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Ahsan, Javed (2013) Impact of Israelite traditions on the Arabic commentaries of the Holy Qur`an: with special reference to the study of Tafseer-e-Baidawi. (Doctoral thesis). Aligarh Muslim University.
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The Stool Bus—Follow the Movement
05. Oct, 2012 0 Comments
When Jay Carroll pulls up to pump a customer's septic in Pie Town, New Mexico, people easily confuse him with the local school bus driver. Upon closer inspection, one can see that the bright yellow school bus is, in fact, The Stool Bus, complete with the Pie Town Independent Stool District logo which looks similar to the school district logo. Sitting behind painted windows, are Loosey Stool, Pu-Wee and Stinky, Corny, Skidder, and Deuce—all on their way to "stool".
"People can have a bathtub full of sewage, but when they see the truck, they just smile," says Carroll. "They universally love it and the humor of it defuses an otherwise stressful crisis situation. Some have waved me down on the road so they could take a picture of it. One lady even stood right in the middle of the lane like a traffic cop and pulled me over."
Stool Master Carroll enjoys putting a smile on people's faces, which often happens again when he hands them their "Stool Rules", an informational theme-related brochure for customers that shows them what not to do and how to maintain their system. "Unfortunately for some people, it isn't until they have to have their leach field dug up that they realize the importance of maintenance. We try to educate them in a more memorable way."
So far, the bus has made an appearance in several parades, winning prizes for originality and theme. "We live in a small community, so we just ham it up and try to educate people about the importance of maintaining their system," says Carroll. "It's proving to be a successful concept. We believe we've found a way to make a discussion of septic issues fun, and it sure helps people remember who we are."
A couple of months ago, there was a dire septic situation with a resident that lived two hours away. "They knew we were coming, but when we got there, a man came out and told us that we were in the wrong place, that they didn't have any children," says Carroll. "We had to say, 'No, we're with the Stool Bus.'"
Pie Town is a rural–and primarily residential–community, which takes Carroll and partners, son Jason and Corey Albin, great distances to provide a variety of services such as installation, pumping, inspections, and repairs. Last year, they added portable restrooms, called stool rooms of course, that carry the same Stool Bus theme.
High desert and mountainous conditions require Carroll to primarily install drain fields made of infiltrator or some form of chamber. "Hauling gravel way out here is not practical because of the cost of materials and delivery. We can come with a backhoe and poly tanks from Norwesco or Snyder to do an installation. Concrete tanks present another delivery issue with hauling, loading and unloading."
"We use Arc 36, which has worked well," says Carroll. "The 5-foot chambers are easy to handle and flexible enough that you can bend to avoid obstacles, within reason. It's real practical and among the more affordable and available."
The Stool Bus partners have built a solid reputation in western New Mexico. "Word travels fast and we want people to truly believe that they got a good deal and tell others that they did and were treated right."
It's fairly common for the Stool Masters to spend 40 minutes talking to people about their septic systems. "It amazes me how little people know. Those conversations have given us a lot of customers as well."
Carroll is a firm believer in customer service. "Even though we are a small community, people do have choices," says Carroll. "I spend my time with them and make it as pleasant and informative of an experience as possible."
Currently, Carroll has one truck, but he's looking to add another one. "We are looking for the right truck now. We already have the vac tank and the pump ready to mount. We are a debt free company and keep money in the bank. So, when we find what we're looking for, we'll put another truck together."
Carroll grew up in the septic business with his dad before going into the construction business about 20 years ago, which he and his family also own. When excavating for an install, he prefers to use his CASE Excavator, a CASE skid steer, and "a lot of shovels."
The Stool Masters are thinking about continuing the movement by franchising. They own copyrights to the name and all of the graphic features and slogans. "Our goal isn't to own fleets of trucks all around the country, but I know that there are other companies out there who do have multiple trucks and competitors," says Carroll. "If they are established, reputable and want to capture a greater share of their local or regional market, we think it might make sense for them to at least consider the value of dressing up those trucks as we have with our distinctive and memorable Stool Bus branding concept." We've even considered negotiating with the right person to do a regional start-up. After all, we started with zero business and zero exposure and now, three years later, we are busy. Name recognition and a sticky brand are keys to that success."
You might think that Carroll is in business to make people laugh. But, The Stool Bus has made his business quite regular. "People remember The Stool Bus—and they do it with a smile on their faces. That's powerful."
Story by Jennifer Taylor
You can follow the movement at www.stoolbus.com
Norwesco, www.norwesco.com
Snyder tanks, www.snydernet.com
Arc 36, www.ads-pipe.com

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Duke Energy said it plans to have power restored to customers in the Upstate and western North Carolina by 11 p.m. Friday. However, company spokesman Ryan Mosier said 95% of those customers should have power restored sooner. About 33,000 customers were still without power in Duke's territory from Anderson to Spartanburg counties as of Wednesday morning. Duke customers around Charlotte should have their power restored by 11 p.m. Thursday, but Mosier said 95% of those customers will be restored sooner.
Laurens Electric Cooperative has restored power to all customers this morning. Duke Energy was still restoring electricity to 33,235 customers across South Carolina. And Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative reported 699 customers without electricity.
Crews with Laurens Electric Cooperative, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative and Duke Energy continued work to restore power to several areas of the Upstate.
On Tuesday morning, nearly 170,000 residents remained without power due to high winds and rain generated from Hurricane Irma. By 1 p.m. only 460 residents in the Laurens Electric Cooperative territory were without power and several thousand were still out of power in the Duke Energy territory.
Laurens Electric said its crews worked overnight Monday into Tuesday to attempt to restore as much electricity as it could. Additionally, crews from North Carolina continue to assist in the restoration efforts. As of Tuesday afternoon, most of the outages within Laurens Electric Cooperative's service area were in Laurens County.
"Outages this morning range from groups of 50 to 80 caused by broken power poles and trees on three-phase power lines, to scattered, individual outages, the majority of which are caused by fallen trees and branches," the cooperative said, in a statement.
In Duke Energy's service area in the Upstate, outages remained from the South Carolina-Georgia state line to Spartanburg with outages spread out over a wide area.
Nearly 9,000 Duke Energy crew members and additional personal have been working to restore power to the nearly 1.2 million in Florida without power.
More than 18,000 customers in the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative service area were without power as of 1 p.m. Tuesday. At the peak, more than 22,000 in the territory were without power.
Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative reported outages all over Pickens and Oconee counties as well as some in Anderson and Greenville counties.


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This is my own guitar, an experiment using all woods grown in Oz. The top is Paulownia, an investment forestry wood related to balsa. The back and sides are curly tasmanian myrtle with a tasmanian oak neck. The bridge is jarrah and the fingerboard is myall, one of the hardest woods I have worked with. The sound is warmer than cedar, clear and loud.
This is my standard cocobolo/spruce look, with cocobolo back and sides, tasmanian oak neck, ebony fingerboard and padauk bridge.


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Q: Using CSS for layout, clearing float for stating on next line ?? Need to create a layout of 2 cols and 5 rows I have created a layout using DIVs rather than tables. It seems to be working... I had to clear:none after each div consisting of column and content.
But i end up with an extra line under each 2 columns before the other 2 columns start. I will outlay my code below, what am i doing wrong?.. What i want to do is create a table like layout but using divs consisting of 5 rows and each row have 2 columns.

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A: Here is a CSS class that would make the problem all go away.
.clearfix:after {
    content: ".";
    display: block;
    height: 0px;
    clear: both;
    visibility: hidden;
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A: I'm pretty sure you can get the same effect by adding clear: left to your column divs and clear: right to your container divs.
Edit: In fact, I would expect that the clear:left in the columns would be enough, but if that was true, making table-like layouts using floats would be easy, and it never is.

A: Why don't you use display attribute rather than float, e.g. (you'll need to group your divs within divs with class "row"):
.row {
    display: table-row;
}

#column1, #container1, #column2, #container2 {
    display: table-cell;
}

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A Boston judge is expected to decide Friday whether a 15-year-old West Hartford girl will go home with her family or remain in Massachusetts custody.
Fox CT broke the story of Justina Pelletier's stay in Boston Children's Hospital last month.
Since then, the teen's family has continued to attend custody hearings in at the Edward Brooke Courthouse in Boston as they have been since February 2013.
The last of the custody hearings was on Dec. 12, but the judge did not issue a final ruling.
Sources say Judge Joseph Johnston will make his final decision on Friday morning (Dec. 20).
From displaying creative moves on the ice as a skater as recently as December 2012, to being wheelchair-bound just two months later, even friends of Justina can't believe what's happened.
"It's unexplainable," one friend remarked in July.
Others are awaiting her return to skating.
"I can't wait until she can get back on the ice," a friend said.
Some have talked to her by phone while she has been stuck in the hospital.
"I've been doing everything I can for Justina. It's just really sad," a friend said.
DCF later dismissed allegations against Hilliard.
But other families like hers have been vocal at rallies outside the courthouse during Justina's custody hearings.
Hilliard's attorney, Jim Ianiri, based in Norwell, agreed to discuss the Pelletiers' case, which he says is one of many.
"The Pelletier case certainly is the most high profile, but I've gone through this already and I know exactly what goes on and how difficult it is to go against one of the most renowned hospitals in the world — not to mention the department of children and families with all its power and resources," says Ianiri.
They are power and resources that have remained largely a mystery because the hospital has declined to comment on Justina's case, and custody Judge Joseph Johnston issued a gag order in November.
They might remain a mystery unless you talk to the right people – insiders – like Katie Higgins.
"It looks to me like they're making the cases fit their agenda," she says.
"What I saw was a strong motivation by these very young clinicians to be in total control of a treatment of a child. Once they're in DCF custody, they no longer have the difficulty of getting the parents on board," says Higgins.
We reached out to Boston Children's Hospital long before the judge issued a gag order.
The hospital declined to offer comment on Justina's case then, and after the gag order was issued, as well.
Higgins says nobody would have known about the systemic problem, were it not for the press.
"The media coverage that I've seen so far, and you broke the story, thank goodness, that is so important is that people are talking about this and doing some research and understanding and to realize – we have to be more involved with the trends in our society especially when they affect children", says Higgins.
Barry Pollack, a former federal prosecutor and board member for "The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children" helped win a similar custody case for one of his clients.
Now he's filing a civil suit against Boston Children's Hospital on behalf of that client, a Swiss woman named Claudia Felder.
Pollack says the client's 14-year-old daughter was kept in Boston Children's Hospital against her will and her mother's will for six weeks.
"What's interesting here being in Boston, the calls I'm getting, they're not bringing up, 'I'm having a problem with Beth Israel, not having a problem with Brigham.' They're all calling me saying, it's Children's Hospital," says Pollack.
He also weighed in on Justina's case, which is currently playing out.
Justina's friends also said enough is enough when they made their video supporting her back in July.
At the time, their beloved friend had been gone for about five months.
Dec. 14 marked 10 months since her parents lost custody.
On the eve of the custody hearing, just like in July, Justina's friends aren't concerned with how or why this happened.
There's just one thing they want.
Sure, send the girl home. But if she gets sicker or dies, then the parents should go to jail.


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Nicor to seek gas-delivery hike
Utility, under probe, says finances flagging
Steve Daniels
Nicor Inc. soon plans to ask Illinois regulators for a 16% hike in the rates its 2 million suburban customers pay for delivery of natural gas.
The Naperville-based utility, in briefings with Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) officials late last week, said it needs a rate hike because its finances are deteriorating, ICC Chairman Edward Hurley says.
It's a tough time to ask. The move comes as Nicor remains under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago and the ICC. The agencies are probing 2-year-old allegations that Nicor overcharged customers by manipulating a now-defunct rate-setting system that was aimed at giving the utility a profit motive to save on buying gas for its customers, an expense normally passed through without markup.
Nicor has admitted there were accounting errors in the program, but has denied customers were overcharged.
What's more, winter gas prices now are hovering at levels well above those of last winter. So, heating bills will approach or exceed those of winter 2000-01, when prices rose sharply. Chicago gas prices are averaging 89 cents per therm over the coming five months, 65% above last winter's November-through-March average of 54 cents per therm, according to Platts, an energy data collector in Boulder, Colo.
"I'm sure they understand when they come in asking for a change in rates, they come in with all the baggage they have as a company," the ICC's Mr. Hurley says. "They have the right to file, we have the right to review and, given all the circumstances, they file at their peril."
TIMING 'COULDN'T BE WORSE'
Says Martin Cohen, executive director of consumer watchdog Citizens Utility Board, "With the company embroiled in a deepening scandal and gas prices going up quickly, there couldn't be a worse time."
"We continue to evaluate the impact that rising operating costs and capital investments have on our business and we are assessing the appropriateness of seeking rate relief," a Nicor spokesman says. He wouldn't elaborate.
Nicor's delivery rates make up a relatively small portion of customer bills; the cost of the gas itself takes a significantly larger share.
Nicor representatives told state regulators last week that the bill for a 2,000-square-foot house consuming an average amount of gas would increase about $26 a year due to its rate request, according to one person familiar with the company's plans.
ANOTHER BILL CHANGE
The company also is proposing a new way to recoup the cost of unpaid bills, which has risen to about $30 million today from $8 million in 1996 when the utility last raised rates, people familiar with Nicor's plans say. The proposal would allow for the bulk of those costs to be included each month in customers' gas charges.
Currently, utilities recover the cost of bad debt in their base rates. If those costs increase, it has to eat them. The new approach would give Nicor an automatic annual mechanism for recovering the costs, but might also give it a disincentive to aggressively collect from deadbeats.
The ICC will have 11 months to consider the rate request, so an increase wouldn't go into effect until the winter of 2005-06.


4 - Cardiac MR stress perfusion with regadenoson in pediatric patients with Kawasaki disease associated coronary artery lesions.
5 - Mediastinal mass in a teenager with new-onset orthopnea and cardiomegaly.
5 - Non-invasive evaluation of blood oxygen saturation in the heart using blood-oxygen-level-dependent T2 magnetic resonance imaging in a porcine model of acute systemic hyper- and hypoxemia.
3 - 34 year-old Male with Recurrent Episodes of Cardiogenic Shock Following Upper Respiratory Illness.
1 - Heart Valve Disease: Do Flow Patterns Matter?
5 - Left Ventricular Flow Component Analysis in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease and Aortic Regurgitation.
5 - Cardiac perfusion imaging with prospective respiratory motion correction.
4 - Free-Breathing Navigator Cardiac Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping for Non-invasive Blood Pool Oxygenation: Validation via Invasive Right Heart Catheterization.
1 - What are the CMR techniques to assess MVD? What should we use clinically?
2 - CMR for MVD in hypertrophic conditions: what is the evidence?
3 - CMR for MVD in non-hypertrophic conditions: what is the evidence?
Invited Lecture Session 6: Clinical Controversies in the Acute Ischemic/Infarction Setting: How Does CMR Perform in the Determination of Myocardial Viability?


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Baltimore RNLI Coxswain Kieran Cotter Retires After 45 years of Service
Yesterday, Wednesday 30 December 2020, marked the end of an era for the Baltimore RNLI Lifeboat with the retirement of Coxswain Kieran Cotter after 45 years of service.
At age 17, Kieran first became interested in Baltimore Lifeboat and he officially joined the crew on 1st January 1975. In the early years as a crew member Kieran was involved in the dramatic rescue of the 1979 Fastnet Race. Baltimore Lifeboat was the first lifeboat launched and spent the longest time at sea during the tragedy. At the time it was the biggest rescue operation since World War 2. Kieran and his brother Liam were also involved in the rescue of Charles J. Haughey in 1985.
Socially distanced and by a fishing rod, Kieran Cotter hands over the lifeboat keys to Baltimore RNLI's new Coxswain Aidan Bushe Photo RNLI/Micheal Cottrell
Kieran held the position of second Coxswain for a number of years before becoming Coxswain following the retirement of Christy Collins in 1989. During his 45 years at the station Kieran has received multiple awards for his roles in many rescues. Most notably, in 1991 Kieran was awarded the Bronze Medal for gallantry and the Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life saving that year following the 26-hour rescue of the fishing vessel the Japonica and her 15 crew, who referred to Baltimore lifeboat and her crew as "The Mad Men in the small boat" and the rescue of the yacht Atlantis Adventure and her five crew. Coxswain Cotter and his crew also received recognition from the Swiss Embassy in 2008 for the outstanding bravery and commitment shown during the rescue of Swiss nationals in hazardous conditions and from the United States Congress for the rescue of the crew of Rambler during the 2011 Fastnet Yacht Race.
Kieran has seen many changes during his time at the station including the arrival of four different classes of all-weather lifeboats and the reconstruction of the lifeboat station and pen at Bull Point to accommodate the current Tamar Class all-weather lifeboat the Alan Massey and the Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat the Rita Daphne Smyth. In September 2019 Kieran accepted the 100th Anniversary Vellum on behalf of the crew, management and fundraising team at Baltimore station.
Long-serving Baltimore RNLI Coxswain Kieran Cotter and Crewmember Ronnie Carthy on their last call out in October 2020 Photo: RNLI/Micheal Cottrell
Owen Medland, RNLI's Lifesaving Lead Ireland, paid testimony to Kieran's service. "It is true to say that the RNLI is built upon its people and in Kieran the team in Baltimore have had firm foundations. One of the longest serving Coxswains in the country entrusted with the safety of Baltimore's lifeboats and crews since the late 80's having joined as crew in 1975 Kieran has a remarkable record of lifesaving service and community commitment. As with every volunteer this service would not have been possible without the support of family and we are equally grateful for this support which has enabled Kieran to serve his community so well. We wish Kieran every health and happiness in his next chapter and he leaves the RNLI in Baltimore in good hands to continue their lifesaving work on the challenging coast of west Cork. Kieran has left a legacy of lives saved from the sea and witnessed the evolution of the RNLI's service provision in the area over 5 decades for which he should be justifiably proud - thank you Kieran Cotter."
Declan Tiernan, Chairperson of Baltimore Lifeboat, paid tribute to Kieran saying "Natural leadership is a rare gift which Kieran Cotter has in abundance. It is the ability to instill confidence and trust in the people around you, calmly dealing with new and unforeseen circumstances without raising your voice. The ability to assess a situation, come up with a plan that your crew will execute because they have the utmost confidence in their leader.
"Kieran is also a wonderful communicator; in dangerous situations, he can put people at ease, at other times journalists will want to go to Kieran for the most accurate report.
Napoleon Bonaparte famously said that he'd rather have lucky generals than good ones. Well, Kieran Cotter is not only a good leader but also brings luck with him.
"Kieran Cotter gave forty-five years of service to the Baltimore Lifeboat and when you think that in 2019 we celebrated the centenary of the first lifeboat arriving in Baltimore it really puts Kieran's service into perspective."
Tom Bushe, Baltimore RNLI Lifeboat Operations Manager, added "I first worked with Kieran when I stared as crew in the 1980s. Over the years his dedication and commitment to the Baltimore RNLI has been exceptional and his advice to me in my role has been invaluable. Fortunately, Kieran's vast array of knowledge and experience will not be lost to Baltimore RNLI as he is going to continue to be involved by becoming a Deputy Launching Authority. I must also mention Ronnie Carthy, another long serving crew member who also retires this week. Ronnie was also an outstanding crewmember of the lifeboat for almost 30 years."
Kieran is leaving the Alan Massey and her crew in good hands, with second Coxswain Aidan Bushe now taking over the role as station Coxswain. In these times of social distancing Baltimore Lifeboat Station are sadly unable to give Kieran the send off he deserves, but we look forward to celebrating with him sometime in the future.
Published in RNLI Lifeboats
Baltimore Thoughts: The Beacon, The Kowloon Bridge & Richard Bushe
The Beacon at Baltimore can be a miserable place. It's nice to see on a good Summer's day sailing by and bound for the harbour entrance, but it's different in nasty weather.
That's what I had remembered this past week - the time when an enormous vessel, 900 feet long, threatened to become a huge plug blocking that entrance.
It was around 1 a.m. on a rotten late November morning in 1986, dark, cold, wet, howling gale to brace oneself against "up at the Beacon", watching the abandoned, powerless Kowloon Bridge, driven by the power of a huge gale, towards Baltimore. She had been sheltering in Bantry Bay after damage sustained in another gale while crossing the Atlantic. She wasn't a lucky ship. Anchoring failed and, in fear of hitting another very large tanker, the Capo Emma, also sheltering in the Bay and with 80,000 tonnes of crude oil aboard, the Indian officers in charge decided to put to sea – into winds reported at 70 miles an hour, seas over 40 feet high.
The Beacon at Baltimore Harbour on the West Cork coast Photo: W M Nixon
With no luck at all, her steering failed, and the crew of 27 were rescued by RAF Sea King helicopters from the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose in Cornwall, then providing rescue cover in Irish waters.
I was one of the crowds of reporters, cameramen and local people that morning at the Beacon, watching the ghostly shape of the ship, seeming to be swinging towards the entrance to the West Cork Harbour. The local view was that, if it hit rocks there, Baltimore could be blocked for a long time!
Mercifully it didn't, the seas headed it eastwards, and she grounded on the Stags from where the Dutch salvage company, Smith Tak, couldn't shift it. In a few months, the seas on the West Cork coastline did that work. The Kowloon Bridge disappeared beneath the waves, worn away by its futile battle against the elements of Nature.
I recalled that in the past week when I heard of the death of a man whom I knew for many years and was one of those concerned about the Kowloon Bridge that morning. He was Richard Bushe, who died at the age of 91 died at his appropriately maritime-named home - The Cove Baltimore. His village pub, still run by the family, is one of the most well-known maritime locations in Ireland and to visitors from overseas, the place to which every sailor visiting Baltimore called. He was one of the strongest supporters of Baltimore Sailing Club since its inception in the early 1950s.
Richard Bushe - a strong supporter of Baltimore Sailing Club
As Charlie Bolger, Commodore of Baltimore Sailing Club wrote on the club's website: "You won't find his name amongst the list of Commodores, but Richard Bushe quietly contributed support to every Commodore with his sound advice and wisdom over the past sixty years. He was the go-to person for sailors seeking local knowledge on any topic."
Bushe's Bar has always been to me like a little maritime museum; there is so much of the lore of the sea there – maps, artefacts, items contributed by visiting and local sailors over many years. It is the go-to-place when one is in Baltimore, a place of many memories, of which Richard Bushe was certainly one.
Looking back to those days of the Kowloon Bridge, when the media centred itself at Baltimore as the story of environmental damage and pollution was reported, I also think how unprotected our waters and coastline were, how the State didn't seem to get any adequate compensation for the damage caused, there was no inquiry and Cork County Council, and its ratepayers wound up with most of the cost of €500,000. And, most of all, looking at pictures of that huge vessel, how the power of the sea at the Stags did what human endeavour couldn't do and removed that massive 900-foot vessel from sight. Today it's cargo of 160,000 tonnes of iron ore pellets, said to have been insured for stg£2.7m., still lies on the seabed.
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Afloat.ie · Baltimore Thoughts: The Beacon, The Kowloon Bridge & Richard Bushe
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Kowloon Bridge
Baltimore Lifeboat Launches for Medevac from Heir Island
Baltimore RNLI were called out to provide a medical evacuation this morning (Friday 30 October) from Heir Island off the coast of West Cork.
The volunteer crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at 9.22am following a request from the Irish Coast Guard to provide medical assistance and evacuation to a man living on the island.
Along with two HSE paramedics, the lifeboat crew arrived at Heir Island pier just 10 minutes later and used a stretcher to transfer the casualty from his home to the lifeboat, and then back to the station and the awaiting ambulance.
Conditions at sea during the callout were calm, with a westerly Force 2 wind and no sea swell, ahead of the strong winds expected with Storm Aiden tomorrow, Saturday 31 October.
There were seven volunteer crew onboard the lifeboat: coxswain Kieran Cotter, mechanic Micheal Cottrell and crew members Aidan Bushe, Brendan Cottrell, Ronnie Carthy, Emma Lupton and Jerry Smith.
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Baltimore RNLI in Medical Evacuation from Sherkin Island
Baltimore RNLI was called out to provide a medical evacuation late last night (Sunday 18 October) from Sherkin Island off the coast of Baltimore, West Cork.
The volunteer lifeboat crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at 11.39 pm, following a request from the Irish Coast Guard to provide medical assistance and evacuation to a female who had sustained an injury to her arm.
The Baltimore all-weather lifeboat crew along with two HSE paramedics arrived at Sherkin Island pier at 11.47 pm. The voluntary lifeboat crew brought the casualty onboard the lifeboat. After an initial assessment was carried out by the HSE paramedics, a lifeboat crew member assisted in the administration of casualty care and the casualty was able to return home. The lifeboat then departed Sherkin at 00.07 am and arrived to the station in Baltimore at 00.18 am.
There were five volunteer crew onboard the lifeboat, Coxswain Kieran Cotter, Mechanic Micheal Cottrell and crew members Ronnie Carthy, Sean McCarthy and David Ryan, along with two paramedics from the HSE. Conditions in the harbour during the call out were calm with a south-easterly force 5 wind, which created heavy runs at Sherkin pier.
Published in Island News
Sherkin Island
Proposed Sea Memorial for Baltimore Village
A memorial to commemorate those lost to the sea is finally in sight for a coastal village in West Cork. For the past twelve months, Baltimore Rath & the Islands Community Council has been liaising with Cork County Council and the community of Baltimore and has now successfully acquired planning permission to erect the memorial within the village.
The memorial, "Croí na Mara" (the Heart of the Sea), a sculpture of copper, bronze and stainless steel, is a collaborative work between the Community Council and two local artists, Helen Walsh and Paddy McCormack. The artist's sketch shows that the structure made up of two waves (measuring 3m H x 2m L x 3m W) aims to reflect and capture the power and energy of the sea. Further detail shows the parting sea forming two copper and bronze perforated waves rising from the ground into the shape of a heart. Copper rings of varying sizes, representing the souls lost to the sea, are drawn up through the heartstrings and released into the air.
The structure will be located adjacent to the Harbour Building overlooking Baltimore pier and harbour. The aim is to make the memorial area as inclusive as possible for people of all abilities to come and take the opportunity to reflect, contemplate, and remember friends and loved ones by looking at and through the heart-shaped space between the waves, to the water in the harbour and beyond.
The Community Council are currently fundraising to reach a target of €35,000 to see the project completed. This has been a difficult year for everyone, but the community council would be very grateful to those who would consider donating to this community project, which is a thoughtful opportunity to appropriately commemorate those that have been lost to the sea.
Published in Coastal Notes
Baltimore RNLI Provides Third Medical Evacuation Within 48 hours
Baltimore RNLI was called out to provide a medical evacuation early yesterday afternoon (Monday, 21 September) from Sherkin Island off the coast of Baltimore, West Cork.
The volunteer lifeboat crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at 2.07 pm, following a request from the Irish Coast Guard to provide a medical evacuation (Medivac) to an injured female.
The Baltimore all-weather lifeboat arrived at Sherkin Island at 2.20 pm. The lifeboat crew brought the casualty onboard the lifeboat and they departed the island at 2.30 pm. The lifeboat arrived back to Baltimore Lifeboat Station at 2.45 pm where the casualty was handed over to the care of the HSE ambulance crew.
There were five crew onboard the lifeboat, Coxswain Kieran Cotter, Mechanic Cathal Cottrell and crew members Sean McCarthy, Aidan Bushe and Emma Lupton.
Conditions within the harbour at the time were calm with a westerly force 4 wind and no sea swell.
Speaking following the call out, Kate Callanan, Baltimore RNLI Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer said: 'This is the third Medivac for Baltimore within a 48 hour period. Previously there were two Medivacs to Cape Clear Island, the first on Saturday evening and the second on Sunday morning. If you find yourself in need of medical assistance whilst on an island, call 999 or 112.'
Baltimore RNLI on Two Call Outs Within 14 hours
Baltimore RNLI was called out twice in 14 hours to provide two separate medical evacuations from Cape Clear Island off the coast of Baltimore, West Cork.
The first call out happened yesterday evening (Saturday 19 September). The volunteer lifeboat crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at 6.49 pm, following a request from the Irish Coast Guard to provide a medical evacuation (Medivac) to an islander from Cape Clear.
The Baltimore all-weather lifeboat crew arrived at Cape Clear Island at 7.10 pm. After an initial assessment, the voluntary lifeboat crew brought the casualty onboard the lifeboat and they departed the island at 7.14 pm. The lifeboat arrived back to Baltimore Lifeboat Station at 7.42 pm where the casualty was handed over to the care of the HSE ambulance crew.
There were six volunteer crew onboard the lifeboat, Coxswain Kieran Cotter, Mechanic Sean McCarthy and crew members Jerry Smith, Aidan Bushe, David Ryan and Jim Griffiths.
The second call-out came earlier this morning (Sunday 20 September) when at the request of the Irish Coast Guard the volunteer lifeboat crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at 8.24 am, to provide another Medivac to an islander from Cape Clear.
The Baltimore all-weather lifeboat crew arrived at the island at 8.47 am and transported the casualty back to Baltimore, departing Cape Clear at 8.57 am and arriving back at the Lifeboat Station at 9.26 am. The casualty was handed over to the care of the HSE ambulance crew.
On this morning's call out were five volunteer crew, Coxswain Kieran Cotter, Mechanic Sean McCarthy and crew members Micheal Cottrell, David Ryan and Don O'Donovan. Conditions at sea during both call-outs were calm with a northeasterly wind and no sea swell.
Storm Francis Hits Baltimore Harbour in West Cork
Storm Francis hit the West Cork Harbour of Baltimore today with the town's RNLI lifeboat called out to nearby Crookhaven Bay to two yachts in difficulty on moorings as Afloat reported here this morning.
Pleasure craft in Baltimore Harbour itself were also in difficulty in the storm-force winds.
Last week Storm Ellen felled trees and flooded towns, with Cork receiving the worst battering, and now the arrival of Storm Francis has caused even more damage in some of the worst-hit places.
A RIB broke its mooring in Baltimore. this afternoon but was towed safely back out to sea after some quick thinking seamanship as seen in this reader vid below.
Unfortunately, a classic yacht also broke its moorings in the West Cork marine leisure centre and has been damaged according to eyewitness accounts. See the reader vid below.
Storm Francis
Baltimore Lifeboat Called Out To Two Yachts In Difficulty During Storm Francis
Baltimore RNLI's volunteer crew launched to the aid of two yachts in difficulty in Crookhaven Harbour as Storm Francis passed over West Cork this morning (Tuesday 25 August).
The two vessels, one with four on board and the other with two, were dragging their moorings in the strong Force 9 winds, gusting up to Force 11, and rough sea conditions with a five-metre swell.
RNLI volunteers at the scene launched the smaller Y-boat from the all-weather lifeboat to get close enough to secure extra lines from the yachts to nearby moorings, and helped stead one of the yachts by dropping and extra anchor upwind.
Lifeboat crew member Micheal Cottrell said: "The skippers did the right thing in looking for assistance as soon as they knew their moorings weren't holding, especially considering the storm hadn't reached its full force at the time."
A Status Yellow gale warning remains in place with Met Éireann forecasting cyclonic variable winds to reach gale or strong gale this afternoon, on Irish coastal waters from Carlingford Lough to Valentia to Belfast Lough and on the Irish Sea south of the Isle of Man.
The meteorological service also issued a Small Craft Warning as southeasterly winds were expected reach Force 6 or 7 for a time early this afternoon on coasts from Belfast Lough to Carlingford Lough, and on the Irish Sea north of the Isle of Man.
Baltimore RNLI Called Out Following Activation of a Positioning Beacon off the Coast of West Cork
Baltimore RNLI was launched this afternoon following the activation of an alarm from a positioning beacon off the coast of West Cork.
The volunteer lifeboat crew launched their inshore lifeboat at 4.04 pm following a request from the Irish Coast Guard to help locate an active Emergency Position Indication Radio Beacon (EPIRB) two nautical miles west of the Calf Islands off the coast of West Cork.
Baltimore lifeboat proceeded to the area and started to search under the direction of the Irish Coast Guard and the Irish naval vessel the LÉ Samuel Beckett. Also assisting in the search were Schull Coast Guard and an Irish Coast Guard helicopter. After an extensive search was carried out by all agencies the search was stood down at 6.43 pm and Baltimore lifeboat made its way back to the station arriving at 7.05 pm.
There were four volunteer crew onboard the lifeboat, Helm Pat O'Driscoll and crew members Eoin O'Driscoll, David Ryan and Kieran O'Driscoll. Assisting at the boathouse were Jerry Smith and Marty O'Driscoll. Conditions at sea during the call were calm with a south-easterly force 2-3 wind and 0.5m sea swell.
Speaking following the call out, Pat O'Driscoll, Baltimore RNLI Volunteer Helm said: 'Thankfully the activation of the alarm today was not due to the loss of a vessel. It is important to ensure the secure fastening of an EPIRB on board a vessel and to regularly check that it is in good working order. With storm Ellen approaching, bringing strong winds and potential coastal flooding in combination with spring tides, the RNLI is urging people to exercise extreme caution. If you think someone is in difficulty at sea or along the coast, call 999 or 112 and ask for the Coast Guard.'
Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) in Ireland Information
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a charity to save lives at sea in the waters of UK and Ireland. Funded principally by legacies and donations, the RNLI operates a fleet of lifeboats, crewed by volunteers, based at a range of coastal and inland waters stations. Working closely with UK and Ireland Coastguards, RNLI crews are available to launch at short notice to assist people and vessels in difficulties.
RNLI was founded in 1824 and is based in Poole, Dorset. The organisation raised €210m in funds in 2019, spending €200m on lifesaving activities and water safety education. RNLI also provides a beach lifeguard service in the UK and has recently developed an International drowning prevention strategy, partnering with other organisations and governments to make drowning prevention a global priority.
Irish Lifeboat Stations
There are 46 lifeboat stations on the island of Ireland, with an operational base in Swords, Co Dublin. Irish RNLI crews are tasked through a paging system instigated by the Irish Coast Guard which can task a range of rescue resources depending on the nature of the emergency.
Famous Irish Lifeboat Rescues
Irish Lifeboats have participated in many rescues, perhaps the most famous of which was the rescue of the crew of the Daunt Rock lightship off Cork Harbour by the Ballycotton lifeboat in 1936. Spending almost 50 hours at sea, the lifeboat stood by the drifting lightship until the proximity to the Daunt Rock forced the coxswain to get alongside and successfully rescue the lightship's crew.
32 Irish lifeboat crew have been lost in rescue missions, including the 15 crew of the Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) lifeboat which capsized while attempting to rescue the crew of the SS Palme on Christmas Eve 1895.
Which is Ireland's busiest lifeboat station?
While the number of callouts to lifeboat stations varies from year to year, Howth Lifeboat station has aggregated more 'shouts' in recent years than other stations, averaging just over 60 a year.
Do the RNLI get paid?
Stations with an offshore lifeboat have a full-time mechanic, while some have a full-time coxswain. However, most lifeboat crews are volunteers.
How many RNLI Lifeboat stations in Ireland?
There are 46 lifeboat stations on the island of Ireland
How many lifeboat crew have been lost in rescue missions?
32 Irish lifeboat crew have been lost in rescue missions, including the 15 crew of the Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) lifeboat which capsized while attempting to rescue the crew of the SS Palme on Christmas Eve 1895
How many people are rescued by the RNLI?
In 2019, 8,941 lifeboat launches saved 342 lives across the RNLI fleet.
What type of boats does the RNLI have?
The Irish fleet is a mixture of inshore and all-weather (offshore) craft. The offshore lifeboats, which range from 17m to 12m in length are either moored afloat, launched down a slipway or are towed into the sea on a trailer and launched. The inshore boats are either rigid or non-rigid inflatables.
How are lifeboats called out?
The Irish Coast Guard in the Republic of Ireland or the UK Coastguard in Northern Ireland task lifeboats when an emergency call is received, through any of the recognised systems. These include 999/112 phone calls, Mayday/PanPan calls on VHF, a signal from an emergency position indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) or distress signals.
What is the relationship between the Irish Coast Guard and the RNLI in Ireland?
The Irish Coast Guard is the government agency responsible for the response to, and co-ordination of, maritime accidents which require search and rescue operations. To carry out their task the Coast Guard calls on their own resources – Coast Guard units manned by volunteers and contracted helicopters, as well as "declared resources" - RNLI lifeboats and crews. While lifeboats conduct the operation, the coordination is provided by the Coast Guard.
What is a coxswain?
A lifeboat coxswain (pronounced cox'n) is the skipper or master of the lifeboat.
What training do RNLI lifeboat crews get?
RNLI Lifeboat crews are required to follow a particular development plan that covers a pre-agreed range of skills necessary to complete particular tasks. These skills and tasks form part of the competence-based training that is delivered both locally and at the RNLI's Lifeboat College in Poole, Dorset
How can one support the RNLI?
While the RNLI is dependent on donations and legacies for funding, they also need volunteer crew and fund-raisers.
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First Lady receives courtesy call from UNFPA representatives
May 09, 2018 Government, Ministry of the Presidency, News, Press Releases
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Georgetown, Guyana — (May 9, 2018) First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger, on May 4, received a courtesy call from the Director of the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) Sub Regional Office for the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, Ms. Alison Drayton. She was accompanied to State House by Liaison Officer, Mr. Adler Bynoe.
The purpose of the meeting, Ms. Drayton indicated, was to follow up on previous discussions held with Mrs. Granger, who is the Vice-Chairperson of the Spouses of Caribbean Leaders Action Network (SCLAN) which was established to tackle issues related to the health and well-being of women, adolescents and children in the Caribbean, on future collaborative efforts particularly with respect to the Every Caribbean Woman Every Caribbean Child initiative.
"So I want to follow up with Mrs. Granger on what she sees as some of the priorities heading forward to year two of the establishment of the network… in particular, she [First Lady] is working in the area of adolescent pregnancy, which is UNFPA's key priority in the region, so I wanted to catch up on how her initiatives are going and how we can support that mission," Mrs. Drayton said
UNFPA is the world's largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health programmes.
First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger, UNFPA Director of the Sub Regional Office for the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, Ms. Alison Drayton and UNFPA Liaison Officer, Mr. Adler Bynoe.
2018, DPI, First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger, Ms. Alison Drayton, Spouses of Caribbean Leaders Action Network (SCLAN), United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA)
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Persecución es el conjunto de acciones represivas o maltrato, persistentes, realizadas por un individuo o más comúnmente un grupo específico, sobre otro grupo o sobre un individuo, del cual se diferencia por la manera de pensar o por determinadas características físicas, religiosas, culturales, políticas, étnicas u otras.

También incluye la persecución de especies no humanas (como los predadores), sin embargo se aplica más frecuentemente a persecución entre seres humanos. A menudo la persecución nace del prejuicio.

Generalidades

Lo más común consiste en la opresión de un grupo minoritario por parte de una mayoría, ya que lo inverso es menos frecuente. Va desde la tolerancia (es distinto tolerancia de libertad) o ignorarlo en determinados marcos, hasta la integración forzada, el secuestro de las mujeres y niños, el asesinato, el genocidio y la extinción. Suele ir acompañado de la destrucción o el expolio de sus bienes (casas, tiendas, centros religiosos, etcétera). El término ha sido usado históricamente para denotar actos de violencia indiscriminada, sean espontáneos o premeditados.
La persecución entre seres humanos va mucho más allá de estar motivada por motivos religiosos, étnicos o políticos. Cualquier diferencia identificable en apariencia o comportamiento puede servir de base a la persecución, como ser homosexual, zurdo, o usar drogas.
El único rasgo común entre esta lista de excusas, es la percepción del individuo o grupo como diferente. Debido a eso, se considera que "perseguir" es la expresión de un rasgo general del comportamiento social, quizá relacionado con el tribalismo, que busca imponer o reforzar la conformidad.

La persecución no es reconocida como tal por los perseguidores, solamente por sus víctimas o por observadores externos. Los perseguidores no sienten que haya nada malo en sus acciones o lo racionalizan como de escasa importancia o temporal si lo comparan al fin que buscan, contrarrestar lo que consideran una mayor y más seria amenaza, "El fin justifica los medios" en sus actos. Como en otros comportamientos de agresor y víctima, el agresor culpa a la víctima de la agresión. La justificación más común es que buscan protegerse a sí mismos, a sus familias y a la sociedad de lo que ellos perciben como peligrosa influencia del grupo perseguido. Cuando los confrontan, siempre niegan los hechos, y aunque se los demuestren, son casi incapaces de reconocer nada. Ellos están libres de culpa y así se lo hacen ver a todos.

En 1951 en la Organización de las Naciones Unidas se define al refugiado  como la persona que:

"Teniendo un temor bien fundado de ser perseguido por razones de raza, religión, nacionalidad, membresía a un grupo social particular, u opinión política, está fuera de su país, de su nacionalidad y está inhabilitado o, debido a ese temor, no desea colocarse en la protección de dicho país."

Organizaciones contra la persecución

A partir del siglo XIX surgieron organizaciones solidarias contra las persecuciones destacando las siguientes:

Liga de los Derechos Humanos
Fue una de las organizaciones no gubernamentales pionera en la defensa de los derechos humanos, fue creada en 1898, por iniciativa de Ludovic Trarieux, para defender las libertades humanas amenazadas por las decisiones tomadas por el poder ejecutivo o por el poder judicial.

La Liga se oponía a la discriminación racial, al clericalismo y al militarismo y desarrolló una política de defensa de los derechos humanos basada en tres principios:
 Laicismo: separación Iglesia-Estado, libertad de enseñanza pública, negativa a subvencionar la enseñanza privada...
 Democracia política: concesión de voto a las mujeres, libertad de prensa...
 Pacifismo: organización internacional de la paz.

La Liga realizó actos de protesta contra la guerra de Corea, contra la intervención militar de la Unión Soviética en Hungría en 1956, etc.

Liga Internacional Femenina para la paz y la libertad
Con sede en Inglaterra, cuyo 5º Congreso celebrado en Dublín en 1927, establecía la necesidad de defensa de las minorías dentro de los estados.

Amnistía internacional
Su nombre originario es "llamamiento para la Amnistía". En 1963 coge su nombre actual y en 1968 redacta su primer estatuto constitucional. Los objetivos, estructura y métodos no han variado desde su fundación. El 28 de mayo de 1961 el abogado Inglés Peter Benenson escribía en el británico diario "The Observer" un artículo titulado "los prisioneros olvidados" en el que se lamentaba de la situación de los que por sus opiniones religiosas, políticas o de otro tipo eran torturados, encarcelados o ejecutados y proponía a través del "llamamiento para la Amnistía" una acción conjunta internacional sobre la base de las siguientes cuatro puntos:
 Trabajar para obtener la liberación de quienes se encuentran encarcelados por razón de sus opiniones.
 Procurar para ellos un juicio público y justo.
 Ampliar el derecho de asilo y ayudar a los refugiados políticos a encontrar trabajo.
 Organizar un sistema internacional efectivo que sirva para garantizar la libertad de opinión.

Sus objetivos básicos son los siguientes:
 Buscar la liberación de los presos de conciencia, de las personas encarceladas en cualquier parte del mundo a causa de sus convicciones, color, raza, sexo, origen étnico, idioma o religión, que no hayan recurrido a la violencia o abogado por ella.
 Propugnar la realización de juicios expeditos e imparciales para todos los presos políticos.
 Oponerse sin excepciones a la pena de muerte y a la tortura, y a toda pena o trato cruel, inhumano o degradante a cualquier categoría de presos.

Para realizar su labor AI se basa en la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos y en otros instrumentos internacionales.

Consta de unos 700.000 miembros, suscriptores y simpatizantes en más de sesenta países de África, América, Asia, Europa y Oceanía.

Comisión Internacional de Juristas
Su sede se encuentra en Ginebra. Sus dos fines fundamentales son:

"Sostener y hacer posible el imperio de la ley en todo el mundo" y "en todas sus manifestaciones prácticas: instituciones, legislación, procedimientos, etc.".

Defender el imperio de la ley mediante la movilización de la opinión jurídica internacional cuando se violan de una manera general y sistemática, quedan gravemente amenazados, los principios de justicia enunciados".

El principio del imperio de la ley "cobra el carácter de concepto dinámico que debe aplicarse no solo para salvaguardar y promover en toda sociedad libre los derechos civiles y políticos del individuo, sino además para crear las condiciones sociales, económicas y culturales bajo las cuales pueda satisfacer sus legítimas aspiraciones".

Otras
En España organizaciones no gubernamentales importantes para la defensa de los derechos humanos, entre otras, son el Instituto de Estudios Políticos para América Latina y África (IEPALA), el Movimiento de Objeción de Conciencia (MOC), la Oficina del Defensor del Soldado y la Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de España (APDHE).

Véase también
 Acecho o Stalking
 Asilo político
 Autoritarismo
 Antisemitismo | Heterosexismo | Racismo
 Nazismo | Holocausto,Shoah o Shoá. Europa, 1939-1945 | Persecución de los homosexuales en la Alemania nazi | Negacionismo histórico
 Estalinismo | Holodomor o Genocidio ucraniano, 1932-1933 | Masacre de Katyn o Masacre del bosque Katyn, Europa 1940
 Cosmovisión
 Crimen contra la humanidad | Crueldad | Tortura
 Derecho de asilo
 Diáspora | Historia del pueblo gitano
 Fobias | Homofobia | Transfobia | Odio
 Desaparición forzada | Genocidio | Pogromo | Limpieza étnica ex Yugoslavia, 1991-1995
 Genocidio de Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, 1880-1930 | Conquista del Desierto, Argentina, 1880-1885 | Genocidio armenio, Turquía, 1917 | Genocidio camboyano, 1975–1979 | Ataque químico a Halabja, Kurdistán, 1988 | Genocidio de Ruanda, Ruanda, 1994
 Supremacía blanca | Ku Klux Klan
 Inquisición | Persecución de los cristianos | Persecución de los bahá'ís
 Intolerancia religiosa
 Malleus maleficarum
 Prejuicio | Prejuicio cognitivo
 Survival International
 Zurdo (estigmatización cultural)

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REPORT: NEW TECHNOLOGY CAN MINIMIZE IMPACTS OF INDUSTRIAL FISH FARMS | "Global Possibilities"
Researchers say controversial aquaculture operations like one planned for the Southern California coast could be environmentally sustainable.
The United States imports more than 90 percent of its fish, and more than half of that is grown on overseas fish farms. So why not establish aquaculture operations closer to home?
"The benefits of creating a robust aquaculture system are significant, and Southern California could serve as a model for the nation," said Jerry Schubel, president of the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California.
The aquarium was a partner in a study released Tuesday analyzing the viability of aquaculture operations in federal waters and the potential use of technology to address concerns over the environmental impact of large-scale aquaculture. The U.S. has a $14 billion seafood trade deficit, according to the report.
The researchers recommended that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration become the lead agency for permitting aquaculture in federal waters and that funding be increased for scientific studies on fish farming.
James Morris, a NOAA marine biologist who is a coauthor of the report, said that researchers analyzed the available scientific literature to assess how fish farming affects water quality, the seafloor, and wildlife such as whales and dolphins. "The main outcome is that the science and tech exists to do it, but the key is to be smart about where and how we do it," he said.
In January, NOAA issued a rule allowing fish farming three miles offshore in federally controlled waters.
Morris and his colleagues are creating a complex model of fish farming, one that analyzes how fish would move around in cages and how currents would transport waste from aquaculture operations.
The first proposed deep-sea aquaculture project in U.S. federal waters, called Rose Canyon Fisheries, would be 4.5 miles off the coast of San Diego. A partnership between Hubbs–SeaWorld Research Institute and private equity fund Cuna del Mar, Rose Canyon would be the world's largest fish farm to grow yellowtail jack and possibly white sea bass or striped bass in net pens or cages.
The plan is to ramp up production over eight years, starting with 2.2 million pounds of fish per year and gradually increasing to 11 million pounds per year. The project team is in discussions with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to site the project to avoid conflicts with whales and ships.
Some environmental groups argue that it's not possible to operate large-scale farms without significant environmental consequences.
"There's no doubt that we need to address overfishing, but factory farms in our oceans aren't the answer," said Kristen Monsell, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.
For instance, she says, one of the fish Rose Canyon wants to farm is striped bass, which is not native to the Pacific Ocean. If striped bass escape their cages, they could prey on salmon.
In addition, fish farms could attract predators, such as sea lions and birds, that can become entangled in lines attached to cages.
Paul Olin, aquaculture specialist with the California Sea Grant, another partner in the study, said that new technology such as vaccinations for fish, improved net design and materials, and new sources of protein for fish feed would alleviate many concerns.


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McDonald's teams up with Kobo to give away free digital books with Happy Meals
McDonald's UK has struck a deal with eReading provider Kobo to offer its Happy Meal buyers access to free digital books, as part of its plan to deliver a "fun, enriched experience" for customers.
McDonald's: collaborates with Enid Blyton's Secret Seven
Launching today (30 April) in conjunction with the new 'Secret Seven' Happy Meal book promotion, an e-book voucher will feature on every Happy Meal box enabling parents to download a free children's e-book compatible with a wide range of electronic devices and operating systems.
The e-book voucher partnership with Kobo was negotiated by The Marketing Store.
The new e-book voucher is part of the fast-food giant's 'Happy Readers' campaign, which has seen two annual books promotions giving away millions of popular children's books.
The tie-up with Enid Blyton's 'Secret Seven', published by Hodder Children's Books, will be running for five weeks in McDonald's restaurants nationwide from today.
Six short stories from the author's 'Secret Seven' collection, featuring exclusive colour illustrations by illustrator Tony Ross, will be available in-store as part of the Happy Meal.
Two additional 'Secret Seven' and 'Famous Five' titles will also be available to parents and children through the £1 book voucher redeemable at WHSmith or Eason.
The free Kobo eBook download available at www.kobobooks.com/uk/happyreaders until Tuesday 17th June.
Alistair Macrow, senior vice president, chief marketing officer, McDonald's UK, said children had "come to know and expect content in digital form".
"Since leading the charge with free wifi in 2007, we've introduced a number of digital innovations to enhance our customers' experience including the McDonald's UK app, contactless payment as well as tablets and digital floor play in restaurants.
"Our free e-books are the latest way for us to deliver a fun, enriched experience for our customers at no extra cost to them."
Michael Tamblyn, president and chief content officer, Kobo said: "We hope the new option to enjoy digital versions of quality, children's books through the Happy Meal will inspire more UK families to build their own personal libraries and read more together."
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Contact Stresses in Multilayered Strands Under Tension and Torsion1
K. Kumar, Professor,,
K. Kumar, Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
J. Botsis, Mem. ASME, Professor and Director,
Laboratory of Applied Mechanics And Reliability Analysis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Contributed by the Applied Mechanics Division of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS. Manuscript received by the ASME Applied Mechanics Division, July 12, 1999; final revision, Feb. 24, 2000. Associate Editor: J. W. Ju. Discussion on the paper should be addressed to the Editor, Professor Lewis T. Wheeler, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-4792, and will be accepted until four months after final publication of the paper itself in the ASME JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS.
J. Appl. Mech. May 2001, 68(3): 432-440 (9 pages)
Kumar, K., and Botsis, J. (February 24, 2000). "Contact Stresses in Multilayered Strands Under Tension and Torsion." ASME. J. Appl. Mech. May 2001; 68(3): 432–440. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1355777
First, an attempt is made to experimentally test the validity of the linear deformation derivative results earlier developed for the multilayered wire-rope strands under tension and torsion. The theoretical results are next utilized to obtain analytical expressions for the maximum contact stresses induced in the multilayered strands with metallic wire core. These closed-form solutions provide some useful design insights into the influence of several important cable parameters and material properties on the resulting contact stresses. The strong influence of the material modulus of elasticity on the critical stresses is highlighted. Significantly, the analysis brings out how the contact stresses can rise to an order of magnitude higher levels than that of the nominal stresses.
mechanical contact, torsion, stress analysis, elastic moduli, inhomogeneous media, elastic deformation
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Production News - June 2013
With ten vocal processing effects working behind the scenes, Nectar Elements simplifies vocal production, allowing users to focus on their sound, not their set-up. Nectar Elements features dozens of Style presets that let you choose between a variety of classic and creative vocal styles, from Motown to Grunge to radio-ready podcast. Easily and quickly adjust the simple controls to find your voice and make it shine. Key Features: Rapidly audition different vocal sounds with professionally-designed Style presets in a wide variety of Genres. Personalize your sound with easy-to-use controls that drive sophisticated vocal processing. Quickly get punchy vocals with the loudness you need for consistency across your tracks. Help settle your vocals into your mix with delays and reverbs that add ambience and "smoothing." EQ let you enhance and sculpt the tone of your voice, or adapt any Style to suit your sound's needs. A De-Esser easily removes unwanted "ess" sounds and sibilance using just one intelligent slider. A Gate and Automatic Pitch Correction also provided. MSRP $129 USD or €99 EUR. www.izotope.com.
► Voxengo GlissEQ version 3.7 update is now available for download. Voxengo GlissEQ is a dynamic parametric equalizer plug-in for professional audio and sound production applications. GlissEQ is available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats (including native 64-bit support), for Mac OS X (v10.5 and later), and Windows computers. An interesting and unique feature GlissEQ offers is its filters with dynamic behavior. Beside this "dynamic behavior", GlissEQ features a real-time spectrum analyzer. Moreover, the spectrum of a track can be exported to any other instance of GlissEQ thus making real-time inter-track spectrum comparisons possible. This can help you free frequency ranges in one track to allow the instrument in another track occupying same frequencies breathe. Also from Voxengo, Voxformer version 2.8 update is now available for download. Voxengo Voxformer is a multi-functional vocal channel strip plugin for professional audio production applications, available in AudioUnit and VST plug-in formats (including native 64-bit support), for Mac OS X (v10.5 and later), and Windows computers. A cool feature of Voxformer is its one-knob vocal compressor. Using only a single knob, you can get a tight, open and definitive professional vocal sound with an excellent articulation in no time. You do not have to worry about common ratio and make-up gain controls since they are automatically selected by the advanced compression algorithm while attack and release parameters are stored in a mode preset. Moreover, Voxformer features two compressors of this type, allowing you to apply either a two-band or a two-stage (serial) vocal compression. US$69.95. www.voxengo.com.
► SoundsOnline.com presents AVANNA, "the clearest and sweetest sounding English Vocaloid yet". Ideally suited to pop and celtic, she can also be used in a myriad of styles. The new Vocaloid 3 interface allows you to import wav files so Avanna can sing along with your compositions from within Vocaloid. Avanna comes with a default reverb for added realism and you can add vibrato and expression to her voice. Whether it's sweet and pure leads, harmonies or backing vocals, Avanna can sing anything you like any time you want. VOCALOID3 EDITOR Lite is included with AVANNA and offers the following functionalities: Piano-roll style note editor, importing functionality from a standard MIDI file; Inputting lyrics and automatic conversion to phonemes; Assigning musical expression templates from an Icon Palette; Sending notes, lyrics and musical expression to the Synthesis Engine; Saving vocal data as a .wav file; Changing synthesis parameters; Reverb; Playback .wav files. For full product info including demo songs visit the AVANNA webpage at www.soundsonline.com. Pricing: US $129.95. Based in Hollywood, USA, SoundsOnline.com, is a wholly owned division of EastWest, and an online source for professional sounds and virtual instruments. Based in Amsterdam, SoundsOnline-Europe distributes EastWest/Quantum Leap products in Europe.
► TC Electronic, a manufacturer of loudness metering and processing equipment for broadcasters, has teamed up with Adobe to integrate its LoudnessRadar in the next versions of Adobe® Premiere® Pro and Adobe Audition® on a license agreement. The LoudnessRadar builds on TC Electronic's LM6 Radar Loudness Meter and offers a wide range of loudness measuring tools that are key to content creators delivering for broadcast, film and internet. In short, the LoudnessRadar provides an easy-to-read overview of loudness over time. It displays Loudness History on the revolving radar, Momentary Loudness on the outer ring, True-Peak clips, Program Loudness and Loudness Range in a single view. "Loudness compliance is a key requirement for content creators today and moving forward," said Simon Williams, director of strategic relations at Adobe. "Our Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition users will be able to have access to an innovative and easy-to-use loudness monitoring solution." www.tcelectronic.com.
► iHeartRadio's "Perfect For" and alarm clock features, announced in January, are now available on Android devices. "Perfect For" allows users to choose from thousands of curated stations based on a range of moods and activities. Early morning listeners can pick from "A Traffic Jam," "Drinking Coffee," "Chilling Out" and "Hitting Snooze," which each contain station suggestions "Perfect For" waking up. The alarm clock feature allows users to not only wake up to iHeartRadio, but also to set reminders. For example, fans of Z100's "Elvis Duran and the Morning Show" can set the app to turn on just as the show begins or when they know a particular call-in contest is running. www.iheartradio.com.
► iZ Technology Corporation, manufacturer of hard disk multi-track recording and playback systems, announced the launch of their updated software v4.0.1 for RADAR 6. Key features of 4.0.1 software: Support for RADAR 6 Solid State record drives with integral USB 3.0 port; Support for RADAR 6 Blu-ray combo drives; Optimized storage device handling and bug fixes. The solid state record drives in the new RADAR 6 now come with a built in SuperSpeed USB 3.0 device port housed in a rugged, all metal removable key lock enclosure with a rating of 25,000+ insertions. The SATA drive can be removed from RADAR and used as a stand-alone portable drive that can be connected to any computer with a standard USB 3.0 cable for file transfer at blazing speeds. The drive is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0. Software 4.0.1 now supports Blu-ray slot load combo drives that can burn the latest dual layer Blu-ray disks up to 100 GB, red book audio CDs, data CDs and DVDs, and DVD-RAM disks. RADAR systems starting at $6,800 USD. www.izcorp.com. ►
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► Z100, New York's Hit Music Station, announced that it was named the "Station of the Year" at 2013 Worldwide Radio Summit that took place in Los Angeles. The Worldwide Radio Summit Industry Awards are completely chosen through an open-to-the-public nomination and voting process. Z100 also took home four additional awards including" "Personality of the Year" to Elvis Duran from the "Elvis Duran and the Z100 Morning Show," New York's top-rated radio morning show which is syndicated on nearly 70 stations across the country; "Music Director of the Year" to Jagger; "Imaging/Production Director of the Year" to Dave Foxx; and "Station Online Presence of the Year" to Z100.com. In addition, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment also received recognition for "Company Executive of the Year" to Bob Pittman and "Company Online Executive of the Year" to Zena Burns.
► Dan Kelly (Creative Services Director, WPLJ & NASH-FM/New York) faced off against last year's champion, Paul Duffy (Imaging Director, iRadio/Dublin) at the recent Worldwide Radio Summit (Hollywood, CA) in Benztown's 2nd Annual Iron Imager Contest, an international radio imaging contest where production professionals compete for $1,000 cash and the coveted title of World's Best Imager. The Iron Imagers had 1 hour to create a :30 second music promo using ingredients from Benztown's 20 Imaging Libraries. In a true test of their professional abilities, the format chosen was Alternative, which is well outside the comfort zone for both of this year's Iron Imagers. This year's judges (Ken Benson, President, SparkNet Research & Consulting; Louie Diaz, Program Director, Alpha Broadcasting/Portland; and Trevor Shand, Imaging Producer & Writer for Rogers Broadcasting/Canada and KROQ/Los Angeles) voted overnight, and selected Dan Kelly as the 2013 Iron Imager! Dan humbly accepted his custom made championship belt, and has already agreed to return to the Worldwide Radio Summit in 2014 for Iron Imager 3! [Check out the final two imaging pieces on this month's R.A.P. CD!]
► Wise Buddah has appointed former BBC Radio 1 producer Neil Sloan to the newly created role of Audio Output Manager. Sloan – working alongside Wise Buddah's Clare Chadburn - will be tasked with executive producing all of the radio indie's BBC radio commissions as well as any brand-funded audio content. Crucially, he will also be given license to develop new pay-per-play content ideas for direct-to-consumer channels. Wise Buddah head of content Simon Willis said: "What we get with the appointment of Neil is both an experienced and successful radio and multi-platform producer and someone who shares our passion and desire to change the world. There is no rulebook for how content should be delivered or paid for digitally and new direct-to-audience and pay-per-play models are very exciting to us. At Wise Buddah Neil will be given the freedom and support to develop new ideas in those areas." Before joining Wise Buddah Sloan spent 12 years working at the BBC, most recently as producer of Radio 1's The Official Chart, handling editorial responsibility for the on-air and multi-platform elements of the weekly rundown of the UK's best-selling singles. Sloan said: "Working for a forward thinking and progressive company like Wise Buddah allows me to not just take responsibility for both new and ongoing commissions but also to develop my own content ideas, ones that will hopefully win new business and help to drive the company forward." Wise Buddah produces radio programmes for BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC 6 Music and the BBC Asian Network. www.wisebuddah.com.
► Whether you're an independent studio engineer, a live sound operator, a broadcast technician, a postproduction specialist, or a student diving headfirst into the real world, the second edition of The Business of Audio Engineering, from Hal Leonard Books, is written for you. The author shares modern-day approaches that will increase your chances for success in the audio business. This book teaches you what you need to know about the life of a professional audio engineer with effective business strategies presented by an award-winning and highly-esteemed engineer/business pro. From attracting clients to keeping them; to hiring studios to working on your own, dealing with problem artists, producers, and labels; to handling a crisis (or keeping one from happening); to getting paid what you're worth and being worth what you're paid, Dave Hampton has the advice you need to manage your audio engineering career like the successful business it can be. www.halleonardbooks.com. ▲
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The R.A.P. Cassette - January 1992
Imaging, commercial production and more from Craig Rogers/WHO, Bumper Productions, Rick Allen/WQHT, Tracy Schakohl/KPLZ-FM, Al Peterson/WLAD, Laurent Eveno Creative in France, John Pellegrini/WKLQ, David Witz/WYXR and ...


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Colossal dying star "saved the Earth from being a hostile ocean world"
If a massive star in the Sun's birth environment, a yellow G2 dwarf star, one of a billion stars in the Milky Way, had not injected radioactive elements into the early solar system, our planet could be a hostile oceanic world covered. global ice layers. Some astronomers now think that each star similar to the Sun has at least one "Earth-like" planet in the so-called "habitable zone" around a star, the region where liquid water can exist.
When our proto-Sun was formed, a supernova occurred in the cosmic neighborhood. The radioactive elements, including the aluminum-26, were fused in this massive star and injected into our young solar system, either by excessive stellar winds or by means of the supernova ejecta after the explosion.
The explosion of the supernova must have occurred within a tenth of a light year of the formation of the Solar System, notes John Gribbin in Only in the Universe: why our planet is unique, when the sun was less than 2 million years old. No other supernova has exploded so close to the Sun; If he had, life on Earth would have been exterminated. It can not be a coincidence that this apparently unlikely event occurred where the Solar System was formed, and the natural explanation is that both the Sun and the supernova were members of a group of stars that formed together in the same gas cloud, and since then their separate ways have gone.
Our very strange solar system: "It's even stranger than we thought"
"The results of our simulations suggest that there are two types of qualitatively different planetary systems," said Tim Lichtenberg of the National Center for Planet Research Competition in Switzerland. "There are those similar to our solar system, whose planets have little water, and those in which primarily oceanic worlds are created because there was not a massive star when its host system was formed."
Lichtenberg and his colleagues, including astronomer Michael Meyer of the University of Michigan, initially were intrigued by the role that the potential presence of a massive star played in the formation of a planet. Meyer said the simulations help solve some questions, while raising others.
"It's great to know that radioactive elements can help dry the wet system and have an explanation of why planets within the same system would share similar properties," Meyer said. "But radioactive heating may not be enough. How can we explain our Earth, which is very dry, in fact, compared to the planets formed in our models? Perhaps having Jupiter where it is was also important in keeping most of the ice bodies out of the inner solar system. "
The storm of dark matter is accelerating towards our sun: "A remnant of a dwarf galaxy swallowed by the Milky Way"
The researchers developed computer models to simulate the formation of planets from their building blocks, the so-called planetesimals, icy rocky bodies of probably dozens of kilometers in size. During the birth of a planetary system, planetesimals form in a disk of dust and gas around the young star and become planetary embryos.
As these planetesimals are heated from the inside, part of the initial water ice content evaporates and escapes into space before it can be sent to the planet itself. This internal warming may have occurred shortly after the birth of our solar system 4,600 million years ago, as suggested by the primitive traces of meteorites, and may still be in progress in many places.
They are waiting impatiently for the launch of the next space missions with which you can see exoplanets the size of Earth outside our solar system. This will make humanity closer and closer to understanding if our planet is one of the types or if there are "an infinity of worlds of the same type as ours".
His study appears in Nature Astronomy. Other researchers include those from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University of Bayreuth and the University of Bern.
A 2012 study published by researchers at the University of Chicago challenged the idea that the force of an exploding star caused the formation of the solar system. In this study, published online last month in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, authors Haolan Tang and Nicolas Dauphas found the radioactive isotope of iron 60, the telltale sign of an exploding star, low in abundance and well mixed with the material Of the solar system. As cosmochemists, they look for remnants of stellar explosions in meteorites to help determine the conditions under which the solar system was formed. Some remnants are radioactive isotopes: unstable and energetic atoms that decompose over time. Scientists in the last decade have found high amounts of radioactive isotope 60 in the first materials of the solar system.
"If you have 60 iron in large quantities in the solar system, that's a 'smoking gun,' evidence of the presence of a supernova," said Dauphas, a professor of geophysical sciences. Iron 60 can only originate from a supernova, so scientists have tried to explain this apparent abundance by suggesting that a nearby supernova occurred, spreading the isotope through the explosion.
But Tang and Dauphas discovered that 60 iron levels were uniform and low in the initial material of the solar system. They reached these conclusions by testing meteorite samples. To measure the abundance of iron 60, they observed the same materials on which previous researchers had worked, but used a different and more precise approach that yielded very low evidence of iron.


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Boris Johnson set to crash UK economy
This news is yet more evidence that Boris Johnson's government looks set to crash our economy thanks to his disastrous Brexit plans.
Whether its putting people's livelihoods on the line in our factory sector, or increasing prices with the pound weakening in 2020, it is clear that Boris Johnson's promise to unleash Britain's potential is nothing more than empty rhetoric.
We haven't even left yet.
Boris Johnson's damaging agenda for UK
Boris Johnson's government has set out a disastrous agenda which will force through a hard Brexit, undermine our public services, destroy opportunities for our communities and cripple living standards.
Brexit will hinder our ability to safeguard our NHS and reduce our capacity to tackle the climate crisis.
The fact that radical climate action has been ignored is a hallmark of a government which is setting all the wrong priorities.
We must fight for better democracy
Voting reform is not about the electoral advantage of any party.
It is about better democracy.
As politicians we have a responsibility to ensure voters across the UK do not feel disenfranchised.
In this election the Liberal Democrats increased their vote share by 4%, more than any other party, but achieved fewer seats in Parliament.
Our plan for the Withdrawal Agreement Bill
Boris' bad Brexit bill is before the House of Commons today.
So what are we doing to fight the damaging and dangerous effects it will have on democratic scrutiny, workers' rights, the battle against the climate crisis, and more?
Today, we tabled an amendment to block the Withdrawal Agreement Bill because:
Happy Chanukah!
By Sir Ed Davey MP
A happy and peaceful Chanukah to all Jewish people around the world!
Chanukah is a special time of the year for so many reasons. It's about solidarity with friends and family. It's about overcoming adversity in impossible circumstances. Most importantly, it's about the power of faith and how it can make wonderful things happen.
Lighthouse Update
Article: Jan 8, 2020
Over Christmas and New Year, a team of HQ staff and almost 60 volunteer testers from across the party as well as the team at Prater Raines have been hard at work testing Lighthouse, the party's new Local Party Management tool.
The feedback from those users has been really encouraging, they've found the system really intuitive and easy to use.