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Swift Current emergency personnel had a challenging rescue on Friday afternoon when an out of control vehicle left the road and jumped to the opposite side of the Swift Current Creek.
The male driver of the car was rescued by members of the Swift Current Ambulance and Swift Current Fire Department while his vehicle was situated on the east side of the Swift Current Creek at the Elmwood Golf Course.
The vehicle was reportedly traveling east on George St. E. when he overshot North Hill Drive and rapidly went down the hill leading to the Swift Current Creek, jumping the water and coming to rest on the opposite bank of the creek.
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Gill, 1865 - Pacific white-sided dolphin Distinctive CharacteristicsPacific white-sided dolphins, like all members of the genus Lagenorhynchus, are stocky animals with very short, thick snouts. The large flippers have slightly rounded tips. The dorsal fin, the species' most diagnostic feature, is prominent, strongly recurved, and bi-coloured.The dark grey back and sides are distinctly set off from the white belly by a black border. Light grey streaks beginning on the sides of the melon sweep downwards behind the eye and expand into large grey thoracic patches. Grey "suspender stripes", whichstart above the eyes, widen to bands on the sides of the tail stock. The lips are black.Each tooth row contains 23 to 36 pairs of relatively fine, sharply pointed teeth.Can be confused withPacific white-sided dolphins are most likely to be confused with common dolphins, because both species are found in large schools and have large light coloured flank patches. Beak length and specifics of the colour pattern are the best keys to distinguishing them.SizeAdults of this species reach 2.5 m in length, with males slightly larger than females. Maximum weight is about 180 kg. Length at birth is unknown, but is thought to be about 1 m.Geographical DistributionPacific white-sided dolphins inhabit temperate waters of the North Pacific and some adjacent seas. Although they are widely distributed in deep offshore waters, they also extend onto the continental shelf and very near shore in some areas. They reach their southern limits at the mouth of the Gulf of California (and occasionally venture northward to or beyond La Paz) and Taiwan. On both eastern and western sides of the Pacific, separate local stocks have been documented.Biology and BehaviourOften seen in large herds of hundreds or even thousands, these highly gregarious dolphins are also commonly seen with other species, especially northern right whale dolphins and Risso's dolphins. They are highly acrobatic and playful, commonly bowriding, and often leaping, flipping, or somersaulting. Calving apparently occurs during a protracted summer breeding season, which extends into autumn.They feed mostly on small schooling fish and squid. There is evidence that these dolphins feed mostly on deep scattering layer (DSL) organisms, sometimes using cooperative foraging techniques.ExploitationIn the western Pacific, Japanese drive and harpoon fisheries take hundreds or thousands of Pacific white-sided dolphins in most years. Exploitation in the eastern Pacific has been limited to occasional incidental capture in fishing nets, and small numbers taken in a fishery for live animals. In the central Pacific, white-sided dolphins were recently killed in substantial numbers in the Asian pelagic driftnet fisheries for squid. The annual kill was on the order of 8000 to 10,000 per year.IUCN StatusInsufficiently known.
Kingdom AnimaliaPhylum ChordataClass MammaliaOrder CetaceaSuborder OdontocetiFamily DelphinidaeGenus LagenorhynchusSpecies Lagenorhynchus obliquidens
Status in World Register of Marine SpeciesAccepted name: Lagenorhynchus obliquidens Gill, 1865
Scientific synonyms and common namesLagenorhynchus obliquidens Gill, 1865Common namesDauphin à flancs blancs du Pacifique [French]Delfín de costados blancos del Pacifico [Spanish]Pacific white-sided dolphin [English]Pacifische witflankdolfijn [Dutch]FAO Species CodeDELPH Lag 2 [FAO Species code]DWP [FAO Species code]
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Social Justice and Peace Studies is an interdisciplinary academic program committed to experiential education and inspired by the Catholic Social Teaching tradition. It encourages critical reflection on oppression and injustice, locally and globally, and it examines theoretical and practical approaches to justice and peace. It calls students to social action that transforms the world in the interests of human dignity, equality, sustainability, and peace.
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King's University College at Western University, a Catholic Liberal Arts College, invites applications for an open-rank position in Social Justice and Peace Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Programs effective July 1, 2014, subject to budgetary approval. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in-hand by the date of appointment, and a demonstrated record of teaching excellence. In addition, the successful candidate will have sustained research interests and training relevant for contributing to the mission of the Social Justice and Peace Studies Program.
The Hiring committee will value substantive expertise and teaching ability in one or more of the following: political-economy, critical theory, community and international development. We will favour those with sustained interests in one of the following areas: poverty, gender, indigenous issues, the environment, or human rights. Experience with experiential learning will be considered an asset.
Applicants should send a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, a teaching portfolio with a statement of teaching philosophy, and relevant publications electronically, preferably in PDF format to Professor Patrick J. Ryan, Program Coordinator, SJPS, at http://www.kings.uwo.ca/hiring Three signed letters of recommendation on institutional letterhead should be sent electronically to the same email address.
The deadline for all materials to be received is October 7, 2013.
Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of London, King's University College is an equal opportunity employer. The College welcomes faculty and students from all faiths and backgrounds. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
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- The chemotherapy of rodent malaria. LV. Interactions between pyronaridine and artemisininW Peters
International Institute of Parasitology, St Albans, U K
Ann Trop Med Parasitol 91:141-5. 1997..The implications of the findings in terms of the impeding of drug resistance when these compounds are deployed for the treatment of multi-drug-resistant P. falciparum are discussed... - Assessment of fungal isolates for development of a myco-acaricide for cattle tick controlPerry Polar
CAB International, Caribbean and Latin America Regional Centre, Curepe, Trinidad and Tobago
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 5:276-84. 2005..A further increase in concentration, 1 x 10(9) conidia/mL (AST = 10.2 +/- 0.4 days) did not shorten or lengthen the AST in comparison to 5 x 10(8) conidia/mL (AST = 9.4 +/- 0.3 days)... - The biology and taxonomy of rust fungi associated with the neotropical vine Mikania micrantha, a major invasive weed in AsiaHarry C Evans
CABI Bioscience, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7TA, UK
Mycologia 97:935-47. 2005..The fact that all three species share a fundamentally similar symptomatology suggests a common origin... - Potential for classical biological control of the potato bug Closterotomus norwegicus (Hemiptera: Miridae): description, parasitism and host specificity of Peristenus closterotomae sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)T Haye
CABI Switzerland Centre, 1 Rue des Grillons, 2800 Delémont, Switzerland
Bull Entomol Res 96:421-31. 2006..norwegicus. Whether nymphal parasitoids may potentially be used in a classical biological control initiative against the potato bug in countries where it is introduced and considered to be a pest is discussed... - Long-term effects of short-term perturbation in a subalpine grasslandThomas Spiegelberger
CABI Bioscience Switzerland, Rue des Grillons 1, CH 2800 Delémont, Switzerland
Ecology 87:1939-44. 2006..The results of this long-term study indicate that the resilience of mountain ecosystems may be particularly low in response to perturbations that substantially alter soil pH or other key determinants of belowground processes... - How can alien species inventories and interception data help us prevent insect invasions?M Kenis
CABI Bioscience Centre, 1 Rue des Grillons, 2800, Delémont, Switzerland
Bull Entomol Res 97:489-502. 2007..The implications of these observations for further studies and the management of alien species in Europe are discussed... - The impact of OECD best practice on the validation of cryopreservation techniques for microorganismsD Smith
CABI Europe UK, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, UK
Cryo Letters 29:63-72. 2008..This paper reviews the developments of BRC standards, how they are applied, current practices in cryopreservation and methods for validating the success of cryopreservation methodology... - Molecular characterisation of fungal endophytic morphospecies associated with the indigenous forest tree, Theobroma gileri, in EcuadorSarah E Thomas
CABI Europe UK, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, UK
Mycol Res 112:852-60. 2008.... - Topically applied myco-acaricides for the control of cattle ticks: overcoming the challengesPerry Polar
CABI, Caribbean and Latin America, Curepe, Trinidad and Tobago
Exp Appl Acarol 46:119-48. 2008.... - Effects of sheep fleece washings on the germination and growth of Beauveria bassianaB Taylor
CABI Europe UK, Biopesticides, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20 9TY, UK
J Invertebr Pathol 100:79-84. 2009..Viability was not linked to the sterility of the washes, although there was a significant difference between length of germ tube growth from viable conidia in sterile and non-sterile washings... - Comparative life tables of leek moth, Acrolepiopsis assectella (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Acrolepiidae), in its native rangeW H Jenner
Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada
Bull Entomol Res 100:87-97. 2010..This observation suggests that the pupal stage may be particularly vulnerable to natural enemies and, therefore, may be the best target for classical biological control in Canada... - Are the microcyclic rust species Puccinia melampodii and Puccinia xanthii conspecific?Marion K Seier
CABI Europe UK, Egham, Surrey, UK
Mycol Res 113:1271-82. 2009..Based on host-specificity data, the name Puccinia xanthii var. parthenii-hysterophorae is proposed to accommodate all Mesoamerican records of P. melampodii associated with the host Parthenium hysterophorus... - Native range assessment of classical biological control agents: impact of inundative releases as pre-introduction evaluationW H Jenner
CABI Europe Switzerland, 1 Rue des Grillons, Delémont, CH 2800, Switzerland
Bull Entomol Res 100:387-94. 2010..1% to 76.7%. This study demonstrates how field trials involving environmental manipulation in an agent's native range can yield predictions of the agent's field efficacy once introduced into a novel area... - Taxa distribution and RAPD markers indicate different origin and regional differentiation of hybrids in the invasive Fallopia complex in central-western EuropeC Krebs
Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Plant Biol (Stuttg) 12:215-23. 2010..We also found regional differentiation in the gene pool of F. x bohemica, with individuals within the same region more similar to each other than to individuals from different regions... - New fungal pathogens of the red ant, Myrmica rubra, from the UK and implications for ant invasions in the USAHarry C Evans
CAB International, E UK Centre, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey TW209TY, UK
Fungal Biol 114:451-66. 2010..The implications for the management of M. rubra in its exotic North American range using classical biological control are discussed... - Claviradulomyces, a new genus of Odontotremataceae from West African rainforestHarry C Evans
CAB International, Europe UK Centre, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20 9TY, UK
Fungal Biol 114:41-8. 2010..C. dabeicola has been collected consistently and exclusively on the rainforest tree Erythroxylum mannii in the Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, where it is associated with bark abnormalities on branches and stems of living trees... - Comparison of water, oils and emulsifiable adjuvant oils as formulating agents for Metarhizium anisopliae for use in control of Boophilus microplusPerry Polar
CAB International Caribbean and Latin America Regional Centre, Curepe, Trinidad and Tobago
Mycopathologia 160:151-7. 2005..The ASTs of the EAO based M. anisopliae formulations (Average AST = 6.4 +/- 0.54 days) were similar but lower that the ASTs of the controls (Average AST = 9.6 +/- 0.28 days)... - Thermal characteristics of Metarhizium anisopliae isolates important for the development of biological pesticides for the control of cattle ticksPerry Polar
CAB International, Caribbean and Latin America Regional Centre, Curepe, Trinidad and Tobago
Vet Parasitol 134:159-67. 2005..1+/-0.64 ticks/animal). M. anisopliae was re-isolated from 8.9% of the ticks collected from IMI386697 treated cattle as compared to 2.8% of ticks from ARSEF3297 treated cattle... - Molecular characterisation of Beauveria bassiana isolates obtained from overwintering sites of Sunn Pests (Eurygaster and Aelia species)Marilena Aquino de Muro
CABI Bioscience UK Centre, Bakeham Lane, Egham TW20 9TY, UK
Mycol Res 109:294-306. 2005..bassiana isolates from E. integriceps, perhaps suggesting the overwintering populations were infected by generalist native isolates rather than by host-specific ones that might be more suitable for biocontrol purposes... - [Fungi and biodiversity: international incentives]D L Hawksworth
International Mycological Institute, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
Microbiologia 13:221-6. 1997..Mycologists need to contribute to such programmes, maintain an enhance profile, and remain flexible to respond to new challenges... - Longer-term population dynamics of Gyrodactylus bullatarudis and G. turnbulli (Monogenea) on adult guppies (Poecilia reticulata) in 50-I experimental arenasG R Richards
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Liverpool, UK
Parasitol Res 84:753-6. 1998..There were some differences between the host-site specificity of G. bullatarudis and G. turnbulli on adult P. reticulata as compared with previously observed infections on immature fish... - Ecological approaches and the development of "truly integrated" pest managementM B Thomas
Leverhulme Unit for Population Biology and Biological Control, Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology and CABI Bioscience, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berks, SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96:5944-51. 1999.... - The chemotherapy of rodent malaria. LVI. Studies on the development of resistance to natural and synthetic endoperoxidesW Peters
CABI Bioscience, St Albans, U K
Ann Trop Med Parasitol 93:325-9. 1999..falciparum... - The chemotherapy of rodent malaria. LVII. Drug combinations to impede the selection of drug resistance, Part 1: Which model is appropriate?W Peters
CABI Bioscience, St Albans, U K
Ann Trop Med Parasitol 93:569-87. 1999..The 2%RT is considered to be the procedure of first choice... - Construction of chromosomal integrants of Bacillus sphaericus 2362 by conjugation with Escherichia coliM Aquino de Muro
Biosystematics and Molecular Biology, CABI Bioscience UK Centre, Egham, Surrey, UK
Res Microbiol 151:547-55. 2000..This system offers a simple and efficient means of transferring plasmids into B. sphaericus and obtaining chromosomal integration for strain construction and gene analysis... - Adult survival, maturation, and reproduction of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria infected with the fungus Metarhizium anisopliae var acridumS Blanford
Leverhulme Unit for Population Biology and Biological Control, Imperial College, Silwood Park, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, United Kingdom
J Invertebr Pathol 78:1-8. 2001..anisopliae var acridum to alter the balance of insect endocrine systems and the importance of the assessment of behavioral changes and their impact on microbial control agents in the long term... - Phenotypic degeneration occurs during sector formation in Metarhizium anisopliaeM J Ryan
Research School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
J Appl Microbiol 93:163-8. 2002..The aim of the investigation was to establish whether sector formation was accompanied by changes in physiological characters... - Galls on thistlesGregory J Masters
CABI Bioscience, Egham, UK
Biologist (London) 50:25-8. 2003..Yet, there is still no general consensus on why they exist. Thistle-galling insects are relatively well known and are used as biological control agents (of thistles) and model ecological systems... - Development of a cryopreservation protocol for the microcyclic rust-fungus Puccinia spegazziniiMatthew J Ryan
CABI Bioscience, Bakeham Lane, Egham, TW20 9TY, UK
Cryo Letters 24:43-8. 2003..However, despite great progress being made in developing an optimal cryopreservation method, infection of the host plant by basidiospores produced from previously cryopreserved teliospores, embedded in leaf petioles, was not achieved... - Viegasella and Mintera, two new genera of Parmulariaceae (Ascomycota), with notes on the species referred to SchneepiaCarlos A Inácio
CABI Bioscience, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20 9TY, UK
Mycol Res 107:82-92. 2003..Features of internal and external stromata, haustoria and stromata are emphasized as important characters for generic delimitation in the Parmulariaceae. The disposition of the remaining species assigned to Schneepia is discussed... - Culture collections over the worldDavid Smith
CABI Bioscience UK Centre, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, UK
Int Microbiol 6:95-100. 2003..The world must benefit from its microbial diversity, which is crucial to solving increasing problems in food provision, public health and poverty alleviation... - The use of amplified fragment length polymorphism for molecular analysis of Beauveria bassiana isolates from Kenya and other countries, and their correlation with host and geographical originMarilena Aquino de Muro
CABI Bioscience, Egham TW20 9TY, UK
FEMS Microbiol Lett 229:249-57. 2003..bassiana) isolated from insects and soil from Kenya and other 16 different countries, were obtained from the CABI Bioscience Genetic Resource Collection... - Studies on oil palm trunks as sources of infection in the fieldJ Flood
CABI Bioscience, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, TW20 9TY, United Kingdom
Mycopathologia 159:101-7. 2005..Isolates are being collected from infected plants and molecular analysis is being undertaken to give more information on the spread of the pathogen... - Fungal genetic resource centres and the genomic challengeMatthew J Ryan
Genetic Resources Collection, CABI Bioscience UK Centre, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20 9TY, UK
Mycol Res 108:1351-62. 2004..This review considers the impact of such initiatives, the current roles of fungal genetic resource centres, the mechanisms used to preserve organisms in a stable manner and the range of resources that are offered for genomic research... - The foliar endophytic fungal community composition in Cirsium arvense is affected by mycorrhizal colonization and soil nutrient contentRené Eschen
CABI Europe UK, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20 9TY, United Kingdom
Fungal Biol 114:991-8. 2010..We propose that these patterns were the result of differences in fungal growth responses to nutrient availability in the leaves, which can be affected by resources obtained from the soil or symbiotic fungi in the roots...


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Dear colleagues,
Even as we are entering the second, and what might turn out to be a prolonged, phase of conflict and turbulence in the institution, I write to seek your understanding.
In a shocking display of bad faith that has left me deeply anguished, N. Ram and some of the directors at the meeting of the Board on April 18, 2011 have sought to remove me and appoint as editor Siddharth Varadarajan who joined The Hindu in 2004.
You are all aware that I have been working in a wholly professional capacity for several decades ever since I joined the newspaper as a reporter in 1972. During this period, I have been fortunate to enjoy your cooperation and help in taking the newspaper forward. After 1991 when I took over as editor, our team transformed The Hindu from a Chennai-centred daily with just one page of local news to a well recognized national newspaper with extensive local and state coverage spread over four pages, and attractive features. We started a lively engagement with the leading issues of the day with extensive coverage and diverse viewpoints. We sought to uphold editorial integrity, seeking accountability from institutions and public officials without fear or favour.
Though the economy then was not so buoyant as during the later period,
between January 1991 and June 2003, the circulation of The Hindu increased from 4,52,918 copies (July-December 1990) to 9,33,458 copies (January-June 2003) or by 4,80,540 copies or 106.1%.
In the more recent period, The Hindu has been losing market share, and from being level with the Hindustan Times, it has now fallen far behind that newspaper. Findings from the most recent market survey present a depressing picture of reader perception of unappealing content and a pronounced bias towards the left.
It is a matter of public record that N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief, was to retire on May 4, 2010 on turning 65 and I was to take over as Editor-in-Chief under the arrangement agreed upon. However, in a shocking display of bad faith, Ram went on to renege on his commitment to retire and the whole process of editorial succession came to a standstill.
During the conflict created by Ram's breach of faith, Ram and a group of directors on the Board removed the powers and responsibilities of N. Murali, Managing Director in a vindictive move that was overturned by the Company Law Board, Chennai Bench that also came out with a severe indictment that their action was lacking in probity, good faith and fairness. Barely four months after the indictment, Ram and his group of directors have turned on me with the same lack of probity, good faith and fairness and have sought to remove me and impose a plan of editorial succession that is totally at variance with the longstanding tradition and practice in the institution and is also contrary to the directions of the Company Law Board.
Almost a year past the agreed retirement date, his position having become untenable in the face of the Company Law Board order, Ram seems bent on taking all the editorial directors—most are in their 50s--into retirement with him with a scorched earth policy to ensure that no one in the family succeeds him. Instead of coming up with a succession plan, he and some of the other directors have come up with a plan of wholesale removal. In a sudden change of rules and under the specious plea of separating ownership from management, along with my removal as editor, Nirmala Lakshman is to be forced to "step down" as joint editor and Malini Parthasarathy as executive editor.
Apart from the basic unfairness of the removal, the move seeks to entrench several of the distortions that have crept into the editorial framework since 2003 when Ram was appointed Editor-in-Chief by stealth over the protests of four of us. Among the issues that I have raised with the other directors during the discussions in the Board and outside are: the unmerited coverage of certain political favourites on specific directions; excessive coverage of the activities of the left and some of its leaders; for reasons that are bound to emerge sooner rather than later, turning the newspaper into an apologist for A. Raja through the 2G scam coverage, remaining deafeningly silent on his resignation in the face of mounting evidence even when demanding the resignation of Suresh Kalmadi, Ashok Chavan and Yeddyurappa in similar circumstances; pronounced pro-China tilt, blacking out or downplaying any news that is less than complimentary to the Chinese Communist regime; and contrary to the practice in any mainline newspaper, the Editor-in-Chief indulging in an unceasing self-glorification campaign, publishing his own ribbon cutting pictures and reports of his activities and speeches with a regularity that would put corporate house journals to shame.
The Hindu as an institution had in the past valued its editorial integrity over all else. In the recent period, editorial integrity has been severely compromised and news coverage linked directly to advertising in a way that is little different from paid news. A meaningless distinction has been sought to be made between walls and lines, and the walls between editorial and advertising are sought to be replaced by "lines" between them. Very recently, those of us who were not privy to the deal making learnt to our shock that a major interview with A. Raja in defence of the telecom licensing policy published on May 22, 2010—that was referred to by the Prime Minister in his press conference--involved a direct quid pro quo in the form of a full page, colour advertisement from the Telecom Ministry that was specially and hurriedly cleared by the Minister personally for publication on the same day in The Hindu. The contrast between such a deed and pious editorial declarations including the campaign against paid news cannot be starker. To continue with such practices, the editorial structure is sought to be changed, with the editor being made subordinate to an executive board comprising a majority of business side executives. The undermining of the primacy of the editorial function is an attack on the very soul of The Hindu. In the context of these distortions that have crept into actual practice, the high sounding code of editorial values that is sought to be publicised now would seem no more than empty rhetoric.
This round of turbulence comes at a time when all manner of investors are looking to gain influence and control over the media, and competition is increasing with newspapers striving to attract the attention of readers through better, more contemporary and enriched content. As part of the journalistic team, all of you have contributed so much to the growth of The Hindu and are vitally interested in the task of moving forward in a highly competitive environment even while observing the highest standards of editorial integrity. I feel strongly that when a distorted picture has emerged based on selective leaks, information on the happenings cannot be restricted to the confines of the boardroom and all the journalists as stakeholders need to be taken into confidence.
It is in this spirit that I am sharing my views with you all. I also write to you with the confidence that the unfair and untenable move will not be allowed to prevail. In the task of upholding the editorial principles that are so dear to all of us, I appeal for your support and understanding.
Yours sincerely,
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Anonymous 5pts I doubt that landlords or employers will even add sockets so you can charge it let alone actual chargers. Hopefully, the electric cars will have a trunk - so you can add a welding generator from a Home Depot.
AeroDanny 5pts This is definitely worthwhile... I live in a condo in Chicago with street parking and I've felt that my living situation makes a Leaf or Volt out of the question for me. All the commercials show someone plugging their cars in to their garage overnight but I work 25 miles from home and tend to meet friends for dinner in various parts of the city after work so it'll be interesting to see how this pans out!
Harvey 5pts That could very well be a test for the Detroit offices. Not sure if it's a reality (in fact I highly doubt it), but in an area in the snow-belt, would there be plugs for block-heaters more readily available? Somehow that seems a stretch of even the most optimistic people.
Jack 5pts In Houston and the Dallas/Fort Worth area eVgo is already changing the game for consumers. We are working with apartment management companies and owners to enable EV drivers to contract directly for with us for dedicated EV charging. We are also working with workplace destinations to do the same thing which would be another alternative for apartment residents. We combine these two options with a network of DC fast chargers to provide a complete solution. Check us out at www.eVgoNetwork.com
Scott Evans 5pts Not so much a supposition but a question - can it be done? Charging options are limited for apartment dwellers - can I reasonably work around that?
Charged UP 5pts So let me get this straight. The supposition of this article is that someone would spend north of 30k on an EV , and not make any arrangements to be able to charge it?
Deane 5pts Well, me for example, a homeowner with an enclosed garage and a 25-mile roundtrip commute. Our Leaf is working out very, very well. We've put over 1000 miles on it in the first month of ownership. We rarely use the gas car, only for long trips or when we're both out at the same time. If you can't charge your car at night, it's probably not going to work out long term. You don't really want to plan your life around the car.
Scott Evans 5pts All very good points. Moreover, if an enterprising builder or owner of an existing apartment complex were willing to front the money, installing even one charger or even just regular 120v outlets could be attractive to eco-conscious apartment dwellers. My personal situation would be perfect for a Leaf or Volt if only I had a 120v outlet nearby I could plug into when I get home from work.
Scott Evans 5pts The object, quite simply, is to see how liveable the Leaf is for the average city dweller. Automakers stress that, due to their limited range and lower performance, they're best used in cities. Well, people in cities live in apartments and likely won't be able to plug in their EVs. When they can, say at a public charger, they may not be able to leave it for hours on end to top off. Dropping by the nearest public charger every day to top up isn't particularly convenient, either (there aren't many of them, even in LA). If I owned this car, the best I could do is plug in at the mall every weekend, which means I've got to make it the rest of the week on the battery. What I'm trying to determine is whether practical workarounds exist for people like me, who are otherwise in an ideal EV environment. You're right, an EV is best served by being plugged in every night, but that isn't always an option. If Nissan can't sell a Leaf to someone in a fairly ideal environment like me, who are they selling them to?
Angus Clark 5pts DC Rapid-Charging will help change the game. BYD has just completed 1.7 Million miles with their EV Taxi Fleet in China, using only DC Rapid-Charging. No negative effects to the Lithium-Iron Phosphate batteries were discovered during the large number of charging cycles. DC charging on the LEAF is a $700 Option but Rapid-Charging is to the "EV Experience", what Broadband Wireless is to Dial-Up Internet access. My guess is by 2015, the only companies surviving in the EV infrastructure sector will be providing Rapid-Charging services near retail parks, commute corridors, and other high-traffic "venues". As half the driving public live in multi-unit housing developments such as apartments and condo's, it will fall to these off-site charging facilities to meet the demand. Battery manufacturers failing to develop battery chemistry that is tolerant of DC cycling through the life of the warranty will find that their products are no longer "relevant" in just two or three years, as "next-gen" EV's and HEV's afford their owners a "no-penalty" option to charge-up within reasonable time-spans.
Rob 5pts I appreciate tests like these. Whether or not you like electric cars, these kinds of tests are necessary to see if they are practical for the real world. The greens get overtly excited in their eco-fantasy world. Rarely do they want to admit that "green" in theory and in practice can be two completely different things.
Dean 5pts Not sure what the object is here. Would you do the same test with 2 gallons of gas in a Prius, then want to blame the car when you ran dry? An EVs is best used like a cellphone - plug it in every night when you are done using it. If that does not fit your life situation, then an EV is not a good choice for you. If you can plug the car in overnight, it can be a great fit.
Greenreality 5pts Now's a good time to point out how much more "Green" it is to live in an apartment than in a single-family house. In an apartment, utility costs are lower, typically closer proximity to stores and jobs (more likely to be walking distance), there's no lawn that needs watering or pesticides, higher density means less trees are cleared for their construction, and less construction materials consumed in building/maintaining shared structures. A good case could be made that the guy living in an apartment and driving a Mustang GT is more Green than the single-family house guy with the Leaf.
patric 5pts Scott, here's hoping you don't get shot at after you get stranded Thursday night with a dead battery. They may not be able to drive your car, but they'll sure as hell try to sell it to a chop shop! I don't sound very optimistic do I?
Trackaholic 5pts Luckily, with only a 6 mile commute, you could put a bicycle in the back of the car and ride home if you run out or juice (or even jog home in a pinch). Good luck! -T


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Fado, that singular strain of balladry that is to Portugal what samba is to Brazil and tango is to Argentina, isn't exactly mainstream music here in the United States. It is a centuries-old tradition marked by the delicate murmur of the twelve-stringed Portuguese guitar; mournful female singers, black shawls draped over their shoulders, expressing a poetic sadness in almost operatic tones; and an inescapably nostalgic longing. As a result, one is more likely to find a fado record in a Salvation Army record bin than hear it over the radio.
But with the arrival of Mariza, the 30-year-old fado sensation from Lisbon, that may be about to change. The accolades from her first album, 2001's Fado em Mim (Fado and Me), put her in a league with world music superstars like Cesaria Evora and Susana Baca. After the album's release, Mariza embarked on several whirlwind world tours, selling out concert halls from Berlin to Bangkok; sang the Portuguese national anthem at a World Cup match between Portugal and Korea; and was honored as Best European Artist at the 2003 BBC World Music Awards. There's little sign of her slowing down, either. Her second album, Fado Curvo (curvo is a Portuguese word for curved or winding, Mariza explains, because "life is not straight"), will be released in the U.S. this May, followed by a short North American tour.
Mariza's recent success is the unexpected result of a journey that began with a childhood spent singing fado in the traditional Mouraria neighborhood of Lisbon (she was born in Mozambique, but moved to Portugal as a baby). When she grew into young adulthood, she sang with soul, funk, and jazz bands in Lisbon. "You know, always at the end of the evening, if I felt like we had the correct ambiance to sing fado I used to sing fado. But always with the feeling that I was not very good!" she laughs in accented but fluent English from her hotel in Brussels, where she's finishing up a two-month-long European tour. Not everyone around her agreed. Soon, at the urging of a local club owner, she was singing fado regularly in Lisbon.
After attracting national attention for singing at tribute concerts commemorating the late, renowned queen of fado Amália Rodrigues, Mariza recorded Fado em Mim with production help from Rodrigues's former guitarist, Jorge Fernandez. "The first one [Fado em Mim] was something I did because everybody started saying you should do a record," says Mariza. "I did it just for fun, and I chose some fados I used to sing from my childhood." She adds that the resulting acclaim was a surprise. "When I did the first album, I was not really expecting all these things -- making tours, giving interviews, winning awards."
The attention focused as much on Mariza's appearance -- her movie-star looks, dyed-blonde hair, and high-fashion dresses -- as on her music. That's understandable, given that even over the course of a transcontinental phone conversation Mariza's sultry voice conjures images of a pop diva luxuriating in splendor. But it's also a bit misguided since her enthralling singing -- captured to great effect again on Fado Curvo, where she comes across as the long-lost sister of Rodrigues and jazz icon Billie Holiday -- is what really deserves the spotlight. "When I read things in the papers about me, I really feel a little bit uncomfortable, because it's a little bit strange," she says. "What I really want to do is just to sing my music and not to have big responsibilities."
Mariza seems not to mind, though, that the worldwide fame comes with the unspoken responsibility to be fado's ambassador to the world. "It's difficult to describe," she says when asked to explain the style. "It's more than music, it's a feeling. Normally we used to sing at the small tavernas, with the ambiance of lots of smoke and lots of red wine, with a Portuguese guitar and with an acoustic guitar, and with a female voice normally singing.
"I don't know how to explain better than this, you need to come and see!" she laughs. "I usually call it the Portuguese blues."
While the roots of fado are as mysterious as the music itself, there is general agreement among musicologists that it evolved sometime in the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, mixing the Portuguese poetic tradition with two cultural forms -- the lundu and the fofa -- common among Lisbon's African population (with Lisbon's substantial Brazilian, Arab, and Jewish populations throwing elements into the stew). But there the consensus ends. "Some want to believe fado came from slaves and then went to Brazil, other ones want to believe the fado came from sailors, and other ones want to believe, but this is really wrong I think, that fado came from the kings and nobility," says Mariza, who is so drawn to the music's history that she plans to help produce a documentary on the subject later this year. "But that for me is wrong, because fado came from the streets."
This deep awareness of fado's culture comes through on Fado Curvo. "During the last year I think I've grown, as a person and as a fado singer, and at the same time I feel more secure with the things I would like to do," she says. This leads to Mariza interpreting the title track, a lively ode to the joys of fado written by Fado Curvo producer Carlos Maria Trindade, with an exuberance that runs counter to the restraint normally exercised in the art form. "I don't do these things because it's not traditional; I do them because I feel it," she says.
The music on Fado Curvo seemingly does as well. Portuguese and acoustic guitar still girds Mariza's renditions. But there is also some beautifully original instrumentation not normally found on a fado record, like the cello and piano melodies running through "Retrato" and Miguel Gonçalves's plaintively muted trumpet-playing on "O Deserto," the latter what Miles Davis might have sounded like had his Sketches of Spain been Sketches of Portugal instead. Its twelve tracks ooze a spontaneous sound, the result of Mariza and Trindade recording live in the studio. "Fado is very sentimental music," Mariza says, "music that works with the feeling. So if you start recording more than three takes you're going to be closed, not organic, not with a soul anymore. So what we did was to record everything only to the third take, no more."
For Mariza, capturing the essence of fado in the studio was much more of a challenge than simply performing the music. "I've been singing fado since I was five years old. For me it's so natural I don't have to think, it's like breathing. But," she pauses, reflecting on an album she has been too busy to even listen to since it was finished, "I don't like too much to be in the studio. I feel, like, closed. It's really easy when you're in the studio and you have all these computers and you push a button and you change things and everything. The most difficult thing to do is to have your own sound." Thankfully, Mariza has found her voice through the beautiful Fado Curvo, charting an aural landscape that pays homage to fado without being bound by it. It places her in the enviable position of defining this art form for some years to come.
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The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 22, Number 2.
Islam faces unprecedented scrutiny worldwide. This is appropriate—indeed, an utmost necessity. Westerners demand to know the source of Muslim hatred towards them. After September 11, Qur'ans sold vigorously across the West to readers wondering what it contained that could incite such murderous zealotry.
Muslims could benefit even more from critical scrutiny of Islam. Yet many react violently when Islam is criticized, whether by Muslim or non-Muslim critics. Defenders claim that Islam is the most tolerant and peaceful of religions, perhaps quoting the only unequivocally tolerant Qur'anic verse they can recall: "There is no compulsion in religion" (Qur'an, sura 2, verse 256). Others try to rationalize: "Every religion is equally culpable, so let's not criticize any of them." Some vehemently cite the fallacies of Hinduism, Christianity, and other religions, then denounce the critic of Islam for failing to censure those religions equally. In angry tones they demand to know why the critic targets Islam alone.
I cannot accept this notion. To me, all diseases are bad—yet some are more acute, more lethal than others. Likewise all religions may be bad, but in my view Islam is the most harmful as regards its negative effects on the individual and on society in general.
Consider that most religions other than Islam are at least partly dysfunctional today. Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism are nearly dormant as political and social forces, though they still function at the personal level. Most historically Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist countries have relatively democratic and secular governments. We can say that the world religions other than Islam are like diseases that have run their course, leaving behind old scars and little else.
Far from being an old scar, Islam is a raging fever in its most acute phase. It currently enjoys worldwide rejuvenation as an all-encompassing religious, political, and social system. In every Muslim country, fundamentalists grasp for power, if they do not already possess it. No Muslim country has a secular government; almost a dozen strictly enforce the 1,400-year-old Sharia law. In all the rest governments are more or less strongly influenced by Sharia. In consequence of Islam's resurgence, Muslim societies are going backward all over the world.
Islam is the only major world religion today in which claims such as these remain "mainstream":
• Islam is the only purely God-given religion. • Every word of the Qur'an is God's word. • The Qur'an contains all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, that humankind will ever need. • The Qur'an has authoritative answers to all human problems.
• Islam is the only purely God-given religion.
• Every word of the Qur'an is God's word.
• The Qur'an contains all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, that humankind will ever need.
• The Qur'an has authoritative answers to all human problems.
Orthodox Muslims go one step further, claiming that, after God gave humanity the Qur'an, he declared all previous religions null and void. From this it follows that every human should eventually embrace Islam. Reflecting that agenda, Islam divides the world into two parts: Dar-al-Harb (the land of war) and Dar-al-Islam (the land of Islam). Dar-al-Harb is the land of the infidels. On the orthodox Islamic view, Muslims are obliged to infiltrate that land, proselytize, and procreate until their numbers increase, and finally engage in warfare to conquer the original inhabitants and impose Islam upon them. Thus shall they convert Dar-al-Harb into Dar-al-Islam.
Taliban fanatics told Western reporters that they dreamed of converting the whole world into Dar-al-Islam after establishing their now-fallen model regime in Afghanistan. Indeed, the belief is widespread among both educated and illiterate Muslims that, one day, all inhabitants of the world will convert to Islam.
In all these things Islam differs little from other world religions at the periods in their own histories when most adherents believed their teachings literally and considered them the only truth. The problem for—and with—Islam is that one of its periods of literalism, exclusivism, and violent zeal is occurring now.
History shows clearly that culture and the individual suffer whenever any religion acquires overwhelming social power. From the fourth to the thirteenth centuries c.e., Europe was dominated by strict Christianity—first under the Holy Roman Empire, then under contending feudal kings, each of whom claimed to represent God on Earth. Over them all loomed the authority of the church. Not surprisingly, dogmatism, intolerance, inhumanity, and backwardness blighted Europe. Because the Bible was thought to answer all human questions, theological autocrats held that freethinking, scientific inquiry, and technical innovation were not only unnecessary but dangerous. Europe's condition remained desperate until religious control began to weaken in the thirteenth century.
Religious absolutism holds similar sway in many Islam-ic countries today, with equivalent results. Certainly in Bangladesh, from which I emigrated, social conditions are no better than those during Europe's Dark Ages. Belying claims that religious zeal makes human beings pure and honest, the most zealously religious Muslim nations are almost invariably the most corrupt.
If the reader finds my position harsh, please answer this question: Which world religion or religions proclaim strict dress codes for men as well as women; command crimes such as thievery to be punished by the whip or by chopping off appendages; ordain adulterous women to be stoned and blasphemers to be put to death; encourage believers to look upon adherents of all other religions as worthy of subjugation or death; and inspire fanatics to seek to overthrow secular governments in hopes of establishing religious states in numerous countries worldwide? If I want to write a declaration that Jesus Christ was the son of a Roman soldier, or even call him "a son of a bitch," I can do so in the West without fear of the death penalty. Could I say the same in any Muslim nation about the prophet Muhammad?
I have studied most religions thoroughly and entirely. I have yet to find another world religion that gives so many scriptural instructions of hate and subjugation towards other creeds. As far as I know, Islam is the only religion that forbids its adherents to offer so much as a funeral prayer for non-Muslims. Let the Qur'an speak for itself: "Nor do thou ever pray for any of them that dies, Nor stand at his grave, for they rejected Allah and His Apostle, and died in a state of perverse rebellion" (9:54).
Again, Islam's potential for harm is magnified by the fact that we live in a secular age in which, over most of the world, God and religion exert dwindling power over public life. Only in the Islamic world are God and religion still standing so tall—not only among a largely illiterate general public but also among far too many Muslim intellectuals.
I am not anti-religious, nor I am an atheist. I am an agnostic, and my belief in supernatural power is not that of conventional religions. I do not believe, as many Muslims do, that anyone who does not accept the Qur'an as God's word is necessarily an atheist. To question the proof or authenticity of what is put forth as God's word is not to question the existence of God. Even so, my reason prompts me not to believe in any personal God who rewards for good deeds and punishes for bad deeds. Nor do I hope to see any religion destroyed or abolished. What I can and do demand is reformation.
To my knowledge, no major historical religion ever has been abolished. But most of them underwent reformation as a result of sustained critical scrutiny. Their myths have been exposed, their claims to divine sanction and sole possession of truth sharply undercut. These reformations took place through the continuous education of believers, achieved by making better translations of scriptures readily available to the public, and by the practice of continuous historical inquiry, analysis, and criticism. In much of the world this process brought forth an ideal of secularism under which most believers embrace their religion for emotional support but no longer grant it the power to inspire acts of hatred and exclusion.
It took several centuries to subdue the power of fanaticism in Christianity and Hinduism in this way. Islam needs the same treatment—and needs it very badly, if today's third-world Muslim countries are ever to prosper.
We don't need to abolish Islam, as if that could be done. What we need is to educate Muslims about the real Islam, about its historical sources and the limits of its wisdom—just as adherents of other world religions have been educated in the last few centuries.
Unfortunately the prospect for such a Muslim reformation is currently remote, for several reasons. For thirteen centuries the Qur'an has remained untranslated into the languages many Muslims speak. Common Muslims revere and recite it, but not knowing Arabic, they have no idea what it says. Compare this to the historical experience of Christianity, whose Reformation depended on the wide availability of Bibles in vernacular translations. Many Muslim intellectuals can read the Qur'an in its original Arabic, but, unlike in Christianity or Hinduism, whose intellectuals have tended to be skeptical inquirers, most Muslim intellectuals remain blindfolded by dogma. Only in Islam is the intellectual class generally more religiously zealous than the common people and still actively involved in preaching to the masses. For this reason, fundamentalist Islam may succeed in deflecting the impact of science, which exerted such powerful demythologizing and secularizing influence upon Christianity and Hinduism. Indeed, today Muslim intellectuals popularize a disingenuous Qur'anic interpretation of science that helps promote the rejuvenation of fanaticism, and is far more mainstream than is so-called scientific creationism in contemporary Christianity.
In sum, we Muslim expatriates who yearn to bring about an Islamic reformation face a vast and dangerous challenge. But it is a challenge that secularists must meet if we ever hope to bring Muslim world once more to the fore of civilization and prosperity. In order to achieve a true secularism, we must help the common people of the Muslim world to learn that everything in the Qur'an and the Hadith is not necessarily God's word. And we must help them learn so much more. Only a reformation in thought and belief driven by unwavering critical scrutiny can hope to establish secularism and drive back the darkness in third-world Muslim countries like Bangladesh.
1. The Holy Qur'an, trans. by A. Yousuf Ali (Brentwood, Md.: Amana Corporation, 1983).
2. Buchari Sharif, Bengali translation by Maulana Muhammad Mustafizur Rahman, 2nd ed. (Dhaka: Sulemani Printers and Publishers, 2nd ed., 1999).
3. The World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago, London, Toronto: World Book Inc.—a Scott Fetzer Company, 1991).
Syed Kamran Mirza is active with the Institute for the Secularization of Islamic Society (ISIS).
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Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 807863, 12 pages
In Vitro Large Scale Production of Human Mature Red Blood Cells from Hematopoietic Stem Cells by Coculturing with Human Fetal Liver Stromal Cells
Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Lab, Beijing Institute of Transfusion Medicine, 27 Taiping Road, Beijing 100850, China
Received 28 September 2012; Accepted 2 December 2012
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Copyright © 2013 Jiafei Xi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In vitro models of human erythropoiesis are useful in studying the mechanisms of erythroid differentiation in normal and pathological conditions. Here we describe an erythroid liquid culture system starting from cord blood derived hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). HSCs were cultured for more than 50 days in erythroid differentiation conditions and resulted in a more than 109-fold expansion within 50 days under optimal conditions. Homogeneous erythroid cells were characterized by cell morphology, flow cytometry, and hematopoietic colony assays. Furthermore, terminal erythroid maturation was improved by cosculturing with human fetal liver stromal cells. Cocultured erythroid cells underwent multiple maturation events, including decrease in size, increase in glycophorin A expression, and nuclear condensation. This process resulted in extrusion of the pycnotic nuclei in up to 80% of the cells. Importantly, they possessed the capacity to express the adult definitive β-globin chain upon further maturation. We also show that the oxygen equilibrium curves of the cord blood-differentiated red blood cells (RBCs) are comparable to normal RBCs. The large number and purity of erythroid cells and RBCs produced from cord blood make this method useful for fundamental research in erythroid development, and they also provide a basis for future production of available RBCs for transfusion.


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Rikken Seiyūkai
Rikken Seiyūkai | |
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Leader | Itō Hirobumi, Saionji Kinmochi, Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, Takahashi Korekiyo, Hara Takashi, Tanaka Giichi |
Founded | September 15, 1900 |
Dissolved | July 30, 1940 |
Succeeded by | Imperial Rule Assistance Association |
Headquarters | Tokyo |
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The Rikken Seiyūkai (立憲政友会 Friends of Constitutional Government ?) was one of the main political parties in the pre-war Empire of Japan. It was also known simply as the "Seiyūkai".
Founded on September 15, 1900 by Itō Hirobumi,[1] the Seiyūkai was a pro-government alliance of bureaucrats and former members of the Kenseitō. The Seiyūkai was the most powerful political party in the Lower House of the Diet of Japan from 1900 to 1921, and it promoted big government and large-scale public spending. Though labeled "liberal" by its own members, it was generally conservative by modern definitions. It often opposed social reforms and it supported bureaucratic control and militarism for the purpose of winning votes. It viewed the Rikken Minseitō as its main rival.
The Seiyūkai came into power in October 1900 under the 4th Itō administration. Under its second leader, Saionji Kinmochi, it participated in the Movement to Protect Constitutional Government from 1912-1913. It was the ruling party under the Prime Minister Yamamoto Gonnohyōe from 1913-1914. Cabinet minister (and later 4th party president) Takahashi Korekiyo helped reinforce its ties with the zaibatsu, especially the Mitsui financial interests.
The 3rd party president, Hara Takashi, became Prime Minister in September 1918, and assigned every cabinet post except for the Army Minister, Navy Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs to members of the Seiyūkai. In the 1920, the party reached the peak of its popularity.
After Hara's assassination in 1921, a large block of party members defected to form the Seiyū Hontō in the 1924 General Election; however, the Seiyūkai retained enough seats to dominate the cabinet of its 5th party president, General Tanaka Giichi from 1927-1929.
While in the opposition during the Minseitō-dominated cabinet of Prime Minister Hamaguchi Osachi, the Seiyūkai attacked the ratification of the London Naval Treaty of 1930 as against Article 11 of the Meiji Constitution, which stipulated the independence of the military from civilian control.
After winning the 1932 General Election under Inukai Tsuyoshi, Seiyūkai formed a cabinet, floated the yen and conducted policies to revive the economy. However, after Inukai's assassination in the May 15 Incident of 1932, factionism within the party limited its effectiveness.
In 1940 it voted to dissolve itself into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association as part of Fumimaro Konoe's efforts to create a single-party state, and thereafter ceased to exist.
Ichirō Hatoyama, who had been a Seiyūkai member of the House of Representatives, led some former party members into the 1945 Liberal Party.
- ^ David S. Spencer, "Some Thoughts on the Political Development of the Japanese People", The Journal of International Relations (January 1920) p325


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This specification covers the quality requirements for cut sizes of flat laminated glass consisting of two or more lites of glass bonded with an interlayer material for use in building glazing. Depending on the number, thickness and treatment of plies, and the number and thickness of interlayers, the glass shall be laminated for applications including but not limited to safety security, detention, hurricane/cyclic-wind resistance, blast resistant, bullet resistant and sound reduction glazing applications. Furnished laminated flat glass shall be classified to the following kinds: Kind LA; Kind LC; Kind LD; Kind LHS; Kind LM; Kind LP; Kind LR; Kind LSP; Kind LT; Kind LW; and Kind LX. The following test methods shall be performed to meet the specified requirements: impact test for safety glazing; test for missile impact and cyclic pressure; test for security glazing; test for detention glazing; test for bullet resisting glazing; test for burglary resisting glazing; overall bow and warp; and size.
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1.1 This specification covers the quality requirements of flat laminated glass consisting of two or more lites of glass bonded with an interlayer material for use in building and related applications.
1.2 Depending on the number, thickness, and treatment of lites, and the number and thickness of interlayers, the glass shall be laminated for applications including, but not limited to, safety, security, detention, hurricane/cyclic-wind resistance, blast resistance, bullet resistance, sound reduction, and decorative glazing.
1.3 Optical distortion and the evaluation thereof are not currently within the scope of the standard. Mockups are recommended as a method to evaluate glass. (See Appendix X1.)
1.4 The dimensional values, except thickness designations, stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as the standard. The values in parentheses are for information only.
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C162 Terminology of Glass and Glass Products
C1036 Specification for Flat Glass
C1048 Specification for Heat-Strengthened and Fully Tempered Flat Glass
C1376 Specification for Pyrolytic and Vacuum Deposition Coatings on Flat Glass
C1422 Specification for Chemically Strengthened Flat Glass
C1503 Specification for Silvered Flat Glass Mirror
E308 Practice for Computing the Colors of Objects by Using the CIE System
E413 Classification for Rating Sound Insulation
E903 Test Method for Solar Absorptance, Reflectance, and Transmittance of Materials Using Integrating Spheres
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E1886 Test Method for Performance of Exterior Windows, Curtain Walls, Doors, and Impact Protective Systems Impacted by Missile(s) and Exposed to Cyclic Pressure Differentials
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F1642 Test Method for Glazing and Glazing Systems Subject to Airblast Loadings
F1915 Test Methods for Glazing for Detention Facilities
F3006 Specification for Ball Drop Impact Resistance of Laminated Architectural Flat Glazing
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