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H.R.862 - To authorize the conveyance of two small parcels of land within the boundaries of the Coconino National Forest containing private improvements that were developed based upon the reliance of the landowners in an erroneous survey conducted in May 1960.113th Congress (2013-2014)
|Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1] (Introduced 02/27/2013)
|House - Natural Resources | Senate - Energy and Natural Resources
|Committee Reports:
|H. Rept. 113-75; S. Rept. 113-149
|Latest Action:
|05/24/2014 Became Public Law No: 113-107. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions)
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|There has been 1 roll call vote
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Summary: H.R.862 — 113th Congress (2013-2014)All Information (Except Text)
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Public Law No: 113-107 (05/24/2014)
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey all interest of the United States in two parcels of land within the boundaries of the Coconino National Forest, Arizona, that contain private improvements that landowners developed based upon an erroneous survey conducted in May 1960, to the person or legal entity representing the majority of those landowners.
Requires the person or legal entity that represents such landowners to pay $20,000.00 to the Secretary as consideration for the conveyance of the parcels.
Requires the Secretary to deposit the consideration received under this Act into a special account in the fund established under the Sisk Act and to make such deposited funds available for the acquisition of land in the National Forest System.
Revokes public orders withdrawing any of the federal land from appropriation or disposal under the public land laws, to the extent necessary to permit the conveyance of all of the federal land.
Withdraws the federal land authorized for conveyance under this Act from entry and appropriation under the public land laws, location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws until the completion of the conveyance.
Makes the conveyance authorized by this Act subject only to such surveys and clearances as are needed to protect U.S. interests.
Terminates the authority provided under this Act three years after this Act's enactment.

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Noticed jelly popping up at dinner parties again? The trend for silly, creative and historical food experimentation has finally filtered down from fashionable restaurants to the catering industry to home cooking. And nothing exemplifies this mood better than the current joyful revival of 1970s terrines and Victorian blancmanges.
This year has seen the launch of the Experimental Food Society, a conglomerate of the nation's most eccentric and playful foodies, who make everything from exploding sherbets to edible menus.
Unusually for the chef world, half of the society's members are women, ranging from the teatime dance troupe The Lady Greys to the food artist Prudence Staite, who is known for her room sets made entirely out of chocolate.
'The food industry has been stagnant with celebrity chefs,' says the society's 33-year-old founder, Alexa Perrin, who runs her own PR consultancy. 'There's so much more to British culinary talent - people who genuinely challenge our perception of food. By fusing it with art, history or science, they take it to an altogether different level.'
The country-house caterer
It's five to midnight and behind a curtain in a Buckinghamshire country-house Polly Betton is assembling a midnight feast of nursery foods worthy of Enid Blyton. Among the carefully arranged fairy cakes and jellies, Swiss rolls and French macaroons, cavorts Violet, Polly's Jack Russell-dachshund cross.
The theme of the evening is childhood, and 200 twentysomethings - from a Little Red Riding Hood to a woman in a nightdress clutching a teddy bear - are waiting keenly for their sugar high.
In their hands they clutch not wine glasses but baby bottles filled with a mysterious sticky cocktail, which they are sucking from the teat. They have spent the evening plucking candy from trees, diving headfirst through a cardboard-box maze, raiding a vintage fancy-dress cupboard, and viewing theatrical art installations in bedrooms - a naked woman in a bath filled with cabbages has just told a bedtime story.
After the feast they move outside for a staged food fight between two ballet dancers to operatic sounds, meringues and eggs bouncing and exploding in the moonlight.
An art-school graduate, Betton, 29, started out making midnight feasts and tea parties for friends, which were not just about the cakes but 'the tablecloth, the cake stands, the heights, the colours and the overall effect when you walk in'. In the few years since she has entertained rock bands, Lily Cole and Keira Knightley with her increasingly bizarre catering.
Last summer she held an 'aerobanquet' in a boutique hotel in Berkshire, inspired by La Cucina Futurista, an avant-garde 1909 futurist-art manifesto in the form of a cookbook. 'Most of the recipes were inedible - things like chicken boiled with ball-bearings, or milk in a blue light - but we fished some bits out that were nice and developed them so they wouldn't kill you,' she says breezily.
Before boarding a futuristic plane diners put their bags into X-ray machines and Campari-and-chocolate cocktails came out the other side. The main course, pork fuselage (rolled pork with pastry wings, to look like a Boeing), was served on plastic airline trays, with a menu on the back of a safety card.
After a staged 'crash landing' a vintage ambulance screamed its way into the car park and unloaded jellies on a stretcher, served with silver blankets and brandy for the 'shock'.
'I like to unleash stuff on people,' is how Betton sums up her work. Current projects include a giant picnic for which she will make three-metre napkins, as well as vast cups and plates weighing several stone each. This, in particular, is causing headaches. 'A lot of engineering comes into making fantasy a reality,' she says with a sigh. 'I have to make sure the heating and eating will be safe.'
Betton believes the inventive - and expensive - style of cooking associated with Heston Blumenthal is now reaching home cooks. 'It's spreading like wildfire,' she says, 'and anyone can do this; you don't need access to centrifuges and dry ice, or even to be an excellent chef.' She is planning her own cookbook to show people how.
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KILL, COVET, IDOL read the delicately iced words on a mountain of wholesome flapjacks. Each word is blood-red, encircled by a 'do not' sign. On a Sunday morning in central London, 25-year-old Angharad Davies is arranging them on a model of Mount Sinai.
Davies is working on one of the Sunday Sermons at the School of Life in Bloomsbury - secular talks on ethics and values, from Terry Eagleton on evil to Grayson Perry on kinky sex. Today the writer David Bodanis is about to speak on the Ten Commandments, and the audience of thirty- to sixtysomething intelligentsia are enjoying a tongue-in-cheek spin on a church service.
A 7ft man in a skin-tight devil costume welcomes the congregation and leads the first of two 'hymns': Been Caught Stealing by Jane's Addiction. After Bodanis's lecture and the second hymn (Sinnerman by Nina Simone), the devil yells, 'Eat and obey,' and invites everyone to select the flapjack with the commandment most relevant to them. There is a hubbub as 'parishioners' ponder whether to choose the adultery flapjack or the one that reads wot, which stands for 'work overtime'.
Davies began working with food after 1960s and 1970s cookbooks caught her eye. She started making colourful food sculptures - 'things that are now a peculiar spectacle but were seen as really exotic at 1970s dinner parties'.
She now creates strange and symbolic dishes to order. Bread sculptures, for instance, in the shape of eels and songbirds, to educate visitors on a historical walking tour of Shoreditch in east London about the animals once sold in local markets. And a birthday 'cake' for a giant turtle at London aquarium, which was served to him underwater on a silver platter by a diver in a tuxedo.
'It was interesting cooking something not for human consumption,' she says. 'I spent a lot of time in my local tropical-food shop and ended up making a jelly with ingredients like blood worms - it was disgusting, but I'm not squeamish at all. I think the turtle enjoyed it.'
For a medieval-themed birthday banquet she gave each of the 65 guests a contemporary recipe to make and bring along, which were then eaten off plates made of bread baked by Davies.
'I'm interested in the group psychology of being able to make people feel certain feelings with food,' she says. 'And I enjoy the physicality of making things - as an artist, not just working with paints and installations, but with food, too.'
So what does a foodie experimentalist eat at home? Proper food, such as home-made meatballs, says Davies. 'Of course, I have days when I just want to come home and collapse, but cooking, to me, is a way to relax. I never follow recipes,' she says, 'and I don't eat ready meals or own a microwave. I don't see McDonald's and the like as food.'
The extreme dinner-party planner
One of Amy Houston's first experimental food projects was colour-matching canapés to paintings at an exhibition. 'I extracted pigments from substances, then injected them to dye other foods - so a goat's cheese was dyed pink with beetroot pigment and ricotta dyed green with chlorophyll from spinach.' The cheeses, served as savoury ice creams in miniature cones, took on the taste of the pigments.
'Working with flavour, colour and structure, there are tension points,' explains Houston, who is 27 and from south London. 'If you want it to be pinker, do you want it to taste more of beetroot, which is strong? The chlorophyll tasted more subtle, so the cheeses could be greener.'
After graduating in fine art, Houston met Mike Knowlden and Josh Collen, two other students in their twenties, and discovered a mutual desire to push boundaries with food. They decided to start an experimental catering company. 'We wanted to straddle the art and culinary worlds,' Houston says - their name, Blanch & Shock, includes both a cooking technique and a hint at the puzzlement and provocation in everything they do.
For an interactive theatre performance with a gruesome plot, for instance, food was used as an edible prop, and they confronted the audience with offal bourguignon with beetroot foam on top that looked like blood. 'It sounds horrible,' she says, 'but it was actually delicious. We love feeding the senses and it's absolutely important that whatever we make tastes top end.'
Other highlights include staging a madcap apothecary scene where diners are diagnosed and given a prescription of food they might like, and the creation of aroma balloons filled with grapefruit and bergamot essential oils to replicate the scent of Lady Grey tea, then closed with a clip. Diners let the balloons go to release the fragrance.
'I get a kick out of watching responses,' Houston says. 'It's not about setting people up to eat weird things; it's about getting people to experience something they've never experienced before. I love getting people thinking and talking about what they are eating and how they are eating it, and seeing food in different ways.'
It is a sign of the times that people are up for these experiences, she believes. Many of the company's commissions are for private dinner parties.
No one taught Houston how to do any of this. 'The idea is you have to figure it out on your own; recipes are very limited and I really regret not taking A-level chemistry because of the huge amount of science involved,' she says.
To make mojito spheres, for instance, she turned scientist to create a bubble of liquid cocktail inside a skin, served on a spoon. 'I just read what others are doing, and went out and bought the chemicals.' Don't try this at home …


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Tiacha is a former politician and muckraker from the United States of America. She is the former Party President of the Federalist Party, former Secretary of the Department of Education, former Chief of staff of the eUS and the former Congresswoman from Ohio, New Jersey, Texas, and Illinois. She now spends her time serving the eUS Military. As of September 18, 2012, she serves as Commandant of the United States Marine Corps.
The Goal of Good Governance
|" Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests, which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. "
(President Theodore Roosevelt, 1912.)
Observation and Early Years
Tiacha was invited to eRepublik by her real life friend, Royamen. She watched quietly as Royamen rose to power as mayor of Ohio. She considers Royamen to be her political mentor even though he's become somewhat inactive in recent time. She was amazed when he helped to bring a Q3 hospital to Ohio and knew that eventually she wanted to model any political move after his example.
Tiacha was originally a member of the USWP. She later became disenchanted by their lack of willingness to get new members involved as well as the machine politics which is a part of many major political parties. Tiacha soon wrote an article describing why she quit the USWP and why she avoided political parties in general. This was soon to change, though.
Tiacha finds a home with the Federalist Party
After months of lurking, Tiacha soon got bored of her eLife as a two-clicker. She swore off politics after feeling isolated by the USWP. She thought she would save up enough to start a business and continue her life in the eWorld in this way. Yet, out of boredom, one day in early October 2008, Tiacha went party hunting. Knowing she did not want to be a part of one of the top-5 parties because she felt she would get lost in the shuffle, she looked at minor parties. The Federalist Party immediately caught her eye. Their ideals were sound. After she joined, she was immediately greeted by then party president, Rise. She knew then, she found a true home where she could grow and prosper. This was only the beginning of a great relationship.
Tiacha fights against injustice
With the release of version 1, minor parties were given a major disadvantage. The admins changed the rules for Congressional elections. Only the top 5 countries in each country were allowed to run candidates for Congress. As a Federalist, she thought this was an unjust move by the admins. In response, she wrote an article criticizing the admins for this move. This article was widely voted up, reaching the front page of eRepublik. This won Tiacha the reputation of a true muckraker.
November 2008 Congressional Elections
In November 2008, Tiacha decided to step it up and run for Congress in her home state of Ohio. She ran a truly grassroots campaign, which ranged from using articles and PMs effectively. She was graciously allowed to run for Congress under the UCP ticket even though she was a Federalist. She ran against many hotshot Ohio politicians including, GoBucks of the USWP, Citizen Hem, former Party president of the America's Advancement Party, and her own mentor, Royamen of the Libertarian Party.
The battle for Congress was hard fought, but in the end, it ended in a 9-9 between Tiacha and GoBucks. Originally, the Congressional seat was awarded to GoBucks even though he had one less experience point Experience points than her. The admins later corrected this mistake and Tiacha was awarded the Congressional seat.
Tiacha's time in Congress
In Congress, Tiacha became known as a voice of reason by some and a person who liked to vote against the crowd by others. Despite the criticism by some, Tiacha always voted her conscious, what she thought to be in the best interest of USA, and her party views. Yet, this criticism followed her throughout her term in Congress. Yet, her willingness to vote what she thought was best won her a lot of respect by others.
Her best known move was her vote against the USA entering World War II. She was one of the three votes against the war (which ended in a 42-3 vote) and the only Congressman to publish her vote immediately. She published an article explaining her reasons why she voted against the war. Many dubbed her unamerican for this vote, yet, in the end, her vote was sound as the USA faced major inflation due to the war.
Tiacha, after a long fought term, decided not the run for reelection. In an article she explained her decision not to run for Congress in December stating Congress was nothing but "an old boy's club" where if you didn't vote what the old boys thought was best, you were deemed an outcast. Tiacha did not want to be a party of a Congress where free thinking was not accepted. As such, she fully endorsed GoBucks for the Congressional seat in December in the hope he would bring back integrity to Congress.
Tiacha's Return to Congress-February-April 2009
After a long absence, Tiacha decided to return to Congressional politics. She was successfully elected to Congress in New Jersey on Feb. 25th, 2009. She currently leads the Federalist caucus in Congress and is a crusader against the PANEC plan to raise taxes on all eAmericans. She came in second against Kyle321n in the Feb. 2009 Speaker of the House elections where she gained much support from the fiscal conservatives in Congress.
Tiacha was eventually appointed the Chair of the Government Oversight Committee in March 2009. There, she fought hard for government transparency. She is the author of the Public Information Act. The PIA strives to make citizens aware of how their government has spent their taxpayer money.
Tiacha has also worked hard to improve relations between the military and Congress. She brought together military and congressional figures to the bargaining table to work out a military budget as well as an allocation process. This lead to the eUS creating their first budget, a major step towards fiscal responsibility in the eUS.
The PrincessMedyPi/Tiacha Ticket
Tiacha ran as PrincessMedyPi's running mate on during the April 2009 presidential campaign. They ran a campaign based on improving women's role in eRepublik as well as a LULZ campaign. Many thought that the PrincessMedyPi/Tiacha ticket would have a good chance to beat USWP incumbent, Scrabman. Yet, due to a crowded field, Scrabman won reelection.
Tiacha's time as Chief of Staff-- The Scrabman Administration
On April 5, 2009, Scrabman appointed Tiacha as his Chief of Staff. He hoped this move would decrease the partisan atmosphere in the nation at this time. Tiacha was a constant advisor to Scrabman and acted as a liaison in IRC on behalf of Scrabman. In her time as Chief of Staff, Tiacha helped improve Congressional/executive relations as well as control the aftermath of the Navy II scandal.
Tiacha leaves Congress- April 2009
Tiacha planned on running for third consecutive term in New Jersey on April, 25th, 2009. Yet, she was challenged by USWP candidate, Lowell Kennedy. Kennedy accused Tiacha of doing nothing good for Congress, saying she only produced "fluff", like the Public Information Act. Tiacha and her colleagues knew this was not true, as Tiacha has been one of the major pushes for budget reform as well as an improved military relations. Yet, due to this great insult by Kennedy, Tiacha decided not to seek another term. Tiacha cited Kennedy's disrespect, the increased partisan atmosphere in Congress, her dislike of the in game congressional election system, and real life commitments.
Tiacha returns to Congress--September 2009- November 2009
Tiacha returned to Congress on September 25, 2009. She immediately started her second campaign for Speaker of the House. In a close, but mostly partisan vote, she lost to USWP Congressman, Killing Time. Despite her loss, she gladly accepted the appointment to Deputy Speaker of the House for the September 2009-November 2009 term.
In her time as Deputy Speaker, Tiacha fought to return the power of the purse to Congress. At the time, Woxan, then the Secretary of the Treasury, controlled the Congressional Budget Office. This organization was supposed to be under Congressional control. Due to oversights and lack of knowledge by Congress of its own laws, Congress lost control of this organization. Tiacha fought hard to return the Congressional Budget Office under control of Congress. She also proposed an act to archive past Congressional laws, which later evolved into the eUS Code of Laws Act. (http://eusforum.com/index.php/topic,15187.msg285868.html#msg285868)
Tiacha's Leadership in the Federalist Party
As of December 2008, Tiacha was appointed Vice President of the Federalist Party by Party President, Logomaster304. In her role as Vice President, Tiacha hopes to expand the membership of the Federalist Party and put a Federalist into Congress again in January 2009. She soon became interim President of the Federalist Party on Dec. 28, 2008 after Logomaster304 resigned his position. Alby took over the position after the January 2009 elections.
Tiacha was named the Federalist Political Director during the 2nd fingerguns regime of February - March 2010
Tiacha has obtained the honorary title of Federalist deity due to hard work and dedication to the Federalist Party. Federalist Party leadership often looks to her for insight and leadership in party affairs. She has returned to serving Federalist Party affairs in her role as Federalist Chief of Staff under bigcdizzle, Duncan Crowe, and Gnilraps administrations respectively (November 2012, January 2013, February 2013).
Department of Education
Tiacha was appointed Secretary of the Department of Education by the Justinious_Mcwalburgson_III/PrincessMedyPi administration on January 8, 2009. Tiacha hopes to educate new citizens in many ways. She was appointed for a second term in Feb. 2009 under the Uncle Sam administration. For more details on plans for the Department, check out this article
Tiacha is the longest serving Secretary of Education in eAmerican history. She has served in 5 administrations as Secretary of Education. (Justinious, Uncle Sam, Scrabman, Harrison Richardson, and Gaius Julius.) Tiacha is also the co-founder of North American University.
Tiacha's Military Career
As a Congresswoman, Tiacha was a member of the National Guard 1st division. She is currently the rank of Legendary Force. During her time away from Congress, though, Tiacha was a member of the Marines. For a time, Tiacha was a member of the elite 1st Armored Battalion.
Tiacha has made a quiet return to the eMarines. There she fights and serve her country after her retirement from politics. She served as the Lieutenant of the Marine's elite 1st Recon Company, 3rd platoon. Tiacha took at leave from the eUS Marines from September 2009- until early Feb. 2010. She's since returned to the Marines in Feb. 2010. She is the former company commander of Delta Company. On August 24, 2010, Tiacha was promoted to Lt. General and served as the Vice Commandant of the eUS Marines. She is the former Quartermaster General of the Marines (6/30/10- 12/23/10.) After e-dying, she returned to the Marines in 2012. She was quickly promoted to leadership, when she took over command of the Marines on September 18, 2012 when she assumed her role as Commandant.
Tiacha is a strong proponent of an independent military which fights for true allies. She models her command philosophy off of former Marine General, Lucius Varenus.
Tiacha's e-Love Life
Tiacha is a highly sought after e-lady. She has been in several e-marriages. Her first marriage was to Ian John Locke IV in early 2009, which quickly lead to e-divorce. From there, she e-married Kyle321n and lived a happy e-married life. When she returned to the game in 2012, she was saddened to find that her e-husband, Kyle321n was e-dead and she was left an e-widow.
She does not deal well with ePlayers. They will be bitch slapped on sight.
OMG, Tiacha has a life
To read more about what Tiacha does in real life, read her User Page
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More Americans want to cut aid to Egypt after embassy attack
Nearly 3 out of 4 Americans surveyed think the United States should reduce its aid to Egypt or cut it off entirely after angry protesters pulled down the American flag at its Cairo embassy last month.
The Program on International Policy Attitudes poll found most Americans did not think that the majority of Egyptians backed the assault on the Cairo embassy, where protesters scaled a wall and pulled down the flag after furious protests over a film mocking the Islamic prophet. Almost two-thirds of Americans surveyed said "the violent actions were only supported by extremist minorities," it found.
However, Americans were also deeply dissatisfied with how Egyptian authorities handled the assault. Less than one-third of Americans surveyed said the Egyptian government had tried to find and arrest the perpetrators, and less than half believed it had criticized the attack.
The Egyptian government did say the riot was unacceptable, but President Mohamed Morsi was criticized for his delayed remarks on the attack. The belief that Egypt has done too little to protect the embassy, in turn, appears to have soured many Americans on providing aid to Egypt.
The U.S. government provides the Egyptian military with more than $1 billion in assistance annually, despite restrictions on political rights that would ordinarily block such aid. Most Egyptians oppose the outside support, fearful it gives the U.S. undue influence on Egyptian sovereignty, a Gallup poll found this year.
Many Americans now agree that U.S. aid to Egypt should be reduced or eliminated, according to the Program on International Policy Attitudes. Its new poll found 42% of Americans thought aid to Egypt should be reduced and 29% thought it should be cut off entirely -- a total of 71%.
The numbers mark a significant increase from a June poll by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, which found roughly half of respondents wanted Egyptian aid to be reduced or ended. Americans who thought Egypt had done too little to prevent or repel the embassy attack were much more likely to want reductions in aid.The poll also found that Republicans were much more likely than Democrats to say the U.S. should cut off the funding completely, with 41% of Republican respondents saying aid to Egypt should be totally stopped, compared with 15% of Democrat respondents.
Americans were also displeased with how Libya reacted to a much more severe attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, where Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the September assault, now described by U.S. officials as a terrorist attack. Almost two-thirds of those surveyed said the Libyan government didn't try to protect American diplomats and their staff.
The poll didn't ask whether the U.S. should reduce aid to Libya, which receives much less money than Egypt, as several Republican lawmakers had sought in the wake of the attack.
More than 700 Americans were included in the survey, conducted from late September to early October by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, a joint program of the University of Maryland and the Center on Policy Attitudes in Washington, and the University of Maryland Anwar Sadat Chair.
Gaza militant killed in renewed clashes with Israel
Turkey fires back at Syria on sixth day of trading fire
Latin American governments congratulate Chavez win in Venezuela
-- Emily Alpert in Los Angeles
Photo: Protesters destroy an American flag pulled down from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11. Credit: Mohammed abu Zaid / Associated Press


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Good morning all! If you think I just paint and design most days, you are not quite right. As most small business owners, I wear LOTS of hats. I AM the shipping, receiving, accounts receivable, inventory control, inventory, PR, and marketing person. It's quite the hat collection I own! Here's a little story of how a recent visit to the post office was a real eye opener, which resulted in....... well, you can read the blog.
This morning, besides catching up on household chores, I had "paperwork' to complete; postal supplies to order, packages to ready for shipment, emails and messages to answer - oh my! I did get another bookmark order! YAY!
I learned a valuable lesson about the post office last week. I had 2 orders to ship - one packed in a Priority Mail box and the other in a previously received order in an Amazon box. Both weighed about the same, one to Bend, OR, and the other to Dallas. The Bend, OR box cost me $10.40 to mail - same size and weight as the Priority Mail box - cost was $5.95!!!!! It was NOT the location, just the packaging!
I was at a loss for words and dismayed as to the almost double cost for the Oregon shipment. The clerk explained using a Priority Mail box does several things for the customer: 1) provides a tracking number, 2) automatically insured for $50, 3) standard size boxes, 4) delivery guaranteed within posted time. The "old" way of shipping is more costly, and paying for insurance adds to the postage. Plus, shipment twice as long, twice as much $$, and scrounging for a box isn't always practical or accepted by the post office criteria. You have to blacken all SKU and bar codes. Messy looking package. Not what I want to have representing my business or me!
I had an account with the post office long ago, in 1995, since then I "misplaced" the info. Instead of looking frantically, I made an "executive decision" and created a new account! Getting boxes and labels in quanities while at the post office isn't fair to other customers since I use so many. Last shipment I made, I inquired if I could have several labels and boxes to "stock up". The clerk said to order free online! YAY! Who doesn't like FREE????
The process was very simple but time consuming, as always. The first time setting up items always takes that precious and priceless commodity - time.
I am happy to say it's all done, ordered, and I have a tracking number. I ordered labels, boxes, and Fragile stickers. Now I can package and get the 3 orders I have completed shipped out sooner than later!
So...... I'm now a better prepared customer of the post office and ordered my supplies online. Just another step in continuing to improve my customer service. It's a win win situation for my customers and the post office.
Off to the post office to get boxes so I can ship out these orders, notify customers of shipment with tracking number, track the orders, and finally, get good news of the shipment arriving safely from my customer.
I'm tired now - time for a break!


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Date: October 2006
Effects of Inlet Geometry on Hydraulic Performance of Box Culverts
The 25-year and 100-year floods at a 34.97-square-kilometer (km2) (13.5-square-mile (mi2)) design site in South Dakota have peak flows of 21.6 m3/s (773 ft3/s)(Q25) and 44.9 m3/s (1602 ft3/s) (Q100).
REQUIREMENT: Design and compare the headwater elevations for the Q25 and Q100 peak flows using a twin 2.7- by 2.4-m (9- by 8-ft) cast-in-place (field cast) culvert and a twin 2.7- by 2.4-m (9- by 8-ft) precast box culvert.
The low roadway grade has an elevation of 27.51 m (90.20 ft).
The downstream cross section ground point coordinates are given in table 20.
The tailwater rating information is given in table 21.
Figure 133. Graph. Discharge, tailwater variation.
Figure 134. Graph. Downstream cross section.
Figure 135. Graph. Cross section area versus tailwater elevation.
Based on a regression of the area versus the tailwater elevation curve in figure 135, the downstream flow area for tailwater elevation is given by the equation in figure 136.
Figure 136. Equation. Downstream flow area for tailwater elevation.
Assuming the upstream section is a vertical shift of the downstream section according to the 0.02 percent channel slope, the flow area under the headwater elevation can be computed by the equation in figure 137.
Figure 137. Equation. Flow area under headwater elevation.
Figure 138. Equation. Downstream channel velocity for Q25.
Figure 139. Equation. Downstream channel velocity for Q100.
Figure 140. Equation. Critical depth, below top corner fillets.
The equation in figure 140 applies if the critical depth is below the top corner fillets. If the critical depth does partially submerge the top fillets, the relationship becomes the equation in figure 141.
Figure 141. Equation. Critical depth, partially submerged top corner fillets.
Solving this equation would be a trial and error procedure, but it can be solved using the goal seek tool of Microsoft® Excel.
Figure 142. Equation. Normal culvert depth.
If the normal depth is below the top corner fillet, the flow area, A, and the hydraulic radius, Rh, can be computed from the equations in figure 143.
Figure 143. Equations. Flow area and hydraulic radius, depth below top corner fillet.
If the normal depth partially submerges the top corner fillets, the flow area, A, and the hydraulic radius, Rh, can be computed from the equations in figure 144.
Figure 144. Equations. Flow area and hydraulic radius, top fillets partially submerged.
If the normal depth exceeds the rise, D, of the culvert, set at equal to a and compute the normal depth that would occur if the culvert did not have a crown.
The normal depth can be determined by trial and error or by using the goal seek tool from Excel.
The normal depths are greater than critical depths; therefore, the culverts will be outlet control whether or not the barrels flow full at the inlet. The tailwater elevations are greater than the critical depth elevations and are below the crown elevations at the outlet; therefore, the depth at the culvert outlet will be between the critical depth and the culvert crown and can be computed from the equation in figure 145.
Figure 145. Equation. Initial depth.
Assume Ko = 1.0 (see HDS-5, p. 35).
The outlet is unsubmerged, and the footnote below table 6 of the research report warns that the unsubmerged Ko values are unreliable. Nevertheless, the unsubmerged value for a twin box culvert happens to be the traditional value that is recommended for the outlet loss. The exit coefficients derived for this study neglect the tailwater velocity head.
Figure 146. Equation. For Ko equals 1.0.
Figure 147. Diagram. Definition sketch for exit loss.
Figure 148. Equation. Initial depth, ignoring tailwater velocity head.
This step can be done fairly easily on a spreadsheet by increasing the depth by increments between do at the outlet and the full culvert depth, D. Compute the step length, ΔL, from the equation in figure 153. Figures 149-152 contain equations for preliminary calculations for the equation in figure 153.
Figure 149. Equations. For d less than (D-a).
Figure 150. Equations. For d less than D but greater than (D-a).
Figure 151. Equations. For d equal to D (the last iteration).
The friction slope, SF, for any step is computed from Manning's equation.
Figure 152. Equation. Friction slope.
The results of the equations in figures 149-152 enable the calculation of the step length, ΔL. The step length may also be viewed as calculated from the energy balance.
Figure 153. Equation. Step length.
After each step length calculation, the ΔL's are summed to give L, which is compared with the length of the culvert (25.62 m (84 ft)) to determine when computations are complete. Since the corner fillets affect the backwater computations, the calculations should be done in two stages.
If the culvert fills to the crown before the computations reach the entrance, the EGL at the entrance, or upstream end, is given by the equation in figure 154.
Figure 154. Equation. EGL at upstream culvert end (the entrance).
HGL is greater then critical depth throughout the barrel, indicating outlet control. Use table 11 (in chapter 7) to find entrance loss coefficients. The sketches in figure 155 are from figure 93 in chapter 7.
Figure 155. Sketches. Entrance loss coefficients (Ke) of culverts in example problem.
Figure 156. Equation. Entrance loss.
Figure 157. Equation. Headwater energy grade line.
The HWEGL's are energy grade line elevations and include the velocity head, which is usually negligible in the headwater pool. To get the actual water surface elevations, HWHGL in the headwater pool, use the relationships in figure 158.
Figure 158. Equation. Headwater hydraulic grade line.
The water surface elevation, HWelevation, in the headwater pool can be determined by trial and error or by using the goal seek tool of Excel.
Tables 25 and 26 summarize the results of the step backwater computations, the headwater EGL computations, and the headwater HGL computations.
For the four culvert configurations, results of the step backwater and entrance loss computations for the Q100 discharge only are illustrated in figures 159 through 162.
Figure 159. Diagram. FC-D-30 model, Q100 elevations.
Figure 160. Diagram. FC-D-0 model, Q100 elevations.
Figure 161. Diagram. PC-B model, 30.48-cm (12-inch) corner fillets, Q100 elevations.
Figure 162. Diagram. PC-B model, no corner fillets, Q100 elevations.
This example is included to illustrate how to apply the entrance loss coefficients from the laboratory results. SDDOT provided site data and culvert options. The example was divided into eight basic steps for spreadsheet computations because no design program accounted for the corner fillets, which were a consideration in the laboratory study.
The first step was to plot the channel cross section and derive expressions for channel area versus water surface elevations. The tailwater channel velocities and EGL elevations were then computed from the downstream rating data that were provided. The critical depth and normal depth in the culvert were computed to determine if inlet control was a possibility. The normal depth computation is a tedious trial and error process, especially when corner fillets are included in the computation, but the goal seek tool from Excel makes the task easier. Because normal depths were greater than critical depths, inlet control was eliminated as a possibility. The brink depth at the culvert outlet was computed from the equations in figure 163.
Figure 163. Equations. Brink depth at culvert outlet.
Since the brink depth was below the crown of the culvert, a spreadsheet was developed for step backwater computations through the culvert by increasing the depth by increments and computing the corresponding step length. Spreadsheets were analyzed to determine where either the cumulative step lengths equaled the culvert length or the culvert flowed full. None of the culverts flowed full for either Q25 or Q100 before the cumulative step lengths equaled the culvert length of 25.62 m (84 ft); thus free surface flow occurred in each case. From the step backwater computations, the velocity and energy grade line elevation at the upstream end were used to compute the headwater energy grade line elevation from the equation in figure 164.
Figure 164. Equation. Headwater EGL.
Finally, the hydraulic grade line elevation (water surface elevation) was computed by subtracting the velocity head in the headwater pool from the energy grade line elevation. Because of the irregular channel geometry, this was also a trial and error computation and was accomplished with the Excel goal seek tool. There was very little difference between the energy grade line and water surface elevations in the headwater pool.
The net area (with the areas of fillets removed) was used for the step backwater computations and for velocity computations. The research showed that the coefficients were not affected by the fillet sizes tested as long as the net area was used in the computations. Figure 165 is a sketch showing the procedure for calculating the net area. The current version of the FHWA HY-8 program does not account for corner fillets.
Figure 165. Diagram. Net area used for backwater computations.
To show the sensitivity of including or not including the corner fillets, the headwater elevation for the PC-B, 2.7- by 2.4-m (9- by 8-ft) culverts was computed with no fillets. The error derived by not accounting for the 30.48-cm (12-inch) fillets was more than 0.0305 m (0.10 ft) for the Q100 discharge. These errors would increase as the size of the culvert decreases and would decrease as the size of the culvert increases. A design program such as HY-8 could certainly account for the corner fillets, but significant additional computer coding would be required.
At the Q100 discharge, the HW elevations for the precast culverts were approximately 0.183 m (0.6 ft) higher than the elevations for the field cast culverts with the 30-degree-flared wingwalls.


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The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing yesterday to learn about the potential of aging in place technologies, including sensors and wearables. Aging In Place Technology Watch lead Laurie Orlov and VA Deputy Chief Patient Care Services Officer Maureen McCarthy testified, along with academics Marjorie Skubic from the University of Missouri and Carol Kim from the University of Maine. Charles Strickler spoke as well, as a representative example of a caregiver with an aging parent.
"Recent advances in technology are providing new options for seniors and their families that can allow them to remain at home for longer by monitoring health status, detecting emergency situations and notifying health care providers about any changes in health status," Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri), the ranking member of the committee, said in her opening statement. "These technologies can also make family members' and caregivers' lives easier by providing them with tools to support their loved ones and giving them peace of mind. This really is a win-win situation, seniors are much happier continuing their normal routines and social activities where they feel comfortable, family members can make sure their loved ones are safe, and society as a whole benefits from significantly reduced healthcare and long-term care costs."
McCarthy shared a lot of data at the hearing about the VA's use of telehealth, much of which supports aging seniors.
"In fiscal year 2014, VA provided care to more than 717,000 patients (12.6 percent of our enrolled veterans) through telehealth modalities," she said. "This amounted to over 2,123,000 telehealth episodes of care. Forty-five percent (45 percent) of these veterans lived in rural areas and may otherwise have had limited access to VA health care services. In fiscal year 2014, telehealth was implemented in over 900 sites of care and is available for over 45 specialty areas of care. The number of veterans receiving care via VA's telehealth services grew approximately 18 percent in 2014 and is anticipated to grow by approximately 28 percent in fiscal year 2015."
Skubic's work at the University of Missouri includes overseeing TigerPlace, an assisted living facility that uses Microsoft Kinect cameras and other sensors to monitor seniors and facilitate early detection of gait problems or other health risks. An NIH study that's currently underway will give the University a sense of the cost savings potential of these sensors, Skubic said.
Kim shared a number of interesting innovations in progress at the University of Maine including augmented reality software for helping seniors detect ledges and steps, and thus avoid falls, an "assistive jogger" that allows less stable seniors continue to exercise, and a sensor-laden mattress that could detect cognitive decay early based on sleep movement. Kim said that University of Maine students spent an hour at a local nursing home and came back with 50 workable ideas for improving the lives of seniors.
But the panelists stressed that aging in place technology was unlikely to come down to a single silver bullet. Orlov made it clear that any solution involving invasive monitoring needed to be truly opt-in for seniors and protect their privacy however possible.
"A lot of implementations of monitoring technology have been implemented on the basis of threats," she said during the Q&A. "If we don't monitor you, I'm going to have you move to assisted living because I'm too nervous about your wellbeing to leave you living alone. I would call that sort of the loving threat. That's worked in many cases, but it's very important that people understand what they're opting into. They're not opting into having their every move watched."
Strickler spoke about his experiences caring for his mother and mother-in-law, who required very different technology from one another. While his mother was "diligent about wearing" a personal emergency response pendant, his mother-in-law refused to, like many seniors.
"We know PERS systems have been ineffective for the vast majority of users for many reasons," he said in his testimony. "The reasons include: not wearing the pendant, responding that things are OK even when they really need help, fall detection not activating an emergency response, drained batteries, and seniors worried that emergency responders will knock their door down if the resident cannot get to the door to open it, as well as a variety other reasons. We had first hand experiences like these with my mother-in-law, but her biggest complaint, aside from not wanting to wear a pendant, was that she simply didn't want to 'talk to an unfamiliar voice in a box.'"
McCaskill urged the panelists to focus on demonstrating cost savings if they wanted legislative support for their technologies.
"One of the things we've tried to stress in this committee that I think many people out there don't understand is that a huge percentage of the Medicaid dollars that are spent in this country are not spent on struggling families who are not working, but rather are spent on our seniors who are in nursing homes," she said. "The high proportion of nursing home beds that are Medicaid beds makes this a really important hearing for our debt and our deficit. Because if we can figure this out, the cost savings are dramatic to the longterm problem we have with the demographic bubble that is represented with my generation going into Medicare."
"We've got to start monetizing these savings as quickly as possible," she added later. "The more quickly we can monetize them, the more quickly we can begin adopting them as part of public policy preferences, which would have a huge impact on their availability."


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While the tape itself is not very long, coming in at only 25 minutes, there are a handful of features sprinkled throughout. My personal favorite, "Hennessy & Sailor Moon" is blessed with a Bladee feature; Adam Killa appears on "Cashin" and Yung Lean recruits A$AP Ferg for "Crystal City".
Throughout the entire tape you can hear that this may be one of Yung Lean's most mature sounding pieces of work so far in his career. You are given subtle warnings that Yung Lean is coming back stronger, healthier, and he's not stopping anytime soon. It's only been about a year since he was released from a mental hospital but now he's riding around in a Range Rover with two crack heads, he's flexed up, cashed up, and still continuing to get his bands up. Stream the entire tape below.


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Office: D 411 (5, rue René Descartes)
Tel: (33) 3 68 85 00 83
Employment and Education
2005: Habilitation to supervise research: Compaction, dilatancy and failure in crustal rocks
1991-1995: Ph.D.- Thesis: Theoretical and experimental study of crustal rock fracturing (EOST Strasbourg, France).
1988-1991: Engineering school in Geophysics (EOST).
September 2009-present: Professor of Geophysics at EOST Strasbourg, in charge of the Rock Physics, Hydrology, borehole Geophysics and Fracture Mechanics courses.
August 2008 – December 2009: Invited professor at Universitade Federal of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
September 2000 – August 2009: Assistant professor (Maître de conferences) at EOST Strasbourg.
September 1997 – August 2000: Post-doctoral position funded by the Research Foundation of State University of New York
November 1996 - August 1997: ATER contract at EOPGS (Research and teaching temporary contract)
September 1995 - October 1996: Post-doctoral position funded by the European Community (Human capital and mobility) at the Rock and Ice Physics Laboratory of University College London.
Research Interests
- Compaction bands in porous sandstone
- Dilatancy, compaction, failure and fluid flow in carbonate rocks
- Time-dependent deformation in rocks
- X-ray Computed Microtomography (mCT)
- Physical properties and damage in volcanic rocks
Teaching and Responsibilities
2000-present: Rock Physics, Fracture mechanics, Continuum Mechanics, Hydrology and Borehole Geophysics lectures at EOST
1991-1995: Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics lectures at EOST (Theory of elasticity, Fracture mechanics, Thermoporoelasticity, Rock properties...)
1991-1995: Practicals in Geophysics.
1996-1997: Lectures in Rock Mechanics, Rock Physics, Geostatistics, Hydrology and Electromagnetism at EOST.
- 2016-present: Member of the National University Comittee (CNU) section 35
- 2016-present: Head of the Master Earth Science Excellence of EOST
- 2015-present: Leader of the WG4 (Rock Physics) of the LABEX G-EAU-THERMIE Profonde
- 1997-present: Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- 2006-present: Member of the teaching comittee of EOST
- 2007-2015: Organisation of the 3rd year of the EOST Engineering school
- 2008-present: Member of the admission comittee of EOST
- 2009-present: Member of the European Association for Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)
- 2009-present: Coordinator of final internships at the EOST Engineering school
- 2012-present: Honorary professor of University College London
- 2013-2015: Co-Head of the International Master "Subterranean Reservoirs of Energy" (SRE) with Mikhail Panfilov (ENSG, Nancy)
- 2007: Organisation of the session "The role of fluids on faults: Mechanical aspects", European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria.
- 2008: Organisation of the session "Thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling and imaging of deformation in rocks", European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria.
- 2009: Organisation of the 8th Euroconférence of Rock Physics and Geomechanics, "Thermo-Hydro-Chemo-Mechanical coupling applied to reservoir, CO2 sequestration and waste disposal", Ascona, Switzerland.
- 2010: Organisation of the session "The physical and mechanical properties of porous carbonate rocks,European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria.
- 2012: Organisation of the session "Strain localization and hydro-mechanical coupling, European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria.
[78] Baud, P., A. Schubnel, M. J. Heap, and A. Rolland, Inelastic compaction in high porosity limestone monitored using acoustic emissions, Journal of Geophysical Research, in review. [link to data]
[77] Baud, P., U. Exner, M. Lommatsch, T. Reuchlé, and T.-f. Wong, Mechanical behavior, failure modes and transport properties in a porous limestone, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1002/2017JB014060, 2017.
[76] Xu, T, G.L. Zhou, M. J. Heap, W. C. Zhu, C. F. Chen, C. F., and P. Baud, The Influence of Temperature on Time-Dependent Deformation and Failure in Granite: A Mesoscale Modeling Approach, Rock Mining and Rock Engineering, 50 (9), 2345-2364, 2017.
[75] Farquharson, J. I., F. B. Wadsworth, M. J. Heap, Michael, and P. Baud, Time-dependent permeability evolution in compacting volcanic fracture systems and implications for gas overpressure, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 339, 81-97, 2017.
[74] Farquharson, J. I., Baud, P., and M. J. Heap, Inelastic compaction and permeability evolution in volcanic rock, Solid Earth, 8 (2), 561-581, 2017.
[73] Griffiths, L., M. J. Heap, T. Xu, Tao, C.-f. Chen, and P. Baud, The influence of pore geometry and orientation on the strength and stiffness of porous rock, Journal of Structural Geology, 96, 149-160, 2017.
[72] Heap, M.J., B.M. Kennedy, J.I. Farquharson, J. Ashworth, K. Mayer, M. Letham-Brake, T. Reuschlé, H.A. Gilg, B. Scheu, Y. Lavallée, P. Siratovich, J. Cole, A.D. Jolly, P. Baud, D.B. Dingwell, (2016), A multidisciplinary approach to quantify the permeability of the Whakaari/White Island volcanic hydrothermal system (Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand), Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.12.004.
[71] Farquharson, J. I., M. J. Heap, and P. Baud, Strain-induced permeability increase in volcanic rock, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, DOI:10.1002/2016GL071540, 2016.
[70] Baud, P., A. Rolland, M. J. Heap, T. Xu, M. Nicolé, T. Ferrand, T. Reuschlé, R. Toussaint, and N. Conil, Impact of Stylolites on the mechanical strength of limestones, Tectonophysics, 690, 4-20, 2016.
[69] Griffiths, L., M. J. Heap, F. Wang, D. Daval, H. A. Gilg, P. Baud, J. Schmittbuhl, A. Genter, Geothermal implications for fracture filling hydrothermal precipitation, Geothermics, 64, 235-245, 2016.
[68] Farquharson, J., M J. Heap, Y. Lavallée, N. R. Varley, and P. Baud, Evidence for permeability heterogeneity in volcanic conduits, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 323, 163-185, 2016.
[67] Farquharson, J., M. J. Heap, P. Baud, T. Reuschlé, and N. R. Varley, Pore pressure embrittlement in a volcanic edifice, Bulletin of Volcanology, 78(1), 1-19, 2016.
[66] Rustichelli, A., C. Di Celma, E; Tondi, P. Baud, and S. Vinciguerra, Fibrous gypsum veins as diffuse features and within fault zones: the case study of the Pisco Basin (Isca desert, Southern Peru), J. Geol Societ., doi:10.1144/jgs2015-084, 2016.
[65] Baud, P., T. Reuschlé, Y. Ji, C. Cheung, and T.-f. Wong, Mechanical compaction and strain localization in Bleurswiller sandstone, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 120, doi:10.1002/2015JB012192, 2015.
[64] Rustichelli, A., E. Tondi, I. Korneva, P. Baud, S. Vinciguerra, F. Agosta, T. Reuschlé, J.M. Janiseck, Bedding parallel stylolites in shallow-water limestone successions of the Apulian Carbonate Platform (central-southern Italy), Italian J. Geos., 134 (3), 513-534, 2015.
[63] Heap M. J., Brantut, N., Baud, P., and Meredith P. G., 2015. Time-dependent compaction band formation in sandstone. Journal of Geophysical Research. OPEN ACCESS][
[62] Heap, M. J., J. I. Farquharson, P. Baud, Y. Lavallée, and T. Reuschlé, 2015. Fracture and compaction of andesite in a volcanic edifice. Bulletin of Volcanology. 77: 55. DOI: 10.1007/s00445-015-0938-7. [OPEN ACCESS]
[61] Farquharson, J. I., M. J. Heap, N. Varley, P. Baud, and T. Reuschlé, 2015. Permeability and porosity relationships of edifice-forming andesites: A combined field and laboratory study. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 297, 52-68. [pdf]
[60] Heap, M. J., B. Kennedy, N. Perrin, L. Jacquemard, P. Baud, J. I. Farquharson, B. Scheu, Y. Lavallée, H. A. Gilg, M. Letham-Brake, K. Mayer, A. D. Jolly, T. Reuschlé, and D. B. Dingwell, 2015. Mechanical behaviour and failure modes in the Whakaari (White Island volcano) hydrothermal system, New Zealand. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2015.02.012. [OPEN ACCESS]
[59] Voorn, M., U. Exner, A. Barnhoorn, P. Baud, and T. Reuschlé, Porosity, permeability and 3D fracture network characterisation of dolomite reservoir rock samples, J. Petrol. Sci. Eng., 127, 270-285, 2015.
[58] Ji, Y., S. Hall, P. Baud, and T.-f. Wong, Characterization of pore structure and strain localization in Majella limestone by X-ray computed tomography and digital image correlation, Geophys. J. Int., 200, 701-719, 2015.
[57] Brantut, N., M. Heap, P. Baud, and P.G Meredith. Mechanisms of time-dependent deformation in porous limestone, J. Geophys. Res., 119(7), 5444-5463, 2014. [OPEN ACCESS]
[56] Cilona, A., D.R. Faulkner, E. Tondi, F. Agosta, L. Mancini, A. Rustichelli, P. Baud, and S. Vinciguerra, The effect of rock heterogeneity on compaction localization in porous carbonates, J. Struct. Geol., 67, 75-93, 2014.
[55] Heap, M., L. Petrakova, Y. Lavallée, P. Baud, N.R. Varley, and D.B. Dingwell, Microstructural controls on the physical and mechanical properties of edifice-forming andesites at Volcan de Colima, Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 119(4), 2925-2963, 2014. [OPEN ACCESS]
[54] Brantut, N., M. J. Heap, P. Baud, and P. G. Meredith, 2014. Rate and strain-dependent brittle deformation of rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010448. [OPEN ACCESS]
[53] Heap, M. J., Baud, P., Meredith, P. G., Vinciguerra, S., Reuschlé, T., 2014. The permeability and elastic moduli of tuff from Campi Flegrei, Italy: Implications for ground deformation modelling. Solid Earth, 5, 25-44. [OPEN ACCESS]
[52] Heap, M. J., Baud, P., Reuschlé, T., and Meredith, P. G., 2014. Stylolites in limestones: Barriers to fluid flow? Geology, 42, 51-54, doi:10.1130/G34900.1. [OPEN ACCESS]
[51] Brantut, N., Baud, P., Heap, M. J., and Meredith, P. G., 2013. Mechanics of time-dependent deformation in crustal rocks. Poromechanics V - Proceedings of the 5th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, 407-414. [pdf]
[50] Baud, P., T.-f. Wong, and W. Zhu, Effects of Porosity and Crack Density on Compressive Strength of Rocks, Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci., 67, 202-211, 2014.
[49] Rolland, A., R. Toussaint, P. Baud, N. Conil, and P. Landrein, Morphological analysis of sedimentary stylolites for paleostress estimation in limestones surrounding the Andra Underground Research Laboratory site, Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci., 67, 212-225, 2014.
[48] Brantut, N., M. J. Heap, P. G. Meredith, and P. Baud, 2013. Time-dependent cracking and brittle creep in crustal rocks: A review. Journal of Structural Geology, 52, 17-43. [pdf]
[47] Ji, Y., Baud, P., Wong, T., Liu, L., 2013. Quantitative characterization of 3D pore structure in porous limestone, Advanced Materials Research, 671-674, 1830-1834.
[46] Heap, M., S. Mollo, S. Vinciguerra, Y. Lavallée, K.-U. Hess, D.B. Dingwell, P. Baud, G. Iezzi, Thermal weakening of the carbonate basement under Mt. Etna volcano (Italy): Implications for volcano instability, J. Volcan. Geotherm. Res., 250, 42-60, 2013. [pdf]
[45] Cheung, C., P. Baud, T.-f Wong, Effect of grain size distribution on the development of compaction localization in porous sandstone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L21302, 2012. [pdf]
[44] Vajdova, V., P. Baud, L. Wu, and T.-f. Wong, Micromechanics of inelastic compaction in two allochemical limestones, J. Struct. Geol., 43, 100-117, 2012. [pdf]
[43] Ji, Y., P. Baud, V. Vajdova, and T.-f. Wong, Characterization of pore geometry of Indiana limestone in relation to mechanical compaction, Oil & Gas Science and Technology - Revue de l'Institut Français du Pétrole, DOI: 10.2516/ogst/2012051, 2012. [pdf]
[42] Wong, T.-f., and P. Baud, The brittle-ductile transition in rocks: A review, J. Struct. Geol., 44, 25-53, 2012. [pdf]
[41] Brantut, N., P. Baud, M.J. Heap, and P.G. Meredith, 2012. Micromechanics of Brittle Creep in Rocks. J. Geophys. Res - Solid Earth. doi:10.1029/2012JB009299. [pdf]
[40] Rolland, A., Toussaint, R., Baud, P.,Schmittbuhl, J., Conil, N., Koehn, D.,Renard, F., Gratier, J.-P., 2012. Modeling the growth of stylolites in sedimentary rocks, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 117 (6) , art. no. B06403. [pdf]
[39] Cilona, A., Baud, P., Tondi, E., Agosta, F., Vinciguerra, S., Rustichelli, A.,Spiers, C.J., 2012. Deformation bands in porous carbonate grainstones: Field and laboratory observations, Journal of Structural Geology, in press. [pdf]
[38] Baud, P., Meredith, P., Townend, E., 2012. Permeability evolution during triaxial compaction of an anisotropic porous sandstone, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 117 (5) , art. no. B05203, doi:10.1029/2012JB009176. [pdf]
[37] Baud, P., Vajdova, V., Zhu, W., Wong, t.-F., 2011. Micromechanics of cataclastic pore collapse in porous limestone, Society of Petroleum Engineers - 73rd European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2011 - Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2011 2 , pp. 981-985. [pdf]
[36] Zhu, W., Baud, P., Vinciguerra, S., Wong, T.-F., 2011. Micromechanics of brittle faulting and cataclastic flow in Alban Hills tuff, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 116 (6), art. no. B06209. [pdf]
[35] Heap, M.J., Baud, P.,Meredith, P.G., Vinciguerra, S.,Bell, A.F., Main, I.G., 2011. Brittle creep in basalt and its application to time-dependent volcano deformation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 307 (1-2), pp. 71-82. [pdf]
[34] Baud, P., Schubnel, A., 2011. Preface, Tectonophysics 503 (1-2), pp. 1-2. [pdf]
[33] Louis, L., Wong, T.-f., Baud, P., 2010. X-ray imaging of compactant strain localization in sandstone, Advances in X-ray Tomography for Geomaterials, J. Desrues, C. Viggiani and P. Bésuelle (ed.), doi: 10.1002/9780470612187.ch16. [pdf]
[32] Zhu, W., P. Baud, T.-f. Wong, Micromechanics of cataclastic pore collapse in porous limestone, 2010. J. Geophys Res., 115 (4), doi:10.1029/2009JB006610. [pdf]
[31] Baud, P. Louis, L., Rolland, A., Vajdova, V., Wong, T.-f., 2009. Geometric attributes of discrete compaction bands and their effect on permeability in porous sandstone, PORO-MECHANICS IV, Ling H., Smyth, A., Betti, R. ed., 347-352. [pdf]
[30] Ventura, G., Vinciguerra, S., Moretti, S., Meredith, P.G., Heap, M., Baud, P., Shapiro, S., Dinske, C., Kummerow, J., 2009. Understanding slow deformation before dynamic failure, Geophysical Hazards, International Year of Planet Earth, T. Beer (ed.), DOI.10.1007/978-90-481-3236-2_14. [pdf]
[29] Wong, T.-f, Baud, P., 2009. Grain crushing, pore collapse and strain localization in porous sandstone, in Mechanics of Natural Solids, ed. D. Kolymbas and G. Viggiani, Springer, Berlin, 239-254. [pdf]
[28] Heap, M.J., Baud, P.,Meredith, P.G., 2009. Influence of temperature on brittle creep in sandstones, Geophysical Research Letters 36 (19), art. no. L19305. [pdf]
[27] Heap, M.J., Baud, P.,Meredith, P.G., Bell, A.F., Main, I.G., 2009. Time-dependent brittle creep in darley dale sandstone, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 114 (7), art. no. B07203. [pdf]
[26] Louis, L., Baud, P., Wong, T.-F., 2009. Microstructural inhomogeneity and mechanical anisotropy associated with bedding in rothbach sandstone, Pure and Applied Geophysics166 (5-7), pp. 1063-1087. [pdf]
[25] Baud, P., Vinciguerra, S.,David, C., Cavallo, A., Walker, E., Reuschlé, T., 2009. Compaction and failure in high porosity carbonates: Mechanical data and microstructural observations, Pure and Applied Geophysics166 (5-7), pp. 869-898. [pdf]
[24] Tembe, S., Baud, P., Wong, T.-F., 2008. Stress conditions for the propagation of discrete compaction bands in porous sandstone, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 113 (9), art. no. B09409. [pdf]
[23] Townend, E., Thompson, B.D., Benson, P.M., Meredith, P.G., Baud, P., Young, R.P., 2008. Imaging compaction band propagation in Diemelstadt sandstone using acoustic emission locations, Geophysical Research Letters 35 (15), art. no. L15301. [pdf]
[22] Louis, L., Baud, P., Wong, T.-F., 2007. Characterization of pore-space heterogeneity in sandstone by X-ray computed tomography, Geological Society Special Publication (284), pp. 127-146. [pdf]
[21] Tembe, S., Vajdova, V., Baud, P., Zhu, W., Wong, T.-f., 2007. A new methodology to delineate the compactive yield cap of two porous sandstones under undrained condition, Mechanics of Materials 39 (5), pp. 513-523. [pdf]
[20] Louis, L., Wong, T.-F., Baud, P., 2007. Imaging strain localization by X-ray radiography and digital image correlation: Deformation bands in Rothbach sandstone, Journal of Structural Geology29 (1), pp. 129-140. [pdf]
[19] Baud, P., Vajdova, V., Wong, T.-F., 2006. Shear-enhanced compaction and strain localization: Inelastic deformation and constitutive modeling of four porous sandstones, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 111 (12), art. no. B12401. [pdf]
[18] Louis, L., Wong, T.-f., Baud, P., Tembe, S., 2006. Imaging strain localization by X-ray computed tomography: discrete compaction bands in Diemelstadt sandstone, Journal of Structural Geology28 (5), pp. 762-775. [pdf]
[17] Baud, P., Louis, L., David, C.,Rawling, G.C., Wong, T.-F., 2005. Effects of bedding and foliation on mechanical anisotropy, damage evolution and failure mode, Geological Society Special Publication (245), pp. 223-249. [pdf]
[16] Vajdova, V., Baud, P., Wong, T.-F., 2004. Compaction, dilatancy, and failure in porous carbonate rocks, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 109 (10), pp. B05204, doi:10.1029/2003JB002508 [pdf]
[15] Vajdova, V., Baud, P., Wong, T.-F., 2004. Permeability evolution during localized deformation in Bentheim sandstone , Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 109 (10), pp. B10406 1-15. [pdf]
[14] Baud, P., Klein, E., Wong, T.-F., 2004. Compaction localization in porous sandstones: Spatial evolution of damage and acoustic emission activity, Journal of Structural Geology26 (4), pp. 603-624. [pdf]
[13] Zhu, W., Baud, P., Wong, T.-f., 2003. Dilatancy and post-yielding behavior in porous sandstones: A new loading path, Proceedings of the 39th US Rock Mechanics Symposium, P.J. Culligan, H.H. Einstein, and A.J. Whittle editors, Soi land Rock America 2003, 437-444. [pdf]
[12] Bésuelle, P., Baud, P., Wong, T.-F., 2003. Failure mode and spatial distribution of damage in Rothbach sandstone in the brittle-ductile transition, Pure and Applied Geophysics160 (5-6), pp. 851-868. [pdf]
[11] Rawling, G.C., Baud, P.,Wong, T.-F., 2002. Dilatancy, brittle strength, and anisotropy of foliated rocks: Experimental deformation and micromechanical modeling, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 107 (10), pp. ETG 8-1 - 8-14. [pdf]
[10] Wong, T.-F., Baud, P., Klein, E., 2001. Localized failure modes in a compactant porous rock, Geophysical Research Letters28 (13), pp. 2521-2524. [pdf]
[9] Klein, E., Baud, P., Reuschlé, T., Wong, T.-F., 2001. Mechanical behaviour and failure mode of Bentheim sandstone under triaxial compression, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part A: Solid Earth and Geodesy 26 (1-2), pp. 21-25. [pdf]
[8] Baud, P., Schubnel, A., Wong, T.-F., 2000. Dilatancy, compaction, and failure mode in Solnhofen limestone, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 105 (B8), pp. 19289-19303. [pdf]
[7] Baud, P., Zhu, W., Wong, T.-F., 2000. Failure mode and weakening effect of water on sandstone, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth 105 (B7), pp. 16371-16389. [pdf]
[6] Wu, X.Y., Baud, P., Wong, T., 2000. Micromechanics of compressive failure and spatial evolution of anisotropic damage in Darley Dale sandstone, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 37 (1-2), pp. 143-160. [pdf]
[5] Wong, T.F., Baud, P., 1999. Mechanical compaction of porous sandstone, Oil and Gas Science and Technology 54 (6), pp. 715-727. [pdf]
[4] Baud, P., Reuschlé, T., 1997. A theoretical approach to the propagation of interacting cracks, Geophysical Journal International 130 (2), pp. 460-468. [pdf]
[3] Baud, P., Meredith, P.G., 1997. Damage accumulation during triaxial creep of Darley Dale sandstone from pore volumometry and acoustic emission, International journal of rock mechanics and mining sciences & geomechanics abstracts 34 (3-4), pp. 371. [pdf]
[2] Baud, P., Reuschlé, T.,Charlez, P., 1996. An improved wing crack model for the deformation and failure of rock in compression, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences and Geomechanics33 (5), pp. 539-542. [pdf]
[1] Glover, P.W.J., Baud, P.,Darot, M., Meredith, P.G.,Boon, S.A., LeRavaleq, M.,Zoussi, S., Reusché, T., 1995. α/β phase transition in quartz monitored using acoustic emissions, Geophysical Journal International 120 (3), pp. 775-782. [pdf]


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Commonwealth Games baton tours Guernsey primary schools
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The Queen's Commonwealth Games Baton toured Guernsey primary schools on Wednesday.
Guernsey cyclist Karina Bowie accompanied the baton as it travelled round the island.
The baton's tour of the Commonwealth arrived in the Channel Islands on Sunday and was carried into St Aubin in Jersey by diver Tom Daley.
After touring the Bailiwick of Guernsey it will head to the Isle of Man.
The baton toured all except one of Guernsey's schools for special assemblies attended by past and present athletes.
Two pupils from each school acted as baton bearers taking it to the next school.
The baton contains a secret message from the monarch, which will be revealed at the opening of the 2014 Games in Glasgow in July.
On Thursday the baton will leave Guernsey for Alderney where it will head for the island's only school. It will then head to Sark to visit the local parliament and school children.
Finally it will briefly visit Herm where the island's nine children will host an outdoor assembly welcoming the baton.
After the Isle of Man it travels on to Northern Ireland, Wales and England before ending its journey with a 40-day tour of Scotland.


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Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership
Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership is committed to reducing the number of people killed and injured on Welsh roads.
The partnership is made up of 22 Local Authorities, Four Welsh Police Forces, Her Majesty's Court and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) and Welsh Government.
The partnership brings together people with vast experience in road safety, law enforcement and the treatment of victims of road collisions, and can dedicate resources to making the roads safer.
The partnership is responsible for red light and fixed camera enforcement, along with mobile vans used to detect speeding, non use of seatbelts and use of mobile phones in vehicles but reducing casualties is not just about enforcing the law. The Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership is encouraging motorists to drive legally and safely through investing time and money into driver education, engineering improvements and targeting enforcement where it is needed most.
Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership does not make any profit from speed and red light camera fines. Safety cameras are there to make roads safer not to make money. All fine revenue is passed to Her Majesty's Treasury. The partnership is funded by means of a grant from the Welsh Government and income from Speed Awareness Courses via the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Cymru. There is no incentive to place cameras anywhere other than where they are needed to improve road safety.
You can help too...
By using your judgement and driving to the conditions of the road you can help cut casualties on our roads and make them safer for everyone.
According to the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA), "An average reduction in speed of just 1mph would lead to a 5% reduction in collisions ."


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(CBS News) Actor Sacha Baron Cohen said Friday one of the inspirations for his latest character in "The Dictator" came from the former Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
"Col. Qaddafi was kind of the most absurd of the dictators," Cohen said on "CBS This Morning."
"Dictator" director: Laugh about serious issues
Cohen bought Seacrest "Made by child slave labor" jacket after ashes incident
(Watch the full interview below.)
"Obviously vicious, but he would dress unintentionally like a 65-year-old woman," Cohen said.
"(He) often broke wind during interviews with the BBC. Had 15 virgin guards to protect him at all times. Very few of whom remained virgins."
In his latest satire "The Dictator," Cohen stars as Admiral General Aladeen from the fictitious North African republic of Wadia.
The film opened this week.


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List of illegal Private Housing Schemes in Gujranwala
Gujranwala (Saturday, December 21th, 2013) – City Districts Government Gujranwala has issued a list of illegal private housing schemes. These housing schemes are violation of "Punjab Housing Schemes and Land Sub Division 2010".
There are 90 such housing scheme tat are illegally launched with any approval from Gujranwala Development Authority (GDA)/Towns Municipal Administrations or Tehseel Municipal Administrations.
Name of Illegal Housing Scheme in Gujranwala are as follows:-
Prime City, Johar City, Professor Colony (Extension), Garden Town Phase-II, Garden Town Phase-III, Shalimar Town Phase-II, Sharjah City, Punjab Garden, Haram City, Aurangzaib Town, GEHF Housing Scheme (GEPCO Town), Awais Qarni Town, Madina Garden, Asia Park, Makka City, Al-Habib Town, Jaohar Town, Gulshan-e-Rehman, New Model City Housing Scheme, Green City Housing Scheme, Rajput Town, Township, Ashraf Model Town, New City Housing, Rizwan Town, City Housing Scheme (Extension), Al-Qaim Town, Jee Mangolia Park, Sahab Estate, Hamza City, Zeeshan Town, Mina Je Town, Malik City, Al-Falah City, Maskan Land Sub-Division, Ittefaq City, Muhammadi Town, Waqar Town, Madina Town, Areez Town, Mian Park, Abdullah Town, Mian Riaz Town, Muhammad Abad, Muhammad Mian Abad.
Ahmad Nagar, Mian Arif Town, Green Town, Taj Garden, Canal View Qila Dedar Singh, Husnain City, Islam City, Quran Mahal, Elahi City, Raheem City, Rehman City, Dastagir Park, Baghdad Town, Mian Ali Ahmad Park, Gulshan Ayyaz Colony, Habib ullah Colony, Hazrat Owais Qamar, Falak Sher Colony, Waqar Town, Miraan Jee Sabir Town, Arshad Town, Younus Town, Hasan Town, Mian Park, Faiz-e-Alam Town, Munir Town, Jannat Town, Amanat Town, Din Town, Naseer Town, Hasan Usman Town, Umar Park, Sarfraz Park, Mahar Yasin SS Home Colony, Hasan Park, Mian Town, Ghulam Hussain Estate, Dastageer Town, Shahbaz Town, Imran Park, Shadman Town, Miran Jee Town, Green Valley Phase-2, Climax Garden, Judicial Colony.
(Total Illegal Schemes = 90)


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899 Logan St, Suite #307
My office is located inside the offices of Elevated Insights Assessment in Suite #307 on the third floor. Please check in with the receptionist and wait in the waiting room.
- There is parking on the south side of the building near the main entrance.
- During peak hours it may be difficult to park. If that is the case there are multiple locations for street parking within a block of the building or there is paid parking on the south side of the block.