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Redwire Successfully 3D Prints Ceramic Turbine Part in Orbit
December 7, 2020 by Vanesa Listek 3D Printers3D Printing3D Printing Materials3D Printing ResearchAdditive ManufacturingFeatured StoriesSpace 3D Printing
Manufacturing turbine parts with additive manufacturing (AM) technology has helped accelerate product development, creating very complex and intricate part geometries without the need for any tooling. Aerospace companies have been integrating AM into their production strategies for several years, relying on metal AM for cost-effectiveness and ease of manufacturing. Taking turbine parts development one step further, Redwire, a new company involved in mission-critical space solutions, announced it had manufactured a single-piece ceramic turbine blisk in space for the first time.
This bladed turbine disk was successfully created using the first stereolithography (SLA) printer to operate in orbit: the Ceramic Manufacturing Module (CMM), which was developed by Redwire subsidiary Made In Space. Just two months after it was launched to space aboard Northrop Grumman's 14th commercial resupply mission (NG-14) on October 2, 2020, the commercially developed in-space manufacturing facility successfully operated with full autonomy using SLA technology and pre-ceramic resins to manufacture the single-piece ceramic turbine blisk, along with a series of material test coupons, ideal for determining the properties of the ceramics.
The Ceramic Manufacturing Module (CMM) by Made In Space. Image courtesy of Made In Space
According to Redwire, the successful manufacture of these test samples in space is an important milestone to demonstrate the proof-of-potential for CMM to produce ceramic parts that exceed the quality of turbine components made on Earth. The ceramic blisk and test coupons will be stowed and returned to Earth for analysis aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft once the company's 21st commercial resupply services (CRS-21) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is completed, with an estimated return date to Earth on January 5, 2021.
"This is an exciting milestone for space-enabled manufacturing and signals the potential for new markets that could spur commercial activity in low Earth orbit," said Made In Space President Tom Campbell. "Building on our in-space manufacturing expertise and our partnership with NASA, Redwire is developing advanced manufacturing processes on orbit that could yield sustainable demand from terrestrial markets and creating capabilities that will allow humanity to sustainably live and work in space."
Developed in partnership with the ISS Research Integration Office at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Johnson Space Center, in Houston, the ceramic facility is one of three ISS pilot payloads developed through this partnership that aims to catalyze and scale demand for commercial capabilities in low Earth orbit (LEO) by producing high-value products for terrestrial use. Made In Space first demonstrated the SLA printing technology found inside CMM through a series of parabolic flights funded via NASA's Flight Opportunities program in 2016.
The Ceramics Manufacturing Module Team. Image courtesy of Made In Space
For high-performance applications such as turbines, nuclear plants, or internal combustion engines, even small strength improvements can yield years-to-decades of superior service life. According to experts, light-weighting in aerospace components and system designs is an effective way to achieve energy consumption reduction and performance enhancement. In fact, using additive manufacturing technologies, capable of producing composite or multi-material components, is an enabler for light-weighting, as features formally associated with one principal function can be designed to fulfill multiple functionalities.
But Redwire is not only using additive technology to make complex parts, it's moving it 400 kilometers off-Earth, to LEO, to demonstrate that ceramic manufacturing in microgravity could enable temperature-resistant, reinforced ceramic parts with better performance, including higher strength and lower residual stress.
Flight engineer Kate Rubins of NASA with the Ceramics Manufacturing Module installed and ready for operations on the International Space Station (ISS) on October 28, 2020. Image courtesy of NASA/Redwire
Redwire's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Made In Space Co-founder Michael Snyder described the Ceramic Manufacturing Module's successful on-orbit operations as an important step toward full-scale manufacturing of materials products that can improve industrial machines used right here on Earth. The expert, who was also Made In Space's Chief Engineer for 10 years, went on to explain that the space manufacturing capabilities demonstrated by CMM have the potential to stimulate demand in LEO from terrestrial markets which will be a key driver for space industrialization.
This last successful CMM mission builds upon Redwire's flight heritage with four other additive manufacturing facilities developed by the Made In Space team that have successfully flown and operated on the space station. In 2014, the Silicon Valley startup became the first company to 3D print an object in zero gravity, and months later it launched two 3D printers to the ISS, one of which, the Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF), is available for commercial use. Followed by the Fiber Optics (MIS Fiber) miniature fiber-pulling machine for producing optical fibers, and a Plastic Recycler to process waste plastic into feedstock filaments for the AMF. The CMM makes five and soon, Made In Space's spacecraft-assembly technology for repairing existing satellites in orbit is expected to launch in 2022. With Archinaut, both Redwire and NASA expect a complete game changer with futuristic capabilities that could accelerate the space economy.
Tagged with: 3D printers in space • additive manufacturing technologies • Ceramic Manufacturing Module (CMM) • ceramics SLA printing technology • international space station • iss • Low Earth Orbit • made in space • nasa • Redwire


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Black Sheep One: The Life Of Gregory Pappy Boyington
Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and World War II hero Gregory Boyington. In 1936, Boyington became an aviation cadet and earned the "wings of gold" of a naval aviator. After only a short period on active duty, however, he was "encouraged" to resign from the Marine Corps due to his unconventional behavior. Remarkably, this inauspicious beginning was just the prologue to a heroic career as an American fighter pilot and innovative combat leader. With the onset of World War II, when skilled pilots were in demand, he became the commander of an ad hoc squadron of flying leathernecks. Led by Medal of Honor winner Boyington, the legendary Black Sheep set a blistering pace of aerial victories against the enemy.Though many have observed that when the shooting stops, combat heroes typically just fade away, nothing could be further from the truth for Boyington. Blessed with inveterate luck, the stubbornly independent Boyington lived a life that went beyond what even the most imaginative might expect. Exhaustively researched and richly detailed, here is the complete story of this American original.From the Paperback edition.
Publisher: Presidio Press (January 16, 2009)
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Pappy Boyington is one of the most memorable pilots of World War II. But as he famously said: "Show me a hero, and I'll show you a bum." He did the best to prove his own maxim.As a member of the Flying Tigers of Burma and China, he was credited with two Japanese aircraft shot down, but left early and in such disfavor that he got a "dishonorable discharge" from its commander, Claire Chennault. He then re-joined the Marines and proceeded to build an unorthodox fighter squadron--the Black Sheep--with many similarities to the Tigers, with himself playing the role of Chennault. Shot down, he was awarded the Medal of Honor while serving time in two of Japan's most notorious prisons. He emerged alive at the end of the war, claiming to have accounted for enough Japanese planes on his final day to make him the leading USMC ace of World War II.It's a fascinating story, but Bruce Gamble goes beyond the war record to show us the boy growing up in a troubled family and following his seemingly doomed path to alcoholism and brawling and a troubled marriage of his own. Boyington's checkered career postwar is equally compelling. You feel sorry for him, angry at him, and in awe of him as one of the great shooters of all time.This is a brilliant book and an important one, and it belongs on the shelf of anyone with an interest in World War II aviation.
Gamble's biography of Boyington begins with his dysfunctional upbringing in the Pacific Northwest. Raised by a troubled mother and a ...stepfather, the deck was stacked early against this man of great potential. This good time Charlie, devil-may-care college boy became one of the leading Aces of WWII, with twenty-nine kills, if he is to be believed. And Gamble apparently does not believe all that Boyington has to say on this subject. Never drinking until his twenties, Boyington became the cliched drunk. Often he flew loaded or badly hung over.In this frank look at the life of the Black Sheep Squadron�s leader, Gamble strips away much of the lies, myths and Hollywood trappings to present the man as he was; the tragic hero.From his brief time spent with Claire Chennault�s Flying Tigers to his rejoining the Maine Aviators to his being awarded the Medal of Honor, the bottle was never far from arm�s reach. After spending almost two years as a POW and upon his triumphant return to the states at war�s end, he is told by his intelligence officer, Frank Walton, he could be anything he chose but he had to leave booze alone or it would kill him. Needless to say, his life spiraled out of control until it was much too late. From a series of failed relationships and marriages, to repeated job changes and financial ruin he became a mere curiosity hustling his former valor for a few dollars. In Walton�s own book, "Once They Were Eagles", he compares him unkindly to a dancing circus bear pushing his autographs at air shows and conventions.Throughout the book there are more than a few glimmers of the man beneath the booze and the greatness that awaited Boyington were it not for his illness. A college wrestling champion, a fine college student, a natural leader and above all, a bold and fearless fighter pilot. If Gamble destroys some myths, he also lets Boyington�s greatness stand without the tinsel. And in 1943 he was a giant.
I hate biographies with their authoritarian tones, time lines, dates and obscure facts, and get bored before finishing them. I do, however, prefer to be historically accurate rather than politically correct, so when my children started watching Black Sheep Squadron on the History Channel, I figured I had better learn more about Greg Boyington.Having seen Mr. Gamble's commentaries during breaks from the show, I expected the typical pompous biography with a military cadence to match the author and subject. When I began to read it, I was floored: I couldn't put it down and I finished it. Mr. Gamble's prose was lyrical, and his treatment of Boyington was fair and meticulously researched.Heroes aren't necessarily bums, and biographies aren't necessarily dull, boring and omnipresent.
In this bio. of Greg 'Pappy' Boyington, the author adds so much to previous books. Through painstaking research, he covers aspects of Boyington's youth, early USMC career, and later life that I hadn't read before. Certainly not in Boyington's self-serving (but fascinating & enjoyable) Baa Baa Black Sheep, not in Gamble's previous book on the Black Sheep squadron.I found persuasive the author's analysis of Boyington claims for aerial credits. (Wonder if the USMC would? I doubt it, debunking Medal of Honor winners probably isn't real high on the Corps' list of priorities.)But this book equally conveys Boyington's combat leadership, and the reverence his men felt for him
While preparing for my senior seminar in History, I chose a topic that my WWII Marine grandfather introduced me to, the Black Sheep. I was disappointed in the way the world remembered the history of Pappy Boyington and the Black Sheep Squadron, seeing them as the misfits that they were portrayed to be by a 70s television show. These were American heroes and yet they were better remembered as renegade troublemakers. This was not the situation. I was at a loss of where I would come by all the detail and depth that I would need to review activities of fifty years ago. That's when I discovered Bruce Gamble's books. Loaded with facts and with extreme attention to detail, these books gave me more than I ever needed and were more than just required reading on this subject, the books were intriguing. As I read them, I felt as if I had been there. Without these books, my project would have been a wreck. Thanks Bruce, great books, waiting for more...
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is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuya Kudō and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from March 1985 to April 1986, with its chapters collected in six tankōbon volumes; it was later republished by Media Factory.

Mai, the Psychic Girl is one of the first manga series to be fully published in English; it was published by Viz Communications, in partnership with Eclipse Comics, in a bi-weekly comic book format starting in 1987 and republished in collected volumes a few years later.

Story
The story follows Mai Kuju, a 14-year-old girl with powerful psychic abilities. She is being pursued by the Wisdom Alliance, an organization which secretly strives to control the world. The alliance already controls four other powerful psychic children, and it has hired the Kaieda Intelligence Agency to capture Mai.

Media

Manga
Written by  and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, Mai, the Psychic Girl was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from March 20, 1985, to April 2, 1986. Shogakukan collected its chapters in six tankōbon volumes, released from August 1985 to August 1986. Media Factory republished the series in three bunkoban volumes, released from 2002 to 2003, and in two wideban volumes in 2006.

Mai, the Psychic Girl is one of the first manga series to be fully published in English. Along with The Legend of Kamui and Area 88, Mai, the Psychic Girl was one of the first three manga published by Viz Communications, in partnership with Eclipse Comics. It was published in a bi-weekly comic book format starting in May 1987. As it was one of the forerunners of manga popularity in the West, Mai was chosen for localization due to its middle-ground artwork: neither "too Japanese or too American." It was presented in the "flopped" format; panels and pages read in the left-to-right reading order instead of the Japanese style of right-to-left, that was the norm with early localized manga. Along with the other two series, Mai proved popular enough that second printings were needed of the first two issues. The series was later reprinted in a 4-volume edition by Titan Books in 1989, and by Viz in 1990; the edition featured a brief nude scene that had been edited out of the comic book edition. The series was later re-released in 3-volume edition, titled Mai, the Psychic Girl: Perfect Collection.

Film
Beginning in the late 1980s, new wave rock band Sparks attempted to make Mai, the Psychic Girl into a musical, with interest from Tim Burton and Carolco Pictures, who purchased the film rights in August 1991. Carolco hoped Burton would start production in 1992, but he chose to work on The Nightmare Before Christmas and Ed Wood for Disney. The option on the film rights eventually expired, and Burton dropped out. Francis Ford Coppola later developed the property in the 1990s. In June 2000, Sony Pictures Entertainment started on a new different project with Kirk Wong attached to direct. By February 2001, a script had been written by Lisa Addario and Joey Syracuse for Sony's Columbia Pictures. The release of The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, a radio musical by Sparks, in August 2009, was informed by the six years the band spent trying to get their Mai, the Psychic Girl produced. The album generated new interest, and gained a "second wind", vocalist Russell Mael explained. "The music is all ready and we are hoping that this still might see the light of day". In 2010, Burton expressed renewed interest in adapting the property.

Reception
Mai, the Psychic Girl was well received by critics and readers in America (more than in its native Japan), and is recognized as an important first step in the gradual popularity of manga in America. Many praised the series for avoiding typical superhero cliches and for also introducing many readers to the world of manga.

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External links
 "On Mai, the Psychic Girl" by Julian Darius at Sequart

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Shogakukan manga
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Makau W. Mutua
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Makau W. Mutua (born 1958) is a Kenyan-American professor of law. In December 2014, Mutua resigned as Dean of the University at Buffalo Law School after a controversial seven year-term.[1] He still remains a SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar at the Law School. He was the first professor in the history of the Law School to be named SUNY Distinguished Professor.[2] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[3] In October 2015, he joined the World Bank in Washington D.C. to work on governance and human rights. On January 13, 2017, Mutua was elected to a four-year term as Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Rome-based International Development Law Organization.[4] He had been Vice Chair of IDLO since 2016. Originally, Mutua had been elected to a four-year term on the recommendation of the Obama Administration to the Board of Advisors of the International Development Law Organization or IDLO which is based in Rome, Italy.[5] He was re-elected to a second final four-year term in November 2016.
In July 2013, he was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York to the Moreland commission to Investigate Public Corruption.[6] In that role, was appointed – as did all the other commissioners – to the rank of Deputy Attorney General by New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman. By failing to write their Final Report The Moreland Commissioners never fulfilled their mission.
Mutua was ranked No. 110 by Buffalo Business First in the Power 200 most influential people in 2013 in Western New York.[7] In March 2012, he was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to a three-year term to the board of directors of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation.[8] In April 2011, he was appointed to a three-year term by Governor Andrew Cuomo to the New York State Judicial Screening Committee for the Fourth Department.[9] In May 2010, he became a member of the Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, the first Greek-letter society founded by African-American men in the United States. Mutua has been named several times as among the most influential black lawyers and educators in the United States.[10]
In 2003, he was appointed by Kenya's President Kibaki to chair a task force that eventually led to the establishment of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission in 2008.[11]
Mutua was born in 1958 in Kenya, the second of seven children. He received secondary education at Kitui School and Alliance High School. An excellent student throughout his life, he gained attention in other ways while attending the University of Nairobi with his vocal opposition to the national government. He was arrested in May 1981 for his dissent and was only released after fasting in a hunger strike for several days.[12] He eventually found his way to Tanzania where he applied for United Nations refugee status. He earned a Masters in Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, ultimately attending Harvard Law School in 1984. There he earned an LLM in 1985 and an SJD in 1987.[13]
Legal and academic careerEdit
After graduation from Harvard, he worked for White & Case, a New York City law firm, but later pursued his dreams of human rights advocacy with his work at Human Rights First, then known as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. In 1991, he returned to Harvard where he became the Associate Director of the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program. In 1996, he joined the University at Buffalo Law School faculty. In December 2007, he was appointed Interim Dean at the University at Buffalo Law School and was named the permanent Dean in May 2008. Mutua has served as Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Iowa College of Law, the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain, the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica, the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, among others.[13][14] He was elected Vice President of the American Society of International Law from 2011-2013 after serving as its Executive Council from 2007-2010.[15] He was the co-chair of the 2000 Annual meeting of the ASIL.[16] He sits on the boards of scholarly journals and NGOs. He was a founder and serves as Chairman of the Nairobi-based Kenya Human Rights Commission.[17] In 2007, he gave the Abiola Lecture, the signature keynote address at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, the leading Africana Studies academic association in the world.[18][19] In April 2015, Mutua received the Distinguished Africanist award from the NYASA (New York African Studies Association), the association's highest honor.[20] He has authored several books and dozens of scholarly articles in law journals and other publications.[13] His latest book, Human Rights Standards: Hegemony, Law, and Politics was published by SUNY Press in February 2016.[21] James Thuo Gathii considers him part of the movement known as TWAIL, or Third World Approaches to International Law.[22][23] In January 2017, Mutua was appointed to a four-year-term as Editor of the Routledge Series on Law in Africa.[24]
On September 24, 2014, Mutua announced that he was stepping down following a controversial seven-year term as Dean amid allegations of perjury and mismanagement of the school. "The dean's critics, and they are numerous, include some of the school's most highly regarded faculty members. They claim Mutua's management style divided the school at a time of great economic turmoil. Applications and enrollment at UB Law, like at most law schools across the country, are down dramatically, and the school is going through a downsizing of both faculty and students. Critics say Mutua, who came from within the ranks of the faculty, arrived in the dean's office with a "divide and rule" philosophy that placed a priority on loyalty and penalized critics while rewarding allies." [25] On November 10, 2017, the Buffalo News reported that Mutua blamed the sworn testimony from eleven tenured professors that he had committed perjury on "personal — and bigoted — vendettas" by a "small cabal of racist law faculty who had trouble accepting that a competent, reform-minded and independent black man was running the Law School."[26]
After he left the Dean's Office, he was granted a three-semester sabbatical at his full pay. Mutua is working as a human rights adviser for World Bank, an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries. Such consultants in Washington, D.C., where Mutua's Twitter account shows he spends most of his time, make an average salary of $90,000. The campus newspaper reported that "the university is still paying the former law school dean his full salary – a salary that nears $300,000 - despite being away from the school and taking on outside work." [27]
Kenya government and media activitiesEdit
In 2003, while on sabbatical in Kenya, he was appointed by the government of President Mwai Kibaki as Chair of the Task Force on the Establishment of a Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission, which recommended a truth commission for Kenya. He was also a Delegate in 2003 to the Kenya National Constitutional Conference, which produced a contested draft constitution for Kenya.[28] In 2006, he was legal counsel to John Githongo, the former Kenyan anti-corruption czar who exposed the Anglo-Leasing scandal in the Kibaki government.[29]
In a seven-year period, Mutua became a columnist for the Sunday Nation, one of the two the main newspapers in East and Central Africa. In September 2013, he departed the Sunday Nation and joined the Standard on Sunday, the Sunday Nation's chief competitor.[30]
Application to be Kenya's Chief JusticeEdit
Following the early retirement of Dr. Willy Mutunga from the Office of Chief Justice & President of the Supreme Court of Kenya in June 2016, Mutua was among the 10 people who applied for the job in response to the vacancy announcement by the Judicial Service Commission.[31]
When the Commission drew the short list of applicants who were to be interviewed for the job, Mutua's name was conspicuously and surprisingly missing from the list, despite his strong credentials.[32] A civil society organization filed a case at the Constitutional Court questioning the criteria used in the shortlisting, and demanding that applicants who met the constitutional requirements be interviewed.
It emerged in the litigation that Mutua had not been shortlisted since he had not obtained a tax clearance from the Kenya Revenue Authority since he had reportedly not met his tax obligations in Kenya. The Constitutional Court held that persons who meet the constitutional threshold for the office must be interviewed and given the chance to explain why they did not get clearances.[33]
Following this case, Mutua and four other applicants who had been left out of the shortlist were invited to interview for the job.
During the interview, the Judicial Service Commission put him to task over tweets he had made following the contested election of Uhuru Kenyatta as President of Kenya in March 2013.[34] In a tweet published shortly after the 2013 general election, Mutua indicated that he would not recognize Uhuru Kenyatta as President due to the circumstances under which he was declared the winner of the poll. Mutua stuck to his position, and referred to President Kenyatta as Mr. Kenyatta throughout the interview.
When the interviews ended, the Commission announced that it had settled on Kenyan Court of Appeal Judge David Maraga as the nominee for the Office of Chief Justice. Mutua was ranked third in the interviews.[35][36] On December 3, 2017, after the Supreme Court confirmed Kenyatta's reelection, Mutua reiterated his refusal to recognize his Presidency.[37]
Pan-AfricanismEdit
In 1994, Mutua offered up an idea for how to reorganize Africa to construct 15 sustainable states from the 55 semi-viable states that existed at the time. He theorized this new ideal for the organization of Africa as a result of what he believed were the "consequences of the failed postcolonial state are so destructive that radical solutions must now be contemplated to avert the wholesale destruction of groups of the African people".[38] Mutua decided that the way in which the new states would be created would be by looking at ethnic similarities, cultural homogeneity, and economic viability. The new states that Mutua theorized included the Republic of Kusini, a new Egypt, Nubia, a new Mali, a new Somalia, a new Congo, a new Ghana, a new Benin, a new Libya, a Sahara state, Kisiwani, a new state made up of a collection of islands, and the current states of Angola and Algeria would remain the same.
Selected worksEdit
Human Rights Standards: Hegemony, Law, and Politics. SUNY Press. March 2016 ISBN 978-1-4384-5939-4
Kenya's Quest For Democracy: Taming Leviathan (Challenge and Change in African Politics). L. Rienner Publishers. 30 April 2008 ISBN 1-58826-590-0
Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions. University of Pennsylvania Press. 12 September 2008 ISBN 978-0-8122-4112-9
Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique. University of Pennsylvania Press. 10 November 2008 ISBN 0-8122-2049-8
"Savages, victims, and saviors: the metaphor of human rights". Harvard International Law Journal. 42 (1): 201–45. 2001.
Zaire: Repression As Policy (with Peter Rosenblum), New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1990.
"Mazrui and Barkan: A Tribute," Journal of Contemporary African Studies (2016).
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The Aftermath of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 129 S. Ct. 2527 (2009)—Identifying the Analyst Who Can Satisfy Confrontation
Ryan Sullivan, University of Nebraska College of LawFollow
This Note begins by briefly exploring the development of the Confrontation Clause over the last thirty years, followed by a discussion of the holding in Melendez-Diaz and a summary of the Court's responses to arguments made in opposition to its ruling. Part III begins by identifying a significant issue on which the Court's ruling left inadequate guidance: Who must testify in order to admit the contents of the analyst report? Oftentimes, several technicians are involved in the analysis of a single sample, yet Melendez-Dias fails to identify which of these analysts alone would satisfy confrontation requirements, leaving open the possibility that multiple analysts must testify in order to admit all the contents of a lab report. Section III.B proposes and discusses how jurisdictions can take legislative action in order to preemptively resolve this issue. Melendez-Diaz does not require the testimony of every analyst involved in the testing of the substance. In fact, the testimony of a single analyst may be sufficient as long as this analyst participated in the testing of the substance and possesses adequate knowledge regarding the equipment used and the methods employed. This Note proposes that jurisdictions adopt statutory language identifying the characteristics of this "testifying analyst," which would allow for the admission of the lab report through the testimony of a single analyst.
Ryan Sullivan, The Aftermath of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 129 S. Ct. 2527 (2009)—Identifying the Analyst Who Can Satisfy Confrontation, 89 Neb. L. Rev. (2010)
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Justin Skeesuck & Patrick Gray
Inspirational Adventurers, Lifelong Friends and Achievers of the Impossible
FEE RANGE: $25,000–$50,000 [FEE NOTE]
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Push Inc. founders, Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray, guide organizations and individuals toward their full potential through the power of relationships. This team delivers powerful and engaging keynotes to create happier, more engaged, and more productive employees and individuals through the power of teamwork! They have co-authored the award-winning book I''ll Push You, and Imprints:The Evidence our Lives Behind, released in Sept. 2019. They are the subjects of the award-winning film, I'll Push You.
Justin Skeesuck and Patrick Gray have been blessed with a unique friendship that spans over 42 years. Despite the many challenges of a progressive neuromuscular disease robbing Justin of the use of his arms and legs, the two seek to live life without reservation. Their friendship has taken them on many adventures together; most notably their 500-mile wheelchair journey across the vast terrain of northern Spain.
When Justin got the idea to take on the ancient pilgrimage known as the Camino de Santiago, he knew there was no way he could take the journey alone. So he asked his best friend his thoughts on the epic adventure. Patrick's response to Justin was simply, "I'll push you!"
What began as an impossible journey between two best friends, evolved into one of the most powerful representations of what humanity is capable of accomplishing when we come together. Through the help of friends and strangers alike, Justin and Patrick accomplished what many said couldn't be done.
As best-selling authors and highly sought after keynote speakers, Justin and Patrick use their life/work experiences and their adventures as the backdrop to which they explore concepts such as leadership, teamwork, relationship, and the power of the human collective. They believe the most successful individuals are those who understand their own limitations and invite others to be a part of their journey. Justin and Patrick's humor and engaging storytelling leave readers and audience members asking, "What can I do to make my home, my work environment, and the world a better place?"
Donald Miller, New York Times Best-Selling Author and CEO of StoryBrand recently said "Justin and Patrick are two of the most inspiring and entertaining speakers I've heard. We are more than moved. We were changed after hearing their story!"
To date, Justin and Patrick have spoken to more than 200,000 individuals in a live setting. In 2017, they released their best-selling book "I'll Push You", and their award-winning documentary by the same title in more than 570 theaters nationwide. And in 2018, they released a best-selling children's book "The Push: A Story of Friendship" making their story accessible to children.
They have been featured on many news media outlets spanning across the globe reaching over 600 million homes. Most notably, they were featured on NBC's The Today Show, The Today Show with Megyn Kelly, The Meredith Vieira Show, Fox & Friends, and "Harry" with Harry Connick Junior on CBS. Additionally, they have given a TEDx talk and have been featured on The Huffington Post, Upworthy, and Yahoo News.
This talk overviews their background and an abbreviated version of their pilgrimage on the Camino De Santiago with greater focus on stories about the small things that make the biggest difference in the lives of those around us. There are stories from people they've met from around the world in their speaking work, from their experience with Compassion International, and from their most recent accessible Camino journey with friends having a diverse range of abilities.
I'll Push You
This talk is a series of stories Justin and Patrick share about their friendship, their decision to do the 500-mile journey on the Camino De Santiago, from Spain to France together - with Patrick pushing Justin in his wheelchair, and stories from the pilgrimage, including many lessons learned along the way. Themes are about companionship, self care, caring for others, allowing others to help, the power of community, perseverance and friendship.
"We so enjoyed having Patrick & Justin as speakers. They were awesome and our attendees loved them as well! Their story was so inspiriting to hear."
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1 year after split, Tarek and Christina El Moussa open up about dealing with pain
Nov. 15, 2017, 10:28 PM UTC / Source: TODAY
By Gina Vivinetto
Tarek and Christina El Moussa have bounced back — separately — and they want their fans to know it.
On Tuesday, nearly a year after their shocking split, the "Flip or Flop" stars each took to Instagram to share solo messages about thriving again after pain.
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Christina shared a quote from pastor David Crosby about setbacks transforming people for the better. "To suffer, that is common to all. To suffer and still keep your composure, your faith, and your smile, that is remarkable," it read in part. "Pain will change you more profoundly than success or good fortune."
The HGTV star added a simple "Couldn't agree more" caption with the hashtag #keepthefaith.
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Tarek shared an empowering quote by "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, which read, "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."
The TV personality — who's battled two types of cancer and a serious back injury in addition to his domestic drama — wrote in the caption, "When you are at the bottom you feel nothing but pain, misery and despair. Even though you can't see the light at the bottom it still exists and as time goes on that light starts to shine."
"Flip or Flop" stars Tarek and Christina El Moussa split one year ago, but continue to host their HGTV series together.Patrick McMullan/Getty Image
That light, he continued, offers us "the opportunity to reevaluate who you are and what you want to be."
"Take it as an opportunity to bounce back and be stronger than ever," Tarek concluded. "In my opinion, rock bottom is an opportunity to start over and do it right!"
The real estate agents-turned-TV hosts shocked fans when they separated in a public split last December, six months after police were called to their home.
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The couple, who had been married for 7 years and have two children together — daughter Taylor, 7, and son Brayden, 2 — have continued to work together on their hit home renovation series.
According to Christina, not only are she and Tarek feeling better these days, their kids are also coping well with their divorce.
"One day, as I was driving (Taylor) to an appointment, she said, 'I don't need to go to therapy anymore, I think you and Daddy are happier apart, and I don't really need to talk about it anymore,'" Christina told Good Housekeeping in August. "She's very open and honest with her feelings."


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Categorizing Board and Card Games by Use?
L lewpuls Updated January 28, 2015
Those who have read this blog for a long time know that I am a categorizer. I try to organize things into categories in order to better to understand them and their relationships to each other. Recently it's occurred to me that within the context of a game club meeting or even a smaller game session, different games have different uses, they fit into the session in different ways. This often is reflected in different price points, different lengths, different effort requirements, and so forth.
So the following are categories organized by how games are actually used at game meetings.
I'm sure other people must have done this at some point, although a simple search for "destination game" on BoardGameGeek yielded very little. Perhaps readers will let me know about other efforts to categorize games by usage.
First we have destination games. These are games that people look to play, or occasionally organize to play beforehand, when they go to a game session. These are usually games that take quite a while to play and may take some effort as well. Many of them are 2 to 3 hour games, while the ones that are just an hour are often serial destination games, that is, you expect to play two or three times consecutively, possibly the same game, or other serial destination games, in one game session. You expect destination games to be more expensive than many other games because they're offering you more hours of use, and they're often "more involved" if not "more complicated". If the term "weight" is used to indicate the effort involves, destination games are often heavier games (though the special occasion games, below, are usually the heaviest). Serial destination games may be lighter.
Most destination games are for more than two players. Two player wargames are often serial destination games, two people get together and play the game two or more times, switching sides.
For serious chess players chess is a destination game although for some it will be a serial destination game.
Special occasion games take so long (or have such unusual requirements) that people schedule meetings just to play the game, enabling them to recruit players specifically for it. Sessions are organized days or even weeks beforehand, especially if a large number of players is required, for example Diplomacy with seven, History of the World with five or six, or Civilization (the boardgame) which requires a large number of players to work well. Many RPGs are of this category, as they require both quite a few players and a referee as well as a lot of time. For many people Britannia is a special occasion game (especially if players aren't experienced, then it can be 7 hours instead of 3.5-5), though if your game club runs many hours it might fall into the destination category. A two player "monster" wargame is also a special occasion game - sometimes several occasions before you can actually finish it. Miniatures wargames are often special occasion, though the smaller ones can be destination games.
At the other end of the spectrum we have filler games. These games almost always allow for a widely varying number of players because the purpose of the filler game is to let people play something before everyone has shown up for the destination game, or to play something after the destination game is finished. You never know in those circumstances exactly how many people you're going to have, or how much time you're going to have. Consequently filler games need to be relatively short, frequently under an hour and sometimes as little as five to 10 minutes. Some of the shorter serial destination games may be usable as fillers in the right circumstances.
I reserve the term "flexible filler" for games that can be played for 30 to 45 minutes but can also be played for as little as 5 to 10 minutes. These are often point games so that you can set a particular point target, or simply play in the amount of time available and then see who has more points.
Filler games are usually lighter games, ones without a lot of strategy to them. People often use the term "beer and pretzel" games in this context, but I prefer to avoid that term. It's not unusual for a filler game, especially a longer one that can also serve as a serial destination game, to be a "screwage" game. (See "Competition, direct conflict, wargames, and screwage games," http://pulsiphergamedesign.blogspot.com/2013/10/competition-direct-conflict-wargames.html)
A subcategory of filler game is a convenience game. These are games that can be played in tight spaces (such as a vendor booth at a convention or in a car), or in unusual circumstances where it's inconvenient to play most other games. Much of this is about the physical conformation of the game of course.
You'd expect fillers to cost significantly less than destination games, even though, in the end, you may play a filler for more hours during it's "lifetime" than you will many destination games. Given the "Cult of the New" that is so strong in the hobby, people tend to focus their attention on destination games but then only play them a few times before moving on to something else. Popular fillers can actually last much longer.
Where do the old "micro" games fit? The micro category seems to have been virtually wiped out by CCGs like Magic: the Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh. Keep in mind that most micro games, and most CCGs, are two player games. Each individual play of a CCG can be quite short, but players tend to play several games consecutively, often for several hours. So these might best be characterized as serial destination games - lots of people come to a game meeting specifically to play their favorite CCG over and over again.
Gateway games have come to be popular to introduce people to hobby game playing. Settlers of Catan is the most well-known, but Ticket to Ride also fits this category. Originally these games were serial destination games or long fillers (and again can be treated as both). Gateway games tend to be simpler than destination or special occasion game. They also tend to be shorter because "the unwashed" often aren't accustomed to sitting and doing something for long periods.
Sometimes what ought naturally to be a filler game becomes a destination game. For example, Munchkin ought to be a fairly short game if designed properly, but when played by serious gamers it becomes rampant leader bashing as everyone goes up to level 9 before somebody finally is allowed to reach level 10, and the game takes a couple hours.
In general, party games are filler games, the party is what's important, not the game. Few people take party games seriously.
I'm not strongly in touch with game prices, though obviously they're going up. (I recall FFG's Britannia in 2006 was $40, in 2008 $50.) Destination games cost much more than fillers, and special occasional games probably cost more yet. Serial destination games may be the cost of destinations or of fillers, or anywhere in between. Gateway games, because of their large print runs, should be close to filler game price even though they often amount to serial destinations.
So where does this get us as game designers? It will probably help you to be aware of what kind of game you're designing when you're still in the conception stage. It certainly won't do to market your game as a destination game when it's really a filler, or vice versa. Also, a destination game may justify more expensive components than a filler, because the former is likely to sell for more by virtue of being a destination game.
Consideration of game usage may also affect how many players you design a game for. Though nowadays, given the social nature of tabletop gaming, you're limiting yourself anytime you design a game that cannot be played by at least four.
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Ricky Sims | Ricky Sims Performances | Ricky's Acknowledgment Blog : "Thank You To All My Fans In Bern, Switzerland"
"Thank You To All My Fans In Bern, Switzerland"
Greetings...and thank you to all of my friends and "fans", (Rickysonians), in Bern, Switzerland, for "downloading" my version of "What a Wonderful World (Sax Version)" during your visits to iTunes. I am most grateful for your friendship and encouragement. I would to give a "special thank you" to Mayor Alexander Tschappat for his outstanding leadership skills...and a "special, special thank you" to the Bern Police Officers who risk their lives, EVERYDAY!...and a "BIG THANK YOU" to all of the law abiding folks of Bern for doing your part to help make this world "a wonderful world".


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Isabell Rivera OW Contributor | 4/11/2019, 9:35 a.m.
Jordan Peele ("Get Out") strikes again, with his new thriller "Us." Similar, yet different Peele's genre type is transparent as plexiglass. Yes, stereotypes also play a role in this movie, but different than past exploitative images of African-Americans. However, the genre that Peele uses is slowly growing to get more and more attention. Whereas African-Americans were usually the villain in many Hollywood blockbusters, in Peele's films the usually portrayed victim, turns into the hero. And no, not a cliche, because it's not predictable.
"Us" is adrenalin-pushing, palm-sweating delicious. It captivates the viewer throughout the two-hours running time. Nevertheless, the genre "Black horror" is nothing new.
The official term, used to attract a Black-only audience, is called "Blaxploitation." However, as the term says it, it's a subgenre of "exploitation films." An exploitation film is a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content. Exploitation films are generally low-quality "B movies." Blaxploitation (or "Blacksploitation") is an ethnic subgenre of exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The films, though having received backlash for stereotypical characters, are among the first in which Black characters and communities are the heroes and subjects of film and television, rather than sidekicks or villains or victims of brutality. The genre's inception coincides with the rethinking of race relations in the 1970s.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Hollywood struggled to connect to a broader audience. Although, despite the fact that most directors and producers of Blaxploitation movies were White, the genre was aimed to attract African-Americans, which Hollywood took full advantage of, and it realized the potential profit of expanding the audiences of Blaxploitation films across those racial lines. The first director, screenwriter, and producer who got signed by Columbia Pictures was Melvin Van Peebles. Known for the controversial and Blaxploitation movie "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," where he plays an orphan in a brothel who gets wrongfully arrested by the White authorities. As Variety Magazine reported, in the eyes of Hollywood, films which portrayed rebellious Blacks could be highly profitable, leading to the creation of the Blaxploitation genre. The movie was however, highly controversial for its time.
However, the first ever all-Black horror movie was the Black answer to "Dracula," with "Blacula," starring William Marshall and produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff and Joseph T. Naar, ironically - two White guys. Nevertheless, the Black-Horror genre - or Blaxploitation horror - is taking a different direction with Peele. He was the first Afircan-American, who took an Oscar home, for original screenplay of "US".
And although there were a few other African-Americans before Peele, such as Spike Lee, to win an award in Hollywood it is still a rare occasion. However, it seems like with the success of the Black horror genre, Black actors and all-Black shows are all over TV channels and not just shown on Black-Entertainment-Television (BET). Shows like "Empire," starring Taraji P. Henson, along Terrence Howard, received prime time on Fox, and Henson also received a Golden Globe award for her role as "Cookie Lyon." But racism in Hollywood is still prevalent. Although many Black actors and actresses receive award nomination, not many take an award home in comparison to their White competition. Something that still leaves a sour taste in the mouth of many Blacks. Peele was able to break the stereotyping in movies. His success is undeniable.


7th Episcopal District Ame Church Columbia Sc | Is Religion healthy?
CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) – The family of Myra Thompson is dealing with her death in a private manner. A member of Mother Emanuel AME. church and shot and killed Thompson and eight others. Thompson was.
The Rt. Rev. Richard Franklin Norris, prelate of the 7th Episcopal District of the AME Church, will preside over the conference. Hosts include presiding elders the Rev. John H. Gillison (Edisto.
COLUMBIA. upset that church leaders didn't appreciate him. He does not regularly attend any church now, and accused some black pastors of being "pimps in their pulpits" for the way they raise money.
The 92nd session of the Central South Carolina Annual Conference, 7th Episcopal District, will take place Tuesday through Saturday, Oct. 20-24, at Williams Chapel AME Church, 1198 Glover St. The Rev.
Hundreds convened in South Carolina's farm belt for the Palmetto Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Seventh District, which got underway at Hopewell AME Church on Monday.
The Charleston church shooting (also known as the Charleston church massacre) was a mass shooting in which Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white supremacist, murdered nine African Americans (including the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney) during a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on the evening of.
In the seventh. in Columbia and visiting constituents in Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper counties, all of which he represented in the broad swath of southern South Carolina that is district.
The funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. today at St. Stephen AME Church. Burial will be in Calvary Memorial Cemetery. Allen Cobb Sr., the former District Attorney for New Hanover and Pender counties. Mrs.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church opened its tall. a presiding elder of the 7th District AME Church in South Carolina, before adding a note of defiance to a service.
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The 7th Episcopal District of the AME Church, which encompasses all of South Carolina, got a new bishop Wednesday. On the final day of the 49th Quadrennial General Conference of the AME Church in.
A gala celebrating the Rev. Dr. Caesar Richburg's 35 years in the ministry and his campaign for bishop of the Seventh Episcopal District of the AME Church will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18, at.
The Greater St. Stephen AME Church in Georgetown is hosting the new AME bishop for South Carolina at a Praise & Worship service at 7 p.m. Friday. The speaker for the occasion is The Right Rev. Samuel.
Mental health professionals from the greater-Florence area and the Seventh Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which includes South Carolina's score of AME churches, convened.
Salley was born, reared and attended public schools in Orangeburg, S.C. He is a 1959 graduate of the University of South Carolina, Columbia. of the Sixth Episcopal District where he was appointed.
ALACHUA COUNTY BLAND COMMUNITY Damascus Cemetery. County Road 236, east of I-75 Exit 404. This cemetery is a landmark in the Bland Community. The old Damascus Church, built in 1900, stood several miles to the northeast on County Road 1491, on a.
Health-E-AME. Health-E-AME is a partnership between the AME Church and the University community. May you "prosper in all things and be in health, just as your.
. AME role will take him around the district. He preached last Sunday at Grace Chapel in Beaufort. Morris Brown, a historic 3,000-member church in downtown Charleston, is the largest in the AME's.
Concert: The Harlem Chamber Players will hold its seventh annual Black History Month Celebration. Date/Time: Feb. 22, at 3 p.m. Place: St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 521 W. 126th St. (between.


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Rethinking Inflation Targets
Posted by Big Gav in australia, economics, inflation
The Australian reports that some people (with Bernie Fraser leading the way) are finally starting to question the wisdom of raising interest rates as a response to rising inflation when the factors causing the aforesaid rising inflation (rising energy prices feeding into rising prices of everything else) will not be affected in any meaningful way by Australian interest rate levels - "Reserve 'must lift inflation target'".
This is something I've been muttering about to anyone who will listen for some months, so I'm glad to see it reaching mainstream conversation now - all interest rate rises are doing is killing highly leveraged homeowners in outer-ring suburbs and making life even more difficult for exporters who are exposed to the exchange rate - and wiping out either or both of these groups won't bring inflation that is being imported via global market prices down at all (though the rising currency does mitigate this to a certain extent).
THE Reserve Bank should tolerate inflation running above its 2-3 per cent comfort zone for the time being to support economic growth and jobs, according to former RBA governor Bernie Fraser.
He also said the Rudd Government would "probably get away" with the tax cuts due to pour into voters' pockets on July1 without damage to the economy because demand was slowing. "We are very much back into the trade-off game and central bankers are going to have to start working hard again for their money," Mr Fraser said yesterday.
His warning was backed by respected economist and former Reserve Bank board member Bob Gregory, who said Australia risked a severe downturn if the 2-3 per cent inflation target were strictly adhered to when the China-led resources boom was forcing up food and fuel prices. "We ought to be talking about how long it is acceptable to be outside the range when most of the inflation is imported," Professor Gregory said.
The two monetary policy heavyweights were responding to a call from former senior Reserve Bank officer Peter Jonson to suspend the 2-3 per cent inflation target to avoid a recession.
Mr Jonson, a former monetary policy hardman and editor of the Henry Thornton website, now believes that soaring international food and oil prices have changed the ground rules.
The comments, in a series of interviews with The Weekend Australian, confirm a debate is under way about whether monetary policy needs to be rethought to cope with the two-speed world economy in which the US and Europe face recession while China and India are feeding inflation.
Mr Fraser and Professor Gregory emphasised that inflation targeting remained the best approach for an independent Reserve Bank, and did not support a shift to another mechanism. But they believe there should be flexibility in how the regime is applied to ensure the Reserve Bank does not over-cook the response to inflation.
Interest rates have already been lifted to their highest level since 1996, yet there is no sign that inflation is under control. The latest consumer price index showed inflation at 4.2 per cent in the year to the March quarter, with prices jumping across the board.


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Смолуховский, Мариан — польский физик-теоретик.
 Смолуховский — большой древний ударный кратер в северном полушарии обратной стороны Луны.


Portable Document Format (PDF) is the open standard developed by Adobe in the 1990s to display documents in a way that makes them consistent across platforms and software. DOC (or DOCX) is the format / file extension mainly used by Microsoft Office for word processing documents. The two are not nearly compatible.
The problem is that you can not open a DOC file with Adobe Reader (or any other free PDF reader like FoxIt and Sumatra). To convert PDFs to Word format – which really only means editing a PDF document in Word – the associated process is simple.
As of Word 2013 (released in 2012), Microsoft has offered a feature called PDF Reflow. It does what you expect. In Word, go to the File tab, select Open, select any PDF file, and open it for editing as if it were a Word DOCX file.
There are limitations, however. The PDF file that you open in Word contains all the content. However, it probably will not look exactly right. That's because PDFs are "fixed". While the data exists, the file does not save the relationship between the data (for example, the position on the page). Word documents refer solely to determining this placement.
"Word is now converting your PDF file into an editable Word document," it says. "This may take a while, and the resulting Word document will be optimized to handle the text, and it may not look exactly like the original PDF, especially if the original file contained many graphics."
The said graphics are fed; They can also be easily edited.
3 to PDF is as easy as saving it as on the File tab. You should check the boxes in the Open File After Publishing dialog box to see them immediately.
It follows another warning about changes to the layout, etc. However, the content will be available and editable, even if the look goes awry. Try it.
That is, you can use PDFs in Word. If you do not have an older version of Microsoft Word.
You're not lucky when trying to open a PDF directly in Word 2010 or earlier. You must first convert the file.
There are many ways to do this. Sites like Nitro's Converter easily do a one-way conversion in both directions and send you the result via email. Of course, Nitro would prefer to sell you software, which is handy if you need hundreds or thousands of PDFs to convert.
Others include: Word.net, which has similar functions; doc2pdf, the best-looking site that converts PDFs to Word and back; PDFPros Option to convert up to three PDF files in Word per month; and PDF Converter, which also converts PDF to Excel, PowerPoint or an image or vice versa. In fact, you can e-mail each attachment to pdf@freepdfconvert.com and receive a PDF.
Desktop software – the fastest way to turn a PDF document into a Word document – is not lacking in options. PDFMate or WPS Office converters are excellent options for Windows users. If you work with a Mac, there is Lighten or iPubsoft, but both have only one free trial, which is why they are not completely free.
Smallpdf sells a $ 99 Windows tool called Solid PDF Converter, which offers much more than just Word output, batch conversions, and OCR to convert scans into editable text. It also offers a service of $ 6 per month for unlimited online conversions.
Ultimately, however, Word makes a pretty dreadful editor for PDF files. If you are looking for a full PDF editor, you will be much better, and you will not have to pay the high cost of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.
For example, FoxIt PhantomPDF costs $ 109; Qoopa's PDF Studio Standard costs $ 89; and CutePDF costs only $ 49.95. They all have free trials, so if you have serious PDF editing in your future, give it a try before choosing Word conversions.
Converting a PDF file into an image file makes it much easier on a Mac than with a PC. Just open the PDF on a Mac and preview it. Use the File> Export menu to select the desired image format and options and your image file.
On Windows, it's best to create a free Adobe account and sign in to https://cloud.acrobat.com/exportpdf. Drag a PDF into the window. From the Convert To menu, choose Image, then Image Format (JPEG, PNG, or TIFF). Use the slider to select image quality. Multi-page PDFs are converted to separate image files. You can then download a ZIP file containing the image files.
If you care about privacy concerns and do not want to share your data with Adobe, you can use many image-editing programs to export PDF files to image files. Our favorite is XnViewMP (www.xnview.com), free for personal and educational use. When you open a PDF file in XnViewMP, you'll probably need to follow the instructions for installing the open source GhostScript app to work with PDF and PostScript files. You can then use XnViewMP to export a PDF file to any standard image format. Note that all fonts are converted from the scalable TrueType format to bitmap and smaller text becomes "block-y".
If you want to optimize export options, you can export all commercial PDF editors to image files. We used FineReader, Acrobat and PDF-Xchange Editor with great results. These include options for creating small files suitable for viewing on the Internet, inserting into documents, or other locations where PDFs are not supported.


PSC department is looking to recruit fresher Indian candidates for the vacant positions of Motor Vehicle Inspectors in Gujarat state. Gujarat Public Service commission department issued an official notification in the PDF format on their official departmental website. This PDF file is in Gujarati language only. Here we translated that PDF file in English language and shared with you the information about that PDF file. You can check the official PDF file under IMPORTANT LINK section where we shared the link of PDF file as well as the link to apply online.
For more information related to these Govt jobs for Motor Vehicle Inspectors is given below in this article. So read this whole article carefully before applying online through the official website of the department.
Pay Band: Not specified in the PDF file.
Those who have a Degree in Mechanical engineering or Automobile Engineering can apply for this Motor Vehicle Inspector jobs.
Should fall in the fallowing age criteria of 19 years to 35 years for applying these Govt jobs.
Paying Method: Applicants can pay the above application fee which we mentioned in the table through the following ways: " Through Challan OR Net Banking OR Card Payment".
Those who satisfied all the eligibility conditions which we mentioned above in this article can apply online for these Government jobs for Motor Vehicle Inspector posts. The link is already activated for applying on 15th Nov. 2018 and this link will remain activated up to 30th Nov. 2018. So all the applicants have to apply between these dates.
There is no other process for applying these Government jobs. So follow the IMPORTANT LINK section at the last of this post for more information.
15TH Nov. 2018 is the Opening Dates.


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No Stars at the Circus: eBook (Reflowable ePub)
By Mary Finn
A cross between The Boy in Striped Pyjamas and The Diary of Anne Frank.
No Stars at the Circus is the beautifully told story of 10-year-old Jonas Albers, as written in his notebooks. Jonas lives in hiding in the Professor's house during the six months following the round-up of Jews in Paris on 16 July 1942. Jonas spends his days reading about his favourite subjects – among which are sharks, salmon and albatrosses. He also writes about his present life in the attic, as well as the past, in which the circumstances of his rescue are revealed. He writes about his friends at the circus and the family he greatly misses. Unaware of the atrocities happening around him and throughout Europe, Jonas hears that his parents have gone off "to work" and is worried about his little sister, Nadia, who is deaf – so worried that one day he steps outside in the hope of finding out where she is.
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Golden Gate District
San Rafael Transit Center Project Page
The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District (Bridge District) has started a multi-year process to develop a new transit center for San Rafael. The current transit center will be affected by the extension of Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) system to Larkspur. Several government agencies are partnering to identify a new transit center site and configuration that will provide for the current and future mobility needs of San Rafael and Marin County.
As SMART is extended further south to Larkspur, the tracks will bisect the site where the San Rafael Transit Center (SRTC) is currently located. This will impact how buses and people will be able to access and travel through the site as well as the amount of space available for buses and riders. As a result, the transit center must be replaced in another location in downtown San Rafael. This is an opportunity to create a more accessible transit facility for all users and improve both connectivity and safety.
The Bridge District has held a series of public meetings to gather input and comments from public agencies and the community. See below for a list of past public meetings and ways to stay informed.
Learn About the San Rafael Transit Center Project
Read, download, or print our Project Fact Sheet (en español).
Attend a future public meeting (listed below).
Follow us on social media on Facebook (Golden Gate Transit) and Twitter (@GoldenGateBus)
Sign up for project news and updates at our GovDelivery subscription page.
Leave a message for the project team at (415) 257-4444 or email the team at SRTC@goldengate.org.
Public Meetings & Open Houses
Public Meeting #4 - TBD
Public Meeting #3 - Notice of Preparation of Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and Scoping Meeting - Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Notice of Preparation of a Draft EIR and Notice of Scoping Meeting
Presentation (14 slides - PDF)
Stations:
Purpose & Need
Design Requirements
Scoping & Environmental Process
4th Street Gateway Concept
Across the Freeway Concept
North of 4th Street Concept
Two-Story Concept
Whistlestop Concept
Environmental Scoping Report, dated February 2019
Appendix A - Notice of Project Scoping
Appendix B - Scoping Meeting Presentation
Appendix C - Scoping Meeting Materials
Appendix D - NOP Comments
Appendix D - Public Comments
Public Meeting #2 - Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Meeting flyer
Video: Presentation (27 minutes)
Preliminary Concepts Under Consideration - Overview (en español)
Purpose & Need, Design Considerations
Concepts Removed from Consideration
Who Are You, What Transportation Services Do you Use?
Potential Urban Design Element Examples
Across the Freeway Concept (w/ Hetherton Shift Option)
Whistlestop Block Concept
Post-Meeting Outreach Summary and Results
Public Meeting #1 - Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Video: Presentation (15-minutes, including slides)
Why Are We Here?
Transit Design
The Current Transit Center
The San Rafael Transit Center (SRTC) serves as the regional transit hub for Marin County. It connects bus service, airporter service, taxi, and rail service with transfer points to San Francisco, Contra Costa and Sonoma counties.
Services at the current San Rafael Transit Center include:
Local and regional bus service: Golden Gate Transit; Marin Transit; Sonoma County Transit
Airporter service: Marin Airporter; Sonoma County Airport Express
Greyhound Bus Lines
Ride hailing/taxi service
Regional rail service: Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART)
Golden Gate Transit customer service
The current 17-bay transit center serves people getting on and off buses 9,000 times each day on the over 500 buses that serve the transit center. Nearly half of weekday riders originate from or are travelling to the downtown San Rafael area. Just over half are transferring between buses or between bus and rail at the transit center. With 16 bus bays occupied during peak times, the SRTC is currently operating at or beyond its capacity.
A new transit center offers an opportunity to:
Increase safety and comfort for users
Enhance the surrounding community by providing improved public space and mobility opportunities •	Improve connectivity and circulation in and around downtown San Rafael
Increase use of local and regional transit use by improving transit connections
Increase accessibility for all users
Maintain the current functionality and flexibility for the operators who serve it
Where will the new transit center be located and what will it include?
This is where we need your input. What would you like to see at the new center? Leave a message for the project team at (415) 257-4444 or email the team at SRTC@goldengate.org. Be sure to sign up to receive project update emails and follow us on social media on Facebook (Golden Gate Transit) and Twitter (@GoldenGateBus).
Interim San Rafael Transit Center (March 22, 2018)
Work on the SMART train extension to Larkspur is currently under construction. Since this project bisects the San Rafael Transit Center, there will be significant impacts on how buses can enter and exit the current transit center and where passengers board and exit buses.
SMART is currently leading a team, which includes staff from the Golden Gate Bridge District and Marin Transit, to develop phased plans that maintain the ability for buses to continue serving passengers within the existing transit center while the Larkspur extension is under construction. Designs were tested at the Bridge District's bus yard in Novato to assure that they work in the real world (click on video link below to see an example of this work). Each phase will impact where buses can drop-off and pick-up passengers, and signage will help passengers find their way to the proper locations for each phase. When the SMART Larkspur Extension is complete (expected by the end of 2019), the San Rafael Transit Center will be operating in an interim condition until a permanent replacement transit center is constructed.
Video link to interim SRTC bus movement test: https://youtu.be/z83Xvx23vok.
Click the thumbnail below for the draft interim SRTC bus flow diagram.
Agency Involvement
As the owner of the SRTC, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District will serve as the lead environmental agency for the project. The Bridge District, the City of San Rafael, Marin Transit, Transportation Authority of Marin, and SMART are all partners in the project.
Previous Planning
Improving access to transit in Marin County and the North Bay Area is consistent with transportation goals established in the San Rafael Transit Center Relocation Study and the San Rafael Downtown Station Area Plan adopted in 2012.
A key part of the vision developed through the Station Area Plan process is to provide a safe and comfortable environment for transit users and a pleasant connection between the transit center and surrounding neighborhoods.
The new transit center will be more inviting, easier to use, and improve quality of life for the residents, students, and those who work in San Rafael. It also brings the opportunity to enhance the vibrancy of downtown San Rafael with a new public space. By making public transit more desirable and functional, car trips can be reduced and transit ridership may increase.
The San Rafael Transit Center Relocation Study was a two-year effort led by the City of San Rafael in close partnership with the Bridge District, Marin Transit, SMART, Transportation Authority of Marin,and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to gain insight into the transit demands in and around the SRTC.
The study analyzed and documented the needs of the transit center, the transit and land use constraints of the surrounding area, and identified and evaluated a set of potential solutions to address both short-term and long-term transit center needs.
Building upon previous planning efforts, this current project will define feasible alternatives, solicit and integrate community feedback, identify a preferred alternative, obtain environmental clearance, and advance the project through the preliminary design phase.
Funding for this phase of the project is from the One Bay Area Grant program and Bridge District funds. Funding sources for the design and construction phases of the new transit center are anticipated to be a combination of local, state, and federal programs.
1. This area already suffers from congestion. How will traffic be impacted?
A key issue that will influence the preferred solution will be circulation and access. Congestion is a primary concern for those who live, work and attend school in San Rafael. The 2nd & Hetherton and 3rd & Hetherton intersections are among the busiest and most congested in the entire county. High traffic volumes also create an undesirable pedestrian environment, demonstrated by a history of collisions. It is critical to locate and design the transit center in a way that benefits bus and auto circulation while creating a safe environment for pedestrians to access the transit center, circulate between transit services, and connect with downtown San Rafael.
2. Where will the new transit center be located?
Downtown San Rafael is a major work center and the location where several major north-south and east-west bus routes intersect with each other as well as with the new SMART train. With easy freeway access, it is the ideal location to reduce riders' travel time, reduce operating costs, and reduce the amount of time buses spend on City streets. In addition, many people use the services at the transit center to travel to and from destinations within San Rafael. Therefore, downtown San Rafael is the ideal location for the new transit center.
3. What alternatives are being considered?
The project is currently in the early planning phases. It will build upon previous planning efforts and incorporate public input. The initial project phase will identify the best alternatives to evaluate.
4. If the project is in the early planning phase, what is the overall the project development process?
The project includes the following primary phases:
Identification of Transit Center Alternatives – Perform updated technical analysis and build on previous planning efforts to identify potential transit center sites and configurations.
Environmental Analysis - Identify potential environmental impacts associated with the project.
Preliminary Engineering - Prepare initial designs for the transit center.
A preferred transit center location and configuration is anticipated to be selected by the end of 2019. Environmental analysis and preliminary design is anticipated to be completed in 2020. Subsequent project efforts after 2020 will include final design and construction.
5. How will site options be determined?
The next step in the process will build upon the detailed evaluation conducted as part of the Relocation Study, which will be updated to reflect current transit operations and community input.
6. What alternatives were considered in previous studies?
The previous study identified and evaluated more than nine potential transit center sites before recommending three for further evaluation. The initial nine sites were developed and screened based upon a certain set of assumptions in place at the time of the study. Those assumptions will be revisited to identify if any changes in perspectives or conditions would warrant consideration of new alternatives.
7. I understand the need for the new transit center, but am concerned that San Rafael is a unique place in Marin County and the new center should reflect that. Will the new center benefit the community aesthetically?
The goal is for the new transit center to be easy to access, safe, and secure while reflecting the unique personality of San Rafael through aesthetic urban design. There will be many opportunities to share your ideas to shape the vision and character of the facility and the surrounding area.
8. I can't attend a public meeting. How can I make sure my voice is heard?
Stakeholder engagement is important to this project. We want to hear your input and are working to ensure that all segments of the community are included. We are leveraging a variety of in-person and online forums to obtain broad input about transit center needs and the alternatives under consideration. Sign up for e-mail updates at www.goldengate.org/SRTC. Connect via social media on Facebook (Golden Gate Transit) and Twitter (@GoldenGateBus).
9. I am a cyclist and am concerned how this will affect me. Are the needs of cyclists being considered?
We are working closely with the City of San Rafael to identify preferred solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing bicycle and pedestrian routes. Pathways will be identified to provide safe access to, from, and through the transit center.
10. Why doesn't this project include housing?
The primary purpose of this project is to build a new transit center in downtown San Rafael. The City is starting a lengthy process of updating its General Plan. As part of that process, land use and housing will be fully considered, including in the area around the transit center. This project will be included in that effort.
11. Why aren't the SMART tracks being elevated?
Modifying the SMART tracks are not part of this project. The cost and visual/aesthetic impacts of elevating SMART would be substantial. There is no funding source identified or being considered for elevating SMART. Therefore, that is not being considered as part of this project.
12. Why is the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District leading this project?
As the owner of the transit center, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District (Bridge District) will serve as the lead environmental agency for the project. The Bridge District is working closely with the City of San Rafael, Marin Transit, the Transportation Authority of Marin, and SMART on this project. Per a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bridge District, the San Rafael City Council will have the opportunity to approve the final selected alternative.


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What makes a kitchen perfect? In my eyes, there are a few things to look at. It needs to be attractive yet practical, for a start. And it also needs to be easy to clean and safe.
well that was in 2011, and it has served us very well since. I still love the vintage look of it, so I won't be making any changes, because we are in the middle of moving (or trying to move anyway as you well know) but a gal can start planning her dream kitchen can't she!.
So, I've been thinking about this and I thought I would pull together all of my ideas and share them with you today. Have a read and let me know what you think!
Let's take a look at the basics that all kitchens need. The fridge, freezer and oven are all major areas of concern – and they are all so expensive! In terms of style, there is plenty to choose from. But, given that I want an easy-to-clean kitchen, I'm going to narrow down my choices even further.
Now I remember hearing about this self-cleaning fridge several years ago. It was a concept rather than an actual product, and I had hoped that it might have seen the light of day by now. Unfortunately, it looks like we'll be waiting a while yet. Because, let's be honest, who isn't going to buy a self-cleaning fridge if they could? So, maybe I'll hold off on the new white goods for the time being.
However, I know that when we move I am thinking of changing up the oven situation. And, the perfect fit would be something with easy-to-clean electric hobs. Cook your meals, wipe it down, and it's done. No more pulling stoves apart and trying to clean those tricky parts.
There's a lot of choice out there when it comes to work surfaces. And, I'm not sure that I would want the same material running through the whole kitchen. I love wood, for example – it's the perfect surface for chopping, and you don't need a board or anything. However, it does stain like crazy, which means you need to be a bit careful with the more colourful foods. but the idea of a wood work surfaces and white kitchen cupboards makes my dream kitchen complete!
I'm also fed up of the standard metal sinks that you see so often ( I have one now yuk!) so I'm thinking about a Corian surface so that it is nice and smooth – and hygienic. It's a lot more expensive than your standard fare, but if you can afford it, I think it's worth it. Just imagine the time you will save when cleaning down!
The traditional kitchen has plenty of cupboard space, and it's a neat and smart look. But, what if you want something a little different? We usually take the cupboard doors off…but that makes for a lot of cleaning so I am starting to change my mind on that idea again…what i want to do is have a kitching big enough to house my dressers in so that I can display my kitchen trinkets on them…more blues whites and reds..
I also love the thought of the open plan look…this will enable my hubby to move around in his wheelchair as he loves to cook….I'd want an area where the worktops are lowered so that he can easily move around the kitchen and conjure up some of his wonderful French Onion Soup!
Any suggestions, as always, are very welcome. Let me know what you think!
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11    Pent,  Exo   10:    9    |                                9 ~"Young and old must go with us,"
18    Pent,  Lev    4:   14    |          community shall present a young bull as a sin offering.
37    Pent,  Num   11:   27    |                     27 ~So, when a young man quickly told Moses, "
47    Pent,  Jud   12:    9    |          wives for his sons thirty young women from outside the family.
69     His, 1Sam   25:    5    |                     5 ~he sent ten young men, instructing them: "
82     His, 2Sam   13:   32    |            lord think that all the young princes have been killed!
134     His, 1Mac   11:   57    |                           57 ~Then young Antiochus wrote to Jonathan: "
176   WisdB,  Pro    6:   20(5) |          and constant help for the young (Proverb 6:20-23; 7:1-4).
203  ProphB,  Isa   13:    7    |          helpless, the bows of the young men fall from their hands.
277    Gosp,  Luk    2:   22(9) |     instead two turtledoves or two young pigeons, as Mary does here.
283    Gosp,  Joh   20:    2(4) |           not directed by an angel/young man as in the synoptic accounts.


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