Don't panic, I've not lost all sense of reason with six matches to go, I'm just quoting CricInfo who went on to say, "but then it has looked that way for a while.". But while the cricket writers as ever are ignoring what is happening in the South-West, something which there is every reason to believe may be premature.
For those of you like me who have been longing for a bit of red-ball cricket the last four days have been a sheer joy. Every game had something to commend it and several could be in the running for game of the season. What a shame we have to wait almost a month for more of the same.
Of course Somerset's win at Worcester late into the final day is responsible for a large element of the feel-good factor but there were many examples of why the Championship is such a great competition and why we as devoted supporters of our counties must do everything we can to ensure the competition isn't further damaged by the powers that be.
Daryl Mitchel tweeted late on Wednesday that his team was comprehensively outplayed in every department. That is undoubtedly true and while Surrey's maximum point demolition of Notts increased the gap at the top to 34 points there is plenty for those of us of a maroon and black persuasion to be excited about.
Somerset dominated pretty much every session, the only exception being the last afternoon, when nerves were a twitching for a while. The intensity with which Somerset played throughout was something that Worcestershire, despite the admirable efforts of Moeen with the ball and Alex Milton with the bat, could not cope with.
Azhar Ali looks like a quality replacement for Matt Renshaw. He clearly has a hunger for runs as evidenced by his disappointment when he was eventually dismissed in the second innings. 125 is clearly not enough to satisfy his desire for big runs. Marcus is back as good as ever, Jamie Overton looks a frightening prospect for opposition batsmen and Josh Davey continues the happy knack of taking important wickets.
With the ability to rotate the seamers that Jamie and Josh have now given us and with potentially four spin options there is every reason to believe that Somerset should be able to out bowl their opponents in most circumstances.
The management faces some challenges, not least in dealing with the potential Buttler-Kieswetter reprise with Jack and Dom. And ensuring that all the top order are contributing but Somerset are in a much stronger position that they have been for many years.
The bizarre recall of Adil Rashid to the test squad will surely give extra motivation to the Somerset spin twins when they are back in four-day action and while it is frustrating to see them both overlooked Somerset folk will hope that England's loss is the cider county's gain in the remainder of the season.
Make no bones about it this is as good a Somerset squad as I have seen in my lifetime.
But is that going to be enough to catch Surrey? The Oval juggernaut rolled through Trent Bridge in comprehensive fashion leading many commentators to as good as give them the title already. There is certainly strong evidence to suggest that Somerset are the only realistic challengers and they cannot afford to slip up before the two meet at Taunton in the penultimate round of fixtures.
However Surrey still have to play Essex twice and they aren't going to allow their title out of their grasp without a fight, and they have to play three games at The Oval which as we head into the second half of the season in the current weather may prove to be a challenging surface to take 20 opposition wickets.
Notts defeat seems to end their realistic title aspirations and I wouldn't be surprised if a team which has punched above its weight so far this season slips away into the relegation dogfight along with Worcestershire, Hampshire and Lancashire.
Which leaves Yorkshire to consider. They are clearly an enigmatic side who at their best, and reinforced with their England contingent are a match for anyone. But they are also capable of being downright filthy as they were at The Oval and Taunton earlier in the season.
There is something special about this Somerset team which leads me to believe that they are better equipped to deal with adversity and pull for each other. Surrey haven't been tested yet and the cricket gods may decide to throw them a few slings and arrows to see if they are worthy champions-elect. It will be interesting to see how they respond.
It all points to the game at Taunton in September being pivotal but don't be surprised if it goes to the last round yet again.
Meanwhile, in Division Two it has got very interesting all of a sudden. Middlesex beat leaders Warwickshire and Leicestershire beat Kent so with the fast-improving Jason Gillespie inspired Sussex demolishing Glamorgan 17 points cover the top 4 places.
I for one can't wait until red-ball cricket returns next month.


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Take a quick inventory of your body and notice which scars jump out at you. There's the one you got from jumping off the swing when you thought you could fly. Maybe you had a self-waxing session go horribly wrong. Ouch! Across your belly and hips, there might be the marks of a past pregnancy and birth. Each one is a constant reminder of an event in your life.
As a divorced woman, I'm sure you walked out of your marriage, as did I, with some scars that may not be visible to the naked eye, but you and I both know they're there. Emotional scars are part of the package deal that comes with the end of a marriage.
Rather than labeling these emotional scars as imperfections that we need to cover up, I say we plant a flag in those suckers and claim them to be the foundation of our breakthrough instead of the evidence of our breakdown.
Are you with me here? It's all about changing the name to rearrange the game in our favor.
All it takes is a shift in perspective.
I decided to rename my post-divorce emotional scars as "learning experiences," which became a catalyst for my own positive transformation. Today, I gladly celebrate the beauty of my imperfections. Because of them, I am a stronger, better version of myself.
It reminds me of the centuries old Japanese art form called kintsugi which literally translates to "golden joinery. The artist repairs broken pottery by using lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum.
Kintsugi is said to have originated in the 15th century when a Japanese shogun broke a favorite tea bowl and sent it back to China to be fixed. But the repair job, which was done with metal staples - being the standard for repair at that time - detracted from the beauty of the bowl. Disappointed, the shogun enlisted a Japanese craftsman to come up with a more aesthetically pleasing solution, and kintsugi was born.
I couldn't use gold and lacquer to put my Humpty Dumpty emotional self back together again, but I had something way cooler and more powerful in my toolkit to repair the places I was shattered: gratitude, the grace of time, and self-love.
Your emotional scars are reminders that you are a helluva lot stronger than you thought you were. Accept and lovingly respect the history of these scars rather than try to disguise them.
They've shaped you into the amazing BADASS woman you are today! Woot Woot!


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The longlist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize was announced last week. It is difficult to speculate as to which individual title is most deserving of the £50,000 prize, given the majority have not been released yet. Based on previous form and those few which are already available, several frontrunners for the prize seem evident….


HE may have recently brought up his 38th birthday, but it's clear not even age nor life's unexpected challenges can stop the run-scoring machine, Michael Klinger.
In his typically assured manner, the veteran opener dug in and led Gloucestershire to the top of the T20 Vitality Blast South Group Table with an unbeaten knock of 77 off 50 balls against Glamorgan during the Cheltenham Cricket Festival in front of a sell-out crowd at the College Ground.
Some more digging (in the archives) uncovered a rich Jewish history at the college and surrounding areas, where Klinger has spent the past six English summers in a place he calls his "second home".
Cheltenham College was established as a Church of England Foundation in 1841 in a prosperous spa town west of England. In the classical department, among other subjects, boys studied Hebrew.
According to the National Anglo-Jewish Heritage Trail, a Jewish boarding house was situated opposite the college between 1892 and 1923. Corinth House was home to around 40 Jewish boys, allowing them to observe the Sabbath and attend the synagogue, as well as conduct the work of Saturday school, on Sunday.
From 1892 until 1914 the house was run by Ivan Nestor-Schnurmann a German and Russian language teacher.
In 1914, Corinth was taken over by Daniel Lipson, but in 1923 he had a disagreement with the college over the terms of his lease, which led to the end of the college's official affiliation with the Jewish boarding house.
Some of the surnames of the boys who boarded at the house, were Cohen, Davis, Meyer, Nathan, Oppenheim, Solomon and Woolf.
Upon further investigation into Cheltenham's Jewish roots, records of a community go back as far as 1823. In 2011, the UK Office for National Statistics had records of 160 Jews living among Cheltenham's 115,000-strong population.
• The Cheltenham Hebrew Congregation was established in 1823 and reopened in 1939. It is still in use and can be found on Synagogue Lane off St James Square. In 2008, the Gloucestershire Liberal Jewish Congregation opened in Cheltenham.
• The Montpellier Baths were used in the 19th century as the communal mikveh (Jewish ritual bath) and was situated less than 500 metres down the road from Cheltenham College.
• The Jewish Burial Ground on Elm Street was established around 1824. The cemetery remains in use and is maintained by the Cheltenham Hebrew Congregation.
On the cricket pitch, Klinger's fine knock – which included seven fours and three sixes – came as no surprise. His preparation for the T20 Blast season was far from orthodox, but he never doubted his ability to return to his best when the time came.
Klinger praised the "amazing" help and support from family and friends in Perth and Melbourne.
The consummate professional that he is, Klinger prepared diligently, juggling his responsibilities at home with daily gym and running sessions and a few skills trainings with WA.
"Now I know if I keep preparing well for each game and have a clear but switched-on mind, I'll be fine," Klinger said.
"I'm always going to fail in some games – that's the nature of T20 cricket, but if I can win a few games for my team off my own bat during the tournament and lead well then I'm doing my job.


Who invented the Electric Guitar? The name of the person credited with inventing the Electric Guitar is Adolph Rickenbacker (1886 - 1976). Adolph Rickenbacker is not only famous as the Swiss-American inventor of the Electric Guitar but also as a engineer and co-founder of the Rickenbacker guitar company. When was the Electric Guitar invented? Adolph Rickenbacker invented the Electric Guitar in 1956, during the Rock and Roll era.
Definition of the Electric Guitar: The Electric Guitar is defined as is a musical instrument made with solid, semi-hollow and hollow bodies whose sound is amplified by electrical means by plugging an instrument cable (or wireless system) into an amplifier.
Fact 1: Who invented the Electric Guitar? The Electric Guitar was invented by Adolph Rickenbacker in 1956 during the Rock and Roll era.
Fact 2: Who invented the Electric Guitar? Prior to the invention of the Electric Guitar in 1956, there was the modern "classical" guitar that was invented in 1859 by the Spanish guitarist Antonio Torres Jurado. Most of the acoustic guitars used to this day originated from his designs.
Fact 3: Who invented the Electric Guitar? In the late 1800's the Martin steel-string guitars replaced the traditional catgut strings the first step towards the promise of much louder guitars.
Fact 4: Who invented the Electric Guitar? The need for electric guitars arose because Acoustic Guitars were too quiet for large venues.
Fact 5: Who invented the Electric Guitar? The man generally credited as the inventor of the Electric Guitar was Adolph Rickenbacker, a Swiss-American who was born on April 1, 1886 in Basel, Switzerland died on March 21, 1976.
Fact 6: Who invented the Electric Guitar? The early years of Adolph Rickenbacker were spent in Basel, Switzerland where he was raised by his family. Adolph Rickenbacker emigrated to the United States in 1891 following the death of his parents.
Fact 7: Who invented the Electric Guitar? Adolph Rickenbacker first set up an engineering shop specializing in metal pressing. He then changed direction and went on to learn the skills of a lutheir, a repairer and maker of stringed instruments such as the violin or classical guitar. (The word 'lutheir' derives from the French word 'luth' meaning lute).
Fact 8: Who invented the Electric Guitar? In the 1920's Adolph Rickenbacker became friends with (March 18, 1899 – March 30, 1941) George Beauchamp who played Hawaiian guitar and in 1931 they established an instrument manufacturing business creating metal bodies for resonator guitars called the National String Instrument Corporation.
Fact 9: Who invented the Electric Guitar? The aim of Rickenbacker and George Beauchamp was to invent a guitar that was significantly louder than the acoustic instrument.
Fact 10: Who invented the Electric Guitar? In 1932 George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker produced the first cast aluminium versions of the electric lap steel guitar, which they nicknamed the "frying pan".
Fact 11: Who invented the Electric Guitar? Rickenbacker and Beauchamp patented their "frying pan" in 1934 under patent number 2,089,171. It was a strange looking device and at first the Patent Office did not know whether to categorize the "Frying Pan" as an electrical device or a musical instrument!
Fact 12: Who invented the Electric Guitar? The "frying pan" was the first electric lap steel guitar ever produced, and one of the earliest electrically amplified guitars.
Fact 13: Who invented the Electric Guitar? In 1936 they invented a hollow-body electric guitar, called the electro Spanish guitar and the Rickenbacker company became the world's first manufacturer to produce electric guitars. The Rickenbacker electric guitars featured a single electric pickup with a steel cover that arched over the strings. The steel was soon replaced by bakelite.
Fact 13: Who invented the Electric Guitar? In 1940 George Beauchamp tired of the business and sold his interest in the Rickenbacker company to market fishing equipment. George Beauchamp sadly died less than a year later on March 30, 1941.
Fact 14: Who invented the Electric Guitar? The Rickenbacker hollow body was prone to feedback and distortions from the body and strings. and other inventors started experimenting with producing solid-body guitars. In 1940, Les Paul (1915 - 2009) created "The Log," an electric guitar whose strings and pickups were mounted on a body carved from a solid block of wood.
Fact 15: Who invented the Electric Guitar? The first modern electric guitar was designed and built in 1940 by an NC State electrical engineering student called William Sydney Wilson. Sidney Wilson put an individual pickup on each string and created the first fully electric guitar but failed to patent his invention.
Fact 16: Who invented the Electric Guitar? In 1946 Leo Fender designed the first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar with a single magnetic pickup and in 1954, introduced the Fender Stratocaster, or "Strat" electric guitar.
Fact 17: Who invented the Electric Guitar? The early 50's was a period of major change in the music industry and in 1953 Adolph Rickenbacker sold his company to Francis Cary Hall.
Fact 18: Who invented the Electric Guitar? Adolph Rickenbacker died from cancer in Orange County, California in 1976 at the age of 89 years old. He will always be remembered as the inventor of the first electric guitar.


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Canadian firms design two out of three winning solutions in the AIA Designing Recovery Competition
By Canadian Architect On Oct 7, 2013
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the three winners of its Designing Recovery competition, which was launched this year in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity, Dow Building Solutions, Make It Right, and the St. Bernard Project. The ideas competition solicited visions of sustainable homes capable of withstanding natural disasters specific to three regions: New York, New Orleans, and Joplin, Missouri. With recent meteorological events leaving swaths of destroyed houses in their wake within each of these areas – Superstorm Sandy, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and a series of tornadoes, respectively – the competition's aim is to foster new strategies both for rebuilding sustainably in post-disaster relief situations, and for ensuring that new structures in these vulnerable areas can remain standing during future weather-related disasters.
Entries for both New York and New Orleans responded to storm surges with designs for houses raised off the ground. The winning design for New Orleans, Shotgun[Remix], designed by New York firm GOATstudio, features a finish floor elevated seven feet off the ground, with a stormwater runoff rain garden to mitigate the effects of excessive rainfall. From an aesthetic standpoint, jury chair Michael Willis, FAIA, of MWA Architects, was impressed that Shotgun[Remix] "did have that kind of flexibility to allow it to adapt into many neighbourhoods."
Toronto-based Sustainable.TO Architecture + Building's winning entry for New York, the Resilient House, anticipates storm surges with a flood-proof foundation, while structural insulated panel (SIP) assembly reduces on-site construction time in post-disaster rebuilding efforts. The jury responded to the Resilient House's use of daylighting and contemporary design ideas that were "about the right scale in the neighbourhood context," Willis says. "But it also figured out a way that is recoverable and [repairable]," while per-dwelling material costs would be under $50,000.
While the first two regions addressed in the competition dealt with high potentials for flooding, the third, Joplin, Missouri – situated in the area known as Tornado Alley – encouraged entries that would respond to the devastating aftermath of these sudden, unpredictable cyclones. Although many homes in Joplin already include subterranean bunkers within which to weather the storms, Toronto-based Q4 Architects proposed the Core House, in which an inhabitable safe core would be built into a shell containing secondary rooms and spaces; that shell is designed to soften the look of the stronghold within. All of the essential functions of a house, including sleeping quarters, kitchen, and sanitation facilities with a filtration system, are included in the core, so that this resilient portion of the home would still be livable in the event of devastation to the perimeter spaces. "You could look at this and see how people could live here until services were replaced – that's one of the convincing things about it," Willis says. "[The Core House] clearly showed ways of using that core to accommodate many different housing styles and options."
Although the jury selected only one winning design per region, the AIA says in a release that "all of the entries that are feasible to construct will go into production in the corresponding communities." Through the competition, the AIA hopes to offer contemporary models of resilient houses as a way of giving back to the communities most in need of thoughtful, adaptive design solutions.
For more information, please visit www.architectmagazine.com/award-winners/aia-presents-designing-recovery-awards.aspx.
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Een pulsboring is een grondboorsysteem.

Mantelbuis
Bij dit boorsysteem wordt een met een schroefdraad verlengbare ijzeren buis, de mantelbuis, in een met behulp van een avegaar voorgeboord gat 1 à 2 meter in de grond geplaatst. Als het grondwater nog niet bereikt is, wordt de mantelbuis gevuld met water. Dit water dient voor het leveren van tegendruk en om sediment waarin geboord wordt in suspensie te laten gaan. De mantelbuis voorkomt het instorten van het boorgat en beperkt tevens de uitwisseling van het water in het boorgat met het omringende grondwater. Tijdens het boren dient het waterpeil in de mantelbuis ongeveer gelijk te blijven en indien nodig moet het water worden aangevuld. Aan de bovenkant van de mantelbuis wordt een klemblok bevestigd. Hiermee wordt voorkomen dat de mantelbuis bij zeer zachte sedimenten onverhoeds onder zijn eigen gewicht de grond in verdwijnt. Met behulp van een klemblok kan de mantelbuis rondgedraaid worden om bij steviger sediment het verder zakken te bevorderen. Het blok dient ook voor het uit de grond halen van de mantelbuis, wat per verlengstuk gedaan moet worden, als de boring voltooid is.

De puls
De puls, een ijzeren buis van één à anderhalve meter lengte met aan de onderkant een klep die alleen naar binnen (= naar boven) open kan (een zogenoemde terugslagklep), wordt aan een kabel de mantelbuis in gelaten. Met de kabel wordt de puls in het water enkele decimeters opgetrokken en daarna losgelaten waardoor deze op de bodem valt. Door de val op de bodem raakt sediment daaruit los. Tijdens de val staat de klep door de waterstroom omhoog open en kan sediment de puls binnen. Tijdens het optrekken sluit de klep zich weer door de omgekeerde waterstroom waardoor het verzamelde sediment binnen de puls blijft. Het optrekken zuigt ook sediment uit de bodem wat in suspensie gaat. Het op- en neerbewegen van de puls wordt pulsen genoemd. Door dit verscheidene keren te doen raakt de puls steeds voller. Na verloop van tijd wordt de puls opgehezen en geleegd. Het naar boven gehaalde en daarna opgevangen sediment is het grondmonster. Doordat er steeds meer sediment onderaan de mantelbuis wordt weggehaald, zakt de buis verder de grond in. Daar moet vaak ook druk op uitgeoefend worden, vooral als nog niet erg diep geboord is waardoor de mantelbuis nog niet veel weegt. Aan de bovenkant wordt zij steeds verlengd door er een nieuwe buis op te schroeven. Op deze wijze kunnen diepten van enkele honderden meters bereikt worden.

Uitvoering
Een pulsboring kan met de hand worden uitgevoerd maar tegenwoordig wordt dit vaak mechanisch gedaan. De apparatuur kan naast de mantelbuis (met verlengstukken), kabel en de puls bestaan uit een lier voor de kabel (tegenwoordig van staaldraad), een driepootstelling met katrol voor de kabel en een klemblok voor de mantelbuis. Andere benodigdheden kunnen zijn een kettingtang en andere apparatuur om de buizen op elkaar te kunnen schroeven en een valbeitel (zie hieronder).

Tegenwoordig wordt veel van dit alles meestal uitgevoerd met behulp van een mobiel boorapparaat waar geen driepootstelling meer aan te pas komt. Dergelijke apparaten kunnen relatief klein zijn maar ook de grootte van een vrachtwagen aannemen.

Voor- en nadelen
Pulsen is een schone boormethode. Er wordt weinig werkwater gebruikt. Het water dat gebruikt wordt kan eenvoudig opgeslagen en afgevoerd worden. Door het gebruik van een mantelbuis kan het boorgat bij normaal werken nooit invallen. Doordat het werkwater grotendeels gescheiden blijft van het grondwater en de mantelbuis strak door ondoorlaatbare kleilagen gaat kan vermenging van grondwater uit verschillende aquifers voorkomen worden. Hierdoor wordt ook voorkomen dat verontreiniging zich kan verplaatsen.
Overigens wordt die verspreiding van vervuiling na het verwijderen van de mantelbuis alleen maar voorkomen als het boorgat wordt dichtgegooid en ter plaatse van ondoorlaatbare kleilagen een ondoorlatende plug wordt geplaatst.

Een pulsboring kan afhankelijk van de deskundigheid van degeen die het werk uitvoert, betrekkelijk nauwkeurige monsters opleveren. Bij een goede uitvoering (bv bij verticale boorrichting) is de diepte van laagovergangen en de genomen monsters altijd bekend. Dat is in veel mindere mate het geval bij spoelboorsystemen. Voor veel civieltechnische en geologische vraagstellingen is de opbrengst en de kwaliteit van de monsters uit pulsboringen voldoende. Vanzelfsprekend hangt de kwaliteit ook af van de bemonstering zelf: men moet goed de verschillende grondsoorten kunnen onderscheiden en de beslissing kunnen nemen in welk geval een volgend monster nodig is. De monstersamenstelling komt echter nooit precies overeen met het aangeboorde sediment. Dat komt doordat het materiaal in suspensie gegaan is waardoor fijn materiaal in suspensie blijft zonder dat dit mee bemonsterd wordt. Vaak is een gedeelte van het materiaal ook tot kleinere delen gestampt. Ook worden partikels die groter zijn dan de pulsopening niet of niet goed bemonsterd. Óf zij worden opzij geduwd óf zij worden tot kleinere wel te bemonsteren partikels gestampt (met de puls of met de mantelbuis). In bepaalde gevallen wordt daarbij van een valbeitel gebruikgemaakt. Dit is in principe een zware massieve staaf die in plaats van de puls aan een kabel het boorgat in gaat. Hiermee wordt dan gepoogd het in de weg zittende object te vergruizen. Soms eindigt een boring ook op iets wat zich niet fijn laat stampen of opzij laat drukken, zoals een grote kei of een boomstam.
Pulsboringen geven weinig informatie over sedimentologische structuren. Dit heeft dit boortype gemeen met de verschillende soorten spoelboringen. Voor het achterhalen van dergelijke gegevens zijn alleen steekboringen geschikt. In veel gevallen zal de geologische interpretatie van een gebied wat met puls( en spoel)boringen is gekarteerd, veranderen zodra ter plekke steekboringen worden gezet. De veranderingen kunnen daarbij aanzienlijk zijn. Hoewel steekboringen in zeker opzicht betere geologische informatie geven, hebben zij als nadeel dat de monsteropbrengst voor bepaald onderzoek eigenlijk te klein is. Andere nadelen zijn dat steekboringen een hogere deskundigheid van de uitvoerder vereisen, minder snel te zetten zijn, dat er speciaal gereedschap nodig is om de monsters te verwerken en door dit alles duurder zijn dan pulsboringen. Het zetten van een aantal pulsboringen gecombineerd met een geringer aantal steekboringen is in grotere projecten vaak een goede tussenoplossing.

Toepassingen
Pulsboringen worden toegepast bij geologisch, milieukundig, archeologisch en civieltechnisch onderzoek. In gebieden die niet door het waterleidingnet bereikt worden gebruikt men vaak pulsboringen voor het plaatsen van waterbronnen. Dit heeft te maken met het feit dat de methode relatief goedkoop is en met het feit dat de opbouw van de ondergrond meestal al tijdens het boren duidelijk wordt waardoor watervoerende lagen makkelijk herkend kunnen worden. Daarbij komt dat de begrenzingen van de geschikte lagen meestal eveneens snel duidelijk zijn waardoor een filter direct en op de juiste diepte geplaatst kan worden.

Oud systeem
Het is al een zeer oud systeem wat door de Chinezen (maar dan in bamboe uitgevoerd) al zo'n drieduizend jaar geleden werd gebruikt.

Voor de Nederlandse geologische dienst (voormalige Rijks Geologische Dienst) was de pulsboring tot in de zestiger jaren van de twintigste eeuw een van de belangrijkste boorinstrumenten voor het verkennen en onderzoeken van de wat diepere ondergrond ten behoeve van de geologische kartering van Nederland.

Wellen
Bij wellen wordt het zakken van de boorbuis gestaakt, er wordt vaak wat water uit de mantelbuis gehaald om minder tegendruk te verkrijgen maar er wordt wel doorgepulst. Hierdoor gaat aan de onderkant van de mantelbuis meer sediment van opzij toevloeien waardoor als dit goed wordt gedaan een (veel) groter monster uit de betreffende laag genomen kan worden.

Dit is een methode die voor normaal onderzoek en civieltechnische toepassingen sterk is af te raden aangezien het niet zonder risico is als dit onoordeelkundig gedaan wordt. Bij verder boren kunnen monsters gecontamineerd worden met nagevallen materiaal. Het boorgat kan, buiten de mantelbuis, ook geheel instorten als er te veel sediment onderaan wordt weggehaald. Desondanks wordt deze methode wel toegepast als van een bepaalde diepte meer (vooral paleontologische) informatie gewenst wordt. Op deze wijze kunnen soms enorme hoeveelheden fossielen, vaak voornamelijk schelpen worden bemonsterd. De belangrijkste monografieën van de Nederlandse geologische dienst zijn voor een groot deel gebaseerd op materiaal wat met behulp van deze methode verkregen is.

Zie ook
 Grondboor
 Boortoren

Geologie
Grondmechanica

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Жан-Марк Сэмюэл Исаак Муссон (17 февраля 1776 года, Морж, Швейцария — 21 июня 1861 года, Цюрих) — швейцарский политик и государственный деятель. Первый федеральный канцлер Швейцарии (1803—1830).

Биография
Жан-Марк Муссон был потомком беженцев-гугенотов из Мас-д'Азиля во французском графстве Фуа. Родился в семье реформатского пастора, изучал право в Академии в Лозанне. Окончил Тюбингенский университет и получил докторскую степень (1796). Когда во франкоязычных кантонах Швейцарии началась революция, Берн, опираясь на немецкоязычные кантоны, попытался подавить революцию. После французского вторжения (1797—1798) и связанного с этим конца бернского правления, в январе 1798 года Муссон принял участие в работе временного собрания «Леманской республики» в качестве депутата от муниципалитета Бюрзен (кантон Во) и был его секретарем.

Директория, правительство Гельветической Республики, назначила Муссона в июне 1798 года генеральным секретарём директории. Луи д'Аффри, первый ландамман (должность в конфедерации при Наполеоне) в Швейцарии, назначил его весной 1803 года своим личным секретарем. В июле того же года он был избран парламентом Федеральным канцлером. В значительной степени на Муссона легла ответственность за создание Федеральной канцелярии, старейшего постоянного федерального органа в Швейцарии. Вначале она ежегодно должна была переезжать вместе с архивом в соответствующий форорт (временная столица кантона), с 1815 года только каждые два года.

Ввиду постоянной смены форортов и ландаммана или председателя парламента, Муссон обеспечивал преемственность и через него осуществлялись важнейшие контакты с иностранными послами.

В 1815 году он был награжден венгерским орденом Святого Стефана, а в 1817 году — прусским орденом Красного Орла.

Город Цюрих присвоил Муссону звание почетного гражданина в 1816 году, а город Берн — в 1821 году.

Муссон занимал пост канцлера до 1830 года.

В 1833—1834 гг. он снова работал в арбитражном суде, который юридически регулировал разделение кантона Базель.

Последние 20 лет своей жизни он прожил в Цюрихе.

Его сын Генрих был статс-секретарем Конфедерации (1830—1833). Генрих Муссон был мэром Цюриха с 1840 по 1845 год, а затем — президентом Федерального парламента.

В 2012 году в родном городе Муссона — Морже была открыта мемориальная доска в его честь.

Литература
Georg von Wyß: Mousson, Joh. Marcus Samuel Isaak. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, S. 412—415.

Ссылки

 Biografie auf der Website der Bundeskanzlei

Примечания

Политики Швейцарии


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package com.salisburyclan.lpviewport.animation;

import com.salisburyclan.lpviewport.api.AnimatedLayer;
import com.salisburyclan.lpviewport.api.Color;
import com.salisburyclan.lpviewport.api.LayerBuffer;
import com.salisburyclan.lpviewport.api.ReadLayer;
import com.salisburyclan.lpviewport.api.ReadWriteLayer;
import com.salisburyclan.lpviewport.geom.Point;
import com.salisburyclan.lpviewport.geom.Range2;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import javafx.animation.KeyFrame;
import javafx.animation.KeyValue;
import javafx.animation.Timeline;
import javafx.beans.property.IntegerProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleIntegerProperty;
import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.util.Duration;

// Fills the entire frame with a given color, one random pixel at a time.
public class RandomFill extends AnimatedLayer {

  private final ReadWriteLayer layer;
  private final Color color;
  private final List<Point> orderedPoints;

  private static final Duration DEFAULT_DURATION = Duration.seconds(3);

  public RandomFill(Range2 extent) {
    this(extent, Color.BLACK, DEFAULT_DURATION);
  }

  public RandomFill(Range2 extent, Color color, Duration duration) {
    this.layer = new LayerBuffer(extent);
    this.color = color;
    this.orderedPoints = randomizePoints(extent);
    initAnimation(duration);
  }

  @Override
  protected ReadLayer getReadLayer() {
    return layer;
  }

  private List<Point> randomizePoints(Range2 extent) {
    List<Point> points = new ArrayList<>();
    extent.forEach((x, y) -> points.add(Point.create(x, y)));
    Collections.shuffle(points);
    return points;
  }

  private void initAnimation(Duration duration) {
    IntegerProperty step = new SimpleIntegerProperty();
    Timeline timeline = new Timeline();
    timeline
        .getKeyFrames()
        .addAll(
            new KeyFrame(Duration.ZERO, new KeyValue(step, 0)),
            new KeyFrame(Duration.seconds(1), new KeyValue(step, orderedPoints.size())));
    timeline.setOnFinished(event -> fireOnFinished());
    addTimeline(timeline);

    step.addListener(
        new ChangeListener() {
          @Override
          public void changed(ObservableValue o, Object oldStep, Object newStep) {
            renderPixel((Integer) oldStep, (Integer) newStep);
          }
        });
  }

  private void renderPixel(int fromStepInclusive, int toStepExclusive) {
    for (int i = fromStepInclusive; i < toStepExclusive; ++i) {
      layer.setPixel(orderedPoints.get(i), color);
    }
  }
}

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Trichomimastra itoi is een keversoort uit de familie bladkevers (Chrysomelidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1986 gepubliceerd door Takizawa.

Bladkevers


If you are looking for a cool project have a look at this Open Source Hardware Sentry Gun Controller. The board you see above is a new version that has mainly surface mount parts to make the board much smaller than the older version which used lots of through hole components. The board has lots of I/O pins for added functionality. You can see a few of the main features that system has below. Watch the video to learn more about this version of the controller (version 7).
Provides solder points for wires to an optional 'disable plate' button and optional Reload Position switch.
Can handle up to 5A current before getting warm, for using high-torque and heavy-duty servos.
Status LED's for Power, Mode, Firing, and USB RX and TX.
12 user-programmable digital I/O pins for your own expansions and prototyping (8 of these can also be used as analog inputs).
Supports USB 2.0 communication (with mini-B USB cable).
On-board ATMega328 processor pre-loaded with Project Sentry Gun code.
Fully compatible with Project Sentry Gun's code.


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The thing with potholes is……..
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"Images are easy to upload and manage in Google Sites if you know how. "
What do you need to know about using Images in Google Sites?
Using Images in Google Sites is a simple process but problems can occur if a few points are considered before doing so.
acceptable file formats
Sizing Images.
Images should be properly sized prior to uploading them to Google Sites. Images that are too big can use up limited website storage for non Google Apps websites, slow down page loading for viewers and making positioning with other page content harder. Think about how much space the image needs in the page, then size the image accordingly.
Naming Images.
Images should be given a descriptive file name prior to uploading but if not, they can be "renamed" afterward. Why is this important? At some point, you will want to find an image or document file in the "Attachments" page (a sort-of file manager). If a descriptive file name is not used, the file will be hard to find among the many other website files.
Acceptable Image file formats.
According to Google Sites documentation, animated gifs are not supported but a work around is provided. Most image file formats are supported but if they are not jpgs or pngs, they will be converted to either. Adding images to your site
How does the Image gadget work?
Once an Image is added to a Google Sites page, a gadget box displays. Some settings can be made to the image via the gear icon: change its size, its alignment and whether text wraps around it. Customizing how your images are displayed
How to add an Image to Google Sites.
There are 2 ways to add Images to Google Sites. The difference is convenience and where the Images will be used in your website. For example, if uploading one image to one page, use either method, probably #1.
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into "a" page
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into the "Attachments" page
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"Manage Site"
select "Attachments" page link in the Left navigation
select the "upload" button to start the process
once uploaded determine a specific page to move it to
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Headlining Today|
Dakota Pipeline Stoppage Is A Victory For Posers, Not The Environment
Parent Category: News
Category: Headlining Today
The government's decision to halt the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline will hearten its many opponents, but will have no significant practical effect.
If anything, this represents a victory of image over reality, despite the claims of native Americans, Hollywood stars and veterans. It seems as if very little logic has been applied to the question, and unsupported claims are repeated ad nauseum in the media.
Some have broader goals than simply changing the pipeline route. Climate change activist Bill McKibben said "We cannot pump more oil. Frontline communities, and particularly indigenous people, have been in the forefront of this climate fight." Some on-site protesters agree, with Faith Gemmel saying, "We strongly feel that fossil fuels should be left in the ground, and this country and all countries need to start moving toward sustainable and renewable energies." Unfortunately, this attitude is contradicted by the protesters own reliance on gasoline fired automobiles and, with the onset of winter, propane for heating. Photos showing protesters on horseback, but with lines of parked cars behind them, belie the supposed opposition to fossil fuel use.
More: http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellynch/2016/12/05/dakota-pipeline-stoppage-a-victory-for-posers-not-the-environment/#6b69973b2d7e


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Kent State senior blends fashion, function in adaptive evening wear
By KRISTA S. KANOReporter
May 10, 2019 at 5:03 PM May 10, 2019 at 6:12 PM
Kaycee Marshall's prom dress experience was a nightmare.
The Kent State University senior, who has scoliosis and sacral agenesis, struggled to find a dress that worked for her body and her wheelchair, but most importantly, a dress that she loved.
Woven fabrics had no stretch to accommodate her back. Poofy dresses with layers of fabric were uncomfortable to sit on. Long dresses got caught in her wheelchair.
"I'm a size small, but I had to get a size 18 just to get it over my spine. So then it fit there, but nowhere else, so I ended up getting a corset back, which has give, but I couldn't lace it up myself," said Marshall, a fashion design senior who graduates today. "That wasn't functional for me: using the bathroom, getting dressed, I couldn't do that by myself, so that's where the idea for the collection of adaptive evening wear came in."
Though she's been building first-hand experience her entire life, Marshall has been researching and designing her line "The Engine That Did It All" for close to two years, starting as a junior studying in New York City. Last month, Marshall debuted her adaptive formal line at Kent State's annual fashion show to display how small tweaks can make beautiful designs more inclusive. And as she graduates today, Marshall heads out into the world of fashion to further that message.
"I have first-hand experience, but the disabled community is so diverse," Marshall said. To begin her research, she looked as past adaptive lines — like those from Tommy Hilfiger, Zappos and Vans — and asked for feedback from Facebook groups for the disabled community.
"I asked people about their dress shopping experiences and what I found was that a lot of people don't even wear dresses. I wanted to find out why. What makes them shy away from wearing dresses and then addressing those problems in my line," she said.
With input from her professor, Linda Ohrn-McDaniel, who last year worked with another fashion student who also developed an adaptive line, Marshall experimented with fabrics, shapes and enclosures to see what could work for people with varying abilities.
She chose knit fabrics that had stretch for women with scoliosis. She placed zippers on the bottom front of dresses, as opposed to in the center of the back, to give women the independence to get in and out of their own garments. She strategically placed cascades between the knee and ankle so that the extra fabric would not get caught in wheelchairs, and she featured zippers on both sides of bodices to accommodate those with limb differences and those who have catheters on either sides of their bodies.
"We also had to think of the shape for someone who sits. What's the crotch length of a pair of pants when you're sitting down compared to when you're standing. You need the back to be longer because it's got to go around the body," Ohrn-McDaniel said. "We had to think of what's comfortable when you're sitting, what you're sitting on and how does it stretch around the back where it doesn't really matter what it looks like because you're sitting."
"Whether you're a person in a wheelchair or not, you're not getting it because it's made for someone who uses a wheelchair. You're getting it because you love it, and it also happens to work for someone who sits in a wheelchair," Ohrn-McDaniel said.
Marshall focused her line on a steampunk aesthetic reminiscent of the wheelchair used by each of her models.
"Steampunk is all about the machine and how the machine is built, so I paralleled that with the wheelchairs and the machinery of that," Marshall said.
To create that look, Marshall used olives, browns and maroons and incorporated copper hardware. She also hid small references to wheelchairs into her pieces, like the cascades which when laid flat, are actually in the shape of a gear.
The name of the collection, "The Engine That Did It All," also focused on machinery and referenced "The Little Engine That Could," a childhood favorite.
After creating her line and working with her models, Marshall said she now wants to pursue a career in adaptive design.
After graduation, Marshall will go home for a week before heading to New York City, where she will discuss disabilities in the fashion industry as a panelist for the Council of Fashion Designers of America, a governing body for the industry. She will speak not only about her adaptive line, but also her personal experiences of working in the fashion industry and getting around New York City in a wheelchair.
She will also get to share that message with a wider audience when she appears on "The TODAY Show" sometime the week of May 20.
Though she does not have a job lined up yet, she hopes to stay in New York, where more and more mainstream lines are incorporating adaptive lines and adaptive features.
"I think it's much more satisfying knowing that you're making a difference with what you're doing. It's much more rewarding I think than just making pretty dresses. I'm still making pretty dresses, but I'm getting something out of it," Marshall said.
Ohrn-McDaniel said this is a trend that started in the last few years, but she sees it expanding.
"It makes a big difference when brands like Tommy Hilfiger does something like this. You can definitely go online and find clothing that is adaptive from further back than that, but it's not from a big brand. It does make it a lot more acceptable and interesting for the people to wear and for us to design into," she said.
And as the industry heads toward more inclusion, Kent's fashion program will follow, she said. The program is working to better understand the variety of customers and encourage their students to see those untapped markets.
"I see a lot of growth potential in those areas. We're not there yet and there's so much we can do to support the diverse markets through the design process and what we can do to shine a light on those areas," she said.
"That's why it's so much fun to get a student like Kaycee because it puts us to task. That's what teaching is about. It's finding that new thing we want to learn and push forward."
Reporter Krista S. Kano can be reached at 330-541-9416, kkano@recordpub.com or on Twitter @KristaKanoRCedu.


Bob Baker's only solo script suggests he should maybe have gone it alone sooner, as it's better than anything he co-wrote with Dave Martin. This one sheds the gauche re-tellings of Greek myths for a direct and effective script about drug smuggling and addiction, pepped up with a very neat sub-plot about an overhead projector that's also a doorway to other worlds. I'm sure Moffat must have half remembered it when he came to write about Zygons escaping from paintings. It suffers badly from the same problems as a lot of Season 17: insipid direction and weak design that doesn't do the material any justice. But production issues aside, it's a thoughtful, imaginative script with some excellent touches all about the blurring of boundaries (the two ships fused together in hyperspace; the monsters that are also victims; the concept of being able to step inside a television).
Ian Stuart Black's best script sounds it like was effectively creepy. It's takes the corrupt and parasitic society of The Savages and the mind control plot of The War Machines, and it sticks them together to make a third, better story. This is the basis on which future Doctor Who is increasingly able to operate: juxtaposing a lot of story elements that don't fit together. On paper mind-controlling crabs that eat gas hiding in a holiday camp sounds like one of those baffling, camp B-movies from the 1960s. In practice, this is the first classic Doctor Who mash-up that will give us in the future: yeti conquering the London Underground using cobwebs; alien space octopuses in league with an evil version of the Doctor using plastic flowers to conquer the world; shape-shifting aliens and their space cow invading the Earth via Loch Ness; a spaghetti-faced alien stealing priceless artwork to avert the course of human history etc. This is a truly astonishing and visionary piece of work: in its own way more bonkers than The Underwater Menace. I think this is where classic Doctor Who really begins. No wonder RTD brought back the Macra.
I think this would have been better than Nightmare of Eden had it been completed, although it's hard to be sure just how good it might have been, hence it's slightly middling placement. The bits that exist are certainly funnier and better made than almost anything else in the Graham Williams years, and Douglas Adams is the first writer to do something interesting with Robert Holmes' concept of the Time Lords as a species that has forgotten more than it remembers. I really like the idea of Chris and Clare getting caught up in the adventures of two runaway Time Lords: they're the Ian and Barbara of the 1970s. The Krargs look quite effective with the lava effect superimposed. Even finished, I don't think it would have held a candle to City of Death, but as the novelisation and even the 1992 VHS proved, this would have been, by some considerable distance, the best of Williams' season finales. All credit to JNT for doing the right thing, and trying to get it finished.
Not solely populated by the beardy old men that plagued Season 18, Castrovalva is more promising than Logopolis because Bidmead spends time deftly sketching in a society with its own history and mores. As such, this is a charming and effective exercise in world building, complete with some of Bidmead's nice one-liners ('that's democracy for you'). He's hardly remembered for his comic touch, but it's these one liners that stick in the mind better than the more laboured "hard SF" stuff. The story ends on an upbeat, energetic note that suggests that this Doctor is going to work out splendidly. As an opening story for the new Doctor, Castrovalva works well, with the final episode giving us the fifth Doctor on a plate – energetic and witty, and trying to win through intelligence and persuasion rather than technical wizardry or Hai! karate. It's a very attractive approach, albeit one that in the hands of an unsympathetic script editor and absentee producer requires more thoughtful management than it usually gets. And the audience could have done with a signpost telling them that part four is the norm for this Doctor rather than another bout of post-regenerative wobbles.
Possibly the story that took Doctor Who's 'educational' remit most to heart, with all the bits about condensation, melting footprints and history lessons. Everyone who watched it seems to remember it as an all-time classic, and given it was apparently sold to every single country in the entire world, it was probably one of the most watched serials ever. Odd, then, that it seems to have vanished without trace, with only the telesnaps and production photos to confirm that it must have looked amazing. That said, I'm more politely interested in this one than anything. If Ian Levine could only save one seven parter from Season One, I'm glad he made it The Daleks.
It's a very good script, but it has the same problem as Marco Polo, and a lot of the early historicals: a bit too much reverence for the source material. So, while I think this is very good, and looks much more impressive than some of the 1965 sci-fi episodes, I much prefer The Romans or The Myth Makers, which debunk or ridicule some of their historical figures. Or The Aztecs, which doesn't feature any personages at all. While I think it's a stupid criticism to claim the historicals don't work because we 'know what's going to happen' (we don't know how: who'd've guessed the Doctor inspired the fire of Rome; or turn out to be the exact double of the Abbot of Amboise?), it can be a bit weary when the Doctor Who story is overtaken by real events – leading to the damp squib ending of The Reign of Terror, and the slightly anticlimactic fourth episode of The Crusade. Another one I'm politely interested in, but don't actually think is all that entertaining.
This is much more like it: the last historical that focuses on real-life figures, but treating them, quite rightly, as fictional characters. I bet even if Philip Morris decided to give back Marco Polo tomorrow, it wouldn't overtake this one in the rankings. Actually funnier than Carry On Cowboy, a wonderful parody of the Western genre, and with the last great script for William Hartnell's Doctor. It's really nicely directed as well. While I'd swap The War Machines for The Massacre or The Ark for four more episodes of Master Plan in a second, nothing could persuade me to give this one up.
I get really annoyed by people claiming the characters in The Time Meddler are Saxons. They're Northumbrian, which if anything would have made them either Angles or Danes. But by 1066, I'm pretty sure they would have thought of themselves as English. Anyway. Having been reaching for this plot in The Romans and The Chase, Dennis Spooner finally nails it: a story that makes the historical viable. It's a genius move, having a mischievous version of Hartnell's Doctor going round breaking the rules. The cliffhangers are all good, but the reveal of the Monk's time machine is the best one this season. Hartnell and Butterworth are both brilliant, but so are O'Brien and Purves. It's such a shame they've only got two more stories to go, because I think given a bit more time this could have been the classic 1960s line-up. Very, very funny (the opening is my favourite TARDIS scene ever); clever and intriguing. Between this one, The Macra Terror and Spearhead from Space you could bring the series back for the 21st Century.
This is the story that introduces Peter Davison's orange trousers, and with them my favourite ever interpretation of the Doctor. Davison's great throughout his era: he's finding his feet in Four to Doomsday, and is slightly tentative in The Visitation, but after that he's nailed it. But then in Season 21 he relaxes a bit: suddenly, the slightly Troughton-tinged panic lessens, the occasional high pitch in the voice is dialled down. The energy is still there, but it's less nervous, more decisive. And the sarcasm that's always been there increases a notch, particularly where Tegan's concerned ('The toast of Little Hodcombe' here, and the 'funny walk' stuff in the next story). I think Peter Davison's definitive performances are given in this and the next four stories. Oh, this is quite fun as well: the Malus and its miniature gargoyle are the most visually impressive monsters of the Davison era. The plot's clever: having time fracturing in the village and ghosts seeping through is very Sapphire and Steel, with the added bonus of lots of summery and charming location filming which tends to make this look more expensive. Easily the best Davison two-parter.
The first time I saw this I must have been about 16 years old, and I watched the video with one of my school friends who was extremely impressed when he saw it was by Douglas 'HHG2G' Adams. I have to confess that I'm not such a massive Adams fan: I admire his stuff, but I always preferred Fawlty Towers' style of humour to Monty Python's. This one has a very good script, with some great twists (the nurse as the villain, with the ranting Pirate Captain as her front man), but it does suffer from the same problem as a lot of Season 16: the production looks very flat and boring, which tends to sap the life out of Adams' story and mean that most of the burden falls on the actors. Luckily, they're mostly up to the job: especially Bruce Purchase and Tom Baker, who gets his best moment in the whole season after he's uncovered 'one of the most heinous crimes ever committed in this galaxy'.
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That's such a good observation about Time Meddler + Macra Terror + Spearhead = the RTD era. I've always found Nightmare of Eden charming, and Castrovalva positively enchanting, the latter being probably a top ten story for me. I know that's crazy, but again, it's at least partly nostalgia, and partly the continued sense of danger (Bidmead scripts are great for that), the TARDIS as an unsafe place (ditto), the cheery sense of the eponymous city as a potentially real place with tons of character, that climax with the recursive occlusion, the revelation about the history books, the incidental music…I just love it. And Adric is at his most charming when he's chained up, I think most of us would agree, though perhaps for diverse reasons.


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Isolation, Phylogenetic Analysis and Anti-infective Activity Screening of Marine Sponge-Associated Actinomycetes (2010)
Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan ; Pimentel-Elardo, Sheila M. ; Hanora, Amro ; Radwan, Mona ; Abou-El-Ela, Soad H. ; Ahmed, Safwat ; Hentschel, Ute
Terrestrial actinomycetes are noteworthy producers of a multitude of antibiotics, however the marine representatives are much less studied in this regard. In this study, 90 actinomycetes were isolated from 11 different species of marine sponges that had been collected from offshore Ras Mohamed (Egypt) and from Rovinj (Croatia). Phylogenetic characterization of the isolates based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing supported their assignment to 18 different actinomycete genera representing seven different suborders. Fourteen putatively novel species were identified based on sequence similarity values below 98.2% to other strains in the NCBI database. A putative new genus related to Rubrobacter was isolated on M1 agar that had been amended with sponge extract, thus highlighting the need for innovative cultivation protocols. Testing for anti-infective activities was performed against clinically relevant, Gram-positive (Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureus) and Gram-negative (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa) bacteria, fungi (Candida albicans) and human parasites (Leishmania major, Trypanosoma brucei). Bioactivities against these pathogens were documented for 10 actinomycete isolates. These results show a high diversity of actinomycetes associated with marine sponges as well as highlight their potential to produce anti-infective agents.
Novel anti-infective secondary metabolites and biosynthetic gene clusters from actinomycetes associated with marine sponges (2008)
Pimentel Elardo, Sheila Marie
Marine sponges (Porifera) harbor diverse microbial communities within their mesohyl, among them representatives of the phylum Actinobacteria, commonly known as actinomycetes. Actinomycetes are prolific producers of pharmacologically important compounds and are responsible for producing the majority of antibiotics. The main aim of this Ph.D. study was to investigate the metabolic potential of the sponge-associated actinomycetes to produce novel anti-infective agents. The first aim was to cultivate actinomycetes derived from different marine sponges. 16S rDNA sequencing revealed that the strains belonged to diverse actinomycete genera such as Gordonia, Isoptericola, Micromonospora, Nocardiopsis, Saccharopolyspora and Streptomyces. Phylogenetic analyses and polyphasic characterization further revealed that two of these strains represent new species, namely Saccharopolyspora cebuensis strain SPE 10-1T (Pimentel-Elardo et al. 2008a) and Streptomyces axinellae strain Pol001T (Pimentel-Elardo et al. 2008b). Furthermore, secondary metabolite production of the actinomycete strains was investigated. The metabolites were isolated using a bioassay-guided purification scheme followed by structure elucidation using spectroscopic methods and subjected to an elaborate anti-infective screening panel. Several interesting compounds were isolated namely, the novel polyketides cebulactam A1 and A2 (Pimentel-Elardo et al. 2008c), a family of tetromycin compounds including novel derivatives, cyclodepsipeptide valinomycin, indolocarbazole staurosporine, diketopiperazine cycloisoleucylprolyl and butenolide. These compounds exhibited significant anti-parasitic as well as protease inhibitory activities. The third aim of this Ph.D. study was to identify biosynthetic gene clusters encoding for nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) and polyketide synthases (PKS) present in the actinomycete strains. Genomic library construction and sequencing revealed insights into the metabolic potential and biosynthetic pathways of selected strains. An interesting NRPS system detected in Streptomyces sp. strain Aer003 was found to be widely distributed in several sponge species, in an ascidian and in seawater and is postulated to encode for a large peptide molecule. Sequencing of the PKS gene cluster of Saccharopolyspora cebuensis strain SPE 10-1T allowed the prediction of the cebulactam biosynthetic pathway which utilizes 3-amino-5-hydroxybenzoic acid as the starter unit followed by successive condensation steps involving methylmalonyl extender units and auxiliary domains responsible for the polyketide assembly. In conclusion, this Ph.D. study has shown that diverse actinomycete genera are associated with marine sponges. The strains, two of them novel species, produced diverse chemical structures with interesting anti-infective properties. Lastly, the presence of biosynthetic gene clusters identified in this study substantiates the biosynthetic potential of actinomycetes to produce exploitable natural products and hopefully provides a sustainable supply of anti-infective compounds.


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Saturday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m.
Blanco is the youngest, first Latino, first immigrant and first gay person to serve as inaugural poet. He has visited Emory twice as a guest speaker for the Spanish and Portuguese department, in October 2016 and February 2017, and he placed his papers with the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library last year.
Blanco was born in Madrid, Spain, where his family resided briefly after exile from Cuba. They moved to New York City when he was an infant, then to Miami, where he grew up. On the advice of his parents, Blanco obtained a BS in civil engineering from Florida International University (FIU) in 1991 and started work as an engineer. He returned to FIU to earn his MFA in creative writing in 1997, launching his career as a professional poet.
Blanco's latest book of poems, "How to Love a Country" (Beacon Press, 2019), explores immigration, gun violence, racism and LGBTQ issues. His other works include "Boundaries" (2017), which features Blanco's poems paired with Jacob Hessler's photos. The book examines the boundaries of race, gender, class and ethnicity, and challenges the historic and current physical and psychological dividing lines in the United States.
His first book of poetry, "City of a Hundred Fires" (1998), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. His other books of poetry include "Looking for the Gulf Motel" (2012) and "Directions to the Beach of the Dead" (2005). Blanco has received numerous accolades for his poetry, including the Paterson Poetry Prize, a PEN/Beyond Margins Award and multiple fellowships.
His upcoming reading is sponsored by Emory Library and Information Technology Services, the Rose Library, the Hightower Fund, and the Creative Writing Program at Emory.


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The Western Front of the Eastern Church: Uniate and Orthodox Conflict
by Barbara Skinner
Uniate and Orthodox Conflict in 18th-century Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.
The dissolution of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the late 18th century and the incorporation of the majority of the Ruthenians - ethnic Ukrainians and Belarusians - into the Russian Empire from the backdrop for confessional history critical to modern Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian identities.
In a region long shaped by religious and cultural tensions between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, the creation in 1596 of the Uniate church, which retained the Eastern rite but accepted Catholic doctrine, cut a new religious fault line through Ruthenian communities that set the stage for religious and political conflict. Drawing on archival sources from Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, "The Western Front of the Eastern Church" addresses the shifting identity and fate of Ruthenians on both sides of the Orthodox/Uniate divide during the politically charged era of the partitions of Poland.
Skinner investigates diverging components of these faith communities in the 18th century, the changing political landscape as the Russian Empire expanded its borders, and the religious tensions and violence that occurred as a result. She reveals cultural influences that shaped Ukrainian and Belarusian identities and sheds light on aspects of Russian imperial identity as it laid claim to its western borderlands.
The confessional focus critiques the nationalist perspective that has dominated the presentation of Ukrainian and Belarusian history, and Skinner's treatment brings the region into the broader discussion of confessional development in Europe as a whole. This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of relations between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, as well as those studying the tensions between Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus today.
Meditations on the Divine Liturgy of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church
The Orthodox Church and The Orthodox Way Reviewed
The Longer Catechism of the Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church
The Orthodox Church in the History of Russia
The Holy Standards: The Creeds, Confessions of Faith, and Catechisms of the Eastern Orthodox Church
The True Significance of Sacred Tradition and Its Great Worth
Russia in 1913 (paperback)
The Ecclesial Crisis in Ukraine
Saint Paisios of Mount Athos
The Pentecostarion of the Orthodox Church
A Manual of Theosis: Orthodox Christian Instruction on the Theory and Practice of Stillness, Watchfulness, and Ceaseless Prayer
The Disappearing Deaconess
Old Believers in Modern Russia


Kelly R. Silberberg, Peter B. Adams. : "December 1993." : Also available online in PDF. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-25).
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Follow up: Fans rank HOF-worthy Bears
I recently ranked former Bears players I feel are most deserving of enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We asked fans to rank the six players as well, and nearly 4,000 responded. The following is the order they finished, based on a points system. The small arrows indicate the difference between the fan rankings and my rankings.
Devin Hester
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Hester received 80 percent of the first-place votes from fans, crushing the rest of the field. None of the other five garnered more than 7 percent, with Jay Hilgenberg receiving 7 percent, followed by Steve McMichael (6), Charles Tillman (5), Lance Briggs (2) and Olin Kreutz (1). Hester also received 9 percent of the second-place votes, giving him 89 percent of the first- and second-place votes.
Jay Hilgenberg
Hilgenberg finished second in the fan vote after receiving the most second-place votes (38 percent). The 38 percent was more than double the votes he garnered in any of the five other positions. Fans ranked Hilgenberg in the middle of the pack; he received 17 percent of the third-place votes, 16 percent of the fourth-place votes and 14 percent of the fifth-place votes.
Charles Tillman
Tillman finished third, although he received far fewer third-place votes (19 percent) than Steve McMichael (36). Tillman had the most fourth-place votes (37 percent) of any of the players, but receiving the second most second-place votes (25 percent) helped lift him into the third spot.
Steve McMichael
McMichael garnered the most third-place votes as mentioned, but he dropped to fourth in the fan rankings because he received only 15 percent of the second-place votes. Mongo compiled 17 percent of the fourth-place votes, 14 percent of the fifth-place votes and 12 percent of the sixth-place votes.
Lance Briggs
Briggs garnered the most sixth-place votes by a wide margin with 48 percent, but he finished fifth in the fan voting because he received a decent amount of consideration in the third (15 percent), fourth (13 percent) and fifth (14 percent) spots.
Olin Kreutz
Kreutz received the most fifth-place votes (46 percent), but he also garnered a large chunk in the sixth spot (25 percent) and not a lot of consideration in the top three slots with 1 percent of the first-place vote, 5 percent of the second-place vote and 8 percent of the third-place vote.
No matter where any of the players finished in the rankings, though, all deserve at least Hall of Fame consideration.
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Two pro football analytics experts have ranked the Bears' 2022 rookie class—led by defensive backs Kyler Gordon and Jaquan Brisker—as the eighth most productive in the NFL this season.
Bears' Top 10 plays of 2022 season
Senior writer Larry Mayer ranks his top 10 Bears plays of the 2022 season, many of which—not surprisingly—feature dynamic dual-threat quarterback Justin Fields.


Midsize luxury cars can be affordable, provided you conduct a bit of research before buying. Here are some points to make your luxury vehicle affordable irrespective of your earnings.
It is true that when luxury cars made their entrance in the market, they were costly. Only high earners could afford them. Luxury vehicles were unattainable for the rest of all. However, those days are long gone. With more manufacturers bringing luxury car models to the market, competition has raised making opulence affordable now.
Along with the number of manufacturers, the numbers of models, features, etc. have also increased. Cars are available from the entry level. Thus, you can get a luxury car at a price you can afford. Most of the times, the looks and performance from entry-level to high-end cars are similar, at least for the untrained eyes. Thus, nobody can tell the difference. You can keep on adding features up to the point you can afford.
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Buying a car with monthly installment or EMI facility helps a lot in reducing the burden on your shoulders. Thus, find out a dealership or manufacturer who offers this facility.
In today's competitive market, nobody keeps high-margin. This is the reason behind luxury cars becoming affordable for everybody. It is a good time for car enthusiasts to invest in something which is not that pricey as it is supposed to be due to various reasons.
The best way to find a car that would suit all your requirements is to research online. Once you have chosen a model, you can check with the dealership and decide the way forward.


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The province says the crippling drought is the worst water shortage experienced since 1982.
JOHANNESBURG - The KwaZulu-Natal Cooperative Governance Department says business should do more in the face of the crippling drought, adding that water shortages are not solely a government problem.
The province says the crippling drought is the worst water shortage experienced since 1982, where some areas are bone dry while others have been given a lifeline of 120 days.
So far, KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State are the only two provinces that have been declared disaster areas.
The Water and Sanitation Department has allocated more than R300 million towards intervention strategies, adding that government is not helpless at the helm of the drought.
But the department's Lennox Mabaso says a drought can't be politicised to be the fault of anyone in particular, adding that it's a natural disaster and it needs attention from all sectors.
"We're saying that all of us can play our roles. We need to see the messages of water conservation on our premises. We need to see how we're conserving water, what methodologies are being used. Government is exploring a number of options."
The department says the drought is affecting the entire province and rain is needed within a month or there will be devastating long-term consequences.
Mabaso says the situation is dire as cattle and crops are dying in increasingly desert-like conditions.
"Almost every region is affected. There are areas where right now the entire town is without water, and the dam is sitting at 0.0 percent."
He says government has a number of strategies in place, including the provision of water tankers to the worst affected areas.
"Some teams have already been sent to investigate the possibility of desalination plants that can be utilised. But we need rain. The rain must fall, and it must fall immediately."
But Mabaso says businesses and the communities must come to the party.
LISTEN: Water & Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says the country is facing a crisis by virtue of the fact that it is a water-scarce land. Listen as she discusses government's drought relief efforts.


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SRSLY: That Wild Alaskan Pollock Is Frozen Chinese Pollock?
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April 22, 2016, 3:24 p.m. EDT
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MainMuck: Locally Sourced, as in, Same Solar System
Remember in "The Matrix" when Morpheus leans in close and asks Neo: "You think that's air you're breathing?" Now replace Morpheus with the Tampa Bay Times, and "air" with "locally sourced food" and you pretty much have the Times' "Farm to Fable" investigative series.
We've got you covered with the four W's: What? Wait for it. What else? And Why?:
Turns out the truth behind some restaurant claims of locally sourced food is about as local and factual as that "Canadian girlfriend" you had in middle school. (No way that was just us.) Restaurant critic Laura Reiley put on her investigative reporter hat and did a big ole fact-check on scads of Tampa-area restaurants, and found that "farm-to-table" claims were mostly just made up. In some cases, local food producers didn't even sell the type of food that restaurateurs claimed to be buying from them.
The Mermaid Tavern peddles a "F**k Monsanto Salad." According to Reiley's reporting, wait for it … the salad almost certainly includes GMO ingredients grown literally from Monsanto seeds. Don't let that distract you from the fact that their "wild Alaskan pollock" was found to be frozen Chinese pollock treated with the preservative sodium tripolyphosphate. Sounds delish!
Morpheus says: "You think that's not-pork you're eating?" Think again, grasshopper. Reiley found that Gulfport's tony La Cote Basque was selling veal schnitzel that was actually sliced pork, and for that indiscretion was fined $0. So, ya know, if you happen to be skipping pork for religious or other reasons, maybe not the restaurant for Tinder date night. Just a thought.
The usual: it's way more expensive to buy from local farmers. And since restaurants are on the honor code, there's nothing to stop them from misleading diners, except for honor...HAHAHA! And perhaps fear of the Tampa Bay Times. (Support local journalism!)
"Wow, and I really thought someone had figured out how to grow collard greens in the U.S. in June."
MiniMuck: Less Transparency Because Football
Suspiciously named Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law a bill that will allow athletic departments at public colleges to delay responding to open records requests. Before, football factories had three days to say, simply: "We got your request." Now they have 90 days. (Requests often relate to athletics expenditures.) The legislation is being referred to as "Kirby's law," because University of Georgia football coach Kirby Smart personally met with lawmakers to discuss the bill. In a remarkable feat of grammar, Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle mused: "I hope it brings us a national championship is what I hope."
Number of the Week in the Form of 'Jeopardy'
Question: Alex, what is the rank of "newspaper reporter" in a new report detailing the worst jobs in America? (Loggers were second, and broadcasters third. Uhhh… please support ProPublica. We just won another Pulitzer.)
#facepalm of the Week
Sniffer dogs at Manchester Airport in the UK have failed to come up with any cocaine or heroin. According to an official report, however, one intrepid pooch did a great job uncovering "small amounts of cheese or sausages." And at a cost to taxpayers of only 1.25 million pounds.
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Ted Cruz thinks people don't have a right to "stimulate their genitals." I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his.
— Craig Mazin (@clmazin) April 13, 2016
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Crafted from fine ceramics, this Japanese sake set is in a charming cream speckled with grey and brown, featuring a graceful dragon motif in gold and red. With a unique grainy texture, this sake set comes with a sake jug and four sake cups.
The dragon is a popular motif in Asia. As mythical creatures, dragons are also commonly associated with royalty in Asia and are seen as an auspicious symbol. On this lovely sake set, the motif of the dragon is gracefully and simply depicted. Featured on the sides of the sake jug as well as the sake cups, the dragon is painted in great details in the colors of red, gold and silver.
Dishwasher safe, this Japanese sake set makes the perfect gift for lovers of sake. Great for serving sakes either chilled or warm, this sake set also showcases sake cups with ribbed textures to prevent spillage when enjoying traditional sake.
Packaged in a black gift box, this Japanese sake set will make a lovely gift this holiday season for friends and family.


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