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Geelong delists Mitch Clark
Mitch Clark's AFL career looks over.
Geelong has delisted the 29-year-old key forward, who played just nine games for the Cats after joining them at the end of 2014.
He previously played 82 games for the Brisbane Lions and 15 for Melbourne.
The injury-prone forward played just once in 2016.
'Unfortunately Mitch suffered a number of injuries during his two years at Geelong and as a result, wasn't able to perform to his true capability,' the Cats said in a statement.
'We thank Mitch for his time at the club and wish him and his family all the best for their future.'


The network meeting and conference 2017 was held in Mariehamn September 18th-20th 2017. Read the report HERE!
The Board-meeting 2017 was held in Tallinn April 3-4 2017. Read the report HERE!
The network meeting and conference 2016 was held in Vilnius September 12th-14th 2016. Read the report HERE!
The Boardmeeting 2016 was held in Stockholm April 6-7 2016. Read the report HERE!
The network meeting and conference 2015 was held on Bornholm September 21st-23rd 2015. Read the report HERE!
The Board-meeting was held in Vilnius April 9-10 2016. Read the report HERE!
Across Europe, owners of authentic homes which are not officially listed are often left to their own devices for maintenance and restoration. The Jury were therefore pleased to proclaim this Museum's initiative to help owners of traditional rural houses in Estonia with practical hands-on training as an example to the rest of Europe. Read more!
The network meeting and conference 2014 was held in Turku September 22nd-24th 2014. Read the report Here!
The Board-meeting was held in Riga April 2nd-3rd 2014. Read the report Here!
The networkmeeting 2013 was held in Tallinn. Read the report HERE!
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The second network-meeting was held in Elblag, Poland, in October 2012. The first day was a conference on the topic "The Baltic around 1300". The second day the network-meeting was held and the third day was spent visiting the amazing castle of Malbork.
Read the report from the Elblag meeting here!
In June 2012 a directors' and projectleaders' meeting was held in Sigtuna. Read the report by clicking the link below!


UPDATE: Friday; 11:15 a.m. — The jury finished Thursday and went home for the weekend. Deliberations resume Monday.
The jury in the retrial of ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich is still working way.
On Thursday, on the fifth day of deliberations, the jury asked U.S. District Judge James Zagel to clarify legal language in jury instructions on 10 wire fraud counts, eight of which deal with allegations that Blagojevich tried to sell the Senate seat vacated by President Obama, USA Today reported.
USA Today reported that it was only the second note passed to the judge from the jury of 11 women and one man since deliberations began last Friday.
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Pre-Game: Knicks vs. Raptors- 2/13/13
The Knicks head into the All-Star break with one last game against the Raptors.
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Hello! At 7:30 tonight, the Knicks will play a home game against the Toronto Raptors. It is the Knicks' 50th game of the season, their first against the division-mate Raptors, and their last before a week-long rest that includes the All-Star break.
So, what's up with the Raptors? Well, I watched them beat the (severely short-handed-- like, their only active ex-Knick was Timofey Mozgov Edit: And Anthony Randolph and, technically, Corey Brewer. Thanks, bluecheese.) Denver Nuggets on a Rudy Gay game-winner last night, and could see them causing the Knicks some trouble, especially if New York's still mailing it in defensively. They've got guards who can shoot over a screen in Kyle Lowry and John Lucas and wings who can exploit sluggish transition defense in Gay and DeMar DeRozan. They've also got Landry Fields, who will make his MSG return on the same day he got engaged. Congratulations and welcome back, Landry. Happy to see you. Please don't randomly drop a huge game on the Knicks. Oh, and Andrea Bargnani. He's got kind of a thing for killing the Knicks.
All their virtues aside, the Raptors are a sub-.500 team and a very bad road team, as Jared Dubin pointed out today. (They are weirdly good on zero days rest, though, which is alarming.) The Knicks should beat the Raptors. And if the Knicks don't beat the Raptors, we're gonna have to stare down a two-game losing streak for a whole goddamn week. Please beat the Raptors, Knicks.
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Philippines Puts Schools on 'Health Break' as Covid Cases Soar
MANILA — Teachers and students in the Philippine capital are being placed on what officials describe as a weeklong "health break" to recover from Covid or care for loved ones infected with the virus as the country experiences a record number of cases fueled by the rapidly spreading Omicron variant.
And on Friday, the country's Education Department expanded on that move by announcing that primary schools in five highly urbanized provinces south of the capital, Manila, were being closed until the end of the month.
"The city of Manila is declaring no classes at all levels, private and public school," Mayor Francisco Domagoso said on Thursday, adding that teachers and students would have a week "to rest and hopefully recover" or give them a breather as they care for their loved ones.
"The parents' anxiety level for their kids are increasing," he said, and "this goes as well for the teacher."
The measure may seem less like a breather for parents, who have already had to help their children through one of the world's longest periods of classroom closures. Schools reopened in November in areas of the country where virus transmission rates were low after well over a year of virtual lessons, but officials said the Omicron variant had forced a rethinking of the loosening in restrictions.
The country's Health Department reported 37,027 new cases on Friday — a record high that officials blamed on the Omicron variant. The figure brings to 3.1 million the total number of virus cases during the pandemic, while nearly 53,000 people have died.
A recent survey conducted by the Alliance of Concerned Teachers, a group that represents teachers and educators in the House of Representatives, found that 50 percent of its members in Manila had reported being sick with flu-like symptoms while still carrying out teaching duties.
The government on Friday extended its coronavirus restrictions in Manila and other provinces until the end of the month. Those measures include capacity limits for restaurants, malls, parks, sports venues, fitness studious, cinemas, as well as exhibitions and social events. Children under 18 are also barred from leaving their homes in much of the country.
"Since the Omicron variant was detected in the country, the government has been closely monitoring Covid-19 cases as we recognize that this variant, given its characteristics, would most likely lead to a rise in the number of Covid cases, just as it has in other countries," Karlo Nograles, a presidential spokesman, told a news briefing.
"I think it is clear that this variant is more transmissible," he said, though he stressed that because of the government's aggressive vaccination drive, infected people were not experiencing severe illness.
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Will Smith Goes Home to Bel-Air in 'Fresh Prince' Mansion Airbnb Tour
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Will Smith put on his prince of Bel-Air crown on Monday (Sept. 28) when he gave a tour of the iconic mansion from the Fresh Prince series.
To celebrate news that he's working with Airbnb to put the home up on the platform as a vacation rental for just five nights to celebrate the beloved sitcom's 30th anniversary, Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff gave fans a tour of the property. The five-minute clip shows how the home has been transformed into a space full of nostalgic artifacts from the show.
After exploring the home, Smith and Jazz were joined by the cast Fresh Prince, and the group sign a wall in the mansion. "This image represents all that the Banks family represented," Smith explains. "All of the hopes, and all of the dreams and all of the possibilities. Being able to grow and excel in the world, being able to have family and love, and make mistakes and not get punished for it, get caught by somebody who cares about you and building and elevating in the world. That image represents an oasis and latter to become whatever the greatest version of yourself is."
While only one wing of the home will be open to guests, perks include playing basketball inside Will's old bedroom, lounging by the pool and having meals delivered on silver platters just the way Geoffrey the butler would have liked. Bookings for the residence open on Tuesday (Sept. 29), and cost only $30 a night.
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Having somebody you know or love get arrested can be a stressful moment in your life, and even the process of purchasing bail bonds can be stressful, especially if you are skeptical of the legitimacy of some of the institutions.
In these situations, you certainly want to find a bondsman that you can rely on in terms of quality of service, and when it's time to meet when these professionals, there are a number of things that you should be looking for.
When seeking bail bonds, you can run into fees that are unreasonably high or suspiciously low, but you can find a bondsman in Arlington, TX who adheres to federal law and is upfront and transparent about the costs. The better you understand the process and what you need to do, the easier things will be, and your bondsmen should be able to walk you through everything.
Bondsmen are still providing a service, so you should always be treated fairly and with respect. Your service providers should be able to answer questions, help you understand difficult concepts, and make sure that the service is tailored to your needs. For example, at Ronnie D Long Bail Bonds, you will always find a fully-staffed office that strives for excellent customer service.
You never know when somebody is going to get arrested, so it's important that your bondsman operates around the clock. By always having a fully-staffed office no matter what the time is, your service providers can respond quickly to your needs and make sure that things are taken care of as quickly as possible.
When you are looking in the right place, you should be able to find all of these qualities in a bail bonds service and feel confident in who you are working with.
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Serene Sunsets (30 Days of Gratitude: Day 17) – Travel. Garden. Eat.
Minnesota's 10,000+ lakes create a special space … one where peace and serenity reign as the loon's haunting call floats across the water. When the sun dips below the horizon, the sky may take on a golden hue, or brilliant pinks and oranges and reds … or sometimes it just quietly shifts to soothing blues and purples, fading seamlessly into the dark of night.


Kolesnikov A. L., Georgi N., Budkov Y. A., Mollmer J., Hofmann J., Adolphs J., Glaser R.
We present a new model of adsorption-induced deformation of mesoporous solids. The model is based on a simplified version of local density functional theory in the framework of solvation free energy. Instead of density, which is treated as constant here, we used film thickness and pore radius as order parameters. This allows us to obtain a self-consistent system of equations describing simultaneously the processes of gas adsorption and adsorbent deformation, as well as conditions for capillary condensation and evaporation. In the limit of infinitely rigid pore walls, when the film becomes several monolayers thick, the model reduces to the well-known Derjaguin–Broekhoff–de Boer theory for pores with cylindrical geometry. We have investigated the effects of enhanced flexibility of the solid as well as the influence of pore size distribution on the adsorption/deformation process. The formulation of the theory allows to determine the average pore size and its width from the desorption branch of the strain isotherm only. The model reproduces the nonmonotonic behavior of the strain isotherm at low relative pressure. Furthermore, we discuss the effect of rigidity of the adsorbent on the pore size distribution, showing qualitatively different results of the adsorption isotherms for rigid and highly flexible materials, in particular, the shift of evaporation pressure to lower values and the absence of a limiting value of the loading at high relative pressure. We also discuss the results of the theory with respect to experimental data obtained from the literature.


February 1- Slovak cabinet approves TwoOne consortium as a strategic partner for the Bratislava and Košice airports. The consortium includes Vienna Airport, Slovak private equity group Penta, and Austrian bank Raiffeisen Zentralbank. The consortium should acquire a 66-percent stake in both airports and pay Sk11.4 billion (€300 million) to the state. The purchasing contract should be signed by February 28 and the whole transaction should be concluded by mid-August.
February 1- Slovak government rejects incentives for the foreign suppliers of carmaker Hyundai/Kia's new plant near Žilina. Economy Minister Jirko Malchárek said that the suppliers want to invest in a zone where provision of state incentives is impossible according to the recent stimuli rules.
February 2- Carmaker Kia is considering legal steps against Slovakia in connection with the cabinet's decision to reject investment incentives to Kia's foreign suppliers.
February 2- Finnish company Metsa Tissue, a member of the Metsaliitto Group, announced that it would take over the Slovak tissue paper producer Tento. However, the respective authorities must first approve the transaction. Metsa Tissue hopes to boost its position in Europe through the acquisition.
February 3- German engineering company Continental Automotive Systems has opened its new plant in Zvolen. Within five years the company promises to create 510 jobs there. Continental Automotive Systems plans to invest €60 million in its Zvolen plan.
February 6- Slovak company Enviral from Leopoldov (a subsidiary of distillery Slovenské liehovary a likérky) announces a major investment of Sk3 billion (€80 million) into a new plant producing bio-ethanol. The company is building the new plant in an already existing distillery in Leopoldov, to be completed in the first quarter of 2007.
February 7- Investigators of anti-corruption unit accused an organized group of six persons of defrauding Devín Banka of over Sk971 million (€26 million). The accused include four former senior managers of the bank who embezzled the money from Devin Banka before it went into bankruptcy via uncovered exchange-bill transactions from 1998 to 2001. Most of the money went to the company Apis, which had personnel and property links with the bank. The investigators also accused two executives of Apis.
February 8- In connection with the peaking government crisis in Slovakia, Fitch Ratings says that while the prospect of early elections in Slovakia increases uncertainty, the sovereign ratings remain supported by solid credit fundamentals. "The timing of the election itself is not a credit issue, as, aside from delaying uncompleted privatization deals, the government's reforming policy agenda has largely been implemented," said Fitch's David Heslam.
February 9- The European Commission has approved investment incentives of €53.5 million that the Slovak Republic wants to provide to the company Getrag Ford Transmission Slovakia. The Commission said on its Internet website that this assistance is in compliance with rules of regional assistance for large-scale investment projects.
February 13- Slovak Finance Ministry and the Debt and Liquidity Management Agency (ARDAL) selected US investment bank Lehman Brothers International and French bank BNP Paribas as the mediators for the Eurobond issue that Slovakia plans to float this year. The authorities evaluated bids submitted by 24 financial institutions.
February 14- Slovakia's dominant fixed-line operator Slovak Telecom will begin offering its products and services under the new brand T-Com as of March 8. The company is changing into a holding with a new trade brand: Slovak Telekom. The firm is thus entering the last re-branding phase after it changed its name from Slovenské Telekomunikácie to Slovak Telecom in January 2004.
February 20- The collection of taxes and transfers to compulsory social and health insurance funds in Slovakia should be jointly carried out by tax offices from the beginning of 2009, suggests the Finance Ministry in the draft procedure in unifying collection of taxes and compulsory transfers. The introduction of unified tax and transfers collection should be prepared in several consecutive steps.
February 20- The TwoOne consortium informed Slovakia's antitrust authority PMÚ about the merger with neighboring Bratislava Airport. The merger means that Flughafen Wien and Penta Investments Limited, which are part of the TwoOne consortium, are taking common control of the Bratislava airport. PMÚ now has to decide on the merger within a 60 days deadline.
February 22- Slovak government officially decided to halt all ongoing privatization processes. As of today, the government will not approve any more privatization decisions. The announcement comes as a response to the decisions of Slovak political parties to cut the current elections term and halt early elections in June this year.
February 24- The gas utility Slovenský plynárenský priemysel (SPP) is preparing to separate its gas transport activities from its distribution, as of July 1. According to valid legislation SPP is obliged to complete this process as of July 1, 2007. However, SPP plans to meet this requirement one year earlier as its contribution towards liberalizing the energy sector in Slovakia.


Looking to add a fresh pattern to your closet? Our Bisbee pocket square boasts a strong checkered print with light blue and ivory colors. This the perfect edition to... read more Looking to add a fresh pattern to your closet? Our Bisbee pocket square boasts a strong checkered print with light blue and ivory colors. This the perfect edition to any cold-weather look.
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The second highest peak represents Neh Gong and can be considered our breath or ki-hap during our technique. Neh Gong refers to internal body conditioning exercises most notibly the correct use of breathing to control heart rate, blood pressure, adrenaline, and carbohydrate digestion. It involves changing the internal body energies by special concentration practices. It's purpose is to promote a healthier body by controlling metabolism through the concentration of energies to various parts of the internal body organs.
Shim Gong is the highest peak and is our character; our attitude; our discipline (Moo Do). Shim Gong refers to spiritual conditioning exercises and challanges involving courage, concentration, endurance, honesety and humility. It involves control of your emotional being through a trust of self-confidence and positive thinking while striving for a high level of ettiquette and respect (Yei) for others. It's purpose is to promote mind, body and spirit harmony through positive thinking and trust.


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Description of the project:CUBE is a platform for securely protecting network security of existing automobiles and autonomous vehicles with blockchain technology. Autonomous car is operated by network, but can be dangerous by malicious attack. CUBE uses blockchain, deep learning, and quantum hash technology for the security of autonomous car.


Determine the capacity of the pack. Example: 2000 Mah.
Determine the charger outputs. Example: Quick charge = 500 Mah. Divide 2000 by 500 = Charge time of 4 hours.
Slow charge = 200 Mah. 2000/200 = charge time of 10 hours.
Connect it to a timer set for 10 hours or 4 hours to prevent overcharge on FULLY DISCHARGED pack. You can make a simple discharge device by wiring 10 12V. 1 to 2 Amp automotive taillight bulbs in series and connect to pack. Just wait until the bulbs no longer light. Your pack sounds like it is Nimh cells. Remember that the slower charge will give you more capacity in the pack, where a quick charge will give you increased initial voltage.
The following questions regard rechargeable AA batteries used in solar powered devices such as driveway accent lights. Off hand, I am not aware of any solar powered battery chargers made for the singular purpose of charging batteries, just the more prevalent AC type that we plug into our home electrical outlets and that include a rectifier to change the AC to DC before going to the battery.
More specifically, I am thinking of solar powered accent lights, using AA, standard 1.2 DCV, 700 mAh batteries, or any other higher/lower mAh value batteries that might be used by different solar accent light manufacturer's, having designed their accent light for such.
Questions: Can I safely use a somewhat higher mAh battery than what the solar unit was designed for, as long as the battery length fits between the positive and negative contacts ? As a general rule, where would you put the mAh maximum limit on this, in terms of mAh percentage of increase over and above the original mAh's intended for the device ? I hope this is clear.
Thanks Bill, for the great information resource you have provided here and I look forward to your reply.
PS: I looked through your Battery Clinics One and Two, as well as Follow UP and Questions thread, but did not notice anything on solar chargers.
I didn't read the whole thread, just your post, Todd. The lights are only going to draw the current they need. So a battery with a higher mAh rating will produce voltage for a longer period of time than a battery of a lower rating, given the same voltage ratings.
As an example, it is popular now to use Ni-MH batteries in digital cameras. The higher the mAh rating the longer they last before having to recharge them. The voltages are pretty close to regular alkaline batteries.
So short answer, yes, you can use higher (or even lower) mAh rated batteries.
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Thanks Paul ! If you don't mind, I have a couple more questions.
#1) Is there anything special about the rechargeable batteries used to power solar lights ? In other words, would it be OK to use the same rechargeable battery in a solar light or in a kids toy that requires the battery to be periodically recharged in a standard AC to DC battery charger ?
#2) Does the diameter and overall length, of standard and rechargeable AA size batteries, vary with the amp hour rating ? In other words, is it necessary due to construction, for the battery to be somewhat larger in length and/or diameter in order to deliver a higher mAh output ? Or is the slight size variation I've seen between two different brands of AA's due to reasons other than the mAh output ?
Sorry for the delayed response. I'm back in school and still working full time, so I have little time left to read the forums.
#1) The thing you most want to be concerned with is voltage. What voltage do the circuits need to operate and what voltage your batteries put out. The amp/Hr rating (or mili-amp/Hr rating) will determine how long the batteries will provide that voltage.
If the two devices use commercially available batteries, it makes no difference whether they are alkaline or some rechargeable type, as long as the voltage is correct and the needed rating is high enough for that device.
#2) Diameter and length are not factors in capacity and ratings, just manufacturer's construction of the batteries. There is a standard that they go by but the tolerances for the dimensions are somewhat loose, hence the variances between brands.
Thanks Paul.....it does help !
Say, BTW, are you and Bill Thesing working together on this thread as far as answering members questions, or is it open to other members who feel qualified to make replies ? Just curious.
I have had relatively little time to check in over the past couple of weeks due to getting things set for me to go away on vacation. I am not against anyone else chiming in with their knowledge. With the solar charging system, the capacity fed will vary with the intensity and volume of the power source. On a cloudy day, the amount of sunlight, and whether there is enough over a given time to sustain the maximum voltage output. It's like having a 20 gallon tank, and needing 5 gallons to drive at a given rate for 8 hours. You sometimes get a 10 gallon fill or maybe only a 5 gallon fill. On rainy days you may only get 2 gallons and then draw off of a reserve that was built up over previous time. LED's use about 100 times less current than bulbs, thus the long run time on minimal Mah storage.
See you guys in a couple of weeks. I leave tomorrow.
Thanks for all of the great info on batteries and charging them.
I just got some reward points, from a local store, and I need some more AA batteries for my mdr, camera, and Xbox 360 controller.
The only rechargeable AA batteries, that this store has, are the Energizer 2450 mAH NiMH batteries.
I was wondering if these batteries will work well with each of the electronic devices that are listed above?
Anybody know if WThesing is posting anywhere ?
I see from his Profile that Bill hasn't been active on this website since 5-28-2009.
Is he active on any other websites that you know of ?
I sent him a PM 12-16-2009 with a battery question, but no reply.
These batteries are the best rechargeables I have ever used in a metal detector. From my Tesoro's to my White's v3i....these do a great job, last a couple days worth of hunting and have never let me down yet, going into their second season of use.
Hope to hear from anyone else who has used these batteries.
Hope Bill's O.K. Just wanted to thank him for the post as well as his service in Viet Nam, Republic of.
Hawaii-AT-Pro, SeaHunter MK II, BH Quicksilver, Pro-pointer, Vibraprobe 580, Lesche, Gator Diggers.
Ok, I just bought a BH Pioneer 505 and it says to use Alkaline batteries in it. 9v batteries are pretty expensive, so I went and bought some new 9.6v rechargeable NiMH batteries. Is it ok to use them in the MD?
For my AT-Pro, I use the Energizer Lithium Ultimate AA batteries. Ive gotten them to last for 18-22 hours of use at around 3 hours per trip. Duracell AA's lasted about 12 hours and regular Energizer about 11-13 hours max. I got a guy I get an awesome price from for those ELU AA's and that's all I'll run. I also carry 4 with me new in pack just in case I hit my limit while in the field. I also carry either my spare Pro Pointer or spare 9 volt. Hate having to take the walk back to the truck for batteries.
Well, my rechargeable batteries are from Batteries Plus - the Powerex brand true 9.6v 230mAh. I bought the charger and it has both home and auto capability. Very expensive for my first purchase, but hopefully worth it.
...make sure you grab some Duracell Quantum batteries.
They actually increase in voltage before they start discharging!
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Un deviatore di corrente (in lingua inglese shunt) è un tipo di resistenza elettrica che devia attraverso di sé una parte più o meno consistente della corrente circolante in un circuito principale a cui è posto in parallelo.
L'entità della corrente deviata dipende dal valore resistivo (in ohm) dello shunt rispetto al circuito in parallelo.

Origine del termine
Il termine inglese shunt significa 'deviare' o 'prendere un'altra strada', che in ambito elettrico è stato associato ad una classe di dispositivi e fenomeni che vedono la corrente dividersi su due circuiti, solitamente, secondo un progetto.

Misura di corrente
Una tipica applicazione dello shunt si ha nella misura di correnti elettriche, per estendere la gamma di un amperometro.

Ad esempio, un galvanometro ha una sensibilità tipica di 100 µA a fondo scala. Per misurare valori di corrente più elevate, si può deviare la maggior parte della corrente su un ramo a bassa resistenza e introdurre una scala di proporzionalità (fattore moltiplicativo) tra la corrente misurata e quella deviata.

Posta una resistenza di shunt con valore Rs in parallelo ad un amperometro con resistenza interna Ra, la relazione tra le correnti nei due rami è data da:

e poiché  si ha che la corrente totale Itot da misurare è in relazione con la corrente segnata dallo strumento Ia secondo la formula:

Questa configurazione comporta che il valore delle resistenze, compresa quella interna dello strumento siano note con precisione.

Una soluzione che rende la misura indipendente dalla resistenza interna dello strumento consiste nell'avere questa molto elevata rispetto a quella dello shunt, in modo che la corrente totale Itot sia praticamente uguale a Is.

Ciò si può realizzare in pratica usando al posto dell'amperometro un voltmetro, che non è altro che un amperometro ad alta impedenza. In tale caso, supponendo che la corrente circoli tutta nello shunt, la tensione misurata ai suoi capi è data dalla legge di Ohm:

Ad esempio, con uno shunt da 20A, e 100mV di fondo scala, una misura di 80mV indicherà un passaggio di corrente di 16A.

La caduta di tensione sullo shunt comporta altresì una perturbazione nel circuito, di cui occorre tenere conto.
L'approccio appena descritto si può applicare per correnti di misura tali da rendere trascurabile la corrente inevitabilmente assorbita dal voltmetro.

Realizzazione

Lo shunt, opportunamente dimensionato, può essere impiegato per misurare correnti di intensità arbitrariamente alta, tenendo conto del surriscaldamento prodotto per effetto Joule, che può alterare il valore della resistenza stessa dello shunt.

Grazie agli studi di Edward Weston sono stati scoperti materiali la cui resistività elettrica è piuttosto indipendente dalla temperatura, ad esempio la costantana e la manganina, comunemente usati in queste applicazioni.

Un problema presentato dallo shunt per correnti elevate è dato dalle resistenze parassite presenti nei morsetti di collegamento tra i cavi e lo shunt stesso. I valori in Ohm di queste resistenze sono aleatori e instabili, dipendendo da quanto sono stretti i bulloni, dallo stato di ossidazione ecc.
Per ovviare al problema si usa la tecnica di "collegamento a quattro fili". Due morsetti alle estremità dello shunt, detti amperometrici, costituiscono il passaggio della corrente da misurare. Altri due morsetti detti voltmetrici, indipendenti e più piccoli, in quanto soggetti a correnti minime, prelevano la tensione di misura più internamente nello shunt. La resistenza presente tra i due punti voltmetrici è nota con precisione, ed è assolutamente indipendente dai morsetti amperometrici.

Altri usi
Alcuni tipi di shunt sono vie a bassa resistenza usate per cortocircuitare i due capi di un elemento circuitale.
Per esempio, nelle catene luminose usate per decorare gli alberi di Natale le lampadine sono collegate in serie. Se il filamento di una singola resistenza brucia, tutta la catena si spegne. Per ovviare il problema, in alcune catene ciascuna lampadina include uno shunt che si inserisce automaticamente in caso di rottura del filamento e permette il passaggio di corrente e l'accensione delle restanti lampadine.

Nella trazione ferroviaria e tranviaria, gli shunt erano usati,  fino a non molti anni fa, per escludere una o più sezioni di avvolgimento di campo dei motori di trazione delle locomotive ed automotrici elettriche  ed ottenere quindi l'aumento della corrente di indotto dei motori; ciò permetteva un consistente aumento di velocità, soprattutto se i gradi di shunt erano più di uno (si tratta del cosiddetto indebolimento di campo). La manovra del conducente per accelerare, aveva quindi l'effetto di inserire progressivamente gli shunt.
Il sistema è stato abbandonato con l'introduzione dell'elettronica di potenza (introduzione dei triac, GTO, IGBT ed altri dispositivi).

Voci correlate
Legge di Ohm
Partitore di tensione
Divisori di corrente
Resistenza termica
Resistività elettrica
Conduttanza elettrica
Conduttività elettrica
Resistenza elettrica
Leggi di Kirchhoff

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Elettrotecnica
Circuiti elettronici
Componenti elettrici

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Best of 2021 in Caritas Czech Republic
When we were writing a summary of the previous year at the beginning of last year, we had no idea how challenging 2021 would be. But despite all the obstacles that the second pandemic year brought, we have achieved great things at Caritas Czech Republic. Whether it was introducing a mobile app to help Zambian farmers resist climate change, launching our biggest ever project in Iraq, or helping Georgia on the road to modern healthcare. Let's look at the moments from 2021 worth remembering.
1. In Zambia, we launched a mobile app to help farmers fight climate change
In Zambia, a large part of the population depends on agriculture. But climate change is bringing even more uncertainty to an already unpredictable sector. Zambia's farmers are facing problems they did not have to deal with a few years ago. The mobile app we introduced last summer comes to help vulnerable farmers withstand the impacts of climate change.
The Terra Cropp App, developed by Czech start-up Big Terra Alpha in collaboration with Caritas Czech Republic, provides information on weather, suitable crops for the season and techniques to increase production yields. The app helps farmers to properly plan planting, crop care and harvesting and avoid losses caused by locusts and other pests, floods or drought.
Last year, we also supported refugees in Zambia to get back on their feet, for example through beekeeping or basket making, and helped increase the financial literacy of rural people.
Read the best of the Caritas Czech Republic's work in Zambia in 2021
2. In Iraq, we launched our biggest ever project to help rebuild livelihoods after war
Iraq is still dealing with the aftermath of years of armed conflict and an unstable political situation. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the crisis and made already difficult living conditions for Iraqis who have lost their jobs and thus their livelihoods. Caritas Czech Republic has long been helping to rebuild livelihoods in Iraq after the war and to create new jobs. In May, we launched our largest ever project in partnership with UNDP to increase the resilience of vulnerable communities.
Since last spring, we have been helping to rebuild destroyed infrastructure in the Heet region, as well as providing jobs for thousands of local families. Iraqi women and men are themselves involved in the reconstruction of their country and are gaining employment at the same time. As a result, we are helping to reduce poverty and financial insecurity in the war-torn region of Heet.
In Iraq, we have done much more in the past year. We helped secure shelter for displaced families, provided school meals for children from poor families, and engaged Iraqi women in our activities.
Read a summary of our work in 2021 in Iraq
3. In Georgia, we continued to modernise the local health sector
Georgia's health sector faces a number of challenges, especially in terms of access and quality of care in remote rural areas. Caritas Czech Republic has long supported the transformation of Georgia's healthcare system and last year was no exception. We were able to increase access to free cancer screening, focused on improving care for children with autism, and introduced a modern IT health system that significantly improves the quality and standardisation of primary care.
The modern IT systems that Caritas Czech Republic has been introducing in Georgia have also been applied during the Covid-19 pandemic. In collaboration with the local Ministry of Health, we launched the so-called COVID Lab, which has become a key tool for managing the pandemic in Georgia.
4. In Mongolia, we fought plastic pollution
When you hear Mongolia, you probably think of beautiful nature, vast steppes or typical yurts and nomadic herders. But it is Mongolia's unique nature that has been plagued by massive plastic pollution in recent years, and locals often don't know how to deal with it. In fact, Mongolia does not have enough waste treatment facilities, so it is literally drowning in rubbish.
In Mongolia, we are helping to protect the environment and focus mainly on tackling excessive plastic waste. Thanks to our efforts, the first fully operational waste treatment plant in rural Mongolia began to be built last year. Once the plant is completed, locals will be able to recycle and sort waste instead of throwing it into landfill. Khishig-Undur soum previously had no waste management system, yet it is home to one of the largest landfills in the province. Today, thanks to us, Khishig-Undur is striving to become the first zero-waste area in Mongolia.
Read more of Caritas Czech Republic's achievements in Mongolia in 2021
5. In Moldova, we launched a project piloting telemedicine
Moldova has long struggled with a shortage of healthcare staff and a rapidly ageing population. Last year, we came up with a solution to help improve healthcare in Moldova and take care of those who live in remote areas and are far from a doctor. We have started developing telemedicine services that we will help introduce in eight health and social care centres in Moldova.
"Remote health consultations will help Moldova's overburdened health care system and give local residents quick access to health services when they need them, rather than weeks or months later when it will be their turn for a consultation at the doctor's office," says Vasile Vasiliev, the head of Caritas Czech Republic mission in Moldova.
What did Caritas Czech Republic in Moldova manage to do last year? Read the summary.
6. We took you behind the scenes of our humanitarian aid and development cooperation
Last year, we took you on a trip around the world to show you what our work looks like in the countries where Caritas Czech Republic has its missions. Colleagues from Iraq and Mongolia took us through their working day, we gave an insight into how we deal with finances and what our work looks like from the perspective of the Head of Humanitarian Aid and Development Cooperation department. We introduced you to our volunteers and interns. And we interviewed the Iraqi women who are at the forefront of humanitarian aid.
We appreciate all of the colleagues we have on our team, who keep us growing so we can help more and more people in need. We will continue to do so this year.
We also thank you for your support and look forward to continuing to share stories from around the world.
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The Slovak milk and dairy industry has had to face the reality that a government with no cash cannot support the free flow of milk any more.
The Velvet Revolution in 1989 brought a rapid decline in the production and consumption of milk and dairy products, caused by a dramatic rise in prices. This drop in consumption is alarming since people aren't getting the neccessary yearly amount of dairy products according to the Ministry of Health. The recommended yearly consumption of milk and dairy products per person is 220 kilograms but in 1997 it is expected to be just 161.2 kilograms per person (see chart 2).
If people do not start consuming more milk and dairy products there could be a serious health problem in the future. "A long-term low consumption of milk and dairy products will cause serious nourishment problems in our people's heath," said Peter Zaška, secretary of the Slovak Association of Dairy Producers.
The reason people aren't getting enough milk is because they can't afford it. Before 1989 the price for a liter of milk was 2 Sk, thanks to the support of the State which financed the production of milk. The government paid 6 to 8 Sk to the producer, so that citizens could buy milk for a very small price. Changes in 1989 and the realization that the state had no money ended this support, causing citizens to see prices of milk and dairy products jump 300 percent.
"A liter of milk was the same price as a liter of beer in 1991 (now it's half)," said Ján Kresák, assistant general director at the Liptovská mliekáreň (a dairy producer in Liptovsky Mikuláň). "A kilogram of cheese was the same price as a kilogram of meat. That is common in Western Europe, but our citizens were not able to afford these products."
Because of low consumption and no more government subsidies, some producers decreased the number of cows, causing an even greater decline in production. The Slovak milk industry is dominated by regional milk processing plants set up around populated centers like Bratislava, Košice, and Banská Bystrica. They were not affected that much by the drop compared to smaller regional producers.
Some of these smaller milk producers have to make less milk during winter because they cannot sustain feeding cows properly for optimum milk weaning. "In Liptovsky Mikuláš," explained Kresák, "our summer production is 2.4 times higher than in winter. In winter we have to bring milk from western Slovakia, and that causes prices to go higher."
Another reason for higher prices is the way milk is packaged now. Milk used to be packaged in old, often smelly plastic bags, which were not very hygienic, but cheap. "It is becoming unacceptable to sell milk in plastic bags," said Kresák. "Milk has to be packaged in paper boxes now. One box though, costs 3 Sk." Calculating the price for production, packaging, and the cut that distributors and shops get, and the price of one liter of milk leaps up to 15 - 20 Sk. These prices are not easy for people to swallow.
Due to the low consumption in the country, producers are looking for new markets, and new ways to attract customers. Slovak milk, and dairy have found that Europe does not need new sources of milk having enough of its own resources. "It is very hard, almost impossible to export milk or dairy products to Western countries," said Ing. František Hladky, general director of Senická mliekáreň (a dairy producer in Senica). "The European market is over-flooded with milk, when the rest of the world is starving. It is not possible for us, because our production is not that big, to export to these countries."
Russia is not considered a good partner because it is very hard for small dairy producers to get paid for their products. "There are new markets in Russia, but it is very hard to force them to pay for the goods," said Hladky.
One way milk producers are looking to promote milk is to renew offering schools milk for students during breaks in classes. This worked before 1989 with the government's support. Today the stumbling block is financing the idea. "The idea is great," said Hladky. "The biggest problem we have now, and what is keeping us from doing it is: Who is going to pay for it?"


I'm in the midst of reading a group of new books recently released that I picked up online. The first Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability, edited by William S. Saunders, is the sixth in a series of Harvard Design Magazine Readers (published by Univ. of Minnesota). This entry in the series specifically focusing on landscape and our inevitable struggles with nature versus culture - amongst a range of other articles that have run periodically through the Harvard Design Magazine over the years.
Ok, for full disclosure, I'm actually re-reading most of this information, as HDM was nice enough to publish PDFs of a number of these articles previously - which made me excited, but a little bummed when I got the book. Not for the content, but a feeling of lacking new info. It is nicely packaged in a small-format paperback which is great for reading on the bus. The following is my in-process view, as well as the reflection on the work as a whole.
Thus the fifteen essays in this book are part of the discussion, although not a solution, merely, "...recognizes a human rift with nature, strives to understand its cause, contemplates a resolution, and offers meaningful steps toward reconciliation." (vii) And that's just the first page.
Elsewhere in Part I, essays by Albert Borgmann (Ch.1) gives an [literally] exhaustive overview of mystical nature and our need to return to this state in his essay 'The Destitution of Space: From Cosmic Order to Cyber Disorientation'. This part redeems with a couple of fine essays by Catherine Howett (Ch.4) 'What Do We Make of Nature Now?' and John Beardsley (Ch.5) 'Kiss Nature Goodbye: Marketing the Great Outdoors'. Beardsley tackles the homogenization of nature as packaged by stores such as REI, and the impacts of our created artificial nature on our psyche.
Part II: Designing (for) Nature, delves into action (sort of). A couple of essays to start span policy and ethics - including one by Rossana Vaccarino (Ch.7) 'Nature Used and Abused...', and Susannah Hagan (Ch.8) 'Five Reasons to Adopt Environmental Design'. Vaccarino delves into Gifford Pinchot's ideology of sustainable forestry and our notions of nature as a tabula rasa - devoid of human occupation and meaning. Hagan follows this up with a treatise on the difficulty of capturing the movement and dynamism of natural processes.
The thread continues with essays by architect Peter Buchanan (Ch.9) 'Invitation to the Dance...', which discusses the impact and potential of sustainable projects like BedZED, as well as Robert France's (Ch.10) reverse homage to Thayer in 'Green World, Gray Heart? The Promise and Reality of Landscape Architecture in Sustaining Nature.' France definitely strikes a nerve in the LA as artist versus LA as ecological designer debate, by focusing on poignant combinations of both in tandem.
This fits nicely into the final word, a work from art historian John Beardsley (Ch.15) 'A Word for Landscape Architecture,' provides apt summary of the concept and context of all of these writings. "
In summary, overall I'm a big fan of 'readers' as a way to summarize and gather a range of disparate thoughts into one volume to provide a span of experience for the reader. It seems in a single-author/concept book - the idea or voice is often stretched too thin to accomodate the weight (or cost) of publication - and thus it get's fleshed out in graphics, typography, or formatting to give it the necessary gravitas. In this case, the essays chosen were diverse - allowing for many points, concise - giving a taste and most often leaving you satisfied, and coherent - there were a few turns into academic drudgery, but for the most part were a quick and fun read. This would be a great companion for a theory studio - and one worth a read from practioners as well.
For another HDM read from the latest issue, check out Kristina Hill and Jonathan Barnett's article on 'Design for Rising Sea Levels'... good stuff - and probably in the next version of the reader... where it can be re-read again.


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The Stepping G's preform for the pep rally during spirit week.
McKayla Epps, Staff Reporter
The 2019/2020 school year brought many new additions to Wade Hampton High School. From a new principal to being able to wear flip flops, the generals experience a lot of changes. One of the many additions to the new year was the creation of The Stepping G's. The Stepping G's is Wade Hampton's new step team. The team consists of 19 girls and is sponsored by Mrs. Keri Tisdale and Ms. Donnette Lewis. According to this article, "Stepping or step-dancing is a form of percussive dance in which the participant's entire body is used as an instrument to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand claps." The group spends countless hours perfecting their craft. They meet 3 days a week and work together to express themselves through rhythm and song. One of the girls on the team, Aby Faircloth, loves being a part of the team. She states, "I love being a part of this group. I love step dancing and it has been a great outlet to meet new people with the same interest."
At the pep rally last Friday, the Stepping G's performed for the first time in front of the student body, and the students were very impressed. Senior Kemy Barrera stated, "The stepping G's were really good and they exceeded my expectations. I did not know what stepping was so it was really cool to watch them and learn more about it." Wade Hampton is excited about its new step team and can not wait to see the team's success.
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Cross-continental disease and crop modeling collaborations to beat back wheat blast
by Stefanie Neno | Jan 16, 2019 | Crop Modeling CoP | 0 comments
Cross-continental collaborations facilitated by the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture thrive to beat back the threat of wheat blast in Brazil and Bangladesh.
Wheat blast disease is a major threat to smallholder farmers. The disease was first discovered in Brazil in 1985. Decades later it escaped from South America when it crept its way across the ocean and appeared in Bangladesh in 2016. Wheat blast outbreaks are linked to the right climate conditions. More accurate weather forecasts, coupled with disease models are key for farmers to adapt to the threat of the disease. Effective forecasting and warning systems can also help farmers avoid unnecessary fungicide use, thereby saving them money and reducing environmental risks.
Because the disease is new, knowledge of wheat blast epidemiology and modeling was limited in Bangladesh. That's why scientists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) reached out to Professor Jose Mauricio Fernandes, a Crop Pathologist, and Mr. Felipe de Vargas, a Computer Scientist, within the Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF) in Brazil, who had already been working on weather-forecast based blast modeling. The pair began collaborations with CIMMYT's Timothy J. Krupnik, Senior Scientist and Systems Agronomist to validate blast forecasting models and transfer them to Bangladesh as part of the USAID supported Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) project.
The initial model however had some constraints, with a key component missing. The model's equations focused mainly on ingesting weather forecast data from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) and processing them with a disease growth model to estimate environmental suitability and risk of outbreak. Accurate prediction of when and where wheat crops might reach flowering and early grain formation – crucial stages during which wheat is most susceptible to blast – was however missing.
This problem is now being solved with resources from the CGIAR's Platform for Big Data in Agriculture. Speaking about "Combining crop and disease modeling with numerical weather forecasting to inform wheat blast early warning systems in Bangladesh, Brazil and beyond", a new project supported by the Community of Practice on Crop Modeling from the Big Data Platform, Professor Fernandes explained that,
"We are developing a model for an early warning system that considers seasonality and wheat growth, which explores the date of sowing for disease management practice as well as climate suitability for wheat blast in unaffected areas."
To achieve this aim, the team is integrating the widely-validated Decision Support System for Technology Transfer (DSSAT) model into the wheat blast early warning system driven by weather forecasts and equations that consider blast ecology and development. Dr. Fernandes explained that
"DSSAT is a general model for simulating crop growth and development, as well as the soil and plant water, nitrogen, phosphorus, and carbon dynamics. DSSAT comprises a suite of crop simulation models, including the 'NWheat', an additional wheat model added to the current wheat models on the platform.
He continued,
"…currently, DSSAT-NWheat is under improvement to account for damage imposed by diseases and pests. A generic disease simulator was parameterized to mimic wheat blast inoculum build up and consequent colonization of wheat spikes. Upon spread of fungal mycelia, wheat grain development will reduce as a function of wheat blast intensity. The weather-based wheat blast simulator requires hourly observations of temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, and solar radiation. The novel wheat model (DSSAT-NWheat) can predict yield in the presence or absence of wheat blast. The new DSSAT-NWheat model is under validation in both countries."
The research team is also using the models and completed wheat growth trials to explore historical data and model the historical risk of wheat blast infection.
"With DSSAT-NWheat as part of our modeling platform, we can explore the impact of sowing dates on the timing wheat spike formation and the risk of infection. We are now working to run a large number of virtual experiments with the modeling platform to adjust advisories for sowing date to avoid infection risks in both Brazil and Bangladesh" explained Krupnik.
"This effort to integrate crop with disease and numerical weather forecasting models shows the value-addition to a strong cross-continental science for development collaboration that comes from the Big Data Platform's mini-grant to support our work." Explained Dr. Krupnik. Dr. Fernandes added, "The partnership shows the importance of collaborative research, independent of the intercontinental distances that separate Brazil and Bangladesh. The results from the collaborative research will certainly have an impact on the wheat production of both the countries."
The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture supports cross-continental collaborations to beat back the threat of wheat blast in Brazil and Bangladesh. To the left, Mr. Felipe de Vargas and Jose Mauricio Fernandes of the University of Passo Fundo in Brazil work to calibrate the DSSAT-Nwheat model and integrate it with numerical weather forecasting and disease development models to warn farmers in advance of wheat blast disease risks. To the right, Zakaria Hasan and Timothy J. Krupnik inspect wheat in Bangladesh as part of efforts to validate the models.
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This page concentrates on placement consultants in Bhopal. On this page, we have tried to list all the relevant Placement Consultants Bhopal, Placement Agents Bhopal, Recruitment Agencies Bhopal, and sites on Human Resource Hunt. Through these placement agents in Bhopal, you can get to know about the numerous job jobs that are there in Bhopal. We have attempted to put on this page sites on Placement Consultants Bhopal, Placement Agents Bhopal, Recruitment Agencies Bhopal, Human Resource Hunt sites but incase you feel there is some site that needs to be listed on this page and has not been listed, please do feel free to inform us about it through the Feedback link. We would really appreciate this effort from your side in order to improve this site.
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Plateau des Glieres: Three Têtes Hike
4.5-6.5h
With jetting mountain peaks covered in a carpet of green and unforgettable valley and lake views, the Plateau des Glières Hike doesn't disappoint! This hike gives you a chance to marvel at the three têtes: Tête Noire, Tête Rond, and Tête de l'Arpattaz. The area is rich in nature and history. You'll find a monument to the French Resistance fighters who died in battle here, and in summer, wildflowers, blueberries and gentian herbs are abundant in the rolling fields and between the rocky mounts. This loop hike will have you reminiscing on the outstanding views and enchanting scenery for days!
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Route Description for Plateau des Glieres: Three Têtes Hike
This hike can be completed in either direction. Half the hike is on craggy, challenging terrain and the other half meanders through relatively flat fields on dirt tracks and wide gravel access tracks. Clockwise, the hike starts with inclining difficult terrain and a similar gradient decline before an easy walk out. If you choose the anti-clockwise route, prepare to descend some difficult limestone pavement sections where trekking poles can only do so much. These instructions are for the clockwise hike.
This hike isn't recommended for children or dogs as there is a vertical section of rock they need to be lifted down and many cliffs with no safety barriers.
From the Gautard car park, walk away from the restaurant and follow the road to the far end of the car park, where there's a large wooden info board. Pass the sign, then turn right and go down the wide gravel track, over the bridge with a trickling stream below, crossing fields and going through a cattle gate where there's a small car park on the right and another wooden info board on the left. This is the beginning of the circuit.
Bear left for the clockwise circuit. About 80 m after the pretty Notre Dame des Neiges chapel on the left, watch for a narrow, grassy unmarked trail on the right. The chapel should still be visible behind you.
Take the unmarked trail, which winds up through some bushes. A few rocks with faded red and yellow paint marks indicate it's an official route. The trail winds through a sun-dappled forest to an open field, so don't forget to look back for the first wide mountain views.
Follow the trail over sections of eroded limestone rock pavement and grass, and through woods, looking for any yellow and red paint marks on rocks and trees to indicate the way. The trail leads to the first of three têtes (heads). From the top of the first one, Tête Noire, you can see the next rounded head, called Tête Rond, and the Aravis chain of mountains further left. To the right is Lake Geneva.
The trail continues not far from the cliff edge, leading to the sketchiest part of the hike. With a cliff ridge in front, turn right to see a four-metre section of steep rock to climb down. Two small rocks at the top are perfect for gripping and there is a ledge for feet about a metre below. After that, the rocks are angled enough to walk down.
Follow the single trail, which provides a view of the village of Thônes in the green valley below. The trail leads to the second head, Tête Rond, where the other two heads are visible.
When you're ready to continue, follow the trail towards the third head, the Tête de l'Arpattaz, with a cross at the top. From the left of the cross, there's a glimpse of the south end of Lake Annecy.
To continue, backtrack down the same trail to the base of the third head, then turn left where the trail descends towards the green valley below. The trail zig-zags down through fields and a few small sections of limestone, then traverses some woods before clearing to open green fields in the valley. Here, the hike is physically half way, but won't take as long as the first half to complete.
In the valley, there's a crossroad. To the left, walk for around ten minutes for a final viewpoint that shows more of the valley of Thônes below. The path continues to La Balme de Thuy but it's very steep and dangerous, indicated by warning signs that declare the trail as a 'passage delicat'. Instead, walk back to the crossroad. The other trail option leads through the valley, eventually widening to an easy gravel track. Along the way, you will see signs. Follow the directions for Dran (Parking).
The gravel track winds through a forest up a gradual incline, leading to an open area and a T-intersection. Turn right up the road, following the sign towards Maison du Plateau par Dran. This road leads back to the start of the circuit. From here, turn left and follow the path you took at the start of this hike to return to the restaurant car park.
Insider Hints for Plateau des Glieres: Three Têtes Hike
There are free car parks dotted around the plateau, like the one where the circuit starts, but don't expect public toilets or anywhere to buy a drink.
With plenty of light woods along the way, it's easy to find a 'wild' toilet stop if required.
Hiking poles are highly recommended for this trail.
The Plateau des Glières is vast and provides hundreds of kilometres of hiking and biking tracks for all levels and interests, with chapels, monuments, farms that sell fresh butter and cheese, restaurants and of course the Tour de France every now and again.
The gravel track that connects the two roads up is usually open for easy access, but always check before leaving to avoid a long detour.
There are no public toilets on the trail; private toilets for restaurant patrons only
Getting to the Plateau des Glieres: Three Têtes Hike Trailhead
The Plateau des Glières is accessible from two directions by car — the D12 between Entremont and Le Petit Bornand, and from the east side, closer to Annecy, via the village of Thorens-Glières. The main road from one side of the other, which is partly a loose gravel road, hit the headlines when it was included in the 2018 Tour de France. This hike begins on the east side of the gravel road, so it's best to approach from that side.
Be prepared to pay for parking (around 2€ per hour) at Gautard restaurant, or grab a drink or a meal before or after your hike for free parking. The hiking trail starts from the far end of this car park.
Mid-April – end of September
Various refuges, and car parks for campervans (via Thorens-Glières only)
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Boehner To Step Down From Often Thankless Job. What's Next For His Successor?
By Ailsa Chang
Published September 25, 2015 at 4:06 PM EDT
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:
This is the week that the pope came to town, the president of China stopped by and the speaker of the House resigned. We're going to start with that surprising announcement today by John Boehner. He says he will leave his position and House seat at the end of next month. The Republican faced unrelenting pressure from conservatives in his own party. NPR's Ailsa Chang begins our coverage.
AILSA CHANG, BYLINE: Did the pope inspire him to do it? That was the question on perhaps everyone's mind this morning.
JOHN BOEHNER: No, no. Yesterday was a wonderful day. It really was.
CHANG: But he was struck by the pope's reference to the golden rule yesterday. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
BOEHNER: Last night, I started thinking about this. And this morning, I woke up, and I said my prayers as I always do. And I decided, you know, today's the day I'm going to do this - as simple as that.
CHANG: Boehner says he had been planning all along to announce on his 66th birthday in November that he'd be leaving by the end of this year. But mounting unrest among conservatives threatening to vote him out of the speakership accelerated his timing.
BOEHNER: Listen. It was never about the vote, all right? There was never any doubt about whether I could survive a vote. I don't want my members to have to go through this. I certainly don't want the institution to go through this. And so - especially when, you know, I knew I was thinking about walking out the door anyway. So it was the right time to do it, and frankly, I am entirely comfortable doing it.
CHANG: Did you get that? He's entirely comfortable.
BOEHNER: (Singing) Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-a.
CHANG: Boehner surprised even his top lieutenants who found out just minutes before he announced to the stunned House Republicans. One of them is Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
PAUL RYAN: I was shocked that he did it. I'll just say, this is an act of pure selflessness. He put others over himself.
CHANG: Ryan has already said he doesn't want Boehner's job. It is often a thankless one, but in it, Boehner ushered in the largest Republican majority in the House since the 1920s. Tom Cole of Oklahoma says he deserves gratitude from fellow Republicans.
TOM COLE: We were road kill in 2009. For him to bring us back in the majority, sustain it through a reelection of a Democratic president and to be as effective as he's been legislatively, I think it's extraordinary.
CHANG: But extraordinary is not how many House conservatives would describe Boehner.
THOMAS MASSIE: What has happened here is that our republic was subverted because the speaker abused his power.
CHANG: Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
MASSIE: He took everybody's voting card. Look, when you get here, the deal is you never vote against the speaker, or you'll lose your committee assignment. You'll lose your subcommittee chairmanship. This is a condition of his own making right here.
CHANG: It's not just that he punishes conservatives, they say. He's too cozy with Democrats, relying on their votes over and over again. When it came to the fiscal cliff, the debt ceiling, funding the Department of Homeland Security, John Fleming of Louisiana says Republicans like him felt shut out.
JOHN FLEMING: Conservatives - core conservatives feel like that we have little if no voice, and yet we make up a substantial part of the conference. So we want to see balance. We want to make sure that our voices are heard as well.
CHANG: But that's the tricky thing about picking a leader. Republican Steve Womack of Arkansas says no person can magically wipe away the fissures that divide a fractious caucus.
STEVE WOMACK: I just think you can change the names. You can change the faces in leadership, and the pressures are going to remain the same. The issues are still there. The difference of opinion among the conference remains.
CHANG: And while Republicans figure out next steps, Democrats like leader Nancy Pelosi wonder who they're going to be doing battle with next.
NANCY PELOSI: Some would say the party's been hijacked by a fringe element in the House Republican party, and we're seeing evidence of that now.
CHANG: Boehner says he would support Kevin McCarthy, the current majority leader, to be the next speaker. And other candidates may be stepping forward in the coming days. Meanwhile, many Republicans say Boehner's news makes the chances of a government shutdown next week much lower. Ailsa Chang, NPR News, the Capitol. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist who hosts All Things Considered along with Ari Shapiro, Audie Cornish, and Mary Louise Kelly. She landed in public radio after practicing law for a few years.
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The foreign national who caused Fort Bragg's All American gate to close for several hours in March will not face charges and will be deported, court documents state.
An affidavit of the criminal complaint filed against Nouran Ahmad Shibab Sueidan states that he attempted to access Fort Bragg at 10:30 a.m. March 12 without proper identification and repeated requests to tour "the special operations facility."
Sueidan's court-appointed attorneys requested his mental health evaluation March 19.
On March 27, a psychiatrist diagnosed Sueidan with "mental disorder that compromises his ability to stand trial," based on observations, court documents state.
"The government does not disagree with (the psychiatrist's) opinion and conclusion as to the defendant's mental state," court documents state.
An affidavit states that Sueidan first refused to show his identification, then provided an expired Jordanian passport, an expired Texas driver's license, expired vehicle registration and no proof of vehicle insurance to gate guards on March 12.
Sueidan repeatedly made comments about needing to enter the installation and "take a tour of the special operations facility," the investigator wrote.
Officials said in Monday's court documents that because of the offense being a misdemeanor and Sueidan's anticipated deportation, charges will be dropped.
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GOAT Week: The Greatest Sports Announcer
By Hardwood and Hollywood Staff
Hardwood and Hollywood's G.O.A.T. Week is a series of posts on various categories to be published in two-week period. Yes, there were so many categories, we had to do two weeks, not one! Here's the schedule: August 7th – Basketball Player, Football Player; August 8th – Drama Film, Ending to a Film; August 9th – Sports Announcer, Sports Cult Hero; August 10th – Baseball Player, Movie Athlete; August 11th – Ending to a TV Series, HBO TV Series; August 14th – Movie Actor, Movie Actress; August 15th – TV Series, Album; August 16th – Comedy Film, Film Franchise; August 17th – TV Actor, TV Actress; August 18th – Musician, One Hit Wonder
Mike Cortez – Al Michaels
The best way to find an answer to a question as impossible as this is to simplify it. So instead of trying to cycle through the gluttony of great announcers we've had the pleasure of listening to, ask yourself this–if you were watching the biggest sporting event of the year who would you want calling it?
My personal preference would be Gus Johnson, no one has better reactions to madness than Gus (Kevin Harlan is a close second), and one cannot forget his iconic "pause" of Spike Lee. But as great as Gus is the correct take here is Al Michaels. He's your cool uncle that has seemingly lived through every cool moment.
Michaels checks off every imaginable box a great play-by-play commentator needs. He has the iconic voice, has the iconic call and the iconic partner (John Madden). Our parents might remember Michaels for a few different things, but we remember him as the original Monday Night Football game alongside the living legend Madden. His voice feels like the one you would hear if you explain to someone what a commentator should sound like.
Any time your team was playing on a Monday you felt like it was the biggest game of the year. Every big play felt even bigger and it felt as if every time Michaels is calling the game something wacky happens–like the Seahawks not giving Marshawn Lynch the ball at the 1-yard line or Jumbo Elliott catching a touchdown pass to complete a 30-7 comeback.
I have yet to experience a football season or Olympics without Michaels in the booth and wish I never have to.
Sonny Giuliano – Verne Lundquist
Now this is a tough one. I had a more difficult time figuring out my GOAT Sports Announcer selection than I did deciding what college I wanted to attend (this admittedly says a great deal about my own personal character, but also the quality of Florida Gulf Coast University's campus). With all due respect to Al Michaels (the GOAT NFL Announcer), Marv Albert (the GOAT NBA Announcer) Gus Johnson (the GOAT Announcer for any sporting event that features an un-effing-believable finish), and Chris Collinsworth/Bill Raftery/Kirk Herbstreit (a trio of GOAT color commentators), I decided to go with Verne Lundquist as my choice for GOAT Sports Announcer, and here are the four reasons why:
1: Verne has excelled calling both College Football and College Basketball, and by that I don't mean he's pretty good at both. I can confidently say there isn't a play-by-play announcer in either college football or college basketball I'd rather have on the call for a big game than Verne Lundquist. And that makes him the only announcer to be the GOAT Announcer for two different sports.
2: Verne's got such a lovely, endearing chortle. It's the same laugh you imagine Santa Claus having when you're seven years old. Truthfully, Verne is probably the closest thing we have to a real life Santa Claus.
3: Over the years Verne has developed fantastic, seemingly genuine rapport with partners in the announce booth like Gary Danielson, and especially Bill Raftery. Sometimes I like to imagine Verne and Bill Raftery having lunch together before a college basketball game.
Raftery: "Verne, you have to taste this soup. This is the best ONION soup I've ever had in my life."
Raftery slides the bowl toward Verne. Verne takes his spoon, dips it in the soup, brings it to his lips and takes a sip.
Raftery: "Send it in big fella!"
Verne takes a moment to evaluate the soup, when suddenly:
Verne: "Are you kidding me!? I have never, IN MY LIFE, had soup this good!"
4: Verne is the rare breed of sports announcer who is a technically sound play-caller, a captivating in-game storyteller and a legitimate fan in the booth who shows honest-to-God excitement in the tense moments of the game. A good announcer should master one of those three qualities. A great announcer possesses two of the three. Verne Lundquist has all three.
TJ Macias – Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper
While I get that this is a singular category, in the world of baseball, is duo is seen primarily as one luminous entity.
I believe anyone who knows me here will attempt say that I'm using the bias card, but hear me out before screaming bloody murder. Regardless of having an iconic reputation in the Bay Area, San Francisco Giants broadcasters Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper are known throughout the entire baseball world and manage to fit quite neatly next to legendary Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully. Yes, I said next. While Scully is a recognized name in baseball, the undeniable chemistry and unbreakable bond between the two best friends and former teammates Kruk and Kuip goes beyond the norm as well as beyond local. They almost surpass the very players they enjoy playfully badgering on the field.
"Grab some pine, meat!"
I get it. I reek of the sullied scent of a bias fan, but anyone who has ever listened to the inseparable pair will tell you the same thing: their unpretentious humor mixes almost gracefully with their extremely high baseball IQ, and they suck you into their world without even trying.
Recently, Krukow was diagnosed with inclusion-body myositis (IBM), a disease that causes atrophy in certain muscle groups, mainly the quadriceps. After falling ill with the disease, Kruk soon discovered that it was too painful to travel over a certain amount of distance, so those long trips cross-country with the team would have a negative effect on his health. The baseball broadcasting world, and especially his soul-mate/partner, were in dismay when the news broke, and the Giants organization did everything within their power to keep the duo together despite one traveling and the other having to stay behind (including working on a way of having Kruk broadcast from AT&T Park while Kuip broadcasts from the road.
They're not Harry Caray. They're not Vin Scully. They're not Mel Allen. But they don't need to be. And why is that?
Because they literally do stuff like THAT on a nightly basis, are stunningly human, and still manage to be two of the smartest commentators in baseball today.
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summary: Tristran Thorn lives an unremarkable life in the small town of Wall, so named for the wall that separates the town from Faerie land on the other side. Lovestruck and wanting to prove himself, he goes on a journey into Faerie land to find a fallen star, which he promised to bring back to the woman he loves. On this journey he finds that the star is actually a person name Yvaine. Together they begin the journey (she less willingly) back to Wall. Unbeknownst to them, Tristran was not the only one seeking her out. . .
personal thoughts: Beautiful, imaginative, and witty. I love the movie and feel like it followed the book quite well. Of course, the books are often better than their movie counterparts and this was no different. I loved the different characters and the intertwining stories. The world of fantasy that Gaiman created is dynamic, a place that I would want to visit, maybe even live. Well done, sir.


A senior press secretary to Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said on Monday evening that the president's car came under attack by opposition supporters in the town of Arua, where a bye-election is to hold on Wednesday.
Photos shared by Don Wanyama showed that the rear mirror of the president's Toyota V8 had been smashed in the attack. He did not comment whether the president was hurt or not.
The information came barely an hour after a popular lawmaker, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu also known as Bobi Wine, posted on Twitter that police had attempted to kill him.
"Police have shot my driver dead thinking they've shot at me. My hotel is now cordoned off by police and SFC," he wrote on Twitter with a photo of his driver slumped in the front seat.
Local media portals are reporting that Bobi Wine has been taken into police custody along with a fellow lawmaker.
Bobi Wine, an opposition lawmaker, was reportedly supporting independent candidate Kassiano Wadri. President Museveni was also in Arua campaigning for the ruling National Resistance Movement's Nusura Tiperu.


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Assistant Professor of Philosophy John Torrey Presents on Critical Race Theory
John Torrey, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a contributing professor in the Africana Studies unit at SUNY Buffalo State College recently presented at Community Meeting about critical race theory. John holds a BA in Philosophy and Spanish from Morehouse College (2009) and an MA and Ph. D in Philosophy from the University of Memphis (2019).
"Reserve Your Seat" in The Spencer Family Theater with a Custom Seat Plaque
Published Tuesday, October 26, 2021
"Reserve Your Seat" in The Spencer Family Theater with a custom seat plaque and support Oakwood through your purchase! On the occasion of Oakwood's 100th Anniversary in Poughkeepsie, our theater in the historic Lane Building has been renovated to meet the needs of our school community in 2021 and into the future, funded by generous alumni, parents, and members of the Board of Managers.
Celebrating 100 Years in Poughkeepsie
Published Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Oakwood commemorated its 100th year on its Poughkeepsie campus with a celebration September 24 – 26, 2021. The weekend events began on Friday with the Annual Carolyn "Dash" Davis Gleiter '51 Lecture on Social Justice presented by former Oakwood history teacher Michael J. Steinberg, Director of the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative at Michigan Law School. Saturday's events included the Alumni Association Annual Meeting, receptions, art projects and testimonial videotaping for returning alumni and visitors.
Alumna Adventure Photographer Irene Yee '05 Featured in National Geographic
Alumna Irene Yee from the Class of 2005 was recently featured in National Geographic while on assignment in Smith Rock State Park in Oregon. Learn more about her adventurous career combining her passion for photography and rock climbing!
Vernon Press Releases "Intentional Disruption: Expanding Access to Philosophy" Edited by Humanities Chair Stephen Miller
Published Thursday, July 29, 2021
Congratulations to Humanities Chair Stephen Miller on the publication of "Intentional Disruption: Expanding Access to Philosophy". Stephen found the contributors, guided the focus of the chapters so they connected as a complete book, wrote the first chapter and edited the whole text for content, style and references.
Oakwood and Spackenkill Students Collaborate on Black Lives Matter Mural
Published Monday, May 24, 2021
Students from Oakwood Friends School and the Spackenkill community came together to paint a collaborative Black Lives Matter mural created by high school senior Mary Haddad. Using a unique paint-by-number design style, this inclusive project involved students from both communities at the middle and high school levels. Never having met before, the students collaborated on this project that took over 320 hours in two and a half months in the hopes of combining their efforts to make an impact in the fight to stop racism.
Students Take to the Stage Again for In-Person Spring Musical
Published Sunday, May 16, 2021
The Oakwood Friends School Spring Musical Production will be a unique experience this year! Rather than one full-length production, the Music and Drama Departments in association with Music Theater International will be producing four ten-minute musicals. These four plays, The Answering Machine, A Most Average Musical, The Hipster Sister, and The Facebook Fighter will be performed for the school both in-person and via stream Friday and Saturday, May 21st and 22nd at 7:30 PM.
Arts Department Welcomes Painter and Playwright
Published Monday, April 5, 2021
Continuing our Arts Lecture Series, we will welcome painter Fredericka Foster on April 22nd at 7PM. Fredericka is primarily a perceptual oil painter, using imagination to explore the rhythms and forms that appear on the canvas. The colors she chooses are arbitrary, and paint is layered until she sees movement and life. The interaction of water and light is what interests her, and by painting water without a horizon, she is able to capture its abstract nature.