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Playgroup births bridges, book, film
Stay-at-home city mom got the ball rolling
The beauty of a weekly playgroup, with suburban and newcomer moms and tots meeting in the inner city, has evolved into art, inspiring a book and a documentary film just in time for International Women's Day this Saturday.
Volunteer-run KidBridge was started four years ago by Lorelle Perry, a teacher by training, staying at home with her children, who were one and three years old at the time.
"I was an at-home mom doing the playgroup circuit," Perry said. "It seemed a little unfulfilling to me." It dawned on her that there's a whole new world to get to know right here in Winnipeg.
"I thought, 'I'm going to make some new friends from places around the world and help them with English as our children play together.' "
She founded the KidBridge program four years ago with donated space from Calvary Temple downtown. Moms and kids meet every Wednesday morning, with from five to 17 moms and their children getting together.
"KidBridge is about being a bridge between suburban moms cwith newly immigrated moms -- connecting moms in the new-immigrant community with moms firmly planted in Canadian society," Perry said.
Last year, with some government funding, they published the book Letters to Our Children: the Memories, Challenges, and Dreams of Mothers New to Canada. It featured 18 letters by moms from 12 different countries explaining to their children why they left their country, what they miss, what they love and find difficult about living in Canada, and their dreams for their children's future here.
"Kids assimilate so quickly we don't want them to take for granted the sacrifices their folks made for them," said Perry. Each letter is accompanied by a vibrant, block-print illustration the mothers produced under the guidance of a local printmaking artist.
When the moms shared their stories, it was powerful, Perry said.
"When I saw the mothers read their letters to their child in the child's classroom, they were transformed into heroes in front of all these children. For all they've overcome, against all odds, they made it here from across the globe."
She told a filmmaker friend who decided to make a documentary about the letters. "That was our motivation" Perry said.
Letters to Our Children: Stories of Refuge is being shown at a private screening on International Women's Day Saturday at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
"My desire is that the people who watch it will find themselves wanting to stand closer to newcomers in the grocery-store lineup, to ask them, 'Is there anything I can help you find?' and to lean into relationships with newcomers -- have them for coffee or for dinner," Perry said.
"In schools, the demographic has changed overnight and we need to get outside ourselves. It's not just about wanting to be a good neighbour -- they're fascinating people," she said. "Whenever you engage with another person, you get a lot more than you give."
The KidBridge playgroup is simple idea that Perry hopes will catch on across Canada.
"Many mothers come to hang out. It's a bit of a coffee club -- a chance to get out of the house and meet with other women and talk about how they're getting on in Winnipeg," Perry said.
"They become friends. We want to really build bridges, because the sooner newcomer moms feel plugged in and integrated into society, the sooner we all move forward as a society and the stronger and richer we are," she said.
For more information, go to www.kidbridge.ca.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 3, 2014 B3
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Sony Corp. racked up a record annual loss of 457 billion yen ($5.7 billion) in its fourth straight year of red ink as the once-glorious maker of the Walkman and PlayStation struggles toward a turnaround under a new president.
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TOKYO — Sony Corp. racked up a record annual loss of 457 billion yen ($5.7 billion) in its fourth straight year of red ink as the once-glorious maker of the Walkman and PlayStation struggles toward a turnaround under a new president.
The electronics and entertainment company, which also makes "Spider-Man" movies, reported Thursday a loss of 255 billion yen ($3.2 billion) for the January-March period — its fifth straight quarterly net loss to round out a fiscal year that was the worst in its 66-year corporate history.
The latest red ink was worse than 1995, which followed Sony's ambitious but disastrous purchase of Hollywood studio Columbia Pictures.
Sony's recent troubles were worsened by factory and supplier damage in northeastern Japan, ravaged by the earthquake and tsunami last year. Sony also suffered production disruptions from the flooding in Thailand.
Quarterly sales inched up 1.2 per cent on-year to 1.6 trillion yen ($20 billion). Annual sales plunged nearly 10 per cent to 6.5 trillion yen ($81 billion), as unit sales slipped in flat-panel TVs, video and digital cameras, game machines and personal computers.
Sony has bled money for eight straight years in its core TV business, bashed by competition from Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea and other Asian rivals.
And consumers are flocking to products from Apple Inc. like the iPhone and iPad instead of Sony gadgets.
A soaring yen that erodes the overseas earnings of Japanese exporters like Sony has also added to the damage.
Sony is aiming for a comeback under Kazuo Hirai, appointed president last month, who has headed the gaming division and built his career in the U.S.
Sony forecast a return to profit for the fiscal year through March 2013 at 30 billion yen ($375 million), banking on the growing smartphone and tablet business, as well as a recovery from last year's disasters.
Lasts month, Hirai said the company will cut 10,000 jobs, or about 6 per cent of its global work force, and turn a profit in TVs in the next two years.
The job cuts come on top of a couple of rounds under Hirai's predecessor, Welsh-born Howard Stringer, who remains chairman and was the first foreigner to head Sony.
Yasunori Tateishi, author of "Farewell Our Sony," believes the long sought boon Sony executives promised from exploiting its electronics and entertainment operations has been illusive.
He said Sony was in a bind because, even when its electronics segment fared well, its results would be pulled down by entertainment problems — or the other way around.
"Synergy is something that might happen, but it's not something a company should go after," he said. "It instead turns into an obstacle."
Sony had recorded a 260 billion yen loss the previous fiscal year.
The latest results were better than the 520 billion yen ($6.5 billion) annual loss the Tokyo-based company had projected. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had estimated a more optimistic 430 billion yen ($5.3 billion) loss.
Sony said sales improved in its film business, lifted by television and video-on-demand for the "Spider-Man" series, but profits fell slightly, despite the popularity of "The Smurfs" and "Bad Teacher," offsetting the failure of "Arthur Christmas."
Sales and profit both dropped in its music business. Bestsellers included Adele's "21" and Beyonce's "4."
Chief Financial Officer Masaru Kato said fixing the electronics business remains critical, as revenue improves in entertainment this year with "The Amazing Spider-Man," "Men in Black 3" and the new James Bond film "Skyfall," and music downloads start to make up for dropping CD sales.
"This year remains crucial for a recovery in our electronics business," Kato said, adding that the effort to reduce TV business losses was on track. "A fifth straight year of losses should never be tolerated."
Analysts say it remains to be seen whether Hirai can steer Sony's turnaround.
Prices come down so fast that the initial year or so — when an innovative product is taking off — is crucial. Sony fell behind when digital music players and flat TVs became hits.
Tateishi, the author, says Sony still has the lead in digital broadcasting, 3-D camcorders and other imagery technology and should pioneer new categories of products, if it hopes to survive.
Sony shares, which have lost about half their value over the past year, dipped 1.2 per cent to 1,213 yen in Tokyo. Trading ended shortly before earnings were announced.
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Feb 8, 2014, 5:22 PM EST
If you have been holding out hope that the Reds will be able to lock up right-hander Homer Bailey, it's time for a dose of reality. According to ESPN's Jerry Crasnick, there's "an enormous gap" between the Reds' last offer and what Bailey wants in a long-term deal.
Bailey, who turns 28 in May, is currently on track to hit free agency next offseason. He requested $11.6 million and was offered $8.7 million from the Reds when arbitration figures were exchanged last month, so the two sides have apparently discussed both one-year and multi-year scenarios in recent weeks.
While Bailey dealt with injuries and disappointment early on in his career, he owns a 3.58 ERA over the past two seasons and has thrown two no-hitters along the way. Assuming he can stay healthy this year, he should have a good chance of landing a $100 million contract on the open market. There's a school of thought that the Reds would be better off dealing Bailey by Opening Day if they can't work out an extension, but there's no indication that they are are considering such a move right now.
- bostonboresme - Feb 8, 2014 at 5:42 PM
Good. If he hits the FA market next year, he'll probably become a Yankee.
- missingdiz - Feb 8, 2014 at 6:36 PM
The Reds wouldn't be "better off" this season if they deal Bailey now. But if they want to knock themselves out of the race in the Central Div., it's fine with me.
- stoutfiles - Feb 8, 2014 at 10:02 PM
Well it all depends what they get out of the deal. Reds kinda need to win now though, they aren't currently built for long term success.
- adamsowder33 - Feb 8, 2014 at 9:52 PM
Don't deal him. Play him. If he wants a big contract, he will pitch his butt off. That would be good for the Reds.
- highplainsjew - Feb 8, 2014 at 10:59 PM
As a long time (40 yr) Red's fan, I must say that to see this team still being so tight with the payroll, is disturbing. You have to spend money to compete. You got the new stadium. Spend some cash, win some playoff games…and fill the seats. Bailey is worth the 11.6 (or close to it) that he is asking for. The list of guys who have thrown no hitters in back to back seasons is pretty small. He's the real deal. Pitching is everything in this game…and it (or more specifically the LACK of it) is THE reason why the Reds sucked for so many years. They have finally built a very solid, potentially elite rotation…and now we have to watch it be dismantled almost immediately. Sickening.
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Reds are a mess
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I always liked Bailey and thought he might be the answer for the Reds. But after so many false starts, I wonder how much he is really worth. After all, he is a .500 pitcher in his career, and even when he threw the no no (2), the next games after that were not so hot. He had a good season ending a couple of years ago but still ended up 50/50. There is no question that he has a lot of talent, but to what end? He has to be much more consistent in this league, and he has not shown that to date. I do not feel that the Reds fortunes hang on Homer, and if they have to pay too much for him, then they will make a mistake. He is no Tom Seaver. I would rather them develop other pitchers and get the most out of Cueto and others on the staff.
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With the Dodgers holding a 2-1 lead in the series, below are the lineups for Game 4 of the NLDS. First pitch is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. ET while the game will be broadcast on TBS…
CF Jason Heyward
RF Justin Upton
1B Freddie Freeman
LF Evan Gattis
C Brian McCann
3B Chris Johnson
SS Andrelton Simmons
2B Elliot Johnson
SP Freddy Garcia
LF Carl Crawford
2B Mark Ellis
SS Hanley Ramirez
1B Adrian Gonzalez
RF Yasiel Puig
3B Juan Uribe
CF Skip Schumaker
C A.J. Ellis
SP Clayton Kershaw
Save for the starting pitchers, these are the same lineups both teams used in Game 3. The Dodgers, who pounded out 13 runs on 14 hits last night, will attempt to put the series to bed against Freddy Garcia. Meanwhile, the Braves will have to hope that they can get something going against Kershaw, who is pitching on short-rest for the first time in his career.
- jimsjam33 - Oct 7, 2013 at 7:21 PM
The Dodgers are hoping that Kershaw wins tonight and the Cardinals extend their series with the Pirates to five games . Big roll of the dice . I feel sorry for Nolasco . The Dodgers could have won with him on the mound .
- wpjohnson - Oct 7, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Poor Gonzalez. He is going with the exact same lineup for the fourth time.
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Selena Gomez to Co-Host 2011 MuchMusic Video Awards
"I am thrilled and honored to host the MuchMusic Video Awards," Gomez said in a statement released earlier today. "I look forward to seeing all my Canadian fans and kicking off the summer together."
Gomez –- who is releasing her third studio album (due June 29) and launching her We Own The Night summer tour later this year -- joins previously announced performer Lady Gaga as the confirmed performers for the ceremony set for MuchMusic headquarters.
More performers and presenters will be revealed in the coming weeks leading up to the show, which will be broadcast live across Canada on MuchMusic and in the U.S. on Fuse.
Previous performers and presenters include Drake, Ke$ha, Black Eyed Peas, Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, Rihanna and Jonas Brothers, among many others.
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US spy plane lands after 22 months in space
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The US military has landed its robotic space plane, ending a classified 22-month mission that marked the third in Earth orbit for the experimental programme widely believed to be related to spying.
The X-37B touched down at Vandenberg air force base in California on Friday, bringing to a close the third and longest mission the vehicle has undertaken since its maiden voyage in 2010.
The spacecraft conducted unspecified experiments for 674 days while in orbit. The US air force said the orbiter, built by Boeing, performed "risk reduction, experimentation and concept-of-operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies", although details of the missions are secret.
In a written release announcing the craft's return, the air force only said it had been conducting "on-orbit experiments"…
US officials have previously denied the project had anything to do with creating a "space weapon" that could knock down other satellites.
But, our government, our military ain't about to tell ordinary citizens a damned thing. We just get to pick up the tab.
Thanks, Mike
Importance of tiny creatures in grassland ecology
A newly published study reveals the importance of earthworms, beetles, and other tiny creatures to the structure of grasslands and the valuable ecosystem services they provide.
When asked to describe a forest or a meadow, most people would probably begin with the plants, the species diversity, or the color of the foliage. They probably wouldn't pay much attention to the animals living in the soil.
But a new Yale-led study shows the critical importance of earthworms, beetles, and other tiny creatures to the structure of grasslands and the valuable ecosystem services they provide.
During a 3-year study, researchers found that removing these small animals from the soil of a replicated Scottish sheep meadow altered the plant species that grew in the ecosystem, reduced overall productivity, and produced plants that were less responsive to common agricultural management, such as fertilization.
The results reflect the long-term ecological impacts of land use changes, such as the conversion of forests to agricultural land…
"We know these soil animals are important controls on processes which cause nutrients and carbon to cycle in ecosystems, but there was little evidence that human-induced loss of these animals has effects at the level of the whole ecosystem, on services such as agricultural yield," said Mark Bradford…lead author of the study…
"Yet that's exactly what we found."
RTFA for the details of approach, method, discovery. The Yale School of Forestry has been around a couple thousand years – it feels like, sometimes. They never stop pressing for more and better understanding of the environment.
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A breakthrough in fusion energy
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Lockheed Martin Corp says…it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready for use in a decade.
Tom McGuire, who heads the project, said he and a small team had been working on fusion energy at Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works for about four years, but were now going public to find potential partners in industry and government for their work.
Initial work demonstrated the feasibility of building a 100-megawatt reactor measuring seven feet by 10 feet, which could fit on the back of a large truck, and is about 10 times smaller than current reactors, McGuire told reporters.
In a statement, the company, the Pentagon's largest supplier, said it would build and test a compact fusion reactor in less than a year, and build a prototype in five years…
Lockheed sees the project as part of a comprehensive approach to solving global energy and climate change problems.
Compact nuclear fusion would produce far less waste than coal-powered plants since it would use deuterium-tritium fuel, which can generate nearly 10 million times more energy than the same amount of fossil fuels, the company said.
Ultra-dense deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, is found in the earth's oceans, and tritium is made from natural lithium deposits.
It said future reactors could use a different fuel and eliminate radioactive waste completely.
McGuire said the company had several patents pending for the work and was looking for partners in academia, industry and among government laboratories to advance the work.
Lockheed said it had shown it could complete a design, build and test it in as little as a year, which should produce an operational reactor in 10 years, McGuire said.
Everything material about this is a positive. The only potential negatives are [1] Luddite fears over any power source that carries the word nuclear somewhere in the patent. It's why for example no commercial food packaging in the United States uses gamma ray sterilization – even though it would dramatically increase safety from pathogens, reduce costs. And [2] the combination of American military vendors and the construction dollars needed to produce plants with appropriate safeguards will increase potential cost several-fold. The greedy bastards hate to leave well enough alone.
Still, the potential for cheap energy is so great it can overcome American greed. It will put creeps like the Koch Bros out of business yet do comparatively little harm to home-based energy sources like solar panels. Reactors like the smallest one proposed would produce sufficient electricity to power 100,000 homes. It needs a grid.
For the technically-interested, here's a link to process details.
NOAA's newest highest-resolution weather forecast
This image, made with NOAA's newest weather model, shows ground temperature readings at a 2 mile resolution. Each pixel is shaded according to the temperature, ranging from 113 degrees F (the brightest yellow) to freezing (white).
This colorful map of ground temperature shows the tapestry of American weather on September 30. Undeniably beautiful, it owes its rich color gradient to a powerful new scientific tool for modeling the weather for incredibly small chunks of both time and space.
After five years of work, NOAA unveiled the new model, called High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR), on September 30. Like its predecessor, HRRR will update every hour. But, HRRR fine tunes the forecast every 15 minutes by constantly digesting radar reports, so that the hourly update is as accurate as possible. Each forecast starts with a 3-D radar snapshot of the atmosphere that it modifies with data from NOAA's vast network of weather stations, balloons, and satellites…
The graphic below shows the same weather system in HRRR (right) and its predecessor (left). In the old model, the front appears to be one, big, splotchy storm. HRRR shows that the front is actually a patchy group of storm cells, a picture that is much closer to reality.
I am a weather geek in an extended family of weather geeks. Pretty much everyone including my wife has been a pilot one time or another – but me. We compare weather apps on our assorted cpus. And I can't wait till one is available with this resolution.
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Antibiotics stewardship reduces rate of hospital readmission for children
Among 176 children treated for nonchronic complex care issues and without underlying medical conditions, none were readmitted within 30 days if the physician accepted the recommendation of the pharmacist-physician antibiotics stewardship team, reported Jason Newland, MD, of Children's Mercy Hospital-Kansas City in Missouri, and colleagues.
In comparison, among the 88 children whose doctors rejected the recommendations, 3.4% required readmission, they said at the annual IDWeek conference.
Newland noted that the difference was statistically significant…
The pattern was similar among children who had chronic complex care issues. Of the 149 children whose doctors accepted the recommendations regarding use of antibiotics, there was no 30-day readmission. However, among the children whose doctors said No to the recommendations, the readmission rate was 2.6%, Newland said.
"We are only talking about two or three new admissions," he acknowledged, "but there was none" in the groups where the recommendations were explained and were accepted by the doctors.
Pranita Tamma, MD, who moderated the IDWeek press briefing where the study results were presented, told MedPage Today that "antimicrobial stewardship programs generally consist of a physician and a pharmacist who oversee, guide, and educate clinicians in their institutions about the appropriate use of antibiotics. The goal of every stewardship program in the U.S. is to ensure that every patient who requires an antibiotic receives the right drug, the right dose, by the right route, and for the right duration of time."
Dr. Pranita Tamma noted for the press briefing – "Ultimately, we believe that this improves the care of children while decreasing the unintended consequences of antibiotic overuse, including allergic reactions, severe diarrheal illnesses, hearing loss, kidney and liver damage, and, of course, antibiotic resistance."
Hear, hear.
Wait for unintended consequences — Scientists to test lab-grown penises
Penises grown in laboratories could soon be tested on men by scientists developing technology to help people with congenital abnormalities, or who have undergone surgery for aggressive cancer or suffered traumatic injury.
Yes, there will more categories.
Researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine…are assessing engineered penises for safety, function and durability. They hope to receive approval from the US Food and Drug Administration and to move to human testing within five years.
Professor Anthony Atala…oversaw the team's successful engineering of penises for rabbits in 2008. "The rabbit studies were very encouraging," he said, "but to get approval for humans we need all the safety and quality assurance data, we need to show that the materials aren't toxic, and we have to spell out the manufacturing process, step by step."
The penises would be grown using a patient's own cells to avoid the high risk of immunological rejection after organ transplantation from another individual…
"Our target is to get the organs into patients with injuries or congenital abnormalities," said Atala…
Aside from a guaranteed underground Black Market – you know religious nutballs in and out of government will go ballistic over this. Plus, you can look forward to the first reality TV show on the human trials.
Fighting wildfires with science
Fire modeling tools rely on information from the National Weather Service, detailed maps of fuel layers in forests and other factors. They estimate how fast the fire will burn and how it will spread in relation to vegetation, trees, homes and other properties.
For Joe Hudson and Byron Bonney, the WFDSS program calculated the Johnson Bar fire's potential spread within a 26,000-acre planning area where firefighter actions could slow or stop the fire. The modeled fire behavior informed them on the potential effects on threatened values: homes along the Selway and in nearby Lowell, a rustic lookout, the historic Tahoe Trail, habitat for fish, and timber and replanted forests.
"Once the fire has escaped initial direct attack, the goal is to protect the values at risk and contain the fire," said Hudson.
Hudson called in the Incident Management Team, an interagency group that manages large fires. The IMT set up camp Aug. 8 at the Kooskia airport, 20 miles west of the fire.
Winds were pushing the fire north. Winds were gusting 35 mph on the ridges, triggering an Aug. 12 flare that doubled the size of the fire in one day. People living in the 30 homes along the Selway already had been evacuated.
The IMT kept the fire from spreading and establishing itself on the other side of the river. The WFDSS analysis was helping guide their decisions.
With the fire spreading down the slopes of the Selway and Middle Fork Clearwater River, the managers decided to perform burnouts using the rivers as barriers.
It worked. Welcome rains helped tame the fire. Firefighters were able to establish containment lines.
There are a few sections to this article – each valuable. It all leads up to fire science, divining the factors affecting heat, fuel and oxygen – the determinants of a fire.
Read the article. Especially if you live in the Moiuntain West.
TechKnow on Aljazeera America had a good segment on these studies a week or so ago. Here are the producer's notes. Haven't a video of the segment, yet – only a promo for the show.
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Worried about electromagnetic pollution? Should you be reading this on your iPad?
Hundreds of EMF-blocking garments and devices are marketed to reduce a person's exposure to radiation, but the science says not to fret.
When Ameer Rosic went to jail for the last time six years ago, the stars aligned…He spent his time behind bars searching for answers about the type of person he wanted to be and what he wanted to do with his life.
When he got out, Rosic was obsessed with health, and he began working with businesspeople and entrepreneurs on a holistic approach…But for some of his clients, optimal health still seemed just out of reach, and Rosic concluded that the reason was because of their ongoing exposure to electromagnetic radiation from their cell phones, laptops, nearby cell towers, and so forth. So…he decided to launch a clothing company to reduce a person's exposure.
Riparo, which in November will launch an Indiegogo campaign for its EMF-blocking briefs to "protect your balls" from what some like to call EMF "pollution," joins an already established market of apparel aimed at minimizing how much radiation penetrates our bodies. This includes every type of garment imaginable, from shirts and underwear to hats and pregnancy bellybands.
The vast majority of scientists across many fields around the world say we don't need to worry about what amounts to very small radiation exposure from our electronics. The World Health Organization, which launched an initiative to look into the topic in 1997 and has reviewed more than 25,000 studies, has concluded that "current evidence does not confirm the existence of any health consequences from exposure to low level electromagnetic fields."
But considering long-term exposure is still being studied, is it better to invest in radiation-blocking clothing to "play it safe," as Rosic says, or is this just a bunch of hocus pocus marketed to the most gullible among us…?
The answer depends, of course, on whom you ask…and I would ask – or read studies from – someone with qualified experience and study.
In fact, the most common explanation for the symptoms some describe, such as headaches, anxiety, and insomnia, is that it is the stress people feel about EMF exposure that causes the ill effects. In one instance, a number of people claimed that a new cell tower in their neighborhood was adversely affecting their health — before it had even been turned on.
Lots more fact and study in the article. A worthwhile read. Like anything with a realistic scientific bent, cautions are automatically included. The fact remains that regardless of how confident you can be about answers to a question there are advances in measurement and experimentation every day and it's always worth revisiting a question. Up to the point of absurdity.
I live next to one of those communities where neighbors sue each other over wifi networks they are certain are giving them bad dreams. A community where in fact the city was sued for a cell tower that caused inestimable harm – even though it hadn't yet been turned on.
To my mind, an outsized portion of the "problem" rests with a culture that rarely reads beyond headlines or listens to more than talking heads. Folks don't even get to the place where they should be asking for qualifications.
America is a Christian nation — Really?
I'm so sick of the Christian Right not understanding that being a Christian nation and a nation that is majority Christian are two different things. From Paws and Claws, a newsletter by Ursarodinia
Couldn't agree more. I was raised in a mostly Christian family. Folks studied other religions as part of understanding the whole world. Some stayed Christian – in mainstream churches. A few, like me, moved on to materialist philosophy and science, atheists.
No one wandered off into the rejection of knowledge and science, history and progress, so characteristic of American Christian fundamentalists.
The only way you get to be "smarter" than folks from the 14th Century is to study and learn what brought humanity out of the Dark Ages and into modernity.
Dosing your kids with antibiotics, early and often, linked to childhood obesity
Children exposed repeatedly to antibiotics in their first 2 years of life were more likely to be obese later in childhood…
Children with four or more courses of antibiotics were 11% more likely than others to become obese, according to Charles Bailey, MD, PhD, of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues.
But the effect was restricted to broad-spectrum drugs, suggesting that narrower antibiotic selection might modify the risk, Bailey and colleagues reported online in JAMA Pediatrics.
Because obesity is multifactorial, the authors argued, cutting its prevalence means "identifying and managing multiple risk factors whose individual effects may be small but modifiable."
In 2011, the Institute of Medicine identified several such factors, including the mother's pre-pregnancy body mass index, physical activity, and sleep duration. But one "emerging factor," Bailey and colleagues noted, was the role played by microbial populations in the intestine, which can be affected by antibiotics…
They looked at recorded antibiotic prescriptions in the first 2 years of life and used Cox proportional hazards models to look for associations with obesity in the following 3 years…
Some 69% of the children in the cohort had at least one exposure to antibiotics before 24 months, with an average of 2.3 episodes per child, the investigators found…
Children who were given antibiotics were similar at the time of exposure in terms of weight-for-length to children who did not get the drugs.
But cumulative exposure to antibiotics was associated with later obesity…The effect was greater for broad-spectrum antibiotics…
Getting broad-spectrum drugs early was also associated with obesity, Bailey and colleagues found.
I don't care what the rationale may be. Whether parents unreasonably demand antibiotics – and doctors cave in. Just like "social promotion" in some school systems for children with failing grades. Or whether your family GP is getting spiffs from some pharmaceutical corporation detailer.
The appropriate response to studies like this is to halt overmedication. Further studies are always needed to confirm or counter; but, meanwhile, let's try to err on the side of healthier kids, eh?


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An apparatus for gathering individual glass fibers into spaced apart strands is disclosed. The individual fibers, during formation are passed over an applicator which applies a lubricant to the fibers. A circular cylindrical bar member, at an oblique angle to the application surface, contacts the spaced apart strands, and in conjunction with a cylindrical free wheeling roller, causes the fibers to be consolidated into a plurality of spaced apart strands according to the natural filament split.
1. In an apparatus for forming glass fibers comprising: a bushing having a plurality of orifices therein from which glass fibers are drawn; an applicator for applying a lubricant to the individual fibers; means for gathering said fibers into a plurality of strands; and means for applying attenuating forces to said strands and the individual filaments associated therewith, the improvement wherein said means for gathering the fibers into a plurality of spaced apart strands comprises a circular cylindrical bar member oriented at an acute angle to the application surface of said applicator over which the fibers pass, said angle being determined when said application surface and said bar member are interpolated to be in touching relationship, and a circular cylindrical roller oriented approximately perpendicular to the application surface of said applicator to provide gathering of the individual fibers into a plurality of spaced apart strands by sequentially passing the fibers over said applicator, over said bar member and over said roller.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said means for applying attenuative forces to said strands and the fibers associated therewith is provided by a winder.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said bar is capable of being adjusted in order to alter said angle created by said bar and said application surface.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said bar member and said application surface create a 30 to 45 degree angle when said bar member and said application surface are interpolated to be in touching relationship.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said bar is constructed of graphite.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said roller is a metal sleeve mounted on a bearing.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said means for applying attenuative forces to said strands and the fibers associated therewith is provided by two moving flexible high speed surfaces which grip the strand between them.
This invention relates to an apparatus for gathering individual fibers or filaments into a plurality of spaced apart strands.
Glass fibers are formed by being drawn at a high rate of speed from molten cones of glass located at the tips of small orifices in a bushing such as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 2,133,238 incorporated herein by reference. During formation, the filaments are coated while moving at a speed in excess of 25 up to 100 meters per second with a size which contains a lubricant for the filaments to prevent destruction of the strand by abrasion of the individual filaments against each other or against fiber handling equipment. By "lubricant" as used herein, is meant to include water as well as organic and inorganic lubricants as long as the lubricant provides filament protection.
In the production of glass fibers for use in textile and resin matrix reinforcement, the pulling or attenuating force for drawing the fibers or filaments is provided by a rotating drum, wheel pullers or by drawing the fibers between a pair of contacting flexible surfaces.
To produce various fiber glass products, it is desirable to gather the individual fibers or filaments into a plurality of spaced apart strands in parallel relationship. One such product is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,887,970 entitled "Crimped Fiber Glass and Method of Producing Same" by Warren W. Drummond incorporated herein by reference. Further, spaced apart strands are utilized in the production of continuous glass fiber mat wherein the fibers are formed, gathered into a plurality of spaced apart strands and deposited on a conveyor.
Normally, the individual fibers or filaments are gathered into a plurality of strands by a graphite gathering shoe which has the same number of grooves therein as the number of strands to be formed. Also, combs are sometimes used to form the plurality of spaced apart strands.
According to the present invention glass fibers or filaments are formed at tips in a fiber forming bushing. The individual fibers are passed over an applicator where a lubricant is applied to the individual fibers. Because the lubricant is either water or in aqueous media, the surface tension of the water binds the fibers into a plurality of subgroups. Each of such subgroups usually contains about 5 to 75 filaments. The number of subgroups depends on the geometry of the fiber forming equipment and the arrangement of the tips in the bushing. The subgroups are caused to be distinctly separated from each other to form a plurality of spaced apart strands by passing the subgroups over a circular cylindrical bar member parallel to the axis of the bar member, and then over a right circular cylindrical free wheeling roller. The spaced apart strands are maintained in parallel relationship due to the passage over the bar and roller. The spaced apart strands are pulled by an attenuation means such as a pair of flexible belts with contacting surfaces which grip and attenuate the strands and the individual fibers associated therewith.
The bar member is oriented at an angle oblique to the application surface of the applicator and downwardly therefrom when the applicator and the bar surface member are interpolated into touching relationship. The roller is oriented perpendicular to the application surface and the application surface and the bar member create an acute angle.
The instant invention is further elucidated with the following description of the drawings.
FIG. 1 represents a view in perspective of one embodiment of the invention, separating the strands which are to form a mat.
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view in perspective of the apparatus of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic illustration of the spaced apart strand in parallel relation forming a mat by the apparatus of FIGS. 1 and 2.
Turning to the drawings, in FIGS. 1 and 2 there is shown a plurality of glass fibers 10 being drawn across a roller applicator 11 housed in a reservoir 12 with suitable lubricant being applied to the fibers as they are being drawn across the applicator 11. The applicator is held in place by a bracket 35 having a side arm 36 associated therewith which is adjustable in a vertical direction utilizing the slots 37 and 38 and the bolts 39 and 40. Located on the lower end of the side arm bracket 36 is the roller 15. Positioned directly above the guide shoe 15 and positioned at an angle to the long axis thereof is a bar member 14.
After the fibers are sized and/or lubricated the surface tension of the size and/or lubricant brings the fibers together into spaced apart groups 13, at the applicator 11. These spaced apart groups 13, are discrete strands. Applicators which are useful in the practice of the invention are the roller type applicators and continuous belt applicators. Two of such applicators are shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,728,972 and 2,873,718 incorporated herein by reference.
As is illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the right circular cylindrical separating bar 14 is mounted at an angle oblique to the axis of the applicator 11, and creates an acute angle with the applicator surface when the application surface and the bar member are interpolated into touching relationship. The roller 15 is approximately perpendicular to the axis of the applicator 11. A ball and socket joint, 9, is fixedly attached to the bar member 14 to provide adjustment of the bar member 14. The bar member 14 is preferably contructed of graphite to provide adequate lubricity for the strands 13 to pass thereover.
The applicator surface 11 and the bar 14 create an acute angle which is preferably 30 to 45 degrees when the application surface 11 and the bar 14 are interpolated to be in touching relationship.
The roller 15 is constructed of a sleeve 8 which rotates on a bearing in the housing 7.
Also shown in the drawing are two pulleys 16 and 17 which are rotated by drive shafts 18 and 19 associated with a suitable motor not shown. Pulley 16 has a belt 21 associated therewith. Pulley 19 has a belt 20 associated therewith. Tension on the belts can be adjusted by movement of the plate member 51 utilizing slots 26 and 27 therein and the set screws or bolts 28 and 29. Associated with the belt 21 is an air shoe 30 having a suitable air supply line 31 and an air distributing cap 32. Belts 21 and 20 turn around stationary pins 22 and 23 respectively with belt 20 passing over idler 50. Located beneath the stationary pins 22 and 23 is a rotatable mandrel or collet 24 driven by a shaft member 25 associated with a suitable motor 34. The motor is mounted on a table 33 and may be leveled utilizing the leveling foot members 46, 47, 48 and 49 associated with the table 33. Ridges 41 are provided on the surface of the rotating collet 24 to assist in the collection of fibers on that surface and to permit the finished fiber glass mass or mat to be removed easily from the surface of the rotating mandrel 24.
In FIG. 3 a portion of a mat formed on the rotating mandrel 24 of FIG. 2 and cut from the surface of the mat 52 shown therein depicts the orientation of the crimped glass fibers as they appear in the finished product. It is to be noted that the fibers are interlocked and that the projection of the separated fiber glass strands 13 onto the mat surface as it is being formed is such that the penetration to a considerable depth below the surface of the mat as it is being formed is accomplished due to the high velocity of travel of the fibers as they are collected on the slowly rotating mandrel. Thus, the high inertial forces provide crimped fibers which as the mat is formed provide a mat structure which has the appearance of a needled mat though no needling was used. The spaced apart strands 13 are maintained in parallel form by the strand spreader 14 in conjunction with the roller 15 to provide the spaced apart relationship and parallelism required for the formation of such mat.
In operation of the embodiments shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, fiber glass filaments 10 are drawn from tips 3 in a bushing 2, across an applicator 11 where a suitable lubricant such as an amino silane is applied thereto. Any conventional glass fiber lubricant may be used, providing the resultant crimped fibers are not lubricated to the extent that the crimp releases due to a lack of friction. Typical of lubricants found acceptable for these purposes are water, gamma methacryloxypropyl silane, gamma amino propyl silane, emulsified epoxy resins and the like. The filaments 10 as they are drawn downwardly across the applicator associate into subgroups 13 containing 5 to 75 filaments. These subgroups 10 are spaced apart strands 13 because of passage over the spreading bar 14. The strands are passed across the spreading bar 14, which is positioned slightly across the guideshoe 15 and imparts sufficient force to the fibers as they are being drawn around the guideshoe 15 to maintain the strands in a separated and parallel position as they pass under the shoe 15. The fibers are then picked up on the underside of the belt 21 as it revolves about pulley 17. Belts 21 and 20, with the separated strands sandwiched in between, travel around the pulley 17 and downwardly until they reach the stationary pins 22 and 23. At this point the parallel spaced apart strands 13 are projected downwardly at high speed until they reach the stationary pins 22 and 23. At this point strands 10 are projected downwardly at high speed until they strike the surface 41 of the rotating collet 24. Upon striking this surface, which is at right angles to the path of travel of the strands, each of the strands is bent as the strand travels to the surface on the approximate order of 2 to 4 sharp bends or more per linear inch of strand. The bends are counted by measuring a length of the product in the stretched condition and relaxing it after measurement of its length to count the flexes in the length measured. The strands 13 as they travel over the stationary pins 22 and 23 travel at rates of speed varying between 5,000 to 20,000 feet per minute (25 to 100 meters per second). When the strands have reached the desired depth, the mat is pulled from the collet and the mandrel is ready for further collection of strands. The motor 34 associated with the collet 24 in addition to imparting rotational movement to the winder or collet 24 reciprocates in a horizontal direction at speeds of travel between 3 and 30 feet per minute (1.5 � 10- 2 and 1.5 � 10- 1 meters per second) thereby permitting the strand to build up across the face of the periphery of the winder 24 while the winder 24 is being rotated at slow speed. This provided for a uniform deposition of strand across the surface 41 of the winder 24 and while it is rotating to provide for uniform deposition of strand across the surface 41 of the winder 24 and while it is rotating to provide for uniform deposition around the winder also. Donut shaped packages of crimped fiber glass of any uniform thickness are thereby formed on the winder 24.
In starting the process shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the filaments 10 are attenuated by hand, passed over the spreader bar 14 around the roller 15 and threaded between the attenuation belts 20 and 21 while the attenuator belts are moving. The position of the spreader bar 14 is adjusted while the fibers 10 are being attenuated to provide the optimum angle for orienting the filaments 10 into a plurality of spaced apart strands 13. Once the desired spacing between the strands is obtained, the ball and socket joint 9 sets the bar 14 in a permanent position. The optimum angle created by the spreader bar 14 and the applicator surface 11 is usually between 30 and 45 degrees when the applicator surface and the spreader bar are interpolated to be in touching relationship. Further, rather than passing the strands 13 between the spreader bar 14 and the roller 15, the strands 13 can be passed on the opposite side of the spreader bar 14 and over the roller 15 to provide spaced apart strands 13.
In place of the attenuator, a conventional high speed winder may be utilized to attenuate and collect the spaced apart strand. Hence, a forming package composed of spaced apart strands will be produced for use in textiles or reinforcements.
While the invention has been described with reference to certain specific examples and illustrative embodiments, the invention is not intended to be limited except insofar as is set forth in the accompanying claims.
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Hundreds evacuated and 14 people injured after gas explosion at central London hotel
Some 500 guests were evacuated and 14 people were injured after an explosion at a top central London hotel caused part of the building to collapse.
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