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The effect of intensive risk factor management in type 2 diabetes on inflammatory biomarkers
Xanthia F. Samaropoulos, Laney Light, Walter T. Ambrosius, Santica M. Marcovina, Jeffrey Probstfield, David C. Goff
Aims: To determine whether intensive risk factor management reduced markers of inflammation in middle-aged and older people with type 2 diabetes who either had, or were at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), and whether these effects were mediated by adiposity. Methods: The Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial was a multicenter double 2 by 2 factorial randomized controlled trial of 10,251 middle-aged and older people who had type 2 diabetes, a GHbA1c of 7.5% or greater, and evidence of CVD or CVD risk factors. Biomarkers were assessed in a subset of 562 participants. Intervention effects on high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) were tested using linear regression models. Results: A significantly lower average hs-CRP was noted in the intensive versus the standard glycemic group (p=0.029). Adjusting for change in BMI or waist circumference resulted in larger differences in adjusted hs-CRP (p<0.001 and p<0.002, respectively) between the glycemic intervention groups. Conclusions: Intensive glycemic control was associated with a reduction in hs-CRP in this study population. Intervention associated increases in adiposity suppressed the beneficial effect of intensive glycemic control on lowering hs-CRP.
Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2011.09.027
ACCORD trial
Hs-CRP
Samaropoulos, X. F., Light, L., Ambrosius, W. T., Marcovina, S. M., Probstfield, J., & Goff, D. C. (2012). The effect of intensive risk factor management in type 2 diabetes on inflammatory biomarkers. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 95(3), 389-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2011.09.027
The effect of intensive risk factor management in type 2 diabetes on inflammatory biomarkers. / Samaropoulos, Xanthia F.; Light, Laney; Ambrosius, Walter T.; Marcovina, Santica M.; Probstfield, Jeffrey; Goff, David C.
In: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, Vol. 95, No. 3, 01.03.2012, p. 389-398.
Samaropoulos, XF, Light, L, Ambrosius, WT, Marcovina, SM, Probstfield, J & Goff, DC 2012, 'The effect of intensive risk factor management in type 2 diabetes on inflammatory biomarkers', Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 389-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2011.09.027
Samaropoulos XF, Light L, Ambrosius WT, Marcovina SM, Probstfield J, Goff DC. The effect of intensive risk factor management in type 2 diabetes on inflammatory biomarkers. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 2012 Mar 1;95(3):389-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diabres.2011.09.027
Samaropoulos, Xanthia F. ; Light, Laney ; Ambrosius, Walter T. ; Marcovina, Santica M. ; Probstfield, Jeffrey ; Goff, David C. / The effect of intensive risk factor management in type 2 diabetes on inflammatory biomarkers. In: Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 2012 ; Vol. 95, No. 3. pp. 389-398.
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K7-11: Allata Broulaye
Allata Broulaye seems to have wanted to stay out of the media's attention--including the recording industry--preferring to be known through performance instead. He is credited as being the "inventor" of what we all know and love (if not by name at least by sound)--the kamelen n'goni. I hope you'll be lenient with me in light of most of what I am going to write below is taken from one excellent article written by Lucy Duran, as well as from what I remember asking friends in Yanfolila, who didn't speak much French and I very little Bamana, about the origin of the songs I was hearing and learning.
I say Broulaye avoided attention because Duran credits herself as having the only interview he ever gave (1996), months before his death (1997). I say he avoided the recording industry because Duran and another talented researcher, Graeme Counsel, cite his only full-length, official album to have been recorded in 1981/3, titled Spécialiste de Kamelen N'goni. Before I go on with more info about him I want to point something out, if you haven't noticed already.
Duran's note at the end of her article and Counsel's comprehensive discography list Broulaye's only LP/cassette as Spécialiste de Kamelen N'goni (the year of release differs). However, the cassette I present to you, and that was presented to me in the market as Allata Broulaye's "only" cassette, is titled L'Initiateur de Kamele Ngoni. Presently, the only other island in this vast internet ocean where I can find another listing for L'Initiateur de Kamele Ngoni is here, a listening syllabus for a Harvard music class in 2008. I cannot find a single website that provides a track listing for Spécialiste de Kamelen N'goni album, nor for L'Initiateur de Kamele Ngoni, save for the three tracks on the Harvard site linked above. So, your guess is as good as mine as to whether or not I have the true "only" cassette. The score is 2-2. Duran and Counsel -vs- me and Harvard. Perhaps these tapes are one-and-the-same, perhaps not. Let me know if you figure something out. At least here I have home-field advantage.
I'll get back to this conflict with relevant information a little later, but for now, enough of that.
Duran writes that Broulaye was the first to record kamelengoni with his niece Coumba Sidibe (to be posted later) for Radio Mali, in 1977, and it wasn't until the early 1980's that he put his first LP to wax. Brulaye said he was never paid for that album and thus never recorded again. I would like to think that it would be impossible that not a single event where Brulaye may have played for a crowd, such as for the opening of such-and-such market, or such-and-such school, or whatever else might warrant ceremonious music in his whole career, wasn't ever recorded by a Radio Mali journalist or Radio Wassoulou journalist, as is quite common. There are plenty of locally recorded tapes available to support this practice, my Seydou Camara post being one of them (although I don't know the exact purpose for that recording). But then I remember one has to consider the original "purpose" of the kamelengoni and what it represented to Malian youth and musicians and artists: freedom from ceremony and ritual, which was required for any occasion that the donsongoni played. Instead, kamelengoni was/is for pure entertainment. So perhaps there aren't any recordings of Brulaye playing for the opening of whatever was opening because he simply didn't play for those events. He only played to make people dance in the villages, a pure expression of "his" art. Broulaye's brother said, "'This was our own dance music. We didn't listen to records or the radio. Young boys and girls would meet in the evenings outside the village and dance to this music until the early hours of the morning...'" (Duran, 2003; I'd give a page number but my copy doesn't have them).
Duran also mentions that shortly before his death, Broulaye recorded a few songs with Oumou Sangare at her house in Bamako. These were recorded by Ousmane Haidara. I'm excited for a future trip to Mali, in part to track down some of these forgotten recordings. Speaking of Oumou Sangare...she is one of the singers on this album. If you listen closely to the songs Dundun Ba and Djigui you can hear Broulaye single out Oumou Sangare, singing her name.
I will never claim that I speak Bambara well (yet), and if someone out there can correct me please do, but to me it sounds like Broulaye is singing something like this, beginning at minute mark 1.29 of Djigui: Oumou Sangare ngoni min y'a djigui ye/ (chorus)/ Kamelengoni kan...//
My translation, if I'm correct would be, roughly: Oumou Sangare, the ngoni that gives her hope/ (chorus)/ The language of kamelengoni...// and then I can't separate the words (plus he sometimes sounds like he doesn't have any teeth). In most cases djigui translates to hope, but from experience it seems to me that any word in Bamana can mean anything depending on the context of the rest of the sentence. Then in the next line, adding -kan after a noun typically means "the language of that noun". Such as Bamanankan = the Bamana language. Konokan = the language of the bird. Side note: when you hear many Wassoulou artists sing "wassoulou konokan bora", they're singing that their words have left. (bo = to go--among other things--and -ra makes that verb take the past tense). In this case the singer is the bird of wassoulou who has just said whatever it is they did and the words have left them. Another side note: although Oumou Sangare is most famously given the title of the Bird of Wassoulou, such a title is not unique to her, although she does have a very pretty voice.
A brief return to the conflict of the dueling cassettes: Duran quotes from two of Broulaye's songs from Spécialiste de Kamelen N'goni in her article, listing the titles as Mousso keleyato and Yayoroba. You may notice that neither of those are in my cassette presented to you. However, I have not scoured the lyrics of my tape for those phrases, which if identified, would lead me to believe there is merely a difference in song titles not content. The score is still 2-2 in my book (Harvard has my track titles, and Duran has them for her team).
I've written more than I thought. I love the kamelengoni. The picture at top is a close-up of Sekou Kouyate's axe, who is pictured behind the title of this blog. I hope you enjoyed the brief lesson in Bamana grammar.
Post script: I am hesitant to make any connection between Malian music and the blues, for one because I'm tired of reading about it in the superficial terms by which it is typically presented, and two because what I want to write is not founded on anything beyond an entertaining coincidence; so here goes. I've been listening to a lot of pre-WWII blues lately. Allata Broulaye reminds me of a Henry Sloan type character. Henry Sloan is credited with teaching Charley Patton to play the blues, and Charley Patton, as I understand it, went on to teach people like Son House and Bukka White, among others, and on and on until the blues is what it is today one-hundred years after the fact. There is only one single reference to anyone besides Charley Patton ever having seen Henry Sloan alive (W.C Handy in 1903), and even that is an ongoing debate. Allata Broulaye apparently only gave one interview and he was the founder of a musical movement that cemented a cultural identity.
--an entertaining coincidence, is all. Enjoy!
really sounds good! i always wonder if someone had just said "listen to this" -- would I have the same impression...(?) i think most of the time probably i would... but in any case, after i heard it, i seem to feel a depth of expression and a *SOLIDNESS* that only the really great ones can bring forth... i'm not surprised the dude is such a big deal, because HE'S GOT THE GOODS!!!
NGONI said...
I'm enjoying this cassette, I've heard several times but now I've noticed that I'm hearing the songs in alphabetical order.
Could you give me the original order?
I seem to hear the voice of Nabintou Diakite behind Oumou.
I would comment something more but first want read the notes of L.Duran.
I ordered the titles as think it should be and for me the listening is more satisfactory.
1 Dundun Ba (5:16)
2 Jatiguilakaw (5:12)
3 Djigui (4:28)
4 Ko Duman Saaba (3:48)
5 Sabu (4:22)
6 N'Tanam (6:17)
7 N'Taama Njonkon (8:06)
8 N'Na Allata (10:37)
To my seems this cassette is:
Broulaye, Allata. n.d. Initiateur du Kamel Ngoni: MaliK7 S.A.
The songs Broulaye record with Oumou Sangare at her house in Bamako.
If you listen to the voice of Oumou does not seem to correspond to thirteen to fifteen years old when the recording the Lp((81-83). (Oumou is born in 68-69 according to different sources)
zim said...
hello, I know it is a long time since this was posted but maybe this will help on the "dueling" cassette front.
this cassette seems to be the one for sale here:
http://firstworldmusic.org/00-archives/APRIL-08-2012Archive.html
maybe the other "specialist" cassette, is from this lp that was released by maikano (mailps 1024, 1981) in ivory coast:
http://www.popsike.com/Allata-BroulayeAfro-manding-folkMali-listen/150826500314.html
there seemed to have been a series of these, here's another title:
DJELIMADI SISSOKO - Folklore du manding
http://www.cdandlp.com/en/djelimadi-sissoko/folklore-du-manding/lp/r2300062028/
Thanks Zim, if you look attentively, you will see that the page where we see the k7, belongs to the playlist, of an on-line radio.
If I have not seen wrongly, the songs order is this.
1- Sabou
2- N'na Allata
3- Ko Duman Saaba
4- Djigui
5- Doundoun ba
6- N'Taama Njonkon
7- Jatiguilakaw
8- N'tanan
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During a press conference last week in Nashville, Tennessee's Republican chief executive said his administration is "learning some things" from policies being pursued under Obamacare by Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, a Democrat.
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We still don't know the final details of the Arkansas agreement — or whether there is a final agreement. There are questions about whether this option will be more expensive than a traditional Medicaid expansion (the public program tends to cost a few thousand dollars less per enrollee).
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Взлётная улица — улица в Московском районе Санкт-Петербурга на территории Авиагородка. Получила название в 1976 году, использована авиационная тематика, как и у других улиц Авиагородка.

Протяжённость улицы — 1020 м.

География
Улица пролегает с севера на юг, имеет несколько изломов, служа западной и южной границей жилого массива, с севера и востока ограниченного улицами Штурманской и Пилотов соответственно.

Здания и сооружения
 дом 7/1 — офисный центр
 дом 5/1 — «Пилигрим» (школа развивающего обучения при средней школе № 354)

Транспорт
 Проезд от станции метро «Московская»:
 Социальные автобусы: № 13, 13а
 Коммерческие автобусы: №  К13, К213
 Ж/д платформа «Аэропорт» (1900 м)

Пересечения
С севера на юг:
 Вертолётная улица
 Штурманская улица
 улица Пилотов (соединена проездом)

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

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Newcomers to wine often describe their first impressions of its taste as "vinegary" and "sour". My younger brother and I agreed, having tentatively sipped champagne in our early teens, that its taste was similar to that left in our mouths after we'd vomited. Our virgin palates correctly identified wine as an acidic substance. Almost all wines have a pH somewhere between 3 and 4 – well to the north of water's neutrality (a pH of 7 or so).
Beginners often prefer sweet wines for the simple reason that sugar balances (or masks) wine's intrinsic sourness – thereby duplicating the refreshment and seduction of fresh grape juice. In dry wines, that sugar has been transformed into alcohol (and carbon dioxide), but the acidity remains disconcertingly palpable. After a while, of course, the palate acclimatises. Or does it? The more closely one examines the presence and role of acidity in wine, the more vexed and myth-laden an aesthetic issue it comes to seem. It is also an area in which the acid-loving "professional palate" can seem out of synch with the acid-shy "ordinary palate". There are, too, striking differences in how national palates respond to acid levels in wine.
Assuming all the acidity in wine is natural (a dangerous assumption, as I'll explain), then a guide to working out how acid or otherwise a wine might be is to gauge whether it comes from a cool wine-growing climate. Within France, for example, a white wine from Muscadet (grown close to the mouth of the river Loire) will always be higher in acidity, and more palpably structured by acidity, than a white Châteauneuf-du-Pape (grown in one of the country's warmest wine-growing zones, close to Avignon). Its beauty is of a different order. Great Muscadet is zingy and mouthwatering; great white Châteauneuf is ample, unctuous and thick-textured. A cool climate, it's worth noting, can be defined by both latitude, as in the example above, and altitude: wines grown in the mountains of Sicily or Corsica are fresher and more acidic than those grown in the warm coastal plains of each island.
This relationship between climate and acidity, though, can be both tweaked and subverted. One tweak would be to change the grape varieties in your vineyard: some are later ripening, and better at acid-retention, than others. Those making wine in warm or hot climates, too, sometimes choose to harvest earlier than they might do when growing the same grape varieties in a cooler climate. The benefit of early harvesting is more natural acidity, which drops swiftly as full ripeness approaches; the drawback is that the other components of the grape may not then be ripe. Such wines often lack wealth and articulacy of aroma and flavour as a consequence, and taste mean and raw.
And the subversion? Everything I have written above is based on the assumption that the winemaker wants, above all, to make a wine that truthfully reflects the flavour and balance of the harvested grapes – and, by implication, the climate, landscape and soil conditions in which they came into being. (This sense of "placeness" serves as a rough translation of the French word terroir.) But winemakers might not want to do that; they might just want to make "a nice drink", or a wine of robust microbiological stability (high-acid wines are more stable than low-acid wines). So acid can be added to wine, even if the resulting balances are, in terroir terms, chimerical. Like all wine additions save sulphur, this need not be acknowledged on labels – a clear and bewildering contrast to food labelling regulations in Europe and elsewhere, which do require additives to be listed on labels. Wine producers have been allowed to get away with non-disclosure of additives for too long.
As a Briton who has lived over the past five years in both Australia and France, it became apparent to me that the Australian palate relishes acidity in wine and prepared foods to a much greater extent than the French palate – which in part explains why so many Australian wines, especially red wines from warm regions, are routinely acidified. The German palate, too, is devoted to acid flavours (hence the importance of the sometimes austerely dry "trocken" versions of Riesling classics preferred in Germany). North and South American palates favour softer acid balances, as does the Spanish palate. The Italian palate is unclassifiably diverse – or one of magnificent breadth.
(£27.49 at allaboutwine.co.uk). This six-variety dry white blend is both remarkably low in acidity yet has a low pH, too. It smells of dried wild flowers and straw, and tastes rich and chewy, with hints of cream, almonds, marrow and nougat: shy yet haunting.
One of the most pernicious myths in the wine world is that a wine "needs" prominent acidity in order to age well, whereas what age-worthy wines in fact need is a combination of density of flavour, aromatic precision and overall harmony, generally attained after generous vintages in the lower end of the acidity spectrum for the region and variety in question. This myth perhaps springs from a confusion, even in seasoned mouths, between acidity and concentration (the more acid a wine is, the more concentrated it will seem to be); or is based on the fact that acid in any case becomes increasingly prominent in the flavour spectrum of most wines as they age, and the youthful impression of fleshiness and richness drops away. The greatest wines keep their acidity at bay – or in balance – for longest.
These are, though, difficult issues to calibrate perfectly, not least because pH and measured levels of acidity in a wine do not always correspond. "In a great wine," I was told at Ch Cheval Blanc recently by soil consultant Kees van Leeuwen, "you can have a lot of freshness without necessarily having acidity." Bordeaux's transition, over the past three decades, from being a region producing alcoholically light, acid-prominent and sometimes roughly tannic red wines in most vintages to one producing alcoholically moderate to ample red wines whose structure no longer comes from acidity but instead from generous but sumptuously textured tannins with a non-acid freshness of their own is remarkable. My palate (perhaps over-sensitive to acidity) greatly welcomes it. Others disagree.


Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is ranked as the as the world's second largest PC chipmaker with a market share of just 17%, far behind Intel Corp. with 81% of the market (Buckman and Williams 2001, 1). However, in 2000 AMD's sales jumped 63% to $4.6 billion, producing $983 million in net income and its first profitable year since 1995 (Streetwalker 2001, 1).
AMD owns engineering, manufacturing, warehousing and administrative facilities where it produces not only PC chips but also microprocessors, memory circuits, logic circuits, flash memory devices, telecommunication products and embedded processors (Moody's 2000, 2520). The company's headquarters and research and development site are located in Sunnyvale, CA, while the wafer manufacturing plants are located in Austin, TX and Dresden, Germany. The test and assembly facilities are located in Bangkok, Thailand and Penang, Malaysia. The company has also established production at the Singapore's test and assembly facility as well as an analysis and design plant in Suzhou, China. In addition, a new plant in Japan, a joint venture of AMD and Fujitsu, called AMD Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. or FASB, will begin operations in the first half of 2001 (Dum 2000, 2).


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We spent the last week in very remote Gujarati villages amongst local craftsmen. A long way from Paris Haute Couture, you'll tell me. Well, as it turns out, not that far.
India, Week 1. Sensory overload is not an exaggeration.


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Mechanical Properties 2
Acoustics and Vibration 1
Energy Performance 1
Serviceability 1
Glulam (Glue-Laminated Timber) 2
LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) 2
Beams 1
Strength 2
Acoustic Signals 1
Adhesives 1
Apparent Temperature 1
Bending 1
Cross-Banded 1
Damage Detection 1
Decay 1
Delamination 1
Density 1
Dielectric 1
Failure Modes 1
Adekunle, Timothy 1
Bailleres, Henri 1
Bradford, Mark 1
Buchschmid, Martin 1
Eom, Chang-Deuk 1
Gilbert, Benoit 1
Han, Yeonjung 1
Hassanieh, Amirhossein 1
Kim, Kwang-Mo 1
Kim, Se-Jong 1
Liu, Yunfei 1
McGavin, Robert 1
Conference Paper 1
Acoustic Impact Testing and Waveform Analysis for Damage Detection in Glued Laminated Timber
https://research.thinkwood.com/en/permalink/catalogue771
Acoustics and Vibration
Glulam (Glue-Laminated Timber)
Xu, Feng
Wang, Xiping
Teder, Marko
Liu, Yunfei
Damage Detection
Moment Analysis
Wavelet Transform
Acoustic Signals
Holzforschung
Delamination and decay are common structural defects in old glued laminated timber (glulam) buildings, which, if left undetected, could cause severe structural damage. This paper presents a new damage detection method for glulam inspection based on moment analysis and wavelet transform (WT) of impact acoustic signals. Acoustic signals were collected from a glulam arch section removed from service through impact testing at various locations. The presence and positions of internal defects were preliminarily determined by applying time centroid and frequency centroid of the first moment. Acoustic signals were then decomposed by wavelet packet transform (WPT) and the energy of the sub-bands was calculated as characteristics of the response signals. The sub-bands of 0–375 Hz and 375–750 Hz were identified as the most discriminative features that are associated with decay and delamination and therefore are indicative of the presence of delamination or decay defects. A defect diagnosis algorithm was tested for its ability to identify internal decay and delamination in glulam. The results show that depth of delamination in a glulam member can be determined with reasonable accuracy.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/download/55133.pdf
Development of Steel-Timber Composite System for Large Scale Construction
LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber)
Hassanieh, Amirhossein
Valipour, Hamid
Bradford, Mark
Ultimate Limit States
Push-Out Tests
Failure Modes
Four Point Bending Test
World Conference on Timber Engineering
August 22-25, 2016, Vienna, Austria p. 4322-4331
In this paper a novel and efficient structural system, that comprises steel beams and prefabricated timber slabs is developed and tested under short-term service and ultimate limit state loading conditions. In the proposed steeltimber composite (STC) system, bolt and coach screws are employed to transfer shear between steel beam and prefabricated timber slab and provide a composite connection. A series of experimental push-out tests were carried out on cross-banded LVL-Steel and CLT-Steel hybrid specimens to investigate the behaviour of different connection types. Furthermore, the load-deflection response of full-scale STC beams was captured by conducting 4-point bending tests on STC beams. The failure modes of connections and composite beams have been monitored and reported. The results illustrate advantages of using timber panels in conjunction with steel girders in terms of increasing strength and stiffness of composite beams
Estimation of Radio Frequency Electric Field Strength for Dielectric Heating of Phenol-Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Resin Used for Manufacturing Glulam
Yang, Sang-Yun
Han, Yeonjung
Park, Yonggun
Eom, Chang-Deuk
Kim, Se-Jong
Kim, Kwang-Mo
Park, Moon-Jae
The Korean Society of Wood Science Technology
Phenol-Resorcinol Formaldehyde
Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
For enhancing productivity of glulam, high frequency (HF) curing technique was researched in this study. Heat energy is generated by electromagnetic energy dissipation when HF wave is applied to a dielectric material. Because both lamina and adhesives have dielectric property, internal heat generation would be occurred when HF wave is applied to glulam. Most room temperature setting adhesives such as phenol-resorcinol-formaldehyde (PRF) resin, which is popularly used for manufacturing glulam, can be cured more quickly as temperature of adhesives increases. In this study, dielectric properties of larch wood and PRF adhesives were experimentally evaluated, and the mechanism of HF heating, which induced the fast curing of glue layer in glulam, was theoretically analyzed. Result of our experiments showed relative loss factor of PRF resin, which leads temperature increase, was higher than that of larch wood. Also, it showed density and specific heat of PRF, which are resistance factors of temperature increase, were higher than those of wood. It was expected that the heat generation in PRF resin by HF heating would occur greater than in larch wood, because the ratio of relative loss factor to density and specific heat of PRF resin was greater than that of larch wood. Through theoretical approach with the experimental results, the relative strengths of ISM band HF electric fields to achieve a target heating rate were estimated.
http://doi.org/10.5658/WOOD.2014.42.3.339
Key Mechanical Properties of Cross-banded Laminated Veneer Lumbers Manufactured from Blending Spotted Gum and Hoop Pine Veneers
Nguyen, Hoan
McGavin, Robert
Gilbert, Benoit
Bailleres, Henri
Cross-Banded
Mixing Species
Sub-Optimal Native Forest Logs
BioResources
https://ojs.cnr.ncsu.edu/index.php/BioRes/article/view/BioRes_14_4_9117_Nguyen_Mechanical_Properties_Cross_Banded_Laminated_Veneer
Modeling of Orthotropic Plates out of Cross Laminated Timber in the Mid and High Frequency Range
Winter, Christoph
Buchschmid, Martin
Müller, Gerhard
Finite Element Model
Statistical Energy Analysis
Orthrotropic Plates
Procedia Engineering
Within the context of efficient and sustainable design of buildings a trend towards lightweight structures, e.g. timber structures, is recognizable. This trend implies the necessity of being able to predict serviceability and comfort as well as sound transmission in order to fulfill vibroacoustic requirements. To generate reliable prediction methods, the transfer of energy between building components has to be investigated. Therefore, a detailed understanding of the modeling of the building components, e.g. walls or ceilings, is compulsory. In the low frequency range the Finite Element Method (FEM) is a convenient tool to predict the vibroacoustic behavior. However, without appropriate post-processing it is limited due to the sensitivity of the results at higher frequencies. In the mid-frequency range a sufficient number of modes per band enables the use of statistical methods like the Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA). It delivers averaged results and thus copes with the sensitivity. As both techniques have a restricted validity regarding the frequency range, averaging techniques of the SEA are applied in the post-processing of the FEM to obtain an adapted hybrid approach, the Energy Flow Analysis. This contribution will focus on the Finite Element Model of the building components out of cross laminated timber modeled as orthotropic plates. The Young's modulus of wood is perpendicular to the fiber comparatively low, which leads to low velocities of longitudinal and shear waves. Hence, at high frequencies thickness-stretch and thickness-shear modes play an important role. These can be activated already at low frequencies within the stiffness controlled region of their amplification function. Hence, their non-resonant contribution can be identified evaluating the potential energy compared to the kinetic one. This phenomenon is verified with the help of solid elements - in comparison with shell elements - by varying the points of excitation across the thickness. Moreover, the dimensions will be modified as well as the junction by inserting an elastic layer. Whereas the SEA is typically not able to represent through-thickness effects of plate-like structures, the energy flow between a wall and a ceiling will be investigated using the hybrid approach.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.09.373
Thermal Performance and Apparent Temperature in School Buildings: A Case of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) School Development
Adekunle, Timothy
Apparent Temperature
Wet-bulb Globe Temperature
Standard Effective Temperature
Universal Thermal Climate Index
Journal of Building Engineering
This paper examines the performance and apparent temperature in cross-laminated timber (CLT) school buildings. The research presents empirical data on the performance and provides the first set of data on apparent temperature in CLT school buildings. The development is in the New England area of the Northeast of the US. The investigation was conducted in the summertime. The principal aim of the investigation is to evaluate the performance, occupants' comfort, apparent temperature, and other thermal indices concurrently in CLT school buildings. The research intends to understand if occupants of CLT school buildings are susceptible to thermal stress in summer and assess whether apparent temperatures are consistent with sensation. The study also discusses other indices, practical implications, and applications of the outcomes. To achieve the research aim, the study considered the field measurements of variables. Occupants' comfort is accessed using the PMV and adaptive methods of various comfort standards. During the survey, the development was occupied from 8am-6pm and partly operated from 7pm-7am. The mean temperatures during the occupied and non-occupied periods varied from 22.1°C-22.4°C. The overall RH was 59.2%. The PMV range and sensation showed the occupants were comfortable. Approximately 80% of the users were satisfied with the thermal environment. The temperatures were within the acceptable bands of ASHRAE-55, CIBSE TM52, and EN16798-1 thermal comfort models. The results showed that the apparent temperatures are consistent with the outcomes of the sensation at different periods. The mean indices ranged from 18.8°C-23.5°C. The study recommends that further research should be conducted on occupants' comfort and heat indices in school buildings during the first few hours of occupation to understand changes that occupants can make to remove unwanted heat from the thermal environment. The study also recommends that various designers should consider heat stress analyses along with thermal comfort assessment at the design phase to determine possible interventions to improve the thermal environment of schools and other buildings.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2020.101731


As mentioned before, I was lucky enough to be in contact with a handful of other web comic creators while in the process of prepping my comic (from script to page) for the web. One of them was the quite hilarious and most gracious (nugget loving) Ronnie from Whomp! who let me include his character in the first panel, which was a real blast. (My secret hope is that Ronnie will guest star in every comic out there.) Also, for anyone who didn't know, Ronnie could easily have been a representation of me (a few years ago) or my younger brother. So almost every joke hits somewhere close to home, sometimes tooooo close.
I absolutely loved the final design for this animal suit. I ended up planting the franchise all over the place (Page 1, Panel 1) and probably even more later on. It's just so much fun and has funny story growing out of it that I made on the spot while designing the costume. Originally Eric was planned to be in a massive Elephant costume, but this summoned itself out of adorable ether into existence.
Hell, it might even get its own Mini someday. The original idea was inspired by my cousin and years of visiting Chuck E. Cheese's to see her at work. Only after I had actually drew this did I have the luck and strange experience of climbing into an animal suit. It's definitely an experience, and not quite like anything you'd expect. Actually it's pretty much exactly like you'd expect: sweaty and confining.
For a transitional page I really like how it all pulled together, especially the dialogue work of it all. The vibe and feel of it carries over very well into the following page, setting a nice pace. And this page concluded the original 5 pages uploaded at the very first publication of the comic in Nov. 2013. For where I was at the time, this was a massive leap forward in art progression.
Ronnie Filyaw, is that you?
Well, you're too late Ronnie, the people already know both about you and about what you wish to order.
The ten bucket super-family deal, right?
*One Man Slow Clap.* Thank you!


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VFA-32 is homeported at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia. The Swordsmen were redesignated VFA-32, from VF-32, in 2005. This reflects their transition training to the F-18E/F Super Hornet. The Swordsmen had previously flown the F-14 Tomcat.
On 04 Jaunary 1989 aircraft (VF-32) from USS John F. Kennedy shot down 2 hostile Libyan Migs. In 1994 Fighter Squadron 32 (VF-32), flying F-14 Tomcats, was onboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). VF-32 deployed to Bosnia and the Arabian Gulf, and won the Battle Efficiency Award, the Clifton Award for Maintenance Excellence and the Fleet Fighter Adversary Readiness Program Trophy.
The F-14 carrying the Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS) provides a manned tactical reconnaissance capability. The F-14's "Roadmap for the Future" included the incorporation of a digital imaging and data link capability in 24 TARPS pods to provide battle group, joint force, and allied commanders with near real-time imagery for the detection and identification of tactical targets, and immediate threat and bomb damage assessment. This unique capability first deployed with VF-32 on Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in November 1996.
Teamwork paid off 08 August 1998 when an F-14 Tomcat assigned to Fighter Squadron (VF) 32 and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 went down in the Atlantic Ocean northwest of the Virgin Islands. Within minutes of their safe ejection, the pilot and radar intercept officer were rescued by USS Thorn (DD 988) and flown back to USS Enterprise (CVN 65) for medical examination. Neither aviator suffered injuries. The jet was returning to the carrier after a training flight when the incident occurred. Thorn, part of the Enterprise Battle Group, was serving as flight operations plane guard and immediately retrieved the downed aviators. The battle group had been conducting its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) in the Puerto Rican operating area since late July 1998 and resumed full operations following the incident.
Degradation of readiness in the Inter Deployment Training Cycle (IDTC) continued in the late 1990s. It is among non-deployed forces in the IDTC where signs of readiness degradation first appear. From the IDTC readiness data for the two carrier air wings deployed in November 1998, it is readily apparent that the most recent deploying air wings experienced the most precipitous drop in readiness to date during their IDTC. VF-32 did not achieve an acceptable level of readiness until just prior to ENTERPRISE entering their theater of operations.
After spending four months in the 5th Fleet Area of Operations supporting Operation SOUTHERN WATCH (OSW), the Swordsmen of Fighter Squadron Thirty-Two departed the Arabian Gulf on April 27th, 2001and headed home aboard USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75). In addition to SOUTHERN WATCH, the Swordsmen have also been busy keeping their skills sharp with training flights in the Gulf and participation in an annual training exercise for the Bahraini Armed Forces. The exercise, called NEON FALCON, consisted of scenarios designed to test Bahrain's territorial defenses. Also participating were forces from the United Kingdom, United States Army, and United States Coast Guard. VF-32 aircrew enjoyed carrying out various air-to-air missions against the Bahraini Air Force F-5's and F-16's.
Swordsmen Maintenance continued to be the best in the Navy, and the men and women of VF-32 were recognized for their efforts by back-to-back awards of CVW-3's "Golden Wrench," denoting the best squadron maintenance in the air wing for February and March. To date the squadron has managed to complete 1093 out of 1098 scheduled sorties during the deployment, including 140 combat missions over Iraq in support of OSW. Types of missions performed by the multi-role F-14B Tomcat included Tactical Reconnaissance, Defensive Counter-Air, and Air-to-Ground Strike. Thanks to a superb effort by all hands, the Swordsmen enjoyed 100% sortie completion for all Joint Task Force Southwest Asia tasking, and led CVW-3 by destroying 100% of assigned targets--on time, on target, first pass--with positive BHA.
The Swordsmen made two short port calls in the Mediterranean, then turned over their duties to VF-14 and VF-41 in CVW-8 on USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65) before making their final leg across the Atlantic.
In December of 2002, the Swordsmen deployed once again on board USS HARRY S.TRUMAN to the Mediterranean Sea in support of Operations NOBLE EAGLE, NORTHERN WATCH, and IRAQI FREEDOM. Employing the digital image capabilities of TARPS, VFA-32 flew numerous reconnaissance missions over the former Republic of Yugoslavia during Operation NOBLE EAGLE. Participating in liberation efforts, the Swordsmen released over 402,000 pounds of ordnance on targets in Northern Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Once again, VFA-32 set a Tomcat benchmark being the first fighter squadron to release multiple JDAM. Having contributed significantly to the liberation of Iraq, the battle hardened Swordsmen returned to Oceana in May of 2003.
In October of 2005, the Swordsmen turned over their last Tomcat and started their transition in the F/A-18F Super Hornet in NAS Oceana, VA. In November of 2005, the squadron was redesignated Strike Fighter Squadron Thirty Two (VFA-32).


1,745 Obituary and Obituary Index Links from the U.S.
During September, 2018 I have been updating the links to online obituary and obituary index collections that are available to search for free. There are a total of 1,745 online database links that I have found for the U.S. Of these, over 480 have been added since the previous update.
Here are alternative means to newspaper searching to find obituary information, listed by the link to each state's list of free links. Please be aware that if you find a desired obituary in an index, that the holder of the actual obituary (e.g., library or genealogical society) may charge a small fee to send you a copy of the obituary itself.


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Between 1,300 and 1,800 were killed in what is today called the "Little Katyn"
Uroczysko Baran: the forgotten Soviet massacre of many Poles who fought against the nazism
@ElentirENG ES 3·02·2018 · 6:59 0
One of the most widespread myths about the Second World War is that the Soviets "liberated" Poland. It is a myth based on the oblivion of massacres like that of Uroczysko Baran.
Blokhin: This Is How the USSR Turned the Greatest Executioner in History into a Hero
That's How the 'Liberation' of Poland by the Red Army Was: the Mass Rapes of Girls and Women
The Polish resistance against Nazism in 1944
The story of that massacre begins in 1944. On October 2 of that year the Warsaw Uprising had failed after two months of hard fighting. Stalin had ordered the Red Army to stop its advance on Warsaw, allowing the Germans to raze the Polish capital and defeat the Polish insurgents. At that time the Polish resistance was articulated around four large groups:
The main group was Armia Krajowa (AK, Home Army), loyal to the Polish Government in exile and the one who led the Warsaw Uprising. The AK came to have some 400,000 members. Although it was an anti-communist group, it became involved in joint operations with the Soviets, such as the Vilna Liberation.
The second in importance were the Bataliony Chłopskie (BCh, Peasant Battalions), partly linked to the AK and formed by partisans related to the agrarian right. The BCh came to have some 160,000 fighters, and participated with the AK in the Warsaw Uprising, wearing the acronym BCh in green on their bracelets with the Polish flag.
The Narodowe Siły Zbrojne (NSZ, National Armed Forces) stood out for simultaneously fighting the Nazis and the Communists. They had about 70,000 members and also participated in the Warsaw Uprising.
Finally, the Armia Ludowa (AL, Popular Army) was formed by communist partisans related to the Soviets. It was the latest of the great groups of the Polish resistance (appeared in 1944), and had no relationship with the rest of the groups, coming to have clashes with the NSZ.
The AK, the BCh and the NSZ were seen by the Soviets as a threat, because just as they fought against the Nazis, they could end up fighting against the USSR, since their objective was the independence of Poland. We must remember that this country had been invaded in 1939 by both Germany and its then ally the Soviet Union, under the secret protocol of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. In addition, for the Soviets the AK, the BCh and the NSZ were seen as fascists for the mere fact of not being communists. Recall that the German communists had already called "socialfacists" to the SPD socialists in the 1930s, creating a disunity in the German left that facilitated Hitler's rise to power.
Soldiers of the Armia Krajowa, the largest group of the Polish resistance, during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
The Soviet betrayal of the Polish resistance in July 1944
The Polish resistance had already had bad experiences with the Soviets. After the discovery of the pits of the Katyn massacre in 1943, the Polish Government in exile had broken all relations with the USSR. After the Liberation of Vilna in July 1944, the Soviets betrayed the AK fighters who had participated in the offensive, proceeding to arrest them. Similar events occurred in Lviv and Lublin. On July 14 of that year, the Soviet commanders of the Ukrainian and Belarusian fronts had been ordered to arrest and deport all Armia Krajowa forces they encountered. Some members of the AK managed to flee, persecuted by the Soviets, who launch against them a hunting operation in which they capture thousands of Poles who had fought against the Germans. Of those captured, some will be deported to Siberia, and others will be killed. Those who manage to escape continue the struggle, now against the USSR.
Soldiers of the Armia Krajowa with Soviet soldiers in Vilna, after the capture of the city, before the Red Army began the persecution against the Poles (Photo: Archivo Nacional Polaco / Wikimedia)
Kąkolewnica: a makeshift prison run by a drunken sergeant
In September 1944, hundreds of Polish fighters began to be taken to Kąkolewnica. A prison is made with several houses, farms, attics and cellars of that town in eastern Poland. It is estimated that between 2,500 and 3,000 Polish prisoners pass through there in January 1945. Among the prisoners there are members of the resistance (the AK, the BCh and the NSZ), also members of the Wolność i Niezawisłość (WiN, Freedom and Independence, a clandestine group created to continue the fight of the AK, this time against the Soviets), some deserters, soldiers of the Druga Armia Wojska Polskiego (2.AWP, the Second Polish People's Army, formed in the USSR and to which many members of the Polish resistance were forced to enlist) and also other persons that the communists consider "enemies of the people," from young people to people of 60 years. Sergeant Bazyli Rogoziński, of the Soviet NKVD, is in charge of this prison. It is said that if he is drunk in the morning, it is known that at night there will be deads, as a witness, Antoni Stolcman, will remember years later.
The forest of Uroczysko Baran, near Kąkolewnica, where the killing was carried out (Photo: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej)
"Little Barbara, ask God to save your dad"
The conditions of this prison are inhuman. The prisoners are hungry and are subjected to physical and psychological torture in interrogations, which are always done in Russian. The rooms of the makeshift prison are overcrowded, and prisoners are even confined to ditches dug into the ground, which ended up being flooded with water. In the attic of Zofia Mazur's house, which is used as a cell, the prisoners make inscriptions with their nails on the walls: from names like Captain Gutowski and Captain Kryszak, to a "Kotwica", the AK emblem. An inscription of one of the prisoners demonstrates the anguish they suffer: "Basiu, pros Bozie or twojego tatka" (Little Barbara, ask God to save your dad). Those inscriptions are still preserved today.
Between October of 1944 and January of 1945, when the Second World War has not yet finished, a military court attached to the Second Polish People's Army is formed, akin to the Soviets. The court, chaired by a Red Army veteran, Colonel Stefan Piekarski, and under the supervision of Soviet Colonel Aleksander Tomaszewski, condemns 144 prisoners; of them, 61 of them are condemned to death, 43 being executed. Almost all AK soldiers and officers imprisoned in Kąkolewnica are killed in the nearby forest of Uroczysko Baran, shot in the head. The locals hear the shots at night and as a result of the killing, the neighbors of Kąkolewnicy call the place "Mały Katyń" (Little Katyn).
Soviet ammunition found at Uroczysko Baran, the place of slaughter (Photo: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej)
A birch cross in memory of the murdered
The bodies of the murdered are buried in common graves. When the executions end in January 1945, the ground is leveled and masked with moss, plants and trees so that there is no trace of what happened. In the summer of that year, Jerzy Sokoliniec "Kruk", commander of the WiN detachment that operates in that area, erects a cross made with birch wood in the place, in memory of the murdered. Shortly after the neighbors of the place raise an even larger cross to indicate the site. The communists discover and demolish it, but one night the neighbors put it back. The investigation of what happened begins in 1946 when WiN members inspect the area. In 1980 a symbolic tomb was erected in the place.
The small monument that remembers those killed in Uroczysko Baran. The symbol on the lower left is "Kotwica", the emblem of Armia Krajowa (Photo: Radzyninfo.pl)
The brutality of the executioners: fractured skulls, arms and thighs
In 1990, after the fall of communism, the first exhumations of corpses were carried out. The remains found reveal the brutality of the torture and executions perpetrated by the communists. The report of the Institute of Forensic Sciences of Poland states the following:
"The executed had their hands and legs tied with metal wire. At the time of death, some of the victims sustained injuries in the form of broken and fractured arms, thighs, etc. Some of the skulls showed signs of severe trauma caused by a blunt, heavy object. The examiners confirmed injuries sustained by a single [execution style] gun shot with the entry wounds located either in the rear, or on the side of the skull. In one instance gun shot injuries were not confirmed, however confirmed was fragmentation of the skull resulted from severe trauma."
To this day it is still unknown how many prisoners were executed there, since the Soviets either left no documentary evidence of all the prisoners they killed, or if they left it, those files have not yet been declassified. For the evidence obtained after the investigations made after the fall of communism, it is estimated that between 1,300 and 1,800 prisoners were killed in Uroczysko Baran. My memory to all of them.
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It was just a few short years ago that I discovered kettlebells after thirty years of weight training. Yes, thirty years of training and it was only a few years ago that I discovered kettlebells. Up until then, I really didn't know what they were or how to use them. I've been a gym rat for all these years and have always been partial to dumbbells, barbells, and machines at the local gym.
When I finally decided to purchase my first 16kg kettlebell to see how this tool could possibly help me, I was blown away. I was even more blown away when I took my first workshop taught by a phenomenal, high level RKC Instructor (Andrea DuCane). This is when I found out what I had been doing for the last few months on my own was completely wrong. I was very humbled, to say the least.
Now, after numerous workshops, kettlebell certifications, and countless hours of practicing, teaching, and training, I know there is something very special about kettlebell training. You could say I'm on a mission to help other people learn about how to use it the right way to get the results I have.
Today, people ask me all the time, "Why kettlebells? Is this type of training really any different from a dumbbell or other gym exercises?" Every time I'm asked that question, I start to feel the passion build and I have to contain myself. Kettlebell training is radically different from any other form of training I've personally experienced in my thirty years of weight training.
Kettlebells are kaizen. Kaizen is Japanese for continuous and never-ending improvement. There's really something "magical" about kettlebells when you learn how to perform the key exercises correctly. It's a very different type of training from other modalities.
The kettlebell swing is a perfect example of the uniqueness of kettlebell training. Why? As Tracy Reifkind, RKC and author of the great book The Swing puts it, it's a two-for-one exercise. It combines the benefits of resistance training and cardiovascular conditioning in one very powerful exercise. There isn't an exercise that addresses so many things at once as does the kettlebell swing.
The magic of the kettlebell appears to have something to do with the cannonball shape and the offset handle, which allow you to manipulate the kettlebell much differently than you could with a dumbbell, barbell, or any other training device. The shape and the handle allow you to perform ballistics and grinds. Ballistics are fast, explosive movements, while grinds are slow and deliberate. This allows for a different type of training experience for faster results.
While there are many great things about kettlebell training, one of the biggest benefits is that all of the exercises are essentially total body exercises. This means you get total body strengthening and conditioning with one single tool. Virtually every fitness goal you want could be accomplished with a kettlebell, but don't mistake me saying that this is the only thing you should do. It's a tool, just like a barbell is a tool, and other training methods certainly have utility and benefits, as well.
What I have found is that the kettlebell has become central to my training programs. While I still use bodyweight exercises and barbell programs, kettlebells are an essential part of my training and what I teach today because they offer better results in less time. The time efficiency of training is another huge advantage of kettlebell training, as you can get amazing workouts in a very short time period.
What about the "movement advantage?" The movement advantage is learning to move better through the use of kettlebells. This is something I feel very strong about as a former physical therapist, because kettlebells actually teach you to move in a way that is better, stronger, and safer. Unfortunately, many of us today lose some of our basic movements as a result of sedentary occupations and lifestyles. When you don't use it, you lose it. That's exactly what happens when we don't move with full range of motion or become habituated to certain postures (like sitting all day at a computer).
Kettlebells help us to reclaim our true movement and flexibility again. The Turkish get up is a great example of an exercise that teaches us to move better. I've had many clients say how well they move and function again, after learning how to perform this exercise correctly. It's a very powerful, dynamic, and fundamental exercise, like the kettlebell swing.
If you learn the proper way to use a kettlebell, I can guarantee you'll discover for yourself, what's so special about kettlebells. The best way to get started is to find a certified instructor and get qualified instruction from the beginning, if you can. This will ensure you get started off the right way and get results, faster and more safely than trying to figure it out on your own. For total body strengthening and conditioning, kettlebells are definitely a very special fitness and performance training tool to incorporate into your program.


If you thought summers were beautiful in Lake City, wait until you see what winter has in store. Covered under a blanket of white for four months, Hinsdale County is a winter playground for all. Motels, restaurants, and stores are open year round and often offer reduced rates during snow months. Less expensive places to stay, great food, beautiful weather, and lots of outdoor activities: what other incentive do you need?
Hinsdale County has over 100 miles of multipurpose groomed trails that weave through the expansive area between Lake City and Creede. Snowmobilers have a number of starting points, including Spring Creek Pass, Slumgullion Pass and Penniston Park, all just off Highway 149. The trail system offers a variety of settings, which include meandering through forests, straight shots across plateaus, wide trails that traverse mountainsides, and trails to the tops of mountains and spectacular views of the San Juans. Trail conditions and maps of the trail system are available from Lake City Continental Divide Snowmobile Club.
Learn more about snowmobiling in Lake City, including trails and maps.
Other ways to enjoy Hinsdale's groomed trails and burn a few calories while you're at it are by cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. Ski or snowshoe for just an hour or travel off-trail to one of the Haute Route yurts. Those interested in trying one of these winter sports for the first time can rent gear from outfitters in town.
One of the crown jewels of Lake City and Hinsdale County is the Hinsdale Haute Route, a system of four yurts. While using Colorado's highest hut route, skiers and snowshoers feel "on top of the world" as they enjoy the peaceful luxury of their fully-stocked yurts. Each yurt is carpeted and insulated, has a wooden deck, woodstove, firewood, propane cookstoves, cooking utensils, a sink, table, chairs, beds, cots, and foam sleeping pads. The yurts are great stopping points for avid winter-enthusiast skiers looking for a new adventure. Each yurt sleeps six to eight people, and guide services are available. For more information on the Hinsdale Haute Route visit www.hinsdalehauteroute.org.
Just a few blocks from historic downtown is Lake City's ice park. The park is open from December to March, weather permitting. The climbs are free and never crowded and offer up to 15 different routes of varying difficulties. Climbers should check in and sign waivers at participating businesses. Interested ice climbers should check out the Ice Climbing Festival that takes place each February.
Learn more about the Lake City Ice Park or visit www.lakecityiceparkcom.
For the price of one lift ticket at a resort, you and nine of your friends could spend a day at the Lake City Ski Hill. Our Ski Hill is home to four runs of varying difficulty and a platter lift that transports 10 riders at a time. For those skiers and snowboarders looking for a place to practice tricks and jumps, the terrain park has 10 components, including fun boxes and a rainbow. The lift ticket price includes rental of skis or a snowboard as well as some other gear. The Ski Hill is a great place for beginners to gain confidence on the slopes and is both family and kid-friendly. The hill is open Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays throughout the winter as long as the snow keeps falling. For more information, contact the Lake City Area Recreation Department at 970-944-2333 or their website.
Part of the Lake City Town Park is transformed each winter into an ice rink for all to enjoy. The rink is never crowded and great for families or those who want to skate leisurely while enjoying the scenery. The rink is in operation from December to March and skates can be rented from businesses in town.
Stream fishing is very limited to nonexistent in the Lake City area in the winter, as ice covers most of the flowing water by late November. Ice fishing on Lake San Cristobal, however, is popular by those who either brave the elements outside or from the amazing comfort of a fishing hut on the ice. Fishing with bait and jigging are common Lake San Cristobal ice fishing tactics that result in many smaller lake trout being caught, and occasionally one too large to fit through the hole! Join us every February for that Ice Fishing Derby!
Learn more about ice fishing in Lake City.


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Candace Owens Makes Conn. Governor Walk Back Lies About 6-Week-Baby's COVID Death
by Taylor Day April 5, 2020 April 6, 2020 6 16054
Last Thursday, headlines flew around the world faster than sick Chinese tourists about COVID-19's youngest victim: one 6-week old infant.
They were prompted by a tweet made by Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont who suggested that the baby's death from the Chinaflu.
It is with heartbreaking sadness today that we can confirm the first pediatric fatality in Connecticut linked to #COVID19. A 6-week-old newborn from the Hartford area was brought unresponsive to a hospital late last week and could not be revived. (1/3)
— Governor Ned Lamont (@GovNedLamont) April 1, 2020
The news was horrifying. A six-week-old baby, casualty in the latest War on The Virus incited cries of heartbreak across the globe. On average, 250 new lives are brought into this world every minute by mothers now given information that, in addition to all the other worries a newborn brings, now a global pandemic is targeting them, too.
But what if that is a blatant lie?
Popular conservative and #BLEXIT spokeswoman Candace Owens did some digging and discovered that the baby suffered injuries sustained when its caregiver rolled over on the infant in her sleep.
On Friday, Candace Owens uploaded a Facebook Live video where she demanded transparency from the Governor's Office about the infant's death and whether he would stand by his claims the mortality was linked to the Chinese coronavirus.
He would not. And whether that was due to the outpouring of rage in response to Owens' video or the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's own statement released an hour later which corroborated her claims… but within the day, during a Friday press conference, Governor Lamont made all sorts of political excuses for his lie.
From my local paper, The Courant:
"An official cause of death remains outstanding pending toxicology results, and officials said it is possible the child died not from the virus but from an underlying condition, sudden infant death syndrome or positional asphyxiation.
In the absence of that official determination Friday, Lamont and Connecticut State Epidemiologist Matthew Cartter retreated from directly connecting the cause of the infant's death to the virus.
"We have our role. We have our job. The medical examiner has his job," Cartter said. "They're very separate, and we count different things."
"But we do know that that little baby tested positive," Lamont interjected."
Nevermind that Gov. Lamont is still using political doublespeak for plausible deniability, questions are now being raised about why healthcare professionals would even be testing for COVID-19 and misleading the public with information, either omitted by the hospital or by elected officials, about the cause of death.
One valuable suggestion is that the loopholes in the CARES Act are being exploited. The legislation pretty much guarantees 100% payment for any medical care received if it's related to the coronavirus.
It makes sense that hospitals and other medical practitioners may want to try and get every hair from the boar, or the guaranteed funds from the Federal government. But would they lie?
It only creates even more bizarre questions that conservative personalities like Rush Limbaugh are being ostracized for asking: are the COVID-19 numbers being inflated?
In other words: the death toll we are seeing is "people that tested positive for the the virus, and are now dead." Not, people that have died FROM Coronavirus.
That number, when investigated, will be much lower. Italy determined only 12% of their death toll was FROM Covid https://t.co/bAzUdpcdDL
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 4, 2020
And when it comes to kids and coronavirus, the accounts keep being redacted like this one from Miami Herald about an eleven-year-old's death in Georgia.
"The Georgia Department of Public Health has walked back earlier reports that an 11-year-old boy in metro-Atlanta died from the novel coronavirus.
State officials announced the child's death Thursday afternoon, noting that he was the youngest Georgian to die from the highly contagious disease. Now, department officials say there's no evidence to support that."
Previously, another of these "the youngest known victim" was that of a 17-year-old in Los Angeles County, California. But that death, too is now under new scrutiny. Although terrifying headlines like The New York Times' Teenager's Death in California Is Linked to Coronavirus remain live and in circulation, their update reads:
"Update: The teenager has been dropped from the list of deaths from Covid-19 in Los Angeles County, Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, said on Thursday. She said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be completing the investigation of the teenager's death.
A California teenager whose death was linked to the coronavirus may be one of the youngest victims of the outbreak in the United States.
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Tuesday said the death of a 17-year-old boy from Lancaster, Calif., was from the coronavirus. Hours later, it walked back that statement, saying the death would be further evaluated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Some unconfirmed reports are indicating that the real cause of death was a drug overdose but because the boy tested positive for COVID-19, his death was added to the running ticker of coronavirus deaths."
Isn't it a strange world? It typically takes days or weeks for causes of death to be documented but now we have minute-by-minute Google updates of coronavirus deaths like a stock market ticker. Even more disturbing is state governments seem to be in a competition with who can be awarded Youngest COVID Death and will use unsubstantiated tragedies to throw their hat in the ring.
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Sam-I-Am April 5, 2020 at 11:42 pm
The slimy DemocRATS want as many deaths from covid-19 as possible if that will help to keep PRESIDENT Trump from being re-elected. DemocRATs are evil people, just look at Nasty Pelos, Chuck U. Schumer, Shittface Schiff, lying, cheating, crooked Hillary among others.
njlamer April 6, 2020 at 11:54 am
The Democrats and their Democrat run Media have committed TREASON by LYING TO AMERICA about this Virus..They need to be Rounded up and executed for their crimes.
Elizabeth Reilly April 6, 2020 at 12:16 pm
Lamont is a pitiful man, governor or not. He has no interest in making Connecticut a better place for citizens. He immediately imposed all kinds of onerous new taxes on us, tried to put tolls on our roads (still being fought, but now, since the outcry was larger than he could handle, he's trying it for just truckers..still unacceptable).
Connecticut politics has always been an embarrassment and now they have installed a useless governor who is the No. 1 embarrassment to the state. Many of us are stuck here but an exodus of businesses and young and old people began under Malloy and continues under this mistake.
George Suchko April 6, 2020 at 7:32 pm
The MSM / China/ Dem propaganda machine is in full swing. I'll bet if the TRUTH were ever told this whole thing was BS and seasonal flu continues to have higher mortality.
George April 6, 2020 at 7:34 pm
Snailmailtrucker April 7, 2020 at 6:54 am
Typical Lying Democrat SlimeBag !


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A drunk driver overturned his vehicle at Kalkofnsvegur just outside Harpa Concert and Conference Hall in the city centre at around 11 pm last night. He was thrown out of the car and taken to hospital.
His injuries are not serious and he is leaving hospital today. It came to light that his licence had been revoked already.


1) Starting on Monday I will work through the 30 day Shred Plan. Our holiday will be 10 weeks away so by doing this I will hopefully kick start my body into shape with plenty of time!
2) I am going to learn to speak Dutch. The OH is fluent and after our weekend in Holland I know this is a country that we will be returning to frequently. There are really difficult pronunciations to learn so in September I want to be able to recite the alphabet, count to 20 and be able to say basic phases.
3) I am going to take part in BLOGTEMBER...20 posts in the month. I realise that I have already missed the first day but I will hopefully be able to catch up with this post in the next week or so. More information on the daily prompts can be found here.
Today's prompt is - if you could take three months off from your current life and do anything in the world, what would you do?
Copenhagen- Look how beautiful it is!!
The Maldives - Sometimes you just need to lie on a beach and do nothing but enjoy the view. I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather do this!
Borneo - I love orang-utans so I would have to go to Borneo and spend time in a conservation centre trying to do my bit to keep these guys safe.
New Zealand - I do like a good walk and New Zealand must have some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.
I think that would probably take up most of the three months, if I did have any time left over where else do you suggest I go to?
i loved the 30 day shred! it's really challenging, but definitely do-able! you can do it!!
New Orleans, Louisiana that is a very interesting place to head to. I visited there this summer and the food is just amazing. There is such a difference in culture.
Good luck with the 30 Day Shred! I've tried it so many times and never ever reach 30 days!
Good luck with all your plans and challenges!
Greece! It's so pretty! You would love it there! Also, nice touch with the over water bungalows! I would love that!


1 hour before departure, KKKL provided an SMS message on my bus departure. A nice personal touch before the journey even began.
I chose to depart from Tanjong Katong Complex since it's more convenient for me. Also it is the second and final pick-up point before heading off to KL.
A one-way ticket to KL from Katong V or Tanjong Katong Complex during off-peak periods costs $22.
As there are some redevelopment works around Paya Lebar MRT, the walking distance to Tanjong Katong Complex is extended by around 2 minutes. Follow the many signs along the way to Tanjong Katong Complex.
The bus will stop in the car park as it only makes a quick pick-up. At the origin of Katong V, you will be able to board the bus earlier as the bus will wait there before the departure time.
The bus arrived at 7.45am sharp. After a quick pick-up and checking of tickets, the bus went off its way to Malaysia.
As it was an off-peak season, only 4 passengers were on board in this 27-seater bus. I found myself having 9 seats at the rear of the bus.
KKKL uses the Second Link via Tuas and Tanjung Kupang. No surprise detours to Larkin or any other towns to pick up more passengers.
Crossing the Second Link into Malaysia.
The bus makes a stop of around 15 mninutes at Pagoh R&R, the middle point between Singapore and KL.
This is a popular rest stop among many other bus companies too, to and from various destinations. Take note of your bus look or number in case there are multiple buses parked beside each other.
The bus will first make a stop at Berjaya Times Square (under Imbi monorail station), followed by 5 Elements Hotel in Chinatown and lastly, Terminal Bersepadu Selatan (TBS). You can choose your destination when you book your ticket, but if there are last-minute changes, be sure to inform the driver.
Book your Singapore-originating or Singapore-bound KKKL tickets at Easybook or BusOnlineTicket, or head down to their offices at Katong V or Textile Centre.
Later on in the evening, I would make my way to TBS to join the group to Rantau Panjang by Perdana Ekspres.