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Though plastic bags and cups weighing less than 50 microns still find space in certain shops, there has been a perceptible decline in the usage of such items especially during the last two months after government authorities stepped up its effort to enforce the ban on plastics invoked on December 9 last year.
Lieutenant Governor Iqbal Singh has issued an order under powers vested in him by the Environment (Protection) Act 1986. The notification stated that no person including a shopkeeper, vendor or wholesale dealer, retailer or dealer or trader should use or sell polythene carry bags of 50 microns or below and a size of less than 8 x 12 inches.
After initial delay in enforcing the ban, the government a few months ago stepped up the drive after holding talks with stakeholders and creating awareness among public. "It has started yielding results. There is a perceptible reduction in the use of such items now," Special Secretary to Government G. Theva Neethi Dhas told TheHindu.
Teams formed under the direct supervision of heads of Revenue, Health, Science and Technology Departments and Municipalities conducted raids in around 150 shops in the town and suburban areas in the last few months. Items worth around Rs 15,000 have been seized so far.
The first leg of inspection had been completed, he said adding in the coming months it would be further intensified. As many as 5 units involved in the manufacture of bags, cups and plates below 50 microns are now producing items beyond the prescribed limit. Apart from the five units, 140 industries producing various plastic items have been asked to register under the Plastic, Manufacture, Sales and Usage Rules 1999 so as to bring them in the purview of environmental laws, Mr. Dhas said.


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Jan. 20, 1959 c. s. HOFFMAN INTAKE SILENCER Filed Oct. 1, 1956 n m m m AIR FL 0W 5! sou/v0 WA l/E ATTORNE Y 2,869,670 Patented Jan. 20, 1959 KNTAKE SILENCER Carl S. Holiman, Royal Gak, Mich., 'assignor to Motors Corporation, Detroit, Mich., a corporation or Delaware Application Gctoher 1, 1956, Serial No. 613,134
1 Claim. (Cl. 181-35) This invention relates to intake silencers for engines and has particular relation to an intake silencer especially applicable for use in diesel engines having turbo compressor means for supplying air for operating the engines.
It is proposed to provide an intake silencer for such purposes which will be economical to construct, which will require a small amount of space, which can be mounted on a turbo compressor inlet and which will effectively absorb and baffle the sound emanating from the engine through such inlet.
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The single figure of the drawing illustrates a fragmentary view of an engine having a turbo compressor inlet to which is secured an intake silencer embodying the principles of the invention.
The engine may be a diesel or other suitable engine having an air inlet indicated at 11. In the present instance the engine is provided with a turbo compressor 12 which receives air from the inlet 11 to be compressed and supplied to the cylinders of the engine. The inlet 11 is adapted to be supplied with air by an intake silencer 13 formed by a casing 14 having inner and outer walls 16 and 17 respectively. Inner wall 16 is formed to provide a tubular outlet 19 communicating with the inlet 11 and around which an annular recess 21 is formed in the wall 16. The outer wall 17 is spaced from the inner wall 16 to provide an inlet chamber 22 which communicates with the outlet 19. The outer wall 17 has a depression 23 formed therein in directly opposed relation to the outlet 19 and extending radially outwardly beyond the outlet 19 where it overlaps the inner part of the recess 21. The wall 17 may also be formed to include a peripheral wall shield or baffle 24 surrounding the depression 23 and extending part of the way across the chamber 22 toward the recess 21. The recess and the depression may be filled with sound absorbing material indicated at 26. In order to be able to easily assemble the structure and to hold the sound absorbing material 26 in place it is proposed to employ tubular spacers 27 extending across the chamber 22 outwardly of the outlet 19. The opposite ends of the tubular spacers 27 are adapted to engage perforated plates 28 and 29 extending across the recess 21 and the depression 23 respectively and engaging the sound absorbing material therein and spacing lugs 31 formed inwardly of the walls 16 and 17 and within the recess 21 and depression 23, all respectively. The spacers 27, perforated plates 28 and 29 and casing walls 16 and 17 are all held together and assembled upon the engine 10 by fastening means in the form of studs 32 projecting through aligned openings in the parts referred to and being secured in threaded openings formed in the engine inlet 11. The walls 16 and 17 are spaced at the outer peripheral edges thereof to provide an inlet to the chamber 22 from the atmosphere surrounding the structure. The inlet may be covered by a perforated band 33 the edges of which engage shoulders 34 formed on the walls 16 and 17, the ends of the band being flanged at 38 and removably secured together by bolts 39. The chamber 22 and the atmospheric inlet leading thereto are large enough to supply air to the outlet 19 leading to the inlet 11 without objectionable restriction. The chamber also is large enough to permit the baffle 24 to extend a considerable distance across the chamber and toward the recess 21 without appreciably restricting the flow of air in this region. However, the bafiie 24 is located in a position to provide a shield that will effectively prevent the sound waves emanating from the inlet from being reflected against the various parts and escaping to the atmosphere through the chamber inlet, without first being projected against the sound absorbing material 26 in both the recess 21 and the depression 23. The central part of the depression 23 directly opposite the outlet 19 will absorb sound waves projected outwardly from the outlet 19, will reflect the unabsorbed sound waves backwardly into the turbo compressor 11 or will reflect such waves obliquely outwardly against the sound absorbing material in the recess 21. Such sound waves as may not be absorbed within the turbo compressor or the recess 21 and depression 23 will not be objectionable when reflected around the battle 24 and from the inlet leading to the chamber 22.
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An intake silencer for internal combustion engines and the like and comprising a casing having spaced inner and outer walls, said walls being axially spaced to provide an inlet chamber and an inlet, and having axially opposed circumferential shoulders by which a screen portion in the form of a perforated band may be engaged, said inner wall of said casing having an outlet and being axially depressed around said outlet and within said inner Wall to provide an annular recess in said inner wall, said outlet forming an extension of the engine inlet to which the silencer is to be attached and having direct communication with said inlet chamber, said outer wall being formed to provide a depression extending across said outlet and overlapping said annular recess; spacing lugs formed inwardly within said depression and said inner wall respectively; spacers for coaction with said spacing lugs; threaded studs for rigidly clamping said inner and outer walls in the axial relation established by said spacers and coincidentally for fastening the silencer in place; sound absorbing material in opposed relation in said recess and in said depression for absorbing sound emanating from said outlet, said outer wall being formed radially inwardly of said shoulders to provide a peripheral bafiie around said depression and extending toward said inner wall recess and partly across said inlet chamber for baiiiing sound emanating from said outlet, said inner and outer walls and said bafiie being axially spaced, radially outwardly of said outlet, to provide a substantially unobstructed and radially inwardly directed passage from the atmosphere through said inlet and said inlet chamber and toward said outlet whereby a free diametral flow space is provided.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 425,637 Shipman Apr. 15, 1890 1,578,682 Raymond Mar. 30, 1926 1,934,463 Hartsock Nov. 7, 1933 2,323,955 Wilson July 13, 1943 2,564,814 Perrin Aug. 21, 1951 FOREIGN PATENTS 493,538 Great Britain 1938
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Graveside services and mteri ment will be on Friday, July 16, at 2 p.m, m the Prospect Hill Cemetery, in York. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday July 16, from to a.m., prior to the time of the service. Memorial contributions may be made to Goodwill. Wormley Retail sales drop by 1.1 percent in June -WASHINGTON, Lethargic shoppers depressed sales.at America's retailers in June by the largest percentage in 16 months. Looking ahead, though, buyers are expected to show more The 1.1 percent decline in sales, reported Wednesday by the Commerce Department, fol- lowed a .shopping splurge in May when sales rose 1.4 percent, better than previ- ously estimated. The retreat in buying was blamed on bad weather and the lingering effects of high energy- prices, economists said. Some analysts also said they believed June's slowdown in the growth of the nation's payrolls played a role. 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When to cut back clematis?
I left the long stems on my Jackmanni over the winter months. I'm in zone 8a, Fraser Valley, BC
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is using predictive analytics to evaluate risks facing the brokerage industry regulated by the agency and, potentially, to pinpoint firms headed for trouble.
Beginning this financial quarter, the SEC's newly created Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) is applying a risk assessment model that processes real-time data, financial statements and other information to give investigators a heads up on those tilting toward default. Giulio Girardi, an economist at DERA's Office of Quantitative Research, explained the parameters of the program at the Predictive Analytics World Government conference in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 18.
To evaluate risk, the SEC divides the 4,500 registered broker-dealers it regulates into seven groups for comparative purposes. Each of the seven groups is given a risk score for three categories: finances and operations, workforce and structure and supervision. Girardi would not disclose how the firms were categorized, but said that the 4,500 firms comprised a heterogeneous group and the divisions were necessary to make for valid comparisons.
Firms are ranked under a system similar to a mortgage scorecard. The system is designed to send up red flags for investigators, but investigations are not automatically triggered. Girardi explained that it might help investigators know which doors to knock on and what questions to ask when they do.
The analytic model is informed by historical data of firms that have defaulted. For example, models could be run on the defunct firm of MF Global in the months leading up to its meltdown to see if its risk is accurately predicted. "That's the kind of analysis we can use to back-test this model," Girardi said.
More and more agencies are using predictive analytics for fraud prevention, risk assessment and improving business practices. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board tracked spending on the economic stimulus package enacted in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown and has won plaudits on the left and the right for its work. The inspector general at the U.S. Post Office has leveraged mountains of data on mail routes, employee disability claims, and private sector data from heavy users such as Netflix and Gamefly to create models to investigate health care fraud and mail theft.
Evangelists of predictive analytics say these are the early days for applying the process to the federal enterprise. "The ability to do fraud detection is the table stakes," said Federal Communications Commission Chief Data Officer Greg Elin. "It's a great thing to be able to determine billions in fraud," he said. "The scarier thing is finding out whether it's the right thing to spend money on a program."
In the future, analytics could be baked into government interactions by ordinary citizens. Dean Silverman, senior adviser to the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, said his agency had floated the possibility of creating a real-time online tax system that would raise red flags for filers using the basic tax return forms. He said that a variety of barriers, including the complexity of the tax code and the voluntary nature of tax filing prevented such a system from being developed.
To this could be added the institutional hindrances preventing government IT systems from rapidly adopting new business models.
"We can learn about patterns or things to watch for. But whether or not those can be operationalized in government [depends on] procurement, the rulemaking process, and IT infrastructure that is not agile," Elin said.
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... the distance. Weather is clear which means we will get the cable rail up the mountains no problem. We may look at traveling to Switzerland tomorrow, a longer trip about 5 hours but staying over night returning on Wednesday is certainly worth a look. The other place we went to yesterday was the English garden, which is basically a very big park in central Munich, too big to walk around even in a day I think. In mid winter it all looks a bit harsh, we ...
... was a department right up my street called weight and measures. I surfaced about 4hours later and made my way to a meeting spot back in Munich central to meet the women folk. We lunched in a beer hall and dinned later in a beer hall, so all in all a great day. Just after 3pm on Friday 16th and we have pulled out from Garmisch for our return trip to Munich, amazed at what little snow is here, ...
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Locked Out: California's Affordable Housing Crisis HOUSING FACTS: THE BAY AREA ✔ The homeownership rate in the San Francisco metropolitan area (which includes San Francisco, Marin, and San Mateo Counties) was only 51.3 percent in 1999, compared to 66.8 percent for the nation as a whole. Other Bay Area county ownership rates were only slightly higher; only 57.8 percent of Santa Clara residents and 61.1 percent of Alameda-Contra Costa metropolitan area residents owned their own home in 1999. ✔ A large portion of Bay Area residents pay more than 30 percent of their income toward rent: 42 percent of San Francisco metropolitan area residents, 41 percent of Santa Clara residents, and 43 percent of Alameda-Contra Costa residents (1998). Approximately one fifth of Bay Area residents pay more than half of their incomes toward rent: 21 percent of San Francisco residents, 20 percent of Santa Clara residents, and 22 percent of Alameda-Contra Costa metropolitan area residents. ✔ Low income renters (those with household incomes under $15,000 per year) outnumber low cost rental units (those renting for less than $400 per month) by a ratio of 1.9-to-1 in San Francisco, 2.3-to-1 in San Jose, and 2.3-to-1 in the Oakland metropolitan area (1998). ✔ Nearly half of Bay Area renters are unable to afford a two bedroom apartment, based on 1999 Fair Market Rents (FMR's): 49 percent in the San Francisco metropolitan area and 45 percent in the Alameda/Contra Costa metropolitan area. San Francisco's real market rent exceeds the FMR for a two bedroom apartment by $876. This difference comes to $195 in Alameda, $92 in Contra Costa, and $227 in San Mateo. ✔ San Francisco added 15.8 jobs for each new unit of housing from 1994 to 1998, more than ten times the 1.5-to-1 ratio recommended by housing policy experts. San Mateo County added 10.8 jobs, Santa Clara added 8.6 jobs, Alameda added 5.4 jobs, and Contra Costa added 2.2 jobs, for each new housing unit in the same period. ✔ Less than a third (27 percent) of Bay Area households in 1999 could afford to buy the median priced home in their area, compared to 55 percent nationally. California Budget Project May 2000 Locked Out: California's Affordable Housing Crisis Bay Area Housing Facts, Page 2 ✔ More than 41,000 affordable units in the Bay Area are at risk of conversion to market rents over the next decade. The bulk of these are in San Francisco (9,759), Santa Clara (9,074) and Alameda (9,151) Counties. ✔ An estimated 96,700 individuals were homeless in the nine-county Bay Area region in 1996-97; 40 percent of the Bay Area's homeless are families. San Francisco and Alameda Counties saw the highest rates of homelessness, with 31,400 and 34,300 homeless individuals, respectively. ✔ An estimated nine percent (226,300 units) of the nine-county Bay Area region's housing is substandard (1997). The percentage of substandard housing ranges from five percent in Marin (4,700 units) and San Mateo (12,800 units) to 17 percent (56,000 units) in San Francisco. California Budget Project May 2000
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I just started using Boost::regex today and am quite a novice in Regular Expressions too. I have been using "The Regulator" and Expresso to test my regex and seem satisfied with what I see there, but transferring that regex to boost, does not seem to do what I want it to do. Any pointers to help me a solution would be most welcome. As a side question are there any tools that would help me test my regex against boost.regex?
using namespace boost;
using namespace std;
vector<string> tokenizer::to_vector_int(const string s)
regex re("\\d*");
vector<string> vs;
cmatch matches;
if( regex_match(s.c_str(), matches, re) ) {
MessageBox(NULL, L"Hmmm", L"", MB_OK); // it never gets here
for( unsigned int i = 1 ; i < matches.size() ; ++i ) {
string match(matches[i].first, matches[i].second);
return vs;
void _uttokenizer::test_to_vector_int()
vector<string> __vi = tokenizer::to_vector_int("0<br/>1");
for( int i = 0 ; i < __vi.size() ; ++i ) INFO(__vi[i]);
CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(2, (int)__vi.size());//always fails
Update (Thanks to Dav for helping me clarify my question): I was hoping to get a vector with 2 strings in them => "0" and "1". I instead never get a successful regex_match() (regex_match() always returns false) so the vector is always empty.
Thanks '1800 INFORMATION' for your suggestions. The
to_vector_int() method now looks like this, but it goes into a never ending loop (I took the code you gave and modified it to make it compilable) and find "0","","","" and so on. It never find the "1".
vector<string> tokenizer::to_vector_int(const string s)
regex re("(\\d*)");
vector<string> vs;
cmatch matches;
char * loc = const_cast<char *>(s.c_str());
while( regex_search(loc, matches, re) ) {
vs.push_back(string(matches[0].first, matches[0].second));
loc = const_cast<char *>(matches.suffix().str().c_str());
return vs;
In all honesty I don't think I have still understood the basics of searching for a pattern and getting the matches. Are there any tutorials with examples that explains this?


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One of the more entertaining and informative videos I've seen in a long while! Good stuff!
I use the quick folding all the time ;)
The egg, the egg!
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The t-shirt one seems kind of awkward... why not just grab the collar at the middle back, and pull upwards while raising your arms? Actually, if you're trying for a wall hook, put the back collar on the wall hook, and step away from the wall, while turning and kicking off your shoes...
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Incidentally the salt water thing works. It lowers the freezing point of the water so it can get well below 32 ºF, and cool whatever else is in there that much faster, while still remaining liquid.
I have to try the egg one. If I tried the parking one, could I sue wimp.com for not telling me to not try this at home?
I have to try some of this stuff sometime.
The parking thing has a bit too much room for error in it, a cop would probably ticket you, then shake your hand for being awesome.
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Mrs. Frizzle?
I was told recently by a new teacher that I reminded her of Mrs. Frizzle, because we're both "magically fantastic" and "make learning an adventure for the students". At first, I wasn't sure that it was a compliment, but the more I've thought about it, I can see some similarities.We both have long, frizzy, red hair, kept pulled back. I often dress for the current theme, although I don't have quite the same sense of style as Mrs. Frizzle. There is usually adventure afoot in my classroom. The more I've thought about it, the more I like the fact that remind folks of Mrs. Frizzle. She is magically fantastic!
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Ohhh I think it is a huge compliment. Ms. Frizzle is my idol and my goal is to make learning as much fun as she does. Definitely wish I knew where she buys all her cool clothes.ReplyDelete
What a compliment! Ms. Frizzle does what ever it takes to get her kids to learn!ReplyDelete
I am so glad I found you... you have lots of fabulous ideas on here! I look forward to learning more about what you do to make learning great!
Empowering Little Learners!
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Thanks, Life is A Lark! I am now completely flattered, it just took a little bit to get used to. :)ReplyDelete
Jennifer, I have recently discovered your blog, too, and and I'm really enjoying reading some of your old posts! :)
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