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It's the kind of phone call you dread.
5:00 yesterday, my work phone rang. It was my mother.
"Jenn?" she said, in that rushed 'It's not really a question although it sounds like one, but that's just because I'm panicking and trying not to cry because I have to tell you something important,' voice she has.
"Mom, what is it?"
"We're going to the ER. Daddy and Neal were working outside and what they were doing caused a spark and it caught Dad's oxygen hose on fire at his nose and his face is badly burned." And then she lost it.
I heard my dad's voice in the background, saying something with his typical calm composure. 'He's talking,' I thought. 'I'll take that as a good sign.'
"Ok, Mom, you've got to calm down, it'll be ok - - I'll meet you at the ER, I'm leaving now," I said, adding "You stay calm, all right? Dad needs to see you're strong and can handle this, ok?" The words made me feel like a charlatan. I could feel my own insides tighten up and the water rush to my eyes, stomach in knots as I reached for my keys, locked my computer, and hung up the phone in one simultaneous motion I couldn't duplicate if I tried.
I don't even remember locking my office door, but I did.
5:00 traffic on the way to the hospital left time to think. Unfortunately.
'Should they have called an ambulance instead? How bad is the burn? He must be in so much pain! Thank you, God, that he's alive. What about his lungs? He has emphysema . . . did he inhale smoke? Are they damaged from it? Oh, thank GOD the portable oxygen tank didn't catch on fire! It could have killed him. And my brother, too! Did he burn his eyes? Can he see ok? Is there permanent damage to anything??'
The thoughts were endless and traveled the spectrum of gravity.
When I reached the ER and they directed me back to his room, I nearly raced down the hall, but found myself hesitating as I approached the curtain-door to his room. I closed my eyes for a second to imagine the absolute WORST so that whatever I saw would either be that . . . or better.
I prepared myself, took a deep, quiet breath, rounded the corner into his room, and walked swiftly to him, hooked up to an IV and oxygen, but sitting up in bed.
"Hey, Firestarter!" I said. "What're you tryin' to do to yourself?!"
My brother piped up, "He got tired of trimming his nose hairs."
"Dad, really, there are better ways to open your pores. We would've gotten you a facial for Father's Day, all you had to do was ask!"
I could see my mother's nervous, tense face begin to ease, her shoulders relax.
I'm not gonna pretend it was pretty.
Without getting too graphic, (but don't read this paragraph if you have an incredibly weak stomach,) dad's nose and face were black from both smoke and damaged skin that was peeled, with splotches missing. Parts of his face were swelled up, beginning to blister. His lip was swollen and looked charred. The outer halves of both 'his sets of eyebrows' and 'his sets of eyelashes' . . . gone. Pieces of plastic from the oxygen hose that had been in his nose, drawing the spark, causing the flame, were actually melted into the inside of his nostrils, which were entirely black, and not in the usual 'cavernous' way.
"That must've scared you to death," I told him, imagining what a scene like that would look and feel like. "And you, too!" I said to my brother.
"We'd been talking about that tv show '1000 Ways to Die' while we were working," Neal said. "I found the thousand-and-first," dad joked, thankfully wrong.
"The spark was drawn quickly to the oxygen flowing into his nose and BAM! everything caught on fire instantly," Neal said. "It happened so fast."
"Just a flash in the pan," dad added, and we all laughed.
I appreciate his way. I know how he views these types of things . . . why fret when it doesn't help? Why worry and stress? You deal with what comes your way, and if you can find a way to try to laugh about it, then laugh, even if what you want to do is cry. The time for that may come later, and that's ok . . . but until you know what you're dealing with (or crying about) for sure, don't believe the worst.
After the giant, mobile x-ray machine was wheeled in and x-rays were taken, a nurse came in with solution and gauze to begin cleaning his face. "You're my most interesting patient, today!" she exclaimed, apparently subscribing to dad's brand of therapy. She apologized, saying, 'This isn't going to feel good, I'm sorry,' and began cleaning his face. I watched his hand on the bedrail, waiting for him to grip it harder, but he didn't flinch. Unbelievable.
The nurse laughed and said, "Your breath smells like fire-smoke! Seriously, I don't think even a toothbrush is gonna take care of that!"
"We've been telling him for years he's just blowing smoke," I told her.
"I was just auditioning for the role of 'Fire Breather' with the circus," he explained, and the nurse responded, "You're hired!"
"Yeah, the swelling and blisters have started," she said.
"We're gonna call you Puff the Magic Dragon, Dad. Puff. The real Puff Daddy!"
The female version of Doogie Howser walked in, made a gesture like she forgot something, and left. I leaned toward mom's ear and asked, "Is that the doctor?!" "Yes, I think so," she replied. "Has she graduated from medical school yet??!" and before mom could respond, Doogie walked back in.
"Hi everyone, I'm Dr. Young," she said, and I nearly fell into the floor. It took ALL I HAD not to respond with, "No kidding!"
I elbowed my mother and saw her mouth fight a smile.
"You're beautiful!" the doctor said to dad. "How are you feeling?"
"With my hands," he replied, and the doctor joined my mom in the battle of 'smile fighting.' She lost. "The x-rays showed no damage, thankfully, but you do have a bit of fluid on your lungs, unrelated to this, but because of your condition." "I tried to evaporate it," he said, smiling, "But at least there's no damage, thank the good Lord."
'Indeed!' I thought. 'In-deed.'
She examined his face and told him she thought it had been a flash fire and it was good they were outside because a lot of what could have gone into his lungs probably escaped into the air instead. He has second degree burns that she thought wouldn't scar much if at all, and said he would probably swell and blister more by the next day, so be prepared for that.
They were going to watch his breathing and oxygen rate for another 30-minutes, then release him with ointment, an Rx for pain meds, and some follow-up appointment instructions.
Thinking back to the drive over to the ER, when your mind runs wild with 'what ifs,' . . . when you finally hear things like 'no permanent damage,' 'the lungs look ok,' and 'it's all (ultimately) going to be fine,' you realize how much those initial thoughts actually give you to be thankful for. We knew how much pain dad would feel when the numbness of the injury began to wane. We were worried for that. We also knew that, as bad as it was, it could've been so much worse.
Sometimes, when the immediate danger is over, humor creeps in to help cushion the fear and trauma during that interim period where 'the waiting' usually weighs heavy, and 'the unknown' attempts to discourage. Our bad puns and attempts at humor masked great anxiety and worry, but not gratitude. We feel so thankful to God for the protection He afforded dad. That he could even leave the hospital that evening, without needing hospitalization or surgery, we knew was a miracle.
Mom began to remember Neal and I had 3 other sisters she needed to call. She got the "Oh, no, what do I say to them?" look on her face. The initial panic gone, the words sounded ridiculous. "There's really not a delicate way to tell someone, 'Oh, hey, your father's face caught on fire, today!'" we said, cracking up. I could feel the stress leaving my body more with each joke that was made.
Dad laughed hardest of all.
"What do I look like?" he finally wanted to know. "Like you've been through hell," I told him, searching for a mirror. Neither mom nor I had one. "Two women and no mirrors?" Neal asked, shaking his head. He took out his cell phone and took a picture of Dad to show him.
Dad made absolutely no visible reaction to seeing the picture.
"Well, my dream of finishing up that job today just went up in smoke," he said, chuckling, probably mentally planning how and when he could finish it, despite everything. "And I want to get outta here," he announced. "I'm hungry."
"I know a great barbeque place," I said, prompting a 'head thrown back quiet laugh,' which was one of my favorites of his.
As the 30-minute mark neared and we anticipated getting the green light to leave, I couldn't help but notice how tired he looked.
"Poor Dad, you look exhausted," I told him, and without missing a beat, Neal added, "Yeah, he's pretty burned out." The nurse re-entered and hearing our obnoxious laughter, looked disappointed to have missed the joke. She smiled at dad, "You have an awesome family," she said, "The best therapy. You're also free to go home, now," she announced, moving toward his IV. "Stick a fork in me, I'm done!" he said, happily positioning himself to leap from the bed as soon as she was done. Well, as well as a man with horrific arthritis and serious emphysema can 'leap,' I suppose it's fair to say.
Three hours after the initial phone call, we had all settled back into a semblance of calm. Panic had turned to knowledge and acceptance. Stress relented as we focused on gratitude and recovery. My throbbing head had been a welcome distraction from the anxiety that caused it, thankfully decreasing with the passing of each hour.
With all said and done, another silent round of 'learning from dad's example' had been witnessed. Dad was compassionate in spirit, always more worried about what others were going through than himself, even when he was the one injured or in pain. It was completely futile to 'fight' him on this. He'd rather laugh and joke through it all to keep those around him relaxed than respond the way he might actually feel and add to their concern.
He truly is the strongest man I've ever known.
He's also given me the perfect gift idea to round out his Father's Day packages for Sunday. He'll soon be the proud owner of an eyebrow pencil, fake eyelashes, and a fire extinguisher.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
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You're a zombie. Day in and day out, the same bullshit. People pulling you in 9 different directions and NO one cares about you. They don't.
It's crazy. It's not fair. But that's life. And sometimes life feels like a 7.8T weight you carry around in your arms waiting for someone to help you bear it. But they won't. You're in this game alone.
But you can't let that stop you from kicking ass. Success is about making it through when you didn't think you could. It's about looking all the assholes who said you couldn't do it in the eye and saying, "Fuck you. I got this." It's about putting your head down and getting it done, even when you doubt yourself and want to throw in the towel because you're not sure you really can do this.
You DO got this. You can crank it out, even if you hate the drudgery of the BS around you: When you put your mind to #ONEThing.
That's what Kevin Packer of Trackfaster taught me. Instead of letting my head swim in the nonsense, focus on #ONEThing and get it done. That's all.
You know you have WAAAAAAYYYY more to do than #ONEThing to do for your business, but you use #ONEThing when you can't see above the swells, when you can't hear the music for the crowd, when you can't carry that 7.8T weight one more step alone. [Tweet this]
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What Should My #ONEThing Be
The thing that is going to change the game for you. It should be the thing that is going to take your business to the next level. Maybe it's just sitting down for an hour and coming up with ideas to make your brand a monster. Maybe it's working through product production. Maybe it's hacking away at your site for an hour each day until you get it looking the way you want it to look.
Whatever it is, do it. Everyday until it's done. Or until it becomes habit, if you need it to be something you do everyday for the rest of your life.
Don't look at the big picture. Look at the details. Focus on your #ONEThing.


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Automatic Huagui Arm Dst 2heads 2 Color Swavoski Rhinestone Hot Fix Machine For Curtain
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Hangzhou HuaGui Mechanical Electronic Manufacturing Co.,Ltd
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Photography, or "light writing," is at once an art, a science, a form of communication, and a craft. Since the first permanent images were captured in 1839, photography has continued to shift and change, interpreted by technological advances in equipment and processing, innovations in style and taste, and the socio-cultural discourses in which it has been produced, consumed, and used. Photographs are made for many purposes—from portraiture, science, travel, journalism, propaganda, recreation, and art—and on every occasion—from historic events to small moments of everyday life. In each instance, photography may capture human drama and convey multiple meanings in the moment over time. From the camera obscura to the iPhone, visual communication has triumphed in society, and photography remains the most democratic art form with the human ability to process indelible images.
The early availability of photographic prints, the affordability of cameras, and a user-friendly developing process eventually allowed both the specialist and the amateur not only to consume photographs, but also to quickly produce them. Photography's unprecedented amateur movement beginning in the nineteenth century continues today. The emergence of digital photography is yet one more step in the technological evolution of image capture and reproduction—and the ease of taking, reproducing, manipulating, and sharing photographs is more apparent than ever.
The rapid transition from digital photography and the exponential access to digital imaging prompt a new appreciation of the tradition methods of photography, which quickly have become historic processes. Photographs printed with early transfer and negative/positive film processes increasingly have bcome rare artifacts with vulnerable physical properties, and photography once again stands at a familiar crossroads between technology, accessibility, history, and art.
In Focus: Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital is am ambitious overview of historical processes and popular themes for the contemporary study of photography that is illustrated by selected books, ephemera, archival collections, and photographic sources in Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library.
The front case introduces a spectrum of these sources, from the magnificently printed folio of photographs from the Gilman collection, to the Librarys digitized nineteenth-century Samoan photographs, to iconic Victorian portraits, to the evocative 1960s images of Parisian couture by Schatzberg or Avedons unforgettable headshots of The Beatles, to portraits in which the photographers celebrity matched the subjects renown, or to equally masterful portraits of ordinary people (Miss Ruth Almond by photographer unknown), to snappy documentation of local citizens for the 250th anniversary of Newark, to the theoretically manipulated interpretations of Nova reperta, to the beautifully printed Meskel Demera in which Bogardus revives nineteenth-century photogravures.
Photographs from the collection of the Gilman Paper Company ; with plates by Richard Benson. New York : White Oak Press, 1985.
Selected by Pierre Apraxine, the curator of the renowned Gilman photography collection, this massive volume presents 200 finely printed images from over 100 photographers spanning processes from 1840s daguerreotypes to 20th-century prints of the 1950s and 1960s. Begun by his mother Sondra Gilman and built by the paper magnate Howard Gilman under the guidance of Apraxine over a period of two decades (1977-1997), the collection was hailed as the largest and most important privately owned collection of photography in the world. After Gilmans death in 1998, the collection was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005. Richard Benson created line-screen negatives of each black and white original photograph for offset lithographic printing in four to six colors, yielding remarkable likenesses of the original photographs in the Gilman collection. This beautifully printed book is limited to an edition of 1,200 copies with a slipcase; this is copy number 255.
For the duration of In Focus: Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital, curators will turn the page of this book every day to show a different photograph from the Gilman collection.
George Handy Bates Samoan papers : Series III. Photographs, 1871-1889. Digital collection created from the original archival material housed in Special Collections, University of Delaware Library. George Handy Bates papers, gift of Daniel Moore Bates
Using contemporary technology and highlighting the role of digitization for preservation and access, this digital picture frame showcases 140 images from the photography series in the George Handy Bates Samoan papers. The images shown here were scanned from original albumen print photographs, 1871-1889, of the people and scenic views of Fiji, Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, Pago Pago, Tahiti, and Tonga. The original photographs, many of them albumen prints from the Burton Bros. photographers (Dunedin, 1866-1916), were mounted on both sides of highly acidic and warped board stock. Digitization of this series was an important preservation measure, but this has also allowed worldwide access to the images. The Bates Samoan photographs series was one of the first digital collections produced by the University of Delaware Library.
In 1886, President Grover Cleveland appointed George Handy Bates, a Delaware lawyer, as a special agent to investigate the conditions in Samoa. Bates was subsequently appointed as a United States Commissioner to the 1889 Joint Conference on Samoan Affairs held in Berlin. As a special envoy he participated in the negotiations with England and Germany over the ownership of the Island of Samoa. His papers are valuable for studying the culture and history of Samoa, particularly during the 1880s. The issues of colonialism and foreign intervention are chronicled in these papers, richly illustrated by the photograph series with images of kings Lunalilo and Kalakaua (Hawaii), King Malietoa and Chief Asi (Samoa), Samoan women, Hawaiian and Samoan homes, a lava flow in 1871, panoramic views of Pago Pago and Fiji, ships of the U.S. Navy, diplomats at the Berlin Conference, and various other subjects. Many of the photographs were taken by the Burton Brothers of New Zealand, who pioneered documentary photography with a mobile darkroom that allowed them to more quickly and efficiently capture images such as those shown here.
Victorian photographs of famous men and fair women ; with introductions by Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry. London : Leonard and Virginia Woolf, 1926.
This edition was limited to 450 numbered copies for sale in Great Britain, of which this is number 196.
British photographer Julia Margaret Pattle Cameron was innovative and unconventional in her approach to portraiture, with pictorial effects and soft focus among the most discussed aspects of her technique. Camerons portraits typically have an out-of-focus quality, which caused some of her contemporaries to criticize her for a presumed lack of technical prowess. Wet collodion negatives, from which she made her prints, were capable of producing images of great clarity and detail, hence the consternation with her unusually artistic approach.
Cameron, who began photographing in 1863 after the gift of a camera from her daughter, made iconic portraits of artists and writers that included Alfred Lord Tennyson and George Frederick Watts and many others in her social circle. The esteemed scientist Sir John Herschel, an old friend whom she photographed, is credited with coining the term photography (light writing) and was the first to describe and send Cameron the first photographs that she had ever seen. Among her early subjects (1864) was her niece, Julia Jackson Duckworth, the mother of Virginia Woolf, who was also photographed later by Cameron. In her introduction to this collection, Woolf noted Camerons intention to overcome realism with her soft focus in portraiture, and Bloomsbury art critic Roger Fry remarked on Camerons arresting capture of character through form and light. Shown here is Cameron's portrait of British botanist and explorer Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911).
Ruth Almond of Elberton Georgia, age 14 years, February 1917. G. Burton Pearson, Jr., papers, gift of the Pearson family
This carbon print portrait of a Pearson family friend is stunning for its technical detail and capture of a beautiful young lady in her teenage finery at a time not long before Americas entry into World War I. Portrait photography, by preserving the images of loved ones, played an enormous role in the technical, commercial, and artistic development of photography as well as the popular acquisition of photographs by individuals. In Focus: Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital features family portraiture from three archival collections featured in the Main Gallery, as well as other notable selections of portrait photography by Cecil Beaton, Carl Van Vechten, Karl Bissinger, Rollie McKenna, Allen Ginsberg, Cherie Nutting, and others in the Reading Room of Special Collections.
Paris 1962. First edition. New York : Empire Editions, 2007. gift of Catherine Johnson
On assignment for Esquire, fashion photographer and filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg documented the glamour of French haute couture 1962, including photographs of Yves St. Laurents first work after leaving the House of Dior. With behind-the-scenes access, Schatzberg shot models, the exclusive audience, and working photographers alike, capturing the high drama of the runway and the essence of the periods style and grace.
Designed by Bridget DeSocio, this deluxe edition was limited to 500 autographed copies in a clamshell box with an original print, signed by the photographer. This is copy 492.
Meskel Demera : the finding of the True Cross. Photographs and woodcuts by Peter Bogardus ; commentary by Zelalem Haile Michael. New York : Khelcom Press, 2008.
Bogarduss Meskel Demera is one part of a trilogy about spiritual life in Ethiopia. Bogardus joined pilgrimages as an expression of faith, during which he created reflections in text and photographs as the source of his trilogy. Geezused in the text of this volumeis the language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, having been adopted as a written form for scripture in the fourth century when Christianity was introduced in Ethiopia.
Photogravure, the process that Bogardus used to print his evocative photographs in this book, is a true continuous-tone ink printing technique and also is the same process used by Pictorialists in the late nineteenth century that widely established artistic credibility for photography. Bogardus, an American who traveled the world with his family as a child in the 1960s, studied art at Hampshire College, where he apprenticed to noted sculptor and print-maker Leonard Baskin, and at the New York Academy of Art and the International Center of Photography.
The copper photogravure plates for Bogarduss photographs in this book were made at Jon Goodman Photogravure and printed on Kochi Mashi paper at Khelcom, New York. The pictorial woodcuts, derived from Geez scrolls, and xylographic text, from the Sink Sar, were printed by Takuji Hamanaka. This is the artists autograph copy, number 14 from an edition of 52.
The Beatles Banner. Look, January 9, 1968. William I. Homer papers, gift of William I. Homer
American fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedons work influenced pop culture and style in the latter half of the twentieth century. His fashion credits include Vogue and Harpers Bazaar, and he famously photographed Brooke Shields for Calvin Klein. Avedons style of fashion photography deviated from the expressionless model and encouraged emotion. He documented the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, during which time he also photographed the iconic Beatles Banner. Taken in 1967, Avedons portraits of The Beatles became one of the first series of rock posters. This issue also features the groups psychedelic pop-art portraits.
The Citizens of Newark Banner. Newark, Del. : Wallflowers Press, 2007. gift of Ray Nichols and Jill Cypher, Lead Graffiti
Documentary photography captures the look and feel of time, place, and historic events. Book designers Ray Nichols and Jill Cypher sought a way to make citizens of Newark feel a part of the citys history as they planned layouts for the collaborative book celebrating Newarks 250th anniversary. Nichols and Cypher opened a walk-in studio on Main Street and more than 3,700 Newarkers got in line to be photographed for Histories of Newark, 1758-2008 : seventy-five stories about Newark, Delaware, and its citizens. A photographic ribbon of people flows across all 283 pages of the book, which included chapters written by 75 individuals.
Nova reperta : new discoveries and inventions. New Haven, Conn. : JAB Books, 1999.
The edition consists of 75 copies of which this is number 11. All copies are signed by the artists.
Nova reperta (new discoveries) began in 1993 as part of a Smithsonian project to respond to works in the Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology. Drucker and Freemans response echoed key themes found in a sixteenth-century work of the same title by Johannes Stradanus (1523-1605). Stradanuss suite of engravings celebrated the technological discoveries and inventions that shaped his modern times, including advancements in printing technology such as the copper plate engravings that facilitated mass reproduction of the images used in his work.
Drucker and Freemans Nova Reperta (1999) is a re-imagining of technological advances in the twenty-first century, conceived as a meditation on the moral, social, financial, and environmental costs of such progress. Drucker and Freeman created a dialogue, pairing text with photomontage in a poetic exchange that reflects the integration of modern technology into the human landscape. On the inclusion of the text, Drucker and Freeman noted that [t]he photographic document is unable to reveal the unseen networks that systematize relations of power in contemporary culture, so that the text functions to replace some of what is missing from the image, reinforcing the realization that in a society of spectacle, images offer an appearance that obfuscates rather than reveals the complexities of lived reality.
Shown here is an image of New Yorks Grand Central Station.


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Data Architect
Full time, Permanent
Who are PPL?
As a leading licensing business at the heart of the UK's music industry, PPL ensures those who invest their time, talent and money to make recorded music are compensated and recognised when their music is used by businesses or broadcast on TV, radio or online.
To enable this, we capture and maintain a vast data set, including metadata about 12m sound recordings, their territorial rights holdings, performer's contributions to them, and their use for broadcast and public performance in the UK and internationally. The architecture of the systems and processes that manage this data is crucial to PPL's effective operations.
What you'll be doing…
The Data Architect is responsible for the architecture of all data across PPL. The role reports into the Head of Insight & Innovation, but by nature will be highly collaborative – working with teams across various projects and enhancements to provide leadership, guidance, or support to the design and delivery of data technology.
What you'll need…
You'll need a true passion for data and technology, and the willingness to get your hands dirty at times. You'll need to work as a part of a broad team, and be able to talk our business' language when we need you to.
What we have to offer…
When you come on board at PPL you can expect to be rewarded for your hard work. In addition to a competitive salary and bonus scheme, employees are entitled to a wide range of benefits which support their needs and lifestyles including Private Medical Care, Childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership and many more!
Equality and Diversity at PPL
PPL are committed to equal opportunities and inclusivity, therefore we welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community.
Unfortunately, due to the high number of application received for every role here at PPL we are only able to contact candidates we'd like to progress to interview stage.


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I can't get the sensor to fit
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The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has completed its investigation into October's Soyuz mishap in record time, pointing the finger of blame at problems during assembly. Mutterings emitted from the space agency earlier this week suggested that the issue was related to a sensor that detects stage separation of the booster. In …
I'm certainly not going to disagree that by 2018 standards Soyuz QA clearly sucks equine testicles. (In 40 000 miles my car has suffered zero faults, zero advisories, and the Toyota service manager says "we expect that".)
But it is worth remembering that the fire which killed three Apollo astronauts was caused by a dreadful error chain, starting with a contractor stuffing wires through ducts so badly that insulation was stripped in places (IIRC). How did anybody, knowing that people were going to travel on that thing, do that?
I recall being told that one reason so few existing car industry workers were taken on by the Japanese companies in the UK was that years of bad management attitude had meant that they simply didn't have the mindset for defect free assembly.
tl;dr: perhaps the space industry has to go the way the car industry did with the new entrants setting new standards, because once people have been kicked long enough to just get stuff out of the door, untraining them is impossibly long and expensive.
When I worked for Ferranti, we had the usual Military and Space standards.
Amazing how many assemblers would botch their job to get a time bonus.
We as the prefinal testers would regularly see amazing errors that people would do.
The next stage from us was environmental testing. Then it was fitted into the Space craft or Fighter Jet.
I was in disbelief at one PCB that had a dozen 2" long component leads still attached to the board so that you couldn't close the carry case it came in.
The Quality Inspector who was supposed to check assembly before me said, "anyone can make a mistake". Yeah right a little mistake caused by the Assembler and you!
If the British Air force pilots or Ariane knew how many errors were spotted and fixed at the last moment, I doubt the Pilots would switch their planes/Rockets on!
We as the prefinal testers would regularly see amazing errors that people would do.My first new car was a 1969 Pontiac, which I kept for many years until it was destroyed by another car striking it while it was stopped. I was still driving it when the state I lived in instituted emissions tests. It failed because of excess hydrocarbon emissions. Compression test looked okay so let's look at the carburetor. Removed top cap on carburetor, then the dried-out gasket. In the top rim of the main housing was a _serious_ dent, where something pretty heavy had fallen on it, or the carb had been dropped before assembly. That carb never should have found its way into a car. The gasket had sealed the dent for many years, until it dried out. Put a little dab of gasket sealer on the dent and let it cure, then replaced only the gasket, and the car passed its emissions test well below the PPM limits for that year. I forget which company built that carb, but that wasn't the only quality problem with the car. The first month I had it a rear-window regulator let go and the glass disappeared inside the body. Then the latch that held the seat in place front-back let go. Buy American? Call me a traitor, but I don't need the drama.
Space vehicles undergo rather more stress than that carburetor, so even if a problem isn't immediately apparent, poor QA can result in catastrophe later on. As John Glenn famously noted, every part of an American space vehicle was built by the lowest bidder. The problem is, once the thing is assembled, it's impossible to know if something was damaged or mis-assembled. As someone else noted, you have to trust in the quality culture of the organizations responsible for making the beast.
British cars were worse. My grandad once owned an Austin Princess. Upon having owned the car a number of years found himself needing to use the spare tire. Not so unusual....
When said tire was removed he noticed an odd lump. After poking it he found a nearly full pack of cigarettes under the spay paint. Bollocks to picking the things up. Just spray paint over ir
> The Quality Inspector who was supposed to check assembly before me said, "anyone can make a mistake".
Quality Bru^Hitsh workmanship - and why "Made in the UK" became a warning label across the Commonwealth.
In the fields I worked, even in the late 1980s anything which came out of the UK was regarded with deep suspicion - and this was despite Marconi putting out some quite decent kit.
As for cars - I think the lesson might have finally sunk in when GM tried to reintroduce Vauxhall as a brand in New Zealand in the 1990s and only sold about 3 vehicles until they gave up and rebadged them as Opels. (When Japanese cars went to the same import duty as British cars in 1973, British cars went from 40% of the market to 3% in less than 12 months.)
"If the British Air force pilots or Ariane knew how many errors were spotted and fixed at the last moment"
I'd be far more worried about the botches that _didn't get spotted. One of the reasons for the "deep suspicion" mentioned above was the British love of sending pristine demonstrators, but shoddy sales items which broke down a lot and then stiffing the buyer on warranty support. Wining and dining the bosses might win orders for a while, but Ferranti and a few others lost major orders when staff threatened to strike if they had to work on any more substandard kit - it helped that the accountants pointed out that the "more expensive" Japanese or American kit had a total operating cost far lower than the UK version and generally worked first time (and on budget) instead of needing 2 years of tweaking before being ready.
It wasn't just poor workmanship either: Who on earth designs pieces of equipment that are meant to be opened up to be serviced but doesn't have a wiring harness allowing this to happen? You can guarantee that having to desolder 50+ joints to get the device apart and resolder them afterwards is going to shorten its life. It was obvious that in most cases someone had just taken a prototype and not bothered to make it ready for production/service life before firing it down the assembly line and we ended up making our own replacement looms for a lot of kit in these kinds of cases as it was cheaper than the wasted time dealing with the craptacular originals.
"When I was a lad" - people used to lambast us colonials for a "she'll be right" attitude, but it was pretty obvious that it was nothing to the attitudes in British manufacturing (mainly at management level). Britain joining the EU and dumping all its cozy trading arrangements with former colonies was one of the best favours it could have done those colonies in the long term. They've moved on, but it's clear that the Brexit crowd haven't and they're still convinced that Britain rules all, instead of being a minor northern European country with a far greater interest in getting on extremely well with its neighbours than cosying up to the rich kids over the Atlantic who've repeatedly shown that the "special relationship" is only special when it suits them.
(As for Russian stuff: Surprisingly, their high tech works well, their low tech is bullet proof and everything in between tends to be crap)
Yes, I have worked in electronics assembling etc. too, some people don't care, want to complete things quickly (speed of assembly is paramount to management), don't give a care about anything.....science and tech drive our civilization, expensive oops(es) get noticed! It is truly amazing that some or other big nuke warhead command and control systems have not actually decided to go BANG by technical accident/and/or unforeseen design problems. and/or human malfunction...?
The last hundred years conditioned the whole country to be a QA nightmare, and it can't easily be conditioned away. I'm writing from a country with only about 40 years of "peace and socialism" under its belt, which was done away with thirty ears ago, and the ripples are still to be seen and dealt with today.
It's all well and good to say that but if you do any job a hundred times it stops being a special job, it just becomes step 7b of job 256. And you've got 4 more jobs to do before the end of the day or the boss is going to get pissy with you. And this bloody bracket, which you've complained about half a dozen times but no one listens, is not going in easily. So you just take your hammer and get it to fit easy as pie. And move on to step 7c.
This is how cock ups like this happen. Because people are more worried about the pressure they'll get from managers for missing a deadline. Their manager is a more immediate problem then some future potential problem for some astronauts they'll never meet.
To avoid this, you really need a culture in the workplace where problems and delays are dealt with properly and no blame is put on the worker when they occur. It sounds very much like Roscosmos does not currently have that culture...
@Big John
You seem to have a naive expectancy that any assembly line worker would really think about the criticality of any component, or take more care because of that.
It might be the case that the sensor was simply dropped whilst being handled, and then put on anyway, because the alternative is for the worker to own up to damaging it, and suffer the consequences - which might be punitive.
I wonder what you would do in the circumstances?
"It might be the case that the sensor was simply dropped whilst being handled, and then put on anyway, because the alternative is for the worker to own up to damaging it, and suffer the consequences - which might be punitive."
Exactly. It's cultural.
In Toyota or Sony, to name just two I know a bit about, the worker would admit to having dropped it, the sensor would be replaced properly, and the quality circle would address itself to ways of preventing sensors from being dropped and damaged.
An example: wall hung toilet bowls. These are prone to damage by being dropped. Unless you buy them from a certain German manufacturer who supplies them with the foam packing formed into an assembly jig which holds them secure and presents them to the wall at the right height.
Then there's the marine engine builder who supplies each of their engines with a beautifully shaped jig which simultaneously compresses the piston rings and slides the piston down the cylinder in a straight line, preventing ring damage. When you see that compared to the crudity of people trying to get ring compressors to line up over a piston, you appreciate real quality engineering.
I've worked for a company where the production director had to be fired to start developing a blame-free culture to get towards zero defect assembly.
>Exactly. It's cultural.
If only the Russians had a quality first mindset like the US then they too could have the F35 program as a shining example. Not a russian troll just disgusted with how greed turns everything to shit in the US and causes us to lose the ability to even engage in space travel. Think positive. Looking forward to the JWST launching in 2025.
"If only the Russians had a quality first mindset like the US"
I am not an American, though I have worked for US companies in several capacities.
Some US companies I've come across are as good as any in the world.
Some are crap. Some are in between.
But the problems of the F-35, as so often with military programs, are political.
My friendly consultant to the US government says that the pork barrel basically prevents things from happening but is essential, because it's the US equivalent of the welfare state - providing jobs in depressed parts of the country, either in the armed forces or in making arms. Every politician wants their share.
So unlike our own dear country where Labour has to support Trident because of where the jobs are.
>When you see that compared to the crudity of people trying to get ring compressors to line up over a piston, you appreciate real quality engineering. The Japanese bikes were never that much better than the British ones, especially when they were both relatively new, but the attention to detail in the assembly is much more obvious with the Japanese one. (They Japanese also seemed to put 'working' as a key criteria for outsourced components such as electrical parts -- they like stuff to be cheap but they regard working as somewhat more important.)
When you compare the service manual for my old Triumph with that for a generic Japanese motorcycle then you immediately understand why the old bike leaks and has had periodic reliability problems (up to and including a broken connecting rod) while the Japanese bike(s) just run. Its not really the line workers that are to blame but the company culture, it sets the tone.
The good news with Soyuz is that the emergency escape system got a good workout and seems to be functioning. Its also impressive that they could find the problem by looking at the pile of bits of crushed and twisted metal (and the telemetry).
"The Japanese bikes were never that much better than the British ones, especially when they were both relatively new, but the attention to detail in the assembly is much more obvious with the Japanese one."
I like to watch the old videos of engine assembly on Youtube, and one thing I've noticed on both a British and a Harley video is the con rods being allowed to knock against the crankcase mouth, something the guy who taught me how to do that stuff (PhD mechanical engineer) would have regarded with utter horror. You do not risk making even the smallest scratch or dent in a stressed part!
Video of assembly of small Honda engine - nothing is ever allowed to bump into anything else. And the workers are wearing white gloves (skin grease can corrode metal).
"It might be the case that the sensor was simply dropped whilst being handled, and then put on anyway, because the alternative is for the worker to own up to damaging it, and suffer the consequences - which might be punitive."
Quite likely. When you look into reports of soviet nuclear accidents it's clear that more than a few fatal doses of radiation poisoning were down to this kind of incident. The country might change name and politics but ingrained cultural training takes much longer to alter.
The underlying problem is a culture that encourages middle management to treat line workers like that and not escalate issues that need fixing. Organisations will get politicised to the point that people start behaving that way if you don't keep an eye on the culture and values. The hard part is to avoid letting carpetbaggers into your management team. Once you get one manager with that mentality the toxicity will spread to everyone that person is in a position to put pressure on. It affects culture - by allowing a culture of undue pressure on workers - and hiring practices - A's hire A's, B's hire C's.
Keeping a culture alive where people are able to work on complex tasks in a zero-defect manner is not a trivial undertaking, and the vast majority of management teams are not capable of doing it. Certainly, British hiring practices for managers favour politically savvy 'people manager' types who aren't inclined to rock the boat, and the trend in management culture seems to be moving more in that direction in pretty much all industrialised countries. It happened at NASA with the O-ring fiasco, it's happened at Toyota (coming out with brakes IIRC) and now it's happened at Roscosmos.
@Big John
"Clearly the Russians have a systematic quality assurance problem, and those ain't cheap"
Before this latest problem, the last time a Soyuz launcher needed to use its escape system was 1983.
A 35 year run of manned launch successes implies that the problem which occurred isn't systematic.
Clearly, there is some sort of quality management problem which needs to be dealt with. But given the long-term reliability of the Soyuz system, whatever the problem is, it isn't deeply embedded into the engineering or operational culture so isn't likely to be particularly difficult or expensive to deal with.
I do wonder about this point:
"As of September 2017, the two final Soyuz-FG rockets had been scheduled to fly in April and September 2020. However the Roskosmos leadership was pressing the industry to retire the FG variant as early as 2019 to cut costs and avoid problems with Russian security services, which put serious obstacles in obtaining avionics and associated technical assistance from Ukraine's Kommunar plant. As a result, at least one of previously planned launches of Soyuz-FG in 2020 could be performed in 2019, industry sources said."
- one might speculate that - just maybe - management has perhaps been pushing workers to get things done faster than usual, which could have contributed to the problem in this case. I don't suppose we'll find out about that one way or another.
Clearly the Russians have a systematic quality assurance
I would have given the poster of this the benefit of the doubt if not for:
1. It being posted by a known AI-synthesized Trump Clone Bot
2. It having a proper statistical basis in the actual data from the field. Do we like it or not, but based on actual launch statistics the old village bus beats any of the other manned flight programs by a very large margin. Shuttle - 135 launches, 14 dead bodies, zero successful landings under major failure conditions. Soyuz - 139 crewed launches, 4 dead bodies, 3+ successful landings under various failure and/or abort conditions with crew alive in all cases (not something the shuttle can claim).
Actually, if you look at the stats differently, you might say the US and USSR/Russia are much the same. Both had two flights kill all the astronauts on board. And the Shuttle had flights like STS27 where there was major heat shield damage that the vehicle survived. The Shuttle both carried cargo and astronauts into orbit, and was much more complicated than Soyuz, so it might be reasonable to say the US has the better safety culture.
Oooh, my cue to post the L5 ground loop audio from Eileen Collins's launch. Stay with it for the low LOX level premature SSME cut-off half a sec before the scheduled MECO, which IIRC was due to a big hole in a nozzle cooling circuit. (The auto cut-off is there because apparently cryogenic gas turbopumps tend to explode if suddenly fed vacuum when running.)
Oy, this makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time I watch it!
Context https://waynehale.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/sts-93-we-dont-need-any-more-of-those/
And there's a WP article of course.
Clearly the Russians have a systematic quality assurance problem
So systematic that it caused a single failure.
Now if you'd mentioned the problem they had with defective gas generators being installed in RD-021x engines during 2015/16, which ultimately killed off the Proton rocket, you might have had a point. However, that was due to attempted cost-cutting, which is the kind of thing you expect to see in the west...
"Wasn't The Morning Star the Crommulist rag?"
Still is AFAIK. I can only assume the idiots who modded me down never lived through the 70s and have some sentimental view of salt-o-tha-earth union workers fighting against The Man. Truth was british car workers back in the day were short sighted, cretinous, lazy fools who would use strong arm tactics to get what they wanted no matter what the long term cost - which turned out to be their jobs in a lot of cases. A bit like the current RMT tbh.
>Truth was british car workers back in the day were short sighted, cretinous, lazy fools who would use strong arm tactics to get what they wanted no matter what the long term cost
I lived through the 70s, and recognise that propaganda from the right-wing press of the time. The real truth was that British management was crap - as we discovered when foreign management managed to produce decent cars - with British workers.
As Geoffrey Goodman later observed - you could always predict when there was going to be a wildcat strike; when the storage car parks filled up with unsold cars, some issue would be created, to annoy the workers enough to walk out (and allow some cars to be sold, to clear the storage parks).
That hammered a sensor into place because it wouldn't fit - because it had been carefully designed with locating pins stopping it being installed upside down ?
...I much prefer this kind of incident investigation to that other kind that digs itself into a mountain of reports and committees with all flight operations halted for half a decade. Besides, they allegedly do intend to take apart all assembled boosters again to make sure there are no further issues of this kind. It sure beats sitting grounded until you can design, test and certify your new ISO-compliant procedures for establishing management guidelines and decision strategies for drafting quality assurance protocols that will hopefully ensure this exact specific particular fault can never occur again.
That's all very well - until it turns out that you've got larger problems than a quick investigation will turn up, and you end up killing your cosmonauts live on TV.
It's not exactly very reassuring to say, "we broke a vital component of our rocket at some point in manufacturing, but we don't know how or when. Still that's OK - because it passed all the checks - or there weren't any checks - or people aren't doing the checks properly. But seeing as we don't know which, we'll just invent some new procedures and hope they work.
Meantime our current Soyuz in orbit has a hole in it, that was subsequently crudely covered up with epoxy (presumably by the guilty employee). And that also got through inspection, assuming there was any) and we also still don't know how that happened, when that happened, or how it got through checking, or if it was checked.
Oh and some of our senior leadership decided to publicly accuse the personnel in orbit of doing it, without any evidence or even credible possibility. Because that's really reassuring that management culture is all about solving this problem, rather than just rushing back to full operations with the minimum of arse-covering neccessary.
Yes a quick report can be an opportunity to get back to operations with maximum efficiency. But it can also be an opportunity for a whitewash that's eventually going to get people killed.
You can't just blithely say, "we have a manufacturing quality control problem of unknown dimensions, but fuck-it we're just going to fly anyway."
If NASA have got any sense, they will run a mile from the next launch. I hope they don't get pressured into it because they'll be accused of cowardice for not flying on a rocket the Russians will. Unless they're getting more indications that this is being taken more seriously than it looks to be on the surface. I'll be delighted to be wrong - but I'm seriously worried.
NASA being unable to meet any kind of deadlines or cost estimates is why we are depending on our fr-enemies to get into space in the first place. As Neil deGrasse Tyson says our space program looks awesome if you reverse time's arrow. Thanks to shitty decisions made for decades our two choices are now no space flight or trust the Russians. Easy to poo poo their culture but the alternative is a jobs program ran by defense contractors with too many heads in the trough that delivers nothing these days but invoices for the taxpayers.
> Yay for free markets
The American space program is most definitely NOT anything close to a free market. It is closely controlled by Congress and used as a political football.
For example, the current hoorah over launching American spysats on rockets powered by Russian engines. They'd be powered by American engines, except guess what? Congress cancelled the last FIVE of the NASA engine R&D programs. One of which (FASTRAC) was rescued by that bi-polar stoner Elon Musk and resurrected as Merlin
> NASA being unable to meet any kind of deadlines or cost estimates
See above. This is because Congress has cut the COTS crew program funding by 67% and the BEST thing about it is that the senator responsible for the cuts is now bitching it's behind schedule!
And when you have to punt deadlines and jerk contractors around, of course it all gets more expensive... and I end up footing the bill for all this bullshit, as a taxpayer.
Oh yeah, I forgot:
Those Russian engines launching American spysats?
Yeah, the design of those were licensed to us and supposed to be "made in America" except guess what?
Again, Congress denied the promised funding for that to happen and told ULA to go fuck itself.
For the record yes Elon Musk is amazing and yes SpaceX is too but was on a rant and have to admit the guy hasn't been a rock of stability lately. Sarcasm aside he may still well be the US's best hope.
Also I am well aware of our recently history of failed political leadership especially in regards to science but then an article like this shows NASA shares some of the blame as well. ISS was also a mistake IMO.
Alexey Ovchinin is definitely in trouble for this: he had Nick Hague sitting right next to him throughout the launch yet somehow failed to notice him sabotaging the first stage of the rocket! Most likely a frank yet courteous exchange of words with Putin awaits him.
Just to get this story straight: The fault that caused a soyuz to misbehave and crew to climb to the escape pod has been identified and corrected. No BS with people blaming others or withholding information (Challenger, anybody ?), or escape routes too long and pods too far away for the nauts to gets out.
Whatever you say, the Russians have a track record nowhere near anybody else when it comes to space missions, like, 4 deaths in almost 70 years ? [have not checked] Their kit is rudimentary, but it usually does the job nicely - shit sometimes happens AND gets fixed ...
I do not like the Russian President or his Administration, but Roscosmos definitely know what they are doing!
Just to get this story straight: The fault that caused a soyuz to misbehave and crew to climb to the escape pod has been identified and corrected.
It may have been identified, but it has not been corrected. For a start, it has already happened and is therefore beyond correction. Beyond that, it's not enough to know that something was wrongly fitted; you also have to know why it was wrongly fitted. If it was accidental, can you be sure that further accidents will not occur elsewhere. And if it was sabotage - which seems at least possible - how do you know you have caught all the saboteurs?
Oh, and all that aside ,,, what "escape pod". Soyuz capsules don't have "escape pods".
It may have been identified, but it has not been corrected. For a start, it has already happened and is therefore beyond correction.
I obviously mean the manufacturing fault has been identified and procedures adhjusted, meaning any newly built soyuz will NOT have this manufacturing fault.
Soyuz capsules don't have "escape pods".
True, they landed in the crew capsule. Sorry!
As to Roscosmos security track record, read this:
Not saying accidents will not happen, just that their death toll is incredibly low, especially considering all the humans they put into orbit ...
When it comes to rockets (and aircraft), you don't compare fatalities.
You compare near-misses and vehicle losses, because vehicle losses aren't survivable.
Soyuz takes up to three people, while the Shuttle took up to seven. So you'd have to lose more than twice as many Soyuz to kill the same number of astronauts.
So given an equal death rate, you'd choose the Shuttle as you're half as likely to die.
Soyuz currently has very obvious quality problems, as there are now two that were launched in the last year with issues that should never have made it off the production line.
That is indicative of a manufacturing culture where mistakes are covered up, rather than fixed - the workers don't feel like they can say "oops, I broke it" without consequences to their livelihoods, and thus will hide that.
I work with a guy who used to be an aircraft heavy maintenance tech. We were discussing formal tool and component accountability procedures for a high quality line we are working and I asked how rivets and other fasteners in aircraft are accounted for as they are not serialized.
Tech: "They're not"
Me: ?
Tech: "You sweep and vacuum out the rivets and fasteners from wing tanks and whatever the best you can. That's why the fuel system has strainers and filters."
Me: ??
Tech: "Well, yeah, they have their limits. Thats why on your Airbus or Boeing the fuel intakes are not in the lowest part of the tank. Sometimes if the wing is gutted we will pull all the crap out of the sumps. Usually they're there forever"
Me: whimper
Tech: "To really eff things up you need a socket head floating around or similar, that's why we have accountability at that mass level. Every part, every shift"
I do love postmortems on incidents, whether techy or IT, at El Reg. Always guaranteed to bring out the best Harry Enfield style 'You don't waana do it like that from people who do every job perfectly (and if it fails it was someone else's fault). The press conference basically said the sensor got bent. It didn't say it was dropped or hammered in when it didn't fit. No one commentating (probably) has any idea what the sensor looks like and how robust it is. Or what the allowable bend might be. Maybe it was bodged, maybe it was fragile, maybe once installed it's not visible for external inspection - we don't know.
It's fair to wonder why a damageable sensor is a single point mission critical element, but not to extrapolate to systematic organisational failures on that basis. Spacecraft are designed to be light and engineering 'light enough to lift, strong enough to work' is always going to be a fine compromise.


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In each territory partners, 5 secondary schools have been identified and involved in project activities, with the exception of Belgium where ACR+ (Co-applicant 8) is working with only 2 schools. Project partners have selected the secondary schools ensuring a balanced participation of target representing different backgrounds and features, in terms of types of schools, locations and social issues.
It have been organized 2 workshops per school with teachers to transfer the issues of project, train them and coordinate the activities. Moreover, the training processes of the teachers have been strengthened through "learning by doing" methodology and through their active involvement in all activities, in order to make them able to replicate the experience also after project's ending.
The workshops contents were been: an overall picture on food waste at local, national, European and global level; interconnection between food waste and other sustainable development issues, such land, water and energy waste; new forms of sustainable and responsible consumption and lifestyle.
After the conclusion of teachers' training courses, there have been 4 didactic modules with an average participation of 40 students per school. Each module lasted moreover 2/3 hours and has taken place during school time. The Thematic Expert Team leaded the modules supported by the teachers involved and exploiting ICT facilities together with a participatory, inductive methodology. Finally, all material created has been organized in a toolkit in order to make teachers able to replicate the action.
The modules mainly focus on the following topics: basic information and overview on the theme of food waste at local, national, European and global level (with qualitative and quantitative data), and its interrelation with daily and personal behaviors; interconnection between food waste and other sustainable development issues, such land, water and energy waste; new forms of sustainable and responsible consumption and lifestyle.
With the support of experts, students analyze local and global contexts in order to identify concrete actions to reduce food waste and to adopt new sustainable and responsible lifestyle. These suggestions and recommendations constitute the contents of the partners' local drafts which have merged into The Don't Waste Our Future Charter 2015, a joint European Manifesto of Young People and Local Authorities to promote Food Waste Reduction and the global Right to Food.


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When I was drinking, I would usually play the same video game.... Civ V... it logged my hours..... 1381 hours.... so that's 57 days of my life I spent alone, drunk, in front of that game.... I looked at that number often in shame about how much life I was wasting, never to get back..... so when I started to quit... I put it in my head that 57 was my target date, so I could sort of 'reclaim' the lost days.... well my friends of e-AA, today is day 57! YES!!!
Thanks for all the help and support.... and for listening to some of my Expletive!
Special shout to: Brock, Positrac, Avaneesh, JohnDaniels, and Noels!
PS - I think 1,381 will be my new goal, a day for every wasted hour! Buckle up, could be a heck of a ride to get that far!!


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Metals: Nickel P-Pellets
Vale (formerly INCO) P-Pellets® are a high purity, non-activated, form of plating grade nickel. The spherical pellets are produced through carbonyl refining, which is well known for producing the highest purity form of nickel available. Vale Inco P-Pellets® are screened to remove over and under-sized pellets. The screened product can be utilized in titanium baskets with standard mesh sizes.
The dissolution characteristics of this high purity, sulphur-free product are similar to those of other non-activated products. It dissolves non-uniformly with the formation of small amounts of metallic residue. Chlorides must be present in the plating bath for this material to dissolve efficiently.
The unique spherical shape of Vale Inco P-Pellets® provides basket loading advantages. It flows easily and pours readily into anode baskets. The pellets pack uniformly and settle well during dissolution. Because it is a flowable product, with relative ease, and devices for automatically filling baskets have been designed for use with this product. It is safe to handle and comes in convenient packaging.
The relatively high packing density and excellent flowability make this product especially useful for nickel plating applications where fully automatic anode basket loading devices can be employed.
Quality Management Systems and Environmental Management Systems for the production and packaging of Nickel P-Pellets® have been registered and comply with the requirements of ISO Standard 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 respectively.
Forms: Spherical pieces of nickel. Size range of 8 to 12 mm diameter (90%).
Packaging Density: Approximately 5.4 to 6 kg/dm3 (0.20 to 0.22 lb/in.3) of basket capacity.
Typical Chemical Analysis:
Nickel: >99.98
Cobalt: <0.00005
Iron: 0.005
Carbon: 0.01
Sulphur: 0.0004
Copper: 0.0002
Zinc: <0.00005
Lead: <0.00002
Exceeds the chemical requirements of ISO 6283, NR9995; BS 375, R99.8 and ASTM B 39.
10kg (22 lb.) plastic bags; 5 bags per box; 20 boxes per pallet, stretch-wrapped.
1000kg (2204 lb.) steel drum; 1 drum per pallet, strapped.
Also available in 1000kg (2204 lb.) bags on pallets.
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text: Can Soybeans Turn it Around in August? July 29, 2013 12:04 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Sara Schafer Top Producer Editor Email Bill Bauer, B&M Crop Consulting, provides a soybean crop update from the 2013 Corn College events in Coldwater, Mich. The 2013 soybean crop has had its fair share of challenges. Most of the crop was planted late and in less-than-ideal conditions. August is commonly known as the "bean" month. But, will that play out this year? As of July 21 (updated reports will come out today at 4 p.m. CDT), 46% of the U.S. soybean crop is blooming, which is significantly behind the five-year average of 59% by this time. Only 8% of the crop is setting pods; the average amount is 19% by July 21. Bill Bauer, B&M Crop Consulting, says variable moisture has also been a challenge for this year crop. Regardless, the crop in his area of south-central Michigan, the crop looks good. He provides an update from the test plots that will host Farm Journal's Corn College and Soybean College events this week: "The bean crop is transitioning from the full blossoming to pod development," he says "The beans are going to put on a little more vegetative growth, but we're not going to gain a lot more height at this point." Soybean plant height will definitely need to be addressed at harvest this year. Bauer says farmers need to adjust header height to make sure they are running as close to the ground as possible, to pick up all the pods. .................................... Thank you to the 2013 Corn College sponsors: Agrotain, BASF, Great Plains Mfg., Novozymes, Plant Tuff, Precision Planting, SFP, Wolftrax Catch up on full coverage of Corn College at FarmJournalCornCollege.com. Back to news


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Edwin Temple Hickman
This is a letter Edwin Temple Hickman wrote to his son, William Adams Hickman, who was then living in Utah Territory. Note that this was written during the great excitement of the California Gold Rush, but Edwin was more interested in the possibilities of gold in Utah:
Randolph County, Mo.
May the 6th, 1849
Dear Children: I avail myself of the present opportunity of informing you that we are all in good health at present and sincerely hope that you are enjoying the same blessing. We received yours of the 12th of February—and one of a later date. They gave us great satisfaction to hear of your health and posterity. You complain of my not writing to you before this time, the reason was when you wrote to me from Sandhill I expected you would make your promise good and I would once more have the satisfaction of seeing you in this life and I waited in hope of seeing you until it got too late for a letter to pass from me to you, and when the winter broke I expected er long before a letter could pass to you that you would be searching for gold but not in California, report say that there is plenty at the Salt Lake, if so your folks [the Mormons] aren't smart or they would of kept it dark, report say that two of them brought in forty-five thousand dollars of the gold found at the Salt Lake to barter for goods.
I would like to know if gold was plenty at the Lake. I have had no notion of being a Mormon but if I could see a good prospect for gold it would be a great inducement at least for a while. Your brothers D.[*] and Easom has injured themselves by taking the gold fever they have made the necessary preparation, wagon, oxen, etc., etc., to go to California but one that agreed to go with them and bear his part of the expense of the outfit backed out and they had strained every nerve to make their part of the outfit and when he backed out it disappointed them and a great loss they gave a high price for a wagon and sixty dollars a yoke for cattle (they had three yoke) they had him bound in a bond and the last I heard from them they were going to law.
You stated in your last letter that Bernetta had written to her father. I doubt whether he got the letter he has married his aunt the Widow Hobbs, and has moved to Howard County and is living in or joining New Franklin. Right here I must give you a good one. I think but you can judge for yourself. You know the old man and me was very thick and confidential by times, so just before he was married he came to see me and told me all about it (for he couldn't talk of anything else), that the widow had four negros that one was a fine Smith and he intended to put him in a shop at Milton, etc., etc., but behold between the time they agreed to marry and the wedding day she slipped the negros out of her hands privately and it weren't known for months, then Old George made a sham sale of all his negros to the Dr., it is believed to be a sham sale at any rate or Frederick has got them all. When the old man married he sent word to your mother that he was a perfect happy man nothing lacking how he is now I can't say, I will leave it with you to Judge. Catharine Burchartt and Squire Benj. Haley married a few weeks past, more big kin folks, there has been a great many deaths and marriages since you was here, the widow Whitenburg is living at Old George's place at Milton. Health has been very good in this section for the last twelve months, your brother George was well the first of last month and stated in his letter that he intended coming home in July if he didn't marry, he is in fine health complains of nothing but being too fleshy. O how my children is scattered and still going. Jo starts for Illinois in a few days, my family is getting small, home is a lonesome looking place, nothing flourishing in the way of improvement, but I have plenty bread and meat. I have bacon for sale and could spare one hundred barrels of corn. Write on reception and write every opportunity. I would have been very glad of seeing you once more but it is doubtful whether I ever see you again in this life, kiss the little children for me and tell them I want to see them.
M.D.[*] and Easom is living in Adair County.
E.T. Hickman
--Hope Hilton, Edwin and Elender Webber Hickman, Some Progenitors and Descendents, 3rd ed., 1978, p. 107-109
*Edwin's sixth oldest child, Martin Dickenson Hickman (born 1823) was known in the family as D. or M.D. While panning gold in Colorado in 1859 with his brothers Thomas J. and Warren D., he was killed by a claim jumper.


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Relict Survival of the Sea Otter in Central California and Evidence of Its Recent Redispersal South of Point Conception
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Historically the sea otter abounded around the North Pacific Rim from northern Japan to central Baja California, Mexico. But the population south of Alaska was so heavily hunted in the 18th and 19th centuries for its valuable fur that by very early in the 20th century it generally was assumed to have been extirpated there. In 1938, a remnant population was reported along the nearly inaccessible coast of southern Monterey County, California. Extensive exploration of the reefs from northern Washington to northern Baja California between 1913 and 1926, resulting in sightings only at Bixby Creek, supports the contention that the species persisted nowhere else in that area. The population has since markedly increased in central California, resulting in expansion of the species" range. Twenty four recent records south of Point Conception provide increasing evidence of limited redispersal there.
Recommended Citation
Leatherwood, Stephen; Harrington-Coulombe, Linda J.; and Hubbs, Carl L.
"Relict Survival of the Sea Otter in Central California and Evidence of Its Recent Redispersal South of Point Conception,"
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1970 – 1979
By the early '70s, society was becoming environmentally conscious. We responded by retrofitting boilers with electrostatic precipitators which removed 99.5 per cent of the fly ash from emissions. While interest rates rose, we continued to expand to keep up with the needs of a growing province.
In 1970, Calgary Power commissioned the first coal-fired unit at the Sundance Generating Plant, with 286 megawatts of capacity. In 1972, the construction of the Bighorn Dam on the North Saskatchewan River was completed. Its reservoir was named Lake Abraham, after a long-time Aboriginal resident of the area, Silas Abraham.
Meanwhile, land reclamation at the company's Whitewood Mine, near our Wabamun Plant, was well underway and setting a pattern for ongoing reclamation activities that continue to this day.
In 1974, Calgary Power acquired Lethbridge's generating plant and the company's Sundance plant expanded, with Units Four and Five coming online in 1977 and 1978.
Our Sundance plant, pictured here, first came on line in 1970. It is now our largest plant and can generate in excess of 2,000 MW.