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Introduced March 18, 1994, by Henry A. Waxman (R-CA) and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. This act may be cited as the "Pesticide Food Safety Act of 1994."
Section 408 outlines requirements for tolerances and exemptions for pesticide residues in or on food. Pesticide residue safety margins are not considered ample unless exposure per unit of body measurement is at least 100 times less than no observable effect level in animals on which the pesticide chemical residue was tested. No observable effect level is the level of exposure to a pesticide chemical that reliable data, derived from exposure of humans or animals to the pesticide chemical, demonstrate will cause no adverse effect.
Introduced March 9, 1994, by Richard C. Shelby (D-AL) and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. This act may be cited as the "Private Property Owners Bill of Rights."
Congress finds that the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (1 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) have been implemented in a manner that deprives private property owners of the use and control of their property. As additional Federal programs are proposed that would limit and restrict the use of private property to provide habitat for plant and animal species, the rights of private property owners must be recognized and respected. Section 7 amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1540) to allow private property owners the right to appeal the following actions: determination that a parcel of property is critical habitat for a species; denial of a permit for an incidental take; and imposition of an order prohibiting or substantially limiting the use of the property. Section 8 outlines procedures for private property owners to gain compensation for property set aside as a result of a Federal agency's decision. Related bills: H.R. 3875, June 1994; H.R. 3997, March 1994; S. 1440, August 1993; S. 1521, October 1993; H.R. 1490, March 1993; S. 3159, August 1992; H.R. 4045, November 1991.
Introduced on November 19, 1993, by Charles W. Stenholm (R-TX) and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. This act may be cited as the "Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1993."
Chapter 13 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding the following: Whoever by force, threat of force, or physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates, or interferes with any person, or attempts to do so, because that person is engaging in activities in an animal enterprise; or intentionally damages or destroys the property of a facility , or attempts to do so, because that facility is an animal enterprise shall be punished. An "animal enterprise" is defined as a commercial or academic enterprise that uses animals for food or fiber production, agriculture, research, testing, a zoo, aquarium, circus, rodeo, lawful competitive animal event, and any fair or similar event intended to advance agriculture. Penalties for violation include in the case of a first offense a fine and imprisonment for not more than 1 year, in the case of a second or subsequent offense after a prior conviction, a fine and imprisonment for not more than 3 years. If bodily injury results then the length of imprisonment shall be not more than 10 years, and if death results, it shall be for any term of years or for life. Related bills and laws: H.R. 3064, September 1993; P.L. 102-346, August 1992.
Introduced March 16, 1994, by Martin H. Lancaster (R-NC) and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall issue regulations that authorize the Secretary to purchase and eradicate, in accordance with section 11 of the Act of May 29, 1884 (21 U.S.C. 114a), swine infected with or exposed to brucellosis. Related bill. S. 1901, 1994.
This act may be cited as the "North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act."
Passed December 8, 1993. Part 2, section 361, outlines agricultural, technical and conforming amendments governing importation and inspection of animals, and amendments to the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 466(d)) and Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 620(e)). The Secretary of Agriculture shall make a grant to a land-grant college for the construction of a facility for the conduct of research in animal health, disease-transmitting insects, and toxic chemicals that require the use of a biocontainment facility. To be eligible for the grant, the land- grant college must be adjacent to the international border with Mexico and have an established program in animal health research. The facility constructed with the grant shall be known as the "Southwest Regional Animal Health Biocontainment Facility."
Introduced by Solomon P. Ortiz (R-TX) on March 10, 1994, and referred to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Section 101(d) authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to enable the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out the Coastal Ocean Program. A total of $200,000 is available until expended to study the use of oceanic data obtained from satellite imagery and other sources to determine and predict the presence of endangered sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico
Introduced May 10, 1994, by Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), and read and passed. This act may be cited as the "Stewardship End-Result Contracts Demonstration Act."
Section 3 authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to apply all or part of revenues received from timber to be used for site preparation, replanting, silviculture programs, recreation and wildlife habitat.
Introduced May 23, 1994, by John W. Warner (R-VA) and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. This act may be cited as the "Mount Pleasant National Scenic Area Act."
The purposes of this act are to ensure appropriate protection and preservation of the scenic quality, water quality, natural characteristics, and water resources of the Mount Pleasant National Scenic Area; to protect and manage vegetation to provide wildlife and fish habitat; and to encourage old-growth forest development.
Introduced April 21, 1994, by Elizabeth Furse (R-OR) and referred jointly to the Committees on Agriculture, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and Public Works and Transportation. This act may be cited as the "Waterways Restoration Act of 1994."
Congress finds that protecting and restoring watersheds provides critical ecological benefits by restoring and maintaining biodiversity, providing fish and wildlife habitat, filtering pollutants, and performing other important ecological functions.
Introduced March 8, 1994, by Richard W. Pombo (R-CA) and referred to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. This act may be cited as the "Endangered Species Management Act of 1994."
The purposes of this act are to provide a practical means whereby ecosystems upon which endangered and threatened species directly depend may be conserved, and to provide programs for the conservation of endangered species and threatened species that take into account economic and social consequences.
The Secretary of the Interior may not list a species as endangered or threatened unless a report has been prepared that includes a complete file of scientific data and collection methodology used to determine the listing, and a recovery plan for the species that includes scientific data and projected costs. The report must be reviewed by a scientific peer review panel. The Secretary of the Interior must submit an intent to list a species as endangered or threatened to a newspaper of general circulation in the State where the species is believed to occur for 5 consecutive days. Public hearings must also be held in the State where the species resides. Related bills: H.R. 3997, March 1994; S. 1440, August 1993; S. 1521, October 1993; H.R. 1490, March 1993; S. 3159, August 1992; H.R. 4045, November 1991.
Introduced March 9, 1994, by Jack Fields (R-TX) and referred jointly to the Committees on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and Ways and Means. This act may be cited as the "Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994."
Congress finds that the world's rhinoceros population is declining at an alarming rate, a 90-percent decline since 1970. The purposes of this act are to assist in the conservation of rhinoceros and tigers by supporting the conservation programs of nations whose activities affect rhinoceros and tiger populations, and to provide financial resources for those programs.
Introduced March 10, 1994, by John T. Doolittle (R-CA) and referred to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. This act may be cited as the "Balanced Economic and Environmental Priorities Act of 1994."
Section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533) is amended to include a section on economic impact analysis. An officer or employee of a Federal agency shall not implement or enforce a designation, regulation, or recovery plan unless the Secretary [of the Interior] has prepared an economic impact analysis. The economic impact analysis shall include determination of the following: identifiable and potential job losses; identifiable losses in the value of real property resulting from implementation and enforcement; and losses in business enterprises. Compensation shall be paid to persons who incur economic loss as a result of a species being listed as an endangered or threatened species. Related bills: H.R. 3978, March 1994; S. 1440, August 1993; S. 1521, October 1993; H.R. 1490, March 1993; S. 3159, August 1992; H.R. 4045, November 1991.
Introduced March 3, 1994, by Tim Johnson (R-SD) and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. This act may be cited as the "Mni Wiconi Act Amendments of 1994."
Congress finds that the lack of water supplies on the Rosebud Reservation and Lower Brule Reservation restricts efforts to promote economic development of those reservations. The Secretary [of the Interior] is authorized and directed to plan, design, construct, operate maintain, and replace a municipal, rural and industrial water system. The Secretary shall make Federal grants to the Oglala Sioux, Rosebud Sioux, and Lower Brule Sioux Bio-Diversity Trusts. Each trust shall be eligible for Federal grants if it selects and provides funding to projects which restore, protect, and enhance wildlife and wildlife habitat.
Introduced February 7, 1994, by Claiborne Pell (D-RI) and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. This act may be cited as the "Antarctic Environmental Protection Act of 1994."
Congress finds that the Antarctic Treaty and the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty serve important U.S. environmental and resource management interests, while at the same time preserving the freedom of scientific investigation in Antarctica. Activities in Antarctica are to be planned and conducted so as to limit adverse impacts on the environment and dependent ecosystems. Section 4 outlines prohibited acts such as: disposing of wastes from land into the sea of Antarctica; introducing species of animals or plants not indigenous to Antarctica; killing, injuring, capturing, handling, or molesting any native mammal or bird; removing or damaging native plants such that their distribution or abundance would be affected; and flying or landing helicopters or other aircraft in a manner that disturbs concentrations of birds and seals. Related bills: S.1427, August 1993; S. 3189, August 1992.
Introduced November 17, 1993, by Nina M. Lowey (R-NY) and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
It is the policy of the United States to end the needless maiming and suffering inflicted upon animals through the use of steel jaw leghold traps by prohibiting the shipment in interstate or foreign commerce of the traps and of articles of fur from animals that were trapped in the traps. It is unlawful for any person to knowingly import, export, ship, or receive any article of fur from an animal trapped in a steel jaw leghold trap; or to deliver, carry, transport, ship, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any steel jaw leghold trap. Related bills: S. 1343, August 1993; H.R. 1354, March 1991; H.R. 4604, April 1990; S.2239, March 1982.
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[This review from the Monitor's archives originally ran on July 14, 2009.] The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas's doorstop of derring-do, demonstrates its durability yet again, this time in a newly edited version led by a perceptive essay by Italian master of letters Umberto Eco. In the name of the throes, Eco outlines all of the novel's excesses and weaknesses but still pronounces it irresistible.
He's right in every sense. Dumas suffers from logorrhea, induced by the simple formula that the more he wrote, the more money he made. Beyond that pecuniary circumstance, the author serialized his works, forcing endless repetition of scenes and dialogue in an attempt to ensure continuity. This newly edited version of "Monte Cristo" offers some streamlining, but it hasn't been noticeably trimmed.
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I have a number of Hydrangeas in my sea facing garden in Co Kerry, Ireland. Planted some 6 years ago they have grown really well and form a spectacular show with blues, pinks in my weak but acid soil. Over the past 18 months 2 adjacent plants have died off for no apparant reason and 3rd adjacent one is showing signs. Perhaps coincidence but after being clipped back to super buds they wilted in spring. I think it must be Bacteria Wilt for which I understand from my research is incurable. See Photo. I cut back the stems and noticed they were mainly brown inside. When dug up the roots had semi rotted but a little life remained. The one that is showing signs of stress in the photo I have cut it back to the base and cleaned all the dead leaves. I would welcome any feedback to a) stop it affecting any more plants and b) eradicating it from the soil so I can replant. Jeyes fluid came to mind but what strength, how long, etc |
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I would monitor the soil to make sure it is draining well and not starving the plants of oxygen and causing rotting. After a while, this constant amount of wetness can produce root rot. Since you have had two plants mysteriously affected, I would ask your Agriculture Extension Office to process a soil test (to look for mineral defficiencies or high levels of minerals/salts/etc). I would also send them samples of affected blooms/leaves in a sealed transparent plastic envelope for analysis. They should be able to detect problems with Pseudomonas solanacearum (bacterial wilt) abd Phytophthora root rot. The shrub on the right appears as many hydrangeas do when they begin to go dormant but I do not know if that look is normal in early September where you live. I usually see that in November-December instead. But purple leaves are also a sign of mineral problems, such as phosphorous/potassium/magnesium deficiencies. A good soil test can help detect magnesium deficiencies, phosphorous deficiencies or high levels of pottasium (sometimes associated with low levels of magnesium). A finger test can be used to determine if the soil is not draining well and acting like a bath tub full of water instead. Insert a finger daily to a depth of 4" or so early in the morning and determine if the soil moisture cycles between periods of almost dry to moist to wet and back. If it stays wet for a day and you cannot find an explanation (for example, it recently rained) then investigate water draining issues further. Here is a link with a better test if you are interested: http://www.ehow.com/how_4543171_test-soil-drainage.html Lastly, this coloring could be normal. For example, Preziosa, a cross of macrophylla and serrata types, does this leaf color change often late in the growing season. Plum Passion has purplish leaves too. Luis |
Hi Luis, Thanks for the feedback. I have added a photo of t he roots this time as I could see how to add 2 photos. Re the soil test I will have a go at this. I have my own well water supply and have to get that tested annually. That always shows high iron content and slightly over borderline magnesium which my water filtration system handles, so I dont think that element is the issue but the volume of rain here over the past couple of years has been immense and severely affected most lawns in the area. These particular hydrangeas are located at the lower end of the garden so I am guessing this is the main issue. Even up to June the water oozed up when I walked on the lawn. I have recently installed a new land drain which should help going forward and we have had a dry summer. I will look to replant with new ones in the spring and see what happens. |
Yikes, being clumsy myself, I would have used the services of a landscape company to reroute all the water elsewhere somehow, like you did with the land drain that you refer to. Any time that you walk on the ground and water oozes up, that would not be good for hydrangeas. An oakleaf hydrangea, being extremely sensitive to wet soil, would have petered out in no time at all! Good luck with the land drain, allenj22. |
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I have a self-propelled walk-behind Craftsman that's a few years old. Normally, I just mulch mow so I don't have to deal with the catcher bag, but every spring I scalp my bermuda and bag the clippings. Trouble is, whenever I put the catcher bag on and start mowing, the clippings blow out through the crack between the bag and the plastic flap and I become covered with grass clippings.
My makeshift solution has been to put a cloth rag in the crack to fill it up, but that's getting old. Any suggestions? Do the catcher bags normally warp? Should I try pounding the metal with a hammer? Maybe I should just go buy some adhesive rubbery stuff and stick it on to seal the gap. What do you think? |
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I'm not sure I understand the setup. Please describe it in more detail. Is this a hard plastic "bag" that warped? I'm confused because you were first talking about a gap between the bag and a plastic flap then you begin asking whether "the metal" should be pounded. Which metal. |
The adhesive rubbery stuff is the ticket AKA weatherstrip ;) You could look at the form of the frame. Sometimes they "sack out" from the weight of the grass and maybe a tweak here or there will create a better fit. |
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Diamond anvil cell
A diamond anvil cell (DAC) is a device used in scientific experiments. It allows compressing a small (sub-millimeter sized) piece of material to extreme pressures, which can exceed 600 gigapascals (6,000,000 bars / 6 million atmospheres)[1]
The device has been used to recreate the pressure existing deep inside planets, creating materials and phases not observed under normal conditions. Notable examples include the non-molecular ice X,[2] polymeric nitrogen[3] and metallic xenon (an inert gas at lower pressures).
A DAC consists of two opposing diamonds with a sample compressed between the culets (tips). Pressure may be monitored using a reference material whose behavior under pressure is known. Common pressure standards include ruby[4] fluorescence, and various structurally simple metals, such as copper or platinum.[5] The uniaxial pressure supplied by the DAC may be transformed into uniform hydrostatic pressure using a pressure transmitting medium, such as argon, xenon, hydrogen, helium, paraffin oil or a mixture of methanol and ethanol.[6] The pressure-transmitting medium is enclosed by a gasket and the two diamond anvils. The sample can be viewed through the diamonds and illuminated by X-rays and visible light. In this way, X-ray diffraction and fluorescence; optical absorption and photoluminescence; Mössbauer, Raman and Brillouin scattering; positron annihilation and other signals can be measured from materials under high pressure. Magnetic and microwave fields can be applied externally to the cell allowing nuclear magnetic resonance, electron paramagnetic resonance and other magnetic measurements.[7] Attaching electrodes to the sample allows electrical and magnetoelectrical measurements as well as heating up the sample to a few thousand degrees. Much higher temperatures (up to 7000 K)[8] can be achieved with laser-induced heating,[9] and cooling down to millikelvins has been demonstrated.[6]
The operation of the diamond anvil cell relies on a simple principle:
where p is the pressure, F the applied force, and A the area.
Therefore high pressure can be achieved by applying a moderate force on a sample with a small area, rather than applying a large force on a large area. In order to minimize deformation and failure of the anvils that apply the force, they must be made from a very hard and virtually incompressible material, such as diamond.
Percy Williams Bridgman, the great pioneer of high-pressure research during the first half of the 20th century, revolutionized the field of high pressures with his development of an opposed anvil device with small flat areas that were pressed one against the other with a lever-arm. The anvils were made of tungsten carbide (WC). This device could achieve pressure of a few gigapascals, and was used in electrical resistance and compressibility measurements. The invention of the diamond anvil cell in the late 1950s at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) by Weir, Lippincott, Van Valkenburg, and Bunting further refined the process.[10] The principles of the DAC are similar to the Bridgman anvils but in order to achieve the highest possible pressures without breaking the anvils, they were made of the hardest known material: a single crystal diamond. The first prototypes were limited in their pressure range and there was not a reliable way to calibrate the pressure. During the following decades DACs have been successively refined, the most important innovations being the use of gaskets and the ruby pressure calibration. The DAC evolved to be the most powerful lab device for generating static high pressure.[11] The range of static pressure attainable today extends to the estimated pressures at the Earth's center (~360 GPa).
There are many different DAC designs but all have four main components:
- The force-generating device — relies on the operation of either a lever arm, tightening screws, or pneumatic or hydraulic pressure applied to a membrane. In all cases the force is uniaxial and is applied to the tables (bases) of the two anvils
- Two opposing diamond anvils — made of high gem quality, flawless diamonds, usually with 16 facets. They typically weigh 1/8 to 1/3 carat (25 to 70 mg). The culet (tip) is ground and polished to a hexadecagonal surface parallel to the table. The culets of the two diamonds face one another, and must be perfectly parallel in order to produce uniform pressure and to prevent dangerous strains. Specially selected anvils are required for specific measurements—for example, low diamond absorption and luminescence is required in corresponding experiments.
- Gasket — a foil of ~0.2 mm thickness (before compression) that separates the two culets. It has an important role: to contain the sample with a hydrostatic fluid in a cavity between the diamonds, and to prevent anvil failure by supporting the diamond tips, thus reducing stresses at the edges of the culet. Standard gasket materials are hard metals and their alloys, such as stainless steel, Inconel, rhenium, iridium or tungsten carbide. They are not transparent to X-rays, and thus if X-ray illumination through the gasket is required then lighter materials, such as beryllium, boron nitride,[12] boron[13] or diamond[14] are used as a gasket.
- Pressure-transmitting medium — homogenizes the pressure. Methanol:ethanol 4:1 mixture is rather popular because of ease of handling. However, above ~20 GPa it turns into a glass and thus the pressure becomes nonhydrostatic.[6] Argon, hydrogen and helium are usable up to the highest pressures, and techniques have been developed to seal them in the cell.[6]
Prior to the invention of the diamond anvil cell, static high-pressure apparatus required large hydraulic presses which weighed several tons and required large specialized laboratories. The simplicity and compactness of the DAC meant that it could be accommodated in a wide variety of experiments. Some contemporary DACs can easily fit into a cryostat for low-temperature measurements, and for use with a superconducting electromagnet. In addition to being hard, diamonds have the advantage of being transparent to a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum from infrared to gamma rays, with the exception of the far ultraviolet and soft X-rays. This makes the DAC a perfect device for spectroscopic experiments and for crystallographic studies using hard X-rays.
A variant of the diamond anvil, the hydrothermal diamond anvil cell (HDAC) is used in experimental petrology/geochemistry for the study of aqueous fluids, silicate melts, immiscible liquids, mineral solubility and aqueous fluid speciation at geologic pressures and temperatures. The HDAC is sometimes used to examine aqueous complexes in solution using the synchrotron light source techniques XANES and EXAFS. The design of HDAC is very similar to that of DAC, but it is optimized for studying liquids.[15]
Innovative uses[edit]
An innovative use of the diamond anvil cell is testing the sustainability and durability of life under high pressures. This innovative use can be used in the search for life on extrasolar planets. One reason the DAC is applicable for testing life on extrasolar planets is panspermia, a form of interstellar travel. When panspermia occurs, there is high pressure upon impact and the DAC can replicate this pressure. Another reason the DAC is applicable for testing life on extrasolar planets is that planetary bodies that hold the potential for life may have incredibly high pressure on their surface.
Anurag Sharma, a geochemist, James Scott, a microbiologist, and others at the Carnegie Institution of Washington performed an experiment with the DAC using this new innovative application. Their goal was to test microbes and discover under what level of pressure they can carry out life processes. The experiment was performed under 1.6 GPa of pressure, which is more than 16,000 times Earth's surface pressure (Earth's surface pressure is 985 hPa). The experiment began by placing a solution of bacteria, specifically Escherichia coli and Shewanella oneidensis, in a film and placing it in the DAC. The pressure was then raised to 1.6 GPa. When raised to this pressure and kept there for 30 hours, only about 1% of the bacteria survived. The experimenters then added a dye to the solution. If the cells survived the squeezing and were capable of carrying out life processes, specifically breaking down formate, the dye would turn clear. 1.6 GPa is such great pressure that during the experiment the DAC turned the solution into ice-IV, a room-temperature ice. When the bacteria broke down the formate in the ice, liquid pockets would form because of the chemical reaction. The bacteria were also able to cling to the surface of the DAC with their tails.[16]
However, there is some skepticism with this experiment. People debate whether carrying out the simple process of breaking down formate is enough to consider the bacteria living. Art Yayanos, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, believes an organism should only be considered living if it can reproduce. Another issue with the DAC experiment is that when high pressures occur, there are usually high temperatures present as well, but in this experiment there were not. This experiment was performed at room-temperature, which causes some skepticism of the results.[16]
Moving past the 10 years of skepticism, new results from independent research groups [17] have shown the validity of Sharma et al. (2002) [18] work. This is a significant step that reiterates the need for a new approach to the old problem of studying environmental extremes through experiments. There is practically no debate whether microbial life can survive pressures up to 600 MPa, which has been shown over the last decade or so to be valid through a number of scattered publications.[18] What is significant in this approach of Sharma et al. 2002 work is the elegantly straightforward ability to monitor systems at extreme conditions that have since remained technically inaccessible. While the simplicity and the elegance of this experimental approach is mind-boggling; the results are rather expected and consistent with most biophysical models. This novel approach lays a foundation for future work on microbiology at non-ambient conditions by not only providing a scientific premise, but also laying the technical feasibility for future work on non-ambient biology and organic systems.
There is another group of scientists performing similar tests with a low-pressure diamond anvil cell. This low-pressure DAC has better imaging quality and signal collection. It is designed to sense pressures in the 0.1–600 MPa range, much lower than the high pressure DAC. The new low-pressure DAC also has a new asymmetric design, as opposed to a symmetric design the old, high pressure DAC used. In this experiment Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the microbe being observed. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is more commonly known as baker's yeast. These microbes can only grow in pressures ranging from 15–50 MPa, while pressures over 200 MPa are likely to kill the cells. The microbes were also incubated at 30 °C. Their tests showed that the yeast completed its cell cycle in 97±5 minutes.[19]
See also[edit]
- ^ Improved diamond anvil cell allows higher pressures Physics World November 2012
- ^ Goncharov, A. F.; Struzhkin, V. V.; Somayazulu, M. S.; Hemley, R. J.; Mao, H. K. (Jul 1986). "Compression of ice to 210 gigapascals: Infrared evidence for a symmetric hydrogen-bonded phase". Science 273 (5272): 218–230. Bibcode:1996Sci...273..218G. doi:10.1126/science.273.5272.218. PMID 8662500.
- ^ Eremets, MI; Hemley, RJ; Mao, Hk; Gregoryanz, E (May 2001). "Semiconducting non-molecular nitrogen up to 240 GPa and its low-pressure stability". Nature 411 (6834): 170–174. Bibcode:2001Natur.411..170E. doi:10.1038/35075531. PMID 11346788.
- ^ Forman, Richard A.; Piermarini, Gasper J.; Barnett, J. Dean; Block, Stanley (1972). "Pressure Measurement Made by the Utilization of Ruby Sharp-Line Luminescence". Science 176 (4032): 284–5. Bibcode:1972Sci...176..284F. doi:10.1126/science.176.4032.284. PMID 17791916.
- ^ Kinslow, Ray; Cable, A. J. (1970). High-velocity impact phenomena. Boston: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-408950-X.
- ^ a b c d Jayaraman, A. (1986). "Ultrahigh pressures". Reviews of Scientific Instruments 57 (6): 1013. Bibcode:1986RScI...57.1013J. doi:10.1063/1.1138654.
- ^ Bromberg, Steven E.; Chan, I. Y. (1992). "Enhanced sensitivity for high-pressure EPR using dielectric resonators". Review of Scientific Instruments 63 (7): 3670. Bibcode:1992RScI...63.3670B. doi:10.1063/1.1143596.
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Looks very much like Prague viburnum, V. pragense. Shiny rich green above, silvery beneath, evergreen. Leaves are the right size, too. |
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I'll second that. |
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Praguense it is. It's a hybrid between V. rhytidophyllum and V. utile. They handled this winter like troopers! Good to see them being planted more! I've wondered how they might do limbed up as a standard, but I suspect the week branches would be pulled down by snow and ice. |
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Absolutely that is Viburnum x pragense. Weak branches? Bite your tongue. The branches will have the exact same strength, whether your plant is single stemmed or multi-stemmed. Go out on that limb... |
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vv: have you ever seen them limbed up as a standard? |
So we're gonna call this Prague Viburnum, that's a new one for me. I see that it is a hybrid so am hoping it is sterile. Looks like a great shrub for screening, massing and no maintenance whatsoever. |
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Chang Hwa Commercial, based in Taichung, Taiwan, said in a statement that its board didn't discuss such a deal, reported by Taipei-based Commercial Times today. Taishin Financial Holding Co., the parent firm of Taishin International Bank, called the report speculative in a statement. Taishin Financial's largest shareholder is TPG Newbridge according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The newspaper report comes more than four years after an investigation into irregularities surrounding Taishin Financial's purchase of a stake in Chang Hwa. Former President Chen Shui-bian, who left office in 2008, had encouraged mergers among the island's financial institutions to boost growth before being convicted of taking bribes while in office and sentenced to life in prison.
Taiwan's finance ministry holds a 12 percent stake in Chang Hwa. Deputy Finance Minister Tseng Ming-chung called a press conference in Taipei today to deny that the government had initiated a plan to consolidate Taiwan's state-invested financial institutions.
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Ronald J. Schiller, who abruptly left his job as the radio network's senior fund raiser after an undercover video was released of his conversation with two men he thought were donors, worries that nonprofit officials will take the wrong lesson from his experience, especially if they completely avoid talking to donors about sensitive topics like race, religion, and politics. Such caution, he says, could ultimately cause nonprofits to lose big gifts.
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"You will run into awkward situations," Mr. Schiller said, but fund raisers "must connect with donors as human beings with two-way authenticity."
Although the video flap also cost Mr. Schiller a job he had been planning to take at the Aspen Institute, he says he has not lost his optimism or his belief that most interactions with donors are likely to be positive. "I don't want to change this about myself," he said.
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