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04/08/2019 Alternative drive concepts by Liebherr – the ideal solution for every application
In inner cities – electric drives produce lower emissions
In recycling operations and at ports – electric powered material handling machines
The XPower wheel loader with tried-and-tested power-split driveline technology fitted as standard.
In tough mining conditions: diesel-electric mining trucks and electric powered mining excavators
At Bauma 2019, Liebherr will be presenting innovative drive concepts for various applications. Liebherr is continuously developing drive concepts so that the Group is prepared for future requirements and can offer its customers solutions for today and tomorrow.
Liebherr always actively engages with its customers along every step of the development process. After all, customers know their fields of application and general conditions better than anyone else. When it comes to implementation, Liebherr combines the experience and expectations of its customers with the know-how and testing infrastructure of the Group. This is helped by the fact that the company is also able to pick up and adapt solutions from other projects and product lines for new developments when it works on its latest innovations and solutions. This is also the case with drive technologies.
The choice of the respective drive concept depends on the application profile of the product. For tougher applications with a high annual operating life, such as large-scale earthmoving construction sites or in the mining sector, the use of combustion engines powered by hydrogen or synthetic fuels seems more likely. When the focus is on reducing exhaust and noise emissions, machines with alternative drives are in high demand. Which drive concept is suitable for which application and which machine is a question of economic factors. In addition to that, rapid urbanisation is also ushering in stricter emissions standards for vehicles and machinery used in inner cities.
At Bauma 2019, Liebherr will be presenting solutions such as the new electrically driven truck mixer series ETM, the electrically driven stationary concrete pump, electrically driven material handling machines, the XPower wheel loader with power-split driveline technology, a diesel-electric powered mining truck, a 100-per-cent electric mining excavator and the world's first battery powered rotary drilling rig.
No compromises on the construction site with Liebherr's ETM series: maximum power, significantly quieter with zero emissions.
The new truck mixer series with an electrical drum drive
At Bauma 2019, the Liebherr Group is presenting for the first time its truck mixer with an electric drum drive. The first models from the new ETM series are expected to be delivered starting at the third quarter of 2019. This means that Liebherr will be offering its customers a complete range of drum drives in different sizes and even a semi-trailer version.
Battery capcity has been designed to cope with challenging mixed operations and last for the entire working day during normal operation. As a plug-in hybrid, the batteries can be recharged when the truck mixer is being driven or externally via a power plug at a concrete mixing plant, for example. The batteries are usually fully recharged at the end of a shift. Liebherr has come up with a future-proof solution by using a system voltage of 650 V/ DC which is in line with levels employed by automotive manufacturers. Operating costs are equally important for vehicle fleet operators: despite a slight increase in diesel consumption due to the alternator drive, an e-transport mixer can achieve fuel savings of around 30 per cent.
The 70 E electric stationary concrete pump scores very highly with operators and local residents: no exhaust fumes, less noise and lower service costs. Liebherr's 70 E electric stationary concrete pump provides a powerful, zero-emission alternative which is ideal for high-rise pumping and for conveying concrete over long distances. Unlike diesel-powered models, the pump does not produce any emissions and generates considerably less noise. The robust concrete pump is also easy to maintain and can be flexibly positioned.
The Liebherr LB 16 unplugged is the first "local zero emission" drilling rig on the market.
LB 16 unplugged – rotary drilling rig with battery
At the Liebherr stand, visitors can marvel at the LB 16 unplugged - the world's first large-diameter drilling rig on the market that runs on rechargeable batteries. It's not just powered by alternative electro-hydraulic drive technology; its battery also enables it to be used without a cable (unplugged).
The LB 16 unplugged has no limitations in performance and application compared to the conventional version. Just like diesel-powered machines, the LB 16 can achieve a maximum drilling diameter of 1,500 mm and a drilling depth of 34.5 m.
The battery is designed for a working day of 10-hours. It is charged via a conventional construction site connection (32 A, 63 A). Quick charging is also possible in just 7 hours with a 125-A connection.
Efficient and environmentally-friendly thanks to electric drive technology: the Liebherr LH 26 M Industry.
Electric-powered material handling machines for recycling operations and at ports
Liebherr is presenting two electric material handling machines at Bauma 2019: the LH 26 M Industry and the LH 110 C Gantry Port. The electric drive concept developed for material handling machines is low-maintenance, quiet and environmentally-friendly, so emissions regulations never need to be a concern.
Liebherr's LH 26 M Industry electric material handling machine is ideal for recycling operations and is an ingenious concept down to the smallest detail. The machine's innovative drive technologies include a 90 kW Liebherr electric motor, providing powerful and dynamic working movements, as well as an additional electric motor for auxiliary equipment. This ensures that power is purposefully distributed to deliver maximum energy efficiency. The LH 26 M has a sophisticated frequency converter system which provides dynamic and sensitive working movements. Another key benefit is the way the system can be easily adapted to work with all power supply networks that are commonly used around the world.
Bauma visitors will also see Liebherr's LH 110 C Port material handling machine for port operations which features an electric transmission. Its impressive features guarantee maximum performance and are setting new standards in terms of cost efficiency: the powerful 300 kW electric engine and the ERC system deliver a total system performance of 478 kW. This, in addition to the machine's fast and dynamic rotational movements, enable up to 1,000 tonnes of material to be handled every hour. The new gantry portal undercarriage ensures that trucks and wagons moving through the harbour area can be quickly and efficiently loaded and unloaded.
Highly efficient no matter the application: the L 586 XPower® with power-split driveline technology fitted as standard.
The XPower wheel loader with tried-and-tested power-split driveline technology fitted as standard
Liebherr is also presenting three XPower large wheel loaders at Bauma 2019. Liebherr's largest wheel loader, the L 586 XPower®, will be among the vehicles on show. These machines, ranging from the XPower L 550 XPower® large wheel loader to the L 586 XPower®, mark a key milestone in the technological evolution of the Liebherr wheel loader. Liebherr's power-split XPower driveline technology, which is offered as standard, is the core feature of these machines. It combines a hydrostatic drive (which is ideal for short loading cycles) with a mechanical drive, which provides considerable benefits on longer routes. This combination delivers maximum efficiency whatever the application and offers outstanding fuel savings of up to 30 per cent compared with wheel loaders of the same size.
The XPower large wheel loaders have been impressing customers from different industry sectors for over three years, as they are so efficient and reliable. Liebherr's tried-and-tested XPower driveline technology is a fine example of robust design, as it generates its power through the interaction between two different drive paths. The load is therefore distributed between the two drive paths and this greatly extends the service life of the components. Machine operators can work continuously without any downtime and operational safety increases. Through continuous and targeted development and investment, Liebherr has ensured that the axles and other components, such as the hydraulic cylinders, are exceptionally robust. This means that XPower wheel loaders consistently deliver maximum reliability.
Facelift: The new Liebherr mobile construction crane MK 88-4.1.
The MK 88-4.1 zero-emission mobile construction crane
Liebherr construction cranes are equipped with electric drives, ensuring they not only operate quietly, but also protect the environment. This is especially advantageous when working at night. The new MK 88-4.1 mobile construction crane also includes a 32 amp connection alongside the standard 63 amp version. An intelligent energy management system ensures that the maximum amount of power is always available to operate the crane. This means that the MK 88-4.1 can be powered by electricity even when the mains supply is limited if there are no other options available at the operating site.
Thanks to their electric drives, applications with Liebherr mobile construction cranes are not only low-noise, but also environmentally friendly. This is particularly advantageous during night-time operations. The new MK 88-4.1 mobile construction crane is now equipped with a 32-ampere connection in addition to the usual 63-amp connection. Thanks to an intelligent energy management system, the maximum available power is always used for crane operation. This means that the MK 88-4.1 can be operated with electricity even when the mains power is lower, if the conditions on site do not allow otherwise.
Electric drives are also generally used on rotating tower cranes. The ability to operate quietly and emission-free are important criteria for rotating tower cranes on site in inner city areas.
Electric drives are always used for tower cranes. Quiet and emission-free operation are important criteria for tower cranes when working in city centres.
The Liebherr R 9200 E operating in an open-cast mine for the company Lausitzer Grauwacke (Eurovia) in Saxony.
Especially tough operating conditions: diesel-electric mining trucks and electric powered mining excavators
The benefits of diesel-electric transmissions are most obvious when it comes to high power applications and the very long operating times that are the norm in the mining industry. Liebherr has been producing mining trucks with this drivetrain for around twenty years and has gained a great deal of useful experience in this area. It has consequently become clear that greater efficiency can be leveraged for driving on upward slopes by using more electrification. Liebherr is building on the experience it has gained manufacturing machines that need to operate for very long periods over exactly the same routes by working with customers (in Austria and Panama, for example) to electrify the routes completely by using overhead lines and current collectors on their diesel-electric mining trucks.
High performance and a very long service life are required for use in mining. This is where diesel-electric drives can make the most of their advantages. Liebherr has been building its mining trucks with this drive train for around twenty years and has gained important experience. It has also become clear that there is still a lot of efficiency potential to be tapped by further electrification on uphill stretches. After dealing with very long periods of operation on the same routes in the mining sector, Liebherr is working with customers in Austria and Panama, for example, to completely electrify these journeys with the help of overhead lines and current collectors on the diesel-electric mining trucks.
The company Eurovias Lausitzer Grauwacke GmbH uses a R 9200 E with an electric transmission and a face shovel attachment. This 210-tonne excavator has a nominal power rating of 850 kW. The R 9200 E is able to achieve a balance here between performance and environmental responsibility by ensuring that people and the environment are not exposed to diesel and noise emissions. The electric engine is also equipped with an air-to-air heat exchanger, a simple, integrated system which reduces maintenance work by up to 25 per cent and reduces machine downtime.
The R 9200 is the only mining excavator in the 200-tonne class to be equipped with a closed-loop swing circuit instead of an open hydraulic circuit. This enables a maximum swing torque to be achieved whilst allowing the oil to flow completely to the hydraulic system which ultimately results in faster cycle times. Furthermore, the electric motor drive ensures that during the loading cycle the hydraulic power is temporarily above the nominal engine rating which further reduces cycle times and increases efficiency.
Press Information: Alternative Drive Concepts (ZIP, 32.9 MB)
Press kit: Bauma (ZIP, 267.9 MB)
Julian Priebe
Head of Social Media and Construction Trade Press
Liebherr-International Deutschland GmbH
Hans-Liebherr-Straße 45
88400 Biberach an der Riß
Phone+49 7351 4144-91


Shrine Mont is located in Orkney Springs, VA about 13 miles west of Mt. Jackson, VA.
Shrine Mont is located 1 hour south of Winchester and approximately 2 hours from the Washington DC metro area. To reach Shrine Mont, follow Route 66 West to I-81 South to Mt. Jackson (Exit #273). Turn left onto Rt. 703 (East), then right (South) on US 11, follow through town, turn right on Rt. #263 and follow approximately 13 miles to Orkney Springs.
Shrine Mont is located 1 hour North of Harrisonburg, and approximately 3 hours from the Richmond metro area. To reach Shrine Mont, follow I-81 to Mt. Jackson (Exit #273). Turn right onto Rt. 703 (East), then right (South) on US 11, follow through town, turn right on Rt. #263 and follow approximately 13 miles to Orkney Springs.


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Q: Using .tagName correctly if (((document.activeElement).parentNode).tagName == "div") {
   //do amazing things
}

For some reason a specific function of mine isn't working, and I think it has to do with the line above.  Is the line above syntactically correct, or is wrong?  If the line above is correct, I'll either delete the question (because then the question is useless) or add additional information of the rest of the function.
Thanks

A: The tagName gives the tag in upper-case so it would give DIV
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/element.tagName
You can use .toLowerCase() == 'div'(as suggested in the comments) to eliminate the case issue.

A: You don't need all the parens. To be safe, use tagName.toLowerCase().
if (document.activeElement.parentNode.tagName.toLowerCase() == "div") {
   //do amazing things
}

There may be some browsers that sometimes do not give the same case as others. This makes sure you always compare the same case.

A: In the context of HTML, the value in the tagName field is always uppercase.
However, if you run this script in XML/XHTML context, it will return the name of the tag exactly as provided (and not necessarily uppercase).
Try calling document.activeElement.parentNode.tagName.toLowerCase() to make it always lowercase.

A: Try this
if (((document.activeElement).parentNode).tagName === "DIV") {
   //do amazing things
}

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New dimension in therapeutic targeting of BCL-2 family
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Likewise, RAPA was proven to enhance the expression of both COX2 and the microsomal prostaglandin (PG) E synthase-1 and the release of PGE2 and PGD2 in rat microglial cells activated by LPS and poly(I:C) (de Oliveira et al., 2012[9], 2016[10]). basal conditions and in cells activated with II. Consistently with its known molecular mechanism of action, rapamycin reduced the extent of activation of the so-called 'mechanistic' target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) kinase and the total amount of intracellular proteins. In contrast to rodent cells, rapamycin did not alter human microglial cell viability nor inhibited cell proliferation. Moreover, rapamycin did not exert any significant effect on the morphology of the HMC3 cells. All together these data suggest that the inhibition of mTORC1 in human microglia by rapamycin results in complex immunomodulatory effects, including a significant increase in the expression and release of the pro-inflammatory IL-6. in tuberous sclerosis complex brain lesions (Boer et al., 2008[5]). Histological analysis of the pathological regions confirmed cell-specific activation of mTOR in cortical tubers together with activated microglial cells and disruption of BBB permeability (Boer et al., 2008[5]). Consistently, a downstream target of mTORC1, the phospho-S6 ribosomal protein (p-S6RP) was significantly increased in microglial cells 24 h after traumatic brain injury (Park et al., 2012[36]). It was also shown that the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway together with the hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) mediated the up-regulation of the inducible nitric oxide (NO) synthase (NOS2) in response to hypoxia, both in Farampator primary rat microglial cultures and in the mouse BV-2 microglial cell line (Lu et al., Farampator 2006[32]). Consistently, we have shown that Farampator mTORC1 activation is increased in rat primary microglial cells in response to different inflammatory stimuli (the bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide LPS, or a mixture of pro-inflammatory cytokines) (Dello Russo et al., 2009[12]) or by the exposure to glioma conditioned medium (Lisi et al., 2014[29]). However, the role of mTOR in the regulation of microglial inflammatory responses is still not completely understood. For example, in our experiments we observed both anti-inflammatory and pro-inflammatory effects in response to RAPA. Namely, the drug reduced NOS2 activity and expression in response to cytokines; increased NOS2 expression, leaving significantly unaffected the enzymatic activity, in LPS-treated microglia; and significantly increased NOS2 expression and activity in glioma activated-microglial cells (Dello Russo et al., 2009[12]; Lisi et al., 2014[29]). On the other hand, the mTOR inhibitor RAD001 tended to reduce the cytosolic level of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2) in microglial cells activated by pro-inflammatory cytokines, whereas it displayed significantly stimulatory effects on COX2 when administered in resting microglia (Dello Russo et al., 2009[12]). In catalase-exposed BV2 microglial cells, mTOR inhibition reduced both COX2 and NOS2 protein levels without affecting the mRNA steady state levels (Jang et al., 2005[19]). This effect was due to reduced activity of the mTORC1 downstream target, p70S6 kinase (p70S6K), which is a critical regulator of protein translation. In addition, reduction of NOS2 and interleukin 6 (IL-6) mRNA levels together with increased TNFAIP3 autophagic processes were observed in response to 100 nM RAPA in LPS-stimulated BV2 microglial cells (Han et al., 2013[15]). However, the mRNA Farampator level of other inflammatory genes, including IL-12, IFN, IFN, and TNF, was increased by RAPA in this experimental model (Han et al., 2013[15]). Similarly, RAPA was shown to enhance the expression of both COX2 and the microsomal prostaglandin (PG) E synthase-1 and the release of PGE2 and PGD2 in rat microglial cells activated by LPS and poly(I:C).
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This is a beautiful vintage / antique Trifari pendant which is also a brooch. They named this set "PetalTime" and it is made up of molded white milk glass petals channel set in a golden toned Trifanium.
I am also selling the matching earrings so you might browse my other listings!
Advertisement Information: The brooch / pin appeared in Trifari's 1949 Easter advertisement "Woodland Fantasies" which stated "Gay, jeweled pins typifying the Trifari touch of exquisite workmanship, superb design." The earrings and a different necklace from the collection appeared in Trifari's 1950 mothers day advertisement.
Size: The large brooch / pendant is approximately 2 inches tall and 2 inches wide. The chain is short at 15 inches.
Closure: Fold over pin with roll over 'c' safety and on the necklace it is a fold over clasp!
Condition: The golden toned Trifanium has darkened with time but all the molded glass is in great condition!


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Q: Storing channels' data in Go Can we store and retrieve data from a channel?
For instance, can I store c, in the code below, somewhere?
package main

    import (
        "fmt"
    )

    func main() {

        c := make(chan int)

        go func(){

            c <- 42
        }()
        fmt.Println(<-c)
    }

A: You can store it anywhere you like but channels are only a method for passing information within a Go program. Where the data comes from and what you do with it is entirely up to you.
I strongly recommend going through the Go tour, and specifically here for channels.


What writer Wallace Stegner called America's "best idea," protecting natural areas for the benefit of all, not just the wealthy few, has endured for more than 150 years. Now we're working to protect these special places from Congress's worst idea—selling them off to the highest bidder.
From the Grand Canyon to the George Washington National Forest, our parks, forests, and public lands are a big part of what makes this country so great. They're where we go to spend time outdoors with our families and friends, to hike, bike, fish and see wild animals.
Yet instead of helping to protect and preserve our parks and other special places for our kids and future generations, some shortsighted leaders in Congress have another idea. They've proposed to stop new protections for precious landscapes like the Grand Canyon. They want to eliminate funding for our most successful open space program. And the Senate has even passed a measure to sell off a bulk of our public lands—from national forests, to wildlife refuges, to wilderness areas—to the highest bidder.
Environment America is bringing people together to urge our members of Congress to make preserving special places a priority and leave a lasting legacy for our parks.
Members and supporters like you make it possible for our staff to conduct research, make our case to the media, testify in Washington, D.C., and build the grassroots support necessary to protect the places we love.
Underfunded parks face crumbling infrastructure, reduced hours and threats ranging from overdevelopment, pollution, mining, drilling and logging that put wildlife and ecosystems at risk.
There were more than 281 million recreational visits to our national parks last year, yet this year Congress slashed funding for all of our parks.


BUI Natural Tofu, from Oregon, announced a recall for certain varieties of its salad rolls. The rolls were recalled for the presense of undeclared allergens in the ingredients.
The state's Department of Agriculture, found that the products contained wheat and soy, not declared on the product's list of ingredients.
"Shrimp Salad Roll" (UPC code 8-95467-00203-8) and "Vegetarian Salad Roll" (UPC code 8-95467-00204-5). These products are sold under the "BUI Fresh from the Bean" brand. The recalled salad rolls are packed in trays and wrapped with clear plastic. The products' expiration dates, which range from 9/2 to 9/13, is printed on a white sticker placed on the product's packaging. The recalled products are displayed in the refrigerated products section of retail stores and have a shelf life of three days.
The recalled salad rolls were distributed to various retail stores in the area ofPortland,Oregon. Customers who were able to buy the recalled products are advised to return it to the store for a complete refund. Consumers may also call the company at 503-803-3059 from 8 AM to 5 PM, Pacific Standard Time.


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The history of the farm
The farm name "Mårtens" comes from Mårten Larsson born 1707 and his son Per Mårtensson born 1736. The farm has a long family history. 1812 on September 1, the manor house and all other houses on the site were destroyed, in the fire that destroyed Öster Hästbo when the village was like a cluster village on the hill. When the trial was over that the compensation would be paid that the victims received from Brandstodsbolaget, it was certainly urgent for all house people in the village when winter was soon approaching. At Öster Hästbo No. 10, the bakery was probably built the same autumn to get a roof over your head, as it was smaller and easier to build. The barn and another outbuilding may have been built during the winter, they were built south of the bakery, the barn north of the bakery was built much later. In the large Bergsmansgården there is a large cast iron plate cast, where it says Pehr Pehrsson and Brita Larsdotter 1826, it is probably the year when the large Bergsmansgården was completed. The miner Pehr Pehrsson born 1768 and his wife Brita Larsdotter born 1779, owned the farm at this time. Their son Pehr Pehrsson born 1802 married Brita Olsdotter born 1804 in the neighboring farm, "Ol Lars" Öster Hästbo No. 11, the same year 1826, when he also moved there. The cast iron plate is probably made at Hästbo Hytta.
( källa: Hästbo.se)
Now we are creating a new story on the farm!
We are Ulrika & Christer and our son Casper and our animals that we will probably fill the farm with in time.
The moving load went here in December 2020 from Alunda in Uppland.
We have been looking for "our farm" for a long time and have been to many shows around and last autumn we saw the ad and thought to go and look, you can always do as an excursion of many.
We fell in love with the yard pretty quickly as we only saw a lot of opportunities and the beautiful hilly nature around the corner.
We start by starting up Bed & Breakfast and the idea is then a café with a farm shop.
Ulrika works full time on the farm and Christer is employed at Sandvik.
Mårten i Hästbo on Facebook
Mårten i Hästbo on Instagram


Made from bridle leather and heavy duty durable hardware(nickel,brass or black) using a snap to secure radio in place. Universal radio basket designed to accommodate most radios. Email to inquire about sure fit.


As a side note to Ric Bucher's article reviewing the team's performance over the weekend, the Wizards cut Jimmy Oliver yesterday and formally added Terry Davis to the roster. The team is now very heavy in its front-court, with only 5 players I'd consider capable of playing guard (Strickland, Whitney, Shammgod, Cheaney, Murray). But maybe Davis can provide a little spark at the center position.
It can't hurt, especially as the Wizards travel to play the Utah Jazz on the road tonight.


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Forza Motorsport 5 launch trailer and the full list of cars
Every Wednesday the developers of Forza Motorsport 5 game - Turn 10 Studio - present us some new information about this racing simulator, and, as you have already guessed, yesterday's Wednesday wasn't an exception.
As usually the developers have revealed a new and, as it turned out, the last Forza Motorsport 5 list of cars, which includes 35 automobiles. Five of them - Lotus E21 (2013), Ferrari # 1 Scuderia Ferrari 312T2 (1976), McLaren # 11 Team McLaren M23 (1976), KTM X-Bow R (2013) and Ford Mustang Boss 302 (1969) - have been shown on the screenshots, which you can see below. And taking into consideration that the last cars of fifth instalments of this racing franchise have been presented, the developers have announced that the full Forza Motorsport 5 list of cars contains only 202 automobiles (you can find them on the game's site), what is much less than in the previous project's part (there were 500 cars). The reason of this remains unknown.
In addition, although the project will be released only in two weeks in Europe, Turn 10 Studio has published Forza Motorsport 5 launch trailer, which demonstrates us many stunning supercars, recreated in incredible high resolution - 1080 pixels at 60 frames per second. So, if you want to imagine what awaits you in this upcoming game, then you should watch this little Forza Motorsport 5 trailer:
Forza 5 game will hit the stores on November 22 for Microsoft's next-gen console.
Tags: Forza Motorsport 5, screenshots, trailer, video
New Forza Motorsport 6 details are revealed
New Forza 5 DLC has been released
Free Forza Motorsport 5 DLC will add anew circuit (video and screenshots)
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Nigeria music diva, Niniola has reacted to Drake's request of her hit song Maradona on radio station.
Canadian rapper, Drake hasn't hidden his admiration for Niniola as he recently followed her on Instagram and now requests for her song to be played as he co-hosts a show on BBC Radio 1Xtra.
Nini as she's fondly called couldn't hide her excitement as she took to her Instagram page to share the news.


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Q: Find a tag and hide another tag next to it I have a set of TDs with two tags. I would like a way to find one of the tags and hide the other.
Here's what I have so far,
if($('td').find('.mark')) {
       $('.warning').hide();
    }

But I only want it to hide .warning in that particular TD and not all the .warning tags.
Here's the fiddle, http://jsfiddle.net/amQ4G/2/
Thank you
UPDATE
My apologies, I messed up on the HTML I'm working with, here's the HTML version I would it like it to work for, http://jsfiddle.net/amQ4G/9/
The tags being in separate TDs, one exists inside one TD, hide the other in the TD next to it.

A: You could use the preceding sibling selector:
$('td .mark + .warning').hide()

Or more verbosely:
$('td').find('.mark').next('.warning').hide()

A: Could be simply written as follows as well
$('tr').has('.mark').find('.warning').hide()

Updated according to question's update

A: Here is one solution(for edited problem):
$('.mark'). //select all elements with the class 'mark'
parent(). //select the parent of all of those elements
parent(). //my grandpapy selector
find('.warning'). //find the children with the class 'warning'
hide(); //hide yo kids, hide yo wife, and hide yo husband cause they jQuerying everybody

http://jsfiddle.net/amQ4G/12/

A: Can u try like this
$(document).ready(function(){
    if($('td').find('.mark')) {
       $('.mark').parent('td').find('.warning').hide();
    }
});

Updated fiddle link http://jsfiddle.net/amQ4G/6/


D.C.: How Much Taxation (without representation)?
A bill giving the District its first full seat in Congress cleared the House yesterday, marking the city's biggest legislative victory in its quest for voting rights in nearly three decades.
Democrats on the House floor burst into applause, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) grabbed the arms of the District's nonvoting delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, as the 241 to 177 vote was announced.
"There was nothing but joy in the chamber this afternoon, because we knew we had given this bill the kind of send-off that can get it through the Senate," Norton (D) said later.
But the bill faces considerable obstacles. Democrats don't appear to have enough votes in the Senate to avoid a filibuster, and the White House has threatened a veto. If the measure becomes law, it probably will be challenged in court.
The Tax Foundation projects that for 2007, the District will pay an overall effective federal tax rate of 23.8 percent, which would put them behind only Connecticut, Nevada, and New Jersey in terms of overall effective federal rates.
For 2004 (most recent year for which IRS state-by-state data is available), the District's average federal tax burden (in dollar terms) was $23,802 per household. If it were to be given congressional representation, the District would rank 63rd out of 436 seats in the House, putting it in the top 15 percent of congressional districts in terms of average federal tax burden per household.
When counted as a county by itself, the District ranks 81st in the nation in average federal tax burden per household, putting it near the top 2 percent in that ranking. When ranking the District compared to other states in terms of average dollar amount of federal taxes, the District ranked 3rd (out of 51) in 2004.
Overall, the District pays about 40 percent more in federal taxes per household than the average household nationwide.


I should probably add that with the start of the new forum, all prior forum bans have been removed!
Also, you'll note that to sign in to the new forums, you can only do so through the website using your character name (so no hiding!).
You forgot to lock the news threads! And the news forum!


Necessity is the mother of invention, er, renaming of an old product.
The most original invention since the electric light bulb! Although a heatball is technically very similar to a light bulb, it is a heater rather than a source of light.
Passionate woman speaks out against the NDAA.
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Ominous story, assuming it's true. Even if DHS just googled the woman and found out her profile of problems, it's still quite the nasty surprise at the border. Hopefully the Ontario government didn't share anything, but it's more likely her internet presence got her into trouble. A good lesson for all slavebook fans!
A Toronto woman is shocked after she was denied entry into the U.S. because she had been hospitalized for clinical depression.
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Not too many people know or care of the symbolism.
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Digging Deeper
Steroid Admission
Teams Athletics, Cardinals
Positions Designated Hitter, First Base
Mark McGwire had two separate runs of 6 straight All Star appearances. The 1987 Rookie of the Year won three Silver Sluggers & a Gold Glove.
Mark McGwire set the MLB record for homers by a rookie
Mark McGwire's rookie season of 1987 was one to remember. On his way to the Rookie of the Year Award, McGwire established a new record for homers by a first-year player. His 49 bombs, 118 runs batted in and .289 average produced an All Star selection and a a sixth-place finish in MVP voting. During his career, McGwire led the league
Mark McGwire's rookie season of 1987 was one to remember. On his way to the Rookie of the Year Award, McGwire established a new record for homers by a first-year player. His 49 bombs, 118 runs batted in and .289 average produced an All Star selection and a a sixth-place finish in MVP voting.
During his career, McGwire led the league in round-trippers four times and twice hit more than 60 homers in a single season.
Big Mac smashed 583 homers over the course of his 16-year career that included 12 All Star appearances, three Silver Sluggers and a Gold Glove Awards.
Normally those numbers result in a plaque in Cooperstown. McGwire however used performance-enhancing drugs. Time will tell is baseball forgives the 500-homer hitter.
In the collection is this 8×10 photo signed by the A's slugger.
At the height of his career, Mark McGwire captivated the baseball world
The youngest starting pitcher in the history of the Los Angeles Dodges, Joe Moeller has a 50-year association with the game. Moeller writes this letter in his capacity of advance scout for the Florida Marlins. Here he reflects on Mark McGwire's 1998 pursuit of Roger Maris' home run record an
The youngest starting pitcher in the history of the Los Angeles Dodges, Joe Moeller has a 50-year association with the game. Moeller writes this letter in his capacity of advance scout for the Florida Marlins. Here he reflects on Mark McGwire's 1998 pursuit of Roger Maris' home run record and of Big Mac's Hall of Fame prospects.
"Each night I was scouting for the Marlins in 1998, McGwire would come to bat and the crowd would buzz with excitement – and he delivered. 61 was a magical number and Mark hit 70!"
A Story about Mark McGwire
Judgment of Steroid Era comes every year at Hall of Fame
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(Editors' note: Mike Piazza was inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 24, 2016.) Can the game's story be complete without a plaque of the baseball's all-time home run leader? Doesn't the man with the most Cy Young Awards deserve induction? How about the catcher with the most career homers? All have been on the ballot, yet none is enshrined. The allegations pointed toward Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are well-documented. The case for Mike Piazza remains less clear. Certainly his numbers are certainly Cooperstown-worthy. Amassed in any other era, his 427 homers and .308 lifetime average would be enough to garner the catcher a bronze plaque. Piazza's six seasons with at least 100 runs batted in, 12 all-star appearances, and ten Silver Slugger awards certainly seem Cooperstown-worthy. In today's Hall of Fame voting process, however, numbers aren't enough. That's where hypocrisy begins to creep in. During the steroid era, the Baseball Writers concerned themselves only with on-field performance. Seven times they voted prickly Barry Bonds the MVP; seven times they cast enough votes for Roger Clemens to receive the Cy Young Award. No one cared then that the players' statistics might have been aided by performance enhancing drugs. When those same two players were on the Hall of Fame […]
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When it comes to natural beauty it is hard to beat Mexico. One of our favorite natural phenomenons must be the 'cenotes' or underwater caves and sink holes that you have all over the Mexican peninsula (Quintana Roo). Cenotes are natural holes formed by the collapse of the porous limestone soil, which has revealed a secret subterranean world of flooded caves and sinkholes. Most cave cenotes have fresh water that has been filtered by the earth, making them so clear and pure that you can see straight through to small fish frolicking in the plant life below. The cave system here is thousands and thousands of miles long and much still has been unexplored.
The cenotes were sacred to the Maya's who lived here thousands of years and built a civilization equal to the ancient Egyptians for instance, with pyramids and an extended knowledge of astronomy and life in general. Their descendants are still living in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. The cenotes still take an important place in their lives so we always treat them with respect, which doesn't mean you can't have some fun in them!
Some of our Mexico programs in Playa del Carmen include trips to some of the best cenotes that we have found, and there is always the option to add them to your program. You can't leave without visiting them and they are amazing for diving and freediving, or just snorkeling or jumping into them. You decide from which height! When you do these courses you will definitely go and explore some of the best and most exciting cenotes we have here.
Have a look at these images and be baffled by their mysterious beauty. We aren't kidding when we say that he cenotes in Mexico are one of the best things you will ever see!


Yesterday our colleagues from the TV show "Polònia" surprised us again. They made a parody of the campaign we've created and produced for the Government of Catalonia to promote milk consumption in schools. The campaign has the support of the European Union. Milk consumption is like "Polònia", irreplaceable!


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Obama's aides say he was never as clueless as Clinton portrayed him.
Clinton's '08 slaps still sting Obama
"Friendship" was the main course during Hillary Clinton's lunch with President Barack Obama this week, according to an Obama spokesman, but no one could have blamed Clinton for ordering a small side of I-told-you-so.
Much of the bombastic campaign rhetoric from 2008 — think "3 a.m. call" — proved as ephemeral as the thousands of half-melted "Hillary" candy bars Clinton's staff handed out on Super Tuesday five years ago.
But some of Clinton's most memorable '08 shots at Obama have had resonance far beyond the short shelf life of the standard campaign hit parade: her mockery of his vow to transform Washington in his own image, her cry of "elitism" and her skepticism about his managerial chops echo today in the form of GOP attacks and the lingering doubts of some in his own party.
( PHOTOS: The Clinton-Obama relationship)
Clinton's campaign attacks on Obama may have been an exaggerated version of reality, but in retrospect they were illuminating, in the way a hand grenade provides a flash of light before going boom.
Former Clinton staffers didn't want to be within a mile of this story. ("I'm hanging up now," said one top '08 campaign aide cheerfully before the line went dead.) But several more intrepid ex-aides pointed to one quote in particular: a Clinton broadside delivered in Toledo, Ohio, on Feb. 24, 2008, that represented her most stinging attack on Obama's core hope-and-change message.
"I could stand up here and say: let's just get everybody together, let's get unified," Clinton said, voice dripping with contempt long since discarded.
"The sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know that we should do the right thing, and the world would be perfect," Clinton added. "Maybe I've just lived a little long, but I have no illusions about how hard this will be. You are not going to wave a magic wand…"
( PHOTOS: Who's talking about Hillary 2016?)
It was caricature — but a little prescient too. In 2012, Obama downplayed his soaring change-Washington mantra, replacing it with a very Hillary '08 focus on the economy, competence and rationality – the stuff of incumbents and battle-scarred DC veterans. Exactly what Clinton had been four years earlier.
Longtime Clinton adviser James Carville, who was in close touch with the Clinton family during the rocky '08 primaries, says Obama has come to recognize what Hillary Clinton had already learned during her eight tough years in the White House: Transcendental politics works on a campaign, but not so much when it comes to governing.
"His message was "I can transcend Washington' — her message was 'I can bend it, I can cut through it.' Guess which one turned out to be right?" Carville said.
"I got nothing against the president and his people. Hell, when [Bill] Clinton came to Washington, he believed that stuff too. … But the system in Washington devours everything. It always wins. The power of it is awesome to watch. Hillary understood that [in 2008], and he gets it now."
( PHOTOS: 2008 RNC and DNC speakers)
Obama's aides say he was never as clueless as Clinton — or any of his subsequent critics — portrayed him. Voters need inspiration, not just perspiration, and he was hoping his message would spur the GOP to compromise, they say.
"You don't go out in a campaign and sell a B-plus, you go out and give people an ideal," said Tommy Vietor, a former National Security Council spokesman who was a mainstay of Obama's 2008 campaign press operation. "I think that was — and is — a key part of what made the president so successful. … And he didn't know that the GOP leadership would make derailing progress their one and only priority."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama enters Hill health care dispute)
Many of Clinton's claims have turned out to be total duds — especially on foreign policy, where Obama has proven to be less the doe-eyed naif than the cautious caretaker who signed off on Afghanistan troop withdrawals only after approving one final military surge.
But comments about his overall approach to governing have been more durable, and frequently re-purposed by Republicans.
"There's a big difference between us — speeches versus solutions, talk versus action," Clinton said, also in the make-or-break month of February 2008. "Speeches don't put food on the table. Speeches don't fill up your tank, or fill your prescription, or do anything about that stack of bills that keeps you up at night."
A more pointed, and more controversial, statement came in late January 2008, when Clinton questioned Obama's ability to control Congress — with a comparison of Martin Luther King and President Johnson, which many Obama backers took to be a veiled racial swipe.
"Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act," Clinton told Fox News on the eve of Obama's blowout win in the African-American-dominated South Carolina primary.
"It took a president to get it done," she added.
In the short term, Clinton's quip was a classic rhetorical boomerang, cleverly stoked by Obama's staff and surrogates who did little to discourage the implication that it revealed the candidate's hidden feelings on race. But the negative comparisons to LBJ have intensified over the years, much to the chagrin of Obama's staff.
"She took a lot of shots for that, but I thought was a very resonant and legitimate point Hillary was making," says Jonathan Alter, a two-time Obama biographer who covered the 2008 campaign for Newsweek. "I thought the LBJ comment was a lot more resonant than the 'Choir' comment, which was sort of a caricature.
"When LBJ was president everybody was in congressional relations — if you were a secretary and your brother-in-law worked on the Hill, he wanted you to work that connection," adds Alter. "LBJ had filibuster-proof majorities. The root cause of Obama's problems are the Republicans [on the Hill]… But he's left tools in the toolbox…
"He thought of himself as a bridge-builder — but he came up too fast to build any big bridges, and the ones he built were small, over creeks. That was Hillary's point."
Early in his first term, Obama rode big congressional majorities — and Hill-savvy types like Rahm Emanuel, Phil Schiliro and Jim Messina — to a string of accomplishments that has thus far defined his presidency, from the stimulus to Obamacare to Dodd-Frank.
And more recently, his team has carefully cultivated relationships with Senate Republicans, providing him with a limited breakthrough on comprehensive immigration reform and a burgeoning partnership with the wheeler-dealer Senate duo of John McCain and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
But for the most part, he has struggled to achieve any kind of consensus with Republicans since the 2010 midterms, and has more or less thrown in the towel on trying to change hearts and minds on the Hill, grousing to an audience in Chattanooga Tuesday that Republicans block most of what he proposes "just because it's my idea."
That may be true, but even his closest advisers admit he has sometimes been his own worst enemy. Obama, who was subjected to a serenade of "Happy Birthday" from House Democrats on Wednesday, has few enduring personal relationships on either side of the aisle in the town he ostensibly controls.
Another Clinton broadside that still echoes came in April 2008, after Obama was secretly taped saying he thought rural voters "cling to guns or religion" to cope with economic uncertainty.
"You don't have to think back too far to remember that good men running for president were viewed as being elitist and out of touch with the values and the lives of millions of Americans," Clinton said, referring to the unsuccessful campaign of 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry, who would become her replacement at the State Department five years later.
And, as Clinton hinted, Obama has yet to shake that ivory tower aura: Hill Democrats have long eye-rolled at Obama's tendency to lecture them, with one Senate leader nicknaming him "The Professor."
Of course, some of her shots were embarrassingly off-base.
In August 2007, she slammed Obama for suggesting that he would attack U.S. ally Pakistan if that was the only way to kill or capture Osama bin Laden. Four years later, Obama was good to his word — and authorized the secret mission to Abbottabad, Pakistan over the objections of the Pakistani government and with a now-friendly Clinton by his side in the Situation Room.
But even those negative messages rooted, however tenuously, in some reality — Obama the dreamer, Obama the neophyte, Obama the kale-nibbler — have never quite taken deep root during either of his presidential campaigns. The Romney campaign, struggling with its own image problems, tried to revive the elitist argument in 2012 to no great effect.
Clinton's inexperience attack fizzled in 2008 as voters looked for fresh leadership. John McCain had no greater success that fall — done in by his own less-than-steady performance during the financial crisis.
"It just didn't stick," said former Des Moines Register reporter David Yepsen, an Iowa kingmaker who capped a three-decade journalism covering Obama's stunning win in the caucuses. "They threw everything at him, and none of it really resonated."
Even so, some of those Clinton criticisms have clearly had a major impact on the way Obama has governed and campaigned.
The centerpiece of Obamacare is the individual mandate, which Clinton forcefully advocated during the 2008 campaign and Obama noisily opposed — until he was elected. After Obama declared himself willing to meet with leaders in Iran and North Korea sans preconditions during a mid-2007 debate, Clinton slammed him as "naive" and "irresponsible."
Obama, incidentally, has made no trips to Tehran or Pyongyang, adopting a hard line with both regimes, after initially offering dialogue on the pre-condition they give up their nuclear weapons programs.
The former first lady genuinely warmed to Obama over the years and both downplay their worst 2008 nasties as time-capsule toss-offs.
"We could never figure out what we were different on. Yeah, we worked at that pretty hard," Clinton said during a joint "60 Minutes" sitdown with Obama as she left Foggy Bottom earlier this year.
But Clinton, people in her orbit say, has always derived quiet satisfaction from the victor's growing reliance on the vanquished — as an embattled Obama seeks out her counsel and star power.
"Oh, it's not lost on her," said one longtime Clinton associate.
Jonathan Alter


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Q: How to modify my array to get 4 different array based on the value of the objects inside the array I have an array of objects, each of these objects have a capability attribute, there are 4 different types, I want to split the array into 4 different arrays based on what their capability value is.
Tried to map but couldnt work out how to do it based on one of their values.
ngOnInit(){
    this.questionsService.getQuestions().subscribe(
        data => {
            this.questions = [];
            Object.keys(data).map((key)=>{ this.questions.push(data[key])});
            console.log(this.questions);
        }
    );
}

Examples of the objects:
{
    "Capability": "Associate",
    "SubCategory": "Core Skills",
    "Skill": "Communication",
    "SkillID": 1
},
{
    "Capability": "CCM",
    "SubCategory": "Other Skills",
    "Skill": "Data Protection/ GDPR",
    "SkillID": 34
}

I want the array of questions to be split into four different arrays, an array each for the different values of capability.

A: I think your issue is same with here How to group an array of objects by key
var myArray = [
{ capability: 1, id: 1},
{ capability: 1, id: 2},
{ capability: 2, id: 3},
{ capability: 3, id: 4},
{ capability: 4, id: 5}
]
var result = myArray.reduce(function (r, a) {
r[a.capability] = r[a.capability] || [];
r[a.capability].push(a);
return r;
}, Object.create(null));

console.log(result);


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Q: Anonymous user search results returning null on SharePoint 2010 public facing site We have two websites 1)Internal and 2)External. The external website is extended from the internal website. I can see the search results when I search on the internal site, but I am getting 0 results on the external site.
Are there any configuration settings needed to see the search results for my external site?

A: Do the content sources in your search service match the URL in your alternate access mappings? If not, set up a content source that matches the alternate access mapping and do a full crawl. While you're in the search service, you may want to check to see if it is reporting any errors.
Also check the event viewer on the server and the ULS logs (in the "14 hive") to see if anything stands out (e.g. permission issues).
This TechNet article explains how to set the content sources.

A: On your Internal server, you should see some error messages in the Crawl log for that content source.  You may want to setup a separate content source for the External server on the Internal Search Administration site. Then you can fire off Full Crawls and review the Crawl logs quickly.
You will need to grant Read access on the External site (http://your_site/_admin/policy.aspx)  to the Search service account you are using on your internal site.  Does the AAM/Content Source address you are using have NTLM enabled?  If you are calling a Zone on the External server that is dedicated to Anonymous you may need to use a different address that does have NTLM.

A: Had the same issue and it drove me nuts.. finally got it working.
Trick is to create a new search center page and also modify your search scopes :)
Blogged it today here http://wellytonian.com/2012/04/search-setup-for-anonymous-site-on-sharepoint-2010/


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Christine Ahn | Korea: Women Walk for Peace across the De-Militarized Zone
March 18, 2015 ·	by Rise Up Times ·	in Activism, Militarism, nonviolent action, Women	· 2 Comments
…former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said, "In almost any case when there are sanctions against an entire people, the people suffer the most and the leaders suffer least."
By Christine Ahn WAMM Newsletter SPRING I 2015
Col. Ann Wright with the Women of Korea
One year ago, I wrote to the renowned American feminist author Gloria Steinem asking if she would consider walking with other women across the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea to help bring peace to Korea. She promptly replied, "Yes. My high school classmates went to war there."
On May 24, 2015, 30 international women peacemakers from around the world will walk with Korean women, North and South, to call for an end to the Korean War and for a new beginning for a reunified Korea. Along with Gloria Steinem, our delegation includes Nobel peace laureates Mairead Maguire from Ireland and Leymah Gbowee from Liberia, Patricia Guerrero from Colombia, former U.S. Army Colonel Ann Wright, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, and so many more courageous women peacemakers. We will listen to Korean women about how war and militarism impacts their families, lives, and dreams and hold international peace symposiums in Pyongyang and Seoul where we can share our experiences and ideas of mobilizing women to bring an end to the danger of violent conflict. Our hope, as a symbolic act of peace, is to cross the 2-mile-wide DMZ that separates millions of Korean families and bring an end to the state of war in Korea.
The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of Korea's division into two separate states by Cold War powers, which precipitated the 1950-53 Korean War. More bombs were dropped by the U.S. on Korea in these three years than on all of Asia and the Pacific islands during World War II; the deployment of an atomic bomb was even threatened. One year into the Korean War, U.S. Major General Emmett O'Donnell Jr. testified before the Senate, "I would say that the entire, almost the entire Korean Peninsula is just a terrible mess. Everything is destroyed. There is nothing standing worthy of the name… There [are] no more targets in Korea."
After nearly 4 million people, mostly Korean civilians, were killed, fighting was halted when North Korea, China, and the United States representing the United Nations Command signed a cease-fire agreement. All three powers promised to sign a peace treaty within three months, as well as withdraw all foreign troops and introduce no new weapons. While China removed its troops from North Korea within the first few years, Washington still has 28,500 U.S. troops on approximately 100 bases and installations across South Korea. Over 60 years later, the signatories to the armistice have yet to deliver on the promise to sign a peace treaty.After nearly 4 million people, mostly Korean civilians, were killed, fighting was halted when North Korea, China, and the United States representing the United Nations Command signed a cease-fire agreement. All three powers promised to sign a peace treaty within three months, as well as withdraw all foreign troops and introduce no new weapons. While China removed its troops from North Korea within the first few years, Washington still has 28,500 U.S. troops on approximately 100 bases and installations across South Korea. Over 60 years later, the signatories to the armistice have yet to deliver on the promise to sign a peace treaty.
Many ask: If there has been no peace treaty over the span of an entire lifetime, why is it so urgent to sign one now? Here's why: In 2013, after North Korea tested its third nuclear weapon, Washington deployed nuclear bombers across Korean skies. The United States was "within an inch of war" with North Korea, according to former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. To help defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang announced in early January that it would forego testing nuclear weapons if Washington agreed to halt joint military exercises with Seoul. Most Americans don't realize that the U.S. and South Korea regularly conduct war games simulating the invasion and overthrow of North Korea.
Imagine if Russia regularly staged military exercises with Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico simulating an invasion of the White House. Americans would not accept it, and North Koreans shouldn't have to either. There is wide consensus that replacing the armistice with a peace treaty would go a long way to de-escalate tensions that have long plagued Korea and the region.
In a 2011 paper, the U.S. Army War College warns that the only way to avert a catastrophic confrontation is to "reach agreement on ending the armistice from the Korean War" and "giv[e] a formal security guarantee to North Korea tied to nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction." Across party lines, U.S. ambassadors to Korea since the 1980s have argued for engagement and a formalized peace process. James Laney, U.S. ambassador to South Korea under Bill Clinton, reflected, " [I]n order to remove all unnecessary obstacles to progress," [we need] "a peace treaty to replace the truce that has been in place since 1953. One of the things that have bedeviled all talks until now is the unresolved status of the Korean War…. Absent such a peace treaty, every dispute presents afresh the question of the other side's legitimacy."
Not only must we formally resolve the Korean situation to prevent war from breaking out, but millions of Korean families remain divided by the DMZ. Every year, thousands of Korean elders die waiting on a government list to see their children or siblings living on the other side of the DMZ. In her Dresden speech last spring, South Korean President Park Geun-hye said, "It has been 70 long years. Last year alone, some 3,800 people who have yearned a lifetime just to be able to hold their sons' and daughters' hands–– just to know whether they're alive–– passed away with their unfulfilled dreams."
The unresolved Korean conflict gives governments in the region justification to further militarize and prepare for war, using funds that could be used instead for schools, hospitals and the welfare of the people and the environment. Pyongyang even acknowledged last year how the unended war has forced it "to divert large human and material resources to bolstering up the armed forces though they should have been directed to the economic development and improvement of people's living standards." North Korea plays a perfect villain for the Obama administration to justify its pivot to Asia, which will shift 60 percent of the U.S. Navy and Air Force to the Asia Pacific by 2020. At a March 25 Senate Defense Committee hearing on the 2015 budget, the commander of the U.S. Forces in Korea (USFK), General Curtis Scaparrotti, argued that while the 28,500 U.S. troops based in South Korea were "fully resourced," he was concerned about the readiness of "follow-on" forces needed if fighting erupted, suggesting the need for more resources to Korea. In fact, half of the world's top 10 military spenders are regional powers—the United States, China, Russia, Japan, and South Korea—amounting to $1 trillion in "defense." The U.S. takes the cake with $640 billion. Another cost of the unended war on human lives is most visible in North Korea where crippling embargoes against the government make it difficult for ordinary people to access the basics needed for survival. While most Americans make a mockery of the North Korean leader and deride the regime for starving the people, what most don't understand is how the sanctions policy of their very own U.S. government—intended to deprive the Kim regime—has served as a chokehold on the North Korean economy and ordinary people. The ability of the people to access the basics—from food to seeds to medicine to technology—is greatly strained by U.S.-led international sanctions against the DPRK. On his last trip to North Korea, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said, "In almost any case when there are sanctions against an entire people, the people suffer the most and the leaders suffer least." In the case of North Korea, Carter said, "the last 50 years of deprivation of the North Korean people of adequate access to trade and commerce have been very damaging to their economy."
These are the reasons why women are walking for peace in Korea, to help reunite families, improve human rights in North Korea, and end the state of war for 70 million Koreans living on the peninsula.
The North Korean government has approved this peace walk, as has the UN Command, pending confirmation from South Korea, which we are still awaiting. Given that President Park is the first female president and that she has already granted two other delegations permission to cross the DMZ—New Zealanders on motorbikes and Korean-Russians retracing their migration—we believe we have a good chance of being granted authority in the name of peace.
We have decided, however, that in case we are denied by President Park, we would still do the peace walk and just go back from Pyongyang through China and fly to Seoul. Our peace walk has already generated so much enthusiasm and enlivened hope to so many Koreans everywhere that we must go forward and continue to bring light and hope to Korea.
As Gloria Steinem put it, "If this division can be healed even briefly by women, it will be inspiring in the way that women brought peace out of war in Ireland or Liberia." Our women's peace walk across the DMZ can play a very important role in de-escalating tensions and renewing the Korean people's belief that peace and the peaceful reunification of Korea are indeed possible, and within their lifetimes.
We are calling for women to organize solidarity vigils with us on May 24, 2015, International Disarmament Day, the day we plan to cross the DMZ. We also need financial support to make this peace walk possible, and that includes small and large donations. Please help us amplify women's voices calling for peace and the reunification of Korea by making a donation now to Women De-Militarize the Zone, which is sponsoring this peace walk. womencrossdmz.org.
Christine Ahn is the founder and international coordinator of Women DeMilitarize the Zone and co-founder of the Korea Policy Institute and National Campaign to End the Korean War. She's testified at the United Nations, U.S. Congress, and ROK National Human Rights Commission and has led several peace and humanitarian aid delegations to North and South Korea. She is a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus and has been widely published, including in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, CNN, The Nation, and San Francisco Chronicle.
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franklinatiba · July 11, 2015 - 6:16 am · Reply→
It's South Korea that has not signed a formal peace treaty with North Korea. The US is in no position to unilaterally sign a peace treaty with North Korea and doing so would be a violation of trust and morality. Imagine if Canada had joined the war civil war on the side of the Union to fight slavery, and then fifty years down the line signed a peace treaty with the south where millions were still held in slavery while the confederacy threatened to wipe out the north and spread slavery there as well. It would be a betrayal of what is right and just.
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Radioglaciology is the study of glaciers, ice sheets, ice caps and icy moons using ice penetrating radar.  It employs a geophysical method similar to ground-penetrating radar and typically operates at frequencies in the MF, HF, VHF and UHF portions of the radio spectrum. This technique is also commonly referred to as "Ice Penetrating Radar (IPR)" or "Radio Echo Sounding (RES)".

Glaciers are particularly well suited to investigation by radar because the conductivity, imaginary part of the permittivity, and the dielectric absorption of ice are small at radio frequencies resulting in low loss tangent, skin depth, and attenuation values. This allows echoes from the base of the ice sheet to be detected through ice thicknesses greater than 4 km. The subsurface observation of ice masses using radio waves has been an integral and evolving geophysical technique in glaciology for over half a century. Its most widespread uses have been the measurement of ice thickness, subglacial topography, and ice sheet stratigraphy.  It has also been used to observe the subglacial and conditions of ice sheets and glaciers, including hydrology, thermal state, accumulation, flow history, ice fabric, and bed geology.  In planetary science, ice penetrating radar has also been used to explore the subsurface of the Polar Ice Caps on Mars and comets. Missions are planned to explore the icy moons of Jupiter.

Measurements and applications
Radioglaciology uses nadir facing radars to probe the subsurface of glaciers, ice sheets, ice caps, and icy moons and to detect reflected and scattered energy from within and beneath the ice. This geometry tends to emphasize coherent and specular reflected energy resulting in distinct forms of the radar equation. Collected radar data typically undergoes signal processing ranging from stacking (or pre-summing) to migration to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) focusing in 1, 2, or 3 dimensions. This data is collected using ice penetrating radar systems which range from commercial (or bespoke) ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems to coherent, chirped airborne sounders  to swath-imaging, multi-frequency, or polarimetric implementations of such systems. Additionally, stationary, phase-sensitive, and Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radars  have been used to observe snow, ice shelf melt rates, englacial hydrology, ice sheet structure, and vertical ice flow. Interferometric analysis of airborne systems have also been demonstrated to measure vertical ice flow. Additionally, radioglaciological instruments have been developed to operate on autonomous platforms, on in-situ probes, in low-cost deployments, using Software Defined Radios, and exploiting ambient radio signals for passive sounding.

The most common scientific application for radioglaciological observations is measuring ice thickness and bed topography. This includes interpolated "bed maps", widely used in ice sheet modeling and sea level rise projections, studies exploring specific ice-sheet regions, and observations of glacier beds. The strength and character of radar echoes from the bed of the ice sheet are also used to investigate the reflectivity of the bed, the attenuation of radar in the ice, and the morphology of the bed. In addition bed echoes, radar returns from englacial layers are used in studies of the radio stratigraphy of ice sheets including investigations of ice accumulation, flow, and fabric as well as absence or disturbances of that stratigraphy. Radioglaciology data has also been used extensively to study subglacial lakes and glacial hydrology including englacial water, firn aquifers, and their temporal evolution. Ice penetrating radar data has also been used to investigate the subsurface of ice shelves including their grounding zones, melt rates, brine distribution, and basal channels.

Planetary exploration
There are currently two ice-penetrating radars orbiting Mars: MARSIS and SHARAD. An ice penetrating radar was also part of the ROSETTA mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Ice penetrating radars are also included in the payloads of two planned missions to the icy moons of Jupiter: JUICE and Europa Clipper.

IGS symposia
The International Glaciological Society (IGS) holds a periodic series of symposia focused on radioglaciology. In 2008, the "Symposium on Radioglaciology and its Applications" was hosted at the Technical University of Madrid.  In 2013, the "Symposium on Radioglaciology" was hosted at the University of Kansas. In 2019, the "Symposium of Five Decades of Radioglaciolgy" was hosted at Stanford University.

Further reading
The following books and papers cover important topics in radioglaciology

 Allen C (2008) of-ice-2/ A brief history of radio-echo sounding of ice. Earthzine.
 Bingham RG and Siegert MJ (2007) Radio-echo sounding over polar ice masses. Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics 12(1), 47–62.
 Bogorodsky, VV,  Bentley CR, and Gudmandsen PE (1985) Radioglaciology. D. Reidel Publishing
 Dowdeswell JA and Evans S (2004) Investigations of the form and flow of ice sheets and glaciers using radio-echo sounding. Reports on Progress in Physics 67(10), 1821–1861.
 Haynes M (2020) Surface and subsurface radar equations for radar sounders. Annals of Glaciology 61(81), 135–142.
 Hubbard B and Glasser NF (2005). Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology. John Wiley & Sons.
 Navarro F and Eisen O (2009). 11. Ground-penetrating radar in glaciological in Remote Sensing of Glaciers, Pellikka P and Rees GW (editors).
 Pettinelli E and 6 others (2015) Dielectric properties of Jovian satellite ice analogs for subsurface radar exploration: a review. Reviews of Geophysics 53(3), 593–641.
 Schroeder DM, Bingham RG, Blankenship, DD, Christianson, K, Eisen, O, Flowers, GE, Karlsson, NB, Koutnik MR, Paden JD, Siegert, MJ (2020) Five decades of radioglaciology. Annals of Glaciology 61(81), 1-13.
 Turchetti S, Dean K, Naylor S and Siegert M (2008) Accidents and opportunities: a history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958–79. The British Journal for the History of Science 41(3), 417–444.

Research institutions
Research and education in radioglaciology is undertaken at universities and research institutes around the world.  These groups found in institutions and departments that span physical geography, geophysics, earth science, planetary science, electrical engineering, and related disciplines.

References

Glaciology


Whew, am I tired. This year has been a complete blur to me so far. We have implemented new evaluation standards in the state of Tennessee, and we are in our second year of Professional Learning Communities(PLC). It seems that my job will never slow down. I am writing this post because my blog has gotten cold as of the last few months, only because lack of down time for me to write. I will have to say I love our PLC meetings it gives me an opportunity to collaborate as teachers in our subject or related subjects. I think it is imperative that we as educators need to bounce ideas off each other to benefit our students.
One great thing our school is doing is the single lunch schedule, some schools might have had this in place for a long time but we have been at it our second year now. I really love it. To those of you who do not know how the single lunch schedule works it is like this. Our entire school population is let out for lunch at the same time. Yes, it can be chaotic but it is a controlled chaos. Our students go to eat but there is also a great opportunity for the students to get extra help, or if they need to make up a test or any assignment they have missed they can come to my classroom and get the help they need. I have had plenty of students to take advantage of the opportunity. This is a positive step that our school has taken toward intervention. This is also a great way for teachers to get to know their students on a more personal level, and as educators know if a students doesn't care until they know you care.
Sorry for such a long absence, at my school we have a new head principle (who is amazing by the way), new race to the top guidelines with new evaluations, and new PLC guidelines that we have all implemented this summer. So far this school year has been the best one I have ever experienced, but I am so busy. If any of you have anything that you might want me to review please send me a message.
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Amy Lynn Carlson is a television actress and film actress known for her role in NBC Series Third Witch as Alex Taylor. She played the role of Josie Watts in soap opera Another World and Linda Reagan in CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods. In school, she participated in relay races. Amy was an active member of the college theatre department during her college days.
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In 1992, the actress made her acting debut in the movie The babe. She appeared in the movie Legacy of Lies. After a year, Amy appeared in the crime drama series The Untouchables. The actress worked in soap opera Another World as Josephine Watts. After ending of the show, the actress was cast in the role of Dr. Sedwick in getting Real, which was Fox's comedy-drama series.
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