 minutes.
The cost of a passport is 1,000 baht with a 40 baht EMS delivery fee to the customer's door within two weeks. Local Prachuap mayor Songkiat Limarunrak was on hand to welcome the service to the area.
So we're now looking forward to the roll out of a mobile service for 90 day reporting and visa extensions.


Written by two of the game's leading authorities, The Tennis Book is the definitive work on one of the world's most exhilarating sports. Loaded with over 200 photographs, this comprehensive volume traces tennis from its aristocratic beginnings in the 1800s to the high-energy, all-action global sport of today. With profiles of court legends, insightful analysis of the greatest matches, and an in-depth look at the politics, controversies, and oddities of the game, The Tennis Book serves up an unmatched collection of aces.


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When you're away from home or the office and you connect to the internet, you'll most often be doing so via Wi-Fi provided by your hotel or the restaurant, library, or coffee shop you're working out of in that moment. Sometimes, the Wi-Fi has a password. Other times, it will be completely open. In either case, you have no idea who else is accessing that network, and therefore, you have no idea who might be snooping on your traffic.
We always advise our readers to take speed tests with a grain of salt; too many factors are at play but believe me there's no such thing as the "fastest VPN," no matter how many companies claim. While reviewing VPNs, we test the internet speed using different tools that measure three essential elements; latency, download speeds, and upload speeds. We compare VPNs, keeping these three areas into mind.
There are a number of ways to use VPN. The most common scenario is when a remote user accesses a private network across the Internet using a remote access VPN connection. In another scenario, a remote office connects to the corporate network using either a persistent or an on-demand site-to-site VPN connection (also known as a router-to-router VPN connection).
IVPN is a Gibraltar-based VPN service whose primary USP is excellent security and privacy. It uses multi-hop technology that routes user traffic through a maze of networks to leave hackers scratching their heads should they attempt stealing your information. However, it offers inconsistent speeds with some servers operating quite fast, while others being slow.
We also dove deeper into the desktop apps of the top-performing services. Great apps have automatic location selection, easy-to-use designs, and detailed but uncluttered settings panels. We set up each service's Android app on a Samsung Galaxy S8 running Android 7.0 Nougat. We took into account how easy each one was to set up and connect, along with what options were available in the settings pane.
TunnelBear has some strong supporters among Wirecutter's staff. The company has a public history of transparency, staff listings, and the clearest privacy policy of any VPN service we've found, plus TunnelBear is one of the only VPNs to release a public audit of its system. But the service was one of the least reliable we tried. In four of our 18 connection tests, we managed broadband speeds; in a handful of others TunnelBear was well below the average, and in even more it failed to provide a usable connection at all. As we were writing this guide, security giant McAfee announced that it had acquired TunnelBear. Fans of the service should keep an eye out for changes to its privacy stance and transparency as the US-based firm takes over.
What's even scarier is the news that Hola, in certain instances, sells its users' bandwidth through a sister company. What that means, the safety experts say, is that if you're using Hola, your computer—working as an endpoint connection for other Hola users—could even be sold to shady characters for questionable or even illegal purposes as they try to stay anonymous on the Internet.
Auto-static refers to the automatic adding of the requested routes as static routes in the routing table. The sending of the request for routes is performed through an explicit action, either through Routing and Remote Access or the Netsh utility while the demand-dial interface is in a connected state. Auto-static updates are not automatically performed every time a demand-dial connection is made.
The free account is limited to a single user, while the premium account enabled unlimited bandwidth for up to five computers or mobile devices. TunnelBear doesn't list the total number of servers on their site, but they do offer servers in 20 countries. Their Windows and Mac OS X client is based on OpenVPN and their mobile VPN system uses L2TP/IPsec. Unlike the previous two recommendations, however, TunnelBear has a firmer stance against file sharing activities and BitTorrent is blocked. Their speeds also aren't quite as fast as the others, so you might experience a slower connection with TunnelBear.
With a StrongVPN account, customers have the ability to choose which server location they want, even down to the specific city. This type of personalized, user-friendly service is also seen with their unlimited server switching, as well as the ability to have up to six simultaneous connections on different devices. StrongVPN supports Mac, Windows, iOs, Android, and even multiple routers, which is a huge plus.
Tunnel endpoints must be authenticated before secure VPN tunnels can be established. User-created remote-access VPNs may use passwords, biometrics, two-factor authentication or other cryptographic methods. Network-to-network tunnels often use passwords or digital certificates. They permanently store the key to allow the tunnel to establish automatically, without intervention from the administrator.


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OG, KING OF BASHAN, DEFEATED
(vs.1-11)
The history of Og's defeat is in Numbers 21:33-35. Moses recounts this. Og and his people came out against Israel to battle, just as the ungodly would oppose the truth of the God of Glory. The Lord encouraged Moses to have no fear, for He had decreed the defeat of this particular enemy (v.2). As God had promised, so He gave Og and all his people into the hands of Israel with the result that no survivors remained (v.3). At the same time they captured all of Og's sixty cities, though they were well fortified with high wails, gates and bars, as well as a great number of rural towns (vs.4-5). The people were totally destroyed, men, women and children, and only the livestock and other spoil were kept by Israel (vs.6-7).
Considering verses 8 to 11 it appears that Bashan was connected with the Amorites, two of whose kings were mentioned as being dispossessed of their land by lsrael at this time. Without doubt the cities spoken of here (v.10) are significant from a spiritual point of view, but it may be safer not to attempt an interpretation of this significance.
However, in speaking of these things, it was the intention of Moses to encourage Israel to be unafraid to enter the land of Canaan and dispossess their enemies there. The terrible, indiscriminate slaughter of a whole culture may seem to us naturally reprehensible. But God is wiser than we. He knows what He is doing. He had told Abraham years before, "The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete" (Genesis 15:16). But now the time had come when it was complete. Idolatry and demon worship had risen to such a height that there was no hope of recovery (1 Kings 21:26). Little children would be better dead than exposed to the evil indulged in by their parents, and parents would be better dead than left to continue in the abominations that were prevalent in their whole society.
ln that area of the Amorites we are told that Og was the last of the giants (v.11). His bedstead was kept as a relic in Rabbah of Ammon, its length being nine cubits (at least 13.5) feet) and its width four cubits (at least 6 feet). His great size must have been intimidating to his enemies, but not to the God of Israel.
LAND DIVIDED BETWEEN THE 2.5 TRIBES
(vs.12-22)
Moses now publicly confirms the way in which he had divided the land already conquered between the two and one half tribes who had desired to remain on the east of Jordan. What had been taken from Sihon king of Heshbon was divided between the Reubenites and Gadites (v.12). The rest of Gilead and all Bashan was given to the half tribe of Manasseh. This area had been called the land of the giants (v.13).
A leader named Jair of the tribe of Manasseh was foremost in capturing the region of Bashan and called Bashan after his own name, Havoth Jair, meaning "villages of Jair" (v.14). Verses 16-17 give a little more detail as regards the possessions given to the Reubenites and Gadites.
Thus Moses reminds them of his command that all the men of war from these tribes should cross over Jordan armed for battle, while their wives, their children and livestock would remain in the cities they had possessed until the Lord gave the enemies of Israel into their hands, then the warriors from these tribes could return (vs.18-20). This tells us that, though they wanted to settle in an area short of their crossing the Jordan, they were not excused from the unity of bearing the same conflict that the rest of Israel bore. Thus, today, if some believers do not have the spiritual energy and faith to enter fully into the blessings of our inheritance in heavenly places, yet they are expected to take part in fighting "the good fight of faith" (1 Timothy 6:12) by which conflict they are identified with all the people of God, and not with an ungodly world.
Moses then speaks of commanding Joshua at the same time that, since Joshua had seen the way in which the Lord had defeated Sihon and Og, then Joshua must have confidence that the Lord would as easily defeat all the kingdoms whose opposition they had yet to encounter. Because Moses was now giving authority into the hands of Joshua, he insisted that Joshua must not fear his enemies, "for the Lord your God Himself fights for you" (vs.21-22)
MOSES REFUSED PERMISSION TO ENTER CANAAN
We can well understand why Moses would plead with the Lord, as they were nearing Canaan, that God would change His mind and allow Moses to enter the land with Israel. He felt that God had only begun to show Moses His greatness, and he was so impressed with the majesty of God's glory that he longed to go over Jordan and see Israel established in their land. but Moses reports to Israel that God had sternly reproved him for his pleading this way, telling him, "Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter" (v.26). He would see the land, but not enter it (v.27). Joshua would take his place as leader of Israel (v.28).
Bibliographical Information
Grant, L. M. "Commentary on Deuteronomy 3". Grant's Commentary on the Bible. https://studylight.org/commentaries/eng/lmg/deuteronomy-3.html. 1897-1910.
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