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Als Typ 650.000cf wird eine bei der japanischen Werft Shikokudo Dockyard gebaute Reihe von vier Kühlschiffen bezeichnet.

Geschichte
Die Schiffe wurden durch die Reederei Baltic Reefers geordert, die damit den seit Jahren größten Werftauftrag zum Bau von neuen Kühlschiffen platzierte. Insgesamt wurden sechs Kühlschiffe bei der japanischen Werft Shikokudo in Japan für Cool Carriers, eine Tochtergesellschaft von Baltic Reefers, bestellt. Hierzu gehören neben den vier Schiffen des Typ 650.000cf zwei Schiffe des Typs 880.000cf. Die vier Schiffe des Typs 650.000cf Schiffe wurden 2017 und 2018 abgeliefert, die übrigen folgten bis 2019. Die japanische Werft Shikoku ist eine der wenigen Werften, die seit 1966 bis heute Kühlschiffe baut.

Für Cool Carriers fahren noch zwei der vier Schiffe des Typs, die anderen beiden fahren für Star Reefers. Bereedert werden alle vier Schiffe von dem japanischen Unternehmen Nissen Kaiun.

Schiffsbeschreibung

Die Schiffe werden von einem langsamlaufenden Siebenzylinder-Zweitakt-Dieselmotor von Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding mit 4.750 dm³ Hubraum und einer Nennleistung von 15.300 kW bei 102/min angetrieben. Der Motor verleiht den Schiffen eine Geschwindigkeit von 20 kn (37 km/h). Zur Stromerzeugung wurden sechs Dieselgeneratoren mit einer Gesamtleistung von 9.025 kVA installiert.

Die Schiffe verfügen über fünf Laderäume. Die Laderäume 1, 2, 4 und 5 sind für den Transport von Kühlladungen bei Temperaturen von −25 °C bis +15 °C ausgerüstet. Die durch Zwischendecks unterteilten Laderäume werden von vier Deckskränen mit einer Kapazität von jeweils 40 t bedient. Laderaum 3 ist für den Transport von Containern mit Cellguides ausgerüstet. Die Kapazität der Laderäume beträgt rund 653.310 ft³ (circa 18.500 m³). Im Laderaum 3 können 35 40-Fuß- bzw. 70 20-Fuß-Container geladen werden. Weitere Container können an Deck auf den Lukendeckeln sowie direkt vor dem Deckshaus geladen werden. Zusätzlich stehen Containerstellplätze an Deck hinter dem Deckshaus zur Verfügung. Hier befindet sich auch ein weiterer Deckskran mit einer Kapazität von ebenfalls 40 t. Für Kühlcontainer stehen 320 Anschlüsse zur Verfügung. Als Rückladung können Autos transportiert werden.

Die Schiffe wurden mit der Eisklasse 1 B gebaut.

Schiffe

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Rainbow: Total Rock Review
Rainbow produced some of the finest hard rock music ever recorded, under the creative leadership of Ritchie Blackmore. This unique program gives a rare insight into the workings of a band which endured over 20 years, eight studio albums, countless hits, and line-up changes involving twenty different band members. This program includes revealing interviews with former Rainbow front man Doogie White give a compelling account of Rainbow' inner framework, and in sight into what it means to tour and record with the man he calls 'the finest guitarist of a generation'Äù. Also features rare live footage combined with interviews, and the incisive views of leading musicians and critics, making this the comprehensive critical review of the of one of the most successful bands in rock history. Featuring Highlights From: • Man On The Silver Mountain • Catch The Rainbow • I Surrender • Sixteenth Century Greensleeves • Kill The King • Since You Been Gone • Hall of The Mountain King • Plus Much More!
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'Americans Should Be Happy:' ABC News Defies Dems on Mueller Report, Actually Tells Viewers the Truth
Published March 25, 2019 at 10:18am
From the unlikeliest of sources — ABC News' Terry Moran — came the one thing that people ought to have taken away from Saturday's revelation that the Mueller report found no evidence of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign: "Americans should be happy" about that.
It may have been difficult to discern when Attorney General William Barr's summation of the Mueller report leaked to the press. In fact, in certain newsrooms, the attitude seemed almost funereal that the report seemed to be, in the words of ABC chief legal analyst Dan Abrams, "an all out win for the President and consistent with what he's been saying since day one."
Democrats were furious, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer releasing a joint statement. In it, they said that Barr was "not a neutral observer" and "not in a position to make objective determinations" due to his "bias" against the special counsel, Fox News reported.
However, ABC News actually defied the Democrat line and noted that the finding is something most citizens ought to be cheering.
"And this is, therefore, a moment in our history, right?" Moran asked, according to Newsbusters.
"Since the President was elected there has been a shadow over this presidency. Some people have looked for it to end because of their belief that somehow his election was illegitimate because of the involvement of Russia.
"Robert Mueller, one of the most respected prosecutors in America, exhaustively investigated with the power of subpoena and access to signals intelligence, human intelligence, all kinds of things and he did not find evidence that Trump or members of his campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia.
"That is huge," he continued. "It is something, frankly, that — that Americans should be happy about, that the President was not assisted by Russia."
"I doubt that's going to happen. But this is a conclusive determination as quoted. This is not Barr's spin. This is Barr quoting directly Robert Mueller."
Do you think that the Mueller report exonerates the president?
And that's exactly the point that most newspeople weren't making.
The idea that our president was involved in collusion with the Russians should be repugnant to each and every one of us. Granted, there were always partisan feelings on both sides of the aisle — most people's beliefs on collusion tended to be based on their opinions on the president.
However, you can still hate President Trump and be happy that he didn't work with the Kremlin to undermine our elections. Believe me, the two things aren't mutually exclusive — unless, of course, your hatred of Donald Trump requires you to believe certain things about his election.
To a certain element on the left, Trump will always be illegitimate, not because his election was a fraud but because it allows them to deal with the trauma of Nov. 8, 2016.
It wasn't that the polls were wrong or that America came to a different decision than they would have liked. It was the Russians. It was fake news. It was some kind of fraud. There's no way it could have really happened fair and square.
RELATED: Trump's 'Salute to America' Smashes Fox News July 4 Record
But ABC wasn't giving any truck to this line of thinking. Instead, they were honest about just what the report meant.
"One of the things that's remarkable as someone who has covered this for now 22 months is that, in each indictment, we never had a case where Mueller brought before a court and accused any American, anyone associated with Trump with directly conspiring with the Russians," chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas said. "And I was speaking (to) some sources about that and one of the things that some sources said is, 'look, we never could find that the Russians ever actually put anything in the hands of Trump campaign officials.'"
George Stephanopoulos, meanwhile, talked about how "one of the things we heard from the president — what — 200 something times over the last 22 months? No collusion, no collusion, no collusion. Robert Mueller is backing the president up on that."
Exactly. Those are words many of us never thought we'd hear. And they're great words — unless, of course, you need that collusion narrative to ease the trauma. But if you need America's elections to fail because of a candidate colluding with the Russians, what does that say about you?
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Q: How to get base url in my custom.js How to get base URL in my custom Java script  file i have to call my controller its working for static URL i want to get dynamic base URL how to get it in Java script file

A: Get the base url via javscript
var mainUrl = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + "/";

A: You can get below ways
console.log(location.hostname);
console.log(document.domain);
alert(window.location.hostname)

console.log("document.URL : "+document.URL);
console.log("document.location.href : "+document.location.href);
console.log("document.location.origin : "+document.location.origin);
console.log("document.location.hostname : "+document.location.hostname);
console.log("document.location.host : "+document.location.host);
console.log("document.location.pathname : "+document.location.pathname);

Hope it will help you.

A: 1) Go to : js/custom/custom.js and create your file: custom.js and add this:
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U.N. food official makes Thanksgiving visit to her family's West Side church
By Bridget Doyle and Chicago Tribune reporter
Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the U.N.'s World Food Program, at the New Mount Pilgrim Church on Thanksgiving. (Terrence Antonio James, Chicago Tribune)
During a time of year when most Americans indulge, Chicago native and executive director of the U.N.'s World Food Program Ertharin Cousin returned to her West Side neighborhood to help at her family's church and spread a message about global hunger.
On Thursday, Cousin joined with leaders at New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in West Garfield Park to serve a Thanksgiving meal to community members in need.
For 56-year-old Lawrence Williams, the meal provided his only Thanksgiving celebration for the day. With a plate of food in hand, Williams began to tear up, talking about losing his job last year and struggling with the depression that followed.
"I normally do the cooking, but I'm jobless and away from my wife and family right now," Williams said. "I am continually looking for any kind of work — a job is a job."
Williams and others traveled to the church basement for a free hot meal. Strangers gathered at folding tables draped in plastic tablecloths with sunflower centerpieces on top. One family of four bowed their heads and prayed before the meal.
Church volunteers worked all morning cooking the traditional Thanksgiving meal, the Rev. Marshall Hatch said. Turkey, ham, sweet potatoes and collard greens were served to anyone who went through the buffet-style line in the church basement.
Kate Maehr, executive director and CEO of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, attended the afternoon meal along with Cousin and said the face of hunger in Chicago has shifted from mainly homeless people to working families and children.
"The hunger problem in Chicago is as strong and persistent as it's ever been," Maehr said. "For way too many people, hunger is an everyday reality."
Since winter 2007, Maehr said, the food depository has seen an 85 percent increase in visits to its 650 kitchens and pantries.
"There's a tendency to focus on Thanksgiving as a time to address hunger. But it's not a one-day-a-year problem," Maehr said. "The reality is we'll be serving meals all winter long in the city and suburban Cook County."
Cousin and members of her family walked around the church basement and talked with those eating and volunteering. A holiday visit to her hometown is also a chance to speak with people in the U.S. about the needs of others outside the country, she said.
Cousin said she recently spent time in Lebanon and Jordan working with refugees from Syria. She helped deliver food to those who have left conflict-plagued areas with nothing.
The U.N. World Food Program "served 2,000 people in Gaza (Wednesday) morning," Cousin said, referring to the Palestinian-run Gaza Strip between Israel and Egypt. "Last month, we fed 1.5 million people in Syria. We're continuing to perform amidst challenges."
Eight months into her job, Cousin said much of her work is focused on helping developing countries build safety nets when it comes to food supply, something she said she learned first in Chicago.
Cousin said she also learned invaluable person-to-person skills while working in the city.
"My success in Chicago was built on the relationships I had here," Cousin said. "It was a skill that has served me well — whether building a relationship with the prime minister or a woman at the refugee camp."
Before becoming director of the U.N.'s World Food Program, Cousin was U.S. representative to the United Nations agencies for food and agriculture. She was nominated by President Barack Obama to the position in 2009.
"As an ambassador to represent the U.S., my job was to talk about what we needed to do in terms of food security," Cousin said. "Now I'm the one responsible for getting it done."
Though currently living in Rome, Cousin said she still feels strong ties to Chicago. Her mother, Annie Cousin, is still a member of the West Side Baptist church and remains much of the reason Cousin said she developed a career path as an advocate for others.
"I grew up in a family with a spirit of service; that was very much what we did," Cousin said. "We didn't have a lot but still felt the responsibility to share with others. My parents were not only interested in ensuring their own children were successful, but the community's children as well."
Cousin said she was looking forward to spending time at the family's longtime Lawndale home this week.
Promoting the success of her hometown is also important to Cousin, she said, and she planned to attend a gathering Friday night with West Side leaders and residents.
"It's not often you hear about the success from Lawndale, but there are people out there making a difference every day," she said.
Hatch said the church served nearly 300 people at its 12th annual Thanksgiving meal.
"We are in one of the poorest of the West Side communities," Hatch said. "We have our challenges. But on days like these, our community feels like a little village. It's amazing."
bdoyle@tribune.com


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Human Aid worker raised £10,000 for refugees
by Ayesha Rahman/ March 22, 2019/ Features, Local Hero, People, Tower Hamlets/ 1 Comment/
Ballal Qureshi on the right. Pic: Asif Uddin
A charity worker from Tower Hamlets has told ELL how he used £10,000 that he raised in an emergency appeal to help Syrian refugees, orphans and widows in Lebanon.
Ballal Qureshi, the 27-year-old Fundraising Officer for the international charity Human Aid in Whitechapel, started the 'Month of Giving' project back in October 2018 and by January 2019 he had collected around £10,000.
Qureshi used the money to buy blankets, socks, jackets and hats to bring to Beqaa Valley in Lebanon during January and distribute them to 30 Syrian families in a refugee camp there.
Qureshi was informed of the appalling condition of the Afzal camp, which lied four miles from the border with Syria, during a Facebook live on Human Aid's page to raise money.
"It was snowed out completely; it was on the mountainsides and I realised I had to raise even more money through the live appeal."
The emergency appeal was named 'Babies of Beqaa', dedicated to fifteen babies who were frozen to death.
Qureshi said there may have been many more deaths which had not been reported.
He told ELL about some beneficiaries including a mother with whom he had "a heart-breaking interview".
"A widow in Afzal camp has four children and six people in the family. They're given about 100 dollars a month to survive by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
"That includes food, medication, clothing, everything.
"To expect a family to survive on 100 dollars a month for everything is literally impossible, man. She said to me 'I try my best to raise money for me and my children, my oldest son had to drop out of school to raise money for our family'."
Qureshi said there were men who took advantage of refugee women in exchange for money.
"It got my blood boiling and stuck in my heart," Qureshi said.
He also met many husbands and fathers who couldn't provide for their family.
"Bomb blastings in Syria caused men to have their limbs ripped off, " he said.
It was then, he said, he realised the importance of continuing his work to "preserve the dignity of our sisters and brothers".
Qureshi said the need for winter aid in Beqaa Valley was "really dire" and he wished he could raise more money to help people who fled Syria because of the crisis in the country.
"The Beqaa Valley has 135,000 refugees all allocated in different parts of the valley," said Qureshi. He added that he did not realise the scale of the camps until a week before his flight.
Qureshi volunteered to travel and distribute aid, as he felt sitting behind a desk to raise money for projects can make people "completely disconnected" with the reality of the situation.
He explained going on a delegation was a key aspect in any charity as it gave him the motivation to continue his charity work.
"After three or four months of sitting behind the desk raising money and you see one video of it being commissioned, it makes you feel happy and content. Like Allah is on your side.
"But after doing that again and again and again, your drive starts to diminish."
He continued: "It [the trip to Lebanon] gives you a vision, it gives you a plan, it gives you a direction for when you return, and it gives you that motivation again."
When in Beqaa Valley, Qureshi asked his tour guide to take him to another camp in the area. Conditions were also dire, but he couldn't raise the funds to provide winter aid for the whole valley.
Beqaa Valley is a large, flat area surrounded by mountains. Qureshi described it as "humongous" with camps scattered everywhere.
Beqaa Valley. Pic: Google maps
Having completed his studies in Psychology at Queen Mary's, University of London, Qureshi started his work at Human Aid as a part-time volunteer to gain work experience. However, he felt the work was "extremely rewarding" so continued on as full-time staff.
Qureshi explained the difficulty of his role in which a standard 9-6 job was not enough.
"When working in charity, you need to be available around the clock to constantly accept donations and accept volunteers.
"There's no sleeping in this job, you continue the work in and out of the office.
"Whenever you have any opportunity to raise money, you need to take it, it doesn't matter what time of day it is, it doesn't matter if you're on holiday, it doesn't matter if you're on annual leave, it doesn't matter if you're sick. You need to continue."
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Brighton & Hove Youth Big Band
Under the advice of the Government and Department for Education we are working hard to get the Brighton & Hove Youth Big Band back up and running as soon as possible.
Until we can see you again in person, here are some Virtual Music Centre Activities to suit current Big Band Members.
Jazz & Funk 2
Venue: Varndean School
Day/Time: Tuesdays 5.30 - 7.30pm
Leader: Peter Chivers
Tutor: Owen Eastwood
The Brighton & Hove Youth Big Band has an exciting annual programme which includes performance opportunities, projects and international tours. The band performs some of the most exciting repertoire written for this medium. Recent charts include numbers by Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thad Jones and Stevie Wonder.
Throughout the year the band perform a range of exciting gigs which have recently included, Pitch Perfect and Your Place as part of the Brighton Festival programme as well as the Brighton Centre and Brighton Bandstand. The band has also recorded with local band such as The Go! Team and also tours on a regular basis most recently to Tuscany, Italy.
Applications are invited from secondary age musicians on drum kit, percussion, bass and rhythm guitar, piano, saxophone, trombone and trumpet who have reached a minimum standard of Grade 6 or above.
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he first 30 of the Class 56 diesel-
electric Co-Co heavy freight locomotives supplied to British Rail by Brush Electrical
Machines Ltd were built by the Romania subcontractor "Electroputere", and entered service 40 years ago. These were classed as a "Type 5" and fitted with a Ruston-Paxman 3,250 bhp (2,423 kW) 16RK3CT diesel engine, with a Co-Co wheel arrangement. The diesel engine was the final development of the old English Electric CSVT series, under the GEC Diesels badge, which brought together both English Electric and Ruston-Paxman at Newton-le-Willows.
The Brush family likeness – "The Falcon" prototype and the ubiquitous Class 47 Co-Co
Class 56 under construction at BREL – (c) Jim Mason
The electrical and control equipment in the Class 56 is a really interesting and innovative development, with a Brush three-phase, twelve-pole main alternator to provide power to the traction motors, and an auxiliary supplying the cab air-conditioning equipment, blower and compressor motors and battery charger. Both alternators are brushless, each with a rotating diode assembly to rectify the ac supply from the exciters for excitation of the alternators. This separately excited, or –'sep-ex' – technique was the next logical step to the full AC drive systems in place today.
British Rail Weight Diagram for Class 56
Leading Dimensions
Length over buffers 19,355mm
Total wheelbase 14,580mm
Bogie pivot centres 11,480mm
Bogie wheelbase 4,100mm
Bogie type CP2 (One loco was fitted with type C3 for test before fitting to Class 58)
Overall height (to rail) 3,960mm
Overall width 2,790mm
Weight (in working order) 125.25 tonnes
Maximum tractive effort 275,000 N
Continuous tractive effort 240,000 N at 27 km/h
Minimum radius curve 74 m
Maximum permitted speed 130 km/hr
GEC Diesels / Ruston RK3CT
Max. Continuous output (each engine) 2,460 kW at 900 rpm
Cylinders; Number. 16
Traction motors; No, make and type Six Brush Type TM 76-32
Final drive Single reduction spur gearing
Main generator; No, make and type Brush three-phase, twelve-pole brushless main alternator
Braking equipment Davies & Metcalfe Type E70 system
Fuel tank capacity 5,228 litres
Mechanically they were very much the same as the earlier Brush Type 4 (Class 47) design, with an all- welded monocoque superstructure assembly using a stressed skin form of construction.
Class 56 number 56002 in the earlier style BR blue livery with the small logo. Photo Courtesy: (c) Jim Mason
No less than 105 of these were built between 1976 and 1984, and although the first 30 were built in Romania, the remainder were built at Doncaster (70, Nos. 56 031 to 56 115) and Crewe (30, Nos. 56 116 to 56 135), but with significant modifications, from the poor experience with the first batch.
Unsurprisingly perhaps they bore a strong similarity to the Brush Class 47 /Type 4, as the photos and diagrams show, and are the last of what might be described as the British Railways style of double ended locomotives, with a full width body. They were later joined by BR's final diesel design, the Class 58, and although this also featured a cab at each end, it followed a perhaps more traditional freight loco design, with only a simple casing/hood over the engine.
Class 56 No. 56026 under heavy repair at Doncaster Works in 1982, alongside the Class 58 locos under construction. (Photo (c) Rodger Bradley)
The Doncaster built Class 56 were the penultimate diesel design built in a BR / British Rail Engineering Ltd works for British Rail, with the works building BR's final home designed and built locomotive, the Class 58. The first 30 locomotives Nos. 56 001 – 56 030) were found to be a poor quality build, with many being withdrawn from service early for extensive rebuilding, and then re-entering re-entering service.
The first Class 56 3,250hp Co-Co diesel-electric heavy freight locomotive to be built by BREL was handed over to British Rail on 29th April 1977, shipped from Romania through the port of Harwich. It was planned to outshop 20 locomotives per year.
Since BR had indicated there would be a follow-on order after the first 30, Doncaster Works resources would be severely stretched to meet these targets. Despite the fabrication facilities available at Doncaster, it was the lack of numbers of skilled staff to build the mechanical parts that was the most difficult challenge.
For this reason, the use of Ashford, Eastleigh and Swindon Works to fabricate sub-assemblies proved essential to meet the building programme timetable. Roofs, fuel tanks and cab frames were produced at Ashford, with cab desks from Eastleigh, and radiator housings from Swindon.
56114 in old style BR Blue with large double arrow logo on an MGR coal working. Photo courtesy: (c) Mandy Sharpe
At that time – the mid to late 1970s, the big railway workshops were still in existence, although there had of course been many closures, loss of skilled staff, and re-organisations that were to come would prove even more costly to railway engineering in the UK as a whole.
The final batch of 30 were built at Crewe Works, and with the BREL works across the UK coming together to supply the sub-assemblies, skills, knowledge, experience and programme timings were maintained. Brush and their subcontractors supplied the type CP2 bogies, whilst the power and control systems were designed and provided by the Loughborough company.
In operation they were hit by the BR privatisation, and became part of the newly formed EWS (English, Welsh & Scottish railway Ltd) from 1996, which comprised four divisions of British Rail's rail freight operations – Rail Express Systems, Loadhaul, Transrail Freight and Mainline Freight. EWS later bought the National Power Rail Unit and British Rail's European division – Railfreight Distribution, using the Class 56 in their primary role, until the arrival of many of the new Class 66 locomotives. By 2004, the Class 66 were in the majority operationally, and EWS took the decision to withdraw these Brush designs, although some were used in France to help build the then new LGV for TGV-Est, and other European work.
Classic shot of the second of the second Doncaster built engines, 56032 on a typical MGR working in EWS livery in 2001
© 53A Models of Hull Collection
After EWS withdrew the Class 56 in 2004, they were stored at Crewe, Toton, Warrington, Barrow Hill and Eastleigh, and when DB Schenker bought EWS they continued to focus on the Class 66 as their preferred main line freight type.
DB Schenker, now DB Cargo sold 27 Class 56s for scrap to European Metal Recycling in 2011, but 11 were bought by Colas Rail, and remain in service on traffic for which they were originally built. Colas is effectively a subsidiary of French engineering company SECO. UK Rail Leasing own and operate a further 15 class 56 locos, which operate on a range of services.
The Class 56 proved operationally superior when compared with the later Class 58, and a number have been preserved, whilst others are still in service with other train operating companies, including:
Owner Numbers
British American Railway Services 56 091/103/128/303(125)/311(057)/312(003)
Colas Rail 56 049/051/074/078/087/090/094/096/105/113/302(124)
UK Rail Leasing 56 007/018/031/032/037/038/060/065/069/
077/081/098/104/106/
Class 56 Locomotives 56 301(045)
Whichever way you look at the Class 56, it has been both successful and unsuccessful, as BR's last Type 5 locomotive, and in effect brought back to life after privatisation, effectively saying that BR had done a good job in the design and operation of this locomotive.
Many are still with us 40 years on, through occasional lease to rail freight operators, but the design does bring to an end that era of British diesel locomotive building, and the legacy from Brush Traction/Brush Electrical Engineering.
Class 56 Group – http://www.class56group.co.uk
Brush Electrical Eng. Co. (Archives) – http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F169521


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Changing the culture in biomedical research
December 6, 2012 Chris Pickett Comments 0 Comment
Last June at the National Institutes of Health, the Biomedical Workforce Working Group presented a report to the Advisory Committee to the Director detailing the state of the biomedical work force and suggesting improvements to the education and compensation of trainees. Today, the advisory committee made recommendations about implementing this report to NIH Director Francis S. Collins. Among the recommendations made were:
Implement a new type of grant award for institutions to develop innovative training approaches that embrace all biomedical career paths.
Require individual professional development plans for graduate students and postdocs.
Limit the number of years a graduate student can be supported by NIH funds.
Increase postdoc pay and develop an example benefits package for postdocs that institutions could adopt.
Institutions are encouraged to track career outcomes of their graduate students.
The NIH will give the community a brief period to comment on these recommendations. However, unless there is strong opposition to specific points, it is expected they all will be implemented in the near future.
Several of the recommendations made will cause significant changes to academic culture. The graduate student à postdoc à faculty member career path is often viewed as the default path for incoming students. However, expanding training for students and postdocs in careers outside of academia is a clear nod to the fact that most trainees do not find or even want faculty positions. Acknowledging and preparing students for these careers suggests acceptance of these career choices as valuable for the scientific enterprise. Nevertheless, to ensure the community completely comes to grips with this shift in attitude, the NIH leadership needs to banish "alternative" or "nonacademic" with regard to career paths as it implies that the path toward a faculty position is the default career path and all others are derivative.
However, the one recommendation that may be the crux toward acceptance of all scientific career paths as valuable is the one that arguably seems to be a no-brainer. The recommendation that institutions track the career outcomes of graduate students will allow prospective graduate students to evaluate whether enrolling is the right choice for them. However, the NIH and study sections also could use this data during grant review to evaluate institutions based on the career profiles of their students. Will funding agencies and grant reviewers look more favorably upon institutions that generate more faculty members or those that generate a variety of career outcomes? If used as a metric by funding agencies to favor institutions that produce relatively more faculty members, the recommendations made today will merely entrench and intensify the bias of academics to favor trainees who plan to become faculty members. The double-edged sword of making education more available to students and postdocs is that the entire biomedical research enterprise, from faculty members to institutions to funding agencies, must accept and embrace the change that this will bring. Otherwise, we might never actually progress beyond the situation we're in right now.
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I figure no one really knows the answer for sure, but I can't resist asking anyway!
If you want to avoid reading the entire post, the basic question is whether leaving a heat pump off completely and letting it get covered in snow and ice for a few days would hurt it. My assumption is that it would not.
I'm trying to maximize the life of my 20 year old heat pump. It is working fine right now. I haven't had a tech touch it since it was installed.
And that's during days and nights that are about 30 something in the day and 20 something at night (pretty mild).
But nighttime lows are going to be around zero for a few days in the near future, along with rain, ice and snow. Snow could be about 8 inches, not too bad. But if there is enough rain, I could get water pooling at the bottom of the heat pump slab, maybe rising up into the fins and coils of the unit too, and maybe freezing, who knows. (I usually do get the classic big blob of ice around the compressor each winter and it doesn't seem to hurt anything).
So, I'll get to the point: Will having my heat pump off and letting the snow and ice and rain do whatever it wants to do, result in harm to my heat pump?
I don't want to be going out at 2 AM in zero degree weather cleaning snow and ice off, or bailing water away from it (it is in a sunken area that pools with water during heavy rain) and my hope was that I could just leave the heat pump turned off, let nature do its thing, then let it melt away later, or pour water over it to help it melt later, whatever.
I would be heating my house with kerosene and/or a plug-in oil filled electric radiator. I'm not real concerned with the cost of the kerosene or the electricity, but very concerned about preserving the life of my heat pump. And if I left it on it would be running non stop for a few days, I think, if temps are down around zero.
I'm wondering if water would seep into the inner workings of the heat pump, or just being so cold for so long, and not going through its usual cycles would hurt it somehow.
Sorry for such a belabored post.
Ok this sounds kind of like a terrible idea to save a buck.
To answer your original question I think the exterior unit of your heat pump would be fine. They are built to be weather proof. (im not a HVAC tech or anything) I mean it does fine in driving rain and snow. Sure like 10 feet of snow on top of it would be bad for it, as it would be anything.
More likely you are going to freeze some part of your house due to uneven heat. Pipes break and then your basically screwed.
Correct me if im wrong but your heat pump is going to go into emergency heat mode anyways right? Super cold temps heat pumps cant really do their job and they go to old fashioned resistance heating. If your heat pump cant do its job with out breaking then you need a new heat pump.
Also get some sort of stand for your heat pump if water is pooling around it. I mean a partially submerged unit would be bad news. I think you can just buy a plastic stand or just put a few cinder-blocks under it.
I mean I get it, my wife left for the weekend and I kicked the heat down a few degrees, but this seems a bit nuts.
Yes, definitely make/get a stand for it.
Your heat pump will also run more efficiently if it has a roof above it to keep the snow away.
Now that I think about it some more, I wouldn't want ice building up on the coils, expanding and cracking them, possibly. By letting the unit run, it would be defrosting occasionally and getting rid of ice directly on the coils. The ice that builds up on the condenser doesn't seem to hurt anything. Of course I could just cover it all with a big tarp, and turn the heat pump off, but I'd still have the problem of the water rising.
About raising the unit: I want to be very careful not to disturb any of the pipe fittings that carry the freon in and out. So I can't move it very much at one time. I'm thinking of just getting a shovel under one side of the slab, prying it up an inch or so, and stuffing dirt under it as much as possible, then doing the same thing to the other sides, and making sure it is pretty level.
And I wonder if the ground has really sunk that much in 20 years, or whether the water just isn't draining away properly anymore.
I think you should have the unit serviced - 20 yr is WAYY overdue.
It may be low on freon which makes it really inefficient.
Ask the tech while he's writing up your bill.
What problem are you trying to solve, exactly? That a heat pump that's ran for thousands of hours over the past 20 years will somehow fail if it runs a few more?
I don't think running will hurt it, and I don't think shutting it down will save it - it shouldn't really matter one way or the other. However, there are a few things you should take care of.
The whole "talking on water" thing should be resolved with either raising the unit or adding a drain ditch/pipe/whatever. Raising the unit sounds like a better plan, but as noted, those hose connections are somewhat fragile, so don't just yank it around.
A heat pump install will almost certainly have backup coils, though, and you should look at the datasheet for your unit to figure out when the system is more efficient to run on the coils (big resistors, 1kWh electrical = 1kWh heat). Below a certain temperature, which is probably above zero for a 20 year old unit, the efficiency drops below 1 - you'll use one unit of electricity to pump 0.7 units of heat. At that point, you're better off with the coils. My unit is good to -10 or -15F before that happens, but it's only a few years old.
But, really, at this point, 20 years old for a heat pump is somewhat beyond the expected service life. New units are a good bit more efficient and work down to lower temperatures, so it might be worth budgeting for a replacement.
If it has been running for 20 years it certainly has encountered conditions like you are expecting before and survived. If it were to go out now, I would suspect it was soon to go out from one cause or another.
If you truly want to maximize its life span I would recommend addressing the issues with drainage, a platform for the unit, and/or some sort of show shield/roof.
I agree with syonyk it should have some sort of electric backup (even my parents 25 y/o heat pump in Florida has electric resistive "emergency heat").
If this one goes out, I suggest remembering this and relocating the exterior unit to a more appropriate location.
my heat pump is controlled by my thermostat to shut off below 35. heat pump is 1999 model, so same age as yours. so, my answer is that it's going to be shut off below the temps you're worried about, but that i wouldn't worry about it anyway.
i heat with wood, so the heat pump is only used a month or two out of the year when temps are in the 50-60 degree range.
i cannot imagine how your house would get that cold. do you have insulation? it would take a long long time for my place to cool down to that level (1979 construction). i could heat it to 70 and it would last a week until it made it down to 52.
Yes, I'm just trying to eek out a few more hours, days, years of service from the heat pump. Plus I hate the fact that prices for installation of heat pumps (outside unit and inside) have tripled in the the last 20 years. I only paid about $1,200 for my outside unit 20 years ago, including installation labor. And my inside unit (air handler) is 30 years old, so I'd probably voluntarily replace that too. Total hit for inside and outside replacement would be around $6,000 to $7,000. And apparently a huge amount of that in 'labor'. One day of labor from them to install the units equals around $3,000. That galls me. Would like to postpone that ripoff as long as possible. Not going to install it myself! Don't want to buy the units online and have a Craigslist installer.
Yes, my setup has resistance heat for backup when it gets too cold. The blue light comes on and the heat is hot!
The water rising up around it : I can only surmise that the ground around my house has been gradually settling for some reason. I don't remember having this pooling problem until about 10 years ago, and the first time I noticed it was actually rising up around the heat pump was this year during a 4 inch rainfall. I have extended the downspouts farther away from the foundation, but the main problem is that the yard slopes toward the house everywhere except for one corner of the front yard. I've got a few extensions on the the front yard downspout which brings (most of it during heavy rain, but none during light rain) the roof water into the yard where I think it is flowing down to the corner of the front yard, then pooling there and overflowing over my driveway into my front yard on the other side of the driveway, and disappears into a hole.
I don't know if a 4 inch rainfall will still flood the heat pump. But some 1.5 inchers have stopped at the top of the cement pad, so maybe the extended spouts are working.
I agree that raising the heat pump is in order.
Ok... seriously, I don't think shutting it down for some heavy storms is going to meaningfully impact life. It'll either die when the motor fails, or when the refrigerant leaks and the now non-lubricated compressor seizes. Other stuff should be easy to fix.
$1000 in 1997 is around $1500 today based on some inflation calculators, so your cost math is a bit inaccurate. And modern units are a good bit more efficient, which saves you money - those backup coils are quite expensive to run.
I had a 2.5 (or 3?) ton unit installed for a lot less than the prices you're getting, so you might want to shop around.
If it's been running for 20 years without trouble, seriously, just let it do what it's been doing, and fix it so it's not literally sitting in water. The rest of your plans are just goofy.
It won't hurt your heat pump to sit in the cold unused. Your house is another story, but your heat pump will be fine if you want to turn it off. Throwing a tarp over it to keep the snow out would help when you are ready to reuse it.
Keep in mind that just because the air inside your house is 50 degrees, your pipes in exterior walls will likely be much cooler. I had a house where a water pipe in an exterior wall would freeze if I left the air temp reach 60.