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I have been using the "unsubmit" button a lot more recently in order to see how my photo looks on the website. I have found that sometimes my photos end up looking different once they're uploaded, so I unsubmit them and try again. (the only drawback is that you end up getting a thousand emails about submitting and unsubmitting!).
For this last challenge, I posted the first "good enough" picture from my first round of photos.. because I was going to be busy the rest of the week. But then I found time to do s'more setups.. had about 6 to choose from.. but kept the original one i submitted. I guess it's a safety. Just in case I were to run out of time, i still submitted something I thought was good enough.
Thanks for the responses, I was just wondering everyones take on it.
I'm glad Tiffany asked that question. It's a good idea to see what it looks like after uploading. I've noticed that sometimes mine look different afterwards. Thanks for the tip!
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Commentary · Wetlands Conservation
Turning a Harmful Tide
By Jianbin Shi and Wang Wenqing
With a nationwide program to restore its mangroves, China can lead the way in restoring, safeguarding these vital ecosystems
Known as the "guardians of the seashore" and "ocean forests", mangroves are one of the most productive ecosystems on earth, providing many important services, including prevention of coastal erosion, protection from storm surges and sea-level rise, water purification, carbon sequestration, habitat for unique biodiversity, and provision of local livelihoods.
It is estimated that mangrove ecosystem services are worth $33,000 to $57,000 per hectare per year.
Yet despite their incredible values, mangrove forests are being destroyed and degraded as a result of human activities, exacerbated by climate change. About half of the world's mangroves have been lost just in the past half century and, at this rate, mangroves could be gone altogether within this century unless we take action now to turn the tide.
A joint study recently released by the Paulson Institute, Laoniu Foundation and Shenzhen Mangrove Conservation Foundation concludes that despite the global trend, China has made substantial achievements in mangrove conservation and restoration in recent decades. China has put in place a set of laws and regulations such as the Forest Law, the Marine Environmental Protection Law and the National Wetland Conservation and Restoration Scheme, all of which include provisions to protect mangroves.
At the same time, China has enhanced its efforts to restore mangroves, including the National Mangrove Forest Conservation Program initiated in 2001 and the National Plan for Construction of Coastal Shelterbelt System (2016-25). These initiatives have helped China's mangrove forest area increase from 22,000 hectares in 2000 to around 29,000 hectares in 2019, making the country one of the few in the world to log a net increase. Thirty-eight mangrove-oriented protected areas have been established on the Chinese mainland, and over 50 percent of natural mangrove forests are under protection, far exceeding the world's average level of 25 percent.
However, as the joint study reveals, many challenges and issues remain to improve the protection, restoration and management of mangroves in China.
There has been substantial degradation of mangroves in some places, caused by pollution from aquaculture, exotic invasive species, and construction of sea walls which block the connection between mangroves and inland ecosystems.
The rise in mangrove forest area in China has been mostly attributed to artificial plantation of mangroves on mudflats over the past two decades. The success rate of artificial plantation is low because of inappropriate siting and unsuitable conditions, as well as a lack of post-plantation maintenance, and the costs are high. Artificial plantation could even cause ecological damage if using a limited number of mangrove species or even alien invasive mangroves for afforestation. Furthermore, mangrove plantation on intertidal mudflats sometimes destroys or occupies important habitats for other wildlife, such as migratory waterbirds and benthic animals. More efforts are needed to encourage natural restoration and restoration of the entire mangrove wetland ecosystem, rather than mangrove forest only.
Returning fish ponds to mangrove forests is a more effective way of restoring mangrove ecosystem functions. A large number of fish ponds in China's coastal area could be returned to mangrove forests. However, the funding needed to compensate fish pond owners and the lack of specific standards and technical guidance for returning fish ponds to mangroves have prevented this restoration from being widely adopted.
Mangrove forests account for only a small percentage of the total forest area in China, but they have attracted the attention of Chinese leaders. On April 19,2017, President Xi Jinping urged protection of mangrove forests while inspecting the Golden Gulf Mangrove Ecological Protection Zone in Beihai city in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. And, on 8 June 2020, the theme of World Oceans Day in China was set as "Protecting mangroves, Protecting Ocean Ecosystems", indicating the government's efforts to increase public recognization of the valuable functions of mangroves. A social climate conducive to the conservation and restoration of mangroves is emerging in China.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and National Forestry and Grassland Administration jointly conducted a comprehensive and detailed inventory of mangrove forests and coastal areas suitable for mangrove restoration in 2019, and a nationwide mangrove restoration program is being developed.
China recently released its comprehensive Overall Plan for Protection and Restoration of Important Ecosystems (2020-35). One of the targets is to safeguard at least 35 percent of the country's natural coastlines and prevent the marine ecological condition from worsening through various key projects, including protection and restoration of mangrove ecosystems.
With all these in mind, we are confident that a golden opportunity for mangrove conservation and restoration is coming in China. As recommended by the joint study, to strengthen the health of mangrove ecosystems, the following measures and actions should be adopted and undertaken:
First, treat mangroves as an entire wetland ecosystem, rather than a simple forest, and shift restoration to cover the entire mangrove wetland ecosystem and its functions, including habitats for other wildlife such as birds, benthic organisms and fish.
Second, modify and formulate standards and evaluation systems for mangrove restoration which focus on natural recovery, with artificial recovery as a supplementary means, and improve the income of surrounding residents while restoring mangrove forests.
Third, artificial plantation on the intertidal mudflats should be carried out only on those mudflats that are assessed to be suitable for mangrove afforestation and avoid negative impacts on important intertidal habitats for sea grasses and waterbirds.
Fourth, develop technical guidelines and standards to facilitate returning fish ponds to mangroves.
Fifth, establish community-based models and mechanisms for the protection, ecological restoration and management of mangroves, whereby local communities are encouraged to actively participate in and benefit from the protection and restoration of mangrove ecosystems.
During the course of mangrove conservation and restoration, China must learn experience and lessons from other countries, but what's equally important, given that research on mangroves in China ranks among the best in the world, is to export its knowledge and successful case studies. It is hoped that mangrove conservation and restoration can become a new bridge to link China with other countries, particularly those involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.
Jianbin Shi is an advisor to the Paulson Institute and associate professor of the School of Environment at Beijing Normal University. Wang Wenqing is the leading expert of the joint study and associate dean of the College of Environment and Ecology at Xiamen University. This article first appeared in China Daily.
A Comment from Wendy Paulson, Chairman, Bobolink Foundation:
"Mangroves are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth. They are home to unique wildlife, provide nurseries for fish and other marine creatures, and offer valuable services to the human population. Mangroves protect against storm surges, purify water, sequester carbon, and sustain local livelihoods. Globally, they have declined by 50% in the last few decades, often victim to reclamation, dredging, and pollution. China has invested a great deal in efforts to restore mangroves around its coast. It has bucked the global trend with an expansion of the total area of mangroves in the last twenty years. However, as the new joint report by the Paulson Institute, Lao Niu Foundation and Shenzhen Mangrove Conservation Foundation makes clear, there is still much to improve in mangrove ecosystem restoration methodology. As a strategic advisor to the Shenzhen Mangrove Conservation Foundation, I applaud the efforts of the Foundation and others to build on the progress so far and to take mangrove conservation and restoration to the next level. The experience and expertise gained will be valuable not only to China but also to other countries that are blessed with these wonderful ecosystems."

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Al-Gassanijja (arab. الغسانية) − miejscowość w centralnej Syrii, w muhafazie Hims, w dystrykcie Al-Kusajr. W 2004 miejscowość liczyła ok. 4,5 tys. mieszkańców.

Miejscowość położona jest na południe od Himsu, na wschód od jeziora Kattina. Na południowy wschód od Al-Ghassanijji znajduje się wojskowy port lotniczy Al-Kusajr, sąsiadujący z miastem Al-Kusajr.

Al-Ghassanijja w przeważającej części zamieszkują chrześcijanie. Kustodia Ziemi Świętej posiada klasztor św. Antoniego z Padwy i prowadzi parafię katolicką. Obok wspólnoty chrześcijańskiej żyją też muzułmanie alawici. Mieszkańcy miasteczka trudnią się rolnictwem (kapusta, ziemniaki) oraz w mniejszym stopniu rybołówstwem.

W czasie wojny domowej w Syrii Al-Ghassanijja była otoczona przez siły antyrządowe od września 2012 do czerwca 2013. Rebelianci stacjonowali w okolicznych miejscowościach, zabraniając używania drogi dojazdowej. Mieszkańcy zaopatrywali się w produkty żywnościowe i benzynę, przepływając pobliskie jezioro. Podczas okupacji rebelianci zabili katolickiego księdza François Murada. Kapłan ten współpracował z franciszkanami. Budował erem św. Szymona Słupnika. Po zbombardowaniu konstrukcji przez rebeliantów ks. Murad szukał schronienia w klasztorze Kustodii Ziemi Świętej wraz z innymi zakonnikami i siostrami ze zgromadzenia Świętego Różańca. Ksiądz został zastrzelony przez  przedstawicieli grupy ekstremistycznej Dżabhat an-Nusra.

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I sit here and ask myself; how do I write about love; what do I say; can anyone describe love; what is love? I stare at these questions, and for awhile there seems to be no answer to any of them.
And then, all of a sudden there's some directions taking form in my mind. They seem to be saying: Write what you feel, write what you think, just write what you believe, and don't worry whether anyone will read it, or like it, or anything else. Just write and see what happens. As Mr. Baldwin said in the above quote, nothing matters, as there is in fact no matter to matter about.
Even though I'm inclined to write what I believe, feel and think, I understand that I will not get within a universe's boundaries of knowing or describing love. For love cannot be known by the intellect, therefore it cannot be described.
Oh I understand there's many people who attempt to describe it, for there's more books written about it than I could count. There's people falling in love and then falling right back out of it. There's love stories, love movies, love experiences, and love to the moon and back. But they're all – every one of them – illusions.
It's not really difficult to understand why hardly anyone in this world knows what love is. Humans have taken it upon themselves to break into different segments that which must remain as one forever and forever.
When we turn God into a reflection of human frailty, we also turn love into the same reflection. For God and Love are synonymous, and can never be separated. Therefore, that's what the love we experience in this world is, a reflection of our own perceived frailties.
And then there are those – some great spiritual teachers included – who teach that God, or Love, is unfathomable, indescribable and unknowable. But I have to disagree with, at least, one of those attributes, for the following reason. The Course tells us that, "God created you as part of Him." Therefore, if it were true that we could not know Him, then there would never be any hope of ever knowing ourselves nor our own reality.
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-born American author who wrote a series of books on the teachings of Shamanism.
In the above quote he seems to imply that we're always at work making ourselves miserable, or making ourselves happy. And whichever one we're doing requires the same amount of work as the other one. So my question is; if we're going to be doing one or the other anyway, why not decide on happiness? It doesn't take any more energy to think from God's thought system of love than it does to think from the ego's thought system of fear.
Every spiritual or religious tradition that exists, or ever existed, pretty well teach one thing in common. They all – or most of them – teach that God loves us. Now the question that comes to mind for me is certainly not a new one. It has been asked innumerable times by a countless number of people. It is this: "If God loves us, why does He allow all the pain and suffering that happens in the world?" Surely He has the Power to stop it; so why doesn't He?
That question, and the answers that are routinely given, usually cause people to throw up their arms and twist their lips into a sneer of disgust as they figuratively walk away from it.
I recall Dr. Wayne Dyer talking about this one time. I'm going to write some of what he said, but it's paraphrased from memory, and not quoted. It went something like this: It seems as if we serve a God, whom, we're told, loves us beyond comprehension. This loving God holds all the power. He owns everything in the universe; all the health, healing, answers, help; He owns it all. But for some reason He has it all locked away and reserved for a select few. He showers unlimited amounts of all the good stuff upon this select few, while leaving the rest to fend for themselves.
There's an abundance of people who dislike responsibility, and placing blame somewhere other than upon themselves is an easy way to be relieved of it. It's so easy to get out of any and all responsibility by simply claiming, there was no choice.
I understand that there are some critics out there – those who don't believe in anything they can't see with their physical eyes – who try to discredit this quote as not belonging to Einstein. They say things like, there's no substantive evidence that Einstein said this. But I say, they don't provide any substantive evidence he didn't say it either. All they offer is some blabber they conjure up in their own minds; minds which they have limited to only that which their physical senses can see.
Sorry for the digression, but I thought I should point this out before someone shouts at me; Einstein didn't say that! To which I would reply by quoting Kip Baldwin and Max Planck; it doesn't matter because there is in fact no matter to matter about. There's only energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.
I'm not an expert in anything – and for that I say, thank you, Father. So I'm not sure as to what Roger Wittaker had in mind when he wrote, I Don't Believe in 'If' Anymore. But if I felt pressured to come up with something, I'd say he was fed up with war.
Again it doesn't matter, I'm simply going to use it in a few questions that some may want to ponder. What if this intelligent spirit is you, and it's within your power to, as the Course says, change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly?
What if we began thinking thoughts from God's thought system of love? What if every time a fearful thought entered our minds, we replaced it with a thought of love? What if every time a thought of judgement made itself known, we replaced it with a thought of forgiveness? What if we replaced all negative and fearful thoughts with thoughts of compassion, kindness, gentleness, beauty, etc.? What if Love really is All There Is?
Very well said. You have to love to feel and know love.


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Norwegian cruising tips
Alyssa Haak
Photos by Aimée Colón
A hometown crew gives a Norwegian charter a personal touch.
Norway's vast expanses of coastline are only speckled with homes, making it no surprise that the country has one of the lowest population densities in the world: just 16 people per square kilometer. And with fewer than 100 towns having a population of more than 5,000, the country provides endless opportunities to discover (or feel like you've discovered) a new cove, bay, or inlet. It's a trait that's thrilling but also can be a little intimidating.
A local crew can make the discovery process a lot easier by planning a cruise that uncovers all the gems the landscape has to offer, serving regional cuisine made with local ingredients, and explaining the legends and myths behind your destinations. And the most personal way to begin such a trip is to start at the yacht's private dock just outside Stavanger, Norway's third largest city.
Capt. Arlid Lofthus and Geraldine Gitsham, a charter broker from Camper & Nicholsons, arrived in a black Mercedes to pick up PMY's creative director Aimée Colón and me at our hotel; our luggage was transported in a black Range Rover by deckhand and engineer Jan Lofthus. To be honest, we'd expected a drive down to the city marina lasting 15 minutes. Instead, we turned out of the city and began a 40-minute drive through the thinly populated countryside. As the road wound around a lake and farm we encountered a traffic jam (two other cars on the road) en route to our destination, Anne Viking's hometown of Lauvvik.
Docked at the private pier was Anne Viking, a 2004 85-foot Princess. In a country where neighbors are few and far between, the two-story white house behind her stood starkly alone with its dock. We quickly boarded, cast off lines, and set off into the day's mist toward Lysefjord.
We'd barely entered the fjord when the captain pointed out the Pothole, a geological oddity formed at about the same time as the rest of the fjord when the passing glacier drilled one rock into another. The resulting indentation is barely two feet deep, but when filled with water the perfectly round divot looks like an entrance to the center of the earth. In the warmer months, tour ships hire mermaids to sun themselves on its rocky edge.
As we continued into the fjord, the gray stony cliffs around us began to rise—300, 400, and finally 1,000 feet, up into the day's mist and matching sky. Off the port side we spotted a small crevasse accessible through a narrow pass. Arlid said this small roofless cave was where petty criminals would go to escape capture. When the authorities followed, the miscreants would scale the cliffs and arm themselves with rocks and other projectiles. A flannel-clad mannequin had been hung to commemorate this bit of history.
The cove was just slightly larger than Anne Viking, something I realized as the captain put the yacht into a delicate 180-degree pirouette so we could exit. This maneuver also highlighted an oddity of yachting in these fjords. Unlike most bodies of water where the bottom gently slopes away from the shore, the fjord walls drop straight down below the surface, sometimes reaching depths as low as their cliffs are high. The cove was 80 feet deep where we were but quickly dropped off to 1,300 feet as we passed back into the main waterway.
With plenty of water next to the cliffs, our captain was able to edge Anne Viking right up to our next (and most adorable) stop. A small grassy patch bordered by the cliffs on three sides and water on the fourth made the perfect lea for three goats. Chef Bjorn Hettervik had been working on our forthcoming lunch but quickly appeared with the remnants of a loaf of bread. The goats were familiar with the feedings and made their way down their angled pen so Aimée and I could lob bread to them.
Only Preikestolen, the Pulpit Rock, remained at the end of the fjord. Its flat top soars 1,982 feet over the water and is a popular hiking destination for tourists and a BASE-jumping site for the insane. Having reached the fjord's dead end, Anne Viking turned toward the mouth as Aimée, Geraldine, and I sat down to our first meal and what turned into a culinary lesson.
Stewardess Grete Lofthus had prepared the indoor dining table, and no sooner than she'd filled our glasses with a gewürztraminer than Bjorn arrived with our first course of shrimp tossed in herb butter with piles of bread and salted butter. Our main course came with a seafood tutorial. The salmon was from Norway's northwest coast, Bjorn said. "There are only four hours between sea and package." He served it with a lobster sauce and a Norwegian aquavit reduction.
I admitted I didn't know what aquavit was.
Hettervik was shocked, went to the galley, and returned with a bottle of Gilde. "The best," he said and explained it was named after a type of Viking party. Suffice to say I wouldn't survive such a Viking party.
Anne Viking headed next to Borgøy, a tiny island with a year-round population of 13. Bjorn has a house there but our tour guide for the island was Aashild Hettervik (no known relationship to Bjorn), the owner, with her husband, of Borgøy Notservice and Sjohusferie, a restaurant and conference center. She offered us kranzen, a circular almond cake that she described as "cooked marzipan," with coffee and a serving of the property's recent history. Since 1995, the couple has updated it with six new cabins in the clean, spare Scandinavian style. Tucked in among the trees, each tiny house had its own personality and large windows for the perfect view. As we neared the end of the tour, chef Bjorn sailed past on his bike, returning from his home on the island.
The night's dinner again reflected Bjorn's obvious love for local foods. Before dinner we started with savory hors d'oeuvres of moose, a six-year-aged Jarlsburg cheese, and champagne. Our first course offered both cold and warm smoked salmon with traditional sides of eggs, local goat cheese, and pepper sauce; our second continued the rich and earthy flavors as Bjorn presented veal with Brussels sprouts and roasted potatoes in butter.
With no cars on Borgøy, the night was silent, as Geraldine, Aimée, and I conversed in the saloon after dinner. But under the influence of the fresh air and rich foods, we soon headed down to our cabins to turn in.
See a Photo gallery of our trip.
In the morning, Aimée and I rose early to see a bit more of the island. We assumed it would be easy since it had just one intersection. We just happened to choose the wrong road. A couple of times.
But with the sun finally beginning to make its first appearance and the only sound the crunching of gravel underfoot, the morning's walk was an excellent way to work up an appetite for the breakfast spread waiting for us back aboard Anne Viking. There were tomatoes, herring, pineapple, caramelized goat cheese, an omelet, thick-cut bacon, cheese, and bread made by Aashild served with the delicious salted butter. The meal was timed perfectly to keep us dry from the morning's downpour.
We soon pushed off, said goodbye to Borgøy, and headed toward Stavanger. Just as we cruised through a narrow pass with houses on one side and schoolchildren waiting for the boat-bus to pick them up on the other side, the sun broke through the clouds and we relocated to the flying bridge, where Grete brought us blankets. But the warmth didn't last long, and the rain soon returned and drove us back into the saloon.
We had one meal left before the end, and it was the most rustic one yet. For lunch, Bjorn served reindeer leg "smoked in a sauna" with a beet and onion salad and two Norwegian cheeses: Kraftbar, which translates to "strong man" and reflects its flavor, and Knudenost, a regional goat cheese made by "one old guy" and served with a balsamic vinaigrette.
As it was with the rest of the trip, the timing at the end was impeccable. The conclusion of our meal came just as Anne Viking docked near the petroleum museum honoring Stavanger's main industry, and Aimée and I disembarked into the city, joining the bustle of its streets to find our way home.
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This article originally appeared in the February 2012 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.
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Artemis 1 moon rocket launches
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When they launched the first Apollo Mission Atlas rocket it was the largest and most powerful rocket to date. An older friend was a young EE with RCA working at the cape as contractors on the Apollo Mission. He and another young engineer were assigned to collect some "field telemetry" about a mile from the launch pad. They had built a large bunker for launch control and the on-site dignitaries and astronaut's families to watch from but John and his fellow EE were completely out in the open. Walter Cronkite was on-site and had a large Winnebago RV that he had a fishing fighting chair bolted to the roof of for Walter to strap into and watch from. John said they could see Walter in the chair just before launch from where he was stationed. The Atlas launched and the rolling pressure waves from it were extremely strong. John claimed that they were lying prone but were bouncing off of the ground from the enormous roar of the Atlas engines. When it finally eased up enough that he could collect his wits he looked over to Walter's RV to see how he was doing. Walter and his chair were gone. The resonant pressure waves had been so strong that the RV's roof had collapsed landing Walter and his chair inside the RV.
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While I do not know, I believe these SRB's are reusable. I wonder how much of the rest of the spacecraft is reusable.
Red Team, check the packing nuts.
I still wonder how much of this spacecraft is reusable, otherwise I suspect we will be using SpaceX the long term. Wear and tear is one thing, just throwing something away after one use is another. The engines themselves are reusable if they are salvaged properly.
The only things likely reusable would be the crew capsule and SRB rockets but the rockets were dumped on this flight. That spcecraft is a kludge of parts that's unlikely to ever be redesigned for reuse IMO.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-launches-artemis-rocket-on-mission-to-the-moon/
In stark contrast to SpaceX's commitment to fully reusable rockets, everything but the Orion crew capsule is discarded after a single use. As SpaceX founder Musk likes to point out, that's like flying a 747 jumbo jet from New York to Los Angeles and then throwing the airplane away.
"That is a concern," Paul Martin, the NASA inspector general, said in an interview with CBS News. "This is an expendable, single-use system unlike some of the launch systems that are out there in the commercial side of the house, where there are multiple uses. This is a single-use system. And so the $4.1 billion per flight ... concerns us enough that in our reports, we said we see that as unsustainable."
But the SLS has two near-term advantages: flight-tested "human-rated" components and the ability to launch 30 to 50 tons to the moon in a single flight.
I have to wonder what the Falcon heavy lift vehicle can do. It may be the spacecraft of choice in the future.
cmartinez
It's the price to pay for the second space race ... get to the moon again before China does ... and China will get there, and soon.
The Falcon Heavy center section is not 100% reusable depending on the mission type. For a moon or direct to GEO launch (like the latest USSF-44) they need center running to zero fuel and maybe even the side boosters to zero for a max heavy load.
The Falcon Heavy is harder to be a fully-reusable configuration on most flights because of the rocket equation. Payloads which are heavy and payloads to high-energy orbits (speed).
https://www.khanacademy.org/college...top-scorers/v/the-tsiolkovsky-rocket-equation
https://web.mit.edu/16.unified/www/SPRING/propulsion/notes/node103.html
It might be the choice of the future but it's still a dream while the man-rated NASA ship is headed to the moon today.
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The only things likely reusable would be the crew capsule
Are they planning to leave it in orbit? Or is it even the actual capsule and not a weighted mockup?
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It's the full capsule with instrumented dummies and a normal splash down planned.
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-s-moonikin-will-boldly-go-where-no-test-dummy-ha-1847114263
So yeah, sending a dummy on this first flight is a smart idea, as the exercise could reveal potentially dangerous conditions for astronauts. What's more, data collected during Artemis I "will be used for Orion crew simulations and to verify crew safety by comparing flight vibration and acceleration against pre-flight predictions, then making model refinements as necessary," Mark Baldwin, Orion's occupant protection specialist for Lockheed Martin, explained in a statement. Success in the mission will set the stage for Artemis II, in which the exact mission will repeat, save for the presence of an actual crew.
To be clear, the Artemis manikin is no crash test dummy, which is a separate category of human stand-in, as NASA explains:
Similar to manikins, NASA uses Anthropometric Test Devices, or "crash test dummies," that are equipped with various instruments for other crew safety evaluations. Dummies are used in tests that drop a test version of Orion from an aircraft, with the final set of tests scheduled for later this year, to verify the Artemis II seat and suit can limit the risk of head and neck injury during the most severe acceleration environments – abort and landing. During water impact drop tests at Langley, dummies also occupied crew capsule prototypes to help engineers better understand what Orion and its crew may experience when landing in the ocean after missions to the Moon.
Artemis I will also include a pair of simulated torsos named Helga and Zohar. The pair will be strapped into the lower two seats on Orion, and record radiation exposure during the mission. One torso will be used to test a radiation-shielding vest, called AstroRad, which is designed to reduce exposure.
https://www.dlr.de/content/en/articles/news/2018/4/20181115_helga-zohar-radiation-exposure.html
Helga and Zohar: radiation exposure on the way to the Moon
It's a long trip to the moon.
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It's pretty much the full-up Orion capsule. In fact, the delays that Artemis I has undergone have pushed back Artemis II specifically because of the need to reuse items from the Orion module (but apparently not the capsule body itself -- I don't know if that is set to be refurbished and reused or not.
The four engines on the core module are reusable -- they ARE the engines from the Space Shuttle, one of which was flown twelve time -- except that the entire core is being dumped into the ocean, so bye-bye.
The booster segments and nose cones are also from the Shuttle program and you would think recovering and reusing them would be almost automatic, but I haven't been able to find anything that even hints they were going to be recovered (and I did find numerous sites that said that it was a single-shot rocket except for the Orion capsule).
I've read a few things that say that the physics strongly favors single-use rockets for either very heavy lift or very high orbit (and Artemis is, of course, both). I haven't tried to evaluate the basis for the claims.
On a different note, I tend to sigh a bit every time I hear the "most powerful rocket ever" claim (sometimes with the "successfully flown" caveat). While true for the total thrust (8.8 Mlb) of the two SRBs (at about 3.6 Mlb of thrust each) and the four SR-25 Shuttle engines (512 klb) each (yes, that adds up to 9.25 Mlb, but the main engines are not at full power at launch on the current configuration), it is a sleight at the mighty F-1 engines on the Saturn V, which produced 1.5 Mlb of thrust each -- or about three times the thrust of the SR-25 engines. I wonder if they considered making an enhanced F-1 engine to get enough additional thrust so that the core could have had just a single engine. I'm guessing they did consider it and rejected it -- but possibly only because they have a stock of SR-25 engines left over from the Shuttle program. It's also conceivable that the total cost for four of the smaller engines is less than one of the larger engine -- they are operating in a regime where economies of scale don't necessarily win out.
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Now that we have the reusable technologies perfected, even if it isn't NASA. It is just a matter of time
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We have reusable technologies for smaller payloads but they are not perfected (due to hard to engineer physics with current technologies) in the Heavy rockets (the core booster of traveling all the way to orbit) needed for manned planetary travel yet.
SpaceX Starship looks good but is still in development.
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A groundbreaking new project at Birkbeck funds foundation years for asylum seekers – with life-changing results
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Janahan Sivanathan and other Compass Project students. Photograph: Paul Cochrane
When Janahan Sivanathan arrived in London aged 17, fleeing Sri Lanka because of his family's involvement in the Tamil Tigers, he lived in a car garage for two years. Discovered by the authorities after a suicide attempt, he spent the following years in home office limbo, desperately trying to secure refugee status. Eight years later, he's studying to become a lawyer and hoping to help asylum seekers facing similar plights – and he didn't need refugee status to do it.
Sivanathan's story is stark, but not unusual. Asylum seekers can often end up stuck in limbo for years as they attempt to navigate the complicated system for proving refugee status legitimacy.
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While Sivanathan's case was clear, he was given an interpreter who spoke a different, Malaysian dialect of Tamil. When he gave up trying to make himself understood, he had his application rejected on grounds of non-compliance. "I had no idea what to do," he says. "I was literally homeless."
Sivanathan received two lucky breaks: first, a fellow Sri Lankan offered him room and board, and second, he was introduced to the Compass Project, which gave him the chance to start his university education without refugee status.
The Compass Project is run by Birkbeck, University of London, and fully funds 20 asylum seekers to complete a foundation year, giving them the qualifications they need to access an undergraduate course elsewhere.
It fills an important gap: while refugees are able to study for GCSEs or A-levels, enabling them to meet university entry requirements, most asylum seekers lack any proof of prior attainment. Equally, refugees have full access to UK student loans, whereas asylum seekers are required to pay high international student fees – an impossibility for most.
The Compass Project's first 20 asylum seeker students are graduating this week after a fully-funded foundation year. Sivanathan is continuing to study law at Birkbeck, and having secured his refugee status since starting the course, he's now eligible for student finance.
"This opportunity means everything," he says. "I never had a chance, there was always a barrier. Being an asylum seeker you have no right to work or education. You have no rights at all: you're treated like an animal."
Being an asylum seeker you have no right to work or education. You're treated like an animal
Birkbeck specialises in educating mature students – which many asylum seekers are – and has developed its own admissions system which doesn't rely on qualifications and entry levels, but rather evidence of commitment to the subject. "We recognised a gap we could fit into," explains Naureen Abubacker, who runs the project.
The impact for asylum seekers, who have far more limited access to opportunities than refugees, is clear. While Sivanathan now has refugee status, some of his fellow students have obtained scholarships for asylum seekers.
Among these is Aghil Maniavi, a 28-year-old Iranian who was persecuted for his political reporting. He has now been granted a sanctuary scholarship to study international relations and politics at King's College London, which he hopes will launch an academic career. "This scholarship has meant a lot," he says. "In the four years since I arrived, I've felt stuck. Now I've started doing something good for myself, I'm learning."
Aghil Maniavi Photograph: Geoff Wilson/Paul Cochrane
The main challenge the three-year project has faced is getting through to asylum seekers, a notoriously difficult-to-reach community. "One of the big things is students not knowing what it means to study in the UK and how higher education works here," explains Abubacker. To help with this, the team ran campus tours, facilitated introductions with students, and ran sessions on how to write a strong application.
"A lot of people have come in saying that the project has 'expanded my mind', that they're learning things they would never have considered learning, meeting people they would never have met before – as university is created to do," says Abubacker. "It's to help people get involved in the community, but also to integrate and be able to thrive."
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Initiatives and scholarships to help refugees gain access to higher education have proliferated across universities in recent years in response to the Syrian crisis. These are typically grassroots movements, often started by individual academics desperate to help in any way they can.
"I've never worked on a widening access project in my 11 years at Birkbeck with such an academic background, and such a shouty voice as well," says Caroline McDonald, Birkbeck's head of widening access. "Our academic community has been completely behind it, which has been a brilliant platform for the project."
But McDonald says there needs to be more collaboration between universities on these projects. Rather than individual universities offering " big pots of money that aren't terribly meaningful", there should be a more joined-up approach to breaking down the barriers to higher education for asylum seekers and refugees.
"There needs to be an added element of outreach with the relevant organisations to prove that this isn't just a showpiece, but that we're invested for the long term," she says.
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Gay Superhero Joey Returns On "S.H.I.E.L.D.," "The Lusty Adventures Of Theseus": BRIEFS
Plus have we seen the last of Connor on "The Fosters?"
by snicks 3/9/2016
Birthday shoutouts! Oscar Isaac (above) is 37, Brittany Snow is 30, Kerr Smith is 44, and Juliette Binoche is 52.
An erotic interlude set to Troye Sivan's "Don't Bite.
Carson Kressley confirms he dated an NFL star who played in the Super Bowl.
Things get intense in first full trailer for Game Of Thrones Season Six.
Donald Trump donated $30,000 to gay charities – but not really.
Austin Amarcost can't keep his clothes on in Hayden Su photo shoot.
The erotic e-book The Lusty Adventures Of Theseus is now available from Dreamspinner press, written by Arthur Griffin.
"Handsome Theseus journeys to Athens to claim his birthright as heir to the throne, and along the way he meets the roguish Pirithous, who teaches him all about matters of the heart—and body. When they reach the city, Theseus is shocked to discover that his father, the king, has a tradition of sacrificing young people to the Minotaur, the monster that inhabits the island nation of Crete.
Theseus and Pirithous, along with Iphitrion, a slave boy they befriend, set out to slay the Minotaur. After learning Crete is ruled by a mad tyrant with a fetish for orgies, Theseus puts his new skills to the test, fighting, flirting, and fornicating his way through the ranks, working his way past soldiers, satyrs, and gods alike as he attempts to accomplish his goal and save his city."
A little birdie told me that "Arthur Griffin" just might be the pen name of my former AE and TBL colleague Tim O'Leary, who longtime readers will remember wrote (among other things) a fabulous advice column for us. Congrats Tim, I mean Arthur!
Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. returned last night, and gay superhero Joey was front and center, as part of Daisy's Secret Warriors team. He equipped himself well, and I like the easy rapport he has with Daisy, but I'd like to see more of his metal-melting powers. But at least he is officially part of the team now. What did you think?
Sadly, it looks like we have officially lost another gay character, as Gavin MacIntosh (Connor) tweeted this after Monday night's episode of The Fosters.
I'm thankful for those who support me. Through the good times and the unnecessary bad, Goodnight fans. Goodnight Connor. #neverforgetjonnor
— Gavin MacIntosh (@gavinmacintosh) March 8, 2016
There's a lot of conjecture about the backstage drama that occurred that led to the end of "Jonnor," but the bottom line is that one of the bravest and groundbreaking gay storylines on TV has come to an end. (h/t bystander 9529)
Congrats to Jillian Michaels, who is now engaged to fiance Heidi Rhodes.
King Cobra will get its world premiere at Tribeca next month.
It's time to say goodbye to yet another music legend. This time it's "the fifth Beatle," producer George Martin, who has died at the age of 90.
And here's The Weekly ShoutOUT™. Each week we're going to focus on one out athlete/performer and feature a daily pic and career timeline. We'll be showcasing the big names, but also the lesser-known gay and bisexual celebs who deserve more recognition.
This week our 156th ShoutOUT™ is to … David Monahan
David had one of his most memorable roles in 2012, as closeted Republican Congressman Sean Reeves in the mini-series Political Animals, getting hot and heavy with adorable Sebastian Stan.
Over the next few weeks we'll have a lot of fun looking at 20 Songs Everyone Knows That Didn't Hit The Top 40! These are all songs that have become a part of pop culture history, but failed on the chart when they were originally released. Songs that, through inclusion in films, TV, or other medium have managed to withstand the test of time.
Note – We'll also include a couple of songs that were never actually released a singles, but have also become classics.
At #13 is "Oh Yeah" by Yello.
Swiss duo Yello released "Oh Yeah" in 1985, but it wouldn't chart until two years later, after it had gained enormous exposure in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Secret of My Success. Even though it only peaked at #51 in September 1987, its impact on pop culture is still felt, as it's still used constantly on TV and in films.
Congrats to chronomaxx, who guessed that yesterday's Pixuzzle™ © ® was The Jetsons.
Here's today's Pixuzzle™ © ®. Here are characters from a FAMOUS TV SHOW. Can you name it?
And today's Briefs are brought to you by … Gabriel Arocha
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Here is a diagram of the three images you can customize on your Twitter page.
The textured black rectangular area is the header and it displays at 520 pixels wide by 260 pixels high (a 2:1 width-to-height ratio) on a desktop computer. Note that the upper corners are rounded. Twitter will automatically round the corners on the image you upload.
Twitter recommends dimensions of "1252px X 626px for optimal viewing across all devices" and states the maximum file size you can upload is 5 MB. That makes little sense because the maximum display size will be 520 x 260 so an image with larger dimensions will be scaled down to fit. Furthermore, I tried to upload an image at 1252 x 626 with a file size of a mere 1.6 MB and consistently encountered an "Internal service error." I switched the file format from PNG-24 to PNG-8 which reduced the file size to 624 KB and Twitter accepted the upload.
The 1252 x 626 image did end up with some minor blurring due to resizing. An image at 520 x 260 was sharp with no degradation of image quality. Ultimately, 520 x 260 makes the most sense in terms of quality and file size.
Acceptable image file formats are GIF, JPG, and PNG (8 or 24). I experienced difficulty uploading JPG images and haven't been able to pinpoint the problem.
Twitter automatically overlays a semi-transparent black gradient over the bottom 3/4 of the header image. This creates contrast so the white text that appears in front of it (your name, location, website URL, and bio) will stand out.
The previous screen shot above of a grid background shows the gradient. To give you an idea of how it affects different colours, I uploaded the first image below and the result is shown in the second image.
Take-away message: the gradient alone won't assure readability so it's up to you to factor that into your image selection.
One thing to keep in mind when creating a header image is how well it fits in with the background image and, to a lesser extent, the profile photo.
The header in this example is an image collage. The owner wisely chose to go with a solid background with just branding on the left edge.
Here is a slick example of a header and background that are so tightly integrated that the Twitter gradient over the header is the only sign that it isn't a single image.
This beautifully integrated design uses a palette of three colours to tie the avatar, header and background images together.
These examples show that if there is artwork in both the header and background, they need to work very well together to succeed. Otherwise, it's better to concentrate detailed imagery in the header, leaving the background neutral (or vice versa).
Continue to Part 2 to learn how to use the Photoshop header template and to upload and remove header images from Twitter.


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Ben Carson retooling HUD regulations so people can access federal contracting jobs
'We're reviving it,' the HUD secretary says
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Ben Carson: 2020 Democrats will exaggerate income inequality for votes
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson discusses income inequality, 2020 Democratic candidates, job numbers and the U.S. economy.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson touted the growing economy under President Trump while speaking with FOX Business' Liz MacDonald on Tuesday, and he's got another task on his desk he's hoping will help boost it even further.
"At HUD, for instance, we are redoing Section 3, which says if you're getting HUD money, you have to hire, train or give contracts to the low-income people in the area," Carson said on "The Evening Edit."
TRUMP MOVES TO UNDO OBAMA-ERA HOUSING RULES
Carson said while Section 3 has been official for five decades, many people didn't take advantage of it because "it was so cumbersome and complex."
"We're reviving it," Carson said. "The new rules are going to be coming out very shortly. Make it very simple. And the reasons that's important is because we can begin to retool people so that they can take advantage of this booming economy."
According to the Labor Department, there have been 17 straight months of wages going up by 3 percent or more.
"It's been a long time since we've had that kind of growth going on," Carson said. "In fact, in the last quarter of 2019, 74.2 percent of the people who came into the workforce were from out of the labor force."
Carson expressed his concern for the economy if Trump doesn't remain in office.


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Q: Difference in thermal measurement with thermal camera and thermocouple I hope this is a proper place to ask the question. I am using two different methods to do a thermal measurement on a flyback power supply that has a planar transformer. First I used FLIR E60 thermal camera and then I did the measurement with OMEGA thermocouples.
My problem is that with thermocouples I obtain temperatures of about 10 degC lower compared to thermal camera. To attach the thermocouples I used a sort of adhesive pads in which I stick the thermocouples.
Did anyone experience anything similar or my method is wrong? To which measurement method can I trust more?  My next step would be maybe to stick the thermocouples to my points of interest with a kapton tape (perhaps).

A: Using thermocouples on switching power supplies is often tricky because of the EMI. Wire loops of the thermocouples tend to pick up noise of the converter and measurements are messy. Try to switch off the converter and check if the readings of the thermocouples don't change apruptly (which would indicate EMI issues).

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Late September update on Traffic/Parking
October 2, 2012 by Michael D Harris
Fencing around the perimeter of the pedestrian underpass project is being installed. Once the fencing is in place, it will then be necessary to close the intersection of Oakland Avenue and Forest Street in order to proceed with construction. It is anticipated that the intersection will remain closed for 6-9 months. During this time, it will be necessary to re-route campus fleet buses — Park & Ride as well as Spartan Chariot.
Beginning Monday, Oct 1 — the bus shelter on Forest Street near McNutt and MHRA will no longer be utilized as a bus stop. Also, the bus shelter near Financial Aid will no longer be a Park & Ride stop.
During construction, Park & Ride buses will make only two stops on campus:
Spring Garden Street across from the School of Education at the new bus pull in; and
Spring Garden Street in front of Graham.
The Spartan Chariot weekday route will not be impacted; service will continue without change. However, the evening safety shuttle route will no longer stop on Forest Street. All other evening and weekend stops will continue to be serviced as scheduled.
Access into the north section of lot 4 near Campus Supply will be from Forest Street only. However, the Forest Street entry to the south section of lot 4 will not be accessible. Access into the south section of parking lot 4 near campus supply will be from Oakland Avenue only.
At this time, Oakland Deck will continue to be accessible via Forest Street and Kenilworth Street. If/when the Forest Street entry/exit gates need to be closed, notification will be provided in advance for planning purposes.
Bryan School's Omer Omer and his work with refugees are featured in film
A coup forced him to flee Sudan. At a film screening Friday night, see the life story of Dr. Omer Omer and the difference he has made in our community and beyond.
The documentary will highlight the Bryan School adjunct faculty member and his work with refugees in Greensboro. The screening will be Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, 7 p.m. in Bryan 160.
"The One Who Builds'" is a half-hour documentary film currently in production about the life and work of Omer Omer, once a Sudanese refugee, now an American citizen who is paying it forward as the director of a refugee resettlement organization. In Greensboro, Omer has transcended boundaries dictated by society, race and religion to build a new village, one friendship at a time," the film's web site says.
As filmmaker Peter Corolla says in a blog post, "For Omer, helping these refugees isn't just a job – it is a calling."
Omer is director of N.C. African Service Coalition (ASC), based in Greensboro. In a phone interview this week, Omer explained "We're a product of a UNCG institution." Years ago, UNCG's Center for New North Carolinians placed an Americorps member to become the leader of what became the ASC. He also noted the many hundreds of UNCG student volunteers who have helped with his organization – "sometimes whole classes." (See one student post.)
Omer grew up in Sudan, and received his bachelor's in geography at the University of Khartoum. Rural development was his concentration. After three years as a journalist at Sudan National TV, there was a coup d'etat and he had to flee the country. At Kings College in England, he got his master's in geography, specializing in third world development. He came to Florida, where he worked at a store before managing a store in Augusta, Ga. He understood there was a big Sudanese community in Greensboro – "a big incentive to come here." He has been a Greensboro resident since 1996. He has been a program director for the organization since 1999.
He received his doctorate in geography from UNCG in December 2010. His focus was tourism as a tool of economic development. "Lots of statistics" are involved in his research, he notes.
As the filmmakers say in a blog post, he is "a husband, a father, a social worker, and a community elder and spokesman, all at the same time."
In 2010, Omer received the Nancy Susan Reynolds Race Relations Award, sponsored by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
About 40 percent of those the organization helps, today, are not African. They help those from Bhutan to Burma, he says. Their web site carries the broader title N.C. African and World Services Coalition. Many refugees they help, due to employment offers, ultimately reside in other parts of the state or South Carolina, he says.
When he started at the organization, it was as an African helping fellow Africans, he explains. But his vision is more expansive now. "I'm an American citizen now, part of the community."
Omer is an adjunct professor in the Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Hospitality and Tourism Department at UNCG's Bryan School. His focus in leading classes is third world sustainable development and issues/trends in contemporary tourism.
The UNCG Graduate School, of which he is an alumnus, will sponsor the screening Friday.
A trailer for the film may be seen at the documentary web site.
By Mike Harris
Looking ahead: Oct. 3, 2012
CARS symposium
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2 p.m., EUC
Faculty Senate meeting
Wednesday, Oct. 3, 3 p.m., Alumni House
Faculty & Staff Excellence Awards ceremony
Friday, Oct 5, 9 a.m., Room 114, Education Building
Film, 'The One Who Builds,' featuring Omer Omer
Friday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m., Bryan Building,Room 160
"The Music of Gil Evans," UNCG jazz ensembles
Friday, Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m., UNCG Recital Hall
Opera gala, 'Got Opera?'
Saturday, Oct. 6, 8 p.m., Aycock Auditorium
Campus Conversations, Dr. Thomas F. Jackson on Martin Luther King
Wednesday, Oct. 10, noon, Faculty Center.
Faculty & Staff awards ceremony Friday
At the 2012 Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony, University Service Awards recipients with 30, 35 and 40 years of service will be recognized, and the following will be presented:
Alumni Teaching Excellence Awards
Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching
Gladys Strawn Bullard Awards
Online Educator Excellence Award
Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
Staff Excellence Awards
Student Learning Enhancement Awards
The ceremony will be Friday, Oct. 5, at 9 a.m. in Room 114 of the School of Education Building.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Education
Dr. C.P. Gause (Teacher Education and Higher Education) will deliver an MRC Book Talk Tuesday, Oct. 9, 3-4 p.m. in the Multicultural Resource Center, EUC.
Gause will discuss his book "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Education."
CARS Symposium today
The fall 2012 Executives-In-Residence Week and Annual Fall Symposium, co-sponsored by the Department of Consumer, Apparel and Retail Studies (CARS) and the CARS Industry Advisory Board, will be held through Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. Today (Oct. 3), Rick Darling, President and CEO of LF USA, and Executive Director of Li & Fung Limited, will be the keynote speaker of the symposium. On Friday, Oct. 5, students will attend a Leadership and Team Building Workshop facilitated by Shirley Landry, manager, Strategic Partnerships and Alliances, and Diane Reinhold, Design Associates, both from The Center for Creative Leadership. Other speakers during the week include Shari Becker, account strategist for Mottis, Herb Bolick, owner of Team Connection, and Carrie Coyle, Design & Merchandising manager for Seamless Acme-McCrary Corporation.
The CARS Symposium, at 2 p.m. today (Oct. 3) in the EUC Auditorium, will be followed by a reception. It is open to the public.
Volleyball breast cancer awareness matches
The annual Breast Cancer Awareness volleyball matches will be Oct. 5-6 at 6 p.m. in Fleming Gymnasium. This year, the volleyball team is partnering with UNCG Dining Services during the month of October to raise funds for breast cancer awareness. The volleyball team will be at the annual Dining Services pink luncheon on Oct. 4, and Dining Services will be present at the volleyball games to collect pink Yoplait lids for the Susan G. Komen foundation.
Pink merchandise will be sold at both games and will feature pink T-shirts, koozies and other UNCG gear. Proceeds will benefit the local Cone Health Mammography Scholarship. On Saturday night, the first 75 fans will receive a free UNCG pink T-shirt. Admission is free to all fans for all volleyball matches.
Donate warm clothing
Staff Senate Off Campus Service Committee has two items to share:
The UNCG Staff Senate Off-Campus Service Committee will be holding the 2nd annual "Share the Warmth" donations drive. "Operation Share the Warmth" was launched last year when it came to our attention that there is an urgent need within our campus community for articles of clothing to help individuals in need to stay warm. We will begin accepting donations of slightly used or new jackets, coats, winter apparel, and blankets in October and offering the items free of charge to the campus community in November. So, now is a great time to clean out closets and donate to this worthy cause. Stay tuned for date, time and location of collection and distribution points.
Volunteers are needed to help support the Heartstrings Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Eighth Annual "A Walk to Remember on Saturday, Oct. 13, at Triad Park in Kernersville. Contact Jan Albrect at albrecht@uncg.edu or one of the Off Campus Service Committee members if you would like to help. You can locate them in the committee section of the Staff Senate web site at http://staffsenate.uncg.edu
Real-world ways to reduce your stress
Two studies conducted at UNCG last year indicated that stress and balancing home and work life demands are increasing for everyone, says Michelle Cathorall, director of Healthy UNCG. To address this, HealthyUNCG has partnered with the Counseling and Educational Development department to develop and present a series of workshops on stress reduction. All workshops will be held in the EUC from noon-1 p.m. Details are available on the HealthyUNCG Google Calendar. Employees can earn Spartan Points for for attending Brown Bag lunches.
Topics for fall include:
Mindfulness for Stress Reduction, Oct. 8
Life Balance and Wellness, Oct. 23
Spirituality and Stress Management, Nov. 14
Topics for the spring semester are:
Assertiveness Communication for stress reduction, Jan. 29
Sleep as a stress reduction strategy, Feb. 26
Social Networking and Stress Management (date tbd)
Grant for Middle College at UNCG
The Middle College at UNCG, the non-traditional high school launched in 2011 by the university and Guilford County Schools, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from AT&T.
The Middle College was one of 47 schools nationwide chosen to receive part of a nearly $10 million AT&T Aspire Grant, a competitive award program, for its demonstrated success supporting and motivating traditionally underserved students to stay in school and prepare for the next step of life. Details are at UNCG News.
Dr. Eileen Kohlenberg
Dr. Eileen Kohlenberg (Nursing) received a renewal of funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for the project "Advanced Education Nursing Education Traineeship (AENT) Program." It will support 72 adult/gerontological primary care nurse practitioner students.
Also, she has been inducted into the National League for Nursing's Academy of Nursing Education, with the credential of "Fellow." Full story at School of Nursing web site.
Dr. Catherine Matthews
Dr. Catherine Matthews (Education) received a continuation of funding from the National Science Foundation for the project Full-Scale Development Project: Herpetology Education in Rural Places and Spaces (HERPS). Herpetology Education in Rural Places and Spaces (HERPS) arose amidst concerns about the public's diminishing relationship with nature, the STEM achievement gap between North Carolina's (NC) economically wealthy and poor, and inadequate STEM resources for and untapped STEM potential in rural, diverse communities, the abstract says. "This project galvanizes stakeholders' passion for connecting rural citizens to precious remaining wild areas, relatively undisturbed watersheds, and fascinating herpetological biodiversity in their own backyards. HERPS engages diverse participants in herpetology and conservation education along a trajectory, from highly accessible experiences for newcomers to increasingly intensive experiences for budding experts and enthusiasts."
Dr. Stephanie Daniel
Dr. Stephanie Daniel (CYFCP / Psychology) received funding from Oklahoma State University for the project Nonstandard Maternal Work Schedules & Child Health in Impoverished Families. The goal of this project is to understand the threat of nonstandard maternal work schedules to poor children's physical and emotional well-being as precursors to school readiness, the abstract says. Project results will provide needed information to help protect at risk children.
Dr. Sat Gupta
Dr. Sat Gupta (Mathematics and Statistics) serves as president of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association. On Oct. 5-7, UNCG will play host to that organization's conference, the International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics (AISC). Gupta serves as the conference chair. The conference will feature presentations on a wide range of statistical applications including wild fires management, environment, anthropology, medicine, insurance, weather modeling, and network security, etc. It's main goal is to promote interdisciplinary research. There will be close to 200 presentations including more than 50 by students. The conference will feature presentations by scholars from many countries including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UAE, UK and the United States. Conference details are at www.uncg.edu/mat/aisc/


TIP! If you're accused of a crime, you need to find a lawyer immediately. This should be done as soon as you are accused to protect yourself.
The area of law is intimidating for people who don't know much about it. Luckily, the following article has important information that will teach you how to select a quality lawyer. Learn how important it is to have a good lawyer on your side.
TIP! Make sure you lawyer is easily reached when they are needed. It's not uncommon for some lawyers to be very hard to get a hold of.
Ask any lawyer prospects about their fees up front. Fees can vary based on numerous factors, such as the lawyer's experience and demand. You need to be aware of how much you are going to pay, or at least a ball-park estimate, prior to hiring them. Nothing is worse than when you lose representation while proceedings are underway.
TIP! Although a lawyer specializing in a particular area of the law may cost more upfront, they generally save you money in the end. You'll find that a regular lawyer will take more time than a specialist which costs you more in the long run.
You may wish to have the lawyer on retainer already, in case of the worst happening. That way, you do not feel lots of pressure and can take enough time to find just the right attorney. A lawyer is always available to give you advice or represent you in any way.
Be sure that your lawyer has won cases similar to your case before you sign any contracts. Some lawyers advertise a specialization and specific qualifications but this does not mean they have any experience. You can find this information on the Internet with a little digging. The lawyer should willingly provide it, as well.
TIP! Ask a lot of questions to every lawyer that you interview. At your first consultation, the prospective lawyer should answer any and all pertinent questions.
You need to make sure you're asking enough questions. A good lawyer should be happy to answer all of your questions, no matter how big or small they may be. They need to take responsibility and be able to make you comfortable with the knowledge and experience they have. If not, this is not the right attorney for you and you should walk away.
TIP! Prior to hiring an attorney, check for complaints at your local bar association. If there are complaints, you will want to know about them beforehand.
Before your lawyer begins work, be sure you have a fee agreement in place. You will be able to work on the case and your defense once you have agreed on fees with your lawyer. You can begin to save as necessary.
TIP! There are several online services that will help you find a good lawyer, however don't assume this is the only research you need to do. Do background checks on the lawyers listed online then meet them to talk about your situation before you hire them.
Your lawyer needs to specialize in your specific kind of case. There are lawyers who specialize in certain criminal cases, real estate, intellectual property laws, and lots more. This can make or break your case.
TIP! You have to have a great relationship with your lawyer. Any initial feelings of discomfort will show later on, regardless of your lawyers experience.
Comfort and confidence are the two biggest factors in choosing a lawyer. A good attorney is not only smart and well-versed, but he also treats people with respect and makes them feel at ease. Find a different lawyer if yours doesn't do this.
TIP! Be aware of your legal troubles before getting a lawyer. When you don't understand it, how can you explain it? Conduct a bit of research on your legal situation.
If your attorney is super-busy, it may be a while before he works on your case. Therefore, don't hesitate to ask your lawyer if they can put in an adequate amount of time into your case. If they are truthful about not having time for you, you will be able to look for a lawyer who does.
TIP! Find a second opinion if you are unsure about your lawyer. However, you may not be able to replace your lawyer, due to the cost involved.
Inquire about the possibility of reducing costs by doing some tasks yourself. You may be able to help get the paperwork ready. If the courthouse requires documents, see if they can get them personally so that the law office staff doesn't need to get paid to do it.
TIP! Your lawyer has malpractice insurance to deal with situations where they don't follow the law to a "T." They don't need their premiums to increase so they'll focus on finishing the case in a morally responsible and legal way.
If your first meeting with a lawyer includes them giving you a guarantee, you need to get out of there now. This is a common technique used by lawyers to sell themselves, but you should know that no case is easy to win. This is something to keep an eye on when you search for a lawyer.
TIP! Check out your lawyer's office. Do you see that your lawyer organizes his books in alphabetical order? Do you notice a lot of paperwork and unkempt files on their desk? Pay attention to small details.
See if your general legal practitioner knows of a specialize to help with your case. Keep in mind that each lawyer specialized in one type of legal problem and it is best to get a referral from your lawyer for a lawyer who has extensive experience with the kind of issue you are dealing with. If you've already worked with a lawyer then they probably want you to be satisfied. This means they may be more likely to provide you with great advice.
TIP! It's not cheap to hire a lawyer. If you happen to not be paying your lawyer a flat fee, then you need to be in control of how much you are spending.
Needing a lawyer's service is not a position anyone wants to find themselves in. Nonetheless, if you have a better understanding of lawyers, you will be able to pick a better one to suit your needs should problems arise. The advice provided here should hopefully have assisted you if you ever need a lawyer.