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With days to go before classes begin, it's not uncommon for department heads, or even deans, to ask adjunct professors to take on last-minute teaching assignments.
For one professor, this offer was tempting. She was a "part-time" professor and her husband was unemployed. She had taken on more classes at several area colleges in order to support her family and afford health insurance. Despite the extra work, she was still making under $25K per year. The professor knew that refusing the offer could mark her as "uncooperative" and torpedo her chances for a full-time teaching position. Yet she knew there was no way she—or any of her colleagues—could take on yet another class. Better to cancel the class, she suggested to the dean, than to give students a teacher who cannot serve her students.
The dean nodded gravely and said with some urgency, "But we don't want to cancel the class. Really, all we need is a warm body in the classroom."
The dean's words reflect a grossly utilitarian managerial approach now common in higher education, one that is not well known to the public. Students are exposed to this approach when they peruse class schedules and observe that one remarkable professor seems to teach the majority of classes. This teacher is called "Professor Staff."
Professor Staff is actually the majority of the faculty known as adjuncts, lecturers, part-time profs and other confusing titles. In the U.S., they number roughly one million. These teachers work on temporary, low-wage contracts, largely ineligible for basic job protections that support academic quality in the classroom.
At the community college where I teach, the percentage of "part-time" professors has gone from 14.1 percent in 1995 to 77.7 percent in 2009, according to a database maintained by the Modern Language Association.
The shift in faculty employment from secure, living-wage jobs to temporary, un-benefited, low-wage work is consistent with what is occurring in the economy. The National Employment Law Project calls it a "good jobs deficit."
At colleges and universities, this deficit has existed for decades. It has gone unnoticed only because faculty regularly make enormous sacrifices to shield their students from its worst effects.
Those effects, documented in a report I cowrote with the grassroots Campaign for the Future of Higher Education and based on a fall 2011 nationwide survey of adjunct professors, include teaching assignments with three weeks or fewer to prepare and scanty access to critical campus resources, from phones, computers, and other technology to offices, textbooks, orientation, and professional development.
Adjuncts prepare to teach on their own dime, knowing that their classes can be, and often are, canceled or reassigned at the last minute, for any reason. Generally denied benefits or retirement unless they are part of the 30 percent of all adjuncts who are unionized, these faculty have found themselves in increasingly dire economic circumstances.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in May that the percentage of graduate degree holders who receive food stamps or some other aid more than doubled between 2007 and 2010. While there are no statistics indicating exactly how many of those people are adjuncts, the documented average annualized income that adjuncts receive likely qualifies them for various forms of assistance. However, they are often reluctant to take advantage of it. In two recent cases, students and colleagues extended private aid to adjuncts in the form of fundraisers and food drives.
Meanwhile, colleges and universities regularly misrepresent their employment status to federal and state agencies, thereby blocking their access to economic lifelines like unemployment insurance, student loan forgiveness, and now, the healthcare meant to be provided under the Affordable Care Act.
Professors without independent financial support work elsewhere to make a living, lessening the time they have for students. This creates an odd twist on class-based access in higher education: A professor's individual economic circumstances, rather than her dedication or qualifications, becomes disproportionately important in determining her effectiveness.
Our report calls these practices "just-in-time" (JIT) hiring, after the business model that higher education has adopted so uncritically. Treating faculty as an interchangeable, inventory of warm bodies is an example of the harm the approach inflicts on both faculty and students.
As a faculty member, I have experienced this shockingly unprofessional treatment firsthand. When I've spoken up against it, I've been told that if I don't like it, I should simply leave. Instead, I have dedicated myself to exposing and reforming these practices by cofounding and building the New Faculty Majority and the New Faculty Majority Foundation, national nonprofits that work exclusively on improving the quality of higher education by improving the working conditions of the majority of its faculty. I do this work not just because I am a professor, but also because my children, including one with Asperger's Syndrome, are future college students, and because I believe firmly that faculty working conditions are student learning conditions.
JIT faculty hiring means students cannot plan to take classes with adjuncts they know or were recommended. Without offices or time to meet, these professors are hard pressed to provide the help and mentoring that research shows is crucial to student success. They can be hard to track down for letters of reference.
We cannot expect college students to learn the skills of the future if we treat the majority of their professors with the dehumanizing managerial practices of the past.
Students seem to understand the problem. In a recent Gates Foundation-funded survey, community college students said introductory courses, the ones most likely to be taught by adjuncts and subject to JIT hiring, "are not offered in a way to help them succeed." Faculty who give their support and guidance are in high demand but "hard to come by."
Many administrators understand the problem too. In 2008, the then-vice president for human resources at the University of Akron, A.G. Monaco, declared, "Wal-Mart is a more honest employer of part-time [faculty] than are most colleges and universities."
Those who pin their hopes for a more robust economic recovery on higher education need to pay attention to the lessons "Professor Staff" is teaching us. Higher education needs to be more transparent about its adjunct faculty employment practices—and correct them. We cannot expect college students to learn the skills of the future if we treat the majority of their professors with the dehumanizing managerial practices of the past.
These are solely the author's opinions and do not represent those of TakePart, LLC or its affiliates.
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• 10 Shocking Truths You Need to Know About Student Loan Debt
Maria Maisto is a once and future adjunct professor, president of the national nonprofit advocacy group New Faculty Majority and the executive director of the New Faculty Majority Foundation. She is co-author of the report "Who is Professor 'Staff' and how can this person teach so many classes?" as well as several other publications on the effect of faculty hiring practices on the quality of higher education.


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He's had no shortage of bad press, so when Chris Brown was accused of getting chewed out by Adele at the 55th Grammy Awards, he was understandably concerned.
However, the "Rolling in the Deep" songstress went above and beyond the call of duty and cleared up the misconception via Twitter, and Breezy couldn't be more relieved.
Chris tweeted, "Pleasure to meet u @OfficialAdele. I heard your words and that's all that matters. Thank u for speaking truth. CB."
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Beepods were created in 2010 in response to the increased interest in beekeeping... Basically to give people a choice.
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I am very glad to see an electronics multinational conglomerate participating in dealing with a future which includes the organisms we have disregarded and denigrated in the past.
We have more bacteria inside our bodies than we have human cells. We have spent the past two centuries trying to kill off virtually all these organisms in order to be clean, disease free and closer to some or other God of all things.
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Yesterday I had my first Smartxide treatment. I read all the comments made by people who had this procedure. I did my homework and went to a very good doctor.
I would have to say, even tho I had the numbing cream on my face for 1 hour prior to the treatment, after the initial pass-over, the dot procedure was a little uncomfortable...Wouldn't say really painful, but from time to time caused me to twitch. I was sent home with anti-inflamatory pills plus another pill to prevent fever blisters/cold sores even tho I never have had such problems. As I said, my doctor is very thorough. Be sure to go to a doctor who has done many procedures and is competent.
I am into my second day, last night didn't sleep too well, due to having to sleep with head elevated and not able to sleep in my usual side positon. This is minor. They recommend Benydryl for swelling and itching. Also extra strength Tylenol should you need it for pain. I have not used either. My face is quite red and I need to keep putting the moisturizer on it to keep it from getting dry.
I am waiting to see how things progress. I will check back in later in the week to let you know. So far, things are fine, don't be anxious, just be prepared.


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10 toys that actually ARE evil
Recently, a Polish priest named Slawomir Kostrzewa got his holy skirts in a tangle over LEGO's new Monster Fighters and Zombie figures. As reported here, Father Slawomir (or Slawzie to his mates) claimed these toys would lead children to "the dark side" and "destroy their souls".
He also got his best exorcism crucifix out for Hello Kitty and My Little Pony, calling them "forces of evil", and "carriers of death".
And I am going to side-step the yawning irony of a Catholic priest giving his best advice on how to "protect" our children from certain "forces of evil …"
However …
It has come to my attention that there are a lot of toys out there that will lead our children to evil.
Here they are:
10 toys that will lead your children to the dark side
LEGO creator series
Forget the Monster Fighters, it's the benign things like LEGO Creator series that will sneak into your home and corrupt your children's minds.
Case in point: Henry's Hacker's Lair (above)
This was created by my 11-year-old son, Henry, out of leftover bits from his LEGO Creator houses. You can imagine how proud I am.
I swear, I did not make this myself as a joke. Henry loves the LEGO Creator houses and has an entire suburb on his bedroom floor. When I was perusing the "suburb" recently, I noticed this guy set up in a bedsit out the back of one of the main houses.
"Who's he?" I asked.
"Oh, that's the neighbourhood hacker. He's hacking into everyone's computers and spying on them," Henry replied matter-of-factly, as though being a hacker was just another job.
And he's thought of everything. If you look closely, you'll see the hacker has two laptops on the go, a large flatscreen television taking up an entire wall, a video camera, a satellite dish on the roof, binoculars and some piles of cash. For the record, he also has a coffee machine in the top right hand corner, because obviously he has to pull all-nighters quite regularly.
Oh, and a remote for the television, right by his desk; you wouldn't want to miss old Mrs Harrington's ING password as she logs into her share portfolio online because you had to get up to find the remote.
I'm not sure if this is some sort of blueprint or preparation for Henry's future, but I am a little concerned by the accurate detail. He seems to know exactly what a hacker needs to subsist for days in a bedsit while secretly monitoring the neighbours' banking details.
2. Barbie Fashion Face
Image via etsy.com
I had one of these when I was a kid. I bloody loved it, but something about it unsettles me now. I can't put my finger on it, but I think it's something to do with the final scene in the movie Seven*.
*Kevin Spacey puts Gwyenth Paltrow's head in a box and FedExes it to Brad Pitt.
3. McDonald's Happy Meal "toys"
Image via impressivemagazine.com
I don't even think I need to elaborate on this whole concept that McDonald's has going on.
Who hasn't been badgered to death by their kids for McDonald's, purely because they've been brainwashed into thinking that these bits of plastic crap the burger giant calls "toys" are going to fulfill their every happiness? And who hasn't bagged up about 56 of these bits of cheap non-biodegradable landfill per year and put them in the rubbish? EVIL BE GONE! *brandishes crucifix*
For the record: I actually find the plastic toys more evil than the cardboard-flavoured stuff they call "food".
4. Furbies
Gremlin image via www.figures.com. Furby image via amazon.com
Something about the image on the left reminds me of the image on the right. If you are too young to remember, the one on the right is a Mogwai from the 1984 horror film Gremlins.
Last year, as part of the Top 20 Toys for Christmas feature, I was given a private viewing of a Furby. I was ushered into a blank conference room and a very serious Furby expert named Trish gave me a meticulous "how it works" presentation.
The Furby spoke in a cute high-pitched voice, it danced, it giggled, it picked its own name, it pretended to be my friend.
Then, when Trish left the room to take a phone call, I was left alone with "Binkles" for five minutes and I heard a demonic voice say:
"When you are asleep in your bed tonight I am going to come and kill you."
I looked over and Binkles' eyes had gone satanic red.
I just don't trust these things. It's only a matter of time before they become self-aware, spawn multiple copies of themselves and run amok like the Gremlins did.
5. Random jumping ball thing that makes annoying noises
Image via dx.com
I'm not sure if this is the exact one we were "gifted" when our first child was about eight months old, but it looks familiar. It was basically a ball that jumped around, made annoying random "bwoop, bwoop" noises and flashed various lights (aka sensory overload for small babies and toddlers).
Oh, and battery powered, of course.
Turns mild-mannered babies into demonic insomoniacs.
6. Big Hugs Elmo
Huggy Bear image via www.toysrus. Big Hugs Elmo image via target.com.
Have you SEEN Toy Story 3? Remember Huggy Bear (on the right)? How he was all benign and pretending to be everyone's friend and handing out hugs? And then it turned out he was a master manipulator, inciting everyone in the toy box to do his evil bidding.
All I'm saying is do you really know what Big Hugs Elmo is saying to your child after lights out? I know he's all, "Wheee, let's play aeroplanes …" when you're around, but after lights out, he could be saying, "Wheee! Elmo wants to make some poo art!"
7. Monopoly Empire
Image via wikia.com
Last year the makers of Monopoly reinvented the premise to reflect modern times. They came up with "Monopoly Empire".
In this version, players build a "billboard tower" and fill it with brand names. Who wouldn't want to live in THAT world? (Oh, hang on, I think we already do.)
Incites children to worship brand names like deities.
8. Minecraft
Image via minecraftgallery.com as created by polyhedra.
I had to put this in, even though it's strictly not a "toy". Minecraft doesn't so much incite children to be evil, as incite them to become crushing bores.
9. Hot Wheels cars
Image via empireonline.com
It seems an innocent enough hobby when your kid is four and obsessively collecting every Hot Wheels model on the market, but where will it lead? I'll tell you where: He* will be the guy with the spoiler-clad, low-slung Nissan, who roars down your suburban street with his noisy muffler and that distinctive rev-head car horn with a tune.
* Or "she", of course. Girls can be rev-heads too. Let's not forget Charlene Robinson (nee Mitchell).
10. Trashies
First of all: what do these even mean? I couldn't tell you. But my kids have a whole pile of them (photographed above) and for a while they were quite obsessive about collecting them, despite the fact that they are of no apparent use to anyone. They would get quite agitated when I suggested throwing them out or culling them in some way.
Which brings me to my point: these will encourage and incite filthy hoarding behaviours in your child.
What toys from your child's toy collection would you add to Penny's list?


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Information literacy: developing life long skills through nursing education
Barnard, Alan G., Nash, Robyn E., & O'Brien, Michael (2005) Information literacy: developing life long skills through nursing education. Journal of Nursing Education, 44(11), pp. 505-510.
The amount and complexity of information with which nurses have to deal continues to grow exponentially. Support has grown for integrated curriculum approaches that include appropriate instruction in the use of a variety of information formats and instruction which focuses on a resource-based and process approach. This paper argues that collaboration has to be fostered in meaningful ways between teaching faculty and librarians for information literacy enhancement. Such approaches to teaching and learning demand a major shift in educational paradigms and encompass resource-based learning, undergraduate research, service learning inquiry learning and problem-based learning. The implementation of an integrated curriculum promises advanced information skills, access and use of available evidence to support clinical decision making and a foundation for lifetime learning. This paper reports on the rationale of an integrated curriculum, changes to nursing education and obstacles within higher education and workplaces to the development and application of advanced information skills.
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Today's guest blogger is Jibba Jabba (Rick Murphy)…
About Rick Murphy… amateur programmer. Began with Small Basic in Dec 2012. Last job was as a kitchen supervisor for 8 years. Now taking a break. Like cooking, love programming.
Rick wrote this great bit about what programming language you should learn…
After doing a bit of reading it seems a lot of teachers at all levels, school to university/college level, have observed that one of the most common questions a student asks is:
"What is the best programming language to learn?"
So far (as a nOOb for 4 months) I've learnt a more useful question to ask would be? "What do I need the language to do?"
Define and clarify your objective then select a language designed for that kind of task. You'll most likely go on to learn several languages suitable for different purposes (paradigms) and each one will become easier to learn as your experience builds. Practice = Experience.
e.g. if you want to code firmware for a new 3d TV or something like that then you might choose a language like C, as it is close to the hardware. But this kind of language requires at lot of skill and prior experience to code in.
So if your objective is to learn how to become a good programmer and you're new to the wonderful world of programming or returning after a considerable break, then it's wise to select a language designed specifically for that task.
Small basic is a high level and considerably powerful language simplified for that purpose. It is simplified and as a result makes the programmer work out ways of doing things that might otherwise be a feature in another language. It provides a good grounding for skills that you'll need to be a good programmer. Totally suitable for all ages.
nOOb Alert: If you don't agree with any of this or think is inaccurate in anyway pls reply. I've only been back into programming for 4 months, but this what I've read and now share.
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I always use the dealer for the 'Service' so I have a fully stamped up book, however, I use Beemer Redeemer in Keynsham for consumables and anything else. They are friendly, straight-forward guys and know BMWs inside-out. I would recommend them to anyone without reservation.
Personally, apart from my local 'general' garage in WSM which I've used for years, I wouldn't take my cars anywhere else.
I'll keep Beemer Redeemer in mind as I dont live far from Keynsham
I'm going to see a guy called Scott in Failand tonight. First Call BMW he's called.... Let you know what happens!!
Lol, that was a little blunt. The guys split the breakers / workshop side. Basically, you are now after www.redish-motorsport.com.
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They are now www.redish-motorsport.com.
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In an unusual twist, a federal trial court considering an Ohio case has permitted an employer being sued by the EEOC to ask pointed questions about the EEOC's own hiring practices.
Recent case: The EEOC has recently launched an initiative to dissuade employers from routinely using credit checks as a hiring tool. The commission sued Kaplan Higher Education for using credit checks to screen applicants, arguing that it has a disparate impact on minorities.
The EEOC argues that credit checks often aren't job-related and their use must be justified as consistent with business necessity.
That prompted Kaplan to request information from the EEOC on whether it uses credit checks in hiring. The judge said the EEOC must provide the information because presumably if the EEOC uses them, that shows they are a business necessity. (EEOC v. Kaplan Higher Education, No. 1:10-CV-2882, ND OH, 2011)


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Legal & General said the interests of its shareholders and policyholders would be best served by cancelling its membership.
This comes just weeks after it called for the trade body to be "a more forward-looking organisation" in an interview with the Evening Standard.
Boss Nigel Wilson said: "Our public policy work increasingly involves sharing commercial aspects of our business with government, which, for very obvious reasons, not least competition law, we cannot share with competitors.
"We believe that increasingly engagement with government, regulators, quangos and other external bodies will be on a case-by-case basis going forward."
The news is a blow to the ABI and its director-general Otto Thoresen at a time when the insurance industry faces huge regulatory and structural changes.
These include reforms in March's Budget that overhauled the annuity market.
The ABI merged its investment affairs division with the Investment Management Association earlier this year.
Wilson added: "The ABI often concentrates, for understandable reasons, on the general insurance sector, where we have only limited business lines."
Fellow insurer Admiral said today it had no plans to quit and Axa UK boss Paul Evans also expressed his support for the ABI.
Thoresen said: "Of course we are disappointed by the resignation of a member. However, the ABI's continuing strong membership represents over 90% of the insurance sector.
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13. Describe the current components of a NPN and PNP transistor.
2. Draw the symbols of n-channel and p-channel JFET.
3. What are the three JFET parameters?
4. What is the disadvantage of JFET compared to BJT?
5. What is meant by current controlled device and voltage controlled device? Give examples
6. What do you understand by unipolar and bipolar device? Give examples.
7. Which device is called as unipolar explain.
8. Explain the terms Pinch off and IDSS in a JFET.
9. Write the Drain current equation for a JFET.
10. Draw the transfer and drain characteristics of a JFET.
16. What is intrinsic standoff ratio in a UJT?
17. Draw the equivalent circuit of a UJT.
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22. Mention two applications of UJT.
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26. Define holding current in a SCR.
27. Draw the V-I characteristics of a SCR.
28. State any two applications of SCR.
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31. Explain how triggering of an SCR can be controlled by the gate signal supplied.
32. DIAC is a bi-directional device. Explain?
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34. Draw the transistor equivalent circuit of a TRIAC.
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8. Draw sketches to show the construction, equivalent circuit and characteristics of a TRIAC. Identify all important voltage and current levels on the characteristics and explain the operation of the device.
9. Draw the typical characteristics of a DIAC. Explain the DIAC operation and sketch the two circuit symbols used for the device.
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As many students across the country sit in the dog days of February mired deep in study, the opportunity that once rapped hard upon the door when school was finished packed up its bags and headed home.
This past week, the Harper government quietly went about its business in Ottawa by finally announcing a restructured "cut" to the funding of youth job centres. This workload would be now handled by a yet to be fully functioning website in place of the yearly summer employment centres that students would call upon to help connect them with employment and learn skills for when their days of study were done.
In a country where many have taken the plunge to better themselves via either college or university, this change will cut deep at the ability to cover debt and the potential opportunity is a significantly more inhibitive now. The long-awaited announcement does not come as a shock, but sadly is not surprising as the drive to work towards fiscal prudence, seeking better connection with trading partners and business involvement has again trumped the drive to commit to some youth opportunities at home.
The month of January witnessed unemployment numbers creep up with student unemployment numbers significantly higher than the average. As well, the number of graduates who hold university diplomas working to overfill vacancies is increasing. The opportunities that were promised through university life may not be the result they currently have. The abilities for students through the Service Canada Centres for Youth to address paying down debt as well as fostering connections when school life was complete is now handled through websites as opposed to quality face-to-face contact with specialists in the field.
This government is striving to lead by example as it tackles both the deficit as well as business connections worldwide to export products and services. The ask of students is the same albeit it is a mirror of life imitating art, if you will. The opportunities for students to manage debt load as well as create connections gets undoubtedly harder now that this scenario has been put in place through the closures.
Officially, it looks like the closures will save the Harper government a little more than $6 million a year. But when you look at the number of graduates that come out having not made those connections or managed debt paydowns, the cost to society may outweigh the potential savings.
With this being said the government has not completely abandoned the opportunity to engage students at that level. Obviously students seek information through other sources such as the Internet. The government does have a job site where students can seek out employment or internships. The problem is as of this announcement, the site continues to be inoperable due to a security breach. So the option as provided to students will most likely fall on deaf ears, at least for the time being.
The picture though is brighter currently for many coming out of colleges across the country as the ability to access quality internships throughout their schooling has better prepared them for the job market. As is often the case, students through these types of programs work directly in their chosen field between and during their school life and the connections exist through faculty and the community.
It's about creating opportunity and by taking away one more chance for students to connect with potential employers undermines the abilities of the future leaders of this country.
I by no means am saying it inhibits them completely, but it makes the ability significantly more difficult when burdened with debt and the lack of fostered connections within a typically university-driven field.
Lastly, the timing of this decision could not have been worse for the Harper government as Liberal leadership hopeful Justin Trudeau is crossing the country engaging with youth in universities, colleges, drop-in centres and schools. It is clear where the son of the former prime minister's mandate is, and engaging youth tops on the priority list, with the lion's share of his campaign stops directed at the youth of the country. It seems a bit short-sighted by the Harper government politically to make this move as it appears the showdown is looming and surprisingly it may not be the east-west showdown some thought, but more like age vs. youth.
The government should become increasingly weary of the uprising that can occur as a result of neglecting a more vocal element of the population. They need look no further than the recent actions of Idle No More, students in Quebec or the Occupy movement to see that. As students, now with time on their hands and an ever-growing student debt become motivated, the rallying cry to support a change in action will become louder.
All this next wave of movement needs is a leader, and it appears the Harper government is playing right into that leader's hand, whether they know it or not.
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I have a home with a very old circuit breaker and when I have a lot of things running especially with a indoor electrical heater a breaker goes off. I want to buy another electrical heater and I found one with a backup thermal circuit breaker. Will this circuit breaker go off before the main circuit breaker goes off if there is to much power being drawn? I'm assuming that it won't.
I doubt the new heater will solve your problem. It sounds like you are overloading a branch circuit. But I am confused by you mentioning your main breaker, please clarify.
Sorry for the confusion, I'm tripping a branch circuit.
Then either reducing the load on the circuit (run less on it).
Upgrading the circuit (assuming it is now a 15A, by running new wire 12gage and putting in a 20a breaker).
Add a new outlet or outlets on a new circuit.
Plug the heater in on a different circuit.
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The heater is likely tripping due to the total load on the circuit (lights and other items + the heater), This is not something any heater can detect.
You really should find a solution to this, you do not want to keep overloading the breaker over and over again.
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OK, it seems to me that a lot of the talk about biofuels from renewable sources such as cattle waste, wheat, or cassava relies fundamentally on the amount of water available in the locations that are being farmed.
My current worry is that there may not be enough water available to grow crops or fatten the cattle, in the dryish parts of the world that are so good for these activities if we go hell for leather for biofuels. This is because much of the water we rely on in these areas is found underground in aquifers and because it may not be possible to put back the water that is extracted from the land as fast as we extract it.
It may come from underground because there is not enough surface water or rain water to successfully irrigate crops or because surface water is too polluted.
Until man came along it didn't matter much if there was a water shortage. Plants withered in the summer, and a few of the seeds from good years managed to survive to start generations off again. One of my grandfathers, who worked the soil for a while, reckoned that you had to pull weeds up quickly because "one year's weeding saves seven year's seeding".
But once you start depending on plants for food or biofuel then their performance becomes critical. And their performance depends on two main factors the amount light and heat and the amount of water that they get.
If resources are over stretched, then the results can be disastrous.
This was shown dramatically in the desertification that occurred in the US Midwest in the 1930s, and was due, at least in part to overenthusiastic farmers trying to take water out of the underlying aquifer, faster than it could flow back in.
A distance learning resource from the University of Iowa, has an interesting take on depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer which sits under a swathe of states running from Nebraska (where the Aquifer is good and big) through to northern Texas (where it is thin and skinny).
Looking at water alone, plants are more efficient converters of water to energy
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respectively, whereas the virtual water content of chicken meat, pork and beef is 3900, 4900 and 15500 m3/ton respectively
Conveniently 1m3 water weighs one tonne so it takes 1300 tonnes of water to grow 1 tonne of wheat (but only 900 tonnes to grow a tonne of maize). It takes 15,500 tonnes of water to grow 1 tonne of beef which will produce biofuel over its lifetime. .
Now looking at Kholsa's biofuel set up in Nebraska, you can and should argue that of that 15, 500 tonnes of water, most will be returned to the prairie as the cows go about their business. Some of it pretty directly, but the cows breathe out water vapour, and some water vapour evaporates from the surface of the prairie before it can get back into the aquifers that it came from.
Perhaps the last word should go to the editors Glantz, Michael, ed. Who produced the 1989 book Forecasting by analogy: societal responses to regional climatic change quoted by the University of Iowa
Is the drawdown a national problem? How concerned should national leaders be about the depletion of this aquifer? This question raises a dilemma for some of those immediately affected.
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As of the end of May, there were 98,910 red card-holding medical marijuana patients in the state according to MMJ registry numbers released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. That's up from the previous report, released in June. But despite a steady increase over the past six months, the sum still doesn't compare to the number of patients registered at this time last year.
In the months between July 2011 and November of 2011, the Colorado Medical Marijuana Patient Registry total dropped by more than 48,000 people, from 128,698 to 80,558.
The bleeding of patients stopped in December of that year, but the numbers have been slow to regain the lost ground. In the same amount of time that it took for the registry to lose more than 37 percent of it's total, it has only bounced back by 18,352. That includes the most recent boost over the April total of 96,709.
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We have arrived in 2012 – a leap year that promises a Summer Olympic extravaganza this summer in London, an overload of apps availability for your tablet, stock availability in Facebook, the arrival of The Hobbit and a 3-D version of Titanic to the big screen, plus a presidential election that takes its first steps in the process today. Welcome to Iowa – the center of the news universe for another few hours.
The Iowa Caucuses will bring a potential front-runner to the Republican party, or see an upstart make a name for himself in the beginning of a long war to see who has was it takes to battle Barack Obama in November. "The Hawkeye State" has taken pride in being the 1st contest of the election season – putting its own unique stamp on the election process.
Iowa may not be the state that gets you The White House, but poor results have done in many candidates for their hope of their party's nomination, which explains why many Republican hopefuls have been basically living in Iowa for months. Another important point about Iowa is that it is a "Swing State". The last 10 Presidential elections has seen Iowa be split (5 for the Democrats, and 5 for the Republicans). Many early predictions for 2012 could Iowa be the state that could sway the election one way or another.
It's amazing how this one state that holds around 1% of the delegate count becomes all the rage every 4 years, but what do we really know about Iowa? The state's unemployment rate is around 5% (which is better than most in the nation), the state's economy is driven mainly by manufacturing (23% of the state's Gross National Product), there are over 3 Million Iowans with 1/5 of them living in the Des Moines area, and Iowa ranks as one of the safest states to live in.
Iowa has been referred to as the "American Heartland", and in the past as the heart of the Corn Belt, but what kind of excitement is there in The Hawkeye State other than today's caucuses? Well there is the world's biggest frying pans in Brandon, the John Wayne Birthplace Museum is in Madison County, and that is the same Madison County that Clint Eastwood directed and created The Bridges Of Madison County for the big screen.
You may be surprised to find many A-List Hollywood talent came from Iowa: Ashton Kutcher, Elijah Wood, Emmy winner Michael Emerson ("Lost", and "person of Interest"), Michelle Monaghan and Cloris Leachman to name a few. Athletes of a high caliber also are Iowans: Gold Medal gymnast Shawn Johnson, Hall Of Fame NFL running back Roger Craig, and KC Chiefs starting QB Kyle Orton. The state even has a former president hail from there – Herbert Hoover.
College sports are major gatherings in Iowa, with the University of Iowa Hawkeyes drawing 70,000 fans consistenly. Basketball is even bigger with 4 Division I Men's teams in good position for the NCAA Tournament in March. Wrestling is the trademark sport for the state at the University of Iowa, who hold 23 national titles.
The most famous pro sports team in Iowa is the Iowa Barnstormers of the Arena Football League – this team produced a Super Bowl winning quarterback in Kurt Warner for the St. Louis Rams.
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Valley Stream
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Scared but Excited - Valley Stream, NY
Im 40 & have had 7 children ( 2 sets of triplets and a single pregnancy). i weigh 226 have finally decided to go ahead and have a tt with lipo including my flanks. i ahd 2 c-sections and the first was hard to recover from but the second was a whole lot easier. some women have compared having a tt to haveing a c-section. plan to do my upper arms, my inner thighs and breast modification in... READ MORE
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Would like to know the physical outcome of the surgery (aside from the obvious) for example what after affects have you gone through since the surgery, any complications, do you now have dry eye, any eye irritability, anything you... READ COMMENT
Wow you look great!!! tell me a little about the afterwards....do you have numbing in the area, was there any loss of movement of the lower eye lid for any amount of time, do you suffer from dry and/or irritable eyes now?....... ... READ COMMENT
Hi , you do look great!! you mentioned you had dry eyes - was this right after surgery or is this something you now have to deal with. my mom had both upper and lower eye lids done and she suffers terribly with dry eye now!! the... READ COMMENT
Why do you have to wait until may?!?! Sooo long!!! READ COMMENT
Hey!!! i went to dr. lee as well!! april 6, 2011 had a tummy tuck and liop to my flanks and then sept. 16,2011 had some lipo to my abdomin and mound. love dr lee!! have had a great experiance with him and will be back to him for... READ COMMENT