Me Before You is the story of two main characters: Lousia (Lou), and Will. Lou is in her mid-twenties. She lives in the same town she grew up in… with her parents. Her long-term boyfriend, Patrick, is obsessed with working out and never seems to have time for her. Although she doesn't know it, it's pretty clear she's stuck in a rut. The abrupt loss of her waitressing job at the coffee shop she loves throws her into motion against her will, and this is where the action begins. Lou's lack of qualifications land her in a job as a babysitter companion for a quadriplegic man named Will.
Will has lived a "big life". Before the accident, he was rich, handsome, ambitious, adventuresome – you name it. One fateful morning, he walks outside and is hit by a motorcycle driver and is left almost completely paralyzed from the neck down. His life will never be the same, and he cannot accept it. Enter: Lou.
Don't be fooled by the title or description: this is not a love story. It's a story about life. Real life is messy and painful, but it's still beautiful – and that is the message this book carries. We've got family problems, relationship problems, health problems, traumatic past events, you name it, it's in here. You may think that it sounds like overkill for one book. While it does make it incredibly difficult to review, I give you my word that it is not one of those books where the author tried too hard to pack a punch and ended up over-doing the drama. It's an incredibly realistic portrayal of all of the things you may be balancing in your own life, all layered in one deliciously tiered wedding cake of a book.
I'm not going to say anything more, because this is all that I knew going into it and I wouldn't change that for the world. This book affected me in a way that a book hasn't in a very long time and it is definitely on my list of all-time favorites.
My only potential warning for you is that this book is slow-paced. It's definitely a character-driven plot, which I personally favor, but I know some of you don't! Honestly, though, I would recommend you give Me Before You a shot regardless of your reservations, because I will be recommending it to everyone I meet from now until forever.
If that's not convincing enough for you, the movie starring Sam Claflin will be out soon! I know you all miss that Finnick grin.
I'll write again soon. Until then, keep reading!
Life update: I have a degree in Political Science, but not too long after graduation I decided I want to teach. To teach high school in Washington State it's preferred that you have a B.A. in your chosen subject, and unfortunately Poli Sci does not constitute a "subject". So I decided I want to teach English (of course!) and I finally officially am back in school! Classes started a few weeks ago and because they're 7-week courses they're condensed and involve a lot of work. So basically I'm going to work AND school full-time, and I'm trying to settle in to that but basically I've just been exhausted and the thought of typing any extra thoughts makes me groan. Which is my explanation for my absence.
I'm trying to be more active on Twitter so you know I haven't completely disappeared from the bookish community; if you don't follow me or I don't follow you let me know below and we will rectify that situation immediately!
I ALSO started a BookTube channel. AHHH. I've been wanting to for quite some time, and I intended on starting it for a New Year's Resolution but I didn't have the guts! Haha so I finally have actually started one, I hope you're all supportive of that decision! I'm still going to continue writing on here, J. Bookish has just expanded! If you enjoy BookTube and want to watch I would be tickled pink – if not, feel free to ignore the videos!
I just missed Rick Riordan's writing! I've been reading some really heavy books for school so I wanted something light and fun to balance those readings out. I'm really enjoying this book, but to be honest I'm not a HUGE fan of Piper, Leo, or Jason. I miss Percy!
This was a re-read for me; I actually read it when it was first released years ago. While I knew generally what was going to happen, I had forgotten the fine details and appreciated it more this time around. It's a little disconcerting reading from the perspective of a 5-year old, but if you haven't read this yet I highly recommend it!
I was just so disappointed in this. I had heard about all of the controversy and prepared myself for a very different perspective than To Kill a Mockingbird, but I did not expect the absolute mess of writing that this is. I was completely lost for a majority of this novel; Scout's thoughts jumped ALL over the place. She was irritating, to be honest. Other than some more fun stories from her childhood, this book is just a mess. I would advise you all to just skip this one.
My First: Top 5 Wednesday!
This week's topic is: Top Five Fictional Items You Want!
I AM NOT A BOOK HOARDER.
Okay, maybe I am. But don't tell. Because the first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one, and I don't want this problem to be solved.
Look at me, three posts in a week! WOOT.
I don't know if you know this, but I LOVE Disney. You can ask my boyfriend. I watch Disney movies way more often than a 23-year old should. So when Ashley @ Dreaming Through Literature tagged me to do the Disney Book Tag, I was basically stoked on life. And then I discovered that the questions for this tag are freaking hard.
I'm going to warn you right now, this post shall be dubbed gif-a-licious. How could I do a Disney tag without a million adorable moving pictures? That's right, I couldn't.
So we have established that I'm out of my reading slump. Naturally, I now want to read everything. These books are the books that I really want to read at the moment. It is entirely possible that tomorrow, I will be in the mood for completely different books. But hey, I'll give it my best guess!
I started re-reading the Divergent series because while watching the trailer for the Allegiant movie, I had the tickling feeling that it was light-years away from what I had pictured; and yet I could not pinpoint WHAT was wrong. I thought I remembered the majority of the series, but by the time I got about halfway through Insurgent I realized I remember little to nothing of Allegiant. I think I was too excited the first time I read it to commit it to memory. I'm actually quite excited to re-read it! I enjoyed Insurgent a lot more than I expected to, and I'm hoping that trend will continue.
I have to admit, I wasn't interested in reading this series. I randomly selected it from the audiobooks at my library because I needed another to listen to, and I tend to listen to books I'm not terribly anxious about. I'm about 90% through Red Rising and loving it. I have no idea where the series is going to go, which I love; I feel like everything I've been reading lately has been predictable. I think it's safe to say I'll be diving into Golden Son ASAP.
This book is the story of the University of Washington's Rowing crew during WWII. UW happens to be my Alma Mater's rival… but I suppose I can forgive that for the sake of a great book; which I've heard this is. My dad gave me his copy and asks if I've read it yet every time he sees me, so I figure it's about time I join the club.
I need to read a classic. It's been too long! I miss the language. I've never read The House of Mirth; I own it; it's not too long; and that's about it.
I just picked my copy up to read the first page and realized MY COPY IS SIGNED BY LISA GENOVA. WHAAAATTTT. I had no idea when I bought it. Someone named Sue gave their signed book away. What were you thinking, Sue?! I also just realized if I ever go to a book signing, I'm going to have to be the annoying girl who spells my name out for the author. Boo weirdly spelled names. Anyhoo, I've wanted to read this for a really long time, and it just sounds really good at the moment. No time like the present!
If you've read any of these, let me know what you thought! What are you reading this month??
Gooodbyyyyeeee February! Come ooooon Spring!
I think I just need a new season. Time for Spring Cleaning inside my brain! Dang, I am just absent aren't I. I hope I'm not giving any of you complexes. I have like 8,987,987 reviews I want to write and the back up is giving me anxiety! But I'm here now, and I am happy to say I'm officially out of my reading slump like FOR REAL. I've been reading up a storm this month and it's been awesome. I'm quite proud of myself. I will say that I miss all of you very much and I am sorry I haven't been active here, I'm not by any means planning on abandoning my blog, I'm just trying to find my writing voice again; I feel like I've been missing it lately and I don't want to post things I'm not proud of. I'm sure you all get it! Or at least, I hope you do.
My cat has decided to lay on my stomach/keyboard so I am poke-typing this. Damn cute little orange kitty.
Okay he's moved. I am reluctantly adoring Red Rising so far. What do I mean by reluctantly adoring? I'll tell you. I'm pretty sure Pierce Brown pulled all of the best parts out of popular dystopian/sci-fi/fantasy novels and transplanted them into his own story. This irritates the hell out of me. But I am also doing chores I've been putting off just so I can continue listening to the audiobook longer because I need to know what's going to happen next. Therefore, reluctantly adoring.
I read Eleanor & Park a few years ago and hated it. I then wanted nothing to do with Rainbow Rowell.. until I discovered she had written a few adult contemporaries. I picked Attachments up at the bookstore, read the first few pages… and could not put it down. This story is so sweet and fun and warm and cozy and exactly what I needed. Thank you, Rainbow, for bringing me out of my slump. MWAH.
AAAND then, we have Eat Pray Love. Which I didn't like. EPL is formatted as 108 "chapters"- some are stories, some are musings, some are history lessons. A few of these chapters I found both memorable and thought-provoking and have folded pages just waiting for quotes to be chosen for a review. However, the vast majority was boring. I actually skim-read. I NEVER skim-read. I just kept thinking it would get better because hello, Julia Roberts was charming in the movie. But it really didn't do it for me. I don't have enough in common with Gilbert to sympathize with her journey, and I won't be reading any more of her work in the future.
Alternately, my sister had a beautiful baby girl this month! If you follow me on Twitter you may have noticed this sweet little thing broke me out of my silence and I actually tweeted for once. I MEAN LOOK AT HER.
I seriously don't think I ship any unpopular ships. My ships are pretty-much chillin' in the main stream. However, I am very aware of the gigantic love-triangle controversy in Throne of Glass, and I guess this is as good a time as ever for me to weigh in on that? I've only read the first book, so this is a very tentative opinion. BUUUT thus far, I have to say I would root for Prince Dorian over Chaol. I actually strongly disliked Chaol in the first book, which is strange because he reminded me of Jon Snow whom I love.
My emotions were all over the place when I read The Grisha Trilogy. In Shadow and Bone, I was all about The Darkling. In Siege and Storm, I began to second guess my conviction because I just adored Nikolai. In both of these books I was strongly anti-Mal. I could not stand the guy, or Alina's annoying demeaning crush on him. In Ruin and Rising though, somehow, I ended up feeling like they needed each other. I DON'T KNOW. I've said it before: Bardugo is the master of emotions.
Romeo and Juliet. ROMEO AND JULIET. I have hated Romeo and Juliet since I first read the play my freshman year in high school. Stupid little lusting teenagers trying to rebel against mommy and daddy who end up killing themselves?! OH MY GOD. No.
P.S. Is it just me, or does he look a heck of a lot like Zac Efron circa High School Musical?
I am really tempted to choose Cress and Thorne from the Lunar Chronicles, but who am I kidding, the slow burn was perfect.
Soooo I'm going to go with Maxon and America from The Selection. 90% of the plot of the first three books is America going back and forth between Maxon and Aspen. GAHHH. She was so irritating. Let's be honest, she just wanted to have her cake and eat it too. Never mind the feelings of the guys. Playa playa.
Danaerys and Jon Snow from A Song of Ice and Fire. I mean, come on. A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE. The wall + dragons? Yes please. In my dreams, the series ends wrapped up in a nice little bow with Dany and Jon on the throne of Westeros. If only George were into happy endings….
I'm going to take this literally and go with Fred and George. Every time I re-read the series I enjoy them more. These amazing twin pranksters are freaking hilarious, and J. K. is brilliant for writing them in for much-needed comic relief. Even when George loses an ear, he cracks a joke. What's not to love?
Errrmmm this is kind of a stretch, because I only adore them in the first book. But still, I'm going with Tris and Tobias in Divergent. You can all call me crazy, but the guy who plays Four is all wrong. He's nothing like how I pictured him. And I think Shailene Woodley did a really good job at capturing the spirit of Tris, but it really irritates me when an author emphasizes an aspect of a character and then it's completely ignored in the casting (*cough* Harry's EYE COLOR *cough*) Tris is supposed to be tiny and childlike. Roth mentions it incessantly. It's actually a bit irritating. And then they pick a woman who's what, 5'8″? I don't know. The actors just clashed with my image of the characters so I'm not as supportive as I wanted to be.
Emma and Jacob from the Peculiar Children series. I wanted to like them, I really did. Their relationship was sweet. ish. But I just found it really creepy! I mean, Emma had been in love with Jacob's grandpa. And they have the same powers and are just really similar and… it's just wrong! In addition, it didn't add anything to the story. I think Riggs is a bit of an unskilled author who felt like their had to be a romance thrown in there. Personally, I think the focus should have stayed on the other peculiar children and their almost familial relationship. But whatever!
YEP. Proud of it. I am a die-hard Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters fan. Or possibly more accurately, a die-hard John Green fan. I absolutely adore The Fault in Our Stars. The relationship between Gus and Hazel is raw and sweet and beautifully realistic. It has no faults in my mind. Pun intended.
I hope you are all having a fantastic V-Day with your significant others or friends or family or just pampering yourself!
I'll write again soon! Until then, keep reading!
December & January Wrap-Up AND February TBR!
I have good news. I am slowly easing myself back into actual reading! I'm not sure what brought on this massive reading slump of mine, but re-reading Divergent has brought me back to life. Who'da thunk?
Since I was also in a blogging slump (I only posted FIVE times in January, what?!) I never actually did a wrap-up of December. I was going to skip it, but I read TWO WHOLE BOOKS in January, and I felt that would be a bit of a waste of space post. So I'm combining the two.
Finally, it's already 8 days into February! How is this year flying by so quickly?! So I'm going to catch you up on what I'm reading right now and what I'd like to read in my month of toe-dipping. You know, like dipping your toes in the water? Easing in? If I have to explain my jokes they're clearly not funny. You'd think I'd have learned this by now.
I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING. First I thought that The Secret History was calling to me, but it was much too dense (albeit amazing) to get me out of my slump. So then I thought I wanted to read a kind of chick-flicky book, enter Eat Pray Love. But for some reason I still was not feeling the urge to read. Finally, we had a "read the morning away" at school, and all the kids were reading so I checked out the very few books I have on my phone/kindle app and LOW AND BEHOLD it opens to Divergent. So I started reading. And kept reading. SUCCESS.
Don't worry, I'm alive. I know, I know, I've been MIA for two weeks. I have no excuses except I'm in a reading & blogging slump. Gilmore Girls has been calling to me. So let's come back with a bang, shall we?
One of the best things about books is that the same book is different for each person who reads it. So even if I love a book, and you love the same book, we probably love it for different reasons. Now, when someone insults a book that is dear to my heart, I feel personally affronted. Which is ridiculous. You know it, and I know it. We are rational beings who are capable of talking ourselves down from the cliff of literary pain, and yet each time another person dares to dislike OUR BOOK *thumps chest* we are left pulling shrapnel out of our souls. I've been pondering this phenomenon. And I think I've figured it out. Books are so personal to us because our interpretation of them is informed by our past experiences. Each of our lives is different, so each of our reactions to and visions of a story are as well. Because of this personal connection, when our favorite books are insulted, it literally feels as though we are being insulted.
So with this in mind, I've decided to share 5 popular books/series that I see being raved about ALL THE TIME that I have absolutely no interest in reading. Now, read that paragraph above if you must. Got it all down? Good. Now put your pitch fork away.
I read like 15 pages of this series and knew it was not for me. I love flowery language, but this is like that guy in the elevator who dumped the entire bottle of cologne over his head. In those 15 pages, I knew I was going to hate the main character. They plonk a guy in her cell and she thinks they're trying to kill her? Uhm, what? And then immediately notices how beautiful he is. Of course. Also, the eyes kind of creep me out.
I actually had the opposite problem with this series. I picked up Daughter of Smoke and Bone once and did my typical read a random paragraph or two to decide if you like the writing or not and the verdict was no. I felt that it was overly simple. I'm picky about writing styles, if you couldn't tell.
WELLLLLL. I've only read Throne of Glass by Maas thus far. And I've been assured that the series gets better and I am planning on continuing with it. Buuuuut I have a lot of problems with the writing and the plot of book numero uno. So I just don't feel the need to jump on the Sarah J. Maas train and read her other books. Also, the plot summary of ACoTaR just doesn't sound all that intriguing to me.
SERIOUSLY I have no idea why I don't want to read this. I've heard great things. I think the concept is really unique and the powers sound fantastic. I just don't want to read it. My gut instinct is saying no. It doesn't generally feel the need to explain itself. You know. Biology and stuff.
Love the cover, love the title, love the writing, zero interest in the plot. Slaves, soldiers, fighting.. probably some love interest thrown in there.. just nah. Feels overly familiar.
Just in case you feel the urge to strangle me, I would like to reiterate that I'm sure these are all great books. They're just not for me. If you feel the need to try and convince me, I would love to be convinced! Tell me why YOU love these books below! You just might change my mind.


This Faculty Research Group was funded in 2011 and co-convened by the Departments of Social Anthropology, Geography, and the Engineering Department's Centre for Sustainable Development. It brings together people from a range of academic and non-academic backgrounds including the sciences, arts, humanities, and social sciences, and those working within policy, industry, activism, and media. Together we discuss past, present, and future environments and debate how to tackle the challenges presented by the changing climate.
What can we learn about climate change from history?
How do people envision their future environments?
How do people gain knowledge of their environments, and why does this knowledge matter?
How can different disciplines work together to develop our understanding?
For the upcoming academic year (2015-2016) the seminar series will be based on the upcoming Paris 2015 climate conference, which is to feature global political leaders and determine the future of climate change politics for decades to come. Paris 2015 will be a crucial conference as it aims to achieve a new international agreement on the climate applicable to all countries, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C.
After Paris 2015: debate the successes, failures, value and relevance of global climate change conferences and discuss the broader future of climate change engagement.
The Climate Histories Interdisciplinary Seminar is about bringing together and expanding a network of people from different backgrounds (sciences, arts, humanities, and social sciences, as well as people working in policy, media, and industry) to tackle questions about climate and environmental change in the past, present, and future.
The aim of the seminar series will be to share knowledge, start conversations, and work towards new ways of thinking for future research projects.
Roundtable discussion: Samuel Brown (Sociology), Marcos Pelenur (CSD), Nell Crowden (UCL) tbc.
Roundtable discussion: Dr Vaughan Wittorff (Computer Laboratory), Dr Heather Cruickshank (Centre for Sustainable Development), and Dr Paul Haynes (Land Economy).
Roundtable discussion: Michael Tai (Land Economy) and Alison Cooke (Engineering).
Dr Barbara Bodenhorn (Division of Social Anthropology), Dr Ken McNamara (Director of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences) as discussant.
Prof Herbert Huppert (FRS, Chairman of EASAC).
Prof Veronica Strang (Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Durham).
Prof John Robinson (Associate Provost, Sustainability, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver and Director of UBC Sustainability Initiative).
Interdisciplinary Roundtable Discussion: Engineering and Anthropology.
Dr Marta Magalhães (Div of Social Anthropology, Cambridge).
Emma Langley (Publisher, Phoneix Yard Books) and Bruce Huett (Grass Roots Educator).
22 April 2015, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.
06 May 2015, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.
20 May 2015, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.
03 June 2015, Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.
20 April 2016, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.
04 May 2016, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.
18 May 2016, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.
01 June 2016, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building.


Precision Heliparts, Inc. (PHP) and PHP Canada, Inc. (PHPC) have been awarded a contract for 2005, with an option to extend through 2006. PHP will provide Canadian Helicopters Limited with Consignment Rotable Spares Packages to support their Sikorsky S76 EMS Contract, and their Bell 212 Operations. These Consignment Packages will include Accessories, Hydraulics, Instrumentation, and Electrical Components.
Precision Avionics and & Instruments, Inc. (PAI), the Overhaul facility of Precision Heliparts, has also been awarded a contract for 2005, with an option to extend through 2006. PAI will provide Overhaul Services on CHL's Lucas and APC Starter Generators. In addition PAI will provide Instrument Overhaul for CHL's Bell 206 and 212 aircraft, which make up about 60% of Canadian Helicopters Limited's fleet of over 130 helicopters.
Ed Bergnach, CHL's Vice President and Director of Maintenance stated: "We continue to align ourselves with organizations that can help us reduce our maintenance and inventory costs while at the same time allow us to continue to provide our clients with service that is second to none. Our agreements with PHP and PAI strengthen CHL's position in all of these areas".
David Mast, President of Precision Aviation Group, Inc. (PAG) stated that "We are proud of our contract awards with Canadian Helicopters Limited (CHL). They are exactly the type of customer we like to have. They are highly focused, a market-leader, and they operate the Helicopter types that we focus on providing support for. We have the Technical expertise, Facilities (Atlanta & Vancouver), and Inventory to support customers like CHL, and we look forward to a mutually beneficial relationship".


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Meeting Notes - May 18, 2009
Mark Eliasen called the meeting to order.
Mike Nolan, Google Facilities Manager, was our first guest.
Mike explained that Google has been going through a process of "space rationalization" on a global basis as a way of managing costs in the economic downturn. During this time, work was stopped on the new Google campus on 6th. St. S.
After reviewing its options, Google has confirmed that it will remain in Kirkland and work has resumed on finishing the buildings. The employees are happy to be in Kirkland and want to be good neighbors who make a positive impact on the community. On a worldwide basis, Google employees are involved in local non-profit organizations in their communities. The company is focused on environmental issues. Google strives to be an open and accepting employer embracing all nationalities, religions, cultures and personal philosophies. Although growth has slowed, Google is still hiring talented people.
The new Kirkland campus was designed by the builder to be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) silver. As the occupant, Google is shooting to achieve the highest LEED certification possible. To reduce the impact of transportation, the company provides bike rooms & showers, carpool parking and a ride share email system.
The Kirkland campus will house engineering and product development teams. The Seattle campus (Fremont) has engineering and sales personnel. Employees would resist any attempt to combine the campuses.
Mike said that early September is current move-in date. The capacity of the new campus is 1,000 employees in 195,000 sq ft. The current plan is for Google to employ 400 employees in 80,000 sq ft. and to sub lease the remaining space.
Margit Moore, of the Kirkland Cultural Council, was our next speaker. This group of volunteers was created by the City Council to oversee the big picture related to the arts and heritage in Kirkland. They sponsor events such as "Uncorked" and "Kirkland Artists Studio Tour". For more info go to: http://www.ci.kirkland.wa.us/depart/Boards_and_Commissions/Cultural_Council.htm
Maura O'Brien, Geologist / Hydrologist, Washington State Department of Ecology was our next guest. Maura is in charge of the cleanup at the former Pace National site on 7th Ave. S. Pace has occupied the site starting in 1969 -- mixing and packaging chemicals at the facility through the early 1990s.
The state has records of at least 4 separate clean-ups at the site. 14 underground storage tanks have been removed and lots of soil has been hauled off. ULTRA Corporation, owners of the site, is cleaning up under an "agreed order" with the State. The clean up conforms with the Model Toxics Control Act.
The ground water is contaminated with petroleum and vinyl chloride.
Two clean up tests are being undertaken. One started in March and the other started in April. The results should be available in 6 months. If the tests work, they can be used to clean up the entire site. The clean up could start in 2010 and finish by 2012. Development and construction could be done in parallel with the clean-up. Camwest Development, which had an option on the property, has "stepped back" from purchasing it.
Maura will keep the neighborhood informed as to progress on the clean-up.
Bruce Knowton, VP Development, Camwest was next.
Camwest will host a Grand Opening at Nettleton Commons on State St. June 27 &28 from noon to 6pm. Members of the neighborhood are invited to visit.
New homes are available starting at about $789k. Three or four homes have been sold to date. The Nettleton home is still available.
The landscaping on the site is temporary.
Carolyn Hayek, Member of the Planning Commission told us that the commission is reviewing Kirkland's tree ordinance. Citizens are encouraged to send ideas for improvement.
Neighborhood question time
SRM is still looking for a tenant for the office building project at State and 2nd Ave S. After further discussions with the neighbors, the private school idea was rejected.
City Council Member Bob Sternoff mentioned that the Bank of America project was about to start construction. The "McLeod" property project is on hold due to the economic climate. There has been some talk of redevelopment on the "Antique Mall" property, but nothing of substance has emerged as of yet.
We will be taking our summer break and our next meeting will be Sept. 21, 2009.

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What the Administration Said Then, and What the Commission Says Now
President Bush talked to reporters this morning, and addressed the 9/11 commission staff report on Iraq. Here is how Fox News reports the President's exchange with the press:
President Bush repeated his assertions Thursday that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda had a relationship before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
The president added that he did not infer that the two had a "collaborative relationship" on the attacks, a conclusion rejected by the commission investigating the intelligence failures that prevented the United States from warding off the attacks.
"There was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda," Bush insisted to reporters following a meeting with his Cabinet at the White House. This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and Al Qaeda," he said.
"We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, for example, Iraqi intelligence agents met with [Usama] bin Laden, the head of Al Qaeda in Sudan."
The president added that Saddam gave safe haven to Al Qaeda associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
All of which is unquestionably true.
Press coverage of the commission staff's report universally says or implies that it contradicts, and refutes, statements made by the Bush administration about the Iraq/al Qaeda connection prior to the Iraq war. However, if one reviews what the administration actually said on the subject prior to the Iraq war–for example, Colin Powell's United Nations speech of February 2003–it is striking how little the staff report even purports to contradict, let alone refute, the administration. Here is what Powell told the U.N. in February 2003:
Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Usama bin Laden and his al-Qaida lieutenants.
This was the main focus of Powell's discussion of al Qaeda; what he said was indisputably true. Astonishingly, the staff's discussion of connections between Iraq and al Qaeda never mentions Zarqawi or his network. This omission renders the staff's conclusions meaningless, if not laughable.
We are not surprised that Iraq is harboring Zarqawi and his subordinates. This understanding builds on decades-long experience with respect to ties between Iraq and al-Qaida. Going back to the early and mid-1990s when bin Laden was based in Sudan, an al-Qaida source tells us that Saddam and bin Laden reached an understanding that al-Qaida would no longer support activities against Baghdad. Early al-Qaida ties were forged by secret high-level intelligence service contacts with al-Qaida, secret Iraqi intelligence high-level contacts with al-Qaida.
These statements are repeated, in substance, in the commission staff's Statement No. 15.
We know members of both organizations met repeatedly and have met at least eight times at very senior levels since the early 1990s. In 1996, a foreign security service tells us that bin Laden met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official in Khartoum and later met the director of the Iraqi intelligence service.
The staff report doesn't contradict these statements; it alludes vaguely to "reports that contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda also occurred after bin Laden had returned to Afghanistan…."
A detained al-Qaida member tells us that Saddam was more willing to assist al-Qaida after the 1998 bombings of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Saddam was also impressed by al-Qaida's attacks on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000.
Nothing in the staff report contradicts these statements.
A senior defector, one of Saddam's former intelligence chiefs in Europe, says Saddam sent his agents to Afghanistan sometime in the mid-1990s to provide training to al-Qaida members on document forgery
Nothing in the staff report contradicts this statement.
Al-Qaida continues to have a deep interest in acquiring weapons of mass destruction. As with the story of Zarqawi and his network, I can trace the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how Iraq provided training in these weapons to al-Qaida. Fortunately, this operative is now detained and he has told his story. I will relate it to you now as he, himself, described it.
This senior al-Qaida terrorist was responsible for one of al-Qaida's training camps in Afghanistan. His information comes firsthand from his personal involvement at senior levels of al-Qaida. He says bin Laden and his top deputy in Afghanistan, deceased al-Qaida leader Muhammad Atif, did not believe that al-Qaida labs in Afghanistan were capable enough to manufacture these chemical or biological agents. They needed to go somewhere else. They had to look outside of Afghanistan for help.
Where did they go? Where did they look? They went to Iraq. The support that this detainee describes included Iraq offering chemical or biological weapons training for two al-Qaida associates beginning in December 2000. He says that a militant known as Abdallah al-Iraqi had been sent to Iraq several times between 1997 and 2000 for help in acquiring poisons and gasses. Abdallah al-Iraqi characterized the relationship he forged with Iraqi officials as successful.
In fact, what the Bush administration said about the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda prior to the war was cautious and restrained. If the 9/11 commission has information that contradicts, let alone refutes, the specific factual claims made by administration spokesmen, it has not disclosed that information in the staff report.
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UK 'can't rule out' nationwide lockdown as sixth person dies after testing positive for coronavirus
Tuesday 10 March 2020, 10:47am
An Italy-style lockdown of the UK "cannot be ruled out" as NHS England confirms a sixth patient has died after testing positive for coronavirus .
The country is braced for a "sharp rise" in cases, according to England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries.
The number of coronavirus cases in the UK rose to 373 on Tuesday - up from 319 the day before. Wales confirmed the number of cases rose by nine to 15 on Tuesday.
It comes on the day West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust confirmed a man in his early 80s has become the sixth patient to die.
A statement from the trust said: "Sadly, we can confirm that a man who was being cared for at Watford General Hospital, and had tested positive for Covid-19, has died.
"The patient, who died in the evening of Monday March 9, was in his early 80s and had underlying health conditions.
"His family has been informed and our thoughts and condolences are with them at this difficult and distressing time."
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England's chief medical officer said the UK is 'very close' to insisting a seven-day self-isolation upon anyone with 'even minor respiratory tract infections or a fever'. Credit: PA
While a country-wide quarantine is not inevitable and not the "best measure" for the UK currently, Dr Harries said "we shouldn't rule anything out".
She added that the UK Government is following scientific advice which could alter depending on how the coronavirus situation in the UK changes.
Italy is experiencing its first day under lockdown, after the country's Prime Minister extended restrictions imposed in the north to the entire nation as the number of deaths and cases of Covid-19 continued to soar.
Britons are being warned against "all but essential travel" to the country following a rise in Covid-19 cases. A number of airlines cancelled flights to and from Italy on Tuesday as the travel advisory came into force.
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On Monday, England's chief medical officer Chris Witty said the UK is "very close" to insisting a seven-day self-isolation upon anyone with "even minor respiratory tract infections or a fever".
Professor Whitty said that the UK will reach that stage "probably within the next 10-14 days"
Asked if a country-wide quarantine could come into place in the UK, Dr Harries responded on Tuesday: "We are providing the scientific advice, we have good surveillance systems for counting cases across the country and it's not inevitable that we would move to that position.
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She added: "We want to put in the best measures, not just measures because they are there.
"I think we shouldn't rule anything out, we would continue to look at the evidence as we go through but those are not the measures which would [currently] appear to be the best ones for the UK population with our demography."
She also admitted the UK will see "many more cases" but stopped short of predicting a precise number.
"I think we will see many more cases and this is slightly worrying," she said.
"I realise it sounds an awful lot of numbers of people but actually a lot of people have coughs and colds over the winter normally, a lot of people have flu.
"The important thing is this is a new disease and we need to be very careful about protecting those individuals who we think are most at risk and that is predominantly the elderly and those with underlying chronic conditions."
She added: "We will see a sharp rise in numbers in cases but we can't predict the precise number because obviously we are looking to put in interventions to try and manage those numbers and spread them out."
Dr Harries added she expected "99%" of those infected by coronavirus to recover from the respiratory illness.
The fatality rate may appear to rise in the early stages of the epidemic but this is because they will initially find those in the poorest health most easily, she added.
"The fatality rate is usually about, as we've seen, around 1% so I mean there's a good news message as well as a sad one," she said.
"I think it's important to recognise that we might actually expect that figure to appear to go up in the first few weeks of the epidemic because what we will be most easily counting are those people who are the most ill - we can find them most easily.
"Gradually, as we learn more about how it spreads in the population and the number of cases that are very mild, that figure will probably drop back down again so I think viewers should not be alarmed if they see that changing.
"You'll see in Italy at the moment actually it looks to be about 5% (fatality rate), but I would strongly suspect that's because they are picking up the very high risk cases - those with serious disease - and are not yet counting the totality of cases across the country."
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Some medical professionals are worried not enough is being done to protect them and their patients.
It is understood eye doctors at several London hospitals have taken their own steps to make screens.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs on Tuesday that personal protective equipment - known as PPE - is being delivered not just to hospitals but also GPs and primary health carers.
"We now have rolled out PPE to two thirds of primary care and the rest of it is in progress so we will absolutely address this, it's quite right that we did," he said.
"We wanted to get the timing of the rollout right so that the equipment is there should this epidemic hit in a very large way. We've got to make sure we protect our health staff."
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In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding era. As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within -- from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame Lafayette and Jefferson's Paris "interest" Maria Cosway, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender, Sally Hemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams, the adored son whom Adams would live to see become President. Crucial to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites -- one a Massachusetts farmer's son, the other a Virginia aristocrat and slaveholder, one short and stout, the other tall and spare. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were alike in their devotion to their country. At first they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. With the advent of the two political parties, they became archrivals, even enemies, in the intense struggle for the presidency in 1800, perhaps the most vicious election in history. Then, amazingly, they became friends again, and ultimately, incredibly, they died on the same day -- their day of days -- July 4, in the year 1826. Much about John Adams's life will come as a surprise to many readers. His courageous voyage on the frigate in the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits that few would have dared and that few readers will ever forget. It is a life encompassing a huge arc -- Adams lived longer than any president. The story ranges from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St. James's, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation, to the raw, half-finished Capital by the Potomac, where Adams was the first President to occupy the White House. This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.
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I'm sorry to say I won't be able to update this site anymore I have become way too busy plus I lost all the information I had to update the site. Whatever is still on here will stay on here, there may be updates but most probably not. All I can say is almost everything Lita wear and what's similar to what she wears can be found at Hottopic.com and other stores listend in the links section. I'd like to thanks Demonchild for all her help with information about clothes, but I just don't have much time anymore, so see yah.


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Steff Cras (bel) born on 13/02/1996 LOTTO SOUDAL/bel
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2018. Team Katusha Alpecin
7e of the Okolo Slovenska / Tour de Slovaquie, of the Arctic Race of Norway
8e of the second stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Tana>Kjøllefjord)
9e of the second stage of the Tour de Yorkshire (Barnsley>Ilkley)
11e of the first stage of the Okolo Slovenska / Tour de Slovaquie (Poprad>Strbske Pleso), of the National Championships Belgium - ITT
12e of the fourth stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Kvalsund>Alta)
19e of the third stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Honningsvåg>Hammerfest)
23e of the second stage of the Okolo Slovenska / Tour de Slovaquie (Ruzomberok>Dubnica nad Vahom), of the third stage of the Tour de Yorkshire (Richmond>Scarborough)
24e of the first stage of the Arctic Race of Norway (Vadsø>Kirkenes), of the sixth stage of the Tour de Pologne (Zakopane>Bukowina Tatrzańska), of the Tour of Oman, of the third stage of the Tour of Oman (German University of Technology>Wadi Dayqah Dam), of the second stage of the Tour of Oman (Sultan Qaboos University>Al Bustan)
25e of the fourth stage of the Okolo Slovenska / Tour de Slovaquie (Nitra>Galanta), of the third stage of the Okolo Slovenska / Tour de Slovaquie (Dubnica nad Vahom>Nitra), of the fourth stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Orihuela>Cocentaina)
9e of the Tokyo 2020 Test Event
11e of the Tour of Oman
12e of the third stage of the Tour of Oman (Shati Al Qurum>Qurayyat)
14e of the Gree-Tour of Guangxi, of the fourth stage of the Gree-Tour of Guangxi (Nanning>Nongla Scenic Area)
15e of the fifth stage of the Tour of Oman (Samayil>Al Jabal Al Akhdar (Green Mountain))
19e of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, of the Trofeo Pollença - Port d'Andratx
22e of the second stage of the Amgen Tour of California (Rancho Cordova>South Lake Tahoe)
24e of the Tour de Yorkshire, of the second stage of the Tour of Oman (Royal Cavalry Oman>Al Bustan), of the fourth stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Vila-Real>Alcala-Alcocebre)
25e of the fourth stage of the Tour de Yorkshire (Halifax>Leeds)
2020. Lotto Soudal
17e of the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
21e of the third stage of the UAE Tour (Al Qudra Cycle Track>Jebel Hafeet)
9e of the seventh stage of the La Vuelta ciclista a España (Gandía>Balcón de Alicante)
11e of the twelfth stage of the La Vuelta ciclista a España (Jaén>Córdoba), of the second stage of the Tour de l'Ain (Lagnieu>Saint-Vulbas)
12e of the third stage of the Tour de l'Ain (Izernore>Lélex Mont-Jura)
14e of the National Championships Belgium - ITT
15e of the Tour de l'Ain
20e of the La Vuelta ciclista a España
21e of the Circuit de Wallonie
22e of the nineteenth stage of the La Vuelta ciclista a España (Tapia>Monforte de Lemos)
25e of the fifteenth stage of the La Vuelta ciclista a España (Navalmoral de la Mata>El Barraco)
5e of the second stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol (Archidona>Alcalá la Real)
8e of the Clásica Jaén Paraiso Interior
14e of the third stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol (Lucena>Otura)
19e of the first stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol (Ubrique>Iznájar)
20e of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol
23e of the fifth stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol (Huesa>Chiclana de Segura)
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Walter Bethke, Managing Editor
New Ways to Detect Keratoconus
Looking at corneal imaging data in different ways can enhance your ability to avoid risky refractive surgery cases.
Being able to identify patients with irregular corneas is crucial to cornea specialists in general and refractive surgeons in particular, since the latter need to avoid removing tissue in corneas that are already weak. To this end, researchers and clinicians are always devising new ways to detect irregularities as early as possible. Here, physicians with a particular interest in keratoconus detection share the new methods they've developed to identify potentially troublesome eyes.
BFTA vs. BFS
Bordeaux, France, ophthalmologist David Smadja and his research co-workers say that when they focused on the asymmetry of the cornea's posterior surface, they were able to achieve excellent sensitivity when screening patients for keratoconus.
Dr. Smadja, who used the Ziemer Galilei dual Scheimpflug system, says the key is studying a parameter known as the Best-fit Toric and Aspheric surface, or BFTA, which seems to be a better option than the Best-fit Sphere, or BFS. "The BFTA has a better ability for screening out the asymmetry of the cornea that is measured because it fits closer to the natural corneal shape by canceling out its means asphericity and toricity," explains Dr. Smadja. "What is nice about the BFTA is that comparing a cornea to it is almost like comparing the cornea to its perfect clone. Therefore, anything that will deviate from the reference surface will be a sign of irregularity or asymmetry. This method is important because when you're tracking the initial signs of asymmetry, if you don't want to have the initial bulging hidden by the effect of another fitting method—such as with the spherical reference surface, the BFS—it's important to be as close as possible to the cornea being measured.
"Comparing it to the BFS, it's not a matter of one being better or one being bad," Dr. Smadja continues. "Some people are used to seeing and interpreting BFS analyses and sometimes it's a matter of subjective interpretation of elevation patterns. So if you're used to using the BFS, it can help screen out suspect corneas—but more often with the BFS, the elevation maps can hide crucial early signs of asymmetry in the cornea. In our study, when we compared the BFTA to the BFS to screen out the initial stage of keratoconus, we found the performance of the BFTA to be much higher than the performance of the BFS in terms of discriminating between normal and forme fruste keratoconus.1 Specifically, when looking at the maximum posterior elevation, BFTA yielded a sensitivity of 82 percent and a specificity of 80 percent, compared to 51 percent and 55 percent, respectively, for the BFS. This sensitivity of 82 percent with the BFTA was then improved to nearly 90 percent when looking at the AAI [Asphericity Asymmetry Index], which quantifies the asymmetry of elevation at the back surface by using the absolute value of the max positive and max negative elevation within the 6-mm central zone. The AAI has a cutoff value of 21.5."
Researchers have found that patients with keratoconus appear to have an overall increase in epithelial thickness. (Image courtesy John Kanellopoulos, MD.)
A cornea can prove to be dangerously asymmetric when its posterior aspect is viewed using the Best-fit Toric and Aspheric surface parameter. This cornea has a max posterior elevation of 13 µm. (Image courtesy David Smadja, MD.)
Though the relative importance of the anterior vs. posterior cornea for screening out forme fruste keratoconus patients has been debated for a while, Dr. Smadja thinks the evidence is shifting toward the posterior. "It's not a matter of the disease starting on the back or the front of the cornea," he says. "Instead, it's more that sometimes the epithelial layer can smooth out the front surface. This smoothing can hide the first sign of asymmetry in the underlying stroma, and it's been shown many times that the epithelial layer is thinner above a bulging of the cornea, whereas it's thicker above a depression of the underlying stroma. So, you can't see the stromal irregularity because what you're imaging from the front is the epithelial layer and the epithelium has a large impact on the topographic image. So, looking at the back surface rather than the front is more sensitive for screening out the first signs of bulging."
For surgeons who want to use some of Dr. Smadja's findings in their practices, he has some advice. "It's tough to give a number that would be a red flag with all the various devices, because we haven't tested this approach with all of them," he says. "However, what should alert the surgeon when interpreting posterior elevation maps with either the Aconic surface (Orbscan) or the Best-fit Toric Ellipsoid (BFTE) in the Pentacam, which work in a way similar to the BFTA in the Galilei, is any kind of asymmetric posterior elevation. Concerning the Galilei Analyzer specifically, the AAI was found to be the most sensitive for screening the suspicious cornea. Any AAI value above 21.5 should make you consider doing PRK rather than LASIK."
Epithelial Analysis
Focusing on a different parameter of the cornea, researchers in Greece have found that using anterior segment optical coherence tomography to image the epithelium showed marked differences between keratoconic and normal eyes.
In a study presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, George Chatzilaou, MD, presented results from 55 untreated keratoconus patients and 55 controls. The mean overall epithelial thickness was 55.65 ±1.22 µm in the keratoconus patients and 51.97 ±0.7 µm in the controls. The variability in topographic mapping was ±9.8 ±0.41 µm in keratoconus eyes and ±1.53 ±0.21 µm in normals. All the differences were statistically significant (p<0.002). The researchers say that these patients seemed to have an overall epithelial thickness increase.
Athens surgeon John Kanellopoulos was a researcher on the study and says it yielded some insights on irregular corneas. "We all know that in keratoconus the cornea epithelium remodels and it thins over the area of the cone and thickens over the area adjacent to the cone in order to 'mask' these curvature differences and potentially improve the visual function of the cornea," he says. "So the first thing that we look at in these spectral domain anterior segment OCT images is: Where is the thinnest location placed by the device in regard to the cornea center? When the thinnest part of the cornea is away from the cornea center, our index of suspicion for keratoconus increases, as this indicates an eccentric thinner part of the cornea, which invariably is due to keratoconus or ectasia.
"Now, what we have reported in the past with high-frequency ultrasound," Dr. Kanellopoulos adds, "and we confirmed with our studies with a spectral domain anterior segment OCT, is that is there a very large difference in different areas and in different aspects of the cornea as far as the thickness—so increased variability of the cornea epithelial thickness can be related to keratoconus. In addition, we've found that, overall, the epithelial thickness is increased in keratoconic or pre-keratoconic eyes, as well. So just looking at the average corneal epithelial thickness can be a very helpful tool in picking up early keratoconus, because advanced keratoconus is obviously much easier to diagnose from the extreme irregularities of the epithelial distribution in the cornea."
Whichever method a surgeon uses, Dr. Smadja notes that more information is always better. "It's important to remember that in our work, we're still just talking about one parameter," he says. "The sensitivity achieved by one parameter is never good enough to base your conclusion on. I think that it's best to consider different parameters when considering a change to the patient's surgical options." REVIEW
1. Smadja D, Santhiago MR, Mello GR, et al. Influence of the reference surface shape for discriminating between normal corneas, subclinical keratoconus, and keratoconus. J Refract Surg 2013;29:4:274-281.
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One thing I look forward to once Valentine's Day gets here every year is those amazing clearance sales on Valentine's Day crafting supplies like doilies. Even though Valentine's Day is over don't put those doilies away yet! You can still use them to make some adorable crafts for spring like these simple and cute doily chick craft. This is one of those crafts that you can set up really quickly and it's pretty mess free so it makes a perfect last minute craft.
1. Begin by gluing your two yellow doilies onto your light blue cardstock, one overlapping the other slightly to make a head and chick body.
2. From your construction paper, cut out a beak, two heart shaped wings and chick feet. Glue them onto your chick.
3. Glue googly eyes onto your chick. Now finish your adorable doily chick craft by drawing green grass at the bottom of your page with green crayons.


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Турби́на ( от  — вихрь, вращение), Тюрбина — двигатель, лопаточная машина, в которой происходит преобразование кинетической энергии и/или внутренней энергии рабочего тела (пара, газа, воды) в механическую работу на валу.

Струя рабочего тела воздействует на лопатки, закреплённые по окружности ротора, и приводит их в движение. Применяется в качестве привода электрического генератора на тепловых, атомных и гидро электростанциях, как составная часть приводов на морском, наземном и воздушном транспорте, привода компрессора в газотурбинном двигателе, а также гидродинамической передачи, гидронасосах.

История

Попытки создать механизмы, похожие на турбины, делались очень давно. Известно описание примитивной паровой турбины, сделанное Героном Александрийским (1 в. н. э.). По словам И. В. Линде, XIX век породил «массу проектов», которые остановились перед «материальными трудностями» их выполнения. Лишь в конце XIX века, когда развитие термодинамики (повышение КПД турбин до сравнимого с поршневой машиной), машиностроения и металлургии (увеличение прочности материалов и точности изготовления, необходимых для создания высокооборотных колёс), Густаф Лаваль (Швеция) и Чарлз Парсонс (Великобритания) независимо друг от друга создали пригодные для промышленности паровые турбины.

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 Около I в. н. э.: Паровая турбина Герона Александрийского (эолипил) — на протяжении столетий рассматривалась как игрушка и её полный потенциал не был изучен.
 1500: В чертежах Леонардо да Винчи встречается «дымовой зонт». Горячий воздух от огня поднимается через ряд лопастей, которые соединены между собой и вращают вертел для жарки.
 1551: Таги-аль-Дин придумал паровую турбину, которая использовалась для питания самовращающегося вертела.
 1629: Сильная струя пара вращала турбину, которая затем вращала ведомый механизм, позволяющий работать мельнице Джованни Бранка.
 1678: Фердинанд Вербейст построил модель повозки на основе паровой машины.
 1791: Англичанин Джон Барбер получил патент на первую настоящую газовую турбину. Его изобретение имело большинство элементов, присутствующих в современных газовых турбинах. Турбина была разработана для приведения в действие безлошадной повозки.
 1832: Французский ученый Бюрден создал первую водяную турбину.
 1837: И. Е. Сафонов создал первую в России водяную турбину.
 1872: Франц Столц разработал первый настоящий газотурбинный двигатель.
 1887: русский инженер и изобретатель Павел Дмитриевич Кузьминский сконструировал первую в мире газовую реверсивную турбину, которая работала на «газопаророде» — парогазовой смеси, получаемой в созданной им же в 1894 году камере сгорания.
 1892: Аурель Болеслав Стодола основал турбомашинную лабораторию, известную в настоящее время как :en:Laboratory for Energy Conversion. Консультации Стодолы сыграли важную роль при создании Генри Зоэлли в 1903 году его первой многоступенчатой турбины и Гансом Хольцвартом в 1905 году первой готовой к производству газовой турбины.
 1894: Сэр Чарльз Парсонс запатентовал идею корабля, приводимого в действие паровой турбиной и построил демонстрационное судно Турбиния. Этот принцип тяги используется до сих пор.
 1895: Три четырёхтонных 100 кВт генераторов радиального потока Парсонса были установлены на электростанции в Кембридже и использовались для электрического освещения улиц города.
 1903: Норвежец, , смог построить первую газовую турбину, которая отдавала больше энергии, чем затрачивалось на обслуживание внутренних компонент турбины, что рассматривалось как значительное достижение в те времена, когда знания о термодинамике были ограничены. Используя вращающиеся компрессоры и турбины, она производила 11 л. с. (существенная мощность для того времени). Его работа впоследствии была использована сэром Фрэнком Уиттлом.
 1913: Никола Тесла запатентовал турбину Тесла, основанную на эффекте граничного слоя.
 1918: General Electric, один из ведущих производителей турбин в настоящее время, запустил своё подразделение газовых турбин.
 1920: Практическая теория протекания газового потока через каналы была переработана в более формализованную (и применяемую к турбинам) теорию течения газа вдоль аэродинамической поверхности доктором Аланом Арнольдом Грифицем.
 1930: Сэр Фрэнк Уиттл запатентовал газовую турбину для реактивного движения. Впервые этот двигатель был успешно использован в авиации в апреле 1937.
 1934: Рауль Патерас Пескара запатентовал поршневой двигатель в качестве генератора для газовой турбины.
 1936: Ханс фон Охайн и Макс Хан в Германии разработали собственный патентованный двигатель в то же самое время, когда сэр Фрэнк Уиттл разрабатывал его в Англии.

Разработки Густафа Лаваля
Первую паровую турбину создал шведский изобретатель Густав Лаваль в 1883 году. По одной из версий, Лаваль создал её для того, чтобы приводить в действие сепаратор молока собственной конструкции. Для этого нужен был скоростной привод. Двигатели того времени не обеспечивали достаточную частоту вращения. Единственным выходом оказалось сконструировать скоростную турбину. В качестве рабочего тела Лаваль выбрал широко используемый в то время пар. Изобретатель начал работать над своей конструкцией и в конце концов собрал работоспособное устройство.
В 1889 году Лаваль дополнил сопла турбины коническими расширителями, так появилось знаменитое сопло Лаваля, которое стало прародителем будущих ракетных сопел.

Турбина Лаваля стала прорывом в инженерии. Достаточно представить себе нагрузки, которые испытывало в ней рабочее колесо, чтобы понять, как нелегко было изобретателю добиться стабильной работы турбины. При огромных оборотах турбинного колеса даже незначительное смещение в центре тяжести вызывало сильную вибрацию и перегрузку подшипников. Чтобы избежать этого, Лаваль использовал тонкую ось, которая при вращении могла прогибаться.

Разработки Чарлза Парсонса

В 1884 году английский инженер Чарлз Парсонс получил патент на многоступенчатую турбину. Турбина предназначалась для приведения в действие электрогенератора. В 1885 году он разработал усовершенствованную версию, которая получила широкое применение на электростанциях. В конструкции турбины был применен выравнивающий аппарат, представляющий собой набор неподвижных венцов (дисков) с лопатками, имевшими обратное направление. Турбина имела три ступени разного давления с разной геометрией лопаток и шагом их установки. Таким образом, в турбине использовался как «активный», так и «реактивный» принцип.

В 1889 году уже около трехсот таких турбин использовалось для выработки электроэнергии. Парсонс старался расширить сферу применения своего изобретения и в 1894 году он построил опытовое судно «Турбиния» с приводом от паровой турбины. На испытаниях оно продемонстрировало рекордную скорость — 60 км/ч.

Невозможность получить большую агрегатную мощность и очень высокая частота вращения одноступенчатых паровых турбин Лаваля  у первых образцов) привели к тому, что они сохранили своё значение только для привода вспомогательных механизмов. Активные паровые турбины развивались в направлении создания многоступенчатых конструкций, в которых расширение пара осуществлялось в ряде последовательно расположенных ступеней. Это позволило значительно повысить единичную мощность, сохранив умеренную частоту вращения, необходимую для непосредственного соединения вала турбины с вращаемым ею механизмом.

Реактивная паровая турбина Парсонса некоторое время применялась (в основном, на военных кораблях), но постепенно уступила место более компактным комбинированным активно-реактивным турбинам, у которых реактивная часть высокого давления заменена одно- или двухвенчатым активным диском. В результате уменьшились потери на утечки пара через зазоры в лопаточном аппарате, турбина стала проще и экономичнее.

Конструкция турбин

Ступень турбины состоит из двух основных частей. Рабочего колеса — лопаток установленных на роторе(подвижная часть турбины), которое непосредственно создаёт вращение, и Соплового аппарата — лопаток установленных на статоре (неподвижная часть турбины), которые поворачивают рабочее тело для придания потоку необходимого угла атаки по отношению к лопаткам рабочего колеса.

По направлению движения потока рабочего тела различают аксиальные паровые турбины, у которых поток рабочего тела движется вдоль оси турбины, и радиальные, направление потока рабочего тела в которых перпендикулярно оси вала турбины. Центробежные турбины (турбокомпрессоры) также выделяют как отдельный тип турбин.

По числу контуров турбины подразделяют на одноконтурные, двухконтурные и трёхконтурные. Очень редко турбины могут иметь четыре или пять контуров. Многоконтурная турбина позволяет использовать большие тепловые перепады энтальпии, разместив большое число ступеней разного давления.

По числу валов различают одновальные, двухвальные, реже трёхвальные, связанных общностью теплового процесса или общей зубчатой передачей (редуктором). Расположение валов может быть как коаксиальным так и параллельным с независимым расположением осей валов.

В местах прохода вала сквозь стенки корпуса установлены концевые уплотнения для предупреждения утечек рабочего тела наружу и засасывания воздуха в корпус.

На переднем конце вала устанавливается предельный центробежный регулятор (регулятор безопасности), автоматически останавливающий (замедляющий) турбину при увеличении частоты вращения на 10—12 % сверх номинальной.

Классификация

По типу рабочего тела
 Газовые турбины
 Паровые турбины
 Гидротурбины (гидравлические турбины) (от  «вода»)

См. также

 Турбокомпрессор — устройство, подобное турбине, но имеющее привод вращения лопаток от вала.
 Газотурбинный двигатель
 Турбореактивный двигатель
 Двигатель внешнего сгорания
 Аварийная авиационная турбина
 Турбина Уэльса
 Радиально-осевая турбина (турбина Френсиса)
 Поворотно-лопастная турбина (турбина Каплана)
 Ковшовая турбина (турбина Пелтона)
 Шнековая гидротурбина

Примечания

Литература
 Линде И. В. Паровые турбины, вентиляторы и центробежные насосы высокого давления системы инженера А. Рато. // Записки Московскаго отделения Императорского русского технического общества, 1904. С. 563—641.

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  НЕТРАДИЦИОННАЯ ЭНЕРГЕТИКА. ГИДРОЭНЕРГЕТИКА МАЛАЯ. ТЕРМИНЫ И ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИЯ.

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thanks for your comments! I'm glad you enjoyed how much I tried to squeeze in!
This is great! Thank you for making a video! It is so good to see people playing the game . Looks like you had fun, even though the controls are hard to get a grip with. In the next update I'm going to make the dash attack easier (so you can just tap rather than hold). Great video guys!
This is fantastic! Thank you so much. I love your Let's Play.
Well the constraints of 8x8 sprites mean you have to be creatively abstract, so its more forgiving. Also, put a black border around everything and it looks better haha!
Thanks so much! It is the first pixel art I've attempted but i'm happy with how it turned out.


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Q: How to make a text box validate during run time I want when i focus into textbox if it is empty it should show "name is required" and if we type a single letter that message("name is required") should disappear.

$("#name").focus(function() {
  var name = $("#name").val();
  if (name != "") {
    $("#name-error").text("");
  } else {
    $("#name-error").text("Name is required.");
  }
});

Here is a text box in form for name in a form
My Name:
<input type="text" id="name" />
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A: Use .keyup event handler ,

$("#name").on('keyup focus',function() {
  var name = $("#name").val();
  if (name != "") {
    $("#name-error").text("");
  } else {
    $("#name-error").text("Name is required.");
  }
});

My Name:
<input type="text" id="name" />
*

A: Everything is fine here, one correction is required. You have to hide the error on user input like:
$("#name").keydown(function(){
    $("#name-error").text("");
});

But I suggest you to use jquery plugin like Jquery Validation

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On Yale & Yale alumni.
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YODA knows: J&J gives drug info
to Yale Open Data Access
By Carole Bass '83, '97MSL | 10:47am January 30 2014
In a "stunning win for open science," Yale has struck a deal to acquire all of Johnson & Johnson's clinical drug trial results, and to make them available to researchers worldwide.
"They have agreed to set their raw data free," says School of Medicine professor Harlan Krumholz '80 in an e-mail. "We want to usher in a new era of science—one where data assets can be fully harvested—results can be reproduced—new insights can be gleaned."
Krumholz heads the Yale University Open Data Access project, or YODA. Without identifying patients, J&J will turn over all of the results of all of its pharmaceutical clinical trials—including studies that were never published. Scientists from all over the world can then request access. YODA will have sole authority to decide who gets access, based on "principles of scientific review" that Yale and the company will develop jointly, according to a Yale news release.
The agreement, which grew from Krumholz's friendship with J&J's chief medical officer, sets a new standard for transparency in a pharmaceutical industry often criticized for cherry-picking data. By giving Yale control over who can see the data, Johnson & Johnson avoids "a fox-watching-the-henhouse ethical problem," the website Xconomy notes.
"This is also crowdsourcing of science," Krumholz says in his e-mail. "By allowing any scientist in the world to work on these data, we will have insights that otherwise would not have been produced—and everyone, including the company, will benefit."
What's more, J&J is releasing trial results that have never been published. Overall, only about half the studies funded by the National Institutes for Health find their way to publication, Krumholz and others have reported.
"If you are doing a systematic review" of a drug's safety or effectiveness, he writes, "you can now do it with all the evidence. In the past (er, present) evidence-based medicine is based on only the evidence that has been placed in public view."
Not surprisingly, Krumholz tells Bloomberg BusinessWeek that he approached other drugmakers, who were "are reluctant to give up the control." Now, he hopes, some will follow J&J's lead.
YODA, established in 2011, is part of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, which Krumholz also directs. The overall goal is to provide better information to doctors and patients about what medical treatments and practices actually work.
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When starting his career, Franck was surrounded by the best food "artisans" and chefs in France . Those were also generous mentors who encouraged him to fulfill his potential to become who he is today. Franck needs and want to give something back and share his passion and knowledge with the next generation of chefs.
Franck's teaching career started in 2007 when he was approached to give a lecture and a demonstration about party food, terrines and charcuterie at London culinary school Le Cordon Bleu. Although this was something totally new , he excelled as a mentor, thoroughly enjoyed the experience and found the teaching process very natural. Since then, Franck has regularly taught and given demonstrations for leading cookery schools in the country.
Franck has given lectures at UK's oldest private cookery school Tante Marie Culinary Academy, owned by Gordon Ramsay.
Since 2009, Franck has been judging the UK Young Seafood Chef of the Year Competition organized by Grimsby Institute, where he is to become an honorary professor later on in 2013.
Franck's teaching career
Franck is passionate about food and sharing his skills and knowledge, regardless of the level of students he is teaching or the subject matter covered.
Throughout his career, Franck has given courses on a vast array of subjects, from pastry for beginners to charcuterie, working with fish, butcher work or banqueting training for a more advanced audience.
He has given inspirational talks and demonstration at the Norwich City Academy and provides private masterclasses at home too.
Teaching milestones
2013 Inspirational talks at Norwich City Academy: students are encouraged to cook with Franck and demonstrate their skills.
2012 Cooking with micro-cresses: Franck gives a demonstration at Westminster College with Koppert Cress.
2011 Franck gives his first masterclass at home. Service best suited to groups of 6 to 10 people and available throughout the UK.
2010 Franck gives an exclusive course on the art of terrines and verrines at Tante Marie Culinary Academy.
2009 Franck judges Grimsby Institute's UK Young Seafood Chef of the Year Competition for the first time.
2008 Franck starts giving courses at The Smart School of Cookery.
2007 Lecture and demonstration at Le Cordon Bleu in London.
Franck with students from the Grimsby Institute
Grimsby Institute
Franck has worked for leading cookery schools and some of the most influential people in culinary education. Each teaching contract has been unique, exciting, challenging and incredibly fulfilling. Here are some examples of what Franck's done:
Tante Marie Culinary Academy
Franck at Tante Marie Culinary Academy
Franck gave a series of lectures and demonstrations for students of all levels covering butchery work, charcuterie and banqueting. Students were given the chance to participate through hands-on demonstrations.
www.tantemarie.co.uk
Andrew Maxwell
Managing director and principal at Tante Marie Culinary Academy
"Franck's unique experiences as a chef, combined with his impressive ability to entertain and educate at the same time have made him a valuable asset to Tante Marie Culinary Academy. Franck is one of those very rare chefs who have the right temperament to be an incredible teacher. He always inspires our students and is able to adapt his training to suit any requirement."
The Smart School of Cookery
The Smart School of Cookery is a private school offering students of all levels insiders' tips and tricks of the trade from specialist celebrity and professional chefs.
Franck offers bespoke courses based around the menus he designs for specific requirements at the time.
www.thesmartschoolofcookery.com
Ann Hood
Managing director and owner of The Smart School of Cookery
"I have been privileged to work with Franck Pontais since 2008 at The Smart School of Cookery in Essex and London.
Franck has been, and continues to be, involved in the development of the success of cookery school hosting Master classes to discerning clients from all over the UK. His professionalism is paramount to the enormous pleasure everyone gains from Franck's classes.
I look forward to a continued working relationship with Franck."
Franck delivered a series of courses for level 3 NVQ Diploma in Professional Cookery students. The lessons involved in-depth methods and techniques required as part of the assessment and covered bonding ingredients, chocolate desserts and presentation.
www.grimsby.ac.uk
Paul Robinson, fdsc
Curriculum leader of the hospitality department at the Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
"Franck has an mass of passion that encapsulate learners imagination at all levels, no matter if they are a beginner or an experienced chef.
During his classes, his natural flair and creativity can be witnessed as each learner gains new skills with his guidance as they see first hand his exciting food created in front of their eyes. Franck is a gifted teacher with a very can do attitude that inspires chefs of the future, no matter of their age or skill base."
Franck with students at the Smart School of Cookery