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Fishing Gear Technology I - MSC 132
Course Outline and Syllabus
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course introduces modern rope seamanship and fishing gear theory, design, repair, and analysis as it relates to fisheries research. Emphasis is placed on various practical knots, rope splicing, marine hardware, biological sampling gear classifications, and the basics of net construction, repair, and design. Upon completion, students should be able to implement marlinspike skills; repair netted material; and identify, design, and construct various types of biological entrapment and entanglement gear.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: The student will demonstrate proficiency in:
Skills needed for implementation of basic and advanced marlinespike seamanship.
The identification and classification of a variety of biological sampling apparatuses.
Skills necessary for the mending and patching of a variety of netted material.
Applying theories and uses associated with various net hanging ratios.
Applying the critical thinking skills necessary for the design, construction and repair of various types of towed gear, gill nets and entanglement gear.
Course Hours Per Week: Class 2, Lab 3
Course Hours Per Semester: 80
Semester Hours Credit: 3
GRADING: A grade for MSC 132 will be based on the following criteria.
20% - Attendance - Perfect attendance will be rewarded and points will be deducted for absences and tardies. (Minus 1.25 pts. per absence and .42 pts. per tardy)
20% - Class Participation - General aptitude, effort, interest and attention to the manipulative skills necessary for implementation of various projects and/or exercises, as observed by the instructor.
30% - Daily grades - Practical projects, homework, quizzes & tests.
30% - Final Exam - Practical and/or Written
SAFETY NOTE: Due to the nature of this class, as well as OSHA guidelines, no student will be admitted to this class without proper footgear, (ie. no barefeet, sandals, or open ended shoes). Students must follow all safety requirements. Students who ignore or violate safety requirements will be subject to discipline that may include dismissal from the course. Rejections from class will result in an absence for the time missed.
I. Introduction (1st. Day Handout)
A. Description of course and objectives
B. References required and/or suggested
C. Course requirements
D. Attendance & conduct requirements
E. Grading criteria, system or scale, and definitions
F. Supplies and safety considerations
G. Outline of Instruction
II. Marlinespike Seamanship
A. Historical significance
B. Terms and definitions
C. Marlinespike Tools
1. Selection of a knife
a. Use and care
b. Construction, material and blade type
c. Sharpening techniques
d. Safety
2. Miscellaneous tools and/or supplies
a. Fids and marlinespikes
b. Sail makers' needles and palms
c. Twines and small cordage
d. Tapes, dippings and heat
D. Hitches, Bends & Knots
1. Demonstration and explanation of commonly used Hitches, Bends, and Knots.
2. Characteristics and efficiencies of Hitches, Bends, and Knots.
E. Rope Construction & Materials
1.How ropes are made
a. Twisted or Stranded
b. Braided
1. Double Braid
2. Hollow Braid
2. Materials
a. Natural Fibers
b. Synthetic Materials
3. Selecting and Purchasing Rope
a. Strength and size
b. Fiber characteristics
c. Cost
4. Care and Inspection of ropes
a. External
b. Internal
F. Rope Splices and Splicing
1. Explanations and uses
2. Characteristics and efficiencies of splices
3. Splicing Techniques and their Applications
a. Eye Splice
1. Twisted or stranded rope
2. Hollow braided rope
3. Double braid rope
b. Short Splice/ End-to-End splices
1. Twisted or stranded rope
2. Hollow braid ropes
c. Back Splices
1. Twisted or stranded rope
2. Hollow braid ropes
G. Whipping a line
1. Explanation and Uses
2. Types
a. Quick
b. Sewn
c. Heat and Synthetic Sealants
H. Marine Hardware
1. Explanations and Applications
2. Common types
a. Chains and Thimbles
b. Shackles, links and clips
c. Swivels
d. Hooks
e. Slings and tackles
III. Fishing Gear and Associated Applications
A. Development of Fishing Gear and Fishing Systems
1. Factors affecting methods and gear
2. Classifications of Fishing Gear
a. Universal Categorization
b. Applications
B. Efficiency and Selectivity of Fishing Gear
C. Scientific Applications and Considerations
1. Biological Sampling Procedures
a. Qualitative Gear
b. Quantitative Gear
2. Recording of Biological Data
b. Materials and construction
IV. Netting Construction and Repair
A. Dynamics of Netting
1. Webbing Construction
a. Sizing and measuring
b. Determining Netting Orientation (Horiz. & Vert.)
B. Netting Tools and their use
C. Twine Characteristics
D. Mending Techniques
1. Cutting and Trimming small holes
2. Knots and sewing
E. Patching Techniques
1. Cutting and Trimming large holes
2. Knots and sewing
V. Interpretation of Net Schematic and/or Plans
A. Theory and Techniques
1. Ratios of Hanging Proportions
a. Horizontal (E1)
b. Vertical (E2)
2. Calculation of netting tapers
a. Body tapers
b. Jib tapers
c. All bar tapers
2. Practical factors affecting gear designs, use, and repair
B. Materials
1. Quantity calculations
2. Cost calculations
3. Ordering procedures
C. Practical Applications
1. Gill Nets and Entanglement Gear
2. Towed and Dragged Gear
NOTE: The aforementioned outline should be considered flexible and topics may be shifted in sequence to fit equipment and/or personnel constraints. Information contained in this syllabus was, to the best knowledge of the instructor, considered correct and complete when distributed for use at the beginning of the semester. However, this syllabus should not be considered a contract between Cape Fear Community College and any student, nor between the instructor and any student. The instructor reserves the right, acting within the policies and procedures of Cape Fear Community College, to make changes in course content and/or instructional techniques without notice or obligation.
Good Work Ethics Should Lead to Career Success
Cape Fear Community College and employers recognize the importance of good work ethics. The standards that govern the conduct of persons in the workplace are known as work ethics. More specifically, a persons' conduct, such as punctuality, honesty, motivation, reliability, cooperation, thoroughness, and creativity, pertains to the values, abilities, and behaviors that he or she brings to the job. Studies show that employees' lack of ability to do a job accounts for only 15 percent of firings and dismissals. Of the other 85 percent, employers often give the following reasons for "letting employees go":
Frequent absences from work
Habitual lateness
Inability to get along with other workers
Lack of reliability
Failure to use resources properly
CFCC instructors want you to be prepared for further education and success in the workplace; therefore, they have classroom and shop/lab rules and standards. Below is a checklist for assessing your commitment to school/work ethics.
__ I understand the importance of quality--the importance of doing a school/job assignment right the first time.
__ I am motivated, and I accept responsibility without close supervision.
__ I am receptive to new ideas, methods, and processes; and I pursue emerging technologies.
__ I speak and write effectively in a clear, concise, and professional manner.
__ I function in a "team" environment that requires working for the "good of the whole".
__ I am dependable and reliable at school/work, reporting to my classes/job on time and completing assignments within the required time.
__ I am honest in my dealings with instructors, supervisors, students, and coworkers; and I display a cooperative and supportive attitude.
__ I dress appropriately for school and the workplace and maintain a neat, clean appearance.
__ I manage my time effectively and look for ways to be more efficient at school and on the job.
__ I maintain a clean, orderly school/work space and leave it ready for use by others.


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Why the
Sun Stood Still
A Preview by Fulton Oursler of Dr. Immanuel Velikovskys Sensational New Book:
Of Worlds In Collision* Clifton Fadiman has said: It may well turn out to be as epochal as The Origin of the Species of Darwin or the Principia of Newton. In the light of its new deductions and speculations, Dr. Gordon A. Atwater, chairman and curator of the Hayden planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History, suggests that the underpinning of modern science can now be re-examined; and John J. ONeill, science editor of the New York Herald Tribune, declares: This magnificent piece of scholarly research raises world history to a level of superlative interest.
The author of this exciting new volume, Russian-born Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, studied natural sciences at Edinburgh University, history, law and medicine (M.D.) in Moscow, biology in Berlin, the working brain in Zurich, psychoanalysis in Vienna. He came to this country in 1939. Worlds In Collision has been written after ten years of extensive research in which the author consulted with scholars and specialists all over the world.
About 25 years ago, a small-town schoolmaster in Tennessee told his boys about Darwins theory of evolution. For this violation of a state law which forbade instruction contrary to the Bible, the teacher was arrested, and the world sat back to watch one of historys most extraordinary trials.
Called to the witness box
as defender of the faith was a three-times candidate for the Presidency, William
Jennings Bryan. The defender of John T Scopes, the schoolteacher, was Clarence
Darrow, eminent agnostic. Furiously Darrow attacked the wonder tales of the
Bible, cross-examined Bryan as a believer in myths and fairy tales.
Mr. Bryan, do you believe that Joshua made the sun stand still?
Mr. Darrow, I do!Wouldnt have been the earth itself that stood still? An if that is what you believe, dont you believe that if the earth ever stopped turning it would be converted into a molten mass of matter?
The indignant Darrow seemed to be speaking with exact knowledge. But science is never so dogmatic. A quarter of a century after the Scopes trial, a scientist is publishing a book declaring that within historical times the earth did pause in its daily rotation, and that for more than a day the sun remained visible over Joshua and his troops.
While this is only incidental to the authors purpose, the book tends to confirm the Bible in other miraculous accounts; familiar tales of wonder emerge not as myths but as accurate reporting of actual events.
The savant who raises these possibilities, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, calls his book Worlds In Collision. As Darwin did, he sets up certain original hypotheses, and buttresses them with impressive scholarship. Like a detective among the sciences, (archaeology, paleontology, geology, astronomy, psychology, anthropology, physics) he has put together by deductive reasoning a chain of circumstantial evidence that may deeply affect the world of thinking men.
The links of his reasoning are forged out of the history and literature of ancient and modern tribes and nations from all over the earth. Text and footnotes sparkle with confirming data from the Bible and the Talmud, from Egyptian papyri, Babylonian astronomical tablets, Mayan and Aztec calendars, from the folklore of Arabia, India, North America, Tibet, China, Peru.
The tale of the sun standing still illustrates one of his principal methods for getting at the facts. Clearly if the sun hasted not to go down about a whole day the phenomenon could not have been merely a local spectacle. The whole area of the earth had to be affected: if the sun hung in the morning sky over Gibeon, then elsewhere in the world twilight or darkness was prolonged for the same period.
Dr. Velikovsky produces records from all over the earth which agree as to the time and as to the altered portions of daylight and dark in each area. Similarly concerted testimony repeats itself again and again in other wonder stories. For every such incident which he analyzes, Dr. Velikovsky quotes dozens, scores, even hundreds of confirmations.
For the Bibles most incredible story - the standing still of the moon and sun while Joshua routed the foe - there is worldwide evidence. says Dr. Velikovsky at the start of a long series of citations:
Allowing for the difference in longitude, it must have been early morning or night in the Western Hemisphere. We go to the books with the historical traditions of the aborigines of Central America. In the Mexican Annuls of Cuauhtitlan -- the history of the empire of Clohuacan and Mexico, written in Nahua-Indian (Nahuatl) -- it is related that during a cosmic catastrophe that occurred in the remote past the night did not end for a long time. We could follow a path around the earth and inquire into the various traditions concerning a prolonged night and prolonged day, with sun and moon absent or tarrying at different points along the zodiac.
Which he goes on to do. What happened, then, on that mysterious day? The theory of Worlds in Collision rests on catastrophes caused by a great comet that passed near the earth twice, first about 1500 B.C., at the time of the Exodus, and again 52 years later, in the time of Joshua; and a repetition of the earlier catastrophes on a smaller scale due to several near brushes with the planet Mars some 700 to 800 years later. These astral cataclysms caused strange things to happen on the earth and in the sky.
The explanation of Joshuas miracle is that if a large enough comet were ever to come near the earth just such spectacular things would come to pass. The encounter would slow down the earth in its daily turning, and people who think the sun goes around the earth would see, among other mystical sights, the sun and moon as if suddenly halted in the heavens. That, Velikovsky maintains, is exactly what occurred.
The mysterious outlaw in the firmament, the comet which caused the seas to part, raised a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, was actually a sky-rover born and cast out by spontaneous eruption from the boiling mass of the planet Jupiter. The new comet whizzed around us in space until after centuries it was caught and trapped as a permanent member of our solar system, settling down brightly into a circular orbit, and changing into a showy but contented planet revolving on schedule around our sun -- the beautiful star which men call Venus.
The strange birth of that morning star is what Velikovskys book is really about. All the other parts of his case are dependent on that prolonged and spectacular cataclysm.
In presenting his theory, Dr. Velikovsky begin with humility, confessing the ignorance of science, of homo ignoramus. What man does not know would fill a bigger book than all the books written. He has yet to learn the simplest and most essential things: what life is, or how it came to be. Man cannot tell whether life in any form exists anywhere else in the star-hives of the sky, nor what is the mysterious force called gravitation. The birth of the solar system is still beyond the understanding of scientists.
The first step that a scientist should take is to study one planet, the one under our feet; then, by the deductive method, to apply the results to other members of the solar system. This Dr. Velikovsky is trying to do, bringing into his reasoning the new knowledge of electromagnetism and nuclear physics.
He holds that what happens in the heavens is akin to what happens in an atom, where electrons revolve around the nucleus like planets around the sun. But once in a while the electrons shift their positions. Someone objects: We do not read in the morning paper that all of a sudden Saturn and Mars changed their places. True; we do not read it in the newspapers because it is not a daily occurrence, but we do read about it in the ancient records quoted in this new book. In an atom, a planet goes around its sun millions of times in a second. It may go through billions or rotations, or atomic years, without changing its orbit. But then the atom absorbs a bit of energy and the electron moves to a higher orbit where its year is longer; or the atom emits a bit of energy and the electron drops to an orbit nearer the nucleus and its year becomes shorter. On the grander scale of the solar system, centuries or even millenniums may pass between a corresponding event there and its recurrence.
Once the authors idea is understood -- that the violent and cataclysmic changes on a miniature scale within the core of an atom have been enacted on a grand but equally sudden scale in the universe of suns, planets and comets -- light begins to shine on some old and stubborn mysteries.
Of course, every astronomer knows that contact with another body of sufficient mass could disrupt the earths rotation and rhythm. To this day comets by the millions are loose in space, a danger to us, remote but still actual. We know that our earth can and does collide with masses of meteorites; often such sizzling stones fall to earth. They even this knowledge is very recent.
As late as the time of our great grandfathers, no one in the scholarly world believed that a stone could fall from the sky. That skepticism was shared by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton, among many others up to 1803, when a shower of meteorites falling at LAigle in France was investigated by the French Academy of Sciences. Then, for the first time, educated man recognized that some wild thing in the sky could collide with us.
In the Bible accounts the author finds extraordinary confirmation of the presence of a comet during those bewildering days. If, for example, the head of a comet approached the earth, a rain, a very torrent, of meteorites would assuredly fall upon us. In the book of Joshua, only two verses before the sun is suspended on high, we read how the Lord cast down great stones from Heaven. Although the man who wrote the Book of Joshua knew nothing of the connection between the stones falling from t he sky and a stoppage of the earth, he gives a vivid and scientifically accurate description.
The period of the first visit of the comet was the time when Pharaoh kept the Jews in bondage in Egypt and Jehovah sent plagues of frogs ad locusts, showers of blood and fire, and a darkness that would not lift, to force the old king to change his mind. All these tales Bryan would have believed and Darrow would have scoffed at, but neither could have proved anything, one way or the other. Velikovsky sets out to prove that all happened, just as recorded, the Biblical story of the Israelites closely following the astronomical order of events.
For example, during the plagues the world turned red. One of the first signs of the encounter with the comet was rain of particles of rusty pigment as the comet brushed the earth with its gaseous tail. It seemed to turn lakes, rivers and seas into blood; the earth itself looked rusty all over. There are eyewitness accounts of this red saturation not only in the Bible but in the Manuscript Quiche of the Mayas, and in an Egyptian papyrus by Ipuwer, who himself watched the phenomenon. The river is blood, he lamented, and this corresponds with the Book of Exodus: All the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. The pollution of fresh waters killed the fish, and the river stank, says the Book of Exodus. They could not drink the water of the river. The Egyptian reporter agrees and exclaims: Men shrink from tasting; human beings thirst after water. What shall we do? All is ruin!
And not only in the Middle East. The red-stained dust, which irritated the skin of men and animals, and raised boils, causing sickness and death, is reported also in many other lands.
Came next the final Egyptian plagues, a reign of darkness that lasted seven days, climaxed with violent upheavals. Naturally so, too, says Velikovsky, because the body of the comet approached the earth. This approach, the contemporary reports would indicate, was followed by a rain of rocks and boulders and stasis of the earth; it shuddered and missed some rotations before righting itself and spinning on.
Nations and tribes in many other places have traditions about a cosmic catastrophe during which the sun did not shine; the long darkness is remembered in Finland, Babylonia and Peru, by the American Indians, by peoples all over the world. Hundreds of thousands of men and animals were killed during an upheaval that shook the world.
According to the Bible account, which Velikovsky does not quote, after those frightening experiences of darkness and earthquake Pharaoh consented to let Moses people go. But as life became normal again he regretted his decision and with his army rode forth in chariots to force the fugitives back -- thus riding posthaste into a miracle about which prophets were to give thanks to God for centuries to come: the crossing of the Red Sea.
Did any such thing happen historically? The logical Velikovsky is sure that it did. The swift shifting of the atmosphere under the impact of the gaseous parts of the comet, the drift of air attracted by the body of the comet, and the rush of the atmosphere resulting from inertia when the earth stopped rotating, all helped to produce winds of enormous velocity and force, just as described in the Old Testament. The theme of such a cosmic hurricane is reiterated in Mexico, Idia , Persia, and the South Seas. But that was not the full story.
In the midst of such a windstorm, a comet with a head as large as the earth itself, passing sufficiently close, would terrifically affect the ocean tides. The comet raised the waters of the ocean miles high. From Japan to Peru, among the Choctaw Indians and in tribes on the other side of the world the memory of this rip-roaring tide persists, of seas rent asunder, an event so unusual that it became the most impressive recollection in the long history of peoples. For all nations were first blasted by the same plagues and fire, the shaken by the same fury.
And now there came to pass a pageant in the sky that was profoundly to impress the imagination of men and their literature. The heavens seemed a battleground, a scene of unparalleled terrors and splendor. For by this time the head of the comet, having previously passed close to the sun, was on fire. Candescent and spectacular, it swing into the earths own orbit, and thus the wandering Jews followed a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Meanwhile, the head of the coiling comet became entangled in its tail, and that struggling in the midst of the firmament must have looked like a battle between a globe of fire and a dark column of smoke.
No wonder that, as their songs still tell today and their epics, people in many parts of the earth believed they were beholding a fight between a sky monster in the shape of a serpent and the light god, who won the victory and saved the world. It is difficult to find a people or a tribe on earth that does not include at the same motif in its religious beliefs.
So now came one forever-to-be remembered phenomenon. A tremendous spark sprang forth at the moment of the nearest approach of the comet, when the earths waters were heaped at their highest and before they fell down. Many peoples recall this spark as a lightning bolt thrown down by a god at a world covered with flood and fire. Exodus reports: And the Angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face and stood behind them... and it was a cloud and darkness but it gave light by night. An exceedingly strong wind and lightenings rent the cloud. In the morning the waters arose as a wall and moved apart... And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued. ...And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud... And the waters returned and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Actually, all the earth was pausing through those same events. In China, Yahous time was the time of Moses in Palestine; in Chinese chronologies you will find the following reports: The sun did not set for a number of days; the forests were set on fire; a high wave, reaching the sky, poured over the land.
After the earth paused in its rotation it started spinning again. And here we encounter a fascinating mystery. Our planet now rotates from west to eat. Has it always done so? The ancient charts seem to suggest otherwise. There are charts painted on the ceiling of an Egyptian tomb which show the heavens as the were, over the Middle East, before and after these cataclysms -- and there is a complete and unmistakable reversal. Plato wrote in the Statesman of the change in the rising and setting of the sun and other heavenly bodies, how in these times they used to set in the quarter where they now rise. And a little later he added: At certain periods the universe has its present circular motion, and at other periods it revolves in the reverse direction. Of all the changes which take place in the heavens, this reversal is the greatest and most complete.
Velikovsky turns to the natural sciences for an explanation. He points out that this globe of ours is a huge magnet. When a thunderbolt strikes a magnet, it reverses the magnetic poles; what before was north is now south, and vice versa. On a grand scale, a short circuit between the earth and a celestial body, such as the comet, could result in the magnetic poles of the earth changes places, instantaneously.
Geological records indicate that something of the sort must have happened. Velikovsky quotes from Alvin Greene McNish, the geophysicist: Examination of magnetization of some ingenious rocks indicates that the polarity of the earth has been completely reversed within geological times.
What had Venus to do with these catastrophes that brought the world to the brink of destruction? Here, says Dr. Velikovsky, is a question that will carry us far, indeed.
As he sees it, there followed seven centuries after Joshua during which peoples already decimated by gigantic catastrophes never lost the fear of new disasters, a fear which their best intellects confirmed; more trouble, the prophets said, was on the way. Meanwhile, these years saw the coming of a new planet when from the fetus of the comet Venus was born, and took her low and lovely place in our sky.
Is there historical evidence of this? Yes, says the author. By asserting that the planet Venus was born at this time, he has to prove that before then only four of the suns planets were visible, and that in astronomical charts of this period no Venus can be found. This proof he brings forward; in the Hindu table of planets drawn up about 3100 BC Venus alone among the visible planets is absent, although Brahmans of a later period knew of five planets. So it is in Egyptian astronomy. The Babylonians called Venus the great star that joins the other great stars. And in every country of the ancient world there are vivd myths of the birth of the planet Venus.
Venus finally became stabilized in its present orbit after a brush with the planet Mars -- a flirtation often referred to in mythology. This encounter jarred Mars out of its orbit, and at 15-year intervals Mars also passed near the earth. In 747 BC and 687 BC Mars came so close that there was a repetition of the earlier catastrophes.
Of the second series of catastrophes, the records are much better preserved, for this was the era of the Hebrew prophets. Those inspired ancients were first-rate astronomers as well as poets and seers; they could and did accurately predict two upheavals of their time. Amos was put to death for his gloomy forecasts, but the catastrophe arrived on time; King Uzziah was at the altar when a great breach was torn in Solomons Temple by the quaking of the earth. This calamity was only a prelude. The day thick with night foreseen by Isaiah came upon the land; the earth, as the Bible reports it, utterly broken down.
And then the long Biblical drama of the army of Sennacherib, for of Israel. It is described most laconically in the Book of Kings.
And it came to pass that night, that the Angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, behold they were all dead corpses.
The identical story is repeated in the Book of Chronicles, the Talmud, and other ancient sources.
Obviously, the simultaneous death of tens of thousands of warriors could not be due to a plague; this spectral massacre happened overnight. The Bible says: A blast fell from the sky on the camp of Sennacherib. The death of those enemy hosts of men is explained in the Talmud as caused by gaseous masses, penetrating the atmosphere, which could, in certain areas, asphyxiate all breath.
Again, such a phenomenon would not be localized, and it was not; the fire in the sky and the gases falling to the earth are also reported in the Bamboo Books of China, in Mayan inscriptions, and in records in other parts of the world.
On the evening before the destruction of the army, according to the Bible, the shadow of the sun returned 10 degrees. In China and elsewhere the same reports occur. They agree that the date was March 23, 687 BC.
What changes in motion of all the earth resulted from these near earth collisions and readjustments which extended over a period of 200 years, or even longer? Many ancient peoples devised accurate calendars. before 747 BC the Israelites, Egyptians, Mayans, Chinese and others used calendars showing 12 months of 30 days each, a 360-day year. It is unlikely that a mistake of five days would go unnoticed, for within a few years there would be a marked change in the harvest season. In 747 BC a new calendar was introduced in the Middle East, and during the seventh century BC all these peoples added five days to their calendars. This, Dr. Velikovsky writes, means that the orbit of the earth changed at that time, causing the yearly journey around the sun to take longer.
Great geological changes also occurred. The ice ages seem to have ended with the catastrophic suddenness; regions of mild climate moved instantly into the polar circle; the ice sheet in America and Europe started to melt. One does not have to be a scientist to look at a map and see the picture for himself. A circle centered somewhere near the east shore of Greenland, embracing the region of the ice sheet of the last glacial age, will exclude northeastern Siberia but will include the valley of the Missouri down to 39 degrees north latitude.
In the last century scientists were puzzled by the extermination of the mammoth, an animal far better developed than the elephant which survived. They fancied that perhaps slow changes in the land had forced the great beasts up into bare hills where they gradually died off from starvation. But we now know that the mammoths did not die for lack of food. Their bodies have been found, preserved in northern ice, and their bellies were filled with undigested grass leaves. That undigested foliage grows today, not in the region where the beast died but a thousand miles away. Only sudden natural catastrophes of far flung violence could explain theses and other cosmic conundrums.
The question is inevitable: Was not the North Pole at some time in the past 20 degrees or more distant from the point it now occupies, and closer to America? So, too, the South Pole would be closer to Australia. The sudden alteration explains why the mammoths were wiped out all at once, as by asphyxiation or electrocution, either of which was possible. They lived in a moderate climate. Came the catastrophe and the mammoths died. In a few hours northern America changed from the frigid zone of the polar circle into a moderate zone, while northeastern Siberia moved in the opposite direction from the moderate zone to the polar circle.
It is natural that at the close of his book the author should speculate on what can happen to the world in the future. The solar system is not changeless; if catastrophes have fallen, they may repeat themselves with perhaps a different, even fatal result. There exists a possibility that a collision between two planets may someday occur. Trouble might come from the moons of Jupiter which cross their orbits, or from the planet Pluto that crosses under an angle of the orbit of Neptune.
Moreover, comets -- like Venus before it became a star -- may again come near or even strike the earth; a large comet could run into one of the planets and push it from its orbit; then chaos might start anew. So an end to the world, as we know it, is by no means impossible.
This, in substance, incompletely stated, is Velikovskys theory.
Thus a single scholar has sought a synthesis of knowledge and reason in fields of science, legend and religion. The result is a theory of earths history as a planet, fascinating as a tale by Jules Verne, yet documented with a scholarship of worthy worthy of Darwin or Eans.
To science, Worlds in Collision opens up a vast new debate; to millions of true believers in the Old Testament, it will come as an unintended and reassuring answer to the rationalist criticism of the last 75 years.
How strange all this would seem to Clarence Darrow, and equally to William Jennings Bryan, if they could know.


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Funeral services have been set for 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 16 at Hunter Funeral Home for Mrs. Harvey, 68, of Watertown.
A homemaker and a substitute teacher, she died Monday, May 14, 2012 at her home.
Visitation will be 9 a.m. until the service on Wednesday. Interment will be in Jones Hill Cemetery.
Watertown's Hunter Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.


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Robert Pattinson Is A Worthy Cause, Say Petitioners
Back in March we told you Robert Pattinson has a problem with body odor. We took a lot of flack from his fans for that little mention in "Quickies," even though we were reporting the truth. Well, now the fans are complaining about the hottie's B.O. too. Eighty-nine people have signed the "Please Wash Your Hair, Robert Pattinson" petition so far, and another set of fans have signed the "Petition to get Robert Pattinson to take a bath!!! Who's with me?" But there have been more positive petitions regarding Rob Patz. More than 5,000 people want him to host "Saturday Night Live," at least one person wants him to use his British accent in "New Moon," and several hope he'll make an appearance in Tampa, Kansas City, and Australia. There's no word yet whether any of these petitions have been successful, but one thing's for sure, Robert's celebrity will grow every day as long as he stars in the "Twilight" saga. [E! Online]


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Playing July 9, 2011
An Evening with Jonathan Richman
Tony Gatliff Spain/France/Germany/Japan 2000
Local musician Jonathan Richman will appear in person at the Red Vic to present one of his favorite films,
(Dir. Tony Gatlif, Spain, 2000).
features some amazing flamenco guitarists and singers, including many that are hard to find anywhere else. Jonathan will be joined by Berkeley flamenco guitarist
Keni el Lebrijano
The rich and passionate sounds of Spanish flamenco music provide the backdrop for this emotional drama of two families at war in the hilly country of southern Spain. Caco (Antonio Canales) is a man whose family has long been at odds with the Caravacas, a prominent family living in the same village. Mario, Caco's brother, murdered one of the Caravacas, and now the family is out for blood, with Mario's son Diego (Orestes Villasan Rodriguez) the expected target. Vengo features performances by a number of noted flamenco performers, including La Paquera de Jerez. From director Tony Gatlif (
Gadjo Dilo
Keni el Lebrijano
: A master of flamenco guitar and "the godfather of the Berkeley flamenco scene," Keni was also a student of Diego Del Gastor, one of the most influential flamenco guitar players of the 20th century.
Jonathan Richman
: Jonathan has been writing songs and performing music for most of his life, and is known for his guileless honesty and playful, catchy compositions. In the early 1970s, he formed The Modern Lovers, whose raw, minimalist sound and emotionally forthright songs helped to lay the groundwork for punk rock. Since then, he has moved on to a much quieter sound and a gentler lyrical focus, including Latin-influenced songs performed entirely in Spanish.
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The Phoenix City Council unanimously elected District 8 Councilman Michael Johnson as vice mayor last week. Johnson will serve in this role until the end of the year. This is the second time he has served in this position.
"Once again I'm honored for this opportunity to serve as vice mayor of the City Council. I would be honored to serve along Mayor Greg Stanton's side and represent Phoenix in his absence," Johnson said.
Johnson has been a member of the Phoenix City Council since 2002, and has two years remaining of his final four-year term. He currently is chairman of the City Council's Downtown, Aviation and Economy Subcommittee, and is a member of the Housing and Neighborhoods and Public Safety and Veterans subcommittees.
He also has served Phoenix residents in another capacity prior to his work on the council. Johnson is a 21-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department, retiring in 1995 as a homicide investigator. He has been active in the community for many years, having served on several boards and commissions.


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The romance of New Orleans can be quiet or exhilarating; couples will easily find activities suited to their moods. There are stunning scenic flights filled with champagne, wine and cheese, sunset lake cruises, and classy dinners aboard river steamboats. There are also quiet cafes, noisy bars, and music for both dancing and cuddling.
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With a view to keeping retail investors away from portfolio management schemes (PMS), SEBI has...
The buyback route will allow the government, which has not been able to reach anywhere near the disinvestment target of Rs40,000 crore in 2011-12, to raise funds by selling its stake in the PSU to the same undertaking
New Delhi: Hard pressed for funds, the government today approved the proposal for expediting disinvestment through the buyback route under which blue-chip state-owned companies will buy its own stake, reports PTI.
The decision to allow public sector undertakings (PSUs) to buyback shares was taken by the Cabinet headed by prime minister Manmohan Singh, sources said.
The proposal will allow the government, which has not been able to reach anywhere near the disinvestment target of Rs40,000 crore in 2011-12, to raise funds by selling its stake in the PSU to the same undertaking.
The government till date it has been able to raise only Rs1,145 crore from Power Finance Corporation (PFC). Its sale of stake in ONGC through the auction route may fetch another Rs12,000-Rs13,000 crore.
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) had earlier relaxed norms for buyback of shares and dilution of equity by companies.
The new norms would help the companies to complete the process of selling shares within days against the normal process which can take months.
Besides reducing the timeline for completion of buyback of shares by companies to 34-44 days, SEBI had also introduced a new mechanism called Institutional Placement Programme (IPP) that would allow promoters to sell up to 10% of their capital through an auction.
When asked about the decision, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said, "I can't say anything about the Cabinet decision which has been taken. There is due procedure and it will be announced in due course."
In order to fast track the disinvestment programme, the Department of Disinvestment (DoD) had already sought opinion of the ministries concerned for buyback of shares and has prepared a list of cash-rich PSUs.
Several ministries like oil, power, steel, coal and mines, however, are believed to have opposed the proposal saying it could impact the expansion plans of the PSUs.
Funds raised through the buyback of shares would to some extent help the government in bridging the fiscal deficit which during the first 10 months has exceeded the annual target.
According to Govinda Rao, a member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC), the fiscal deficit could exceed the budget target of 4.6% of the gross domestic product (GDP) by one percentage point.
Since the beginning of the disinvestment programme, the government has divested stake in PSUs either through initial public offers (IPOs) or follow-on public offers (FPOs).
Dr Damien Marmion, the chief executive officer of Max Bupa Health Insurance, says that Jan-Feb-Mar is great for business due to tax savings angle. He is positive on IRDA draft guidelines on bancassurance
ML: How is business in this quarter? The DTC (Direct Tax Code) may reduce the tax-savings incentive which currently allows deduction up to Rs15,000 and additional Rs15,000 for buying mediclaim for parents (Rs20,000 for senior citizens).
DM: We have seen good increase in business in January and February. We certainly hope these deductions continue to help in health insurance penetration.
ML: IRDA's (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority) draft guidelines on bancassurance will help standalone insurers like you.
DM: The draft guidelines are certainly positive for us. Banks in India are trusted by customers and have wide infrastructure. We have limited infrastructure and hence tying with banks will help us. It is currently difficult to tie as banks prefer general insurance companies which have a range of products like health, motor, home, etc. The draft guidelines will help standalone insurers like us as the bank can tie up with one general and one standalone insurer.
ML: Is it difficult to negotiate with hospitals on procedure rates?
DM: Hospitals do have lot of expenses and manpower turnover. Qualified nurses end up going abroad. There is huge cost for infrastructure. Many hospitals get good business from uninsured people who pay them cash. If they get 90% cash, it is difficult to dictate terms for procedure rates until our business with the hospital grows. We offer cashless at 1,100 hospitals and want to grow to 1,400 hospitals this year. Half of these hospitals have been quality inspected by us. We have cashless in 50 Mumbai hospitals, including the high-end ones.
ML: How is the response to your health movement—'Health Promise' (www.yourhealthfirst.in)? Are you able to convert it to business opportunity?
DM: The response has been good with over 1 lakh visitors. They could get health-related feedback and ask queries. It has helped with leads to garner business.
ML: How is your group business and claims experience?
DM: Our focus is on retail business. Group is less than 30% of our business, which has more claims than retail as expected.
ML: IRDA has a long delay for product clearance, especially for health products. How long did it take for your new product (high deductible top-up) to get approval?
DM: It took us four months for approval. It depends on the kind of filing. We give detailed information at the time of filing so that there are minimum queries. IRDA has the responsibility of customer protection and growth of the industry. They have to balance these tasks.
ML: What are different modes of selling?
DM: Young customers prefer online or phone sales; utilisation of digital and mobile medium is our priority. The customers who do offline transactions work with corporate team for high transaction sales. We also have 8,000 agents in 227 towns. We are selective about the agents we choose and give training for 23 days. We have sold policies to customers in 400 towns. We do not want to grow aggressively in the number of branches; which is currently 11 in number.
ML: What is the response to health insurance portability?
DM: We have over 3,000 applications for those porting to Max Bupa and about 100-150 applications for going out. As such we don't have restriction on entry age, which helps for those wanting to come to Max Bupa.


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 2/2/2014 (1267 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
How complicated can it be to remind cab drivers it would helpful if they waited until their fare arrived safely at their door before leaving? Well, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has scheduled its third meeting with the cab industry Tuesday to negotiate that very issue.
Cab drivers already play a vital role in community safety by reporting crimes and suspicious activity to police, but it's informal and unregulated. And that's exactly the way it should be on the question of patient safety. It shouldn't take three meetings (and counting) to deliver that friendly message. The idea of legislating responsibility isn't on the table, and it never should be.
That's because the safety of patients leaving hospitals is the responsibility of the health-care system, which has systems in place to ensure people get home without incident. Unfortunately, those systems failed in at least two recent cases when patients were discharged from the Grace Hospital and died on their doorsteps after being dropped off by a taxi.
The WRHA's rules require medical staff to ensure the patient has someone waiting for them. They are also required to be reasonably sure patients are medically ready to be released. Those are good policies, but it's unclear if they were followed. That is the only question the WRHA should be meeting on.


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Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations
Old Fashioned Foods, Inc. 8/16/12
Department of Health and Human Services
|Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
Minneapolis District Office
Central Region
250 Marquette Avenue, Suite 600
Minneapolis, MN 55401
Telephone: (612) 334-4100
August 16, 2012
Refer to MIN 12 – 40
Bernard P. Youso
Old Fashioned Foods, Inc.
650 Furnace Street
Mayville, Wisconsin 53050
Dear Mr. Youso:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted an inspection of your low-acid and acidified food manufacturing facility located at 331 South Main Street Mayville, Wisconsin, and your warehouse facility located at 650 Furnace Street, also in Mayville, Wisconsin, on April 10-11, 13, 17, 20, 23, 25 and May 4, 2012. The inspection found that your firm manufactures a wide variety of low-acid shelf-stable food items including processed cheese food items, cream cheese, salad dressings, mayonnaise, jellies, salsas and pet treat products. Most of your firm's products are hot-filled and packaged in a variety of containers including plastic squeeze bottles, foil packs, aerosolized cans, plastic tubs, and glass jars for both humans and pets. The inspection found your firm has one retorted product, Salsa Con Queso, and acidified bean dip products. The inspection determined that you have significant deviations from the Low-Acid Canned Foods regulations, Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 113 (21 CFR 113), and that you have significant deviations from the Acidified Foods regulations, 21 CFR 114.
As a manufacturer of acidified foods and low-acid canned food products, you are required to comply with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) and the federal regulations relating to the processing of acidified food and low-acid canned food products. These regulations are described in 21 CFR 108, Emergency Permit Control, and 21 CFR 113, Thermally Processed Low-Acid Foods Packaged in Hermetically Sealed Containers, and 21 CFR 114, Acidified Foods. The Emergency Permit Control regulations were issued, in part, pursuant to section 404 of the Act, Emergency Permit Control, 21 U.S.C. § 344. A temporary emergency permit may be required for acidified foods and low-acid canned foods whenever a processor has failed to fulfill the requirements of 21 CFR 108.35 and 108.25, including registration and filing of process information, and the mandatory requirements in 21 CFR 113 and 114.
In addition, based upon certain criteria in 21 CFR 113 and 114, acidified foods may be adulterated within the meaning of section 402(a)(4), 21 U.S.C. § 342(a)(4), in that they have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they have become contaminated with filth, or whereby they may have been rendered injurious to health. You can find the Act and the acidified and low-acid food regulations through links on FDA's Internet home page at www.fda.gov.
Observations with regard to your firm's deviations from the Low-Acid Canned Foods regulations, 21 CFR 108 and 21 CFR 113, include:
1. As a commercial processor engaged in thermal processing of low-acid foods packaged in hermetically sealed containers, you must, not later than 60 days after registration and prior to the packing of a new product, provide the FDA information as to the scheduled processes. This information must include the processing method, type of retort or other thermal processing equipment employed, minimal initial temperatures, times and temperatures of processing, sterilization value, or other equivalent scientific evidence of process adequacy, critical control factors affecting heat penetration, and source and date of the establishment of the process for each low-acid food in each container size, to comply with 21 CFR 108.35(c)(2). However, your firm has not filed scheduled processes with FDA for all of your low-acid food products including varieties of cheese melt products, cheese spread products, cheese stick products, and pet treat products. This is a repeat observation from your previous inspection.
Scheduled process information for acidified and low-acid foods must be submitted on Form FDA 2541a (Processing Filing for all Processing Methods Except Low-Acid Aseptic). More information on registration and filing can be found in the publication "Instructions for Establishment Registration and Processing Filing for Acidified and Low-Acid Canned Foods" available at: http://www.fda.gov/Food/Foodsafety
2. Your firm failed to established a scheduled process by a qualified person with expert knowledge acquired through appropriate training and experience of thermal processing requirements for low-acid foods in hermetically sealed containers and having adequate facilities for making such determinations as required by 21 CFR 113.83. Your firm manufactures and distributes:
- Cheese sticks that are high moisture, low-acid food in a hermetically sealed container that is considered shelf stable. These products have not been evaluated by a process authority.
- Several pet food products in aerosol cans, in a variety of flavors that are high moisture, low-acid shelf stable foods. These products have not been evaluated by a process authority.
3. Your firm failed to file with FDA changes in previously filed scheduled processes, where processing parameters were higher or longer, when the processes became regularly scheduled as required by 21 CFR 108.35(c)(3)(ii). Specifically, the current scheduled process filed with the FDA for the Salsa Con Queso product in glass jars processed in the (b)(4) retort lists the critical factors for minimum cook time at (b)(4) minutes and minimum cook temperature of (b)(4)°F with initial temperature (b)(4)°F. This process has been updated in a study from (b)(4) conducted March 2012 with updates to the critical factors including minimum cook time (b)(4) minutes, minimum cook temperature (b)(4)°F and initial temperature (b)(4)°F. These updates are higher than what is currently on file with FDA. You have not updated your filing with FDA.
4. Your firm failed to process each low-acid canned food in conformity with at least the scheduled process filed with FDA, as required by 21 CFR 108.35(c)(3)(i). Specifically,
- Your scheduled process on file with FDA for your processed cream cheese lists the critical factor of a minimum (b)(4). No (b)(4) testing is performed.
- Your scheduled process on file with FDA for your processed cream cheese product lists the critical factor of (b)(4). A review of your laboratory analysis sheet shows a (b)(4) range from (b)(4). All batches and lots of the cream cheese products reviewed were shipped to customers without being evaluated by your process authority.
- Your scheduled process on file for cheese topping product references a study conducted by your process authority that states the (b)(4) is a critical factor and must be at a minimum of (b)(4) in the finished product. No (b)(4) testing is performed.
5. Your firm's management, or qualified representative, failed to review, sign and date processing and production records for completeness and to ensure that the product received the scheduled process as required by 21 CFR 113.100(b). Specifically, a variety of processing records from September 2011 thru April 2012 were reviewed. There was no signature, initials, or date by a reviewing official from the firm.
Observations regarding deviations from the Acidified Foods regulations, 21 CFR 114, include:
6. As a commercial processor engaged in the processing of acidified foods, you must, not later than 60 days after registration and prior to the packing of any new product, provide the Food and Drug Administration information on the scheduled processes including, as necessary, conditions for heat processing and control of pH, salt, sugar, and preservative levels and source and date of the establishment of the process, for each acidified food in each container size to comply with 21 CFR 108.25(c)(2). Your firm has not filed a scheduled process with FDA for your shelf-stable acidified Jalapeno Bean Dip.
7. Your firm failed to established a scheduled process by a qualified person with expert knowledge acquired through appropriate training and experience in the acidification and processing of acidified foods as required by 21 CFR 114.83. This is a repeat observation from your previous inspection. A current example is as follows: Your firm manufactures and distributes Jalapeno Bean Dip and Zesty Bean Dip that is intended to be shelf-stable that is packaged in a hermetically sealed container as an acidified food. A qualified process authority has not evaluated these Bean Dips to establish critical factors and processing parameters to ensure they meet safety requirements.
8. Your firm failed to ensure acidified foods are manufactured, processed, and packaged so that a finished equilibrium pH value of 4.6 or lower is achieved within the time designated in the scheduled process and maintained in all finished foods as required by 21 CFR 114.80(a)(1). During the course of our inspection a sample of your Jalapeno Bean Dip was collected and analyzed for pH and Water Activity. Out of a total of 48 tests, 34 analyses were found with a pH at or above 4.6. Additionally, in a lot of your acidified Jalapeno Bean Dip your QA laboratory analysis found the pH to be (b)(4).
9. Your firm failed to fully reprocess, thermally process as a low-acid food under 21 CFR 113, or set aside for further evaluation as to any potential public health significance, a portion of food which had an equilibrium pH of the finished product higher than 4.6 as required by 21 CFR 114.89. Specifically, in a lot of your acidified Jalapeno Bean Dip your QA laboratory analysis found the pH to be (b)(4). This lot was not set aside for further evaluation, but was shipped to customers.
10. Your firm failed to mark each container with the required identification with a code specifying the establishment where the product was packed, product contained therein, and the packing period, as required by 21 CFR 114.80(b). Specifically, the code on your firm's Zesty Bean Dip does not identify the establishment where it was packed or the product inside.
This letter is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of deficiencies in your manufacturing facility and your product labels. It is your responsibility to ensure that all of your products comply with the Act, the low-acid canned food regulations (21 CFR 108, 113 and 114), the Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulation (21 CFR 110), and other applicable regulations. You should take prompt action to correct these violations. Failure to do so may result in regulatory action without further notice, such as seizure or injunction.
We have received your responses dated May 11, 23, and 29, 2012, to the form FDA-483, Inspectional Observations. However, your responses are inadequate in that you have not provided any documentation of your corrective actions in support of your promised corrections. You have not provided evidence that you will discontinue manufacture of products until your processes are evaluated by a competent process authority, or that you have filed these processes with FDA, that you are monitoring your operations in accordance with this filing, and that, if deviations are noted, you will take the appropriate actions. As a result of your previous inspectional findings and your continued non-compliance with FDA regulations we find it necessary to put you on notice that continued non-compliance with FDA regulations may result in further regulatory action including seizure and/or injunction.
Please respond in writing within 15 working days from your receipt of this letter. Your response should outline the specific actions you are taking to correct these violations and to prevent similar violations. If you cannot complete all corrections before you respond, we expect that you will explain the reason for the delay and state when you will correct any remaining violations.
Section 743 of the Act, 21 U.S.C. § 379j-31, authorizes FDA to assess and collect fees to cover FDA's costs for certain activities, including re-inspection related costs. A re-inspection is one or more inspections conducted subsequent to an inspection that identified non-compliance materially related to a food safety requirement of the Act, specifically to determine whether compliance has been achieved. Re-inspection related costs means all expenses, including administrative expenses incurred in connection with FDA's arranging, conducting, and evaluating the results of the re-inspection and assessing and collecting the re-inspection fees, 21 U.S.C. § 379j-31(a)(2)(B). For a domestic facility, FDA will assess and collect fees for re-inspection related costs from the responsible party for the domestic facility. The inspection noted in this letter identified non-compliance materially related to a food safety requirement of the Act. Accordingly, FDA may assess fees to cover any re-inspection-related costs.
Your response should be sent to the Food and Drug Administration, Attention: Demetria L. Lueneburg, Compliance Officer, at the address listed on this letterhead. If you have any questions with regard to this letter, you may contact Ms. Lueneburg at (612) 758-7210.
Michael Dutcher, DVM
Minneapolis District
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Kierra Sparklehawk Model
Focal point of lightPhotographer Male Bellevue, Nebraska, US
My MM URL: http://www.modelmayhem.com/FPOL
Mayhem # 740992
About Me
My name is Jerry, and for many years I was a part-time wedding photographer. I changed jobs a few years ago and now I do extensive traveling with my job. I had to forgo my wedding photography occupation. I still love working and learning photography.
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Usually it turns around 15:00 by our time this time around 40 mins earlier, how come?
We're in the same time zone (CET), and it's changed at 14:00 (midnight Australian time)
hm interasting yes, since till now as i remember it was done 15:00 our time
It's something about Daylight saving time (I think they don't use it)
Yes I had that issue for the Statementer. Sometimes it's 14:00, 15:00 or 16:00 (CET). I have to alter the code twice a year for this
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You can run programs or scripts in WebJobs in your Azure App Service web app in three ways: on demand, continuously, or on a schedule. There is no additional cost to use WebJobs.
The WebJobs SDK does not yet support .NET Core.
This article shows how to deploy WebJobs by using the Azure Portal. For information about how to deploy by using Visual Studio or a continuous delivery process, see How to Deploy Azure WebJobs to Web Apps.
The Azure WebJobs SDK simplifies many WebJobs programming tasks. For more information, see What is the WebJobs SDK.
Azure Functions provides another way to run programs and scripts from either a serverless environment or from an App Service app. For more information, see Azure Functions overview.
Although this article refers to web apps, it also applies to API apps and mobile apps.
Acceptable file types for scripts or programs
The following file types are accepted:
- .cmd, .bat, .exe (using windows cmd)
- .ps1 (using powershell)
- .sh (using bash)
- .php (using php)
- .py (using python)
- .js (using node)
- .jar (using java)
Create an on demand WebJob in the portal
In the Web App blade of the Azure Portal, click All settings > WebJobs to show the WebJobs blade.
Click Add. The Add WebJob dialog appears.
- Under Name, provide a name for the WebJob. The name must start with a letter or a number and cannot contain any special characters other than "-" and "_".
- In the How to Run box, choose Run on Demand.
- In the File Upload box, click the folder icon and browse to the zip file that contains your script. The zip file should contain your executable (.exe .cmd .bat .sh .php .py .js) as well as any supporting files needed to run the program or script.
Check Create to upload the script to your web app.
The name you specified for the WebJob appears in the list on the WebJobs blade.
To run the WebJob, right-click its name in the list and click Run.
Create a continuously running WebJob
- To create a continuously executing WebJob, follow the same steps for creating a WebJob that runs once, but in the How to Run box, choose Continuous.
- To start or stop a continuous WebJob, right-click the WebJob in the list and click Start or Stop.
If your web app runs on more than one instance, a continuously running WebJob will run on all of your instances. On-demand and scheduled WebJobs run on a single instance selected for load balancing by Microsoft Azure.
For Continuous WebJobs to run reliably and on all instances, enable the Always On* configuration setting for the web app otherwise they can stop running when the SCM host site has been idle for too long.
Create a scheduled WebJob using a CRON expression
This technique is available to Web Apps running in Basic, Standard or Premium mode, and requires the Always On setting to be enabled on the app.
To turn an On Demand WebJob into a scheduled WebJob, simply include a
settings.job file at the root of your WebJob zip file. This JSON file should include a
schedule property with a CRON expression, per example below.
The CRON expression is composed of 6 fields:
{second} {minute} {hour} {day} {month} {day of the week}.
For example, to trigger your WebJob every 15 minutes, your
settings.job would have:
"schedule": "0 */15 * * * *"
Other CRON schedule examples:
- Every hour (i.e. whenever the count of minutes is 0):
0 0 * * * *
- Every hour from 9 AM to 5 PM:
0 0 9-17 * * *
- At 9:30 AM every day:
0 30 9 * * *
- At 9:30 AM every week day:
0 30 9 * * 1-5
Note: when deploying a WebJob from Visual Studio, make sure to mark your
settings.job file properties as 'Copy if newer'.
Create a scheduled WebJob using the Azure Scheduler
The following alternate technique makes use of the Azure Scheduler. In this case, your WebJob does not have any direct knowledge of the schedule. Instead, the Azure Scheduler gets configured to trigger your WebJob on a schedule.
The Azure Portal doesn't yet have the ability to create a scheduled WebJob, but until that feature is added you can do it by using the classic portal.
- In the classic portal go to the WebJob page and click Add.
In the How to Run box, choose Run on a schedule.
- Choose the Scheduler Region for your job, and then click the arrow on the bottom right of the dialog to proceed to the next screen.
In the Create Job dialog, choose the type of Recurrence you want: One-time job or Recurring job.
Also choose a Starting time: Now or At a specific time.
If you want to start at a specific time, choose your starting time values under Starting On.
If you chose a recurring job, you have the Recur Every option to specify the frequency of occurrence and the Ending On option to specify an ending time.
If you choose Weeks, you can select the On a Particular Schedule box and specify the days of the week that you want the job to run.
If you choose Months and select the On a Particular Schedule box, you can set the job to run on particular numbered Days in the month.
If you choose Week Days, you can select which day or days of the week in the month you want the job to run on.
Finally, you can also use the Occurrences option to choose which week in the month (first, second, third etc.) you want the job to run on the week days you specified.
After you have created one or more jobs, their names will appear on the WebJobs tab with their status, schedule type, and other information. Historical information for the last 30 WebJobs is maintained.
Scheduled jobs and Azure Scheduler
Scheduled jobs can be further configured in the Azure Scheduler pages of the classic portal.
On the WebJobs page, click the job's schedule link to navigate to the Azure Scheduler portal page.
On the Scheduler page, click the job.
The Job Action page opens, where you can further configure the job.
View the job history
To view the execution history of a job, including jobs created with the WebJobs SDK, click its corresponding link under the Logs column of the WebJobs blade. (You can use the clipboard icon to copy the URL of the log file page to the clipboard if you wish.)
Clicking the link opens the details page for the WebJob. This page shows you the name of the command run, the last times it ran, and its success or failure. Under Recent job runs, click a time to see further details.
The WebJob Run Details page appears. Click Toggle Output to see the text of the log contents. The output log is in text format.
To see the output text in a separate browser window, click the download link. To download the text itself, right-click the link and use your browser options to save the file contents.
The WebJobs link at the top of the page provides a convenient way to get to a list of WebJobs on the history dashboard.
Clicking one of these links takes you to the WebJob Details page for the job you selected.
- Web apps in Free mode can time out after 20 minutes if there are no requests to the scm (deployment) site and the web app's portal is not open in Azure. Requests to the actual site will not reset this.
- Code for a continuous job needs to be written to run in an endless loop.
- Continuous jobs run continuously only when the web app is up.
- Basic and Standard modes offer the Always On feature which, when enabled, prevents web apps from becoming idle.
- You can only debug continuously running WebJobs. Debugging scheduled or on-demand WebJobs is not supported.
Next Steps
For more information, see Azure WebJobs Recommended Resources.


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Bulls' Karns unhittable for six innings
Resurgent Rays prospect records season-high 10 strikeouts
By Robert Emrich / MiLB.com | August 16, 2014 1:02 AM ET
Nathan Karns punctuated his second-half turnaround with a brilliant effort on Friday night.
The Rays' 15th-ranked prospect pitched six hitless frames before Durham walked off with a 1-0, 11-inning victory over Charlotte.
Karns, who did not figure in the decision, tied a season high with 10 strikeouts and issued five walks in his 24th start for the Bulls. He threw 65 of 103 pitches for strikes.
"I was just throwing strikes, really. Mixing it up and that's about it,," he said. "Nothing too special, it was just one of those days where everything was working. It's very exciting whenever you can have that type of success.
"I would have to say for the most part I kind of relied on all of [my pitches] at times. I tried to work ahead with the fastball. When I had aggressive hitters, I had to throw my off-speed [stuff] first pitch. I had to rely on all of them in different situations."
In a tight pitching duel throughout, the Bulls did not give up a hit until Josh Phegley led off the ninth with a single off Steve Geltz. Conversely, Durham was held to one hit through eight innings.
"I felt like our dugout kept it pretty loose," Karns said. "You've got to give credit to the other team. They did a great job of keeping us off the board as well. I'm just happy we were able to get through and get the 'W' at the end of the day."
Coming off a tough June in which he surrendered 25 earned runs over 21 1/3 innings, the 26-year-old right-hander has rebounded strongly. He's 5-1 with a 1.92 ERA in eight starts since June 30 and has gone at least six innings in seven consecutive outings.
"Just sticking with it," Karns said. "It's a long season, just trying to finish strong. Just continue to go every day and work hard and have the same approach. If you have a bad start, don't get discouraged and get back on the horse."
Overall, Karns is 9-6 with a 4.45 ERA an International League-leading 142 strikeouts.
Durham finally broke through when Rays No. 18 prospect Tim Beckham smacked his second single of the game to open the 11th against Eric Surkamp (3-5), took second Mike Fontenot's sacrifice and raced home on Mayo Acosta's double.
Doug Mathis followed Karns with two hitless frames out of the bullpen before giving way to Geltz, who scattered three hits while fanning five over two innings. Cory Burns (1-0) was credited with the win after escaping a bases-loaded jam in the top of the 11th.
Knights starter Andre Rienzo exited after 4 2/3 hitless innings and Frank De Los Santos gave up a single to the first batter he faced before recording the next four outs. Jarrett Casey followed with two no-hit innings and Ryan Kussmaul yielded two hits over two frames.
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The House of Representatives today passed the fiscal year 2014 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill. It provides $73.3 billion in funding for military infrastructure as well as veterans' benefits and programs.
Congressman Alan Nunnelee (R-Miss), a member of the Military Construction-Veterans Affairs Subcommittee, made the following statement after passage of H.R. 2216:
"The men and women of our armed forces have more than held up their end of the bargain, this bill upholds ours. We do not give our veterans anything; they have earned every penny of their benefits defending our freedom," Nunnelee said.
The legislation includes funding to deal with the disability claims processing backlog - $155 million for a paperless claims process system and $136 million for the digital scanning of health records. Additionally, strict reporting requirements have been included to track the performance of each regional office that processes disability claims.
"The disability claims backlog is unacceptable and it is long past time to end it. Our veterans deserve better," Nunnelee said.
H.R. 2216 also requires the use of E-Verify for federal contractors, prevents funding for ACORN, and stops the Obama Administration from spending money to move terrorists detained at Guantanamo into the United States.
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