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Being #OmniTEN has it's perks. One of the awesome parts of this experience has been the opportunity to dig a little deeper than usual into a brand's technology. Usually, I get to test one or two pieces from a company and give my opinion. Columbia has sent us a pretty wide sampling of pieces hosting a collection of technologies. The big focus for us, as Spring/Summer Omniten, has been on the Omni Freeze and Omni-Freeze Zero fabrics that are featured this year.
Omni-Freeze Zero Products I've used…
Between the products that I've received as part of the OmniTEN welcome package, pieces I've asked to test and a couple of pieces I've purchased I have quite a collection of Omni-Freeze Zero products. Here is the list of what I've worn:
- Men's Freeze Degree™ 1/2 Zip
- Men's Coolest Cool™ Short Sleeve Top
- Men's Freeze Degree™ Long Sleeve Shirt
- Men's Terminal Zero™ Long Sleeve Woven
- Men's Powerdrain Cool™ Shoe
- Freezer Zero™ Neck Gaiter
- Men's Trail Dryer™ Hat
Omni-Freeze Zero Technology…
Omni-Freeze ZERO is the culmination of a four-year development effort including Omni-Freeze, the short lived Omni-Freeze Ice and now Omni-Freeze Zero.
The basis of the technology is to use the sweat (moisture) we produce during exercise or in extreme heat to cool the fabric. Omni-Freeze Zero fabric is embedded with thousands of little blue super-absorbent polymer rings that trap up to 300% more moisture than normal fabric then use that moisture to physically drop the temperature of the fabric for an extended period of time.
Excerpt from Popular Science Magazine about the technology:
"The human body already has a highly efficient cooling system: As perspiration evaporates, it draws heat away from the body. Wicking fabrics facilitate this process by distributing sweat evenly over the fabric, so that it dries more quickly. Despite devising cheats, such as menthol-like chemical coatings added to fabrics, companies have never actually improved upon the body's natural cooling process. Designers at Columbia Sportswear have now made a fabric that does.
The wicking polyester base of the Omni-Freeze ZERO T-shirt is embedded with thousands of 0.15-inch hydrophilic polymer rings (a men's medium has more than 41,000 of them). As the base spreads sweat, the rings absorb moisture and expand into three-dimensional doughnuts. In order to swell, the rings require energy, which they gather as body heat. In tests, the shirt was up to 10 degrees cooler against the wearer's skin than shirts made from any other material."
Typically coupled with complementary technologies like Omni-Wick EVAP and Omni-Shade, these new garments are tailor made for adventures in the heat.
Omni-Freeze Zero Performance…
It's hot in Phoenix, there's no getting around it. A clothing product that can cool itself sounds like a desert dweller's dream. So when Columbia sent me the first batch of Omni-Freeze Zero stuff I was anxious to try it out.
I decided to do the first test mid-day on the bike with a brisk 20 mile ride in the Trail Dryer Hat and Freeze Degree 1/2 Zip long sleeve shirt. I didn't sweat. This told me two things: I need try harder and the light, breathable fabric with Omni-Wick kept me pretty dry. Halfway through the ride I poured a little water on the headband of the hat and did feel some cooling, but it wasn't significant.
Later, I took the Terminal Zero shirt out for a hike. It was over 100 degrees and I did 6 hot miles on a rocky, exposed trail to work up a sweat. I could tell that certain areas where the sweat was accumulating I could sense the cooling in the fabric. I never really built enough sweat to get larger sections of the shirt to cool so I sprayed some water on my neck, shoulders and arms to give the fabric a little boost. BAM…there it is. Initially, there's the immediate natural cooling effect you would feel in any shirt when you splash it with water, but then the fabric cools down and goes well beyond anything water would do alone. Even spraying it with warm water, the fabric cools below the temp of the water.
There is a tipping point where the fabric saturates enough to activate the cooling of the material. I decided to see if more water meant more cooling and later put on the Freeze Degree Long Sleeve shirt and jumped in the pool. It was well over 100 degrees in full sun. I got out of the pool and sat in the sun with the shirt on. The shirt didn't seem to significantly cool until it had dried out a little, then the technology kicked in and I felt a significant sensation of cooling where the shirt was touching my skin. This cooling effect slowly dissipated as the fabric dried out.
Coupled with complementary technologies like Omni-Shade (50 SPF UV protection) and design features like a vented back panel (in some shirts), the clothing performs well outdoors. I do feel like I was more comfortable on my warm weather hikes in the Columbia clothing I tested. Like most technical fabrics, it doesn't take much use to build up some stink, there's something about tech fabrics that really amplifies body odor. The Omni-Freeze Zero materials are best used next to the skin so wearing something underneath defeats the purpose.
Room for improvement…
I've heard some complaints about Columbia having inconsistent fit and sizing with their garments. That makes it difficult sometimes to order things online especially when you're sort of in between sizes like I am. I don't think it's so much that the sizing has been inconsistent as much as they sell different cuts and some styles are more fitted than others. I found most of the sizing true to convention.
It would be nice to see Columbia develop an Omni-Odor Block technology of some kind. All of the tech fabrics in athletic wear seem to amplify body odor and these shirts are no different.
Other than that, I like the styling, fit and weight of the garments. I do wish they made the Terminal Zero in a black or dark gray color but I seem to be in the minority lately about acceptable clothing colors…and I like the blue. There's not a lot I would suggest beyond what they've done. I think Columbia does a pretty thorough job in designing clothing that works well in the outdoors.
Bottom Line…
It works. If you're like me and you don't sweat buckets when you're exercising, you might need to add a little moisture to activate the cooling but the fabric works. We did get free samples to test as part of OmniTEN, but I felt confident enough in the products after using them to purchase more pieces with my own money AND buy some for my wife. A little cooling help in Arizona means an extra month or so of enjoying the outdoors before even Omni-Freeze Zero can't compete with the heat.
More from The OMNITEN…
For more Columbia Omni-Freeze Zero talk…check out the reviews from fellow #OmniTEN bloggers Kristie, Eric and Erika.
"I decided to put my long sleeve 1/2 zip top on myself and throw Rainy in my Freeze Degree short sleeve top. We then took a dip in the water, and it was instant relief and disbelief for me. I felt unbelievably cool in the water, but once I stepped out of the water (after dunking my Trail Dryer hat in the water), I stayed cool for a couple hours without going back into the water!"
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"Here is the main reason I'm in love with this shirt, it adapts to the temperature of my body, avoiding those too hot, too cold, moments so common in spring. I can put the Omni-Freeze ZERO long-sleeve shirt on and wear it all day comfortably from sun to shade."


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Hairdressers That Come To Your House in Pretoria before I go into the points to help you choose your hairdresser, I should first outline the definition of what is a mobile hairdresser? A Haircut At Home Service is a hairdresser who usually works for his or herself visiting clients at their homes or place of work, or any other agreed venue and does not operate from a fixed hair salon or beauty shop.
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1.When to consider using a mobile hairdresser. The services of a mobile hairstylist may often be required to be used at a home for a wedding when it may often be inconvenient for the bride to travel to a hair or beauty salon to have her hair and her make-up done, requiring her then to travel back to her home to put on her wedding gown. Instead, the hairdresser will travel to the bride's home in order to style the bride's hair for her special day. A Mobile Beauty hairstylist is often in demand for Care homes, hospitals, prisons, the armed forces, and in many other situations where individual attention is required.
Is Mobile Hairdressing Worth It?
4. Always Use a qualified hairdresser. As with Salon hairdressers, your mobile hairdresser should hold formal hairdressing qualifications. The UK national Vocational Qualification in Hairdressing (NVQ) is the only recognized qualification system, and more than 60% of mobile hairstylists are now trained to this standard. They should also hold professional indemnity insurance.
Your mobile hairdresser should be happy and prepared to recommend the perfect hairdos and often make-up to accentuate and compliment the individual looks of the customer, and offer suggestions on what hairstyle or make up should best suit the client.
Hairdressers That Come To Your House in Pretoria ?
Hairdressing is one of the many trades that can be carried out in a clients home. Hairdressers only need a pair of scissors a small stock of products comb and other accessories to cut and style a persons hair. But is it worth it? below I discuss some of the pros and cons of mobile hairdressing and perhaps uncover some little known truths.
I hope this article maybe useful to someone who is thinking of starting up in mobile hairdressing and help them to assess which is the best route to take salon based or mobile.
So you have a car, have all your tools a client list and decide to go into the flexible working of being mobile. You can book clients in when you want as much of what will allow get up late arrive home early?
Firstly nowadays if you use a car for business you must have the correct insurance often this will incur a higher premium. There could be an argument that the car is just insured for "personal" use social and pleasure and that if you had an accident that you would just say you where visiting a relative? Insurance companies are more and more tightening there belts and looking for people outside of the scope of this they may ask to prove you where on holiday from work or proof of travel.
Do your research
This is the most important part before going into any new venture and its also the part that most people get wrong partly because of their desire to live the dream. Be hard on your plan scrutinize the competition how many the what why where and how. Also look at the possibility of future competition and threat of reducing your market.
Allot of people do not really Analise there costs, when I mean costs I mean true costs down to the penny, here's an example.
Outgoings cost of car payment, car tax, insurance,fuel, wear and tear, cost of equipment and stock, fair wear and tear to equipment, necessary taxes. Add all this up on a yearly then monthly and drill down to a daily basis this will give you an idea of where you need to start from.
Best of luck
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Versatility, convenience, and flexibility are three definite features that have effectually contributed to the increasing popularity of mobile spas. Whether you wish to enjoy a relaxing massage in the living room after a long tiring day or arrange an exclusive event, hiring a renowned organization that provides localized spa service is considered the best possible solution. If you are yet skeptical about spa and prefer a salon instead, the following write-up is sure to change your mind. Readers out there are requested to buy some time and take a close look the below-mentioned pointers.
Why Should You Opt for this Service?
The answer to the stated question is as follows:
5. Top-notch organizations offering mobile spa have mentioned that an ideal provider would offer variety of services starting from manicures, pedicures, facials, body wraps to exfoliation, massages, spray tan, and scrubs. The competent and experienced experts try delivering a soothing experience so that you can come out with a revitalized body as well as mind.
The aforementioned pointers are some of the definite advantages that mobile beauty treatments can provide. Owing to such beneficial aspects, an increasing number of modern-day individuals are opting for these services. As there is a myriad of options readily available, make sure to conduct a thorough research prior to choosing a provider.

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Right now, poet and novelist Mary Mackey is sitting very pretty. But more than four decades ago, when she was an undergraduate at Harvard, she was not allowed to enter the Lamont Library on the campus. This semester the university invited her to read from her award-winning book of poems, The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, many of them set in the ecologically endangered Brazilian Amazon. read more
Much has already been written about Philip Levine, a major American poet from Detroit and beloved teacher who published nearly twenty collections of poetry, alongside volumes of essays and translation (his posthumous works are The Last Shift, poems, and My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry, essays, both from Knopf). Perhaps best known as a poet of elegy who wrote about the lives of working-class people, Levine taught at Fresno State University in California's Central Valley for more than thirty years. read more
D. Nurkse is the author of eleven books of poetry, the latest a re-telling of the story of Tristan and Iseult entitled Love in the Last Days. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and The Times Literary Supplement, among many others. His prizes include fellowships from both the Guggenheim foundation and the NEA, and from 1996-2001 he served as Poet Laureate of Brooklyn. He has taught prison inmates at Rikers Island, as well as students at Sarah Lawrence, Columbia, and the New School. He is an active campaigner for human rights, serving for a time on the board of Amnesty International, and has written frequently on the subject. read more
Brenda Hillman. Photo by Forrest Gander.Breathe Deeply, A Poetic Resistance to the Unknown
Terry Tempest Williams writes in her breakthrough essay, "The Open Space of Democracy," when we experience something fully, it opens us; it "creates a chasm in our heart, an expansion in our lungs…We breathe deeply and remember fear for what it is—a resistance to the unknown." Mississippi by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Extra Hidden Life, among the Days by Brenda Hillman are two stunning new poetry collections that offer us poetic duets with complicated experiences. read more
The News from Poems:
Why Poetry Matters Now
by Susan Cohen
I grew up writing poetry. When I was an eighteen-year-old sophomore at Cal, I applied to my first workshop, submitted my poems, and was rejected. I thought that meant I had no talent and I didn't write another poem for almost thirty years. Sometimes I think I had to wait until I was old enough to withstand rejection. We all know, as poets, about rejection. read more
Postscript for Julia Vinograd
by Richard Loranger
Julia's gone and it feels like the end of an era. I didn't expect that; I knew she would pass soon and it didn't occur to me once, but it really, deeply does feel that way. Julia was the core of something, a beating heart that moved a lot of psyches forward through momentum of poetry. Those psyches will continue to move forward, 'cause that's what psyches do, but they'll have to get used to a different torque, a slightly different engine propelling them. read more
Flying with "Julia" Poems: Julia Vinograd (1943-2018)
by Richard Silberg
Julia Vinograd, locally famous as 'the Bubble Lady of Telegraph Avenue', and 'the unofficial Poet Laureate of Berkeley', died on December 5 at the age of seventy-four.… I can't remember when I first met Julia; it seems as if I had always known her. We were both poets and among the tribe of Berkeley people who used the Med, the Café Mediterranean on Telegraph Avenue, as our living room. read more
The Fin in the Water
An Interview with Martín Espada
by Lee Rossi
For nearly forty years Martín Espada has been a voice for the marginalized and oppressed and a key contributor to the formation of Latinx literature. At a time when American poetry was fixated on questions of subjectivity and form, Espada focused on the real world of politics and history. read more
And Then There Was a Revolution
An Interview with Nancy Morejón
by Kathleen Weaver
Nancy Morejón is a renowned Cuban poet as well as a critic, translator and cultural worker. She is the author of many volumes of poetry, including translations into English such as Looking Within/Mirar adentro (Selected poems 1954-2000) edited by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. A recently published selection is Homing Instincts, translated by Pamela Carmell, Cubana Books, 2014. Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing, Selected Poetry by Nancy Morejón, Black Scholar Press, appeared in 1985, translated by Kathleen Weaver. read more
Fireflies in a Jar
An Interview with Maurya Simon
by Meryl Natchez
Maurya Simon has published ten full-length books of poetry, each one of them unique. Her most recent book, The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2006, appeared this year from Red Hen Press, complete with beautiful color illustrations of her ekphrastic "Weavers Series" poems, reproduced from the original paintings by Simon's mother, Baila Goldenthal. She lives in Mt. Baldy, in the Angeles National Forest of the San Gabriel Mountains, in southern California. read more
Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart
edited by Krista Halverson
reviewed by Carl Landauer
One of my teachers, Austryn Wainhouse, the translator of De Sade (first under the pseudonym Pieralassandro Casavini in Paris but later as a staple of Grove Press), inspired me on my first trip to Paris to make a pilgrimage to Shakespeare and Company just across from Notre Dame. At the time, I was unaware of the difference between Sylvia Beach's interwar Shakespeare and Company on rue de l'Odéon, which had published Joyce's Ulysses and was second home (sometimes even the mailing address) for the lost generation of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Dos Passos, and George Whitman's postwar book store, first named Librairie le Mistral, only to be renamed Shakespeare and Company in 1964, reportedly with Sylvia Beach's blessing. read more
Restless Spirits:
An Interview with Cecilia Woloch
by Amy Pence
It's tough to keep track of the poet Cecilia Woloch. In the spring, you'll find her teaching in a small college in Georgia. By May, she's in a Paris café, surrounded by aspiring poets enrolled in her workshop. July finds her in that small cabin in the Carpathians, tracking down the mystery of her Roma grandmother. The title of her first novel Sur la Route…perfectly captures Woloch's on-the-road lifestyle where travel and poetry interweave. read more
Larry Colker (1947-2018), a Sweetheart of a Guy
by Suzanne Lummis
When Larry Colker died this fall, of lung cancer undiagnosed until its late stage, the news did not sweep through the larger literary world. No tribute appeared in The Los Angeles Times. But in the Los Angeles poetry monde he was deeply mourned—his picture and poems appearing everywhere across social media, his memorial at Beyond Baroque drawing poets from all around the region. read more
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Jack Mueller, Judith, and baby Cristina in the basement of City Lights, after a reading in January 1982. Jack deliberately posed the family in front of that painted sign, "Born in Sin and Shapen in Iniquity." They said it came from the time when City Lights' basement had housed a church. For Jack, I think, it was a kind of inside joke, sort of carrying on our old Vesuvio's argument over "Don't give me God, don't give me grammar!"
Jack Mueller: Still Solid in the Mystery
Amor Fati: New and Selected Poems
reviewed by Gerald Nicosia
…there are other poets who decide early on that they want to spend their lives making better poetry every day, and that the chase of fame will only get in their way, so they put it completely out of mind and instead work on figuring out ways to stay alive while they're making their poetry. Jack Mueller was the latter kind of poet; and in that regard, he was the most remarkable non-famous poet I've ever known. read more


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William Whewell
Born: 24 May 1794 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Died: 6 March 1866 in Cambridge, England
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William Whewell's parents were John Whewell, a master carpenter, and Elizabeth Bennison. It was a large family, and William was the eldest of his parents' seven children. He attended Blue School in Lancaster and his father intended that his son should proceed from there to become an apprentice carpenter. However, the Revd Joseph Rowley, headmaster of Lancaster grammar school and the parish priest, recognised William's talents and offered free education for him at Lancaster grammar school. Several years later he persuaded John to let William attend Heversham Grammar School in Westmorland, about 20 kilometres north of his native town, where he would receive instruction to allow him to compete for a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1810 William went to Heversham where he spent two years. He also received some private coaching in mathematics from John Gough, a blind mathematician from Kendal, in:-
... conic sections, fluxions, and mechanics.He won an exhibition to Trinity College, but this was not sufficient to support him during his studies so further funds to support him were raised by private subscription.
Whewell entered Cambridge in October 1812, but by this time the family had suffered a series of tragedies with his mother dying in 1807 and three of his younger brothers dying before William began his university studies. His own health had been poor but a month after starting his studies at Cambridge he wrote to his father:-
I have enjoyed very good health since I left Lancaster.His mother had been a poet who had published poems in local papers and Whewell must have inherited his mother's poetic gifts since, in 1814, he won the Chancellor's prize for an epic poem he wrote entitled Boadicea. He began to fit into the university life although given his background this did not come easily. He described his social activities in 1815 as [1]:-
... shooting swallows, bathing by half dozens, sailing to Chesterton, dancing at country fairs, playing billiards, turning beakers into musical glasses, making rockets, riding out in bodies ...He also excelled in the Mathematical Tripos graduating as second wrangler in January 1816 and then becoming second Smith's Prizeman. It was the first time that Whewell had not achieved the top place in a class but he took it in good part explaining in a letter to his family that he had not been able to write quickly enough. In July 1816 his father died before his son had graduated. In October 1817 he was elected to a fellowship at Trinity and wrote to his sisters saying that he had received [1]:-
... the most substantial benefit at which you ever had to rejoice with me. It secures me a comfortable establishment for life at least so long as my life is a simple one.We should note at this stage that Whewell had made a number of friends among top academics during his undergraduate years at Cambridge including John Herschel, Charles Babbage, George Peacock and other members of the Analytical Society. Whewell was appointed as a mathematics lecturer and assistant tutor at Cambridge in 1818. He was one of the founder members of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1819.
At a time when Cambridge was still finding acceptance of the superior Continental approach to mathematics, Whewell played a major role in modernising their approach with his textbooks An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics (1819) and A Treatise on Dynamics (1823). His 1819 text was the first applied mathematics work in English to adopt continental mathematical symbolism, while his second work was a beautiful text using French analytic techniques. His achievements were quickly recognised with election to the Royal Society of London in 1820. He was by now making friends with younger Cambridge men such as Augustus De Morgan and William Rowan Hamilton. Although he showed himself a great enthusiast for the French analytical methods in the first editions of the above two works, we should say that over the years Whewell became worried that the lack of geometric methods would damage students' intuitive understanding and as a result he reduced the analytical tools, increasing the geometrical methods in the later editions of his books. He also published The Mechanical Euclid, containing the Elements of Mechanics and Hydrostatics demonstrated after the Manner of the Elements of Geometry (1837) where he took a completely geometrical approach.
Up to the mid 1820s Whewell had taught, written and researched mathematics. However this changed and he moved towards broader scientific interests with publications of books such as Essay on Mineralogical Classification and Nomenclature (1828), Architectural Notes on German Churches, with Remarks on the Origin of Gothic Architecture (1830), Astronomy and General Physics (1833), History of the Inductive Sciences (3 vols.) (1837), and The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (2 vols.) (1840). As one might expect this led to his role changing at Cambridge and he was appointed professor of Mineralogy in 1828, then professor of Moral Philosophy in 1838. In June 1841 he became engaged to be married to Cordelia Marshall and they married on 12 October 1841 in Cumberland. Five days later Whewell received a letter from Sir Robert Peel, the prime minister, saying that the Queen had accepted his recommendation that Whewell should be appointed master of Trinity. He was Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1842 and again in 1855, the year in which his wife Cordelia died.
The breadth of Whewell's contributions are listed in [3]:-
Along with his role in educational reform, Whewell also proved a zealous and prolific researcher. He published significant works in experimental physics, crystallography, mineralogy, physical astronomy, science education, architecture, poetry, and religion, along with a bewildering number of more popular reviews, lectures, and sermons. He is the inventor of the self-registering anemometer, and the originator of many new scientific terms, including "ion," "cathode," "Eocene," "Miocene," "physicist," and "scientist."In fact many of these words were coined by Whewell at the request of friends, for example terms "anode", "cathode" and "ion" were for Faraday, while "scientist" was produced at the request of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. One should not get the impression that Whewell moved away from applied mathematics, however, rather he included many other areas in his wide range of interests while continuing to research applied mathematical fields. For example he published fourteen major papers on the study of the tides between 1833 and 1850. In fact he won the Royal Medal from the Royal Society for this outstanding work on tides.
Another important contribution was his support of, and work for, the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He strongly supported the founding of the Association in 1831 and, although he did not attend the first meeting of the Association in York in that year, it was his suggestion that they seek annual reports on the various sciences. He wrote the report on mineralogy for the meeting in 1832 and that on electricity and magnetism for the meeting of 1835. He served the British Association as vice-president at the Oxford meeting in 1832 and again at Dublin in 1835, he was the local secretary in 1833 when the Association met in Cambridge, then he was president at Plymouth in 1841. In fact it was in his address to the 1833 British Association meeting that he used the word 'scientist' for the first time, explaining that he coined the word in analogy to 'artist'. He later wrote [10]:-
... as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist.Note that the word 'Physicist' used in this quote by Whewell is also a word coined by him.
The areas for which Whewell is most famous today are philosophy of science, history of science, and moral philosophy. He examined 'knowledge' and claimed that [10]:-
... in every act of knowledge ... there are two opposite elements, which we may call Ideas and Perceptions.He claimed that Fundamental Ideas were [10]:-
... not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.As examples of Fundamental Ideas he gave time, number, cause, substance, and likeness. He wrote [10]:-
We cannot see one object without the idea of space; we cannot see two without the idea of resemblance or difference.He developed a theory of induction, attempting to explain how physical laws are discovered. He argued that as well as the process of examining instances of a law [10]:-
... there is a New Element added to the combination [of instances] by the very act of thought by which they were combined.After a law is produced by induction, Whewell argued that next is required a confirmation stage. He also argued for a concept he called Necessary Truth. He gave as an example the truth 7 + 8 = 15 [10]:-
... we refer to our conceptions of seven, of eight, and of addition, and as soon as we possess the conceptions distinctly, we see that the sum must be 15. That is, merely by knowing the meanings of "seven," and "eight," and "addition," we see that it follows necessarily that "7 + 8 = 15".For Whewell his work on the history of science was an integral part of that on the philosophy of science, both contributing to knowledge. He felt that the history of science was extremely important [10]:-
... the present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.The last years of Whewell's life were filled with sadness. His wife Cordelia died on 18 December 1855 after a long illness. He then married Lady Everina Frances Affleck, widow of Sir Gilbert Affleck, on 1 July 1858. She died on 1 April 1865. On 24 February 1866 Whewell fell from his horse while riding outside Cambridge after the animal bolted. He was brought back to Trinity in a carriage but found to be paralysed. He died in his room in Trinity on 6 March, his last request being that the curtains be drawn back so that he could look at the great court of Trinity for the last time.
As to his character Leslie Stephen in his 1899 biography writes [24]:-
He loved an argument, and his position as a great man in a small circle tended to make argument one-sided. He was popular as a tutor; but for some time he provoked a good deal of hostility as master. In early days he had little chance of acquiring social refinement; and, though he was anxious to be hospitable, his sense of the dignity of his position led to a formality which made the drawing-room of the lodge anything but a place of easy sociability. In later years age and sorrow made him conspicuously milder, and the object not only of the pride but of the warm affection of the university. Though rough at times, he was from the first magnanimous; he never cherished resentment and admitted defeat frankly, and received the opinions of young and insignificant persons with remarkable courtesy. Few men, too, have had more friends or retained their friendships more carefully. He had many controversies, but no personal quarrels.With so many achievements in so many different areas it is clear that we must have failed to mention many important aspects of his contributions in this article. Perhaps we should mention one final fact which we have failed to mention until now, namely his role as a priest. He was ordained a priest on Trinity Sunday 1825, which was a requirement of Fellows of Trinity, then ordained as a deacon in the following year. He preached in the university on a regular basis, in particular he preached four sermons On the Foundation of Morals in 1837 which were published in that year. Ten years later he published Sermons preached in the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge containing twenty-two of his sermons.
Let us end this biography of Whewell by quoting John Herschel, his friend for many years [3]:-
... a more wonderful variety and amount of knowledge in almost every department of human inquiry was perhaps never in the same interval of time accumulated by any man.
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Marketing complex home performance concepts in ways that sell whole-house solutions—solutions that address energy savings, comfort, health, and safety—is more challenging than selling furnace replacements. When successful home performance contractors were asked "how do you simplify the home performance marketing message?" during a presentation at the national ACI conference in Kansas City, their unanimous answer was When we make it simple, we decrease our sales close rate. While marketing home performance is complex, it doesn't necessarily require a lot of money. My survey of 14 of the nation's leading home performance contractors revealed a mix of low-cost, innovative guerilla marketing tactics, as well as strategic use of paid advertising and direct mail. This article presents the results of that survey, and offers advice that you can immediately put to use. Applying these proven marketing tactics can set your company apart from your competition, set you apart from traditional contractors, and will enable you to increase your profits. Contractors around the country who used to be HVAC, insulation, or solar installation companies are successfully repositioning themselves to become leading-edge home performance contractors. There is no category for Home Performance ...
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What you need to know about a cutover email migration to Office 365
As part of an Office 365 deployment, you can migrate the contents of user mailboxes from a source email system to Office 365. When you do this all at one time, it's called a cutover migration. Choosing a cutover migration is suggested when:
Your current on-premises Exchange organization is Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, or Exchange Server 2016.
Your on-premises Exchange organization has fewer than 2,000 mailboxes.
Even though cutover migration supports moving up to 2000 mailboxes, due to length of time it takes to create and migrate 2000 users, it is more reasonable to migrate 150 users or less.
If a cutover migration won't work for you, see Ways to migrate email to Office 365 for other options.
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Setting up an email cutover migration to Office 365 requires careful planning. Before you begin, here are a few things to consider:
You can move your entire email organization to Office 365 over a few days and manage user accounts in Office 365.
A maximum of 2,000 mailboxes can be migrated to Office 365 by using a cutover Exchange migration. However, it is recommended that you only migrate 150 mailboxes.
The primary domain name used for your on-premises Exchange organization must be an accepted as a domain owned by you in your Office 365 organization.
After the migration is complete, each user who has an on-premises Exchange mailbox also will be a new user in Office 365. But you'll still have to assign licenses to users whose mailboxes are migrated.
Impact to users
After your on-premises and Office 365 organizations are set up for a cutover migration, post-setup tasks could impact your users.
Administrators or users must configure desktop computers: Make sure that desktop computers are updated and set up for use with Office 365. These actions allow users to use local user credentials to sign in to Office 365 from desktop applications. Users with permission to install applications can update and set up their own desktops. Or updates can be installed for them. After updates are made, users can send email from Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010, or Outlook 2007.
Potential delay in email routing: Email sent to on-premises users whose mailboxes were migrated to Office 365 are routed to their on-premises Exchange mailboxes until the MX record is changed.
How does cutover migration work?
The main steps you perform for a cutover migration are shown in the following illustration.
The administrator communicates upcoming changes to users and verifies domain ownership with the domain registrar.
The administrator prepares the servers for a cutover migration and creates empty mail-enabled security groups in Office 365.
The administrator connects Office 365 to the on-premises email system (this is called creating a migration endpoint).
The administrator migrates the mailboxes and then verifies the migration.
Grant Office 365 licences to your users.
The administrator configures the domain to begin routing email directly to Office 365.
The administrator verifies that routing has changed, and then deletes the cutover migration batch.
The administrator completes post-migration tasks in Office 365 (assigns licenses to users and creates an Autodiscover Domain Name System (DNS) record), and optionally decommissions the on-premises Exchange servers.
See how-to steps in Complete post migration tasks.
The administrator sends a welcome letter to users to tell them about Office 365 and to describe how to sign in to their new mailboxes.
Ready to start?
If you're comfortable setting up a migration to Office 365, here are the tasks that need to be done:
Set up Exchange Server by using the Exchange admin center.
Change your organization's MX record to point to Office 365 when the migration is complete. Your MX record is how other mail systems find the location of your email system. Changing your MX record allows other mail systems to begin to send email directly to the new mailboxes in Office 365. We provide instructions on how to do this for many DNS providers. To set up your public DNS servers, you need to change your organization's MX record to point to Office 365 if you choose to route all incoming internet mail for your on-premises Exchange organization through Office 365.
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"Downloaded," a documentary film exploring the history of sharing music on the Internet, made its world premiere Sunday at South by Southwest, a festival that marries music, technology and film.
Director Alex Winter focuses on Napster, the file sharing network that allowed 25 million people to share 80 million recordings in what became an early social network. The service allowed users to download music for free from each other's computers until a lawsuit brought by the recording industry forced it to shut down in 2001.
But by then, a new generation had become accustomed to getting music for free, and the industry and musicians saw revenues plummet.
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The founders of Napster, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, participate in the film, but Winter allows all sides of the debate over free music to make their cases, often using archival news footage.
"It wasn't hard for me to balance the two points of view, because I have two points of view," Winter said. "I don't think the old school is right to try to criminalize the downloading generation, and I don't think the downloading generation is right saying that everything should be free."
The story of Napster echoes today, as the Justice Department pursues the extradition of Kim Dotcom, the founder of MegaUpload, where users share videos. The New Zealander is accused of criminal violation of U.S. copyright laws and money laundering.
Fanning said it was tough to have a film made about something he did when he was a 19-year-old music fan.
"We didn't think we were doing something that was going to change the world," Fanning said. "Everyone online was contributing and sharing, and I didn't realize this fully while I was developing it, but that was the first time everyone on the Internet was publishing content. In the end everyone had a voice, and to see that that voice can have an effect was amazing."
Winter originally planned to make a feature film for MTV but after failing to win backing, decided to make a documentary for VH1. The network plans to broadcast the film next month.


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A Consignment-Shop Table Makeover!
I have a non-edible post for you today. Last week I went to a nice little resale shop where I found a cute little table for only seven bucks! Seven bucks! Even though the table top wasn't really my style, it was in excellent condition and I knew she was coming home with me.
Not a fan of the top. Big fan of the price.
My first instinct was to paint the top a solid red or yellow or turquoise. Something bright. But then I thought this would be a great opportunity to for me to try Mod Podge for the first time! Using a small roller, I applied an even layer of gloss Mod Podge to the (clean and dry) table top, placed a cut-to-size piece of paper with a black and white diamond checkerboard pattern, smoothed it out nicely, let it dry, rolled on some more Mod Podge on top of the paper, let it dry, another layer of Mod Podge, and that was it. It dried and hardened overnight, and now I have a pretty little plant table that I love!
She's not perfect, and she has a few small bubbles that hide under the plant, but it was only my first Mod Podge project so I'm not going to beat myself up about it. I didn't feel like changing the color of the legs, but I can already tell that I will paint them at some point. Red? Sunny yellow? Aqua? Let's take a closer look at the paper...
Hello, Piggy! The roller gave the Mod Podge a nice textured look.
What do you think? Was it a makeover or a makeunder? Do you like the pattern? Did you like the grapes better? Do you shop at resale/consignment/thrift shops? Have you found any awesome thrifty deals lately? Why am I asking you so many questions?
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I like the makeover better than the original — much better! And I actually like the legs as they are, but don't let that stop you. I love resale shops and my latest finds were a square casserole with ribbed sides, and a brie baker. I didn't know it was a brie baker until I googled it. I wanted it for a wheel of artisan vegan cheese. I also found a very small metal strainer of some sort — no idea what it's for but it looked so cool I had to have it. I'll probably hang it on the wall.ReplyDeleteReplies
You bought the brie baker intuitively! Nice! I wish I could make fermented cheeses, but the whole fermentation process freaks me out. I can eat them if somebody else made them, but I can't make them myself. Somebody page Dr. Freud! :DDelete
Not all of them are fermented! Perhaps you were an overworked bacterium in a past life.Delete
Ha! Maybe I was! :DDelete
I assumed all cheeses except for the saucy ones (like the nacho cheese sauce) were fermented! Thanks for letting me know, now I can check it out without fearing the bacteria! :)
I LOVE IT!!! And hey, you can play chess or checkers on it too :DReplyDelete
Oooh I love this so much!! The paper is great - kind of makes me think of a 50s diner or something like this.ReplyDelete
You are SO talented! I love the redo. Never even heard of mod podge, but I like it! :DReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Ricki, I'm glad you like it! I had been wanting to try Mod Podge for a while, and a 40% off coupon for Michael's (craft store) was the little push that I needed to buy it. What else could I Mod Podge now? I have a feeling I'm going to be a Mod Podge menace until everything in the house is covered with pretty paper or fabric! :DDelete
This is so cute!! You are very clever. I also love the piggy.ReplyDelete
You are very stoic to be so committed to your resolutions. That sounds hard.
great improvement! nice work. :)ReplyDelete
Consignment shops are a good way to find clothes that fit kids, no matter what their age is. Sometimes people end up under more stress than they would like because kids outgrow clothes so quickly.ReplyDelete
Even if you buy something a little bigger, your child will still eventually grow into it and move on. By shopping at a consignment shop you save money and can spend on other things that your family requires.


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This chrimbus, I built a budget small form factor gaming rig for my brother. As with any budget build, rebates are assumed. To establish some sort of useful baseline metric for holiday time rebate expectations, I thought it pertinent to provide occasional rebate tracking updates. This will be the first of two posts. Note that both MyRebate and PowerColor have their rebate processing centers in Los Angeles, California; I am 400 miles northward in Sacramento, California.
Additionally, If you are looking for a painless way to liquidate prepaid debit cards, I recommend ordering a free Square reader. When swiped, Square scoops a 2.75% transaction fee. Considering many places require a minimum transaction fee for prepaid debit cards and most prepaid providers actually charge maintenance fees, it might just be worth knocking a couple dollars off of your rebate haul for some peace of mind.
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Note: These suggestions also apply to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes and similar circumstances. They should be considered along with the Emergency Preparedness Checklist.
Personal Contingency Plans: More than an Ounce of Prevention
By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart
U.S. counterterrorism sources remain concerned that an attack against the U.S. homeland will occur within the next two to three weeks. This is not surprising, considering that the drums have been beating loudly in Washington this summer about a potential attack — first from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and then in the form of a National Intelligence Estimate. More recently, several other reports have appeared concerning an impending attack, including an alert over the weekend in New York triggered by an alleged dirty bomb plot.
One of the reasons for the heightened concern is that most everyone, including Stratfor, is surprised that no major jihadist attack has occurred on U.S. soil since 9/11. Many plots have been disrupted, and it is only a matter of time before one of them succeeds. Simply put, attacks are not difficult to conduct and the government cannot stop them all.
Stratfor's assessment of the jihadist threat to the U.S. homeland is that al Qaeda and jihadists retain the ability to conduct tactical strikes against the United States, but lack the ability to pose a strategic threat. While this may be reassuring on one level, people can and will be killed in a tactical strike. The fact that an attack is not strategically significant will provide no immediate solace to those near the carnage and confusion of a tactical attack. Additionally, as we saw in Hurricane Katrina or the recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis, other disasters also can lead to chaos and disruption.
Given the current threat environment, this is an opportune time to examine again ways to avoid — or at least mitigate — the impact of that chaos and panic. The set of tools designed to do that is called personal contingency planning.
Chaos and Disruption
When disaster strikes, as in a terrorist attack, a number of things happen quickly and simultaneously. Often, panic erupts while people attempt to flee the scene of the attack. At the same time, police, fire and emergency medical units all attempt to respond to the scene, so there can be terrible traffic and pedestrian crowd-control problems. This effect can be magnified by smoke and fire, which can occlude vision, affect breathing and increase panic. Indeed, many of the injuries produced by terrorist bombings are not a direct result of the blast or even shrapnel, but of smoke inhalation and trampling.
In many instances, an attack or natural disaster will damage electrical lines, or else the electricity will be cut off as a precautionary measure. Elevators also could be reserved for firefighters. This means people are trapped in subway tunnels or in high-rise buildings, and might be forced to escape through the smoke-filled tunnels or stairwells. Depending on the incident, bridges, tunnels, subway lines and airports can be closed, or merely jammed to a standstill. This gridlock effect might be multiplied if the power is out to traffic signals.
In the midst of this confusion and panic, telephone and cell phone usage soars. Even if the main trunk lines and cell towers are not damaged or otherwise affected by the loss of electricity, this huge spike in activity quickly overloads the exchanges and cell networks. This means the ripples of chaos and disruption roll outward from the scene as people outside the immediate vicinity of the attack zone hear about the attack via the media and wonder what has become of loved ones who were near the site of the attack.
The Importance of Planning
Those in the vicinity of an attack have the best chance of escaping and reconnecting with loved ones if they have a personal contingency plan. Though such planning is critically important for people who live and work in close proximity to known terrorist targets such as Manhattan, Washington and Los Angeles, the recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis has demonstrated that such planning is important for people in other parts of the country as well. Sudden disasters, such as tornados, earthquakes, school shootings or the derailment of train cars carrying chlorine, can strike anywhere.
Emergency plans are vital not only for corporations and schools, but also for families and individuals. Such plans should be in place for each regular location — home, work and school — that an individual frequents, and should cover what that person will do and where he or she will go should an evacuation be necessary. This means establishing meeting points for family members who might be split up — and backup points in case the first or second point also is affected by the disaster.
The lack of ability to communicate with loved ones because of circuit overload or other phone service problems can greatly enhance the sense of panic during a crisis. Perhaps the most value derived from having personal and family contingency plans is a reduction in the amount of stress that results from not being able to immediately contact a loved one. Knowing that everyone is following the plan frees each person to concentrate on the more pressing issue of evacuation. Additionally, someone who waits until he or she has contacted all loved ones before evacuating might not make it out.
It also is important to have a communication plan, which should include the contact information for the pre-chosen rallying site, as well as an alternate communications hub outside of the area. It might be difficult to communicate from Point A to Point B, but both A and B might be able to get through to a person at Point C. Alternative means of communication also should be included in the communications plan. If the phone lines and cell phones are clogged, many times text messages can still get through and Internet connections will work to send e-mail. The communications plan also will be helpful in case one member of the family is unable to evacuate immediately or finds it unwise to evacuate at all. In that case, he or she will know where the rest of the family is going and how to contact them once communications are restored.
Planning also is important because, when confronted with a dire emergency situation, many people simply do not know what to do. Not having determined their options in advance — and in shock over the events of the day — they are unable to think clearly enough to establish a logical plan, and instead wander aimlessly around. Having an established plan in place gives even a person who is in shock or denial and unable to think clearly a framework to lean on and a path to follow.
If You Must Evacuate
One of the keys to surviving a catastrophe is situational awareness. This means recognizing the threat at an early stage — and taking measures to avoid it. Another element of situational awareness is to know where to go when an unforeseen disaster strikes. For example, if an improvised explosive device (IED) were to detonate in a subway car ahead of the car you are in, would you know how to get out of your car and in which direction to travel to get to safety? If your office building is hit by an IED or catches fire, do you know where the fire exits are located and where they lead? Could one fire exit take you out of the frying pan and into the fire? Situational awareness also involves knowing how to react. If a subway tunnel is filling with smoke, you must have the situational awareness to keep low in order to avoid being overcome.
In some cases, evacuation might not be the best idea. If there is no immediate threat to you at your current location, you could run a larger risk of being injured by joining the crowd of panicked people on the street. In some cases, it might be safest to just stay in place and wait for order to return — especially if you are in a location where you have emergency stocks of food and water.
If you work in a high-rise building, frequently travel or take a subway, there are a couple of pieces of equipment that can assist you in case the need to evacuate arises. One of these is a smoke hood, a protective device that fits over the head and provides protection from smoke inhalation. Smoke hoods are relatively inexpensive devices that can be carried in a briefcase or purse and quickly donned in case of emergency. They will usually provide around 20-30 minutes of breathing time — which could quite literally mean the difference between life and death in a smoke-filled hallway, stairway or subway tunnel. The second piece of equipment is a flashlight small enough to fit in a pocket, purse or briefcase. Such a light could prove to be invaluable in a crisis situation at night or when the power goes out in a large building or subway. Some of the small aluminum flashlights also can serve as a handy self-defense weapon.
If you live in an area likely to be hit by such an attack, it also might be prudent to prepare a small "fly-away" kit containing clothes, water, a first-aid kit, nutritional bars, medications and toiletry items for you and your family. It also is a good idea to include a battery-powered radio and other useful items, such as multi-tool knives and duct tape. The kit should be kept in convenient place, ready to grab on the way out. Even if it is impractical to keep all these items in constant readiness, keeping most of them together and using a prepared list to collect the other items quickly can help get you out the door in seconds. Maintaining important papers, such as vehicle titles, deeds, licenses, birth certificates, passports and credit card information, in a central file allows you to grab that file quickly and take it with you.
The Need for Flexibility
It is important to listen to authorities in the case of an emergency, though you cannot rely on the government to take care of you in every situation because the resources simply are not there to do so. You must have plans ready to take care of yourself and your family.
If you have pets, you will want to take them into consideration when you make your plans. Will Fluffy be taken to the evacuation site in the case of a dirty bomb attack, or not?
The emergency plan also must be fluid and flexible. It is important to recognize that even a good contingency plan can be worthless if protective measures taken by authorities during an emergency impede execution of the plan, or if the catastrophe itself closes down a section of your route. For example, bridges and tunnels might be closed and streets blocked off or jammed with traffic, meaning you might not be able to travel to safety or pick up family members or coworkers. Those whose plan calls for a flight out of the city might be unable to get to the airport or helipad and, once there, find that air traffic has been grounded, as happened after the 9/11 attacks. For these reasons, it is best to have several alternate contingency plans that account for multiple scenarios and include various evacuation routes. Once the emergency is announced, it likely is too late to start devising a plan.
Plans must be reviewed periodically. A plan made following 9/11 might no longer be valid. Bridges and roads you included might now be closed for construction. If Uncle Al's place in West Virginia is your planned communications hub, then that needs to change when he moves to Texas.
Your equipment also should be checked periodically to ensure it is functional. Have you checked the batteries in your flashlight? Has your smoke hood become battered from being carried around for too many years? Have the power bars in your fly-away kit become fossilized?
Finally, while having a contingency plan on paper is better than having nothing, those that are tested in the real world are far superior. Running through an evacuation plan (especially during a high-traffic time such as rush hour) will help to identify weaknesses that will not appear on paper. It also will help to ensure that all those involved know what they are supposed to do and where they are supposed to go. A plan is of limited use if half of the people it is designed for do not understand their respective roles and responsibilities.
No plan is perfect, and chances are you will have to "shift on the fly" and change your plan in the event of an actual emergency. However, having a plan — and being prepared — will allow you to be more focused and less panicked and confused than those who have left their fate to chance. In life and death situations, an ounce of prevention is a good thing.
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ARONSKIND, Ricardo. A (still) "would-be" country.Translated byMarta Ines Merajver. Sociedad (B. Aires) [online]. 2008, vol.4Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0327-7712.
This article explores two hundred years of Argentinean economic and political history, seeking for the causes that might explain why a potentially prosperous country, seen as such thanks to its natural and human resources, has been unable to defeat undervelopment and guarantee its population an acceptable standard of living. An attempt at understanding the evolution of this unusual, "would-be"country includes an analysis of the Spanish colonial legacy, the concentration of rural property, profeteering and speculative practices, the State's poor management, and neoliberal deindustrialization policies.


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German automotive player signs contract with Data Respons
Data Respons has signed a contract of NOK 37 million (EUR 3.77 million) with an unnamed player in the automotive market in Germany. The contract is a 3-year agreement for delivery of specialised R&D IT services for process digitalisation and advanced system integration.
"Germany is one of the world's largest industry- and technology markets and a growing market for Data Respons. We have experienced great success in the German market over the last years and been awarded several long-term contracts with leading players in industries such as automotive, energy (Smart grid/Smart Home), bank and insurance, industry automation (industrial IoT)," says Kenneth Ragnvaldsen, CEO of Data Respons in a press release. The company's deliveries include highly specialised R&D services and high-tech solutions supporting business critical parts of the customer's product development process.
As Samsung Display exits the LCD market a major reshuffle is expected According to the latest investigations by the WitsView research division of TrendForce, the oversupply of TV panels in 2019 resulted in a major price drop. As such, panel manufacturers hoped to utilise their excess capacity in 2020 through increasing their production of monitor panels, with Samsung Display (SDC) having the most extensive plans.
Swedish PCB manufacturer updates machine park PCB manufacturer MMAB's factory in the south of Sweden recently got a new drilling area with updated machines.
Ventec races to build up regional inventories to fight COVID-19 The electronics industry is playing a major role in supporting increased requirements for critical medical devices during the current COVID-19 pandemic. And with that an increase in demand of the building blocks is to be expected.
Elmatica sees a spike in demand - responds with growth in staff Growing demand, new customers and an increase in business within knowledge intensive industries, has reinforced the need for another Country Manager in Poland, a new Technical Manager and an additional resource in the Customer Service Department.
Co-operation negotiations completed at Etteplan Etteplan initiated co-operation negotiations on March 18th 2020 due to temporary changes in customer demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the negotiations have come to a complete.
Indian electronics company support the fight against COVID-19 Indian engineering and technology solutions company, Cyient, says it's received clearance for its Mysore facility to run its MedTech manufacturing lines to support the production of medical equipment critical in the fight against COVID-19
Tesvolt kickstarts production at new German factory Semi-automated production began today in Europe's first gigafactory for commercial battery storage systems, located in Wittenberg, Germany.
Global semiconductor materials market revenues slip 1.1% in 2019 Global semiconductor materials market revenues edged down 1.1% in 2019, SEMI reported in its Materials Market Data Subscription (MMDS).
Cirexx Int'l posts COVID-19 update Santa Clara, California-headquartered Cirexx International has released a statement penned by President and CEO Philipp Menges concerning status of operations during the coronavirus pandemic.
Abbott gets OK for fast, portable COVID-19 test Abbott has been granted emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a rapid molecular point-of-care test for the detection of novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
COVID-19 limits viability for AT&S Considering current events and the effects that the global pandemic is having on logistics and production chains worldwide, AT&S is preparing itself for a decline in demand in some of its customer segments.
Neways provides update on COVID-19 impact The EMS provider says it has taken various measures to limit the risks to the health of its employees, as well as its clients and suppliers. In addition, the company has taken measures to safeguard business continuity.
Samsung Display plans to stop all LCD production in 2020 The South Korean company has reached the decision to end all of its production of LCD panels in its home country and in China by the end of 2020.
Orbit One updates machine park with new selective soldering machine Swedish EMS provider, Orbit One, has invested in a new ERSA selective soldering machine for the production unit in Ronneby, Sweden.
ZOLL pivots to focus on volume for ventilator production Massachusetts-based ZOLL Medical Corporation has shot capacity up to 10,000 ventilators per month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, representing a nearly 25-fold increase from normal volume production.
Computrol ramps output for ventilator production As the coronavirus pandemic continues its spread through the U.S., Idaho-based Computrol is joining a growing list of electronics manufacturers who are adjusting operations to support companies producing critical healthcare products.
ABB adding jobs, new distribution center in Arizona ABB has announced the creation of a new distribution center in Phoenix, in a move that will bring the company closer to Western U.S. distributors, contractors, industrial customers, and retailers.
8% growth in 2019 drives tenth consecutive year of EDA growth The Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance Market Statistics Service (MSS) says that the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry revenue increased 2.2% for Q4 2019 to USD 2626.3 million, compared to USD 2570.1 million in Q4 2018.
Polestar 2 production begins in Luqiao, China Production of Polestar 2 has officially begun in Luqiao, China. The new electric performance fastback is the first electric vehicle to be produced by the facility.
Kimball Electronics updates on the impact of COVID-19 COVID-19 has disrupted the company's global operations since its initial outbreak. While Kimball Electronics' facilities in China were initially adversely impacted, they have now resumed normal operations.
First Solar says that it's still operational First Solar says that its manufacturing operations will continue at each of the company's Wood County, Ohio, Kulim, Malaysia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam facilities at this time
100 IC wafer fabs closed or repurposed since 2009 The hardest hit are ≤200mm wafer fabs, 70% of the closures are found in Japan and North America.
Westermo signs contract with North American rail company Beijer Electronics Group has through its business entity Westermo signed a contract with a large North American rail company with an estimated value during the contract period of SEK 80 million (EUR 7.24 million).
Royal Flex Circuits boosts effort to support healthcare Santa Fe Springs, California-based Royal Flex Circuits is ramping up capacity at its year-old manufacturing facility to be produce more of the printed circuits needed in the production of ventilators used specifically in the treatment of Coronavirus.Load more news
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There's something outrageously vulgar even about Trump's appearance that I don't think would 'play' in the UK. The doctored hair. He looks like a Harry Enfield/Paul Whitehouse version of a politician or investment banker from the 80's.
Obviously you can't generalise about an entire culture, especially one as huge as the U.S.'s, but I think there's more of a taste for brashness ''over there''. Our nearest equivalent to Trump (in terms of a political 'personality') is probably Boris Johnson, who is also brash but in a very British way: self-effacing, ostensibly bumbling and clumsy, liable to drop a baby before he can kiss it on the campaign trail.
To carry on with the stereotypes - as a culture I think the British rather despise self-aggrandisement. We're eager to knock anybody who gets big for their boots off their perch. Also, there's this lingering respect for ''class'' - not in the sense of social standing, necessarily, but in terms of ''civil'' behaviour. Whereas in the U.S. I get the impression that there's a lot more value placed on success (/money).
Saying all this, it's not as if British people aren't fascinated by Trump (and by American culture in general, obv.). He makes good TV, because he's despicable. I just don't think he'd have any credibility as a politician here. He hasn't really in the U.S., though, has he? He's like a sideshow to the main event of the election, and unfortunately has helped make Jeb Bush, e.g., look like the sensible option.


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President Trump's escalating series of back-and-forth barbs with Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) threatens what the administration says is its top priority: tax reform. The GOP's slim majority in the Senate means Trump can ill-afford to further alienate Senators from his own party if he's serious about passing his tax cut package. "Make no mistake, going after Corker will make it harder for Trump to get his way on both tax cuts and the Iran deal," The Washington Posts' James Hohmann wrote Monday. And a "top lobbyist" was even more emphatic in a poorly punctuated text message to Axios's Mike Allen: "Bye, bye tax reform."
On the other hand, Corker's vote on tax reform wasn't assured even before the latest spat. The senator has said he won't vote for a plan that adds "one penny to the deficit," though he's left himself some room on that calculation by adding that he is willing to accept a "reasonable" measure of economic feedback effects as well as budget baseline for calculating the tax plan's cost that critics call a gimmick. And the White House has tried to create some additional wiggle room for the tax plan by courting a few moderate Democratic senators up for reelection in states that he won in 2016, including Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
Even so, if Corker — freed from some political reckoning because of his decision not to seek reelection after his term ends next year — won't support the tax plan, its path to passage gets very narrow, as Vox's Dylan Matthews explains:
"Without Corker's support for a package, Trump would be down to only 51 Republican senators supporting a tax plan. When you consider that includes relative moderates like Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and wild cards like Rand Paul (R-KY), who has criticized the tax reform package already, Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have very little room to maneuver and can't afford basically any defections.
Under such conditions, the normal political play would be to avoid antagonizing any potential GOP opponents of the law, to keep them all on board as long as possible. It seems Trump has chosen a somewhat different strategy."
That strategy won't go unnoticed by other Senate Republicans, meaning it carries risks beyond Corker. Many of those GOP senators now also face the prospect of primary challenges backed by Trump's former chief political strategist Steve Bannon, who is targeting every GOP senator up for reelection next year except Ted Cruz (R-TX), as Bloomberg reported last night. As The Washington Post's Tory Newmyer writes, the question then becomes "how many of these incumbents will decide, all things considered, it's simply not worth it to hustle for reelection in a GOP that feels increasingly unfamiliar — and follow Corker's lead instead?"
The combination of the president's attacks and Bannon's political machinations could mean that, as Newmyer suggests, "Trump could soon be facing a lame-duck caucus full of once-reliable votes for a tax overhaul that would be suddenly less responsive to appeals for party unity."
This article has been updated.


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Untitled postcard,
Cyanotype (Kodak "Blue Print Post Card") on postcard
Cyanotype postcard from a group of 22 (Kodak advertised these as "Blue Print Post Cards" in 1906 for amateurs to develop and print at home)
Dimensions (Image): 139 x 87 mm (5.5 x 3.4 in.)
With inscription dated August 1908; stamped and addressed; postmarked Bennington, New Hampshire
Edition: Amateur postcard
Accession number: 1997.12.6
Gift of Richard E. Kremer, M.D. (BA Wesleyan 1969), 1997
The image depicts trees and a pond.
Work Type: photograph
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Tile: Arion Playing the Lyre
Artist/maker unknown, Dutch
Made in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Europe
c. 1610Medium:
Tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decorationDimensions:
5 1/8 x 5 1/16 inches (13 x 12.9 cm) Thickness: 1/2 inches (1.2 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
* [Gallery 371, Costume and Textiles, third floor (Hamilton Gallery)Accession Number:
1983-101-31Credit Line:
Gift of Anthony N.B. Garvan, 1983
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Following the 1609 Twelve Year Truce with Spain, and the Treaty of Münster which ended the 80 Year War in 1648, the war-damaged cities of the Dutch Republic were rebuilt and began to enjoy a new-found economic prosperity based on sea and river trade. The reconstruction and subsequent development of towns also required the increased use of tiles as a building material.
The earliest tiles were made of clay found along the floodplains of riverbeds; the clay was a blend of eroded rock fragments infused with minerals and organic matter, including iron, which produced the red color of tiles after firing. The first Dutch tiles were unglazed and used on the floor. Because the porous tiles deteriorated rapidly, however, lead and tin-glazing were quickly introduced to protect and waterproof the tiles. The technique of tin-glazing was first used in Europe by Moorish craftsmen in the early Middle Ages, but this method was introduced to the northern provinces of The Netherlands only in the beginning of the sixteenth century.
The Dutch craze for tiles in the home as objects of both utility and decoration – as a building material tiles reduced fire risk, kept out the damp and were an easy surface to keep clean - resulted in the establishment of factories not only in Delft, but throughout Holland to satisfy a constantly increasing demand.
The process of manufacturing and decorating Dutch tiles rarely strayed from several unvarying steps: The clay was first washed and left to mature, followed by massaging in a pug mill, which consisted of a large vertical wooden barrel containing metal cutters that were moved through the clay by a horse walking around the barrel. The prepared clay was then pressed into square wooden or metal frames and rolled flat. The frames were then lifted away and the clay was left to dry. Once firm, the clay was trimmed to size and biscuit fired at 1000 degrees Celsius for 20 to 40 hours, followed by up to three days of cooling within the kiln. Following this, tin glaze, which is a lead glaze to which tin oxide has been added, was applied. After the second firing, the tiles gained an opacity which provided an excellent background for decoration.
This early baseboard tile depicts the blue and orange muscular figure of Arion, a mythical creature, riding a blue dophin in a seascape setting. Arion, a poet thrown overboard by murderous mariners, was rescued by a dolphin, which he had charmed with his sweet voice and lyre playing. Baseboard tiles were installed along the wall where it meets the floor. In that location, their glazed surfaces helped to keep out the rising damp. This was essential in Holland as many homes sat on very low land with a high water table, causing plaster walls to flake and peel.
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