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ENDANGERED SPECIES SPOTLIGHT: Hairy-Nosed Otter
Endangered Species Spotlight:
Hairy Nosed Otter
SPECIES: Hairy Nosed Otter (Lutra sumatrana)
CURRENT RANGE: Small isolated populations in southeast Asia.
CURRENT THREATS: Habitat loss and the illegal wildlife trade (both for skins and for pets).
CONSERVATION STATUS: Endangered
WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: There is just one Hairy Nosed Otter in captivity– a rescued male at the Wildlife Alliance's Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Photo by Romain Pizzi
What is a Hairy Nosed Otter?
Otter scientists tend to be quite simple when it comes to naming species. The Sea Otter lives in the sea, the Giant Otter is huge, the Congo Clawless Otter has no claws and lives in the Congo basin, and so on. So yes, you guessed it, the Hairy Nosed Otter has hairs on its nose!
This is one of the rarest otters in the world, confined to southeast Asia. In the early 20th century they were fairly common throughout the region. But by 1979 their population had been greatly reduced. In 1998 I attended a meeting of the IUCN Otter Specialists Group in the Czech Republic. People were there to talk about all 13 species of the world's otters, but there had been no reports of the Hairy Nosed Otter for 10 years and so it was believed to be extinct.
However, Dr. Budsabong Kanchansaka believed there could still be Hairy Nosed Otters surviving in jungles in the south of her native Thailand. During a research trip supported by the International Otter Survival Fund (IOSF), she visited the Phru Toa Dang swamp forest and spotted an otter crossing the road. Was it a Hairy Nosed Otter? She couldn't be certain.
In February 1999 she heard about three cubs found in a remote Thai village. A local man had found them crying as a forest fire was approaching, so he took them home with him. Budsabong told us, "hurrying down south on a hunch, my suspicions were proven true– the otters had hair-covered rhinariums!"
U Minh Thuong National Park
This was the confirmation we needed to prove that these animals were still alive in the wild. There were rumors that they may exist in other countries, including Vietnam. In 2003 I had the opportunity to work with Dr. Dang in the Mekong Delta, spending most of our time in the U Minh Thuong reserve. It's mainly Melaleuca swamp forest, which seems to be the preferred habitat of the Hairy Nosed Otter.
These otters were later confirmed to exist in Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake as well as Indonesia and Malaysia's Taman Negara. This is particularly interesting, as they were found in lowland tropical evergreen forest rather than swamp forest. It is also possible that they may still be present in Laos and Myanmar.
Hairy-nosed otters are long, slender animals with an incredibly long tail. So they look almost snake-like. The fur is mostly dark with yellow or white markings on the chin and neck, while their feet have claws and webbing. In Cambodia they're known as the "black otter," to distinguish them from the "grey otter" or Smooth Coated Otter.
So what do we actually know about this species? Very little, to be honest. There have only been a few field studies into their natural ecology and behavior. The only video footage of this otter ever filmed in the wild was taken by Dr. Budsabong in Thailand.
We know that they eat mostly fish. But, like all otters, they'll take whatever they can get, such as snakes, frogs, lizards, crabs, birds and small mammals. They seem to live mostly as solitary animals, although groups of 4-6 individuals have also been seen.
In some areas they're mostly active in the early morning and late afternoon. But camera traps have also shown them to be active from midnight to the early morning. One unusual feature is that, unlike most otters, they don't seem to have regular toilet areas. They'll often deposit their droppings (spraint) on fallen logs.
778 confiscated otter skins. Photo via Conservation International
Why is the Hairy Nosed Otter Endangered?
Hairy-nosed otters are regarded as "Endangered" and face many threats to their survival, including habitat destruction, agricultural pollution, construction of hydroelectric dams and increased fish farming, with an associated increase in human/otter conflicts. Then there are the huge forest fires in Sumatra and Malaysia, caused by clear felling for palm oil plantations.
But one of the biggest threats to their survival is the illegal wildlife trade, which is huge in Asia. We are all familiar with the trade in ivory, rhino horn, tigers, etc. But otters?! The sad fact is that, for every tiger skin found, there are at least 10 otter skins. One confiscated haul in Tibet had an astounding 778 otter skins.
The main market for these furs is Tibet, where they form an important part of the traditional dress– the chupa– which is worn at festivals and official state functions. In September 2005 an article titled "Otters: Dressed to Kill" appeared in the Times of India: "They were everywhere," it read. "In upscale shops in old Lhasa, on the streets of Linxia in China's Gansu province and on the bodies of young men and women attending horse festivals in Tibet. But there's one image– a young man wearing a traditional Tibetan dress embellished with six otter heads…"
Hairy Nosed Otter from Cambodia by IOSF1957 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
In 2007, staff members from Conservation International spoke to a Cambodian fisherman and otter hunter from Tonle Sap Lake. He had caught and sold 49 otters in 4 years: Of these, 23 were Hairy Nosed Otters. A trader in Phnom Penh also had six Hairy Nosed Otter skins, which had been misidentified as Smooth Coated Otters by local authorities.
There is also a big market for Otters as pets. Most of the time this trade involves Asian Small-Clawed Otters, but Hairy Nosed Otters have also been found. Sadly, they nearly always die, as they seem to be very vulnerable to poor water quality.
So the pressure on the Hairy Nosed Otter population is very high. The fur trade is threatening all species of Otters in Asia. But, because their population is already so small, any further threat could obviously push Hairy Nosed Otters to extinction.
Buddhist monks blessing Dara, the hairy-nosed otter. Photo by Annette Olsson
What's being done to save Hairy Nosed Otters?
If we want to help Otters, we have to help people realize that their presence indicates a healthy environment, which is important for all species (including our own). We also have to help those who find themselves in conflict with Otters through fishing. So IOSF has been holding a series of training workshops for the next generation of Otter conservationists, who can carry out surveys and education/public awareness programs within their own communities.
In March 2009 a workshop was held in Cambodia. Soon after, a fisherman found a Hairy Nosed Otter caught in his nets and took it to his community worker. This was a huge positive step, as this man could have sold the animal for about $200! This cooperation between the local communities and Otter conservationists is essential for the long-term survival of the species.
The Otter became known as Dara, meaning "star" in the local Khmer language. He became an ambassador to the local people for Otter conservation, cared for at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre. When he relocated into his new enclosure, the Buddhist monks blessed his new home, as is customary for people when they move. Sadly, Dara became seriously ill and died, possibly due to poor water quality.
At the end of 2011 another Hairy Nosed Otter, known as Pursat, was taken to Phnom Tamao. Staff from Wildlife Alliance bring fresh water daily to ensure that he doesn't encounter the same problems as Dara. He's the only Hairy Nosed Otter in captivity, regarded as an ambassador for his species.
Ultimately, the biggest problem facing all 13 otter species is lack of awareness. So IOSF has dedicated 2016 as the YEAR OF THE OTTER, aiming to draw attention to the plight of the world's otters and raise funds for conservation. We want everyone to get involved in spreading the word about the importance of otters. We have translated Otter posters into many different languages, and they can be downloaded here.
Please consider donating to our crowdfunding page and passing this post along to friends and family. And if you want to learn more about Hairy Nosed Otters and the other 12 species worldwide, you can read more in the book Otters of the World, which is available in the IOSF shop.
I've been extremely privileged to work with Otters for many years now, and I never tire of watching them. At IOSF we also care for orphaned and injured Otters, which are released back to the wild. But seeing a truly wild Otter, of any species, is a special moment. Please help us in the Year of the Otter. Together we can become a very loud voice to make people take notice and help save the Hairy Nosed Otter before it's too late. –by Grace Yoxon, International Otter Survival Fund
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Celebrating our first 100 years and preparing for the next
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BY:Beth Edelman| April 18, 2019
This year we celebrate 100 years of the Communist Party, USA. It is the occasion of 100 years of Marxism in use by the members of the CPUSA; we communists celebrate our founding, our history and struggle to use Marxism. For a 100 years the effort has been continuing, deliberate and a tenacious struggle to apply Marxism to experience/ the struggles of the working class and oppressed peoples of the US.
Since the ascendance of the extreme right to all three branches of government in 2016, the popular resistance has grown. I've read that the democratic movement aka the resistance has nearly 10,000 new organizations. Before 2016 there was no organization called Revolution, Reclaim or Indivisible. And Black Lives Matter is just a few years older than these. National, local and state organizations such as the NAACP and ACLU have experienced increased contributions as well as volunteers. Many union locals have witnessed resurgence in membership attendance. The trade union movement overall has grown. Organizations on the front lines have reported upticks in financial contributions.
The dramatic and militant struggle against the Trump Administration's Muslin Ban was the first shape up. While Trump eventually prevailed with a watered down version of the Muslim travel ban, the effort, the struggle set the tone. The New Sanctuary Movement is in key cities around the country organized to defend workers. Sanctuary cities have held their ground against threats and reprisals from the Trump Administration. AFL-CIO state and local organizations have focused resources and mobilize their membership to understand and defend workers. The defense of human rights, the rights of workers and the right to immigrate is part of the democratic movement.
Soon after the election of DJT the Republican Congressional majority undertook the repeal of the ACA (Obamacare), session 2017. This, like demonizing immigrants from Central America and Middle East nations was going to make life and healthcare in the US better. Trump issued his now understood empty promise.
Healthcare and disability rights organized and led the fight against the Republican Congress to defend the ACA. Republicans were pretty confident of their effort to repeal as they controlled the Congressional agenda. After all Republicans had pledged to voters they would repeal and the House had voted more than 50 times to do just that. What they didn't count on was an understanding that it was ACA or nothing, no insurance, no means of paying the hospital, doctors or other medical bills. Sit-ins, sit-downs, mass arrests in the halls of Congress were the lead on the nightly news. Many of these demonstrations were led disabled people. Demonstrations across the country and a daily deluge of delegations and phone calls to Senators shaped a different picture. These organizations too showed big surges.
This movement we're experiencing at the end of the second decade of the 21st century is among the biggest, broadest, and most unruly movements for democracy in our history. At one and the same time it is a movement for democracy against extreme right rule, for workers rights against growing income inequality for healthcare and against the repeal of the ACA, for single payer, for equality for peoples of color, for reform of the prison and court system, against police aggression, against misogyny, against rise of racism and racist attacks, for a $15 minimum wage, against inhuman anti immigration policies, for gun safety, for decent jobs and pay, and the right to organize and belong to a union.
It's almost as if the electoral success of the right with it's clumsy and vile message of racism and xenophobic division, a promise of a 'fix' for the naked rise in income and wealth inequality uncorked the broad frustration, the anger and pent-up need of major sectors of the US working class and people.
The most notable in the hours after the electoral surprise, 2016, was the spontaneous street heat. It was defiant opposing the extreme right's victory. The day after inauguration the Women's March of 2017 filled the streets across with country with millions of people.
Each successive year of this march propelled the resistance and helped create new sector of the women's movement.
Polling began to reflect reality –the end of the ACA would mean no healthcare for millions. Majority support for Obamacare connected. Despite full control of both Houses of Congress and the White House, Republicans could not repeal. The survival of the ACA, including the Medicaid expansion and the exchanges where people can buy insurance survives in spite of continuing attacks from the Administration and court decisions won by the right.
The scope of the struggle for healthcare is reflected in the growth of the support for the Medicare for All proposals. It, healthcare, was the issue that dominated the 2018 election. It is certain to be a big issue in 2020.
31st National Convention
Beth Edelman
The party of a new type, 100 years later
Changing society is a marathon, not a sprint
Communist Party celebrates centennial anniversary
In other words, democracy
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Wave power involves harnessing the power of the ocean's waves and converting it to electricity through a wave energy converter (WEC). Dr. Andrew King, from Curtin University's School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, is working with Perth company Bombora Wave Power to trial and refine the "mWave" wave energy converter. Using the world-class supercomputing infrastructure at Pawsey, Dr. King and his team can develop a series of mathematical models on water, air, and membrane fluid mechanics to predict the volume of electricity that can be generated. Through the use of the supercomputers, the feasibility of mWave production can be made into accurate predictions and succeed as a cutting-edge renewable energy solution for Australia.
In collaboration with award-winning company Bombora Wave Power, Dr. King aims to develop optimal designs and prototypes of the mWave suitable for an oceanic environment. The mWave technology would need to endure storm conditions at sea, yet remain cost-effective enough for global market production. The complexity of the WEC technology, however, and the lengthy timeframe that parametric studies require to be conducted, presented a challenge for the research team. "The mathematical models are nonlinear, tightly coupled and extremely challenging to solve," said Mr. Shawn Ryan, executive director of Bombora Wave Power. Access to high-performance computing resources would allow for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and lay the foundation for the accurate, and complete understanding of the power capture of the mWave. The project called for computing infrastructure that was beyond the capability of standard computing facilities.
Following the mWave designs created through CFD techniques on Pawsey's state-of-the-art supercomputers, the wave energy converter prototype was constructed. The mid-scale prototype has a series of air-inflated rubber membranes that are mounted to a concrete seafloor structure and arranged at an angle to capture the power from the incoming waves. In 2015 the mWave prototype was tested in the Swan River in Western Australia. The test found that each unit is rated at 1.5MW (megawatts) with the potential to supply sustainable electricity to 500 homes or deliver 1GL (gigalitre) of desalinated water each year: equivalent to eliminating carbon emissions from approximately 825 cars. "The models and simulations have built real confidence in how our "mWave" will perform when installed at full scale. Running multiple simulations simultaneously is a great way to compare different design iterations and configurations," said Mr. Ryan. "Bombora is continuously researching and developing ways to optimise and refine the design and configuration of a mWave farm to get the maximum possible conversion of wave energy into electricity, at the lowest possible price." The Bombora Wave Power project is working toward being able to commercialise the low-cost technology which will give Australia a strategic advantage in positioning itself as a major contributor in sustainable energy technology. "Without access to a supercomputer, confidence in the mWave's ability to generate competitively priced, high volumes of energy, would be considerably less," said Mr. Ryan. Ongoing research into wave energy will continue to facilitate the design and improvement of cutting edge WEC technology. The Pawsey Supercomputing infrastructure will be an integral part of this process.


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Review Essay: Willful Blindness by Margaret Heffernan, part 2
The studies conducted by Stanley Milgram of Yale University in the early 1960s are among the best known psychology experiments. They illustrate that obedience to authority often accounts for "willful blindness."
Briefly, a volunteer subject was told that the experiment would study whether electric shocks could help people learn. This "teacher" thought he or she was delivering electric shocks to the "learner," who was actually acting on behalf of the research team. The learner had to remember word pairs, and each incorrect answer led to ever increasing electric shocks. The teachers, who could hear but not see the learners, were nearly all distressed as the learner's initial complaints of pain escalated to screams. In the initial experiment, all subjects wanted to stop, but they were told by another member of the experimental team that they must continue. 65% of subjects believed that they had delivered what they were told was the maximum shock – 450 volts.
Interestingly, Yale undergraduate psychology majors predicted that 0-3% of subjects would deliver the maximum voltage – roughly the percentage of psychopaths who are unable to feel empathy. Yet most subjects obeyed the instructions of the experimenters, even though they gained no reward for giving the maximum shock and were told that there was no penalty (they were paid $4 for their time) if they stopped at any time. In fact, in one variation, the "learner" mentioned that he had a heart condition, and as the shocks increased he begged the "teacher" to stop on that account. Even after the learner became silent, most teachers continued to administer shocks, following the researcher's instructions.
Some of those who were skeptical of the research results suggested that participants might have known or suspected that the "learner" was acting. Subjects might have delivered the shocks because they believed that they really weren't hurting anyone. Consequently, a different research team had a "fluffy puppy dog" receive electric shocks. I'll talk about that experiment, and its implications, next essay.
Go on to: Review Essay: Willful Blindness by Margaret Heffernan, part 3


The scarcity of large cod in the Baltic Sea has never been as great as now, a new study shows. If this is a sign of genetic change, we risk creating an ecosystem in which large predatory fish have disappeared.
Cod in the Baltic Sea are not growing to the size they did in the past. At the same time, their size composition in recent years has become increasingly homogeneous.
– This is a completely unique situation. There is no historic data that shows a size structure as truncated as the one we see in the Baltic Sea today. This is a serious situation for the cod population, for the fisheries and for the ecosystem, says Henrik Svedäng, fisheries researcher at Stockholm Universitys' Baltic Sea Centre.
The Baltic cod can have a life span of 25 years and grow up to one and a half metres in length. However, it is a long time since such magnificent specimens were found in the trawl nets of commercial fishing vessels. Today, most of the cod in the Baltic Sea are around 30 centimetres in length. Cod measuring 40–50 centimetres in length are rare specimens.
In their latest study, Henrik Svedäng and Sara Hornborg from the research institute RISE show that the trend towards an increasingly compressed size structure has been gradually on-going since the start of this century, and that the driving factors include extensive fishing and low growth rates.
– Since the low growth rates of recent years seem to be connected to a high density of truncated cod, this is probably what is known as density-dependent growth, says Henrik Svedäng.
Cod eat different kinds of food depending on how large they are. When a fish population consists almost exclusively of small cod of roughly the same size, the competition for food increases, which inhibits the individual's growth.
– In practice this means that the number of cod in the population regulates individual growth, says Henrik Svedäng.
While growth rates are in decline, and the proportion of small cod is increasing, trawling is being geared towards catching increasingly large cod.
–As of the mid 1990s there has been a deliberate increase in fish selectivity by the use of increasingly large mesh sizes and mesh that also opens during trawling. This means that an increasing number of small cod escape even if they swim inside the trawl net," says Henrik Svedäng.
Each of the two trends – low growth rates and increased fish selectivity – probably reinforce the negative effects of the other, which has consequences for the fish stocks but also for the commercial fisheries. The smaller the size of cod in the sea, the greater the fishing effort that is needed to catch the same amount as before.
– We also have an ecosystem where large predatory fish have disappeared, and there is a risk that their vital structuring function in the ecosystem will be lost," says Henrik Svedäng.
For the cod in the Baltic, the key to survival has always been about adaptation. Over the centuries the cod has adapted to low salinity and less favourable oxygen conditions. According to Henrik Svedäng, todays' prevailing dominance of smaller cod could be a sign that cod are undergoing a genetic change, and that they are, quite simply, adapting to being smaller in size.
– During the 1990s the cod in the Eastern Baltic cod stock reached sexual maturity when they were just over 40 centimetres in length. Today the average length of a cod that has reached sexual maturity is around 20 centimetres. If this reflects a genetic change the current situation runs the risk of becoming a permanent one – and that risk needs to be highlighted, says Henrik Svedäng.
He recalls that the same phenomenon, of cod suddenly beginning to spawn when of a much smaller size than before, was also observed on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland shortly before that stock collapsed.
– Growth rates were low there too, and the fishing pressure was high, says Henrik Svedäng.
Despite the generally poor growth of the Baltic cod, and despite the skewed size composition, there are still positive exceptions. In Öresund (The Sound), where a trawling ban has been in place since the 1930s, the stock has a normal size distribution, and above all there are more large individuals (around 50 centimetres).
– I believe that the trawling ban is a crucial reason for there being larger sized cod there. But it could also be that Öresund generally is a more productive ecosystem than the Baltic Sea as a whole, says Henrik Svedäng.
Bottom trawling is by far the most dominant method of fishing for cod in the Baltic. More than 90 per cent of all cod landed is caught in bottom trawling. Developments in trawling methods and trawl fishery management is therefore extremely important to the whole population dynamic of the cod.
– In order to bring back larger cod into the Baltic and prevent further instabilities in the ecosystem, we ought to review both the way we fish and how much we fish, says Henrik Svedäng.


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text: Q: Monte Carlo for estimating small Suppose that I have two samples $x_1,\cdots,x_n$ and $y_1,\cdots, y_m$ of two random variables $X$ and $Y$, with $m$ and $n$ very large. I want to estimate the probability $P(Y>X)$ which I know is small, something like $0.0001456$. If I use traditional montecarlo taking $N$ pairs $(x_i,y_i)$ and counting how many of them satisfy $y_i>x_i$ to estimate this probability I would need many simulations to aproximate it accurately, with enough decimal places. I would like to know if there are better monte carlo methods to estimate this probability with less simulations than this approach, maybe using aditional information from somewhere.

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Announcing the "British Empire in Film" Blogathon
I say, old chaps! Pip pip, tally-ho and all that, wot?
That's right, it's time to announce the British Empire Blogathon, hosted by the mad genius who dreamed up the idea in the first place, Clayton at Phantom Empires, and yours truly. We thought it was high time we sally forth into the world of blogathons with one of our own, and we'd like to invite like-minded fellow bloggers to join in the fun.
We love these movies, from beloved classics like Gunga Din, Zulu, The Charge of the Light Brigade and Kim, to less well-known titles like North West Frontier, Bhowani Junction, and King of the Khyber Rifles. We know we're not alone in our regard for these stories of high adventure and stiff-upper-lip heroism.
There are only a few ground rules we ask contributors to follow:
Films set during the British Empire, particularly with archetypal British characters and subjects.
No duplicates, please - but different versions of the same films are OK.
Films made pre-1980, with bonus karma points for those filmed while the empire was still in existence.
While grinding political axes is OK, to a great extent we would prefer that the films be chosen because they are cool and exciting to watch, in the same way that Westerns and Foreign Legion films are. That doesn't mean that the Brits have to be the good guys!
The more stiff-upper-lip and "I say, old chap", the better!
The event is scheduled for November 14 - 17. If you would like to submit an entry (or more! Don't be shy), please let us know by leaving a comment on this post below, or the similar announcement here at Phantom Empires. You can also feel free to use our contact forms here (for Clayton) or here (for me).
Please include the title and link to your blog, contact information and of course the title of the film(s) you'd like to cover. We also ask that you include a link to this post and Clayton's in your review, and to use one of the event banners included in this post on your website to help promote the blogathon.
We think this event will prove a jolly good time. Thank you and we look forward to your posts!
Speakeasy - The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Movies Silently - The Four Feathers (the 1929 and 1939 versions)
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear - Carry On...Up the Khyber (1968)
Silver Screenings - The Life and Death of Col. Blimp (1943)
Tipping My Fedora - The Letter (1940)
Mike's Take on the Movies - Royal Flash (1975)
Tales of the Easily Distracted - Gunga Din (1939)
Girls Do Film - The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
A Person in the Dark - The Letter (1929)
Once Upon a Screen - The Little Princess (1917)
Critica Retro - The Rains Came (1939)
Silver Scenes - Kim (1950) and Flame Over India (1959)
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier - Black Narcissus (1947)
Caftan Woman - The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Mildred's Fatburgers - Zulu (1964)
Kevin's Movie Corner - The Sun Never Sets (1939)
Sometimes they go to Eleven - The Chess Players (1977) and Breaker Morant (1980)
Moon in Gemini - Young Winston (1972)
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings - King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
Classic Movie Hub - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
History on Film - The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Shameless Pile of Stuff - Khartoum (1966)
Random Pictures - The Heart of the Matter (1953)
Phantom Empires - Three Sergeants of Bengal (1964)
The Stalking Moon (guest post by Jerry Entract) - The Drum (1938)
The Stalking Moon - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
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The Big Country (1958)
Major Henry Terrill:
James McKay:
Patricia Terrill:
McKay:
This is the west, Jim. A man is still expected to defend himself. If he allows people to think he won't, he's in trouble. Bad trouble.
I'm not going to go on living in the middle of a civil war.
Don't you care what people think of you?
I'm not responsible for what people think, Pat...Only for what I am.
When I was growing up, back in the 1970s and 80s, one of the constant companions of my teenage movie viewing life was Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide. In those pre-Wikipedia and IMDB days, Maltin's book of capsule movie reviews was one of the few ways to easily access and cross-check information about movies seen on TV and early VHS. I always remember the lingering sense of disappointment when the (otherwise estimable) Mr. Maltin would dismiss or castigate a particular favorite film of mine. One of his reviews that has always stuck with me was his brief comment about one of my all time favorite films (not just westerns), The Big Country. It came down to one word - "overblown" - and what, to my mind, still is a grossly conservative three-star rating.
That word, "overblown," annoyed me then and still does today. Though I suspect there are many out there who may tend to agree with Maltin, I take strong exception to that word. The Big Country is indeed big. It's long, no doubt (2 hours and 46 minutes, to be precise.) Epic, yes. Dramatic...certainly. Sprawling, even. But overblown? I beg to differ.
Thunder Bay (1953)
Johnny Gambi:
(Dan Duryea)
Steve Martin:
(James Stewart)
Can you, uh, juggle or anything like that? We might pick up a few bucks.
I can imitate a movie star.
From 1950 to 1955, James Stewart made 8 films with director Anthony Mann, five of them westerns. Everyone always talks about those westerns, and they are all undeniably wonderful, each in their own way, but the colorful adventure drama Thunder Bay usually gets overlooked whenever the Stewart/Mann collaboration is brought up, and it's a shame. Perhaps it doesn't quite hit the heights of their best films together, such as The Man From Laramie or Bend of the River, but it's an exciting, absorbing film in its own right, and deserves to be better known.
1946, Louisiana. Ex-G.I. buddies Steve Martin (Stewart) and Johnny Gambi (Dan Duryea) have spent all their mustering out pay to gamble on a wild scheme: Steve is convinced that there's oil out in the bay, and he knows how to get it. With a mix of hucksterism and the passion of a true visionary, Steve convinces the lease holder, oil tycoon Kermit "Mac" McDonald (J.C. Flippen), to bankroll the building of an offshore oil rig. Mac, a former wildcatter with a hardscrabble background himself, senses a kindred spirit in Steve and agrees to fund the extra $1 million to complete the project, against his company's financial adviser's (Henry Morgan) and board members wish' with one condition: they have to build the derrick and strike oil before Mac's lease runs out...in three measly months away.
Getting the funds proves the least of Steve and Gambi's problems, however, as the town's shrimp fishermen, experiencing several years of bad luck and poor catches, soon come to resent the oil men's presence, starting with their dynamiting shrimp beds to test for the best location for the rig. One of the more vociferous opponents is Stella Rigaud (Joanne Dru), daughter of veteran fisherman Dominique (Antonio Moreno). Stella once left her little backwater town for life in the big city and was burned badly in a relationship with an oil man not so unlike Steve. More amenable to the pair - especially the affable, boisterous Gambi - is Stella's pretty younger sister, Francesca (Marcia Henderson). Gambi is soon in hot pursuit, enchanting Francesca and luring her away from her stolid boyfriend, Philippe (Robert Monet). Also in the mix is local tough guy and charming blowhard Teche Bossier (Gilbert Roland), who's happy enough in lean times to take the oil men's money, but changes his tune when he feels the shrimp business that is his, and the town's, heart-and-soul is threatened.
To make his dream of being the first person to strike oil offshore come true, Steve drives Gambi and his crew of workmen hard - but he's even harder on himself, pursuing his plan with a single-minded determination that at times borders on obsession. Despite her bitterness over her past experience, Stella gradually begins to thaw towards Steve, but when a disgruntled Phillippe, reluctantly assisted by Teche, tries to blow up the rig during a big storm, Steve is incensed, convinced that Stella had something to do with it. Meanwhile, Gambi's growing more and more tired of Steve's hardcharging management style, and is on the verge of quitting. With time running out, the board's funding pulled, and nearly everyone (town and workers alike) turning against him, it seems Steve's chance of a big offshore oil strike is disappearing before his eyes...


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Dr Hui Xu: The behaviour of Tollmien-Schlichting waves undergoing small-scale localized distortions
Dr. Hui Xu has been investigating laminar-turbulent transition using state of the art numerical modeling in conjunction with asymptotic theory. One of the key focuses of his research is to see how asymptotic theory and computational modeling can be used to address this challenge. Hui developed a strategy of how to quantify the influence of localised roughness on the boundary layer instability through the Tollmein-Schlicting wave.
More detail and links to research outputs
The interaction between Tollmien-Schlichting (T-S) waves and rapid distortions on the wall has practical significance for prediction of laminar-turbulence transition. Hui's interest is to study, through non-linear direct numerical simulations, the behaviour of unstable T-S waves when the base flows are distorted by rapidly varying localised imperfections on the wall and understand whether T-S waves are energized or weakened by this type of small roughness. He also investigated the relative magnitude of the strengthening or weakening of the T-S wave as compared to a flat-plate. The results obtained by Hui were compared with the asymptotic analysis result.
For the small-amplitude localised wall distortions considered, humps and indentations both have destabilising effects rather than having opposite effects as expected on the basis of linearity. This indicates that non-linearity effect is appreciated despite the relatively small height/depth of humps/indentations. The result is broadly consistent with the degeneracy that the leading-order impact of linear distortion vanishes, as regarded the asymptotic analysis.
C. D. Cantwell, D. Moxey, A. Comerford, A. Bolis, G. Rocco, G. Mengaldo, D. de Grazia, S. Yakovlev, J.-E. Lombard, D. Ekelschot, B. Jordi, H. Xu, Y. Mohamied, C. Eskilsson, B. Nelson, P. Vos, C. Biotto, R. M. Kirby, S. J. Sherwin (2015). Nektar++: An open-source spectral/hp element framework,Computer Physics Communications 2015
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Dr Mohammed Afsar: Receptivity of three-dimensional boundary layer to small-scale free-stream turbulence (FST): distortion of FST and its impact on a flat-plate boundary layer in a contracting stream
Our aim here is to elucidate the mechanism and process by which FST generates travelling-wave vortices in a three-dimensional boundary layer. This will have important impact in understanding cross-flow receptivity. As a necessary first step, we analyze how FST is distorted by the mean strain rate of a contracting flow with finite streamwise pressure gradient shown in the figure (right).
M. Afsar Project: Industry Application
Dr Ubaid Qadri: Global stability and frequency response methods
Ubaid's research is concerned with the effect of surface discontinues, such as gaps and steps, on the boundary layer developing over the wing surface. He has developed a general-purpose solver that can be used to identify what modes of instability are excited and amplified and how this depends on the geometry of the surface discontinuities. The tools developed offer an advantage over traditional methods used to predict transition because they take non-parallel, transient and non-modal effects into account. They can provide useful sensitivity information to designers - not just what happens, but also why it happens.
The focus is, initially, on the two-dimensional incompressible flow over a gap (cavity) and studying its linear stability and response to spanwise-periodic three-dimensional disturbances. We find that this flow conguration exhibits strong amplification properties. The largest amplification is obtained for disturbances with a non-zero spanwise wavenumber and the resultant response consists of structures slanted in the streamwise direction. The frequency and wavelength of the disturbance that is most amplified varies with changes in the flow conguration. A combination of local and global analyses is used to try to identify the regions of the flow, the physical parameters, and the length scales that determine the frequency and wavenumber of the disturbances that are most amplified. The tools developed can easily be applied to flow over other geometries.
U. Qadri Project Industry Application
Jamie Nutter: Generation of Görtler vortices within the boundary-layer caused by variable wall curvature in the streamwise direction
Jamie's research centres around asymptotic descriptions of high-Reynolds-number fluid flows, which occur in flows past aircraft wings. His current PhD research focuses on the generation of Görtler vortices within the boundary-layer, in the long-wavelength (viscous-inviscid interaction) regime, caused by variable wall curvature in the streamwise direction. Görtler vortices occur on the underside of aircraft wings and may grow such that they contribute to the transition to turbulence. Jamie is looking to understand if it is possible to delay or prevent the amplification of Görtler vortices by varying the wall curvature.
To undertake this research Jamie is using high-Reynolds-number asymptotic approximations. The asymptotic scalings are found to be given by a triple-deck type structure and a WKB-type expansion is used to solve for the velocities and displacement.
An abrupt change causes a travelling wave to be scattered and so Jamie set up a local scattering problem, in which the mechanisms are described mathematically using a triple-deck formalism and the analysis is based of a Wiener-Hopf factorisation.
The impact of adding porosity was characterised by a transmission coefficient, defined as the ratio of the amplitudes of the transmitted and incident waves. He found that, by using Darcy's law to describe the permeability, adding porosity to an aerofoil has a destabilising effect and may lead to an earlier transition into turbulence.
Adam Butler: Non-Parallel-Flow Effects on Stationary Crossflow Vortices at Their Genesis
Adam's research is focused on the behaviour of stationary crossflow vortices in their early stages. His current work is on the linear stability of these vortices in a regime where non-parallel variations of the base flow have a leading order effect on their growth. This non-parallel regime occurs near the leading edge of the wing, where the vortices are generated. Adam is working to determine if the most unstable vortices can be suppressed through the appropriate design of the surface roughness in this regime, or through some other receptivity mechanism.
In this non-parallel regime the flow takes on a marginally-separated triple deck structure, with the vortices aligned with the local wall shear at leading order. Adam has found that the non-parallel variations of the base flow and those of the instability mode itself provide the same contribution to the growth rate of the vortex, and so must both be taken into account when performing a general stability analysis in this region. If the pressure minimum of the flow occurs in this regime, a distinct sub-region forms where pressure plays only a passive role between the decks. For a typical aerofoil design, the non-parallelism of the the flow has a stabilising effect on the vortex in this regime.
Application to Industry
Dr Chloe Stockford, Programme Manager
chloe.stockford@imperial.ac.uk
Lead Investigator:
Professor Xuesong Wu
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London


When you're an aviation enthusiast growing up in a small town you enjoy whatever airplanes happen to be nearby. For me that was a dozen or so Cessnas and Beechcraft at the local airport. Every time I drove by I'd scan the grass flightline with the hope of seeing something new and interesting tied down awaiting its moment to take to the skies.
My favorite inhabitant was an old, white Ryan Navion. It was quite unusual sitting among its smaller brethren, and I grew fond of it. You may know that it was designed by North American for the civilian market after World War Two but was eventually manufactured by Ryan and eventually saw service as the L-17. It is one of the most macho looking civilian aircraft I've ever seen. If I were a private pilot, this is the airplane I'd own.
As a modeler I looked for a model of the Navion and found that only Lindberg had made a crude kit a thousand years ago. Not something for the serious modeler.
I always remained hopeful that I would see a kit of the Navion but knew it was beyond even a long shot. My hope took the form of cheeky quips on Hyperscale and ARC over the years -- nine years ago telling Jake Reid that his next book should be on the L-17 Navion, once proclaiming the Navion as the best aircraft that ever flew, and making the claim that the Navion is only prop-driven airplane that could shoot down an F-16.
Meanwhile one of the most popular topics of conversations on the forums has always been wish lists, and I've always mentioned the Navion, always with the thought that I'd never see one.
Fast forward too many years, and here I am holding the new Valom 1/72 Navion!
I shouldn't be surprised. A year ago I opined here on Scale Model Soup that the manufacturers might run out of subject matter in 10 years, estimating that we could see 500 new 1/72 aircraft, 500 new 1/48 aircraft, and 750 new 1/35 tanks and soft skin vehicles by 2025. And guess what. I even mentioned the L-17 Navion in that post!
I share my excitement about finally getting a model of this unusual aircraft only to suggest that if you wait long enough, if you're patient, you may eventually get your wish. I know we're an impatient bunch of guys, but the good news is we have plenty of models to build while we wait.
The Navion looks very similar to the Fuji FA-200 Aero Subaru of the mid-1960s. I wonder if there was cross-pollination? I recall an example of the Fuji being available for use at my local airport many years back. I was too dumb and unadventurous to take advantage of it as it looked too "old", and so I stuck to the regular Cessnas and Pipers. Silly me- I later heard from other pilots that those "old" Fujis were very good.
It'll probably go into the stash. Ironic, eh?


Trimester one is a crucial time to promote health and wellness, however that can be difficult when up to 85% of women suffer from morning sickness.
When suffering from morning sickness, it can be difficult to swallow capsules as they stimulate the gag reflex. With Prenatal Trimester One now in a yummy berry-flavoured chewable tablet, this is no longer an issue!
You can rest assured some of your unique nutrient needs are covered as well as being specially formulated in a way that reduces the frequency and severity of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.
Prenatal Trimester One Chewable is a 2-in-1 formulation, a chewable prenatal vitamin designed specifically for the first trimester as well as a morning sickness relief formula.
Always read the label and if symptoms persist, see a healthcare professional. Follow the directions for use and warnings below.
Clinically formulated by an experienced fertility naturopath. NaturoBest was the first in Australia to introduce 500mcg of folate as Quatrefolic®, the 4th generation folate, in a daily dose in a pregnancy vitamin supplement.
Specially formulated for the first trimester of pregnancy. Every ingredient is exceptional quality. Supports a healthy pregnancy and foetal development.
Does not contain iron. Iron supplementation in the first trimester may aggravate the symptoms of morning sickness. Seek advice from your health professional if you are iron deficient.
For best results, chew 1 tablet twice daily with food and keep taking until nausea resolves (usually around week 14-16), then continue with Prenatal Trimester 2 & 3 Plus Breastfeeding.
Does not contain iron. Iron may aggravate the symptoms of morning sickness in some women [1, 2] and routine iron supplementation may not be recommended at all stages of pregnancy . Always seek advice from your health professional.
Provides vitamins and minerals which support normal, healthy foetal development.
Supports a healthy pregnancy and maternal health.
High quality activated B vitamins such as riboflavin-sodium-phosphate, the activated form of B2, 25mg of pyridoxal-5′-phosphate, the activated form of B6 and 500mcg of Quatrefolic® (5-MTHF), a bioavailable, active form of folate.
Copper free formulation! Copper levels rise naturally during pregnancy and supplementation may be unnecessary. Seek advice from your healthcare practitioner.
Only natural flavours used, sweetened with thaumatin and no magnesium stearate.
Chew one tablet twice daily with food or as directed by your healthcare practitioner.
Vitamin supplements should not replace a balanced diet. This product contains pyridoxine which may be harmful if taken in large amounts for a long time. Stop taking this medication if you experience tingling, burning or numbness and see your healthcare practitioner as soon as possible. This product contains selenium which is toxic in high doses. A daily dose of 150 micrograms for adults of selenium from dietary supplements should not be exceeded. Do not exceed the stated dose except on medical advice. If you have had a baby with a neural tube defect/spina bifida, seek specific medical advice.
Store below 30 degrees celcius in a cool, dry place. Use only if cap seal is unbroken.
Gill, S.K., Maltepe, C. & Koren, G., The effectiveness of discontinuing iron-containing prenatal multivitamins on reducing the severity of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology, 2009. 29(1): p. 13-16.
SAHAKIAN, V., et al., Vitamin B6 is effective therapy for nausea and vomiting of pregnancy: a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study. Obstetrics & Gynecology, 1991. 78(1): p. 33-36.
RANZCOG, Vitamin and mineral supplementation in pregnancy. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 2015(May): p. 1-14.
Vutyavanich, T., Wongtra-ngan, S. & Ruangsri, R-A., Pyridoxine for nausea and vomiting of pregnancy: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1995. 173(3): p. 881-884.
Sripramote, M. and N. Lekhyananda, A randomized comparison of ginger and vitamin B6 in the treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Journal of the Medical Associaton of Thailand, 2003. 86(9): p. 846-853.
Smith, C., et al., A randomized controlled trial of ginger to treat nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2004. 103(4): p. 639-645.
Chittumma, P., Kaewkiattikun, K. & Wiriyasiriwach, B., Comparison of the effectiveness of ginger and vitamin B6 for treatment of nausea and vomiting in early pregnancy: a randomized double-blind controlled trial. Alternative Medicine Review, 2007. 12(3): p. 289.
Ensiyeh, J.S., M-A. C., Comparing ginger and vitamin B6 for the treatment of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy: a randomised controlled trial. Midwifery, 2009. 25(6): p. 649-653.
Haji Seid Javadi, E., F. Salehi, and O. Mashrabi, Comparing the effectiveness of vitamin b6 and ginger in treatment of pregnancy-induced nausea and vomiting. Obstetrics & Gynecology International, 2013.
NHMRC Australian dietary guidelines (2013) Iodine monograph.


Sometimes, knowledge is key in winning a scholarship. In your months of searching, you must have come across popular worldwide scholarships and flagship scholarships of popular universities. These scholarships are great to apply to but extremely competitive to get. There is one type of scholarships that you might have better chances of winning: school-specific or department-specific scholarships. School-specific scholarships are good scholarships to apply to because they are targeted to your field of study and more importantly, fewer people know about these scholarships because they are not as easy to find as university-wide scholarships and not as known as popular scholarships. Generally, there is lesser competition in applying for these scholarships, thereby increasing your chances.
Find out how to discover school-specific scholarships.
This advice involves finding out which scholarships are best matched to you. In an ideal situation, you would want to apply to a scholarship program that is targeted to your country of origin, whose eligibility requirements matches your qualifications, and if possible, whose priority fields of study are related to your degree/research/experience.
Learn why you should not apply to every scholarship.
Since scholarship application is quite competitive, your application must stand out above the rest. This means you must not only meet the scholarship criteria set by the scholarship provider but exceed it. The key here is to know the specific criteria set by the scholarship provider and make it work to your advantage. Once you know their criteria, you can find creative ways to to highlight the strengths of your scholarship application.
For example, if you don't have very good academic grades, you can highlight relevant extra-curricular activities in your personal motivation letter. In another example, you can do a little extra research about the current areas of focus of the scholarship provider because sometimes, students are chosen based on their chosen field of study or research – if it aligns with the scholarship provider's core mission/themes. It is also useful to know the profiles of previous scholarship recipients; it will give you an idea of the kind of student that the scholarship providers are looking for.
It will help if you ask yourself "am I qualified for a scholarship"?


my friend and his ex has been separated over 16 months. Ex took 5 years old son to a non-Hague country and now came back to Australia after 11 months but interstate.
My friend filed an initiating application to the court for taking the child custody and putting him into the Airport Watch-list and served the docx . As soon as she was served she attempted for a control order but no order was made but agreed for undertaken without any admission.
ex wife who is living interstate with the son -have no job, no relative, no proper accommodation apart from housing or domestic violence shelter. Ex has enrolled the child for the school and that's probably the only strong point which will be tough to get relocation order.
In addition to this ex was refereed to a psychiatric; after visiting two sessions she was denial and moved overseas. My friend suspect its symptoms of personality disorder but yet to be revealed by the specialist. They are due for an ICL interview in two weeks time.
On the first mentioned date , it was agreed the the father will get supervised visit at interstate. Father visiting his son. in the mean time it is clear to the CCS supervisor that the mother has tendency of lying and non co-operative with the father .


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Chris Christie: Trump isn't racist despite judge 'kerfuffle'
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June 7, 2016, 12:43 PM
Governor of New Jersey
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defended Donald Trump on Tuesday against allegations of racism after the presumptive GOP nominee ignited a firestorm by saying a U.S. judge of Mexican heritage shouldn't preside over a Trump University lawsuit.
After casting his vote in New Jersey's presidential primary, Christie said he could not comment on Judge Gonzalo Curiel or the specifics of the case. But Christie said the business mogul is no racist.
"I've said this before. I know Donald Trump. I've known him for 14 years, and Donald Trump is not a racist. So the allegations that he is are absolutely contrary to every experience that I've had with him over the last 14 years. We're going to end it there," he told reporters in Mendham Township, N.J.
Christie's comments came shortly after House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned Trump's attack line against Curiel as a "textbook definition of a racist comment." Trump, citing his plan to build a massive wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, insists that Curiel's heritage is a conflict of interest and the judge should recuse himself from the Trump University case.
Journalists asked Christie to address Ryan's comments.
"I'm not going into that. Next. Next," Christie replied, but the journalists kept pressing. "You know what? Congressman Ryan is entitled to his opinion."
The governor also said he knows the media loves controversy but that the voters of New Jersey and elsewhere will not base their decisions on this "kerfuffle."
Christie, who in February endorsed Trump shortly after suspending his own presidential campaign, admitted the real estate magnate has said things that went too far. But Christie said that's merely an occupational hazard for honest politicians who speak their minds.
"If you have this many microphones and cameras in front of you on a regular basis and you're not, you know, a preprogrammed robotic politician, you're going to make some statements at times that you'd wish you could take back. I've done it. He's done it. And anybody who's honest in this business has done it," he said.
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Christie's jab at "robotic politicians" could have been a reference to candidates like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who infamously repeated the same 25-second line during a primary debate earlier this year. At the time, Christie memorably called out Rubio for using canned lines. Rubio was mercilessly mocked with monikers like "Robot Rubio."
"Frankly, from my perspective, it's refreshing to have someone who is willing to speak their mind and, you know, is not reading from a script," Christie said Tuesday. "There's lots of things you can say about Donald. He's not reading from a script."
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, another former Trump rival, recently urged his fellow Republicans to withdraw their Trump endorsements after his comments about Curiel, calling them an "off-ramp." When asked about Graham, Christie said the senator had already lost all credibility.
"Lindsey Graham has changed his mind so many times about who he's endorsing and not endorsing so many different times that it's hard for me to keep track," he said. "I think Sen. Graham has lost any credibility that he may have had at any time to give an opinion on this."
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As the 50th anniversary celebration of Special Olympics rolls into Chicago this spring and summer, Jones' diverse learners will take part in many of the festivities, with many athletes participating in the Motor Activity Training Program aspect of the games for the first time at Jones. In addition to this, many athletes participated in the Chicago Spring Games from May 3-11 at Dunbar High School.
From July 17-20, the city of Chicago will host the celebration, dubbed "Born in Chicago" due to the event's first games taking place at Soldier Field in 1968. The weekend will be celebrated with athletic events, a concert at Northerly Island, and a symbolic torch lighting.
Special Education classroom assistant and Special Olympics head coach Amanda Timmons played a crucial role in Jones' participation in this year's spring games, organizing students and other Special Education classroom assistants (SECAs).
Other SECAs are coaches, and work individually with students for specific events. The events Jones participated in at the Spring Games included the 100 meter boys and girls relay race, the 50 and 100 meter individual race, the 100 meter walking race, softball, and the softball throw.
Students exhibited their commitment to the games by dedicating time in school to practice, utilizing gym classes and Ac Labs to prepare. Students practiced throwing balls and got timed in their running and walking events.
Student buddies from the ACES classes and Best Buddies organization also assisted the athletes in their training.
The buddies also demonstrated their support of the athletes by attending the Spring Games and cheering them on from the sidelines.


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Death in Rio Grande: America's migration crisis
A man and a child lie dead in the water. The father had covered his daughter with his T-shirt to protect her and her arm is draped over his neck. The image of the two migrants from El Salvador who drowned in the Rio Grande has shocked the world - and put the spotlight on US immigration policy under President Trump once more.
Corriere della Sera (IT) / 27 June 2019
Liberal-conservative
Rcs Mediagroup S.p.A
Short-lived empathy
Sadly, the impact of such images doesn't last long, laments columnist Franco Venturini in Corriere della Sera:
"How can we look at this image of a father and his little girl and not feel horror? Drowned in the Rio Grande, the border river between Mexico and the US, lying face down in the water like little Alan from Syria, whose body was washed by the tide onto the Turkish beach of Bodrum in 2015. But emotions, even those provoked by the most dreadful tragedies, hardly ever touch the sphere of rationality, of thinking and initiative, and therefore don't last long. ... This father and child died not just on the US's doorstep, they also died in Lampedusa, in Turkey, on the coast of Sicily. It's up to us to chose between short-lived emotion and tenacious will."
Franco Venturini
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The Independent (GB) / 27 June 2019
50.000.000 – 100.000.000
Independent Print Ltd
Migrants undeterred
Trump's overtly anti-migrant stance won't stem the flow of migrants over the Rio Grande, The Independent puts in:
"Trump, with his racist rhetoric and threats to break up families, is on record as making it as plain as day that migrants from Central America will not be welcomed into the country simply by making it to the border. You can loathe his language, you may loathe his policies, but you cannot say he is not consistent. At the same time, people continue to come, in their hundreds of thousands. Last year, the number of migrants requesting asylum at the US border increased by 67 per cent."
Andrew Buncombe
Krytyka Polityczna (PL) / 26 June 2019
Krytyka Polityczna
Stowarzyszenie im. Stanisława Brzozowskiego
Last-minute panic in Central America
Trump's policies are actually increasing migration figures, Krytyka Polityczna believes:
"There can be no doubt that the growing traffic on the border between Mexico and Arizona is a direct consequence of Trump's immigration policy. Because it sends a clear message to migrants: it's now or never. After all, soon the 'beautiful' wall is to be erected on the Mexican border. People have tried to escape poverty and violence by opting for ever more difficult routes, like the Sonora desert or the desert area in the southwest of the state. ... Just 20 years ago these routes were deemed too dangerous, but in recent years organisations like No More Deaths in Arizona have been bringing more and more water and beans to the area for a growing number of desperate migrants."
Agata Popęda
Republicans don't see a problem
There's no point waiting for the White House to change its tune, US correspondent for De Volkskrant Michael Persson predicts:
"It's doubtful that the Senate and president will approve [an emergency aid package of 4.5 billion dollars offered by the House of Representatives, which is dominated by Democrats]. Because the money is earmarked only for humanitarian aid not for controls or deportations. The negative stance of Trump and the Republicans shows that the crisis on the border is only partially regarded as a problem that needs to be solved. ... Deterrence is the explicit goal of Trump's immigration policy. And whether or not this photo is seen by migrants in Central America: for Trump's supporters it is in any case proof that the president - wall or no wall - is doing all he can."
Michael Persson
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I enjoy all your videos. I live my dream of backpacking etc vicariously through you!! Lol My husband is a paraplegic in a wheelchair so it's impossible for us to get that far out in the wilderness. We do go car camping in a tent and I do love putting some skills to use there. Keep up the great vids and thank you!! I always learn something new!!
Hi Luke! This is Alex Weaver, AlphaWhiskey47, and I would like to add my kudos to you along with Susan above. Susan, I think that is amazing that your husband goes car camping with you! Kudos to you. Several years ago I was a Therapy Gym Coordinator for RIOSA (physical rehab center) in San Antonio, TX. We used to take kids, both paras and quads, to summer camp in Kerrville. So many rewards reaped. Kids and adults experience total incredible personality changes in the great outdoors. God bless you and your husband. Luke, I'm sorry if my comment is in the wrong space but Susan's comment warms my heart. I also enjoy your videos. I have learned so much from you on current gear options and your skills are truly exceptional. I have years of experience going back to age 10 in the back woods of Ohio and now I am 70, still loving the wonderful creations of the outdoors. I recently joined Outdoor Access and it gives me options to lease private property for my ventures from hiking, camping, fishing, kayaking to plinking. The latter is a newbie for me and I am still in search of a SIG 522LR for my new sport; you stirred up a desire in me to possess guns again. I use to have an extensive collection before moving to Hawaii in 1991. I gave them all to my ex who returned to Kentucky after leaving the Air Force herself. After watching your video where you carried your SIG on an overnighter something told me to get into "plinking"...so, now I am in search of one and a Ruger SR522. Also, if you ever do a video review on OutdoorAccess.com please let us viewers know. Happy Safe 2018 to you and your family!


Happy LGBT History Month everyone! This is a historic year and we will be celebrating 50 years since the Stonewall Riots at Norwich Pride on Saturday 27th July. We are in the process of updating the website and will soon be opening up for bookings for stalls, events, performers etc. Stay Proud!


STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. Our STEAM education seeks to empower students in grades K-8 to explore their sense of wonder and imagination to solve real-world problems. During STEAM experiences students will learn to investigate, design, plan, create, evaluate, and communicate their work to each other and the community.
Physical Education (PE) is an important part of a comprehensive education program and contributes to the overall well being of students and the education of students as a whole. The Horizons Physical Education program will contribute to the overall development of the students' physical and mental health, fundamental and advanced motor skills, self-confidence, goal-setting, leadership and cooperation, stress reduction, enhanced self-efficacy, and strengthened peer relationships.
The Physical Education program will foster a positive, safe, and respectful learning environment, as well as incorporate activities that will include all students and meet the needs of each individual student at their various skill levels.
Through focusing on these three learning domains, we are developing the students as a whole to achieve the ultimate goal of a physically active lifestyle. Teachers will provide content that is physically and socially challenging to the students in a way that encourages the students to be physically active and healthy individuals. The responsibility of this department is to provide our students with the necessary education and skills that they will need to be lifelong learners and movers.
The 7th and 8th grade PE program includes more advanced demonstrations of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to learning and performing physical activities. Students learn the benefits of consistently participating in physical activity, making balanced nutrition choices, and the overall effects it can have for a healthy lifestyle. Students also gain a deeper understanding for responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings. PE class includes new team building activities, new sports units, climbing, a fitness and nutrition unit complete with data tracking and goal setting, as well as active games that students enjoy.
Arts education at Horizons K-8 is a joyful way to understand the world and self with greater complexity and sophistication. Through arts education, students develop their imaginations as they learn to communicate through complex symbols. They build expressiveness, creative skills, teamwork skills, and self-esteem while developing critical and abstract thinking, observation, innovation, analytical skills, and information retention. Through practice and experience, we can dive deeper into any art form and learn to express at an infinitely more profound level.
The Spanish program at Horizons K-8 builds students' bilingual skills while activating global competencies and a love of cultural exploration and understanding. Our K-5 elementary (and some of our 6th grade) students are exposed to foundational aspects of language and culture in a weekly Spanish class.
Middle level students (6th-8th grade) advance in Spanish acquisition through daily Spanish programming.
Spanish 1A at 6th grade includes a bridge from Spanish exposure at the elementary levels and moves towards more formal language acquisition. This is done through listening, speaking, singing, performing, analyzing video/films, reading and writing in Spanish and studying culture of the Spanish speaking world. A wide variety of teaching methodologies are used including Total Physical Response (TPR) and TPRS (TPR + Storytelling), Comprehensible Input and even more traditional forms of reading and writing when appropriate.
Spanish at the 7/8 level is taught in a natural approach to language acquisition through comprehensible input. Comprehensible input is language that students can understand and make meaning of either by listening or reading, at a level that is just above automatic, allowing them to advance in proficiency in the language acquisition process. This happens through creating and reading stories, listening to and singing songs, watching videos, reading leveled chapter books, and more.


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August 13th, 1901 Chinese Zodiac, Moon Sign and Birth Chart
An observer located in New York City on Tuesday August 13, 1901, would see:
The moon, being 0% full, rising at 04:24 am and setting at 06:51 pm. The previous full moon was on Jul 31, 1901 while the next full moon would come on Aug 29, 1901.
Your place in the Universe on August 13, 1901
Zodiac sign: Ox
You may not believe in horoscopes but you may like this free video based on August 13, 1901
Mercury rising at 03:57 am and setting at 06:25 pm with a 83% of surface illuminated. Mercury would be orbiting the Sun at a distance of 0.31 astronomical units (AU) and would be found at a distance of 1.19 astronomical units (AU) from Earth. Given the planet elongation, the observer would see Mercury at an angle of -13° 07' 22.2" with the Sun. The brightness would be -1.19 this day, as measured by the planet magnitude.
Mars would look like 91% full, orbiting the Sun at a distance of 1.54 AU and be at 1.82 AU from Earth. The planet would be seen rising at 10:03 am and setting at 09:16 pm. The angular separation of the Sun and the planet, with Earth as the reference point, would be 57° 46' 18.3". The brightness of Mars, that is its magnitude, would be 1.25.
Jupiter's distance from the Sun would be 5.19 AU and 4.45 AU from Planet Earth. Jupiter rising and setting times would be 04:09 pm and 01:23 am respectively. Jupiter would appear with a 99% illuminated fraction of its surface and a magnitude (brightness of the star) of -2.39. Its angular separation between the Sun would be 132° 54' 25.5".
Saturn would rise at 04:35 pm and set at 01:56 am, appearing 99% full. The angular separation of Saturn from the Sun, as seen by the observer, would be 139° 46' 27.2", its magnitude 0.24. Saturn would orbit the Sun at a distance of 10.06 astronomical units (AU) and would be located at a distance of 9.26 astronomical units (AU) from Earth.
Uranus would appear 99 full, its brightness being 5.58. It would be seen rising at 02:35 pm and setting at 11:58 pm. Uranus would be 19.10 AU far from the Sun and 18.69 AU far from Planet Earth (average distance). The observer, looking up into the sky, would see Uranus with a 112° 12' 55.4" angle of separation from the Sun.
Neptune rising at 01:09 am, and setting at 03:58 pm, its magnitude (the degree of brightness of a star) being 7.93. The difference between the celestial longitude of the Sun and that of Neptune would be -50° 33' 04.7". At 29.88 AU distance from the Sun and at 30.51 AU from Earth, 99 % of Neptune would be illuminated by the Sun.
Pluto would be seen as 99% full and would have an elongation of -63° 10' 02.2". It would orbit the Sun at an average distance of 46.74 astronomical units (AU) and be located at an average distance of 47.19 astronomical units (AU) from Earth. The observer would see Pluto rising at 12:52 am and setting at 02:35 pm, its magnitude (brightness of the star) being 15.75.
Cancer 8:44:07.61 19:08:12.9
Leo 11:24:10.50 5:09:58.3
Virgo 13:11:06.17 -7:40:25.9
See what else happened on August 13th, 1901


Tomaree High School's Callum Bailey with Students Rhiana Mackenzie and Cooper Tancred. Photo by Marian Sampson.
JUPITER ascended today in Port Stephens with the launch of Caring For Our Port Stephens Youth's (COPSY) Counselling service and space on the Tomaree Peninsula.
The new service has been christened Jupiter, in deference to the planet having been used as an early navigation mark for travellers.
Jupiter will help our youth find their way.
The local community came out in force to support positive actions for Port Stephens youth and to support them through providing a place that is welcoming. safe, and confidential.
Port Stephens has the highest rates of mental and behavioural problems in NSW.
She believes that the service will reduce the stigma that young people face through accessing services within the education system.
Tomaree High School's Head Teacher of Welfare Vicki McCleer noted that it can take up to four months for students to be seen through normal channels, Jupiter will change this for the better.
Another difference is that Jupiter provides counselling and psychology services to Port Stephens youth for free.
Jupiter will be providing our youth with healthy coping strategies ensuring youth who are suffering from mental health issues are connected with their peers, engage in sports and are provided with appropriate counselling services.
Jupiter sits within the Tomaree Library building at Salamander Bay and is open from 3-6pm weekdays.
Young people do not need a parents permission to access the service and enquiries can be made on 0490 716 265.
COPSY's Mike Mobbs Jewell Dury and Captain Beryl who launched Jupiter. Photo by Marian Sampson.
The Jupiter Crew; Heading into outer space, Fletcher Gallimore, Samantha Craven, Captain Beryl – Susan Basser, Hannah Burchell, and Cameron Smith. Photo by Marian Sampson.
The Jupiter panel. Photo by Marian Sampson.


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Legendary Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci married American gymnast Bart Conner in 1996. Nadia Comaneci won three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Since December 1994 the gold medal-winning duo have owned this house in the Brookhaven subdivision of Norman, Oklahoma. Built in 1992 on slightly over half an acre, the brick home has four bedrooms, four bathrooms, swimming pool with a diving board, and 3,319 square feet.
Nadia Comaneci's house in Norman, OK.


The pasta of "la Campofilone" is a product of high quality, made of simple and natural ingredients: durum wheat semolina and very fresh eggs, without adding any water.
Ingredients: 250g fili di chitarra, 500g squid. FOR THE PESTO: 50g rocket, 10 walnut cores, 30g grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, 1 garlic clove, extra virgin olive oil, salt.
Preparation: Clean well the squids and boil them into salted water. Let get cold in the same water. Meanwhile prepare the pesto, whipping the rocket with 5 spoons of extra virgin olive oil, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, the walnuts cores and the garlic. Add the pesto to the squids. Boil FIli di chitarra in abundant salted water, drain them "al dente" and flavour them with the rocket pesto and the squids. Serve hot and enjoy your meal! You can substitute squids with salmon.


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Leila Piran
Nicholas Danforth
A History of Police Reform in Turkey | Leila Piran
142. Human Rights in Turkey
As part of its EU accession candidacy, a number of reforms related to "democratization" have been applied to Turkey's legal and administrative apparatuses. One such reform regarded the conduct and practices of police and law enforcement. In this episode, Leila Piran discusses her research on the impacts of this process involving interviews with law enforcement officials, activists, and academics in Turkey tied to the issue of police and reform presented in her new book entitled Institutional Change in Turkey: The Impact of European Union Reforms on Human Rights and Policing.
Leila Piran holds a PhD in World Politics from Catholic University and currently teaches at American University (see Linkdin)
Nicholas Danforth is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the history of modern Turkey (see academia.edu)
Avci, Gamze. "Turkey's EU Politics: What Justifies Reforms?" In Enlargement in Perspective, edited by Helene Sjursen. Oslo: ARENA, 2005.
Aydin, Ahmet. Police Organization and Legitimacy: Case Studies of England, Wales and Turkey. Avebury: Aldershot, 1997.
Bayley, David. "The Police and Political Development in Europe." In The Formation of National States in Western Europe, edited by Charles Tilly. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
———. Patterns of Policing. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1985.
———. Democratizing the Police Abroad: What to Do and How to Do It. Issues in International Crime. Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice, 2001.
Caglar, Ali. "Recruitment, Occupational Consciousness and Professionalism in the Turkish Police." PhD diss., University of Surrey, 1994.
———. "Policing Problems in Turkey: Processes, Issues and the Future." In Police Corruption: Paradigms, Models, and Concepts-Challenges for Developing Countries, edited by Stanley Einstein and Menacher Amir. Huntsville: OICJ, 2003.
Call, Charles., ed. Constructing Justice and Security after War. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007.
Cizre, Umit, ed. Almanac Turkey 2005: Security Sector and Democratic Oversight. Istanbul: TESEV Publications, 2006.
Cook, Steven A. Ruling but Not Governing: The Military and Political Developments in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Davidson, Roderic H. Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1856–1876. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963.
Dayioglu, Mehmet. "Police Officers' Attitude toward Use of Force in the Turkish National Police." PhD diss., City University of New York, 2007.
Ergut, Ferdan. "State and Social Control in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Republican Turkey, 1839–1939." PhD diss., New School for Social Research, New York, 2000.
Piran, Leila. Institutional Change in Turkey: The Impact of EU Reforms on Human Rights and Policing. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2013.
Labels: Europe History Law Leila Piran Nicholas Danforth Police Turkey
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Turan Kaya said…
So not always history on this podcast. Sometimes daily politics too. :-(


Hey there! I just felt like writing a new story. Well, since I'm not so good at romance, I decided to do one. :D Hope you enjoy it! Happy reading! Do leave a review! :) Most of them are short stories, somewhat like one-shots but since they are all related to Mai and Naru and SPR, so they are all combined in a single story instead of different postings.
The first day of spring. Everybody graduated high school. Boring high school. Mai did too, but with a broken heart. She guessed so. She had confessed to her senpai (Upperclassmen or even sempai) and he had plainly rejected her, saying that he found her freakish for loving occult.
Was she freakish? Absolutely not.
A fun loving, extremely cheerful and cute girl. In her perspective it seemed so. Mai didn't hate the fact that she liked occult. Well, everybody has their own hates and likes. But she had a particular hatred for her senpai, the one whom she liked decades ago. He had called occult freakish, not her. Oh, well it didn't matter to her since this was her fourteenth rejection. Confessing to somebody seemed like job interviews for Mai. Getting rejected was just the daily life cycle for her.
Mai narrowed her eyes as she met his gaze. His brown eyes met hers. She walked towards him and stopped. She bowed and smiled at him. Warmly. But her warmth vanished as soon as he returned her smile. She glared coldly at him.
"Sorry for being freakish." Mai said with a highly cold smile on her face. She leaned towards his ears. "I will call the spirits to haunt you." He looked at her and began laughing, a not so convincing laugh. He seemed scared. Now, now- isn't Mai supposed to be fun loving, cheerful and a cute person?
"Stop joking Mai-chan." He said. Mai smiled.
"Sorry but I'm not qualified for being a joker." Mai replied. He gulped and began sweating.
Mai turned swiftly and met two blue eyes staring at her. He looked like he was going to burst out into laughter.
"Go ahead." Mai suggested. But understanding his character, Mai realized that her suggestion wouldn't get through him. He did laugh in his own way though. He smirked at her. Mai frowned at him and dragged him along with her. Envious eyes were following her consistently but Mai shook them off.
"Rejected again?" He mocked. Mai frowned.
"Try being a little nicer, Naru-chan." Mai commented. Naru- was supposed to be the mispronunciation of Noll, his nick name, but for Mai- It was short for narcissist. He frowned.
"Stop calling me that." He grumbled. Mai laughed.
"Like I would." Mai said and hit him on his back.
Naru was her childhood friend. Or rather, his older twin, Eugene Davis was her childhood friend. Naru's real name was Oliver Davis. The professor Oliver Davis of England. He used the pseudonym, Shibuya Kazuya for being protected from the Japanese media and of course to have his own privacy. Mai guessed so.
Only Mai seemed to know his secret along with Hara Masako, the famous medium or say television celebrity and the high school beauty of their class. She got to know Naru from Gene long time ago. He was unsocial, gloomy, and a huge narcissist and still is. Gene was the total one-eighty degrees opposite of him. He was social, lively, cheerful and kind.
Though Mai couldn't see through him, she managed to befriend Naru.


The Curtis Home is a 60-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility offering a wide array of therapeutic services and residential choices. In addition to providing personalized attention and quality care that is consistently rated among the best in the state, The Curtis Home is dedicated to helping our residents live as independently as possible. We have all the resources to ensure you or your loved one will benefit from a continuum of health and wellness options, resulting in the best possible outcome.
Skilled nursing care is provided to those who are no longer able to care for themselves and need assistance from our professional nursing staff.
Our therapy professionals provide comprehensive services for successful recuperation from an accident or illness.
Residents enjoy the convenience of housekeeping, laundry, and maintenance provided seven days a week and are all done on premises.
Tasteful and nutritious meals are prepared to individual dietary requirements and preferences by a registered dietitian.
Social workers are available to help with the demands of transitioning back to our residents' previous living arrangements.
Recreational opportunities include relaxing and stimulation recreational programs, as well as out trips that residents' plan themselves.
For seniors who are in the need of supportive services to remain independent, but do not require traditional nursing care.
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FEST3D is a very efficient software tool for the analysis and design of passive RF and microwave components using advanced modal techniques based on waveguide technology, and is the first commercial software capable to integrate high power effects in the design process. FEST3D is able to efficiently analyse different kinds of passive RF structures in waveguide technology. It is based on an integral equation technique efficiently solved by the Method of Moments. FEST3D is able to simulate complex passive devices in extremely short times (of the order of seconds or few minutes), whereas general purpose software (based on segmentation techniques such as finite elements or finite differences) can spend hours for the same calculations.


This New Member orientation session is required for new REALTOR® members and serves as an introduction to the Georgia Mountains & Lakes REALTORS® Association. This 1 1/2 hr class covers key membership benefits and useful resources from GMLRA, GAR & NAR! Additionally, all new GMLRA members must also complete a qualified New Member Code of Ethics course within the first 9 months of joining the Association.


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Q: Error: undefined columns selected My question is simple and hopefully can be answered quickly. I have a code in R that is for calculating home ranges. Everything works except one line of the code, which I've included here:
locoh <- lapply(dat, function(x) rhrLoCoH(x[ c("LONGITUDE", "LATITUDE")]))

The error I get is as follows:
Error in `[.data.frame`(x, c("LONGITUDE", "LATITUDE")) : undefined columns selected

My guess is that I have messed up somewhere with my commas, but I'm not sure where or how to fix it.

A: Add your comma right after [ - x[ , c('long', 'lat') ] as you are selecting columns.


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Aerodynamic analysis of a blended-wing-body aircraft configuration
Ikeda, T 2006, Aerodynamic analysis of a blended-wing-body aircraft configuration, Masters by Research, Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University.
Ikeda.pdf Thesis application/pdf 14.89MB
Ikeda, T
In recent years unconventional aircraft configurations, such as Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) aircraft, are being investigated and researched with the aim to develop more efficient aircraft configurations, in particular for very large transport aircraft that are more efficient and environmentally-friendly. The BWB configuration designates an alternative aircraft configuration where the wing and fuselage are integrated which results essentially in a hybrid flying wing shape.
The first example of a BWB design was researched at the Loughead Company in the United States of America in 1917. The Junkers G. 38, the largest land plane in the world at the time, was produced in 1929 for Luft Hansa (present day; Lufthansa). Since 1939 Northrop Aircraft Inc. (USA), currently Northrop Grumman Corporation and the Horten brothers (Germany) investigated and developed BWB aircraft for military purposes. At present, the major aircraft industries and several universities has been researching the BWB concept aircraft for civil and military activities, although the BWB design concept has not been adapted for civil transport yet. The B-2 Spirit, (produced by the Northrop Corporation) has been used in military service since the late 1980s. The BWB design seems to show greater potential for very large passenger transport aircraft. A NASA BWB research team found an 800 passenger BWB concept consumed 27 percent less fuel per passenger per flight operation than an equivalent conventional configuration (Leiebeck 2005).
The purpose of this research is to assess the aerodynamic efficiency of a BWB aircraft with respect to a conventional configuration, and to identify design issues that determine the effectiveness of BWB performance as a function of aircraft payload capacity. The approach was undertaken to develop a new conceptual design of a BWB aircraft using Computational Aided Design (CAD) tools and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software. An existing high-capacity aircraft, the Airbus A380 Contents RMIT University, Australia was modelled, and its aerodynamic characteristics assessed using CFD to enable comparison with the BWB design.
The BWB design had to be compatible with airports that took conventional aircraft, meaning a wingspan of not more than 80 meters for what the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) regulation calls class 7 airports (Amano 2001). From the literature review, five contentions were addressed; i. Is a BWB aircraft design more aerodynamically efficient than a conventional aircraft configuration? ii. How does the BWB compare overall with a conventional design configuration? iii. What is the trade-off between conventional designs and a BWB arrangement? iv. What mission requirements, such as payload and endurance, will a BWB design concept become attractive for? v. What are the practical issues associated with the BWB design that need to be addressed?
In an aircraft multidisciplinary design environment, there are two major branches of engineering science; CFD analysis and structural analysis; which is required to commence producing an aircraft. In this research, conceptual BWB designs and CFD simulations were iterated to evaluate the aerodynamic performance of an optimal BWB design, and a theoretical calculation of structural analysis was done based on the CFD results.
The following hypothesis was prompted; A BWB configuration has superior in flight performance due to a higher Lift-to-Drag (L/D) ratio, and could improve upon existing conventional aircraft, in the areas of noise emission, fuel consumption and Direct Operation Cost (DOC) on service. However, a BWB configuration needs to employ a new structural system for passenger safety procedures, such as passenger ingress/egress.
The research confirmed that the BWB configuration achieves higher aerodynamic performance with an achievement of the current airport compatibility issue. The beneficial results of the BWB design were that the parasite drag was decreased and the spanwise body as a whole can generate lift. In a BWB design environment, several advanced computational techniques were required to compute a CFD simulation with the CAD model using pre-processing and CFD software.
Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Blended-Wing-Body Aircraft
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3. Mix together the lemon zest, the juice of half the lemon, 1½ tbsp oil and seasoning. Toss 1 tbsp of this into the cavolo nero and divide between 4 large square sheets of baking parchment, placing it in the centre. Top with the cod and drizzle over the remaining lemon dressing. Sprinkle over the remaining chives.
4. Fold over the parchment to form a parcel and place on a large baking tray, bake for 15 minutes or until the fish is just cooked. Unwrap and transfer to a plate, drizzling over any juices.
5. Meanwhile arrange the tomatoes on a platter or serving dish, season, scatter over the basil and drizzle over the balsamic glaze and remaining oil. Serve with the cod and the remaining half of the lemon, cut into wedges.
Try using haddock or salmon fillets instead of cod or replace the lemon with 2 limes.