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|PCT number
|Publication date
|20 Mar 1990
|Filing date
|8 Jul 1987
|Priority date
|8 Jul 1986
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|Yukio Kobayashi, Shoji Igota
|Original Assignee
|Nissei Asb Machine Co., Ltd.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (8), Classifications (15), Legal Events (7)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates to a transfer printing method for transferring a printing layer on a synthetic resin film surface, by heating and pressing, to a drum of a container whose drum is cylindrical, particularly to a drum of a thin-wall container.
In the conventional transfer of this kind, a transfer sheet of paper is supplied between a heat roller and a cylindrical container with a printing layer of the surface directed toward the container, the transfer paper together with the container is pressed against the heat roller, and the container is rotated with respect to a transfer film by utilization of rotation of the heat roller. In such a transfer as just mentioned, a number of containers cannot be continuously treated or process by a single heat roller, and when the speed is increased in order to enhance the processing ability, a transfer slippage occurs. Moreover, since a heater is used as a heating source, if operating time is prolonged, the temperature of the heat roller rises, and where the base of a transfer paper is a synthetic resin film, an elongation occurs due to overheating, leading to a slippage in transfer or melting, etc. When temperature is controlled in order to prevent the overheat, the temperature of the roller surface materially lowers, resulting in insufficient printing of the printing layer after transfer, which leads to a problem such that the printing layer transferred to the container is peeled off due to a slight friction. Further improvement has been required to make in order to continuously obtain products in a good transfer condition.
Under these circumstances as noted above, the present inventors have repeatedly studied on prior method and apparatus, and as the result, found that the causes of the above-described problems resulted from unstableness of heating temperature, unevenness of rotation of the heat roller and moving speed of the transfer paper and the like, and if control is made by any kind of means, a plurality of containers can be successively pressed against a single roller to apply printing to the drum without partly or wholly transfer slippage.
An object of the present invention is to provide a new method and apparatus which can carry out transfer at high speed and positively by means of a heat roller which is always uniform in temperature distribution of a roller surface, easy in temperature control in an electrical manner, and is free from rapid variation in temperature difference before and after the control.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a new transfer printing method and an apparatus therefor which can use a transfer film having a synthetic resin film used as a base, and adjust a position between a container supplied to the heat roller and a printing layer of a transfer film, for each container.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new transfer printing method and an apparatus therefor which comprises applied pressure control means which is extremely effective for aluminum containers whose drum is cylindrical and having an open end equal to the drum, plastic containers, and particularly plastic cans obtained by injection stretching blow molding.
The present invention, which can achieve the aforementioned objects, is characterized by use of an induction heat generation roller based on the principle of exothermic of low-frequency induction heating as a heat roller.
This heat roller has an induction coil incorporated therein as a magnetic flux generation mechanism comprising a coil and a core, in which the roller itself generates a Joule heat by electromagnetic induction action produced by application of voltage, and which is free from heat loss unlike an indirect heating system using a self-contained heater and having a high accurate temperature controllability. In case of a heat roller in which a jacket is provided in the inner peripheral surface of the roller to seal a heating medium therein, further uniform surface temperature distribution characteristic can be always maintained.
In the present invention, a plurality of containers together with a transfer film is pressed against the surface of the heat roller, and rotation of the heat roller is transmitted to the containers through the transfer film whereby the containers are rotated on the surface of the transfer film to transfer a printing layer on the surface of the transfer film to the drum of a container.
The container is loosely filled in a rotatable cylindrical holder, and the transfer film is extended over pitch adjusting rolls disposed at regular intervals in the periphery of the heat roller along with a press roll and is positioned in a heat transfer portion.
The holder is rotatably supported on the end of a member mounted movably up and down by a circulating transport means such as a chain to be positioned between press rolls, forced in and between the press rolls from outside of the transfer film by a pressing mechanism disposed in the heat transfer portion, and pressed against the roller surface along with the transfer film.
This pressing causes the transfer film and the drum of a container to be sandwiched between the heat roller and the holder, and the transfer film is subjected to tension by the pitch adjusting roll. In such a condition, the transfer film is brought into linear contact with the roller surface along with the container drum by the holder, both of which are subjected to local heating and pressure.
Such a condition as described continues till the holder is released from the pressing mechanism and moved away from the roller surface, and through the linear contact locally, that contact will be a continuous contact by movement of position. The printing layer under heating and pressurizing condition, the printing layer is shifted from the surface of the transfer film to the container body, and pressed by the press roller and positively transferred to the container drum.
This transfer can be either partial or front surface with respect to the drum but when transfer begins at a position before or behind a transfer start position on the drum, there occurs a deviation in position, resulting in an incomplete transfer.
This transfer slippage is prevented by rotation of the pitch adjusting roll. The pitch adjusting roll is formed from an eccentric roll to vary the length of travel of the transfer film at the rotative position. The rotation of the pitch adjusting roll is effected on the basis of the result of detection of a mechanism for detecting a position of each printing layer of a transfer film and a mechanism for detecting a position of a transferable member subject to transfer operation.
The detection of the position of each printing layer includes a case where a marginal portion between printing layers is utilized, and a case where a suitable mark pre-printed on a transfer film is utilized. However, if there is a surface of a printing layer which can be used as a mark, it may be utilized. Detection means is preferably one which can remove it as an electric signal, suitably, a photo-electric tube system.
The mechanism for detecting a position of an object of transfer is also preferably one which can remove it as an electric signal. The position of the object of transfer is that a position subject to heat transfer can be detected as the result. For example, a position of an object of transfer after transferred may be measured or a position of a holding member for an object of transfer may be measured to obtain the aforesaid position.
FIG. 1 is an explanatory view of a transfer printing method according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing the transfer state at positions from I to III in FIG. 1 with an object of transfer developed.
FIG. 3 is a schematic front view of a transfer apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a plan view of a holder and a chain.
FIG. 5 is a longitudinal sectional side view of a portion of a heat roller.
FIG. 6 is a front view showing a transfer portion of a heat roller with a part thereof cutaway.
FIG. 7 is a front view showing a position adjusting mechanism for a printing layer with a part thereof cutaway.
FIGS. 8 and 9 are respectively sectional views of a press roll portion and a pitch adjusting roll portion.
FIG. 10 is a side view of a press roll shaft arm and a pitch adjusting roll shaft arm portion.
In the drawings, reference numeral 100 designates an induction heat generation jacket roller (hereinafter referred to as a heat roller) based on the principle of exothermic of low-frequency induction heating. The required number of press rolls 102 and pitch adjusting rolls 103 are disposed along a roller surface 101. The press and pitch adjusting rolls are mounted at regular intervals, with the press rolls 102 located inside thereof, on a disk 105 rotatably provided separately from a rotational shaft 104 located at the center of the heat roller 100.
Reference numeral 106 designates a transfer film whose base is a polyethyleneterephthalate stretched film, which is supplied with a printing surface 106a directed outwardly from a left side to a lower portion and thence to a right side of the heat roller 100, and at the lower part of the heat roller 100, placed in abutment with the pitch adjusting roll 103. Rotatable cylindrical holders 107 are positioned externally of the transfer film 106.
The holder 107 is movably mounted on the transport means such as a chain not shown, the holders 107 being provided at regular intervals to be positioned between the press rolls 102. A container 108 whose drum is cylindrical which is loosely fitted at the other position and formed of aluminum or a synthetic resin such as polyethyleneterephthalate together with a transfer film 106 extended over the pitch adjusting rolls 103 are forced into the roller surface 101 of the heat roller 100.
The pitch adjusting roll 103 is mounted movably with respect to the disk 105 and is rotated internally and externally, by a device actuated by a signal from a transfer film monitor system (not shown) at the side of the heat roller 100 in which transfer film and containers are introduced, to correct a deviation in position of the transfer film 106.
The heat roller 100 and disk 105, and the press rolls 102 and pitch adjusting rolls 103 rotate counterclockwise, the holder 107 rotates clockwise, and the transfer film 106 travel rightward. These rotation and travel are all effected at uniform speed.
The spacing between the press roll 102 and holder 107 is set according to the spacing of a printing layer 106a of the transfer film 106, and the transfer of the container 108 to the drum is controlled to be started from the end of the printing layer 106a.
The transfer is completed when the container 108 is held by the holder 107 and finished its full rotation together with the holder 107 by the heat roller 100, and at the transfer completed position, the press roll 102 and the transfer film 106 are immediately moved away from the container 108.
Accordingly, heating and transfer are continuously carried out till the container 108 supplied together with the transfer film 106 is placed in linear contact with the roller surface 101 of the heat roller 100 by the holder 107, finishes a full rotation and is moved away from the roller surface 101. By the local heating by the synchronous linear contact therebetween, the surface of the container 108 will not be overheated or molten even if the heating temperature is high, 150� C. to 200� C., and the printing layer 106a is successively transferred to the drum surface of the container 108 and at the same time becomes so printed as not to be peeled off easily.
FIG. 3 and thereafter drawings show an overview of a specific example of transfer apparatus. Reference numeral 1 designates a carry-in mechanism for carrying in aluminum or plastic cans 2 as objects of transfer being fed from other stations at fixed intervals, and 3 a guide rail for feeding the cans 2 fed at fixed intervals by the carry-in mechanism 1 into a supply mechansim 4 to a heat transfer station.
The supply mechansim 4 to the heat transfer station feeds the cans 2 not filled with contents having been fed from the carry-in mechanism 1 to the underside of the heat roll 5 while the cans 2 being held. The heat roll 5 transfers a transfer film 6 to the can 2 while heating the film 6. Reference numeral 7 designates a press mechanism provided below the heat roll 5 to urge the can 2 against the heat roll 5 and into abutment therewith. Reference numeral 8 designates a mechanism for ejecting the transferred cans 2, and 9 a supply mechanism for feeding a transfer film 6 to a transfer station.
The carry-in mechanism 1 has a timing belt 11 provided in proximity of a lower end of a star wheel 10 at the lower part of a chute. This timing belt 11 has a partition plate which separates cans 2 at fixed intervals.
On the timing belt, the guide rail 3 is projected obliquely toward the moving direction. Though not shown, the cans 2 on the timing belt are made to travel with the timing belt by the provision of the inclined surface, and can be forced into a plastic cylindrical holder 13 mounted on a chain 12 leading to the supply mechanism 4 in the heat transfer station so as to be loosely fitted.
The aforesaid supply mechanism 4 is annularly formed by the chain 12 as a pass-over moving body. The chain 12 is passed over four sprockets 12a, and travels at the lower part thereof with the timing belt 11, whereas at the upper part thereof travels between a guide rail 20a parallel with a rail 20 and a guide plate 21 (see FIG. 5).
Rows of a pair of connection shafts 14 laterally extend at fixed intervals through the chain 12 as shown in FIG. 4, each of the connection shafts 14 being rotatably provided with a roller 15. Externally of the chain 12, a bell crank 17 is upwardly rotatably provided on a shaft portion 16 of a seat body 16a provided over the ends of a pair of connection shafts 14, and the aforesaid holder 13 is rotatably provided on a support shaft 17a externally of the end of the bell crank 17. A guide shaft 18 is provided on a bended portion, and a roller 19 which travels on the rail 20 is provided at the end of the guide shaft 18.
The heat roll 5 is internally provided with a magnetic flux generation mechanism 51 composed of a coil and a core, details of which are not shown, and a jacket 52 with a heating medium 53 sealed therein, a roll surface 52 being formed from a silicone rubber. At the end of the rotary shaft 22 driven by a motor, said end being projected from the heat roll 5, is provided a disk 23 integral with a driving chain sprocket 24.
Internally of the peripheral edge of the disk 23 on the side of the heat roll 5 are fixedly mounted two brackets 27 at equal intervals provided with a press roll 25 and a pitch adjusting roll 26.
The press roll 25 is rotatably mounted through a mounting member 29 on a press roll shaft 28 rotatably inserted into the bracket 27. The press roll shaft 28 extends through the disk 23 and outwardly protrudes, and a press roll shaft arm 30 is secured to the protruded portion. A press arm roller 31 is rotatably provided on the end of the press roll shaft arm 30.
The pitch adjusting roll 26 is mounted on a rotatable eccentric shaft 33 provided on an adjusting roll shaft 32 which is rotatably inserted into the bracket 27 and having one end projected externally of the disk 23. An adjusting roll shaft arm 34 is secured to the projecting end of the adjusting roll shaft 32, and an adjusting arm roller 35 is rotatably provided at the end of the adjusting roll shaft arm 34.
A pawl 36 is integrally provided on the base end of the press roll shaft arm 30, and the other end thereof is always biased by means of a spring 37. The adjusting roll shaft arm 34 is formed with tooth 34a meshed with the pawl 36.
Within the outer surface on the introducing side of the disk 23 is positioned an inwardly slightly curved longitudinal cam plate 38 for the press roll 25. The cam plate 38 once severs a connection between the pitch adjusting roll 26 and the press roll 25 through press arm roller 31 having been moved together with the disk 23 and thereafter again holds such a connection after the position of the pitch adjusting roll 26 has been determined to bring the press roll 25 together with the transfer film 6 into pressure contact with the can 2. Between the cam plate 38 for the press roll and the disk 23 are provided at the rear of an upright plate 54 a fixed roller guide 39 and a movable roller guide 39 for the adjusting arm roller 35. The fixed roller guide 40 is formed with a tapered groove 41 to return the pitch adjusting roll 26 to a proper position when the adjusting arm roller 35 is forced in. The movable roller guide 40 causes the pitch adjusting roll 26 to move to adjust a position of the printing layer of the transfer film 6. This movable roller guide 40 is connected to two cylinders 43 through an arm 42 and can be controlled in three stages, upper, middle and lower.
Among twelve pitch adjusting rolls 26 as described above, four of them are rotatable whereas other eight are pre-locked by screws in position. The aforesaid cam plate 38, two guide rollers 39, 40 and cylinder 43 are mounted on the upright plate 54.
A press mechanism 7 for the cans 2 is composed, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 6, a press plate 44 whose upper end is curved along the heat roller 5 between the rails 20, a plurality of connection members 45 rotatably connected to the press plate 44, and an air cylinder 46 whose piston shaft 46a is connected to the connection member 45. The press plate 44 is always in contact with the roller 19 of the bell crank 17 to urge the holder 13 against the heat roll 5 by operation of the air cylinder 46 during the transfer but stays lowered at a position in which the holder 13 is moved away from the heat roll 5 as indicated by the chain lines during the non-transfer.
The transfer film supply mechanism 9 is provided, as shown in FIG. 3, with a supply roll 55, a take-up roll 56 and an intermediate guide roller 47, and the transfer film 6 from the supply roll 55 passes between the can 2 and the heat roll 5 and between the press roll 25 and the pitch adjusting roll 26 and thereafter wound on and secured to the take-up roll shaft 56.
The supply roll shaft 55 is provided with an electromagnetic brake for controlling a tension of the transfer film 6 to adjust the tension of the transfer film 6 fed into the heat roll 5 to a predetermined magnitude. Halfway is provided a sensor device 48 for detecting a surface of a printing layer of the transfer film 6 to oscillate an operation command to the cylinder 43.
Reference numeral 49 designates a driving sprocket mounted on a drive shaft (not shown) which actuates the transporting chain 12, and the sprocket 24 integral with the disk 23 is rotated in the same direction as that of the heat roller 5 by the chain 50.
Next, the operation will be described.
First, the transfer film 6 is made to travel to be fed to the heat transfer station. At the same time, when the cans 2 with the open end directed inside are fed into the supply chute, they are delivered at fixed intervals onto the timing belt 11 by the star wheel 10. The cans 2 on the timing belt 11 are successively moved toward the chain 12 by the provision of the inclined surface of the guide rail 3 and loosely fitted in the holders 13. They are further carried to the heat roll 5 along the guide rail 20 by the movement of the chain 12. Since at that time, the press plate 44 is urged up by the cylinder 46, when the roller 19 is shifted from the rail 20 onto the upper surface of the press plate 44, the bellcrank 17 is raised upward about the support shaft 16 and the cans 2 are pressed by the heat roll 5 between the press rolls.
On the other hand, the printing layer of the transfer film 6 is always detected in its position by the sensor device 48. An electric signal is provided every detection on the actuator for the cylinder 43, and in accordance with the signal, the cylinder 43 causes the direction of the movable roller guide 40 at the end of the plunger to vary.
When the press roll 25 and the pitch adjusting roll 26 have been moved to the introducing side of the heat roll 5 by the disk 23 which rotates at the same speed as the chain 12, the arm roller 31 first comes into contact with the tapered portion 38a in the inner upper side of the cam plate 38 for the press roll and moves along the inside thereof. Thereby the press roll shaft 28 is rotated against the spring 37, and therefore the pawl 36 is disengaged from the teeth 34a of the adjusting roll shaft arm 34 to render the pitch adjusting roll 26 free.
When the rotation of the disk 23 further proceeds, the adjusting arm roller 35 moves into the tapered groove 41 of the fixed roller guide 39 and guided to the central portion of the groove by the tapered surface. Then, it moves into the movable roller guide 40 of which direction is preset by the actuation of the cylinder 43. With the passage of the movable roller guide 40, a variation in angle of the pitch adjusting roll 26 in contact with the transfer film 6 occurs, whereby the transfer film 6 is stretched or loosened to make fine adjustment of the position of the printing layer with respect to the cans 2 on the holders.
At the position in which the fine adjustment has been completed, the arm roller 31 is returned to its original position by the tapered portion 38b in the lower inner side of the cam plate 38 for the press roll and the spring pressure, and the pawl 36 of the press roll shaft arm 30 and the teeth 34a of the adjusting roll shaft arm 34 are again meshed with each other whereby the press roll 25 and the pitch adjusting roll 26 are locked with each other and at the same time the press roll 25 causes the transfer film 6 to press against the cans 2.
In this state, when the heat roll 5 together with the disk 23 further rotate, the cans 2 rotate while being pressed against the heat roll 5 and the press roll 25 through the transfer film 6, and so, thereafter. The transfer is effected for the cans 2 in a similar manner to the step as described in connection with FIG. 1.
As described above, according to the present invention, since the induction heating is used as heating means, the temperature control of the heat roller can be easily accomplished, and the transfer film is not melted due to the heating. Furthermore, since the transfer is effected by the press roll after the containers and the transfer film have been heated, the transfer slippage is hard to occur as experienced in the transfer effected on the heat roller, thus completing the transfer operation at high speed. Moreover, the present invention is extremely effective in industry from the fact that the amount of feed of the transfer film can be fine-adjusted by movement of the pitch adjusting roll to prevent a deviation in position. The apparatus of the invention can be extensively utilized.
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|U.S. Classification
|156/361, 156/567, 156/542, 156/477.1
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|7 Mar 1988
Owner name: NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO., LTD., 6100-1, OHAZAMINAMIJ
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After sweeping the podium in the first half of the season Patterson continued to hold off Fiolek to regain the WMX title.
Talk about the season from your perspective.
I think it went amazing! Everything just fell into place and all the hard work I did with Ryno and also testing with the team to get the bike the best it can be just went awesome. We were all prepared and ready for the year.
Will you continue to train with Ryno during the off-season even though Ryno Land closed?
Oh yeah! Ryno and I have a very good relationship and work well together. We have plans for when I want to back things down that I will be his "wingman". Even though Ryno Land is closed he comes out to the other tracks and we do the same things, just not in private now. But its fine, we get the work done.
What was the most difficult part of the season for you?
Crashing at X-Games and getting hurt was pretty hard to take. Luckily we had a break between races and I was able to heal much as I could to be able to come back and finish the series. I had a few races where I didn't feel like I was having a good day but I made the best of them.
Out of all the tracks the WMX visited this year, which was your most favorite and which was your least favorite?
Out of all eight motocross tracks the WMX series visits throughout the season Southwick's gnarly terrain ranks at the top with Patterson.
Of course I look forward to Southwick every year. Southwick gets so gnarly and I just love everything about it. I also love the Colorado track Thunder Valley. It's an awesome place with a good layout. In regards to a least favorite, I didn't really have one that I just didn't like; I had fun at all of them.
It seemed like you were relieved when Ashley broke your winning streak at Red Bud. Did you feel a lot of pressure and stress to keep the streak going?
Yeah I was relieved but I don't think there was a lot of pressure. It was just something cool to do and say you have done, but there isn't any extra bonus for it. Red Bud was the race that I just wasn't feeling it that day and couldn't do much about it so I took it all in stride and just maintained the points lead.
Were you getting nervous towards the end of the season when the point spread between you and Ashley was a mere 22 points?
The battle for the championship went to the end with Fiolek down 22 points after the last checkered flag fell. We can only imagine the intensity that the 2011 Women's Motocross season will hold.
Oh not at all! I thought that was amazing because I usually finish in way behind or just a point or two ahead. So I was pumped with the 22 points!
Do you feel Ashley Fiolek and other racers underestimated your abilities coming into the 2010 season?
Yeah of course! I'm the "old veteran" of the class and I've been around for a while. After getting beat two years in a row to Ashley Fiolek I think a lot of people thought I was washed out.
I specifically remember you commenting in 2009 that if you just had the equipment you could compete against the factory rides. Obviously Star Racing is a good fit for you. Will you re-sign with them for 2011?
Yeah it was an awesome fit and I plan on being with Star Racing for a while. The team and I are working on finalizing the deal. As of now I will be a part of the team we're just working on the duration of the contract.
What's the best part of racing for DNA Shred Stix Star Racing Yamaha?
After splitting with HHR; and joining DNA Shred Stix Star Racing team they helped rejuvinate Patterson and take her to the top of the podium; helping her achieve a sixth title.
Everyone on the team is awesome! Since day one they have all helped me with whatever I needed. Even during the practice weeks and going to the tracks, doing set up and whatever we may have to do, they have been there. It's been a big team effort and I couldn't thank EVERYONE on the team enough for all their help.
The check! Talk about the $25,000 check from Yamaha that you received at the Pala podium.
Oh man….that was just crazy! I wasn't expecting that at all. I mean this year my agreement with Yamaha came up last minute and I didn't sign till late in the year. That bonus wasn't in the contract at all and when Yamaha told me to open the box right there on the Pala Podium I didn't know what to expect. To see that $25,000 and all the support Yamaha has giving me, it just felt so unreal. It's hard to even put it in words. I couldn't thank them enough.
Have you spent the $25,000 yet? Maybe a down payment on a new Lamborghini?
Haha no. I'm pretty tight with my money since there is little we do get, so I try and save most as I can so I don't have to get a job as soon as the day comes that I don't want to race competitively anymore. I did buy a new truck and have a two week vacation that is coming up and I'm sure I'll spend a lot of it on it. Haha!
What do you plan to do during the WMX off-season?
I have just been trying to finish healing up since my ribs and collar bone were still not 100%. I'm just taking little vacations, doing PR stuff for Yamaha and DNA, hanging out with the family and just getting things in order for next year.
Is there anything you'd like to tell your fans?
I want to thank all my fans for the support and for not giving up on me. Also for the new fans that I got this year, thank you and I hope to continue good racing for y'all.
We look forward to seeing you back on the podium! Is there anyone you'd like to thank for your success this season?
Oh yeah! I couldn't keep motivated and going with out my bf Eddie. He's been there no matter what and keeping me going even when things weren't looking to go. Also have to give the same props to Ryno. He's been a big part of my life now and I'm so thankful for him. Tom at N-Fab.com has giving me so much support also and helps me keep that motor home on the road. Todd Hicks at FOX for the long family love and support from them. DNA Shred Stix/ Star Racing Yamaha, BRUX, Oakley, Dunlop, Asterisk, Ryno Power and FMF.

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Sha Nazir, art director with Black Hearted Press, said: "There will be a good balance of comics and artists people recognise, such as Nigel Parkinson from The Beano, as well as new talent which is emerging. We also hope this event will inspire more talent in the North East.
"It would have been obvious to stage this event in Newcastle but it's more interesting to do it in Sunderland. It's more central for the North East, plus it's very similar to Glasgow. They are working class areas with a history of industry which has led to a deep-seated desire to make things, whether that be shipbuilding or comic books.
"I've worked here before with stage design at the Empire and workshops and I've always found it an intriguing place. I have a soft spot for Sunderland and I want this to become an annual event here and to put it on the map."
Jessica Regnart, creative development manager at Sunderland Live, said: "It's fantastic to have such a creative and unique event come to Sunderland.
"From the feedback we've had, this is an event that the people of Sunderland really wanted to see and we think it will be something that will prove popular and grow over the years."


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RANCHESTER — The Tongue River Watershed Steering Committee met Thursday in Ranchester to discuss ongoing efforts to monitor and improve water quality in the Tongue River. Included in the discussion was a presentation about the Tongue River Assessment started in late fall 2013.
The assessment is being completed by a team of retired Natural Resources Conservation Service engineers and Barr Engineering out of Buffalo.
Paul Starkey, a retired civil engineering technician for the NRCS, said the goal of the project is to assess the condition of the Tongue River watershed from Dayton upstream through Tongue River Canyon.
The assessment was the result of several requests by landowners and road crews to do work on the stream bank and road. Sheridan County and the Sheridan County Conservation District teamed up to find someone to assess the watershed and find ways to fix concerns that would provide consistency throughout the canyon, Starkey said.
The assessment team is using a process developed by NRCS for assessing watersheds that is geared toward private landowners.
Using the Stream Visual Assessment Protocol, the assessment team began working last fall with landowners along the river to chronicle their views and concerns about the watershed. At this point, all the worksheets completed by landowners are compiled and the team will begin meeting with landowners to verify that all the information is correct.
"It's very important to us to have the landowners be a part of this process," Starkey said.
The team has also completed survey work to assess geomorphology in the river and get an overall idea of what kind of river it is. This includes measurements of width, depth, flow rate and more. That information has been placed into a map to show erosion rates and expected erosion rates along the stream bank.
"There's some areas of concern, obviously," Starkey said, adding that the report will be finalized later in 2014.
At this point, the team has done a few stream bank stabilization projects, but its main objective is to assess the watershed.
"We won't do any fixes right now. The information we gather can be used for leveraging funds, setting a benchmark of where we are and where we want to go in the future. And it will help the conservation district and the county set priorities," Starkey said.
In other business, the meeting highlighted projects supported by the conservation district along the watershed since 1996, focusing especially on projects done in 2013 since the completion of the Tongue River Watershed Management Plan.
Since the meeting was attended by several new people, conservation district representatives also spent time offering education about funding that is available for projects that will improve water quality, Natural Resource Specialist Maria Burke said.
The Tongue River Watershed Steering Committee was formed in 1996, and the first extensive water quality testing in the Tongue River Watershed occurred between 1996 and 1999.
"Since 1999, we have completed our fourth round of surface water quality sampling in the Tongue River watershed, and in 2013 we extended our sampling boundary all the way to the Wyoming/Montana border," Burke said.
In 2013, samples showed impairments of temperature, bacteria and sediment.
"The Conservation District hope is that through landowner improvement projects, we as a community can reduce those levels of impairments over time," Burke said. "Each improvement project, if it's relocating a corral off a creek, fencing off a riparian area from livestock and providing an alternative water source, or replacing an old or failing septic system, can potentially help reduce bacteria and sediment that enters into these surface waters in the Tongue River Watershed."


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This Week's Event Horizon in Handling Wildlife, Fart Fest, an Organ's Birthday and More[ Wed Mar 29 2017 10:55 AM ]
Rhapsody in Burque
Meaning in the Mundane
The Daily Word in why the hell there was fog, our sci-fi future, and Bill Cosby
A case is reopened against Bill Cosby just before the 12-year statute of limitation deadline.
Stay warm, stay safe. This winter is deadly.
How this year brought us closer to our ideal sci-fi future.
The rather creepy mystery of lights in an abandoned New Orleans hospital is solved.
The sucky science discoveries of 2015.
If you saw fog last night, you're probably as confused as I was. Here's an explanation.
The Daily Word in marijuana decriminalization in Albuquerque, big pharma and Volkswagen's deep troubles
Albuquerque Mayor Berry says he will veto the marijuana decriminilization measure passed by city council last night.
The APD K-9 and handler who helped take down James Boyd have both retired but only one is slated to be euthanized.
In order to comply with new rules, BernCo Court is now hearing 8 times as many cases every week, meaning everyone in the county is now needed for jury duty.
The State Representative from Jemez Pueblo says he was "verbally misled" into buying clothes and stuff with campaign contributions.
Could this be the demise of Volkswagen? Or at least the demise of VW's CEO?
The new and alleged d-bag CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of a 62 year old drug used by AIDS and cancer patients by 5000 percent.
Today's ruin porn comes to you from Johnsonville, CT.
A trans woman had a run in with the TSA over guess what?
Père Lachaise cemetery's most famous, good-luck trouser weasel.
The Daily Word in dogs that look like pandas, marshmallow tricks and Ned Flanders quits The Simpsons
Let's just start this off with some sad news and get it over with. The 24-year-old missing Albuquerque woman's vacant car was found at the top of the Sandia Crest, but search and rescuers have yet to locate the woman. Seriously hoping she is found safe.
You know how difficult your two sons are to handle? Imagine 13 of them. One Michigan family keeps havin' boys!
American Idol is stil a thing I guess. Someone won last night, but more importantly J. Lo performed a Rihanna song.
Ned Flanders quits The Simpsons and the entire world falls apart. Rumor has it Harry Shearer wants to do a little work outside of the Simpsons and the producers are all like "NOPE."
May 13 1985 was a sad day in Philly. What has changed since the MOVE bombing and what can be learned?
And to make my grandma proud, I've included her favorite publication's list of things you can do with marshmallows. Thank you, Reader's Digest!
The Daily Word in bonfires, wine and cones of shame
KRQE interviewed Alibi publisher Carl Petersen about a vandal's Downtown newspaper bonfire.
Conceptual performance artist and sculptor Chris Burden—who once literally shot himself in the arm for his art—died Sunday at age 69.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the CEO and CFO of ITT Technical Institute's parent company with fraud.
Yesterday's headline OTD was "Man arrested after drinking 10 bottles of wine." And believe it or not, what happened to the man after he consumed said vino is even more absurd and amusing.
Today in list porn—HuffPo names Albuquerque one of its Top 5 Cities to Visit in 2015.
Shutterbug Ty Foster's Time Out series captures canines in their cones of shame.
Albuquerque Festivals Worth Checking Out
The Daily Word in Girl Scout cookies and cheese puffs, the best '90s family The Winslows and removing mustard stains from your shirt
Good afternoon! Maybe you're thinking to yourself right now "Things are really bad all around. People are in pain and aren't always kind to one another. Money rules the world and I just spilled mustard on my shirt." Don't worry, friend! There are a few good things in the world, and here are some tips on removing stains from your clothes.
Two women survived being stranded in the freezing cold for two weeks by living off of Girl Scout cookies and cheese puffs. Sadly, I've been living off the same things for 29 years.
If you live in one of Baltimore's wealthiest neighborhoods Roland Park your life expectancy is 19 years longer than if you were to be born in one of the poorest neighborhoods Downtown/Seton Hill. Wait! This is terrible news! Sorry.
Ignore the sad parts (like why we claim to know what is best for other people) and just rejoice knowing that for a brief time, Edddie Winslow and Teresa Tapia were married!
Let's take a trip down memory lane and visit the cast of America's number one family sitcom Family Matters. It wasn't #1? Whatever. It was a great show.
There are still mysteries in life that can't be explained or resolved by asking Siri.
Britney Spears' performance of a lifetime.
A teenage boy survived the devastating earthquake in Nepal after being stuck in rubble for six days.
Hope that stain doesn't ruin your shirt.
The Daily Word in powdered alcohol, baby hippos and how to play songs on your telephone keypad!
It's Thursday! My baby kept me up all night and now I'm pretty crabby! Here are some news articles for you since I guess you guys can't find your own damn news!
Some jerky thieves stole veterinarian equipment from a mobile equine veteranarian truck. Help solve the crime!
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is calling for a medical marijuana revolution!
We think Joel White would agree!
Bill Cunninghan attends the Easter Parade on 5th Ave where churchgoers were dressed in "styles from the 17th century" and wearing hats that were "either towering fantastical creations or vintage pieces." Oh, New York! You're so fancy and cool!
Finally, some useful information online. This website gives you the telephone keypad codes to play songs like, You Are My Sunshine, The Itsy Bitsy Spider and much more. Don't act like you're above it.
Six states have already banned powdered alcohol and the creator of the powder is rushing to get it on the shelves in remaining states. Critics are concerned people will snort the powder and that drinks might be spiked easier.
A baby hippo was born at the Albuquerque Zoo two days ago! Hallelujah!
Have a good day, sorry I said that thing about finding your own news. We love you!
The Daily Word in barfing in public, Troll Dolls and Mazzy Star!
Where the hell did the sun go? If the overcast weather is making you feel murky and bummed out, here is a list of things that will make you feel better.
Mazzy Star's Give You My Lovin'.
Ever barfed unexpectedly in public? This kid did and he promptly sent an apology note to the "barf cleaners."
It'll be sunny tomorrow!
There are a lot of really beautiful, good people in the world.
wikiHow has solved depression. Turns out all we need to do is try things like being optimistic and making more money!
But seriously, if you're struggling right now there are people who care about you!
Sloths only go to the bathroom once a week! Read more weird facts about sloths here!
Basically the only reason Pinterest should exist is to worship Troll Dolls.
Enjoy the rest of your day, it won't be Monday soon.
The Daily Word in making the elderly comfortable, DOGS and oppressive military policies
It's Friday and I'm kind of crabby and kind of excited for the lunch I packed. News is kind of good and kind of horribly depressing.
Live your life!
The military typically discharges transgender troops on medical grounds.
High five to Lovelace Westside Hospital for making their emergency room more comfortable for seniors. The new rooms feature softer lighting, clocks and signs that are easier to read.
A judge was all like "Bye, Felicia"and removed District Attorney Kari Brandenburg from the murder prosecution of two Albuquerque police officers who are accused of killing James Boyd. The judge stated a "conflict of interest."
A man in Brazil posted an unexpectedly funny and poignant Facebook post and the internet REALLY liked it.
In case you're kinda dumb, here is a page explaining what a dog is.
The Daily Word in sci-fi, hummus and MDC
For Swans and Mos Def fans in Albuquerque, today will be forever be known as Black Thursday—that day when both Michael Gira and Mos Def canceled their respective Burque gigs.
Wanna be in the long-awaited sequel to Independence Day? You're in luck because a) it's filming in Albuquerque and b) they're looking for extras.
Wait—don't eat that hummus!
Please don't trash the Bosque.
The Mayor's Office balks at Bernalillo County's request that the city of Albuquerque resume 50/50 cost-sharing of operating the Metropolitan Detention Center.
Photographer Giorgio Cravero's surreal portraits of fruits and veggies "express the pain and perseverance of nature."
Workin' it: Our weekly Instagram photo contest winner
It's Friday! Which doesn't mean much to those of you who work through the weekend, but for the rest of us it's time to kick up our feet and enjoy the weekend. You sent us pictures of your work space this week!
And while your work spaces were cool, scary and disorganized, we thought this week's prize ought to go to Instagram user buttsweatandtears for their beer, condoms and hot sauce work desk. Way to be responsible with your culinary and romantic decisions!
Email firstname.lastname@example.com with subject line PHOTO CONTEST and redeem your siiiiiiiiiiick prizes and $10 in Alibi Bucks!
Stay tuned for next week's contest and be sure to follow us @weeklyalibi.
Local teacher reminds us how kind our city can be
It's sometimes difficult to remember the rays of sunlight that inhabit our city. With tension surrounding our police force and homeless communities, Albuquerque can get caught up in the things we want to improve and lose sight of the people who are giving their hearts and souls to our beautiful city every single day to make it a better place. Local schoolteacher Sonya Romero is just one example of the kindness Burque folks possess, and thanks to her appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show, a local school is getting some much needed TLC.
The Daily Word in urban sprawl, bait dogs and Choctaw kindness
In a victory for urban sprawl, developer Jim Strozier announced plans for a new "city" west of Albuquerque.
It's taking longer than expected to find a suitable replacement for former APS superintendent Winston Brooks.
Bernalillo County officials say fears about having your dogs stolen—for use as "bait dogs"—have been blown out of proportion.
Attorneys for two boys charged with beating two homeless Native American men to death are asking for "amenability."
A sculpture is being installed in Ireland to honor the kindness and generosity of the Choctaw during the Great Famine.
Keep your head up, Liza. You are loved.
Have you heard of "disaster tourism"? This is the art world equivalent.


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Summer session is a chance to catch up, get creative
Western's summer session is a great chance to catch up on credits, get ahead on prerequisites, or learn something new.
Each year, more than 3,000 students attend summer session, when class sizes are smaller and the courses themselves are shorter, from three days to nine weeks.
"Summer is really a chance for faculty to be creative in their classes and offer new and different things they can't do during the academic year," says Marlene Harlan, Western's director of Summer Programs and Marketing. "It's a great opportunity for students to venture out and try something different."
Examples of creative courses this summer include "Sustainable Bellingham," "Natural History of Northwest Birds" and "Current Environmental Topics: Photography."
Summer session also offers intensive language courses. Students can take a year's worth of French, German or Spanish during the summer. Classes in Italian, Portuguese and Japanese are also offered.
New this year are many additional online courses, taught by WWU faculty, allowing more students to take a summer course without staying in Bellingham. The two-dozen online courses include many that satisfy General University Requirements for graduation.
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And summer session offerings also include more faculty-led travel courses than ever. Destinations include Senegal, China, India, Greece, Italy and Peru.
Finally, summer session is a bargain for out-of-state students, whose tuition and fees are just a bit more than what their in-state classmates pay.
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Aside from ESPO, Futura also opened his latest exhibition yesterday in New York City, in time for Fashion Night Out. Hosted by Valmorbida and curated by Nemo Librizzi, the New York street art pioneer showed a great selection of paintings at the exhibition. We attended the opening and can present you a detailed look at the new works in the gallery above.
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The exhibition is on view until October 1st, 2012.
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Calcipotriene for Psoriasis
Calcipotriene is available as a cream, foam, and solution. It may also be used in combination with ultraviolet B (UVB) light.
How It Works
Calcipotriene, which is a form of vitamin D, controls the rapid growth of skin cells.
Why It Is Used
Calcipotriene is used to treat mild to severe plaque forms of psoriasis. It is used on the scalp and skin.
How Well It Works
Calcipotriene, also known as calcipotriol, is considered an effective treatment for psoriasis.1
These products are usually as effective as corticosteroid creams and ointments.1
Calcipotriene may delay relapse (flare-ups).1
Side Effects
If you use calcipotriene as your doctor tells you to, it is not likely to cause any side effects except for some skin irritation, such as itchy, red, or tender skin. But if you spread the cream over too much of your body, a large amount of medicine may be absorbed and can cause serious side effects, including high levels of calcium in the blood and kidney stones.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Calcipotriene is not the same type of vitamin D found in over-the-counter products. These products will not help your psoriasis.
Diets that include large amounts of vitamin D are not effective in treating psoriasis.
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Urgent warnings: deal with borders and Palestinian grievances
The funeral of Mohammed Abu Khdeir in Jerusalem on Friday, July 4, 2014. An autopsy found that the 16-year-old had been burned alive. Photo by Mahmoud Illean / AP.
Mossad chief: Palestinian conflict top threat to Israel's security, not Iran
Suggesting that Iran's nuclear program is not an existential threat, Tamir Pardo says he wouldn't 'recommend rushing to obtain a foreign passport.'
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz
July 05, 2014
The biggest threat to Israel's security is the conflict with the Palestinians and not Iran's nuclear program, Mossad chief Tamir Pardo said Thursday at a meeting at a private home attended by 30 business people.
According to a person present during the 90-minute talk, Pardo dealt largely with the organizational changes he had made at the Mossad, as well as management policies at the spy agency. But during the question-and-answer period, participants asked him to assess the greatest threats facing Israel.
Pardo said, according to the source, that the major threat to Israel is the conflict with the Palestinians. When some of the participants asked him to repeat what he said, he answered: "Yes, the biggest threat is the Palestinian issue."
Someone asked whether the Iranian nuclear threat was the second largest threat. Pardo surprised his audience by saying Iran might produce or purchase a nuclear weapon in the future, but he wouldn't "recommend rushing to obtain a foreign passport."
One person noted that Pardo's words suggested he did not share the urgency in speeches by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tehran's nuclear program. It was clear that Pardo did not consider this issue a significant threat, let alone an existential one.
Pardo listed the threats facing Israel, including a takeover of parts of Iraq by the Islamic State organization and its threats to neighboring Jordan under King Abdullah.
"This is a worrisome problem for Israel," Pardo said. "This organization is here to stay. They embrace the public like [Israeli ultra-Orthodox party] Shas does, with a welfare and education system. They espouse murder for its own sake. Hamas is a lightweight organization by comparison."
According to a person at the meeting, Pardo believes that the Jordanian army could easily handle an attack from the direction of Iraq, but the problem goes much deeper than that. The combination of an attack by the Islamic State organization from the east and the presence of more than one million refugees from Iraq and Syria could seriously undermine the stability of the Hashemite Kingdom.
Tamir Pardo, left, head of Israel's spy agency Mossad, sits next to Yoram Cohen, chief of Israel's Shin Bet internal security service. Photo by Reuters
Pardo's comments on Iran conform with statements by his predecessor Meir Dagan and the former head of the Shin Bet security service, Yuval Diskin. In lectures over the last few years, both men have stressed the urgency of reaching a settlement with the Palestinians. They have opposed an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
In December 2011, Pardo told a gathering of 100 Israeli ambassadors that he did not believe Iran's nuclear program was an existential threat to Israel.
"What does an existential threat mean?" he asked. "Is Iran a threat to Israel? Obviously it is. But if one says that an Iranian nuclear bomb threatens the very existence of Israel, we can close shop and go elsewhere. This is not the situation — the term existential threat is bandied about too loosely."
The Prime Minister Office, under whose aegis the Mossad operates, said in response: "The head of the Mossad covered three security threats that Israel faces – Iran's race toward a nuclear [arms], the Palestinian conflict and global jihad. On the issue of a nuclear Iran, the Mossad chief said that Israel must do everything to prevent Iran from acquiring an ability to obtain nuclear weapons."
Israel through the jihadi mirror
By Naomi Chazan
June 30, 2014
Israel has watched the expansion and entrenchment of ISIS* in Syria and Iraq — along with the threats it poses to Lebanon and Jordan — with a strange admixture of concern, aloofness and detachment. The crumbling of central organs in existing states and the takeover of peripheral areas by armed extremist upstarts is, to Israel's current leadership, just another indicator of the regional turmoil that engulfs Israel. This pattern, in their eyes, still does not touch upon Israel's strength and viability as much as the nuclearization of Iran.
Nothing, however, could be more superficial or shortsighted. The factors behind the unfolding events in nearby countries not only affect Israel dramatically, they are not unfamiliar inside Israel itself. Unless policymakers delve deeply into the commonalities behind regional occurrences and use these insights to correct structural faults within the country, Israel stands in real danger of replicating the patterns in its immediate neighborhood.
The most facile way to look at the current maelstrom in the Middle East is to focus on the proliferation of heavily-armed radical Islamic groups bent on wresting control from relatively secular state authorities. Al-Qaida and its offshoots are, indeed, gaining ground throughout the region. But to highlight this outcome is to ignore the joint traits that have enabled the rapid takeover of these forces on the ground. All the countries in question share three features — porous boundaries, the loss of state monopoly over the use of force and intense communal grievances — which together mark them as failing states. These commonalities are not as remote from Israel as one would imagine.
The lightening emergence of ISIS has been facilitated, first, by the blurring of state borders. Clearly Syrian and Iraqi control of outlying areas has been compromised for quite some time, with local militias establishing strongholds well beyond government control. As the fighting has continued within Syria and the weakness of the central government has increased in Iraq following the American withdrawal, cross-border alliances have developed, allowing for the beginning of the redrawing of the map of the region. The unclear demarcation along the Lebanese-Syrian divide and the multiplication of dissident activities in the Sinai underline the ambiguity of state frontiers in other parts of the region as well (Yemen to the south and, most disconcertingly, Jordan's eastern frontier, are but two additional examples).
Second, in all these instances — albeit in differing degrees — central control over the use of force has dwindled. This is especially true in Syria (where a violent civil war has raged for the last couple of years) and Iraq, where the tripartite division of the country after the fall of Saddam Hussein hasn't allowed for the rebuilding of overriding state authority. In these and neighboring countries, armed challenges have abounded, humanitarian conditions have deteriorated rapidly and vicious skirmishes have become the norm.
Underlying these phenomena are pronounced group grievances based on distinctive religious, ethnic and communal affinities with broad internal and cross-border implications. This third feature — which calls into question the identification of certain groups with the state — helps to explain both the domestic turmoil and the transnational character of present processes in the region. This is especially the case when combined with the introduction of a mobilizing alternative (however temporary) in the form of a radical Sunni movement.
Taken together, the rise of ISIS and its duplicates in the environs spells the impending — if not actual — collapse of states carved out in the aftermath of World War One almost a hundred years ago. Indeed, the 2014 Fragile State Index published just this past weekend shows that Iraq (ranked 13) and Syria (ranked 15) are in the very high alert category for state failure. Egypt (#31) is flagged with others as a country with an alert and Lebanon (#46) with a very high warning. Nothing can be more destabilizing than the breakdown of the state system in the region.
Needless to say, these developments present new and extremely serious challenges for Israel's security. Their importance, however, is far more profound: the roots of the unease in the region are also visible within Israel and should serve as a most vivid warning signal for the country and its leaders. The indeterminacy of Israel's international frontiers since 1967 can no longer be treated with equanimity. The lack of recognized borders makes for constant challenges in the West Bank and on the Gaza front — an amorphousness which cannot be counteracted merely by superior force.
When armed militias taunt Israel — either by rocket attacks from Gaza or by forays in the West Bank — control over Palestinian militants remains difficult in the extreme. But when the monopoly over coercive activity is undermined by wayward Jewish groups (Price Tag extremists being the most visible both beyond and inside the Green Line), then the state's internal security mechanisms are seriously affected. The spread of violence has, in fact, penetrated into Israel's core and the government's lackadaisical attitude towards this process has exacerbated the situation even further.
Palestinian youths clash with Israeli forces during a protest following the suspected kidnapping and murder of a Palestinian teenager, East Jerusalem, July 2, 2014. Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org
The escalation of Palestinian opposition to Israel's continued occupation clearly lies at the center of ongoing tensions. At the same time, the grievances of the Arab citizens of Israel, subjected to considerable discrimination over the years and currently under attack through legal and other means, have also intensified nationality-based friction inside the country. Religious and ethnic tensions continue to abound. The state no longer commands the overriding identity of segments of its Jewish population. Indeed, the lack of correlation between identities and citizenship is particularly visible at this time.
In many respects, therefore, Israel is increasingly exhibiting many of the symptoms of weak states, which in surrounding countries have metamorphosed into state fragility or actual failure. The findings of the Fragile State Index for 2014 should sound warning bells throughout the upper echelons of Israel's decision-making apparatus: Israel is ranked in the 67th place, in the high warning category. Its standing suggests that its state robustness is lower than Algeria (71), Tunisia (78), Jordan (83), Saudi Arabia (96) and, of course, the strongest states such as Finland and Sweden (178 and 177 respectively).
In simple terms, the Israeli state, long perceived as the most robust in the region, possesses fewer capabilities than frequently presumed. Its social, economic and political indicators — the main measures of state sustainability — point to serious problems on several scores. Socially, demographic pressures are mounting and group friction persists. Economically, uneven development and high poverty levels indicate the growing inadequacies of state policies. Politically, deteriorating public services, poor implementation of the rule of law, human rights concerns and rising questions regarding state legitimacy (including high levels of corruption, low government effectiveness and constant power struggles) have reduced trust in central government. Put together, both state capacities and the autonomy of the state from critical social groups (such as settlers, a small number of moneyed families who control large portions of the GDP, a few highly organized unions and certain religious groups) are faltering.
Israel must tackle these issues urgently and directly. To strengthen the state it should collect weapons and address violence at home; it must make a real effort to embrace all its citizens; and, above all, it has to demarcate its borders. Failure to do so will mean that it may quickly find itself not only confronting the repercussions of state disintegration in the region, but dealing with its ramifications at home. If ever there was a reason to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and move forward towards a different relationship with the stronger states in the Arab world, this is the most important and profound.
Professor Naomi Chazan, former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, is Dean of the School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo
*In mixed English and Arabic, ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (Greater Syria); in English only ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The geographical area is the same.


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Arkansas Tech head baseball coach Billy Goss announced Friday that pitcher Robert Mitchell, a Danville native, has been named the first winner of the Spirit of Wonder Boy Baseball Award.
The award was created this season to honor the Tech baseball athlete who best exemplifies strong character, perseverance, work ethic, enthusiasm, leadership and pure love of the game.
"This award was thought up with Robert in mind, and because of that, his picture will always remain in the frame of the plaque for the award," said Goss, who recently completed his eighth season at the helm of Tech baseball. "This award says a lot about the legacy Robert will leave here at Tech."
Mitchell, a fifth-year walk-on senior, pitched in 30 career games. He made his first and only career start April 18 during a 7-4 win over Lyon College.
Mitchell had a 3-1 record this season and allowed 24 hits and 13 earned runs while recording nine strikeouts in 14 innings of work. During his career, he pitched 4623 innings and allowed 73 hits and 51 runs while striking out 29 and walking 25.
"Robert was, quite honestly, the best example of what we want in a Wonder Boy baseball player," Goss said. "He was a fifth-year senior who graduated in four years and was a true team player in every sense of the word.
"Though he was not the most gifted player, he took advantage of his strengths and got the most out of his ability and always went above and beyond what was asked of him," Goss said.
Mitchell, who is the son of James and Rhonda Mitchell, graduated last year with a bachelor's degree in agri-business and is presently pursuing a master's degree in information technology at Tech.


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Bluebirds open with win
The Bluebirds used a hat trick from D.J. Mussey to outscore the Purple Knights.
Janesville coach John Mauermann said his team took advantage of a Beloit goalie who was making his first varsity start, and was able to stay at least two goals ahead of Beloit after the first period.
�We put in a couple of rebounds and killed a 5-on-3 in the second period,� Mauermann said. �This was a good chance to get our feet wet. We have a lot of new kids playing, and we got the puck to the net.�
The Bluebirds play two games today at 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
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The best SNES games for Wii Virtual Console
Collegian writer Nick O'Malley is looking old school as he identifies the best of the games for SNES on the Wii's Virtual Console.
NES Virtual Console rundown
Virtual Console brings nostalgia to modern game systems. Collegian Staffer Nick O'Malley dishes on which games are worth the $5 price tag, and which classic NES games are better left in the past.


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|Speech Communication 1100 offers students a variety of experiences that develop basic concepts of the oral communication process. The class includes communication theory, as well as speech preparation and delivery. It can be applied to the General Education requirements for the various Associate Degrees at the College of DuPage and is a required course for many certificate programs.
|Your grade will be based on the work completed in each of three units. This is not a self-paced course. Each unit consists of a variety of weekly assignments that will introduce you to communication theory and practice, as well as prepare you for the preparation of a formal outline and delivery of a speech; two of the speeches will be informative and one will be persuasive. This online speech course requires three mandatory face-to-face meetings of up to four clock hours to complete the required speaking objectives. There may be one additional face-to-face Orientation Meeting at the beginning of the semester, based on individual instructor preference. See "Comments" posted online for the exact speech meeting dates and faculty-optional orientation date for each class. The weekly assignments will be either emailed to the instructor or posted on the course Discussion Board or under Assignments for all students to see, read, and comment on.
|In the traditional classroom, students interact face-to-face on a weekly, if not a daily basis with each other and the instructor. As such, when "speech days" come, the audience of classmates seems less intimidating. Conversely, while the online Speech Communication 1100 course is designed to foster a sense of community among virtual classmates, some students may find speech days more intimidating due to the limited face-to face contact with the classmate audience. These students should stick with the traditional, classroom version of the course.
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The World Bank said on Monday the Philippines needs to accelerate reforms to allow for sustained economic growth above 5 percent a year to improve the lives of the poor and catch up with its Southeast Asian neighbors. The central bank is awash with dollars while inflation is low, and government finances manageable, the World Bank said in a report, calling the present "an opportune time for the country to move up to the next level." "A huge window of opportunity currently exists for speeding up critical reforms," said World Bank Country Director Motoo Konishi. "Besides having strong macroeconomic fundamentals, the country is benefiting from political stability and a popular government that is seen by many as strongly committed to improving governance and reducing poverty." The report forecast economic growth of 4.2 percent in 2012 and 5 percent in 2013, up from 3.7 percent last year. It said stronger public finances and competitiveness are needed for rapid growth of above 5 percent — the same level achieved by neighboring countries that led to greater poverty reduction. The bank suggested more focus on key reform areas such as boosting public financial management, increasing tax revenues and enhancing competitiveness through better regulation. It also called for reducing the cost of doing business, addressing infrastructure bottlenecks and improving workers' skills. Konishi noted the progress the government has achieved so far but said it needs to act faster to get more broad-based support from policymakers, civil society and the private sector to benefit the poor. More than a quarter of the population of 94 million lives below the official poverty threshold and half of the population are vulnerable to poverty. The middle class remains small at about 15 percent, with about a third of them living or working abroad. Their remittances — about 10 percent of the annual GDP — are a lifeline for the economy, which is driven by domestic spending. Karl Kendrick Chua, the main author of the report, urged a quicker pace of reform to improve the level and quality of employment in the country. Better skills will in turn attract more investments as multinational companies shift from countries such as China where costs are rising, he said. "In a scenario of a lingering global slowdown, domestic demand, in particular investments and government spending, will have to play a bigger role in achieving the country's growth targets for 2012 and beyond," said Chua. The report said the global economic slowdown may affect employment in the electronics sector, which accounts for half a million jobs and indirectly supports several hundred thousand other jobs.
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The past week has seen some torrential rains but overall the fishing has been good. Spanish mackerel have been biting well along the beaches out to 50 feet of water.
The past week has seen some torrential rains but overall the fishing has been good. Spanish mackerel have been biting well along the beaches out to 50 feet of water. King mackerel have been caught from the piers, along the beaches out to 100 feet of water. Live bait has been producing the bigger kings while boats trolling dead cigar minnows and drone spoons are reporting kings in the 7-20 pound range. Bottom fishing is producing catches of grouper, beeliners, triggerfish, black bass and plenty of amberjacks. Gulf Stream boats are reporting catches of mahi, billfish and on occasion a good wahoo bite.
Northern Beaches
Flounder fishing has been very good along the northern beaches both inshore and nearshore. The red drum bite has been good on some days and not so good on others. Spanish mackerel are being caught off the piers, along the beaches and bigger Spanish are being caught on live bait a little further offshore. Bottom fishing has seen plenty of amberjacks being caught along with black bass, grouper and American red snapper. Gulf Stream boats are reporting catches of mahi, some wahoo and billfish.
Topsail Island
Captain Chris Medlin reports Jack Crevalle, speckled trout, red drum and ladyfish are being caught on the sound side. Sea mullet are being caught in the surf and spots, Spanish mackerel, Jack Crevalle, speckled trout, flounder, pompano and king mackerel are being caught off the piers. Big Spanish are being caught in the 2-5 mile range on live bait and cobia are being caught in the 5-8 mile range. Mahi are being caught as close as 12 miles. Source: East Coast Sports.
Sneads Ferry and New River
Captain Allen Jernigan reports despite all the rain, the fishing across the area has been very good. The top water speckled trout bite has been excellent on Mirrolure She Pups, Top Dog Jr�s. and MR 17�s. The red drum continue to readily bite but the fish have been pretty scattered over the past week. The flounder bite has also been good in the nearshore waters. Flounder gigging continues to be very good despite the murky water from all the rain. Source: Breadman Ventures.
Emerald Isle
Captain Bobby Bourquin reports the local beaches are seeing good catches of spots, pompano, sea mullet, sea trout, Sheepshead and Spanish mackerel over the past week. Gotcha plugs are catching the Spanish while the bottom feeding fish are being caught on cut bait, fresh shrimp and mullet. The nearshore rocks and artificial reefs are producing catches of flounder, black sea bass and grouper as well as Spanish mackerel, amberjack, cobia, mahi and king mackerel. Squid and cigar minnows are working well for the bottom feeding fish while the trolling fish are mostly being caught on live bait. Offshore bottom fishing has been good with catches of grouper, black sea bass, triggerfish, beeliners and red snapper being reported. Gulfstream fishing is producing plenty of small bailer size mahi and some gaffer size fish as well. Some wahoo are being caught along with sailfish, blue marlin and white marlin. Several boats reported billfish grand slams over the past week. The fish are being caught on ballyhoo and sea witch combinations as well as various artificial lures. Source: Teezher Charters.
Crystal Coast-Swansboro to Morehead City-Inshore/Nearshore
Captain Jeff Cronk reports that despite the windy and rainy conditions we experienced over the past week along the Crystal Coast, fishing both inshore and nearshore was still very productive. The flounder fishing has really picked up outside of Beaufort and Bogue Inlets with many flounder in the 2-5 pound range being caught within 5 miles of the beach in 40-50 feet of water. Most fish are being caught at the artificial reefs, natural hard bottoms areas and the nearshore ledges. The best bait has been the Bett�s Flounder Fanatic 2 ounce bucktail tipped with a Berkley Gulp 4 inch shrimp. Power drifting and jigging along the edges of the structure has produces great catches of the fish. Along with the flounder, there has been plenty of 1-2 pound Spanish mackerel schooling and feeding at the surface. Some larger 3-6 pound Spanish along with some big kings has been caught around these same nearshore live bottoms. The inshore waters have been very good lately with good numbers of redfish, flounder, and even some speckled trout being caught. A mixture of redfish and flounder are being caught in the bays behind the barrier islands on the higher tides and on the falling tide in the waterway along boat docks and creek mouths. Speckled trout have been staging up around the deeper channels off the waterway and along oyster beds in the lower rivers. Berkley Gulp shrimp as well as Bett�s Halo shrimp have been very productive for the redfish and trout. Source: Fish�n 4 Life Charters.
Morehead City Offshore and Nearshore
Captain Dave Tilley reports this is a great time of year for sailfish all along the Carolina coast. They are being caught in the 10-25 mile range and in the Gulf Stream along with some mahi, white marlin and wahoo. The mini season for American Red Snapper was a great success around the Morehead City area with several hundred reds brought to the docks to study. King mackerel are being caught from the piers to the offshore waters with fish in the 30-pound range not uncommon. Source: Continental Shelf Charters


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#68 Susanna, born 1-22-1771 Married twice, first Thomas Hicks; second Jacob Hicks. #72 Elsie, b 8-19-1780 married Jacob Hicks. #75 Hannah, b 3-1-1787 married Isaac Hicks.
Susanna emigrated west to Chicago.
Elsie had 11 children. Anna married William Pike. Sarah m-John Clowes. Marry m-Joshua Lewis. Elsie m-Hoseph McKee. Abram m-Nancy McKee. Isaac m-Susan Dodson. Hannah m-John Stuchel. Susan m-James Miller. Jacob m-Susan Newman. Catharine m-David Bouher. John married but no information.
Hannah also had 11 children. Elizabeth m-John Hardin no issue. John m-no issue. Sarah m-Alexander Davidson. Ann m-A.M.Howell. Mary m-Isaac M. England. Alice m-Thomas Allen. Abram married. Isaac (no info). Jacob m-Mary Eliza Lytle. Hannah m-John Davis (s-of Henry and Martha Jane Hughs. Miles, George unmarried at the printing of the book.
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Hollywood Now: Chris Pine, Rachel Weisz & Ari Graynor, Plus So Many Babies!By Gerri Miller
New flicks with celebs in interfaith relationships and from interfaith backgrounds, plus their baby news!Go To Pop Culture
April 23, 2009
I've been thinking back to my teenage years a lot lately. I did so as I wrote my religious autobiography, reviewing my history with Judaism while working on conversion. I've also reconnected through Facebook with some friends from high school and college. And then there's my daughter, Rachel, who at almost 15 is very much a teenager.
It was shocking for me to realize recently that my daughter is only about three short years from being the age that my husband and I were when we met at the beginning of our freshman year of college. We didn't get married until more than six years later but were only 18 when we stopped dating anyone else.
Rachel hasn't dated yet. When I raised the topic of dating, and the subtopic of interfaith dating, Rachel reacted in a typical teenage fashion: she rolled her eyes and said "Yes, Mom, I know, you want me to marry a nice Jewish boy!"
|"I don't think she would be comfortable with a non-Jewish spouse eating a pepperoni pizza (non-kosher for several reasons) in her house and feeding it to their children."
I have to admit she's right: I do hope she marries a Jew. Not only because I hope that someday I'll have Jewish grandchildren, but because I think that she'll be more likely to have the kind of home life that will make her happy if her spouse (male or female) is Jewish.
The ironic thing is that I'm not Jewish myself (...yet. The rabbi I've been studying with studying with for conversion is starting to arrange the scheduling of my visit to the mikveh.) But the fact is that in 21 years of marriage, I've never considered our family to be "interfaith." Rather it has always been a Jewish family, even though it has a non-Jewish member--me--who nevertheless lives a Jewish life.
I keep kosher and attend synagogue services regularly, including holidays that fall on weekdays when I have to miss work. Having attended services for more than 24 years, I know the Hebrew prayers of the Shabbat morning service and holidays reasonably well. As a woman, the fact that I don't wear a tallit is not unusual, and I don't wear a button saying "I'm not Jewish." So from time to time I have had to turn down offers for taking an aliyah from members who didn't know I wasn't Jewish. But still, I'm not Jewish, and my children have always known that.
I find it a bit frustrating when people assume that my husband and I married, even though he was Jewish and I was not, because we didn't care about Judaism. But everyone makes compromises in life. We chose to marry each other despite seeing the situation as less than ideal. Many years ago, I surprised a Jewish friend of ours who was seriously looking for a woman to marry and was dating a non-Jewish woman. When he asked me for advice on his relationship, I had to tell him I really didn't advocate intermarriage and that I thought he would be happier marrying a Jewish woman. I was happy when this friend married a wonderful Jewish woman he met through JDate.
It has been a relief and an inspiration to me that my daughter has always had a very firm Jewish identity. As someone who is visibly half-Chinese and therefore does not "look Jewish," she has to endure questions about her Jewish status. She says she simply tells people who ask probing questions that she took a dunk in a mikveh when she was young. She is direct and unapologetic about it, and says people usually back off as soon as they hear she was formally converted to Judaism.
But these days, as she has become old enough to start dating, I worry she may have an unrealistic idea of what a more typical interfaith family would mean. I don't think it occurs to her that not all non-Jews married to Jews would want to have a completely Jewish family life like ours. I'm pretty sure she would want to raise her children solely as Jews, which could be a source of disagreement with a non-Jewish spouse. When she was younger, she chose to observe kashrut more stringently outside our home than the rest of the family did at that time. Thus I don't think she would be comfortable with a non-Jewish spouse eating a pepperoni pizza (non-kosher for several reasons) in her house and feeding it to their children. (Although I admit this could also be an issue for a non-observant Jewish spouse.) This fall, it bothered her that as a non-Jew I could not have an aliyah like all the other minyan members at the Simchat Torah service. I wonder how she would feel if Yom Kippur were just another work day for her spouse.
I would never tell her she could not date non-Jewish boys. In fact, I hope I am able to restrain myself from expressing disapproval should she choose to do that because I think it would only encourage her to do it in rebellion. And dating, particularly for teenagers, is not necessarily a precursor to marriage. But sometimes it is, as it was for me. Since it is difficult to soberly assess something like the issues of intermarriage when one is hopelessly "in love," it is worth thinking about the issue before getting to know someone. So we'll see what happens. Maybe when it is less hypothetical, she'll want to talk it. I hope I'll be open to her opinions and that she'll be open to mine when that time comes.


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Album Rating: 4.0rawwwwwwwwwrrr
Album Rating: 3.0This album's pretty good. I disagree with everyone saying that the older stuff is better, especially in regards to the vocalist. This vocalist is much better than the old one.
I love Migrate.
If only Misery Signals would drop the gay-ass "breakdowns"...
Album Rating: 4.5Time to head bang to this gift.
Album Rating: 4.0This might be my favorite mis sigs album.
Album Rating: 4.0The failsafeee
Album Rating: 4.5It's all about Migrate and Mirrors.
Album Rating: 4.0Great album
Digging: Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights
Album Rating: 4.0Mirrors is pretty much tied with the failsafe for me. A lot of my friends listen to Mis Sigs but no one appreciates how good the song mirrors is
Album Rating: 4.5The Failsafe and One Day I'll Stay Home
Album Rating: 4.0Stumpy
Album Rating: 4.0I really like "Mirrors", to me though the song sometimes loses its energy.
Album Rating: 4.0"There is a choice to make" guitar after that always gives me goosebumps.
What part(s) do you think it loses energy at?
Album Rating: 4.5Sword of Eyes is really underrated.
Album Rating: 4.0Thats another one of my favorites actually the ending is so damn good
So band is still hanging by a thread or what?
Album Rating: 4.0They released that cover and have said they're writing more new material this year so we can only hope not
Album Rating: 3.5One Day I'll Stay Home is pretty annoying.
Album Rating: 4.5probably because the chorus is done by the dude in fall out boy
Album Rating: 4.0mirrors meanders after 4/6ths of the way
doesn't really matter if it's the guy from ftb he's sings pretty good on that song.
well at least this is better than controller
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The clever remote control audio out capabilities introduced with the Roku 3 will be making their way to the Roku Streaming Stick according to today's FCC filing. Despite new MHL-compatible partners, we can't imagine Streaming Stick sales have been significant… as it's often cheaper and always conceptually simpler to bring "Smart TV" capabilities to a HDTV via a set-top. And we suspect Roku would be better served by integrating their platform directly into the television, as Vudu once attempted, should they find any takers. (Thanks Brad!)
Roku Streaming Stick Remote Updated For Audio Output
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Dan S June 28, 2013 at 9:51 pm
I keep hoping they'll noticed the missed opportunity with that remote and add IR to it. It would be so nice if I could turn the volume up and down on the TV with that control (instead of only when headphones are plugged in)… one less remote I have to have sitting around.
I think you couldn't be wronger about the integration. How often do you buy a new TV? What's that integrated Roku/Vudu/Netflix going to look like in 4 years? Oh, wait. I can upgrade to the latest plug for $99 and all I have to is swap it out? Sweet!