Violating driving rules without a full and adequate insurance policy is one of the simplest crimes committed in committing a crime, and is also the most important to avoid a violation. First, even if you have auto insurance, you may be in a position where your policy does not apply to the person who drives this car (including you) and / or the purpose for which you drive the car. Let me explain this in more detail with the examples that our legal practice has experienced in recent months.
You can be a DIY enthusiast, but also a person that you really like, to be sure that you keep up with all household chores. In addition, as usual, your family, acquaintances, neighbors, partners, and any other person in your social circle may have enthusiastically noticed this passion for the content of your home. Consequently, it may well be that some one or more of these different people at some point will ask you to work for them along with some financial compensation for their time and energy. So, this is a real-life example: Imagine that you are driving home from what has become your favorite local DIY store, after you have purchased several items to help a family member with the task they need to complete, therefore a local police officer stops him. When asked if he is insured, he tells the police that insurance applies to him, but unfortunately, after admitting that he works on a fee basis, he checks the position in his database and shows that you are not receiving compensation for "Commercial use" (also known as "commercial use"): you may be charged for driving without insurance uk offense in accordance with the 1988 s143 traffic law.
In this example, he was insured, but not for the purpose of using the vehicle.
Ok, now let's think about another scenario. As mentioned above, he really understood that he was insured to drive his car. In fact, he received an email confirmation after the start of the online policy. However, a few weeks after the start of the insurance policy, you got into an accident. The police checks the case in your database and states that you are not insured. Of course, this is new to you! However, although he did not know that he was not insured, if the policy was canceled without his knowledge, he was guilty of the crime, since this is "strict liability". Most people would find it unfair. However, this is the law: technically, you as a driver must make sure that it is covered by insurance, and ignorance of the cancellation is not a defense.
The end result of example 2? You were not insured without knowing about it, and your only real way to repair is to demand "special reasons", that is, the insurance company deceived you into believing that you are truly insured.


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The Research Accessibility Aid Is: IN!!!
Discussion in 'General Advice' started by cosmofex, May 1, 2018.
jacktrash spherical sockbox
i somehow never saw this thread before or i would've done this long ago, but uh
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or exactly what ancient sami peoples did for food during famine
weirdly enough, i actually do need to know that specific thing for my writey project. is this something you have some good sources you could link me on?
i generally enjoy doing research, but i've been coming up against a series of brick walls in trying to write my fictional-world not-exactly-sami reindeer herders, because apparently what little history about equivalent cultures didn't get erased or forgotten is written in finnish.
basically, i've got a tribe of reindeer herders who send a bunch of folks down to the sea to fish in the summers. their fishing camp got hit by raiders, everybody died, all the food got taken and the boats stolen or burned. they still have their reindeer, but they're fresh out of able-bodied men aside from one alcoholic shaman and a few teenagers, and they pretty much know unless they get real lucky somehow they're going to slowly starve over the next few years.
what i need to research is what they do to try to stave that off. but i can't seem to find a starting point. all my search terms lead me in wrong directions. and of course, i'm the adhd poster child and i get sucked down every rabbit hole i find, so even wrong directions can eat an entire afternoon.
so do you think you could find me some kind of starting point for like... experiential, practical, day-to-day, What Did They Actually Do With Their Time information about arctic cultures fighting famine?
jacktrash, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:45 PM
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@jacktrash The best part is that I originally made the Research Accessibility Aid after helping you look up gluten-free baking, and I remember seeing you talk about the Sami folk around the same time!
Ok so! You say you need starting points more than summaries, and you need ancient Sami specifically and ancient arctic peoples in general.
First things first, arctic cultures don't really have a famine food the way cultures from more productive land do. So little grows that everything that can be eaten is a staple, and everything that can't is indigestible. Also, nomadic people like the Sami tend to just leave areas struck by famine, or assimilate into better-off tribes rather than try to stick it out like more stationary cultures do. The problems your characters will be facing are going to be less about food availability and more about lack of knowledge and experience. Same end result, but with a different set of solutions.
Now! for research!
First up, food:
Tree bark was one of the many foods in the Sami diet. When a tree was harvested for timber, the inner bark was ground up into flour to make bread. In snow-free months, vertical strips were taken off of live trees, leaving at least 2/3 of the circumference so that the tree would live to make more bark. Oddly, this was the opposite of a famine food- the "rich" Sami with bountiful herds were said to collect the most pine and birch bark.
Mushrooms such as chaga can be extremely healthy foods, and were definitely on the menu.
Sami also ate insects like the reindeer warble fly, though not in great quantities. (warning: images are kinda body horror)
the reindeer themselves constituted a large portion of the diet. Specifically for the coastal Sami like your tribe, the herd was small and never meant for meat. They were for milk and cheese production, and for attracting wild reindeer. The wild ones were the reindeer that got eaten for the coastal groups.
Next up, random links
a website about sami culture by sami people
a research paper on swedish famine food (as a whole, sami people ate these things on a much more regular basis)
a research paper on scandinavian bark peeling for food
a research paper on modern and historic sami plant use
Basically, every member of the tribe was involved in the food gathering process. There wasn't a secret aspect of hunting that only men knew, there wasn't a secret aspect of cooking that only women knew. Food was so tight at all times that most modern non-nomadic societies would consider it famine. Their staple foods were famine foods just about everywhere south of them. Every child over the age of "can't hold a stick" knew how to make a fish spear or bait a hook. Every teenager had been hunting with the family for a few years already and while they weren't the best they were still pretty OK at it. In the Sami people, there wasn't famine-specific food, there was just food. Then when there was less food, they went somewhere where there was more food.
But you're still short a lot of folks in the tribe, and life is tough. Luckily for them, it's summer. The experienced or smart cookies will start catching food as quick as they can, then smoke, dry, or salt every ounce of it. They'll collect berries, nuts, roots, shoots, herbs, weeds, grasses, pine bark, birch bark, birch sap, anything they can stuff in a jar of brine or jam or vinegar or fat. They'll get the crippled guy who survived the attack but lost his legs to teach them tricks for trapping, they'll get the half-senile granny to give them pointers on reindeer, they'll antagonize the shit out of the shaman to work a little magic for them. When autumn comes and the reindeer go into rut, they'll slaughter, butcher, and jerky-fie all the wild reindeer that visit their herd, and they'll use the skins to make new boats. By the end of winter, the purely physical stuff will have been replaced. Next year, they go find another tribe and either ask for lessons or assimilate until they're aged up.
That's the good-luck scenario. The bad-luck scenario is that the teenagers are young enough to have not been hunting and there's no one but the kids and the drunk shaman who has been too busy shamaning to learn the skills of surviving. They get the news of the raid early in summer and start rationing. The kids end up having to kill and eat the reindeer in their herd. The wild reindeer aren't lured in. Foraging and fishing holds off total starvation until winter arrives. Winter rolls in and the river and the forage is frozen over and buried under the snow. Kids starve unless another tribe finds them. If the other tribe takes them in, they live happily ever after. If the tribe doesn't take them in but does teach them necessary skills, or better yet lends a few men and women, they have a rough winter but everyone lives happily ever after. The tribe won't choose to just leave them to die, because thats an incredibly shitty thing to do to people you are 100% likely to be distantly related to.
the no-good-very-bad-luck scenario is that they never get news of the raid and don't rationing until one day they realize that they're on their own. Another tribe doesn't find them until someone wants to visit their aunt in that one tribe of sea sami and when they get there they find bones under the snow. A few of the most recent ones have been chewed on.
Last but not least: some wikipedia pages on related subjects!
Sami people
Sami cuisine
list of sami dishes
cosmofex, Jan 8, 2019 at 2:04 AM
thank you so much! this is all really useful.
what i'd been planning was that the raid happens late in the summer, and the stores of smoked and dried fish are stolen too, and they end up having to eat some of their reindeer over the next winter. plotwise, i want to weaken their famine resilience without wiping them out, so that a few years later another bad summer pushes them to the point of having to send someone to negotiate with the gods. so i can't let them assimilate into another tribe, but i don't want them all dead when my protagonist is seven either. i need him and his sister to survive until they're old enough that he can volunteer to bring their case to the gods (which is to say, be sacrificed in the bog) and have it be more teenage bravado than innocent pathos.
i didn't know about luring in the wild reindeer and eating them instead. if they do that for a while, and then in the summers they send women to fish -- so basically they can be either fishing OR foraging, and they don't dare go far from shore because their boats are kind of hastily thrown together -- then maybe i could see them surviving but not having enough that they can weather further misfortune?
i might need to come up with some explanation why they don't join up with the tribe casimir's dad (aka the alcoholic shaman) came from. maybe they finally make the grudging decision that it's necessary... only to find that tribe got wiped out completely by the raiders.
bit more grimdark than i usually go, but it'd sure give leila a nice backstory impetus for when she becomes an adult and organizes a counterstrike that paints the raiders' beaches red.
jacktrash, Jan 8, 2019 at 1:41 PM
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can I just say, I absolutely can't wait to read this book
vuatson, Jan 8, 2019 at 4:19 PM
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This sounds pretty much exactly like what they would go with. As for why they don't join up with casimir's dad's tribe, it could be quite as simple as they just straight up can't find them. Sami are nomadic, and if the reindeer decide to move all the way to the Kola Penninsula, the Sami will follow. Odds are, if the dad's tribe isn't in the area, the decimated tribe will be just shit outa luck. Now, another part of being nomadic is inter-tribal breeding is very common so tribal warfare or other help-precluding disagreements were super rare, so another tribe in the area could drop by but decide that resources are too tight to help with more than just knowledge. This would mean that the scenario that led to them searching for the dad's tribe could be resolved, while still leaving resources super tight until the tribe grew enough to split their attention safely.
Honestly, I'd say that the first winter would be for-sure the hardest, but they wouldn't get much easier for 5 years or so, until confidence and population grew. A series of illnesses would probably be the thing to tip the balance in a bad summer rather than drought or blight. The illnesses don't even have to be lethal, they just have to lay people up for a week or two. That leaves the number of mouths eating the same, while cutting down the hands gathering to almost nil. The illness strikes right as the wild reindeer come in the fall, and suddenly there's no jerky or fall berries for the winter. It takes them into december to finish off the fish, and maybe if you want to make life really hard for them they kill off a bunch of trees by girdling the bark. It was a practice that the Sami avoided at all times out of respect for the tree, but maybe with the famine they just can't afford not to. The killing of the trees angers some or all of the gods, and suddenly a call-for-help that may have cost only a reindeer sacrifice or a bear hunt now requires a full-on human sacrifice.
Either way, this story goes hard as hell and its gonna be the best thing since the god eaters and i cannot WAIT
cosmofex, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:02 PM
that sounds perfect, thank you!
the thing writers never get right about human sacrifice is... it's the sacrifice who gets to ask the gods for things. not the guy with the knife. so you better make sure your messenger wants the same things you do. :D
hmm, i really don't want to do the Dead Mom Trope, but i feel like if they had both shamans in full working order they'd have a much easier time of things. maybe casimir's mom can get cursed by the raiders' shaman during the raid, which is why she wasn't able to cover the fishers' retreat with her magic, and the curse continues to make it hard for her to be useful from then on.
what's a good fairytale curse i can hit my guy's mum with that isn't 'game of thrones' levels of grimdark but will make her more burden than asset? getting turned into a swan in the daytimes? i think that one's irish tho.
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Well, that does vary a bit with the specific human sacrifice. I imagine the guy who spends a year partying it up as a living embodiment of Tezcatlipoca and then gets sacrificed at the end is probably the main guy going "so please don't send jaguars to eat everyone again kthx," but the captured enemy warriors having their hearts ripped out for the glory of Huitzilopochtli probably have a bit less input. Unless the Aztecs figured everybody would be able to get behind the sun not getting eaten by star demons.
LadyNighteyes, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:58 PM
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yeah, that occurred to me right after i posted, that there's different kinds of human sacrifice. it's just that fiction always latches onto the aztec heap 'o enemy hearts model, or the moloch kiddie snack type. those are kind of a height-of-empire sort of religious excess, i think, similar to declaring your rulers divine, and building huge temples, and all that.
anyhow, this particular fictional group of people do human sacrifice like once in a generation MAYBE, more like once a century, only when shit gets super super dire. i mean, historically, we don't know enough about bog bodies and neolithic religion and all that to say for sure, but it's looking plausible that human sacrifices were either a symbolic murdering of the misfortune (such as with the 'thrice killed' ones) or a messenger sent to the gods. and as a writer i found that last one very intriguing. like, among people who genuinely believe in this cosmology, and in fact who are correct about it and these land spirits really do exist and all, you could absolutely have a human sacrifice who was a genuine volunteer. not tricked into it or brainwashed or even bribed with special favors for his family. just this brave kid who's like "you know what, i'm at least as curious as i am scared, and this is something i can do for everybody, so let me do it."
and then... he comes back. which is real awkward.
hoo boy would that be awkward. the famine lifts, and everyone starts celebrating, and little timmy crawls his ass out of the bog and just says "the pine trees are kinda pissed, so look out for dead-falls next year, but Ruohtta says he'll lay off" and starts coughing up bog water.
stars, that'd be hilarious
Also, for avoiding the Dead Mom Curse, Sami shamans use a drum and joiking to do their workings. A curse of muteness or a quasi-crushed voice box and put a fist through the drum head, and there's nothing she could do beyond what a non-shaman could. She can still share info through writing, but no magic ever again until she can make a new drum and get another shaman to cure her voice. If none of the local shamans are up to it, or the gods don't approve, that could mean never.
cosmofex, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:37 PM
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My favorite variety of human sacrifice is personally the 'The land is failing and the king is shit. We must ritualistically execute him and find a new one to fuck the land goddess so we don't all fucking starve to death,' variant. That's a fun one. The king is the Face of his people. He is the one in good with the land goddess. Or Is Fucking Supposed To Be Since Her Being Happy With The King Is Why We Get To Live Here At All.
So it's his neck on the line when the crops fail spectacularly.
Aondeug, Jan 8, 2019 at 10:47 PM
ooh, curse of muteness is PERFECT. and it'd help explain why later he learns orc magic and starts using weird shit like tattoo-bound dreamworld summonings that no sensible or wholesome shaman would do. because if all you've got is sound, it's too easy to take away. well, and also he's kind of off his nut.
as for coming back, it's worse than that, he actually DOES get help -- directions to a mass stranding of sperm whales, some of them not quite dead yet -- but he got it from the wrong god. he hooked up with the Witness, aka the Elk God, which is about a million years old and doesn't want anything, so you can't negotiate with it. but sometimes it gets interested in someone and follows them around, and... well, no matter how heroic the kid was in volunteering, you don't want him anywhere near you with that thing dogging his heels.
@Aondeug i dig that one too but these folks don't farm.
ooh ooh ooh what if!!! ! the raiders' shaman stole her voice??? so it's not something her husband can cure, even though he's a pretty decent shaman and they can share power and stuff. they'd have to go get her voice back from the guy who stole it. which gives leila a brilliant excuse impetus for taking the fight to the raiders later. it's not revenge, she's just trying to get her mom's voice back!
even though that mostly happens offstage, i still want it to feel like casimir's not the only protagonist in the world, just the only one we happen to be following, you know? and his sister's a lot more heroic than he is. he's brave, power-hungry, and a military genius, but he's not actually very epic, personality-wise. leila, though: definitely the hero of one of those books where the cover's got the heroine doing some magic glowy thing with a staff on a windy cliff, with lots of detail in the hair and clothes. very much an historically-accurate embroidery details on the cover kind of hero.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/photo/herd-map/
found a nice map showing how reindeer migrate down to the sea in summer and up into mountain/forests in winter.
i'd worried i was doing it wrong, because you'd think high altitudes in an arctic winter would be a terrible place to live, but it turns out forests are better shelter than coasts, i guess.
jacktrash, Jan 9, 2019 at 12:43 AM
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ok at this point i'm being a pest, i know, but -- do you know what search terms i'd use to find accounts of older children and teens surviving in the wilderness? everything i can think of is giving me either feral children raised by animals, or homeless or abused teens who spent a few weeks or months in a tent near a modern town.
i need to figure out how casimir survived being exiled at age 13 or 14. even though his tribe sent him off with everything they could spare, maybe even gave him a reindeer of his own to take along, he's still just an adolescent in the middle of a growth spurt, and maybe not making the best decisions. i don't want to just handwave and go "oh but Nature People Forest Skillz and also Magic" but i also, as usual, don't want to go full grimdark.
jacktrash, Jan 9, 2019 at 1:23 AM
Nah, you're not being a pest, this is super cool plot genesis we're watching here!
My first suggestions are a couple of fiction books. They're both very plausible stories, and honestly they read a hell of a lot better than most non-fictional accounts I've found.
Hatchet is about a 13 year old boy stranded deep in the wilderness with nothing but the titular hatchet following a plane crash in northern Canada. While the crash happened in early summer and he was rescued towards the end of summer, there are several sequels, including one which is an alternate ending in which he is not rescued and must survive winter in the wild.
My Side Of The Mountain is about a boy who decides that he wants to live alone in his great grandparent's abandoned farm, which has been reduced to a foundation being reclaimed by the forest. He still was connected to society and visited/was visited by members of the nearby town, but his lifestyle was entirely self-sufficient once he got set up.
Following that (since i can't find a properly sourced account), I'd read the accounts of those feral children. Children only really get considered feral when there's a loss/absence of language involved. Other than that, their accounts still describe how those children stayed alive, and from the wikipedia article, not all of them were adopted so much as they weren't driven away. The kids still had to figure out how to stay warm, how to get food and water, how to stay sheltered from the weather. They got into their situations at different ages, some as old as 8, and stayed out there for different lengths of time. It stands to reason that people don't just suddenly stop ending up stranded in the wilderness for years at a certain age, they just stop being considered feral.
Specific to your character, a 13 year old Sami kid is old enough to have been hunting before, old enough to have learned to fish, make traps, and forage. He's not without any resources or tools since the tribe sent him off with spare goods. He'd have absolutely helped his family smoke, salt, or dry meat, so he knows how to make sure there's food for winter, and he knows how to assemble a warm shelter that'll survive the winter. Basically, he's got all the knowledge to survive, he's just not got enough manpower to thrive. Furthermore, if you want to be really safe and head off teenage stupidity, maybe one or two tribe members aren't so happy with his exile so they give him as much pointers as they can, or leave care packages for him when they're in the area.
In this situation, "Nature People Forest Skillz" really honestly is the difference between dying before summer ends and living for ten years with nothing but a knife and the clothes on your back. If someone wasn't raised in a nomadic subsistence-level tribe, getting suddenly exiled means either starvation or moving to an area where they aren't exiled. If someone is from such a tribe, it means they miss mom and dad real bad, and they miss getting days off. Sure, both kids are teenagers, but Teenager 1 dies because he didn't know you could eat that, and Teenager 2 is fine because she knew you could. Knowledge is everything when you have nothing.
You can use this as an opportunity, too! It's a chance to explore Sami food and culture, by having young Casimir reminisce about how his mom used to make such and such dish with him, but he could never get it right during his exile since it was really a two-person job to get the timing right, or how he used to miss this activity or that craft so badly. Show the reader just how close the Sami lived to starvation, and subtly direct them to the conclusion that this could have been so very grimdark indeed if he hadn't learned well.
The last bit I've got for you is a suggestion for search terms- while I didn't find properly cited accounts, i did have a lot of luck finding news articles by googling "teenager stranded in wilderness" and a length of time. The down side is that they are universally about someone trying to work their way back to civilization. I get the feeling that the ones that stay in the wilderness voluntarily just get labeled "feral" or "hermit" depending on their age.
well, he does travel out of the area, because he shortly concludes that being near his family but unable to see them (because magical contagion, because he's the oldest death god's pet human now, he would bring misfortune to anyone he even made eye contact with, let alone talked to or hugged) is way too painful, and heads off to seek his fortune. and i'm honestly not sure how much of his survival skills would still apply in a different biome.
the first bit i have actually outlined after he's sent away in the fall is him showing up on the steppe at an orc cattle ranch, half dead and covered in crunched-up ghosts. so like... obviously something went wrong.
i just have way too many options. he's smart and capable, but was weakened by the same illness/famine as the rest of the tribe when he did the sacrifice, and also he's impulsive and occasionally a little too curious about things that could kill him. it's possible the elk god had to haul his bacon out of the fire a few times, except that it doesn't really do that? but he's doing some kind of ghost-bothering, anyhow. i don't even know, i have choice paralysis.
edit: whoops, i got so caught up in idea-ing that i forgot to say thanks. thank you! you are helping SO MUCH.
Absolutely! I'm glad to be a help!
For out-of-biome survival, it all depends on how mean you feel like being. A lot of the plants are the same or closely related, the problem will be the lack of trees for making things. If you really feel like being just a jerk, you can also look up plants native to both areas and try to find some that look similar but the steppe one is poisonous.
On another note, how bizarre is it that we both have stories involving orcs on the steppe? mine are ex-mushroom farmers forced into raiding by the advancing Golden Horde that really just wanted to be left alone in their burrows. As soon as they went outside they said "this sucks, i want a roof" and proceeded to take over a town to get some shade. In short, absolutely no one was happy with their situation.
oh, nice. good luck mushroom hunting, kiddo. :D
my orcs come in two varieties, fen and highland. fen orcs have skin like frogs, and highland orcs have skin like toads, pretty much. this means the smooth green type orcs have to deal with either human bullshit or dry air, since humans have claimed all the marsh and river valley land mostly. mostly they choose to deal with human bullshit, though, because steppe winters are hells of painful for somebody who needs to keep their skin moist. the few who thrive in the highlands are the ones who herd sheep, because lanolin is the good stuff.
the result being, our hero is rescued from starvation/snackyghosts by green cowboys who are absolutely religious about moisturizing.
Ah well wannabe ghost
Hello @cosmofex a long time ago I remember a comic about stories, where these green beings write them and send them into the sky and one of them makes ugly sinking things and they ask him why, and it illustrates like why unhappy stories are good sometimes
I've been trying to find it for a long time and I just can't get the keywords right can you help?
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1. Memory loss that disrupts daily life. One of the most common signs of Alzheimer's, especially in the early stages, is forgetting recently learned information. Others include forgetting important dates or events; asking for the same information over and over; relying on memory aides (e.g., reminder notes or electronic devices) or family members for things they used to handle on their own. What's typical age-related change? Sometimes forgetting names or appointments, but remembering them later.
2. Challenges in planning or solving problems. Some people may experience changes in their ability to develop and follow a plan or work with numbers. They may have trouble following a familiar recipe or keeping track of monthly bills. They may have difficulty concentrating and take much longer to do things than they did before. What's typical age-related change? Making occasional errors when balancing a checkbook.
3. Difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, at work or at leisure. People with Alzheimer's often find it hard to complete daily tasks. Sometimes, people may have trouble driving to a familiar location, managing a budget at work or remembering the rules of a favorite game. What's typical age-related change? Occasionally needing help to use the settings on a microwave or to record a television show.
4. Confusion with time or place. People with Alzheimer's can lose track of dates, seasons and the passage of time. They may have trouble understanding something if it is not happening immediately. Sometimes they may forget where they are or how they got there. What's typical age-related change? Getting confused about the day of the week but figuring it out later.
5. Trouble understanding visual images and spatial relationships. For some people, having vision problems is a sign of Alzheimer's. They may have difficulty reading, judging distance and determining color or contrast. In terms of perception, they may pass a mirror and think someone else is in the room. They may not recognize their own reflection. What's typical age-related change? Vision changes related to cataracts.
6. New problems with words in speaking or writing. People with Alzheimer's may have trouble following or joining a conversation. They may stop in the middle of a conversation and have no idea how to continue or they may repeat themselves. They may struggle with vocabulary, have problems finding the right word or call things by the wrong name (e.g., calling a watch a "hand clock"). What's typical age-related change? Sometimes having trouble finding the right word.
7. Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps. A person with Alzheimer's disease may put things in unusual places. They may lose things and be unable to go back over their steps to find them again. Sometimes, they may accuse others of stealing. This may occur more frequently over time. What's typical age-related change? Misplacing things from time to time, such as a pair of glasses or the remote control.
8. Decreased or poor judgment. People with Alzheimer's may experience changes in judgment or decision making. For example, they may use poor judgment when dealing with money, giving large amounts to telemarketers. They may pay less attention to grooming or keeping themselves clean. What's typical age-related change? Making a bad decision once in a while.
9. Withdrawal from work or social activities. A person with Alzheimer's may start to remove themselves from hobbies, social activities, work projects or sports. They may have trouble keeping up with a favorite sports team or remembering how to complete a favorite hobby. They may also avoid being social because of the changes they have experienced. What's typical age-related change? Sometimes feeling weary of work, family and social obligations.
10. Changes in mood and personality. The mood and personalities of people with Alzheimer's can change. They can become confused, suspicious, depressed, fearful or anxious. They may be easily upset at home, at work, with friends or in places where they are out of their comfort zone. What's typical age-related change? Developing very specific ways of doing things and becoming irritable when a routine is disrupted.
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The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) is preparing a proposed framework for regulating direct potable reuse in California (Framework) and is seeking public input through the following public workshops.
State Water Board Division of Drinking Water (DDW) staff will present an overview of the Framework and invite the public and interested parties to provide input. A quorum of the State Water Board members may be present at the workshop and may provide input, pose questions, or provide direction to staff, but will not take action.
(3) A regulatory framework for potable reuse projects that will be protective of public health.
(4) A process and timeline for updating uniform water recycling criteria for potable reuse through reservoir water augmentation.
The Legislature did not specify any requirements for public comment in AB 574; however, the State Water Board staff is seeking feedback from the public and interested parties on the Framework concepts, primarily related to regulation of direct potable reuse projects, prior to completing the Framework.


The doctors and staff of Hillcrest Dental Group understand that dental phobias can be severely limiting; dental anxiety leaves patients feeling panic-stricken at the thought of visiting a dentist for oral health care. The seriousness of dental anxiety is such that it prevents you from getting the preventive care you need. At Hillcrest Dental Group, we offer conscious sedation in Petaluma to help nervous patients get comfortable and anxiety-free dental care for healthier smiles.
Sedation dentistry provides relief from anxiety for patients who are normally too apprehensive or anxious to seek out and receive dental care. Oral sedation involves the use of certain medications, which can range in strength and half-life, depending on your needs.
Conscious sedation places you in a state of relaxation, but allows you to remain awake throughout your treatment, so you can let Dr. DeBerardinis know if you are uncomfortable at any point during your visit. While oral conscious sedation does not put you to sleep directly, some patients are relaxed enough to fall asleep for a short period of time.
Sedation dentistry is also known as relaxation dentistry since it manages discomfort and anxiety. By providing oral sedation at our Petaluma dental office, we effectively help our patients avoid discomfort, and become as relaxed as possible. Patients are treated according to their needs and feel that their visit has passed in only minutes.
Sedation is a safe and effective way for anxious patients to get the dental treatment they need to maintain healthy teeth and gums for life. It is our mission to provide knowledgeable, skilled sedation dental care for our patients' safety and wellbeing.
If you feel you would benefit from oral conscious sedation, please contact our Petaluma dental office today to schedule a consultation. We look forward to serving you!


The latest creation from Mastermind Creations is KM-05 Knight Morpher Screecher! Other Knight Morpher figures are sold separately, and just shown for scale/size purposes. Pictures are of unfinished prototypes, actual product may vary. Preorder only pricing! The second production run of these figures will be sold at a higher price.
Note: Product edges are very sharp, and customers should be very careful when handling this product. TFsource is not liable for any personal injury caused by the sharp edges on this product!
Price for all three	: $119.97!
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Honestly, Mastermind Creations has set a new bar for 3rd party figures. Screecher (and his brothers) is a true work of art and engineering. His transformation is engaging but fun and easy to remember - his parts feel light but sturdy and his paint applications are beyond top-notch.
Even if you've never read Hearts of Steel, every fan should own this figure.
Beautiful robot mode figure. Looks Just like his hearts of Steel counterpart. Such a shame that Hasbro did not jump on the opportunity to create this figure themselves. But that may also be for the best in this case. He is fine and fragile, but this is not due to poor quality, but mind blowing beautiful design and incredible attention to detail. Even optional plugs to hide or mask unsightly screws and bolts. Please be careful if you transform him.
- The comic book is drawn with quality and attention to detail. - Very professional.
- Instructions for transformation seem detailed and clear. It can be found in the book behind the comics, inverted.
- Optional Plugs to hide the rivets or screws.
- Amazing attention to detail.
I absolutely adore the fact the wings can be attached or removed by a locking system that blends into the overall design (steam punk like cogs). I will not transform him until it is time to take Photographs. If you love Starscream or even the Hearts of Steel designs, this figure is for you. You will not be disappointed!
The attention to detail with this model is outstanding. The alt mode certainly doesn't look very aerodynamic :) but I don't plan on taking him out of bot mode anyway. He's so pristine, and just "looks" like a much larger figure. Take heed, there are a lot of very sharp parts and brittle connections - all of which to their credit the manufacturer is very straightforward about pointing out.
May I also say in the hopes that someone from Master Mind reads this - THANK YOU SO MUCH for matching perfectly the classic Starscream colors, most notably those used in the MP-11 figure. The result is a piece that looks awesome next to his giant older self.
I would happily go back and pick up KM Prime if only you'd re-release him in a not-so-muddy red color scheme so he'd fit as well by his brethren. I collect Prime & Starscream in class pairs, so I hate not to have him but I just loathe the mismatched colors of the Prime variation. Sorry.
But this guy - highly recommended!!


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For Stephanie, the 27 miles were personal. She carried a card in her hand, as all the hikers did, which told the story of a child who was neglected or abused. But she didn't need the card to feel connected to the mission. She had been that child. She had felt her father's rage, and tried to cover it up. She had heard a counselor say, "This isn't your fault." That kind of pain never went away. So she walked, and kept walking, even when her body ached.
Mile 16 was the toughest, she says. It was the start of a two-mile climb, and she was so tired by then that the loose stones on the Catoctin Trail made it hard to maintain her pace. The bigger rocks in the miles that followed were mentally exhausting—she had to anticipate every step to be sure she didn't trip.
"I remember thinking: How can that kind of evil exist? How could you ever do something to hurt a child?" Blair says.
He partnered with Rhodes, a friend from church, and the two invited friends to join them in a 41-mile "Maryland Challenge" on the Appalachian Trail, which they finished in 16 hours. They returned to the same trail a year later, with more hikers, and covered 52 miles in 23 hours.
On Saturday, September 1, they will be hiking again, this time with a bigger goal in mind: Recruit teams from all over the country to hike 3,000 miles in one day.
Proceeds from the hike—each team is being asked to make a $300 donation—will benefit The National Center for Children and Families (NCCF), a private, nonprofit agency that has served vulnerable children, youth, and families in the national capital region for nearly a century. NCCF is the second-largest provider of foster care in Washington, DC; the agency's Greentree Adolescent Program (GAP), a high-intensity residential community in Bethesda, serves young males who have been victimized or traumatized.
As a pastor, Rhodes works with teens who are struggling with abandonment, drug and alcohol abuse, and mental health issues. He has battled depression himself. He's seen people turn their lives around if they get the help they need.


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See-through solar concentrator harvests energy from sunlight
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A team of Michigan State University (MSU) researchers has created a transparent solar concentrator able to turn any window (or other sheet of glass, such as the screen for a smartphone) into a photovoltaic solar cell. What makes this development different? The panel is truly transparent.
Earlier attempts at building transparent solar cells resulted in panels with tinted glass and/or compromised visibility. Lead researcher Richard Lunt, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and materials science at MSU, says, "No one wants to sit behind colored glass. It makes for a very colorful environment, like working in a disco."
MSU researchers used a transparent luminescent solar concentrator (TLSC) that employs organic salts to absorb invisible wavelengths of light, such as ultraviolet and infrared light. "We can tune these materials to pick up just the ultraviolet and the near-infrared wavelengths that then 'glow' at another wavelength of sunlight," Lunt explains. The "glowing" infrared light is then guided to the edges of the panel, where thin strips of photovoltaic solar cells convert it to electricity. "Because the materials do not absorb or emit light in the visible spectrum, they look exceptionally transparent to the human eye," he adds.
The device "opens a lot of area to deploy solar energy in a nonintrusive way," Lunt says. "It can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality, like a phone or e-reader. Ultimately, we want to make solar harvesting surfaces that you do not even know are there."
Additional work is needed to improve the TLSC's energy-producing efficiency. Efficiency in the current version of the solar cells is low — only about 1 percent — but the research team anticipates an eventual increase above 5 percent. Other luminescent concentrators that are not transparent afford efficiency of up to 7 percent.
An article describing the transparent solar cells appeared in the July 2014 edition of the journal Advanced Optical Materials . Other members of the research team include Yimu Zhao, an MSU doctoral student in chemical engineering and materials science; Benjamin Levine, assistant professor of chemistry; and Garrett Meek, a doctoral student in chemistry.
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The targeting sensors in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are designed to assure that the pilot concentrates on the combat environment, not on the onboard systems. The prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, and a major supplier, Northrop Grumman, have therefore concentrated on a high level of systems integration and data fusion. Key integrated systems providing targeting data include: electronically scanned array radar, electro-optical targeting system, distributed aperture system, electronic warfare suite, and the communication, navigation and identification suite.
As the tactical aircraft enters the combat zone, an indication of a potential target pops up on the pilot's multifunction display (MFD). Flying toward the area of interest, the pilot presses his finger against the touch-screen display and views a much clearer, close-up image of the target, which is identified as an enemy ground vehicle. The pilot presses the screen again, and target designation and weapons status imagery appears on the visor of his helmet-mounted display (HMD). Closer in, he views the target, now being automatically tracked; the crosshairs in the visor lock on to the target; and the pilot fires a missile that follows a laser beam to its destination. The pilot again views the MFD and notes that the target has been destroyed.
Sounds easy. And, flying the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), that's how easy target detection and destruction is meant to be, whether against ground vehicles, ships or enemy aircraft. Where the complexity lies is in the sensors, displays and prodigious processing power that make up the automatic targeting capabilities of this 21st-century, multibranch, multinational, supersonic fighter. The F-35 also is a multimission aircraft, to be produced by program lead Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. in three configurations: conventional takeoff and landing, short takeoff and vertical landing, and a carrier variant. All variants are to have more than 90 percent avionics commonality.
- The communication, navigation and identification (CNI) suite, providing identification friend or foe (IFF) and offboard data delivered via a high-speed data link.
The F-35 pilot receives unprecedented situational awareness from a mission systems package that incorporates modular open systems architecture, object-oriented design and, as often as possible, common commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) processors. Combined with onboard precision weaponry--missiles, smart bombs and a 25-mm cannon--the F-35 is meant to "compress the kill chain," a U.S. military goal emphasized by Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper, who has stated that he wants the U.S. military to attain the capability of destroying targets "within single-digit minutes" of their detection.
A primary element to achieve that goal in the F-35 is the active electronically scanned array (AESA) fire control radar developed by Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems sector. This long-range sensor, designated the AN/APG-81 radar, offers all-weather, standoff target detection, minimizing threat exposure. It probably would be the first onboard sensor to identify a target. The APG-81 is a fourth-generation radar, comparable to systems that Northrop Grumman has developed for the F/A-22 (APG-77 radar) and F-16 Block 60 (APG-80) and that Raytheon developed for the F-15C, the APG-63(V)2. Indeed, Lockheed Martin and its F-35 suppliers strove to leverage as much F/A-22 technology as possible.
Like these radars, the APG-81 has no moving parts, such as gimbals and motors, and little wiring to wear out. It is expected, therefore, to offer a long lifespan; a Northrop Grumman official claims 8,000 hours "would be reasonable to expect." To save space and weight, the company also incorporated a "twinpack" for the radar, combining transmit and receive chips in a single module.
The APG-81 comes with a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) terrain mapping function for air-to-surface surveillance and targeting. It is comparable to the terrain mapping radar used in reconnaissance aircraft, unmanned air vehicles, and the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft.
The radar technology "is on many aircraft," according to Scott Porter, Northrop Electronic Systems' director of business development for Aerospace Systems. "But we're working to provide the F-35 radar with higher resolution for easily recognizable features on the ground and to have the radar look at bigger patches of real estate. We would like to cover three or four times more terrain than [what today's radars] see now."
By activating buttons around the aircraft's 20-by-8-inch panoramic, multifunction display (developed by Rockwell Collins' Kaiser Electronics), the F-35 pilot can select from the radar's many software-driven modes: target identification and tracking, air-to-air, air-to-ground, air-to-sea surface target detection and electronic warfare, as well as SAR ground mapping. It can designate both ground targets and airborne targets simultaneously. Being a pulse Doppler radar, the APG-81 can eliminate background clutter regardless of the target environment.
Another mode is the "inverse SAR" mode used to detect and identify surface vessels at sea. As the name implies, it works opposite the SAR mode, in which the radar software forms a composite picture of a ground target based on the movement of the aircraft. Rather, the inverse SAR mode "forms a composite picture of a ship based on the vessel's motion on the sea," Porter explains.
For air-to-air operations, the APG-81 will support such features as passive search and multitarget, and beyond-visual-range tracking and targeting. It also will support a cued search feature, in which the radar is cued toward another sensor's line of sight. That other sensor can be onboard, offboard or pilot-directed. Because the radar beam can move from point to point in millionths of a second, the F-35 pilot can view a single target as many as 15 times a second.
The APG-81 program is now in the system development and demonstration (SDD) phase, which continues through 2008. In early March Northrop Grumman delivered the first radar to Lockheed Martin for radome integration testing at the prime contractor's Palmdale, Calif., facility. On Aug. 23, the radar was first flown in Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems' specially equipped BAC 1-11. Initial flight testing of the radar began Sept. 8. Engineers will test the radar's software modes during the flight test program.
While the AESA radar provides the F-35 pilot with an all-weather, active targeting sensor, the electro-optical targeting system incorporates day/night passive sensors, unable to be detected by enemy warning systems. Providing high-resolution infrared imagery that is software-enhanced through signal processing, EOTS can give the F-35 pilot a closer look at the target area initially detected by the radar. "If you see [with the radar] a ground object of interest, you can pass the coordinates to the EOTS, to zoom in for long-range confirmation," says Porter.
"The two sensors complement each other," adds Mike Skaff, F-35 pilot/vehicle interface lead with Lockheed Martin. "Radar works well in weather, while EOTS is good for targeting, especially air-to-surface targeting, because of its high definition."
EOTS is part of the F-35's electro-optical sensor system (EOSS), developed by Orlando, Fla.-based Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. Lockheed also serves as lead in the EOTS's development, with support from BAE Systems. EOTS incorporates a targeting laser, TV camera and a third-generation infrared sensor.
What makes the internally mounted EOTS unique is that it is not turret-mounted. And its capabilities are comparable to those of the low altitude navigation and targeting infrared for night (LANTIRN) system but without the aerodynamic drag of a pod. (EOTS technology derives from Lockheed's Sniper targeting pod.) Rather, the EOTS' automatically boresighted sensor is positioned behind a glass-like sapphire housing that blends into the F-35's nose, just under the radar antenna, easily accessible by maintenance personnel.
The EOTS incorporates an air-to-surface FLIR tracker and air-to-air IRST system. It also includes a single aperture design and advanced, third-generation focal plane array, as well as a "spot tracker," capable of tracking a laser beam directed by a remote source.
EOTS has been sent to Lockheed Martin's F-35 mission systems integration lab in Fort Worth for testing in simulated scenarios.
Like EOTS, the F-35's distributed aperture system is incorporated in the fuselage design and does not require a pod. Six IR cameras--Porter calls them situation awareness "eyeballs" that create a flying "Imax"--are embedded in the aircraft, positioned to provide full spherical imagery around the aircraft.
The IR sensors form an integrated detector assembly inside the IR camera. The sensors form a total, passive picture around the aircraft, with "all of the information all the time," according to Porter. They give the F-35 pilot missile approach warning, countermeasures deployment, passive air-to-air radar, off-axis targeting for air-to-air missiles, and wide field-of-view day/night pilot vision. With off-axis targeting the pilot can assign a display of interest to the HMD and point his head to the intended target, designate and shoot. Providing through-the-cockpit-floor viewing, the DAS even assists the pilot in landing the aircraft. It can be used for after-dark, bomb damage indication (BDI), too, offering the pilot an alternative to using night vision goggles for damage assessment.
Also in the SDD phase, the DAS is being flight tested on an Air Force F-16 at Edwards AFB, Calif.
Each of the F-35's sensors provides powerful situation awareness and targeting information, but their integration to form a single, fused image makes them even more powerful, while not burdening the pilot with information overload. Each sensor has its own processor to automatically determine the appropriate modes, acquire targeting data, and deliver the imaging data over a Fibre Channel backbone bus within the integrated core processor (ICP), where it is fused to present a clear, comprehensive picture of the target and its setting.
To analyze and prioritize the incoming targeting data, the ICP uses algorithms dedicated to the various tasks: air-to-air, air-to-ground and the target identification received from the CNI suite. And these algorithms are distinct from those used to fuse other onboard data, for example, the GPS and inertial nav data for a comprehensive navigation picture.
The fused targeting data can be overlayed onto a battlefield situation display that the F-35 pilot has uplinked from a ground base or another aircraft. The intent of these features is to produce battle scene awareness to support an observe, orient, decide and act (OODA) sequence for F-35 pilots.
In a typical scenario the pilot would first detect a beyond-eyesight target in a predominantly radar image on the MFD. As the target gets closer, the EOTS imagery automatically creates a clearer picture of the target on the MFD. At this point the pilot assesses an operational picture of the battle space, evaluates the threat responses and rapidly plans a route to secure minimum exposure and maximum weapon effectiveness, and determines the best choice of weapon.
Once he has made his decision to attack the target, the pilot would switch from the head-down to the head-up display in his helmet-mounted visor. "You look at the two displays like wearing bifocals," says a Northrop offical. In addition to presenting a center cross that locks onto the target for a point-and-shoot capability, the HMD also presents the status of available weapons, a symbol for IFF and indication of the target's range, closure and velocity. With most of the target detection and presentation achieved automatically, the OODA process, from acquisition to destruction, can be done within the few minutes that Gen. Jumper set as a goal for engagement.
All told, the targeting sensors and processors make the F-35 not just a combat aircraft firing weapons, but a first-day-of-the-war, multimission aircraft able to perform autonomously, cooperatively or remotely, using information from offboard sources. In a cooperative mission, for example, the F-35's ICP would package and format targeting data to form a waveform for delivery by the CNI to a ground base or other aircraft via Link 16 or an internal data link.
The suppliers of the radar, EOTS, DAS and other systems are performing much of the F-35's software development and integration work--as much as 40 percent, a Lockheed Martin official estimates. The mission software (ultimately, an estimated 4.5 million lines of code written in C/C++) is still under development and will be completed in increments. The integrated core processor is in development, and integration testing will begin in the first quarter of 2006.
Contributing to the F-35's targeting capabilities is another Northrop Grumman package: the communication, navigation and identification suite. Northrop Grumman Radio Systems, a San Diego-based business unit of the company's Space Systems Division, is developing a suite of software defined radios (SDRs) designed to provide such functions as beyond-visual-range identification friend or foe, secure voice communications, caution and warning, intercom, and intraflight information sharing among multiple aircraft via a high-speed broadband data link.
The F-35's CNI suite is comparable to the one Northrop Grumman developed for the U.S. Air Force's F/A-22. "However, it has additional functionality driven by changes for network centric warfare and by the fact that the Joint Strike Fighter is a multibranch, multinational program and therefore must satisfy the needs of multiple customers," says Ken Fecteau, director of the F-35 CNI program at Northrop Grumman. "Also, we've been able to reduce the system's weight and power use."
Reduced weight, along with improved supportability, has been achieved by minimizing hardware through an integrated avionics approach. Fewer components result in less aircraft maintenance and smaller logistics tail. To further facilitate maintenance the F-35's CNI suite includes automated fault detection and isolation.
For communications the software radios in the CNI suite include UHF/VHF receivers and Link 16, an L-band networking waveform. It also is designed to accept the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) waveform. The CNI suite will include TACAN navigation and interface with a GPS receiver. An instrument landing system and the GPS-based Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) will be part of the CNI package.
Three-dimensional audio algorithms, to direct appropriate audible cues 360 degrees around the pilot are expected to be part of the CNI suite's future growth.
The communications radios in the CNI are multichannel and multiband, so they can be configured to perform multiple functions simultaneously. The F-35 pilot can reconfigure the radios manually in flight or have them preprogrammed on a cartridge as a mission load. The CNI system's SDRs have the capability for reconfiguration while airborne, which supports dynamic missions and allows recovery from battle damage.
Seven PowerPC processors are plugged into the CNI suite's two 6U racks, which provide redundancy in case one rack is battle damaged. Five of the processors are dedicated to signal and data processing; two other processors serve as interface modules. The two interface modules, one per rack, link the CNI processors with the F-35 integrated core processor. Each processor includes cryptographic algorithms to ensure both voice and data communications security.
In 2004 Northrop Grumman delivered legacy avionics boxes to prime contractor Lockheed Martin for initial flight testing. They included UHF/VHF communication, radar altimeter, intercom, integrated caution and warning, and IFF. The software radios for the CNI, now under development, will be delivered in June 2006 for testing in Lockheed's mission systems integration lab in Fort Worth, says Fecteau. In September 2006 Northrop Grumman plans to deliver a CNI suite for installation in the F-35 program's airborne test bed, a much-modified Boeing 737.
Perhaps the most guarded capability on the F-35 is its automatic target recognition. Lockheed Martin would only say that the aircraft will be continuously processing sensor detections regardless of the orientation (air or ground track). "Some tracks can be easily and rapidly resolved and categorized, while others will require some extensive processing to resolve ambiguities," says a Lockheed official. For automatic target identification, he adds, the F-35 aircrew "will be able to choose target types during the preflight mission planning process."
The Pentagon recently ordered a review of U.S. military combat aircraft needs, however, and the results could bring a cut in F-35 orders.
Fifteen F-35 aircraft are to be built for flight test; they comprise six A models, five B models and four C models. Eight ground test articles also are to be built for static testing, drop testing and radar signature evaluation. Low-rate initial production of the F-35A is slated to begin in 2007. The F-35B is to enter service in 2012, followed by the F-35A and C model in 2013. Estimated cost of the F-35 ranges from $45 million for the A model to $60 million for the C model.
* The U.S. Air Force has indicated an interest in converting part of its order for CTOL aircraft to STOVL aircraft.


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Everyone deals with stress, from minor issues to major life crises. Cortisol, also known as hydrocortisone, is a steroid hormone that dictates the body's energy and stress levels. Cortisol is the motivating factor for what is typically called the "fight or flight" response.
While cortisol is good for the body as a whole, imbalanced cortisol levels can have lasting, damaging effects on health. If you'd like to have your cortisol levels checked, please call (817) 203-2760 or contact The New You Medical & Infusion Clinic online.
Imbalanced cortisol can cause a host of serious health risks. Cortisol helps your body and mind deal with high-stress situations, but when it's overproduced it may hamper your body's other systems.
Cortisol also regulates your body's blood pressure, energy and blood sugar levels. This means that low cortisol also carries a number of debilitating and health-damaging risks.
Cortisol replacement therapy is a form of hormone replacement therapy, which is commonly referred to as HRT. To determine if cortisol replacement is necessary, your doctor will perform a simple test to measure your body's hormone levels. Cortisol levels are most commonly checked with a saliva test.
HRT typically uses synthetic hormones that are similar to those your body naturally produces. A safer, more natural alternative is bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, or BHRT. BHRT uses cortisol that's biologically and chemically identical to what naturally occurs in your body.
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Right, Christmas came and went - I had spent enough time with my family and friends, recovering from the previous 3 months. It was time to resume on site! ☺ So, first up - inspect what the basement looked like, now that it was largely enclosed... Big mistake, because it was horrendous: You can see that the water level is approx 2/3 of the way up the first course of blocks, so about 250mm deep. You can also see the bit of EPS that were chipped away to make the 95mm bearing surface for the floor beams, just floating around. Still, nothing that couldn't be remedied, and at least the basement was holding water - that suggested it might be able to keep the water out, too! Now, we were starting to do things that required real tools to be kept on site. When the groundworkers were on site, we had hired a proper site cabin - hot and cold water, cooking facilities, drying room, toilet, etc etc etc. However, now that we were above ground, it was going to be just me and the occasional mate helping out. Kim had off-hired the site cabin, and swapped it for a porta-loo. Can't really keep much in the way of tools in a porta-loo if you don't want them nicked... So we decided to buy a van! It had a few dents, but it was nice enough, and it would hold the tools, generator, etc, safely overnight. Cha-ching! Now, another reason we hadn't made much progress over the holidays was because we were lacking some fairly necessary items to carry on building - the wall blocks. The ground floor ICF blocks were due for delivery the week commencing 11th December 2017. They actually arrived on site on the 12th January 2018, so just over 4 weeks late. This was something of a running theme with Logix, TBH... if you recall, the internal wall blocks for the basement were a few weeks late too (and you'll find out just how late the rest of the blocks were delivered later in the blog!) Still, they turned up eventually: Still, ICF blocks now on site, we were able to progress... A day later, and we were looking at a decent amount of the external walls done (3 courses, most of the way around), and we were starting on the exciting 45-degree wall between the hallway and the garage: 3 courses turned into 4 courses, and all of the window openings started to be formed: (The ladder was our only means of getting into the basement now, but TBH we didn't really care about down there - we just wanted to get the shell completed and progress to watertight as quickly as possible... Regrettably, that was going to be more problematic than anyone could have envisaged at this time!) Anyway, the walls were flying up, even with all the steel reinforcement having to be put in. At least above-ground we only had a single face of steel to worry about (and our builder-turned-consultant pointed out that we didn't really need any steel at all except in lintels, because: the concrete mix we were using was so strong, and because you don't put steel into brick / block walls, which are perfectly acceptable for building houses with But we did it anyway, just in case we ever decided to move the entire house to Jupiter (where 300mph winds area apparently possible, and where, therefore, our level of reinforcement would come in handy). 🤔 (In case you are wondering, the vertical steel isn't in as of this picture - they were all placed once the ICF walls were finished being assembled!) 4 more days on site (although 2 weeks had passed - remembering that I was only part-time at site, and I only had a mate helping me out on weekends), and we were putting up the bracing system again. Here's our exciting 45-degree wall inside the garage: Isn't it lovely? You can also see the fantabulous set of steps I made from a couple of the many many 10" core ICF blocks we had left over, thanks to a considerable over-estimation by Logix. (I needed the steps anyway, because I am a short-arse and couldn't reach to put steel in above 3 courses!) Some more pictures of the ICF going up: Another week passed... And here, at the end of January 2018 is where it got... hmm, let's say interesting... it was time to put in the lintel blocks for the 6m bifolds in the kitchen... It took me 3 days (so 2 weeks in calendar time) to get those blocks up and to sit square, and there was no way on earth they were going to stay like that with all the steel in them... time for some supports to be introduced to the opening! Size 1 acrows every 1m across the opening. They're bearing off the concrete wall below, so no problem taking the weight. We put a single 250x38mm timber across the entire 6m opening, with 11mm OSB cut to 330mm rips on top of that (to support the ICF blocks fully). On the inside, the bracing system stopped the OSB from moving. On the outside, we screwed timbers down from the webs to trap it. Then we jacked up the acrows approx 10mm at a time until everything was perfectly level / square / plumb. For some curious reason, I don't have photos of the steelwork in this wall, but it was prodigious - 2x25mm steel rebar in the bottom of the bottom course of blocks, 2x 12mm steel rebar in the top of the bottom course of blocks, and 2x20mm steel rebar in the top of the top course of blocks. 8mm rebar links every 200mm across the entire opening, plus onto the columns. I lifted and placed nearly all that rebar on my own (because my mate Paul had some family event on, he missed one Saturday, and I figured I could handle it)... big mistake! 7.5m lengths of 25mm rebar are very very unwieldy! I trashed one ICF corner block just resting the first 25mm bar on it while I got up on the scaffolding! Still, 5 hours of sweating and swearing later, plus some help from a more glamorous assistant in the form of Kim, and it was done...just in time for Paul to arrive and see how I'd gotten on! 🤬 Now, for the most part, the ICF walls had gone up fine. Even the 45-degree wall was a doddle. But those of you who were following the basement wall pour will probably remember that we had a couple of places where the basement walls went a little wobbly. This caused us a bit of a headache, because blocks wouldn't sit down properly in those areas. As it turned out, there was also an issue with the blocks not being level in those places either. This led to ever-increasing gaps between joints as we went up above those points, as you can see here: Solving this was quite a problem. We ended up using about half a can of PU foam in the 3 places this had happened, followed by some serious strapping across both faces of the wall to keep it together. I spent several weeks trying to get everything braced (making bucks for the window and door openings), and plumb, and before I knew what had happened, it was the end of March 2018, and time for another concrete pour... Stay tuned for the next exciting instalment!
Okay, so I know that I promised another blog post soon way back at the beginning of December but it was busy on the build. Crazy busy, details to follow. As for Christmas, well, that didn't turn out as planned, and I had planned it so well. Both OH and I were proper knackered by the time we got into December - me with the build, OH running our business by himself, so we planned some quality R&R by running away to Gran Canaria on Christmas eve for a week. A fly and flop, turn ourselves into zombies for a week then return all bright eyed and bushy tailed for the new year. You just know this isn't going to end well, don't you? You'd be right. 2 days after we got to Gran Canaria, Paul started to feel off-form, then he felt crap, then he felt like death would be a more comfortable option. Turns out he developed real flu, not man flu, but real, proper, can't get out of bed to pick up a £20 note that someone has dropped on the floor flu. Not great, but it got worse. On Thursday, I learned the hard way why all-inclusive buffet style food has such a poor reputation and I mulled on this whilst turning myself inside out and wondering whether, in my sickly state, I had the necessary co-ordination to take care of everything with only one WC and no handy plastic bowl available. Thankfully, I did and whilst recovering the following morning I thought that the worst was over. You just know this is going to get worse, don't you? It did. We just about managed to get home (thankfully flying into Bournemouth) with OH in an increasingly sickly state. Ever the prima donna and insisting on trumping my food poisoning, flu became something between bronchitis and pneumonia and OH was a very sickly boy to the extent that tomorrow will be his first day back at work. I banned myself from the build for a few days in the new year as I'd caught a cold, but I couldn't be self indulgent about it given my patient was worse. So, if there's any justice in the world, we should be good to go for the next and final stint on the build but I'm all to aware that life isn't fair, so we shall see. Enough of plague and pestilence, let's get onto the plastering bit. Actually, I'll come back to that because although in real time we are mid way through the skim now, a vast amount has gone on since early December when the cellulose was blown in as first fix got started in earnest and at a break-neck pace. The plastering has only started in earnest in the new year and I'd like to cover the first fix stuff that happened in December, given that this is the heart and circulatory system that will make the building function as a comfortable home. We received our planning permission just over 1 year and one week ago and I already knew largely how I wanted the building to function, as a result of reading so much here on BH. Serendipitously, about the same time as PP was granted, Nick popped his bicep. This was disastrous for a plumber but brilliant for me as it meant that I was able to drag him on board to design the systems for my building from the outset. Every cloud, and all that. Things have moved on and been formalised since then, but suffice it to say that all my plumbing, heating, MVHR and electrics have been seamlessly integrated into the building and designed alongside the technical and engineering drawings from MBC by Total Energy Systems Ltd, headed up by Nick. Other systems firms are available, of course. Here is Nick and team. You will see that in the true spirit of accuracy, Nick doesn't have the sun shining out of his posterior, but a laser beam shining out of his head. The nature of the first fix work means that it's hard to photograph the amount of effort that goes into it, but there is plenty. Initially, the team is focussing on getting all the MVHR pipes through the metal web joists and, in time, insulating them. Then there are all the underfloor heating pipes to be run through to the right places and the manifolds. We're having UFH upstairs as well as downstairs - the ground floor manifold is in the very useful cupboard under the stairs, the upper one in the loft space along with all sorts of other interesting things. Here's a nice selection of the MVHR pipes, some insulated, as well as the clipped up UFH pipes that are insulated where they are tied together and in contact with one another. And here's a close up of the insulated UFH pipes. Neatly done. Much thought has gone into how air will flow around the building with the aid of the MVHR system. In particular, in the large open plan lounge/diner/kitchen area, and how to ensure that none but the stinkiest cooking smells make it out of the kitchen area. As a result, there are long runs of the MVHR pipework leading to plenums at the far end of the lounge area where air will flow into the room. The exhaust pipes for this area are (almost) directly over the hob on the island at the far end, so the airflow should ensure that all the cooking smells get sucked up and out over the kitchen area. Here's a photo of the inlet plenums either side of the window at the far end of the living area. Originally, the architect designed the entire upstairs to have vaulted ceilings, including the landing. Whilst MBC were still drawing up their engineering drawings, we asked for the landing area to be boarded out to create a loft area as this would be an ideal space to stuff a load of plant, including the MVHR manifolds. On reflection, this was also a good decision as I think the proportions of that area would have looked very odd and felt like a vertical tunnel due to the height of the ceiling at that point (4.7m). The MVHR manifolds have been neatly attached to racked out sections in the loft area, making sure that room is left for the upstairs UFH manifold and, in time, the PV inverters. Here's the loft area back in December: And the one on the west wall. You can also see the UFH manifold and the black cables from the PV panels that will be connected to the inverters. There were also the soil pipes to tackle and these were planned to get sufficient fall on them as they came through the web joists: For anyone tackling a similar build, I can't stress too much the advantage of having your systems people involved from the very start. It means that any holes that need to be put through steel beams to accommodate pipework can be designed in and made at the fabrication stage. Even then, things can go awry and a couple of the steel penetrations were either off kilter or not in the right place, but the majority were where they needed to be and made life much easier. An example of this kind of thing is the stud wall between the landing and the en-suite for the master bedroom. In order to be able to hide the various pipes that travel up to the loft space, Nick asked MBC to make this into a twin stud wall and specified the depth so that it would carry the pipework. Here it is. A bit tricky to see, but you can easily see the benefit of being able to conceal this bulky pipework into the fabric of the build. Speaking of concealing things, all the loos in the house are wall-hung with the cistern concealed in the wall. All you see is the loo and the flush plate, and so the framework needs to be put in before walls are boarded and plastered. Here's one such frame: I'm on a bit of a catch up now so stay tuned for the next exciting episodes of ponds, brise soleil and vertical slate cladding. Ta ta for now.
Ooh ooh it's getting bigger.
So in my last thrilling instalment I was moaning about how I had just spent 6 days putting in the first row of blocks well for the next week I kept on to my mate helping me that I hoped that wasn't how the rest of it was going to go, I mean 6 days for 1 course, how bloody long was it going to take to do 12 courses. Well one afternoon we had finished doing a few odd jobs and I thought it was about time to get on with putting up the main walls right then god loves a trier 4 hours later I had this lot up. Bloody hell that was easy so the next few days we spent knocking all the Lego together, still easy, then it started to get a bit more complicated, some idiot has designed this house with far two many openings, small pillars of wall between the openings and SEVEN gables more advice, build something square with just 4 external corners it will save you hours of agro So more windows and openings slowed the progress a bit, things you sort of forget about is all these windows and doors require some form of support, so you add a bit of timber to hold all the icf in place, then you wake up at 2 in the morning and think, should I add some more bracing, then you watch a YouTube video of an icf concrete pour so you add a bit more timber, then you talk to a lad down the road who has done half a dozen icf builds he pops around one afternoon and adds his thoughts into the mix, you guessed it. More wood added, it was starting to look more like a timberframe house than icfso we're up to lintel height so in icf you don't actually install a lintel but cast them in situ, lots of reinforcement bar added to the inside of the blocks so when you add the concrete it all makes a monolithic concrete structure. Plenty of steel over these openings tbh it was a thorough pain in the arse, lots of steel a skinny gap and fingers like sausages does not make an easy job. So reo in,corners braced-its time to install the bracing system that hold the walls all plum before you install the concrete now some of you may think you should have put the bracing up a long time ago, and you would be correct but the way my icf provider hires the bracing out meant I would be paying for it for all the time it was on site, so I decided to not bother having it on site until I actually needed it, with all the bracing it was once again looking more like a civil engineering project than a house. 7.30 one morning the concrete pump turned up and for the next 12 hours all hell broke loose i had arranged everything perfectly, extra tea bags plenty of milk it was going to be a breeze ol yea bucko don't get cocky, I had 3 lads coming to help all with a set job. And at 8.30 on a Sunday night I got a text from from 1 of the lads saying he had a poorly tummy, oh boo hoo to###r so we are now down to 3 of us in total and hence why all hell broke loose, we ran around for12 hours solid I managed a cup of cold tea halfway through the day and 1 slice of toast, we ended up troweling the top of the walls with head torches on and a floodlight. Anyway it's all in first lift done,no major disasters, one tiny bit of wall that has a bulge in it that I can fix with a mornings fettling. Things I would recommend if doing icf, add lots of bracing every where, if it looks dodgy add a chunk of timber the big orange pipe thing is called a MUD SNAKE it fits to the end of the concrete pump hose and allows you to place concrete so much more accurately than with the big rubber hose, it also allows you to squeeze the end and stop the dribbling concrete from running out when you pass over an area that doesn't need concrete in, hire one it's the best £30 you will ever spend. Dogs, if you have a stupid dog try to prevent him getting his head stuck in an icf off cut.
We're going to see what happens by letting nature take its own course for the first year or so. We're not intending to use tap water, that's for sure - way too expensive and demanding for a pond of that size.
What order to insulate in?
We have looked into the tax position and are seeing the accountant on Wednesday so will add more after that, Our son is thinking of buying the 2nd house so we may sell him the plot adn then he is a self builder so can get VAT back.
Yes sorry separate structural engineer fees are standard rated. You will only get them zero rated if (for example) you order a timber frame kit and they include the structural engineer's design for the frame as part of the package.
Plan well, and consider where recessed items may be fitted later ( such as FR spots / speakers with FR hoods etc ) and pull the ducts once. got caught out a few times and had to pull out and reinstate a couple, but you'll get the hang of it if you're the 'hands on' type. If you're feeling brave, its far less wasteful if you can at least provisionally fit the outlet 'boots' and terminate as you go. A lot easier to see where you're runs will actually end up if you have given yourself visible targets. The 'all round' metal band to mount the duct securely came from Screwfix.
Can I ask why they insulated the mvhr ducts? You normally only do that if they pass through a cold zone.
Air conditioner or air source heat pump?
Sod all to do with making one, just about knowing how they work so that one that does heating and cooling can be chosen. Not rocket science, just a matter of reading the specs and understanding that the manufacturers of ASHPs often hide the fact that they will cool just as well as they heat, perhaps because to be eligible for the RHI the cooling functionality has to be hidden, even though it's always there for a heating ASHP.
You remember that blog that republished Pepys 300 years later? This is the building version.
@Sue B, another one here. This time mine will be (not started yet) a passive slab combined with screw piles (because of unstable soils, clay beneath that can heave, and lots of tree roots that need to live a long and happy life). I have collected a small sheath of cross-sectional diagrams of piles and rafts. Any of the raft of pile companies will have one that they can send you.
@Cambs What was your reasoning in Using Storma to do your building control please It was one of the warranty company's approved inspectors, so was driven by the choice of warranty company and my desire to combine building control inspections and warranty inspections to hopefully reduce costs.
FWIW, we have a passive slab AND piled foundations. Although we don't have a high water table, we are on highly shrinkable dessicated clay down to 12m and beyond. We could have managed without piles but then would have had to reduce dig to about 3m and backfill - based on my now known cost of muckaway, this would have cost in the order of £40k +. Instead, we had a reduced dig to 800mm, then mini piles. The mini piles were put in in one week and the muckaway was far more modest as well as being considerable cheaper on the groundworker labour and plant hire. We also had the UFH pipes buried in the slab at the time it was done and the heating zones were planned in advance to allow this to be done.
FWIW, the core components of an air con unit and an ASHP are identical, and many units can be run both ways quite happily. The only difference is that a heat and cool unit will have a 4 way reversing valve, a heat-only unit will also have a 4 way reversing valve, but a cool-only unit may or may not have a 4 way reversing valve; it depends on whether or not the manufacturer just uses a generic refrigerant circuit for several models in their range. We've been running our ASHP in both heating and cooling mode pretty much since the day I installed it. Cooling mode wasn't advertised as being available by the UK company that badge engineered it, but was there in the control system and just needed to be set up to enable it to work.
There are different types of ASHP and an AC is an air to air ASHP. A2A HPs can provide cold air only or warm and cold air.
It's not just an English problem. Most houses built with tiles in Scotland are built with felt over the joists, unless it is for a council.
Practicing with 25mm MDPE connectors.
Any WRAS approved pipe lube works OK. Most are just a water-soluble gel that contains glycerin and thickened with methyl cellulose (pretty much identical in composition to KY Jelly...).


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Q: Can I use Spring Batch Admin into Spring-Boot 2.2.2 (latest)? I'm working with spring-batch project.
And I added Dependency like below.
<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
                <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
            </exclusion>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                <artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
                <artifactId>log4j-to-slf4j</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-batch</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
        <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
                <artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-batch-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.batch/spring-batch-admin-manager -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-batch-admin-manager</artifactId>
        <version>1.3.1.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Spring Batch Integration -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-batch-integration</artifactId>
    </dependency>

My project name is "batch". So I tried to access "http://localhost:8080/batch/"
But I cannot access to Admin Page.
Can someone tell me how to integrate spring-batch-admin to spring-boot project?
I also read this article.
https://www.intertech.com/Blog/spring-batch-admin-tutorial/

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