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'Space for Europe, Space for the Earth' at the Berlin Air and Space Show, ILA 2008
The Berlin Air and Space Show, ILA, one of the world's largest aerospace trade shows, opens today. Organised every two years by the German Aerospace Industries Association (BDLI), this year it takes place in Berlin Schönefeld airport from 27 May to 1 June.
Space, Earth, Life and Europe are the keywords of a special Space Pavilion organised jointly by ESA, the German Aerospace Centre, DLR and BDLI, within the International Space Village in Hall 9, where visitors can learn more about European space programmes and the role played by Germany in space activities.
"With our presence at ILA this year", explains Fernando Doblas, Head of the ESA Communication Department, "we aim to emphasise the increasing importance of space systems and applications in the daily life of European enterprises and citizens. We show the essential role of space as a source of inspiration, innovation and knowledge, the symbol of the progress, its strategic importance for Europe's economic growth and employment, for its security and to reinforce its position in a fast-changing world. Following the adoption of the European Space Policy in May 2007 by the ministers of the 29 countries of the European Union and ESA, space is becoming an enabling tool key for European policies, such as environment, security and transport, providing European countries with the ability to respond to critical global challenges, including climate change and security".
These are some of the topical issues which the Ministers of ESA's Member States will tackle in November 2008 in The Hague. They will meet to approve space programmes for the future, taking the political decisions necessary in order to consolidate Europe's role as a leading and reliable global player.
In the space pavilion, particular accent is given to European achievements, including the recent assembly of key European elements to the International Space Station and highlighting the programmes for which political decisions are expected in November, for the future of Europe.
"This explains why we focus this year on our changing planet, on human spaceflight and on future plans to explore Mars and the Moon", describes Maria Menendez, responsible for ESA exhibitions. "Space for the Earth is the core of the exhibition. The pavilion includes different space dedicated rooms: one for the observation of the Earth; one for the exploration of the Solar System and the Universe; another for advanced studies in telecommunications and for the European navigation system, Galileo; and one for launchers. In order to discover these dedicated areas, visitors leave each room connected by a central area dedicated to the Earth. With a diameter of 12 metres, this will be one of the most impressive attractions of the pavilion that aims to underline how our modern life is increasingly dependent on services that rely on space-based technologies".
The exhibits dedicated to programmes for observing the Earth underline two major challenges of our time such as climate and global change, explaining to the public the leading role played by European satellites in understanding weather and our environment. The displays on upcoming missions will highlight Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, two of a series of satellites of the EU-led initiative GMES, Global Monitoring for Environment and Security. They also show GOCE, the first of the Earth Explorer missions which will bring a whole new level of understanding of one of the Earth's most fundamental forces of nature – the gravity field; and MTG, Meteosat Third Generation, that will dramatically improve data and images for European forecasters and researchers.
Satellites play a vital part in communication networks, helping to improve the quality of daily life. In the pavilion visitors learn more about future projects in telecommunications such as the Small GEO satellite and mission and Alphasat with the Alphabus Large Platform that will allow European industry and operators to offer reliable solutions to match future demands for the global satellite market, a key for Europe's competitiveness.
2008 marks a fundamental milestone for human spaceflight in Europe: in February, the European space laboratory Columbus was successfully transported to the International Space Station, ISS, and brought into operational service; in March, the ATV European supply vehicle was launched by Ariane 5 and docked fully automatically with the ISS.
These newly tested advanced technologies will give ESA the know-how to prepare future missions further into the Solar System. Europe now has a permanent base in orbit around the Earth where scientists can carry out research and experiments. The public at ILA have an exciting opportunity to visit a full-scale model of the Columbus module and to learn more about how it is controlled from the ground.
Touring the pavilion, visitors can discover long-term ambitious European plans for robotic and human exploration of the Solar System, with the Moon and Mars as the main target destinations. An impressive film of ESA's Mars Express satellite images allows the public to experience a 3-D virtual flight on Mars, full of realism, walking over the mysterious surface of the red planet.
Looking to the future, they can see a life-size model of ESA's ExoMars rover, scheduled to land on the red planet in 2013. It will be the first European mission to deploy a rover on Mars to search for signs of life, past or present. The EXOMArs DEmonstration Rover (EXOMADER) an engineering model developed by ESA to evaluate and demonstrate extremely advanced cross-country ability, is also on display.
The exhibition also includes an overview of European launchers with the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and Vega and Soyuz, soon to be launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. This family of launchers will guarantee Europe an affordable and independent access to space in the long term.
The public can also learn about the latest results of ESA's Solar System missions with impressive images of Mars and the Moon and a model of BepiColombo, the future mission to explore Mercury. Using an interactive 'magic book' visitors can travel through planets and moons to understand if life can exist on other worlds, and can enter our mysterious Universe to find out more about its secrets, in particular via two ESA pioneer astronomy missions, Herschel and Planck, to be launched later this year.
The space pavilion at ILA is open from Tuesday 27 to Sunday 1 June, with trade days 27-29 May, and open to the general public from 30 May. Throughout the week, a conference centre attached to the space pavilion will host a number of presentations and events.
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It's too early just yet to divine the future of the sweet potato, but a team of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences researchers at North Carolina State University is working on several fronts to make what the scientists call industrial sweet potatoes a viable crop for the state's growers.
Making a fuel like ethanol from sweet potatoes is a relatively straight-forward process. To begin with, sweet potatoes are a good source of starch. Just process sweet potatoes to turn that starch into sugars, ferment the sugars, and you can make ethanol. The drawback is the cost.
At this point, sweet potatoes are not an economically competitive fuel source. It costs more to grow and process sweet potatoes than many other fuel sources. Indeed, Craig Yencho, associate professor of horticultural science and sweet potato breeder, estimates it costs eight times as much to grow an acre of sweet potatoes as an acre of corn. But Yencho and others are out to change that.
Yencho and a colleague, Ken Pecota, horticultural science researcher, are working both to breed industrial sweet potatoes with high starch content and to lower growing costs.
They have developed industrial sweet potatoes with around 32 percent dry matter content. Dry matter refers to what is left after a sweet potato is dried in an oven to remove the water, Pecota explains. Much of what is left is starch, so dry matter content is a good indication of starch content. So-called table stock sweet potatoes, the kind that end up on your table, are typically around 20 percent dry matter. Industrial sweet potatoes produce about 30 percent more starch per acre than corn.
But higher starch content doesn't get at the high production cost for sweet potatoes. That's where what Yencho and Pecota call their "cut seed piece project" comes in.
Sweet potatoes are typically planted as small plants by hand. They're also harvested by hand. To reduce planting costs, Yencho, Pecota and Blake Bowen, a graduate student working on his master's degree with the team, are conducting experiments to see if they can plant sweet potatoes the same way white potatoes are planted, using cut seed pieces. They point out that seed pieces, pieces of the potato, can be planted mechanically, which has the potential to cut production costs by as much as 20 percent.
When a typical table stock sweet potato is cut into pieces and the pieces planted, these "mother pieces" often "size up" as they grow, Pecota says. When the mother pieces become particularly large, they tend to crack and often the center rots away, leaving a hollow core, reducing biomass.
But some sweet potato mother pieces don't size up and instead produce daughter storage roots that look like normal sweet potatoes and produce lots of biomass. Yencho and Pecota are breeding high-starch industrial sweet potatoes for this trait. The result: several promising sweet potato lines with high starch content that can be planted mechanically, producing quantities of biomass that can be turned into ethanol.
And turning sweet potatoes into fuel is where Mari Chinn, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering, comes into the picture. Chinn and her graduate students, William Duvernay and E. Nicole Hill, have been working with some success on developing more efficient ways to process sweet potatoes to produce ethanol and, perhaps, other products.
Chinn is experimenting with various enzymes and combinations of enzymes to find the recipe that most efficiently converts the starch in sweet potatoes to sugars. She has been able to convert up to 90 percent of the starch in the dry matter to fermentable sugars. She's working on that last 10 percent.
But all Chinn's work has been done in the lab, on a small scale. She anticipates challenges in scaling up from the lab to an industrial scale. She's pretty sure that what works in the lab won't work exactly the same way in large-scale production.
Yet she also estimates that what she and her students have done in the lab equates to producing 700 gallons of ethanol per acre of sweet potatoes. By comparison, an acre of corn typically produces around 400 gallons of ethanol.
A USDA Agricultural Research Service study showed that sweet potatoes yielded two to three times as much carbohydrate for fuel ethanol production as field corn (see http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2008/080820.htm.
Chinn emphasizes there are still many questions. For example, in an industrial setting, is it more efficient to process fresh sweet potatoes or to dry sweet potatoes and make them into flour, which would then be processed? It takes more energy to dry sweet potatoes and process them into flour, but the flour would be easier to store and require less processing volume. And the conditions needed for the starch conversion process would be different with flour.
Chinn is also working on sweet potatoes with purple flesh. Purple sweet potatoes tend to be high in anthocyanins, pigments that are also powerful antioxidants, and high in dry matter. It might be possible, Chinn thinks, to extract anthocyanins, which would have value as a natural food colorant, then process the remaining starch to produce sugar and ethanol, thus producing two valuable products from the same sweet potato.
Why are sweet potatoes considered a good biofuel for North Carolina? To begin with, North Carolina already grows a lot of sweet potatoes. Close to 40 percent of the nation's sweet potatoes come from North Carolina. Sweet potatoes are grown in North Carolina by a range of farmers: small, medium, and large. There's plenty of sweet potato-growing expertise in the state.
Sweet potatoes are well-adapted to North Carolina and the Southeastern U.S. Sweet potatoes are drought-tolerant and can produce high yields with minimal fertilizer inputs on a variety of soils. Sweet potatoes can be stored year round.
Then there's the work of Bryon Sosinski, associate professor of horticultural science. Sosinski and Monica Santa-Maria, a Ph.D. candidate in horticulture, have inserted into sweet potato plants genes from hypothermophilic bacteria.
The genes don't become active unless they are heated. Heat up sweet potatoes containing the genes, and the starch in the sweet potatoes should hydrolyze into sugars, effectively self-processing.
The next step, Sosinski says, is a large-scale greenhouse test of the transgenic plants. He'll grow transgenic and non-transgenic plants side-by-side in a greenhouse to see if insertion of the genes has altered yield or other characteristics.
If the greenhouse test is successful, Sosinski plans to begin working to produce transgenic industrial sweet potatoes. The plants he's working with now are not high dry matter sweet potatoes.
It's a step-by-step process, but then so, too, is the work of Yencho, Pecota and Chinn. At the end of all those steps may be an agricultural opportunity for North Carolina farmers and a big step toward energy independence for the nation.

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A recent Rutgers University study commissioned by the New Jersey Retail Merchants Association (NJRMA) finds that out-of-state, on-line-only businesses are exploiting a tax code loophole and it is costing New Jersey jobs and tens of millions of dollars. With the holiday shopping season in full swing, Garden State companies want the playing field leveled.
NJRMA president John Holub says, "In 2009 we're estimating that the state of New Jersey lost out on about $170 million and projecting out to 2015 that's going to be in excess of $300 million that the state will lose out on in lost tax revenue."
Holub says the state lost a ton very recently in just one day. He explains, "The results are in for Cyber Monday and it was a record-breaker. There's projections that sales increased over 20% over last year and this highlights more than ever the unfair advantage that online-only retailers have over bricks and mortar retailers and that's the advantage of not collecting the (State) sales tax."
The NJRMA is calling for a change in the tax code that would require out-of-state, on-line-only companies to collect New Jersey's 7% state sales tax. Holub says this is not a tax hike. Currently on-line companies that do not have an actual physical presence in the State, but sell goods to New Jersey consumers aren't required to collect the tax. The buyer is already responsible for paying the sales tax by itemizing purchases on their tax forms. Holub says most people don't know they're required to pay the sales tax so most don't do it.
"Out-of-state, on-line-only retailers have an unfair 7% competitive advantage over in-state bricks and mortar retailers," says Holub. "The playing field must be leveled. Main Street's retailers are struggling to survive. Consumers are being exposed to an unmet tax liability and if audited they could be subject to fines and penalties."
The study concludes that if the tax loophole is closed it could result in almost $400 million in sales returning to in-state retailers, adding over 1,400 jobs, $44 million in personal income and $95 million in gross domestic product for New Jersey every year.
Will Irving, one of the report's authors says, "The State of New Jersey is losing significant tax revenue to out-of-state, on-line-only retailers and that number will likely continue to grow as e-commerce transactions increase."
Harvey Finkel, owner of the Clinton Book Shop in Hunterdon County says, "I can't compete with these online giants that don't collect sales tax. I'm losing more and more business every day and my store won't survive if we don't end this massive loophole for these out-of-state, on-line-only retailers."


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Lemongrass and coconut pork larb with rice
Serves 4
240g basmati rice
1 tsp sesame oil
1 red onion, very finely chopped
2 sticks lemongrass, tough outer layers removed, grated
1 inch piece ginger, peeled and grated
1 thai red chilli, sliced, plus extra to serve
500g free-range pork mince
1 tbsp fish sauce
1/2 tsp palm sugar
1/2 tbsp Mirin rice wine
1 tsp rice wine vinegar
2 tbsp creamed coconut
small handful Thai basil, torn
small handful coriander, chopped
4 spring onions, sliced, to serve
2 limes, quartered, to serve
1. Soak the rice in cold water for 30 minutes then drain and rinse. Add it to a small saucepan with 300ml water, and cover. Bring to the boil, then leave on a very low heat, tightly covered, for 20 minutes, without checking.
2. Meanwhile, heat the sesame oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat and add the onion, lemongrass, ginger and chilli. Fry for 5 minutes, then add the pork mince. Cook for 10 minutes, breaking up with a wooden spoon until browned. Drizzle in the fish sauce, palm sugar, Mirin wine, vinegar and creamed coconut and stir. Fry for another 5 minutes.
3. Remove the lid from the rice pan and fluff the rice with a fork. Spoon onto a platter and top with the pork larb. Scatter with the Thai basil, coriander, extra red chillies, if you like, and spring onions. Serve with the lime wedges and crunchy, sesame dressed, gem lettuce leaves.


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Friday, December 23, 2011
Heart Block
She suffered with many symptoms, including but not limited to: profound fatigue global cognitive dysfunction, joint pains, swelling with effusions, weakness and numerous neurological manifestations. Lyme was suggested. She had a positive Western Blot (10 years ago) an IDSA doctor prescribed two weeks of doxycyline.
An LLMD subsequently prescribed over a year of antibiotics including mincycline and Ceftin. Many symptoms improved, except the over-powering fatigue.
She stumbled along for years off antibiotics, symptoms waxing an waning. Still, she managed to functioned as a high level executive.
As of late she was not doing well at all. When I met her she had been sidelined with disability for more than two years. She had no energy or stamina. She was unable to grocery shop or attend to the most basic activities of daily living. She had perpetual flu-like symptoms - a loss of sensation in her fingers and toes. She was stumbling and falling. Joint pain with swelling had returned. She had global cognitive dysfunction with episodes of syncope, confusion and disorientation. She could not speak well, think clearly or read and write. She was a shell of her former self.
Two months before an IDSA doctor refused to treat her because she had a negative Lyme test.
Despite the fact that she nearly died of complete heart block now treated with a permanent pacemaker. And - despite the fact the attending cardiologist suspected Lyme as the culprit.
I became her doctor.
After months of fits and starts with oral therapy she has no been on IV Rocephin for 3 months and tells me she is getting her life back. She is contemplating starting a new business after two years of complete disability.
Now she gets out of the house and can read. Now she can do many things unthinkable a few months before. She is still very sick with many persisting constitutional and neurological symptoms. Her stamina is poor. After brief activites she requires extensive rest for recuperation. But she tells me she getting better almost on a daily basis. Most of the improvement seen after 2 and 1/2 months of therapy.
Lets look at some labs. These are IgM Western Blot results from three different labs. Labcorp found a 23 band. Clongen reported a 41 band and a weak, 23% of control 23 band reaction. Stony Brook found: Bands, 18,37,58,66,72,93.
The 37 and 93 bands either one alone might be enough to make the diagnosis according to some sources. I do not know why there was no 41 or 23 band found. Different strains of Lyme may be used in different kits lending bias to which bands react.
I do not understand not treating heart block with a documented history of Lyme disease. The CDC test is a surveillance test. It has never been validated as a diagnostic test. And the notion that IgG bands show up in late Lyme is not substantiated in any literature I can find.
The highly vaunted NIH/IDSA studies of long-term therapy never included Rocephin use for longer than 10 weeks.
Happy Holidays
10 comments:
- glytzhkof said...
Merry Christmas! Nobody can imagine what it is like to find a doctor who takes you seriously AND is able to help you when you have been sick for so long. Even if you don't get well, being taken seriously makes you feel human again. The patience and courage to keep trying, even if nothing seems to work is the best gift your patients got this year.
You once wrote that doctors should be allowed to practice their profession to the best of their abilities, and not based on insurance company bureaucracies and standards. I think that is a one sentence summary of the current challenges we all face with regards to health.
In a world where pharmaceutical interest seem to favor drugs that stabilize rather than heal in order to maximize income, we all depend on the humans who put humanity back into the systems that take us beyond human decency into cynicism and exploitation.
Thank you, and best wishes for a healthy, prosperous and meaningful New Year.
- December 24, 2011 at 7:58 AM
- Tom King said...
I'm not sure if this is appropriate but I am need of some help. As a kid, I was bitten by a tick that left a red swollen place and came back on and off for several years. I can't recall any specific symptoms during those years except joint pain and possibly depression and insomnia. I was the only 5th grader I knew that couldn't sleep at night and wanted to not exist.
The joint pain has been the one consistent symptom that I've always dealt with. I can remember my dad fussing at me at about that time to stop popping my wrists.
And now, I have terrible joint pain, swelling and stiffness in my toes, ankles, knees, hip, back, neck and shoulder. I'm tired everyday. I wake up at all hours of the night. I have headaches, irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath, aches, pains, muscle twitches, etc. I also was diagnosed as having low thyroid. Despite current normal levels, I still have the same symptoms.
I have been to rheumatologist, and several GP's. I am also being seen by an oncologist for a condition called hemangiopericytoma, which usually gets the blame in some way, shape or form. It's a rare form of cancer that is slow growing. I've had several treatments and surgeries and I get how it can be an easy scapegoat. However, HPC doesn't cause joint pain and swelling.
With all that said, I have often thought that all these symptoms could be linked to that original tick bite. As a kid, I could run like a deer but was always weak. Push ups and pull ups always were a problem. And my joints have always hurt.
For the past three years, I have been trying to find an answer for these persistent symptoms and have gotten nowhere. When I suggest lyme disease to my docs, they just look at me like I have two heads. Being from Kentucky, lyme disease is not even considered. I understand it's because there is a little to no reported incidence in KY. Yet, I still feel miserable and I still remember that red spot that tick left on me and that stayed on me for several years. And, I've tested negative for rheumatoid arthritis, gout, and mumerous other possible culprits.
I feel like I'm heading down the same path as this poor woman and many, many others. I need help. Any suggestions or resources you can suggest?
- December 24, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- T9im said...
I suggest going to lymenet and post that you are seeking a LLMD in KY.
Someone should be able to steer you towards a ILADs MD.
- December 24, 2011 at 12:26 PM
- Tom King said...
- December 25, 2011 at 2:25 PM
- LYMEMJ said...
Merry Christmas to you! Thank you for sharing this blog it has been my diary and my hope! God bless you and all your team! Maria in Fl.
- December 28, 2011 at 11:52 PM
- LYMEMJ said...
I also "do not understand not treating heart block with a documented history of Lyme disease". Every day and every night living with the heart block with no treatment is literally a real p in the a.
- December 28, 2011 at 11:56 PM
- Lisanne said...
Dr., I am posting a comment here, too, because the first comment I posted was on an older blog entry:
I am not sure how to reach you via email, or even what your name is, but I have been following your blog for the last year-and-a-half and find you to be very wise and informative. I have been struggling with Lyme Disease and now I believe I have neurological Lyme and some scary complications.
If there is a way you can contact me, I'd like to consult with you. I'd be happy to pay for your services. I live in NY.
- January 10, 2012 at 1:48 PM
- Mrs Fab-ulous! said...
I came to you with a picc line and 2grams of Rocephin. I was lucky that I got an ID doc to put the line in despite only having bands 23 and 41on the lyme testing. The ID ditched me as a patient at 8 weeks because of the heat given for treating "non positive" lyme patients. That is when I came to see you (because I had been following your blog).
When I came to you I too was a shell of my former self. My main problem was 24/7 headpain. I lost my ability to even think, I couldn't be a mom (I had a newborn) and was forced back to work.
You continued rocephin, incorporated some zithro and upon my instance upped me to 4grams a day of rocephin. I had my line for 16 months. I stopped treatment in 2010.
It's 2012 and I still feel great. I have my life back. Because of you, I am a mom again. Because of you, I have my life back. No words could ever thank you enough!
- January 11, 2012 at 6:22 AM
- Depuy Pinnacle Lawsuit said...
Indeed, a patients fast recovery is through a doctor's dedication in treating their patients. Your blog is truly inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
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- January 26, 2012 at 11:12 AM
- Unknown said...
I would love to be your patient.
Documented bullseye, bells palsy, and positive blood and spinal tap.
7 ER and pcp trips before finally achieving treatment over 4 weeks despite ER visit 3 days in a row with a bullseye in nc, saying, "i'm from nj, i think this is lyme disease..."
i was applying to grad medical programs where i could ironically afford to and treat myself illegaly if i had only gotten further.
my dreams have crashed.
would like my life back!!
will you share your info?
firstname.lastname@example.com is personal one.
thanks for what you do!!!
iv rocephin helped me but was short and my dr would not hear me or read the Burrascano PDF to test for coinfections.
the ID doc i owe a lot of money to and refuse to pay came in screaming at me i could not have lyme disease in nc, when i was just diagnosed with meningitis and a positive spinal tap for lyme... he swore it must be a false positive for syphilis.
i had no idea the controversy despite living in nj most of my life and thought he was a nutjob who somehow got his MD credential
i could definitely be a better doctor than him.
please help me!!! will travel happily for treatment with you.
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The state of Florida is looking at existing trails, abandoned railways, and local, state, and federally owned lands with the goal of creating an ever expanding system of regional trails. Under recent legislation, these will be combined into the newly-legislated, statewide SUN Trail system. WFSU producer Rob Diaz de Villegas, who was appointed to the Florida Greenways and Trails Council in 2013, looks at what recent developments mean for local trail users.
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A couple of years ago, we had a cycling EcoAdventure to preview the Capital City to the Sea Trail, on which work is currently being done in Tallahassee. Existing paved "multi-use" trails like the St. Marks Trail and Trout Pond Trail (in the Apalachicola National Forest) would be connected to each other and to the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Wakulla Springs, and various other points in Wakulla and Leon Counties. The thinking is that longer trails connect more communities, increasing economic opportunities and property values along their corridors. Within the next decade or so, a Panacea resident should be able to bike to St. Marks or Tallahassee without slowing traffic on Highway 98 or Crawfordville Highway. Continue reading SUN Trail Legislation looks to Connect Florida's Trails


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Washington DC, rapper D_Boy Keon of the Minnesota Dope Boys , releases his first official single, "I'm Bout Mine", which is featuring rising emcee Fat Trel.'"I'm Bout Mine" is a street anthem with a catchy hook which showcases D_Boy Keon lyrical dexterity alongside a tight verse from fellow Washington DC-based recording artist Fat Trel.
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No awards are given out in the middle of the season. So we're not doing it.
It is a nice stopping point to look at who has forged a strong body of work over the first half but in reality it will be the kind of play over a full schedule that will be judged when it comes to handing out trophies to those who shall deserve it.
Now that we're at the All-Star break, the Register thinks it is a good time to not only look back and see who has been exceptional in the 2011-12 National Hockey League season to this point but forecast who could earn trips to Las Vegas for the league's awards show in June.
It was certainly a momentous occasion for a certain Ducks player last summer. It is time to look at who we think will bring home the hardware for the NHL's most coveted individual awards.
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Components and parts of fully automatic concrete block making machine
1. Batcher
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4. cement scale
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6. Conveyor of wet block
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11. Stacker
12. Conveyor of dry block
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Project Proposal of AAC Production Line AAC Plant
Annual out put 50,000-300,000m3
I Production Technique
1. Product Principle
1) Technology Orientation
Production and application of aerated concrete has a history more than 40 years in China. Viewing from technology point, high quality products can use 3mm special sand slurry technology to meet the construction requests and 50% energy saving goals. (When mortar joint is less than 3mm, take thermal conductivity coefficient of wall as 1; when mortar joint is more than 3mm, take thermal conductivity coefficient of wall as 1.5). Based on the history of the aerated concrete development, only high quality products can bring a prosperous market. Thus, the technology orientation of this scheme is high-class products according to China Standard GB11968-2006.
2) Production Capacity
The product is aerated concrete block and the output is 150,000m3 per year. The first phase can be equipped according to 100,000m3 per year. There is a reservation of plate in consideration of user's need.
3) Product Specification
Products conform to requirement of 04~07 grade blocks stated in GB11968-2006.
General Specifications of Aerated Concrete Blocks
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Following the domestic development requirement regarding energy saving and environmental protection, we have upgraded, innovated and developed series of AAC production line equipment based on initiation from and absorption of the advanced German technology and design concept. So far we have supplied all kinds of AAC production line equipment in different facility configurations and production capacities to domestic and abroad customers. In the meanwhile, we have provided customers with various kinds of service such as upgrade of equipment, expansion of production capacity, analysis of raw material, systematic process design and layout, complete project management, and so on.
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- AAC Block and Panel Production Line in Annual Output (Production Capacity) of 100,000m3
- AAC Block and Panel Production Line in Annual Output (Production Capacity) of 150,000m3
- AAC Block and Panel Production Line in Annual Output (Production Capacity) of 200,000m3
- AAC Block and Panel Production Line in Annual Output (Production Capacity) of 250,000m3
- AAC Block and Panel Production Line in Annual Output (Production Capacity) of 300,000m3
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The formulation of aerated concrete of 600kg/m3 absolute dry volume
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Sand : Quick Lime : Cement : Gypsum = 68 : 20 : 10 : 2
Aluminum accounts for 0.074% of the total volume of dry materials;
Ratio of water to material: 0.6~0.65.
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Autoclaved Aerated Concrete AAC Production Line AAC Plant used for products of AAC.
Autoclave uses:
The autoclave as large steam curing equipment, can be used for autoclaved sand brick, fly ash brick, aerated concrete block, high strenght cement electric pole, concrete pile and other cement products, also to be used for wood, pharmaceutical, chemical, glass, insulation materials and other industries.
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One-shift production may be put into practice when piecework system is carried out in the enterprise, but working hours must be prolonged and workers of the shift must be increased, and also labor protection should be done well. If four autoclaves are arranged in Phase One, fixed persons are organized in one shift.
AAC is a kind of light cellular silicate products. Main material based on Silicon materials ( sand, fly ash,gangue contains silicon)and Calcium(cement and lime),mix with foaming agent (Aluminium powder), after batching, mixing, pouring,pre-curing,cutting,stream(autocaled),and other process ,finally, get this light weight concrete products..
Fly-Ash: fly ash is waste from Thermal plant.Fly ash is rich in silica and aluminum oxide ,so it is good raw material to make aac block. Fly ash is also divided into two kinds--wet fly ash, dry fly ash.The dealing way will vary as per the fly ash condition
Sand: Except fly ash,Sand can be the main material too.The requests is that the Silica content is above 69% .Sea sand can not be used as aac raw material.
Lime: Active powered lime is a requirement for giving the real aeration to the product. In phase 1 we can aim to buy the active lime directly. In phase -2 we can think of having backward integration and making a lime powering unit at site to have a more competitive advantage, We can also think of a lime burning klin inside the factory premises. The project financials however have not considered the costs of powering unit, and the lime kiln in this project. Different qualities of lime are available, and depending on the raw materials, the mix design can be chosen to get the optimal quality of production.
OPC cement. This Project aims to utilize OPC cement as main binder material. It will give faster strength to the bricks, besides giving improved consistent quality. It also ensures a better cost effectiveness for the same. Using OPC will be a standardized practice. The other prime advantages of using OPC (compared to other binders) is it's easy availability locally through nationwide Retail Network of Cement Companies.
Gypsum: This too is an industrial waste. This is available as an industrial byproduct of Fertilizer Plant. Gypsum is responsible to give long term strength to the Blocks.
Aluminum Power. Finely ground Aluminum power is used in very limited quantity ( less than 0.5%), so that it reacts with active lime, and silica in base material to make the aeration.
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LINCOLN — Following the 237-222 defeat of the Lincoln Community School's $2 million bond proposal last Tuesday, the Lincoln school board had some decisions to make.
At a special meeting on Thursday, members decided to put the same bond proposal up for a second vote on March 1, following the Feb. 28 town meeting day.
"We met last night and went around and talked about it and decided to put it before the voters again at town meeting," Chairman David Venman said in an interview on Friday. "Essentially, it's the same plan."


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Mogadishu: Islamist extremists attacked an army post in northeastern Somalia, killing 12 soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks in recent months by the al-Qaeda-linked group, al-Shabab, an official said Wednesday.
The attack occurred in Galgala Mountains, in the semiautonomous Puntland region, where the al-Shabab rebels are trying to expand their influence.
The militants attacked the post and blew up a roadside bomb on Tuesday night, killing the soldiers, said a Puntland official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the press.
Al-Shabab rebels have been pushed out of the cities of southern and central Somalia by African Union forces. The Somali government says the militants are consolidating in Galgala.
The rebels` northern flight to the Galgala Mountain comes after months of increasing pressure from the African Union force, made up of troops from Uganda, Burundi, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Al-Shabab this year merged with a Puntland warlord Mohamed Said Atom and clashed with government forces in Puntland several times. Al-Qaida and al-Shabab the most powerful Islamist militant group in Somalia merged earlier this year.
Galgala is an ancient mountain town in Puntland has been a key rebel stronghold for years. Fighters led by former arms trader Atom have been fighting the Puntland government from bases in the mountains for years.
A 2010 report by the UN accused Atom of importing arms from Yemen and receiving consignments from Eritrea, including mortars, for delivery to al-Shabab forces in southern Somalia.
Atom`s supporters say he is fighting for more equitable distribution of revenues from oil exploration deals with foreign companies.
Puntland authorities have long blamed Atom`s group and al-Shabab for carrying out bombings and assassinations in their region, but outright assaults on government positions have been rare.
Al-Shabab relies on several hundred foreign fighters some with experience in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Al-Shabab formally joined al-Qaida earlier this year, and seeks to recruit new soldiers from Somali communities overseas.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb Lady Bisons softball team is ranked 13th in the country by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) in academics for the 2012-13 school year.
The Lady Bisons finished with a 3.46 team grade point average. The Lady Bisons were the highest ranked Atlantic Sun team.
"This is a very, very exciting honor," said Lipscomb coach Kristin Ryman. "We had a great year academically. We typically have a very strong academic group.
"This is something we don't take lightly. We work and work and work on the academic side as much as we do on the field."
The Lady Bisons meet every other week with the coaches for academic discussions. Players must have weekly signed records from instructors concerning attendance and grades.
"We put a lot of emphasis on making sure that at the end of each semester we don't have any surprises," Ryman said. "We want to be in tune enough with what is going on during a semester that we can offer advice and help them however we can if little issues come up.
"We want to keep them on track for four years. We want to know that when they finish here that they have a plan in mind of what they want to do. Hopefully, we can help them reach their goals."
Ten of the 19 players on the 2013 spring roster finished the academic year with grade point averages of 3.5 or higher to earn NFCA All-America Scholar Athletes honors for 2012-13: Dee Baddley (Biology), Kelsey Cartwright (Psychology), Rena' Cothron (Marketing), Brittany Elmore (Elementary Education), Heather Montgomery (International Business), Tanner Sanders (Elementary Education), Kristen Sturdivant (Elementary Education), Bree Thurman (Accounting), Brianne Welch (Journalism & New Media) and Madison Wray (Spanish). Both Thurman and Wray have 4.0 GPAs.
Also 16 of 19 players made a 3.0 GPA or higher, qualifying for the Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team.
"We want to steer them into the right paths," Ryman said. "I think that is important. There are a lot of little things we do within our program that aren't required but we feel like are necessary to help us maintain a strong GPA.
"Lipscomb as a university places a big emphasis on academics. We want to mirror that as a program. We want to maintain the strong reputation of our athletes in the classroom."


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This is an activity about scale model building. Learners will use mathematics to determine the scale model size, construct a pattern, and build a one-fourth size scale model of the IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration)... (View More) satellite, the first satellite mission to image the Earth's magnetosphere. This is the third activity in the Solar Storms and You: Exploring Satellite Design educator guide. (View Less)
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Cocoa Tea produces on latest effort
Davina Henry, Staff Reporter
Staying true to the foundation of lovers rock reggae music, artiste Cocoa Tea has indeed proven that he possesses both talent and longevity.
On November 6, Cocoa Tea released his 22nd studio album, titled In a di Red.
The 15-track album is described as a joyful mixture of love, reality and conscious, praise-filled lyrics.
Produced by Cocoa Tea and Roaringlion Recording Studio Crew, the buzz for new music from the artiste was fuelled by recent live performances in Jamaica, North America and Europe.
"What is different on this album is that, for the first time, I have added two collabs with two female artistes - D'Angel and Lady G. It's the same reggae one drop that I am known for and I have added a little bit of a ska vibe to it," Cocoa Tea told The Gleaner.
Social commentary
In a di Red also focuses on current situations. Cocoa Tea uses strong social commentary to get his message across, while returning to the 'foundation' style of reggae that made him a legend.
The album includes songs such as There's a Love Like Yours And Mine, Trickster featuring Lady G, Love Is featuring D'Angel, and Press Freedom.
An all-star cast of musicians, including Kirk Bennett, Danny Dennis and Ernie Wilks, are also featured on the album.
The album also displayed another side of Cocoa Tea as he shifted seamlessly from the microphone to the producer's chair.
"There is nutt'n like being an artiste, but as a producer you have certain input that you know will work much better for you. You know your strengths, weaknesses, and you know what works best for you."
He further explained that although he is known as a conscious reggae artiste, he does not shy away from controversy.
"I like to be controversial at times. One of my favourite songs from this album is Press Freedom, and this song talks about payola and highlights some things that people wouldn't want to hear from Cocoa Tea's mouth, but that's just me; I don't mind being controversial at times. Controversy sells," he said.
In a di Red is now available at VP Records, iTunes, Amazon and all leading music stores.


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As headline sponsor of Luremasters, one of Europe's fastest growing recreational boat fishing competition, Raymarine urges recreational fishing fans to sign up quickly.
With an appreciation for all things sailing, several members of the UK team of Raymarine are entering their own boats into the 2017 Round the Island Race in association with Cloudy Bay, 1st July 2017. If you are entering, or still deciding, we caught up with some of our colleagues to gain insight from their own experiences, to give you all the know-how from the people who enter and why it has become such a wonderful event for them.
Raymarine has teamed up with one of Britain's top sailing meteorologists, Simon Rowell, to give the all-important Weather Briefing to competitors taking part in the 2017 Round the Island Race in association with Cloudy Bay. The Weather Briefing will take place on the eve of the race on Friday 30th June, 18:00 at the Island Sailing Club, Cowes and competitors are encouraged to attend, to get the most up-to-date the weather and tidal information ahead of race day.


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Defining the Liberal Arts• August 15, 2003 Share:
Excerpted and edited from a presentation by Dr. Anne Bost, senior research fellow
Many of us claim, with good reason, that a liberal arts education is the defining experience for our students becoming productive citizens. But how good are we at defining the liberal arts?
Yes, we mean liberal arts—not that other, increasingly popular expression "liberal education," which stands for so many things to so many people that it no longer poins to anything at all.
When we say "liberal arts," we mean—well, there's the problem.
Sometimes we mean a collection of disciplines.
Sometimes we mean a way of thinking, but getting to an agreement on what way of thinking that would be is beyond our ability.
Sometimes when we say "liberal arts" we mean any really good education. But good for what, at what, in what goes unanswered in the enthusiasm of our assertion.
Sometimes when we say "liberal arts" we mean a transforming experience on the way from youth to adulthood. But all of us know people in their late teen years who have been transformed in good and growing ways by a love affair, an illness, a chance to travel, a spiritual insight, a major achievement, or an unforeseen defeat. Sometimes when we try to define "liberal arts" in these ways we are taking the credit for mere serendipity.
There must be a better way.
At the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, we are developing a definition of "liberal arts" that has its roots in the history and philosophy of American liberal arts colleges, that we can test empirically, and that we will revise based on our empirical results. Our working definition has three necessary elements:
1. A tradition that values most of all the development of a set of intellectual arts, rather than professional or vocational skills;
2. A curriculum that in its overall effect gives coherence and integrity to each student's learning;
3. An emphasis on student-student and student-faculty interactions in and out of the classroom.
We think that the key phrase in our first element, the development of a set of intellectual arts, is the true end of a liberal arts education. We think that our second and third elements are the ideal means to that end, though not the only means…
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Billy McKnight, Mindy McCready's Ex, Hopes to See Son Zander This Afternoon
Singer-songwriter Billy McKnight says that if all goes well during a court hearing in Arkansas today, he should be able to see his son later this afternoon or early tonight. During an interview with Taste of Country this morning, McKnight shared that he never thought Zander was in immediate danger with Mindy McCready, but he's preparing to deal with any longterm effects the nearly two-week long ordeal has had on the 5-year-old.
McKnight tells Taste of Country that he isn't sure if charges will be pressed against McCready, his ex. The 'Ten Thousand Angels' singer broke the terms of their custody agreement by leaving with Zander after the Thanksgiving weekend, but authorities were careful not to label the case a kidnapping. McKnight had granted her an extended visit.
"She called me up before Thanksgiving and said, 'Hey, look Billy, I'm going back home and I'm going to have these kids [McCready is expecting twins]. I'm not going to be able to be down here. Could I keep the baby this weekend?' And I offered that to her, and when I did that she took him," McKnight revealed, adding that the current custodial agreement grants him unsupervised visits with Zander four nights a week, a result of years of hard work to stay sober and prove he can be a great dad. The boy stays with his grandparents the other nights of the week. He explained that McCready's visits must be supervised by her parents.
After McCready and her son were found in the closet of McCready's boyfriend's house on Saturday, Zander was held by the Arkansas Division of Children and Family Services. McKnight said he doesn't know where the boy has been staying over the last 48 hours. Since it's a high-profile case, the case worker hasn't provided many details.
"That's been disturbing," McKnight told us. "I know he's OK because they stayed in contact with me, but I haven't been able to talk to him personally since the day that he was found. I talked to him that day."
Moving forward, McKnight expects to have full custody of Zander by early 2012. "The attorney for the state and the case worker … they've already voted me to have full custody," he said. "The judge is extending it [the current custody agreement] 90 days to see if she could get on board and get her case plan wrapped up so he could get it out of the state's hands and into ours. Instead of complying, she did what she did, which is going to set her back probably a pretty good bit."
Stay tuned to Taste of Country for more from our exclusive interview with Billy McKnight.


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Religious Newspapers
This article originally appeared in "Newspapers" by Loretto Dennis Szucs, FUGA, and James L. Hansen, FASG in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
The general interest newspaper as we know it is not the only possible source of biographical and genealogical information. Many religious denominations have sponsored newspapers. In addition to religious and doctrinal news and features, these papers often give considerable attention to the activities of the denomination's members'not only the clergy, but also many of its other members. If you know an ancestor's religious affiliation, the effort to find copies of the religious newspaper is often worthwhile because they offer details not found in other sources. A respected member of a religious group will often command more attention within that community than elsewhere.
Newspapers can be particularly important for those denominations that otherwise have rather poor genealogical records, such as the various Methodist and Baptist groups. Also, religious papers were among the first to give significant attention to Obituaries. It is not uncommon to find a denominational paper in the 1830s with a full page of obituaries, when the typical secular paper ran two or three brief death notices at best. Sometimes the obituary dwelt more on the religious history of the deceased than the genealogical history, but even then significant clues often appear.
In one case, a search was made of all existing daily papers printed in Chicago at the time of a person's death. Each paper noted his death, age, and last known address. Only a few of the papers provided funeral information. However, the weekly Catholic diocesan newspaper included his town of origin in Europe, the year he immigrated to the United States, the year he arrived in Chicago, the year he became a member of the parish, the date of his marriage, the maiden name of his wife, the names of their children, and those of their children's spouses. The flowery eulogy that one expects to find in a turn-of-the-century publication was also provided, along with the names of the clergy in attendance at the funeral service.
Religious newspapers will most often be found in institutions connected with the denomination'archives, historical societies, seminary or denominational college/university libraries'but don't overlook the more traditional sources, such as state historical libraries and archives or the libraries of public colleges and universities with significant newspaper collections. Also, because the distinction between a denominational newspaper and a denominational journal was often a fine one, a search of periodical bibliographies is often necessary. The vagaries of bibliographical description often place what, by format, are clearly newspapers among the periodicals. For example, the various editions of the Christian Advocate, an important Methodist newspaper, are listed in the Union List of Serials, not in Gregory's American Newspapers.
Because religious papers include only a segment of an area's population, they are spread more thinly than secular papers. There may well be only a single newspaper for a particular denomination covering an entire state or region, or for smaller denominations, covering the entire United States. Like secular papers, religious papers have come and gone. A particular state in the 1830s may have been covered only by a distant regional paper; by the 1870s it may have had its own publication. While at a slower rate, some religious newspapers are being digitized and posted online. An example is a project of the Cleveland Jewish Genealogy Society that provides an index of Jewish obituaries, 1902 to 1974.
The University of Notre Dame's Catholic newspaper collection has long been regarded by American Catholic historians as one of the finest in the United States. The formation of the collection dates back to the late nineteenth century, when James F. Edwards (1850 to 1911), one of Notre Dame's first and foremost librarians, obtained extended runs of the United States Catholic Miscellany, the Truth Teller, the Catholic Mirror, and a number of other Catholic newspapers published in the nineteenth century.
A fairly comprehensive list of denominational websites can be found at Hartford Seminary's Institute for religious organizations (under links to denominations). Visiting the links for the various denominations is a good way to discover what newspaper publications may be available for each.
While more limited in scope, Religious Newspapers in the Old Northwest to 1861: A History, Bibliography, and Record of Opinion provides insights that would be helpful to anyone looking for information in that area and time.
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Alkalinity refers to how well a water body can neutralize acids. Alkalinity measures the amount of alkaline compounds in water, such as carbonates (CO3 2-), bicarbonates (HCO3 -), and hydroxides (OH-). These compounds are natural buffers that can remove excess hydrogen ions that have been added from sources such as acid rain or acid mine drainage. Alkalinity mitigates or relieves metals toxicity by using available HCO3 - and CO3 2- to take metals out of solution, thus making it unavailable to fish. Alkalinity is affected by the geology of the watershed; watersheds containing limestone will have a higher alkalinity than watersheds where granite is predominant. The Boulder Creek Watershed is composed primarily of granite rocks, thus the water has a lower alkalinity content.
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