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We use the highest class of steel that appropriately contains the right amount of cobalt, molybdenum and vanadium. Each scissors has its own unique function and our goal is to create the best scissors for each purpose by choosing proper steel to begin with. For example, Acro Stellite contains 50% or more of cobalt which gives you a softer and sticky cutting feeling and also the sharpness lasts longer while DAMA series uses CMC micro powder metal (patented) and contains more molybdenum to make the blade durable and last even longer.
Our scissors are hardened by the special heat-treatment process called "sub-zero process". Heated by the high temperature of 1000C+ degrees, then cooled quickly in the -100C degrees. Repeating this process makes the scissors extremely strong and hardly distort.
Even simplest scissors have changed its design with the hairstyle and the fashion trend. Here are some of our symmetrical type scissors that were made through the years.
For example, the 4.5 inches scissors made in the 70′s are produced in time when Sassoon cut became popular. The leaf type scissors made in the 60′ are the prototype of current Acroleaf and Acroleaf Wide. New Pixy which was released in 2006 has ergonomic form with three-dimentional design handle. Although these are very simple symmetrical type scissors, they have been, and will be constantly changing its design to adapt the fashion trend.
Mizutani's "Customize to Your Hand" is a project that is committed to satisfy the desires of most discerning MIZUTANIST.
We offer exclusive service dedicated to one of a kind Scissor/Shear with close attention for your choice of blade, handle, tang and screw. We also engrave your logo, initial, and name.
Authorized Sharpening Service in the U.S.
Please visit www.ShearSharpeningRaleigh.com for more information on their sharpening method and other details.
Norm Voller is a former manufacturing executive, chemist, software engineer and entrepreneur. In 2007 he was introduced to the craft of shear sharpening and began studying the industry for the best and most consistent techniques. With his unique background in research, engineering and entrepreneurship, he developed an expert understanding of the processes and dynamics of sharpening scissors.
In 2008, Norm began sharpening and selling shears in Raleigh, North Carolina, and quickly developed a reputation for creating the best and most precise cutting edges. Today he sharpens shears for stylists around the country.
In 2013, Mizutani Scissors, in Japan, named Norm, Master Sharpener for the U.S., and invited him to travel to Japan to share and compare secrets with Mizutani's expert staff. He uses the same equipment and processes as the Mizutani Factory in Tokyo so that his shears come to you sharpened to the same standard of excellence applied to shears sharpened in Japan.


While neither partridges nor turtle doves played a role, 50 geese and more than a dozen swans-a-swimming helped Tufts Wildlife Clinic surpass its annual caseload record by more than 12 percent and counting—a total of more than 2,000 cases.
The cases range from the common—a woodpecker from Amherst who flew into a window, for example—to the sublime, including an American bittern, a scarlet tanager, a musk turtle, a long-tailed weasel and two coyotes.
About half the cases brought to the Tufts Wildlife Clinic were birds, including 218 birds of prey. More than a third, including a golden eagle, nearly 30 red-tailed hawks and 32 owls, were released back to the wild.
Functioning from its inception as a public-private partnership, the Wildlife Clinic serves as a resource for government agencies and nonprofits tasked with rescuing wildlife, representing more than 12 percent of all the cases served.
The previous case record was set just last year—a jump from the usual 1,600–1,700 cases up to 1,810. The surge beyond 2,000 animals is reflective of a tough year, both weather-wise and economically, said Florina Tseng, DVM, director of the wildlife clinic.
We started the year with many more owls than usual, Dr. Tseng said. With the tremendous amount of snow in the region, fields were covered, and owls either came in starving or after being hit by cars, hunting on roadways.
The year continued with natural disasters in Massachusetts, including rare tornadoes and a hurricane, which displaced plenty of wildlife, including a record number of squirrels—220 in total—many tossed out of trees by high winds. Further human encroachment into wildlife habitats may lead to more animals hit by vehicles, mauled by household cats and dogs, poisoned by rodenticides and other household pest control measures, shot or otherwise interfered with, Tseng said.
What's more, wild animals are staying much longer at the clinic, Dr. Tseng said. Between July 2010 and June 2011, wildlife racked up 15,429 days in the hospital—an average of 42 days—compared with 6,885 just five years ago. While the clinic now employs more advanced methods to keep animals recovering, the increase is also attributable to decreased capacity among rehabilitation facilities, Tseng said; without somewhere else for wildlife to heal, they continue to convalesce at Tufts. Although the number of rehabilitators licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has hovered around 100 for the last few years, the economy has forced several to scale back or discontinue their efforts.
Overseen by Dr. Tseng, the wildlife clinic is one of just a handful of standalone academic wildlife clinics in the country and is a required two-week rotation within the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine's fourteen-month clinical year for DVM candidates. The clinic is staffed by three veterinarians, two veterinary technicians, support staff and a small army of volunteers.
Each year, the Tufts Wildlife clinic relies on philanthropic donations from individuals, corporations and foundations. Donations from individuals who brought wildlife to Tufts totaled more than $15,000 in 2011.
Prior to bringing wildlife to Tufts, Tseng said, the lay public should call the front desk at (508) 839-7918 to seek advice. Especially in the springtime, people will mistake healthy fledglings and nestlings whose parents are out foraging for cases of abandonment or neglect. These animals will do much better when left alone for their parents to raise.
Several of this year's cases made headlines: a Cooper's hawk who was rescued from an MBTA station by the Animal Rescue League of Boston, a wayward coyote found on the frozen Charles River, a Golden Eagle with a bite wound—all of whom were released into the wild. A snowy owl found in Newport, RI—much further south than is typical—a young porcupine, and a barred owl rescued by a State Police officer on the Massachusetts Turnpike continue to recover at the clinic.
In addition to serving the wildlife that come through the door, the Bernice Barbour Wildlife Medicine building also houses population-based research that may help future populations of wild animals. Ongoing projects include studies of exposure to lead, rodent poison and other environmental toxins—and the ways to treat, prevent or identify the origins of them.
Tufts Wildlife Clinic also works to educate non-veterinary audiences, wildlife biologists, wildlife rehabilitators, educators, and policy makers about wildlife and conservation issues and the roles that veterinary medicine can play in responsible conservation. Wildlife Clinic faculty and staff regularly lecture and provide consultation services for these varied groups.


As a graduate of Athabasca University's French program, you will attain a sufficient degree of competence in oral and written French to communicate effectively, to analyze texts and to write critical essays. You will have a thorough understanding of the structure of the French language and its application, including pronunciation, grammar, reading skills and vocabulary usage. The courses in the program will provide you with a knowledge of the literature and culture of France, Quebec, and other Francophone areas and an awareness of the stylistic differences between the French and English languages. Upon completion of the program, you will understand how to conduct further research into the subject matter in order to increase your competence in the study of French language and literature.
1. 45 credits in French major courses including a minimum of 30 senior (300 or 400) level credits (a minimum of 12, 400-level French credits).


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4th Fridays >
Past Friday Events
Past 4th Friday Events
Musical Performance with LFAS Students-February 28th, 7pm at the Fort Gallery . The gallery is pleased to welcome a musical trio comprised of Langley Fine Arts School students Sam Meyer, Tiffany Pai, and Cindy Zhang to the first 4th Friday of 2020. The three will be performing selections of baroque, classical and contemporary music, with perhaps a bit of fiddling thrown in.
Sam is a grade 12 student in the music program at LFAS and plays trumpet, violin and viola. He plans to major in classical trumpet performance at university, as well as continuing on with the violin and viola. Tiffany Pai is in grade 11 and majoring in music at LFAS. She has her ARCT in piano and RCM level 10 in violin. She plays first violin in the Vancouver Youth Symphony Senior Orchestra and is concertmaster in the Langley Symphony Orchestra. Cindy Zhang is a grade 12 music major at LFAS. Cindy has been playing cello for 7 years and has been part of the LFAS Orchestra for 4 years. She plans to study music in university to continue feeding her passion for the cello.
This month's 4th Friday will be held in conjunction with Anne Steves' exhibition A-Luring Object(s), on view February 20-March 28.
The Fort Gallery thanks the Township of Langley for sponsorship of 4th Friday community arts events.
Robson Singers Carolling + Society Member Appreciation Night (please note date change)-Dec 13th, 7pm at the Fort Gallery . December's guests, the Robson Singers, will lead us in carol singing. The Robson Singers is a choral group composed of Dayna Coulter, Katie Henthorne, Maria Krause and Tricia Coleman.
This month's 4th Friday will be held in conjunction with the gallery's annual Christmas group exhibition, The Christmas Mystery Show, on view Nov 21 - Dec 22.
Poetry Reading with Connie Braun-Nov 22nd, 7pm at the Fort Gallery . November's guest, poet Connie Braun will read from Narrow Passageway: Portals, Archways and Thresholds. Connie Braun is a university instructor and has published books of non-fiction, poetry chapbooks, and her academic and personal essays, poetry and reviews appear in various journals and anthologies. A full member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Canadian Author's Association, Connie lives in Vancouver and is completing a new book of poetry. This month's 4th Friday will be held in conjunction with the opening for The Christmas Mystery Show, on view Nov 21 - Dec 22.
Art Event with Performing Artist Fadwa Bouziane (Please note date change)-October 18th, 7pm at the Fort Gallery . This month's guest artist Fadwa Bouziane will perform, concurrent with the opening reception for Russna Kaur's latest exhibition She was there for a while... Fadwa's artistic practice exposes culturally charged concepts concerned with identity, diaspora, displacement, race and immigration and grief. Her interactions with these concepts is based on experiences of her family and community. In her work, these concepts emerge as performance art pieces and storytelling.
The Fort Gallery wishes to thank the Township of Langley and the Langley Centennial Museum for sponsoring this exhibition.
Daniel Tones-Sept 27th, 7-9pm at the Fort Gallery
Experience the award-winning percussion sounds of Daniel Tones against a backdrop of landscape and botanical paintings by Ray Ophoff. Daniel is an award-winning percussionist widely recognized for his work as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed with some of the biggest names in the percussion world and has been broadcast nationally on radio and television. He was the first person to receive a doctorate in percussion performance from a Canadian university. Refreshments provided. Admission by donation.
Izzy Cenedese-August 23rd, 7-9pm at the Fort Gallery
Listen to the music of Izzy Cenedese while surrounded by our latest exhibit Spoonful by Panagiotis Peter Sarganis. Izzy is a 17 year old graduate of Langley Fine Arts School. She has been writing music nearly every day since a young age, and this has led her to some amazing opportunities. She's performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra three times, had an original song scored for orchestra and then performed with that orchestra, and she's had the opportunity to sing from a second story window in the show RADIOHEAD RE_COVERED. Izzy is currently working on an EP full of songs which she hopes to release soon. Refreshments provided. Admission by donation.
Gordon's Jazz Trio-July 26th, 7-9pm at the Fort Gallery
Experience Beyond Barrier, Vancouver-based artist Jenny Hawkinson's latest exhibit and listen to the sounds of smooth jazz from Gordon's Jazz Trio. Gordon Edmunds has been playing guitar since he was 16. He'll be joined by Grant Lamonthe on bass with a touch of harmonica and Bob Nagle on bongos. The trio plays mostly in the Fort Langley area. Wine and refreshments provided. Admission by donation.
Art Event with Musicians Kat Wahamaa and Tony Rees (Please note date change)- June 21st, 7pm at the Fort Gallery . This musical duo will delight us with their eclectic musical tastes, harmonic sensibilities and timeless tunes, concurrent with the gallery's 2019 juried photography exhibition Traces.
Kat & Tony write and play beautiful music together and are real life partners, too. Everything Blue is their first album of co-writes and delves further into their roots, jazz and blues cupboard. katandtony.ca.
Wine and refreshments provided. Free admission.
Artist Talk - May 23rd, 7-9pm at the Fort Gallery. Two artists who worked closely with Nancy Crawford for many years will talk about her work in our current exhibition With Love and Gratitude: The Encaustic Art of Nancy Joan Crawford.
Artist/Teacher Julia Bennett taught with Nancy for many years; during this time they had several joint shows, both at the Fort Gallery in Fort Langley and at the Mary Pratt gallery at the Langley Fine Arts School. Julia will talk about working with Nancy on these exhibitions.
Artist/Sister Cindy Wilker had many opportunities to work closely with Nancy, both in Langley and in her overseas workshops. This allowed her to study first hand the many techniques that Nancy brought to her encaustic painting practice and gain valuable insights into her processes and conceptual framework. Cindy will relay these experiences and introduce selected video tutorials by Nancy herself that will shed light on how she created her encaustic collections.
Writer's Event with Susan McCaslin - April 26th, 7-9 pm, at the Fort Gallery. The gallery will host Fort Langley poet/author Susan McCaslin who will read from her most recent book on Thomas Merton, concurrent with the gallery's 2019 juried exhibition Imprint.
Susan McCaslin is a poet and Thomas Merton scholar who has recently collaborated with J.S. Porter on a volume of creative non-fiction, Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton's Dance with the Feminine (Wood Lake, Oct. 2018). Her talk explores how Merton's union of words and silences has the capacity to imprint wisdom on the minds and hearts of engaged readers. www.susanmccaslin.ca
The gallery acknowledges support for this particular 4th Friday event from the League of Canadian Poets and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Poetry Reading - March 29th, 7-9pm, at the Fort Gallery. The gallery is playing host to a number of local poets for a poetry reading on the subject of birds, concurrent with printmaker Edith Krause's, An Avian Alphabet – It's for the Birds! We will hear from Astrid Blodgett, who will be reading poems by her father E.D. Blodgett (1935-2018), Deb DeJong, Heidi Greco, Susan McCaslin, Ray McGinnis, Lee Johnson and Celeste Snowber. Wine and refreshments provided. Free admission.
Artist Talk / Bird Talk - March 22nd, 7-9pm at the Fort Gallery. Experience An Avian Alphabet - It's for the Birds!, meet the artist Edith Krause and hear a talk by both Edith and Environmental Consultant and bird enthusiast Phil Henderson. Wine and refreshments provided. Free admission.
Tim Lowly Artist Talk - February 22nd, 7-9pm at the Fort Gallery. Experience Radiator, our current exhibit and meet Chicago-based artist Tim Lowly. Wine and refreshments provided. Free admission.
Fort Gallery / 9048 Glover Road, Fort Langley / Wednesday to Saturday 12 to 5pm
The Fort Gallery resides on the unceded traditional territory of the Kwantlen, Katzie and Coast Salish nations.
We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support of the following funders as well as our members, donors and volunteers.

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Fireflies | Spot That Fire!
Fireflies has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
The Challenge | Spot That Fire!
Build a crowdsourcing tool for citizens to contribute to early detection, verification, tracking, visualization, and notification of wildfires.
Fire-Wire
Fire-Wire is a mobile-only app for responsible citizens who would like to help track and report wildfires.
About Fire-Wire
Our team, Fireflies, created this app for this 2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge: https://2018.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/volcanoes-icebergs-and-asteroids-oh-my/real-time-fire-app/details
In order to empower the public to engage in wildfire prevention and detection, we envisioned an app where users could upload an image of a fire and their location to report a fire that they find while hiking or fishing or camping. Since our intended users are outdoors, we thought the best access point for such an app would be through the use of a smartphone. Thus, we have created the foundation of the app 'Fire-Wire'.
The Data Journey
When the user takes a photo in our app, inputs a location, and submits it, the image and location data travels to our hand-made database, which is populated with NASA fire data from this website: https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/active_fire/#firms-shapefile. Once it is there, we cross-check the user's location with the locations of known fires.
If the location matches that of an existing fire that NASA is aware of, we then pass the image through the Google Vision API to ensure that the image is both of a fire and not of something inappropriate.
If the image is of a fire and not something inappropriate, we then hand off the data to the Twitter API, which we use to post a tweet with the location and image, in order to alert the public to the fire's impact. At this stage, we also would notify local authorities with the photo and geolocation of the user. Finally, we would alert other users in the area through our app with the relevant fire information.
The biggest challenge for us was that the current NASA fire data is only available (as far as we can tell) in the form of a downloadable file from their website, so Mark (https://github.com/marcusp619) and Anita (https://github.com/swesoc) had to collaborate to build a back-end for our app from scratch. Anita suggested that we use data from more sources to notify users of fire risk, but we wanted to try to integrate NASA data in our app as much as possible, since this challenge is a NASA challenge.
Another unfortunate headwind was the restrictions with using the Google Vision API. In order to use the Vision API, we would have had to enable billing, which is not a cost that any of us were wanting to shoulder right now.
Our team was composed of Turing School of Software and Design students (Alex, Cierra, Jessica, Mark) and two seasoned programmers (Anita, Tyler). The collaboration of the group is a clear victory, where each person exercised their strengths and experience to contribute to the project. Cierra and Alex flexed their knowledge of React and React router to build an appealing user-facing app. Anita and Mark brought their respective experience with Python and JavaScript to quickly meet our need for a place to store the NASA fire data, so that we could reference it with our front-end. Jessica used her previous writing experience to flesh out this read-me, as well as provided a previous prefix tree module she made while at Turing so that the user didn't always have to type out their entire location. Tyler filled in the gaps of knowledge all of the Turing students had, so that we could know what was possible in the first place.
Public GitHub repo for future contributors: https://github.com/raualex/fire-wire


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The Department of Surgery has many faculty members who are involved in a wide variety of investigations to not only improve clinical healthcare but also to treat diseases that require surgical intervention.
The Cardiothoracic Research Program consists of over 20 studies and includes the entire CT faculty. CT surgeons are very active in participating in research trials and have been the top enrollers on numerous studies. Our research nurses have over 35 years combined acute clinical and research experience. They are available 24 hours/7 days a week to support after-hours activities. Continued dedication and communication make the CT Research Program the success it is today.
Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Faculty
Currently Active Research - Externally Funded and Investigator-Initiated
Since the appointment in 2009 of Dr. B. Mark Evers as Professor of Surgery and Director of The Markey Cancer Center, the General Surgery division has acquired four Molecular Research labs. The General Surgery Clinical Research Program is a comprehensive program that supports every aspect of clinical research conduct. The program assists investigators in protocol development and grant submissions for competitive clinical research grants. The program works in conjunction with pharmaceutical and device companies to conduct industry clinical trials. The Basic Science Research Program in the Division of General Surgery is in a well-equipped and staffed cellular and molecular laboratory with powerful collaborations and related core facilities. A full-time Laboratory Director with broad training and experience in cellular and molecular biology and immunology supports faculty investigators, residents and medical and undergraduate students in bench and translational projects.
Currently Active Sponsored Research
The University of Kentucky Plastic Surgery research laboratory efforts are presently in the areas of wound healing including burns, breast cancer etiology, craniofacial growth, tendon repair, and microvascular surgery. The Division operates two basic research laboratories which also house our microsurgery-teaching laboratory.
Research and Microsurgery Training Laboratory
The UK HealthCare Transplant Institute has an active clinical research program. Transplant team physicians are currently participating in numerous industry-sponsored multi-center as well as single and multi-center investigator-initiated trials. Current trials include investigations of different immunosuppression medication regimens using FDA approved drugs, as well as investigational compounds in liver and kidney transplants.
Sponsored Research Administrative Services
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Surgical Research Core Group ›


I am using Google Play Services (JellyBean) 16.0, Xamarin 4.12.4. The application really doesn't do anything, just inflates the view where map fragment is defined.
Tested on Genymotion emulator, Galaxy Nexus 7 2013.
Since Mono GC's are "on-demand", this means that a great deal of Java-side garbage can collect before Mono's GC will kick in, because it's invisible.
In such scenarios, you may need to help things out, by e.g. overriding Activity.OnDestroy() and calling GC.Collect().
Does that reduce your memory use?
I'll do more tests tomorrow. Thanks!
Looks that's was it. GC.Collect() FTW.


TWO VIP passes to Glowfair Festival.
Weekend stay at the ALT HOTEL!
A VIP pass is the best way to see Glowfair - it gives you full access to the VIP zone at the mainstage for June 14 + 15 + 16, plus an awesome swag bag with TONS of glow merch, free drinks by TOP SHELF, food, and desserts.
It also allows you to have free reserved headphones for the Silent Disco on June 15-16th.
That's it - that's all!


Welcome to San Luis Obispo!
We are a community of businesses that share a common vision of San Luis Obispo's economic future and a spirit of entrepreneurship. This spirit and vision is also supported by new economic development policies that are intended to generate head-of-household jobs.
Whether you are just getting started and need some advice on where to begin, or you are a mature business that is looking to expand or relocate, we are here to help you and your business thrive.


I personally tried the auto money app software that is being given by Daniel Rosenberg to select invitees. I used his app for about a week to trade in binary options.
Daniel Rosenberg's Auto Money App is basically a free binary signal software that integrates easily with selected binary brokers. You simply have to fill a small form to open an account at the required binary broker that is compatible to use with auto money app.
But is it really all true? Can you really make money using auto money app? Just like you, I also felt a little skeptical regarding auto money app but I decided to take the risk and try it.
Read my auto money app review where I share my experience honestly I had using this app from Daniel. Click the button below to read the full review today.
If you feel that you have some more questions even after reading my automoneyapp.com review then don't hesitate to comment on the blog for quick answers to your queries.


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Pedestrian struck, killed near 33rd and Villard
By Jenna Sachs
MILWAUKEE -- A woman was killed Wednesday evening after being hit by a car near 33rd and Villard. Milwaukee police were called to the area a little before 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, and say they found the woman's body in the middle of the street, and it appeared she had been struck several times.
Milwaukee police are looking for the driver who struck the woman as she crossed Villard Avenue on the city's north side. "We do have some autos on scene that remained. We are searching for a striking auto, and at this time, I have no information available," Milwaukee Police Lt. Heather Wurth said.
Police have no description of the vehicle. They say the woman lived in the area, but won't release her identity until family is notified.
The manager of JJ's Fish and Chicken on Villard says he knows the woman, and says she may have been walking toward his restaurant. He says the woman was hearing impaired, but police haven't yet confirmed that. "I looked through the window, and I saw something laying down. I noticed she was one of our customers to the store, and to the restaurant where I work. I'm very sad to see the loss of human life, like her," Joe Abutoin said.
Police had two blocks of Villard shut down, and the area remains taped off.
The manager of JJ's Fish and Chicken says he feels there are problems with drivers speeding on the stretch of roadway. Police say their investigation is ongoing.


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Australia to Integrate Kongsberg JSM
Kongsberg signs contract with Australia to integrate new capability for Joint Strike Missile (JSM)
Kongsberg Defence Systems has entered into a contract with the Australian Department of Defence worth NOK150 million for the integration of a new capability in the Joint Strike Missile (JSM).
This contract is a result of the agreement reached between the Norwegian and Australian Governments initialised during the visit by Norwegian State Secretary of Defence, Mr. Øystein Bø to Australia in 2015.
JSM is the 5th generation long-range precision strike missile that will be integrated for internal carriage on Lockheed Martin's F-35. Using a combination of advanced materials, ability to fly low, while following the terrain and using advanced passive seekers, the missile is extremely difficult to detect and stop even for the most advanced countermeasures and defence systems.
The state-of-the-art RF-seeker sensor, developed by BAE Systems Australia, will enable JSM to locate targets on the basis of their electronic signature. This will further strengthen the capabilities of JSM for the most challenging scenarios in a modern battlefield. The JSM is being co-developed by Kongsberg and Raytheon.
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Article posted on November 3, 2022
It's with great sadness that we announce the passing of Past President Dave McDonald.
He passed peacefully surrounded by his family on October 24th, 2022. Born in Schenectady, NY, to his late parents, Warren G. and Ruth (VanDenburg) McDonald. He was a 1965 graduate of Draper High School. After high school, David proudly served in the United States Army.
In 1966, he married his soul mate, Shirleyan Shakan. For 55 years their love and family grew. The two of them raised a wonderful family in Burnt Hills. David was a dedicated husband, father, grandfather, and friend.
David joined his late parents, Warren and Ruth McDonald, and his two brothers James and Robert McDonald in heaven.
He leaves behind his loving wife, Shirley McDonald; his three daughters, Colleen (Bob) Karl, Brenda (Mike) Sharer, Janine (Kyle) Sharp; and son David (Rebecca) McDonald. Nine grandchildren; Evan and Cassidy Karl, Jonathan, Emma, and Sean Sharer, Cody and Layla Sharp, Kaity and Mason McDonald. Sisters, Mary Helene (Michael) Reilly, Ruth Ann (Frederick) Thayer, and Kathleen Van Rensburg, and several nieces and nephews.
David was a proud American and Patriot. He was a member of the American Legion Post #234 and served as the commander for 7 years. In addition, he served as President of the Burnt Hills Softball club where he enjoyed coaching his daughters and nieces to several victories. He also found time to enjoy the great outdoors with family and dear friends. He loved hunting, fishing and skeet shooting. David's favorite time of year was when he was able to go Pheasant hunting with his son, grandsons and his friends. He is an Honorary Life member of the FNC and was an integral part of the founding of the FNC, and forever a member of the FNC family. He was also an Honorary Life Member of the Gooley club, for his 45 years of dedicated support and exemplary conduct in the pursuit of the outdoor sports. Over the years, David also found time to serve as the New York State Skeet Shooting Association (NYSSA) president. He was the Skeet Shooting Chairmen of the Watervliet Rod and Gun Club. He was a very accomplished shooter and is in the New York State Skeet Shooting Hall of Fame. He will be sorely missed by the skeet shooting community.
Memorial donations may be made to American Legion Post #234, 23 Pleasant St. Ballston Spa, NY 12020. Online condolences may be made to glenvillefuneralhome.com
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Buckthorn, a problem
Ways to identify Buckthorn created by the Wadena Soil and Water Conservaion District.
Alternative plants to plant according to the Minnesota DNR.
Buckthorn, a problem for forests and habitat
The Wadena Soil and Water Conservation District presented to the Wadena County Commissioners in November facts about a noxious plant causing chaos in the county.
Buckthorn is an invasive shrub that is native to Europe. It was introduced to the U.S. in the mid-1800s because it was popular for hedges and it turned into a nuisance plant.
They formed dense thickets in forests, yards, parks and roadsides. They crowd out native plants and displace the native shrubs and small trees in the mid-layer of the forest where many species of birds nest, which decreases species diversity of plants and songbirds.
It threatens forests and degrades wildlife habitat. It contributes to erosion by out-competing native plants that would hold soil in place, light, moisture and nutrients. The lack of other plant life and the difficulty to navigate through it could affect the deer traffic. It acts as a laxative for birds and the fruits are messy, staining cars, decks, and concrete purple. It is expensive and time consuming to remove once it reaches a dense thicket.
"Unfortunately, buckthorn has been in our area around 40 years, so it will not go away that quickly either. Some of our landowners do know what buckthorn is and have been actively controlling it, but many landowners don't know about it so that's why we are going the route of educating," said Anne Oldakowski of Wadena SWCD....


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Q: Architecture to avoid creating repositories inside testable methods Working on an MVVM application. Each ViewModel class has a constructor which accepts a Repository class so that it can be mocked out for unit testing.
The application is designed to be operated across several windows at once. So it contains a number "View" or "Open" style methods which create new ViewModels and place them into new windows. Because these are triggered via the UI, they are often inside existing ViewModels. For instance:
public void ViewQuote(Quote quote)
{
    if (quote.CreatedOn == null)
    {
        quote.CreatedOn = DateTime.Now;
    }

    NavigationHelper.NewWindow(this, new QuoteViewModel(quote, new Repository()));
}

Now, that flow control statement looks worth testing to ensure that quotes passed with a null CreatedOn date get assigned one. However, my test for this fails because although the parent ViewModel has a mocked Repository, the NewWindow method spins up a new ViewModel with a real-life Repository inside it. This then throws an error when it's used inside the constructor of that class.
There are two obvious options.
One is to pull out the date assignment into a stand-alone function to test. That'll work, but it seems too simplistic for its own function. Plus if I do it all over the application it risks creating too much fragmentation for easy readability.
The other is to somehow change the constructor code for ViewModels to not use the Repository directly. That might be an option here, but it's unlikely to be workable for every possible scenario.
Or is there a third way to design this better so I can pass a mocked Repository into the constructor of my new ViewModel?

A: Newing up services (or service-like objects such as repositories) is a design smell. And the problems that you're experiencing are the consequence.
In other words, you are lacking a clear and well-defined Composition Root.
Solution: Use proper dependency injection
The only clean solution to this is to inject services through the constructor. Repositories usually have a shorter lifecycle than the application itself, so in this case you would inject a factory that is able to create the repository.
Note that clear dependency trees are good design, but using a DI framework such as Autofac is only one technical solution to implement such a design. You can completely solve your problems and create a clean composition root without using a DI framework.
So although this is probably a lot of work, you should redesign your application to have a clear composition root. Otherwise, you will run into small issues over and over again, especially in the testing area.

A: You could work around it by adding a public Repository NewRepository property, in your ViewQuote method change it to look like this:
public void ViewQuote(Quote quote)
{
    if (quote.CreatedOn == null)
    {
        quote.CreatedOn = DateTime.Now;
    }
    if(NewRepository == null) NewRepository = new Respository();
    NavigationHelper.NewWindow(this, new QuoteViewModel(quote, NewRepository));
}

Then in your mock, just ensure that the public NewRepository property is assigned to before the test is run on that bit of code.
Not very elegant, but it would require the least amount of changing in my opinion.

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Now folks, I don't shoot enough of these. I've been blessed to have a very diverse clientele, but that also means I don't get all the southern brides. And bridal sessions are kind of a southern tradition. So when Sierra said she had to have one, I was excited!
Finding the location for her session was the most difficult part. We went back and forth for a couple weeks trying to find something perfect, but finally decided to do it on her property and out in her small town in some gorgeous locations she had found on her own. I usually don't trust my clients to choose our locations without my approval of them…since light is a HUGE factor in how the photos will turn out, but I went with her suggestion and met her at her house.
Ya'll. This girl chose ALL the right spots!! Check these out. I'm so glad to be able to share now that she and Seth have tied the knot. These are some of my favorites from the day! Let me know what you think in the comments below!


Dr. Fisher's research examines associations between childhood trauma and conduct problems, delinquency, and criminal behavior across the lifespan. She focuses on applied research that informs interventions across social contexts, including schools, justice systems, and behavioral health settings. Dr. Fisher's work also includes conducting research and evaluation to assess the effectiveness of school-based interventions and to improve behavioral health treatment for adolescents with behavior and substance use problems.
Fisher, J. H., & Brown, J. L. (2018). A prospective, longitudinal examination of the influence of childhood home and school contexts on psychopathic characteristics in adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1-19.
Fisher, J. H., Becan, J. E., Harris, P. W., Nager, A., Baird-Thomas, C., Hogue, A., … & Wiley, T. (2018). Using Goal Achievement Training in juvenile justice settings to improve substance use services for youth on community supervision. Health & Justice, 6(1), 10.
Fisher, J. H., Lichvar, E., Hogue, A., & Dauber, S. (2018). Perceived need for treatment and engagement in mental health services among community referred racial/ethnic minority adolescents. Administration and Policy in Mental Heatlh and Mental Health Services Research, 1-14.
Widom, C. S., Fisher, J. H., Nagin, D. S., & Piquero, A. R. (2017). A prospective examination of criminal career trajectories in abused and neglected males and females followed up into middle adulthood. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1-22. DOI:10.1007/s10940-017-9356-7.


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Institute in Auckland under Immigration Radar!
Charged with allegations of committing fraud, the Kingsland Institute in Auckland is losing all its international students. The private training institute has had to pay almost 1 million dollars as refunds to all the international applicants after the application process was frozen sometime back this year.
The Manager of the institute, Donald Han has been accused of 3 charges under the Immigration Act. These allegations cater to offering false information and other misleading information. He has also been alleged for 2 offenses under the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act. He had offered immigration advice when he was not authorized for the same. Earlier in July, allegations were put on him when two prospective students had complained against him.
The courses which are offered by the institute include English, IT, business and cookery. It caters to about 400 students. As of now, dozens of students have pulled out of the courses which has led the institute to pay back.
An appeal has been made by the institute to the High Court to get a stay order on the general instructions brought out by Immigration New Zealand which has frozen the application processing of students intending to study. However, this appeal has not been upheld.
With more and more students withdrawing from the school, it would not be wrong to say that the school has lost its reputation. As of now, an assessment is being conducted by the Qualifications Authority to check whether or not it meets the requirements.
The maximum penalty on grounds of violating the Immigration Act caters is 7 years of serving time in jail and may/may not be charged a fine of 100,000 dollars. All other charges cater to a penalty fine of another 100,000 dollars.
A New Bill Could Deny Citizenship to US-born Children!
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The politics of charity and justice
Peter McNamara 28 July 2019
St Vincent de Paul Society members can play a vital role in pushing for structural change in their local communities to improve the lives of vulnerable people, writes Peter McNamara.
Like many, I joined my local Vinnies conference for one reason—to do charity—but found much more. I discovered that each relationship in service led to justice—a hand up for those we were assisting.
That was 35 years ago. In the last five years, I have been part of a social justice campaign that has engaged members and volunteers, changed political party policy and brought the needs of the disadvantaged to the minds of our community leaders.
The bridge over the Great Dividing Range of poverty
From its outset, the Society of St Vincent de Paul was intended to be a bridge between rich and poor, between the powerful and the powerless.
Not long after we European settlers conquered our own physical Great Dividing Range in this ancient continent, Frédéric Ozanam spoke of a great divide in his world:
The question which is agitating the world today is a social one. It is a struggle between those who have nothing and those who have too much. It is a violent clash of opulence and poverty which is shaking the ground under our feet. Our duty as Christians is to throw ourselves between these two camps in order to accomplish by love, what justice alone cannot do.
That struggle of Ozanam's day, launched from the vast inequality evident in the industrial revolution and exploding into the violence of the French Revolution, is still with us. We still have great poverty, even here in our rich country, so deep we cannot meet the need. We still have homeless people sleeping on our city streets—a living memorial to a monumental failure of public policy.
Our inequality is evident not just from those sleeping rough, but in the data on those couch surfing and on the brink of homelessness. Now, the challenge of having a home is confounded by an unholy alliance between on the one hand the raw cynicism of politicians, and on the other, the jaded cynicism and distrust of the voters. This mutual cynicism is evident in our lack of resolve to fix our housing crisis.
Our role today as Christians remains to moderate our social problems. The social teachings of the Catholic Church are clear—we should have a preferential option for the poor. We are called to love the poor, to take our place by the barricades and moderate the battle.
The homelessness battlefront
In 2016 our National Council published The Ache for Home report. In response to that call, in New South Wales we decided to launch a campaign that would enthuse our members, and that would result in better housing for people experiencing disadvantage.
We wanted to energise our members and volunteers and to reinforce and extend our reach into the community.
Staff and members.
How could we do it?
The groundwork was simple. We laid a foundation of internal Society structures that would provide social justice leadership. Following the youth representative model, we appointed a Vice President (Social Justice) on State Council and every other Council with a specific remit of social justice. Those Council representatives formed a Social Justice Committee to advise the Council. That was easy.
The strategy from there was based on a general plan that grew as we went.
1. We gathered our members at annual Social Justice Forums in Sydney. These 140 members worked hard on responding to the key issues they experienced, and top of the list was housing.
2. We developed a policy statement on housing, representing our shared position, so that any member or volunteer had full authority to promote the policy to the community.
3. We identified a clear and specific policy goal so that we had a headline 'ask'. The housing problem is complex and the solutions many. The goal we chose was 'inclusionary zoning'. This has been used in cities around the world—in London and New York—and in Australia, to capture a proportion of the value generated by new developments for the community; in this case, for affordable housing. Inclusionary zoning is often opposed by developers, particularly those banking land in the hope it will be up-zoned, because it may reduce their profit margins.
Damien Tudehope.
Housing pressures were greatest in the inner Sydney area. The NSW Government had created a new, independent body to lead Sydney planning, the Greater Sydney Commission. This presented an opportunity to embed, in planning rules, affordable housing for those on low incomes.
4. We started a formal campaign asking the NSW Government to mandate affordable housing targets of 15 per cent for all new developments. We launched the Right to Home Campaign in October 2016 at our annual Rosalie Rendu Lecture, where the Honourable Susan Ryan AO (our first Age Discrimination Commissioner) spoke about the crisis in housing for older women.
5. We held a series of campaign events across Sydney, west to Mt Druitt, north to Newcastle, to Burwood and Leichhardt in Sydney's inner west, south to Hurstville, Liverpool and Kingsford. Led by members, volunteers and staff, these events took various formats and were opportunities for local and state government politicians to respond to questions about what they were doing to make housing affordable.
6. We visited members of parliament and local government councillors across the state. Armed with our NSW social justice statement, our members and volunteers could speak confidently for the whole Society. The politicians said:
You ring, I might find out. You write, I should see it. You visit me, I wake up. When 20 others in the party room say they're all getting the same message, I sit up and we do something.
7. We had a bright idea—we could petition the parliament. Our members in parishes and our Vinnies retail outlets championed the cause, and in just over a month our petition had not only the 10,000 signatures needed for the issue to be debated in parliament, but over 16,300 signatures from across the state.
We then approached the key political parties to see if they would present the petition to the House. Following initial reluctance from both parties, in October 2017 Damien Tudehope, then the Liberal Member for Epping, agreed. The day after Tudehope posted the petition on the Parliamentary Noticeboard, Labor announced it was generally supportive of the Vinnies' inclusionary zoning policy.
The day the petition was presented to parliament we walked past the homeless persons tent city in Martin Place. We saw Tudehope introduce our petition, witnessed by a record-breaking 200 members, volunteers, staff and friends of the Society, requiring additional security and broadcast of the parliamentary presentation to a separate room. Labor Opposition Leader Luke Foley, his Deputy Leader Michael Daley and Greens housing spokesperson Jenny Leong supported the petition, while then Planning Minister Anthony Roberts argued against mandatory targets on the grounds they would impede overall housing supply.
After the petition had been presented, we continued to advocate for affordable housing targets. March 2018 saw a minor breakthrough, when the Greater Sydney Commission recommended Affordable Rental Housing Targets of 5 to 10 per cent in its plan, A Metropolis of Three Cities. In May 2018, the NSW Labor Opposition officially adopted an affordable housing policy with mandated targets of 15 per cent on private land, and 25 per cent on government-owned land.
8. We worked with other organisations. In May 2018, we formed a partnership with the Sydney Alliance and started encouraging local councils to take action.
9. We urged the removal of barriers to affordable housing. Our local forums called on local government to ask for the state government to extend to them legislation so they could prepare affordable housing contribution schemes. In December 2018, the NSW Government expanded the legislation to all local government councils.
10. We organised a large public assembly. State and federal elections were looming. We made a tripartite agreement with Sydney Alliance and the Everybody's Home campaign to hold a Housing and Energy Assembly at Sydney Town Hall in March 2019. We managed to fill Sydney Town Hall's 2000 seats. The politicians addressing the assembly faced a crowd of people from diverse communities across Sydney and united in our call for action on affordable housing. Politicians, and all in attendance, were moved by stories from people who experience poverty and disadvantage first-hand.
The assembly did not result in any commitment by the Coalition Government to inclusionary zoning, but lobbying in the lead-up to the event helped secure funding commitments from NSW Labor towards new social housing and increased homelessness services.
Access to affordable housing remains a big issue for the St Vincent de Paul Society NSW. Each day, our members and our staff see the adverse impact of unaffordable housing on those seeking help.
The NSW election is over, and we are still trying to push social and affordable housing higher up the government's agenda. We are working with other community groups who want communities in which each person has a stable home where they can thrive.
Good politics grounded in the gospel, good values and good works
Frédéric Ozanam was intrigued with social issues, and hence with political issues. Vinnies members are not and should not be party political. However, our advocacy for affordable housing targets, or indeed for any other policy position, is politics. We are getting the community to change its heart, change its mind and to change the rules. We are doing politics but, like Ozanam, good politics grounded in good values and good works, accomplishing by love what justice has not.
We offer the positive counterpoint of cynicism and politics from both voters and politicians. I think our point of difference is that we are inspired by Jesus' call, and the call of the social teachings of the Church, to seek first the poor.
We offer our positive counterpoint in the tradition of Jesus Christ, in the traditions of St Vincent de Paul, Sr Rosalie Rendu, Frédéric Ozanam and Catholic Social Teaching. We offer not cynicism and politics, not power and politics, not self-interest and politics, but instead: love and politics; service and politics; charity and politics; spirituality and politics; and social justice and politics.
I joined Vinnies to do charity, but over 35 years, found justice. Wrapped around charity and justice—in the members, volunteers, staff and those they assist—I found love. I found the hand of God, an earthy, grounding spirituality.
Have a go!
I urge any members interested in making a difference to have a go at the social justice issue that interests you and that sparks the imagination of others. Our Councils are keen to encourage new ideas. It is not difficult to implement new structures within the Society to accommodate social justice. We have shown how the Rule is flexible and permits constant innovation.
Our members and volunteers desire to be social entrepreneurs in the mould of Ozanam and his fellow uni students. We have members that have campaigning and influencing skills. Alone we can do a little, but together we can speak up, and give those that most need it a hand-up so they don't need yet another hand out.
Those interested in knowing more can ring their social justice representative on their State or Territory Council.
Peter McNamara is Vice President (Social Justice), St Vincent de Paul Society NSW State Council.
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Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 15 August - 21 August 2014
Thing I would not have predicted at the start of the year: Getting to see four movies featuring Choi Min-sik in regular theaters before the end of August.
As mentioned last week, Let's Be Cops opened on Wednesday; the story about two guys with a scanner and costumes pretending to be police officers plays at the Somerville, Apple, Boston Common, Fenway, and Assembly Row.
Also opening up: The Expendables 3, which has made it to a third movie without anyone really getting expended and now has a pretty gigantic cast, with Antonio Banderas, Wesley Snipes, Ronda Rousey, and Harrison Ford being added to the team and Mel Gibson playing the villain. It's at the Somerville, Apple, Fenway (including RPX), Boston Common, Assembly Row, and the SuperLux. And I really feel like I should know something about The Giver, another movie based on a young adult novel in a dystopian fantasy world. It's got an unreasonably good supporting cast - Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes - and Phillip Noyce directing, so I really feel like I should have seen one preview for it at some point. It's at the Capitol, Apple, Embassy Square, Boston Common, Assembly Row, Fenway, and the SuperLux.
All three of those movies are also opening at Showcase Cinema in Revere, which also has The Admiral: Roaring Currents - I guess there's a notable Korean community in that area or something, because they also had The Attorney six months back, and is getting this two weeks after it opens in South Korea. Choi Min-sik plays a Korean naval legend, who in 1597 fought off a 300-ship Japanese armada with a fleet of 12 ships.
Apparently the $3 movies are done at Boston Common, but the $6 screenings on Sunday and Wednesday continue; this week's is Elvis: That's the Way It Is.
Kendall Square has two new ones this week. The one-weeker is Finding Fela, a documentary on Nigeria musician Fela Kuti, which also integrates archived interviews, performance footage, and material from the Broadway play Fela!. They've also got Land Ho! (as does West Newton), a road movie about two American senior citizens, formerly married to sisters, who take a trip to Iceland.
Apple Cinemas/iMovieCafe is doing the thing where they open up the same movie under different names in Tamil (Anjaan) and Telugu (Sikandar), but nothing subtitled. Over at Fenway, Bollywood action movie Shingham Returns opens, with Ajay Devgn reprising his role as a tough cop (now Deputy Commissioner) looking to crack down on crime. Kareena Kapoor co-stars.
The Brattle picks up another IFFBoston selection for a weekend run in Rich Hill, a documentary on three brothers in the Missouri town of the title, a dirt-poor spot in the heartland. There's a panel discussion after the 7:30pm show on Friday. It plays three times a day through Sunday, and one 7:30pm show on Monday. The other shows on Friday to Monday are a return of Only Lovers Left Alive in 35mm, replacing Life After Beth. Well, there's one other, an 11:30pm screening of Videodrome (in 35mm) at 11:30pm Saturday.
The Robert Wise screenings include a matinee of The Sand Pebbles on Monday and The Sound of Music on Tuesday. The "Girls Rule!" double feature on Wednesday is Pretty in Pink in 35mm and Ghost World. And then on Thursday, there's a special premiere screening of Exposed, a documentary on cutting-edge burlesque performers.
The Coolidge Corner Theatre picks up Brendan Gleeson Calvary for its second week, meaning Snowpiercer has finally left town (but give it a hand - it outlasted Trans4mers here!). They also pick up one 9:45pm screening nightly in the GoldScreen of The Dog, a documentary about the man who inspired the main character in Dog Day Afternoon (which has a special screening on Thursday night).
In other special screenings, the midnight "Postmortem" zombie series continues with a 35mm of Stuart Gordon's Reanimator, which I recall being fun from the other times I've seen bits and pieces late at night. There are apparently still tickets available for Monday's Big Screen Classic, the annual Big Lebowski Bowling Party, which has the movie in 35mm, contests, costumes, and bowling.
The Somerville Theatre has Clue in 35mm at midnight on Friday and Saturday. Their sister theater, the Capitol, picks up Chef second-run, while The Princess Bride pulls double duty as both the family movie playing at noon and the Summer Rewind flick playing at 10:30pm Friday and Saturday.
It's still Fritz Lang time at the Harvard Film Archive, with The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Friday 7pm), Hangmen Also Die! (Friday 9pm), Man Hunt (Saturday 7pm), While the City Sleeps (Saturday 9pm), Woman in the Moon (with Jeff Rapsis accompanying on piano Sunday at 7pm), and Human Desire (Monday 7pm).
The Museum of Fine Arts continues The Films of Mohammad Rasoulof with screenings of Goodbye (Friday) and his new one Manuscripts Don't Burn (Saturday, Sunday, Thursday). Eric Rohmer's A Summer's Tale has one last screening on Friday. Closed Curtain, the latest from Iran's Jafar Panahi (supposedly not supposed to be making movies), plays Friday, Saturday, and Thursday
The Regent Theatre has some local films on Sunday, with feature film 10 bookended by TV pilot Lives of Will and Ray and short film "The Test". Can't find much information on them, though. There's also a free screening of Tim's Vermeer on Wednesday, with details at this site.
There's also a month to get tickets for a Gathr screening of Who Is Dayani Crystal? (co-directed by Gael Garcia Bernal) there on 24 September, which needs 50 purchases in the next 28 days. Tugg needs 107 more pre-orders for a 16 September screening of Last Call at the Oasis at Kendall Square (tickets must be purchased by the 5th)
The ICA is still screening Jim Hodges's Untitled film, a portrait of fellow artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, at 1pm on Sundays as part of their summer exhibition of Hodges's work.
From Joe's Calendar, noteworthy free outdoor films this week include the silent Evangeline at the longfellow National Historic Site in Cambridge, Roman Holiday at DCR North Point on Wednesday, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in Revere on Thursday. Beetlejuice is the one shownig up in multiple spots.
Unlikely I'll get back from my niece's birthday party in time for Woman in the Moon on Sunday, but I will be looking to take in Expendables 3, The Admiral, maybe Singham Returns and/or The Giver. Still haven't caught Boyhood, Calvary, or A Most Wanted Man yet, either.
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Navy Plans Electromagnetic War Games Over National Park and Forest in Washington State
Deadline to submit public comment on this project is November 28. Submit comments here: http://1.usa.gov/1qo5sxa .
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27339-navy-plans-electromagnetic-war-games-over-national-park-and-forest-in-washington-state
Save U.S. Rainforest, Deadline Nov. 28 to comment re WA State Olympic Peninsula, Electromagnetic Warfare Project
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=de#!topic/omeganews/oI-o7Ns_tFM
Informant: Isis Feral
Time for Public Comment on Navy War Training Running Out
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The public has until the end of the week to weigh in on the Navy s plan to create an electromagnetic warfare range. The Pacific Northwest Electronic...
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Informant: André Fauteux
OlympicForest Warfare Range, articles & petitions
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/25/18764638.php
Documents Show Navy s Electromagnetic Warfare Training Would Harm Humans and Wildlife
Dahr Jamail, Truthout: While the US Navy claims *no significant impacts* will occur to wildlife or humans from its electromagnetic war games over the Olympic National Forest, military documents and an expert on the human impact of electromagnetic radiation fields say otherwise.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28009-documents-show-navy-s-electromagnetic-warfare-training-would-harm-humans-and-wildlife
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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35111-exclusive-navy-secretly-conducting-electromagnetic-warfare-training-on-washington-roads
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Up to about jogging speed, (6 to 8 mph), power loss on a bike is for practical purposes about equal from mechanical, tire, and air drag. Above that speed air drag rapidly becomes dominant, and since I wish to travel quickly over a longer distance between towns, it becomes a main consideration for the design of the third solar cargo bike. Having a slippery shape (low Coefficient of drag), and a small frontal area (pushing less air around), are the most practical ways to reduce energy use, increase speed, and extend battery range in the forward direction, and increase stability and safety in crosswinds. I'm working through the compromises between a very efficient shape, and ease of use.
The most important concept for air drag is the swirling air left after the bicycle passes by:
Swirling vortices pattern in stone garden path, Photo credit: Awesome stone path design
If something is pushed along through the air and the air flows around it smoothly and leaves still air behind it, (imagine a canoe coasting through water), it uses much less energy than if the air flow is broken up and swirling air is left behind (imagine a barge with eddies behind it in the water).
Still water in wake of a canoe, in laminar flow the water doesn't mix around.
Diagram credit: www.Avalanche-Center.org
It takes energy to make the air swirl, and you can think of the swirling eddies as energy left behind and wasted:
Swirling eddies means wasted energy, Diagram credit: Wings of the World, www.pilotwings.org
I'm going to ignore the Reynolds number concept here, because most bicycle aerodynamics are so lumpy, (like the turbulent example), that you are guaranteed to get eddies. We don't need to predict them, just to reduce them. I'm also going to assume this is for solo biking and ignore drafting.
Drag Coefficients for various generic shapes.
Air is flowing at them from the left. A smaller number is less drag.
Notice the half sphere has less drag than the whole sphere.
Diagram credit: TheOtherJesse, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_coefficient
A vehicle's frontal area at the leading edge of any bodywork would start at nothing, increase to a maximum to make room for me inside, and then decrease back to zero. Because the air in the front is under pressure, it is possible to use a variety of smooth rounded shapes and the air flow will stay laminar. A round sphere works well in front on airplanes and submarines, but on the road you don't want to push air underneath the vehicle (it causes weird handling and extra drag), so the shape ends up looking more like a person's chin (similar to the Streamlined Half-body on the chart above). The problem location is when the body shape has reached it's maximum area and starts decreasing, causing the air pressure to drop:
Sphere in wind tunnel, air flowing from left. Laminar air flow on left in air under pressure,
Turbulent on right in reduced pressure. Photo credit: unknown, from www.endless-sphere.com
Surrounding air pressure has to press the air flow back against the decreasing body shape for it to stay laminar. If it doesn't, a vacuum forms, and turbulent air swirls in to fill it. One way around this is with a long gradual taper- the classic teardrop aerodynamic shape:
Prius with aerodynamic vertically tapered tail added, Photo credit: unknown
This approach has problems with weight, crosswinds, and street maneuverability.
Back in 1969 Porsche built a Grand Prix race car for the 24 hours of Le Mans that had a smooth horizontally tapered tail to reduce drag:
Porsche 917 long tail, 1969, Photo credit: Porsche 917 owner's manual
Porsche had historically run small engines (their 356 series was related to the Volkswagen Beetle), and they needed aerodynamics and handling to make up for other manufacturer's larger engines. However this particular shape is very much like an airplane wing, and at speed it has a large amount of lift (i.e. starts to fly). While this is good for tire wear, the drivers did not like not being able to steer, and in fact one driver died in a crash. This flying problem is present in any vehicle that has a rounded upper body and a flat bottom, making it into the basic shape of a wing. This lift happens not just with forward movement, but also with crosswinds. Production cars can have a ridge or a reverse camber in the hood, or square cornered fenders to break up the airflow and reduce this effect (but square corners on the front will cause a lot of drag). Average cars have enough weight per surface area to lessen being pushed around, but a strong gust or crosswind may take a motorcycle or bike with rounded bodywork and unload the front tire (besides the sideways push), resulting in constant steering corrections. The 917 was immediately modified with rear wings that pushed downwards:
Porsche 917K (Kurzheck, or short tail), 1970
The 917K had more drag and a slower top speed than the longtail, but it illustrates a bodywork trend that was being applied to everyday cars starting about that time- the Kammback. If you can't have a long tapered tail, the next best thing is an abrupt cutoff. This is the rear trunk spoiler on modern cars (even minivans)- it doesn't actually push down for traction as much as it separates the air flow for reduced drag. Air flowing around a body will try to press in towards the surface of the decreasing second half, but if it can't fill the space completely then a vacuum forms. The vacuum is filled by turbulent air, giving a large increase in drag. A sharp lip also ruins any hope of maintaining laminar flow, but it reduces further loss by shedding the air flow and reducing the area the suction is working on. This is why the half sphere in the chart above has less drag than a whole sphere, and is also the same principle at work with the dimples that promote turbulence and detach the air flow on a golf ball, instead of letting it cling for another quarter of an inch.
Left- newer Porsche 904 Kammback tail, right- older 550 Spyder classic teardrop tail.
Photo credit: Simon Gaspirc, Slovenia, Maisto model car collection
If you took the Half-Sphere in the above chart and turned it around with the flat face forward, the shape would be similar to a parachute, and the drag would be probably be closest to the Short Cylinder further down. (A parachute has a vent which makes the airflow slightly different and increases drag even more.) The Coefficient of drag for each generic shape relevant here is:
-Short cylinder 1.15
-Sphere 0.47
-Half-Sphere 0.42
-Stream lined half body 0.09
Unfortunately an upright bicycle riding position with arms, legs and head forward is probably closest to the parachute shape, and it is only acceptable because the area is small and the speed is slow. Using the short cylinder as the worst case, then adding a spherical shape in the front would give about a 0.70 reduction in Cd, and adding a stream lined tail to that reduces Cd another 0.35. In practice the leading edge is also more important because it is in undisturbed air (unless you are riding in traffic), whereas anything in behind is more likely to be in a turbulent airflow where streamlining is not as effective. (The front tire aerodynamic rim matters more than the rear.)
A front bike fairing reduces drag by spreading the air flow apart in a laminar fashion over an area large enough to fit the rider in behind, but it can also reduce air drag further by cleanly shedding it's own air flow. Often times lips are added to the top of a windscreen to aim the air flow above the rider for increased comfort, but adding something to the sides can be just as important for cleanly shedding the airflow. This can be a small curve or lip, an extra thick section, or even molding glued on. It is also possible to have secondary vents that feed controlled air to behind the fairing to reduce the strength of the vacuum, (air bleed ports have been tested on the trailing section of airplane wings for reducing drag and found to work, but the air supply system was too complex to be practical).
Kraig Schultz's Dustbin style front fairing, 2009, Photo credit: Kraig Schultz
Kraig Schultz's Delta-11 fairing with more comfortable riding position, 2011
Notice the very unaerodynamic tail with the battery box stuck out on a frame.
Photo credit: Kraig Schultz
Speed vs power for the two fairings shown above on Kraig's electric motorcycle.
Red line is 2009 Dustbin fairing, Blue is 2011 upright riding position fairing.
Despite the 2011 tail having much more drag, the power use is similar.
Tails in turbulent air matter much less than front fairings.
Graph credit: Kraig Schultz, http://www.schultzengineering.us/aero.htm
One other consideration with fairings is the location of the Center of Pressure from the side. The crosswind force on a fairing can be summed up and represented as a push on the side of the bike in one spot. In a similar manner the weight of the bike can be summed to find a Center of Gravity (or Mass), and the tire traction and wheelbase also affect turning dynamics around a central point. If the Center of Pressure is near the Center of Gravity or the central turning point, it won't affect handling much when a stiff crosswind hits. However if the Center of Pressure is a distance in front of the other Centers, it will steer the bike in the wrong direction (with the wind), and if the Center of Pressure is behind the others, it will be self correcting and steer the bike into the wind. This can be interpreted as either making the front fairing small to reduce it's effects, or including a rear fairing in the plans. Note- this is a separate issue from mounting the fairing on the handlebars (instead of the frame), which is even worse than a forward Center of Pressure, because a crosswind will then directly steer the handlebars.
According to Simon Kidd, a contributing writer to Cycling, some of the generally accepted savings for aerodynamic modifications are:
-tires 20-22 watts saved
-brakes 5
-water bottles 4-7
-helmet 12
-jacket 8
-shoes 3-4
For a car with 160 hp (120,000 watts), this amount of energy doesn't matter, but for bike with 200 watts it does. It is possible to gain a total of 60-70 watts from being careful with airflow while still keeping a more upright riding position.
http://breakingmuscle.com/cycling/the-accumulation-of-marginal-gains-gear-tips-for-cycling-faster
What is aero worth? A shopping list by Rainer Pivit of the improvement
in drag from various modifications. (Cost is in German Deutsch marks.)
Multiply the % advantage by 250 watts to get an average racing watt savings value,
or multiply by 100-200 watts for a slower commuter.
Table credit: http://sheldonbrown.com/rinard/aero/aerodynamics.htm
With a generic Cd reduction of 0.7 for a front sphere, and 0.35 for a rear tail, is it worth trying to come up with a practical bike tail shape? With a more enclosing bodywork, most of the items in the above chart don't matter, (I can wear street clothes), and the performance takes a large step up. The human speed record enclosed bikes are traveling at 80 mph, and I've read several reports from velomobile riders of commuting in the 30 to 40 mph range (using human power only). Weather wouldn't matter very much either. But it would be difficult to ride through mud, or to do frequent stops and starts. It would not be as well suited for Vermont roads and I couldn't put my feet down, I would probably have to get out and push it along occasionally. Would a practical body shape maintain laminar flow all the way to the tail?
To give you an idea of the frontal area of the speed record bikes-
most of the three wheel velomobiles are about twice this size.
Photo credit: Trisled, Australia
Velomobiles do work quite well in a more paved situation. I love this video because it gives a good idea of riding in a velomobile and it is also a bit of a travel show, with excellent tourist video of the area around Giessen, Germany. They are traveling 4 mph up hills, averaging about 18 mph, and hitting 50 mph downhill (without electric motor):
Velomobile meeting Giessen 2010, Video credit: Wilfred Ketelaar
I still seem to be working towards an Ultra Light Vehicle in a way, and it still seems like two wheels is the best compromise for my use in Vermont. The body compromise might be that the body work only has to be done well in the front, and can have smoothly discontinuous sections in behind, so that I can still put my feet out. Compare the bulbous shape of the 2014 Le Mans race car below with the 1970 version above. There are several rounded shapes over the main components that flow into each other, with all sorts of slots and vents in the bodywork to make this work. It is not very smooth, but undoubtedly has spent a lot of time in the wind tunnel. The emphasis has been placed on minimizing frontal area, and less on streamlining:
2014 Porsche 919 hybrid electric race cars at the Silverstone race track, UK
Photo credit: Porsche
This seems like the most productive way to go for a street errands bike. Maybe aerodynamic panniers that divert the cold winter air? In many respects this plan is very similar to town energy committee goals for buildings- first reduce the energy needed (i.e. conservation- by a smaller house or less vehicle frontal area), second make the energy you do use more efficient (a better heating system or vehicle aerodynamics), and then third add renewable energy.
The next post in this aero series will look at taxifiets, the ELF, velomobiles, bubbles, some German project bikes, and other things on the road.
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Brazilian oil group Petrobras announced it has reached an agreement with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to add to the cooperation agreement signed in 2017 for the Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex (Comperj), which is at a standstill and. according to the international press, has already cost Petrobras US$14 billion.
The agreement comes less than a week after Federal Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lewandowski banned the sale of state-owned companies without congressional authorisation, a move that forced Petrobras to suspend the sale of certain assets, such as Transportadora Associada de Gás, valued at between US$8 billion and US$9 billion.
The decision affected the oil company's divestment target of US$21 billion's worth of asset sales in 2017/2018, of which only US$4.8 billion was sold.
The partnership announced on Wednesday involves the construction of a refinery with capacity to process 165,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) at Comperj, alongside the revitalisation of the Marlim group, made up of Marlim, Voador, Marlim Leste and Marlim Sul, which were once the stars of the Campos Basin and now produce half of what they produced eight years ago.
Marlim Leste, for example, which in 2010 extracted 143,000 bpd, currently only produces 70,000 bpd.
The idea of the agreement is to process the heavy oil extracted in the Marlim grouping at the refinery that will be built by the Chinese group and which according to Petrobras is 80% complete.


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