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Domerry professional design product Childrens Indoor Playground
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GUANGZHOU Commercial used Childrens Indoor Playground
Type :
Childrens Indoor Playground
Size :
Customized.For the Childrens Indoor Playground, each room of which is different in structure,
we have to redesign the products according to the interior structure .
The pictures showed here just for your reference.
When contact us, please attach your floor plan or CAD drawing.
Age group:
2-15 years old
1)Plastic parts:imported LLDPE from Korea.
2)Post: thickness:1.5mm ,diameter:48mm galvanized pipe with PVC foam coated
3)Soft parts: innermost: wood, middle: sponge , outmost: PVC cover.
4)Mat:EVA, thickness:2cm and colors for your selection
Packed with bubble film,carton.
Professional 3D instruction,installation teaching video with assembly procedure will be
provided by us.
Technical engineer also can be sent if you need.
1)We have 8 years production experience in the industry
2)Anti-static,Anti-skid and Anti-crack
3)Custom-made design freely by our professional designer
4)CE,ISO9001certification,reasonable design,ensure kids' safety
Production time:
In general,20-25 working days after your deposit received.
It depends on the size of the playground.
20-50 m2 for about 15-30 children,
50-100m2 for about 25-50 children,
100-200m2 for about 40-80 children,
More than 200m2 about 80-200 children.
Amusement park,shopping mall, game center, hotel ,pre-school,etc.
Climb, jump, crawl, run, throw activities can stimulated children's curiosity,exploring desire,
and build up their consciousness of team work and their abilities of cognition,judgment
and problem-sloving.
Question 1:
How long does it take to get a plan or design ?
How about the production time ?
It depends on the size of your playground.
Take a 100m2 indoor playground as an example,
It takes 2-3days to finish an initial design and about 20days for production.
If you have a large or complex project,it may take a bit longer.
Question 2:
How much will your indoor playground cost ?
As the indoor playground is always custom designed and involves many products and
accessories,the price has to be calculated based on the final design.
Question 3:
If I have an indoor playground of 100 sq.ms,
how many kids can be accommodated at one time?
Normally, one square meter space can accommodate 1-2 children.
So 100 sq.ms playground can accommodate 100-200 children at one time.
Question 4:
How can I install it after getting the playground?
Before shipment, we will try to install the frame to make sure it can be set up,
andwe will attach some labels on goods and mark the length of pipe for instruction.
What's more ,we will offer you the 3D installation instruction
(some manufacturers can't provide it ) and teaching video.
Our professional technician also can be sent to your site if you need,
and we will sign an installation contract with you.
Please contact with our salesman for the details.
I already have an playground ,now I want to buy some new toys .
Do you sell the separate components?
Yes .we can sell the separate components to you .such as electric toys
(coconut palm,water bed etc) ,small plastic toy( indoor slide,kids cars etc ) .
If you want to order an indoor playground ,please send us the layout of floor plan.
It will be appreciated if you can send us the CAD format.
If there were some obstacle like columns existed in your area ,you need to mark out clearly
about the column size and the distance from the column to four size .
Please mark the height ,especially the minimum height .The actual available height from beam
and air condition duct to the ground.
Please confirm the following information so that we can design according to your requirement:
1)Where is the door /entrance for the playground ?
2)Which color /theme do you like ?
3)The age group ?
4)Do you have a budget for this playground ?
5)Which accessories/play item do you want to put inside your playground ?
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(Reuters) - Fleetwood Mac bass guitarist John McVie has been diagnosed with cancer and the rock group has canceled the Australian and New Zealand leg of its world tour so that he can undergo treatment, the band said on Sunday.
The band, known for such 1970s hits as "Don't Stop" and "Dreams," had just completed the European segment of the tour. It was to make 14 stops in Australia and New Zealand, the group said in a statement on its website.
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Kid's bangs blending with tall grass, we watched
Them cross the lot, some stumbling already, brush
Aside the door, entering a place that wanted
No part of us. What went on in there?
We wondered and wished we could know and better
Than know. The red slab swung wide then slammed,
And like the little match girl's lit up reverie
We glimpsed them, wide backs inert as stone, each bent
Like Rodin's Thinker, mesmerized by a glass.
We giggled like girls with our Vienna voices,
Like bells at an even greater distance
And Sibby shifted on his groaning high chair
And shouted wide mouthed and generous as a man
Could afford to be with adversaries that small.
What went on in there? The fact was we had
The facts, and they made no sense like the sounds
From a piano when you bang on it
Because you've heard the music pour and hate
That you can't make it. Once in the lull before
The factories emptied he played baseball cards
By our rules, matching color or team,
Winner take all, Sibby like a human
Cerberus, one thick-necked dog face enough.
The only time he let us in the place
Hadn't opened, a barren marvel, the mopped
Still spotted floor light flung itself across,
The damp bar filling the room like that table
In the butcher shop where they divvied up
What we would never have recognized
In the soft white paper our mothers brought home.
That was the summer he flew to Saigon,
The summer at a clam bake in Maine
I sipped my father's beer, because he let me
And because I wanted to more than anything,
Took the bitter plunge, just so I could say I did.
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Wabash Day 2010-Crawfordsvilleby Steve Charles • October 11, 2010 Share:
In Crawfordsville, the largest single Wabash Day contingent ever—nearly 100 Wabash students, alumni, and faculty and staff—celebrated the College national day of service at six different projects across the city.
(See photos from the work in Crawfordsville here and here.)
"The big news here were the 80 student volunteers," said Crawfordsville Wabash Day organizer Herm Haffner '77. "What a day!"
Haffner said he was grateful to the alumni and faculty and staff of Wabash—Sam Smith '75, Jim Amidon '87, Chick Clements H'77, Craig Harmon '83, Brad Mullendore '69, Jim Amidon '87, John Roberts '83, and Tobey and Peggy Herzog—who supervised the projects onsite, as well as to Kim Bushong who led the painting crew.
Students worked at the local Habitat for Humanity site, the Family Crisis Shelter, Animal Welfare League, the Old Jail, Lew Wallace Study, and the Vanity Theater.
"I want to give special thanks to Bobby Wade, president of the Wabash Habitat for Humanity Club, who helped me round up volunteers, as well as all the students whose participation exceeded our expectations," Haffner said.
The eight members of the Beta house who worked at the Vanity Theater helped tear off the old stage and begin the process of building a new surface for the community theater. The worked was dirty and physical, and involved hauling in three tons of wood and supplies.
Students from basketball, track, and wrestling teams along with Sphinx Club members and volunteers from the Beta Theta Pi, TEKE, Sigma Chi, Phi Psi fraternities as well as independent students from the College Hall dormitory worked morning and afternoon shifts at the project sites.
A regular volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, Haffner played down his own role in coordinating almost 100 volunteers at six sites across the city. "I'm up on Saturday mornings anyway, so I thought, Why not?"
In photo: Part of the morning shift from the contingent of nearly 100 students, alumni, faculty and staff who worked on Crawfordsville projects for Wabash Day take a break for a group shot at the local Habitat for Humanity site.


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A brief historical look at the clans of the Cherokee Nation
There were six main festivals or religious observances before the forced removal. These festivals were to be observed at the capital. The UKU, seven Principal Counselors and people from all seven Cherokee clans participated.
In 1835, traditional Cherokees were very hospitable, just as they are today.
The Cherokee have been gifted by the Creator with an understanding of the gathering, use and preservation of medicinal herbs. The Cherokee believe that these plants were put on this earth to provide not only healing methods, but preventative measures, as well.
Traditional Cherokees consult with medicine people for help with medical problems, dilemmas in their lives, or other problems. There are fewer Medicine People alive and practicing today, but those few are still known by traditionalists and others in Cherokee communities..
Today, there are nearly 300,000 Cherokee tribal citizens. Although many choose to worship through other religious methods and denominations including Indian Baptist, Methodist and others, many traditional Cherokee continue to worship at stomp dances and are members of one of the several stomp dance grounds located within the Cherokee Nation.
Just like today, Cherokee communities were spread out throughout large areas. Read this 1835 account of Cherokee communities.
The bow and arrow, spears, tomahawks, battle hammers and blowguns were all used by the Cherokee warrior as weapons in times of warfare.
Chunkey is said by many to be the oldest game in America and was played in some form by nearly all southeast Indian tribes.
From the "Indian-Pioneer Papers"...a historic look at the Cornstalk Shoot
From the Declaration of Designed Purpose, Principal Chief Chad Smith and Deputy Chief Hastings Shade speak out on disease and genocide
This interview from the Indian-Pioneer Papers gives us insight on a disappearing world.
An 1835 account of common Cherokee dress.
Marbles, to the Cherokee, is not the simple children's game which usually comes to mind when mentioned. It is an ancient game of skill played by teams competing in tournaments.
In the Stomp Dances of the Southeastern Indian cultures, women have an equally important role in the dance as the men. The Shell Shaker is the female counterpart of the Dance Singer.
Stickball, or a ne jo di, is a very rough-and-tumble, physically-demanding game played by not only the Cherokee, but many other Southeastern Woodland tribes including the Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, and others.
From reports by J.P. Evans on Cherokee dwellings as he observed them in 1835
Read the 1835 description of a tribal building no longer in use.
The old, historic Cherokee wedding ceremony was a beautiful event. Although many Cherokees today choose to marry according to the customs of their chosen religious denomination, some traditionalists marry under the old belief system. . .
The Cherokees of old devised a belief system that, while it appears at first complex, is actually quite simple. Many of the elements of the original system remain with us today. Although some have evolved or otherwise been modified, Today's traditionalist Cherokees recognize this belief system as an integral part of their day-to-day life.
See how the process of naming children differed in 1725 from today.
J.P. Evans stated in 1835 that this was a rare dance, but today it is even rarer. Read this account from almost 170 years ago.
Information from traditionalist William Cabbagehead, compiled in 1991.


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I hope you've all had a good summer! May this quarter bring you good grades and at least 8 hours of sleep every night.
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Let's Talk is a program that connects UW students with support from experienced counselors from the Counseling Center and Hall Health Center without an appointment. Counselors hold walk-in hours at two sites on campus – The Q Center and the Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center.
Mortar Board Membership Applications Due by February 24th, 2017
The University of Washington's Tolo Chapter of Mortar Board is currently inviting students in their junior year (or equivalent in credits) and seniors with a graduation date no sooner than the end of fall quarter of 2017 to apply for Tolo Chapter's 2017/2018 class.
Mortar Board is a national honor society recognizing college seniors for their exemplary scholarship, leadership, and service.
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Talking with a counselor can help provide insight, solutions, and information about other resources.
Let's Talk drop-in visits are:
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Winter Quarter 2017 Let's Talk schedule
Now Accepting Applications: College of the Environment Student Travel & Meeting Fund
The College of the Environment Student Travel & Meeting Fund is now accepting applications for Autumn Quarter Review.
Upcoming Submission Deadline:
Autumn 2016: 10/21/2016
Husky Food Pantry Open to anyone with a Husky Card
The Office of the VP for Student Life, in partnership with the ASUW Student Food Cooperative, the Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC), the Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center and the HUB, is launching a campus food pantry that aims to provide basic nutritional assistance for UW students, staff, and faculty. To participate in the pantry, the only requirement is a Husky card.


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Position Summary:
We are committed to establishing ourselves as a part of the medical community in each of the markets where we operate. A critical component to ensuring our objective of delivering high quality, affordable and accessible healthcare in a retail setting is to make sure that each of our Walgreens Healthcare Clinic Nurse Practitioners (HCCNP) have a collaborative physician (CP) with whom he or she can seek consultation and engage in a professional dialogue about patient care activities. Requirements for physician collaboration vary from state to state.
Position Essential Functions:
- Collaborative physicians will conduct quality reviews of the HCCNP's patient charts on a periodic basis – typically every two weeks. These audits are established via an on-line review of the patient's chart using Walgreens Healthcare Clinic's proprietary electronic medical record system; each chart review takes approximately 3 minutes to complete. Walgreens Healthcare Clinic has established a minimum chart review sample of 10%, which will be randomly selected and an email notification will be sent to the CP.
- CPs are available via phone/pager during our hours of operation (Monday through Friday 12 hours/day; Saturday and Sunday 8-10 hours per day) to consult with HCCNPs on patient care activities.
- CPs may be required to conduct a monthly site visit to meet with their respective HCCNPs (this is applicable to CPs in Illinois, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Tennessee).
- CPs agree to make their practice open to patients who do not have a primary care physician but who have been seen by a HCCNP and who based upon the HCCNP's clinical judgment need immediate (within 24-48 hours) physician care.
- CPs agree to provide supplemental clinical experience or remedial training to any HCCNP who needs it. Walgreens Healthcare Clinic will pay CP a fee of Two-Hundred ($200.00) per eight-hour day per HCCNP for experience or training.
- The average time requirement is approximately 4 and 6 hours per month* (*Texas requires CPs to be onsite at the Walgreens Healthcare Clinic 10% of the time and therefore the time commitment in these markets is an estimated 32 hrs/month.)
Position Qualifications:
- Actively practicing physician
- Current board certification in either family practice or emergency medicine
- Valid state medical, federal DEA, and Controlled and Dangerous Substances (CDS) licenses without sanctions
- Admitting privileges at area hospital
Work Environment:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
While performing the duties of the job, the colleague will be required to meet the demands of the following requirements: sit, stand, talk, hear and function from a home office.
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The gallery of the De Pree Art Center at HopeCollege will feature the traveling exhibition "A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art" from Monday, Jan. 12, through Friday, Feb. 6.
The exhibition was organized by the Museum for African Art, New York, and guest curated by Bogumil Jewsiewicki.
Jewsiewicki will deliver a guest lecture on Friday, Jan. 16, at 4 p.m. in the Cook Auditorium of the De Pree Art Center. A reception will follow from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The public is invited to both the reception and the exhibition. Admission is free.
"A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art" features Congolese urban art, or popular painting, that portrays the life and tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo after its independence from Belgium in 1960. He was assassinated in January 1961 after being forced out of office. The exhibition consists of approximately 90 works, including a series of nearly 50 paintings by Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu, an influential artist of the 1970s, and a number of recent works by other Congolese contemporary artists who emulated his style.
Jewsiewicki holds the nationally endowed Canada Research chair in comparative history at Laval University of Quebec, Canada, and is an expert in the history of the Congo and Congolese folk art. He is also the author of several books on French-speaking African history and politics.
The De Pree Art Center is located at 160 E. 12th St., on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. The regular gallery hours are Mondays through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.; and Sundays from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. Gallery hours may be reduced during breaks and holidays. The gallery is handicapped accessible.


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NEW HAVEN - The austerity debate was the topic du jour at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos. With good reason. Europe is slipping back into recession just when recovery in the United States is finally getting some traction. That has undermined the case for fiscal consolidation, which is so heavily favoured in Europe.
Yet I took away a different conclusion from Davos. I moderated a session on 'The New Context in East Asia,' addressed by a panel of senior representatives from Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan. With the exception of the Japanese participant, all had first-hand experience with the devastating Asian financial crisis of the late 1990's.
I couldn't resist the temptation to draw Asia into the debate between Europe and the US. Rather than ask the Asian panelists to theorise about the impact of austerity in the overly indebted developed West, I asked them to assess their own experiences during and after the crisis of the late 1990's.
Frankly, I was surprised by what I heard. The panelists agreed on two points: first, they initially detested the wrenching adjustment programs dictated by the terms of the International Monetary Fund's so-called conditional bailouts (the South Koreans still refer scornfully to the 'IMF crisis' of the late 1990's). Second - and here's where the surprise came - they all agreed that, with the benefit of hindsight, these excruciating adjustments were worth it, because their crisis-torn economies were forced to embrace structural reforms that paved the way for their spectacular economic performance today.
On the surface, the numbers speak for themselves. In 1998, during the depths of the Asian crisis, aggregate output in the so-called Asean-5 - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam - plunged by 8.3 per cent. Real GDP in South Korea - long considered the darling of Asia's newly industrialised economies - contracted by 5.7 per cent that year. But then the tough conditionality of IMF bailouts and adjustment programs - Asia's own dose of austerity - kicked in.
In response, current-account balances - the Achilles' heel of the so-called East Asian growth miracle - went from deficit to surplus. For the Asean-5, current-account deficits averaging 4 per cent of GDP in 1996-97 swung dramatically into average surpluses of 6.8 per cent of GDP in 1998-99. A similar transformation occurred in South Korea, where a 2.8 per cent current-account deficit in 1996-1997 became an 8.6 per cent surplus in 1998-1999.
Since then, the region has never looked back. Within two years, most of Asia's crisis-ridden economies had regained their pre-crisis peaks. Nor was this a temporary rebound. Beginning in 1999, the Asean-5 began a ten-year spurt of 5 per cent average annual GDP growth (5.5 per cent in South Korea over the same period). In short, there were no lasting negative effects from the short-term dose of austerity, and, to the extent that austerity was essential to post-crisis healing, the long-term benefits have proven to be both enduring and astounding.
Three lessons for the rest of us come to mind. First, there is no gain without pain. Few of us in the developed world can fathom aggregate-output contractions on the scale that crisis-torn Asia suffered in 1998, let alone muster the political will to impose them on our economies. The economic dislocations and the humiliation of proud nations were, indeed, devastating (as Greeks today can attest). But, once the excesses were purged, Asia's post-crisis rebounds were both strong and sustainable.
Second, currencies played an important role as an escape valve in the early days of Asia's post-crisis adjustment process. As the region moved from hard exchange-rate pegs to floating rates, Asian currencies plunged - with drops against the dollar ranging from 28 per cent in South Korea and roughly 37 per cent in Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines to almost 80 per cent in Indonesia.
Finally, there is no substitute for restructuring. In Asia in the late 1990's, measures aimed at the financial sector dominated IMF-imposed structural adjustment programs, but there were also programs that focused on tax and expenditure reforms, corporate governance, privatisation, and business-debt restructuring. While not all of these programs were implemented in strict compliance with IMF conditionality, they played a key role in promoting significant improvements in Asian competiveness.
None of these lessons should be lost on either Europe or the US. While individual countries obviously lack currency flexibility in a monetary union - one of Europe's most obvious and important differences from Asia in the late 1990's - there is nothing to prevent a depreciation of the euro from boosting pan-regional competitiveness. The same, of course, is true of the US dollar.
But no country - or group of countries, in Europe's case - has ever devalued its way back to prosperity. So Asia's structural lessons are equally important to the developed world. Indeed, Germany's economy is out-competing and out-growing the rest of Europe, largely owing to labour-market reforms and deregulation. The same medicine might prove equally beneficial to the rest of Europe - to say nothing of the US, which faces a major competitiveness challenge of its own.
In the end, Asia's developing economies had no choice but to accept draconian measures as the price of bailouts in the late 1990's. It remains to be seen if rich developed countries are willing to take the same route. Two decades ago, in their book Changing Fortunes, Paul Volcker and Toyo Gyohten underscored the glaring double standard of crisis resolution: 'When the Fund consults with a poor and weak country, the country gets in line. When it consults with a strong country, the Fund gets in line.'
Perhaps that is the key lesson from the Asian crisis of the late 1990's: austerity can work. But its success or failure ultimately boils down to power politics - namely, a resolution of the tension between short-term palliatives and the commitment to a long-term strategy. That's where the battle still rages in the West.
Stephen S. Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, is a member of the faculty at Yale University and the author of The Next Asia.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Federal Agency Alleges National Origin Harassment in Service Center
PHOENIX -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it is suing AN Luxury Imports of Tucson, Inc. and Autonation USA Corp. for subjecting two employees to harassment based upon their national origin, German and Polish, respectively. The dealership allowed its managers and employees to routinely make derogatory comments about the employees' national origin.
The EEOC's lawsuit, EEOC v. AN Luxury Imports of Tucson, Inc. and Autonation USA Corp. CIV-11-00617-PHX-FRZ, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, was brought on behalf of German and Polish male service technicians at a BMW dealership in Tucson, Ariz. The lawsuit alleges that Autonation employees, including management, routinely called Joachim Bannes, who is German, a "Nazi" and a "German spy," mocked his accent, gave him a Nazi salute and put pictures of Hitler on his toolbox. The lawsuit also alleges that Autonation employees, including management, routinely called Zbigniew Orlinki a "f---ing Polack" and "dumb Polack" because of his national origin, at least every other day.
According to the EEOC, management was aware of the harassment and, rather than taking corrective action, retaliated against the service technicians by subjecting them to unwarranted disciplinary actions and ultimately terminating them.
Discrimination based on national origin violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
"The EEOC will rigorously enforce its laws prohibiting all harassment based upon national origin regardless of the country of origin at issue," said EEOC District Director Rayford Irvin.
Regional Attorney Mary Jo O'Neill of the EEOC's Phoenix District Office said, "Companies cannot allow their employees to subject others to harassment because of where they were born. By not taking prompt, corrective action when companies become aware of harassment, companies subject themselves to liability for the hostile work environment suffered by their employees."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Events Archive
Course Ă pieds Bon Coeur
Date: July 11 to July 11, 2009
Come and enjoy our region and participate in this race. St-Quentin is 150 km from our cottages.
Activités du 100e
Date: July 16 to July 26, 2009
Come celebrate 100 years of the community of Dundee! This event is 20 km from our cottages.
Annuel Cowboys' Gathering
Date: July 31 to August 2, 2009
This fun-filled activity is a perfect occasion for horse enthusiasts to meet and share their passion. Kedgwick is a 100km from the Heron's Nest Cottages.


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- Ukraine to Yellowstone, in Pakistan and Kazakhstan, the earth is parched
- Drought in the Black Sea region has led to decrease in wheat, raised export prices
- Late monsoon season in India and Pakistan has put plants at risk
Hurricane Isaac may have inundated the parishes of Louisiana, but for thousands of American farmers, it was a blessing, a reprieve from the most torrid summer on record.
In much of North America, July was the hottest month since such a record was first taken. Crop yields have fallen sharply; thousands of livestock have been lost.
The Midwest has suffered its worst drought in 56 years, and the International Grains Council has cut its forecast for the U.S. maize harvest by 25 million tons.
The relief from last week's rain may help planting conditions for winter wheat, but it's come too late to make much difference to summer crops. And it didn't even reach Iowa and Nebraska; 71% of Nebraska is now in "exceptional drought," the highest level on the scale.
On Thursday, the Federal Reserve of St. Louis reported that drought had ravaged farmers' income expectations in seven states, including Illinois and Missouri.
Although the drought was not discussed much at either party's convention, President Obama repeated his belief that our climate is changing.
"More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future," he told the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The farmers and ranchers of the American heartland are not alone. According to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the land surface temperature in the Northern Hemisphere was the warmest ever in July, 2.14 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the average.
From Ukraine to Yellowstone, in Pakistan and Kazakhstan, the skies have stayed clear, and the earth has been parched. And on the world's commodity exchanges, the prices of corn, soybeans, wheat and tea are surging. The World Bank's food price index rose 10% in July.
Drought in the Black Sea region -- which includes the bread baskets of Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan -- has led to a sharp reduction in the forecast wheat harvest and pushed up export prices, putting further strain on the budgets of North African countries that import much of Russia's grain.
Russia expects its grain surplus for export to be 5 million tons lower than last year.
The three United Nations agencies involved in promoting food security warned this week, "We need to act urgently to make sure that these price shocks do not turn into a catastrophe hurting tens of millions over the coming months."
Meager monsoon
Far from the plains, there's also anxiety about the late and lame monsoon season in India and Pakistan. Rainfall in most places has been far below average, putting the new planting season at risk.
Ali Kachelo is the fifth generation of a farming family in Mirpur Khas, a farming district of Sindh province in Pakistan. His farm is famous for its mangoes, but drought this year has hurt his crops.
"Water being the source of all agriculture, the most valued input, we have been severely affected," he said. "Many farmers are losing money."
He recalls the devastating floods of 2010.
"This year, the agrarian economy is getting back on its feet after two years of devastating floods, and now the late monsoon has pushed us back into a terrible state."
The problem is compounded by ancient irrigation systems and corruption, with farmers often bribing local officials to be able to use more water.
But there is no "worldwide" drought threatening to wipe out crops everywhere. Indeed, 2010 and 2011 were the two wettest years on record if you measure global precipitation. The people of Bangkok and Jakarta need no reminding. Many Southeast Asian countries expect abundant rice crops.
The trouble is that rainfall is less reliable, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. Records over the past century show that peaks and troughs in rainfall, particularly north of the equator, have become sharper and bigger. It's either deluge or drought.
Years of drier weather in the U.S. plains have steadily reduced beef herds, with the number of calves down 8% since 2006 as pastures have dried out and feed costs have rocketed.
A return to food riots?
Thanks to new crop hybrids, irrigation and other technological advances, global food production has consistently risen despite the vagaries of weather patterns. But food security is skewed toward the developed world. In poorer countries, where a larger part of family income is spent on food, unpredictable harvests and volatile food prices can lead to social unrest.
A sudden increase in the price of staples in 2007 and 2008, in part due to adverse weather, led to riots in about a dozen countries.
According to Colin Chartres, who heads the International Water Management Institute, we can expect more extreme weather.
"In monsoon climates, we expect later onset of the monsoon, heavier rainfall, shorter monsoon duration and so on. More flooding is to be expected, as are more droughts. Forecast temperature increases due to climate change will mean higher rates of evaporation," Chartres said during a visit to Kazakhstan.
It might seem the perfect storm: the prospect of less reliable harvests, a growing world population and demand for food projected by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to rise 70% by mid-century. But the experts say there are many ways we can mitigate the effects.
"More than one-fourth of all the water we use worldwide is taken to grow over 1 billion tons of food that nobody eats," said Torgny Holmgren, director of the Stockholm International Water Institute.
Most of it is wasted in developed countries where food is plentiful, some by poor storage in developing countries.
In its latest report (PDF), the institute says the focus should be on "energy efficiency in food production, including getting more 'crop per drop,' " and "how to reduce the 30-50% of food that is lost and wasted from harvest to consumption."
At least part of the answer may come from new small-scale irrigation techniques. Chartres said that low-cost sustainable techniques can double yields for small farmers.
"These systems have been based on cheap pumps that run on electricity or diesel," he said. "When coupled with drip irrigation, they can be very water-efficient."
Half a million smallholders in Ghana alone use such techniques, and in Burkina Faso they have helped almost triple vegetable production over the past 15 years.
But financing remains a problem.
"In some parts of Africa, even the $500 needed to purchase basic equipment is beyond the means of small farmers," Chartres said. "Sometimes, entrepreneurs buy a pump and take it round to farmers on a bicycle."
Ali Kachelo in Pakistan's Sindh province knows similar problems. He says mismanagement of the antiquated irrigation system has made efficient farming much more difficult.
"The ministry of agriculture is supposed to aid in having farmers learn and implement new irrigation methods but has not been very helpful," he said.
Kachelo says that he is learning how to employ overhead sprinklers to help conserve water but that most irrigation methods have not been updated since the British ruled Pakistan.
"We rely heavily on our reservoirs (which hold meltwater from the Himalayas), but poor management has caused them to dry up."
Chartres said that 70% to 80% of fresh water the world extracts every year is used for growing food.
"We expect to see 2 billion more people on the planet by 2050. Water requirements for agriculture will also increase dramatically," he said, not least because higher consumption of meat and milk requires more water than cereals.
"We are going to have to come up with ways of making water go much further if we are going to grow 70% more food by 2050 -- on about 10% less water than we use today."
A world away from Sindh, in Marin County, north of San Francisco, David Little is reviving the old technique of "dry farming." In an area where farms must often rely on their own wells, he grows potatoes and squash without irrigation by repeated tilling in the spring and then rolling to lock moisture into the soil rather than allow it to evaporate.
The practice encourages crops to grow deeper roots, and less water means a fuller flavor. His potatoes are favored by upscale restaurants in the area.
Little says that he learns something every year and that his sandy loam is better suited than most soils to the practice.
"Dry farming" is labor intensive, but in the American West, plentiful, cheap water for irrigation is a distant memory.
The open refrigerator
Such initiatives may be all the more important because the underlying causes of more volatile weather cannot be addressed in decades -- maybe even centuries. Climate scientists attribute that to a complex combination of long-term trends that include warming oceans and shrinking Arctic ice cover. This summer, the ice cover is at its lowest ever, declining by about 35,000 square miles a day (an area bigger than South Carolina) in August.
Walter Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado says that Arctic sea-ice has been shrinking since satellite observations began in 1979.
"Then it dropped off the cliff in 2007, and this year we have surpassed that level. And in addition to the extent of sea-ice, what remains is thinner than it used to be."
Measurements from submarines, drilling and satellites suggest that the ice is about one-third of its thickness 30 years ago, a change Meier describes as "remarkable." Almost all the ice that melted used to be first-year ice," he says; now, multi-year ice 10 to 12 feet thick is breaking up and melting.
The consensus among scientists is that the declining Arctic ice cover is now irreversible and accelerating. Some models predict that the North Pole will be ice-free in the summer within a decade; others project sometime between 2030 and 2050.
"It used to be -- 10 years ago -- that we spoke about 'if' rather than 'when' the Arctic would be ice-free in summer. Now, it's the other way round," Meier said.
It may seem a long way from the fields of Iowa or Ukraine, but what happens in the Arctic doesn't stay there. The region is often called the Northern Hemisphere's refrigerator.
"Sea-ice reflects much of the sun's energy back into space," Meier said. "When it's no longer there, dark ocean water absorbs the energy, which then warms the water and further melts the ice."
It's like leaving the fridge door open. The only way to restrain the process would be to moderate temperature increases, which in turn would depend on lowering carbon dioxide emissions.
Just how that affects weather patterns is only now being explored, but in 2009, the National Snow and Ice Data Center noted that "some numerical simulations indicate that the loss of the sea-ice cover may lead to changes in storm tracks and rainfall patterns over Europe or the American West."
Research this year by Jennifer Francis at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University shows that enhanced Arctic warming slows atmospheric jet streams, which tends to prolong weather patterns.
In other words, it entrenches drought in some areas.
Drought: the new norm?
A new study published in Nature-Geoscience suggests that drought in the western U.S. between 2000 and 2004 may have been the worst in nearly a millennium, depleting water resources and causing significant declines in river flows and crop yields.
There is yet another effect. Plants grown in North America do a good job absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, offsetting carbon emissions.
"Our study shows the turn-of-the-century drought reduced plant uptake by half in western North America," said Kevin Schaefer of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, one of the authors.
Drought in the American Northwest may "trigger a whole host of significant water resource challenges in a region already subject to frequent water shortages," Schaefer said.
From long-term imponderables back to short-term action. A further surge in commodity prices may lead the G-20 to convene its Rapid Response Forum within the next month in an effort to prevent the bottlenecks in 2007 and 2008 that led to food riots.
Buyers -- and insurance underwriters -- await the next U.S. Agriculture Department crop report due Wednesday with trepidation. The insurance bill from the subpar crops on American farms this year probably exceeds $18 billion, according to underwriters.
There are already ominous signs: Last week, the price of soybeans was close to 1,800 cents per bushel (up from about 1,300 cents in June) as Brazilian exports sagged. And in a sign that some buyers are worried grain supplies may tighten, one Mexican buyer last month made the fourth largest single purchase of U.S. corn since 1991, according to the Financial Times.
There's also demand for corn from ethanol producers, now that U.S. gasoline is not far shy of $4 a gallon.
If Russia were to introduce a grain export ban, as it did in 2010 to restrain prices at home, global prices would probably accelerate. In the face of market forces, the G-20 has few tools.
In the meantime, there are always silver linings amid the dark warnings. Here are two. Drought in the Midwest has sharply reduced the runoff of nitrates into the Mississippi River and down into the Gulf of Mexico. As a result, the "dead zone" of algae bloom has shrunk dramatically to an estimated 1,580 square miles, from about 3,400 square miles a year ago.
One of the photographs in a recent Atlantic gallery shows the enterprising Joseph Perazzo of Grass is Greener Lawn Painting turning a parched lawn in New Jersey into a picture of emerald green.
"Miracle Results" proclaims his sign. Maybe that's what we need.


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2013/06/30 Reed switches and MEMS: A conversation with Coto Technology
One of the oldest companies in the electronics industry, Coto Technology has been designing and developing small signal switching solutions for over 90 years. These days, the 93-year old company is a major player in the automatic testing equipment (ATE) industry where it provides reed relays for testing devices. While reed technology predates the digital age, Coto has also made moves in one of latest growth areas in the semiconductor industry, MEMS technology. Earlier this year, Coto made a splash when it announced the availability of what it claims is the smallest MEMS-based reed switch available on the market today.
During the Globalpress Electronics Summit 2013 in Santa Cruz, Digitimes had the opportunity to sit down with Stephen Day, VP of technology, and Bill Gotschewski, VP of sales and marketing at Coto Technology to find out more about Coto Technology and their ability to develop a MEMS reed switch with a footprint of less than 2.5 mm2.
Q: Before we discuss your MEMS switch, can we touch on reed switches. Reed technology (switches and relays) has a bit of elegance to it because of its combination of simplicity and historic staying power. Can you tell us a bit about that history?
A: The reed switch was invented in 1936 by a researcher at Bell Labs named WB Elwood. Elwood basically took a piece of glass tubing and put two soft nickel/iron magnetic blades inside and fused them to the tube. He then had nitrogen blown into to the tube to provide a clean, inert atmosphere and the whole thing was hermetically sealed. Precious metals, usually ruthenium or rhodium, are now used on the contacts to make them last longer. They used to use gold but gold is too sticky.
The way reed switches work is there is a tiny gap between the two blades and if you bring the switch close to a magnetic source, such as a magnet or coil (to make a relay), the two blades are induced to north and south poles and attract, coming together to complete a circuit.
Despite their simplicity, for their size reed switches can switch at high power. The movement of the blades is also so far inside their limit of elasticity that they can close literally billions of times. So reed switches have enormous lifetimes. Moreover, reed relays are enormously reliable because they are sealed hermetically, compared with electromechanical relays that are affected by the outside atmosphere. And they are not prone to damage from electrostatic discharge, unlike some solid state switches.
We've made switches tested to five billion mechanical cycles without failure. Now, if you start to flow current through the switch, the amount of watt power will affect the lifespan to some extent. For a 5V 10mA load, the life cycle is about a billion cycles but that would drop to 100 million cycles for a 5V 100mA load.
Q: Historically reed relays were used in telecom, but not so much anymore. What are the main applications for reed switches?
A: We should first explain the difference between a reed switch and reed relay. A reed switch is a standalone device that can be operated by a magnet, a current-carrying coil, or a combination of both. A reed relay combines a reed switch and a coil into one component.
Reed switches are used in enormous numbers as sensors in areas such as alarm systems and medical devices, among other applications. One of our principle applications has been to wrap a coil around the switch and make it a relay for use in automatic test equipment (ATE) solutions or anywhere you need to switch a large current with a small current. They are like a power amplifier in a way.
These days in the ATE industry, each tester has 10,000-20,000 relays inside and the system may go down if just one relay fails. So the number one objective is reliability. You have to be switching at 500 million to one billion cycles, which requires enormously high reliability on each individual piece - or an overall reliability rate of 99.999%. We have really focused on super-high reliability, and over the past 30 years we have dominated in the ATE space. This is the area where we have hung our hat, testing anything from Apple iPhones to the next Intel processor in a range from high precision to high frequency.
Q: The ATE industry is still using glass solutions?
A: The glass solution has lasted from 1940 until now but the technology is hitting a wall. Over the years, the industry has wanted to get more throughput by including more channels and higher densities in the testers. For example, if Foxconn wants to test more Apple iPhones in a 15-minute period it will look for smaller and smaller solutions.
Unfortunately, we think there are fundamental physical limitations being reached where you can't make a reed switch any smaller. The way reed switches are made, a lot of heat is needed to fuse the glass. If you make the switch too short, the heat travels by thermal induction down the blade of the switch and it destroys the precious metal coating.
In 1940 reed switches were 50mm long, now they are down to about 5mm and that is about the practical limit. If you include the length of the wire, realistically the device ends up being about 7mm long.
So if there were 100% reed switches in a system 15 years ago, it is more like 30% today. MOSFETs have kicked in as a replacement, as have electromechanical solutions. But if you ask an engineer what would be the preferred solution, the answer would absolutely be a reed.
Q: Is this what has led you to developing a MEMS solution?
A: Based on our industry perspective, we understood that there would be continued strong demand for a magnetically operated reed switch that is much smaller than existing types, that can handle similar electrical switching power, and that can be attached to a circuit board by surface mounting. But it still needed to retain the benefits of reed technology. MEMS was an ideal fit.
So about six years ago we met with a company called HT Micro, a MEMS and microfabrication specialist located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Management at HT Micro basically all worked at Sandia National Laboratories previously, doing military impact switches and nuclear device detonation switches. Thank god for all of us that was not a big growth market, so they were interested in joining forces with us to develop more mainstream products. That is how we got started. We have since set up a joint venture called RedRock to develop the technology.
HT Micro has its own fab, which is very important for being able to control production. These are not manufacturing processes that are amenable to conventional semiconductor foundries.
Q: Can you talk about the MEMS reed switch you recently announced?
A: What we have done is develop a new type of reed switch based on high aspect microfabrication. The switch maintains the desirable properties of conventional reed switches - high current carrying capability, hermetically sealed contacts, high resistance to electrostatic discharge (ESD) and zero power operation, in a package about one-tenth the size of the smallest available reed switches.
Instead of using blades, our MEMS reed switch has a metal cantilever that bridges two isolated metal blocks that act as magnetic field amplifiers. There is a small gap between the cantilever and one of the blocks and when magnetic flux from an external magnet builds up in the gap, it pulls the cantilever into electrical contact with the block. Much like traditional reed switches, the contacts are coated with Ruthenium.
Q: You say your switch is the smallest MEMS reed switch in the market. How have you been able to achieve that?
A: We use what is called high aspect ratio microfabrication (HARM) instead of planar MEMS. From our experience most switch users are much more concerned about footprint of the switch (PCB real estate) than they are about height. In traditional planar MEMS, the blade is electroplated on top of a base substrate, and then a layer under most of the blade is etched away, freeing up the blade so it can bend. But making thin, wide blades the planar MEMS way by using conventional electroplating is difficult and if you try to maximize the cross sectional area of the blades by plating them wider, it increases the footprint.
Using HARM, the blades are grown by electroplating, but they are grown edge-on, and vertically relative to the switch substrate. That way, we can make them as high as we want without increasing the footprint of the switch.
Another thing about HARM, is that it produces switch structures that generate closure force that is much greater than that shown by previous MEMS-based magnetic switches. This enables hot switching up to several hundred milliwatts. The high retract forces in the switch when it opens also prevents the switch from sticking shut during hot switching or after long closure periods.
This is important because while some customers are looking for a switch to perform hundreds of millions of cycles, others need the switch to sit for almost two years and then be used once. This is very important, for example, in applications used in the medical industry.
Q: Your products are not priced to target the mass market, such as for smartphones. What are some other possible applications? Is the target market the ATE industry?
A: The MEMS reed switch can be used anywhere you need higher power in a small space because the switch dissipates the power very efficiently. In areas such as robotics and sensor applications, the MEMS reed switches are ideal as actuators. Other spaces where the device would be ideal is where low power or no power activation is required. For example battery sensitive applications like hearing aids. A lot of 70 year old guys don't want to always be replacing the battery in their hearing aids.
In the ATE industry, our focus will be on a MEMS reed relay, which is being developed in parallel to our MEMS reed switch. This product will come in the future.


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Monday, October 10, 2011
Do You like Candy Corn?
I do not like to eat candy corn! It is toooo sweet for me! However, when I saw these cuties, I changed my mind! Don't you love them? I also love when I can use the same things several different ways with my kinders..... work smarter not harder!
I can use the candy corn as a memory match or I can use them on this pumpkin math mat and use real candy corn or candy pumpkins.
You can use dice like these and have the children roll, match the number or 10 frames and then count out candy corn.
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I would love for you to visit Scrappin Doodles and look around for other cute graphics! Just click on the button to the right of my blog. You can use the code OCTOBER2011 for 15% off your order! The pumpkin is from DJ Inkers! Click here to go there!
You can get the candy corn ten frames game by clicking on the picture above! You can get the pumpkin math mat here. If you download, please think about following me.. and leave a comment on how you will use them. You have great ideas and I would love to hear them! Happy Fall my bloggin' friends!
25 comments:
- Amanda L. said...
Thank you, thank you! I was just getting ready to make something to do counting with candy corn for my Kindergarteners! I found great candy corn buckets at Walmart, and then with candy corn in them, I will have the students count candy corn.
Thanks so much,
From First Year Teacher, Amanda
- October 10, 2011 at 8:04 PM
- Laura said...
Thanks for a cute math activity!
- October 10, 2011 at 8:08 PM
- Allison said...
Thank you so much!! You are so creative. I have also noticed that my kiddos like to practice "subtraction" when using candy corn. Somehow, they start with ten pieces of candy and by the time math is over they have only a few left...hmmmm :) Thanks again!!
- October 10, 2011 at 8:48 PM
- beachliesl said...
Thanks for sharing! I love using the real candy corn as counters for math in the fall, but for the second year in a row, I can't do it. Did you know that most bags of candy corn have a 'peanut allergy' warning?? I had NO idea until I had a severe peanut allergy last year (and of course, I have one again). Sadly, this also means no Reeses PB Cups for the teacher!! :(
- October 10, 2011 at 8:50 PM
- Nicole said...
These are wonderful! We can never have enough activities with ten frames.
I LOVE candy pumpkins, but I'm kind of eh on candy corn... is that weird? :)
The Kinder Kid
- October 10, 2011 at 8:50 PM
- Katy said...
Love this!!! This will be a great supplement for my halloween unit! :) Thanks for sharing!
Kindergarten Katy
- October 10, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- rooneyhunt said...
What a great math activity! I love the use of the ten frames (as we are working on being able to recognize them with fluency). Our school does not allow us to use candy so I'll have to use something else on the pumpkin mat- Halloween themed mini erasers perhaps?!
Thanks again for a fabulous freebie! :)
~ Amy
- October 10, 2011 at 9:27 PM
- Kreative in Kinder said...
OMGosh! These are so stinking cute! Thanks!!
<>< Crystal
- October 10, 2011 at 10:15 PM
- S. Parker said...
Thank you. This will be a great addition to my math work stations. Love it.
- October 10, 2011 at 10:19 PM
- Dual Kinder Teacher said...
Super cute! And yup, I'm your newest follower :) Thanks for sharing!
Dual Kinder Teacher
- October 11, 2011 at 1:09 AM
- Mrs. Coe said...
Love that cute little dice...
- October 11, 2011 at 10:57 PM
- Katie Mense said...
Totally Adorable!!!!;) Thanks!
- October 11, 2011 at 11:50 PM
- LeAnne Cooper said...
THanks for sharing! I will be using these in my workshop stations this month :)
Hangin' with Mrs. Cooper
- October 15, 2011 at 8:45 AM
- Natalie said...
So CUTE! I can't wait to make and put in my math tubs!! Thank you for sharing!
- October 15, 2011 at 8:46 PM
- Fun2BinFirst said...
Thanks for sharing. I love the tens fram activity.
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- October 15, 2011 at 11:05 PM
- Meredith said...
What a great math station. I love how it can be used in different ways! Thank you for sharing this!
Keen on Kindergarten
- October 16, 2011 at 5:26 PM
- Kristen said...
Very cute! Thanks for the great math supplement!
- October 16, 2011 at 7:55 PM
I can't get this to print large enough...it's very small and my printer cuts a portion off. What am I doing wrong??
thanks for great work!
- October 22, 2011 at 5:46 PM
- Pam said...
I don't know.... try this. Make sure your adobe program is up to date. While in google docs, click on download original... I think it is in the download button on the upper left. If all fails, email me and I will send the file to you!
Thank you so much for coming to my blog!
- October 22, 2011 at 5:55 PM
Thank you for the candy corn counting & numbers matching. I love the ten frames!
- October 23, 2011 at 10:27 PM
- S. Parker said...
I just wanted to stop by and thank you so much for these. We have used them all month long as part of our math routines. I was able to print a set for every child in my classroom to practice counting and playing games with these cards at home with their families. I am keeping my fingers crossed that you are going to make another set for November for us to use. We love them! :)
- October 24, 2011 at 12:29 AM
- Marlana said...
Pam, these are so cute! I'm in love with the candy corns and I love that they are math printables. There aren't nearly enough cute math printables--especially for free! Keep up the great work!
Lil' Country Kindergarten
- October 27, 2011 at 1:14 AM
Thank you so much for sharing your creations! They are beautiful!! I just happened to be on pinterest.com tonight looking for some ten frame games!! I know that my kids are going to love this!
- November 3, 2011 at 9:46 PM
- mumzie said...
I love your work! Thanks.
- November 21, 2011 at 11:59 PM
Thanks for sharing!
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