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Sure, the Bush Administration's missile defense system has flopped just about every test it's faced. But that's not the only reason the program is being cut by more than a billion dollars a year, says BusinessWeek."The war on terror and Iraq may have taken their toll on missile defense and changed the way Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld assesses potential threats," the magazine notes. Worries about incoming missiles have given way to 9/11-style terrorism fears, and the war in Iraq.
"The Rumsfeld vision of future warfare has had a severe collision with reality," says Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute, a conservative think tank in Arlington, Va. The problems facing missile defense, he says, are "the relatively weak case for the overall mission and the need to spend money in other ways.Consider as well the difference between the 2000 election and last year's. Five years ago, missile defense was one of Bush's key issues... "America must build effective missile defenses based on the best available options at the earliest possible date," he declared during his first run for the White House.Since then, despite the roughly $10 billion a year that has poured into the program, Rumsfeld has conceded the system doesn't have to be 100% effective. It just has to work well enough to change the calculation of an enemy thinking about lofting a missile at Los Angeles or New York. Problem is, it doesn't even seem capable of doing that, as [a botched] December test showed...And as the American program struggles, other countries are making headway in pursuing new technologies. Scott Ritter, the former arms inspector in Iraq who correctly concluded Baghdad had no weapons of mass destruction, now says Russia has tested an SS-27 Topol-M mobile ballistic missile that would render the current Star Wars scheme useless. It is too fast to hit right after takeoff unless the interceptor is lucky enough to be really close to the launch pad.Also, the SS-27 is hardened against lasers, so the Airborne Laser -- a program already way behind schedule -- wouldn't work. And because it's maneuverable and capable of releasing three warheads and four decoys, it would be much harder to defeat as it falls in the terminal stage of flight.[Missile Defense Agency] spokesman Lehner says Ritter's objection misses the point of his agency's goal, which is to address "the more rudimentary missiles North Korea and Iran are developing." But what if Pyongyang or Tehran buys an SS-27? "I don't know about that," he told BusinessWeek Online.THERE'S MORE: Despite a litany of broken budgets and shattered deadlines, it looks like the Airborne Laser (ABL) is returning to the forefront of missile defenders' minds. The laser-firing 747 last year achieved "first light" -- successfully testing its ray gun. And now, "agency officials consider the program 'quite healthy,' and they are planning to attempt a target shoot-down in 2008," Inside Defense says. Just last month, an MDA official refused to give a date for when that test might go down."It is revolutionary, it is disruptive, meaning this required inventions and doing things that have never been done before," a Pentagon official told the AFP, likening the potential impact on warfare of the airborne laser to the advent of nuclear power. "And it has done so well, certainly in the last ten months that we really need to pursue this to a conclusion. Were encouraged by everything weve seen."The MDA has long been concerned about knocking a missile down right when it takes off, in its so-called "boost phase." But the task has been deemed all-but-impossible by a collection of leading physicists. And, one by one, the technologies the MDA to pursue this task have failed to deliver. Now, there's only a single "boost phase" option left for the MDA. And that's the laser jet.


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The Turkish Men's Volleyball Championship giants Halkbank decided to change strategy when it comes to head coaches.
Halkbank were coached by foreign experts since 2012. It was a fruitful strategy for most of the times, but the elimination in the playoff semifinals to Fenerbahçe last season made the officials of the Ankara team turn over a new leaf, starting from the 2019/20.
Halkbank appointed domestic expert Taner Atik, until now an assistant coach, as a head coach. He has been working with the club for 10 straight years during which Halkbank won four Turkish Championships, three national Cups, four Super Cups and one CEV Cup. Atik will replace Italian Alberto Giuliani.
Earlier, Halkbank announced parting ways with both setters, Arslan Ekşi and Italian Michele Baranowicz (went to Tonno Callipo Calabria Vibo Valentia) and middle blocker Kemal Kayhan. The Serbian opposite hitter Dražen Luburić is heading towards the exit door.
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Definition of gorge:
- A concave molding; a cavetto.
- A defile between mountains.
- A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
- A narrow passage or entrance
- A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
- The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; - usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
- The groove of a pulley.
- The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
- To eat greedily and to satiety.
- To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
- To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
gormandise, overindulge, bloated, linn, full, cloy, thrust, englut, saddle, gullet, kloof, box canyon, gap, get, flood, chuck up, snarf, overeat, gourmandize, lug, esophagus, satiate, mainline, gormandize, pall, crevasse, go in for, defile, like, col, scarf out, carsick, feed your face, squeeze, disgorge, abyss, arroyo, take/find pleasure in (doing) something, revel in, barf, drink in, gulch, basin, shove, stuff, overgorge, couloir, surfeit, flume, feast on, ravine, excess, come up, feast, replete, notch, oversupply, farce, bring up, pig out, oesophagus, have your fun, canyon, gulf, enjoy, airsick, gulley, block, go through, glen, put away, choke up, gill, engorge, pass, dell, binge, dale, delight in, love, bilious, glut, ingurgitate.
Usage examples:
For a mile or more our road ran down a winding, rocky gorge, till suddenly it took a turn, and the country of Kaloon lay stretched before us.- "Ayesha The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed", H. Rider Haggard.
The Mouth of the Gorge 48 From a photograph by Notman, Montreal.- "The Niagara River", Archer Butler Hulbert.
It is the mouth of a gorge in the midst of a cliff- bound coast.- "The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne", William J. Locke.


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46th LD Democrats endorsement meeting May 19
Friday, May 17, 2019
at 11:00am
Nathan Hale High School Performing Arts Center Theatre
The endorsement meeting will be held on Sunday, May 19th, at the beautiful Nathan Hale High School Theatre, located at 10750 30th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98125 (click on address for map).
The theatre is located at the far west end of the campus - follow the signs that will be out.
Bikes may be secured next to the theatre, Metro Transit route 65 serves the high school on 35th Avenue, and ADA Parking is located in the lot immediately adjacent to the theatre.
"We will move through the races as expeditiously as possible, and arrange tally order and speakers to minimize any delays, but please be prepared for a three hour to three and a half-hour meeting."
Beverages and snacks will be for sale in the lobby. To vote, you must have been a member of the 46th District Democrats for at least 21 days prior to the meeting, or April 28th. However, if you were a member last year, under bylaws, you may renew your membership up to the date of the meeting.
Click for the 2019 Endorsement Rules


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Tuesdays Under 250: Ridgely's Delight Rowhome with Tons of Character
Welcome to Tuesdays Under 250! Each week SouthBMore.com will showcase a home on the market listed for $250,000 or less.
This rowhome in Ridgely's Delight is filled with character. It featured original hardwood floors, doors, and fireplaces; exposed beams and brick; a clawfoot tub; an "English Garden;" and more unique details.
644 Washington Boulevard
Ridgley's Delight
Price: $249,000
Tax: $4,670
1,746 sq. ft.
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Friday, October 20, 2017
Kick Start
Monday, August 7, 2017
Rock Climbing
Posted by Jason E. Hodges at 5:18 PM No comments:
Labels: Bouldering, Cat art, cats, Comic, Comic Book, Comic strip, Comics, Dreams The Cat, Europe, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jason E. Hodges, London, Rock Climbing, Scotland
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Amanda Palmer
Dear Amanda
I dig you!
I'm so happy
You're not like the rest
I pass on the street!
Each block holds
A thousand people's dreams
Resting in the city's insides
Trapped forever
In its hopeless heartbeat
I see your spirit shouting skyward
Upward and outward
Gently nudging artists of the world
To keep pushing and creating!
I say to the artist
The poets
The writers
The musicians
Reach in and find yourself
Your work
Your voice
Deserves to be heard
Find your tribe in life
If you can't find it
Make your own
Look inside
Pry inside your soul
With the claws life has given you
Find yourself, it's worth finding!
Oh Amanda
Humanity has a habit
Smothering humans with rules
Of uniformity
Of color-coded sheep fleeces
Dress codes for the masses
Of geographical beliefs
That their world is right
All others are wrong
Of conduct constructed completely
With agendas and genders in mind
Between the rules and regulations
Of life there is the voice of the artist
Like you
Like Kathleen Hanna
Like Ian Mackaye
Giving the rest of us hope
Like stars a sailor sets sail to
In the darkness
Not knowing if he will see land
In the sunrise of tomorrow
The dark clouds of a hurricane
The youth puts faith in the ones
Who has come before them
Not knowing what's in
The next day's sunrise
But having your words and songs
To weather whatever the storm
Friday, July 21, 2017
Falling Banjo Punk Blues
Posted by Jason E. Hodges at 1:28 PM No comments:
Labels: American poets, Banjo, Berlin, Blues, Brazil, DIY, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Jason E. Hodges, LA, London, Music, New music, NYC, Punk, Punk Rock, Scotland, Skate Art
Monday, July 17, 2017
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Flip Trick
Posted by Jason E. Hodges at 6:04 PM No comments:
Labels: Art, Cat art, Cat Painting, Comic, Comic Book, Comic strip, Comics, Dreams The Cat, Europe, Flip Trick, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jason E. Hodges, London, Scotland, Skate Art, Skateboarding
Monday, July 10, 2017
Posted by Jason E. Hodges at 2:59 PM No comments:
Labels: Art, Denmark, Dresden, Europe, France, Germany, Ireland, Jason E. Hodges, Norse, Scandinavia, Scotland, Shieldmaiden, Sweden, The Netherlands, Valhalla, Viking, Vikings, Women Warriors
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Pockets Of The Profit Maker
Everything is necessary
In everyone's
Own needing of necessities!
The machines are taking over
At least
It seems that way!
The laborer
Is becoming more and more
Scarce to see these days
John Henry was the first to
Fight this
Way of working
Where machines
Take the place
Muscle, blood, and bone
I heard his song
Many times as a boy
Folk hero in the lands
My youth
Gave us hope that mankind
Wouldn't completely
Be taken over
By oil
By steel
By plastic
We all kind of knew
This day was coming
We just didn't expect
It would be so soon
Maybe we never realized
How fast it would
All go by
I guess
There are too many profits
To be maximized
Too much money
To be made
To not go this route
And the machines are
Not only taking the place
Working flesh
They're taking the position
The mind!
Critical thinking!
Is it possible
In centuries to come
We will have bodies like jellyfish
Grunt like cavemen?
The sun will burn brighter
Than ever by then
And the air
Will be too poisoned to breathe
Machines will be our only
To work outside
Mechanical movement underneath
A radioactive sun
All for the pockets
The profit maker
To continue
Making their money!
Posted by Jason E. Hodges at 12:12 AM No comments:
Labels: American poetry, American poets, California, contemporary poets, Europe, France, Gainesville Fl., Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jason E. Hodges, LA, NYC, Scotland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Queen of the Iceni
Wife of Prasutagus
Daughter of Britain!
Upon her husband's death
Rome came to take everything
That was his
Not recognizing
His daughters as heirs
His wife as
The new ruler reigning over
Her people!
Boudicca was flogged
Her two daughters raped
Her property seized
Her soul stripped of all
She knew and loved!
Rome would soon regret
Their treatment of Boudicca
Revenge on Rome was hers
Fury and fire
Sword and chariot
The uprising she led
Wiped out whole Roman cities
Now known as
Colchester, London, and St. Albans
They were
Burned to the ground
A culture cleansing of anything
60 years after
Nailing Christ to the cross
Pushing a spear into his side
Watching his blood
Soak the sandy soil beneath him
The same generation
Roman soldiers
Now retired
Living their last days
Off the plunders of Rome
In these cities she sacked
Would live their last hours
On the crucifix!
Eighty thousand Romans
In London alone
Were put to the sword by Boudicca!
To this day
There is a layer of charred earth
That blankets the underbelly
The city
Scorched soil seeping
With the souls of the dead
In the end Boudicca
Was defeated on the battlefield
By Suetonius
Thousands of her people lay dead
The great Roman author Tacitus wrote
She survived the battle
But took her life
With poison later that day!
No one truly knows
Boudicca's final hours
But her story of resistance
Fighting oppression
Will live on
For centuries to come!
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Labels: American poetry, American poets, Boudicca, Britain, Colchester, Europe, France, Germany, Iceni, Ireland, Italy, Jason E. Hodges, London, Prasutagus, Roman, Rome, Scotland, St. Albans, Suetonius, Tacitus
Saturday, June 3, 2017
An old friend of mine
I've known for thirty years
Told me
I was blunt the other day
He then said
It was one of the reasons
He has remained friends
With me
For so long
He knew exactly where
He stood with me
At all times!
I was surprised by this
I said, I thought I believed
I was careful
With people's feelings
My wife then joined in
The conversation
"You thought you were
a sugar coater?"
A smile then pulled gently
Across her face
His wife chuckled
"You're no sugar coater!"
I spent the next few hours
Pondering all this
Like Archimedes
Pondering Physics
I wondered
What people would think
If I didn't try to sugar coat
My words?
A few days later
Hours into a day
Dealing with customers
A coworker said to me
As her brow
Slowly moved upwards
"You don't have to be
antagonistic with the customers"
I said,
"I'm not."
"But I'm also not promising them
unicorns and rainbows"
Posted by Jason E. Hodges at 3:22 AM 3 comments:
Labels: American poetry, Asti, Belfast, Berlin, Dublin, Europe, Gainesville Fl., Germany, Glasgow, Ireland, Italy, Jason E. Hodges, Koenji, London, Milan, Scotland, Tokyo, Turin, Venice Italy
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
It's Amazing
Yes, it's amazing
What we believe is
Not coming for us
We know
Good and well
We put sweets into our body
Knowing the crash
Is going to come
But we eat them anyways!
The drunks drink their drinks
They escape the hangover
Coming the next day
But it will come
With all of its glory
All of its misery
All at the same time!
The voter wants
So badly to believe
The politician's lies
Knowing deep down
There is no possible way
They can deliver
All they have promised
The ones who become life long
In a position of power
Way to Godlike to the masses
My mother used to say,
"The preacher needs to go after
A few years. Because the flock
Will start to worship him
More than God!"
Food, alcohol, money and greed
Will all lead
To your soul being consumed
By the wolves of the world!
Like Tuberculosis eating away
At the lungs!
We all are guilty of wanting
Something different
Than what we know
Is on the way
For us
Shutting our eyes to what we
Clearly see leading to its arrival
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Labels: American poets, Asti, Berlin, Boston, Dresden, Dublin, Edinburgh, Europe, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jason E. Hodges, London, Milan, Munich, Scotland, The Netherlands, Turin
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Jason E. Hodges Quotes
"Never be an artist that starts worshiping yourself or believe your little group is better than anyone outside of it. For, you are nothing more than a grain of sand on a hillside in this world of ours. Even Da Vinci's work is only glanced at then scrolled past on a phone or computer these days. Climb down off your throne and become humble once more." Jason E. Hodges
"Your only guarantee in this life is that eventually it will end. So make it extraordinary. Live like tomorrow won't start for you." Jason E. Hodges
"The biggest weapon that threatens us all is, mankind's stupidity." Jason E. Hodges
"To forgive is powerful. To not remember the reasons why you had to forgive is foolish. So continue on with open eyes and see all that's before you." Jason E. Hodges
"To pluck out debris from one's eye can be quite painful. To dig into one's self can be unbearable. But in order to move forward we must pluck out the painful and fill our souls with hope that the pain never returns." Jason E. Hodges
"I'd rather fall climbing a mountain hand in hand with someone I felt was my equal than to make it to the top by stepping on them." Jason E. Hodges
"Humans have the ability to rewrite history. Within a few decades it is not even questioned. Stories of the past become as real as the world you walk through today. Wars are waged over false history. Sins are denied. All for mankind to move forward and feel comfortable about its past. Your true history is written in the stars. Look up, breathe in, and be humbled by the ones who came before you. The ones who have suffered, who have endured, who have overcome. Their blood is alive in you. Their spirits roam freely in the heavens above." Jason E Hodges
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Labels: American poetry, American poets, Asti, Book Quotes, Europe, France, Gainesville Fl., Germany, Glasgow, Ireland, Italy, Jason E. Hodges Quotes, London, Scotland, Turin, Writing Quotes
Saturday, May 27, 2017
The Journal
Bound by leather
Worn by age
My journal
Truly understands me
Its tattered pages creak
When I turn them
Too many rides
Backpack adventures
Day to day travels!
My journal is the tool
That allows me to drift
Drift farther
And farther
From reality
Into reality
It's hard to say at this point?
I study the world around me
Like Sabrina Pasterski
Studies physics!
I give all that I have
To make sense
This world!
I have no PHD
No college degree
But what I do
Have is the drive
To understand
All that surrounds me!
And I think
Are my thoughts
What others call hearing voices?
Do their dreams
Sound so foreign
So beyond
What they believe is obtainable
They do not hear
Dreams whispering in their mind?
Some truly seem
So programmed by the world
That surrounds them
That any differing
From the daily planer
Must be a sickness!
If you speak
Say what others
Are afraid to say
You are easily dismissed
Mocked for being different
Yet praised
If your writing becomes viable!
For now
You're safe
I won't let them read you
I'll keep you locked away
Far from their sight
Until you are needed
To awaken
The minds of the sleeping
Their way right through life
Friday, May 26, 2017
Workplace Machine
The morning sun
Bends and twists
It changes
Minute by minute
In the reflection
The buildings
Windows of sparkle
All for the lifeless sheep
To gaze upon
As they crawl
Their way into work
Their faces are long
Lost of expression
All because
They're waiting for
The workweek to begin
Waiting for the coffee
To drip from the dripper
Self-inflicted misery
For another day's pay!
God knows how many times
I've been in their shoes
How I'm still there
A few days a week!
Within a few hours of working
The counting of minutes will start
A quick glance at the wall clock
To see
The day is far from over
The Boss
The Shepherd
Is constantly frowning
His smile was lost
With the collapses of the market
The fall
His 401k something-another
His morning
Drives at the range
Are now nothing
But a memory
A thought
Fleeting at that!
So the sheep
Have good cause to worry
To sweat
To cry secretly
In the restroom
But before all of this
Worry in the workplace
This stress to make
Green colored paper
They must travel
Like ants to the mound
Bumper to bumper
The sheep
Are fed
To the workplace machine
One soul at a time
Losing all that was
Becoming all they never
Intended to be!
Posted by Jason E. Hodges at 1:01 AM No comments:
Labels: American poetry, American poets, Berlin, Dresden, Dublin, Edinburgh, Europe, France, Gainesville Fl., Germany, Glasgow, Ireland, Italy, Jason E. Hodges, London, Munich, Scotland, Venice Italy
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Gasping For Air
Breathing is something
I once took for granted
The sweet smell of spring
Is dulled by a plastic mask
I must wear some days
Just to move about outside!
The thick humid air
The South
With its Rough Barked Oaks
Lime Yellow Pines
Towering into the sky
Is a place
I've only known as home!
I once walked freely on this land
And enjoyed
All that surrounded me
With no care
With no worry
What I was breathing in!
Each Spring
I wonder what's drifting
In the sweet southern breeze?
What could collapses my airway?
Like a flower wilting
In the hot Summer Sun
One speck of pollen
One speck of dust
Is all it would take
To take my breath away!
My mask
Is now my protector!
My mask
Is now my best friend!
Each morning
I look out
On the soft rays of light
Field flowers
Glow in an amber haze
In the distance
The air is buzzing
With the hum
Honey bees
The spring buds
Are blooming
Bursting out
From their wintry shells
Stunning to my eyes
I know better
Than to smell them
I'm glad to still see
All of this beauty
Even if it's
While wearing a mask
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When journaling on your email server is not available or is not a practical option, you can use a combination of the Barracuda Message Archiver and the Barracuda Email Security Gateway to capture both external and internal emails via SMTP. To capture messages sent from external Internet users, you can leverage the journaling capabilities of the Barracuda Email Security Gateway to copy messages to your Barracuda Message Archiver. To capture messages sent from inside your organization, you can configure internal email clients to use the Barracuda Message Archiver as an SMTP relay placed in front of your internal email server.
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It is every homeowner's job to do everything they can to keep their homes safe. In addition to having an alarm system installed, there are a number of habits you can cultivate for maximum safety. Continue reading to see how you might be able to improve your home's security.
Get a safe to protect your valuable items. You need this because you would not want burglars to see these valuable items around in your house. Keep your safe in a hard-to-get-to place, such as a basement closet or your attic.
Be sure you have secured your attached garage. Often people are concerned that burglars can enter the home via the attached garage . Happily, there is a solution to this problem. Simply attach a C-clamp near the roller on the door track.
Rid the outside of your home from dead wood, vegetation and overgrowth during the summertime. These are vulnerable to fires and put your home in danger. You can prevent disasters by keeping your yard clean.
Put motion sensor lights around your house. The motion sensors turn on the lights whenever anyone approaches your home. These lights will make you aware of, and can also scare off, potential burglars. Get in the habit of checking and replacing the bulbs as necessary to ensure the lights remain effective.
Before doing anything else, install new locks in your home. If you have boarders, former live-in partners, or others who once had access to your home, this is especially important. It shouldn't cost too much, and the process can be completed very quickly.
If you live in a rural area, you may not be as concerned about home break-ins as people who live in the city. There are some who believe country folk are more at risk because neighbors are not nearby. Still, many believe that rural environments are less frequently targeted by burglars.
A skylight is another area that needs to be protected for home security. Skylights are a great addition to any home, but they are also tempting entryways for crooks. Be certain to have skylights that incorporate strong, durable hardware.
You can hide certain valuables within your walls. You needn't tear down your walls to do this. Most homes are pre-equipped with these handy spaces. You could removed the wiring from an electric socket that you aren't using, and stash jewelry inside it.
You never want people to be able to see your valuables from outside of your home. While it may be nice to look out, burglars will see your valuables inside. If you've got street facing windows, be sure and keep them covered.
When installing your home security system, make sure to hide the wires. Exposed wires make it easy for an intruder to cut them and disable the alarm. Don't let this happen; bury or hide the wires. You'll be safer.
Now that you have read this, there should be no reason why you are in a home that is not safe. It may not be easy, but you have to do what you can to protect your family. You can do this by applying what you've learned here.


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My bake story begins as a young girl, around 7 years old. While my mum was at work, one of my sisters would have to collect me from junior school, and take me to her senior school for her last lesson every Tuesday and Thursday. One lesson was maths which was ok, but the other was home economics. Now in this lesson all the students had to bring their own ingredients for what they would be baking that day. The teacher would get them to give me their leftovers and I would get to bake too, and I loved it!. Jump forward to a single mum trying to find her way in the world. Climbing many mountains and skirting lots of obstacles to keep a roof over our head, and food in our tummies. Maintaining my sanity was tricky, and I am not quite sure I managed it to be honest. I worked many roles, mainly in sales and marketing, but my last position was at a senior level with a company I had been with for nearly 9 years. This job was pretty much 24/7 to me and although I loved it, and everyone I worked with, it is a hard job. Throughout my years I would have bake spirts and then lull again, looking back these spirts of mine were half love and half procrastibaking. However I did come up with some good bakes and 1 or 2 saucy little numbers. But throughout, my phones album has maintained a 97% image rate of cakes or things that should be a cake. Late 2016, I had been on annual leave and upon my return I was faced with a very hard decision. My position was no longer required, I could move to a choice of other locations or take redundancy. After serious consideration and a lot of fear I decided to take the redundancy and jump into the unknown. I had no idea what to do! I did online quizzes and tests to see what my career should be, top results every time, a therapist/ life coach or teacher. I thought that was a plan so looked into courses and details and seemed quite chuffed at the idea of it all. That was until I spoke to others, all polite smiles and nods but there was this look, then one uttered 'but you need to be good at listening for that!', whereas my skills are apparently in talking. As I was leaving, disheartened and mumbling that 'I am great at listening!', one of the ladies I worked with bumped into me, as we got to the what are you doing now questions I said about the possibility of coaching etc and that look started to appear again. However, this time she said 'oh, I thought you would have gone into baking as you love it so much', said goodbye and off she went. This sat with me for sometime and played on my mind, I mean baking was just something I did now and then not a career, pffft. Then I dared to think what if?, so I looked into courses and what would be involved and got up, went to the college and enrolled in patisserie and confectionary, just like that! Now here I am, I just finished my level 2 in Patisserie and a plethora of online courses in countless subjects, not to mention books galore. I am about to venture into level 3 Patisserie and Confectionary. Try to start my own business, I have a cake trip booked in October, my first holiday since 2006, (sad but true), and I have entered into the largest cake show ever, Cakes International 2018. Have I finally lost the plot?… stick around and we shall see!


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11:00: Welcome: Enjoy treats by The Kirkwood Apartments
Introductions: Your Name, Business, Are you a Kirkwood Resident?
11:10: Approve/Amend: Secretary Candace McCollough, Atlanta Clay Works
August 20, 2019 Meeting Minutes
11:10: KBOA Finances: Treasurer: Josh Bennett, Bennett's Accounting Services
Wells Fargo Balance: $44,984.82 Savings: $27,762.89 PayPal: $452.83
P&L: June P&L, July P&L, YTD 2019 P&L
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2019 Meeting, Event and Promotions Calendar 2019 Master Deadline Calendar
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KBOA Bylaws
REVEIW: Bylaws of the Kirkwood Business Owners' Association for member review with comments. Comments are due via Google Document by Friday November 1, 2019.
UPCOMING VOTE: All current and voting members of KBOA will vote to adopt the bylaws at the October general meeting on 10/15/19.
KBOA Board of Directors Nominations
OPEN: Secretary, Wine Stroll Co-Chair, 1-At-Large
2 year term. 2020-2022
Must be a member of KBOA for at least 3 months and in good standing to be nominated. Associate members may hold Wine Stroll Co-Chair or At Large position.
Attend all Board and General meetings. Time commitment: 10 hours per month.
ATTEND: Networking Coffee on Tuesday October 1st: 9:30am- My Coffee Shop
UPDATE: KNO (September) & NPU-O (August)
UPCOMING: KNO Meeting 11/10/19 & NPU-O Meeting 9/24/19
11:30: Membership- Sam Mugavero-Smugs Fitness
Welcome pack: 2019/2020 membership decal (new sticker coming)/ I love KWD stickers + One Sheet + RESOURCE GUIDE
Membership: Total Members: 93 ACTIVE MEMBERS
New Members: Dogtown Franks, Amani Catering, Sweet Librarians, Chop Shop
Is it time to renew? Are you lapsed or about to be? Lapsed Members
Monthly Kirkwood Business Networking Coffee: 1st Tuesday of the Month @ My Coffee Shop East Lake.
October 1- For any business owner interested in serving for the KBOA BOD.
Nov 5 last 2019
11:35: Wine Stroll Committee (Chair Randy Brazee- Homes for Atlanta 13th Annual Kirkwood Wine Stroll is Friday September 20, 2019 | 7:00-10:00PM! Kirkwoodwinestroll.com
TICKETS SOLD: We are going to sell out! Only 100-$50 tickets left and only 50 available at the door!
Kirkwood Wine Stroll Sponsorships: $11,750
Wine Pouring Stations: 45. See your logo here; https://kirkwoodwinestroll.com/wines/
Brick & Mortar businesses can pick up wine at 3:30pm. Emily's Garage. Same as 2018.
Please make sure to get your own ice for white wine.
Food Stations: 10 https://kirkwoodwinestroll.com/food/
Beer: No beer tickets!!! Purchase directly and get your draft or can of Second Self!
Beer station at the Kirkyard Booth next to the grilled cheese sandwiches!
Entertainment: Parker Smith: Guitar Shed https://kirkwoodwinestroll.com/music/
NonProfit Awardees: All will be at the event. Find out more
Atlanta Clay Works, Kirkwood Cares, Neighbor in Need East Lake, Veterans Empowerment Organization and Toomer Parent Teacher Association
Volunteers: FULL!!!
Child Care @ Kirkwood Library: Vinyl spin art with DJ Precyse from 7-9pm with a movie inside. Sign up and promotion to come. Will be added to kirkwoodwinestroll.com
11:50: New Business/Member Announcements
RACE for FATE: Saturday October 5 @ 8:30am See information FB Event
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The big winner of Black Friday 2014 was mobile. Nearly 30% of all Black Friday online revenues, already up more than 20% year over year, came from shoppers on mobile devices—a 48% jump from 2013, according to Adobe's "2014 Digital Index Online Shopping" report for Black Friday. Custora put the mobile shopping share number at 30.3% of online sales, up from 22.5% on Black Friday 2013.
This Thanksgiving weekend represented the first time that mobile traffic exceeded PC internet traffic, IBM announced. Mobile traffic on Thanksgiving came in at 52.1% of all online traffic and PC internet traffic at 47.9%, likely because consumers were outside of their homes—no laptops on hand—but browsing on the go during Thanksgiving Day downtime. Traffic numbers remained high on Black Friday, where mobile traffic came in at 49.6%.
Tablets edged out smartphones in online purchases on Black Friday. Smartphones accounted for 13% of online purchases, almost twice their 7% share last year, Adobe said. Tablets came in at 16% of online sales, up from 14% last year.
Experts believe this is because the screen and body sizes of smartphones are growing, providing a more tabletlike platform—still highly portable—that consumers enjoy looking at for longer periods of time.
Branding Brand, which examined 35 of the North American retailers on its commerce platform, noted that 90% of mcommerce consumers on Black Friday shopped on Apple devices. Android users comprised 9% of the pool. Adobe and IBM put those numbers slightly lower, at 79% iOS users and 21% Android users, though iOS users drove nearly four times more mobile sales revenues than Android users. Custora also noted that since July, Android devices have been taking a larger chunk of iOS's pie of mobile shopping sales.
Overall, Thanksgiving Day sales hit $1.33 billion this year. Black Friday sales hit $2.4 billion. While the holiday shopping season's promotions were spread over a longer period of time this year, they're still hitting big—and there are still a couple more weeks and weekends left before Christmas.
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Rozan Ahmed's career path took her from the music industry to the United Nations — and that was just in her 20s.
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Howard University appears in these rankings:
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Named for Union general Oliver Otis Howard who was Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, Howard University was first chartered by Congress in 1867. The top-tier, historically black college played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement with activists like Alain Locke, Stokely Carmichael, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche. Now enrolling around 10,300 Bison of diverse racial makeup, Howard University is a private, nonsectarian RU/H institution with a $659 million endowment. Occupying 256 urban acres, HowardU stands in northwest Washington, DC, just two miles from the White House. Howard University is split into 13 academic divisions, including the College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA).
According to the U.S. News, Howard is the 124th best national university, 82nd most veteran-friendly school, and second best HBCU. In particular, HowardU is recognized for the 116th best undergraduate engineering programs in America. Niche crowned Howard the 221 "Best College of Engineering" with the 73rd "Best Student Life" nationwide. Given a Forbes financial grade of A-, Howard University is the United States' 149th top research institution. College Factual placed HU engineering degrees in the top 15 percent for highest-paid graduates. In Washington Monthly, Howard was crowned the 36th best bang for the buck. Times Higher Education also included Howard University in the top 500 globally.
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Undergoing review in 2017, Howard University holds regional accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), one of six bodies approved by the U.S. Department of Education. The College of Engineering and Architecture is specially accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Certain programs are recognized under the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) or Computing Accreditation Commission (CAC). The B.Arch. option also meets the National Architectural Accrediting Board's (NAAB) strict guidelines.
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Registering at Howard University isn't effortless because the "selective" admission process only admits 49 percent of students. Freshmen seeking their B.S. degree must hold diplomas from accredited high schools or homeschooled programs. Well-balanced, college-prep courses, including four units of English and three units of math, is required. Honors coursework like AP Physics could transfer with a 3 score or higher. Engineering majors possess an average secondary GPA of 3.29. Applicants should also score at least 23 on the ACT or 1080 on the SAT II with writing. Academic aptitude, extracurricular involvement, and professional potential are weighed.
Transfers into the College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA) should have finished 15+ college-level, non-remedial credits at regionally accredited schools. Having completed English composition, mathematics, and one science course is preferred. Incoming undergrads should transfer with a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or better. Future engineers from foreign countries need to take the TOEFL with a paper-based score above 550 or equivalent. Graduate M.S. applicants are reviewed for a bachelor's degree within an ABET-accredited school. Master's prerequisites include chemistry, physics, calculus, and computer science with a minimum 2.75 GPA. Doctoral programs conferring a PhD have higher standards for a 3.2 GPA or better.
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The NCES found that 89 percent of beginning, full-time HU students earn assistance. On average, financial aid packages gift $22,687 yearly. Institutional awards, such as the Trustee Scholarship, ROTC Scholarship, Frederick Douglass Scholars Program, Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Scholars Program, and Transfer Scholarship, are abundant. Howard University is Title IV-eligible for Federal Pell and FSEOG Grant funding. District of Columbia residents could earn the DC Tuition Assistance Grant or Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership (LEAP) Grant. Engineering students could work up to 20 hours weekly for Federal Work-Study. Tuition remission from 25 percent to whole is available with graduate assistantships. Veterans benefits are given for Armed Forces members under the G.I. Bill. Howard Bison could also borrow Perkins, Direct Subsidized, Direct Unsubsidized, or PLUS loans.
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Attracting scholars from 65 countries, the College of Engineering and Architecture has five ABET-accredited departments conferring seven bachelor's, six master's, and five doctoral degrees. Howard University ranks #1 nationally for most Black PhD graduates. There's also the Smart Lightning Summer Program for high schoolers. The 10:1 student-faculty ratio fosters close mentoring and hands-on engagement in scientific solutions. Industry partners like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, GM North America, and NASA lead to a high 92 percent placement rate. Two sample degrees are the:
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Howard's B.S. Civil Engineering program trains technical experts with the sustainable strategies to advance the nation's infrastructure on multi-disciplinary teams. The 120-credit curriculum offers specialized tracks for Environmental, Geotechnical, Structural, Transportation, and Water Resources. Students actively participate in research in the Passive Seismic Protective Systems (PSPS) Center and Structural Simulation Laboratory. Majors could also join the Ambassadors of Engineering initiative for outreach in K-12 classrooms.
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I don't know why fall is Book Festival Season, but it is, and it's wonderful. It is the best thing about fall—better than crunchy leaves; better than hot apple cider; better than pumpkins, and my love of pumpkins goes beyond what is reasonable love for a squash, so do not fight me on this.
Recently Penn Highlands held its second annual Indie Author Fall Fest, where self-published authors from all across the region came out to share their work and their experience with us. You can check out the website for the festival here for a sampling of the authors we were fortunate enough to host that day.
Just about every writer dreams of being discovered by a big-name publisher, seeing their book cover plastered all over the internet, finding their name on the bestseller list, and seeing enough success to write full-time. But most writers also know that publishing is an enormous industry and a long journey, with many different avenues for success. Self-publishing can get a bad rap sometimes, but it really is a testament to how the internet can level the playing field by allowing a writer to deliver their work directly to the reader, bypassing the hoops and the gatekeeping that so often make it prohibitively difficult for a great writer to see the success they deserve. Sometimes, rather than wait to be discovered, we have to discover ourselves. That's what this festival celebrates, and I hope it continues to grow and thrive in Johnstown. I believe every community has a writing community, and every writing community needs opportunities to come together.
Writers, I'd love to hear about your publishing journey. If you're a writer or reader in Johnstown or the surrounding area, do you have ideas for what we can all do to get our literary scene bustling? Or, if it's bustling already and I just haven't figured out where to look, please help a desperate scribbler out with some directions! Are there other writing groups out there who'd like to connect? Venues that hold Open Mic events? Chime in down in the comments!


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Even the Dogs opens with the image of a man's body being carried out of a broken-down house in the quiet days between Christmas and the New Year- but who's the semi-homeless man, Robert, and who's telling his story?
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When someone tells you, that you will see the largest sand island in the world, you might think of sand dunes and dry land as far as your eyes can see. At least that's what I expected to see when we went to Fraser Island (or Great Sandy National Park as it is also called). If you read on, you'll find out that I was (almost) totally wrong. But don't worry; Fraser Island is an awesome place anyway.
Instead of seeing a landscape that reminded me of the movie "Dune", we saw rainforests and crystal clear creeks and freshwater lakes. I guess that's what you get for not informing yourself where you are travelling to 😉
We spent so much time travelling that we actually don't really look everything up before we go. Especially when we do a guided tour, we rely on the tour guides. We do check the different tour operators on tripadvisor and other online platforms, but we don't spend too much time researching what we are going to see. This way, we can enjoy whatever we do and our minds are open to whatever we are going to see.
Fraser Island – The Great Sandy National Park
You probably want to read more about Fraser Island than about our travel philosophy, so here it goes:
Fraser Island is situated just a few hundred meters off Rainbow Beach at the coast of Queensland and is completely made out of sand. Even more impressive than its size of 1840 square kilometers (124 km long, 15 km wide) is the fact that the highest point is more than 240 meters and it is full of flora and fauna.
Fraser Island has about 100 fresh water lakes (some with pure white sand) and lots of creeks that are fed from the water table. Now, I don't know if you think this is impressive, but I think that having a stable water table on a sand island is awesome. And because the creeks are not directly reliant on rain, the water level of most creeks stays always the same – no matter how much it does or does not rain.
In the 19th and til mid 20th century, the island was used for its timber, which reduced the number of huge trees on Fraser Island. Luckily they used a very sustainable way of harvesting the trees so that the rainforest is still quite remarkable and this will only improve as time goes on, since the whole island is now a protected National Park and even listed as a UN World Heritage.
The Great Sandy Highway
There are only sand roads on the island (duh) and that's why one of the most exciting things is to cruise along the beach in a 4WD. The eastern beach of Fraser Island is actually a highway and Australian road rules apply. There are even speed limit signs and a police that does random speed checks.
Intersting anecdote: When the police station opened up on Fraser Island, the Queensland government was looking for police men willing to live on Fraser Island. If fou would assume that not many would want to live in a place that has nothing but sand roads, only two small tourist resorts and a handful of people who call this big island their home, you would be wrong. The job for the police on Fraser Island was the most applied for position in the history of Queensland.
Part of our tour was driving up and down the beach highway in the tour bus, which of course is also 4WD. It is an amazing feeling to drive 2 meters next to the waves which keep crashing onto the beach.
I guess the only way this could be more exiting is driving your own car along the beach. Rental cars on Fraser Island are quite expensive, but if you can afford it, you should do that. You can even get a 4WD campervan and camp almost anywhere on the beach – an option which many, many Australians choose. I guess, the main reason for them is the fishing, which is supposedly great.
If you choose to drive on your own, you should be careful. There are many "Walls of Shame" at Rainbow Beach with tons of pictures of broke down cars that either landed in the ocean, got stuck on the coffee rocks or have been driven into a creek because of speeding. So think twice before taking your own car if you have no experience with 4WD.
Other Amazing Facts About Fraser Island
Fraser Island is full of wrecks, even new ones. As we were driving along the coast we saw a bunch of them, the most famous one being the Maheno, about 100m long luxury ship that "arrived" on Fraser Island in 1935.
The island is the one place in the world where the dingoes are the most pure dingoes. Most dingoes on the Australian mainland have been mixed with the domestic dog. We even saw 2 of them on our day tour.
I mentioned the coffee rocks earlier. These rocks, which are mainly found on (and underneath) the beach, are not really rocks, but they are thousands of years old organic mass that has been pressed into this coffee rock.
Some people might be confused to see rocks since Fraser Island is promoted as a complete sand island. Well, now you know that even with the coffee rocks, it still really is all sand.
Fraser Island is still growing and changing. There is still sand being washed ashore making the island even longer. In other areas, sand is taken away. And you can't imagine at what speed this whole process can work. We drove around a field of coffee rocks as our guide told us the entire area was covered with more than 2 meters of sand just 2 weeks back. Evidently, the sand on some beaches gets washed away and gets washed ashore quite frequently.
There are areas with different colored sands on the island. In some areas you can see the different colors in a single place, e.g. at The Pinnacles. It would be too much to explain, why they are differently colored, but the Aborigines believe that a rainbow got smashed into pieces and this produced this amazing display of colors.
If you are lucky enough to go to Fraser Island on a nice day without clouds and a calm sea (we didn't have such luck), you might be able to see whales from the beach. We did see a whale though. It wasn't as pleasant as that sounds. It was a dead beached whale that already started to rot away. Pretty disgusting.
Is Fraser Island truly 1 of the 1000 Places?
Except from the title of this post I haven't mentioned that this is one of the 1000 Places To See Before You Die, which we made a life goal to actually see. Even though I haven't mentioned it, it does deserve to be on this list. There aren't too many places with a highway made out of sand, ship wrecks full of history and amazingly crystal clear fresh water lakes. And there is only one place in the world where a rainforest grows on sand in such an altitude. So yes, another one that does stay on the list.
I wish we would have had more time to explore the Great Sandy National Park, since there are so many things that we didn't get to see. So if you are planning to see Fraser Island and you have the possibility to do a 3 day tour or even explore the island on your own, do it!
What about the dolphins
FYI, the pictures of the dolphins are not at Fraser Island (but you can see them there), but at Tin Can Bay, which is near Rainbow Beach. You can buy a fish and feed wild dolphins.
These wild estauarine dolphins come to Tin Can Bay every morning and have been doing that for 4 generations since the 1950s.
If you have any doubts if that is harmful to the dolphins, let me put your mind at ease. The dolphins only get so much fish that it represents a maximum of 15% of their daily intake so they won't forget how to hunt for themselves. Before and after the dolphins are fed (you are not allowed to pet them), everyone has to sanitize their hands so that no deceases are transferred to the dolphins.
Also, you are only allowed to feed the fish you buy from the Barnacles Dolphin Center, this way you won't feed them something that might be harmful to them. If you see a dolphin in the wild anywhere else (or any wild animal for that matter), do NOT feed them. You don't know what is good for them and feeding them might do more harm than good.
So if you are going to Fraser Island from Rainbow Beach, you might want to take the 30 minute drive to Tin Can Bay in the morning (it starts at 8am) and buy your fish from the dolphin center and feed a dolphin.


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O Michael, you are at once the enemy
And the chief ornament of our garden,
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Lectures on Theoretical Physics, Volume V: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics discusses the significant developments and problems in the study of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. This volume contains five chapters. The first two chapters provide an overview of the various aspects and applications of thermodynamics. Chapter III contains a preliminary introduction to statistical mechanics, with an emphasis on the Brownian motion, which is the most important example of statistical fluctuations. Chapter IV describes the Boltzmann's original form of combinatorial method, in which the molecules of a gas are endowed with a physically real existence. This chapter also considers the various numerical combinations that govern the way in which the mutually indistinguishable particles are distributed over the states constituting the substance of the statistics. Chapter V explores the behavior of molecules in perfect gases following the course of historical development. This chapter covers an exact formulation of the kinetic theory of gases. Physics teachers and students will find this book invaluable.
Table of Contents
Author's Preface
Editor's Preface
Translator's Preface
Chapter I. Thermodynamics. General Considerations
1. Temperature as a Property of a System
2. Work and Heat
3. The Perfect Gas
A. Boyle's Law (The Law of Boyle and Mariotte)
B. Charles' Law (The Law of Gay-Lussac)
C. Avogadro's Law and the Universal Gas Constant
4. The First Law. Energy and Enthalpy as Properties
A. Equivalence of Heat and Work
B. The Enthalpy as a Property
C. Digression on the Ratio of Specific Heats cp and cv
5. The Reversible and the Irreversible Adiabatic Process
A. The Reversible Adiabatic Process
B. The Irreversible Adiabatic Process
C. The Joule-Kelvin Porous Plug Experiment
D. A Conclusion of Great Consequence
6. The Second Law
A. The Carnot Cycle and Its Efficiency
B. The First Part of the Second Law
C. The Second Part of the Second Law
D. Simplest Numerical Examples
E. Remarks on the Literature of the Second Law
F. On the Relative Rank of Energy and Entropy
7. The Thermodynamic Potentials and the Reciprocity Relations
8. Thermodynamic Equilibria
A. Unconstrained Thermodynamic Equilibrium and Maximum of Entropy
B. An Isothermal and Isobaric System in Unconstrained Thermodynamic Equilibrium
C. Additional Degrees of Freedom in Retarded Equilibrium
D. Extremum Properties of the Thermodynamic Potentials
E. The Theorem on Maximum Work
9. The van der Waals Equation
A. Course of Isotherms
B. Entropy and the Caloric Behavior of the van der Waals Gas
10. Remarks on the Liquefaction of Gases According to van der Waals
A. The Integral and the Differential Joule-Thomson Effect
B. The Inversion Curve and Its Practical Utilization
C. The Boundary of the Region of Co-existing Liquid-Vapor Phases in the p, v Plane
11. The Kelvin Temperature Scale
12. Nernst's Third Law of Thermodynamics
Chapter II. The Application of Thermodynamics To Special Systems
13. Gaseous Mixtures. Gibbs' Paradox. The Law Due to Guldberg and Waage
A. Reversible Separation of Gases
B. The Increase in Entropy During Diffusion and Gibbs' Paradox
C. The Law of Mass Action Due to Guldberg and Waage
14. Chemical Potentials and Chemical Constants
A. The Chemical Potentials μi
B. Relation Between the μi's and the gi's for Ideal Mixtures
C. The Chemical Constant of a Perfect Gas
15. Dilute Solutions
A. General and Historical Remarks
B. Van 't Hoff's Equation of State for Dilute Solutions
16. The Different Phases of Water. Remarks on the Theory of the Steam Engine
A. The Vapor-Pressure Curve and Clapeyron's Equation
B. Phase Equilibrium Between Ice and Water
C. The Specific Heat of Saturated Steam
17. General Remarks on the Theory of Phase Equilibria
A. The Triple Point of Water
B. Gibbs' Phase Rule
C. Raoult's Laws for Dilute Solutions
D. Henry's Law of Absorption (1803)
18. The Electromotive Force of Galvanic Cells
A. Electrochemical Potentials
B. The Daniell Cell, 1836
C. Contraction of Individual Reactions into a Simplified Overall Reaction
D. The Gibbs-Helmholtz Fundamental Equation
E. Numerical Example
F. Remarks on the Integration of the Fundamental Equation
19. Ferro- and Paramagnetism
A. Work of Magnetization and Magnetic Equation of State
B. Langevin's Equation for Paramagnetic Substances
C. The Theory of Ferromagnetic Phenomena Due to Weiss
D. The Specific Heats cH and cM
E. The Magneto-Caloric Effect
20. Black Body Radiation
A. Kirchhoff 's Law
B. The Stefan-Boltzmann Law
C. Wien's Law
D. Planck's Law of Radiation
21. Irreversible Processes. Thermodynamics of Near-Equilibrium Processes
A. Conduction of Heat and Local Entropy Generation
B. The Conduction of Heat in an Anisotropie Body and Onsager's Reciprocal Relations
C. Thermoelectric Phenomena
D. Internal Transformations
E. General Relations
F. Limitations of the Thermodynamic Theory of Irreversible Processes
Chapter III. The Elementary Kinetic Theory of Gases
22. The Equation of State of a Perfect Gas
23. The Maxwellian Velocity Distribution
A. The Maxwellian Distribution for a Monatomic Gas. Proof of 1860
B. Numerical Values and Experimental Results
C. General Remarks on the Energy Distribution. The Boltzmann Factor
24. Brownian Motion
25. Statistical Considerations on Paramagnetic Substances
A. The Classical Langevin Function
B. Modification of Langevin's Function with the Aid of Quantum Mechanics
26. The Statistical Significance of the Constants in van der Waals' Equation
A. The Volume of a Molecule and the Constant b
B. The van der Waals Cohesion Forces and the Constant a
27. The Problem of the Mean Free Path
A. Calculation of the Mean Free Path in One Special Case
B. Viscosity
C. Thermal Conductivity
D. Some General Remarks on the Problems Associated with the Concept of the Mean Free Path
Chapter IV. General Statistical Mechanics: Combinatorial Method
28. Liouville's Theorem, Γ-space and μ-space
A. The Multidimensional Γ-space (Phase Space)
B. Liouville's Theorem
C. Equality of Probability for the Perfect Gas
29. Boltzmann's Principle
A. Permutability as a Measure of the Probability of a State
B. The Maximum of Probability as a Measure of Entropy
C. The Combining of Elementary Cells
30. Comparison with Thermodynamics
A. Constant Volume Process
B. General Process Performed by a Gas in the Absence of External Forces
C. A Gas in a Field of Forces; the Boltzmann Factor
D. The Maxwell-Boltzmann Velocity Distribution Law
E. Gaseous Mixtures
31. Specific Heat and Energy of Rigid Molecules
A. The Monatomic Gas
B. Gas Composed of Diatomic Molecules
C. The Polyatomic Gas and Kelvin's Clouds
32. The Specific Heat of Vibrating Molecules and of Solid Bodies
A. The Diatomic Molecule
B. Polyatomic Gases
C. The Solid Body and the Dulong-Petit Rule
33. The Quantization of Vibrational Energy
A. The Linear Oscillator
B. The Solid Body
C. Generalization to Arbitrary Quantum States
34. The Quantization of Rotational Energy
35. Supplement to the Theory of Radiation and to that of Solid Bodies
A. Method of Natural Vibrations
B. Debye's Theory of the Specific Heat of a Solid
36. Partition Function in the Γ-space
A. The Gibbs Condition
B. Connection with Boltzmann's Method
C. Correction for Quantum Effects
D. Analysis of Gibbs' Hypothesis
37. Fundamentals of Quantum Statistics
A. Quantum Statistics of Identical Particles
B. The Method Due to Darwin and Fowler
C. Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Statistics
D. The Saddle-Point Method
38. Degenerate Gases
A. Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Distribution
B. Degree of Gas Degeneration
C. Highly Degenerate Bose-Einstein Gas
39. Electron Gas in Metals
A. Introductory Remark to Drude's Method
B. The Completely Degenerate Fermi-Dirac Gas
C. Almost Complete Degeneracy
D. Special Problems
40. The Mean Square of Fluctuations
Chapter V. Outline of an Exact Kinetic Theory of Gases
41. The Maxwell-Boltzmann Collision Equation
A. Description of a State in the Kinetic Theory of Gases
B. The Variation of / with Time
C. The Laws of Elastic Collision
D. Boltzmann's Collision Integral
E. Boltzmann's Hypothesis About Molecular Chaos
42. The H-theorem and Maxwellian Distribution
A. The H-theorem
B. Maxwellian Distribution
C. Equilibrium Distributions
43. Fundamental Equations of Fluid Dynamics
A. Series Expansion for the Distribution Function
B. Maxwell's Transport Equation
C. Conservation of Mass
D. Conservation of Momentum
E. Conservation of Energy
F. Entropy Theorem
44. On the Integration of the Collision Equation
A. Integration with the Aid of Moment Equations
B. Transformation of the Equations for Moments
C. Evaluation of Collision Moments
D. Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity
45. Conductivity and the Wiedemann-Franz Law
A. The Collision and Transfer Equations for Electrons in Metals
B. Approximate Solution of the Collision Equation
C. Flux of Current and Energy
D. Ohm's Law
E. Thermal Conductivity and Absolute Thermal Electromotive Force
F. The Wiedemann-Franz Law
Problems for Chapter I
Problems for Chapter II
Problems for Chapter III
Problems for Chapter IV
Problems for Chapter V
Hints for the Solution of Problems
- No. of pages:
- 420
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Academic Press 1956
- Published:
- 1st January 1956
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The Greek economic crisis is not about living beyond one's means, reports columnist Walden Bello from Athens. It's the same story of unregulated financial speculation all over again.
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At the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, reports columnist Christine Ahn, a new and powerful antiwar movement came together.
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Two Border Patrol killings in two weeks have thrown U.S.-Mexican relations into a tailspin.
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We've been blessed with a mini heat wave and whilst most of us know what to do to help ourselves and our kids cope with the rising temperatures, we need to remember to help our pets. Do you know how to help your dog cope with the heat?
Every summer there are reports of dogs who die because their owners thoughtlessly left them in cars in the heat of the day.
We don't yet have a dog but the kids are campaigning heavily. And if we do take in a new furry friend, I'll certainly be mindful of the useful advice below when it comes to taking care of Fido in the heat.
Just click on the link to be taken straight to the article.
Useful advice includes keeping walks to a minimum and giving your dog a lightweight summer haircut to prevent overheating. Don't forget that animals suffer sunburn too.
10 great ways to keep your dog cool in the heat and, of course, NEVER leave them in a hot car.
Have you ever wondered how hot is too hot in your home for your dog? This post might have the answer, along with lots of other great doggy-related advice.
A collection of cool tips to help you spot the signs of dehydration and suggested changes you can make to your routine to keep your dog as comfortable as possible when the temperature rises.
There are also safety tips – for example you know you should never leave your dog in a parked car, but do you know how to recognise and treat heat stroke?
Common sense advice including this on the subject of leaving dogs in cars:-
"Never leave your dog in the car on even just a slightly warm day. Leaving the window open a few inches for them, parking in the shade, or leaving them a bowl of water in the car is NOT adequate. A dog left in a car on a hot or even warm day can suffer heat stress and ultimately fatal heat stroke within just 10 minutes.
The temperature inside the car might not seem excessive when you first stop but the temperature inside a stationary car can rapidly increase to double the outside temperature – phew. This can happen very quickly, within six to ten minutes.
If you come across a dog that has been left in the car on a warm day, call the Police. They will be able to take appropriate action if necessary breaking into the car to release the dog."
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This advice comes from an Australian website and they are surely better at coping with the heat than we are here in the UK! They explain how to spot when your dog may be in distress due to the heat – for example vomiting, drooling, heaving panting, diarrhoea or seizures.
Even if you think your pet has only suffered a mild case of heatstroke, the internal damage can be lasting so you should always take your dog to the vet for a checkup.
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OPINION: Students should be allowed to eat lunch in their cars
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Students want a safe, clean and comfortable place where they can enjoy their lunch with their peers or by themselves, but Davis High's lack of lunch tables and seating areas makes it tougher for students to find such a place.
Many jump to the conclusion that their car is the ideal place to spend lunch, where they can customize functions to fit their needs and personal interests. However, DHS students are not allowed to be in their car during school hours. Administrators are always present at the parking lot to make sure students are never sitting in their vehicle.
Many students, such as junior Ixchel Lopez, believe the policy is misguided.
"The campus would be less crowded because people would be eating in their cars," Lopez said.
Although limited seating at tables is a current issue, it would not be a difficulty for students with cars. Vehicles offer an exclusive and reliable seating area for students. Spending lunchtime in one's car can serve as a comfortable place, sheltered and away from school where one can eat and listen to music with friends or just spend time alone.
"The guy in the golf cart always tells me to get out of my car even though I'm just chilling and really not doing anything," Lopez said.
Administrators have said that students are not allowed to remain in their cars due to safety issues, but they don't offer justification when kicking students out of their cars. However, it is unreasonable for administrators to require students to immediately vacate their car, especially with the new bell schedule and open campus policy.
Many students with no sixth period usually leave campus towards the beginning of lunch and might take a while to gather their belongings.
Administrators should be more lenient on students leaving school, as they don't pose any safety hazards since they are not planning to return to campus.
One day, senior Samantha Kurtz grabbed a coffee with one of her friends and was waiting on other people in the parking lot with the car doors open, drinking coffee.
"It was after fifth period on a Thursday and a woman asked us to get out even though we were doing nothing wrong," Kurtz said.
This rule is more of a nuisance than a huge problem, but students want more freedom to choose where they want to spend their lunch time and refrain from following a rule that no one fully understands or really follows.


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So far I have been quite happy with Moshidora so far, it hasn't blown my socks off yet as I had hoped for during the season preview but its been building up steadily for the past few episodes and I hope it will build up to something good. Then it dawned on me… I never checked how many eps the show had been scheduled for. Quick google later and my world came crushing down! Only 10 episodes, that is not enough time to do anything in the show especially at the rate thy have been going. Either it will just end having not actually gone anywhere or the next 5 episoeds are going to be one great big rush job. Neither are good alternatives.
Secondly, how many people want to go out and read Management by Peter Drucker now? Fair bit of publicity its getting, is that a cha ching I hear Production I.G.?
So Minami is still working through her textbook, so much so that it kind of slips her mind that she has exams. In addition to this minor mishap, a few other things start not going her way. After exams the team shows a distinct lack of interest in training and Yunosuke decides to leave the team. Minami then makes a very good point, she points out that the actual games are much more fun than a normal practice. Makes perfect sense as I recall back in high school not many of us were too keen about practice but when matchday came around we were all hyped and ready to play.
So Minami's goes about trying to improve the practice sessions. After a brain storming session with Yuki, they get Ayano (who might have let slip that she has some strong feelings towards Yuki) too work the coach to devise new training methods. A boy were they productive.
The result is a competitive training methodology where everybody is divided into teams and has their performance recorded. Seems abit much for high school, but then again I guess baseball is serious business. The new method is a success and even gets Yunosuke to come back after a motivating talk from his friend Hana and Minami. Minami then asks Hana to join the management team and she accepts. I'm not sure why she joined though as before she was doing karaoke with her friends every afternoon and now it looks as if she just collects the balls. On a sidenote, has anybody else found it wierd that the tune to A Whole New World plays in the background at times?
News of Minami's success seems to have spread through school as many of the clubs come and ask her to be their managers too. Being as ambitious as she is, obviously she accepts even though she hasn't really hasn't really been doing much of the work up until now.
The next big event to happen is that Nikai decides that he really isn't cut out for baseball and he too joins the management team. So that makes the management team 4 strong now, 5 if you include Yuki. He announces his retirement from the team at practice and everybody applauds his decision, this could be interpretted as them acknowledging his bravery or as I see it, them all agreeing with him that yeah, he sucks at baseball.
Minami's ambition eventually catches up with her duties with the other clubs start pressuring her. To cope with everything she enlists to the baseball team to help, they end up participating in the other clubs activities as well. How she convinced them to agree to this is beyond me as they must have next to no free time left now.
The next step in the plan according to Drucker is to implement some sort of innovation in the way they do things. The coach helps with this as he just happened to he a revolutionary new gameplay strategy just laying around and so the No-Ball-No-Bunt gameplan is born.
So finally after effectively 4 episodes of laying the foundations their plans are finally put the test in a friendly against a college team. Before the game coach stresses that the No-Ball-No-Bunt system will not work immediately and that if they just keep at it they will get better at it… duh, you just told them about it last practice, half of them probably still don't know what its about.
And as predicted things don't go well at the beginning as the team leak runs like a burst balloon in the first few innings but as the game carries on Minami notices a distinct improvement in their play (Yunosuke actually stops a ball!) until the game is ended under the mercy rule. Has this always been around? I mean theoretically they could still have comeback and won the game in those last two innings. So yeah, they lost but owing to their improvement in performance, they kind of won.
So far episode 5 has been the best as we actually got some gameplay and once explained the strategy was actually pretty clever. No doubt there is more stuff still to be implemented from Druckers book but how much more can they squeeze in 5 more episodes? I doubt we'll get to see any of the nationals.


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It's time for the Wednesday video!
I have made fun of these folks before, but they have something (sort of) new out on the YouTubes, and I thought I'd share. The song is long, boring, and very poorly sung, but when you've had your fill, instead of just stopping it, I'd suggest advancing to the 4:57 mark and watching from there. It's a real kick in the jimmies.
On the one hand it would be easy to say that these folks have sort of missed the point of their religion. On the other hand, they really are following the bible. It's just that while most Christians throw out the mean bits and keep the nicey-nice parts, these folks have thrown out the kissy-face stuff and kept the horror-show crap.
Welcome to the birth of the American Taliban.


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Just yesterday, came the announcement that Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman was stepping down from directing the long gestating Ghostbusters 3 following the death of Harold Ramis. He will stay on as a producer.
Nikki Finke is reporting that directing duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller are in talks to helm the project.
Lord and Miller are on quite the tear in recent years with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street (which will see a sequel released later this year), and their most recent hit, The LEGO Movie.
All of Lord and Miller's films have gone on to gross over $200 million at the global box office.
Set to begin production next year in New York City, the storyline is rumored to focus on a new generation of Ghostbusters with cameos from the original stars written into the script.
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