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DEEZ NUTS: 'Band Of Brothers' Video Released
Panagiotis Karagiannidis January 9, 2013
"Band Of Brothers", the brand new video from DEEZ NUTS, can be seen below. The track, which features a guest appearance by Sam Carter(ARCHITECTS), comes off the band's third album, "Bout It", which is scheduled for release in Europe on March 29 via Century Media Records. The CD features additional guest appearances by Freddy Cricien(MADBALL) and Jon Blake (ON BROKEN WINGS).
The brainchild of vocalist JJ Peters, DEEZ NUTS was formed after his previous group, acclaimed Australian metalcore outfit I KILLED THE PROM QUEEN, decided to split up in early 2008.
Says Peters: "DEEZ NUTS and myself are extremely proud to announce we've joined the family over at Century Media and will finally have a label to call home in Europe and the U.K. for our upcoming full-length, 'Bout It'. Look at what we've achieved in Europe and U.K. doin' it DIY. WithCentury Media in our corner, there's no stopping us."
DEEZ NUTS are:
JJ Peters – vocals
Matt "Realbad" Rogers – guitar
Jon Green – bass
Alex Salinger – drums
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Interview: Deez Nuts (JJ Peters)
Panagiotis Karagiannidis May 17, 2013
Review: Deez Nuts – Binge & Purgatory
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Here are a few canyons in the Bungleboori region in the Wollemi National Park.
Doc on the final abseil on Banks canyon. Banks is a fair walk to get to with an extra 3km to travel thanks to National Parks. The canyon itself is fantastic and very picturesque. Not a canyon for arachnafobiacs, there are many spiders through the swim sections.
Doc again in Hole in the wall. Exit is the same for Banks, a short swim up the Bungleboori then a nice walk up the hill. Easy to find, with many short abseils and a nice dark tight squeeze. Depending on silt levels in the cave the sqeeze can be quite difficult. you can always go over the top though.
Bungleboori lunch spot. What does a canyoner eat for lunch, well today its hot coffee, peanut butter rolls, tuna and off coarse chocolate for dessert. The knife is for spreading the peanut butter....I think.
Pictured is the beautiful Bungleboori looking upstream. Its not so forgiving in high water, many a person has been stuck unable to fight the flow of water. The smart canyoner will always have a good knowledge of weather conditions for the day for any canyon.


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Sebe Brown talks insect control at an LSU AgCenter field day.
Brown will conduct and support ongoing integrated pest management research activities for field crops as needed.
The LSU AgCenter recently named Sebe Brown assistant professor of entomology with statewide Extension responsibilities in cotton, corn, soybeans and grain sorghum insect pest management.
Brown is located at the AgCenter Dean Lee Research Station in Alexandria, where, in addition to his Extension field crop responsibilities, he will conduct and support ongoing integrated pest management research activities for these field crops as needed.
After receiving a bachelor's degree in entomology from Texas A&M University, Brown received a master's degree in entomology from LSU before joining the AgCenter in 2012 as an area entomology agent.
Brown earned his doctorate in entomology from LSU in 2017 and began coordinating entomology research efforts at the AgCenter Tom H. Scott Research and Extension Educational Center in Winnsboro following the resignation of David Kerns.
The Louisiana subtropical climate allows for great diversity in crop production across the state and at the same time creates complex challenges for insect control in all field crops, Brown said.
Immediate plans include increasing research opportunities on-farm as well as at research stations across the state, working closely with growers and AgCenter agents to broaden insect pest management outreach efforts, he said.
Brown said he looks forward to working with growers to help them identify insect pest issues and refine action thresholds and recommend cost-effective sustainable management strategies.
"My goal is to provide the information producers need to select the best solution for their crop and pest situation," he said.
Brown and his wife, AgCenter pesticide safety coordinator Kim Pope-Brown, welcomed their first child, Mary Elizabeth, in Sept. 2018.
"We are both excited to be in the Central Region, and I'm looking forward to this opportunity to broaden the scope of my outreach efforts to help our clientele across the state," Brown said.


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The Resistance Part II: The bacteria battle
Antibiotics have their work cut out for them
by Miranda Reiman
Penicillin was introduced in 1928, antibiotic resistance followed in the decades after. Methicillin came next, a year later its first resistant bacteria were detected. So it's not surprising that common cattle cures are now subject to the same fate.
"For many years, the bacteria that caused [bovine respiratory disease] didn't seem to be becoming resistant," says Amelia Woolums, Mississippi State University veterinarian. New data from the last decade show they've not only developed it, but "surprisingly, they have developed resistance to multiple different antibiotics, and that can become evident even when we treat cattle with just one."
Treatment with one drug may lead to less effective options the next time around, no matter the class.
"If a cow has an antibiotic-resistant bacteria that's causing an infection, the cow many not get better if we treat it with antibiotics," she warns.
But how does it happen in the first place?
Different classes of antibiotics work to defeat bacteria in different ways, like disrupting the cell wall or membrane, inhibiting protein synthesis or DNA replication, or altering the metabolism.
"Antibiotics basically block or prevent different things the bacteria have to do to live, or destroy structures of the bacteria," Woolums says. "If the bacteria change those things so the antibiotic no longer works, that's how they become resistant. The sensitive ones are killed and that just leaves the resistant ones, and they get together and say, 'Let's have a family.'"
They use several different tactics for building resistance, such as:
Genetic mutation. That's the spontaneous change in a portion of the DNA of the bacteria. "If the protein changes, and that's the target of the antibiotic, it no longer works," Woolums says. That change is coded into the bacteria's progeny, too, so it passes on the resistance.
Efflux. "That basically pumps the antibiotic right out," she says. The drugs aren't in the cells long enough to work.
Destruction by enzymes. "Many bacteria possess genes that then produce enzymes that chemically degrade or inactivate the antibiotics."
"Research shows bacteria are very generous with their DNA," Woolums says, noting they can share them across different kinds of organisms.
A Pastuerella or Mannheimia can pass along resistant chunks of DNA—called integrative and conjugative elements, or ICE—to E.coli or salmonella, for example.
"Bacteria replicate at crazy rates," she says. So when one of these mutations sticks, very quickly there are millions of cells with the same tactics. "It's survival of the fittest."
Producers can help in the battle against resistance.
"Keeping cattle healthy really should be the first focus," Woolums says. "We were so lucky in the last half of the 20th century to come up with new antibiotics that did some amazing things."
But the penicillin example is bound to keep repeating itself.
"We really should try to focus on husbandry and things that keep cattle healthy," she says, "using antibiotics only when we really need them."
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Your cattle, data and the grid
by Morgan Marley | Jan 6, 2021
Many cattlemen have an idea of how grid marketing works, but might still have some questions as they're digging through carcass data. Paul Dykstra will present a free webinar, "Understanding grid marketing and carcass data," on January 21, 2021 at 1:30 p.m. CST.
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Follow along as these short video features detail registered breeders, commercial cattlemen and cattle feeders from Oregon to Texas. Get a glimpse of their family life and their cattle philosophy, and get ideas for your own operation.
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Craving: Loyalty Published by: Crave Publishing LLC Publication date: March 27th 2018 Genres: Adult, Romance, Thriller Loyalty. Noun. 'A strong feeling of support or allegiance.' For some, loyalty can be bought. For others, it's earned. But the thing about loyalty—it can change in an instant. All it takes is one act, one decision, and loyalty shifts to betrayal in the blink of an eye…a sin which cannot go unpunished. Not in this world. But sometimes things happen beyond our control, forcing our allegiances to change. Like the mob enforcer who wants nothing more than to seduce the assassin hired to kill him. Or the FBI agent who falls for the woman whose past holds ties with the mafia. Yet, no matter the reason or motive, the consequences of betrayal are always deadly. Because in this world everyone is… Craving Loyalty Goodreads / Amazon Are you a book reviewer? Request a review copy here ! GIVEAWAY! a Rafflecopter giveaway
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New Release: Bound by Deception, by Author Trish McCallan ***Excerpt - Giveaway***
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The Emperor's Seal Touching Time Book 1 by Amanda Roberts Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Mystery Peking, 1902 The Emperor's Seal – the divine symbol of the Emperor on earth – is missing. The Empress will do whatever it takes to get it back. Jiayi has a gift – she can travel through time just by touching historical artifacts. More than anything, she wants to escape the clutches of the Empress and run away to a foreign land. Finding the Emperor's Seal could be her only chance at freedom, but is she willing to risk the wrath of the Empress? Historian and wannabe archaeologist Zhihao has no love for the Empress or the Qing Dynasty, but when the Empress orders him to find the Emperor's Seal in exchange for funding China's first history museum, he cannot refuse. It is only after he accepts the assignment that he realizes the key to finding the seal lies in the hands of a palace slave. Civil unrest and encroaching foreign powers threaten Jiayi and Zhihao's mission and lives
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Open source sets sights on killing WhatsApp and Slack
See this IMAP, Zuck? It's pointing right at you
Andrew Orlowski Thu 12 Oct 2017 // 13:30 UTC
Exclusive The company that writes the open-source software for three-quarters of the world's Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) email servers has a plan that could kill off proprietary chat services like Facebook's WhatsApp. And that means you, too, Slack.
German open-source software-as-a-service operation Open-Xchange acquired the IMAP developer Dovecot three years ago, and announced today at the OX Summit in Brussels that it wants to integrate chat into the bundle.
Dovecot co-founder Timo Sirainen told us plans were in their early stages. The team hadn't decided which protocol to use. But the goal was to make it so easy that existing IMAP installations would find it trivially easy to turn it on.
Open-Xchange co-founder and CEO Rafe Laguna, who has long railed against the dominance of closed-source internet platforms, said he was frustrated by having a dozen chat apps on his phone that put data into silos.
The goal is that the user could flit from IM to email and back again, and the integration would ensure that chat conversations were archived and searchable. That removes the need for a Slack.
"The main idea is that there are lot of Dovecot installations all over the world," Sirainen told us this morning in Brussels. "If we include chat in Dovecot, we can utilise them to create a distributed chat system.
"Even if you don't have the chat enabled it would still fall back to email, when, say, you weren't using the same chat client as me.
"Who would want to join a new chat network? Well, if it's easy to enable, we could enable the problem of people using it. Also even if you don't have the chat enabled it would still fall back to email... If you weren't using mine."
Slack marketed itself as the cure for office email but users pay a steep price for what's essentially a wrapper around Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Among Sirainen's first projects was an open-source IRC client.
"We think it should be really easy to enable. It should work through an existing port – if we use the same port as IMAP then usually that's open on firewalls."
The IMAP-chat work would be proposed as a standard and open-source code. "We do want other people to implement the standard. It should be a fully open chat system that anyone can join and reimplement the whole thing.
"We have this idea of easily, when you reply, seeing their online status, and chat instead, then switch back to email. You could still have the same chat messages and have them in the email. And you could still have your old email client that doesn't know about chat – but still see them archived as normal email messages – say, one per conversation."
Twenty years ago, most internet communication was conducted over open protocols, but now much takes place over proprietary networks like Facebook or Slack. Innovating in communications might not bring down Facebook's empire overnight – The Social Network operates two giant chat services, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger – but it would make third-party alternatives more attractive and give users one less reason to stay logged onto the data harvester. ®


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Tags are a big part of photos on Facebook. They let your friends take pictures of you, and then when they tag you, they'll appear on your Facebook page. Without tags, you'd have to download and re-upload any photos you wanted on your page. Unfortunately, because you can be tagged in any photo, you can be tagged in photos that aren't of you, or photos where you don't look so great. Your grandmother doesn't need to see your drunken dancing.
If you've got Timeline Review set up, then things are a little easier: before photos you are tagged in appear on your page, you'll have to approve them. If, however, you don't have it set up or want to remove the tags from older photos, here's what to do.
Find the photo that you want to remove the tag from. In the top right, it will list all the people tagged in the photo.
Hover your cursor over your name.
In the flyout that appears, click Remove Tag.
And that's it, the tag is gone. The photo will no longer appear on your Facebook page.
Things are a tiny bit different on mobile. Find the photo you want to remove the tag from and tap the tag icon in the top right.
The tags will pop up on the photo. Tap the one with your name on it and then tap the little X.
And once again, the tag will be removed.
Removing the tag from a photo prevents it appearing on your page, but it doesn't remove the photo from Facebook. Anyone who visits your friend's page will still be able to see it in their photos. If you really want the photo gone, ask your friend to remove it.


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Rainer Schmidt (* 1954 in Gelsenkirchen) ist ein deutscher Landschaftsarchitekt, Stadtplaner und Professor für Landschaftsarchitektur an der Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin.

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Schmidt wuchs in Gelsenkirchen auf und praktizierte von 1972 bis 1975 Garten- und Landschaftsbau. Von 1975 bis 1980 absolvierte er eine Ausbildung in Landschaftsarchitektur an der Hochschule Weihenstephan in Freising. Nach dem Studienabschluss 1980 begann er, als Landschaftsarchitekt im Büro von Gottfried Hansjakob zuarbeiten, und wurde bald als Senior Landschaftsarchitekt zum Büroleiter. Seit 1986 ist er eingetragener Landschaftsarchitekt der  Bayerischen Architektenkammer. Im Jahr 1991 gründete er das Büro Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten und Stadtplaner in München und Berlin und nahm den Ruf für eine Professur in Landschaftsarchitektur an der Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin an.

Schmidt hatte Gastprofessuren an der University of California, Berkeley, USA, im Jahr 2007 und an der Universität Peking, China, im Jahr 2004. Seit 2005 ist er Mitglied im Präsidium der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gartenkunst und Landschaftskultur, Berlin, Deutschland (DGGL), seit 2008 Stadtplaner der Bayerischen Architektenkammer.

Auszeichnungen
 2017 Firma des Jahres, Amerikanischer Architektur Preis in Urban Design
 2016 Amerikanischer Architektur Preis, Silber, "Park Killesberg, Stuttgart, Deutschland"
 2015 WAN Landschaftsauszeichnung, 1. Preis, "Park Killesberg, Stuttgart, Deutschland"
 2013 DGNB Gold Zertifikat für das Projekt "Think K - Forum K, Stuttgart, Deutschland"
 2009 BDLA Preis für das Projekt "Villa Heldmann Garten, St. Gilgen, Österreich"
 2008 Erster Torsanlorenzo Internationaler Preis für das Projekt "Villa Heldmann Garten, St. Gilgen, Österreich"
 2008 Erster Torsanlorenzo Internationaler Preis für das Projekt "Paulinum Grundschule, Schwaz, Österreich"
 2006 Erster Torsanlorenzo Internationaler Preis für das Projekt "Bundesgartenschau - BUGA, München, Deutschland"
 2006 Erster Torsanlorenzo Internationaler Preis für das Projekt "Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, München, Deutschland"
 2003 Architektur + Technologie Auszeichnung für das Projekt "Fraunhofer Institut für Solar Energie, Freiburg, Deutschland"
 2002 Hans Bickel Preis für das Gesamtwerk
 1998 Internationaler Trend Preis, für das Projekt "Kempinski Hotel Flughafen, München, Deutschland"

Projekte
 Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Deutschland (2018)
 Allianz Campus, München, Deutschland (2016)
 Neugestaltung des Klinikums der Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Deutschland (2016)
 Campus Fachhochschule in Derendorf, Düsseldorf, Deutschland (2015)
 Weserquartier, Bremen, Deutschland (2014)
 Doha Convention Center Tower, Doha, Qatar (2014)
 Neubau Fachhochschule Campus, Bielefeld, Deutschland (2013)
 Hans-Sachs-Haus, Gelsenkirchen, Deutschland (2013)
 Pariser Höfe, Stuttgart, Deutschland (2013)
 Killesbergpark, Stuttgart, Deutschland (2013)
 Think K, Stuttgart, Deutschland (2013)
 Hotel Leonardo Royal, München, Deutschland (2012)
 Villa Pienzenauerstraße, München, Deutschland (2012)
 Zukunft Park Killesberg, Stuttgart, Deutschland (2012)
 Wohnanlage PANDION PRIME, München, Deutschland (2011)
 Wohnquartier Hirschgarten, München, Deutschland (2011)
 Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, München, Deutschland (2011)[4]
 Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Dalian, China (2011)
 Culture Wave City Hangzhou, China (2009)
 Villen Cubuklu, Istanbul, Türkei (2008)
 Villengarten, St. Gilgen, Österreich (2007)
 Infineon, München, Deutschland (2006)
 Bundesgartenschau BUGA, München, Deutschland (2005)

Im Bau
 Strafjustizzentrum, München, Deutschland
 Djamaâ el Djazaïr – Moschee von Algier, Algerien
 Nelson-Mandela-Platz, Nürnberg, Deutschland
 Inselhalle Lindau, Lindau, Germany

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)
 Schmidt, Rainer (2017), "Innovationsräume – Gartenkunst und Natur"; in Jahrbuch 12 der DGGL, "Moderne Gartenkunst", Callwey, München
 Schmidt, Rainer (2014), "Neue Landschaftsarchitektur-Bühnen. Kernzellen für neue Erfahrungen von Natur"; in Jahrbuch 9 der DGGL "Zukunft Stadtgrün", Callwey, München
 Schmidt, Rainer (2012), "Natur durch Kultur. Von der Romantik zur Organik"; in Jahrbuch 7 der DGGl "Gartenkunst und Landschaftskultur - 125 Jahre DGGL", Callwey, München
 Schmidt, Rainer (2009), "Die Bedeutung der Bilder in der Landschaftsarchitektur. Von der Landschaftsmalerei zur virtuellen Landschaft", in Jahrbuch 4 der DGGL "Garten und Medien", Callwey, München
 Schmidt, Rainer (2008), "Landscape Architectural Proposal for Malta" for "Ministry for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications, Malta" in "Digital Design in Landscape Architecture", Wichmann ISBN 978-3-87907-468-6 Topic: Digitale Medien und Darstellung in der Landschaftsarchitektur
 Schmidt, Rainer (2008), "best private plots 08 – Die besten Gärten 2008", ; Topic: Garden design Villa Garden St. Gilgen
 Schmidt, Rainer (2008), "Wake up to Tbilisi", Guide of urban development of the town of Tiblisi, Georgia at Expo Real, Topic: Hotelkomplex GMT in Tblisi, Georgia
 Schmidt, Rainer (2008), Landscape Design, China, Edition 28/2008,  Topic: Ecological Development of parks, Case of Infineon, Munich
 Schmidt, Rainer (2008), "Garden Design", Edition 02/2008, ISBN 978-3-8327-9228-2, Topic: Bavarian National Museum, Buga 2005, Riem Park, Villa Krantz
 Schmidt, Rainer (2008), "New international Landscape", Edition 06/2008,  Topic: Ecological Green Places, Campeon, Munich
 Schmidt, Rainer (2007), "Romantik im Freiraum zeitgemäß? Eine Antwort auf Rationalität und technischen Fortschritt", in Jahrbuch 2 der DGGL, "Gartenkunst im Städtebau", Callwey, München
 Schmidt, Rainer (2005), "Landschaft konstruieren" (Constructing landscape), Birkhäuser; ISBN 978-3-7643-8598-9, Topic: Terminal 2 Airport Munich, Buga 2005
 Schmidt, Rainer (2005), "Luxury private Gardens", teNeues, ISBN 978-3-8327-9226-8; Topic: Villa Krantz, Villa garden
 Schmidt, Rainer (2005), "Green Belt" Modern Landscape Design, ISBN 978-7-5381-5133-6, Topic: Parktown Schwabing, Campeon, Buga
 Schmidt, Rainer (2005), "Garden Design", teNeues ISBN 978-3-8327-9228-2 Topic: Villa Garden St. Gilgen
 Schmidt, Rainer (2005), "100x900", H.K. Rihan International Culture Spread, China ; Topic: Buga, Palacegarden Abu Dhabi, Hafencity Hamburg
 Schmidt, Rainer (2005), "Urban Landscape Design", teNeues ISBN 978-3-8327-9275-6 Topic; Parktown Schwabing, Terminal 2 Munich
 Schmidt, Rainer (2005), "Collection of international Landscape Designer",Technical University of Middle China ISBN 978-7-5609-4452-4, Topic: Parktown Schwabing, Buga, Bavarian Nationalmuseum
 Schmidt, Rainer (2005), Landscapearchitecture, TOPOS 2005, Callwey, München

Weblinks
 RSLA Official website
 German Architects: Office Profiles Landscape Architects
 LANDEZINE
 Vimeo RS Landscape Architects
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On This Day: Sachin Tendulkar And Waqar Younis Made Their Debut
By CricShots - Nov 15, 2019 3:23 pm
It was on November 15, 1989, when the legendary cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar, and Pakistan's Waqar Younis made their international debuts in the same match. Tendulkar and Younis made their debut in a Test match between India and Pakistan that was played in Karachi in 1989.
The match ended in a draw. In the match, Tendulkar was also dismissed by Younis in the first innings on a score of just 15. ICC tweeted: "#OnThisDay in 1989, Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Younis made their international debuts as teenagers. The rest, as they say, is history".
#OnThisDay in 1989, Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Younis made their international debuts as teenagers.
The rest, as they say, is history 🙌 pic.twitter.com/o419M8n0cA
— ICC (@ICC) November 15, 2019
This post was applauded by a lot of people on Twitter and they hailed the "combo debutants". A Twitter user wrote: "What a combo debutant and Rest is history #SachinDebutDay #WaqarDebutDay". Another one commented: "Both Legends responsible for the word "Gentle" in Gentlemen"s game". One more user Twitter: "It's surely a special day. Two of the greatest of their era's debuted on this day. What a journey it had been for both of them.
ALSO READ: R Ashwin Feels Day-night Tests Are The Right Move Forward
Over the years, Tendulkar has emerged as the "greatest batsman of all time" and he also got nicknamed as the "Master Blaster". On the other hand, Younis is regarded as one of the finest bowlers to come out of Pakistan. He also made his name known as one of the most lethal reverse swing bowlers.
Younis hanged his boots from international cricket in 2003 and he finished with 373 wickets in Tests and 416 scalps in ODIs. He is currently the bowling coach of the Pakistan cricket team. Tendulkar, bid adieu to international cricket in 2013 and to date, he remains the highest run-scorer in both Tests and ODIs. He also has the record for registering most international centuries.
Waqar Younis
Earlier this year, Tendulkar became the sixth Indian to get inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame. He debuted for India at the age of 16 and immediately became the country's favorite cricketer. He amassed 34,357 runs across formats, which is more than 6,000 runs ahead of the second-placed former Sri Lanka cricketer Kumar Sangakkara.
ALSO READ: Graeme Smith Declines Directors's Role In Cricket South Africa
The Master Blaster has been serving as a mentor to the Mumbai Indians that competes in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Tags debutLegendsOn this daySachin TendulkarTeam IndiaWaqar Younis
PHOTOS: Team India Enjoying Their Day-off In South Africa
WATCH: MS Dhoni Practicing Hard ahead of first ODI
By CricShots - Aug 19, 2017
Sachin Tendulkar Has A Crucial Advice For Rohit Sharma's New Phase Of Life
Mohammed Siraj reveals how Dhoni and Kohli backed him in Australia
By Aditya Pratap - Mar 5, 2019


How do I conduct a Toolbox Talk?
Home > News > How do I conduct a Toolbox Talk?
A toolbox talk is a valuable safety tool whereby important health and safety issues can be communicated to the workforce and they can give their feedback - such as safety concerns or improvements. It therefore needs to be well prepared and engaging.
First of all, explain why you are having a toolbox talk on a particular topic. Perhaps a recent near miss or observation highlighted a safety issue.
Ensure you prepare what you are going to talk about. Make sure any handouts or equipment being used are suitable for the audience (the attendees of the toolbox talk). It will be up to you to decide the best way to communicate the toolbox talk to your audience. If you are using digital media ensure it will work in the location of the toolbox talk (suitable Wi-Fi, cable connections, power sockets, etc.). It could be that a flip chart and pens may be the best way to communicate the message of the toolbox talk and images can be effective too.
It's prudent to keep a record of who attended each toolbox talk so you can follow up with anyone not present, ideally get the attendees to sign to acknowledge their attendance and understanding.
Get feedback on the toolbox talk. Ask the attendees what they thought about it. Each time you do a toolbox talk and learn from the previous one it will be easier, quicker and more effective.
Finally, and arguably most importantly, act on any suggestions from the attendees. Even if it's not practicable to implement an idea, let them know why. If it seems that you're not addressing their concerns they are unlikely to be engaged in future toolbox talks.
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Watlow Duct heaters are easily installed in applications requiring a wide range of temperature versus air flow combinations.
The Finned Strip Heater's basic design consists of a helically wound resistance coil placed in a specially designed ceramic insulator. The resistance coil is mechanically connected to the screw terminal for positive connection. Stainless steel rectangular tubing is used to house the heater assembly. All remaining voids are filled with high purity magnesium oxide to increase thermal conductivity and dielectric strength.
Nickel Plated Steel Fins (SSOptional)are mounted to the rectangular tubing. The fins have been specially designed to provide maximum surface contact for good heat dissipation into the finned cross sections, thus resulting in rapid heat transfer to the air.
Finned heaters are composed of aluminized steel fins press fitted to a one-inch single-ended FIREBAR® element. The FINBAR™ finned tubular heater is designed to improve heat transfer to the air and permits putting more power in tighter spaces—like forced air ducts, dryers, ovens and load bank resistors.
Designed for freeze and condensation protection, Watlow's enclosure heaters are rugged, reliable and safe to operate. These rectangular-shaped, wire-wound silicone rubber enclosure heaters can be ordered by themselves with adhesive or vulcanized to an aluminum mounting plate. A thermostat can be attached to the heater or mounted separately. Pictured are enclosure heater units with thermostat on heater in foreground and heater with remote thermostat in background.
WATROD enclosure heaters are designed to prevent freezing and condensation in electrical and mechanical housings.
The WATROD heater element is enclosed in a perforated, aluminized-steel bracket to prevent direct contact with the heating element.
When you need a heat source, Convectronics' products are designed to meet and exceed all expectations. Convectronics Air Heaters use state of the art materials and can be found throughout the world in countless industries.
Air heaters work by continuously passing air/fluid over a heated element. This air/fluid is heated and then discharged from the heater, giving a consistent supply of reliable heat. The material being heated can either be inert gas, compressed air or air from a regenerative blower. Unfiltered gas that may contain dirt, grease, oil, oil vapors, corrosive or reactive gases along with volatile or combustible gases should never be used. It should be noted that material should always be flowing over the element before and even after power is supplied to the heater or the result may be overheating of the element and reduced life.
element within its specified performance characteristics and monitoring the element temperature. Elements operating outside their recommended limits will glow beyond the midsection of the heated length.
Best operating results will be obtained by using a thermocouple feedback temperature control and phase angle power control. When using only a voltage control extra caution should be taken. Apply voltage to the heater until the desired air temperature is obtained.


Decatur, IL - April 3, 2019 - Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today celebrated the opening of its new high-tech livestock feed facility in Quincy, Illinois.
This is the fourth cutting-edge animal nutrition manufacturing facility in North America opened in recent months by the global leader in value-added products and solutions for both production and companion animals.
"Animal nutrition is one of our key growth platforms, and this investment is another great example of the efforts we are taking to become the go-to partner for our livestock, aquaculture and companion-animal customers around the globe," said ADM Chairman and CEO Juan Luciano.
"We've made significant investments to expand and improve our animal nutrition capabilities.
The new facility is located next to the original feed manufacturing plant ADM purchased in 1998 from Moorman Manufacturing Company.
The new plant will enable ADM to meet customers' growing needs in the United States.
"ADM is not only adding value to agricultural products, they're making a significant contribution to the agriculture economy in Illinois," said Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton.


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Ghost Ship fire parents cling to each other for…
'These beautiful people held me up': Ghost Ship fire parents cling to each other during trial
'This is our therapy,' one father says. 'This is real.'
OAKLAND, CA - JULY 11: Ivania Chavarria, Grace Lovio, Karen Frieholte, Farzaneh Hoda, Danica Chavarria, Keith Slocum, Grace Kim, Sue Slocum, Carol Cidlik, David Gregory, Maria Vega, and Colleen Dolan, are photographed at the Renee C. Davidson Courthouse on Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Oakland, Calif (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
OAKLAND, CA - JULY 11: David Gregory, left, Sue Slocum, center, and Sioux Krings, right, visit during lunch at the Oakland Museum of California on Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Oakland, Calif (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
OAKLAND, CA - JULY 11: Colleen Dolan, third from left, has lunch with fellow friends and family members of victims of the Ghost Ship Fire at the Oakland Museum of California on Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Oakland, Calif (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
David Gregory, left, and his wife Kim are photographed with a picture of their daughter Michela, and her boyfriend Alex Vega on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, in South San Francisco, Calif. Michela Gregory and Alex Vega both died in the Ghost Ship fire on December 2, 2016. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
Benjamin Burke, left, and Alexander Friend, both of Oakland, share a moment in front of the Ghostship building on Sunday Dec. 2, 2018 in Oakland where 36 people died in a fire at a dance party two years ago. Mourners gathered for a procession to Lake Merritt Sunday to remember the dead. (Photo By Doug Oakley)
By Julia Prodis Sulek | jsulek@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: July 14, 2019 at 7:00 am | UPDATED: July 15, 2019 at 6:39 am
(CLICK HERE, if you are unable to view this photo gallery on your mobile device.)
OAKLAND — Colleen Dolan collapsed in the courthouse lobby. She leaned against the wall next to the elevators at first, but then dropped straight to the floor and wept.
She had spent the morning in the Oakland courtroom listening to a witness testify about the final minutes of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire that claimed the lives of 36 people trapped inside, and about the young blond-haired woman who had made it out of the inferno alive only to race back inside to try to save her friends. Not until the break, when Dolan locked eyes with the witness in the lobby, did she know for certain: the young blond woman was her 33-year-old daughter, Chelsea, a guest DJ filling in for a friend that night. She had survived only to die.
As Dolan fell that morning in late May, two, four, six others rushed to her — the parents and a girlfriend of loved ones who also perished in the Dec. 2, 2016, blaze. And here they were — this band of bereaved — on the cold, hard terrazzo floor, sitting protectively around one of their own.
"These beautiful people held me up and helped me back in," said Dolan, recounting her moment of despair. "They were my pillars of strength."
Colleen Dolan holds a photograph of her daughter Chelsea Faith Dolan, who died in the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire. (LiPo Ching/Bay Area News Group)
The trial is wrapping up after 2 1/2 months. Since it began in late April, the family members of about a dozen victims — the ones who live close enough to attend the trial in downtown Oakland nearly every day — have forged a bond so strong, many consider their daily time together a form of grief counseling.
"This is our therapy. This is real," said David Gregory, whose 20-year-old daughter, Michela, died in her boyfriend's arms during the fire. Standing outside the courtroom, he put his arm around Dolan's shoulders.
"I don't think I'd come every day if you weren't here," Gregory told her. "I look forward to seeing everybody — and being understood."
They understand why, for weeks after the fire, Gregory pretended his daughter was away at San Francisco State and Dolan imagined her daughter was enjoying another extended music trip to Berlin. "You love them too much to let them go suddenly," Dolan said.
They know why Ivania Chavarria never answers her phone anymore — the last time she did she was told her son was dead. And they understand why five of them carry to court each day ashes of their children.
It's been two-and-a-half years since the Ghost Ship warehouse burned down, claiming the lives of three dozen young artists, musicians and party-goers who were trapped on the second floor when the power went out and the fire swept through and blocked the ramshackle staircase with flames. Two men, Derick Almena who leased the building and created an elaborate, wood-filled art space, and Max Harris who called himself its "creative director" and collected rent from the nearly two dozen people who lived there illegally, are charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. They have testified that they are sorry, but not criminally responsible. All but one of the dead were party guests.
Kimberly Gregory, left, mother of Michela Gregory, stands next to Kelly Jewett and Ani Sabillo, as they stand in front of a memorial during the first anniversary of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. Kimberly's daughter Michela Gregory and her boyfriend Alex Vega both died in the fatal fire. Jewett and Sabillo also had multiple friends killed in the fire. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)
The families have vague recollections of each other in the desperate hours after the fire, waiting for news that chilly Saturday morning in a sheriff's substation a few blocks away. Some met at the one-year anniversary commemoration at the Oakland Museum of California when bells chimed 36 times. And many finally connected at the courthouse in August, when they were summoned for a hearing on an ill-fated plea deal to speak in open court, one by one, about their loss and whom they held to blame.
It was a wrenching moment for the parents, but an empowering one, too. After listening to two days of family anguish, Judge James Cramer — in a stunning move — rejected the planned plea deal that would have sent Almena to prison for nine years and Harris for six. Instead, saying Almena, in particular, didn't appear sufficiently remorseful, he sent the case to trial — and that's when the parents and loved ones began calling themselves "family friends."
"It was only after we got to know each other's stories that we started to cling to each other," Dolan said. "It was so isolating when we had no one to talk to. When we were alone, it was devastating."
Being together, Chavarria said, "is the only way we can function."
Five days after the Ghost Ship warehouse fire, crews began the investigation phase and the removal of debris on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016 in Oakland, Calif. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group Archives)
It isn't always easy at home. Maria Vega's husband, Manuel, gets emotional when she mentions the trial, she said, "so I don't say anything."
Chavarria says that if she told her 95-year-old mother all the details she wants to share, "she would probably die."
And Dolan doesn't want to dampen the joy of her second daughter, who recently married. "This is no time for me to be pulling her down."
So they sit together in the first three rows of the courtroom each day, where they squeeze each other's hands when they hear their children's names mentioned and listen to testimony that Chavarria says "makes you shiver inside."
Gregory usually sits next to the window, setting his leather-bound journal on the sill when he gets too angry or upset to take notes and crosses his arms instead. He works the overnight shift as a mechanic at the San Mateo County Transit District and after court each day, goes home to sleep for four hours before he heads to work at 11 p.m.
Dolan usually takes one of the hard wooden seats in the middle. She takes detailed notes for daily updates to her Facebook page and keeps a photo of her daughter tucked inside: "I see her eyes throughout the testimony," she said, "and she reminds me to catch every word and tell her story, the whole story."
From left, David and Kimberly Gregory are photographed with Maria and Manuel Vega at the home of the Vega family in San Bruno, Calif., on Wednesday, December 7, 2016. Their children, Michela Gregory and Alex Vega, who were a couple, were victims of the Friday night Ghost Ship fire, which killed 36 people. (Josie Lepe/Bay Area News Group)
Filling in the other seats are Maria Vega, whose 22-year-old son, Alex, died holding his girlfriend, Michela Gregory; Chavarria, whose 32-year-old son, Chase "Nex Iuguolo" Wittenauer, had given up his IT job to pursue a career as a musician; and Susan and Keith Slocum, whose daughter Donna Kellogg was an energetic redhead who worked at a Berkeley cafe. Farzaneh Hoda, who lost her 30-year-old daughter, Sara — an elementary school teacher and artist — often sits near the aisle, and Grace Lovio, who was studying human rights in Paris when the fire killed her boyfriend, Jason McCarty, takes a seat nearby.
Other relatives near and far come when they can, including Grace Kim from Washington, D.C., whose cousin Ara Jo was killed, and Carol Cidlik from Hawaii, who took the witness stand on the first day of testimony and tearfully read the final text from her daughter Nicole Renae Siegrist: "I'm gonna die now."
The family members eat lunch together nearly every day and have become so close that they have gathered for a Saturday night dinner at one of their homes, picked up out-of-state family members flying in for the trial and hosted them overnight.
And nearly everyone carries some kind of talisman, memento or relic to court each day to hold the memories of their loved ones close: necklaces their daughters were wearing the night they died, a charm with their name, a tattoo of their face. Pieces of jewelry carry small vials of ashes.
The Alameda County district attorney opened a private conference room just for the families with a pot of strong coffee and sugar packets so they can spend courtroom breaks away from lingering witnesses and reporters.
OAKLAND, CA – JULY 11: Colleen Dolan, third from left, has lunch with fellow friends and family members of victims of the Ghost Ship Fire at the Oakland Museum of California on Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Oakland, Calif (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
Last week, they brought back sandwiches from a local deli and sat down in plastic chairs at folding tables. It is here they can express their daily frustrations and grief — like on the days they felt Harris showed no remorse or Almena blamed others or when the pathologist took the stand and explained in haunting detail how their children died, that they were starving for air, that they were disoriented, nauseous and panicked. The day Hoda and Susan Slocum found out their daughters' bodies were discovered in an embrace, it is here they found sanctuary.
"In this room, you and I fell into each other's arms," Slocum told Hoda. "It's horrifying but comforting."
Tears well up in Hoda's eyes: "She at least had someone at the last moment."
They don't always agree — like whether prosecutors should show jurors pictures of the bodies of their children. But they understand each other in ways that others can't — and they find solidarity in small acts of protest.
On a recent day after court, they noticed small "Free Max" stickers that Harris' supporters had posted to a light pole outside the courthouse.
"Garbage," Dolan said. They peeled them off one by one.
When the trial is over, they have pledged to stay in touch. If the outcome goes their way and the men are convicted, they are talking about taking a dinner cruise together or visiting Cidlik in Hawaii. Either way, a civil lawsuit will keep them connected as will plans to build a permanent memorial at the Ghost Ship warehouse, where the roof caved in but the exterior walls still stand. The smell of burnt timber still lingers in the air.
One day last week, they were ordering lunch when Cidlik talked about how many of their children were friends, or knew of each other through Oakland's vibrant arts community.
"They liked each other," she said, "and we like each other."
But it's more than that, she said. "It's my family now, if they claim me."
In an instant, Dolan replied: "You've been claimed already."
Oakland fire victims
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Julia Prodis Sulek
Julia Prodis Sulek has been a general assignment reporter for the Bay Area News Group, based in San Jose, her hometown, since the late 1990s. She has covered everything from plane crashes to presidential campaigns, murder trials to immigration debates. Her specialty is narrative storytelling.
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import colorama
from colorama import Fore, Back, Style
import datetime
import os
import re
import sys
import threading

# 3rd party imports

# Local imports
from .freeze_it import freeze_it

colorama.init(convert=True)

'''
  Create a simple redirection to Tee output to both console and a file
  This works for ALL console output intended for stdout (even by internal
  processes being called that display to the console from inside the python
  shell.
  This pattern probably shows up in 1000's of places on the interwebz
  May want this added to our own tool set so we don't need to redefine
  it repeatedly
  Can also consider modification to pass in a more general object with a write operator
  to remove the file context and make it any other type of transport mech (e.g., could
  be a socket or some other interface)... but for now it is a filename
'''
@freeze_it
class Tee(object):
    def __init__(self, filename = "Tee.txt", fileoption = "w+", append = False, timestamp = False):
        self.lock = threading.Lock()
        self._timestamp = timestamp
        self.ansi_escape = re.compile(r'(\x9B|\x1B\[)[0-?]*[ -\/]*[@-~]')
        if isinstance(sys.stdout, Tee):
            # A Tee already exists, we can either append
            # or reset to only simple 2-way behavior
            if not append:
                # If not appending, then roll back one level
                # to get the previous console object
                sys.stdout.file.close()
                sys.stdout = sys.stdout.console
        self.console = sys.stdout
        try:
            os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(filename), exist_ok=True)
            self.file    = open(filename, fileoption)
        except Exception as e:
            self.file    = None
            print(filename + " : FAILED TO OPEN : " + e)

    @property
    def timestamp(self):
        return self._timestamp

    @timestamp.setter
    def timestamp(self, value):
        if not isinstance(value,bool):
            raise TypeError('value must be bool type')

        self._timestamp = value

    def escape_ansi(self, line):
        ''' remove ansi escape sequences when writing to files
        '''
        return self.ansi_escape.sub('', line)

    def write(self, message):
        nowstr = str(datetime.datetime.now())
        self.lock.acquire()

        # Use <y> </y> as delimiter for yellow highlight
        if '<y>' in message:
            message = message.replace('<y>',Fore.BLACK + Back.YELLOW)
            message = message.replace('</y>',Style.RESET_ALL)

        # Use <m> </m> as delimiter for magenta highlight
        if '<m>' in message:
            message = message.replace('<m>',Fore.BLACK + Back.MAGENTA)
            message = message.replace('</m>',Style.RESET_ALL)

        # Use <c> </c> as delimiter for cyan highlight
        if '<c>' in message:
            message = message.replace('<c>',Fore.BLACK + Back.CYAN)
            message = message.replace('</c>',Style.RESET_ALL)

        # Use <g> </g> as delimiter for green highlight
        if '<g>' in message:
            message = message.replace('<g>',Fore.BLACK + Back.GREEN)
            message = message.replace('</g>',Style.RESET_ALL)

        # Use <b> </b> as delimiter for blue highlight
        if '<b>' in message:
            message = message.replace('<b>',Fore.WHITE + Back.BLUE)
            message = message.replace('</b>',Style.RESET_ALL)

        # Use <r> </r> as delimiter for red highlight
        if '<r>' in message:
            message = message.replace('<r>',Fore.WHITE + Back.RED)
            message = message.replace('</r>',Style.RESET_ALL)

        # Use <w> </w> as delimiter for white highlight
        if '<w>' in message:
            message = message.replace('<w>',Fore.BLACK + Back.WHITE)
            message = message.replace('</w>',Style.RESET_ALL)

        upstr = message.upper()

        if '[FAIL]' in upstr or '[ERROR]' in upstr:
            message = Fore.RED + Style.BRIGHT + message + Style.RESET_ALL
        elif '[WARNING]' in upstr or 'DEPRECATIONWARNING' in upstr:
            message = Fore.YELLOW + Style.BRIGHT + message + Style.RESET_ALL
        elif '[PASS]' in upstr or '[SUCCESS]' in upstr:
            message = Fore.GREEN + Style.BRIGHT + message + Style.RESET_ALL
        elif '[INFO]' in upstr :
            message = Fore.CYAN + Style.BRIGHT + message + Style.RESET_ALL
        elif '# ' in upstr:
            message = Fore.GREEN + Style.DIM + message + Style.RESET_ALL

        if self.timestamp and len(message) > 3:
            message = f'[{nowstr}] {message}'

        self.console.write(message)

        try:
            self.console.flush()   # Keep user up to date, without this there can be lag from some shells
        except:
            pass # A redirect does not support flush

        if (self.file != None):
            # Any escape sequences from caller or above are striped
            # when sending to file
            message = self.escape_ansi(message)
            if len(message) > 0:
                self.file.write(message)
                self.file.flush()

        self.lock.release()

    def flush(self):
        # For compatibility pass the console flush down until the real console is invoked
        # This is the case if the user has forked (appended) the Tee
        # In the future this will be important because the Tee may go to
        # console, file, and say something like an Ethernet destination
        if isinstance(self.console, Tee):
            self.console.console.flush()

def simple_log(modulefile, timestamp = False, datastorage_path = '.'):
    # Capture this module path, and base file name without the extension
    rootdir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(modulefile))
    thisfilename = os.path.basename(modulefile)
    thismodname = os.path.splitext(thisfilename)[0]

    if not os.path.exists(datastorage_path):
        os.mkdir(datastorage_path)    # Raises exception for bad paths

    # Redirect output (Tee) to console and logfile
    logfile = os.path.join(datastorage_path,thismodname + ".txt")
    sys.stdout = Tee(logfile, timestamp = timestamp)
    sys.stderr = sys.stdout

    print(Style.RESET_ALL)

    return thismodname

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Q: jQuery.cycle change div background image jQuery newbie!
I am having real trouble getting the Cycle plugin to change the background image of a div rather than cycle through slides. My div has other content which I don't want to change.
Is there another plugin out there that I should be using to achieve this? Help most appreciated on this.

A: This page should help you:
http://www.magneticwebworks.com/jquery-rotating-page-background/

A: Simplifying the method Marshall recommended: http://jsfiddle.net/petarsubotic/299Wr/
CSS
#wrapper {
position: absolute;
overflow:hidden;
height: 333px; /* optional */
background: black; /* optional */
}
#content {
position:relative;
z-index:999;
float:left;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);  /* optional */
padding:1em;  /* optional */
margin: 1em;  /* optional */
color:white;  /* optional */
}
#bg_containers {
position:absolute;
}

HTML

The background image behind this can be any size, so although it may not cover your entire screen in this case, you can make it cover as much or as little of the screen as you like. Just adjust the size of the #bg_containers, and of course, you can also have the background tile if you like as well.

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The letter from a Navajo Redskins fan The Washington Post does not want you to see
TGS weekly MVP tracker: Adrian Peterson joins the conversation
Week 11 NFL power rankings
NFL Reactor: No Magic In Denver Today
Posted by Shane Clemons on Dec 19, 2011 00:26
New England Patriots 41, Denver Broncos 23
Without a doubt, this was the most hyped game of the weekend. After jumping out to an early lead, however, Tim Tebow's house of cards fell apart. Simply put, Tom Brady illustrated why it's so important to have a great passer playing the quarterback position.
The Broncos got their running game into high gear very early, orchestrating three scoring drives off the bat. Their defense also seemed highly energized by the great atmosphere at Mile High. Unfortunately for the home crowd, the euphoria didn't last.
Tom Brady and Bill Belichick began methodically picking apart the Broncos' defense with short, crossing patterns. Chad Ochocinco was even able to get in on the act with an early touchdown pass from Tom Brady.
The prevailing belief was that if the Broncos could keep the game close, they'd have a chance to win it late, but that just never materialized. They were never able to slow down the Patriots' offense, and it was a rare case where Tebow never orchestrated a push to make a comeback.
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Substantial vs. substantive
When I first heard someone use the word 'substantive' to mean 'substantial' three or four years ago, I assumed that they'd made a mistake. The next few times, which were in political speeches or academic contexts, I assumed it was pedantry or affectation. Now I hear it so much, that I've been forced (by my Chambers) to admit that it is probably a reasonable substitute.
Is there any substantial/substantive difference in the way one should use either form? And is there an explanation for the rise (if I am correct in perceiving it as a rise) in the use of 'substantive' over 'substantial'?
Posted by jonathan
When used as adjectives, there is generally no difference between the two. Both have varying meanings, but there seems to be quite a bit of overlap.
In my experience, I usually hear "substantial" to describe a part of something that is either a very significant part or a part that could stand for the whole (i.e. it vaguely indicates the figurative or literal size of something). "Substantive," on the other hand, seems to refer to something of "substance" as distinguished from something "immaterial" -- again, either literally or figuratively.
But really, this is just the way I'm used to hearing them used in my region of the English speaking world. I've seen dictionary definitions (try the American Heritage) that use one as a synonym for the other -- at least generally.
More specifically, however, "substantive" can be a noun. When so used, it refers to any word or phrase that functions as a noun.
"Substantive" as an adjective also has a special meaning in law, wherein it is distinguished from "procedural" (e.g. whether one committed murder is a "substantive" issue, while whether one side or the other has the burden of proof is a "procedural" one). It's usage in law is a bit vaguely defined, but I think it's accurate to say that, if nothing else, anything that is "substantive" is "not procedural."
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Jones1 Mar-06-2007
I'd say they are pretty synonomous, but there are instances when they don't play well together.
"I have a substantial amount of money invested in the stock market." Using "substantive" in that same sentence doesn't sound right.
Furthermore, "substantial" can be used as an adverb:
"Your English has improved substantially." I'm not sure that substantive can get the same treatment.
As far as I know, substantive refers to something being real. If evidence is substantive, it means that it is real, convicing, and powerful. Substantial evidence, on the other hand, refers to the amount of evidence. Substantial evidence would in other words mean there is a lot of evidence.
Sydney1 Mar-23-2007
Yes, substantive is derived from substance, meaning an actual thing as opposed to a hypothetical category. We have substantive problems; we are not imagining them. Its opposite might be ephemeral.
Substantial is a quantitative quality. There is a substantial amount of money in the account; we can afford to go to Europe. Its opposite might be negligeable.
They are false cognates, even as they are related concepts.
Bob3 Mar-27-2007
Uh, substantial is also derived from substance. There is some overlap in definition and substantial, like substantive, can also refer to something real or stout, strong, etc. A substantial meal is a hearty one, not necessarily a large one.
anonymous4 Mar-28-2007
"Substantive", used as a noun, in grammar (or in old grammar terminology) means "noun" or a noun phrase functioning as such in the sentence.
The term "substantif" is still used in French grammar. If you can read French, you can have a look at the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantive , in which there is a brief definition of the term "substantif".
Its use as an adjective in English, however, is less common and tends to be found in (as you mentioned) "political speeches or academic contexts". In old grammar terminology, "substantive" was used interchangeably as both a noun and adjective: pertaining to substantives, or a substantive adjective i.e. functioning as a noun in a phrase. In addition, there were "substantive verbs" that expressed existence such as "to be". All this explains the "formality" surrounding the uncommon use of the term as an adjective.
wisstnb Apr-17-2007
-substantive: credible as to a component or content (like the above mentioned, "not imagined" or "to be"); in jurisprudence, compares/contrasts with 'procedural'
-substantial: crucial as to effect on the whole, as in magnitude
There's a substantive (as opposed procedural) change in our policy (but not our protocols), but it's not substantial.
The substantive debates over candidates' semantics were substantial in the media last election. In this election, however, the coverage has been more subdued.
lastronin Feb-18-2008
So, a scholarly journal article could be substantial, or substantive? As in "Students, there are articles in journals of only one page, but for your paper find two that are more substantial (quantative use). We need to find substantive (real, or maybe significant) journal articles that show research methods for a study...blah blah blah." Actually I want to use only one word or the other in reference to journal articles of substance. Opinions are welcome on which to use about scholarly journal articles.
Connie1 Apr-22-2008
I like this one (from a UK trade official quoted in the FT a couple of days ago): "The substantive differences are very small." A little awkward perhaps, but it helps to emphasize the difference between the two words - to say that the substantial differences were very small would be contradictory.
I suspect that the increasing use of substantive is probably down to people trying to sound as eddicated as our trade official.
Mark2 Jul-07-2008
Substantive means ' standing under' , i.e. the item which we are considering at the moment as in 'substantive motion' and is not the same as substantial which of course means something significant or considerable.
Prof_Peter_Styles Dec-28-2008
I have just seen an interesting use of "substantive" in an article by Martin Taylor in the August 2009 Prospect magazine. He talks of "the preference of the political process for small steps over substantive ones". This read oddly to me (and has brought me to this site).
In the context of the discussion above which separates quantity (substantial) from significance (substantive) Taylor's use of substantive makes a different point to the one that would be made by the use of the word substantial, but it's confusing because of the idea that political processes prefer things that are not small - which leads you to substantial.
Two usages which would not have led to a "clunk" response on my part would be
"the preference of the political process for small steps rather than substantial ones"
"the preference of the political process for quick-fix/sticking-plaster/cosmetic steps rather than substantive ones".
Of these two and in the context of the article the stronger argument by far is the bottom one - after all one could argue that the UK Government response to the banking crisis (the article's topic) has been substantial but perhaps not yet substantive.
All of which convinces me that there is a useful distinction between the two words, which could usefully be preserved (or perhaps created) - though I don't expect it to be: substantive's misuse for substantial appears to be everywhere.
jon Aug-10-2009
[...] Pain in the English has a debate about substantive versus substantial. [...]
substantial_vs._substantive_-_Writing_for_Business Feb-05-2010
I grew up with "substantial" and noticed just a few years ago reading the newspaper that everyone suddenly started to use "substantive" for EVERYTHING. I don't think I've seen the word "substantial" in the paper since. Someone seems to have decreed its banishment from journalism. If we could find who that dictator is, perhaps we could reverse the process.
I was taught in school (long ago) that "substantive" meant a noun, and was a "grammar" word like "verb" or "subject", although I can see how it could also mean anything real or material. "Substantial" meant big or solid or important. As in, "we have substantial evidence to convict...", which would not be the same as "we have substantive evidence to convict," although the average person would not note any nuance between them.
stan Jul-12-2010
Stan's comment reminds me of a similar disappearance. Whatever happened to the word 'epidemic'? Why is every outbreak of disease now called a 'pandemic' before it's even reached the bottom of the street? Journalistic hyperbole.
Why use 'substantive' in place of 'substantial'? Journalistic bombast.
Rachel2 Jul-19-2010
"It's usage in law is a bit vaguely defined, but I think it's accurate to say that, if nothing else, anything that is "substantive" is "not procedural.
OH, JONES, HOW COULD YOU ? "It's usage" !!!!!!" - is this as in "IT IS USAGE" because if you are referring to the possessive pronoun "ITS" then why are you using an apostrophe? Your erudite comments are wrecked by this ignorance...
ducie1 Feb-11-2011
It seems the British put the apostrophe in where Americans do not. It looks odd (=wrong) to us, but that's the way they are brought up. They're not going to change, so get used to it.
stan Feb-12-2011
Stan Jones, do you have any reference materials to back that up? As far as I know, the possessive pronoun, "its" does not take an apostrophe in the UK either. Such an apostrophe is not taught in British schools or approved of in any UK grammar books or style guides, nor is it commonly embraced by the British populace, at least, not any more or less than anyone in the United States. Without starting yet another prescriptive vs. descriptive arument, most just consider it a careless mistake.
It seems the British put the apostrophe in where Americans do not. It looks odd (=wrong) to us, but that's the way they are brought up. They're not going to change, so get used to it.
Sorry, Stan I teach English and the only reason you will see an apostrophe in "its" (as a possessive pronoun) in Britain or US is where someone has made an error. British English and American English both use the same word !
I don't have to "get used to it" but the person who makes this elementary error has to get used to appearing poorly educated.
You are probably right, I spoke from observation, not direct knowledge of the rules. I have seen a few "it's" online, and the British writers seemed to use it more consistently and appeared to be well-educated otherwise, while Americans used it less often and it seemed to be more a typo for them. Hence was an assumption born. This is the wrong forum for that!
While generally synonymous, I think of substantive vs. substantial as the difference between quality and quantity.
Bill1 Apr-24-2011
I've never heard 'Substantive' being used in non-political conversation in all my 70 years. I hate hearing the word on radio or tv, and I'm a wordsmith!
Jill1 Jun-14-2011
It's ludicrous, yet another horrific neologism. Journalists and their readers think they're up-to-the-minute, on top of tough technical topics, and just generally more intellectually substantial when they use big words. As has been pointed out by others, this term used to be specific and useful in its original context.
It appears there is substantial disagreement amongst the commentators on the question whether the difference between the two words is substantive or only superficial. Certainly we could not say that the difference between the two words is "substantial" since it's only 2 letters. However those 2 letters of difference may nevertheless result in a substantive difference in meaning and usage.
Johnolywa Sep-21-2011
In reading a stipulation prepared by the parties and presented to the hearing officer for his approval as to form and content, the following was added in the hearing officer's handwriting just above his signature: "It should be noted that pages 7 and 8 are substantively blank." It just didn't look "right" to me and I thought that it was added to show not only that the author was wide awake and on his toes, but that his use of "substantively" rather than "substantially" was meant to demonstrate that the author was somehow "really smart." I mean, why use "substantively" when there were other commonly used adjectives available to convey the fact that the referenced pages in the document as presented to the hearing officer were "substantially" blank. Just a feeling on my part, but the thought that "something was going on" eventually led me to this site. And what a wonderful place this is! I'm in way over my head - there are some really smart people making comments here - but I think I'm going enjoy being a fly on your wall.
fogcityfred Oct-06-2011
Substantive: having substance
Substantial: having large quantity of substance
Substantial is a more specific adjective than substantive. In other words, something that is substantial implies that it is substantive. The converse is not necessarily true. For example, if you witnessed a minor car accident, the scratch on the car was substantive. The damage actually happened and it was real. You did not imagine it. However, the damage was not substantial because it was just a minor scratch.
anonymous1 Jan-23-2012
Substantial is normally quantitative; substantive is normally qualitative; for example, it could be said that subtantial, substantive evidence exists..
PEL Mar-29-2012
My understansing is that the difference is whether you are looking to describe something as having qualitative (substantial) or quantitative (substantive) properties.
Speechie Coach Apr-16-2012
The word substantive is used frequently in patent prosecution. "Substantive examination" of a patent application is taken to mean a full and in-depth examination by the examiner, as opposed to the more superficial initial examination done by the searching authority.
Jon B May-24-2012
... "It should be noted that pages 7 and 8 are substantively blank." ...
Wow, for the life of me, I can't even imagine what that means. Does the blankness of pages 7 and 8 have great importance? Are pages 7 and 8 sparkly white, blanker than other blank sheets? Or perhaps they are substantially but not entirely blank, not blank at all?
porsche May-24-2012
The importance of teaching grammar and spelling in schools has been overtaken by the need to incorporate the ever emerging new subjects appearing on our curriculae. Thus together with world wide online interconnectivity fostering new meaning for words, based on their repeated, inaccurate, uncensored usage, is sadly contributing to a degradation of the English language as we know it.
cassie Jun-24-2012
I thought substantive is derived from the word substance. As in, the politician's speech was substantive. (it had substance) and I only just realized that I have been pronouncing the word wrong too. I pronounce it sub-stan-tive instead of sub-sta-n-tive with the n silent. I just love our language. I wish more people would learn it.
ebbill Sep-16-2012
Curriculae, Cassie? Curricula is already plural, the plural of curriculum.
porsche Sep-16-2012
What an exciting and worthwhile critical discussion! I believe that the closer structural [phonetic and semantic] affinity between the words "substantive" and "substantial" is largely responsible for the mix-up, especially so in view of the manner in which they are interchanged unknowingly yet increasingly in common usage, leading to the fusion of the fine distinction between them in the social process [with both words as probably derived from the root word substance (?)]. I have witnessed a lot of this across a number of other world languages. My take on this, however, would be that the word "substantive" is temporally [qualitatively, intensively] marked compact space, and the term "substantial" spatially [quantitatively, extensively] constituted vast time, Whereas the former is informed by a sense of "distinctness" [of the compactness of space], the latter by a degree of "togetherness" [of the vastness of time]. It somehow boils down to both variation and emphasis, either of temporality and quality over spatiality and quantity and vice versa, that is, "substantive" over "substantial" and vice versa. Therein, lies the fine distinction between them, either in their separate or combined usage..
[NB. Not that time and space are separable entities. Far from it. For time and space, either as ontological entities -- that is, common medium in which all things are, or as epistemological entities -- that is, their relative arrangement across cultures, are inseparable in reality, as in nature, mind and society. Many thanks.
Hufanga Jun-06-2013
I always take...
substantial to mean significant in size or volume, something tangible or measurable. e.g a substantial sum of money was spent on the celebrations
and, substantive to mean important, something signifcant but which cannot be measured e.g a substantive truth
Noel Sep-11-2013
"Substantive" is a term widely used in auditing and has nothing to do with substantial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audit_substantive_test
It is commonly contrasted with a systems audit, and often focuses on looking at major transactions and items, so ideally all big stuff is audited and just a random sample is taken from minor items and checked.
jayles Sep-11-2013
@jayles -I'm sure you're right in a more specialist sense, but I think Noel's got it as a more general use, and that's the one dictionaries give:
having a firm basis in reality and so important, meaningful, or considerable
- there is no substantive evidence for the efficacy of these drugs - Oxford
The family appeared at the press conference but made no substantive comments - Macmillan
The State Department reported that substantive discussions had taken place with Beijing. (Longman)
Substantive research on the subject needs to be carried out. - Cambridge
Warsaw Will Sep-12-2013
Think of the difference like this:
I tend to think in this regard of 'physicality' - what are the physical characteristics that I can relate it to. So, 'substantial' refers to 'volume' - in terms of political or legal argument, a particular aspect may get the most attention and number of words or time spent talking about it - that aspect forms the substantial part of the argument. However, 'substantive' is to do with 'weight', force or pressure. So, going back to our political or legal argument, the substantive part of the argument may appear inconsequential at first and not have got too much of a mention but at the end of the day it will be the aspect that carried the greatest weight with the electorate (or Jury). I think of the 'poll tax ' - the thing that probably brought Margaret Thatcher down or seriously tarnished her image. She may not have regarded it as substantial in terms of what she was 'about' but it was certainly 'substantive' in the electorates mind - it carried enormous weight. So, 'substantive' can mean the straw that broke the camels back or it may also be aligned with the substantial part of an argument IF the substantial part of the argument (greatest volume of words) is the persuasive aspect that carries or wins the argument. The substantial part of a speech may have been so much hot air but the substantive part may have been just one sentence - or it may all have been hot air in which case their was not 'substantive' part.
Richard Gammons Sep-30-2013
To put it another way, you can almost always replace 'substantial' with 'large(amount of)' or 'a lot of', and 'substantive' with 'important', as we can see if we look at their main collocates (words that are most often used together with them)
Main collocates for 'substantial' include:
number, amount, evidence, increase, portion part etc
Main collocates for 'substantive' include:
changes, law, issues, rules, requirements, rights
http://www.netspeak.org/#query=substantial+%253F
http://www.netspeak.org/#query=substantive+%253F
I believe you are substantively correct but, I believe, not entirely correct - just substantially correct! I reckon 'evidence' might be substantive - microscopic (DNA?) - but substantive in that it provides the 'weight' of the evidence/argument
Hi Richard, some words can definitely take both, but I would probably read 'there's substantial evidence against him' as meaning a lot of evidence, and 'there's substantive evidence against him' as meaning important evidence.
The same would go for change:
'There have been substantial changes in the law on drink-driving' - a lot of changes
'There have been substantive changes in the law on drink-driving' - important changes (though not necessarily a lot)
Looking at various dictionaries, it seems to me that the use 'substantive' is pretty well restricted to the 'important' meaning, and I'd never use it for 'a lot of',. But there does seem to be a bit of crossover with 'substantial' when it comes to 'important'.
'There is substantial agreement between the company and the unions' could go either way, perhaps, but I could presumably then add 'but the substantive question of redundancies has still to be addressed'.
I confess, however, that 'substantive' is not a word I ever use, and I'm only going by what the dictionaries say, so I bow to your better judgement.
HI Will
I think you have it exactly right and discussing it with you has also helped clarify it -
In general when politicians speak they exude a substantial amount of verbal froth. This is so because—again in general—they do not wish to commit themselves on substantive issues in case their position ultimately proves unpopular and jeopardises their seat on the gravy train.
To put it briefly, the substantive point here is that politicians are a worse than a waste of space—they are substantially parasitic on the body politic.
Yet people continue to vote for these creatures of no substance rather than hang them. Life is full of mysteries.
John Archer Mar-01-2014
Substantive has replaced substantial for no good reason, as far as I can tell, other than fashion and (now rather threadbare) novelty, in the same way the cumbersome "impactful" (is that even a word?) is often heard in place of the utilitarian but presumably old-fashioned "effective."
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