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A 4-H/youth educator in the Johnson County University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service (UW CES) office in Buffalo has received the Newer Employee Recognition Award.
Rachel Novakovich received the honor during the recent Extension Professional Improvement Conference in Laramie. Novakovich joined the Johnson County office in March 2006. She had previously worked in Uinta County as an intern for the University of Wyoming and later as the 4-H afterschool program coordinator.
Nomination letters praised Novakovich's optimism, enthusiasm and positive attitude.
"She tackles problems head-on with a no-nonsense, matter-of-fact way that ends with everyone as winners," wrote one nominator.
"In her approximately three years with extension, she has made a positive impact on the Wyoming 4-H program and left her footprint in a number of programs throughout the area and state," submitted another.
The annual conference brings together extension educators, specialists and Cent$ible Nutrition Program educators for training.


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Volvo Gives You a Good Reason to Watch the SuperBowl
January 30, 2015 by Fadra Nally 5 Comments
And will give away a car–A CAR!–to a deserving driver through a Twitter contest during Super Bowl XLIX
This could be you: winner of the 2015 Volvo V60 wagon during Volvo's Super Bowl giveaway
I hate to sound like a typical woman. I really do. But around this time of year, I usually have to ask this question:
I know this is a dumb question but is the SuperBowl this weekend? If so, who's playing?
— Fadra Nally (@allthingsfadra) January 29, 2015
Yes, I now know that it's the Patriots vs the Seahawks and it is on Sunday, February 1st. I'll probably watch it at someone's house and eating junk food and root for whoever they're rooting for (although I'm kinda pulling for the Seahawks because Seattle is a nice city). And if you're ever remotely active on Twitter during the SuperBowl, you'll know the big day for a lot of people is really about the commercials that come on during the game. I'm sure there will be a funny and/or touching beer commercial. There will be a GoDaddy commercial that's sure to offend women. And there will probably be some tech company you've never heard of that has an outrageous ad that will be the talk of the internet. For about a week.
Officially on the road to Tahoe in this beauty with @motorheadmama #v60crosscountry
A photo posted by Fadra Nally (@allthingsfadra) on Jan 27, 2015 at 4:05pm PST
The tweets will go crazy and videos will be shared and recaps will be posted on probably 1,000 sites. But one person will have a lasting memory from the day and I don't just mean the players on the winning team.
Volvo is planning a metaphorical interception during the game on Sunday and it's motivation enough for me to watch.
Volvo Interception is a socially-driven alternative to game day television advertisements. The effort is an extension of the company's human centric mindset of putting people first in all areas and is found in the design and technology of all Volvo cars.
What it's really about is an opportunity for game day viewers to nominate someone deserving to receive a brand new, award winning Volvo XC60. All through the magic of Twitter. Here's how it works.
The Volvo Interception will begin at 6:30 p.m. ET—on Sunday, February 1. Whenever any car commercial airs throughout the big game, people can tweet with the hashtag #VolvoContest to tell Volvo who they think deserves a brand new Volvo XC60. All eligible tweets will receive a response from Volvo, and each person must then tell why his or her nominee was chosen. Following the conclusion of the entry period, five potential winners will be selected by judges from all entries received.
Some are calling it a brilliant marketing strategy saving Volvo millions of dollars on potential ad costs while capitalizing on other car manufacturers who did spend that money. Simply put, I'm calling it a wonderful philanthropic effort and I can't wait to see the deserving party in their new Volvo XC60. I know I'll be tweeting on Sunday!
Tell us who you would nominate on Sunday for a Volvo Interception.
A self-proclaimed "chick who digs cars," Fadra has long been a fan of aesthetics over mechanics. When she's not looking for an excuse to buy or drive a new car, she spends her time writing, blogging, and vlogging all over the internet (but mostly at allthingsfadra.com).
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Carmen Garcia says
I want to win a Volvo car
Fadra Nally says
Me too! But you have to tweet about it DURING car commercial DURING the super bowl with the hashtag #VolvoContest
Gail Bales says
I nominate my son to win a new Volvo. Patrick moved home when his father had a stroke, and for three years helped me with his care so we could keep him at home. And worked full time. His dad could neither sit or stand or walk by himself. And he helped not only with the physical but helped his Dad to maintain his humor. Keeping happy and laughing helped us have a better life.
Make sure you tweet that during any car commercial during the Super Bowl and include the hashtag #VolvoContest
Sorry saw the car thought it was a car commercial!

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They Wanted Research Funding, So They Entered…
They Wanted Research Funding, So They Entered the Lottery
CORNELL TUKIRI
Dr. Anna Ponnampalam, a reproductive biologist, in her laboratory in Auckland, New Zealand on Feb. 13, 2020. Ponnampalam has won $96,000 from the Health Research Council of New Zealand in 2017 to study infertility, and the same amount in 2019 to study endometriosis. (Cornell Tukiri/The New York Times)
By Dalmeet Singh Chawla |
PUBLISHED: February 14, 2020 at 9:35 p.m. | UPDATED: August 19, 2021 at 1:45 a.m.
(Science Times)
A few years ago, Anna Ponnampalam did something out of the box: She entered a lottery. But she wasn't buying scratch-off tickets promising cash for life. She was trying to win funding for her medical research.
Her application wasn't successful. All proposals go through an initial quality and eligibility check, which hers did not pass; those that get to enter the pool then get selected at random for funding. But Ponnampalam, a reproductive biologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, didn't give up. She went on to win 150,000 New Zealand dollars ($96,000) from the Health Research Council of New Zealand in 2017 to study infertility, and the same amount in 2019 to study endometriosis.
"At first, I was in two minds about whether I should submit an application," she said. "But now I think it's quite a good idea to give out funding in this way to attract novel proposals, which often lead to big scientific discoveries."
Since 2013, the New Zealand council has dedicated around 2% of its annual funding expenditure to what it calls explorer grants, asking applicants to submit proposals they think are "transformative, innovative, exploratory or unconventional, and have potential for major impact." Such lotteries have been used in other countries, and some have the goal of increasing the diversity of grant recipients, as well as assisting researchers in earlier stages of their career who might struggle to find funding.
Like Ponnampalam, researchers who have applied for funding from the New Zealand lottery see the benefits of its approach. That was the finding of a survey, published this month in the journal Research Integrity and Peer Review.
The study authors contacted the 325 researchers who have applied for the New Zealand explorer grants and heard back from 126 applicants. Of those respondents, 63% said they were in favor of random allocation of funds through such grants, while a quarter were against it.
Respondents were less supportive of using lotteries to fund drug trials and other traditional grant recipients: Only 4 in 10 favored a partial lottery for such funding and 37% were against it.
Support for a lottery was strongest among researchers who were themselves successful in their explorer grant applications, with 78% giving the process the green light. Paradoxically, many of those who approved of such a system emphasized the importance of the initial scan to weed out subpar and ineligible applications.
Adrian Barnett, a statistician and meta-science researcher at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and an author of the analysis, said that applicants reported spending the same amount of time on explorer grant proposals as they did on grants that underwent traditional peer review. He speculates that researchers might be unsure of the effort required to pass the lottery's initial quality check, and so they give it their all.
But will applicants continue to work so hard on lottery applications? Barnett suspects that as researchers become more familiar with the process, the time spent on such proposals may drop.
Other funders trying out lotteries include the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation in Germany. The U.S. National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health say they have not tested lotteries and don't currently plan to do so.
"There is no strong evidence base to support the current dominant model of peer review, but we have until recently accepted that it's possibly the best among a number of imperfect approaches," said Sunny Collings, chief executive officer of New Zealand's Health Research Council, who was not an author of the study. "Applications often have statistically indistinguishable scores, and there is a degree of randomness in peer review selection anyway. So why not formalize that and try to get the best of both approaches?"
Ponnampalam thinks lotteries provide a good opportunity for early and midcareer researchers, who often have a hard time attracting funding. The process is conducted anonymously, which, she hopes, means that ideas, not people, are funded.
Barnett agrees that too often there is more focus on what researchers have done in the past than on what they are proposing. He also stresses that lotteries may help address biases against underrepresented groups in science.
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However, Johan Bollen, a computer scientist at Indiana University, Bloomington, is concerned that researchers seeking funds through lotteries would still bear the brunt of churning out endless grant applications, which can take up a lot of time.
"Replacing final funding decisions with a lottery, while keeping most of the costly grant proposal machinery intact, seems profoundly misguided," Bollen said.
In the last couple of years, Bollen has suggested a fix for the research funding system: All researchers would be guaranteed some funding without writing any applications, provided they share with other researchers of their choosing.
This "resolves some of the inequities of the present system, reduces inefficiencies and costs and takes into account the decisions of the entire community, not just a small review panel," Bollen said.
For Barnett, "the biggest obstacle to change is the fact that we've been using peer review for decades." But, he said, "It's time we start funding science scientifically."
Dalmeet Singh Chawla


In 1910, 12 percent of American 14-17 year olds were enrolled in high school; by 1930, enrollment had increased to 50 percent; enrollment in Britain was 12 percent in 1950. This paper argues that by increasing the skill premium, the massive inflows of European unskilled immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century engendered America's sharp rise in human capital investment. The increased enrollments raised the supply of schools, leading to continued schooling investment. Cross section evidence and a VAR analysis of the time series data support the hypothesized role of immigration in generating the high school movement.


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THE DHOL FOUNDATION
Established in 1990 The Dhol Foundation began as a weekly workshop teaching the art of playing the North Indian Dhol Drum to students in the UK later opening classes worldwide. In 1996, Johnny Kalsi introduced Dhol to the GCSE curriculum and composed structured exams and answers for schools.
Along their career, they have produced for many Bhangra artists but it was when Kalsi broke out to the World Music Scene when The Dhol Foundation began to appear at major festivals and on more movie soundtracks.
In 2001 Johnny Kalsi produced and released their debut album "Big Drum Small World". A track from the album titled "Drummers Reel" made the Hollywood Award Winning Scorsese film "Gangs of New York".
In 2003, Johnny Kalsi composed a piece of music for the Hollywood film The Incredible Hulk and Sea Monsters.
The second album "Drum-Believable" was released in 2004, with The Dhol Foundation reaching new heights.
In 2005, The Dhol Foundation Collaborated with Natasha And Daniel Bedingfield at the Brit Awards 25th Anniversary.
"Drums & Roses" was released in 2007 and "Drum-Struck" in 2010 has proven to be huge crowd pleasers at Festivals.
End of 2011 TDF Opened the Royal Variety Performance alongside Stomp & the Japanese Drumming outfit Kodo & also performed for Live Earth at Wembley Stadium.
In 2012 David Arnold asked Johnny Kalsi & The Dhol Foundation to perform for the Olympic Closing Ceremony in a stand alone performance. Shortly after Johnny Kalsi took his band to Singapore where they took part in performances at the Singapore Grand Prix along with Sir Tom Jones, Rhianna and Justin Bieber.
Mid Year 2012 they were on Channel 4 for Stand up to Cancer with Alan Carr & Davina McCall & helped raise over £8 Million.
In July 2013 Johnny Kalsi & The Dhol Foundation performed over 3 nights at HRH Queen's Coronation Gala Celebration at Buckingham Palace. Their latest album 'Basant' was released in 2018. "Basant" meaning Spring is the best production to date. Full of more exciting collaborations and many featured artists from around the Globe.
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I encourage my patients to be aware of and remain active participants in their own care. This simple but important step can greatly improve their outcome, health and lifestyle.
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After hours, I love to travel, read and attend Ohio State football games.
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We have to prepare to travel for two big airplane trips this year with our little ones. The first one is an extended weekend trip to Washington D.C. that is allowing us to prepare for our much longer trip, to Disney, later this year.
As a control freak, there is not that amps up my anxiety more than the unknowns of traveling, especially with little ones. So, I have attempted to minimize the amount of times all hell can break lose (even though I know this will likely happen).
Plan an outfit for each day, but then throw in an extra outfit or two for spills/accidents. Also, not a bad idea to have an extra outfit in your carry-on bag if you plan on checking a bag.
We actually pack extremely minimal toys. We overload on books, coloring books, iPad (gasp!), and puzzles. We find these type of toys to not only be useful because they can be quickly interchanged for their short attention spans but also they all fit incredibly nicely into the confines of a backpack.
Such a necessity – No liquids though. We pack snack packs of goldfish crackers and fruit snacks. In addition, as much as I dislike them, we also include suckers. These serve a purpose more than anything else. If the child is sucking on a sucker during take-off, he/she is less likely to have his/her ears pop. Plus, the kids think they are getting a treat!
In the end, remember you can always buy things you are likely to forget (toothpaste, hair brush, cheap swim suit, etc.). Also, don't be afraid to ask your hotel for some of the toiletry items you have forgotten. Just because they are not supplied in your room, doesn't mean they don't have extras available for you!
Also, maybe try and wait to tell your child about said trip until the day or so before you leave. If possible, even on the way to the airport. Believe me, you will save yourself 5 million questions about when you are leaving and what day you get to go on the airplane, and who you are sitting with, and how much longer until the trip, etc, etc, etc. You get my point.
So sit back, relax, and try to enjoy your vacation. If nothing seems to be going your way, loosen up the purse straps and order some vacation drinks!


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DR Congo bars tourists from national park after kidnapping
Virunga National Park is one of DR Congo's main tourist attractions. (Reuters pic)
ABIDJAN: Rangers said on Tuesday they had stopped tourists entering Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park during investigations into the kidnapping of two Britons there last week.
Gunmen ambushed Robert Jesty, Bethan Davies, and their driver in DR Congo's volatile eastern borderlands on Friday before releasing them three days later.
Park ranger Rachel Makissa Baraka, 25, was killed trying to defend them.
"The suspension of tourism is being undertaken as an additional precautionary measure whilst an investigation is undertaken surrounding the recent events," the park said in a statement.
It said the suspension would remain in place until June 4.
Eastern DR Congo has seen successive waves of violence over the past quarter century and was at the epicentre of two wars between 1996 and 2003 that killed millions, mainly through hunger and disease.
Rebel groups and militias still control large swathes of the territory. More than 175 rangers have died protecting the park, which is in the rugged mountains and volcanic plains adjacent to Rwanda and Uganda.
Since tourism was relaunched in 2014, Virunga National Park, Africa's oldest national park, has received more than 17,000 visitors, keen to see its rare mountain gorillas or climb the active Nyiragongo volcano.
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Hundreds of thousands of Army employees could face outsourcing
In what would be the biggest privatization project ever attempted by a federal agency, the Army is planning to let private companies compete for the jobs of more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians.
Jason Peckenpaugh
By Jason Peckenpaugh
In what would be the biggest privatization project ever attempted by a federal agency, the Army is planning to let private companies compete for the jobs of 213,637 of its personnel-including 154,910 civilians.
The initiative would dwarf previous rounds of outsourcing in the Army and would involve employees who up to now have been off-limits to privatization. It would sweep up accountants, attorneys, computer technicians and all Army employees performing work designated as "noncore."
More than 58,000 military personnel would also face job competitions under the initiative, but any soldiers who lose in the competitions would be transferred to meet other requirements within the Army. The Army has no plans to cut its fighting force, and the initiative could allow the Army to use more soldiers as warfighters, according to Pentagon sources. "We want to get military personnel into military functions," said one official. Officially, the Army would not comment on the initiative, which it termed "pre-decisional."
The initiative, outlined in a draft memorandum from Army Secretary Thomas White and other Army documents obtained by GovExec.com, reflects a strong belief in public-private competition as a method for transforming the Army. It envisions an Army where employees perform their core mission of warfighting and support functions are left to the private sector. "The Army must focus its energies and talents on functions we perform better than anyone else as core competencies, and seek to obtain other needed products or services from the private sector where it makes sense," White stated in his memo.
Additionally, the initiative would help the service meet targets for public-private competition set by the White House.
In size and scope, the Army project would be unprecedented. Since 1996, the entire Defense Department has competed about 220,000 jobs. The White House has set a governmentwide job competition target of 127,500 jobs by October 2003. The Army plan, by contrast, would subject well over 200,000 employees to public-private competition over a timeframe that has not been determined.
"That is a huge program," said Dale Warden, chief operating officer with Warden Associates, a Springfield, Va.-based company that helps agencies conduct job competition studies.
The initiative, which Army documents refer to as "The Third Wave" to distinguish it from two previous outsourcing efforts, is the outcome of a months-long effort to identify "core" and "noncore" jobs within the service. The other military services are conducting similar reviews in conjunction with the Business Initiatives Council, a Defense reform council established by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. White's letter directs Army commands to submit plans for competing all "noncore functions" within the Army by Dec. 20.
"Your plan will include 100 percent of spaces eligible for private sector performance (i.e. noncore) unless an exemption is approved by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs," White's memo states. The initiative will encompass more employees than previous rounds of outsourcing within the Army, which focused solely on base operations, according to the memo.
To meet the 100 percent target, Army commands could use the public-private competition process governed by Circular A-76, outright privatization, and a variety of "alternatives to A-76," according to the letter. Most of the alternatives, which include setting up "transitional benefit corporations"-in which outsourced employees would temporarily keep federal benefits-and establishing partnerships between cities and military bases, would require authorization from Congress, according to Army documents.
Federal employee unions immediately condemned the Army plan and vowed to lobby members of Congress to stop it. "Rather than save money, this Army privatization scheme is all about moving money-to politically well-connected contractors," said Bobby Harnage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees. "AFGE will work with Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike to defeat the Army's efforts to secure the necessary congressional authorization for this wholesale privatization."
Harnage also challenged Angela Styles, administrator of federal procurement policy and the lead Bush official on competitive sourcing, to repudiate the Army plan. But Styles refused. "It's quite an exaggeration to say it's a privatization effort," she said. "I compliment the Army and Defense Department for taking a very hard look at how they manage and what's core and noncore."
Styles had no reservations about the size of the Army plan. "It certainly is up to the departments and agencies to determine how they want to do it," she said.
Stan Soloway, president of the Professional Services Council, an association of federal contractors, also praised the initiative. "White seems to be saying they're going to get serious about this and do it in a very strategic way," he said.
But the Army could be overwhelmed by the work entailed in holding so many public-private job competitions, said Warden, whose company is helping 12 federal departments hold A-76 competitions right now. "I'm concerned about their ability to actually do all these studies," he said. "The Army has never built up the organic capacity to pull this stuff off, and quite honestly the commercial industry is saturated with all the [A-76] work at civilian agencies."
"Noncore" Army employees
Function Military Civilian
Acquisition, Logistics and Technology 18,412 36,649
Civil Works 195 24,251
Financial Management and Comptroller 1,880 3,647
Installations and Environment 1,386 27,407
Manpower and Reserve Affairs 32,680 50,717
General Counsel 373 639
Chief Information Officer 3,060 9,807
TAG 297 1,072
CPA 444 721
Source: Army documents
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Baby Boom és una pel·lícula estatunidenca, basat en una història real, dirigida per Charles Shyer, estrenada l'any 1987. Ha estat doblada al català.

Argument
J. C. Wiatt és una dona de negocis i una gran arribista. La seva vida dona un tomb d'un dia a l'altre, quan un dels seus cosins, que acaba de morir, li deixa una estranya herència, un bebè de tretze mesos.

Repartiment
 Diane Keaton: J.C. Wiatt
 Sam Shepard: el metge Jeff Cooper
 Sam Wanamaker: Fritz Curtis
 James Spader: Ken Arrenberg
 Harold Ramis: Steven Bochner
 Pat Hingle: Hughes Larabee
 George Petrie: Everett Sloane
 Kristina Kennedy: Elizabeth Wiatt
 Michelle Kennedy: Elizabeth Wiatt
 Britt Leach: Verne Boone
 Hansford Rowe: Sam Potts
 Kim Sebastian: Robin
 Mary Gross: Charlotte Elkman
 Patricia Estrin: la secretària
 Elizabeth Bennett: la Sra. Atwood
 Carol Gillies: Helga Von Haupt
 Victoria Jackson: Eve
 William Frankfather: Merle White
 Annie O'Donnell: Wilma White

Al voltant de la pel·lícula
 La pel·lícula va inspirar una sèrie televisiva homònima, difosa de 1988 a 1989, on Kristina i Michelle Kennedy reprenien el seu paper d'Elizabeth mentre que Diane Keaton era reemplaçada per Kate Jackson.

Banda original
 Everchanging Times, interpretat per Siedah Garrett
 Only for Life, interpretat per Angela Turner
 I'll Never Smile Again, compost per Ruth Lowe
 Pennies from Heaven, interpretat per The Moonlighters
 Moonlight in Vermont, interpretat per The Moonlighters

Nominacions
 Nominació al Globus d'Or a la millor pel·lícula musical o còmica i a a la millor actriu musical o còmica (Diane Keaton) l'any 1988.

Referències

Pel·lícules de comèdia dels Estats Units
Pel·lícules del 1986 doblades al català
Pel·lícules dels Estats Units del 1987

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Yorkville newsstand closes, victim to publishing trends
By Eric Andrew-GeeStaff Reporter
Wed., July 23, 2014timer2 min. read
The plaintive violin music filtering through the doors was fitting. After nearly three decades shilling ink and paper, Maison de la Presse Internationale, the venerable Yorkville newsstand, has closed. A busker's fiddling served as an inadvertent funeral dirge Tuesday evening, the store's last in business, as dejected customers combed the shelves for their final copies of The Economist and The New York Review of Books.
The shop, which specialized in foreign newspapers and magazines, was undone by the same forces imperiling so much of the print media: a mass migration of readers to the web.
"Digital is the one reason we're losing sales," said Cathy Ola, the store's manager. "People are online — they subscribe to magazines online. My customers say, 'I already downloaded it online.' That's the biggest competition."
But loyal customers lamented the demise of the paper temple at 99 Yorkville Ave., where discerning buyers could choose between lavish, high-society glossies and crisp vessels for political commentary. (Full disclosure: this reporter bought a copy of Private Eye, the British satirical news mag, and a Le Figaro painter's cap.)
"I literally woke up this morning wanting to read international fashion magazines," said Kristjan Hayden, standing next to an Atlas-heavy edition of Paris Vogue. "I actually don't know where to go now. It's really sad."
Others diehards spoke in almost romantic terms about the loss of their beloved print purveyor. "Magazines are just a beautiful format in which to get information — they're works of art," said Alex Sévigny, who has been visiting the newsstand since the 1990s, when he was a University of Toronto graduate student. "It's beautiful just to hold them and see the design that went in to them. It's reading, but it's also an aesthetic experience … It's tactile, it has smell, it looks different in different kinds of light."
The Yorkville location was the last Maison de la Presse in Toronto, said Brad Suga, regional director of operations at LS Travel Retail North America (LSTRNA), the store's parent company.
"It's been a few years now that it's been in decline," said Suga. "The writing was kind of on the wall."
LSTRNA recently sold most of their urban newsstands to Tobmar Investments International (also known as Gateway Newstands), but the company declined to take the Yorkville location because it wasn't financially viable, said Suga.
Maison also sold French books on its second floor, and became a haven for the city's francophone community.
"I really lament the passing of bookstores like this," said Sévigny. "It's probably true that you can get all of those magazines online … but what I really loved about those places is that you'd run into people. They were almost like community hubs."
"It's a real shame," he added, trailing off.


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Hongcun 宏村
Hongcun of southern Anhui province was a location where the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was shot. Hongcun was first founded in the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty (about AD. 1131-1162) and became prosperous during the Ming Dynasty. According to the villagers the whole place has been rented to a company in Beijing who manages the tour business and the welfare of the village. Each head count in the village is entitled to some benefits from the company. The village head is elected by the village people and has been serving the community for many terms. After dinner women and children gather and dance with folk and modern songs. Some older people and men just enjoy watching as they feel too embarrassed to participate. Hongcun was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.
According to the villagers they used to drink the water directly from the stream when it was crystal clear before 8am of each day. Now they can only use the water to wash their cloths before 8am.
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Maderas. Ciencia y tecnología
versión On-line ISSN 0718-221X
Maderas, Cienc. tecnol. vol.17 no.2 Concepción abr. 2015 Epub 10-Mar-2015
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-221X2015005000036
The effect of moisture content on the retention and distribution of nano-titanium dioxide in the wood
Younes Mohammadnia Afrouzi1, Pouya Marzbani2,♠, Asghar Omidvar1
1 Department of Wood Technology and Engineering, Faculty of Wood and Paper Engineering, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Golestan province, Iran.
2 Department of Pulp and Paper Technology, Faculty of Wood and Paper Engineering, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Golestan province, Iran.
When chemically treating wood products is used to enhance the properties, the distribution of chemicals in the wood can be more important than the amount of chemical uptake. In this research, two moisture contents (MC) (0 and 25%) were used to study the effect of MC on the nanomaterial retention and distribution in cottonwood (Populus deltoides) sapwood treated with nano-titanium dioxide. The wood samples were impregnated by a full-cell process at three levels of nano‐TiO2 concentration: 0,5; 1 and 1,5%. The nanomaterial retention was calculated and SEM images were used to investigate the distribution of nanoparticles in the wood. The results showed that increasing the nano-TiO2 concentration caused more retention and the MC difference caused almost identical retention at 0,5 and 1% concentrations. Although the retention in the 0% MC samples was slightly more than those of 25% MC, this retention was significantly more in these samples (0% MC) at 1,5% concentration. SEM images indicated that the nanoparticles had more uniform distribution in the 0% MC samples than the 25% MC ones and the difference was clearly visible at 1,5% concentration. Low MC ranges (about 0%) are better than high MC's to impregnate cottonwood samples with nano-TiO2 by using the full-cell process.
Keywords: Full-cell process, impregnation, nanomaterial, Populus deltoides, SEM image.
Permeability and chemical distribution are important properties in wood applications and depend on the manner of penetration and fluid flow into the wood (Yudodibroto and Walters 1977). These properties play a major role in the wood preservation and papermaking or pulp preparation processes (Siau 1984). One of the properties that has great impact on the wood treatability in addition to the absorption rate, is fluid distribution in the wood (also called micro-distribution) (Drysdale et al. 1980, Peters and Parameswaran 1980, Reimão and Palacios 1990). Because in some cases, treated wood that has a standard absorption rate and penetration depth, has become decayed over time (Omidvar and Schneider 2004). Some researchers believe that the decay is related to soft rot fungi attack (Dickinson and Sorkhoh 1976) and is a result of non-uniform distribution of preservative in the wood (Omidvar 1996, Omidvar and Schneider 2004). The factors such as tannin and nutrient presence can influence on the chemical distribution (Hulme and Butcher 1977). Therefore, conventional indices such as absorption rate are inadequate to obtain the required properties in wood impregnation. To insure proper treatment, the amount of absorbed chemical and its distribution in the wood should be investigated (Stefan et al. 2002).
Several factors affect the permeability and absorption of impregnation solution. Some of these factors are included: wood structure, moisture content (MC), impregnation method, features of impregnation solution, wood preparation method, etc. (Nicholas and Siau 1973). MC is one of the important factors that affects the chemical penetration into the wood. By studying the effect of MC on the permeability, Comstock and Cote (1968) concluded that the permeability of hardwoods decreases with increasing wood MC due to increasing the vessel volumes.
One of the methods that can be considered as a suitable and high performance alternative for toxic preservatives is the nanomaterial utilization. Recently, the effects of nanomaterial utilization on improvement of the wood resistance against different wood destructive factors have been investigated in several studies (Kartal et al. 2009, Clausen et al. 2009, 2010, 2011, Afrouzi et al. 2013). Nano scale materials are defined as a set of substances where at least one dimension is less than approximately 100 nanometers (Kafarski 2007). Freeman and McIntyre (2008) reported that nano-metals with dimensions that are smaller than the wood pores (100 μm) and/or intercellular pores (400-600 nm), can penetrate the porous structure of wood and thereby impact the wood resistance against destructive factors.
Nano-titanium dioxide (nano-TiO2) is used as a common catalyst for its optical and electrical properties, high photocatalytic activity, chemical stability, non-toxicity, good availability, and no corrosion due to light (Xu et al. 2008, Saha et al. 2011). It can create anti-bacterial coating due to UV absorption and its photocatalytic properties, and prevent the penetration of UV radiations (Daoud et al. 2005, Wong et al. 2006).
Knowing the relation between the wood MC and nano-TiO2 absorption rate is important and can influence the performance of impregnation process. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of MC on the nanomaterial retention and distribution in nano-TiO2 treated wood.
Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) sapwood obtained from the research forest in Shastkalateh, Golestan province, Iran, was air dried and cut into 24 samples with dimensions of 50×50×3 mm. They were divided into two groups that have two different moisture contents (MC) (0% and 25% MC). To prepare the 0% MC samples, 12 samples were placed in the oven at 103±2 ºC for 24 h and kept in the laboratory desiccator containing silica gel as desiccant. Potassium nitrate salt was used to prepare the 25% MC samples. A saturated solution of potassium nitrate salt was prepared and then, another 12 samples were placed into the incubator alongside the solution at 20 ºC for 21 days, which was stirred continuously by magnetic stirrer.
Impregnation with Nano-TiO2
Nano-TiO2 (Anatase phase, 20 nm particle size) suspensions were prepared at 0,5; 1 and 1,5% concentrations and then, the samples were impregnated by a full-cell process according to AWPA E10-08 (2008) standard method for testing wood preservatives, so that there were four replications for each treatment.
The preservative retention was calculated by following equation:
which G, C and V are the absorbed preservative by the sample, the preservative amount in 100 ml suspension and the sample volume, respectively.
In addition, studying the nanomaterial distribution in the wood was performed by SEM images taken from the treated samples.
Nano-TiO2 retention
The sample impregnation at three concentrations (0,5; 1 and 1,5%) caused different retentions, which increased with increasing the nanomaterial concentration. The results of Tukey statistical analysis test showed that there was no significant difference between the 0% and 25% MC samples at 0,5 and 1% concentrations. Actually, the MC difference did not significantly influence the penetration of nano-TiO2 in the wood at the lower concentrations. However, nano-TiO2 retention was greater in the 0% MC samples and increasing the concentration to 1,5% caused a clear retention difference (Table 1). Since the internal wood empty spaces, which are in the cell-wall, have been filled with water at the 25% MC, it limits the nanomaterial penetration into the wood but at the 0% MC (or near 0%), more nanoparticles can penetrate the wood due to existence of more empty spaces. Actually, with increasing the wood MC, swelling occurs in the cell-wall and therefore, the volume of cell-wall pores or empty spaces decreases, which results in reducing the nanomaterial penetration into the wood (Nicholas and Siau 1973, Hosseinzadeh and Neyestani 1988).
Table 1. Nano-TiO2 retention in the 0 and 25% samples (kg/m3).
Nano-TiO2 distribution in the wood
SEM images indicated that nano-TiO2 distribution was more suitable in the lower MC. As shown in figure 1, the nanomaterial distribution became more uniform with decreasing the MC. It was not significantly clear at lower nanomaterial concentrations, but there was a significant difference in the nano-TiO2 distribution between the 0 and 25% MC samples along with increasing the concentration. The most uniform distribution of nanomaterial occurred in the 0% MC samples treated with 1,5% nano-TiO2. In the 25% MC samples, the nanomaterial distribution was non-uniform and seemed uneven due to the moisture pressure as a barrier against proper impregnation (Nicholas and Siau 1973, Hosseinzadeh and Neyestani 1988). Since the internal wood spaces in the cell-wall were empty in the 0% MC samples, there was no moisture pressure and therefore, the nanomaterial distribution was performed more uniformly.
Figure 1. SEM images taken from the tangential section of nano-TiO2 treated samples: a1: (the 0% MC /0,5% concentration),
a2: (the 25% MC /0,5% concentration), a3: (the 0% MC /1% concentration), a4: (the 25% MC /1% concentration),
a5: (the 0% MC /1,5% concentration), a6: (the 25% MC /1,5% concentration).
The average of the retention and distribution uniformity of nano-TiO2 was greater in the 0% MC samples and the difference between the 0 and 25% MC samples increased with increasing the nanomaterial concentration. Due to non-existence of moisture pressure, greater uniformity of nanomaterial distribution occurred in the 0% MC samples that was significantly clear in the 1,5% concentration. Therefore, the 0% MC samples treated with 1,5% nano-TiO2 showed the best performance and the 0% MC (or near to it) is appropriate to achieve the most retention and uniform distribution.
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♠Corresponding author: marzbani.pouya@gmail.com
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About Ranil
Opportunity knocks: Helping British businesses to trade around the world
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Another win for Global Britain as we sign a trade deal with Mexico
Over recent months, the Department for International Trade has been working away, quietly and carefully, to secure more trade deals with countries right around...
Britain paves the way for new dynamic trade and development partnership with Kenya
Yesterday, we signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Kenya, marking a deepening of our relationship and a crucial step towards reaching a future...
Britain secures her agreement with Canada today, paving the way for a made-to-measure deal tomorrow.
This week, we have secured yet another great deal for British businesses and households – this time with our good friends across the Atlantic – in Canada. Today...
Ranil Jayawardena welcomes the largest investment in our nation's defence since the end of the Cold War
Local MP Ranil Jayawardena has welcomed new defence funding which will help protect our country and bring tens of thousands of jobs to every corner of the Union...
Britain is on the rise around the world – and a new golden age is dawning between Britain and Brazil
Britain is quickly making her mark around the world as an important trading partner. We recently signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)...
Families that have been hardest hit by the pandemic will benefit from a new £170 million scheme unveiled by the Government.
Families that have been hardest hit by the pandemic and need extra support this winter with food and bills will benefit from a new £170 million scheme unveiled...
United Kingdom forges closer trading relationship with Gulf nations
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Wade Davis, renowned Canadian author and nominee for the 2012 Taylor non-fiction prize, speaks out on the Enbridge pipeline and other projects.
National Geographic explorer-in-residence – and northern B.C. resident – Wade Davis has a modest proposal when asked about burgeoning mine and pipeline developments in northern B.C. such as the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, which has come under widespread criticism and vigorous government defence.
For every drop of toxic waste dumped or leaked into northern First Nations' water supply, he proposes, an equivalent drop is poured into the local swimming pool used by industry executives' children. For every tree cut, a rose bush is severed in the executives' home gardens.
The world-renowned author and researcher, in an exclusive interview with the Vancouver Observer, insisted he is not anti-development. Currently nominated for the coveted Charles Taylor non-fiction prize for his recent book Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, Davis said the question is more about balance – and priorities.


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Eclipse 23: First Films Of Akira Ku (Criterion Collection Region 1) - Kurosawa, Akira
Releasedatum: 3 augustus 2010
Years before Akira Kurosawa changed the face of cinema with such iconic works as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo, he made his start in the Japanese film industry with four popular and exceptional works, created as World War II raged. All gripping dramas, those rare first films—Sanshiro Sugata; The Most Beautiful; Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two; and The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail—are collected here and include a two-part martial arts saga, a portrait of female volunteers helping the war effort, and a kabuki-derived tale of deception. These captivating films are a glorious introduction to a peerless career.

Sanshiro Sugata
Kurosawa's effortless debut is a thrilling martial arts action tale, but it's also a moving story of moral education that's quintessential Kurosawa.

The Most Beautiful
This portrait of female volunteer workers at an optics plant during World War II, shot on location at the Nippon Kogaku factory, was created with a patriotic agenda. Yet it anticipates the aesthetics of Japanese cinema's postwar social realism.

Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
Kurosawa's first film was such a success that the studio leaned on the director to make a sequel. The result is a hugely entertaining adventure, reuniting most of the major players from the original.

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
The fourth film from Akira Kurosawa is based on a legendary twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a group of samurai retainers dressed as monks in order to pass through a dangerous enemy checkpoint.


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Best Shots Rapid-Fire Reviews: VALKYRIE #1, BATMAN: CURSE OF THE WHITE KNIGHT #1, ARCHIE VS. PREDATOR II #1, More
By David Pepose, Best Shots Team Lead July 25, 2019 02:51pm ET
Greetings, 'Rama readers! Ready for your Thursday pellets? Best Shots has you covered with this week's Rapid-Fire Reviews! Let's kick off today's column with Jittery Justin Partridge, who takes a look at Valkyrie: Jane Foster...
Valkyrie: Jane Foster #1 (Published by Marvel Comics; Review by Justin Partridge; 'Rama Rating: 10 out of 10): Jane Foster gets a rollicking, majestic re-debut in Valkyrie: Jane Foster #1. Given a keen wit and grand scope by writers Al Ewing and Jason Aaron, Jane Foster gets to experience how the super-half lives as she takes up the mantle of Valkyrie, while also trying to juggle her career as a doctor. While this double life gives the issue some classic Marvel stakes, Ewing and Aaron up the ante significantly, throwing Jane into the deep end of being the last Valkyrie, with all the new powers and dangers it entails as she hunts for the stolen Dragonfang, ancient weapon of the Valkyries. The issue is given an extra boost of fun by the straight up gorgeous artwork of CAFU and Jesus Aburtov. Leaning into the golden malleability of Jane's "All-Weapon" (a sort of mind reading tool that can become any weapon Jane wishes or needs at will), CAFU and Aburtov deliver big, splashy action intermingled with strikingly emotive quiet scenes. Believe the hype, Midgardians, Valkyrie: Jane Foster #1 is wall-to-wall awesome.
Credit: DC
Action Comics #1013 (Published by DC; Review by Justin Partridge; 'Rama Rating: 8 out of 10): The "Year of the Villain" bleeds into "Event Leviathan" in Action Comics #1013. Picking up after last issue's cliffhanger, Rose & Thorn are now on the run from Leviathan, having turned down their offer and repelled their attack on Rose's apartment. But most dangerously of all? She's willing to go on the record, giving the Daily Planet its first corroborated sightings of Leviathan. This attention to the details of reporting and news gathering has been on the strengths of Action since Bendis came on, and I am really happy that he seems to be committing to it, all while folding elements of "The Offer" neatly into his own event with ease. Artist Szymon Kudranski and colorist Brad Anderson continue to thrive with the office environments and street-level action of this issue, staging Bendis' verbal sparring between Perry White and Robinson Goode in stagey blocking intercut with a brutal fight scene between Thorn and Levithan agents. It isn't often a comic gets better after scaling down in stakes, but somehow Action Comics continues to do it, even in the shadow of big events.
House of X #1 (Published by Marvel Comics; Review by Pierce Lydon; 'Rama Rating: 8 out of 10) Jonathan Hickman is in the driver's seat for a new era of the X-Men, and in just a few pages, he already turns everything we thought we knew upside-down. It's been a lean few years for Marvel's Merry Mutants, as creators have seemed hamstrung by factors outside their control and an editorial team in place that seemed on the fence about whether they wanted stories that revered the past or pushed forward into unknown territory. Hickman straddles the line a bit — after all, this is far from the first time we've seen a "mutant utopia" concept — but at least pays lip service to the idea that everything really will be different this time. And I'm inclined to believe him, given his track record. Pepe Larraz knocks this issue out of the park. Delivering strong superhero visuals is one of Larraz's utmost talents and it wings together nicely with Hickman's approach to tone and general design sense. The X-Men feel (almost) all-new and all-different for the first time in a while, and that's an exciting prospect.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #41 (Published by BOOM! Studios; Review by Kat Calamia; 'Rama Rating: 8 out of 10): Ever wonder what happened to Zack, Trini, and Jason in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 2? On the show the actors had left mid-season because of pay disputes, forcing the crew to use stock footage and body doubles before being able to fully write the characters off the series. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #41 delivers the story fans have been waiting decades to play out. On the show, Zack, Trini, and Jason had left Angel Grove to attend a peace conference in Switzerland, but as we discover here, they really absconded to an alien planet as the trio become a new type of ranger group – the Omega Rangers. Ryan Parrott does a great job at expanding the Power Rangers mythos all while respecting what had come before, and it's a pleasure to have "Shattered Grid's" Daniele Di Nicuolo back on pencils. His character designs are really incredible, and his kinetic illustrations creates the perfect ambiance for the series. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #41 builds some great groundwork for an even larger narrative, as Parrott continues to ace the series' character work.
Batman: Curse of the White Knight #1 (Published by DC; Review by Kat Calamia; 'Rama Rating: 6 out of 10): Batman: White Knight was one of the most refreshing Bat stories in recent years, so you'd have plenty of company being excited for writer/artist Sean Murphy's highly anticipated follow-up. Unfortunately, Curse of the White Knight doesn't connect as strongly as its predecessor. Indeed, it's telling that the most compelling elements of the story are Batman and Joker's continued reactions to Jack Napier's "White Knight" initiative, but these are all smaller elements to the Azrael narrative that Sean Murphy tries to build in this premiere issue, with a 1600s historical bent – all things less interesting than Joker and Batman's struggles. Even if you're not totally thrilled by the series' new plotlines, however, Murphy's dark and brooding visuals are a perfect fit for this type of narrative. Batman: Curse of the White Knight #1 already has a very interesting world to play with, and hopefully Murphy uses this sequel to hone in on the themes that made the original so great.
Credit: Archie Comics
Archie vs. Predator II #1 (Published by Archie Comics; Review by Oscar Maltby; 'Rama Rating: 7 out of 10):Archie and friends follow the road back to themselves in Archie vs. Predator II #1, a laugh-studded yet bewildering start that takes full advantage of modern day Archie's affinity for weird. Picking up straight after 2015(!)'s Archie vs. Predator, the Riverdale gang get used to the Archie/Predator hybrid and decide to get out of Riverdale, only to find leaving a little harder than it should be. The urge to break out the back issues is strong here — Alex de Campi's script assumes a perfect memory of the first Archie vs. Predator, making this a pretty inaccessible read. Outside of that fairly major issue, there's some solid jokes here and a plot that isn't shy about walking off the beaten track into intriguing territory. Penciller Robert Hack inks his own detailed work with a thick and messy line, liberally smearing the page to suggest soot and smoke damage. De Campi's script isn't the most dynamic, so Hack zeroes in on atmosphere and reaction to carry the story with visuals — his bombed-out Riverdale a moody as hell highlight. If you can remember the first clash between the Riverdale redhead and ol' Crab-Face, Archie vs. Predator II #1 is an imaginative and atmospheric read.
Fearless #1 (Published by Marvel Comics; Review by Pierce Lydon; 'Rama Rating: 7 out of 10) It's unfortunate that anthologies are a bit of a lost art in Big Two comics these days, because they're a fun way to introduce readers to new characters and concepts. Of the three stories here, the one that works the least is Seanan McGuire's short featuring established Marvel heroes in Captain Marvel, Invisible Woman and Storm. Leah Williams' Millie the Model update and Kelly Thompson's team-up of Elsa Bloodstone and Jessica Jones fare much better, because they're a little less stilted and have the room to be a little bit more fun. The art holds up pretty well across the issue, but the standout is Nina Vakueva's cartooning for the Millie story. Shying away from anything approaching traditional superhero work, she's able to imbue the story with a playful energy while still referencing the fashion world that Millie comes from. All in all, this is far from essential, but for a burgeoning new comics reader, it might be the gateway to some new favorites.
Detective Comics #1008 (Published by DC; Review by Justin Partridge; 'Rama Rating: 7 out of 10): "The Offer" comes to Detective Comics in issue #1008. Helmed by the classic Batman two-hander of Peter J. Tomasi and artist Doug Mahnke, the Joker attempts a kind of demented "distraction" for Batmans the citizens of Gotham before the newly leveled-up Lex Luthor's world-ending plans come to fruition. Though it isn't the most substantial of plots, Tomasi's Joker is actually funny, as he leads Batman through a whole night at the carnival, holding the rest of the patrons hostage with Joker Gas necklaces. Artist Doug Mahnke also mines a ton of visual comedy out of the script, allowing his haggard and worry-lined take on the Joker to bounce around the carnival basically doing schtick. While I would have liked a bit more headway as to what Luthor's "Offer" really entails, Detective Comics #1008 was a fun side-story as the Year of the Villain starts up in earnest.
Credit: Dark Horse Comics
Aliens: Rescue #1 (Published by Dark Horse Comics; Review by Oscar Maltby; 'Rama Rating: 5 out of 10): Military stories and PTSD have long had history with one another, but that psychological battlefield takes an interstellar twist in Aliens: Rescue #1, a technically solid but ultimately perfunctory first issue from Dark Horse. Following on from this years' Aliens: Resistance, Brian Wood's script follows Colonial Marines Recruit Alec Brand as he struggles with the traumatic memories of his previous run-in with the Xenomorphs. There's a solid mix of action and character here, but it all stays firmly in the well-trodden lanes of emotionally constipated army guys butting up against classified information. It's solid for what it is, but there's ultimately nothing here that hasn't been done before and better. Penciller Kieren McKeown's rendition of the Xenomorph is a little blunt-headed and his portraits can be uneven panel-to-panel, but he communicates expressions clearly and his backgrounds feel wonderfully lived-in. Away from Giger's classic, McKeown's creature design is solid — his horse-like insects of the Bug Hunt on Mars making for the issue's best sequence. You already know if you want Aliens: Rescue #1, and it delivers exactly what you'd expect — no more, no less.
Dial H for Hero #5 (Published by DC; Review by Kat Calamia; 'Rama Rating: 9 out of 10): Dial H for Hero continues to beautifully deconstruct the comic book medium from Sam Humphries' widely imaginative script to Joe Quinones' breathtakingly diverse visuals. In this issue, the creative team dissects the idea of secret origins. Up to this point, the comic has created one-off heroes exploring the different styles of cartooning from manga to the Sunday funnies through original superhero origins. In Issue #5, however, the creative team flips the script once again by having Miguel explore the very tales that became the launchpad for many of the iconic characters from DC. It's magical to see Miguel run through the pages of so many memorable DC moments all in the span of one comic issue. Dial H for Hero #5 not only is a wonderful spectacle, but it's also a story with a ton of heart.


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