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stopped at some pulloffs to check the river in townsend yesterday and was disgusted with all the trash in the water and along the banks. I used to not understand why the residents along the irver disliked the tubing industry so much when it is that industy that fuels thei economy in the summer. However, I get it now. Really a shame to trash abeautiful river. The only upside to my obersvation is that the trash was not fishing oriented. I saw busted lawn chairs, beer cans (alot of them), potato chip bags, and who knows what else, but not a single worm container o roostertail package.
**** shame isn't it. I've spent most of my life hauling out other people's trash and litter. I usually carry a trash bag with me and pick up the thrash on my way back out.
Here on the Cape Lookout National Seashore, the state's open container law is the cause for a lot of the litter. As a boater, you can be caught with a boat load of beer on board as long as none of them are open. But if there is even one beer open you can be cited, So, the folks go ashore, drink, then leave the cans or bottles or just "sink" them. Usually they bury them but they soon are uncovered by the tides.
spent last week in the park hiking and fishing, on every hike my wife , son and I carried out discarded water bottles gatorade bottles and assorted other trash.maybe all hikers should be required to have hydration packs ,no water bottles. I'm sure that most of the flip flop wearing hikers have no clue that the park does not provide a sanitation crew to clean up after them
This is one issue I wish parents would discuss more with their children and represent as well. The tubing businesses should post signs to encourage conservation and attach simple net bags to their tubes for trash refuse.
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Great ideas on litter control. Unfortunately to not be a litterbug requires each of us to commit to absolutely not doing it which apparently many don't. Not sure what the ultimate solution is.
It's a shame, and I agree with Shawn about introducing this to your kid at an early age. Better yet, carry a small trash bag, or ice bag every time you go hiking or fishing. I fill mine up almost every time I go. Some days I could fill a much larger bag, but this size is about as large as I can get in my vest. Every little bit helps
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Unfortunatly as easy a target tubers are, its not just them, I was on Tremont this evening just plinking some pools. I was working my way up when I saw what I thought was a green popper in the water. It turned out to be a stike indicator, so I snagged thinking great recycle again and use for free. Later after crawling out and walking back down the gravel road, saw a receipt and package top for something. I was stunned when I saw it was purchased from our favorite store today and what time and persons name and address, and was for green strike indicators. I still have but will not call the person out, giving them benefit of doubt, (maybe had a heart attack and everything fell out of vest?), but was shocked that a fisherman (fly or not) would throw away right on the road. No way could have blown out of car or truck that section is still closed off! As hard as our local stores work to have a positive influence on the enviroment, once the purchased is made, it is up to us be stewards of the park, I would have been embarrassed for some member of the public or park crew to have found and said the inevitable statement "D*** fisherman!. Now help me off my soapbox and help me tie a nailknot!
I really hate to see trash along the trails and rivers too. For some reason, it seems to always be Bud cans too...?
I did litter along the creek at Tremont once. I had one of those plastic containers with the lid on them from LRO that contained a bunch of flies I purchased that morning. Being somewhat lazy and in a hurry, instead of taking the flies out and putting them in my fly box, I put the little plastic container in the upper pocket of my vest.
I walked down the hillside to the stream, waded out to start fishing and realized my vest pocket was unzipped. The container was nowhere to be found. I still have no idea and sincerely hoped some other fisherman found it and caught a large fish with the flies. At least then they would have been put to good use.
A bit off and yet a bit on the subject. Some 20 years ago I lived in southern VA in a very small community. I had a small farm on a road that went to our county dump that was about two miles away. There was no trash pickup but the dump was free to dump anything. From time to time I would find that people had dumped their trash on my property instead of driving the few extra miles. Got very little help from the Sheriff. So, if I found a receipt or envelope with their name on it I returned the trash to them by dumping it in their lawn. I'm not completely sure but I don't think the dumped again on my property.
Dirty diapers have to be the worst trailside trash. I did find a few flies below Tremont the other day along with a jighead and a spinner.
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text: Co-Director of Humanitarian Disaster Institute, Associate Professor of Psychology On Faculty since 2011 Office: BGC M261 Phone: (630)752-7272 Fax: (630)752-7033 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Education Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University, 1978 Pre-doctoral Clinical Internship, Alhambra Psychiatric Hospital, Alhambra, CA, 1977 M.A., Counseling Psychology, Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology, 1975 B.A., Psychology, Washington College, Maryland, 1973 About David Boan Professional and Personal Interests Dr. David Boan began his career in clinical practice in Sacramento, CA, and soon found himself engaged in working with community programs and services. This began a long transition from developing church-based counseling programs, developing community services for the developmentally disabled and deaf, to working with healthcare facilities in the US and internationally to improve the quality of care. 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Courses Taught Applied Research Lab History and Systems of Psychology Membership in Professional Societies Member, American Psychological Association Member, APA Division 52: International Psychology Member, Society for Community Research and Action Research Dr. Boan co-directs the Humanitarian Disaster Institute and the Applied Research Lab together with Dr. Jamie Aten. In the lab, students are engaged in grants and contracts with disaster and humanitarian relief organizations that address a range of disaster prevention, response, recovery, and community resilience efforts. Dr. Boan's emphasis in the Institute and Lab is in public health, including health system quality improvement, health interventions and community resilience. Dr. Boan also serves as a technical consultant to private and government organizations on applied research, knowledge transfer, and organizational behavior change. The focus of this work is on assisting practitioners and organizations in the practical uptake of research evidence to improve practice. In this work Dr. Boan works with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Joint Commission Resources, in addition to the Humanitarian Disaster Institute. Dr. Boan's work also extends to developing countries, working in partnership with many humanitarian organizations focusing on strategies for creating and building capacity for healthcare (including mental health), models for building organizational and community capacity, and incorporating evidence into effective management and leadership. This includes conducting local, participatory research on capacity for change, capacity for innovation, resilience and recovery, and how organizational culture supports or constrains quality. Selected Grants Aten, J., & Boan, D. (2013). Faith-based public health preparedness. Cook County Department of Public Health. Funded: $50,000. Boan, D., & Aten, J. (Co-Principle Investigators). (2013-2014). Global church-based disaster ministry. Foundation (Anonymous). Funded: $20,000 Boan, D., & Aten, J. (2013-2014). Global System for Church-based Disaster Resilience. Maclellan Foundation. Funded: $50,000 1:1 Match. Aten, J. (Co-Principle Investigator) & Boan, D. (Co-Principle Investigator). (2012-2014). Building Faith-based Organizational and Local Capacity for Disaster Psychosocial Care in Japan: Equipping the Japan Evangelical Association to Support Local Churches after the Tsunami. World Relief. Funded: $300,000. Aten, J. D., & Boan, D. (Co-Principle Investigators). (2012-2013). Trauma care of refugee families in DuPage County. Grainger Company. Funded: $10,000. Boan, D., (Co-Principle Investigator) & Aten, J. (Co-Principle Investigator) (2012-2013). Building Capacity for Clinical Care of Child Restaveks in Haiti. Equitas Group. Funded: $150,431. Aten, J. (Co-Principle Investigator), & Boan, D. (2012). Review of the Research on Trauma and Trauma Impact in Sub-Saharan Africa. Biblical Seminary and American Bible Society. Funded: $15,000. Davis, W. (Principle-Investigator), Mangis, M. (Co-Investigator), Boan, D. (Co-Investigator), Aten, J. (Co-Investigator) (2011-2012). Assessment and redesign of frontier mental health services in Phillips County Montana. Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration. Funded: $75,000. Boan, D. (2009 - 2011) Engaging Hospitals in Discharge Process Redesign (Project RED), Joint Commission Resources and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ($35,000) Boan, D. (2009 - 2011) Dissemination and Utilization of the AHRQ Effective Healthcare Guides, Joint Commission Resources and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ($35,000) Boan, D. (2009 - 2011) Measurement and Change Strategies for Hospital Patient Safety Culture, Joint Commission Resources, ($5,000) Boan, D., Lassa, J. & Killingsworth, J. 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(2009) Planning Your Project in Nadzam, B (Editor) Getting Started: The Quality Improvement Toolkit Oak Brook: JCR Selected Peer Reviewed Papers Aten, J., Topping, S., Boan, D. & Hosey, J (In Review) Building Capacity for Responding to Disaster Emotional and Spiritual Needs: A Clergy, Academic, and Mental Health Partnership Model (CAMP) Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Boan, D (In Press) The China National Health Reforms: An Opportunity for Mental Health Care International Psychology Bulletin Boan, D. (In Review) Effects of Variance in Perceptions of Hospital Quality and Safety on Hospital Capacity to Improve Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, Feldbauer, R., Boan, D., Nadzam, D., and Finis, N. 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(2005) A model for home health care culture and interventions A paper presented to Quality Net, September, Hunt Valley, MD Boan, D, Fitzgerald, M, & Huff, E (2005) Team culture and hospital quality improvement Paper presented to the American Health Quality Association, February, San Francisco, CA Boan, D (2005) Culture and quality improvement Paper presented to the Alaska Quality Conference, May, Anchorage, AK Boan, D & Barnett, S (2003) Model healthcare practices in the treatment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing people Paper presented to the American Public Health Association Convention November San Francisco, CA Boan, D & Fitzgerald, M (2003) The Medicare Quality Improvement Clearinghouse: Using the Internet to support healthcare quality improvement Paper presented to the American Public Health Association Convention, November, San Francisco, CA Boan, D (2003) Trends in collaboration or how I spent my summer vacation Paper presented to the CMS Quality Net Conference; September, Owings Mills, Maryland Boan, D (2003) Distance learning and systems design Paper presented to the Tri-Regional Conference of QIOs, June, St. Petersburg FL Boan, D; Fitzgerald, M; & Karge, G (2003) Sense-making applied to the five state home health pilot: Lessons learned from a powerful new methodology Paper presented to the Tri-Regional Conference of QIOs St. Petersburg FL Kling, R & Boan, D (2003) Social Informatics and Quality Improvement Paper presented to the American Health Quality Association Orlando, FL Boan, D (2003) Online Provider Profiling as a Home Health Agency Intervention Paper presented to the American Health Quality Association Orlando, FL Boan, D; Schaefer, T.; Hines, S. & Fitzgerald, M. 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Paper presented to the American Public Health Association November Atlanta, GA Boan, D (2001) Advantages and Disadvantages of Online versus Face-to-Face Expert Panels, Paper presented to the annual convention of the American Health Quality Association, Los Angeles, CA Boan, D; & Traxler, C (2001) Developing standards of care for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people Paper presented to the American Health Quality Association Los Angeles, CA Boan, D & Traxler, C (2000) Standards of Care for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adults Paper presented to the American Public Health Association Boston, MA Boan, D (1998) Developing Effective Quality Improvement Interventions Paper presented to the Tri-Regional Convention of Peer Review Organizations St. Petersburg, FL Boan, D (1998) Using Behavior Management to Increase the Impact of Quality Improvement Projects Paper presented to the Annual Convention of the American Health Quality Association, Austin, TX Boan, D (1997) Using the Intranet in a Continuous Quality Improvement Environment Paper presented to the Annual Convention of the Employee Involvement Association Fort Lauderdale, FL

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A recent story broadcast by a Corpus Christi television station reported that the disappearance of a BPD dog from Alvarez's back yard was not the first police canine to escape from that yard.
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"I don't know what happened when he was working for the sheriff's office," Treviño said. "I'm in no position to confirm or deny what happened five years ago."
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Since I am a first time mom I am not sure if my DS-4months is teething or sick? He is very cranky for periods throughout the day then frantically crys for about half hour to 45 minutes. I have tried everything to soothe him but nothing works. Tried nursing him (has worked in the past for everything), washcloth in freezer, teething toys, finger in his mouth but he just cries. Then all of a sudden he'll look out the window and just stop. Then start up shortly after. He has been drooling and putting hands and blankets up and sometimes into his mouth. The other day I thought he was sick because his drool kinda sprayed out- I called Dr and they said it was vomiting. It was waterey looking and happened once or twice a day for 2-3 days. He has no temperature.
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Pretty sure the only thing that will please Kiya is if the Knicks resign Demetrius Nichols, that way he can live in the illusion that a good summer league record carries over to the regular season. Just imagine this starting lineup.
And a few white guys who are working at shop rite right now off the bench. With that great team chemsitry and length i'd imagine we'd atleast win 70 games. We'd probably only lose a few games due to bad refs or stuff like that.
So this post is saying that Donnie Walsh will be judged on his draft selection? Ya Think? In New York City the team president we just hired after 7 seasons of futility will be graded on his draft tonight? Man you are a smart one.
You gotta back off Walsh until he atleast starts making moves. He's made 2 moves since becoming the president. First he fired Isiah Thomas, and secondly he hired D'Antoni. Say what you want about D'Antoni but he has a solid track record and he seems to have a lot of players in the league that would love to play in his system.
Everybody says we shoulda hired Marc Jackson or Patrick Ewing. But do you really think adding a rookie coach to this dysfunctional family would work? Your going to throw a guy with no experience into a locker room with Zach Randolph, Richardson, and Marbury. Thats not going to work. I'll give you that Ewing should have atleast been offered a assistant coaching position but the fact of the matter is the head coach picks his staff, and he picks who he is comfortable working with. Also Marc Jackson has never expressed interested in being an assistant. You think he would give up the sweet gig he has on TV making big bucks and working a relaxed schedule to be an assistant?
I really think you can't judge Walsh until atleast the begining of training camp. Look at the team he was given. We have awful contracts, awful attitudes, awful physically conditioned guys, and just an overall bad team. From all reports hes involved in many trade discussions and trying to make things work. Lets sit back and see what happens.
We cant really expect much of an improvement unless something dramatic happens. Even if we somehow land Mayo he's not going to be an all star his first season. The only way we make an impact next season is because of the fact we make smart decisions and suprised a lot of teams with our new system. And only because the East is a joke may we slip into the playoffs.


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Gustav Juel Wiik (1878–1906)
Wiik participated on the Gjøa expedition 1903-06 as 2nd engineer and he was the expedition's youngest member. He worked with the magnetic measurements and the meteorological observations
Gustav Juel Wiik was born in Horten and he was the last person Roald Amundsen engaged for the Gjøa expedition. He was then an artillery under-officer in the navy, had gained his mate's exam and had also worked in an office. Amundsen sent him to Potsdam for six weeks where he studied magnetism at the Observatory there, as Amundsen had done. Particularly the use of self-measuring instruments was studied and Wiik also had some of the measuring instruments they were to use in Gjøa Haven specially built there. In Gjøa Haven Wiik and Peder Ristvedt lived on land in the so-called Villa Magneten.
Wiik kept the scientific work going also through the third winter, at King Point, and he collected an extensive material. He became ill in March and died on the 31st of the month, 27 years old. He was laid to rest in the expedition's magnetic observatory at King Point.
Roald Amundsen wrote of Wiik in his book of the expedition that "He was the happiest, full of humour and stories, and was an invaluable source of motivation on board".
"Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it"
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I had no idea where to post this question since it deals with milk supply, working, pumping, and storing, but here it goes.
I'm going back to work this August part-time only (Thank GOD) so my LO will need to have 2 bottles of BM until we get her going on solids which will be very soon (she's 5 1/2 months), but in the meantime I need help.
I use to be able to pump out 4-5 oz in the morning and about 2-3 at night which would be enough for a bottle and the start of another one. LO still wakes up around 3 am and then around 6 or 7 and goes back down. Well when she use to wake up, I would feed her off of one boob each time so that I would have a full one in the morning. Lately one is not enough for her. She wants both at each feeding and by the time I get to pump when I wake up I might, if I'm lucky get 2oz. We've been giving her a bottle every night since she was about 3 wks old and that's what I pump for. So now I need to store up some for day care and I'm barely able to get enough for the 1 bottle she takes a day. I know I have to increase the number of times I pump but I worry about her next feeding after pumping because she seems to get frustrated that I'm not letting down as quickly as usual. What other methods can I use to help my pumping output?
I'm also having issues with the amount we give her. According to her weight using the milk calculator she should be maxing about 4 onces. We give her about 5 1/2 - 6 and she seems to want more. My husband tries to slow her down and she's still on a slow flow nipple but she gets really mad and frustrated if we don't let her chug it. She seems to be getting enough throughout the day because she seems content after feedings, but maybe increasing my supply will help in some way. This also worries me since I'm not sure if that amount will be enough for her during the day when she's at day care.
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/219152
- Title
- Design, fabrication and performance analysis of an improved solar still
- Author(s)
- Ahsan, Amimul; Imteaz, Monzur; Rahman, Ataur; Yusuf, Badronnisa; Fukuhara, T.
- Abstract
- In this paper, a detail comparison of the design, fabrication, cost and water production analysis between an old Tubular Solar Still (TSS) and improved (new) one is presented. Since the cover material, a vinyl chloride sheet, of the old TSS was a little bit heavy, expensive and cannot be formed into a desirable size easily, a highly durable polythene film was adopted as the cover of the new TSS. The new TSS is made of cheap and locally acquisitioned lightweight materials. Consequently, the weight and cost of the new TSS were noticeably reduced and the durability was distinctly increased. A few field experiments on the new TSS were carried out in Fukui (Japan) and Muscat (Oman) and the observed results are compared with the old one. The water production flux is proportional to the temperature difference inside the still. Evaporation mass transfer coefficients (MTCs) and heat transfer coefficients (HTCs) are higher than those of condensation. Convection HTCs are much lower than those of evaporation/condensation. Finally, a linear relation is newly found between the total HTCs and MTCs.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
- Source
- Desalination, Vol. 292, (2012), pp. 105-112
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 03 Chemical Sciences; 09 Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Cost; Design; Heat transfer coefficient; Mass transfer coefficient; Production; TSS; Tubular Solar Still
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- 0011-9164
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Home List of Titles Investigating the role of anionic surfactant and polymer morphology on the environmental stress cracking (ESC) of high-density polyethylene
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/198577
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- Investigating the role of anionic surfactant and polymer morphology on the environmental stress cracking (ESC) of high-density polyethylene
- Author(s)
- Ghanbari-Siahkali, Afshin; Kingshott, Peter; Breiby, Dag Werner; Arleth, Lise; Kjellander, Carina Koch; Almdal, Kristoffer
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- The influence of a commercial grade and a pure anionic surfactant (dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid sodium salt, DBS) in aqueous solutions on the environmental stress cracking (ESC) of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) has been investigated. Injection moulded HDPE samples in "dog-bone" shape were exposed to the aqueous solutions of surfactant (0.14 M) at 80 °C under strain (var epsilon = 1.2%) for 5 days. Both the commercial and pure surfactants caused cracks under the experimental conditions. The change in surface chemistry of the HDPE was followed using attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) and Raman spectroscopy. The thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) did not show any significant differences in thermal stability of the samples studied. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis, however, revealed an increase in crystallinity of the exposed samples. Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS) indicated that the HDPE sample has a boundary of both preferred and random (isotropic) crystallite orientations close and far away from the injection moulding inlet, respectively. The structure of the surfactants in solution was investigated by light scattering (LS). This showed that the commercial grade surfactant forms large aggregates (e.g., 500 nm) both at room temperature and at the exposure temperature of 80 °C, whereas the pure surfactant has a critical micelle temperature (CMT) of around 45 °C. Below the CMT aggregates are formed, and above the CMT the surfactants are unimeric. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) analysis revealed that the commercial surfactant has a wide distribution of hydrocarbon chains from C-10 to C-13, whereas the pure one contains predominantly hydrocarbon dodecyl (chain of C-12).
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Polymer Degradation and Stability, Vol. 89, no. 3 (Sep 2005), pp. 442-453
- Publication year
- 2005
- FOR Code(s)
- 0303 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry; 0904 Chemical Engineering; 0912 Materials Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- CLSM; Cracks; Crystal orientation; Crystalline orientation; DBS; Degradation; ESC; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; HDPE; High density polyethylenes; Ionisation; Light scattering; Mass spectrometry; Negative ions; Raman; Sodium compounds; Solutions; Surface active agents; Surfactant; Thermodynamic stability; Thermogravimetric analysis; WAXS; X-ray scattering
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- 0141-3910
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Peer reviewed


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To celebrate the upcoming release of their debut album 'Giant Leg', we're giving away new single 'Buddy Island' for free from today. Just CLICK HERE and save to download.
The album will be released on CD and digital formats on 27th August. You can stream the album in full on our Infants bandpage. Pre-orderers from our Tigertrap store -
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Pseudo Nippon are the combustible three-pronged combination of frontman P-ta and double-drummer outfit Colden Drystone and Dove Kokojin. Together they have melded their chromatic experimental pop into a gleaming whole for second album, 'Colorama', due for release on LP, CD and download on 5th November through Tigertrap Records.
To celebrate, we're having a launch do at The Victoria in Dalston on 13th October. It also doubles up as a London album launch for our friends Negative Pegasus (Smalltown America). Entry is free of charge.
First single 'Universal Brotherhood (Cops Say Ow)' is on the schedule for 8th October. The band shot a promotional video in London last month that saw participants end up in a scuffle with police and four being arrested.
A full list of tour dates to be announced soon, but in the meantime come on down to these:
25th Aug - Shambala Festival, Northamptonshire, UK
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13th Oct - The Victoria, Dalston, London, UK (FREE ENTRY - 'Colorama' launch party w/ Negative Pegasus)
It's been awhile. Nay, a very long while. Anyhow, we FINALLY have the pleasure of announcing the release of Infants' quite remarkable debut album, 'Giant Leg', on 27th August 2012.
The proverbial 'Loveless' of Tigertrap releases will be hitting shop shelves in CD format and pre-orderers from our Tigertrap store -
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1. Foam Party
2. Firetruk
3. Information
4. Buddy Island
5. Love Mania Bento
6. Now
7. Dark Hoist
8. Hey Good Guy
9. Masticator
10. No Soul
11. Atoms
The digital version has a bonus track called 'Universal'. Stream the album in full on our Infants bandpage.
Here are some nice things the press folks have said:
One brilliant four-minute slab of extreme Devo choking on its own cheekiness - VILLAGE VOICE
Impressively loud, tight and as unrelenting as they are experimental - ARTROCKER
Spaz rave sci-fi sex music - THE STOOL PIGEON
So infectious it makes the hairs stand up on your arms - NORMAN RECORDS
If you're scurrying around the shops for Record Store Day in London today, copies of Gum Takes Tooth super-limited new cassette EP 'A Heaven For The Minerals, A Hell For Your Livestock' are available from Sister Ray and Rough Trade. There are only 50 copies and the remaining few will be available from our online store and at gigs in the coming weeks.
Track listing:
A. A Heaven For The Minerals (10:19)
B. A Hell For Your Livestock (12:17)
The cassette also comes with a free MP3 download code.
Tigertrap are very pleased indeed to announce the release of Underground Railroad's excellent 'White Night Stand' on vinyl format. The LP version is a limited edition of only 500 copies, to be released on 21st November and it's available to pre-order now through the Tigertrap store here: http://tigertrap.greedbag.com/buy/white-night-stand
Track listing:
A1. 8 Millimetres
A2. We Were Slumbering
A3. The Black Widow
A4. The Orchid's Curse
A5. Russian Doll
A6. Yellow Suit
B1. Ginkgo Biloba
B2. Lucky Duck
B3. Seagull Attack
B4. Traces To Nowhere
B5. Rude Awakening
The album has already received glowing reviews on its release this summer via One Little Indian:
"Underground Railroad's most accessible record to date. Proof that ambition isn't a dirty word" - 8/10, NME
"A truly impressive return" - 4/5, THE FLY
"Could obliterate a roomful of slackers with its sheer power" - 9/10, LOUD & QUIET
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August 7, 2013 —
The plan was to leave Friday night to meet my mom up at Granddad Stuart and Elaine's house in Vermont to celebrate my mom's birthday.
I love traveling by train, and the thought of hurtling smoothly through the Vermont countryside seemed like a good one. I'd take a nice long train ride up from New York City and get some work done along the way. As it sometimes does, however, real life intervened, and it didn't really make sense—only one train, leaves too early, arrives too late. I would have to rent a car.
"A walk-in?" The Hertz-Rent-A-Car clerk said with an eyebrow raised.
"Yeah, why? Is it cheaper if I reserve online?"
"Much," she said with a little grin.
"OK, I'm a Hertz Gold member, if that makes any difference." She shook her head. "So it's better if I do it on my phone right here, right?"
She shrugged her shoulders, "Cheaper if you do it online."
I opened the Hertz app on my phone. "Login and password?" I was prompted. I should pause here and say that the Hertz App is a terrible app, and I always remember this as soon as I open it up to use it. This time was no different. It's terribly designed and counterintuitive; most offensive though is the fact that it constantly requires you to re-enter your member number and password.
I futzed around with it for awhile, the clerk watching me patiently. Internet service was spotty deep in the parking garage where the checkout area is located and I moved toward the door. Nothing. I rubbed my face in frustration.
"Can't get it to work," I said to the woman with as much of a smile as I could muster.
"I'll make a reservation. It'll just be more expensive is all."
"No no no. I'll be back," I grumbled, and on my walk home, I decided to rent the car and drive up the next morning. I was tired and frustrated, and it didn't seem like a great way to embark on a long journey.
I left at 6:30 a.m. sharp and with my online reservation in hand I scooted right through the Hertz line.
It rained off and on, but the early morning light was beautiful as Ira Glass's voice escorted me up I-87 toward the Green Mountains of Vermont. I've traveled this road often.
Granddad Stuart and Elaine live in Killington right by two big ski spots; driving by, the slopes were green and the lifts were frozen in place.
They have lived in this house for as long as I've been around. I spent a week there every summer as a young kid and from time to time would be there in the winter when I would tear up the slopes with my grandfather. In the summers, Elaine would take me horseback riding.
Arriving, I am greeted by a big sweet dog that walks up to the house with me. Granddad Stuart is chipper in grey sweats and leather loafers. It's always great to see him, and I don't do it enough. We stand in the kitchen and I munch on a bagel, as he tells me stories of life in New York City growing up.
Once he bought a car before he knew how to drive and then got a license from the dealer for five dollars.
"How did you drive the car home?" I ask him.
"I figured it out," he says matter-of-factly, adding with a smile, "and it was a standard."
We talk about the World's Fair and his garden apartment someplace in the 20s, of his days on the road selling kitchen gadgets and of listening to Italian radio shows with his mother.
A few hours later the guests start showing up. Granddad Stuart and Elaine are throwing a barbeque for my mom's birthday. Soon there is a great mix of smart, colorful characters with good senses of humor spread out on the deck overlooking the greenery. I enjoy watching.
My Aunt Sarah and Cousins Amelia and Marina surprise my mom by showing up as well. We eat as many chicken wings and ribs as our stomachs can manage and laugh as we watch Rio and Rain (two dogs) argue over various sticks and bones and attention.
For her birthday I got my mom an iPad case for her new iPad. The case is basically a hollowed out notebook and looks unassuming (except for the glow of the iPad on the reader's face). I enjoy the irony of keeping technology in things that seem handmade.
The theme of much of the conversation is technology, with the younger generations showing the older ones how to use various gadgets.
"You should download Skype."
"See if it's an iMessage; it sends over wifi."
This is technology at its best.
Me having to walk home to reserve a car online rather than the clerk doing it for me, that's the human race actively trying to replace itself.
Happy Birthday, Mom!


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Dangerboner, I'm with you 100%. Wino would have killed on this album. Nothing against Reagers, just a preference. I never did care for Place of Skulls. The only Wino project (That I know of) that failed to keep my interest.


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This is the time of year when all of the smart writers and thinkers look at the economy, global cultural trends, and just the general tone of society and decide what the last 12 months meant. They put on their sociology top hats, do a lot of research, and write articles explaining to us why, with total certainty, "2013 was the year of [blank]."
Loyal readers will know that I am not one of the smart writers and thinkers. I am, on my best day, a stuttering goon who focuses the majority of his day-to-day energy on not farting in front of women and adults. I can't really speak to what happened to the world in 2013, because I wasn't exactly paying attention (a LOT of movies came out this year). What I can do is remember popular movies and TV shows from the past that were set in 2013 and compare them to the world around me to see how they stack up against reality.
(It's not a very useful skill.)
(As wrong as people can be about the future, a lot of people are even more wrong about the past. The De-Textbook has the true, awesome story of stuff like Aztec sports, Napoleon's height, and (potential) Pilgrim orgies.)
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In between the 1997-set events of John Carpenter's Escape from New York and the 2013-set events of his sequel Escape from L.A., a lot of things happened. A massive earthquake hit, sending Los Angeles into the sea to function as its own island. Then we elected a new president who promptly appointed himself president for life and made a bunch of moral laws that outlawed, among other things, profanity, tobacco, alcohol, red meat, and the public expression of any views that didn't fit into his aggressively Christian agenda. Anyone who broke these laws would be sent to the island of Los Angeles, now a filthy, dangerous prison island.
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However, they did accurately predict the 2013 Lakers season.
In 2013, the president's daughter, Utopia, gets brainwashed by a dangerous revolutionary and taken to Los Angeles. The president decides to send Snake Plissken, a very cool guy with an eye patch, into LA to retrieve her. Snake would, in exchange, be granted immunity for all of his many, many crimes. As if Snake needed MORE incentive, he gets injected with a deadly poison that will kill him within 10 hours unless he gets the antidote, which the president will only give him if he rescues Utopia. There's also a remote control that can render all of the world completely powerless, and everyone's trying to get their hands on it.
(To sum it up, the president's daughter has been kidnapped and Snake is the only man for the job to save her. I swear to God, '90s action movies have hands down the most convoluted and inefficient plots ever.)
What They Got Right
Los Angeles is indeed very dirty and shitty. And the aggressively Christian president in the movie was elected in 2000, the year George W. Bush, who was also known for his strong religious views, took office. Carpenter was prophetic enough to know that America in 2000 would be craving a down-home, "country boy" president to take America back to a simpler time where folks knew their manners; he just assumed we'd want one as a response to a massive earthquake instead of a few harmless White House blow jobs.
What They Got Wrong
There are some sci-fi and speculative fiction books and movies that really try to anticipate what the future will look like. The original Star Trek got quite a bit right, as far as day-to-day technology goes. Even if writers miss the mark more often than they hit it, they at least try.
Escape from L.A. didn't come close. To anything. I mean, Carpenter has insanely advanced technology, like holograms and power-dampening remote controls, but everyone still shoots regular pistols and dresses like they live in the '80s, and they surf out their problems, apparently.
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Every great has their surf movie moment. Russell, Keanu, Morgan Freeman, everyone.
The biggest issue is that Carpenter refused to commit to where he thought America was going morally. The whole country was being consumed by sin and excess, but we still inexplicably elected a strict, hyper-moral dictator-president for life. Leather-clad gangs roamed the streets, but we still wanted our man in office to think eating red meat was a crime punishable by exile. Maybe Carpenter was predicting how divided our nation was going to be in the 2000s, but it seems more likely to me that he's just a child who likes leather jackets.
3X-Men: Days of Future Past
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One of the most beloved X-Men sagas ever takes place in 2013 ... sort of. The comic, written in 1980, starts in 2013 (the future), where we learn that the X-Men and all other mutants are being hunted down and murdered by giant robots called Sentinels. Evidently, Charles Xavier, his friend Moira, and a politician named Robert Kelly were assassinated back in 1980, and that assassination started a series of events that culminated in an anti-mutant, dystopian future under robotic control. All mutants that managed to stay alive are kept in concentration camps, and life in the future is generally pretty terrible. Everything's dark and people dress funny. I think everybody dies. Can that be right?
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When it becomes clear that the Sentinels are going to broaden their reach and take over the whole world, the remaining X-Men decide to transport the brain of Future Kitty Pryde into the body of Past (1980) Kitty Pryde. Future-Kitty-brained/Past-Kitty-bodied Kitty will have to apply her knowledge of the future to the world of 1980 in order to save it. Her goal is to prevent the assassination and save the future. (This plot involving time travel and multiple dimensions is STILL less convoluted than Escape from L.A.)
The mutants of the past/present are ultimately successful (probably). They prevent Robert Kelly's assassination, thereby stalling the reign of the Sentinels, for a while at least.
What They Got Wrong
Here are the most advanced robots we currently have:
Of course you are, little man. Of course you are.
Look at how non-violent they are. Look at how not-giant they are. Look at how not-being-attacked-by-Wolverine they are. Worthless. If the mutants of the Marvel universe were truly wiped out by the most sophisticated robots of 2013, they goddamned deserve to be extinct.
Wow, he's so lifelike, I almost forgot that he looks like C-3PO's ghost and can't go upstairs. Watch out, Nightcrawler!
The overwhelming shittiness of today's robots tells me that Marvel really overshot our technological capabilities. Sorry to disappoint you, Marvel. We spent all of our science money on dumb fucking Internet glasses that no one wants. You got everything wrong.
What They Got Right
Or did they?
In Marvel's version of 2013, almost all of the world's mutants have been driven to extinction. I look around my world and note that it is ALSO surprisingly bereft of mutants, so I've no choice but to conclude that Marvel's writers are, on that score at least, prescient.
Additionally, while we have absolutely nothing that even comes close to approaching how cool Marvel's Sentinels are, it's not completely unreasonable to say that modern North Americans are completely managed by machines:
True, we're not being rounded up in concentration camps or forced to wear brands that signify us as either mutant, human, or human-with-special-but-non-mutant powers, but I am entirely dependent on the machines in my life. I once had an incredible memory, but now I need Siri to remind me to update my fantasy football app on Sunday mornings because otherwise I'd have no idea what day it was. I used to know how to navigate from Point A to Point B based on landmarks, but now my smartphone gives me directions after, of course, it pulls my planned destination from a text message conversation without even asking me if that's where I wanted to go. Sometimes I get so busy that I wouldn't know to get up from in front of my work computer if my iPad didn't beep and remind me it was time to feed my dog. We're not being rounded up and murdered by Sentinels, but I ask you: Are we not still slaves to sophisticated machines?
(No. We're not. Obviously. That's absurd. X-Men got it wrong AGAIN.)


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RUTLAND A federal judge will soon decide whether to dismiss discrimination claims in a lawsuit involving a man who was beaten and pepper-sprayed in his own home by Hartford police.
The three officers who responded to a potential burglary at the home of Wayne Burwell were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing by the state attorney generals office, which reviewed the case.
But in a federal lawsuit filed in July, Burwell, who is black, sued officers Fredrick Peyton, Scott Moody and Kristinnah Adams along with Hartford Police Chief Glenn Cutting and the town itself on 12 allegations ranging from excessive force to negligence.
Two of the claims also allege racial discrimination on the part of Peyton, Moody and Adams.
But in a motion argued in U.S. District Court in Rutland on Monday, the lawyer representing the three officers said there was no evidence that the officers acted with any racial bias during the incident with Burwell.
Police were called to Burwells three-story townhouse in Wilder on May 29, 2010 by a housekeeper who told police that an intruder might be in the house and that the man in the home was black.
Police said they found the home in disarray and filled with smoke and the blaring of fire alarms. Burwell was found sitting naked on a toilet in an incoherent state that police said they believed was drug induced.
In reality, Burwell was suffering from a medical condition for which he had been hospitalized weeks earlier.
When Burwell didnt respond to demands that he show his hands and get on the floor, he was sprayed with pepper spray and struck repeatedly with batons during a scuffle with the officers.
It wasnt until after Burwell had been handcuffed and dragged outside naked except for a blanket that police confirmed he owned the home and released him.
Robin Curtiss, a New Hampshire attorney representing Burwell, said in his lawsuit that racial bias determined the outcome of the incident.
From the moment the defendant officers knew that the male in the bathroom ... was black, they concluded that he must be engaged in criminal activity and treated him accordingly, Curtiss wrote.
But in his motion to dismiss the discrimination claims, Middlebury attorney James Carroll argued that there was no evidence that the officers conduct was motivated by race.
They were dealing with a potential intruder, not race, Carroll said. They were under real duress to figure out what was going on.
But Curtiss said in court that the officers discrimination was evident based on the officers deviation from their own policies.
The Hartford Police Department policy regarding OC spray states that it is to be used only to subdue an attacker or violent person. There was no evidence of that in this case. He was sitting on a toilet yet the police emptied a can of OC spray on him, Curtiss said.
Curtiss also said that the officers were told by the woman who initially called the police that the person inside could be the homeowner. A neighbor also told police before they entered the home that Burwell had recently been hospitalized after he was found unconscious.
There was no attempt made to find out if he owned the place, Curtiss said. They found out he was black, and that colored everything that happened after that.
At the end of the hearing, Judge Christina Reiss said she would attempt to issue a decision within 45 days.
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By David Stevens
A Clovis woman brought several old newspapers into the Clovis News Journal office last week.
She didn't want to throw them away, and thought someone might enjoy the look back in time.
Six of the papers were from Clovis High School in the 1959-60 school year.
Here are a few of the highlights:
n The top story in the Nov. 10, 1959, edition was about a sock hop.
"A school sock hop will be held in the Rock Staubus Gymnasium Friday night … for the first time in the history of CHS. Featuring the 'Sparkles,' the dance will begin immediately after the Alamogordo game and has been set to end at 12 p.m. … Fifty cents per person will be charged. As guests are entering, they must check in their shoes since only socks will be permitted on the gym floor."
n From the Nov. 24, 1959, edition:
"Jan Felton, CHS senior, has been selected by Gov. John Burroughs as a delegate to the 1960 White House conference on "Children and Youth," which will be held in Washington D.C. May 27-April 2, 1960.
"These conferences are held every 10 years by the president. … There will be 7,000 participants from all parts of the U.S. in 1960. New Mexico is sending 29 delegates this year."
n In the Oct. 27, 1959, edition, senior students were asked for their thoughts on college.
Connie Osborne: "I believe college is of importance to girls as well as boys. A year of college life should be a must for everyone."
Tommy Krattiger: "A person without a college education is lost in today's complex world."
n The Jan. 19, 1960, edition included advertisements from The Vohs Co. at 418 Main, the Village Record Shop and the Thunderbird Drive In.
The "Hits of the Week," according to the newspaper, included: "Livin' Doll," "Bull Dog," "Teen Angel," "El Paso" and "Big Hurt."
n The Oct. 12, 1959, edition included a short story on school annual sales.
They sold for $5 or on the "installment plan," which was "$3 now, $2 later."
Other reports in that edition included:
CHS band members took a trip to the South Plains Fair in Lubbock.
Juniors Nick Rowley and Jimmy Gee were the "Wildcats of the Week."
And Norman Petty, "a local recording artist," was special guest on the local TV show "Make it or break it," which featured CHS students rating records.
n Doug West and Bobbye Harden wrote letters to Santa Claus in the Dec. 22, 1959, edition.
West's letter read in part:
"Since I've played it real cool this year, I'd like for you to bring me the few things on my list: one black, two-door, super-charged '57 Chevy hardtop … (and) a real cool doll with dark hair and plenty of money. … I think this ought to keep me going for a little while."
And from Harden:
"The very first thing I would like to have for Christmas is a luscious blue convertible. It doesn't matter what kind it is, just so it's new and isn't a Studebaker."
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Home List of Titles Enhancement of spontaneous emission in three-dimensional low refractive-index photonic crystals with designed defects
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/230907
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- Title
- Enhancement of spontaneous emission in three-dimensional low refractive-index photonic crystals with designed defects
- Author(s)
- Gan, Zongsong; Jia, Baohua; Liu, Jing-Feng; Wang, Xue-Hua; Gu, Min
- Abstract
- In this work, we demonstrate that low refractive-index three-dimensional photonics crystals with a planar defect, fabricated with the direct laser writing method, can be used to effectively enhance the spontaneous emission (SE) of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). To achieve this, we develop a controllable and reliable method to integrate quantum dots into the defect-embedded photonic crystals (PCs). Although the overlapping of different direction stop gaps in low refractive-index defect-free three-dimensional photonic crystals imposes a challenge to realize spontaneous emission enhancement at the band edge wavelength, we achieve a 15% enhancement of the spontaneous emission by introducing a tailored planar defect.
- Publication type
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Micro-Photonics
- Source
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 101, no. 7 (Aug 2012), article no. 071109
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- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 02 Physical Sciences; 09 Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Crystal defects; Photonic crystals; Refractive index; Semiconductor quantum dots; Spontaneous emission; Superradiance
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- American Institute of Physics
- 0003-6951
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