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Heating & Cooling Repair
How to Remove Refrigerant Without Equipment
By Joey Butler
Service gauges
Low-voltage jumper
This job is easier if you have a helper to close the high-pressure valve while you prepare to release the jumper used to engage the relay.
It is illegal to vent refrigerants into the atmosphere. A week compressor may fail under the pressures caused by this operation. Only experienced service technicians should attempt this process. There is always a risk of electrical shock when working on a live system.
Removing refrigerant is time consuming
Using refrigerant recovery equipment to evacuate a system before making repairs to a condensing unit is extremely time consuming and labor intensive. You have to consider the time involved in setting up the machine, the operation time to evacuate the system and then the transition and proper disposal of the recovered refrigerant. Also, maintaining the equipment and the tanks used to store the used refrigerant adds additional cost to the project. Most of this can be avoided by removing the refrigerant from the condensing unit and storing it in the evaporator section.
Set the indoor thermostat to the "Off" position.
Connect the low-pressure side of your refrigerant gauges to the suction side of the compressor inside the condensing unit.
Close the service valve on the low-pressure side of your condensing unit. Some valves require a hex key while others can be closed with an adjustable wrench.
Prepare the service valve on the high-pressure side by closing it halfway. Leave the hex key in place.
Engage the compressor by using a low-voltage jumper to energize the compressor relay.
Watch the low-pressure gauge closely. Close the service valve on the high-pressure side of your condensing unit very quickly once the low-pressure gauge shows a complete vacuum. Be ready to de-energize the compressor relay as soon as the valve is seated. It is very important that you perform both these tasks quickly as extreme pressures build up during this process and can damage the compressor if held for too long.
HVAC for Beginners: Air Conditioner Basics
Joey Butler
Joey Butler began writing in 2006. His work has been published in "The Index Journal" and in "Review: Lander's Literary and Visual Arts Magazine." He has written everything from investigative news articles to a study guide that was published by I.B.I.D. Books. Butler holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Lander University.
How to Recharge Home Refrigerators
How to Recharge Freon to Repair a Refrigerator
How to Recharge a Trane AC Unit
How to Troubleshoot a Campbell Hausfeld High Pressure Washer
How to Bypass a Pressure Switch on a Lennox G16 Gas Furnace
How to Charge a PTAC Unit


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La testiera cornuta di Torrs o testiera e corna di Torrs è un insieme di manufatti bronzei dell'età del ferro, ora nel National Museum of Scotland, la cui attuale composizione in un pezzo unico nasconde in realtà origini e fusioni diverse che concorrono a rendere questi "famosi e controversi" oggetti una continua fonte di dibattito tra gli studiosi. La maggior parte delle teorie vuole le corna aggiunte alla testiera in una data posteriore ma non è chiaro se esse siano state originariamente realizzate per tale scopo: una teoria, ad esempio, le vorrebbe come supporti di un corno potorio. I tre pezzi sono decorati secondo stilemi del tardo stile di La Tène, cioè l'arte celtica dell'età del ferro. Le date attribuite agli elementi variano ma sono tipicamente intorno al 200 a.C. ed è generalmente accettato che le corna siano un po' più tarde della testiera e di stile piuttosto diverso.

Qualunque fossero l'aspetto e le funzioni originali degli oggetti e ovunque siano stati realizzati, essi sono progettati in modo molto fine e abilmente eseguiti e fanno parte di un piccolo gruppo sopravvissuto di elaborati oggetti in metallo trovati nelle isole britanniche e commissionati dalle élite dell'età del ferro britannica e irlandese negli ultimi secoli prima dell'arrivo dei Romani.

Ritrovamento
I manufatti sono stati trovati insieme negli anni venti del XIX secolo, comunque "prima del 1829", in una torbiera a Torrs Loch, Castle Douglas, Kelton, nella storica contea scozzese di Kirkcudbright, Dumfries e Galloway. Il contesto suggerisce che si trattasse di un deposito votivo nel lago il cui letto prosciugato ospita oggi la palude. Si pensava che le corna si fossero staccate dalla testiera al momento del ritrovamento ma un articolo di giornale contemporaneo recentemente riscoperto le riporta come attaccate. I pezzi sono pervenuti, tramite l'antiquario locale e autore Joseph Train FSA Scot (1779-1852), al romanziere Sir Walter Scott che li espose composti alla Abbotsford House, aperta al pubblico dal 1833 subito dopo la morte di Scott. Le corna sono attualmente esposte fissate sulla testiera, rivolte all'indietro, ma originariamente erano montate rivolte in avanti, e sono state anche esposte staccate dalla testiera. Una replica è esposta ad Abbotsford.

Descrizione
La testiera è decorata a sbalzo con motivi vegetali, spirali di tromba e teste di uccello, mentre le corna hanno una decorazione incisa "audacemente asimmetrica" comprendente un volto umano. L'unico completo termina con una testa di uccello modellata; è stato suggerito che questo rappresenti specificamente la testa di un'anatra mestolone settentrionale, probabilmente in origine aveva occhi di corallo; l'altro corno non ha la punta. La testiera ha fori per le orecchie del pony. L'angolazione data al pezzo per l'esposizione, come nella foto qui al lato, è studiata per mostrare chiaramente la decorazione e corrisponde a quella che avrebbe la testiera montata sulla testa d'un cavallo. Le foto sul sito del museo mostrano l'angolo normale quando indossata correttamente, con i bordi sui lati approssimativamente paralleli al suolo.

La decorazione incisa sulle corna è descritta da Lloyd Laing come "molto ben incisa e molto elaborata; ogni motivo inizia con un elemento circolare yin-yang e si gonfia verso l'esterno in un disegno centrale prima di ridursi in una delicata punta a forma di ventaglio. Una minuscola maschera umana a pieno facciale è stata incorporata nell'elemento centrale del corno più grande."

La testiera misura 10,5 pollici di lunghezza e il corno completo 16,5 pollici lungo la curva. Queste dimensioni significano che il cavallo cui era destinata la terriera "avrebbe dovuto essere molto piccolo". La testiera presenta un grosso pezzo mancante nella parte posteriore e tre antiche riparazioni, con piattini, ciascuno decorato con motivi propri; nella fotografia qui se ne vede uno tra il foro dell'orecchio e il corno vicino, un altro verticale vicino al bordo anteriore del cappuccio.

Contesto artistico

Le corna e la testiera fanno parte di un piccolo gruppo di oggetti riccamente decorati che sono la principale testimonianza di una delle ultime fasi dello stile "La Tène insulare" in Gran Bretagna e Irlanda, noto come "Stile IV" in un'estensione dello schema originariamente ideato da De Navarro per i lavori continentali. Altri oggetti di questo raggruppamento sono gli scudi di Battersea, Witham, e, opera questa strettamente correlata ai pezzi di Torrs, l'umbone dello scudo di bronzo trovato nel Tamigi a Wandsworth (Londra), nella misura in cui Piggot designa uno "stile Torrs-Wandsworth". Tutti e tre gli scudi sono nel British Museum. Il gruppo include altri oggetti provenienti dalla Gran Bretagna e dall'Irlanda.

In contesto scozzese, la testiera è uno dei principali esempi del c.d. "stile Galloway" lateniano, strettamente correlato all'arte dell'Irlanda del Nord, a breve distanza attraverso il Mare d'Irlanda. Altri studiosi vorrebbero i invece pezzi importati, forse dall'Inghilterra centro-orientale.

Funzione
La testiera è uno dei principali esempi celtici di armatura da cavallo ma secondo alcuni avrebbe potuto essere una maschera rituale ad uso umano, opinione già avanzata dagli antiquari locali che per primi esaminarono l'oggetto: nella prima pubblicazione relativa al pezzo, datata 1841, fu infatti descritta come "maschera per la testa d'un giullare", datata conseguentemente al Medioevo, da agganciarsi tramite cinghie di cuoio e con un pennacchio che saliva dalla parte superiore. Non si conosce nessun'altra testiera dei tempi antichi ma sembrano esserci esempi celtici e greci classici in materiali come il cuoio bollito, incluso uno proveniente da Trimontium (Scozia), un avamposto romano. Un'altra possibilità è che fosse posizionata sopra una statua di culto in legno di un cavallo, cosa che aiuterebbe a spiegarne le piccole dimensioni.

La teoria che le corna fossero montature di un corno potorio non precedentemente parte della testiera fu proposta per la prima volta dai professori Piggott e Atkinson nel 1955, e fu ampiamente accettata per circa tre decenni, portando le corna a essere staccate dal cappuccio ed esposte separatamente. La testa dell'uccello superstite sul corno è paragonabile a molto più tardi esempi altomedievali da sepolture anglosassoni (es. sepolcro di Sutton Hoo e sepolcro di Taplow) così come contesti irlandesi e pitti, che sono noti o si presume abbiano decorato le punte di corna da bere. Tuttavia la teoria dipendeva dal presupposto che i fori e i rivetti utilizzati per fissare le corna alla testiera fossero tutti opera di un restauratore del XIX secolo. Successive indagini suggerirono che in realtà non era così, e "l'opinione è tornata indietro" per supportare la ricostruzione originale, e alla fine degli anni 1960 Piggott e Atkinson preferirono "pensare alle corna come terminali a giogo" per i carri. Resta la possibilità che le corna siano state realizzate per una diversa funzione, ma successivamente attaccate al cappuccio un po' prima del suo deposito.

Sebbene non siano stati effettuati ritrovamenti comparabili effettivi, alcuni parallelismi sono stati suggeriti nelle rappresentazioni di cappucci simili, tra cui una figura del mitico cavallo Pegaso su una moneta di Tasciovano, il capo in gran parte romanizzato che governò i Catuvellauni da Verlamion (St Albans) tra circa 20 a.C. e 9 d.C., ed era il padre di Cunobelino. Il Pegaso sembra indossare un berretto dal quale si levano due corna nodose. I resti di cavalli trovati nelle tombe della cultura Pazyryk dell'età del ferro in Siberia erano dotati di maschere a forma di teste di cervo, complete di corna (un altro esempio) o corna (un altro esempio). Nel luglio 2015, una sepoltura dell'età del ferro di ossa di animali accuratamente sistemate che includeva un teschio di cavallo con il corno di una mucca sulla fronte è stata portata alla luce nel Dorset, in Inghilterra.

Note

Esplicative

Bibliografiche

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
Scudo di Wandsworth

Arte scozzese
Arte celtica

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The City of Carrollton Mayor and Council regularly scheduled meeting for Monday, April 1, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. has been cancelled and rescheduled as a Special Called Meeting to be held on Monday, April 8, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Municipal Court Room/Council Chambers of the Public Safety Annex located at 115 West Center Street, Carrollton, GA. The April 8, 2019 Agenda for will be posted to the City website by 5:00 p.m. on April 1, 2019.
Anyone requiring special needs should contact Libby Duke at City Hall at 770-830-2000 or lduke@carrollton-ga.gov within 3 business days prior to the meeting.


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English Culture Icons I
This Wedenesday, November 29th we started with the first speeches and adresses session. The students get a more than expected performance with clear pronounciation and a good sense of rythm. I appreciate to those who worked hard to take their best english out.
We'll wait for the other group of students next wednesday when it will be also our final class.
Martin Luther King's Speech: "I have a dream"
British National Anthem: "God save the Queen"
John Lennon's "Imagine"
John Kennedy's "Inaugural Address"
United States of America's National Anthem
"God Bless America"
Ensayo al aire libre
On Wednesday 22nd the group went to the beach to have one of the last practice sessions before the presentation day, that will be on Wednesdays, November 29th and December 6th.
The idea of going to the Chinchorro beach was to find a personal place to practice aloud the text asigned. To read a text is not that difficult than to read it aloud, in front of an audience and with a speech format.
I hope the activity is at the level that the students shows class by class.
WebPage where you can... no, you must... no you have to STUDY!
This is the link to the webpage you can practice with several exercises.
http://club.telepolis.com/phonetics/
go to exercises 1 or exercises 2 for practicing.
NOTE: focus on the phonetic vowel exercises
Speeches, adresses, songs and poems
In case you don't have yet your material I've uploaded the different text you have to speech soon. - In some of them there's a MP3 version fi you want to download-
Kennedy's address
Nixon's resignation speech
Whitman's O Captain my Captain MP3
Lennon's Imagine
Beatles' Yesterday
Denver's Conutry Road Take me Home
The Eagles' Hotel California
Chilean National Anthem (in Spanish)
Study hard. I want your best effort in this final activity.
Some interesting sites
If you are interested in the web page about phonetics... this is the address:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/english.htm
http://www.learnenglish.de/Level1/Pronunciation/phoneticpage.htm
http://www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/filologie/mateescu/cuprins.htm
These are some of the pictures I took in classes.
Enjoy or suffer!
Task 11: 'Jokes in English'
A Birthday Cake
A man wanted to celebrate his wife's birthday by throwing a party. So he went to order a birthday cake. The baker asked him what message to put on the cake. He thought for a while and said, "Let's put, 'You are not getting older, you are getting better' on the cake".
The baker then asked, "How do you want me to arrange it?" The man replied, "Well, put 'You are not getting older', at the top and 'you are getting better' at the bottom.
The real fun didn't start until the cake was opened and everyone at the party saw the message on the cake: "You are not getting older at the top, you are getting better at the bottom"!
Geography Class
An elementary school teacher was trying to encourage her students to be active in class. While teaching geography, she looked at one student and said, "Stanley, go to the map and find North America". Stanley stood up, went to the front of the room where a world map was hanging, and pointed to North America. "Correct!", the teacher exclaimed. "Now class, can anyone tell me who discovered America?". The whole class shouted together, "Stanley"!
A Big Decision
A six-year-old boy walked up to his father one day and announced, 'Daddy, I'd like to get married.'
His father replied hesitantly, 'Sure, son, do you have anyone special in mind?'
'Yes,' answered the boy. 'I want to marry Grandma.'
'Now, wait a minute,' said his father. 'You don't think I'd let you get married with my mother, do you?'
'Why not?' the boy asked. 'You married mine.'
Jokes taken from http://teacherjoe.us/Jokes.html
1. Tell a joke in English.
2. Write the underlined words and find its meaning related to the context. Deliver the meanings next class, on Wednesday, June 25th, written in a sheet of paper.
These are the last tasks for this semester so let's make your best effort and enjoy your winter holidays.
Published by Teacher Michael Rossel at 10:48 PM
Task 10: 'Chilean students return to classroom after strike'
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- A million high school students returned to classrooms Tuesday after a three-week strike wrested new education money from Chile's socialist government.
Many, however, said they were skeptical about official pledges to end inequalities in the schools.
The return to school after weeks of rowdy sit-ins and sometimes-violent marches through the capital came after a long holiday weekend in Chile and as the new government of President Michelle Bachelet launched an advisory panel to draft education reforms.
Bachelet already has pledged nearly $200 million for repairs to hundreds of dilapidated schools, as well as benefits including thousands of free school lunches and free entrance exams.
Bachelet on Tuesday met with Education Minister Martin Zilic and urged officials to "go full steam ahead and draw up the best reform plans possible for boosting the quality of our education system."
But student leaders said they were wary of the 72-member presidential advisory council she set up last week to deal with student demands for reform. Students had demanded a majority of seats, but wound up with only 12 of 72.
"We won a lot through our mobilization, but there's still a lot left to fight for," said one student organizer, Maria Jesus Sanhueza.
The students on Monday announced plans for their own commission to offer proposals for improving schools, and they warned they were ready to act if the official recommendations don't satisfy them.
"We are confident that it (the council) will function. But if it doesn't, we will be the first to respond," student organizer Karina Delfino said.
Bachelet's council has three months to recommend modifications to a law enacted by former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet the day before his 1973-1990 government ended. It made municipalities responsible for education, leading to a gap in school quality between rich and poor areas.
The unexpectedly strong and fast-growing student strike was the first major challenge for the Bachelet government that took office March 11. She had campaigned to improve an education system that has failed to match the advances of Chile's vigorous free-market economy.
Text was taken from: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/06/13/chile.students.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
1. What do you think about the last student's strike?
2. In what way did you participate in it?
3. What do you feel with the meassures given by the government to improve Chilean education?
4. What would you say or ask President Bachelet if you are in front of her now? (In one sentence)
DEADLINE: June 17th
Task 9: "Lennon's Jealous Guy"
This song belongs John Lennon. Appeared in the album Imagine in 1971 after Beatles' breakdown. This is one of the most beautiful songs Lennon wrote.
First, read it, then, listen it and finally answer the questions below.
JEALOUS GUY
I was dreaming of the past
And my heart was beating fast
I began to lose control
I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy
I was feeling insecure
You might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside
I was trying to catch your eyes
Thought that you was trying to hide
I was swallowing my pain
I'm just a jealous guy, watch out
I'm just a jealous guy, look out babe
I'm just a jealous guy.
1. What did you feel the first time you read the lyrics?
2. What did you feel the first time you listened the song?
3. Who do you think this song is about?
4. Explain in your own words -in English or Spanish- these sentences:
... I began to lose control...
... I was feeling insecure...
... I was swallowing my pain...
... I'm just a jealous guy, watch out...
DEADLINE: JUNE 3th
Good News for me and for YOU!
I took this week off beacuse my baby was born on May 19th. So I thought I could have enough time to upload a new article for this week, but that will be impossible. So I recommend all of you that in this 'free' week send up all your massages about task 7 and 8.
My new son's name is Philippe Michel Rossel Guzmán. I'm happy but at the same time very tired.
This wednesday you will be with other English teacher. He has more vocabulary for you about Inside The Plane.
Remember that with the vocabularies you have to create a simple role play using phrases and words learnt.
Good Luck and see ya on Wednesday, May 31st.
Task 8: "Warning marks start of Chile's polluted winter"
Argentine Gas Cuts Force Businesses To Use Polluting Fuels(April 19, 2005) The government of the Metropolitan Region lifted its pollution warning Monday, saying the quality of the air had improved since a pre-emergency was declared the day before.
But this warning could be the first of many this year, as Argentine gas cuts force more companies to use less environmentally friendly fuels.
The state of pre-emergency was announced Sunday morning after the Air Particle Quality Index (ICAP) registered critical levels of pollution at the monitoring station in Pudahuel. Traffic restrictions were imposed and factories were ordered to halt production.
These measures, combined with the usual decrease in emissions caused by traffic and factories during the weekend, caused ICAP figures to fall by one-third by Monday.
"(Sunday's) ICAP reading signals a change in the atmosphere that happened quicker than expected. This meant businesses could start up again," said Ximena Rincón, governor of the Metropolitan Region.
But even though the state of pre-emergency was revoked, air quality is expected to get worse in the capital in the coming days and months, resulting in high levels of smog in Santiago.
With winter on the horizon, gas shortages caused by Argentine cuts are becoming a greater problem for Chile's fuel-consuming businesses.
"Predictions for this year have not been fulfilled because of the energy crisis," Rincón admitted.
Executives have been forced to seek cheaper types of fuel after Finance Minister Nicolás Eyzaguirre rejected a bid for subsidies made by businesses affected by gas shortages (ST, March 11). But this will have repercussions on the environment because the alternate fuels emit the most fine and harmful polluting particles, known as PM2.5. Environmentalist Dep.
Guido Girardi from the Party for Democracy (PPD) predicts this winter will be one of the most polluted ever because companies will continue to use petrol instead of natural gas."There is no way this can be resolved. Pollution will not be tackled until it gets a lot worse than it is now," he said.
The weather has also played a part in the poor air quality. According to Chile's Meteorological Directorate, the recent lack of wind will continue at least until Wednesday. Meteorologist Patricio Urra said that during the next weeks, there will not be climatic shift bringing windy weather. "At this time, we don't have a weather front coming from the coast, which is what we need for better air quality," he said.
The air quality in Santiago is already worse than predicted, according to reports from the Santiago offices of the National Environmental Commission (CONAMA RM). CONAMA RM Director Pablo Badenier said pollution will get worse toward the middle of the week, but he assured that the authorities were right to withdraw the state of pre-emergency Monday.
"Our team believes that on Wednesday the air conditions are going to get worse because there are always more emissions during the week. We will keep an eye on conditions next week by constantly monitoring the ICAP," Badenier said.
Critics say that CONAMA RM is not taking the necessary measures to avoid Saturday's critical levels of pollution. In response, Badenier said it is always difficult to foresee the first states of pre-emergency each year as weather conditions are not always stable, making it difficult to predict when high particle accounts will occur.
"We can't always be certain our predictions are correct. We weren't capable of predicting the very bad air conditions on Saturday," Badenier said.Dep. Girardi, who is a physician, is trying to make La Moneda aware that their current pollution policy will benefit no one.
"Loosening restrictions on emissions, as the government plans to, will create a greater health risk for children with bronchitis and cause cancer and heart attacks in adults," he said.
Girardi proposes that the government offer tax breaks as an incentive to companies who are prepared to invest money in reducing emissions. He also suggests that companies with the worst pollution records should be moved out of the capital and that PM2.5 particle emissions should be monitored daily.
Article taken from: http://www.tcgnews.com/santiagotimes/index.php?nav=story&story_id=8849&topic_id=1
1. What do you think about the pollution in Santiago?
2. Why the pollution is harder year after year?
3. What could you do if the government asked you some help to solve this problem?
DEADLINE: Sunday, May 20th.
Task 7: "South Americans reach energy deal"
Etiquetas: Readings, Tasks, Tercero Medio 2006 33 comments
Argentina and Brazil have accepted Bolivia's moves to take state control of its gas industry but want talks on future prices and foreign involvement.
The deal was reached at an energy summit which also included Venezuela.
Earlier this week President Evo Morales took control of Bolivia's natural gas industry and told foreign firms to leave if they did not comply.
Brazil and Argentina rely on cheap gas imports from Bolivia and fear that nationalisation could push prices up.
Staying or going?
"The important thing is that gas supplies for the countries needing them have been guaranteed and that prices will be discussed in the most democratic form possible between all parties involved," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said following the meeting.
Correspondents say that while Mr Morales probably faced some stiff arguments from Argentine President Nestor Kirchner and his Brazilian counterpart President Lula, he was likely to have been supported by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
Venezuela has South America's largest reserves of oil and gas, and it has pledged to help Bolivia in the nationalisation of its own energy industry.
The Bolivian government has said it will start renegotiating energy contracts with all foreign companies from next week, giving them 180 days reach agreement, or face eviction.
They will be asked to hand over majority control of all Bolivian operations to the country's state oil firm, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos.
State-owned Brazilian energy firm Petrobras, the largest foreign investor in Bolivian energy, had said it would cancel further investments, but President Lula said this decision could be reversed after more negotiations.
Spanish giant Repsol, which has invested more than 1bn euros in Bolivia, said it plans to remain in the country and co-operate with Mr Morales' government.
Article taken from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4974710.stm
1. What do you think about the article?
2. Bolivia's government took control of the natural gas industry. Who is worried for that? and Why?
3. Why did all these presidents meet in Argentina?
4. Write some new words found in the article.
DEADLINE: SATURDAY, MAY 13th.
Good News for this week!!!
Boys and girls,
This week -from May 1st to May 7th- there won't be articles to read and comment beacuse you'll have written tests and I prefer you have all time time necessary to study without having any excuses.
Enjoy this free week without articles. I'll upload your marks soon, so stay tuned!
See ya soon.
Task 6: "The Story of Mother's Day"
The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday". Celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter*), "Mothering Sunday" honored the mothers of England.
During this time many of the England's poor worked as servants for the wealthy. As most jobs were located far from their homes, the servants would live at the houses of their employers. On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. A special cake, called the mothering cake, was often brought along to provide a festive touch.
As Christianity spread throughout Europe the celebration changed to honor the "Mother Church" - the spiritual power that gave them life and protected them from harm. Over time the church festival blended with the Mothering Sunday celebration . People began honoring their mothers as well as the church.
In the United States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the Battle hymn of the Republic) as a day dedicated to peace. Ms. Howe would hold organized Mother's Day meetings in Boston, Mass ever year.
In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day. Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.
Ms. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. It was successful as by 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every state. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day as a national holiday that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May.
While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year, there are some countries such as Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, Chile and Belgium which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.
Text taken from http://www.holidays.net/mother/story.htm
1. What do you or your family usually do for the Mother's Day?
2. Name a historical sequence from the first to the nowadays Mother's Day.
3. Who were Rhea, Julia Ward Howe, Ana Jarvis, Woodrow Wilson? What did they do?
4. What do you plan to do for your Mom this year?
DEADLINE: SATURDAY, APRIL 29th.
Trabajando en el computador acerca de computación
Durante cuatro clases Curso Electivo de Inglés trabajó en el Laboratorio de Computación para desarrollar un proyecto sobre el aumento del vocabulario de computación siguiendo y dando instrucciones orales.
La primera clase fue teórica. Allí, los estudiantes revisaron una guía con vocabulario s obre Internet para conocer sus significados y fonética.
La segunda clase ellos trabajaron en el laboratorio de computación. Los estudiantes debían seguir instrucciones orales dadas por el profesor. Las instrucciones eran oraciones detalladascon el fin de usar el máximo del vocabulario dado.
En la tercera clase, los estudiantes trabajaron en parejas. Había una lista de 9 objetivos a lograr. Uno de ellos le daba al otro órdenes específicas para cumplir uno de estos objetivos, por ejemplo: "1. Pegue un una imagen de un perro en un archivo Word". Esto indicaba que el estudiante que daba las órdenes tuviese que encontrar una imagen en Internet, copiarla, luego abrir el programa Word, y finalmente pegar la imagen en el. La mayoría de ellos trabajaron bien y preguntaron mucho.
Las clases finales, fueron planificadas para tomar la evaluación. En parejas tenían que decirle al profesor 4 de los 9 objetivos dados y luego el profesor escogía 1 de ellos para evaluar. El profesor se sentaba con el ratón en su mano y esperaba para hacer exactamente lo que ordenaran hacer los estudiantes. Los resultados fueron excepcionales. Los estudiantes conscientemente usaron el vocabulario para dar las órdenes y asi lograr el objetivo.
1. ¿Qué piensa de la actividad?
2. ¿Tiene algunas dudas con respecto a ella?
Working with computers about computing
During four classes the Elective Class of English worked in the Computer Lab developing a project about increasing computing vocabulary following and giving commands.
The first class was theoretical. There, the students checked a handout with vocabulary about internet knowing their meanings and phonetics.
The second class they worked in the computer lab. The students have to follow oral intructions given by the teacher. The instructions were details sentences using the maximum of vocabulary given.
In the third class, the students worked in pairs. There were a list of 9 goals to accomplish.One of them told the other specific commands to accomplish one of these goals, for instance: "1. Paste a picture of a dog in a Word file". This indicated that the students had to find a picture in the internet, copy it, then open the Word program, and finally paste the picture in it. Most of them worked well and asked a lot.
The final classes, were planned to take the evaluation. In pairs they had to tell the teacher 4 out of the 9 goals given and then the teacher would choose 1 of those 4 to evaluate. The teacher was sitting down with the mouse in his hand waiting to do exactly what the students said to accomplish the goal.
The results were outstanding. The students onsciously used the vocabulary needed to say the commands.
1. How did you feel working with the computers in this way?
2. Did you learn anything? What?
Task 5: "Acne"
Serious skin conditions affect around seven million of people in the UK alone.
They can cause significant emotional distress as well as physical discomfort.
Acne is an inflammatory skin condition that causes spots.
Spots result from the build up of dead skin cells and grease that block the pores or hair follicles, typically on the face, upper arms, upper back and chest.
It is not contagious and is nothing to do with not being clean.
Hormonal changes, such as those related to puberty, menstruation and pregnancy, can contribute to acne.
Some medicines will also make it worse, including some contraceptive pills and steroids.
Who gets it?
Most people experience acne at some time in their lives, typically as young adults. Girls tend to develop it slightly earlier than boys - around the ages of 14-17 compared to 16-19 years, respectively.
Acne can occur later in life. Around five per cent of women and one per cent of men aged 25-40 continue to have acne after adolescence.
As the pores of the skin become blocked, blackheads develop and small, tender, red spots appear. These can turn into pimples or whiteheads filled with pus.
What is the outlook?
Usually it is a mild condition, most commonly during young adulthood, and will resolve by itself. But for 15% of people it is severe.
The spots can become infected and cause significant scarring, particularly if they are scratched or squeezed.
How can it be treated?
Mild acne does not need treating as each inflamed spot will eventually heal. Eating a healthy diet and drinking plenty of water will help keep the skin healthy.
Keeping spot-prone areas clean by washing the affected area twice daily with an unperfumed cleanser can help. However, excessive washing and scrubbing of the skin will not help and may make the inflammation worse.
More severe acne may need treatment. The aim is to clear the spots and prevent scarring.
Treatments work by either unblocking blocked pores, reducing the amount of grease or sebum made by the skin, reducing the inflammation or fighting the bacterium that infects the lesions.
Creams, gels and lotions that can be applied to the skin are available to buy at pharmacies without a prescription. These usually contain antibacterial agents such as benzoyl peroxide, which also works by drying out the skin and encouraging it to shed the surface layer of dead skin.
There are several more potent oral tablets that can be prescribed by a doctor if the acne persists.
Make-up can be used to cover blemishes but heavy use of concealer may make acne worse.
Any scarring will improve with time. Laser therapy, chemical peels, dermabrasion and other treatments have been suggested for acne scarring.
Acne can be extremely distressing and it is important to seek help if you are anxious or depressed about it.
Article downloaded from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/medical_notes/4791176.stm
2. Did you know something about the acne?
3. What do you do to fight against acne?
4. Write a list of 10 to 15 new words found in the text.
DEADELINE: April 21th, 2006, midnight.
Task 4: "Mobile phone TV begins in Japan"
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Mobile phone users in Japanese cities can now watch digital TV on compatible mobile phones for the first time.
The service is not the world's first, but it has the potential to be the biggest, by reaching more subscribers than in any other country.
Finding new phones in Japanese shops has proved difficult as only limited quantities have been produced so far.
Japan's 90m mobile phone users can already play video games, send emails and check websites on tiny handsets.
The new service has been carrying test transmissions for several months and will remain free while mobile operators assess its potential and the number of subscribers.
Broadcasters Nippon Television, Fuji Television and TV Asahi are among the companies which have signed partnerships with mobile operators.
'Preparing specific content'
"In the short-term, digital terrestrial broadcasting on mobiles with the same programming as normal televisions will be of little interest for us," said Masao Nakamura, the CEO of Japan's top mobile operator NTT DoCoMo.
"But we are getting ready by preparing new specific content for the service that could come into use later when new channels are available."
Japan's major mobile carriers say sales of compatible phones have been good, but they have not yet disclosed any figures.
Subscribers can watch up to nearly three hours of uninterrupted television with a normal battery.
1. What do you think about mobile-phones with all these gadgets included? Are they really useful?
2. Name all the functions that a mobile phone can have included nowadays.
3. Find the meaning of these following words:
reaching; assess; broadcasters; partnership; available; disclosed.
Remember, the deadline will be on Friday, April 14th.
TASK 3: 'How Telenovelas conquered the world"
The telenovelas - Latin American soap dramas - are stereotypical, over the top and melodramatic - but, also, highly successful.
In fact, they are possibly the number-one form of human entertainment on the planet.
The facts are something to be reckoned with. This addictive formula has captivated audiences in Africa, Asia and Europe, and telenovela stars are mobbed at airports in Poland, Indonesia, China and the US.
Hundreds of millions of people watch telenovelas around the globe, everyday. Some go as far as saying two billion people - a third of the human race - are glued to these programmes on a daily basis.
But having been established on the simplest of formulas, they are now expanding their audiences by raising social issues.
'Love and logic'
Traditionally, most telenovelas tend to reproduce the same idea: one couple falls in love and have to fight disapproval and obstacles, until they end up together, usually on the last episode.
"You have the struggle between good and evil, between poor and rich, and this process of trying to finally fulfil your dream of a romantic relationship and live happily ever after," said Antonio La Pastina, professor of communications at Texas A&M University.
One indication of the degree to which they are taken seriously was given when women took to the streets in Venezuela protesting about a plot centring on a husband who cheated on his wife.
The writer was planning for the wife to forgive him in the last episode, but after he was threatened by some of the protesters in a grocery store, he changed the script to allow the wife to get a divorce.
Carla Estrada, one of the foremost telenovela producers in the world, said that a good script is the most important aspect of a successful telenovela.
"You need suspense, emotion, love and logic, in order to carry the story through 190 episodes," she said.
"It's not easy."
According to some estimates, Mexico alone produces almost 3,000 hours of telenovelas each year, at a total cost of about US $250m - more or less the cost of, for example, the Hollywood film Titanic.
In the end, though, it is the audience who decides what really works.
"The telenovela has managed to create a very loyal market," Ms Estrada explained.
"They're loyal to a market that thinks of them. It's like having a daily date with someone.
"For some people, the telenovela is like their own life - and this is a continuing process that creates a feeling of belonging and identity."
And now, people are beginning to see the telenovela as a tool for social change.
Even the producing countries have now developed styles of their own. Venezuelan telenovelas are designed purely for entertainment.
Meanwhile Mexican ones tend to be the more melodramatic, and are very conservative. Colombian telenovelas tend to show the diversity of the country - with a feeling of more contemporary issues, like corruption, transvestites and greed, and with the use of irony and comedy.
It is worth remembering also that it was the Colombians who broke with the mould of telenovelas by producing the enormously successful Betty the Ugly, where the main character, as the name suggests, wasn't the prettiest girl in town.
The Brazilian soaps, however, are more sophisticated, with different stories, like human cloning or love between Muslims and Christians and more of the social realism.
When one soap - Family Ties - dealt with a character who needed a bone marrow transplant after getting leukaemia, the Brazilian attitude towards organ donation was completely changed.
Cultural influence
And beyond the world of dreams, some telenovelas, it seems, have began to push the envelope a bit further and deal with issues that before were considered taboo.
For decades, the main telenovelas producers in Mexico and Brazil were often criticised for being aligned with the political powers of the moment and not allowing any criticism of the government.
But the opposite is also happening, says Maria Luisa Alves, of Mexico's Television Azteca.
"They have started making more political telenovelas," she says.
"More controversial events are being included in the Mexican telenovela - and that is a new trend. They have featured homosexuality, having a child with special needs, abortion, and sex before marriage. In a very Catholic society, I think that is a lot to say on public television at prime time."
And the more global telenovelas become, the bigger the cultural influence they seem to have.
But regardless of the weakness or the strengths of this very Latin American product, the truth is that millions of people around the globe, love them.
"For an hour, six times a week, we can forget about our sorrows, our fears, our personal little mysteries - and embrace a wonderful love story that works as a balm for our souls," explains Carolina Espada, one of the main writers for Venevision, the main telenovela producer in Venezuela.
"Long live the Telenovelas."
1. Did you know how popular were the american telenovelas around the world?
2. What do you think about them? Do you like them?
3. Why are the telenovelas so popular?
4. Write some new words you found in this article.
DEADLINE: Friday 7, April, 2006
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Pictured: SC-H-GR. The green house scapular is a double image attached to one piece of green cloth and suspended from a cord (both sides pictured). Our Lady on one side and a beautiful Immaculate Heart with the words "Now and at the hour of our death Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us". This scapular can be worn, on the bed or simply in a room.
©2002-2014, Two Hearts Rosaries. All rights reserved.


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History, Imperialism, Critique
New Essays in World Literature
Asher Ghaffar
Published September 3, 2018 by Routledge
History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature
This book examines anti-imperialist thought in European philosophy. It features an international group of both emerging and established scholars who directly respond to Timothy Brennan's far-reaching call to rethink intellectual histories, literary histories, and the reading habits of postcolonialism, in relation to the anti-imperialist tradition of critique. Each contributor rethinks postcolonial and world literature, Continental thought, and intellectual history in relation to anti-imperialist histories and traditions of critique, through geographically diverse analysis.
This book provides a forum for the next generation of scholars to draw on and engage with the marginal yet influential work of the first generation of dissidents within postcolonial studies. It will appeal to researchers and students in the field of postcolonial studies, world literature, geography, and Continental thought.
I: Intellectual History 1: World Literature, the Geist and the East, 1907–1942 2: "Le mot du poète, le mot primitif": Aimé Césaire and Vico's Civic Humanism 3: Rabindranath Tagore's Postcolonialism: A Vision of Decolonization and a Modernist Idealism 4: Voyages of the Self: Muslims as Anticolonial Subjects in Muhammad Iqbal's Philosophy of History II: Literary History 5: Lu Xun's Indigenous Modernity: Philology and Resistance in Old Tales Retold 6: Circuits of Influence: Brodsky's Platonov and the Ontology of Alienation 7: Aesthetic Re-imaginings of Mexican Sovereignty: Estridentismo's Anti-Imperialist Avant-garde III: Poetic History 8: Vichian Language and the Irish Troubles: Brian Friel's Translations 9: The Heavens Look Down Upon Us: José Enrique Rodó and the Spirit of América 10: Historicizing Language and Temporality in Jose María Arguedas' Deep Rivers 11: Übermenschen and Untermenschen: Global Nietzsche and Postcolonial Fiction
Asher Ghaffar is a PhD candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University, Canada. His research monograph, Muslims in World Literature: Political Philosophy and Continental Thought, is forthcoming with Routledge in 2019. His most recent essay on Zulfikar Ghose and Hanif Kureishi will appear in The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing, edited by Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam. He is also working on a second poetry collection.
Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms
Social Geography
Cultural Theory
Post-Colonial Studies


For 1500 years, Jews on the Iberian Peninsula played a significant role in the flourishing civilizations created by Muslims and Christians alike, becoming the largest and most distinguished Jewish community in Europe. But in 1492, they were expelled. Their legacy is physically and spiritually rooted in landmarks, archeological remains, documents and literature, and customs and legends. For almost 500 years, their heritage was in the shadows and off limits. For too long, Spain chose to live without an important part of its history.
Why were the Jews expelled from Spain and how did they become taboo? What remains of the Jews in the collective memory of the Spaniard, and what is being done to change the perspective on the Jews?
This visual journey through Jewish Spain recollects the drama that took place 500 years ago through the eyes of present day Spain–its sights, sounds and people.


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Astroscale Announces March 2021 Launch Date for World's First Commercial Active Debris Removal Demonstration Mission
ELSA-d is the first mission to demonstrate the core technologies necessary for space debris docking and removal, a major step towards expanding on-orbit services and achieving Astroscale's vision of safe and sustainable space for the benefit of future generations.
November 18, 2020 – Astroscale Holdings Inc. ("Astroscale"), the market-leader in securing long-term orbital sustainability, today announced that its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission will launch on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, in March 2021.
"We now have the launch in our sights," says Seita Iizuka, ELSA-d Project Manager. "Publicly announcing this significant milestone is possible thanks to years of teamwork. The ELSA-d program demonstrates complex and innovative capabilities that will support satellite operators in realizing options for their post-mission disposal strategies and establish Astroscale as a global leader in the on-orbit servicing market."
Decreased launch and satellite development costs, an increasing global dependence on data from space and the rise of large commercial satellite constellations have led to a rapidly increasing population of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). This growing use of space brings significant benefits to society but also greatly increases the threat of collision or break-up. This growing potential for additional debris creation endangers current and future satellite missions and puts society's reliance on data from space at risk. ELSA-d will demonstrate a valuable service by safely removing defunct satellites from orbit to maintain the viability of LEO.
The ELSA-d mission will demonstrate multiple dynamically complex capture activities necessary to remove defunct objects from orbit using an innovative approach consisting of a servicer (~175kg) and a client (~17kg), launched together. The servicer, equipped with proximity rendezvous technologies and a magnetic capture mechanism, will repeatedly release and dock with the client, which has been prepared with a ferromagnetic docking plate. Astroscale intends to prove the capabilities required for debris removal, including client search, inspection and rendezvous, and both non-tumbling and tumbling docking.
Astroscale will operate ELSA-d out of the UK using the In-Orbit Servicing Control Centre National Facility (IOCC) developed by a team led by Astroscale. The IOCC, located at the Satellite Applications Catapult in Harwell, Oxfordshire, was developed specifically for satellite servicing missions. "Astroscale UK is proud to be operating this exciting mission," says John Auburn, Managing Director of Astroscale's UK office. "ELSA-d will be groundbreaking in so many ways — it will demonstrate the first semi-autonomous capture of a non-responsive, tumbling client, as well as the first identification of a client located outside the servicer's sensor field of view."
While ELSA-d will most notably demonstrate the technical capabilities needed for orbital debris removal, the mission also highlights Astroscale's efforts to drive the global conversation on policies and the business cases behind the on-orbit servicing ecosystem. With a space segment developed in Japan, a ground segment in the UK, launch from Kazakhstan, ground station support in multiple countries, and a team that spans five countries, Astroscale epitomizes international collaboration. Additionally, the company's global supply chain and discussions with a growing list of potential customers are evidence of the commercial viability of this part of the space economy.
"Our passionate and dedicated global team is excited to get closer to the launch of ELSA-d," says Nobu Okada, Founder and CEO of Astroscale. "We're on the brink of a new chapter in on-orbit servicing, and Astroscale is eager to take this important next step in demonstrating technical innovation, advancing the discussion on international policies and proving the business case."
Astroscale's future missions include Phase I of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration (CRD2) project, scheduled to launch in early 2023, as well as the company's first satellite life-extension platform in geostationary orbit.
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Senators introduce legislation to block $23.7B arms sale to UAE
https://www.spacewar.com/reports/Senators_introduce_legislation_to_block_237B_arms_sale_to_UAE_999.html
Bjorn's Corner: 737 MAX ungrounding, the technical background
https://leehamnews.com/2020/11/20/bjorns-corner-737-max-ungrounding-the-technical-background/
Greece Officially Requests Urgent Purchase Of Second-Hand F-35s
https://theaviationist.com/2020/11/22/greece-officially-requests-urgent-purchase-of-second-hand-f-35s/
The Next Steps for Bell's Electrically Distributed Anti-Torque
https://youtu.be/jJUgmeSYox4
From the creation of the first certified commercial helicopter to introducing tiltrotor technology, Bell's iconic legacy consists of revolutionary ideas that have disrupted industries. Today we continue this pursuit for coveted vertical lift products, evident through our unveiling of Bell's Electrically Distributed Anti-Torque (EDAT), an unconventional tail rotor with innumerable opportunities. In a Vertical Flight Society online webinar on Nov. 16, Bell's Program Director for Light Aircraft, Eric Sinusas, shared potential applications for this latest innovation. "I think it has potential to potentially replace them [traditional tail rotors]," Sinusas said. "There are benefits to the system that the conventional system just does not have innately."
This unprecedented technology was revealed in February 2020, sparking global interest from rotorcraft community and technology aficionados for its ingenuity. Since then, Bell continues to test the unique concept, which includes four electrical motors driving a fixed-pitch, rpm-controlled fan capable of operating speeds around 6,000 to 7,000 rpm. "I think we can say that we have successfully proven the concept… it works," Sinusas says. "Now we're into the phase of optimization and we're fine-tuning the performance characteristics, pushing the envelope further."
After participating in the VFS forum, Aviation Week clarified how EDAT's technology offers an enhanced experience in terms of extra flight operational support and cost. "The fans are driven by generators run off the tail rotor drive, with wires to the electrical motors replacing the complex tail rotor shaft and gearboxes running through the tail boom. This eliminates the cost of maintaining the tail rotor shaft."
With growing global intrigue, Bell can't wait to showcase this aircraft in action and continue exploring new technology to offer our customers enhanced flight experiences.
Airbus, Boeing expected to turn to hybrid engine technology for new planes - lessor
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-boeing-737max-air-lse-idUKKBN28004N
"Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich" satellite successfully lifted off into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
https://www.aviation24.be/manufacturers/airbus/defence-and-space-airbus/sentinel-6-michael-freilich-satellite-successfully-lifted-off-into-space-on-a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket/
Taiwan Grounds Entire F-16 Fighter Fleet Following Crash
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2020-11-19/taiwan-grounds-f-16-fighter-fleet-following-crash
VERDEGO AERO RUNNINGWORLD'S MOST EFFICIENT AEROSPACE DIESEL-ELECTRIC (JET A) HYBRIDPROPULSIONSYSTEM
Daytona Beach, FLORIDA–The VerdeGo Aero team has made aviation history as theysuccessfully performed the first test runs of their "Iron Bird"prototype diesel-hybrid (Jet A fuel) generator systemin early August. VerdeGo Aero has now successfully performed its initial series of tests to validate the Iron Bird system at power output levels above 150KW. This ground-based development hardware, built around the certified Continental CD-265 high efficiency diesel aviation engine, is being used for testing to refine the weight, power output, cooling systems, and reliability of the conformal hybrid systems now being engineered for aerospace customers.TheVerdeGo hybrid generator can be combined with battery packs to enable peak power output up to 0.5MWand modular twin generator systems can be stacked for 360KW continuous and 1MW peak output.VerdeGo's hybrid power systems are applicable to numerous next-generation electric aircraft markets including:vertical takeoffand landingurban air mobility vehicles (eVTOL), short takeoff and landing (eSTOL), and conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) aircraft. Both passenger and cargo aircraft in manned and unmanned configurationsare supported by VerdeGo's hybrid powertrain. Their diesel-hybrid system runs on globally-available Jet-A fuel consumingaround 40% less fuel thancompeting turbine-hybrid offerings, while providing between four and eight times the endurance of competing battery-only powertrains.Compatibility with Jet A also means the VerdeGo hybrid is compatible with the bio-Jet substitute fuels under development."Getting the Iron Bird running not only validatesthe operating economics of our diesel-hybrid power generation system, it also enables us to perform hardware-in-the-loop simulations using mission profiles from our airframe customers.says David Eichstedt, Director of Advanced Concepts.It's a powerful way for customersto validate the economics of their aircraft designs value proposition using real powertrain hardware without leaving the ground."For interested parties willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement, VerdeGo is able to provide the equivalent of a traditional engine deck. This proprietary software utilizes data from the full-scale hardware testing and includes a hybrid simulation modelfor airframers to use that includes both the hybrid generator and the battery solution that goes with it. Chief Executive Officer Eric Bartsch says, "VerdeGo Aero is positioned to offer the most efficient, most cost effective, low emissions hybrid system for demanding commercial aviation missions. Our Iron Bird is demonstrating the hardware platform that willpower aircraft requiring up to 1MW of peak power using our highly efficient generator systems and world-class battery pack technologies."VerdeGo's hybrid systems provide significantly more mission capabilities than battery-packs while substantially reducing fuel consumption, emissions, operating cost, and noise when compared to turbine hybrids. The operational testing of VerdeGo's Iron Bird is a significant step towards enablingitscustomers to create more competitiveelectric aircraft
XTI Aircraft partners with VerdeGo Aero on the Hybrid-Electric VTOL TriFan 200 Cargo/Logistics Aircraft
xti aircraft press release
DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Recognizing the need for fast, economical, point-to-point cargo and logistics transportation, VerdeGo Aero in Daytona Beach, FL and XTI Aircraft Company in Denver, CO have partnered together on the TriFan 200 program. XTI Aircraft, a leader in next-generation VTOL aircraft, is developing the TriFan 200, a configuration similar to its larger TriFan 600 VTOL passenger aircraft already under development. VerdeGo Aero is applying its high-efficiency, low-emissions diesel (Jet-A) hybrid powertrain to enable the TriFan 200 to offer operators outstanding operating economics.
When the program reaches commercial development and certification, XTI's TriFan 200 Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft will be an unmanned autonomous aircraft capable of transporting 500 lbs of cargo on missions of more than 200 nautical miles. The TriFan 200 will enable express logistics companies to rapidly address "miles 1 to 20" when shipping urgent cargo by rapidly connecting global air cargo hubs with distribution points throughout major cities. Surface transportation in highly congested global cities currently takes up to 90 to 120 minutes for urgent cargo to travel between air cargo hubs at major airports and the city centers. The XTI TriFan 200 will enable significant time to be removed from both ends of the journey, allowing later pickup times and earlier deliveries. In addition to express shipping, the TriFan 200 is also applicable to longer-range transportation in remote locations without infrastructure, including military logistics missions.
"The TriFan 200 aircraft will open up a significant new market for XTI to address the needs of cargo and logistics operators globally. We are excited to be partnered with VerdeGo to leverage their experience with hybrid powertrains combined with our experience from the TriFan 600 program to create an efficient, economical, profitable VTOL aircraft for fleet operators worldwide," said Robert LaBelle, CEO, XTI Aircraft.
VerdeGo Aero's diesel (Jet-A) hybrid systems offer the lowest operating cost and largest mission flexibility for next-generation electric aircraft. Combining VerdeGo's highly efficient 180KW generator with VerdeGo's high-power battery pack, enables aircraft like the TriFan 200 to operate profitably for fleet operators. The high efficiency of VerdeGo's diesel hybrid generators is instrumental in reducing emissions and fuel burn by 35% when compared to conventional turbine powertrains, while also reducing overall direct operating cost by 40%. Utilizing globally available Jet-A fuel means no new infrastructure is necessary, and aircraft utilizing VerdeGo's hybrid systems are ready for the biofuel Jet-A substitutes now under development.
"XTI's TriFan 200 is an outstanding application for VerdeGo's hybrid powertrain systems and we are excited to support XTI as an early customer. XTI's goals to provide its customers with reliable, high-performance cargo aircraft are ideally matched with the efficiency and low operating cost of VerdeGo's diesel hybrid powertrains," said Eric Bartsch, CEO and Co-founder of VerdeGo Aero.
XTI Aircraft Company is a privately owned aircraft OEM based near Denver. XTI is guided by a leadership team with decades of experience, a deep well of expertise, and success bringing new aircraft to market. XTI is founded on a culture of customer-focused problem solving to meet the evolving needs of modern travelers.
VerdeGo Aero, founded in 2017, is a leader in propulsion technologies for the next generation of aircraft. VerdeGo's electric powertrain technologies enable its customers to create more competitive aircraft by leveraging VerdeGo Aero's expertise in hybrid-electric propulsion and battery-electric aircraft systems. VerdeGo Aero has successfully performed its initial series of tests to validate their hybrid-electric powertrain Iron Bird test system at power output levels above 150KW. The VerdeGo hybrid generator can be combined with battery packs to enable peak power output up to 0.5MW and modular twin generator systems can be stacked for 360KW continuous and 1MW peak output.
Lockheed Martin to Build New Training Center for Binational French, German C-130J Squadron
French and German C-130J® Super Hercules aircrews and maintainers will train in a facility located in France, built and equipped by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for the countries' binational C-130J Super Hercules Squadron. Lockheed Martin will provide training devices, the learning management system, courseware and options for five years of training services under the terms of a new direct commercial sale (DCS) contract, allowing for in-country learning.
Lockheed Martin will break ground on the training center in 2021 and aircrew and maintainers will begin training in the center in 2024.
The training center will be located in Évreux-Fauville Air Base in the Normandy region of France and will provide training for both C-130J-30 airlifter and KC-130J tanker aircraft under a first-of-its-kind partnership in the entire scope of 65 years of Hercules history where the countries share the aircraft, which are used for aerial refueling, air drop and cargo missions.
"The French/German C-130J Binational Training Center will allow both countries to train pilots and maintainers on the full capability of these proven aircraft," said Tom Gordon, Lockheed Martin, vice president of Training and Simulation Solutions. "Lockheed Martin is honored to support this historic partnership and proud to work directly with our customers in establishing a first-of-its kind resource that will benefit Super Hercules crew members for decades to come."
The French and German binational squadron consists of a combined 10 Super Hercules aircraft. In 2018, Germany announced the acquisition of six Super Hercules aircraft (three C-130J-30s and three KC-130J fleets) to be operated in partnership with France. France has received a total of four Super Hercules aircraft through a Foreign Military Sale with the U.S. government. France's Super Hercules are operated in conjunction with its existing C-130H fleet.
Lockheed Martin is the leading global provider of C-130J training and has experience creating
"turn-key" training facilities for the aircraft. Lockheed Martin's own Hercules Training Center (HTC) is located in Marietta, Georgia, adjacent to the Super Hercules production line. The HTC is a combined academic and simulator facility purpose-built for training efficiency on the C-130J fleet. The HTC trains C-130J crews as needed and will be used to train France and Germany's initial instructor cadre of pilots and maintainers during the construction of the new facility.
The C-130J Super Hercules is the current production model of the legendary C-130 Hercules mid-size tactical airlifter, offering superior performance and enhanced capabilities with the range and versatility for every theater of operations and evolving requirements. To date, the Super Hercules fleet counts 24 operators in 21 nations around the world and has surpassed 2 million flight hours.
As the preeminent tactical aerial refueling tanker, the KC-130J is a battle-tested solution that takes full advantage of the tremendous technological and performance improvements inherent in the C-130J Super Hercules aircraft. A true force multiplier, the KC-130J refuels both fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft as well as conducts rapid ground refueling.
For additional information, visit www.lockheedmartin.com/c130.
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Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 110,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. For additional information, visit our website: www.lockheedmartin.com.
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On Nov. 18, the U.S. government and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) submitted an F-35 proposal to the Swiss government in support of Switzerland's New Fighter Aircraft (NFA) competition.
The F-35 proposal is a total package offering that includes up to 40 F-35A aircraft, a sustainment solution tailored to Swiss autonomy requirements, and a comprehensive training program.
The offering includes an industrial package providing Swiss industry substantial F-35 work opportunities. Should the F-35 be selected as the new fighter for Switzerland, this industrial work would take place in all Swiss regions. Swiss industry has the opportunity to compete for direct production of components for use on all F-35s produced, sustainment projects focused on supporting the Swiss Air Force and enhancing Swiss autonomy, and cyber security projects directly related to the F-35.
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"We are confident that our F-35 offer is the best and most affordable solution for the Swiss NFA competition," said Greg Ulmer, F-35 Program vice president and general manager. "We are offering the only 5th generation fighter at the cost of 4th generation aircraft while offering Switzerland an aircraft that will protect Swiss sovereignty for decades to come."
To date, the F-35 has been selected by 13 nations and operates from 26 bases worldwide, with nine nations operating F-35s on their home soil. There are more than 585 F-35s in service today, with more than 1,190 pilots and 9,750 maintainers trained on the aircraft.
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The design for HALO is based on Northrop Grumman's flight-proven Cygnus spacecraft, a human-capable vehicle that delivers supplies, equipment and experiments to the International Space Station. Design upgrades for HALO include command and control systems, as well as environmental control and life support systems.
"By basing the HALO module on Cygnus, we are able to deliver an affordable and reliable flight-proven product on an accelerated timeline," said Steve Krein, vice president, civil and commercial satellites, Northrop Grumman. "Maturing HALO through its preliminary design marks a major milestone in the module's production."
The HALO module is key to NASA's Lunar Gateway, serving both as a crew habitat and docking hub for vehicles navigating between Earth and the moon. With NASA's Orion spacecraft docked, HALO will be able to sustain up to four astronauts for up to 30 days as they travel to and from the lunar surface.
Northrop Grumman's work on HALO is a follow-on to the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships 2 (NextSTEP-2) program, where the company used virtual reality and 3-D printed models to support rapid prototyping of the NextSTEP-2 habitat modules.
In addition to HALO, Northrop Grumman is partnering on the Blue Origin-led human landing system team to develop the Human Landing System (HLS) for the Artemis program. Northrop Grumman will provide the Transfer Element vehicle that lowers the landing system into low lunar orbit. The company is also responsible for delivering boosters for the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Ascent Abort System.
From the first lunar lander to the space shuttle boosters, to supplying the International Space Station with vital cargo, Northrop Grumman has pioneered new products and ideas that have been put into orbit, on the moon, and in deep space for more than 50 years. As a part of NASA's Artemis program, we are building on our mission heritage with new innovations to enable NASA to return humans to the moon, with the ultimate goal of human exploration of Mars.
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As we sought to map out the design and functionality of the PPJ with colleagues at Matrix a few weeks ago, we began to suggest how a disciplinary economy of an open peer review might be navigated in ways that at once ensure rigor and maximize collegiality.
Facilitating the discussion forum associated with the review to ensure that the most salient and substantive ideas and suggestions have the most influence.
Obviously, with responsibilities like these, it will be necessary (and difficult) to cultivate the requisite habits of digital scholarly communication among the members of the PPJ community. As a start, we envision developing a community of PRCs first among the Philosophy graduate student research assistants at Penn State and Michigan State. But if the PPJ is to be successful, and if we are going to be able to scale up our capacity for open public peer review, we will need to extend our community of coordinators more broadly.
To do this, we envision creating a sophisticated system of credentialing that will be translated into a PPJ user score for each member of the PPJ community. What, precisely, will constitute the PPJ user score will be developed in the months to come in conversation with an emerging community of interested colleagues inside and outside the academy.
Engage the community in ways that enrich the scholarship under review, thus demonstrating a capacity for hermeneutical transformation.
A community member's "collegiality index" would be determined over time based on past collegiality scores and would be integrated into the PPJ user profile to become part of the member's cultivated reputation. The hope is that by integrating a measurable expectation of collegiality into the fabric of the PPJ itself, we will be able to cultivate a Network of Scholarly Practice capable of creating the conditions under which excellent scholarship can be produced and productive scholars can become excellent.
For the idea that review should be valued "itself as a teachable and learnable activity," see Hart-Davidson, William, Michael McLeod, Christopher Klerkx, and Michael Wojcik. "A Method for Measuring Helpfulness in Online Peer Review." In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 115–121. SIGDOC '10. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2010, §2.1. doi:10.1145/1878450.1878470.


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Q: How can I obtain the length of a const stringstream's buffer without copying or seeking? I have a const std::stringstream and a desire to find out how many bytes there are in its underlying string buffer.

*

*I cannot seekg to the end, tellg then seekg to the start again, because none of these operations are available constly.

*I do not want to get the str().size() because str() returns a copy and this may not be a trivial amount of data.
Do I have any good options?

(The stream itself is presented to me as const, only because it is a member of another type, and I receive a const reference to an object of that type. The stream represents the contents of a "document", its encapsulating object represents a CGI response and I am trying to generate an accurate Content-Length HTTP header line from within operator<<(std::ostream&, const cgi_response&).)

A: I've never been very comfortable with stream buffers, but this seems to work for me:
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>

std::stringstream::pos_type size_of_stream(const std::stringstream& ss)
{
    std::streambuf* buf = ss.rdbuf();

    // Get the current position so we can restore it later
    std::stringstream::pos_type original = buf->pubseekoff(0, ss.cur, ss.out);

    // Seek to end and get the position
    std::stringstream::pos_type end = buf->pubseekoff(0, ss.end, ss.out);

    // Restore the position
    buf->pubseekpos(original, ss.out);

    return end;
}

int main()
{
    std::stringstream ss;

    ss << "Hello";
    ss << ' ';
    ss << "World";
    ss << 42;

    std::cout << size_of_stream(ss) << std::endl;

    // Make sure the output string is still the same
    ss << "\nnew line";
    std::cout << ss.str() << std::endl;

    std::string str;
    ss >> str;
    std::cout << str << std::endl;
}

The key is that rdbuf() is const but returns a non-const buffer, which can then be used to seek.

A: If you want to know the remaining available input size:
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>

std::size_t input_available(const std::stringstream& s)
{
    std::streambuf* buf = s.rdbuf();
    std::streampos pos = buf->pubseekoff(0, std::ios_base::cur, std::ios_base::in);
    std::streampos end = buf->pubseekoff(0, std::ios_base::end, std::ios_base::in);
    buf->pubseekpos(pos, std::ios_base::in);
    return end - pos;
}

int main()
{
    std::stringstream stream;

    // Output
    std::cout << input_available(stream) << std::endl; // 0
    stream << "123 ";
    std::cout << input_available(stream) << std::endl; // 4
    stream << "567";
    std::cout << input_available(stream) << std::endl; // 7

    // Input
    std::string s;
    stream >> s;
    std::cout << input_available(stream) << std::endl; // 4
    stream >> s;
    std::cout << input_available(stream) << std::endl; // 0
}

This is similar to @Cornstalks solution, but positions the input sequence correctly.

A: This should work :))
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <boost/move/move.hpp>

int main()
{
    const std::stringstream ss("hello");
    std::cout << boost::move(ss).str().size();
}

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There are only a few known fossils of cacti, so geographical distribution gives us some evidence. Except for a relatively recent spread of Rhipsalis baccifera which grows in Africa and Sri Lanka, cacti are plants of South America and the mainly southern regions of North America. This suggests cacti must have evolved after the ancient continent of Gondwana split into South America and Africa. This occurred during the Early Cretaceous, around 135 million years ago.
The volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea floor and bridged the formerly separated continents of North and South America. Plants and animals migrated from one continent to the other. This migration peaked dramatically around three million years ago during the Piacenzian age.
Cacti are thus native to the Americas, ranging from Patagonia in the south to parts of western Canada in the north.
(01a-Distribution) The current species diversity of cacti is thought to have occurred only in the last 10 to 5 million years (from the late Miocene into the Pliocene).
There is still controversy as to the precise dates when humans first entered those areas of the New World where cacti are commonly found. An archaeological site in Chile has been dated to around 15,000 years ago, suggesting cacti would have been encountered before then. Early evidence of the use of cacti includes cave paintings in the Serra da Capivara in Brazil, and seeds found in ancient waste dumps in Mexico and Peru, with dates estimated at 12,000 to 9,000 years ago.
Other succulent plants, such as the Aizoaceae in South Africa, the Didiereaceae in Madagascar and the genus Agave in the Americas, appear to have diversified at the same time, which coincided with a global expansion of arid environments. Agave is is placed in the subfamily Agavoideae of the Asparagaceae.
Cacti have an evolutionary edge. They take take advantage of the lightest rainfall by having roots close to the soil surface. Water is quickly collected by the roots and stored in thick, expandable stems for the long summer drought. The fleshy stems of the barrel cactus are pleated like an accordion and shrink as moisture is used up. These pleats also channel water to the base of the plant during rain showers.
When water is no longer available in the summer Cacti still photosynthesize because they have fixed spines instead of leaves. The green stems produce the plant's food, but lose less water than leaves because of sunken pores and a waxy coating on the surface of the stem. The pores close during the heat of the day and open at night to release a small amount of moisture.
Cacti pay a price for these water-saving adaptations -- slow growth. Growth may be as little as 1/4 inch per year in the barrel cactus, and most young sprouts never reach maturity. Many cactus species are pollinated by bats.
In botany succulents sometimes known as fat plants, are plants having some parts that are more than normally thickened and fleshy, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions.
The history of cacti is often illustrated by the uses to which the plant is put.
The Prickly Pear was introduced to Europeans by Christopher Columbus in the mid 15th century. Prickly Pear, Opuntia ficus-indica originated in the western hemisphere but can now be found all along the Mediterranean coast.
Early on Prickly Pear were used on ships to help prevent scurvy, a common affliction among sailors. Mexican natives have been happily munching Prickly Pears as food for thousands of years and also made an alcoholic drink from it, known as colonche.
In Australia, ranchers planted Prickly Pear as cattle fodder and the plant did so well it overran an area the size of Connecticut.
Opuntias (prickly pears) were used for a variety of purposes by the Aztecs who symbolically linked the ripe, red fruits of the opuntia to human hearts; just as the fruit quenches thirst, so offering human hearts to the sun god (08) ensured the sun would keep moving.
Native Americans used cacti and other succulents to make many things. They made the fruits and cooked flesh of many cacti a foundation of their diet. The fibers of the Agave plant were used to make clothes, mats, bags, baskets, sandals, rope, twine, bracelets, musical instruments, saddle pads, blankets, and even paper.
In the 17th century, interest in cacti grew dramatically. Cactus got its name from Linnaeus . His first choice for the prickly plant was the Greek word 'kaktos', meaning thistle. The English translation of that word is cactus. There are over 2,500 species of cacti recognized today.
The Peyote cactus is used as a sacred and a recreational drug due to its hallucinogenic properties. Present day studies and records show that Peyote has been collected and used by the indigenous people of North America ever since the years 3780-3660 BC.
Persecution of Peyote began soon after the Spanish invaders conquered the indigenous peoples. The European ecclesiastics were very intolerant of any belief but their own and tried to crush native beliefs. To the invaders, Peyote was associated with the bloody Aztec sacrificial rites and condemned as " Riaz diabolica" (the Devils root).
The Peyote ritual was driven underground, to be silently preserved in the Chihuahuan desert. No anthropologists ever bothered to investigate or observe a Peyote ritual until well into the 1960's.
When the hysteria of witchcraft peaked in Europe, it was not long before it spilled over into the conquered territories. The Holy Office of the Inquisition imposed the first drug law in the new world. Peyote was formally denounced as an act of superstition on June, 29th 1620 and also as a source of divining, and foretelling future events which was equated with witchcraft.
During the latter part of the 1800's, at the close of the Indian wars, Indians brought back knowledge of Peyote from raids on Mexico. As a part of the "ghost dance". Peyote spread quickly among the Indian tribes of America after 1880. Indian prophets like Quanah Parker added Christianity to traditional beliefs and this forms the basis of the Peyote ritual practiced today.
Some 80 years later, around 1600, Don Pedro Sánchez de Tagle, the Marquis of Altamira, began mass-producing tequila at the first factory in the territory of modern-day Jalisco. By 1608, the colonial governor of Nueva Galicia had begun to tax his products. .
Pulque is made from another succulent the Maguey.


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Q: Extract Data out of table with JSoup I want to extract this table with the JSoup-framework to save the content in a "table"-array. The first tr-tag is the table header. All followings (not included) describe the content.

Kl.

Std.

Lehrer

Fach

Raum

VLehrer

VFach

VRaum

Info

4

Méta

HU

Shne

I already tested this one and some others, but I didn't arrive them to work for me:
Using JSoup To Extract HTML Table Contents

A: Here's some example code how you can select only the header:
Element tableHeader = doc.select("tr").first();

for( Element element : tableHeader.children() )
{
    // Here you can do something with each element
    System.out.println(element.text());
}

You get the Document by ...

*

*parsing a file: Document doc = Jsoup.parse(f, null); (where f is the File and null the charset, please see jsoup documentation for mor infos)

*parsing a website: Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://your.url.here").get(); (don't miss the http://)
The output:
Kl.
Std.
Lehrer
Fach
Raum
VLehrer
VFach
VRaum
Info

Now, if you need an array (or better List) of all entries you can create a new class where all informations of each entry is stored. Next you parse the Html via jsoup and fill all fields of the class as well as adding it to list.
// Note: all values are strings - you'll need to use better types (int, enum whatever) here. But for an example its enough.
public class Entry
{
    private String klasse;
    private String stunde;
    private String lehrer;
    private String fach;
    private String raum;
    private String vLehrer;
    private String vFach;
    private String vRaum;
    private String info;

    // constructor(s) and getter / setter

    /*
     * Btw. it's a good idea using two constructors here: one with all arguments and one empty. So you can create a new instance without knowing any data and add it with setter-methods afterwards.
     */
}

Next the code wich fills your entry (incl. the list where they are stored):
List<Entry> entries = new ArrayList<>();        // All entries are saved here
boolean firstSkipped = false;                   // Used to skip first 'tr' tag

for( Element element : doc.select("tr") )       // Select all 'tr' tags from document
{
     // Skip the first 'tr' tag since it's the header
    if( !firstSkipped )
    {
        firstSkipped = true;
        continue;
    }

    int index = 0;                              // Instead of index you can use 0, 1, 2, ...
    Entry tableEntry = new Entry();
    Elements td = element.select("td");         // Select all 'td' tags of the 'tr'

    // Fill your entry
    tableEntry.setKlasse(td.get(index++).text());
    tableEntry.setStunde(td.get(index++).text());
    tableEntry.setLehrer(td.get(index++).text());
    tableEntry.setFach(td.get(index++).text());
    tableEntry.setRaum(td.get(index++).text());
    tableEntry.setvLehrer(td.get(index++).text());
    tableEntry.setvFach(td.get(index++).text());
    tableEntry.setInfo(td.get(index++).text());

    entries.add(tableEntry);                    // Finally add it to the list
}

If you use your html from the first post you'll get this output:
[Entry{klasse= , stunde=4, lehrer=Méta, fach=HU, raum= , vLehrer=Shne, vFach= , vRaum=null, info= }]

Note: I simply used System.out.println(entries); for that. So the format of the output is from the toString() Method of Entry.

Please see Jsoup documentation and especially the one for jsoup selector api.


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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has urged US President Donald Trump to pardon Wikileaks founder
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SAN FRANCISCO: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has urged US President Donald Trump to pardon Wikileaks founder Julian Assange during his last days in the White House.
In a tweet, Snowden who has obtained Russia's open-ended residence permit, said the pardon would save the life of Assange who is currently in custody in London.
"Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency during your time in office, please: free Julian Assange. You alone can save his life," Snowden tweeted on Thursday.
The authorities formally charged Assange for conspiring to leak US classified materials a month after his arrest. The WikiLeaks founder has been fighting the extradition case ever since his arrest and a ruling is expected on January 4. Trump had previously considered pardoning both Snowden and Assange.
The 49-year-old Assange, who spent almost seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, faces an 18-count indictment from US authorities accusing him of recruiting hackers to steal military secrets. Assange faces a prison term of up to 175 years in the US if he is found guilty over the publication of secret intelligence and military documents. A group of activists in San Francisco's Bay Area recently rallied outside the British Consulate General to demand Assange's release from a prison in the UK. (IANS)
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House fire on Polson Street
Jesse King is a reporter with the Whanganui Chronicle
jesse.king@nzme.co.nz WhangaChron
A woman who grew up in a Polson St home wept as she watched smoke billow high into the morning sky this morning.
Emergency services were called at just after 8am as the upstairs and downstairs of the two-story home were well involved in fire.
Whanganui fire service senior station officer Craig Gardiner said that a mother and two children escaped the premises.
"We had people in the house, but they've managed to escape prior to our arrival which is good," he said.
"They found the fire, found it was too big, realised they couldn't tackle it and they've gone to the neighbours and made the call to us."
Gardiner said he had talked to the children and all three occupants seemed to be fine.
The fire, which started in a bedroom, is under investigation but is not suspicious, Gardiner said.
"The house had working smoke alarms so the occupants were alerted and were able to escape but unfortunately the fire took hold pretty quick and the house is extensively damaged," he said.
Three occupants escaped a house that was well involved in fire on Polson Street in Whanganui. Photo / Stuart Munro
Jeanette Bailey was at the scene where all she could do was watch as smoke billowed from her family home.
Her parents, Bob and Barbara Hills, built the house in the late 1950s and lived there until Bob passed away about 15 years ago and Barbara sold it.
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She said that it was a really cool place to grow up.
"It's a quarter acre section with lots of space, that whole area at the back was full of lupin and sand and trees.
"All of the kids in these houses, which were all built around the same time, we would go out there and just play all day."
She was alerted to the situation by her niece Karli Stevens, who also spent time growing up in the house.
"I could see the smoke from my house on Mosston St and after that all I could see were the tears that were streaming out of my eyes," Stevens said.
"All I can think about is the dinosaur wallpaper, it covers a whole wall and it's got four generations of names on it.
"We've got memories, but the people that live there have lost their stuff and that's horrible. We can't lose our memories."