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Effects of the extraction voltage on the beam divergence for a H- ion source
M. Lindqvist, S. Nishioka, K. Miyamoto, K. Hoshino, J. Lettry, A. Hatayama
Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics
Negative hydrogen (H-) ion sources have a wide range of applications. The general requirement for these H-ion sources is to produce intense H-ion beams with good beam optics. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the effects of the beam extraction voltage on the beam divergence angle by three-dimensional Particle-in-Cell (PIC) modeling. Perveance matching has been studied for a wide range of the extraction voltage with the model geometry of a Linac4 H-ion source. The extracted H-beam divergence angle is evaluated for extraction voltages ranging from 7 to 14 kV by using the Keio-BFX PIC code. The results show divergence minima in the range of 9.2-11.5 kV for the case without surface H-production, which correspond to experimental results. The dependence of divergence on the extraction voltage is explained by the change of the shape of the meniscus. In particular, a flat meniscus corresponds to low beam divergence, and particles extracted through the center of the meniscus have a lower divergence than particles extracted near the Plasma Electrode.
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Lindqvist, M., Nishioka, S., Miyamoto, K., Hoshino, K., Lettry, J., & Hatayama, A. (2019). Effects of the extraction voltage on the beam divergence for a H- ion source. Journal of Applied Physics, 126(12), [123303]. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5116413
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Lindqvist, M, Nishioka, S, Miyamoto, K, Hoshino, K, Lettry, J & Hatayama, A 2019, 'Effects of the extraction voltage on the beam divergence for a H- ion source', Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 126, no. 12, 123303. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5116413
Lindqvist M, Nishioka S, Miyamoto K, Hoshino K, Lettry J, Hatayama A. Effects of the extraction voltage on the beam divergence for a H- ion source. Journal of Applied Physics. 2019 Sep 28;126(12). 123303. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5116413
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Thomas Friedman. Low grades
Go figure Tom Friedman
Op-ed: Top columnist writings on Israel ludicrous, offer wildly contradictory advice
Martin Sherman|Published: 02.14.11 , 18:08
Tom Friedman is journalist of undoubted talent. He has produced numerous insightful and thought-provoking columns on both US domestic politics and on international affairs that range from the ascent of modern India to the potential profitability for inventiveness in environmentally friendly technologies.
However, when it comes to Israel – specifically the Israel-Palestinian question – his writing morphs from the lucid to the ludicrous.
Harsh Words
Friedman: White House disgusted with Israel
Senior New York Times columnist describes Israeli cabinet as 'out-of-touch, in-bred, unimaginative and cliché-driven'; says Jerusalem unable to adjust to changes in Egypt
Indeed, since the beginning of the Obama Administration in late 2008, Friedman has sallied forth with series of articles that have not only been harshly critical of Israel, but also decidedly haughty and hostile. But as irritating as his condescending and contemptuous style may be, what is far more troubling is how the substance of his writings has become so detached from reality and/or so devoid of context.
In his Driving Drunk in Jerusalem (March 2010), Friedman adopted the most malevolent and mendacious aspects of anti-Israeli slander. In it, he suggested that the Israel government was putting the lives of American troops at risk - all because during a visit by Vice President Biden in Jerusalem, it approved an interim planning stage for the future expansion of an existing neighborhood in its capital, situated closer to the Knesset than Du Pont Circle (in central Washington DC) is to the Capitol.
Approvingly he quoted Biden mindless allegation that "What you are doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and endangers regional peace."
It is difficult to know what is more infuriating: Friedman's endorsement of Biden's vicious vilification of Israel, or his ignoring of Biden's outrageous hypocrisy. After all it was none other than Senator Joe Biden who not only supported, but sponsored and/or co-sponsored at least half-a-dozen Congressional resolutions calling not only for US recognition of an undivided Jerusalem as the capital of Israel but for the US to relocate its embassy to the city.
What should we attribute this omission to? Staggering ignorance? Purposeful malice? Hypocritical Opportunism? Professional amnesia? Certainly nothing that one would expect from the pillar of the "paper of record" as the NYT deems itself to be.
Absurd theory
Friedman also gets low grades for coherence and consistency - with his recommendations for US policy swinging wildly from one extreme to the other. Thus, in his Hobby or Necessity? (March, 2010), Friedman deemed an Israeli Palestinian agreement to be essential for US foreign policy and indispensible for its success.
The reason for this alleged US imperative is an imagined causal nexus between Iranian nuclear aspirations and the Palestinian problem. According to "Friedmanian" wisdom, if Israel would only make perilous territorial concessions to an unelected aging leadership and allow the establishment of an unsustainable micro-mini Arab Sunni state, the non-Arab Shiite Persians will somehow be convinced to relinquish their drive for regional hegemony.
Moreover, Friedman appears to think that only once the Palestinians are accommodated, will the rest of the Arab world (which has been responsible for the slaughter of Palestinians on a scale arguably greater than anything Israel is accused of) miraculously acquire a clearer view of their own interests, and allow a more muscular policy toward thwarting Iran's nuclear program.
This absurd theory, that Washington can only galvanize a front against a common threat by undermining its allies, was vividly underscored by the WikiLeaks exposé, which showed that despite the absence of Palestinian statehood, Arab regimes had little inhibitions about pressing the Obama administration to "cut off the head of the (Iranian) snake" before it was too late.
Indeed, Friedman soon abandoned his view that an Israeli-Palestinian deal is an indispensible American foreign policy necessity. In Reality Check (November 2010) he advised: "The most valuable thing that President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could do now is just get out of the picture", i.e. to treat the previous "necessity" with benign neglect and to leave the sides to stew in their own juices.
However, soon after this dramatic "zig" Friedman made an equally drastic "zag". In his recent B.E., Before Egypt. A.E., After Egypt he again urged the administration to "get back in to the picture". He now spurred it to take an active role stating: "Today I believe President Obama should put his own peace plan on the table, bridging the Israeli and Palestinian positions" - which completely contradicts his prior position that this was detrimentally futile…which, in turn, completely contradicted his position prior to his prior position, that this was a crucial necessity. Go figure Friedman.
Obsession with settlements
Indeed, in this article he elevates the art of the non sequitur to formerly unattained levels. Astonishingly, although Friedman recognizes that Mideastern geopolitical structure has undergone tectonic shifts and agrees that "everything we thought for the last 30 years is no longer relevant…(and) everything that once anchored our world is now unmoored," he suggests that we should implement …precisely what he was proposing before these shifts -i.e. massive Israeli territorial concession to the Abbas-Fayyad regime.
Thus, just as overwhelming evidence is beginning to emerge as to the imprudence of an approach that hinges on long-term survival of autocratic Arab-regimes of dubious legitimacy, questionable popular support and aging leadership, he urges Israel to adopt - and the US to expedite - precisely such an approach.
So although Friedman might arguably be right when he states that "Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad have built a government that is the best the Palestinians have ever had", he neglects an "inconvenient truth": The political and socio-economic realities in the PA administered territories still comprise a dysfunctional polity and an unsustainable economy - with around 60% of GDP due to foreign handouts, with disposable income far less than GDP (reportedly about half); and with a perilous combination of an insignificantly tiny productive base and a massively bloated public sector.
Is Freidman seriously counseling Israel to consider this a good long-term bet on which to wager vital national interests?
Finally, no review of Friedman's perspective on Israel is complete without reference to his obsession with "settlements."
As if totally oblivious to the proven futility of a previous 10-month building freeze and the proven irrelevance of settlements as a source of Palestinian intransigence and violence, he severely chides Netanyahu for honoring his pledge to his government and his people by refusing to extend the freeze for two more months. Can Friedman really be unaware that although in Gaza all settlements were razed and even cemeteries uprooted, this brought no peaceable response from Palestinians?
Indeed, quite the opposite, they chose to trample abandoned hi-tech greenhouses, desecrate deserted synagogues and bombard civilian populations, clearly demonstrating the settlements are only an excuse, not a reason, for their enduring hostility.
Indeed, in view of the fact that Israel has evacuated the entire Sinai peninsula, relinquished its oil resources and its foregone strategic depth, has withdrawn unilaterally from the Gaza Strip, has demolished settlements in northern Samaria, has allowed armed militias to deploy in the areas adjacent to its capital and within mortar range of its parliament, it is difficult to imagine anything more galling and absurd than Friedman's accusation in I Believe I Can Fly (November 2010), where he has the temerity contend that the exercise of circumspect caution by the Israeli government "makes Israel look like it wants land more than peace."
Surely the time has come to treat Friedman with the disregard his undisguised bias and his unacceptable bile clearly warrant.
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For Franchot, purchase of 32 Steinway pianos strikes sour note
By By Michael Dresser and The Baltimore Sun
An otherwise harmonious Board of Public Works meeting hit a dissonant note Wednesday when Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot objected to a $553,264 purchase of 32 Steinway-designed pianos for a performing arts center scheduled to open next year at Bowie State University.
Franchot was outvoted by his fellow board members, Gov. Martin O'Malley and state Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp, but not before sounding an alarm that taxpayers were being asked to pay for top-of-the-line pianos at a time of budget austerity.
"I love Bowie State University and appreciate the prestige of a Steinway, but it's the Rolls-Royce [of pianos] and we're in a tough economic time," he said. "I think any taxpayer would arch an eyebrow at this purchase."
Franchot, a Democrat elected in 2006 as a liberal outsider, has more recently been striking a theme of fiscal conservatism. He is regarded as a possible candidate for governor in 2014.
The purchase at issue consists of four Steinway grand pianos and 28 that are made by other manufacturers based on Steinway designs and sold through a Steinway dealer in Rockville. But Franchot didn't see a sufficient distinction.
"Couldn't we have bought a couple of Steinways, and the rest could have been the Chevrolets rather than the Rolls-Royces?" the comptroller said.
The discussion of Steinways came near the end of an otherwise conflict-free meeting at which the board approved many contracts worth millions of dollars with little discussion.
The piano purchase would help equip Bowie State's $79 million Fine and Performing Arts Center scheduled to open early next year. The 123,000-square-foot building will include a 400-seat main theater, a 200-seat recital hall, an art gallery, artists' studios, classrooms, laboratories and offices.
Marymal Holmes, a professor of music at Bowie State, said the purchase would help recruitment of top-notch students and faculty at the Prince George's County university. She said the deal would let Bowie claim the distinction of being the second historically black college in the United States to have an "all-Steinway" music school.
"This will be a tremendous uplift for our institution as well as our students," she said. Holmes, who told the board, "I know pianos," said there is no match for the tone or touch of a Steinway.
Franchot, however, wondered whether 100 people blindfolded in the concert hall could really tell the difference. When Holmes assured him they could, the comptroller remained unconvinced. He said Bowie State should have tried to raise the money to go all-Steinway through private contributions.
The comptroller's office pointed to the successful efforts of other state-supported schools, including George Mason University in Virginia and Columbus State University in Georgia, to buy Steinways largely through donations and drawing on private funding sources.
Bowie State officials said the four full-fledged Steinways would be used in the performance hall, while five Steinway "Boston" models would be used by faculty and 23 Steinway "Essex" pianos by students while practicing. They said that by making the bulk purchase, they received discounts on the price of each piano.
O'Malley, himself a musician, moved for approval. His fellow Democrat Kopp, who described herself as an "appreciator," fell in tune with the governor.
"When you look at what they got . . . it was at a 24 to 25 percent discount," Kopp said. "I thought, all things considered, it was a very good purchase. It symbolizes the importance of the Bowie fine arts program," she said.
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The bell sounds for a wave of retiring Baby…
The bell sounds for a wave of retiring Baby Boom teachers
Marlys Davidson goes through a history lesson at McAuliffe Middle School. She is retiring at the end of the school year.
Garden Grove High School art teacher Robin Repp shows off doors to her former classroom that were painted by former students.
San Clemente High home economics teacheR Lisa Yancey and some of her students organize their cooking utensils.
Garden Grove high art teacher, Robin Repp guides a student through a calk-pastel illustration of a flower during class.
San Clemente High home economics teacher Lisa Yancey ties apron strings for Isaac Moridani during class. "We are still alive," she said of the home-ec program.
Garden Grove high art teacher, Robin Repp checks the progress of a couple of her art students.
San Clemente High home economics teacher, Lisa Yancey brings out aprons for her home economics students.
By Jodie Tillman | Orange County Register
Scrounging for drawing paper. Buying supplies with her own money and even asking her dad to contribute. Teaching in a heavy coat on cold days, as there was no heat.
That's how Garden Grove High School art teacher Robin Repp remembers the days after Orange County declared bankruptcy in 1994.
Now, she said, "it's completely changed."
Her classroom was remodeled last year: new floors and cabinets and sinks, central air and heat, a state-of-the-art projector, a digital clock. And teachers have been getting raises again – just as Repp is retiring.
"I hate to quit now," she said, with a chuckle.
For all the challenges that remain, these are sunnier days in California schools. Funding has been on the rise, and many administrators are hiring again after the recession-era budget cuts that left teachers with bigger classes, smaller paychecks – and fewer jobs overall.
All this just as many of the baby boomer veterans who weathered tough times are getting ready to leave.
As part of the nation's largest-ever anticipated teacher retirement wave, roughly 11,300 California teachers retired last year. That's up slightly from the previous year, though significantly less than in 2009-10, when departures peaked at nearly 15,500, according to state figures.
By 2019, the nation will have lost to retirement half the teachers and principals it had just a decade earlier, a report from the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future predicted in 2009.
Across Orange County, some veteran teachers have begun giving retirement notices for the end of the school year. Besides Repp, their ranks include Lisa Yancey, a San Clemente High School home economics teacher, and Marlys Davidson, a McAuliffe Middle School English and history teacher.
All three have stayed at the same schools their entire career. None is certain she's ready to go.
Lisa Yancey, home economics, San Clemente High School
Live in San Clemente long enough, and you stand a good chance of having tried Mrs. Yancey's berry coffee cake recipe.
"Oh, nearly everybody has had it," said Yancey, 60. It's one of the specialties in her San Clemente High home economic class, which she has taught for 35 years. She has been around long enough, in fact, to have taught the school's assistant principal. ("He was a sweetheart," she recalled.)
Yancey likes to say she has taught "life skills": how to work with children or disabled students as part of her child development course or how to set the table and cook chicken soup in her culinary class. She calls herself a "hot chocolate and a hug" kind of teacher.
One recent afternoon, she was overseeing cleanup day. Students had donned their aprons and gone to work in their kitchenettes, scrubbing appliances and debating where to put spatulas.
"The tops of your tables, let's get them cleaned," said Yancey.
She looked at one of her male students, who had arrived to class wearing a tie and top hat. "Why so dressed up?" she asked. "Just cause," he said. "Oh, I love you," she said with a laugh. "'Just cause.' That's awesome."
Yancey started at San Clemente, a fashion major right out of college, as one of the school's five home-ec teachers. Over time, she became the only one.
"We are still alive," she said of the home-ec program.
But changing. Interior design has gone, and so has sewing. (She has shelves lined with digital sewing machines no longer used.) Her child development students used to help run a daycare, mainly for faculty's children, but that went away.
Cooking still is popular, and she said the school may eventually replace her old-style kitchenettes with the type of modern, industrial kitchen used in other high school culinary programs.
Yancey said she has spent recent years just trying to keep much of her program, an elective, in place. It's unclear, for instance, what will happen to her child development course once she leaves. At a time when the focus is on academic results, home economics doesn't produce many data points for administrators.
But Yancey is content with less tangible impacts. When a depressed-looking student showed up recently for class, she asked him what was wrong. When he said he didn't want to talk about it, she asked him to write her a letter. He did.
"Hey bud!" she later called out to him after reading his note. "You melt me." She touched her heart. "Keep writing!"
Robin Repp, AP studio art, Garden Grove High School
Repp, 67, entered teaching 25 years ago. She was an artist, a UC Berkeley graduate who wanted to change the world with photography. She lived in Tahiti and ran a restaurant and travel company before taking some substitute teaching gigs.
She was hooked, especially after seeing a poster in a faculty lounge room. It quoted the teacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe saying that teaching was a mission.
"You're very much in love with your subject matter," Repp said of teaching. "But you're doing so much more than subject matter. You're helping these kids grow up."
Though the arts are often viewed as vulnerable to funding cuts, Repp said the subject has some important protections, namely that the UC and Cal State systems both require fine art for admission. "Art always fits in," she said.
Repp said she was retiring now partly to concentrate on more of her own work; she's a professional artist and photographer. One recent morning, as her students made pastel drawings of a flower, Repp stepped outside where the cabinet doors from her old classroom still were leaning against a wall. Over the years, students had painted their favorite works on the doors – Mondrian, Hopper, Chagall.
"This is what I miss," she said. She's trying to find a home for them.
Marlys Davidson, English and history, McAuliffe Middle School (Los Alamitos)
One recent morning, Davidson had her eighth-graders discuss their reading assignment, "The Crucible," Arthur Miller's play about the Salem witch trials. But they didn't stop there.
They went on to talk about witch hunts throughout history and what it means to take a stand – whether in politics or on the campus quad. They touched on the civil rights movement, a "Les Miserables" song about fallen revolutionaries, a quote from Thomas Jefferson.
Davidson, 65, put off retirement for classes like this one – a welcome return to the way she taught before standardized testing upended her classroom 15 years ago.
Earlier state testing, she said, forced her to stop asking big questions – like "Who are our heroes in history and why?" – in favor of drilling eighth-graders on important names and events from early man to World War I.
"It was like this march through the curriculum," she said. "The conversations were much more superficial." As a result, she said, students "really became less adventurous writers and daring thinkers."
But the adoption of Common Core standards, she said, "has swung the pendulum back."
Common Core is a set of common English and math standards for K-12 students across the country, which emphasize depth, rather than breadth, of knowledge. Implementing the standards and aligning new standardized testing with them has been highly controversial.
But Davidson says it has worked well in her class. Students learn to work in groups, cite evidence and make connections among their readings in history and literature. So when they read "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," for instance, they also study brain development and Freud. They no longer have to take a standardized history test.
"I see a much stronger curriculum now," she said.
Davidson, who attended McAuliffe as a child, first worked as a flight attendant to travel the world. Then when her daughter started school, she volunteered in the classroom and loved what she saw.
She decided to step down after 25 years on the job in part because of all the out-of-the-classroom work required of teachers. She was spending much of her time at home grading papers. Still, she said, "I absolutely still love my job. I love coming into the classroom."
Davidson said the new generation of teachers has a lot on its plate. She said she would suggest new teachers get mentors and know that they'll have to change, again and again.
Contact the writer: jtillman@ocregister.com
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Kraft shareholders approve sale of company to Heinz
By Jeremy Gerrard
Kraft Foods Group, Inc. shareholders voted Wednesday to approve the sale of the company to H.J. Heinz, creating one of the largest food companies in the world.
According to Kraft, a preliminary count of the votes reveal more than 98 percent of votes cast at were in favor of the transaction, representing more than 69 percent of all outstanding Kraft shares. The transaction will create the third-largest food and beverage company in North America.
"Today's approval to create The Kraft Heinz Company will unite two powerful businesses, deliver incredible shareholder value, and provide a platform for growth both domestically and internationally," said Alex Behring, future chairman of The Kraft Heinz Company and Managing Partner at 3G Capital.
The merger was announced on March 25 and received regulatory approvals in the US and Canada.
Under the terms of the agreement, Heinz shareholders will own a 51 percent stake in the new company while Kraft shareholders will own 49 percent. Kraft shareholders will receive stoke in the combined company and a special cash dividend of $16.50 per share funded by an equity contribution from 3G Capital and Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway.
The combination of these brands creates a global powerhouse—the fifth largest food and beverage company in the world—that joins iconic brands including Heinz, Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Ore-Ida and Philadelphia. According to the companies, together they will have eight $1+ billion brands and five brands between $500 million and $1 billion.
"This truly is a historic moment for our two companies as we combine to become a global food and beverage leader with an unparalleled portfolio of great brands," said John T. Cahill, Kraft Foods Group chairman and CEO and future vice chairman of The Kraft Heinz Company. "It has been a privilege to serve Kraft, and I look forward to continue serving The Kraft Heinz Company on its board of directors."
The new company, which projects revenues of approximately $28 billion, will be co-headquartered out of Pittsburgh and Chicago, the companies' respective homes.
The transaction will close Thursday.
KEYWORDS: food and beverage companies food and beverage manufacturing mergers and acquisitions
Jeremy Gerrard was Food Engineering's Digital/Online Editor. He is a graduate of Auburn University with a degree in journalism. His previous work experience includes years spent as a reporter with the Daily Local News out of Chester County, PA. In addition to writing feature articles for Food Engineering, Jeremy covered the Dry Processing, Field Reports and People and Industry news sections.
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History reflects our present in the new work of esteemed Australian historian Professor Henry Reynolds on the treatment of colonial "do-gooders", writes Jeff Waters.
IT APPEARS Australia's history of persecuting "do-gooders" – people who actually try to do the right thing by others, or speak out for the underdog – is almost as long as settlement itself.
No stranger to the anger caused by exposing uncomfortable truths himself, eminent Australian Historian Professor Henry Reynolds is releasing, this month, a book dedicated to the largely forgotten humanitarians who took on the authorities over the mass killing and generally poor treatment of Aboriginal Australians.
It's a book about the White humanitarians who criticised – from the very earliest years – the way in which Australian settlement was unfolding.
They were often outraged, and wrote letters, and made speeches, and gave sermons, and wrote to government about their concerns about the way Australian settlement was taking place and almost every era, from certainly as early as the 1820s, had these people who I think are very important.
They are like the people who fought slavery in England and also in the United States – but they, of course, have been celebrated in the histories of those places … but almost no-one knew anything about these Australian people, and I did a lot of research and retrieved the careers of many of these people.
The book, just one of the more than ten volumes written by Professor Reynolds, is called This Whispering in our Hearts and will be in bookshops around the country from mid-August.
It's an updated and revised edition of a tome, by the same name, published 20 years ago.
I thought 20 years is a long time ago and in that time there is a whole new audience, so we brought the book up to date.
I think these people should have much greater recognition than they have.
As a result of not being known and recognised, there's a lack of knowledge about this tradition and even the humanitarians themselves didn't necessarily know there had been people in the past who were doing the same as they were, because there was very little historical memory about this tradition.
I think people find it – particularly White fellas find it – an inspiriting story to realise there were people who really put their careers and sometimes their lives on the line fighting for justice.
The book is being published as researchers at the University of Newcastle continue building a new massacre map project.
With more than 200 massacre sites now identified, they say they expect to find at least 500 before the project ends.
One of the most infamous "do-gooder" cases was that of Methodist missionary John Gribble, who, after spending time in the South-East, travelled to Western Australia's northernmost regions.
Gribble was well known for his strong character and famously "accosted" bushranger Ned Kelly after the latter had robbed the entire town of Jerilderie so as to demand the return of his watch.
He became a hated figure who was effectively driven from the colony.
"... made a terrible nuisance of himself and got driven out of the colony in Western Australia, and then, in a strange way, his son took up the cause and he too – in the 1920s – he was the one who exposed the so called Forest River Massacre."
That Kimberley Massacre, in 1926, resulted in 20 Aboriginal deaths.
Once again these people became extremely unpopular and hated because they questioned the whole ethics, the whole morality of Australian settlement, and if you did that you often became immensely unpopular and it was never a good career move.
In the case of the Gribbles they were attacked and this is generally the case, so it is a fascinating continuing story that you can trace back 200 years.
Although The Whispering in our Hearts covers the activities of white "do-gooders" from early settlement, the story doesn't really need to extend past the 1970s according to Henry Reynolds.
By 1972, with the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the Aboriginal flag, the leading role of these white humanitarians had virtually passed.
In a way the leading role of these people was surpassed when Aboriginal organisations began to proliferate.
Thanks to growing Indigenous political self-representation, the crucial need for white advocates faded away.
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Yesterday's housecleaning binge took me down to the basement and into the chest freezer, and soon enough I was sidelined curing pork fatback, which is known as lardo every place without fat-phobia. I've been meaning to get on this one for weeks, since we're about out of the original batch, which began curing in March.
Rinse fatback in cool water and and pat dry. In a mixing bowl, combine remaining ingredients. Coat fatback with cure mixture and wrap tightly in a plastic bag, then wrap bag in a sheet of newspaper (as light will degrade the fat). Weigh with a 5-pound weight and refrigerate. Lardo is ready to use in 4 to 6 weeks, or when the fat feels firm. Adapted from Evan Mallett.
I can't wait to try this. Where can I buy the fatback? Does this need to be refrigerated while it is curing?
We got 20 lbs of fatback with our half-pig, so this is part of the cook-with-the- whole-animal campaign. Another route would be to check with Heath Putnam of Wooly Pigs, who sells at the University and West Seattle farmers markets and may be able to hook you up, or other meat purveyors at the farmer's market. Or check with your neighborhood butcher — there are a half-dozen in Seattle. And I do keep my fatback refrigerated, but those who know what they're doing keep it going in a cool dark place.
Have you brine cured your lardo also or just dry cured it?
After you cure it, how long does it keep and what are the best methods for keeping it.
Heath's supposed to introduce some pure manganitsa this month. I'm sure there are already dibs on his limited supply of fatback and pork belly, but just in case I can get some, I'm contemplating a lardo cure.
So far, I've found a brining recipe and your dry cure.
Hi Greg, thanks for the comment. I've only dry cured lardo, as it goes in back of the fridge and a brine would take up much more space. In my experience, once the salt is rinsed off, the fat is at its best in the first three months or so then starts to taste less fresh.
That said, I've left the salt on for months without a problem, and I've heard that New Englanders once kept salt pork in brine for two years.
I'll be curious to hear what works for you. Hope you're able to get some fatback and belly. Heath's pork is really tasty stuff.
Thanks for posting this recipe. It's been very difficult to find anything on how to cure your own lardo on the internet; I know that there are recipes in charcuterie books but in a pinch those aren't always accessible. I'm in such a pinch as I just picked up a few pounds of fatback from my butcher.
Can you tell me more about the process at the end of the 4-6 weeks? After you rinse (and I presume, dry) the lardo, how do you store it? Would it be possible to freeze it (for eating raw or for cooking)?
Hi Aldous, I've been leaving this stuff in the salt mixture until I'm ready to use it, with the idea that the salt coating keeps other flavors out. I rinse and dry the piece I'm going to use just before I use it. It's cured, so I don't know if freezing adds to storage life and may add flavors you don't want depending on how its wrapped. I've done this technique up to six months after the fat goes into cure but the flavors seem best in the first three months. Let me know how it works for you.


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THE MUNICIPAL JOURNAL – By Royal Appointments
As published in the Municipal Journal on the 24th June 2012 here.
As celebrations of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee draw to a close, Kevin Keith looks at the serious benefits that a royal connection has made to Burnley.
'It starts six months before,' says Steve Rumbelow, Chief Executives of Burnley MBC, who has spoken the words 'Welcome to Burnley Your Royal Highness', four times in the last five years. The most recent royal return was last month on the 16th Mayas the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh joined the Prince of Wales to form a rarely-seen triple royal visit.
The reason for such interest in Burnley stems from a decision in 2008 by Prince Charles, who invited a dozen of his charities to work in collaboration with agencies in and around Burnley on social and economic issues, in particular the regeneration of a cluster of Victorian mills on the Leeds Liverpool canal, known as the Weavers'Triangle.
Dame Julia Cleverdon, Special Adviser to the Prince's charities, says: 'By giving the charities a geographical focus, as was the case with Burnley, it not only allowed those charities to work collaboratively with each other, but it also enabled them to work with all the stakeholders involved with the town's economic and social progress.'
'The Prince's Charities serves as a pivot for improvement – a link between communities, business and the can-do mentality.'
It has been a relationship which has seen the Prince reported in the press as declaring himself a Burnley football Club supporter; has generated huge amounts of public support and interest in aspects of the town's social and economic regeneration; and led to vigorous debate on the town's economic policy priorities.
'I remember being summoned to Clarence House in late 2007 to talk about the Weavers' Triangle,'says Mr. Rumbelow. 'Once these premises produced the most cotton cloth in the world but, at the time, they stood empty.'
'I told Prince Charles how our town could not afford to be sentimental, and that these mills must create jobs for them to remain standing. I subsequently leaned two valuable lessons: he cares and he cares.'
For Mr. Rumbelow, seeing how passionate the Prince was about the possibilities for the Weavers' Triangle and how it could make a difference to people's lives, strengthened the relationship and led to the Prince's first visit to Burnley in almost two decades, in February 2008.
A series of follow-up visits in 2010, 2011 and, more recently, in 2012, have coincided with a series of improvements – most notably, a successful bid to transform a GradeII-listed former mill into a university technical college for almost 800 14 to19 years-olds.
Tim Webber,Managing Director of Barnfield Construction, responsible for the redevelopment of Victoria Mill, says: 'The tension in the room when plans were recently unveiled to Prince Charles was almost palpable. Thankfully, he seemed to approve. People may not recognise the level of interest the Prince takes in these schemes, but it is significant.'
In addition to specific projects Prince Charles would like to see on the day, there is also amore standard set of 'p' words which a council chief executive is likely to find himself involved in with regards to a royal visit – planning, precision and protocols.
A change takes place mid the everyday of council services. Security representatives appear standing in meetings, and are later to be seen securing streets; itineraries are drafted, redrafted and redrafted to account for each minute; and marshals are meticulously briefed and given fluorescent jackets, with fixed points established to be filled with briefed-up media.
Media coverage is one of the contentious points in the organisation of a royal visit as competing objectives line up alongside each other.
Whereas Clarence House or Buckingham Palace set objectives to ensure the work of the Prince receives coverage, so too, the town hopes to promote its progress.
'I have seen council press officers having heated conversations with press secretaries, and press secretaries having heated conversations with other representatives within Clarence House.
'It is all part of the making sure the event is as good as it can possibly be,' says Mr Rumbelow. 'It may sound secondary in the great scheme of things, but royalty matters to business.'
'Managing relationships at this time is particularly crucial as we have businesses genuinely contributing to the betterment of Burnley – finding promotional activity, leading careers events in schools and colleges, and actively seeking to shape economic policy and strategy. And that is something we are intensely proud of.'
Such has been the success of the involvement of the charities in the local area, the Prince of Wales has now recognised that the Burnley model could be replicated in other parts of the UK.
In October 2011, he announced plans to extend the initiative to a further five places – East Ayreshire, Tottenham, Redcar and Middlesbrough, Burslem (Stoke-on-Trent) and Llandovery.
In May 2012, on the occasion of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee visit, Burnley hosted a regeneration summit to see the progress made.
The Queen said: 'The leadership and interest of the Prince of Wales has encouraged and enthused communities to come together to improve their neighbourhoods, their towns and cities and their countries, and ensures that the Prince's Charities focus on the right areas, such as the quality of the built environment and opportunities for young people.'
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Genomic complex for detection, management of critical illnesses through saliva-based DNA analysis comes up
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Gene Valley, the genomic complex set up by Sagenome, will be provided technical support by RGCB
Taking forward far-reaching efforts towards cutting down on illnesses, a cutting-edge initiative that can prevent and manage illnesses in a personalised manner has come up in the Kerala capital. The initiative comes in the form of a technology-driven genomic complex, which is equipped with R&D facility that uses genetic information from saliva to determine a person's proneness to a host of critical diseases.
Termed Gene Valley, the facility set up under the auspices of Sagenome, will have the renowned Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) providing technical support as per a research agreement inked between the two.
Sagenome is an organisation set up by Dr M. Ayyappan, former CMD of HLL Lifecare Limited, and is powered by its platform OhMyGene, which provides clinical diagnostic services in the area of oncology, neurology, cardiology, infertility and gynaecology as also into consumer genomic services using saliva samples. According to Dr Ayyappan, the extraction of DNA from saliva sample has made it extremely simple to guide individuals towards the right lifestyle, drugs and treatments.
Genomic complex to undertake saliva tests to determine ailments
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Discussion in 'Alternate History Discussion: Before 1900' started by Koprulu Mustafa Pasha, Dec 14, 2018.
That was appeasement and made sense at the time, when Communism was the biggest threat to status quo and the traumas of WWI were still pretty fresh on everyone's mind. While we know France and the UK probably could've stopped Nazi Germany's advances dead in their tracks, it came with the risk of another strenuous conflict (since the form of warfare that everyone expected was trench warfare, which was difficult enough to win the first time) when everyone was sick of fighting and afraid of the USSR (and the possibility that they would capitalise on any European conflicts to spread their influence and aid leftist groups). Just letting Nazi Germany get what it wanted and avoiding war seemed to contemporary British and French leaders to be the approach that would guarantee a future free of conflict, saving both money and lives that would otherwise be spent and destroyed senselessly.
Of course, 1939 proved them dead wrong. But we can say that with the benefit of hindsight. We know the extent of Hitler's megalomania and treachery, the Wehrmacht's tactics and the Allies' unpreparedness, and the Nazi's brutality and inhumanity. They didn't, or at least they didn't know those things as well as we do now after the fact.
So was it a poor choice in the long run and a disastrous series of decisions that ultimately resulted in the bloodiest war in all recorded history? Yes. But was it completely irrational and ASB? No, far from it.
It can't be over-stressed just how horrible the first war was. France had six million casualties in a population of 40 million - 15 % of the population. Imagine today's USA having 50 million casualties in four years. How many people would want another war after that?
Not to mention that basically all the towns along the north-east border had been destroyed. A century later farmers still find unexploded ordnance.
It was tragic that Hitler exploited the reluctance of everyone else to fight again, but that reluctance itself was quite understandable.
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Pewdiepie actually winning the Youtube War.
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Some Georgian Priest becoming a literally mustache twirling Dictator that liked the medieval remedy of purging in order to improve his humors.
The founding of the German Empire by celebrating it... Inside the palace of the enemy they had just defeated.
A family squabble of the family ruling most of Europe leading to millions of deaths.
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That the Aztecs appeased their gods with hearts torn from the chests of their enemies, atop giant pyramids. That was pretty ASB.
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The Khemer Rouge killing anyone that could read in a perverted communistic revolution.
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The aversion of nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War, especially when it came down to one soldier's snap decision on at least one occasion, was pretty unlikely.
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Human sacrifice appears to be pretty mainstream at a certain level of cultural development. Inca and Maya followed the same practice and it was apparently common in bronze age cultures. Phoenicia and Carthage may have continued the practice well into the Iron Age.
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3. The small Ottoman Beylik in a small town turning in to one of the largest Empire in two centuries.
That Mesoamericans cultures missed the fact, that round things are good for moving things.
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Sure, if you live in a flat area or have draft animals to pull for you. They're less effective in jungles, hills and the Andes Mountains.
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They had wheels in the Himalayas, so I don't think mountainous terrain is that good an argument.
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The Miracle of the House of Brandenburg.
Ah yes, the bizarre victory of Prussia over Russia where the Tsardom is taken over by a Prussoboo who proceeds to throw away all potential gains and indemnities to his empire to please his senpai.
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In keeping with his understanding of the medieval code of chivalry, King James sent notice to the English, one month in advance, of his intent to invade. This gave the English time to gather an army and to retrieve the banner of Saint Cuthbert from Durham Cathedral, a banner which had been carried by the English in victories against the Scots in 1138 and 1346.
Soon after the battle, the council of Scotland decided to send for help from Christian II of Denmark. The Scottish ambassador, Andrew Brounhill, was given instructions to explain "how this cais is hapnit." Brounhill's instructions blame James IV for moving down the hill to attack the English on marshy ground from a favourable position, and credits the victory to Scottish inexperience rather than English valour.
A later sixteenth century Scottish attitude to the futility of the battle was given by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, in the words he attributed to Patrick Lord Lindsay at council before the engagement. Lord Lindsay advised the King withdraw, comparing their situation to an honest merchant playing dice with a trickster, and wagering a gold rose-noble against a bent halfpenny. Their King was the gold piece, England the trickster, and Thomas Howard the halfpenny.
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I wouldn't say they were "limping in agony" from 750 to 1453. I think the empire was doing ok up to 1071. Even in the 12th century they were not done yet, and probably could have recovered.
The real end was the collapse of the Komnenian system at the end of the 12th century and the decline into the Fourth Crusade of 1204.
After that I think limping in agony becomes more apt.
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Actually, given the degree to which the US is a superpower, it is mildly ASB they haven't expanded even more, especially in the Americas where they are still smaller than Canada geographically. Particularly odd are areas like the Baja peninsula and especially Cuba given how long American ambitions existed towards that island.
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Even more ASB is that USA expanded lesser than in one century only just from coastal British colonies to Pacific Ocean. And another thing is surviving communist Cuba.
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British Raj, it just so happened so coincedentally an industrial revolution bringing enormous military advances was happening alongside a massive empire decaying, not to mention how the British played the Indians off each other and divided and conquer.
No one 300 years earlier would have expected an island with less than 10 million population would come to dominate an entire subcontinent of hundreds of millions of people.
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Well the United States doesn't really have much of an economic incentive in expanding it's territory in the Americas, its perfectly content installing puppet rulers and a sattelite like relationship.
One empire conquered the Mediterranean and held it all together with ancient technology.
China was never a colonial empire. Nor were any of the Caliphates..
Not really that ASB, but it's kind of shocking how there isn't atleast 1 Asian colonial empire. I guess they just didn't have the incentive to explore, find new trade routes and colonize like the Europeans did.
The natural disasters that hit the Eastern Roman Empire in the 6th century, including plague, earthquakes, tsunami, more plague, perhaps meteors and volcanoes causing cold and famine, etc. etc. I know if I lived at that time, I'd be convinced God was bringing about the end of the world.
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Not really that ASB, but it's kind of shocking how there isn't at least 1 Asian colonial empire. I guess they just didn't have the incentive to explore, find new trade routes and colonize like the Europeans did.
There have been at least two - one got dismantled in 1945, the other is still going and recently became the biggest economy in the world.
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Royalist and Commonwealth forces in English civil war actually postpone giving battle until a fox hunt in full cry passes between their opposing armies. During Easter Rising of 1916 a local ceasefire is observed every evening between the forces of Constance Markiecwicz and the local British commander to permit the park keeper to go in and feed the ducks.
Really puts the civil in civil war doesn't it?!
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Citation: Ashton, L.M., Hutchesson, M.J., Rollo, M.E., Morgan, P.J., Thompson, D.J., Collins, C.E. 2015. Motivators and barriers to engaging in healthy eating and physical activity in young adult men [abstract]. International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activiy Annual Conference, June 3-6, 2015, Edinburgh, Scotland. Poster P2.70.
Technical Abstract: Internationally, young men (aged 18-25 years) have a high prevalence of overweight and obesity and many fail to meet recommended levels of physical activity or dietary guidelines. There is a lack of engagement and understanding of young men's needs in health-related research. Therefore, this study aims to explore young men's motivators and barriers to engaging in healthy eating and physical activity (PA). Ten focus groups (approx. 45 minutes; 3-9 participants/group) were conducted in 61 men (BMI: 25.3+/-5.1, Age: 18-25yrs) from the Hunter region, NSW, Australia. Three groups comprised healthy weight (HW) participants, three groups comprised overweight/obese (OW/OB) participants, while four groups included mixed-BMI participants. In total there were 35 (57.4%) HW men and 26 (42.6%) OW/OB men. Four open-ended questions established motivators and barriers. Sessions were audio recorded and transcribed. Data analysis was conducted by an independent qualitative researcher using NVIVO10. Motivators: OW/OB and HW young men perceived similar factors as motivators for adopting healthy eating patterns, with equal attention given to physical health aspects (e.g. to live longer) and social or intrinsic factors (e.g. sexual attractiveness). BMI status had little impact on types of motivating factors perceived to underpin engagement in PA. Amongst the most frequently mentioned were factors relating to physical appearance and social inclusion. Barriers to eating healthy addressed three general categories; those intrinsic to the person (e.g. lack of motivation), logistics (e.g. cost), and social factors (e.g. peer influence). Differences between BMI groups were identified for some intrinsic factors (e.g. Lack of knowledge was only mentioned by HW). Barriers to undertaking PA included lack of priority or value attached to PA (e.g. lack of time), logistical factors (e.g. cost) and personal insecurities (e.g. feelings of inadequacy). Often HW participants discussed barriers hypothetically, perhaps suggesting higher actual PA involvement amongst these participants, whilst OW/OB participants often discussed barriers in a more personal context. Future research involving young men should include strategies to promote the physical, social and intrinsic benefits of PA and healthy eating. Addressing key barriers such as lack of motivation, time constraints and cost may be used to engage this target group.


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His life's work
About the book El Greco, his life's work
With his unmistakeable style, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, widely known as El Greco, created an original iconographic universe that still remains fully relevant today due to its originality and its evocative power. His paintings boast their own particular style and a technical skill that makes El Greco the most original artist of his time.
El Greco is considered as one of the great icons of the history of art and his evolution started off in Crete and Italy. These places would mark his apprenticeship period, in which he learned how to master the formulas devised by the great masters of Renaissance art, such as Titian and Michelangelo. El Greco would then fall under the influence of Mannerism, of which the artist would carry out an autonomous and personal interpretation, providing the unmistakeable sign of identity to his works.
But it was in Spain, and concretely in Toledo, where the painter reached artistic maturity and carried out the most emblematic works of his career. The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest or The Assumption of the Virgin are some of the most important paintings by El Greco during this period of artistic consolidation.
This book published by Dosde gathers together El Greco's main works and carries out a detailed study of the painter's evolution, since his formative years in Greece until his consolidation as an artistic genius during his time in Spain. Its pages closely analyse his paintings, the iconography of his paintings and the main characteristics of El Greco's original style. Thanks to this, the reader is provided with a complete portrait of the great Mannerist painter, a unique artist that left an indelible mark on modern art. A book that belongs to our collection of art books.
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The early works of El Greco
Throughout his career, El Greco managed to secure a style that was both original and recognisable. The start of his career was marked by his time in Crete, his homeland, and Italy, where the painter learnt to master the techniques characteristic of the Renaissance thanks to his period in Venice and Rome.
During his training on the Greek island of Crete, El Greco specialised in the creation of pictures with a religious theme, that fell in line with the ideals of Byzantine art. Meanwhile, the artist assimilated some of the plastic resources typical of European Renaissance painting. Dating back to this period are works such as The Dormition of the Virgin and St Luke Painting the Virgin, which show Byzantine influence.
Already during his training period in Crete, the painter introduced plastic innovations that anticipated his subsequent change in style, which happened in Italy when studying the techniques typical of the Renaissance and where he could free himself from the restrictions imposed by the canons of Byzantine art.
One of the first works that show his direct contact with Italian painting is the so-called Modena Triptych. It was probably painted in the Italian city of Venice, whose iconography and figurative schemes show western influence, although some Byzantine influence is perceived. El Greco's stay in Venice turned out to be transcendental for his career. By carefully observing artists such as the likes of Titian and Tintoretto, El Greco could assimilate the typical features of the Venetian school, such as its taste for colour and light and its sense of scenography and dynamism.
El Greco, his arrival in Toledo
By the time he moved to Spain, El Greco was already a mature artist, thirty-six years old and with a long career behind him, but he had barely had the opportunity to carry out works that truly matched his talent. It was in Toledo, the Spanish ecclesiastical capital and former headquarters of the royal court, where he received his first important commissions.
His first challenge was to carry out the decoration of the altarpiece of the church in the Monastery of Santo Domingo el Antiguo. In the eight canvases carried out for the temple, the artist combined the best of Venetian and Roman painting, using brilliant colour and an expressive stroke. This project coincided with another major work: The Disrobing of Christ, an enormous canvas created for Toledo Cathedral's sacristy.
These two works allowed him to obtain greater visibility in Toledo, where the painter also developed his skills as a portrait painter. Amongst the well-known portraits by El Greco is The Nobleman with his Hand of his Chest, which converted into the archetype of the 16th century Spanish knight.
The most famous paitings by El Greco
After seeing how his chances of working for Philip II were futile, El Greco was forced to rethink his career and he decided to permanently settle in Toledo. By then the painter already enjoyed certain prestige, and was able to work on perfecting his style, creating diverse works that are considered to be amongst the finest art work of the late sixteenth century.
One of his masterpieces is The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, commissioned by the Toledan church of Santo Tomé, which has converted into one of El Greco's most famous paintings. The artist was given virtually free rein to carry out the work, which resulted in a very ambitious composition. He divided the canvas into two levels: on the upper one, heavenly glory was depicted, and on the lower section, the burial scene. The result was a masterpiece capable of combining an extreme eye for detail with a supernatural, symbolic load.
The artist's fortune greatly improved in 1596, when those responsible for the Colegio de la Encarnación, in Madrid, commissioned him with what would become the most lucrative altarpiece of his career. In this work we can appreciate a marked chromatic contrast that announces the painter's change in style, with much more emphasis put on the depiction of supernatural elements. The canvases The Annunciation, Resurrection and Pentecost form part of this ensemble. Dating back to this period are the paintings View of Toledo, Saint Martin and the Beggar and Christ with the Cross.
El Greco's final period
Many of the late works by El Greco consisted of devotional works devised to be reproduced in series by his collaborators. From 1600 the artist introduced a new modality: the apostolates, arrangements comprised of portraits of Jesus Christ and his apostles which were used for ecclesiastical sites.
In the last period, El Greco carried out forays into new iconographic themes, such as his purely descriptive representation of Toledo, depicted in the canvas View and Plan of Toledo, which included the first detailed street map of the city, or the only work by the artist dedicated to classical mythology, the canvas Laocoonte.
In his latter years, El Greco also worked on large altarpieces, such as the one commissioned by Toledo Town Hall for the decoration of the Capilla de Ovalle in the Iglesia de San Vicente. The artist created a large altarpiece presided over by the image of the Immaculate Conception, which was completed in 1613, one year before his death. This work is considered as one of El Greco's best works.


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How did they not notice? Driver of £100,000 Tesla forgets to shut one its 'falcon wing' doors and smashes straight into a London bus
This is the shocking moment a £100,000 Tesla Model X collided with a bus after the driver failed to shut one of its distinctive 'falcon wing' doors.
Footage captured in Southgate, north London, shows the Tesla driver make their way along the road with one of their car doors fully open at around 4.45pm on August 14.
Just seconds later, the open 'falcon wing' door smashes into a double-decker bus approaching from the opposite direction - shattering the glass on the bus windscreen.
It is unclear how the motorist in the footage was not alerted to their open car door which appears to be located on the driver's side.
The Tesla Model X collides with a double-decker bus in Southgate, north London, on August 14
The driver of the Tesla fails to shut one of its distinctive 'falcon wing' doors and continues to drive along the road
During the clip, the driver of the Tesla moves off from a parking bay and merges into traffic.
The motorist continues to drive along the road with one of their car doors fully open.
Within seconds, it collides with the route 125 bus driving in the opposite direction and the bus driver leans away from his steering wheel to protect himself.
The Tesla driver then moves their vehicle to the side of the road as their damaged Falcon door hangs from the side. Tom Cunnington, TfL's Head of Bus Business Development: 'We are aware of an incident involving a route 125 bus on Saturday in Southgate, and a video on social media of the incident that shows what happened from an onlooker's perspective.
'This would have been a very frightening experience for the bus driver, who we wish well, and we are supporting the bus operator's ongoing investigation.'
The Tesla Model X, which is known for its falcon wing doors that open upwards, was first launched by Elon Musk's all-electric-car company in 2015.
The motorist continues to drive along the road before colliding into the route 125 bus driving in the opposite direction
The Tesla driver slows down and moves their vehicle to the side of the road with their damaged door
It is Tesla's most advanced car yet, with radar and sonar systems enabling partial self-driving and an air filtration system or 'bioweapon defence mode' which Musk claims can filter out viruses.
The car also features a warning alarm which is set off when the double-hinged falcon doors are open.
It is unclear how the motorist in the footage was not alerted to their open car door during the incident.
MailOnline has contacted the Metropolitan Police for comment.
The scenes come after one mother accidentally clipped one of the falcon doors on her Tesla Model X in Salt Lake City, Utah, last year.
Meg Jensen, from Salt Lake City, shared footage of her mother accidentally crashing into their garage with her Tesla
Meg Jensen shared footage of her mother colliding into the side of her garage after she dropped her children off at home.
The collision, which saw the open falcon door crash into a wall, caused Ms Jenson's mother to abruptly stop her car.
In a caption on social media she wrote: 'My mom in her Tesla X vs. the Garage... Which will win? Caught on Nest cam security.'
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The Concerned Kids educates children about important social issues through the uniquely engaging art of puppetry and empowers young people to make smarter and kinder choices in all areas of their lives. The Concerned Kids strives to support schools and communities in fostering safe and healthy environments where children are free to learn, live and play.
Since 1989, TCK has been using interactive puppet performances to educate elementary school-aged children about serious and sensitive social issues that affect their daily lives. During our highly successful 2017/18 school season, we delivered over 500 presentations to more than 17,000 students at 77 schools in the Greater Toronto Area. In 2018, we were accepted as a Toronto District School Board partner, allowing us to broaden our reach within the school board.
We have an inventory of 60+ life-sized puppets that represent a diverse group of ethnicities, abilities, and gender-expressions, proudly reflecting Toronto's multiculturalism TCK currently presents 13 grade-specific programs that deal with a variety of important issues including bullying, consent, physical safety, autism awareness, mental health awareness, peer pressure and substance abuse, as well as cyberbullying, gender expression and family diversity.
Our scripts are developed by professional writers, educators and industry professionals, and our performances are both educational and interactive. Each show runs about 30 minutes long, with time allotted for children to interact with the puppets or for follow-up discussions after the presentation. After each performance, students receive activity sheets with supplementary information about the topics presented to encourage further conversation in the classroom, with their peers, and at home.
TCK's goal is to arm students with the necessary skills for healthy social development, and to empower young people to fulfill their potential as successful and contributing adults. Our programs are designed to foster safe and inclusive school environments that support and inspire children to lead healthy, active lives.
The Concerned Kids educates elementary school-aged children about serious and sensitive subject matter, faced on a daily basis. Through the uniquely engaging art of interactive puppetry, young students are empowered to make kinder and informed choices, thus helping our schools and communities to become a safer place to live, learn and play.
This charitable organization began in Toronto in 1988 (incorporated by January 1989) as a recognized need by educators and community groups to reach children in a creative way with effective messages concerning HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse.
Four women knew that through experiential puppet performances they would be able to reach students through the use of this non-threatening media of interactive puppetry. Young people become enthralled when puppets speak…the more senses that are engaged, the more likely that the information will be retained.
The charity's puppet performances are presented by volunteer and professional puppeteers who have undergone 36 hours of extensive training & rehearsals in a style of Bunraku puppetry. The puppets allow for a non-threatening manner of engagement in a factual, unbiased, entertaining way that helps to build problem-solving abilities, learning alternatives to bad or unsafe behaviour (right from wrong) and teaches students to act with kindness and respect.
The charity's program roster has addressed serious and sensitive subject matter on topics of HIV/AIDS; bereavement; multiculturalism; bullying & school safety; alternatives to gangs, violence & prejudice; and peer pressure & substance abuse.
Our community-based Volunteer Board of Directors was formed in June 1990. The Board of Directors, staff, puppeteers, and puppets reflect the ethnocultural mix of the student population being addressed.


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S Bahn
SBahn is the commuter train that links Vienna Airport and downtown. It is without doubt the most economic way to transfer to the city centre aside from bus and taxi.
Line S7 route covers the route Wien Mitte/Landstrasse within 26 minutes. In order to get to downtown, you should take S7 route to either Wien Mitte, Wien Nord or Floridsdorf.
You can also get to Wien Hauptbahnhof, since it is the central railway station of Vienna.
From Wien Mitte/Landstrasse: 04:31 am to 11:46 pm, every 30 minutes.
From Vienna Airport: 04:54 am to 00:18 am, every 30 minutes.
S Bahn stop is located in the underground level.
Fares vary depending on the final destination and the train, we recommend to take a look at this website.
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You can purchase your ticket at the ÖBB ticket counters in the Arrivals Hall, at the vending machines or in the Tourist Office.
RAILJET
It is the long distance service by ÖBB that connects Vienna Airport with other Austrian cities and international destinations such as Brno, Prague, Györ and Budapest.
For more information check ÖBB site.
City Airport Train (CAT)
The CAT is the fastest and most expensive way to get to downtown Vienna. It is an exclusive service that connects Vienna Airport with Wien Mitte/Landstrasse within 16 minutes.
Daily from 06:09am to 11:39pm, every 30 minutes.
The CAT Station is in the underground level.
Adult single ticket: € 12.00 / Adult return ticket: € 21.00
Tickets are sold at the CAT ticket counters in the Arrivals Hall, at the vending machines or in the Tourist Office.
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Poultry enterprise makes the most of premium production
How do you go from running a 20,000-laying hen operation and an 80-cow dairy herd to producing poultrymeat for some of the top Michelin star chefs in the country? Sarah Alderton visited Johnson and Swarbrick poultry farm in Goosnargh, Preston, to find out.
Goosnargh near Preston, Lancashire, has had its name put firmly on the foodie's map thanks to poultry producers Johnson and Swarbrick of Swainson Farm.
Prior to 1985 the farm, which was run by step-brothers Reg Johnson and Bud Swarbrick, was made up of a 20,000-laying hen operation and an 80-cow dairy herd.
But a desire by Reg to diversify led to him meeting up with restauranteur and celebrity chef Paul Heathcote, who set him the challenge of producing a British corn-fed chicken to rival the French.
Within a year and after several tweaks to the diet to perfect the flavour and colour of the meat, the business had started to change.
'A happy bird is a tasty bird'
From there the hens and dairy herd made way for a farm focused on meat production.
Today the business is processing 2,200 ducks a week of which some 500-600 are corn-fed. About 2,000 corn-fed chickens are also processed each week through their on-farm processing plant. About 1,500-2,000 geese are also produced for the Christmas market as well as some turkey.
Customers consist of some of London' top chefs including the likes of Michel Roux Junior, Marco Pierre White and Raymond Blanc.
With so many customers in London, they personally deliver their produce into London as well as within a 100-mile radius of the farm. A courier service is used to deliver orders elsewhere across the UK. Produce is also sold through supermarket chain Booths.
The motto of the farm is 'a happy bird is a tasty bird', according, Reg's daughter Kara Johnson, who was speaking at the British Goose Producers annual farm walk last month (21 September).
Ms Johnson now runs the business alongside Bud and his son Adam Swarbrick, following the sudden death of Reg in 2015.
"Reg was a poultry legend and we want to continue to drive forward the business in his honour," she says.
Adam Swarbrick, Kara Johnson and Bud Swarbrick. Photo: Sarah Alderton
Chickens and ducks
All birds are reared to high welfare standards. Chickens and ducks are brought in as day-old chicks and reared in large barns.
They are bedded on miscanthus grass at least twice a week, with 11.3ha (28 acres) grown for bedding. It is stored in an Ag Bag and then dried out in a barn for 3 to 4 weeks, prior to being chopped through a forager.
A biomass boiler was installed in April 2016 to reduce heating costs and is used to heat many of the sheds. Miscanthus grass is used to feed the boilers, as well as wood chip.
Chickens are grown at a slower rate; over 8 weeks and are fed a finisher meal in pan feeders consisting of; 500kg maize, 250kg of wheat, 150kg of hipro soya, 2 gallons of soya oil and some vitamin and mineral supplementation. Corn-fed ducks are fed the same ration.
Ms Johnson says the market is there for corn-fed poultry. "Customers are demanding more corn-fed, as the meat is more tender and flavoursome."
Wheat-fed ducks are fed a finisher meal in troughs made up of 500kg wheat, 200kg maize, 250kg hipro soya, 2 gallons of soya oil, 12kg of a fat pre-mix and vitamins and minerals.
All feed is mixed on the farm with up to 30t mixed a week. Bud says there are several benefits from mixing their own feed.
Farm facts Swainson Farm, Goosnargh, Lancashire
•Founded by step-brothers Reg Johnson and Bud Swarbrick
• Directors now include Reg's daughter Kara, Bud's son Adam Swarbrick and Bud, due to the premature death of Reg in 2015
• Started producing corn-fed chicken and duck in 1980's
• Produce about 2,200 ducks a week of which, 500-600 are corn-fed
• Process 2,000 corn-fed chicken a week
• Have their own on-site processing plant
• About 1,500-2,000 geese are also produced for the Christmas market as well as turkey
• Employ 25 people, with many of the workers Polish
• 3 years ago, invested in a feather processing unit and export about 30t of duck feathers and 5t of goose feathers a year to Germany.
"It is something we have always done and as well as saving money, we also know exactly what is going into the ration and we are also able to tweak, if necessary," he says.
They work with nutritionist Ian Hollows of Target Feeds, Shropshire, to devise the starter, grower and finisher rations.
Goosnargh duck is a cross between the Aylesbury and Peking, giving the best meat to bone balance with a good breast weight. They are usually 56-days old at slaughter.
Ducks are killed in the afternoon and are then left to hang overnight, which allows the taste to develop. The next day they are processed and are dry plucked and dipped in wax, in order to prevent damage to the skin. Geese are processed in the same way. Chickens are processed on a different line and are wet plucked.
Ms Johnson says they don't plan on changing anything with the chicken and duck production. "In honour of Reg, we want to continue rearing our birds in the same way. We have a niche product and we want to keep it that way. We still work with a lot of chefs who value our product," she adds.
Goose considered a luxury product
Goose production is one of the farm's relatively 'new' additions and began 10 years ago, after they saw popularity for goose for the Christmas market increasing.
Ms Johnson says: "Celebrity chefs have helped increase the popularity of the bird and it is viewed as a luxurious product. It has taken the food industry to a new level as they now have the accessibility and knowledge to cook it."
Goslings are brought in at a day-old in June and are reared inside until they are fully feathered. When the time is right, they are let outside to graze a 1 hectare (3 acre) paddock during the day and are back inside bedded on miscanthus at night.
When inside they are fed a 20% protein starter diet consisting of wheat, hipro soya, soya oil and vitamins and minerals, with the protein dropping to 17-18% during the growing phase and 16% at finishing.
Bud says they don't want the protein too high in the feed. "If the protein is too high then the birds will grow too fast for their legs. We want nice steady growth," he states.
The aim is to finish birds anywhere from 4kg-7kg (8.8lb-15lb), when they are about 5 to 6 months old. This year they have changed the supplier of goslings as they are looking to produce a slightly bigger bird.
Adam says: "Some of our customers, particularly the restaurants want a bigger bird. We are now sourcing goslings from Daryn Williams, Madgett's Farm, Chepstow."
Once the birds are killed they are hung for a minimum of 12 hours before being plucked and waxed.
Photo: Sarah Alderton
Feather production
The family have also established another company called AK Products. As Reg was always looking for new ideas and ventures to run alongside the farming business, when he heard Norfolk feather producer Michael Shingfield was coming out of production and was selling his feather washing plant, he went down to take a look.
So, in 2014 Reg bought the equipment and erected a new shed to house it, which cost about £80,000 in total.
They not only process feathers from their own ducks and geese, but they also source feathers from a handful of farmers. However, they will only source feathers that are from birds that have been dry plucked.
Adam explains: "Feathers from wet plucked birds would break down quicker as they start deteriorating straight away."
They are processing about 30t of duck feathers and 5t of goose feathers a year. It can take about four months before they have a big enough load to export (8t minimum), with all feathers sold to Germany for high quality duvets and pillows.
Feathers are washed for 20-25 minutes and are then put through a tumble dyer. They are then dried at 120-130°C, which kills any bacteria, before being left to cool in a cooling box.
About 20-30% of the weight of duck feathers is lost as the big feathers are not used. These are recycled as bedding in the sheds.
Although the feather market was strong three years ago, it has died back 60% in the past 18 months.
Adam says: We used to get £2.25/kg for feathers, but it has dropped down to £1.20/kg and has been like that for the past 13 months. It is starting to pick up a bit now though," he said.
Feathers are processed a couple of times a week by existing staff.
By Sarah Alderton
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