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Huge dome roof placed on LNG tank using nothing but air
FLOATING a 900 tonne steel dome roof 38 metres off the ground using nothing but air is something unique for Gladstone, but for the Bechtel team on the Queensland Curtis LNG project, it's been years in the making.
The roof is the first to be placed into position across the three projects on Curtis Island, and represents a major milestone for the LNG industry in Queensland.
Construction veteran and proud Aussie George Kerr is leading this first for Bechtel on Australian soil.
And there are many members of his team that can now place this milestone in their "have done" list.
Mr Kerr said despite his experience in performing this type of work, it was always a tense time while raising the roof to its final position.
"After years of planning and construction, it's always an amazing feeling to get the roof into place," he said.
"And it requires a great team effort to get the job done.
"It's a credit to the skill of the team that this lift went so smoothly today."
QCLNG site manager Phil Newsome said the roof raising was the start of a busy year of construction on the project.
"We have a challenging schedule planned for 2013 and this has started the year extremely well," he said.
How it was done
THE massive LNG tank under construction at the QCLNG site is 38m tall and 79m wide.
Bechtel assembled the roof close to the ground inside the tank during the early stages of the tank's construction.
Construction of the tank wall continued after the roof was assembled, with a series of concrete pours allowing the tank wall to reach close to 38m in height.
The roof was then fitted with plastic and metal sheeting around the rim, providing an airtight seal. Once the seal was fitted, the tank entrance was sealed and three large fans began to pump air into the tank, underneath the roof.
This slight increase in air pressure enabled the roof to slowly rise to the top of the tank.
A team of engineers continually monitored the progress of the roof as it rose to ensure it ascended evenly and maintained its alignment throughout the process.
The tank roof rose at a rate of about one metre every five minutes.
Once the roof reached the top of the tank, it was welded into position.

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Ohio man returns Vietnam war trophy to family
Helmet being returned to dead soldier's family
John Wast kept the bullet-scarred pith helmet for more than 40 years.
Damaged and dented, it served as a reminder of his time as an Army Green Beret sergeant in Vietnam, where he picked up the helmet of a North Vietnamese soldier while inspecting the enemy dead after the three-day Battle of Duc Lap in August 1968.
Separated by decades and a continent from the war, Wast would on occasion show the helmet to visitors.
He'd take it from his office, turn it over, and display a simple drawing hidden beneath the brim - a dove in feathered flight.
"They never seemed to think it was as poignant as I did, which is understandable, but the dove was the deal. The dove means the same thing everywhere," Wast said.
One soldier, dead on a battlefield. His sketch is a lasting sign of peace.
Another soldier - Wast - is a survivor. The dead man's helmet he brought home is the only souvenir of the year that changed his life.
An uncanny coincidence has made it possible for the helmet to be returned to Vietnam, to the family of Bui Duc Hung - the fallen enemy soldier who etched the bird, a palm tree, and his name on its underside.
Wast, who lives in Toledo, handed over the helmet to the nonprofit Development of Vietnam Endeavors, or DOVE Fund, after learning of the local charity.
DOVE members are giving it to Bui Duc Hung's relatives during a trip to Vietnam this month.
The DOVE Fund is dedicated to aiding the war-torn country. It shares its name with the symbol scratched into the soldier's helmet that will be returned.
"It's extraordinary," said Daniel Gregg, a fund trustee from Ann Arbor, Mich., one of the Vietnam travelers. "One of the things as a former soldier that I realized when I went back to Vietnam is how the world is smaller.
"We want the same things for everybody; the war divided us and made us somehow believe we were all after different things," he said.
The fund, founded in 2000 by veterans, Rotarians, and others, has raised more than $2.3 million for schools, medical clinics, and other projects in Vietnam.
More than a dozen representatives paid their own way to Vietnam and are spending three weeks visiting the country.
Among the scheduled stops is a village in the Phu Tho province, where the group is delivering the helmet to the soldier's extended family.
"It's a beautiful opportunity to learn about each other more, Americans and Vietnamese, and share something that is very personal for them and very personal for us as well," said John Abbey of Perrysburg, a DOVE Fund trustee who is traveling to Vietnam.
Do Nguyen of Holland, a founding member of the group who came to the United States from Vietnam in 1974, helped find Bui Duc Hung's relatives.
He used his connections to get in touch with a colonel in Vietnam who helped locate the man's family.
The soldier's wife and daughter are dead, but extended members of his family agreed to meet and accept the helmet.
Nguyen has spoken with family members, and he said they view the visit as a "gesture of peace."
Vietnamese culture places importance on belongings of the deceased, and such items are treated with the same reverence as a body, he said.
An expected ceremony at which the helmet was being presented was to give participants an opportunity to share their thoughts.
DOVE Fund members also plan to support a project or memorial of some kind in the village to commemorate the event.
The travelers know little about the man who drew a dove on his helmet.
But Nguyen, like others, is amazed by the circumstances.
"I think when we saw ... the dove inscribed in the helmet, it just didn't seem like this was happenstance," Fred Grimm of Holland, another Vietnam veteran and DOVE Fund founding member, said.
This month's trip marks his 13th visit to Vietnam with the group.
"I can relate to the soldier," he said. "You're fearful for your life. It's just a different situation for a young soldier, and I'm sure he had the same feelings I did."
Wast didn't make the trip, citing his dislike of travel.
He's pleased to have helped with the helmet's return, but said he's not searching for closure by revisiting Vietnam.
"I got closure when the wheels lifted off on the way home," he said of the plane ride home after his war service.
Wast, 67, spent most of his career in sales and retired several years ago from a biopharmaceutical company.
He said he learned half of what he knows from spending 1968 in Vietnam.
Vietnam shifted his perspective. It's where he grew up, and it prepared him for losses that came later in life.
"I needed to find out I wasn't the only one on the planet, and that everything wasn't set up for me," he said.
He served with the 5th Special Forces Group, and was assigned to the II Corps Mobile Strike Force, known as "Mike Force," based in Pleiku in the Central Highlands.
He was a platoon leader and in charge of communications for the company, serving as the only American with Australian officers and indigenous Montagnard troops.
After a medic was injured, he took on those duties too.
Their job was to respond quickly to back up any special forces camps in trouble, a duty that brought him to the Battle of Duc Lap when the North Vietnamese Army attacked.
The battle started the night before they boarded a helicopter and dropped into a rice paddy outside the camp. They were driven back, set up on a hill about a kilometer away, and watched the North Vietnamese overrun half of the camp, taking one of the camp's two hills.
His company eventually made it into the camp to help hold it. Other reinforcements arrived and took back the rest of the camp in a close-quarter fight.
Later, Wast was among those who walked the hill, examining bodies of North Vietnamese soldiers, gathering weapons, and looking for intelligence.
He saw the helmet, tied it to his rucksack, and brought it with him when he left Vietnam.
"It was always in safekeeping. It wasn't ever mine," he said.


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"I feel like now it doesn't matter, it's not important, which decade you're referencing or whether you've got the coolest break or electronic trick. It's just the energy that counts." -Jan St. Werner
Tromatic Reflexxions is the debut album by Von Sudenfed. And who are Von Sudenfed? For starters they're a trio formed by Andi Toma, Mark E. Smith and Jan St. Werner. But depending who you ask and how, they're a sound-system, a family, a band. They're all these things and more, as Jan himself explains, "We wanted the album to have the energy we would imagine a hybrid band - a futuristic band playing grime or ska or soca like a pirate radio station - to have." Not to mention the electro, dubstep and disco thrown into the mix.
But Von Sudenfed does more than take a spin, via Düsseldorf and Salford, through the terrain of London pirates. It combines the genre-smashing attack of early-millennia club music with Mark E. Smith's free-associating visionary wordplay. To adapt the Situationists, under the dancefloor, the beach. Or in the case of a track like "Flooded," over the dancefloor, a sea - Mark's lyric retells a dream of Jan's in which he booked a club to DJ at, only for an interloping DJ to turn up and commandeer the decks. The Von Sudenfed response? Carnivalesque anarchist sabotage: flood the club. This is unmistakably club music, but it's club music that's liable to spark off outbreaks of lucid dreaming, mid-move.
On "Flooded" the stuttering, garage-inflected beats and the sub-bass that comes warping out of them fit Mark's furious/triumphant vocal like they grew up together. It's typical of the way Tromatic Reflexxions sounds like the work of a group - unlike the results of all too many producer-singer collaborations, where the vocals sound like phoned-in afterthoughts to fill a voice-shaped blank. And in a sense this album is the work of a group. The trio got together in Düsseldorf and jammed out ideas for days before refining down the material into tracks, and Mark was integral to the shape they took, getting involved with their arrangements and insisting they were kept as direct and focussed as possible.
But as Tromatic Reflexxions unfolds, the word "group" becomes inadequate. This isn't a standard set-up with Musician A on Instrument A and Musician B on Instrument B. The riffs and rhythms come together from so many different places, with synths, samplers and sequencers all firing off. It's not a band: it's a free-flowing collectivist dance generator - a futurist sound system.
Mark E. Smith, on the other hand, sees Von Sudenfed as a family affair. The name picks up on the region of Germany where Jan grew up (von Süden) with perhaps a nod to a certain cough remedy (Nation of Ulysses fans take note). Families have stories: half-brothers, half-sisters, secrets, births, deaths (check the JuJu guitars on "Dear Dead Friends"). And of course arguments - hence a track like "Family Feud," where Mark adopts the characters of different members of the "family" and arbitrates between them.
The offspring of this House of Von Sudenfed are more direct and upfront than anything Mouse on Mars fans might expect, from the second that "Fledermaus Can't Get Enough" blasts off. Although equally, for those who think they've got irascible-Mark-E-Smith-of-The-Fall pegged, on the sweet shortwave stomp of "The Rhinohead," the family have got a vocal from him as wistful, as tender even, as any of his beloved Northern Soul cuts.
"That Sound Wiped" stands out on the album in the way it builds more slowly from basic disco building blocks into a r'n'bleeping electro monster. But it's a track that leads back to Von Sudenfed's origins in a London gig by Mouse on Mars where they first struck up with Mark. This meeting led in 2005 to Mark providing vocals for a 12-inch release of Mouse on Mars' Wipe That Sound. (Unused material from this initial collaboration became "That Sound Wiped.") All parties agreed there was more work to be done, and Von Sudenfed was born.
Mark has already been discussing with Jan and Andi how to fit sessions for the second album into their schedules. But before that, summer 2007 will see Von Sudenfed in live action - ideally in a festival, carnival or club context where they can roll out their sound-system strategy in the places it makes most sense - and some remixes to watch out for. Mark E. Smith has led The Fall through more than 25 studio albums since their formation in Manchester 31 years ago. His lyrics, delivery, song-writing and attitude have had an incalculable influence on punk, post-punk and as many of their close relations and off-shoots as you care to think of, with artists from Wu Tang's RZA, to LCD Soundsystem, DJ Shadow, and Pavement all acknowledged fans.
Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma are best known for their work together as Mouse on Mars, debuting in 1994 with Vulvaland. On albums like Niun Niggung (their first for Domino), Idiology and Radical Connector they've gone on to perfect a signature sound which blends the lateral improvisational moves of jazz with the abstract complexities of electronica and the directness of acoustic instrumentation.


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Bite into a flavorful Florida grown strawberry in the winter months and the odds are about 50-50 it started out in western North Carolina.
Jeff Darnell, who grows commercial strawberries and a number of other fresh market crops in addition to strawberry plants, provided about 14 million plants to Florida last year.
Darnell, once the only strawberry plant propagator in western North Carolina, says there are now 5-6 strawberry growers in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina, and each produces as many or more strawberry transplants than he grows annually.
Darnell and his son grow strawberries along the banks of the Tuckasegee River in and around Bryson City, N.C.
"Our primary business is growing strawberry plants, but we do grow strawberries for sale, and are beginning to see some opportunities to grow for major retail chains, like Harris Teeter, he says.
Strawberries at one time were a backyard hobby in North Carolina, or at best a patch here and there for roadside sales and farmers markets. Not anymore. North Carolina is now the fourth largest strawberry producing state in the country — and closing in fast on No. 3 Oregon.
One of the driving forces behind the industry's rise in prominence in recent years is Jeff Darnell.
"My mother was a music teacher in western North Carolina, and the one thing she stressed over and over was to find a professional career in something other than music. I think I shocked everyone in my whole family by majoring in horticulture at the University of Tennessee, then coming home to the mountains to start farming," Darnell says.
"I had no family involved in farming, and I didn't have any experience working on a farm. Back then, I saw an opportunity to grow crops in what we call 'rabbit patches' or 10-20 acre fields up and down the Tuckasegee River Valley. Now, my whole family and lots of my friends are in the business," he adds.
On the East Coast, Florida is by far the largest strawberry producing state, though on a national scene their production is dwarfed by California. Darnell sells strawberry plug plants, bare root plants, and root tips for sale into the Florida market.
River soils very productive
One thing he has going for him, he says, is 'ambiance'. The scenic beauty of the Smokey Mountains and the pristine Tuckasegee River are hard to match. The rich river soils are also very productive, but in limited supply up and down the mountain valleys of western North Carolina.
Strawberries, whether grown for plants or the berries, is a high risk, potentially high profit venture. Darnell says on the one hand an acre of strawberries may bring in $40,000-$50,000, and on the other hand that might not be enough to make a profit — if things go wrong.
Looking out over a 10 acre field of strawberries, which grow to within 20 feet or so of the Tuckasegee River, Darnell says he should easily pick 1,000 flats of strawberries a day from the field in peak production. If things go well, he says, he could end up with something close to 400,000 pounds of strawberries from the field.
The North Carolina grower hedged his bet on the field of strawberries, with a second crop — not all together different than a grain grower does planting winter wheat and soybeans in the same field.
In Darnell's case, he harvested about 3 million strawberry plugs from the field in the early spring, then refurbished it for strawberry production.
Growing so intensively can be an environmental challenge in remote areas of the country, but these strawberries are growing a few feet from a scenic river and only slightly farther from Bryson City, one of the top whitewater rafting destinations in the Southeast.
"We are very careful about what we spray on our crops, and if practical, we don't spray at all," Darnell says.
For example, mites are an ever present problem in strawberry production in the eastern half of the country, but last year Darnell didn't make a single miticide application, Instead, he uses predator mites, most of which come from Israel.
The river that runs through his farm is consistently ranked among the most environmentally safe in the country. Darnell says the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) checks the river on his farm annually. Every year it rates a 60, which is the highest rating possible, he says.
Perfect setting
"Just look around you, he says, pointing to the scenic river and the mountains that mark the entrance to Nantahala Gorge and National Park. We have the perfect setting to raise crops and raise our family, we have nothing to gain and everything to lose by taking environmental chances in our farming operation, and we just don't do it," the North Carolina grower says.
Darnell says Western North Carolina strawberry growers are beginning to see some opportunities for expanding commercial strawberry production.
"The whole buy local, buy fresh movement seems to be catching up with strawberries, and we have seen some interest from Colorful Harvest, Harris Teeter and other large operations that could buy a lot of fresh North Carolina strawberries," he says.
For growers thinking about putting in a few acres of strawberries, Darnell urges them to find a market. Having a market to sell your crop is critical, but don't let a few closed doors ruin your dreams, he cautions.
"There is absolutely no good economic reason for me to have started a farming operation here, but I did, and it now provides a living for me and my son and other members of my family and friends," he says.
Two factors, land and labor, Darnell contends will be the limiting factors in the growth of the strawberry industry in North Carolina. "For someone getting into the strawberry business, I think picking land wisely is a critical factor. There is land available in these mountain valleys, but it's hard to come by and some of it just isn't suitable to growing crops," he adds.
"Labor is a big issue in our farming operation, and I suspect, for anyone in a highly intensive production system in the U.S. Labor is a big contradiction in our country. People want fresh, safe, high quality food, but they don't foreigners in the country — we just can't have it both ways," Darnell says.
Not one to shy away from the labor issue, Darnell was recently featured on a segment of 60 Minutes, the highly rated CBS news show.
"They were looking at farm labor, and particularly at young farm labor. I always had a job for my kids and their friends. If they needed some extra money, I'd give them a job," Darnell says.
David Stern, a producer for 60 Minutes and film crew spent a week on Darnell's farm. He saw a bunch of kids — American and Mexican, who were glad to have somewhere to go and something to do in the summer, and they were glad to have some extra money to buy things.
"Like I told David Stern, the people who pick our food don't come from the Hamptons.
"Not just for strawberries, but for most food crops, we badly need a workable farm labor program that will give small and large operations an equal shot at finding and keeping reliable farm workers," the North Carolina grower says.
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The Falcons play original instrumental rock inspired by The Shadows and The Ventures. Formed in 1992, The Falcons have helped revive the instro rock genre worldwide.
Based in Vancouver, Canada, The Falcons have recorded four original albums, toured in the Yukon and Europe, and showcased in Japan.
The Falcons 1992 cassette, featuring "Shadow Land", charted coast to coast in the top ten on Canadian campus radio.
Debut album "Queen of Diamonds", with guest Ventures guitarist Nokie Edwards, was named 1998 Album of the Year by UK instro magazine PIPELINE.
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From the bottom of my heart, I am glad The Falcons have produced such a beautiful album.Yuzo Sasaki, GUITAR GRAPHIC, Japan
Queen of Diamonds must be the most eagerly awaited debut instrumental album since The Shadows LP in 1961.Alan Taylor & Dave Burke, PIPELINE
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Funding boost for infection control teams in Irish hospitals
DUBLIN, Ireland - The Irish government is to provide €7 million for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) measures in the health service, it was announced on Monday.
The funding will be used for infection prevention and control teams in both acute hospitals and community care settings this year. This includes €2 million allocated in 2018 and a further €5 million for 2019.
"This represents a significant step forward in funding our infection control teams in hospitals and community care settings," Minister for Health Simon Harris said Monday.
"Ireland is standing up and playing its part in tackling the global threat of AMR in our health services and in health services around the world. As the World Health Organisation has emphasised, managing the AMR crisis is of the utmost urgency and the Government is doing exactly that. We are building infection prevention and control teams both in hospitals and in the community to reduce the spread of infection and disease, enhance surveillance and optimise the use of antimicrobials such as antibiotics."
The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) was convened as a result of the activation of the Public Health Emergency Plan, on 25 October 2017, by the minister as a public health response to CPE in Ireland.
The purpose of the NPHET has been to provide advice, guidance, support and direction on the surveillance and management of CPE at national level.
Over the last eighteen months, a number of measures have been put in place and the Department of Health and the HSE say they will continue to work closely together on this.
"The NPHET sought to develop and implement a strategy to contain CPE. I am pleased to say that we have come a long way in overseeing the health system's response to CPE. This funding is key to ensuring a sustainable response in Ireland to healthcare associated infections and antibiotic resistant organisms, including CPE," the Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan who chaired the NPHET said Monday.
Throughout its work on this issue, the NPHET has implemented strong governance arrangements for healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) and AMR within the HSE. The NPHET has also driven enhanced surveillance of HCAIs and built capacity within the system for the challenges associated with these threats.
Many guidance documents have been developed by the Expert Group convened by the NPHET which provide expert advice to hospitals and the community health care services regarding actions that should be taken regarding CPE screening and control of spread of CPE.
The next phase of work focuses on the HSE implementation and operationalising of measures to address CPE and other HCAIs.
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Through the work of the NPHET, hospitals have significantly enhanced their screening activities and this additional screening information has proven vital in allowing the NPHET to make informed decisions regarding CPE management.
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bad thing: my little sister (who didnt even know who ABBA were before the movie) is now obsessed. And she plays all the songs really loudly all over the house and sinsg them all the time and . . . its bad.
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Sugar Rush: Accro Du Caramel from Lafayette
Your daily dose of something sweet.
Pastry Chef Jennifer Yee's Accro du Caramel mousse cake ($6) is so light that I'm not sure what keeps it from floating off the plate and into the air. This small, beautiful pastry is all about subtle flavors and matching soft textures. But the first thing you'll notice is the technical precision: it looks like the components were cut using lasers.
The rectangular shape is perfectly uniform from end to end, and the millimeter-thick side panels of Valrhona 70% guanaja chocolate are also exact and precise. I'm certain that even people who don't pay attention to these kinds of details will appreciate the aesthetics of this dessert.
Your fork needs to pass through four different components to get through the cake and every one of them is of a similar soft texture. The salted caramel bavaroise (an anglaise-based mousse) is very light; the caramel flavor is understated not powerful or burnt-sugar-tasting. The flourless sponge cake which has to hold the pastry upright is equally light and provides no resistance at all. The medium-sweetness caramel glaze and chocolate side panels also give way with ease. And a small amount of cacao nibs on top provide a break from all the smooth textures with some crunch. I can't imagine any Accro Du Carmel or "caramel addict" wouldn't enjoy this cake.


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What should be allowed? Holocaust denial? Cartoons ridiculing Muhammad? Public personal insults? Give your opinion.
I have plenty to say on this subject, but I will start with this video:
What should be allowed? Holocaust denial? Cartoons ridiculing Muhammad? Public personal insults? Give your opinion.
I have plenty to say on this subject, but I will start with this video:
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Let it all be said. Let's air it. Funny you bring up Cartoons, they can say a thousand words in one image.
This is the topic. I'm going to back this one. The whole reason for this forum is censorship.
Let this thread run and lets give everyone a go.
Haters won't be bumped, but ridiculed.
any chance of starting with something less complex ? I see the point , but there is no answer. It's like debating abortion
Holocaust denial?
I'd say they should have a say. The pile on would be huge. This is the perfect reason for free speech,.
To be serious about the subject, the way courts behave depends on how seriously they should be treated. Did you follow any of the Cardinal Pell case ?
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anyway, to keep the story short ... Derryn Hinch
Now this guy was thrown in Prison for contempt. He named a Pedo in the media before the judgement came down.
Fair comment I guess.
However this Cardinal Pell, he was maligned and was called a Pedo way before he was convicted and there was even a book written about him.
Nobody was sent to the clink for that. Popular culture said as he's catholic { not in fashion } was guilty by popular opinion.
Is there a point where the court should be held in contempt by the public when it's a joke trial ?
That I believe was in the Peoples Republic of Victoria.
I'd agree when a court / Judge / Magistrate behaves they should be respected. What about if they don't ??
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This is a theoretical discussion about what the ideal laws on free speech should be. This discussion has no practical value, but I am willing to participate for entertainment. Politics doesn't interest me because basically I consider most of humanity to be vermin in need of extermination.
So I never heard of Cardinal Pell and I generally don't follow the news. I don't care about courts being corrupt since I only expect the worst from modern scum anyway. Now let's get back on topic. What exactly are the ideal limits of speech? I asked 2 questions, please answer them. And feel free to ask me questions that are on-topic.


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Trelleborg is set to launch its third episode in its series of 3D animated movies. These provide effective and direct communications about its agricultural tires to Trelleborg's customers and the next generation of farming professionals.
Titled "Space Hops", the movie was created using the latest, sophisticated, 3D animation techniques. In the third episode, Trelleborg's animated cricket character is abducted and finds himself at Trelleborg's Innovation Space Center. While on board, he assists in the development of the technological features of Trelleborg's premium radial agricultural tire, helping farming professionals produce more, with less.
One such development is Trelleborg's ProgressiveTractionTM technology, a new concept of agricultural tires specifically designed to improve farming efficiency thanks to a double lug. Operating on the soil at different times, the double lug progressively releases higher traction when required. The double lug also provides the tire with better floatation capability, ensuring an even pressure distribution over the extra wide footprint.
Lorenzo Ciferri, Marketing Director, Agricultural and Forestry Tires, Trelleborg Wheel Systems, says: "The first two episodes, which have over 65,000 views on the TrelleborgAgri Youtube Channel and proved hugely popular amongst visitors to Trelleborg's dedicated '3D cinema' at agricultural exhibitions across the globe. Following this overwhelming success, we knew we simply had to launch a third episode.
"At Trelleborg we don't communicate to our customers, but with them. With that in mind, our series of 3D animated movies enables us to not only effectively and directly communicate with our customers, but engage the next generation of farming professionals."
"Hopping back to the future", the first episode in Trelleborg's series of 3D animated movies, follows the cricket 'farmer' through the ages, tracking his journey as he comes face-to-face with evolving tractor generations and the latest sustainable agricultural cultivations and technologies. From x-ply tires, through to upgraded tractors equipped with radial technology tires; the cricket learns how to survive and work alongside these new technologies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbNU13jJN3I
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"Space Hops" will be launched at leading agricultural exhibition, AGRITECHNICA 2015, to be held in Hannover, Germany, from 8 to 14 November, 2015. Located in hall 20, stand B06, visitors on stand will be given the opportunity to enjoy an exclusive preview of the movie.
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Everyone, or nearly so, in our small village has a terrible hacking, icky cold. All of us here at the Sanctuary have been a bit run down and short on sleep so it was no surprise when Loba woke up yesterday morning with a sore throat, low grade fever, muscle aches and copious phlegm and other face fluids…. She was miserable and overtired and begging for something to make it go away. First, I assigned her to extra sleep, instructed her to pour Fire Cider on everything she ate and drink lots of Ginger tea to enhance the body's own virus fighting techniques of fever and sweating. She also ate easy to digest foods in small amounts in order to not further tax her system. AND, I dosed her up good with Elderberry Elixir, not that I don't love Elderberry syrup, but I have found time after time that Elderberry is MUCH more effective when not heated in any way… my two favorite ways of preparing are the Elixir (see recipe below) and a honey paste with whole dried berries ground into raw local honey. I also had everyone else in the household start sucking down Elderberry Elixir.
And sure enough, after a good solid nap, and six or so doses of Elderberry she started to feel much much better. By the time she went to bed last night, she mostly just had some bodyaches and extra face fluid. By this morning, she just felt a bit run down and tired with just a little extra phlegm. I expect she'll be all better by tomorrow morning. I want to point out that the average run time of this particular virus on other people in the village is at least a week, often with bronchial complications. And, none of the rest of us caught it. I started to feel a little bit off with a sore throat yesterday morning, but by the afternoon, I was fine.
To top it all off, Elderberry does not simply stimulate the immune system, which would make it somewhat dangerous to those with autoimmune disorders or certain other chronic diseases. Rather it modulates the immune system to more appropriately respond to environs and circumstance. It also disarms the virus and helps it flush through body quicker, while strengthening the mucus membranes, supporting the body's natural fever mechanism without overheating, improves energy and stress handling AND last but certainly not least, it tastes great too.
I have tons of the Elderberry stories, I like this most recent one especially though because she was already sick, most of the time we just prevent the virus and never see many symptoms of it. Here, Loba was clearly manifesting signs of the same virus that was running around town.
If I had a snake bite, you bet I'd reach for the Echinacea. But for viral afflictions and general immune support, there's no better herbal ally than the bounteous and lovely Elder!
As an aside, I don't think that averting a virus is always the best course of action, sometimes we just need to get sick so we can spend a day in bed. Even so, I think Elderberry is a wonderful supportive therapy. Listen to your body and act accordingly.
Elderberry Elixir
For your elixir, it's helpful to have on hand:
▪ A pint canning jar (or other glass jar that seals well)
▪ Fresh elderberries (dried can be used as well, simply use about a third of the amount, or about 2.5 oz to follow the 1:5 proportion method for dried plants).
▪ About a pint of high quality brandy (the better the brandy, the better your elixir will taste), depending on whether you're using fresh or dried berries.
▪ Appr. 1/3 pint of raw honey (or to taste, as you prefer)
▪ A good stirring spoon
Step by Step Instructions
• First, fill your jar all the way to the top with fresh elderberries.
• Now, pour the honey in slowly, stirring as necessary, until the berries are well coated.
• Next, fill jar with brandy, stirring as you go, until all air bubbles are released.
• Now cover the jar with a tight fitting lid, and shake carefully to finish the mixing process.
• Let macerate in a cool, dark place for four to six weeks (or as long as you can stand to wait.
• Strain, reserving liquid. Store in an airtight container in a cool, dark place.
Take 1/4 – 1/2 dropperfull of Elixir every two to three hours at the first sign of illness. You MUST take the Elixir frequently rather than having a bigger dose further apart, it just won't work that way. Use the same dosage if you are actively ill. For a general preventative dose, I suggest 1/3 dropperfull every four hours or so.
Be sure to rest extra as well, the Elderberry has a much harder time with your immune system if you're really worn down. A little extra sleep will increase its benefits tenfold.
Posted by Kiva Rose at 10:38 pm
73 Responses to "Elderberry Elixir"
Donna says:
December 5, 2012 at 4:13 pm
I made this wonderful elixir over a year ago. How do I know when it is no longer fit for consumption? It has a much more potent alcohol taste than a year ago, but seems to be every bit as effective as last year. One jar seems to be more brown than purple. Should I make it fresh each year? Thanks.
Kiva Rose says:
December 6, 2012 at 9:37 pm
You should be able to tell by the taste, if it starts tasting at all off (as in fermented in a bad way) then it's probably not good, but otherwise it should be effective for several years… I usually run out every year though, so I make more pretty frequently.
Babs McColl says:
January 28, 2013 at 12:17 pm
I have been reading your website and have taken down details of the elderberry elixir, thank you so much Kiva…I did not know anything about elderberrys until I was saying a prayer one day for a solution to my lung problem and elderberrys popped into my mind!
I was diagnosed with Allergic Intrinsic Alveolitus in 2008 and the specialist said it was the feathers from my cockateil bird I had for 27 years. I used to kiss him and did not realise I was giving myself a disease! Sadly he died a long while ago…but my lungs have got steadily worse and I have been really breathless for the past 3 months or so. I take hyssop tincture which does help with the mucus, but the breathlessness is still there. On xray it shows all the bits of white inflammation on my lungs. I have a steroid inhaler and ordinary one, (which I have refused to take up until the past week as I have osteoporosis and steroid take the minerals out of your bones) I actually literally watched my own mum crumble away as she was on permanent steroids…and the doctors wonder why I will not take them?? I am a therapist myself and into all the alternative remedies and your site has given me new hope. I got the hyssop from a lady whom I trust, I also eat very healthy and take lots of vits/minerals. Hope I haven't written too much?
Kristin says:
June 19, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Kiva. I hve made this 2 years running and missed last year. I felt uch a difference. Elderberries are lready coming on in my area. Thank you so much for this tecipe. It is one of the best medicines i provide my family. And yes my toddler loves it and asks for it every day. I think she has developed a taste for alcohol as she loves rescue remedy as well. But lo. Hopefully she associates it with medicine and in very small doses.
Angel says:
October 24, 2013 at 10:37 am
Dear Kiva Rose,
First of all, what a gem of a website! A treasure chest full of recipes and information about all things good that God's provided for us to keep us happy and healthy… Super!
Just a quick question for you, and I hope I'm not repeating a question that has already been asked! Just too many comments to read through. 🙂 Anyway, you mention dosages in units of 'dropper fulls'. Please may I ask how much a 'dropper full' holds?
Thank you once again for a fab website!
Kindest Regards,
Angel in Gloucester, UK
Kiva Rose says:
October 24, 2013 at 1:07 pm
Hi Angel, I'm so glad you're enjoying the site. By dropperful I mean appr. 1 ml.
Donna says:
March 23, 2014 at 1:17 am
Hi Kiva, if I use the dried berries do I blitz them first into a powder? Also I was a little concern about using alcohol as it's for my children 5 year old & 7 yr old. Could I replace the alcohol with pear juice, or would it not be as effective?
Lol Dee 🙂
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March 23, 2014 at 8:48 am
No, you should NOT make them into a powder. Some people have a strong response to the ground seeds and will become very nauseous or vomit from ingesting them.
And no, you definitely cannot replace the alcohol with pear juice, it would just ferment and rot. Please understand that the amount of alcohol being ingested by a child for a dose of this is far less than what naturally occurs in something like an overripe banana…. but if you're very concerned about the alcohol for some reason, make a syrup instead.


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Well…I did it! Mynn managed to find herself at 80 on Sunday! She's such a big girl and grown up so fast! I'm so proud! *sniff*
As soon as I hit 80, I went about my way spending lots of my suga-momma's hard earned gold having some epics crafted to get me going. I mean…a girl's gotta look good on her first night out on the town, right?! Of course she does 😉
I put on all my pretty new things, and set out on my way, mace in one hand and shield in the other, to see what kind of trouble I could find. As I was doing this, I realized that we hadn't see our raiding resto shaman in quite some time. /sigh Monolith is a shaman graveyard…no really, we are. I can't explain it, but we have been the last stop for many shaman since vanilla WoW.
Of course, this got me to wondering…what's up with Resto Shaman? What makes them so hard to come by? You always see recruitment open for them. And once you have them, what makes them so hard to hang on to?
- Is the healing boring? My limited experience so far has been fairly fun, certainly more interesting than my paladin. More buttons to push 🙂 But maybe shaman healing isn't the cat's meow?
- Is the healing weak? I don't think so. Our most recent shaman performed very well, and I have certainly seen other shaman perform very well.
- Leveling? As anyone that's made a shaman knows, the first 30ish levels are just horrid, in any spec. I think this makes the shaman a rarer breed in general.
- The awesomeness of the DPS shaman? Perhaps? We have had one of our TBC resto shaman go elemental. And I personally preferred the enhancement tree in TBC, and find the elemental tree immensely enjoyable currently. Perhaps the DPS trees are just more interesting than the resto tree? I don't see how this could be though! Riptide is hands down the coolest healing graphic in the game!
- And then it dawned on me! Totems! That must be it! All that damn button pushing every single time we move from one place to the next has burned them all out! I do hate having to constantly drop all those totems (yes! I know…I know nothing of totems you say, Mr. vanilla shaman!).
In all seriousness, though, does anyone else have a hard time recruiting and maintaining resto shaman on their raiding roster? I'm quite curious if it's just our bad karma or if it's something in the gameplay that makes playing a resto shaman less enjoyable to play after extended periods of time.
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Related: Has Shawn Mendes Pooped his Pants + Is Khalid Done Being an 'American Teen'?
Here are the best scenes from the show with Shawn Mendes, Khalid, Charlie Puth, and more reminding us October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and why they think pink:
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A portion of all proceeds from We Can Survive 2018 goes to benefit Young Survival Coalition. Now in its 20th year, Young Survival Coalition (YSC) is the premier organization dedicated to the critical issues unique to young women who are diagnosed with breast cancer. YSC offers resources, connections and outreach so women feel supported, empowered, and hopeful.
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CT imaging taken post avastin may predict survival in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
(2 December 2009: VIDYYA MEDICAL NEWS SERVICE) -- Using routine computed tomography (CT) imaging to analyze form and structural changes to colorectal liver metastasis after bevacizumab and chemotherapy may predict overall survival, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
The findings are published in the Dec. 2 issue of JAMA.
When combined with chemotherapy, the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab, also known as Avastin, is associated with both improved survival in those with metastatic colorectal cancer and higher rates of pathologic response in patients undergoing surgical resection of colorectal liver metastases. The monoclonal antibody was approved for use in the front line setting of metastatic colorectal cancer in 2004.
However, the therapy presents a unique set of challenges, explains Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, M.D., professor in M. D. Anderson's Department of Surgical Oncology.
"We've known for years that tumor shrinkage is not necessarily a strong indicator of survival in this patient population, and this has been an area of much controversy and study within the cancer community," explained Vauthey, the study's corresponding author. "Some of these tumors are so aggressive and may immediately start to grow when a patient goes off bevacizumab-containing chemotherapy."
Prior to the JAMA study, Vauthey and his M. D. Anderson colleagues looked at pathology in patients who had undergone resection for colorectal liver metastasis, and found those who received bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy achieved better pathologic response rates. Based on that pathologic finding of increased cell kill, Vauthey and colleagues then conducted a second preliminary study and uncovered that these patients were distributed in three groups - complete, major and minor response - with a strong survival correlation.
"Pathologic response has proven to predict improved survival and has been proposed as a new endpoint after surgery for colorectal metastases. However, a non-invasive method of predicting such a response to chemotherapy - especially biologic agents - does not exist," said Vauthey.
"Our preliminary findings correlated with observations made by our radiology colleagues and allowed us to hypothesize that we could move from pathologic criteria, which are postoperative in nature, to preoperative, radiological criteria, in evaluating a patient's response to bevacizumab. Our radiologists established a very simple imaging scheme of response. Using screening CTs to evaluate morphologic changes to the tumor, we selected criteria that stratified patients into one of three types of responses - optimal, incomplete or no morphologic response."
For the retrospective study, the M. D. Anderson researchers analyzed a total of 234 colorectal liver metastases from 50 surgical patients, all of whom underwent preoperative chemotherapy regimen that included Bevacizumab. Patients were treated at M. D. Anderson between 2004 and 2007; all underwent routine contrast-enhanced CTs prior to and following the neoadjuvant therapy. The median follow-up time was 18 months, with March 2008 being the last follow-up.
Blinded to pathologic results, treatment regimens and outcomes, Evelyne M. Loyer, M.D., also a corresponding author, Chusilp Charnsangavej, M.D., Piyaporn Boonsirikamchai, M.D. all of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, independently analyzed images for morphologic changes - from heterogenous masses with poorly-defined margins to lesions homogenous and cystic in nature with sharp borders - and then classified patients into one of the three groups.
"Our findings determined that the morphologic response was significantly associated with pathologic response, including the percentage of residual tumor cells," said Vauthey.
Optimal morphologic response corresponded with survival benefit after hepatic resection: the median overall survival for surgical patients who achieved optimal, complete morphologic response was not yet met. In those who had incomplete or no response, overall survival was 25 months.
To validate their findings, the team also analyzed a cohort of 82 unresectable metastatic colon cancer patients also treated with Bevacizumab-containing chemotherapy. In this group, optimal morphological response also correlated with survival, 31 months, compared with 19 months in those that achieved incomplete or no response.
From a radiological standpoint, Loyer said it's important to note that the morphologic criteria are a simple tool accessible to all radiologists involved with this patient population.
"The criteria were established with contrast enhanced CT using a routine technique available in all radiology practices without the need for any special equipment or software. Even more, the learning curve is short, the changes induced by the drug are striking and easy to recognize," she said.
Vauthey cautions that the study is both retrospective and preliminary, and needs to be validated in a much larger, prospective cohort. Still, he feels that these criteria have important implications - both medical and surgical.
"With these criteria, we now may be able to sit down with patients who receive chemotherapy containing anti-angiogenic agents - regardless if they will undergo surgery - and after just two or three months of treatment, have a meaningful discussion about their likely outcome," said Vauthey. "These findings also may have immediate surgical implications, as it might be possible in the future to propose more aggressive surgery in patients with more advanced disease, yet who are classified as having a major response, based on these radiological findings."
In addition to Vauthey, Loyer, Charnsangavej, and Boonsirikamchai, other authors on the all-M.D.Anderson study include: Yun Shin Chun, M.D., the study's first author, Steven A. Curley, M.D., Eddie K. Abdalla, M.D., Martin Palvecino, M.D., all of the Department of Surgical Oncology; Scott Kopetz, Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology; Dipen M. Maru, M.D., Department of Pathology; and Harmeet Kaur; M.D., Department of Diagnostic Radiology.
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Story: Corrupt Kwame Kilpatrick gets 28 years in prison
"I believe that's what's happened in this case," said Judge Edmunds. "We've lost transparency. We lost accountability. So much business was being done behind closed doors without anyone looking into it until the press got into it and opened the door to what was transpiring in City Hall."
Edmunds did not stop there. She went on to say "I hope that this sentence will give the message that we are demanding transparency in our government, that we expect it, that if there was corruption in the past there will be corruption no more."
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British-Nigerian boxer, Anthony Joshua has shared a loved up photo with his dad and some family members.
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Nahum nā´əm, –həm [key], 7th of the books of the Minor Prophets of the Bible. It contains oracles of doom against Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire, delivered by one Nahum of Elkosh, who is otherwise unknown. The book can be divided into two sections: an acrostic announcing the coming of divine vengeance on Nineveh; and a vivid description of the city's destruction. Nineveh fell in 612 BC, and scholars differ as to whether the book was written before the event or after it. It engages in satire and mockery and is unashamedly exultant at Nineveh's downfall, which is viewed as divine intervention. Nineveh is likened to a prostitute alluring the nations, an image applied to Rome in the Book of Revelation.
For bibliography, see Old Testament. See also E. Achtemeier, Nahum–Malachi (1986); J. J. Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah (1990).
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Three attacks carried out by Palestinians in the space of less than two hours on Tuesday evening left one dead and at least 13 injured. The three attackers were shot and killed at the scene.
In the attacks carried in East Jerusalem, Petah Tikva and Jaffa, assailants used guns and knives against both Israeli police and civilians. The attacks that included a mass stabbing in Jaffa happened during a visit by US vice-president Joe Biden
In Jaffa, a Palestinian reportedly stabbed six people near the port and the city's promenade. The assailant, identified by Israeli police as a 22-year-old Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Qalqiliya, was shot dead as he tried to flee toward Tel Aviv. Hospital officials said four of the wounded had severe injuries. One of those stabbed, an American tourist, died of his injuries.
The incident coincided with the arrival in Tel Aviv of the US vice-president Joe Biden for meeting with the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian president. The US vice-president was a mile away from the area where the stabbings took place.
In Petah Tikva, a Palestinian man was killed after he allegedly stabbed an ultra-orthodox Israeli man. Israeli police spokesperson said the Israeli man was stabbed in the upper part of his body, suffering from light to moderate injuries. The suspect, killed at the scene, was identified as a 17-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank district of Salfit.
Minutes later, another Palestinian was shot dead after reportedly firing gunshots and injuring Israeli police officers standing near Salah al-Din street in East Jerusalem. Israeli police identified the gunman as a 25-year-old Palestinian from the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Isawiya.
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Earlier on Tuesday, a female Palestinian assailant reportedly attempted to stab Border Police officers in Jerusalem's Old City.
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Although by the title you might think that you are mistaken for thinking that this is Toy Story 3in 3D, it actually is. This is Pixar's second Toy Story sequel, and the end of the first Toy Story Trilogy.
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After this film, Pixar plans to take a lengthy break from making Toy Story sequels, after which they will complete the trilogy of TS prequels in which we see each toy's incredible assembly-line origin and learn that Sid (from Toy Story 1) is really only one boy out of an army of toy-abusing child clones.


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The goal of the internship is to conduct a research and/or technical analysis project appropriate to the intern's level of experience that addresses collection needs. Work is conducted in the Library's science laboratories, recently renovated with a full range of instrumentation for hyperspectral imaging, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, environmental scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared and Raman spectroscopy, UV-VIS-IR fluorescence spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy, gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy, gel permeation chromatography, ion chromatography, high-performance liquid chromatography, thermal analysis, physical testing, and artificial aging.
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