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Hello! As I'm getting ready for BTS (ready or not 😉 ), I'm curious if you have a few of the printable from the GYTO conference available in your TPT store. I'm looking to make the "Playground Prince and Princess" headbands, along with the "We're going to have a ball this year" meet the teacher gifts. Thanks so much!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey Jodi! Those are in Deanna's store as part of our collaborative BTS packet, Back to School Basics and you can find that here:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Basics-EVERYTHING-you-need-to-kick-off-the-year-2606313Delete
The printable "We're Going to Have a Ball This Year" is a free download and here's the link to that.... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zC45cAimWuRDhvdzVFX1BsUlU/view
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BMW Diesel Engine Information
Diesel engines are forms of internal combustion engines where fuel is ignited by the high temperature and pressure of a compressed gas containing oxygen. This differs from a gasoline internal combustion engine which car detailing utilizes a separate source of ignition such as a spark plug.
Petrol engines compress fuel and air at a ratio of between 8:1 and 12:1. A diesel engine is able to compress from 14:1 to as high as 25:1. BMW diesel engines compress at around 17:1 and this higher level of compression compared to a petrol engine results in greater efficiencies as well as greater levels of torque.
Because of the higher compression, diesel engines are more efficient than the petrol engines of the same size and therefore use less fuel to expel the equivalent energy. An example of this is the much cooler temperature of the exhaust system on a diesel car as much less energy is lost in the compression process compared to a petrol engine. This results in a far greater range of fuel per tank (or less fuel used per kilometer travelled).
The additional torque generated by the engine allows for a lower revving engine with torque levels equivalent to a V8 petrol engine. In the case of the 4-cylinder diesel, it has torque levels equivalent to a 6-cylinder petrol engine. The latest generation diesel engines are friendlier to the environment in that they produce less Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions, Hydrocarbons (HC) – raw fuel – and Carbon Monoxide (CO) – partially burnt fuel.
The diesel engine is also more heavily reinforced to handle the higher combustion pressures needed for ignition. This, coupled with lower engine speeds, makes the diesel engine more durable with a potentially longer life.
Disadvantages of Diesel Engines
Diesel engines are slightly heavier than the equivalent petrol engine with the same power output due to the level of engineering as mentioned above. This adds to weight at the front of the vehicle and can impact upon dynamism compared to the equivalent petrol engine equipped vehicle. However, as the technology in diesel engines progresses further, disadvantages such as the weight of the engine block and the level of refinement have generally being addressed. A superb example of this is the latest generation BMW 6-cylinder engine found in the 530d and the X3 3.0d (see below).
Diesel engines also attract a higher initial price due to greater production costs involved in the manufacture of high precision injectors.
BMW Technology in 6-Cylinder Diesel Engines
The latest 6-cylinder diesel engine from BMW recently made its Australian debut in the 530d and the X3 3.0d. This engine has the latest technology from BMW in the form of an aluminum crank case (previously cast iron) which offers weight savings of around 25kg. It also embraces cast iron cylinder liners which are used to ensure strength and durability. The overall weight saving contributes to improved handling with reduced weight over the front axle, an improved weight distribution over both axles and greater fuel efficiency through carrying less weight.
The latest technology from BMW also incorporates the third generation common rail with Piezo injectors generating a rail pressure of 1600 bar. This system achieves its efficiency by being able to optimize the diesel engine by injecting fuel up to 5 times per engine cycle. This leads to better fuel economy, emission management and noise control as it optimizes the fuel injected and is even more precise in pre and post injection.
The latest BMW 6-cylinder diesel engine also utilizes the latest turbocharger system which is more responsive due to its ability to compress more intake air at the same turbo charger rotation speed. This eliminates any turbo lag previously experienced in acceleration and it does this more accurately due to its electric operation versus vacuum control of previous generation turbocharger systems.


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What is climate change doing to humans now? Apart that is, from causing them to mass in Cath Kidston tents on Blackheath? I've spent much of this year looking at the impacts on humans of climate change, eerily aware that for most of the rich world this is a phantom, a monster you may hear howling in the distance, if you want to – but as yet nothing to be seen or touched. If you believe – as Oxfam, who commissioned my report, does – that climate change along with poverty are the greatest threats to humanity this century, then the monster must be dragged out of the shadows and shown to the people who can get the world to act.
That's not so easy. Is the looming famine in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa caused by a changing climate? You cannot with scientific certainty say any more than that the shifts in weather patterns and the seasons have made it harder to farm effectively. Floods in Bangladesh and the Philippines? It is certain that the sea level is rising, encroaching on liminal lands across the world – we will lose at least one nation, Tuvalu, during this century. Typhoons and hurricanes? Seen over 20 years there are far more "extreme weather events" – so many that, in the words of one of the UN's most senior emergency officials, "Disaster is the new norm". But is it climate change?
Professor Anthony Giddens, who has just published The Politics of Climate Change, estimates that all but 3 to 4 per cent of scientists are convinced that the core changes in the planet are serious and are principally caused by human interference in the climatic cycle. It's not an issue worth debating any more, in his view – "You cannot base decisions about the future of the human race on a 5 per cent chance [that the scientific consensus is wrong]", he told an Edinburgh book festival audience. I'm sure that is right.
The debate is sterile and absurdly over-extended: we've been wrangling at international level over the causes and the solutions to climate change for more than 20 years. Unforgivably, this has eclipsed a more immediate issue – how to help the poor world deal with the impacts of climate change now and in the future. This should not be complex, because – in terms of a Bengali rice farmer with paddy now too salty to grow anything, or a flood-stricken family in Orissa – it doesn't much matter why sea levels are rising, or the glaciers of the Himalayas and the Andes melting. What is important is how we deal with the reality – including the 26 million who, according to the consensus among the humanitarian agencies, are already displaced by climatic disaster.
Jane Cocking, who is in charge of Oxfam's emergency humanitarian operations, told me: "I've read endless research. But there's nothing that says how many wat-san [water and sanitation] engineers I need to station in Bangladesh in 2020."
I found that pragmatic need inspiring. Did I find the answer? No. But I can now say that the consensus of current science is that Bangladesh will, during this century, lose at least 17 per cent of its land area due to rising sea levels and related problems. That will deprive 25 million people of their land and livelihoods. And it will take more wat-san engineers to tackle than have ever been born.
I tried to make sure I kept up my sceptical guard as I set off into a clamourous world: the academic climate
change conference. It was necessary. Too often we journalists lazily quote science, and aid agencies, as gospel: "scientists agree" trips on to the page easily, as though that formulation sealed the argument. But scientists rarely agree – especially when they are in the business of prediction, which is what most climate change impact science is about. In fact they fight like cats, squabble over findings and funding, and behave like jealous artists everywhere.
The vast Copenhagen summit in March, attended by 2,500 academics, reminded me of the attention-hungry circus that is the Edinburgh Fringe. At that summit, in an open session addressing the probable collapse of maize as a viable crop across large swathes of Africa, an eminent agronomist announced that what we needed to consider was "when we need to move the population of East Africa to Siberia". You could almost hear his peers saying, "Damn him! Where's he going with that? And who's he got to fund the feasibility study?"
The message from the scientists has been blurred, dangerously so, because it has provided prevaricating politicians with more excuses. But consensus is emerging. No one argues now with the fact that rice, soya and maize production is shifting rapidly across the hot regions of the world; that sea levels will rise twice as fast as we thought only three years ago; or that diseases are migrating geographically, often to populations with no knowledge of them, and little defence.
Another interesting indicator is the rate at which the scientists themselves are getting bleaker: 90 per cent of them, according to two recent polls, don't believe the world can attain the emissions targets that will keep warming to an "acceptable" two degrees this century.
Lord Stern, whose hugely influential review for the British government of the economics of climate change was published in 2007, said in April this year: "I probably under-did it." He now believes that a devastating five degrees of warming this century is "not a small probability of a rather unattractive outcome... [but] a big probability of a very bad outcome". So what's a cash-strapped, over-advised rich world government to do?
I think the answer is quite simple. There are two issues here: one is the causes of climate change. The other is the problem of adapting the planet, and humanity, to what is already proven to be a rapidly changing climate. The Dutch are spending $1.9bn (£1.1bn) every year now on improving their sea defences – that is because there is an immediate need; it is equally so across the world.
We can continue to debate why our ship is sinking, and how and when we must cut carbon emissions: but we must start getting the lifeboats ready. That will be expensive. Most agencies have put the costs of at $100-$150bn a year. One of Britain's most eminent researchers on climate change, Professor Martin Parry, on Friday released a report estimating the price at three times that. It's a lot, but not so much seen in terms of bank bailouts. And, as Lord Stern has said, money spent well in the parts of the world where climate change will hit hardest, will be money that also helps those countries develop.
Every dollar spent now helping people adapt and prepare will be measured in lives saved, in agony mitigated. It will also act to prevent the great migrations of which world governments are so frightened. There is a disaster coming: even my sceptical heart has had to admit that. But I'm confident we can still limit the extent of it.
Alex Renton is the author of Suffering the Science: Climate Change, People and Poverty. It can be downloaded at www.oxfam.org.uk
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Mineralization lumping kinetic model for abatement of organic pollutants using Fenton's reagent
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Abstract A simplified pseudokinetic model to predict the mineralization evolution of organic pollutants by Fenton's reagent (FR) has been developed. The model has been validated by fitting phenol oxidation data by using FR in a batch way but could be applied to other wastewaters. The proposed model can be applied to the whole range of hydrogen peroxide dosage, values lower than those theoretically required for total mineralization or excess. To do this the model takes into account the change in the hydrogen peroxide concentration. Moreover, the model is able to explain and predict the asymptotic value obtained for mineralization of the initial TOC due to the complexation of the catalyst (iron cation) with chelating oxidation intermediates. Finally, the model can optimize the dosage of hydrogen peroxide in order to avoid the loss of this reagent.


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Josh HarkinsonApr. 27, 2010 8:15 AM
Matthew Knowles, the manager and father of the pop star Beyoncé, is not the kind of guy who needs a handout from Uncle Sam. His daughter and her husband, the rapper Jay-Z, are reportedly worth $265 million, his record company has sold 200 million albums, and his investments include an entire city block near downtown Houston. Even so, Knowles is in line for a lucrative taxpayer-backed bailout. A federally-funded disaster relief program is set to purchase his home in Galveston, Texas, which was rendered nearly worthless by damage from Hurricane Ike, for something close to its original value: A cool $425,000.
Knowles' bailout is far from unique. In the name of disaster relief, the federal government routinely subsidizes some of the country's wealthiest and most irresponsible property owners. In Texas alone this year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is spending $100 million to buy and demolish more than 750 flood-prone buildings insured by the National Flood Insurance Program, many of them expensive waterfront homes. The land will be permanently set aside as open space.
FEMA argues that the buyout program will easily pay for itself. After all, the NFIP is already on the hook to repair many of the properties, most of which private insurers have long been too smart to cover. In 1993, FEMA realized that repairing similarly flood-prone homes along the Mississippi River was costing more than they were worth. Over the next eight years, a buyout program that targeted some of the swampiest properties achieved a 200 percent return on investment, FEMA says, preventing millions in insurance claims across the Midwest.
But along the Gulf Coast, FEMA's buyouts make much less sense. Here's the problem: FEMA is still insuring new homes that are all but certain to be underwater by the end of the century, submerged by a three-foot rise in sea level caused by climate change. Until FEMA starts accounting for climate change, its buyout program provides homeowners with a strong incentive to ignore the problem. Why worry about sea level rise when you know that, in the worst case scenario, the government will pick up the tab?
The situation is the screwiest in Texas, where FEMA is undermining the state's own curbs on coastal development. As I explain in today's Climate Desk piece, the Texas Open Beaches Act bans all homes on Texas beaches, even when the beach comes to the home, rather than vice versa. Knowles' home, which ended up on the beach after Hurricane Ike eroded the coastline, would probably have been removed under the law. Texas' hard-line approach to beach protection is also a low-cost way to force even the wealthiest property owners to plan for sea level rise. But it won't work very well until FEMA stops using our tax money to pay people off.
Kate SheppardApr. 26, 2010 8:27 PM
It sure doesn't look like the White House intends to wade into the spat over whether climate or immigration legislation should be next on the Senate's list of priorities. "Whichever bill has the support it needs to be passed, that's what will move first," said press secretary Robert Gibbs at today's briefing.
The disagreement between Democratic leadership and Sen. Lindsey Graham—the lone Republican actively working with Democrats on both issues—threatens to derail negotiations on the administration's two top priorities, following the anticipated passage of financial reform. But Gibbs declined to state a preference on which should go first Monday afternoon.
"I think we can make progress on more than just one issue," Gibbs continued. "You all see this as an either-or, but this administration does not."
Kate SheppardApr. 26, 2010 7:48 PM
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) indicated on Monday that he doesn't want immigration coming up at all this year, even if it comes after climate and energy. Bringing up another contentious issue like immigration, he said, would threaten the fragile balance he has worked to strike on an energy bill. "I'm not going to roll anything out on climate and energy in an environment where it's dead before it starts," Graham told reporters.
Moving immigration reform now would be premature and would divide both Congress and the country, Graham said. "If you bring up immigration this year ... you have really done damage to immigration reform prospects in the future," Graham told reporters Monday evening, following a meeting with Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). "Not only have you hurt immigration, you've destroyed any chance of energy and climate having a snow ball's chance in hell."
Graham, Kerry and Lieberman met to try to calm the storm that kicked up around their legislation over the weekend after Graham threatened to ditch work on climate and energy if Democrats decided to move immigration first. Graham accused Democratic leadership of making a "cynical political ploy" by pushing immigration ahead in the queue. The move caused Kerry to call off the scheduled introduction of their bill today to make time to allay Graham's outrage. But following the meeting, it didn't seem like the South Carolina Republican intended to change his mind any time soon.
"Energy and climate is tough. Under the best of circumstances it would be tough, right?" said Graham. "I've got a heavy lift here. So do John and Joe ... I enjoy doing difficult things with serious people that have a chance. But at the end of the day, I don't want to play politics with issues that really do mean a lot to me."
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Kate SheppardApr. 26, 2010 4:08 PM
Democrats were in damage control mode Monday afternoon, trying to keep climate and immigration reform—their two biggest legislative priorities after financial regulation—from imploding before they even make it to the floor.
Climate bill cosponsor Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) appeared on MSNBC this afternoon to try to allay concerns that a deal he has been working on for months with Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is in peril. Lieberman maintained that Graham is still working with them on a climate and energy bill. "This is his priority," said Lieberman (via the Washington Independent), adding, rather inscrutably, "Lindsey Graham will come back to where he is and never left."
Lieberman also said that he had spoken with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) yesterday who said "explicitly" that he remains committed to a vote on a climate and energy bill, and expects it to come ahead of immigration. "He assumes that will be before the immigration reform bill is ready," said Lieberman."He knows our bill is ready and the immigration reform bill is not."
Senate Democratic staffers are also dismissing the dust-up, saying that Graham and the press are blowing the matter out of proportion. "I haven't seen anyone locate any quote by Reid where he said he was going to do one before the other," said a Democratic aide, speaking on background. "Neither of them have 60 votes. Those are the facts. Should that math change in favor of one issue or the other, than we'll obviously take that particular one up first."
Kate SheppardApr. 26, 2010 3:19 PM
When health care reform seemed to be headed for disaster, Democrats got around the 60-vote obstacle in the Senate by using reconciliation. With climate and energy legislation in a tailspin, can reconciliation come to the rescue again?
Yes—but it probably won't happen. And a number of Democrats had a hand in keeping that option off the table.
Last April, Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) tagged an amendment onto the budget bill barring the "use of reconciliation in the Senate for climate change legislation involving a cap and trade system." Reconciliation requires only a simple majority vote in both chambers, nullifying the filibuster in the Senate and making it possible for Democrats to pass legislation without any Republican support. Obviously, Republicans like the idea of denying Democrats this option. But 26 Democrats joined Johanns to prevent the use of reconciliation for a cap-and-trade law.
Last week, the Senate Budget Committee reaffirmed that stance, voting 16-6 in favor of an amendment from ranking minority member Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) that would effectively prevent the use of reconciliation for climate policy. Seven Democrats voted for that measure in committee: Kent Conrad (N.D.), Patty Murray (Wash.), Ron Wyden (Ore.), Russ Feingold (Wisc.), Robert Byrd (W.Va.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), and Mark Warner (Va.).
A few Democrats have tried to keep the idea of using reconciliation alive for energy and climate legislation. But it seems like a long shot given how many Dems are on the record as opposing it. Will the departure of the lone Republican working openly with John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a comprehensive bill change their calculation? Hard to say. There are still plenty of extremely contentious issues on climate and energy even among Democrats. Even if Dems changed their mind on reconciliation, the climate bill would be far from a cakewalk.
Kate SheppardApr. 26, 2010 12:46 PM
Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman are reportedly planning to meet this afternoon with Lindsey Graham in a last-ditch effort to salvage the climate and energy bill the three senators have been working on for months. The legislation, scheduled to be unveiled today, was thrown into chaos this weekend after Graham threatened to abandon negotiations unless Democrats committed to advancing energy and climate ahead of immigration reform.
Meanwhile, advocates for climate action are trying to figure out whether there's still a chance that the trio's bill—which Kerry has called the "last, best shot" at tackling global warming this Congress—still has a chance or is already dead in the water. Greens were already plenty nervous about the rollout of the bill, as leaks about the draft indicated it would be very friendly to business interests. But if Graham follows through with his threat, there may not be a bill at all. "It's hard to know if this is jockeying for position, or if this is a watershed," said David Hamilton, director of the global warming and energy program at the Sierra Club. "I think we just have to wait a few days and see how it shakes out."
Hamilton pointed out that Graham "certainly appeared serious." However, Graham's been able to wring a lot out of this bill, including major investments in nuclear power and increased offshore drilling. It's not clear how many of those concessions would survive if he walked away. Hamilton added that the South Carolina senator has also invested a lot of political capital in the bill. "It's hard to believe that it would all just end up on the kitchen floor."
Kate SheppardApr. 26, 2010 9:16 AM
With the fate of climate and energy legislation in peril, will the White House intervene to save one (and possibly two) of their top legislative priorities? It doesn't appear so, at least not yet.
The Obama administration so far is staying out of the Senate squabble that kicked up this weekend when Lindsey Graham, the lone Republican working with Democrats on a climate and energy package, threatened to walk away from negotiations if the Democratic leadership followed through on talk of pushing an immigration reform bill first. Climate and energy bill co-authors Graham (R-SC), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) were supposed to unveil their legislation today, promising unprecedented industry support. The rollout was delayed in hopes of salvaging bipartisan backing for the bill. The White House has declined to state a preference on which issue moves first—climate or immigration.
"There's no either-or between energy and immigration reform," Larry Summer, Obama's chief economic adviser, said on CBS's Face the Nation yesterday. "Senator Reid, for whatever reasons he has, will in the Senate choose the legislative calendar."
White House climate and energy adviser Carol Browner issued a statement of continued support for a bipartisan bill on Saturday, but she didn't make any comment on timing, short of saying the White House still wants comprehensive legislation this year. "We believe the only way to make progress on these priorities is to continue working as we have thus far in a bipartisan manner to build more support for both comprehensive energy independence and immigration reform legislation," she noted.
"We have an historic opportunity to finally enact measures that will break our dependence on foreign oil, help create clean energy jobs and reduce carbon pollution," Browner continued. "We're determined to see it happen this year, and we encourage the Senators to continue their important work on behalf of the country and not walk away from the progress that's already been made."
The fight to pass legislation on the already contentious issue of climate and energy got uglier this weekend. Some intervention from the top might be necessary if the work Graham has been doing with Kerry and Lieberman is to be salvaged.
Kiera ButlerApr. 26, 2010 5:30 AM
Ah, spring. Flowers! Lawn sports! Baby birds! Lots and lots of snot. Yes folks, this year's pollen counts, especially in the southeast, are through the roof, and as our intrepid reporter Kate Sheppard wrote between sneezing fits last week, a new study from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) suggests allergies will likely become even more fierce if the planet continues to heat up.
Researchers found that not only is spring coming earlier, making for a longer allergy season, but warmer weather allows hickory and oak, two of the most allergenic tree species, to thrive almost everywhere in the US. Another factor: Some plants, such as ragweed, are actually making more pollen as the environment changes. "As trees that use the wind to pollinate undergo stress from heat or lack of water, they begin to produce more pollen to compensate," explained NWF climate scientist Amanda Staudt. Scientists have already observed this phenomenon in cities, where C02 levels are an average of 30 percent higher than in suburbs and rural areas. "Cities are where we're seeing increased pollen production," explains Demain.
Hayfever's not the only allergic reaction that could worsen with climate change. Sometimes, pollen from certain plants can exacerbate food allergies to related plants, says Jeffrey Demain, director of the Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Center of Alaska. People who are genetically presdisposed to fruit and nut allergies, for example, may find that increased exposure to birch pollen makes their food reactions worse. Similarly, more ragweed pollen could aggravate symptoms in people allergic to melon. Also on the horizon: more aggressive poison ivy. A Duke university study found that poison ivy plants exposed to CO2 produced more potent urushiol, the allergen that causes the famous rash.
So is there any chance we'll adapt by becoming less allergic to all that pollen? Probably not, says Demain. "We don't become more resistant to allergies with exposure, there's evidence that we actually become more allergic. We've actually seen more and more people with allergies for the past 30 years." So what's the solution? Ultimately, the only way to fix the problem is to cut our greenhouse gas emissions, says Staudt. In the meantime, since I'm not wild about the prospect of staying inside all allergy season long, here are three things we allergic people can do to sneeze less:
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The state of climate and energy legislation was thrown into disarray Saturday evening as the lead Republican on the bill, Lindsey Graham, threatened to walk away from negotiations over tensions on timing. With bipartisan agreement in peril, John Kerry, the lead Democrat on the bill, pushed off the anticipated roll out of the bill scheduled for Monday.
"For more than six months, Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman, and I have been meeting for hours each day to find a bi-partisan path forward and build an unprecedented coalition of stakeholders to pass a comprehensive climate and energy bill this year," Kerry said in a statement. "We all believe that this year is our best and perhaps last chance for Congress to pass a comprehensive approach. We believe that we had reached such an agreement and were excited to announce it on Monday, but regrettably external issues have arisen that force us to postpone only temporarily."
Graham had expressed anger over the suggestion from Democratic leaders that immigration reform might move ahead of climate and energy legislation. Earlier on Saturday, he told supporters that he would walk away from the bill if Democratic leadership did not commit to moving their forthcoming bill first. Graham quitting his work on the bill would put its fate in question; he's the only Republican publicly engaged with Democrats in writing legislation.
Kerry said he remains "deeply committed to this effort" and that there is "no choice but to act this year." He also praised Graham's role in shaping the bill, but said he and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) would move forward without him. "Joe and I deeply regret that he feels immigration politics have gotten in the way and for now prevent him from being engaged in the way he intended. But we have to press forward. Lindsey has helped to build an unprecedented coalition of stakeholders from the environmental community and the industry who have been prepared to stand together behind a proposal. That can't change. We can't allow this moment to pass us by."
Kerry, Graham and Lieberman had expected to unveil a draft of their legislation on Monday, promising unprecedented support from industry groups. But at this point, the bill's fate is uncertain, to say the least.
Kate SheppardApr. 24, 2010 6:27 PM
Lindsey Graham has made his opposition to taking up immigration reform before a climate and energy bill well-known. On Saturday, he made it clear that if Democrats go that route, he's walking away from the work he's done with Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a comprehensive package.
The Hill reports that Graham sent a letter to supporters saying that he will be "unable to move forward" with the energy and climate plan they're expected to roll out on Monday if it falls behind immigration on the list of legislative priorities. Graham quitting his work on the bill would send negotiations into a state of chaos; he's as of yet the only Republican publicly engaged with Democrats in writing legislation.
From Graham's letter:
Recent press reports indicating that immigration—not energy—is their priority have not been repudiated. This has destroyed my confidence that there will be a serious commitment and focus to move energy legislation this year. All of the key players, particularly the Senate leadership, have to want this debate as much as we do. This is clearly not the case.
I am very disappointed with this turn of events and believe their decision flies in the face of commitments made weeks ago to Senators Kerry, Lieberman and me. I deeply regret that election year politics will impede, if not derail, our efforts to make our nation energy independent.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) issued a statement affirming his commitment to addressing both issues this Congress, noting that they are "equally vital to our economic and national security and have been ignored for far too long." But Reid also made it clear that he plans to move on whichever piece of legislation has the support to pass. "As I have said, I am committed to trying to enact comprehensive clean energy legislation this session of Congress," said Reid. "Doing so will require strong bipartisan support and energy could be next if it's ready."
As for Graham, Reid said:
I appreciate the work of Senator Graham on both of these issues and understand the tremendous pressure he is under from members of his own party not to work with us on either measure. But I will not allow him to play one issue off of another, and neither will the American people. They expect us to do both, and they will not accept the notion that trying to act on one is an excuse for not acting on the other.
What this means for Monday's anticipated roll out of a climate and energy bill isn't clear. "Unless their plan substantially changes this weekend, I will be unable to move forward on energy independence legislation at this time," Graham wrote. "I will not allow our hard work to be rolled out in a manner that has no chance of success."
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Relationship between the obstacle height cognition and step movement in the elderly
- Sohee Shin†1Email author,
- Shinichi Demura†2,
- Tsuneo Watanabe†1,
- Haruka Kawabata†2,
- Hiroki Sugiura†2 and
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This study examines the effect of obstacle height cognition (OHC) on single-leg forward step (SFS) and Obstacle-SFS.
In the SFS test, participants stepped 25 cm forward with one leg and returned it to its original position five times as quickly as possible. The Obstacle-SFS added an obstacle to the above condition in the SFS test. The participants were divided into two groups: tripping group, which tripped over an obstacle in the Obstacle-SFS test; and non-tripping group, which did not trip. Parameters were step time (T), the time it took to step forward (F), and the time it took to return to the original position (R). The OHC was determined by the difference between the elevated leg's height and the obstacle height (10 cm), which was set at 60 cm in front of the participant.
OHC showed a significant and moderate relationship with all parameters of Obstacle-SFS (OSFS-T, OSFS-F and OSFS-R). The tripping group had significantly larger values in the OHC, OSFS-T and OSFS-F than the non-tripping group.
In conclusion, the differences in obstacle height cognition ability may affect Obstacle-SFS movement.
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For older persons, physical fitness declines with age. However, it is unclear whether the older persons themselves grasp the decline of their physical fitness adequately. People judge their physical fitness in conscious and unconscious ways. When they cannot correctly assess their condition, problems ensue[1].
When sensing an impending fall, people step forward quickly and avoid it by returning to a stable base of support. Shin and Demura[2–4] have evaluated older persons' fall-related physical fitness, noted the movement involved in making a new base of support by stepping forward, and developed the single-leg forward step test (SFS test). They have also evaluated the usefulness of the test. In the SFS test, participants must step forward and return the leg to its original position quickly. The supporting and stepping legs require considerable leg strength and balance ability, because braking power is needed to control the body's forward momentum. It was reported that the test using this movement has a close relationship to the fall risk score and is useful for evaluating the fall-related physical fitness of older persons[5]. Shin et al.[6] reported that Obstacle-SFS reflects performance characteristics of older people who have experienced a fall by tripping, and is thus useful for evaluating the characteristic movements of older people who are prone to trip.
From the results of a previous study[5], older people who are prone to trip tend to be inferior in Obstacle-SFS movement. Hence, this test may be able to predict how older people might trip in the future. Tripping over an obstacle is one of the biggest causes of falling in older people[7–9]. According to Robinovitch et al.,[10] older people tend to overestimate their own physical fitness, and they suggested that older people must adequately evaluate physical fitness and behave accordingly, in order to avoid trips and falls. Older people need to assess an obstacle's height properly to avoid a fall during a step. Tripping over an obstacle because one is physically unable to raise a leg is a concern, but fall risk also increases because of unstable or excessive lifting of the leg. To date, several studies have been performed to elucidate the relation between the Obstacle-SFS movement and leg strength, balance ability, and visual recognition ability[5]. However, the relationship between Obstacle-SFS and the cognition of the height of an obstacle has not been well examined.
This study hypothesized that older people with inferior obstacle height cognition (OHC) also have inferior Obstacle-SFS performances. The results of this study have provided important data regarding tripping and they will help to develop a preventive method against tripping and falling in older people.
This study examined the effect of OHC on the single-leg forward step (SFS) and Obstacle-SFS.
The participants were 43 healthy older women who can walk independently (age 77.0 ± 5.30 years, height 148.0 ± 6.29 cm, weight 51.9 ± 16.8 kg). The age of the participants ranged from 68 to 91 years. Among the participants, 27 exercised with low-to-moderate intensity one time per week. When asked about their physical fitness and health, 32 (74.4%) persons answered 'normal', and 31 (72.1%) answered 'excellent'. It is assumed that the older people in this study have high physical fitness and are in good health. Shin et al., reported that the Obstacle-SFS test may be useful to assess whether the characteristics of geriatric tripping and OHC influence Obstacle-SFS performance. It is assumed that movement characteristics when stepping over an obstacle varied between individuals who tripped and who did not. Hence, this study divided participants into two groups: the group of individuals (tripping group, N = 12) who tripped on an obstacle in the Obstacle-SFS test and the group of individuals (non-tripping group, N = 31) who did not trip, and then compared the groups with respect to Obstacle-SFS movement and OHC characteristics. The purpose and procedures of this study were explained in detail, and informed consent was obtained from all participants. This study was approved by the Kanazawa University Department of Education Ethical Review Board.
Single leg forward step test (SFS test)
The measurement was conducted once after one practice trial, but was repeated if they did not step forward over the line. The step test was performed using the step sheet (Takei Inc., Niigata, Japan) which can measure swing time from the lifting of one leg to landing, based on foot pressure information.
Obstacle-single leg forward step test (Obstacle-SFS test)
Evaluation parameters
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Step time (T; Total time, Seconds).
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Forward phase time (F, Unit: Seconds).
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Returning phase time (R, Unit: Seconds).
The returning phase time was considered to be the time from the moment the leg is raised off the forward step sheet until it is placed back on the original step sheet. A mean five total returning phase times was used as a parameter for comparison.
FS-T, SFS-F and SFS-R are abbreviations of the above parameters in the SFS test, and OSFS-T, OSFS-F and OSFS-R are those of the above parameters in the OSFS test. The mean and SD of the above parameters were calculated. Data over the mean ± 3SD were judged as the outliers and the data after eliminating these values were used as statistical analyses.
Obstacle height cognition (OHC, unit: cm)
Statistical analyses
To examine mean differences between tripping and non-tripping groups in the Obstacle-SFS test for the OHC and step tests, an unpaired t test was used. An effect size was calculated to examine the size of the mean differences. Pearson's correlation was used to examine relationships between the OHC and SFS and Obstacle-SFS tests. The probability level of P <.05 was indicative of statistical significance.
The group differences between the SFS and obstacle-SFS
The group differences between the SFS and Obstacle-SFS
OHC(Obstacle height cognition)
The relationship between OHC and each step test
The relationship between OHC and each step test
This study aimed to examine the effect of OHC on the SFS and Obstacle-SFS tests. To evaluate older persons with lower physical fitness, safe tests should be selected. In addition, it is preferable that the test content relates closely to their daily life activities and is available for rehabilitation and functional recovery[12].
This study used the step test, during which older persons shift their center of gravity forward and backward. This test is useful because it can be performed in a small space, and it is a simple and safe movement that older participants can easily understand. In addition, Shin et al.[2] reported that the step test has high reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.90). The step test was designed by considering the following points: 1. when almost falling, older people step forward onto one leg to keep their base of support and to prevent the fall; 2. a decrease in leg strength and balance ability as well as the range of motion of the hip, knee and ankle joints are associated with factors related to the fall; and, 3. a screening test should use movements that older persons can easily understand. With the consideration of these above points, the Obstacle-SFS examined the movement characteristics of older persons who trip easily by adding an obstacle to the SFS test.
The OHC of the older persons who tripped during the Obstacle-SFS movement was large. Shin et al.[6] divided participants into a group with fall experience and a group without it, and compared Obstacle-SFS test performances. The fallers by trip scored significantly higher in all parameters of the Obstacle-SFS test than the non-fallers. Hence, it was judged to be a useful test for evaluating the movement characteristics of older persons who trip easily. The study presented here clarified that older people with inferior Obstacle-SFS movement have a large OHC. The results presented here may support the hypothesis of the Shin et al.[6] study and the results of previous studies. There may be two patterns by which older persons trip over an obstacle: tripping over an obstacle due to not being able to recognize the obstacle adequately, and tripping because they could not lift a leg in spite of recognizing the height of an obstacle (overestimating their own physical fitness). Both situations are commonly experienced by community-dwelling older persons.
There were non-significant relationships between the OHC and the SFS test without an obstacle. Although it is difficult to distinguish both tests by only the OHC, it is assumed that the Obstacle-SFS test can also evaluate the coordination ability required to visually recognize an obstacle and to lift the leg up to the obstacle height, in addition to the leg strength and dynamic balance required in an SFS test. In short, the step-over movement may be affected largely by dissonance in cognition and physical behavior in the older people who trip easily. Suzuki et al.[1] reported that older people tend to over-estimate their own physical fitness. If older people with inferior physical fitness over-estimate their abilities, they cannot respond adequately to the external environment and could easily break their posture balance. In short, it becomes the cause of tripping or staggering by hitting an obstacle. This is supported by the present results.
On the other hand, since all phases (OSFS-T, OSFS-F and OSFS-R) in the Obstacle-SFS test showed significant relationships with OHC, it is inferred that all phases are affected by OHC; the OSRS-R phase showed an insignificant difference between tripping and non-tripping groups. In the case of the OSFS-R phase, the older persons step over an obstacle, depending on the sense of a lifted leg without visual information because the obstacle is located behind the stepped leg. Essentially, this phase is different from the OSFS-F phase, during which they can step over an obstacle while seeing it. Hence, it is inferred that the older persons who could not lift their leg adequately tripped over the obstacle. The OHC of this study was measured from data obtained using a video camera after controlling for the position of the participants, obstacle, and camera. However, the positioning of the subject's vision could not be controlled completely. In addition, the effect of balance ability and leg strength on the Obstacle-SFS movement was not examined.
Now it is necessary to focus on balance ability, leg strength and visual information, and to examine the effect of these factors on tripping in older people and the relationship with the OHC.
In conclusion, the older persons who tripped over the obstacle during an Obstacle-SFS test have a larger OHC than those who did not trip. The OHC relates to all parameters of an Obstacle-SFS test and the differences in ability in OHC affects Obstacle-SFS test performances.
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