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Ghana whale deaths blamed on offshore oil exploration
Afua Hirsch, west Africa correspondent
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Campaigners say 16 whales have washed ashore in area where oil exploration takes place, but Environmental Protection Agency denies link
An "alarming" number of whales are dying off the coast of Ghana, conservationists say, prompting concerns for marine life in the west African nation.
Campaigners believe that a record number of whales have been washed ashore in western Ghana in recent days, and claim they have been affected by oil exploration activities in deep waters off the Ghanaian coast.
"This is a very serious problem – we used to experience around one dead whale every five years, but in the last week alone we have had 16 whales washed ashore," said Kyei Kwadwo Yamoah, programme co-ordinator at Ghanaian campaign group Friends of the Nation.
"We have reason to believe it is related to oil. Almost all of these whales are dying in the part of Ghana where oil exploration takes place. It is well known that seismic exploration can result in the killing of whales," Yamoah added.
Ghana discovered oil in 2007 and currently produces around 110,000 barrels a day.
There have previously been warnings that oil production in the country might affect its whale population. An impact statement in 2009 noted at least 18 different species of dolphins and small whales in the region affected by oil exploration, and said that they would be "vulnerable to disturbance". Oil companies said they would put "mitigation measures" in place, including minimising seismic exploration and helicopter noise in areas heavily populated by marine life.
Tullow Oil Ghana, one of the country's main oil companies, was not available for comment when contacted by the Guardian.
Ghana's Environment Protection Agency (EPA) said there were no links between the oil industry and the beached whales and stated that similar incidents occurred in other countries.
But there is concern over the lack of transparency in regulating the impact of oil extraction on whales and other sea creatures.
"The EPA is not communicating to us and the public. If they are monitoring mitigation, they should publish reports, to show publicly that it is working, or it is not working, and setting out what measures the oil companies should take," said Yamoah.
"For coastal communities, discovering these dead whales is really affecting them psychologically, and they are having to live with the anxiety of not knowing what is causing them to die. Many people believe that their fish may be contaminated."
It's not the first time a link has been drawn in Ghana, which is a major exporter of gold and timber as well as oil, between environmental damage and the extractive industries.
Earlier this year the Guardian reported on the use of mercury in illegal gold mining, causing significant environmental and health risks.
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Afua Hirsch is a writer, broadcaster, and former barrister
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This week, Mark Zuckerberg has been more humble than usual. The latest figures show that 1.49 billion users hop on the platform daily; monthly active users come in at 2.27 billion. While both figures are increases from previous metrics, these fall shy of those bubbly estimates Facebook loves forecasting: 1.51 billion in the former; 2.29 billion in the latter.
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Kieffer Delp of 'Teen Mom 2' Is Out of the Spotlight: Update on How Jenelle Evans' Ex Is Doing
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Kieffer Delp of Teen Mom 2 has been out of the spotlight for so long that it's easy to forget about one of Jenelle Evans' earliest boyfriends. The former reality star dated him in the beginning of the show — a simpler time in her life. In the years since these two appeared in the first four seasons of the MTV hit, they split for good by 2016.
Evans' first relationship was with high school boyfriend, Andrew Lewis, which lasted from 2007 to 2009. The then-17-year-old gave birth to their child, Jace Evans, in August 2009. She documented her pregnancy and Jace's birth on the 16 and Pregnant season 2 premiere in February 2010. After splitting from Lewis shortly afterward, Evans moved on with Delp. They dated from 2010 to 2012 and Jenelle dated him on and off in between her other romances. She was linked to ex-fiancé Gary Head in 2012. After ending things with Head, Evans moved on with Courtland Rogers. The two quickly fell in love and got engaged in November 2012, marrying the next month, but they finalized their divorce in 2014.
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Evans met ex-fiancé Nathan Griffith on Tinder in June 2013 and they welcomed their first child together, Kaiser Griffith, in June 2014. They got engaged in January 2015 but called it quits by that August. She then met future husband David Eason on the dating app in September 2015, per Us Weekly, and they tied the knot in September 2017. She shares daughter Ensley Eason with her husband. By the spring of 2019, MTV had cut ties with she and Eason after he admitted to shooting and killing their family dog.
So, where has Delp been since he last appeared on Teen Mom 2 in December 2017?
Keep reading to get the details on where Kieffer Delp is now.
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Kieffer Was In and Out of Jenelle's Life.
Delp and Evans' initial romance lasted nearly two years, though they went through some major ups and downs during their time together. After the MTV mama split from Gary in 2012, she and Delp got back together that year, only to break up again. After giving their relationship another shot in 2016, their sparks fizzled out by the end of that year, as she went on to marry Eason in September 2017.
Kieffer Delp Experienced Addiction and Legal Troubles
Fans of the reality show watched as he and Evans dealt with drug use and their subsequent arrests. However, he faced multiple legal issues on his own, as he was arrested in January 2018 for running a meth lab, per Us Weekly. He was behind bars until his sentencing in August 2018, which is when he agreed to serve 18 to 36 months in a state correctional facility in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as part of a plea deal.
In February 2020, he was released only to be arrested less than one week later because of an outstanding warrant for jumping bail, according to The Ashley's Reality Roundup. The outlet reported he wasn't allowed to leave the state of Pennsylvania, but cops picked him up after he visited his hometown of Salem, New Jersey. After posting bail, which the site reported as $25,000, Delp was released from the Salem County Correctional Facility by February 25.
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James Franks, MD, a family physician in Forrest City, Ark., said he struggles to make ends meet in his solo practice. But despite that, he said he would never sell his practice to work for a hospital. His attitude was reflected in a QuantiaMD/CareCloud survey that found 36% of doctors believe practice profits would go down in the next year, but more than 60% say they still want to operate independently. Photo by Lance Murphey / AP Images for American Medical News
Independence comes at price many doctors still willing to pay
■ Physicians in private practice say they are struggling financially compared with employed peers, but that the sacrifice is worth the autonomy.
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When James Franks, MD, imagined his career as a physician, it looked like the life he remembers his family doctor having.
"My idea was to be the doctor who sits in my office, sees my patients and takes care of them," he said. "I guess that was me being part naive and part believing in the ideal situation."
But the reality of life as a solo family physician in rural eastern Arkansas for Dr. Franks is not the easygoing experience he imagined his doctor had. Dr. Franks' practice operates month-to-month financially. He can't imagine a day when he has enough money to make investments in his office. He says he earns far less than he would as a physician employed by a large health care organization, and he lacks benefits such as paid time off and retirement contributions.
But if a large health care organization came knocking on Dr. Franks' door in Forrest City, Ark., asking him to sell, he would decline the offer with no hesitation.
Many physicians are in the same situation as Dr. Franks. They are facing day-to-day struggles to meet payroll and keep the lights on in their practices, believing the business climate will not change for the better anytime soon, that it will in fact get worse before it improves. And yet they willingly work for themselves, even as hospitals buy practices and employ physicians who decided the independent rat race was no longer worth it.
A survey of more than 5,000 physicians conducted by QuantiaMD, an online physician community, and CareCloud, a cloud-based health IT vendor, found 36% predicting a negative profitability trend during the next year, compared with 22% who said it would be positive and 30% who said it would stay the same. Declining payments and government mandated changes (Affordable Care Act, ICD-10 conversion, adoption of electronic health record systems) are among the top issues of concern.
There have been many studies looking at how physicians are doing with things such as meeting requirements for the EHR meaningful use incentive program, but not a lot on how physicians are doing with the business side, said Albert Santalo, president and CEO of CareCloud, which released its survey in late May. "We were actually somewhat shocked at the results we got back," he said. "The results were somewhat sobering and problematic for us as a society if things continue to trend this way."
But while the concerns are plentiful, more than 60% of physicians who own their practices say they would not consider selling.
Cardiologists were among the most pessimistic about their financial futures, with 49% saying their financial trend will be "somewhat" or "very" negative in the next year. Still, 44% of those who own their own practices have no interest in selling even though there seems to be a clear financial motivation to do so.
MedAxiom, a cardiology-specific community of health care administrators and physician leaders, conducted a separate survey of 129 cardiology groups for its annual compensation survey and determined independent cardiologists earn an average of 26% less than those in integrated practices. In a chart, MedAxiom pointed to the difference with the bold declaration: "The price of independence."
For physicians in other specialties, the price of independence may not be money but time — or it could be both.
More than 60% of physicians who own their practice say they would not consider selling.
MGMA-ACMPE's annual physician compensation report shows that doctors in private practice earn about 9% more than academic faculty members, but appear to work longer hours. The mean work relative value units for family physicians (without ob-gyns) in an academic setting was 4,723 compared with 4,993 RVUs for family physicians in private practice.
Todd Evenson, director of data solutions at MGMA-ACMPE, said there are similar trends between nonacademic hospital-employed physicians and independent physicians. Those who are independent tend to earn a little more and have a higher rate of productivity, but that is starting to change, he said.
Even though compensation and productivity may be similar, "physicians committed to staying in private practice must have an entrepreneurial spirit," he said. They will be forced to have a strong understanding of legal and regulatory requirements and the needs of the community. He said some doctors are suited for that, and some are not.
Personal cost-benefit analysis
After ending her career as an Air Force doctor, Ruth Haskins, MD, an ob-gyn in Sacramento, Calif., realized her dream of owning a practice. She ran the practice for four years before selling it for the same price she had purchased it. Dr. Haskins had two young children at home, and she wanted a 9-to-5 job with benefits and extra time to attend school meetings and her kids' sporting events. She knew a job at the local academic hospital would provide a more regular work schedule that would allow her to have the work-life balance she needed.
Soon after starting that job, however, Dr. Haskins discovered that giving up the struggles of owning her own business also meant the loss of her independence, which she desperately wanted back. Five years later, with her children older, she put in her notice at the academic hospital and re-entered solo practice. She hasn't looked back.
Dr. Haskins works with a hand-picked staff who share her philosophy of patient care. She offers the services she wants to offer, uses the EHR she chose herself, and runs the practice the way she wants to run it.
"How many people can truly say they are living out their childhood dreams?" she asked. "I was born to do this."
She said this despite the fact that the practice failed to make a profit for nearly three years — and despite the fact she works about 17 hours a day both at home and in the office.
Her situation is not unique. In fact, gauging by the watercooler talk she has with other doctors in the labor and delivery wards at the hospital, it seems her situation is par for the course for those committed to remaining solo.
Eric Schultz, executive chair of QuantiaMD, said there's been a big change in the discussions taking place on his company's message boards during the past two years. The online physician platform was launched with a clinical focus. Physicians would discuss cases and trade clinical knowledge. Now, Schultz said, the most active discussion group is one covering practice profitability. Common topics of discussion are "Should I sell?" or "How can I increase performance through automation?"
A few years ago, trends were moving in the direction of physicians selling. Evenson said although he doesn't have concrete numbers to back him up, it appears that the number of practice acquisitions has slowed in recent years. He has heard of many physicians returning to independent practice after their initial employment contracts ended.
"It's critically important for physicians to know that if they want to remain independent, they can," he said.
Dr. Franks is counting on it, but he would like to make some changes if the opportunity presents itself.
Rather than being bought up, he said he would love to join other solo practices in his area so he could have someone else to share the burden. Until then, the burden is one he happily chooses to bear. "If not, I would have left here and done something else."
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Last week, Rudy Kurniawan, who accumulated one of the world's premier wine collections worth more than 50,000 bottles of the most celebrated Bordeaux and Burgundy wines of the last century, went on trial in Manhattan federal court.
Kurniawan was charged in 2012 with mail fraud for creating and trying to sell counterfeit wine, and is also charged with wire fraud for allegedly using counterfeit wine as collateral to secure a $3 million loan.
The case is being tried in New York because some wine was sold through Manhattan auction houses and the company Mr. Kurniawan secured a loan from is also based there.
According to federal prosecutors, Kurniawan turned his suburban Los Angeles home into an assembly line for counterfeit wine where Kurniawan forged labels of rare, expensive vintages and affixed them on bottles that he filled with a blends of cheaper wines.
He used wax and old corks to create the illusion of authenticity.
Kurniawan's attorney, Jerome Mooney, said his client unwittingly bought counterfeits that he later sold. Mooney said experts will testify about a poorly kept secret of rare-wine collecting.
"There's an awful lot of bottles of counterfeit wine bought and sold as vintage," said Mooney.
Many of Kurniawan's victims were friends who believed him when he said he had found a "magic cellar" in Europe.
Mooney said much of the case was about Kurniawan, a native of Indonesia with Chinese parents, trying to belong to a group that accepted him.
Kurniawan's arrest was the culmination of years of work by the FBI's art squad, which investigates fraud in high-priced collectibles.
Kurniawan had claimed certain wines were produced between 1945 and 1971 from the Clos St. Denis vineyard of Domaine Ponsot, but the winemaker did not produce wine from that vineyard until 1982.
Kurniawan also engaged in multiple fraudulent schemes to obtain millions of dollars in loans from a finance company by understating his debts and attempting to use artwork and wine as collateral when he had already used the items as guarantees to an auction house.
In 2006, New York-based auction house Acker, Merrall & Condit sold about $38 million of wine at two auctions, all of it consigned by Kurniawan. The second of those auctions fetched $24.7 million, still a record for a single sale.
The website Dr. Vino notes the prosecution will call two more witnesses on today and then likely rest.
When the authenticity of a bottle of Chateau d'Yquem that sells for more than $16,800 was in question, Stephen Williams, president and chief executive officer of Antique Wine Co. in London, sent it to The Center for Nuclear Studies in Bordeaux Gradignan to be examined by a particle accelerator.
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In this Q&A, just-auto talked with Dr Rainer Neumann, director of global lighting business development, Visteon, about the company's light system innovations.
just-auto: What trends are you seeing in OEMs' strategies with regard to vehicle lighting systems?
Visteon: Exterior lighting is extensively used by car manufacturers as a way of differentiating vehicles and brands. Daytime running lights (DRL), which was made mandatory for all new vehicles in Europe in January 2011, is a good example. More and more new configurations and shapes determine the styling of the DRLs which typically uses with LEDs.
Also, the overall trend in using LEDs as light sources for both rear lamps and headlamps is clearly visible. However, for LED headlamps it will take a few more years to achieve reasonable take rates in all vehicle segments.
What are the benefits and opportunities of LED technology in automotive applications?
Due to the long life time and the short rise time - which is a safety feature especially for rear lamps - LED light sources offer tremendous opportunities to design unique and attractive LED lamps. It can create a signature light, which identifies the vehicle brand and type. In the future, it will also lead to improved light performance for headlamps.
LED automotive lighting is becoming popular for a variety of applications. Yet what are the practical, constructive and regulatory challenges to consider when turning an LED idea into a product?
The main challenge is the cost of the application. Whereas the need for LED technology for rear lamps and the third stop light applications generally has been accepted, LED headlamps are still only seen on a few vehicles of the premium segment today. Visteon's target is to develop LED modules in high volumes and with best in class performance for competitive costs.
The legislation work is principally done now. Visteon has introduced the LED light source for all applications in the ECE world.
As LED automotive headlamps gains momentum, are there concerns about the permissibility of colour fringes observed in the headlight pattern?
LED headlamps show a different colour than HID (Xenon) or halogen bulbs. Because of the physical background of the lamp, using a blue LED as the basis to create a white light creates the impression to have a bluish light rather than the yellowish halogen bulbs.
The recognition of the road obstacles illuminated by LEDs at night does not create any colour fringes or complaints with respect to visible colours. On the contrary, the driver appreciates the clear and white light impression that he can see.
For some time, the North American automotive lighting market has lagged behind that of Europe and Asia. To what extent are the Americans catching-up in terms of, say, styling and the application of LEDs?
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While the current focus seems to be on LED, to what extent does electroluminescent systems allow for the realisation of adaptable laminar illumination for instrument panels, interior lighting, signal lamps, etc?
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What are the opportunities for electroluminescent technology for ambient lighting solutions?
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In terms of vehicle style (and branding), to what extent are you seeing vehicle model names being incorporated within headlamps?
So far we have incorporated the name of the technology used in some headlamps (e.g. Xenon Light, Dynamic Light etc) as an explanation of the technical content. For vehicle model names or brands, I do not see a high level of interest in the market. The illuminated lights can identify the model name much easier.
Lighting regulations are now greatly reduced in number and substantially harmonised. What impact has this had on your business?
Unfortunately, we are still a long way away from reducing and harmonising regulations in the lighting business. More than one third of the current ECE regulations are dealing with lighting applications. We did see some progress in the harmonization between SAE and ECE regulations about ten years ago but this was unfortunately halted.
Today, the Group de Travail Bruessel (GTB working group) runs some initiatives that serve to summarize certain regulations with similar content with the objective of reducing the number of ECE lighting regulations, but this will take a few more years. In parallel, we need to make sure we include new technologies such as glare free high beam and other driver assistance systems into the regulation process.
What were the challenges in developing front lighting that meets pedestrian safety?
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to disable multiple submits (this worked fine under ASP.Net 2.0) ...
private sub prevent_multiple_submits()

dim sb as StringBuilder

sb = New StringBuilder()

sb.Append( "this.value = 'Please wait...';this.disabled = true;" )
sb.Append( Page.ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference( btn_submit, String.Empty ) )

btn_submit.Attributes.Add( "onclick", sb.ToString() )

end sub

When the page is run under ASP.Net 2.0 the HTML rendered is as follows (worked fine)...
<input type="submit" name="btn_submit" value="Submit (Click only Once)" onclick="this.value = 'Please wait...';this.disabled = true;__doPostBack('btn_submit','');" id="btn_submit" />

When the page is run under ASP.Net 4.0 the HTML rendered is as follows:
<input type="submit" name="btn_submit" value="Submit (Click only Once)" onclick="this.value = 'Please wait...';this.disabled = true;__doPostBack('btn_submit','');" language="javascript" id="btn_submit" />

... and for some reason, the button never appears as disabled ... (like it did under ASP.Net 2.0) ...
The form still submits and everything works -- but the button NEVER APPEARS DISABLED after being clicked on ?!
Has anyone else dealt with this behaviour ??  .. and if so, did you find a solution without resorting to altering web.config, using JQuery, etc.
BTW,
I did find the following references; but nothing has worked yet for me under ASP.Net 4.0.
ASP.NET, javascript: silly annoying apostrophe problem
HTMLEncode/HTMLDecode and the apostrophe ASP.net
I guess the question should be how does one add unescaped javascript code to an asp.net button?
Thanks in advance

A: You can avoid this by removing the prevent_multiple_submits sub entirely and adding an onClientClick attribute to your button:
<asp:Button id="btn_submit" text="Submit (Click only Once)" OnClick="process_form" runat="server" onClientClick="this.value = 'Please wait...';this.disabled = true;" />

Though I would take it a step further:
onClientClick="disable(this)"

Or using jQuery, remove the onClientClick too:
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('form').submit(function() {
        $('input[id^="btn_submit_"]').prop('disabled', true).val('Please wait...');
    });
});

Another jQuery solution that hides the button instead of disabling:
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('form').submit(function() {
        var btn = $('input[id^="btn_submit_"]');
        btn.after('Please wait...');
        btn.hide();
    });
});

Of course both jQuery solutions are possible in vanilla js, but the syntax is more verbose, you'd have to look it up.

A: Ok,
I feel kind of dumb, because after experimenting a bit, it appears that although ASP.Net 4.0 renders differently than ASP.Net 2.0 -- the code was actually still working.  That is the button IS disabled -- it just never APPEARS that way.
The problem was when the button was disabled via javascript, there was no visual clue that it was happening, ie: the button did not appear "greyed out" as in previous versions.  To confirm this, I changed the prevent_multiple_submits subroutine as follows:
private sub prevent_multiple_submits()

dim sb as StringBuilder

sb = New StringBuilder()

sb.Append( "this.disabled=true;this.style.backgroundColor='#EFEFEF';this.style.color='#000000';this.value='Please wait...';" )
sb.Append( Page.ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference( btn_submit, String.Empty ) )

btn_submit.Attributes.Add( "onclick", sb.ToString() )

end sub

Now -- when the button is clicked, the button changes to grey (to indicate it is disabled) -- which used to happen under ASP.Net 2.0 AUTOMATICALLY.   Without the color change -- the button never appears disabled (even though it is) -- this is the difference between 2.0 and 4.0 rendering.
Hope this helps someone else.
Thanks again.

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RSS Senior leader Sri. Datttatreya Hosbale, Union Minister Sri. Jayanth Sinha, BJP General Secretary, Sri Ram Madhav are some of the eminent participants in the intellectual deliberations.
The Convenors of Prabuddha Bharat, Sri. Chaitanya Kulkarni and Sri. Sachin Sabnis, addressing the press meet, stated that the event is being presented in association with the VTU, RCU and KLE Academy of Higher Education.
Set to commence on the 1st December at 10 am with the keynote address by Sri. Dattatreya Hosabale, the event includes the participation of noted Human rights activist, Dr. Madhu Kishwar, Civil rights activist Sri. Shahzad Poonawalla, Former Head of ISRO Sri. Kiran Kumar, Author Economist Dr. Kanagasabhapathi, Political consultant of the CM of Manipur Sri Rajat Sethi, Founder Director of Punarutthan Vidyapeeth Sushri. Indutai Katdhare, Sri. Mukul Kanitkar of the Bharathiya Shiksha Mandal, Director of the SP Mukherjee Foundation Dr. Anirban Ganguli, Social Media activist, Kiran KS and Senior Journalist Sri Prafulla Ketkar in the various themes.
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Living a life of expectancy is not living your life at the moment.
Talking about expectations and assumptions we should mark those as triggers for emotions. You thinking about something in the future is since this event you are anticipating has some influence over you. Thus creating positive and negative emotions assuming stuff.
But this is a game of chance much alike rolling dices.
Many of them turn out to be wrongly put and thus provoking things, in many cases other people to do things they wouldn't. It is a bad impression to put expectations of other people, but also a way to set standards.
What is the difference between assumption and expectation?
Assumption means that a thing is accepted as true or as sure to happen without proof. And the expectation is a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future. Putting both together only tells me that making assumptions is like expecting something that is uncertain. But expectations are like the same, only with a higher degree of belief that something is going to occur in a certain way. Plus you are raising your standards, in most cases, and expecting them to be met.
That is a light form of expectation, I would say the lightest. Presumptions, unlike assumptions, are not raising a standard to the things you believe are going to happen. You are simply guessing and thing might be fun in some contexts, but very inappropriate in others. For example, meeting new people you could try to guess their astral sign. But on the flip side, it would be very unprofessional to guess when is the next supply delivery coming for your business.
What would happen differently if you release those expectations?
That is an idealistic scenario worth taking a moment.
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Ask yourself this question to find what are your motives.
By making a common commitment you can also make a standard. Thus standards are meant to be expected and therefore met.
And assumptions are needed to a certain extent.
It is a way of creating a higher desire towards something. Because it is evident that if you have an assumption towards something you care about it. Moreover how that event would turn out and its results.
Bottom line assuming things is an evolutionary skill our ancestors had to escape upcoming dangers. Although it has served them well it is not healthy to apply compulsively.
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Conversely, it is impossible to free yourself from any expectation at all. Hence, limit yourself those unhealthy ones, and refine the rest. Apply with grace and probe to get objective feedback. Daily work on your language is a fair start living a life with fewer guesses.


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Dramatic stiffening of ultrathin polymer films in the rubbery regime
P. A. O'Connell, G. B. McKenna
Recently, we (P.A. O'Connell, G.B. McKenna, Science 307, 1760 (2005)) introduced a novel nano-bubble inflation method to measure the absolute creep compliance of nanometer thick polymer films. In that work it was shown that even at film thicknesses as small as 27.5nm the glass temperature was unchanged for poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc). Perhaps more importantly, and the subject of the present work, was the observation that these ultrathin films show a dramatic stiffening in the rubbery plateau regime, i.e., the compliance was reduced by over two orders of magnitude compared to the bulk material. In the present work we substantiate the previous results in a study of the thickness dependence of the rubbery compliance of PVAc and polystyrene (PS) films for thicknesses from 13nm to 276nm. We show the substantial stiffening of the plateau region for both materials. Furthermore, the rubbery compliance (inverse of stiffness) scales with approximately the second power ( 1.8±0.2) in the film thickness for both materials.
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Hello, I'm looking to buy a new carburetor for my Moke Californian. Can anyone help me identify what kind of carburetor I have? I've posted some images below. The damper has "AUC 1803" on it, and the throttle flange has "JZX 1175" on it. Any help would be much appreciated!
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Yours will be a HS4, they usually are. I'm presuming you're in Australia, so why not try Mini Kingdom? I believe he stocks re-con ones as well as service kits for them.
Yes, as Nigel suggests, John maybe able to help out - if he has one! But if he says he'll get one in, you might end up waiting a while.
There's a few other places you could try as well, however, before going down that path, why do you think you need a complete Carb?
Nigel, thanks for your response. How do I ensure that I have the correct needle?
Spider, I'm actually working on a project for uni to convert the Moke to drive-by-wire. Ideally I would get an identical carburetor (so I can work on it in a lab), then add a stepper motor to where the throttle cable normally goes. This would all hook up to an electronic pedal and control system, which would replace the mechanical accelerator pedal.
I only have until the end of July, so hopefully I can get the parts I need as soon as possible.
I'm glad you like my Moke! I appreciate all the help.
The stepper motor conversion should be easy enough to do, you'd want a stepper motor with plenty of steps, but it only has to rotate the butterfly through about 90° and there's hardly any torque on it. What have you got in mind for a failsafe system? What happens if your microcontroller craps itself while the butterfly is fully open?
though strictly speaking, not a stepper motor, but does the same job.
Tim, the failsafe will most likely be a spring that brings the butterfly valve back to a closed position. Ideally the spring would be weaker than the driving torque of the stepper motor, but stronger than the crank torque. I have a lot of work to do on the whole setup, but that's my plan at the moment.
Spider, I'd love to hear more about your setup. What components did you buy for the whole system (motor, driver, control system/microcontroller, et. c)? It looks like you have the original pedal on there, but I'm considering buying an electronic pedal (the pedal comes with potentiometers and sensors already set up) and hooking that up to a control system. Then I'd hook that up to a motor.
I do have an in principal understand of what your trying to do there hbard and I am looking on with interest. The point Tim raised re: Fail Safe was one thing I had in mind when I read your post, however clearly there must be some ways that it is done, I have a truck and 2 cars here that are drive by wire from the factory, so I guess there must be an acceptable way.
I also get / see that you're looking to mount your stepper motor more or less direct to the carb, I do see many advantages in that. One aspect though in doing this that I feel you may need to take in to account is that of the heat from the Exhaust which is almost adjacent.
That set up on my Moke is part of the Cruise Control. The actuator is actually a Vacuum Diaphragm Unit (it gets the Vac fom the Inlet manifold). I have fitted many of these to Minis and Mokes over the years, and in the early days, 'played around' with trying to find a way to hook them direct to the carb, there was a number of set ups I tried and none were much good. I tried it via the pedal and while I was sure it wouldn't be too good, it actually works a treat. This has been how I've done them for around 30 years now. The Vac Actuator on this set up is fail safe in that it has two solenoids, one to allow Vac in (yes OK don't niggle that point) and the other to let the Vac to atmosphere, the latter is powered all the time and on loss of power, it vents to atmosphere and so returns to Idle.
It's 'resolution' is very very good, for example, when going from the flat to a hill, it puts on the power just so and holds the speed to within 2 kph - unless it's a particularly steep hill or your travelling at less than 60 kph, it's not perfect, but it's Oh so nice on the longer trips. Yet while it can put power on gently, it can also open the throttle almost as fast as you can with your foot.
hbard wrote: Tim, the failsafe will most likely be a spring that brings the butterfly valve back to a closed position. Ideally the spring would be weaker than the driving torque of the stepper motor, but stronger than the crank torque. I have a lot of work to do on the whole setup, but that's my plan at the moment.
That makes sense, for some reason I was thinking about servo motors which can be hard to rotate without power.
The failsafe is definitely a concern, but that will be one of the last steps of my project (once I get everything working in a setup outside of the vehicle, in a lab).
Spider thanks for sharing the details of your cruise control, that sounds very nice indeed!
Hooking the motor/actuator directly to the carb will probably be difficult, but hopefully I can machine something to properly fit the motor onto the spot where the cable attaches to the butterfly valve. My plan is to first buy an electronic pedal, Arduino microcontroller, and motor, then figure out how to get the motor to respond appropriately to pedal movement. Once I set this up in a lab outside the car, I will design a failsafe, do lots of testing, then finally install the system in the Moke. I'll be happy if I can just get the first portion of the project done.


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To further contribute to the development of the Euro-Mediterranean region
In the framework of the EBSOMED project "Enhancing Business Support Organisations and Business Networks in the Southern Neighbourhood", BUSINESSMED (Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises) represented by its General Secretary, Mrs Jihen Boutiba Mrad, and the Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA), represented by its founding President, Professor Rym Ayadi, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the purpose to enhance the Euro-Mediterranean Business Ecosystem and to support the Social and Economic Development of the economic stakeholders.
The two organisations will cooperate where and when feasible and appropriate, aiming at maximising bilateral and multilateral Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation. The enhanced collaboration among BUSINESSMEDand EMEA shall also commit to develop an investment-friendly environment and thus foster private sector initiatives in the Mediterranean region, in order to establish a stable, sustainable and long-lasting economic growth. Among the activities agreed by the two organisations is to be involved in exchange programmes of research and to collectively develop joint innovative researches and business support projects.
The Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA) is an independent think-tank specialised insocio-economic and financial developments in Europe and the South and East Mediterranean. EMEA has an international network of think tanks, research centers, academic institutions and International experts, and aims to contribute decisively to the transition process in the Mediterraneanregion amidst an unprecedented global financial and economic crisis and geopolitical uncertainties and conflicts.EMEA promoted and co-funded the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies (EMNES).
BUSINESSMED (Union of Mediterranean Confederations of Enterprises) is the main representative of the private sector that reflects the interest of 22 Confederations of Enterprises as well as Business Support Organisations around 20 Southern and Northern Mediterranean Countries. Since its creation in 2002, BUSINESSMED became a key platform for multilateral cooperation dedicated to its confederations Member, a promoter of foreign direct investment, a lever for Mediterranean dialogue andsocio-economic integration.
EBSOMED is a 4-year project, co-funded by the European Commission, led by BUSINESSMED within a consortium consisting of six partners, that aims at boosting the Mediterranean business ecosystem and promoting an inclusive economic development and Job Creation, by enhancing the private sector organisations in the Southern Neighbourhood Countries.
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In the heart of God, there was never a moment's hesitation when it came to humanity – before the foundations of the earth, He loved us, chose us and planned masterfully how He would adopt us into His family (Ephesians 1:4-6). From the very start His love was such that it came to us, ultimately in the manifest form of Jesus. We never had to search for it or try to find or earn the love of God. Love chose us, came to us and accepted us regardless of our history or achievement. Just as in the time of Israel the love of God is ever-present in our lives, very often in ways that we don't even recognize or acknowledge (Hosea 11:1-12). It is this, the sacred love of our Father that stands between us and eminent disaster! It is because of His great love for us that we receive the Spirit of adoption that takes us from a place of perpetual fear and slavery to a place of acceptance and belonging in the family of God.
The Father chose us when nobody else would. Because of His divine nature He chooses and loves every single one of us as if we are the only one. Receiving this kind of love rules out all need for competition, performance, fear or comparison. His love is such that it causes Him to pay attention to every single one of us all the time. Not only does He lavish this divine love on us, He also empowers us to respond to His love in kind. When He commands us to love Him (Deuteronomy 6:5), He does so because it is in loving Him that we become fully alive. Deuteronomy 30:6 holds the beautiful promise that the Lord will change our hearts and the hearts of our children so that we will love Him completely and so live.
Unlike human love, Agape love or divine love speaks of a kind of love that does not rise up spontaneously in response to the object of love. Instead, this kind of love is a constant, pre-existent, non-provokable love that exists completely separate from the person being loved. It does not increase or decrease based on outside factors. Agape love is an expression of the very nature of God – the perfect love that sees worth and something infinitely precious in someone even when it does not exist. It is this love that prompted the Father to reach out to us even when we were undeserving to the point of being His enemies.
Experiencing the love of God changes us. The apostle Paul says that everything that used to be of value to him became worthless in comparison to the infinite value of knowing Christ (Philippians 3:7-11), who is the expression of God's tremendous love for us. Once we receive this unconditional, prodigal kind of love from God, it enables us to love others with this same kind of love (2 Corinthians 1:4). Just like our Father, we become lovers of people as an expression of who we are rather than a reflection of what they did. The beauty of this is that divine love paves the way for us and those we love in this way to become what we have never been. Love that seeks out, that insists on finding value and treating as worthy not only empowers, but also brings into existence the very worth previously absent.
Join us this week as we step into love divine, opening up our hearts to the unfathomable, overwhelming love of God towards us whilst at the same time lavising the very same love we received on everybody in our world!