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Eleven vs. Eleven
An episode that reminded fans of modern football's lamentable reality: online interaction & corporate identity are prioritised over common decency
Posted byGeorge Murray 3rd Dec 2020 15th Jan 2021 Posted inUncategorized
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"ALL ABOUT A RECORD DAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA!"
We can safely assume that whoever responsible for clicking send on Tuesday morning's Twitter announcement was aware of what the reaction might be. If not, then that is an altogether different issue.
But the reaction to FC Barcelona publicly congratulating itself on how the news of ex-player Diego Maradona's death broke online traffic records gets right to the core of one of modern football's more depressing realities.
The majority of football clubs care what fans think only in limited circumstances: 1) when it is too late/they have done something wrong, or 2) when it suits them. Certainly, the episode served as a timely reminder and pointed to the fact that many modern football organisations place more importance on internet engagement, image maintenance and money-making than a basic level of common decency.
"The tribute to Diego Maradona breaks records on FC Barcelona's social media," read the tweet. It referred to photographs of Lionel Messi's celebration after his goal against Osasuna on Sunday, revealing a Newell's Old Boys shirt dedicated to his hero and fellow Argentine icon. Barcelona's outlook was so painfully self-absorbed, so blatantly brazen, that it required a double take.
Despite the fact that, within a matter of hours, the club's official account deleted the Twitter post – presumably in light of the suitably appalled reaction it was immediately met with once it circulated — the attached story remains published on the website.
"The ridiculous thing about it is they basically avoided ever referencing his time at the club while he was alive…poor form," read one response. "I'm generally into measuring social media traffic. But, in this case, Barca shouldn't have said anything publicly. It's wrong to use someone's death as a tool to get more social media traffic," said another.
The general reaction to the post, however, was summed up most aptly by one user bluntly commenting: "Jesus Christ, only Barcelona can turn a death into PR move." The announcement had a buoyant tone that was distasteful, perplexing and shameful all at once, leaving a lasting and sour taste in the mouths of fans.
Carlo Garganese, European football expert and one third of the Italian Football Podcast, responds to FC Barcelona's post on Tuesday morning. The tweet, along with the attached story, drew a lot of criticism online for the way they managed to "turn a death into PR move." (Image courtesy of @carlogarganese on Twitter).
This isn't just about Barcelona though. Juventus and Manchester United are among some of the other leading global football brands — and it is perfectly suitable to label top European clubs as such — who have been previously been criticised for exposing where exactly their priorities lie in strange PR moves.
It has become an inbuilt obsession for football organizations to maintain a global image and record high numbers of fan engagement on social media. Even at the lower levels — particularly given the majority of this year's absence of fans through turnstiles and in grounds (until this week, thankfully) — the importance of online interaction is paramount to clubs.
Incidentally, in Barcelona's January report on how it had "strengthened its leadership on social networks" and "generated more interactions than any other sports club in the world" in 2019, Liverpool ranked second in the top 10 of sports' digital realm.
In March of that same year, I reflected on a keynote speech I had attended, given by then-Liverpool CEO Peter Moore. Moore, who left his post in August, talked about how the club — known for their success off the pitch in tandem with on-field achievements in recent years — engages with its supporters. I left that day with a distinctly positive feeling, quite different from the tone put across by Barcelona this week, not just because I am a Liverpool supporter but because Moore had been hugely impressive.
Peter Moore, who was CEO of his beloved Liverpool until August 2020, speaks at a South by Southwest Festival keynote speech in March 2019. Moore oversaw a shift in the club's engagement strategy and corporate outlook, which has now been passed on to his replacement Billy Hogan (Image courtesy of George Murray).
"As I travel the world George, big for me is not the number of fans. Big for me is not how many people show up at our stadium. Big for me is not the revenues. It is the depth of passion, love and emotion I see with our fans all around the world," Moore said.
Yet, the importance elite clubs like the Catalan giants place on such records has long been apparent. Back in January, the club ran a similar story to the one this week, that time more generally celebrating how "FC Barcelona has strengthened its leadership on social networks," ahead of, you guessed it: Liverpool.
It must be acknowledged, for balance, that despite the Premier League champions' rise in terms of digital reach and re-connection with its fanbase; they too have made their own, albeit slightly different, PR blunders.
The club's failed, much-maligned attempt to trademark the word "Liverpool" in September 2019, along with its decision to furlough a number of its staff back in April of this year (later reversed because of similar outrage to the Barcelona backlash) were two high-profile instances.
When it comes to the corporate image a modern football club feels it is obliged to maintain, FC Barcelona's official Twitter account is the archetype. It is thought of as one of the prime examples demonstrating the way in which clubs "speak" to their supporters online, to appeal to a certain audience and ramp up interaction. The language often appeals to younger fans and can be pointless and borderline cringeworthy in equal measure.
It is hardly news that football clubs and their employees steadfastly hold what benefits that club dearest. Even so, the regretful tweet in question (again, this is not entirely a slight on Barcelona alone) is indicative of the extent to which football has re-shaped into a business as much as a sport. TV rights deals — which have been one of this year's many hot discussion topics within the game – are disputed, while global expansion, tapping into markets such as Asia and the Far East and selling more shirts are vital parts of the expansion and profit model.
Putting the obscene and ever-growing influx of mass wealth into the upper echelons of the game to one side, the Barcelona episode — as it can be referred to for a short period before the club lurches towards another disaster — should serve as a jolt to the system for the average football supporter. Clicks and brand expansion are the most important things to the big boys.
And while the club at the heart of Tuesday's furore seem to have cultivated themselves a reputation as particularly off-key, they are not the only ones.
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The Alleweder VM was originally developed by a Dutchman named Bart Verhees in the late 80's and into the early 90's. To help get production of his design off the ground, Verhees collaborated with Johan Vrielink of Flevobike, and together they developed a kit version, known as the A1, however, Verhees took employment elsewhere shortly after development of the kit. Flevobike made some modifications and went into commercial production with a model known as the A2, or Flevo Alleweder (FAW), continuing production until 2000. During this time, about 550 A2 Alleweders were produced, with about 500 of them being kitbuilt units.
The Alligt AW, aka the A3 (left) next to it's close relative the Flevobike AW, AKA the A2
The existence of the two different strains of the Alleweder came about when, in the late 90's, Verhees returned to the velomobile market with an improved version of his machine. After deciding that he wasn't able to sell enough of them at a reasonable profit, he sold his design and equipment to Nico Pluijmers of NPC. After about a year, NPC sold production to Leo Vischer of Alligt Recumbents. Leo made a number of refinements and resumed production with the Alligt Alleweder (A-AW), and went on to refine this to the A4, the A5
Lohmeyer Leichtfahrzeuge in Germany also builds and sells the Alligt Alleweder under cooperative agreement. They specialize in equipping the AW with an electric motor.
In 2000, Johan Vrielink decided that with 11 employees, Flevobike was getting too big. Rather than being constantly occupied with the business, he wanted to focus on the technical and creative side of the bicycle business, so that year he made a big decision. Flevobike sold off the licensing to all of their cycles, including the Alleweder. One of the projects undertaken by Flevobike after 2000 was the development of a new Velomobile, incorporating the use of CNC machining and other production oriented technologies, including the use of a thermoformed shell. The first generation of this machine was called the Versatile, and is being sold in its current version as the Orca. After the Flevobike restructuring in 2000, Ymte Sijbrandij and Allert Jacobs, two of the former Flevobike employees, started their own velomobile company. This company, known as Velombiel.nl produces the Quest, Strada and Quattrovelo Velombiles. They originally also produced the Mango, but sold the production rights to Harry Lieben, who eventually took the production of the Mango with him to Sinner bikes, also in the Netherlands. Velomobiel.nl also obtained the licensing for the F-AW and currently produce parts for the A-AW, existing F-AW's, as well as a number of other production velomobiles. Velomobiel.nl also takes F-AW's in trade for the other machines they produce . These trade-ins are then refurbished and re-sold.
In February of 2003, David Eggleston of Midland, Texas traveled to the Netherlands and while there purchased one of the refurbished F-AW's. He also spent a week at Alligt building his own A-AW. At the end of February he returned to Texas with the license to build the F-AW Stateside. He then started Velomobile USA to manufacture and distribute both lines of Alleweder in the USA.
As for myself, I ordered a refurbished Flevo AW which arrived in May 2003. It had originally been built from a kit by someone who worked for the Dutch Airline Transavia. I had actually seen a picture that had my FAW in it, with a large number of other Flevo Alleweders just before an AW race in the Netherlands.
Alleweder race in the 90's
Unfortunately, my own FAW took some forklift damage while being shipped to the US. The top deck had been crushed down, but I was able to mostly bang it back out, although the aluminum ripped in the process. I rode with it that way for a couple of years until repairing it just before selling it to put the money towards a Quest in the Spring of 2005.
That Summer I traveled to Midland to lend my efforts in helping Velomobile USA move towards production. When I returned to Maine, I brought with me an Alligt kit which was assembled in the Winter and Spring of 2004.
Since I sold my Alleweders in 2005, in the intervening time I owned a good number of different velomobiles, although I ended up selling nearly all of them. Then, in August of 2018, I acquired a Velomobile USA FAW+ that had been built by my friend Dan Chalue in Western Mass. With nearly 25,000 miles on it, it was well used, but still has a lot of life left in it. In fact, with continued maintenance, it should be useable indefinitely. I find that I am riding whenever I have the opportunity, although that isn't quite as often as I'd like!
Chalue built FAW+
Here is a really cool video of a self assembling A4 (Alligt Alleweder)

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New Jersey Open Space Funding
Issue in brief:
Update 7/1/16: Governor Chris Christie signed S2456, which provides the authorization necessary to begin funding Open Space, Farmland, and Historic Preservation projects consistent with the 2014 constitutional amendment!
In November 2014, the majority of New Jersey voters approved a ballot measure that will ensure dedicated state funds are available to protect New Jersey's clean drinking water, open spaces—including parks and forested trail lands—farmland, and historic sites. With this ballot measure approved, a small percentage of existing state revenues, without tax increases, will be used to replenish the now-depleted Green Acres, Blue Acres, farmland and historic preservation programs, and continue funding to improve water quality.
Why we need to ensure these funds go to open space protection
Although this open space funding is constitutionally dedicated to be spent on conservation-related issues, leaders in the New Jersey State Senate and Assembly have introduced an implementation bill that would allocate the money among various open space programs. Bill S969/A780 is sponsored by Senators Smith and Bateman, and Assembly members Andrzejczak, McKeon, Spencer, Pintor Marin, Dancer, Vainieri Huttle, and Land, respectively. The implementation bill is critical to getting vital and necessary funds flowing to successful programs that preserve lands and create parks.
The first version of the implementation bill was passed by both the New Jersey Senate and Assembly, then pocket-vetoed by Governor Chris Christie.
As Bill S969, the open space funding was again approved with strong bipartisan support by the Senate on March 14. Known as Bill A780, the measure was then passed in the Assembly on April 7. Unfortunately, Governor Chris Christie neglected the will of voters and conditionally vetoed the open space legislation on May 23.
Since voters approved the ballot measure in November 2014, the Trail Conference has been working to ensure those funds reach the programs that protect and preserve open space. You can read a first-person account of the lobbying efforts of Trail Conference staff and volunteers on our blog.
The Trail Conference is working to pass the implementation bill
As a member of NJ Keep It Green—the state's largest coalition of conservation and historic preservation organizations—the Trail Conference has been a central part of the efforts to identify and secure a long-term, dedicated source of funding for open space programs. An important part of our mission is acquiring public lands to improve our recreational trail systems. Already this year, we have three purchase agreements, and Green Acres funds are essential for these acquisitions. We continue to work with our partners in Keep It Green to ensure that the funding voters approved in 2014 is allocated in the way they intended.
We will continue to work with our partners in the NJ Keep It Green coalition to investigate all further options to ensure these constitutionally-dedicated funds reach the programs for which they are intended.
Join us as we work with Keep It Green to get Governor Christie to sign the Bill into law. We're going to need a lot of support to show the Governor that New Jerseyans are serious about preserving open space. Until the legislation is signed into law, none of the voter-approved money will be invested in critically important preservation work.
We will continue to work on this critical issue until the funding, as authorized by voters, is allocated to the appropriate programs and we hope you will lend us your support!
7/1/16: Governor Christie signed S2456, which provides the authorization necessary to begin funding Open Space, Farmland, and Historic Preservation projects consistent with the 2014 constitutional amendment!
5/23/16: Governor Chris Christie has conditionally vetoed S969/A780, the Preserve New Jersey Act.
4/8/2016: The Assembly Appropriations Committee approved A780 on Monday, April 4, which moved the Bill to the full Assembly for a vote on April 7—and we've just received word that A780 was approved late last night with strong, bipartisan support! Now the Bill goes to Governor Christie for his signature.
3/31/2016: Implementation Bill A780/S969 is up for a vote in the Assembly Appropriations Committee on Monday, April 4. With your continued support, there is a good chance it will be posted for a full Assembly vote on Thursday, and could be in front of the Governor by the end of next week.
3/16/2016: Advocacy, Lobbying, and a Call to Action in New Jersey
1/12/2016: NJ Assembly Approves Open Space Implementation Bill
1/11/2016: Tell the NJ Assembly to Support Open Space Protection
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Christie vetoes Preserve NJ Act
Permalink Submitted by HobokenWalker on Fri, 05/27/2016 - 21:12
This is very disappointing and discouraging news. I did not notice an indication of future activities on the part of NY-NJ Trail Conference to change the conditional veto to a signing. What's your advice?
Not everyone is disappointed.
Permalink Submitted by tree188 on Sat, 05/28/2016 - 14:58
I'm sorry to say that not everyone was disappointed when the bill was vetoed. The TC and KIG still have not addressed the issue of where the money for this fund comes from, at the expense of the State Parks and other environmental programs NJDEP administers. The last comment I saw from the TC in late 2014 regarding the issue of stripping funds from other DEP programs just prior to the election question, basically addressed this issue by saying that the TC and/or KIG would "advocate harder" to make sure that money for the parks and these other programs would still receive sufficient funding, after the public question redirected the existing monies to open space activities. To my knowledge and to date, I am not aware of any actions by the TC and KIG to show up at NJDEP budget funding hearings to address this situation. If I'm wrong, I invite knowledgable people that have addressed this issue firsthand to publically inform the membership as to what the organization has done and will do to address this issue and be accountable. This matter is part of the un-intended consequences that occurred as a result of the ballot question. The money this organization and KIG will take from DEP Parks goes to help pay saleries for the staff that operate the very parks TC members use and enjoy on a regular basis. How will the TC explain to the employees that their saleries will now be used for open space purchases and that may require that these employees might now have to be laid off or have less work time to make their living? Additionally, if the staff are not available to run the parks and keep them open, how will the TC membership feel if the parks are not open for their use because the monies are being used to purchase land they cannot even access? As a state environmental employee that has been a member of the TC for many years this has become a disturbing situation, to pit environmental programs and activities against each other. I note, from the TC website, that some of the TC's members are state employees that have been honored by the TC for their work and contributions to the organization. I have to wonder how they feel about seeing their programs at risk or their co-workers livelyhood jepardized because of this situation. I care about open space as much as the next person, living in an over populated state. The remaining open space left is disappearing way to fast. I would like to see that more open space is preserved. But not at the expense of the state parks and other environmental programs that have just as much importance as this program to all of the citizens of the state.


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Strength and Performance of Straw Ash Cement Mortar
Fucheng Wang* | Chun Wang | Shujuan Yi
Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University Engineering College, Daqing 163319, China
Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Science, Zhanjiang 524000, China
wangchun1963@126.com
This paper mainly explores the strength and performance of rice straw ash cement mortar. Firstly, the straw ash was obtained through high-temperature calcination, and the ash formation rate was measured. Then, the straw ash was rinsed with clean water and mixed into cement mortar test pieces. According to the mass ratio of cement in the test pieces, the proportion of straw ash were determined as 5 %, 10 %, 15 % and 20 %, respectively. Next, the following properties of each test piece were measured, including water absorption rate, 3d and 28d flexural strength and compressive strength. On this basis, the flexural strength and compressive strength were fitted and correlated with the proportion of straw ash. The fitting formulas and correlation functions proposed in this paper lay a theoretical basis for the engineering application of straw ash cement mortar.
rice straw ash, cement mortar, water absorption, compressive strength, flexural strength
Straw ash cement mortar is a kind of biomass ash with the characteristics of volcanic ash activity, recyclable, and environmental-friendly; it is produced by treating rice straw with high-temperature calcination, and can be used to replace cement to prepare green building materials. The research and application of straw ash cement mortar is of great prospect since China is a big agricultural country, and our country has a huge rice yield every year; a large amount of rice straw is being produced every year, and there're a large amount of residual straw resources, most of which have not been utilized. At present, especially in large-area rice planting areas, the treatment of rice straw is facing problems. The common treatment method is burning the straw on the spot, which not only causes air pollution, but also results in a waste of straw resources and even fire disaster. In recent years, the government has conducted policy surveillance on rice straw burning, but how to effectively treat rice straw is still a challenge for the agriculture industry [1]. If the straw could be effectively utilized, it can be turned from a waste into a treasure. The straw can be produced into straw ash with volcanic ash properties, and it can be used to replace the cement content in the cement mortar for the construction of city and farmland. On the other hand, with the acceleration of urbanization and the improvement of the standardization level of the farmland industry, the production and consumption of cement have further increased, which has consumed a large amount of energy and resources; in such context, using rice straw to partially replace cement is of important strategic significance, which not only saves resources, but also protects the environment, and it's in line with the idea of green and sustainable development of contemporary construction industry.
In recent years, experts and scholars at home and abroad have carried out a series of researches on the performance of straw ash cement mortar, and have obtained certain research results. Birick et al. found through research that plants can accumulate amorphous silicon in soil into plant straw by their own action in the form of biomineralization, which determines the feasibility of straw ash application [2]; Le yuan et al. studied the burning characteristics of straw and found that the SiO2 content in straw biomass ash was higher [3]; Zhang Qiang et al. prepared the straw ash concrete test pieces and analyzed its influence on the tensile properties of concrete. When the admixture proportion was 5 %, the performances of straw ash concrete and the standard test pieces were almost the same [4-5]; Ouyang Dong prepared rice hull ash by low-temperature incineration and found its biomass ash contains a large number of Nano-scale SiO2 particles and pores, he analyzed the reason for its high volcanic ash activity, and found that the addition of a certain amount of rice hull ash into the concrete has a significant enhancement effect on the mechanical properties [6]; in order to further find the internal relationship between the flexural strength, the compressive strength of rice straw ash cement mortar and the proportion of straw ash, this paper selects rice straw to prepare the straw ash, and explores the influence of different proportions of rice straw ash on the flexural and compressive properties of cement mortar test pieces, then it proposes fitting calculation formulas and verifies the rationality of the fitting formulas through experimental data.
2.1 Materials
Rice straw: the experimental rice straw was from a rice breeding experiment field of the agricultural college of Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University. After the rice straw was harvested, the impurities in the rice straw were removed, and the rice straw was dried naturally and calcined in a muffle furnace at 500 °C for 6h,and then the ash samples were taken out, and the hard straw ash chunks contained in the original ash samples were ground by a ball mill to ensure the uniformity of the particle size of the straw ash.
Cement: P.O32.5 grade Portland cement, the Youlong (Brand) cement produced in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, the production date is 15 days before mixing. The composition of the cement is shown in Table 1 below:
Table 1. Chemical composition of the cement
f-CaO
Loss on calcination
Cl-
Percentage %
Sand: standard sand, produced by Xiamen Sinoma Co., Ltd., the quality standard sand grading met the requirements, grading region for coarse sand: 3.7~3.1; grading region for medium sand: 3.0~2.3; grading region for fine sand: 2.2~1.6.
2.2 Experimental methods
This study took the straw ash proportion as the influencing factor to conduct experiment and studied its influence on the compressive and flexural strength of straw ash cement mortar. The experiment determined that the water-binder ratio was 0.5 and the sand ratio was 0.3. The proportion of straw ash was designed to be 0 %, 5 %, 10 %, 15 % and 20 % of the mass of straw ash cement mortar, then the cement mortar test pieces were prepared and subject to the compressive and flexural properties experiment. A 40mm×40mm×160mm rectangular steel standard mold was used to fabricate the cement mortar test pieces, and 12 test pieces were fabricated for each proportion. A cement paste mixer was adopted for the cement mortar stirring experiment, and the full-auto mode was used for stirring. Water immersion curing under NPT (normal pressure and temperature) was adopted and the curing temperature was around 23 °C. The test pieces were cured for 3d before early flexural strength and compressive strength tests, and were cured for 28d before the final flexural strength and compressive strength tests, and the arithmetic mean of the test pieces was taken as the experimental result. A flexural and compressive strength test machine produced by Shanghai Sansi Tech. was adopted for measuring the flexural and compressive strength of the cement mortar. The design of the sand-binder ratio was based on the Regulations for Mix Proportion Design of Ordinary Concrete (JGJ55-2011) [7], and the flexural and compressive strength tests were carried out according to the Standard for Test Method of Mechanical Properties on Ordinary Concrete (GB/T 50081-2002) [8], the ratios of the straw ash cement mortar are shown in Table 2.
Table 2. Mixing ratio of straw ash cement mortar
Straw ash mass fraction %
Water-binder ratio
Cement (g)
Water (ml)
Sand (g)
2.3 Model error analysis
SSE, correlation coefficient, coefficient of determination, and RMSE were adopted to analyze the calculation accuracy of the model.
$\text{SSE}=\sum\limits_{\text{j}=1}^{\text{i}}{{{\left( {{\text{Y}}_{\text{j}}}-{{\text{X}}_{\text{j}}} \right)}^{2}}}$, $\text{R-square}=\frac{\text{SSR}}{\text{SST}}$, $\text{SSR}={{\sum\limits_{\text{j}=1}^{\text{i}}{\left( {{\text{X}}_{\text{j}}}\text{-}{{{\bar{X}}}_{\text{j}}} \right)}}^{2}}$, $\text{SST}={{\sum\limits_{\text{j}=1}^{\text{i}}{\left( {{\text{X}}_{\text{j}}}\text{-}{{{\bar{X}}}_{\text{j}}} \right)}}^{2}}$, $\text{RMSE}=\sqrt{\frac{1}{\text{m}}\sum\limits_{\text{j}=1}^{\text{i}}{{{\left( {{\text{Y}}_{\text{j}}}-{{\text{X}}_{\text{j}}} \right)}^{2}}}}$
where, Yj represents the fitting formula value, Xj represents the original experimental data, $\overset{-}{\mathop {{X}_{j}}}\,$ represents the mean of the original experimental data, the coefficient of determination is mostly used for complex models. Since the proposed model is a simple linear model, the coefficient of determination is equivalent to the square of the correlation coefficient, to verify the fitting accuracy of the fitting formula for the model, the coefficient of determination is calculated.
3. Results and Analysis
3.1 Straw ash formation rate
After harvested, the rice straw had been washed for more than three times to remove impurities attached to it to ensure the accuracy of the experimental results [9, 21], and then dried outside the room under the natural condition for later use; after that, the rice straw was calcined in a muffle furnace at 500 °C, 600 °C, and 815 °C for 4h, and the ash formation rates were measured, the results are shown in the following table.
Table 3. Ash formation rate of rice straw
Calcination method (℃)
Calcination time (h)
Ash formation rate (%)
It can be seen from Table 3 that, no matter calcined at 500 °C or 815 °C, under the same calcination temperature, the ash formation rate of the rice straw decreased with the increase of the calcination time, indicating that at the same calcination temperature, the longer the calcination time, the burning of the biomass is more sufficient, and many inorganic elements that are existing in the form of organic matter are more volatile, resulting in a lower ash formation rate; When the calcination time was the same, the ash formation rate decreased with the increase of the calcination temperature, indicating that the burning of the biomass is not sufficient, even long calcination time couldn't make the burning of the flammable components completely sufficient. In this paper, straw ash that was calcined at 500 °C for 4h was taken as the experimental material. The straw was calcination and finally ashed as shown in the Figure 1 and Figure 2.
Figure 1. Muffle furnace calcination at 500°C
Figure 2. Straw ash that was calcined at 500 °C
3.2 Test piece water absorption rate
After 28 days of curing, the test pieces of rice straw ash cement mortar were subject to the water absorption rate test. First, after dried 4h at 75 °C in an electric heating constant temperature air dry oven, the mass of the test pieces was measured. Second, the test pieces were immersed in clean water for 48 h, after the residual water on the surface of the test pieces had been removed, their mass [10-12] was measured again for comparison, and the obtained test piece water absorption rates are shown in Table 4.
Table 4. Water absorption rate of test pieces
Straw ash proportion (%)
Mean mass difference (g)
Water absorption rate (%)
It can be seen from Table 4 that with the gradual increase of rice straw ash proportion, the water absorption rate of straw ash cement mortar test pieces gradually increased. When the straw ash proportion was between 5 %-15 %, the water absorption rate did not change much. When the straw ash dosage was 20 %, the water absorption rate increased obviously. The above data show that, in the cement mortar, when the cement is replaced by rice straw ash of the same amount, the water absorption rate would increase, and when the proportion of straw ash increases from zero to 5 %, the water absorption rate has increased by 17.84 %, indicating that the cement mortar test pieces have a stronger water absorption capacity, but the increment of water absorption is relatively slow when the proportion of straw ash is between 5 % - 15 %, and when the proportion of straw ash reaches 20 %, the increment of water absorption is relatively obvious, this is because with the increase of the proportion of straw ash in the cement mortar, the test pieces have more pores, resulting in increase in the water absorption rate.
The test pieces ware dried as shown in the Figure 3 and Figure 4. Change law of test piece water absorption rate of rice straw ash cement mortar was described as shown in the figure 5.
Figure 3. Electric heating constant temperature air dry oven
Figure 4. Dry 4h at 75 °C
Figure 5. Change law of test piece water absorption rate of rice straw ash cement mortar
3.3 Strength of cement mortar
Cement mortar flexural strength and compressive strength
The test results of the flexural and compressive strength of the rice straw ash cement mortar are shown in Table 5.
In terms of the damage pattern of straw ash cement mortar test pieces, it can be seen from Figure 7 that, the flexural damage of the test piece was dominated by breakage. In the experiment process, when the test machine was loaded to the critical point, the test piece appeared tiny cracks, when the loading exceeded a certain time limit, as the external load value increased slowly, the test piece rattled and completely lost its bearing capacity. The flexural damage of the test piece was mainly the crack penetration and caused damages [13-16].
Table 5. Test data of mechanical properties of test pieces
Rice straw ash proportion %
Flexural strength (3d) N/mm2
Flexural strength (28d) N/mm2
Compressive strength (3d) N/mm2
Compressive strength (28d) N/mm2
It can be seen from Table 5 that as the proportion of straw ash increased, the flexural and compressive strength of cement mortar at 7d and 28d both showed a decreasing trend. Wherein, for the test pieces on 28d, the flexural strength decreased more dramatically than the compressive strength, for example, when the straw ash proportion was 5 %, compared with the standard test piece of 28d, the flexural strength decreased by 28 %, and the compressive strength decreased by 11 %; when the straw ash proportion was 10 %, compared with the standard test piece of 28d, the flexural strength decreased by 42 %, and the compressive strength decreased by 32 %; when the straw ash proportion was 20 %, compared with the standard test piece of 28d, the flexural strength decreased by 72 %, and the compressive strength decreased by 64 %. The flexural and compressive properties of the test piece ware shown in the Figures 6-9. The law of strength variation of test pieces was shown in the Figure 10.
Figure 6. Flexure-resistance experiment
Figure 7. Flexural damage status of the test piece
Figure 8. Compression-resistance experiment
Figure 9. Compressive damage status of the test piece
Figure 10. Strength of the test pieces
For the cement mortar, its flexural strength is lower than compressive strength, therefore the proportion of straw ash has a greater influence on the flexural strength than on the compressive strength. When the proportion of straw ash reached 20 %, the flexural strength and compressive strength of 28d decreased greatly, reaching 72 % and 64 %, respectively. In terms of the influence on curing age, by comparing the flexural strength and compressive strength of 3d and 28d, it's found that the strength of straw ash cement mortar test pieces grew slowly during the curing cycle. After analysis we can know that, first, the straw ash has good fineness, large specific surface area, relatively large contact area with water and cement mortar; the rice straw ash contains a certain amount of SiO2, which has certain hydration activity and can accelerate the hydration reaction, although the activity has certain limitations, it can still play a certain role to improve the strength of the cement mortar; Second, when the proportion of straw ash is larger, the strength of the cement mortar decreases greatly, this is because there is a lot of cellulose and sugar in the plant straw, and during the curing of cement mortar test pieces, the straw sugar is easily precipitated in the closed environment and adsorbed on the surface of cement hydrate to inhibit the condensation of cement, causing retardation, thereby influencing the strength of the cement mortar.
4. Establishment of Strength Equation of Straw Ash Cement Mortar Test Pieces
Flexural and compressive strength equations of straw ash cement mortar.
The influence of rice straw ash proportion on the flexural strength of cement mortar was studied [17-20], and a mathematical calculation model was established and fitted by MATLAB curve fitting tool to obtain the fitting formulas (1) and (2). According to the experimental data, the curves of the equations were generated as shown in Figures 11 and 12. It can be seen from the figures that the curves formed by fitting had a better goodness of fit, and the correlation coefficient R2 was greater than 0.99, indicating that the cement mortar strength and the straw ash proportion were well correlated. From the figures we can see that the flexural strength and compressive strength of straw ash concrete decreased with the increase of straw ash proportion. Flexural strength equation (1) and Compressive strength equation (2):
$p1=53.01\times {{x}^{2}}-32.27\times x+6.03$ (1)
$p2=3577\times {{x}^{3}}-1150\times {{x}^{2}}-62.38\times x+46.6$ (2)
where: p1-flexural strength, N/mm2;
p2-compressive strength, N/mm2;
x-straw ash proportion, %.
Figure 11. Flexural strength of straw ash cement mortar
Figure 12. Compressive strength of straw ash cement mortar
The fitted strength formulas can be applied to the calculation of the strength of rice straw ash cement mortar to provide a basis for calculating the strength of cement mortar.
(1) By studying the ash formation rate of rice straw, it is found that at the same calcination temperature, the ash formation rate of rice straw decreases with the increase of calcination time; and under the same calcination time, the ash formation rate decreases with the increase of calcination temperature;
(2) By analyzing the water absorption rate of straw ash cement mortar, it is found that when the straw ash proportion increased from zero to 5 %, the water absorption rate increased by 17.84 %, the water absorption capacity of the straw ash cement mortar test pieces had been improved to some extent; when the straw ash proportion was between 5 % and 15 %, the water absorption capacity increased slowly; when the straw ash proportion was 20 %, the water absorption capacity increased significantly, the optimum proportion is 10 % in project;
(3) As the proportion of straw ash increased, the 3d and 28d flexural strength and compressive strength of cement mortar both showed a decreasing trend. Wherein, the 28d flexural strength of the test pieces decreased more dramatically than the compressive strength. By fitting the experimental data of straw ash cement mortar, this paper proposed the flexural and compressive strength formulas of the straw ash cement mortar, which provided a basis for the calculation of the strength of the straw ash cement mortar
(4) Adding a proper proportion of rice straw ash in cement mortar can not only reduce the air pollution caused by incineration of rice straw in agricultural production, but also reduce the amount of cement, which is very important for the increasingly serious environmental pollution nowadays.
This paper is supported by Academic Innovation Team of Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (Project Number:19CXTD-31); National Tropical Fruit Germplasm Resource Nursery Platform, Zhanjiang, 524000; Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University Support Program for San Heng San Zong (Project Number: TDJH201803).
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Activists Have a Plan to Increase Abortion Access: Let Nurses Perform Them
Maine lawmakers are moving forward with a bill to repeal restrictions on who provides abortions.
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Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Leigh Vogel/ZUMA
"The good news is you are no longer pregnant," Julie Jenkins, a nurse practitioner at the Maine Family Planning clinic in Belfast, told her patient one day last spring. The woman in Exam Room 2 had received a medication abortion a week earlier and was back for a follow-up to make sure everything had gone as planned. As Jenkins studied the screen of the ultrasound machine, she knew the patient wasn't quite in the clear. "It does look like there is some blood and clotting in the uterus, or it could be a gestational sac." The abortion was incomplete, and Kaitlyn (whose name has been changed to protect her privacy) would likely need to take another round of misoprostol, one of the two abortion pills prescribed to end pregnancies in the first few months.
Jenkins, a petite 46-year-old with wavy brown hair and bright blue eyes, was familiar with such complications. As a nurse practitioner, Jenkins is what's known as an advanced practice clinician, a highly trained class of medical providers embraced in the 1990s to make up for shortages of doctors. A women's health provider of 25 years, Jenkins performed abortions when she lived in California years ago, so she knew what to look for on the ultrasound and what to do if the patient needed additional treatment. But in Maine, nurses are prohibited from performing abortions. Even though Jenkins believed Kaitlyn needed another prescription to finish the abortion, Jenkins would need approval from a doctor before helping Kaitlyn further. And Maine Family Planning's Belfast clinic does not employ a doctor who performs abortions. Kaitlyn had gone through the state's telehealth program to get her prescription.
Back in her office, Jenkins called MFP's headquarters in Augusta, where a doctor provides abortion care on-site to get approval for the new prescription. The doctor was currently with a patient, so Jenkins left a message. Kaitlyn would have to wait.
After the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, every state, with the exception of Vermont, banned anyone except physicians from performing abortions. The restrictions were seen as necessary to edge out "back-alley" providers. But two medical advances over the 46 years since the ruling have made abortion both safer to get and easier to provide. The first was aspiration abortion, a procedure popularized in the '70s that uses suction—as opposed to scraping, or "curettage"—to pull the pregnancy out of the uterus. The second was the development of the medication abortion method, a two-pill protocol that terminates early pregnancies and simply flushes the menses out of the body.
Together, medication and aspiration abortions, which are only performed in the first 10 or 16 weeks of pregnancy, respectively, make up the vast majority of terminations every year and have a serious complication rate of less than half of one percent. They're also not exceptionally complicated to perform. "Most everything I do is more complicated than medication abortion," Jenkins told me. "The fact that I was able to perform that work in California and am not able to perform it here seems so arbitrary."
Currently, 33 states, including Maine, still require that a physician perform medication abortions, and 42 states, also including Maine, bar lower-level providers from offering aspiration abortions. But reproductive rights activists in many of these states are beginning to fight back against the laws. In 2017, Jenkins sued the state, with the backing of the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Maine Family Planning, to overturn the law. Last week, the Maine legislature passed a bill to repeal the state's physician-only abortion law and allow mid-level providers like Jenkins to perform medication and aspiration procedures. (The suit will likely be dropped as a result of the legislation.) This spring, courts in Montana and Virginia paved the way for advanced practice clinicians to perform abortions. A women's advocacy group in Minnesota filed a lawsuit challenging all of the state's abortion restrictions, including its physician-only law, on Wednesday. In the last year, lawsuits challenging physician-only statutes have been filed in seven other states.
This year alone, five states have passed bills banning abortion at six or eight weeks of pregnancy, and Alabama has attempted to ban abortion almost entirely. At a time when abortion rights are under attack, the challenges to physician-only laws are one of reproductive rights activists' only proactive strategies for expanding abortion access. "Bans on the ability of qualified clinicians to care for their patients severely diminish the availability of abortion services across the country," said Julia Kaye, a staff attorney at the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project. "These are qualified health care professionals whose ability to utilize their skills and training and serve their patients is being blocked by politics."
If the push to repeal physician-only laws is successful, it could transform access to abortion across the country. Take Maine. The state has three clinics where physicians provide abortions onsite. Abortions are offered once a week at each location. Seventeen other clinics offer medication abortions once a week through telemedicine; physicians elsewhere in the state evaluate patients and prescribe medication via videoconference. For an aspiration abortion, which must be performed in a clinic with a physician, women regularly travel hundreds of miles for their appointments, which are often scheduled two or three weeks in advance.
It's not just a Maine problem. Ninety percent of counties in the United States don't have an abortion provider, and 39 percent of women between 15 and 44 years old live in those counties. As the physicians who founded clinics in the 1970s get older, fewer medical school residencies offer abortion training. There are so few abortion doctors that those who do provide the service often work at multiple clinics in a region, flying between cities each week to ensure access to services.
Allowing mid-level providers to perform terminations could make up for the shortage of physicians providing the service nationwide, advocates say. In Maine, patients would theoretically be able to access abortion care six days a week at the clinic closest to them. Clinics could offer evening and weekend hours. The number of clinics where aspiration abortion is available would increase from three to 18, according to Maine Family Planning and Planned Parenthood.
"No matter where they live, every woman has the right to safely make her own health decisions, control her own future, and get care from the provider of her choice," said Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, the sponsor of the bill repealing the physician-only law. "If we increase the number of providers in Maine, then we are making real gains towards equitable access to health care for all women who need an abortion."
One of those women is Tanja Hollander, who in 2017 made the two hour drive to a clinic in New Hampshire from her home in Auburn, Maine, to get the earliest available appointment. Hollander, an artist, was working on a solo exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a landmark achievement in her career, when she discovered she was pregnant. Planned Parenthood in Portland, a 45-minute drive from Auburn, didn't have availability for three weeks. Advanced practice clinicians in New Hampshire, meanwhile, are allowed to perform abortions. So Hollander called every clinic in the region until she found one with an appointment a few days away. A nurse practitioner provided her abortion.
Kaye, one of the ACLU lawyers arguing for the repeal of physician-only laws, said the obstacles created by such laws for women like Hollander make them illegal. Kaye pointed to the Supreme Court's 2016 Whole Woman's Health ruling, which found that a Texas law chopping the number of abortion providers in half created an "undue burden" on women seeking abortion and was therefore unconstitutional. The 2016 decision prompted the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights to sue Maine. "Given the overwhelming evidence that APCs can safely provide this care, and the burdens that these kinds of bans impose on patient access, [physician-only] laws simply cannot survive the Whole Woman's Health standard," said Kaye.
When the ACLU filed its lawsuit in Maine, Republican Gov. Paul LePage was vocally opposed to abortion rights, and Republicans held a majority in the state senate. A 2018 bill to remove the statute went nowhere. That changed in November, when Janet Mills, a pro-choice Democrat who backed the bill, was elected governor and Democrats gained control of the legislature for the first time in 10 years. In March, Rep. Gideon introduced the new bill with backing from Gov. Mills, four days before oral arguments in the case were scheduled. The bill passed the state House and Senate last week, and after making it through a procedural vote on Wednesday, is headed to the governor's desk for a signature.* The move makes Maine the third state in the country to repeal its physician-only statute through legislation. The lawsuit is likely irrelevant, but Jenkins says she's been invited to the bill's signing ceremony.
"Against the backdrop of outright bans, we as a movement have to be standing up for people who have the least agency to access abortion," says Nicole Clegg, vice president of public policy at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. "We cannot cede ground to people who are determined to make abortion illegal. We have to continue to push forward."
Sara Gideon, meanwhile, is considering whether to challenge Susan Collins, the longtime Maine senator and supporter of abortion rights, in 2020. Collins received backlash last fall after voting to send Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
An hour after Jenkins finished Kaitlyn's ultrasound, the doctor still hadn't called back to consult on whether to give her more misoprostol. Jenkins popped out to see another patient for a birth control refill and missed the doctor's call. Jenkins called again, but the doctor had already gone in to see the next patient. Jenkins seemed frustrated with the game of phone tag as she fidgeted in her chair. Kaitlyn's appointment had started at 11:30 a.m. and it was now approaching 1 p.m. "[The doctor] was out and I was in and now I'm out and she is in," Jenkins said. "This patient is spending more time waiting on the doctor than the actual patient visit."
At last, the phone rang and Jenkins grabbed it. She described what she saw on the ultrasound to the doctor and why she thought another round of misoprostol was the right course. She paused, said thank you, and hung up to go hand the pills to the patient.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly state that the bill had been signed by Gov. Mills. A signature is still expected.
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Altitude sickness can be of three types: Acute Mountain Sickness, High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) and High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE). Acute Mountain Sickness can occur suddenly to people who climb a height of 8,000 feet or more. As the person climbs higher, the risk of altitude sickness also becomes more. The altitude sickness height varies from one person to another. In case of HAPE, fluid builds up in the lungs and can become life-threatening. When HACE occurs, fluid builds up in the brain.
The symptoms of altitude sickness become prevalent with 8 to 96 hours after a person has climbed 8,000 feet or more. Basic symptoms of altitude sickness include nausea, headache, fatigue, vomiting, sleep problems, shortness of breath, etc. For moderate altitude sickness, the symptoms are a loss of coordination, severe headache, tightening of the chest, more shortness of breath, etc. In case of severe altitude sickness, you may be unable to walk, have confusion or you may even go into a coma.
The initial form of altitude sickness can be treated with over-the-counter medicines. For moderate altitude sickness, the over-the-counter medicine won't work. You will have to take prescribed medicine. The doctor will take an X-ray of your chest to find out your condition. A CT-scan or MRI might be needed to confirm that there is no fluid in the brain or lungs. In case of HACE, steroid might be needed. If you have HAPE, you will have to take supplemental oxygen. People suffering from moderate to severe altitude sickness must be immediately taken to lower altitudes.
Altitude sickness is more likely to affect the young people. When you climb a mountain, climb gradually so that your body gets adjusted to the pressure and oxygen level. You should drink lots of fluid and stop whenever you feel bad. Altitude sickness occurs to 50% of the people who usually live in low altitude region. When you go skiing or mountain climbing, you should make sure that you don't rush to get up. It increases the risk of altitude sickness. If your condition gets severe and over-the-counter medicine doesn't improve your condition, you should seek immediate medical attention.


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Q: IAM user policy returning 403 Forbidden on Amazon S3 bucket I am struggling to get a AWS S3 IAM user policy to work, this is my current IAM user's policy:
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
      {
        "Sid": "Stmt1424859689000",
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
          "s3:DeleteObject",
          "s3:GetObject",
          "s3:PutObject"
        ],
        "Resource": [
          "arn:aws:s3:::vault-us/*"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }

When I do a post to create a new object in my S3 bucket I get a 403 Forbidden error but when I use the Managed Policy called 'AmazonS3FullAccess' then everything works just fine.
What I am trying to do is restrict certain IAM users to upload/downloads rights but am struggling to get this working.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!

A: First thing you can do is figure out if its the actions that's wrong or the resource scope, can you these two policies one at a time:
    "Action": [
      "s3:*"
    ],
    "Resource": [
      "arn:aws:s3:::vault-us/*"
    ]

and
    "Action": [
      "s3:DeleteObject",
      "s3:GetObject",
      "s3:PutObject"
    ],
    "Resource": [
      "*"
    ]

If the first one works and the second fails, you don't have enough permissions to do your operation, e.g. try adding listBucket or similar (I tend to add all likely ones and gradually remove them until it breaks).
If the first one breaks and the second one works then your resource declaration is wrong, the most common fix I've found is to try adding:
    "Action": [
      "s3:DeleteObject",
      "s3:GetObject",
      "s3:PutObject"
    ],
    "Resource": [
      "arn:aws:s3:::vault-us/*",
      "arn:aws:s3:::vault-us"
    ]

If the both fail then chances are both your action and your resource is wrong.
Good Luck

A: I managed to figure out that in order for upload to work I needed to include the action "s3:PutObjectAcl" here is the example of my IAM policy below:
    {
        "Version": "2012-10-17",
        "Statement": [
            {
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": [
                    "s3:GetBucketLocation",
                    "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
                ],
                "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*"
            },
            {
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": [
                    "s3:ListBucket"
                ],
                "Resource": [
                    "arn:aws:s3:::vault-us"
                ]
            },
            {
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": [
                    "s3:PutObject",
                    "s3:PutObjectAcl"
                ],
                "Resource": [
                    "arn:aws:s3:::vault-us/*"
                ]
            }
        ]
    }

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My Illness Ruined My College Experience
Today people know a lot more about celiac disease, but in the 1990s, I felt so alone.
By Joanna Schroeder
Even when I was a little girl, I dreamed of going to college. I always thought dorm life would be the best thing ever, with a big group of friends around 24/7. When it was finally my turn, I had no qualms about moving across the country to start a new life where I knew no one.
I was ready to be in a place where I fit in. I grew up as a loud-mouthed feminist in a very conservative, religious town, and I assumed things would be better for me at Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts. This was my chance to start fresh, to find a group of people who truly accepted me, who I could live with and learn with for the next four years. I even dreamed of going to graduate school.
But this was not to be. It was easy for the first few months, but over the winter break, I went through a stressful breakup and lost a lot of weight. I knew the breakup was hard on me, but it didn't explain my weight loss. It also didn't explain my extreme fatigue or stomach problems.
When I returned to school in January, the change in my appearance was noted even by people I barely knew. By the end of the school year, I was feeling too sick to do anything and didn't even finish out my classes. My stomach was upset all the time, and my head was so foggy I couldn't think clearly. All I wanted to do was sleep. Before the term was even over, my parents picked me up and we headed back to Michigan. I was humiliated and felt like a failure.
Being home didn't help me get better. I lost more weight, my hair thinned, and I developed deep, dark circles under my eyes. I didn't feel well enough go back to school in the fall, and I was devastated. What was worse, no doctor seemed able to help, and I was sent to the therapist to work out what some thought was anxiety or hypochondria.
My health got better when I was finally diagnosed as being allergic to gluten. Gluten-free diets and even celiac disease are commonplace now, but in the 1990s, I was the only person anyone knew who couldn't eat gluten, and I felt so alone. Even some of my old friends rolled their eyes at my diet. Food that had gluten in it was poison to me, but somehow I became a joke.
I never returned to Hampshire College. Eating in a college cafeteria was out of the question. If there were gluten-free options, they'd most likely be contaminated by other foods being processed in the same area. Living in an apartment with roommates also felt like a risk, so I stayed home with my parents.
I was lucky to be reunited with some old friends from high school who were sensitive to my diet and didn't make me feel like they thought I was faking. My vegetarian friend, Matt, and I mastered the art of egg salad sandwiches on rice cakes and felt quite proud of ourselves.
But dating was another story altogether. When do you tell a person that you basically can't eat anything they eat? How do you explain that you can't eat at restaurants or have dinner at their parents' house?
It seemed like guys didn't want to deal with a girl who had a health problem, even one this minor. Lots of guys never called after they learned about my special diet. I don't know if they thought I was a kook or maybe just too high-maintenance, but dating sucked for a long time. One guy I dated would use air quotes any time he referred to my "allergy" or "gluten," like it was all just too dramatic for him.
One guy broke up with me and admitted, plainly, that he couldn't date a woman who wasn't able to eat at restaurants. Food was his life, he explained, and our relationship simply wouldn't work.
I did have a few great relationships with understanding partners and eventually ended up with my wonderful husband. He liked cooking for me and loved bringing home special cookies that were safe for me to eat.
I'm happy with our life together and wouldn't want it any other way, but when I look back at my college years, I regret that I missed out on the fun-filled dorm life. I regret that I couldn't finish school at Hampshire, where I was really happy. I'm still sad that I wasn't able to take advantage of the amazing instructors I'd just barely gotten to know.
I was able to transfer to UCLA in my 20s and got an amazing education. By then, I was a real-life adult with a full-time job, bills to pay, and a whole life outside of campus, so I never really got to have that "college experience."
These days, I love taking my kids to visit the UCLA campus for games and events. When I see students reading together on grassy quads or playing frisbee, I feel a pang of regret for what I missed out on. I may never get to have the experiences I so badly wanted, but my commitment now is to making sure my kids get to experience what I never did.
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Joanna Schroeder Joanna Schroeder is a feminist mother, wife, and freelance writer, and she serves as Director of Media Relations for The Good Men Project.
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Juicy, tasty Cajun Grilled Chicken? It's a real thing! Using Zatarain's® Cajun Injector Creole Garlic Marinade, your chicken is ready for the grill in just 10 minutes. Infusing meat with flavor from the center ensures authentic, delicious taste with every bite.
Attach needle to Injector by turning clockwise until snug. DO NOT OVER TIGHTEN NEEDLE. Pour Marinade into separate container and draw into injector. Inject marinade at points 1 to 2 inches apart in chicken. Sprinkle with Creole Seasoning.
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Whiplash after an accident may be serious and cause life-long pain, but the delayed nature of the condition often leaves individuals questioning whether their symptoms are actually related to the accident. An estimated 45% and 85% of whiplash patients will have some symptoms for up to five years after the accident, but understanding exactly why whiplash symptoms are delayed helps you better recognize the symptoms and get proper care to prevent possible lifelong pain. Let's explore the four interesting reasons that you rarely feel whiplash injuries immediately after an accident.
Even if you saw a doctor right after your accident, they are unlikely to be able to diagnose whiplash because soft tissue damage can't be seen on X-rays. It can only be seen on CTs and MRIs, which you may not choose to have immediately after an accident.
Because soft tissue is affected instead of a broken femur, your body may not recognize the damage immediately and send pain signals to your brain.
The "fight or flight" hormone adrenaline temporarily blocks pain signals during a scary event so that pain doesn't distract when you need to protect yourself or get out of a dangerous situation. While adrenaline normally leaves the body within minutes of your finding safety, something akin to post-traumatic stress can keep the adrenaline in your system at a higher level for days or even weeks. If you find yourself tensing, having flashbacks, or experiencing nightmares after an accident, you're getting hit with rushes of adrenaline each time this occurs and it may block the pain.
Right after an injury occurs, your immune system sends specialized cells to the area to assess the damage and begin repairs. If adrenaline blocked the pain signals, then the immune response may also be delayed, but there's something else at work here.
Inflammation is part of your immune system toolkit for managing an injury, but if the immune system finds itself overwhelmed, then inflammation spreads through the area, causing more pain.
Some soft tissue damage simply takes a little time to show its full wrath. For example, if one of the soft discs in between your vertebrae ruptured during the whiplash-causing event, it begins leaking fluid around the spine and this fluid is highly irritating to the nerves in your neck and back. These nerves not only begin to hurt; they're also responsible for communicating messages between your brain and your arms and hands. Because of this, you may experience numbness or tingling in the hands several weeks after the accident.
With proper care, minor whiplash typically heals in six to nine months, but untreated whiplash may leave you with permanent chronic pain that may have you turning to potentially addictive painkillers to mask the pain.
Treatment depends on the severity of whiplash and your pain levels. You may benefit from massage, therapeutic ultrasound, electrostimulation, and hot or cold therapy. The team at Physical Medicine & Wellness helps you rebuild neck strength, and restore range of motion, which reduces pain and allows for chiropractic adjustments to further the healing process.
If you've been in an accident, and are now experiencing symptoms days or weeks later, don't delay any longer. Contact Physical Medicine & Wellness to schedule an appointment.
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October 9, 2009 October 9, 2009 by jgoods
Car People (and Others) Behaving Badly
J.C. France
Some of you are looking forward to a three-day weekend. Others deserve to be in jail, among them some well-known car people.
Foremost of these is J.C. France, grandson of Bill France, founder of NASCAR. J.C. was allegedly racing with his half-brother Russell Van Richmond on the streets of Daytona Beach. The cops charged him with DUI and cocaine possession. Autoweek provided some details:
Van Richmond was driving a Porsche Cayenne, and France was driving a green 2007 Lamborghini. Van Richmond also was charged with DUI, possession of cocaine and possession of a controlled substance, hydrocodone. The newspaper reported that Van Richmond additionally was charged with threatening an officer after telling her, "I want your commander now. I am a France. Do you know what that means? We own this city."
Autoweek referred to these clowns as "NASCAR's royal family." Well, how are we supposed to take that appellation? That they deserve utmost respect? That, as Robespierre suggested, we should prepare to cut their French heads off? The fact that NASCAR has become a joke to many of us leads me to wonder why police released J.C. on only a $4,500 bond. Maybe the family does own the town.
On a lighter note, the Michelin Man, aka "Bibendum," will no longer be the Mr. Nice Guy we've grown to love. The company is spending some $20 million on an ad campaign to make him into some kind of superhero, a tough guy whom they hope will provide better traction for the brand.
In the [new] ads, the Michelin Man pulls tires from of his own midsection [sic] and hurls them, either at drivers who use them to replace their presumably inferior tires or at a frightened, cowering gas pump.
On a more somber note, GM is reportedly close to a deal to sell Hummer to a Chinese heavy-equipment manufacturer (with no car-building experience) for a measly $150 million. They were trying for $500 million, but had no takers. The deal faces all kinds of regulatory hurdles, besides being high-risk for the buyers. Sales of Hummer have fallen 63 percent this year (January-September).
GM's Saab deal is also supposed to close this month. So was the Saturn sale to Penske. Perhaps October is not GM's month. One recalls the October revolution that brought the Bolsheviks to power.
Guns and cars go together like ice cream and cones. So assumes the Illinois Supreme Court, which just ruled that gun owners can carry weapons in car storage compartments designed for phones, CDs, and sunglasses—you know, the center consoles, as pictured. The Court said that
these compartments can be defined as "cases" in terms of gun laws, which require a gun to be in a case when transported in a car.
In case you're wondering, the Court's next case will decide whether automatic weapons can be stowed in the spare tire "case."
Last but not least is the case of the Toyota floor mats, which we reviewed last month. The company is recalling 3.8 million trucks and cars, because the floor mats can slide under the accelerator and cause it to, well, accelerate. Now, Toyota is telling its dealers to use plastic zip-ties to secure the loose mats. This from the company that transformed the world of automotive production? Zip-ties, for Pete's sake!
We want to hear your comments on the latest NASCAR scandal: Is the France dynasty finally ending?
—jgoods
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vicky on October 9, 2009
If that's the way the new generation of France's are God help Nascar..it's just another stupid ass kid thinking because they have money and come from a famous family they can do anything they want..such as Hulk Hogan's kid..if it was anyone else..they would be spending alot of time in jail..
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A rich creamy classic French sauce made with egg yolks, butter and lemon juice or vinegar. Hollandaise sauce has a smooth, creamy texture and is a golden yellow colour, it is an emulsion of egg yolk and butter and can be quite difficult to make at home because it tends to curdle easily. Jars and cartons of ready-made hollandaise sauce are available. Packets of hollandaise sauce mix are also available.
Uses: Hollandaise sauce is traditionally served with grilled or poached fish, it is also ideal for serving with plain grilled chicken.
To store: Keep jars and cartons in a cool, dry place unopened. Once opened store in the fridge and use within 3 days. Store sauce mix in a cool, dry place.
To use: Heat ready-made hollandaise sauce gently following the pack instructions. Make up hollandaise sauce mix with milk and butter following the packet instructions.


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Gulf Coast Modification provides extensive valve modifications, cleaning, coating, inspection and testing services. GCM is a leading provider of valve services for the oil & gas, refining, chemical, petrochemical, power, pulp & paper and water treatment industries. Although services are provided to customers around the globe, prior to the opening of GCM Canada, all services were provided in one of three Houston, TX modification facilities.
This new, state of the art facility includes full scale machining, welding, NDE, assembly, and pressure testing capabilities. Service offerings include gear operator installation, trim changes, end connection changes, seat and seal changes, pressure testing, and NDE services.
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Lisewski, B 2004, 'Implementing a learning technology strategy: top-down strategy meets bottom-up culture' , Association for Learning Technology Journal (ALT-J), 12 (2) , pp. 175-188.
Using interview-based 'insider case study' research, this paper outlines why the University of Salford has adopted a Learning Technologies Strategy and examines the factors which are likely to lead to its successful implementation. External reasons for the adoption focused on the need to: respond to 'increased Higher Education (HE) competition', meet student expectations of learning technology use, provide more flexibility and access to the curriculum, address the possible determining effect of technology and establish a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) presence in this 'particular area of the HE landscape'. Internal drivers centred on the need to: continue a 'bottom-up' e-learning pilot project initiative, particularly given that a VLE is a 'complex tool' which requires effective strategic implementation, and promote the idea that learning technology will play an important role in determining the type of HE institution that the University of Salford wishes to become. Likely success factors highlighted the need to: create 'time and space' for innovation, maintain effective communication and consultation at all levels of the organization, emphasize the operational aspects of the strategy, establish a variety of staff development processes and recognize the negotiatory processes involved in understanding the term 'web presence' in local teaching cultures. Fundamentally, the paper argues that policy makers should acknowledge the correct 'cultural configuration' of HE institutions when seeking to manage and achieve organizational change. Thus, it is not just a question of establishing 'success factors' per se but also whether they are contextualized appropriately within a 'correct' characterization of the organizational culture.


The reason for so many people's arrogance, lies in the lies a mirror reflects. There are few things as dangerous as having a warped sense of importance because of a beautiful outward appearance. And it happens because society looks at beauty being skin deep. The truth is that the shallower we become as a society, the less effort we put into finding the depth of beauty.
The sad opposite is unfortunately also true – the struggle to love ourselves because of what we see when we look in a mirror. We often adopt society's standards and judge ourselves on outward appearance. Why are we so willing to allow that lack of self-like to sink in deeper, and to like ourselves even less? It doesn't only lead to depression because of what we look like, but that negative attitude becomes an infectious disease that starts tearing apart our very character. We begin to over-analyse every aspect of our past and "the enemy" is quick to jump in and assist in this self-destructive exercise.
Why can't we see mirrors for what they are? A piece of reflective glass that helps us fix our hair and ensures that we spot the bit of shaving cream left on our ear lobe. It's not there to be the determining factor in how we perceive ourselves. Mirrors are just things.
That's where God can make all the difference in your life. If you believe that you are simply here by chance and that this life is a once off thing that ends when your life does, then it's easy to wonder what the point of it all might be. All of this can't just have happened by chance. How is it possible that from nothing, such amazing intelligence could have appeared? Everything that we create as humans, has an intelligent mind behind it. That how it came into being – the TV, cell phones, computers … How is it possible that we can even entertain the thought that the most complicated creation of them all – the human brain – happened because of a bunch of random things falling into place over a period of time?
God created us with a purpose! And in doing so, He has given us a spirit of resilience and strength. Don't allow the lies of a mirror or the comments of society to defer you from that. You were born to win! You are the crown of His creation and that's a fact, whatever you choose to believe (If I don't believe that Alexander G. Bell invented the telephone, it doesn't change the fact that he DID). Every moment we are given on this earth is precious. Don't allow Satan to steal those precious moments away from you. Don't waste one more moments listening to words that God isn't saying. What He is saying is "I love you." Believe it!


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