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In areas already posing a danger to cleanup workers in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, additional storms and winter weather may be creating a more serious, more dangerous working environment.
Cleanup crews already face dangerous chemicals, mold, and working conditions as they try to bring back the communities and the jobs hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Adding cold wind, snow, and ice to the mix makes it even more difficult to continue with recovery efforts.
It is important for all workers who are working outside to dress appropriately for the weather conditions. It is not uncommon for exposed skin to become frostbitten in the cold, windy temperatures that have finally come to the East Coast. It is important to have the proper protective equipment on while working but you must also ensure your face, hands, and feet are protected from the cold temperatures when working outdoors.
Icy conditions also present a hazard to those operating heavy equipment in the remediation efforts of the cleanup. Drivers and pedestrians alike may be facing slippery road conditions on the job, especially first thing in the morning. Overnight temperatures have been below the freezing point so many surfaces are slick and can cause workers to slip and fall or lose control of their equipment and vehicles.
While small in comparison to the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, winter weather conditions can make an unsafe work environment even more dangerous. Outdoor work areas should be free from ice and all workers should be wearing the proper winter clothing in addition to their protective gear. Proper footwear will also be necessary for cleanup conditions as well as the weather. Keeping feet dry and warm is essential to warding off frostbite.


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Thursday, October 19, 2017: RT MINERALS CORP. REPORTS ON DRILLING, POWER STRIPPING AND PROSPECTING AT NORWALK PROPERTY, WAWA, ONTARIO AND SECOND CLOSE OF FINANCING
Vancouver, B.C. – October 19, 2017 ‐ RT Minerals Corp. (TSX.V: RTM) (OTC Pink: RTMFF) (the "Company" or "RTM") announces that further to its news release of September 7, 2017, it has completed ten (10) shallow NQ core drill holes (807 metres), power stripping, prospecting, geological mapping, and sampling of geophysical targets and historical gold showings on the Company's 100% optioned Norwalk gold property. Norwalk adjoins the southern boundary of Red Pine Explorations Inc. ("Red Pine") Wawa gold property.
The Company is exploring for groups of close-spaced significant gold-bearing structures and areas of near-surface gold-bearing disseminated sulphides targeting a large orogenic gold deposit. Norwalk and Gananoque are two gold-bearing areas located about 1,600 metres from one another, with groups of historical gold occurrences that align in 800 to 1,200 metre zones that may be related to regional structures. The Company has not yet conducted enough work to establish the relationship between historical gold occurrences.
Area L1250-615N located in the south-central part of the Norwalk property has been drilled, mechanically stripped, power washed, mapped and sampled during the current program. Surface assays confirm significant gold mineralization with free gold in a 1 to 2 metre thick chloritic shear zone with quartz-carbonate-tourmaline veins that is exposed for some 20 metre strike length in a surface-stripped area. Grab sample 582567 (UTM 667720E 5310414N) returned 4.49 g Au/Mt, and 669.55 g Au/Mt (check), and sample 582516 (same location) returned 61.39 g Au/Mt.
This gold-bearing structure was tested by drill holes N17-08, N17-09 and N17-10. While most samples are still in cue for assaying, drill hole N17-09 (UTM 667712E 5310420N, Azimuth 120°, Dip -45°) returned 200 ppb Au from 8.0 to 9.0 metres. This gold-bearing intercept demonstrates that gold bearing structures on surface continue with depth.
Highly variable gold results present from surface samples and drill core sampling at Area L1250-615N suggest nugget effect gold assays, when a gold assay does not precisely measure the gold content of the entire sample tested due to non-uniform distribution of high-grade gold nuggets in rock. Gold assays with nugget effect cannot be relied upon as the actual gold content is somewhere between extreme high or extreme low gold values. The Company will re-assay sample rejects using pulp and metallic sieve analysis method to more accurately quantify the gold content of each gold-bearing sample.
Current drilling has tested 5 of 69 geophysical Induced Polarization (IP) targets identified by the Company from its recent 36 line-kilometre IP geophysical survey. IP chargeability anomalies are explained in core by disseminated pyrrhotite (Po) and pyrite (Py). IP resistivity anomalies are explained in core by increased silica content.
Drill hole N17-02 (UTM 668202E 5310838N, Azimuth 025°, Dip-45°) tested an IP chargeability high anomaly with local resistivity high, and intersected moderately foliated to sheared quartz diorite with 2 to 4% medium to fine-grained disseminated pyrrhotite and pyrite that returned 130 ppb Au from 133-134m depth, and later intersected a mafic mylonite with trace sulphides and 10 cm quartz vein that returned 1.08 g Au/Mt from 140 to 141 metres depth.
Surface stripping and washing conducted in Area L1100 has exposed disseminated sulphides in outcrop. This mineralized zone may correspond to the IP chargeability high explained by disseminated sulphides in core hole N17-04 (UTM 668051E 5310251N, Azimuth 045°, Dip -45°), which returned 1.44 g Au/Mt from 81.5 to 83.5 metres from strongly foliated intermediate metavolcanics with 5 to 8% fine sulphides (Arsenopyrite, Py and Po) and 10% quartz stringers. Stripped Area L1100 will be mapped and sampled in the coming weeks.
Assays of drill core intervals of foliated mafic intrusive rocks and foliated intermediate metavolcanics with disseminated sulphides with quartz veins can be mineralized with gold.
Prospecting has been effective at Norwalk, and this work has located several historical small-scale mined areas with shafts or adits driven on shear zones with quartz veins. Significant surface trenching and blasting is also evidence of gold potential at each site. Two groups of historical showings (Norwalk and Gananoque) are located about 1,600 metres from one another.
Norwalk workings extend for some 800 metres in a general north-south orientation in the eastern part of the property, which represents a sizeable gold target for further exploration. Historical workings include an inclined shaft, a vertical shaft, and two adits driven into a common shear zone and quartz vein, and numerous surface trenches.
Gananoque workings extend for some 1,200 metres and align in a NNE trend in the western part of the property. Prospecting along a steep hillside near the historical Gananoque gold showing has located two adits driven on shallow-dipping quartz veins along a steep hillside. Previous assays of grab samples from muck at the base of the hill returned from 20 ppb to 1.45 g/Mt Au (RTM Press Release Aug 22, 2017). Prospecting has exposed an extensive area of strongly carbonate, fuchsite and silica altered metavolcanics yet to be mapped and sampled.
The Company's exploration team has efficiently identified two areas of the Norwalk property that warrant further gold exploration, namely Norwalk and Gananoque. Each area is between 800 to 1,200 metres in length with numerous historical gold workings, and each area represents a significant target for further gold exploration. The Company will continue to explore prominent structures and zones of gold-bearing disseminated sulphides with the objective to discover shallow, continuous zones of gold mineralization.
The Company intends to complete an additional ten core drill holes, from 80 to 200 metres in core length to test current exploration targets and models. Prospecting, geological mapping, and surface sampling will continue.
Mr. Kevin Kivi, P.Geo. is Qualified Person for RT Minerals Corp. and approves the technical content of this news release.
Further to its news releases of September 8, 2017 and October 11, 2017, the Company has closed the second tranche of its private placement through the sale of 1,100,000 flow-through units priced at $0.07 (the "FT Units") to raise additional gross proceeds of $77,000 (the "Offering"). Each FT Unit consists of one flow-through common share and one half of a share purchase warrant, with each whole Warrant exercisable into one further common share at a price of $0.07 for a term of one year. Insiders purchased 300,000 FT Units. All securities issued in the private placement are subject to a hold period expiring February 20, 2017. A 10% commission comprised of $2,100 cash and 30,000 common shares at $0.07 per share will be paid to registered representatives on $42,000 of the Offering. The proceeds from the flow-through portion of the Offering will be used for exploration activity on the Norwalk property.
RT Minerals Corp. is a junior resource company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and evaluation of primarily gold and diamond properties in Canada. The Company's principal mineral properties include:
Ballard Lake Property – 366 square kilometre (~141 square mile) diamond and gold property located approximately 50 kilometres northeast of Wawa, Ontario, in which the Company owns a 100% interest, subject to a 2% net smelter royalty;
Norwalk Property – Gold property located approximately 6 kilometres south of Wawa, Ontario, in which the Company has an option to earn a 100% interest, subject to a 2% net smelter royalty;
Dill River Property – Gold property located several kilometres southeast of Wawa, Ontario, in which the Company has an option to earn a 100% interest, subject to a 2% net smelter royalty. The property is contiguous to the eastern border of Red Pine's Surluga property; and
Dog Lake Property – Gold property located 59 kilometres northeast of Wawa, Ontario, in which the Company owns a 100% interest, subject to a 2% net smelter royalty.
The Company's common shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "RTM" and on the OTC Pink Market under the symbol "RTMFF" with DTC eligibility for trading in the United States.
For more information on the Company and its properties, please visit the Company's website at www.rtmcorp.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:Paul Antoniazzi
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Service Provider (as the term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy of accuracy of this news release.
Forward-looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release relating to the Company's exploration activities, project expenditures and business plans are approximate and are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of securities legislation. The Company does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements. These forward looking statements represent management's best judgment based on current facts and assumptions that management considers reasonable, including that operating and capital plans will not be disrupted by issues such as adverse market conditions, mechanical failure, unavailability of parts, labor disturbances, interruption in transportation or utilities, or adverse weather conditions, that there are no material unanticipated variations in budgeted costs, that contractors will complete projects according to schedule, and that actual mineralization on properties may not achieve any category of resource(s). The Company makes no representation that reasonable business people in possession of the same information would reach the same conclusions. Forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. In particular, fluctuations in the price of gold, equity markets or in currency markets could prevent the Company from achieving its targets. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. There is no guarantee that drill results reported in this news release or future releases will lead to the identification of a deposit that can be mined economically, and further work is required to identify resources and reserves. We seek safe harbour.
The Canadian National Stock Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved of the information contained herein.

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7 Awful Things People Say When You're Recovering From Childbirth
In an ideal world, the postpartum mother would be protected from all negative things (perceived or real) that could possibly be said to her via a special forcefield. Maybe someone could invent "new mom headphones" that would filter all the weird things people say to into only the nicest, most life-affirming comments. After all, many women recovering from childbirth are in a fragile, hormone-fueled emotional state. It is hard enough to deal with new motherhood, let alone all the awful things people say when you're recovering from childbirth.
I guess one way of protecting yourself from the things people say to you after you have a baby, is to not expose yourself to anyone at all. Then again, that would be a huge drag. Being home alone with a baby is isolating enough. Plus, who would you complain about your partner to? I was happy to have friends who visited me when I was alone at home with my newborn, especially in the first few weeks postpartum. In fact, I don't know what I would have done without them, since I had a c-section and couldn't really go anywhere more than a block away.
However, every now and then I would receive an unwelcome comment that made even the concept of company less than pleasant. I'm sure that I am guilty of having said one or more of these things before I became a mom, too (and maybe even afterward, because we forget how it feels to be postpartum after the pain of the experience has dulled). Hopefully, by bringing some of these to light, we can all be a little more sensitive when talking to the new mom in our life.
"Tell Me All The Horrible & Gross Things"
If you were in a car accident, and were just recovering and your stitches were still fresh and had just been casted, would you be terribly eager to relive the trauma of the accident with the people visiting you? Probably not. In my experience at least, I'd say you'd probably want some balloons, some flowers, someone to tell you stories from the "outside," and maybe some trashy magazines with the latest Kardashian gossip so you can keep your mind off the indescribable pain you're probably in.
Trust me, the new mom will happily tell you her pooped-on-the-delivery-table horror stories when the dust has settled, but she's recovering from childbirth right now. It's a tad too soon. Chill. Right now she needs you to entertain her with jokes and compliments about how glowing she is as a new mom (even if that's just sweat from not showering for two days).
"So How Bad Does Your Vagina Look Now?"
People relish asking women recovering from childbirth about their gnarly vaginas. You guys. Why?
Postpartum women are not circus freaks. Also, their vaginas aren't "ruined for life." The vagina is a beautiful thing, designed to accommodate the miracle of childbirth should a woman choose to be a mom. Yes, it may require some stitching afterward, but that does not mean that it is heretofore retired from active duty.
"Do You Pee Every Time You Sneeze?"
Why am I getting the feeling that you're just fishing for all the negative things that are happening to my body after I've given birth? Are you trying to pat yourself on the back for staying unencumbered by children and the fact that your underwear is pristine and pee-free? Are you trying to highlight the fact that, while I recover from childbirth, you get to enjoy things like brunch and sleeping in?
I always resented the moments when my non-kid friends relied on the things they heard postpartum women experienced to formulate questions about my recovering-from-childbirth body. It didn't seem like they were actually interested in my point of view or caring about me, as an individual person. It felt more like a morbid curiosity on their part; an attempt to find out if this assumption or that rumor was, in fact, true.
"OMG How In Love Are You With The Baby?"
This question is another well-meaning question that can hit a woman recovering from childbirth in all the wrong places. After all, not all women who have just had a baby fall instantly in love with said baby.
With my firstborn, it was not instant heart emojis and butterflies. I thought he was cute, and I definitely felt "something," but the "in love" part took a really long time to come around. By week five postpartum, I still loved our family dog (my true first born) way more than I loved my newborn. When people asked me about how "in love" I was with my baby, I felt extremely guilty because my answer would have been "not that much," and I knew that was the so-called "wrong" answer.
"I'm Sure You're Getting Tons Of Help From Your Family, Right?"
For some reason, people assume that everyone has the same mom who magically lives a few houses away or who is capable of dropping everything in her life to come and shack up in your house for a couple of weeks to help you with your newborn. Sure, lots of people I know have moms who moved in for the first few weeks after they had their babies, and I am super jealous of those people. But this is not necessarily everyone's experience, and it certainly was not mine.
My mother doesn't live a plane ride away (more like an hour), but she doesn't feel comfortable driving to the city alone. At the time, dealing with the fact that my mom didn't want to come and live with me to help with the baby was pretty painful. However, I've learned to take people (more or less) for who they are, and to not ask my friends who have just had babies questions like, "Yo, where your mom at?"
"I'm Sure You'll Be Back To Yourself In No Time"
Oh really? Do you have a crystal ball? Some special insight into my future that I am not in possession of?
While platitudes like this are delivered with the best of intentions, they can also be harmful. A lot of moms recovering from childbirth feel lifetimes away from "themselves." When they fail to get back to feeling like they're living even a fraction of their former live, especially by a certain timeline, it can bring on feelings of despair and failure. So, while saying something like this to a postpartum woman is meant to be encouraging, it can actually be detrimental.
"Wow, I Didn't Expect You To Still Look Pregnant"
Yeah, that's funny, because I didn't either. When I was a first time mom, I though that once my baby exited my body— and while my stomach would still be carrying some extra pounds (as would the rest of my body — my stomach would by no means look like I was in my third trimester.
I get that the human body is a mysterious and wondrous thing, and those mysteries and wonders can sometimes shocking. However, if you're an outsider looking in and the thing you're marveling is something you're pretty sure you wouldn't be so thrilled about on your own body, it is best that you keep that observation to yourself.


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RAV9N2, Message from the Editor in Chief (may – august, 2019)
Journal of the Latin-American association of quality control, pathology and recovery of construction
With great satisfaction, we present the second issue of the ninth year of the ALCONPAT journal.
The aim of the journal is to publish case studies within the scope of the Association, namely quality control, pathology and recovery of constructions, including basic and applied research, reviews and documentary research.
This V9N2 issue begins with a work from Brazil, where Graziela Pereira da Silva and colleagues present a review about the influence of infrared thermography on masonry walls to detect pathological manifestations. A systematic review was carried out through research with automatic search and snow-balling, selection and sifting of articles to restrict them to the desired theme. After that, infrared thermography in the pathological manifestations was studied along with the thermal properties and their behavior, thermal bridges, temperature difference and air infiltrations. Some care must be taken during the execution of experiments and measurements. It has also been shown that infrared thermography is a complex technique.
In the second work, from Mexico, Pedro Jesús Poot Cauich et. al. present a review that addresses the mechanics of adhesion, strengthening effect and durability issues of applications of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite materials in beams. The application of CFRP materials has been widely described, but the focus has been on overall failure parameters. The first issue is strengthening capability of CFRP reinforcement for concrete beams. The second is the local interface bond stress-slip relationship, that is, the local slip. The last issue is the durability of the CFRP sheet/plate, when exposed to a hydro-thermal environment. The role of adhesion and the mechanics of concrete-CFRP adhesion and a sound understanding of the interface between the CFRP and concrete behavior is the key factor for controlling debonding failures in CFRP-strengthened RC beams.
The third work of this issue is from Brazil, where Ronaldo Medeiros-Junior and colleagues confront the following concrete properties: water absorptions (by immersion and capillarity), electrical resistivity and compressive strength. Results showed that concretes with higher content of pozzolan had higher resistivity and greater absorption by capillarity, for water-cement ratios lower than 0.60. This behavior is attributed to reduced pore diameters and microstructure densification. However, for water/cement ratio of 0.60, concrete with lower content of pozzolan presented higher absorption by capillarity. It was observed that the compressive strength and the electrical resistivity behaved inversely proportional to the water/cement ratio, and the absorption by immersion and capillarity are directly proportional to the water/cement ratio. Correlations with high determination coefficients were found between tests.
In the fourth article, from Mexico, José Trinidad Pérez-Quiroz et. al. discuss the corrosion performance of dissimilar welded joints between ASTM A615 and AISI 304 stainless steel with and without buttering using Inconel 182. In both cases, the filler metal was ER-309L and the base metals were prepared with a 45° single bevel. One half of the specimens were welded with "buttering" using Inconel 182. The electrochemical results showed that despite welding defects, the welded specimens formed a passive layer in alkaline environments. The specimens welded with buttering exhibited the best corrosion resistance and mechanical properties.
The fifth work, by Daniel V. Ribeiro y Rafaela Oliveira Rey, from Brazil evaluated the aggregate alkali reactivity (AAR) of the aggregates used in the metropolitan region of Salvador and the use of mineral additions in order to mitigate this reaction. The accelerated test method using mortar bars, recommended by NBR 15577-4: 2008, was used. The results indicate that the sands of the metropolitan area of Salvador have low reactivity, however, the gravels presented high reactivity and that mineral additions with pozzolanic characteristics can mitigate the AAR. This study, although limited to the conditions used, is unprecedented in the State of Bahia and presents a high index of originality, since it uses higher contents of mineral additions than conventional use. It was concluded that micro silica, if used at very high contents, can even accelerate the AAR.
The sixth work in this issue is written by M. Rendón Belmonte and colleagues from Mexico. They describe properties related to the durability of five different mixtures of concrete with different contents of activated fly ash (AFA) and Portland cement (CPC 40). The measurements carried out were apparent speed of ultrasonic pulse, electrical resistivity, fast ion permeability of chloride and mechanical resistance to compression. The performance of all mixtures proved to be durable, and the development of the electrical resistivity and the decrease in the level of the chloride ion permeability were enhanced by the contents of AFA, although the resistance to compression at higher contents of AFA was minor. The maximum percentage of AFA to comply with the current criteria of durability was 65%.
In the seventh work, from Brazil, Denis Cardoso Parente et. al. evaluate the use of reuse water from sewage treatment plants in the manufacture of simple concrete casting blocks. The use of these blocks has been adopted as a rationalization option in the structural masonry composition and sealing, by allowing reduction in the losses of materials and coating layers. The study includes the analysis of the physical and mechanical properties of the blocks dosed with effluent and the results show that these properties remain unchanged, which can make feasible the use of the effluent.
In the eighth work, from Cuba, Jennifer Lopez Guevara and colleagues report that Santa Clara de Asis Convent High Choir timber truss has been the victim of humidity and the attack of abiotic and biotic agents which have caused its gradual degradation. For the identification of pathological processes associated with these agents and because of its patrimonial character, a diagnosis study based on an organoleptic inspection and superficial tests was carried out with the available instruments, which allowed identifying the causes. By modeling the structure on SAP 2000 program, they obtained the results that were used to calculate the solutions proposed for the identified pathologies, mainly for the loss of connection between the wall plate and the tie rod beam.
The article that closes this edition is written by Henrique Jorge Nery Lima y et. al. from Brazil, who present the case study of pathological manifestations in concrete structures, located in the Northern Road Hub of Brasília, using the GDE / UnB methodology, which qualifies and quantifies the degradation of structural damages. The general state of the structure was characterized in order to serve as a subsidy for decision making regarding routine interventions, in order to extend the useful life of the structure. The methodological routine consists of conducting field inspections; catalog of structural pathologies with photographic survey; characterization of pathologies and classification according to the weighting factors and damage intensity factors of the structure according to the GDE / UnB methodology for special works of art; calculation and overall classification of the structure damage.
We are confident that the articles in this issue will constitute an important reference for those readers involved with questions of evaluations and characterizations of materials, elements and structures. We thank the authors participating in this issue for their willingness and effort to present quality articles and meet the established times.
On behalf of the Editorial Board
Pedro Castro Borges
Editor in Chief
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Durability over time: UV radiation, humidity, corrosion and chemical substances cannot harm R'Unik. Developed based on a new Arval technology, this coating is a combination of a high performance steel layer, ZM Evolution and a resistent resin layer: a recipe for consistency and aesthetics.
With more than 15 years of experience in the field of organic coatings, Arval by ArcelorMittal offers controlled quality and - in case of the high performance coating R'Unik - a warranty of up to 25 years.
For metallic colours there may be shade variations between different lots, please ensure that all the material for the whole building (or façade) is ordered at the same time and ensure that the material is assembled in the same direction.


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This City's New Firefighters Are Almost All Post 9/11 Veterans
By Katie Zezima
When Marland Lawrence entered the fire academy after coming home from the Navy, he was surprised to find out he was not the only veteran in his class. Almost everyone else had also just left the military.
Lawrence was one of 28 veterans in Newark's 41st fire recruit class, which graduated Tuesday. Three civilians were also sworn in.
It is not a coincidence. New Jersey's largest city has spent the past few years actively recruiting veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to serve in its fire department. It is the first time the fire department has recruited veterans since World War II.
"They bring that life experience, the camaraderie, the teamwork, and already knowing a quasi-military structure," said John G. Centanni, the Newark Fire Chief. "They know rank and how to take orders. They bring all of that to the table."
Newark runs a veterans program in its city hall in partnership with the GI Go Fund, a New Jersey nonprofit that helps veterans make the transition to civilian life.
"Veterans are perfect to do this job," said Jack S. Fanous, director of the fund. "They're not going to be afraid of this job when they come back home."
More:7 In-Demand Jobs For Veterans
The city's veterans office recruited returning veterans through phone calls and job fairs and told veterans who contacted it about the firefighting job possibilities. New Jersey and other states give veterans preference in their civil service exams.
The recruits were sworn in Tuesday in the New Hope Baptist Church. The firefighters' pipe band, clad in kilts and playing bagpipes and drums, played while marching down the aisle of the church. The recruits, clad in dress uniform, sat in the front and snapped up when called to attention.
The recruits are "one of the most historic class of firefighters this city has seen in many, many years," Mayor Cory Booker said.
"They were heroes before they even put on the firefighter's uniform," Booker said.
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's website, Newark received a $7.1 million in a federal Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant last year. The grants make recruiting and hiring veterans a priority. Newark has hired 55 firefighters with the three-year grant.
Nationally, veterans have struggled to find work after returning home. The nationwide unemployment rate for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was 9.7 percent in September. The Department of Justice awarded more than $111 million to 220 cities and counties in June to create law enforcement positions. A bill that would establish a $1 billion jobs program for veterans is stalled in Congress.
More:Top Employers Of Veterans
"Men and women who leave the military, there is a void when they are leaving, and oftentimes they want to fill that," said Kevin Schmeigel, a Marine veteran who founded and leads the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Hiring Our Heroes Program. "I think they gravitate toward service-oriented positions. There's a greater mission and a focus on service."
Jeff Zack, a spokesman for the International Associated of Firefighters, said that while veterans have always been in the firefighting ranks, the push toward actively hiring returning veterans is new. As the ability to hire returns to municipalities, Zack said, the organization hopes that more veterans are hired into firefighting jobs.
The Boston Fire Department recruited 49 military veterans this year.
When Lawrence got back from serving in Bahrain, he couldn't find a job. With his unemployment running out, he went to the veterans office, which helped him enroll in college and take the civil service exam.
The fact that nearly everyone had military service created a competitive but collaborative spirit that carried the group through the 12-week training, Lawrence said.
"There was a special bond," he said.
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Hiroshima: A survivor tells her story
Yoshiko Kajimoto was aged 14 and working in a Hiroshima munitions factory when the atomic bomb was dropped on the morning of August 6, 1945.
While all her family survived that day, radiation would kill her father a year later and radiation illness would confine her mother to hospital for 20 years.
Yoshiko gave up her dream to train as a teacher and had to work instead to earn money to raise her three brothers.
She's now 85 and a mother, a grandmother and a great-grandmother.
Here is her account of the day the bomb fell on her city:
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Pipiltin Cocoa at the Sarinah Thamrin department store is an up-and-coming chocolate boutique store based in Jakarta serving ethically-processed chocolate and a selection of enticing chocolate-based delicacies as well as beverages. Taking the principle of "sharing is caring", Pipiltin Cocoa sets forth the belief the goodness of chocolate is best shared with others and customers can savour the high-quality local chocolate at their spacious Sarinah branch location. Decked in sleek, dark wood as part of its minimalistic interior design, Pipiltin Cocoa at Sarinah also features the brand's renowned "bean to bar" concept area – an innovative tool for customers providing a glimpse of Pipiltin's chocolate-making process.
Epitomising Sarinah's principle of supporting the use of local products, Pipiltin Cocoa creates chocolate masterpieces from scratch. Sourcing its cocoa beans from areas such as Banda Aceh, Bali, and East Java, Pipiltin expert chocolate makers then undertake a multi-step process of specialty chocolate production. The attentive chocolate-making process practiced at Pipiltin Cocoa's factory therefore ensures the brand's consistent ability to provide customers with a delectable variety of superior quality chocolate. As such, Pipiltin Cocoa's Sarinah branch makes available a range of chocolate products including pralines, chocolate bars and discs while also serving as a cozy café offering an array of desserts and specialty drinks. In exceeding customer expectations, friendly staff members at Pipiltin Cocoa are available to offer insights behind the brand's beloved chocolate products.
Pipiltin Cocoa at Sarinah Thamrin expertly delivers on products that are in keeping with Sarinah's customers in search of premium quality. In this regard, Pipiltin Cocoa is increasingly becoming known as the one-stop destination for luxury confectionery in Indonesia.
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Siegmar Pallaschke: 41 years at ESOC
On 30 November 2007, flight dynamics specialist Siegmar Pallaschke retired after 41 years at ESOC. In over 4 decades, computers have shrunk and techniques have become more sophisticated, but teamwork is still necessary for success.
Siegmar Pallaschke arrived at ESOC - then known as the European Space Data Centre (ESDAC), part of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO, a forerunner of ESA) - on 1 July 1966. Just four months earlier, the Soviet Union's Venera 3 had become the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet, and it was just five years after Alan Shepard had become the first American in space.
The young engineer joined ESDAC's newly established Orbital Computation Branch (today, Flight Dynamics), working for Dr Hans Walter, as a mathematical analyst - a field in which he specialised for his entire career. ESDAC was then located in Darmstadt's Havel strasse, and all calculations were done using the IBM main frame computer located at the Deutsche Rechenzentrum (DRZ - the German Data Processing Centre) building in Rhein strasse.
During 41 years and almost five months, Pallaschke worked on numerous missions, including the first series of ESRO science missions, the HEOS (Highly Eccentric Orbiting Satellite)-series and many others. At times, he contributed to various working groups and projects, including ISO 9001 at ESOC and ESA's Data Relay Satellite Project, which resulted in ESA's Artemis mission. His last mission was Cluster, on which he has worked as flight dynamics specialist since 1992.
Q. What were some of your earliest experiences?
There were only 50 or 60 people at ESDAC when I joined. At first, I had problems. I had never spoken English before, other than what we learned in school, and I was also new to the area of orbital mechanics and calculations, so there were not only new ideas to understand, but also a new language. I worked with Dr Walter, a mathematician, and he was German, so we could at least discuss technical matters in German. Nonetheless, it was a different environment - it was definitely not an easy start. But I persevered - I didn't give in - and I'm glad I didn't.
When I joined in 1966, I was supposed to help with software development for orbit attitude calculations and general data processing. The software we developed was to be used at ESTEC, where the spacecraft control centre was then located. In November 1967, the control centre moved from ESTEC to ESDAC, which enabled software development and the spacecraft operations to be combined.
Over the years, we developed new techniques for orbital determination, as our tools improved - it was very challenging and interesting.
Q. What was it like working at ESDAC, and then ESOC?
The atmosphere was very pleasant - all of us worked as a team and we were very close. In the 1960s, we had no canteen, so we went everyday together for lunch to the canteen in the FTZ, the Fernmeldetechnisches Zentralamt - or Central Telecommunications Office, located nearby. That really brought everyone together. We had good team spirit! And we had no computer, so we had to go to the DRZ to do computing - we really had to improvise!
Q. What's new in flight dynamics in 41 years?
When I started, all satellites were 'passive' - they were injected into a specific orbit with a specific attitude and that was it for the duration of their mission. Our challenge was to do 'state determination' - figuring out where it was, at what altitude and in which direction it was pointed. Later, on-board technology improved and satellites became equipped with thrusters and reaction wheels and we could do attitude and orbit manoeuvres. The software became increasingly complex.
Also, demands from the satellite operators have grown more stringent. For example, with HEOS in the 1960s and 1970s, we faced a requirement of determining satellite positions with an accuracy of 500 kilometres; today, it's just 1000 or 2000 metres for satellites in the same orbit.
Also, today, we have a larger team and we have team members who can validate our software. At the beginning, I not only had to write my own software, I also had to do all the testing -the entire responsibility was on my shoulders. Also today, we have missions already in operation, so we can do live testing of new software, new procedures and new techniques with an actual spacecraft and be fully confident that our software is correct.
Q. Did you ever think you could fly a mission to Mars - or further?
In the early days, everything was focused on low- and near-Earth orbits - or on flying to the Moon, perhaps. Sure, we knew one day we would be able to do a mission to Mars or Venus, and in fact we are doing so. But to fly to a comet - like Rosetta - that was only a dream.
Q. Has anything changed in our knowledge of the laws orbital motion?
The laws haven't changed, of course, but we have gotten more precise. Today, we apply more of the actual physical laws, whereas in the past, we didn't - we didn't have the techniques. With Ulysses, we discovered that we had nutation - a very slight irregular motion - around the Sun. So the physical laws have always been there, but we didn't always apply them fully.
Q. What's it like to work at ESA during four decades?
I have enjoyed it very much here at the Agency. It's an international atmosphere; working with people from Italy, Spain, France or wherever is much better than working only within a single nation. It's great having all the cultures together. Of course, working in the space field has a certain enduring 'flare' - a flare of something special - even more so in the 1960s, when space was only ten years old.
This doesn't mean that work here is easy - I have had many hard days - difficult days, but all were enjoyable. In 1972, I remember, I had three launches spaced very closed together, with HEOS-A2 in January, TD-1A in March and ESRO-4 in November. We introduced new orbit determination methods with lots of new software. That was a real challenge - there was a lot of time pressure.
Q. What was your biggest success?
The Olympus recovery was really fascinating. By 1991, two years after launch, due to a series of anomalies, the spacecraft unexpectedly began to tumble and drift out of contact with the ground. We lost telemetry, data contact and there were major power problems. The satellite basically went out of control - and it was frozen. We were able to revive it, though. I was partially involved, but it was really a success for all of us - for all of ESOC.


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Coastal Dance Academy director, Terri Morris began her dance training in Southern Florida at the age of three. When she was 15 she was already teaching at a professional level.
Terri then went on to College at The University of Southern Mississippi, where she majored in dance and minored in acting. During her freshman year, Terri auditioned and qualified for the Dixie Darling Dance Team, was named Homecoming Queen, and was a bathing suit model for a magazine company along the Florida Coast.
After graduating from College, Terri moved to New Hampshire where she performed in various musicals such as "Send In The Clowns", The King and I", and with the New York casting group of "Oklahoma". She also opened her first studio there and, to this day, she has opened and directed three successful studios of her own.
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Finished Shawl
Finished the Good Vibes shawl and I really like it I almost used a solid two skeins! The dark purple is a Hedgehogfibres skinny single in Potluck that I got from Cross and Woods. I paired it with a soft single in Hypnos.
Hypnos is a white with purple, violet, blue, and black and while it is saturated in some areas when knitted it makes a light shade with some small pops of color! This shawl kind of reminds me of a night sky with fluffy clouds in the moonlight kind of. Or like a mythological night garden. So dark and light at the same time!
I really should finish my beaded shawl, so I am going to try to work on that a bit (before I cave and cake some more yarn for a different shawl! Lol!)
Thursday update at 3pm EST
I have been so busy visiting family that I did not have a lot of time to do a full update but this update will include new colors!
The first new color is Blue Crab (top row right). It is shades of green and blue with speckles in red and blue. Super fun. The second new color is Garden (bottom row left) and that is a pale blue green seamisty color with purple, pink, and orange speckles. It is very soft and pretty. I hope you enjoy them!
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The Update will happen today Thursday at 4pm EST. i have been trying to offer different times for everyone around the world!
This update is going to feature new colors on Tender our non superwash merino DK. Colors: Seamist, Fisherman's Jacket, Pale Betta, Seagrass, and Anchor! There will also be a few Dives and Cliffside Rose on Shoal ( Fingering Merino/Nylon)! Hope to see you there!
Dotted Rays Finished!
So I finished my dotted rays by Westknits and honestly I want to start another (any excuse not to do anymore beading on the two shawls that I have on needles that require beading!).
It is sooo pretty but unfortunately with my tan it is not soo good on me! And honestly I do not really understand why I get so tan. I take my son to the beach 2-3 times a week for around 5ish hours each time so you may be thinking that is why I get tan, but I apply sooo much sunscreen I am practically white and I apply sunscreen every hour to my kid (since he goes in the water) and he gets tan too (but less than I do since he wears a long sleeved wetsuit top (the water is cold!) and shorts). Anyways while I soooo love the colors I will probably end up selling it, but it is just soooo pretty. The pink and light turquoise with pops of neon yellow and pink! (hugs) Anyways here a pic of me with the shawl!
As you can see I probably need something bright pink or red (not really my colors but they look the best on me :/ ) The colors I used are Hedgehogfibres in Genie, La Bien Aimee in Peche Mignon, and my own hand dyed yarn that was a tester but thought it was just lovely with the two! Now onto some fun facts! We live around 8 minutes to the beach but if you notice we live in the woods! Due to the mild climate we have loads of holly and oak trees and I mean loads. We have holly forests which I believe were kind of a mistake when they farmed the land, they may have left holly scrubs but over time the scrubs turned into forests of holly. I personally am not fond as you cant walk around in the yarn near the edges without stepping on holly leaves (ouch!) but in the winter when half of them (there are male and female holly trees!) have berries they sure are pretty! If you know more about all these coastal holly trees be sure to comment! And should I do another dotted rays? (please say yes!)
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A lot of Catwalk will be making an appearance in this update! Featuring: Pearl a pale ivory with pink, pale purple, and grey speckles, Tahitian Pearl that is grey with purple, blue, green, and grey and black speckles, Cliffside Rose which is a pale pink peach with red and yellow speckles. Also there will be Poseidon and Dionysus on Catwalk as well!
Also new is Adrift which is 70% mohair and 30% silk. I dyed Beach Party, and then Sunlight Zone, Twilight Zone, and Midnight Zone. They are so soft and really fun shades of blue.
There will also be some new colors on Shoal that include Driftwood and Beach Rocks! I hope you can stop on by!
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After 93 years, the animals in the park-style carousel coming to Canalside in 2018 are back in North Tonawanda, a few blocks from where they were built.
On Thursday, a dozen volunteers for Buffalo Heritage Carousel were at work restoring three of the 31 Spillman Engineering Co. animals that until recently had been stowed away in storage since 1956.
"They will leave this building just like they left the factory down the road here in 1924," said Patrick Stanczyk, a master carver and carousel restoration specialist.
He's responsible for repairing the wooden animals and preparing them for final painting.
"The construction will be better because of the epoxies we use," he said. "The figures will have the primers, the base coat and top coat and look exactly like they did in 1924."
[Gallery: Canalside carousel animals get restored]
The menagerie was going to be restored at a carousel restoration company in Ohio, but delays in getting started interfered with the company's other commitments, leading to a change of plans.
Now, the horses are being repaired under Stanczyk and partner Rose Hirsch's guidance, and readied for the final decorative coat of paint. That will be done throughout the year by Rosa Patton, a National Carousel Association-recognized carousel restorer. She will be in town about once every two months to work on the animals and instruct volunteers. The first six animals are expected to be painted during the first week of August.
The mechanicals, rounding board and scenery panels are being repaired at Carousel and Carvings in Marion, Ohio. The company will also repair a rare rocking chariot and create an Erie Canal barge chariot to go with Sal the Mule, a Herschell-Spillman piece acquired from a collector.
Work began without fanfare on April 24 and is expected to be completed by June 2018. The carousel is expected to be located near Clinton's Dish at Canalside later that summer.
Despite the decades of storage, only one of the wooden animals had dry rot. Overall, they're in good condition, Stanczyk said.
"The wood itself is in very good shape," he said. "The joints are compromised."
Saving original wood
Work on the animals begins in a stripping booth, a small room where hide glue and nails or screws used to assemble them are removed. Heat is used, but no chemicals. Workers use respirators, wear body suits and take other precautions in case the animals contain lead paint.
Next, they remove the paint by sanding the animals down to their natural wood. Re-carving occurs if a piece is missing.
"We pride ourselves in saving every bit of possible original wood, where most companies will replace them because it's easier," said Stanczyk, a retired senior engineering technician at Moog.
The animals are then reassembled using epoxies and sanded again. The process for each animal takes about two weeks, and then they are ready to be painted, he said.
Six coats of primer and paint – three coats of alcohol-based bin, two coats of oil-based primer and one coat of Dover White paint – are applied to protect and seal the wood before the decorative paint can go on.
A color card used by Spillman Engineering in 1924 allows each figure to be painted in its original colors.
Worksheets are filled out to carefully document the work done on each animal.
The restoration project is getting help from two decorative painting groups, Buffalo Snowbirds Decorative Painters from Buffalo, which painted the Herschell carousel at the Buffalo Zoo in 2000, and Genesee County Decorative Painters in Batavia. The painters even painted the walls of the no-frills rented work space with decorative flowers and a reproduction of the lead carousel horse.
Restoring 26 horses
Several women were busy on Thursday sanding two horses that had received a coat of prime in the paint area. Linda Chaffee was sanding the horse's tongue, while Helen Ronan, Christine Kasprzak and Kathy Kwiatkowski sanded the body and looked for rough patches.
"This is going to be part of Buffalo for a long time," said Michelle Schmitz, also of the Buffalo Snowbirds Decorative Painters. "There is going to be so many people who enjoy this for generations, so it's really exciting to be a part of that. And we all love to paint, so it's an awesome opportunity for all of us."
In the woodcarving area, a decorative horse that will eventually resume its place on the carousel's outside row was disassembled.
Jim Ronan, a volunteer, used a chisel to repair a damaged hoof.
"Bringing back something like this is fantastic," Ronan said.
Joanne Marasco and Bev O'Neill were busy sanding the horse's legs.
"After they've stripped it, there's always so much debris," Marasco said.
The menagerie has 26 original horses. Nearby, the lion and tiger, with their weight massed on top, were stored upside down to relieve pressure on their legs prior to being hand-stripped. A deer, in need of a missing rack to mount on its head, stood near them, while a giraffe leaned against the wall.
"How many places have a giraffe?" asked Stanczyk in wonderment. "He'll get his spots back, too."
A vintage sea dragon will also be taking the place of the handsomely carved lead horse, which will be put on permanent display.
"This is so wonderful," said Laurie Hauer-LaDuca, Buffalo Heritage Carousel's president and the person who located the 1924 carousel. "It couldn't be a better process to be a part of."
Seeing them back in North Tonawanda was a dream come true, she said.
"The level of detail in these pieces is really quite extraordinary," Hauer-LaDuca said. "Having looked at figures for over 30 years, the amount of detail and three-dimensional carving on these pieces compared to what you would see on a portable machine or early park machine is incredible. I have never seen carvings like this."
The machine, with its three rows of horses, will be only the 10th park-style carousel in operation in the nation. The rare deluxe model was made by the Herschell-Spillman Co., a pre-eminent carousel maker, or its successor, Spillman Engineering.
"To have a complete carousel from 1924 that we have the opportunity to restore is just not going to happen again," Stanczyk said. "There just aren't that many around to do it."


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Dr. Warpenstein was not long returned from the alien portal to the stars. Maybe more importantly, not alien portal to the stars, but PARENTAL portal to the stars, because it turns out that the aliens were mankind's parents who had long since deceased from wars.
The doctor is back in his labyrinthine research and development center on Mars. Hes very busily laboring on a new machine; a new invention that rivaled any that he had previously fashioned. This machine was revealed to him from detailed schematics discovered from the alien worlds.
The idea is not entirely novel to the doctor for he had wondered about such a contrivance. His knowledge had not developed to a design stage. The alien solution was preternatural.
He was about to enter into a strange new reality. He would construct a VIRTUAL TIME MACHINE! The idea reflected on questions and beliefs that have passed down through recorded history: notions of phenomenon seeing bodies simultaneously in two different locations called bilocation; beliefs that an entity double of an individuals physical body could separate itself from the individual and travel out-of-body experience astral travel; feelings that the universe and our influence on it exist simultaneous in spite of the Theory of Relativity and Lorentz contraction. The catalog of phenomenon was long.
The new Time Machine would meld many of those quasi-physical opinions of reality. The notions might be answered by REAL SCIENCE. What had long been speculation and pseudo-science could now be given a new life in reality: Is it possible to return to the past? Can we change the past? Will justice be administered to those who once lived and broke the rules? Is there such a thing as eternal life? Will man travel throughout the universe, and go where no man has gone before, or will he never depart his home Solar System? The answers were about to be rendered . . .
Since the beginning of civilized society man has wondered about, and in many ways, hoped for certainty and absolute power over the unpredictable world. Well, is it possible? The doctor could finally imagine an answer so remarkable and unexpected, as to believe that one will never die, or pay taxes. The answers are all intertwined within notions of infinity and forever and those eternal concepts of the endurance of matter and energy; or will the laws of nature be squelched in the end, and then, to be thrown asunder once more, back out into a new and much different universe
The doctor sit in his luxurious captains chair imagining the possibilities, all of which have been conjured up by mankind for ages: That one could die and a billion, billion, billion, billion years, and more, could pass within an infinite universe, and the odds would return one to be reborn at the exact moment of ones death; there to complete the journey to the end of time.
Of course, this could only be true if the rules require an iterate return to the living at a precise moment of ones death. For why else would reality return one, with a modern brain, to a more primitive past? This repetition would be repeated until ones intelligence has finally earned the omnipotence necessary for meriting an eternal place at the end of time, and then, an eternity as a new order of a brand new evolving universe.
There's a reason why one is born at a particular moment in evolution. The doctor was born at exactly 1945, and not years, or centuries earlier. He would not likely return at any earlier period in the evolution of time and Earth. His development would continue each time he returned until science and the human race realized a kind of immortality and omnipotence. At least, that was what the logic suggested.
Of course, the doctor realized that this explanation was very weak and convoluted. The argument begged a question, "Are ones parents (and others) already reborn somewhere in the world?" Still, one can always imagine an iterate birth to one of an infinity set of parallel realities. He had a much better explanation, and his new VIRTUAL TIME MACHINE would prove it.
Yes, sometimes its true, things can be hidden in plain sight. Knowledge about time travel had been right there under mankinds noises FOREVER, right there in his mind and memory.
Dr. Warpenstein strutted around the Virtual Time Machine like a child with a new toy. It stood some thirty feet across the middle of an immense room. Nothing could stop his experimenting this time. All of the intellectuals here on Mars, well, they were all with him. His androids were all at his command, and Dr. Andersen was right there ready, and hoping for a successful tryout for the machine.
It was only a few weeks latterly that the doctor had discovered the schematics for the time machine. Apparently, the machine had been design, but never actually tried out. The doctor quizzed long over the correctness of the design. Had our forefathers made a mistake? Would the machine really work? The doctor researched and tested the myriad of possibilities before arriving at this final stage . . . the real thing, an actual tryout of the VIRTUAL TIME MACHINE.
Locked within every individual and his/her relatives (also, all of mankind) is an exact memory video record of the past. Our conscious memory is largely spares and confined within the calabi-yau shapes and strings associated with the atomic particles of memory - Nothing is ever forgotten from history. Sciences anthropic principle held true.
It was true that all histories are possible, but we live exclusively within our personal history, and within our personal history nothing is ever created or destroyed (also, matter and energy remains close to its origination throughout history - we may be breathing some of the same oxygen atoms breathed by our ancestors); it just changes logical form; it can be replayed.
That was not the whole of it, one would return to a two-brane (two-dimensional) reality all ones own. There was an infinite number of these recorded histories and only one could be visited by any one individual at a time; however, an infinite number of them could be recreated and remade by an individual. In other words, one could return to his past and remake it into a two-brane reality, and there, marry that High School girl/guy you once failed to WOO. But really, what did all this mean in a real (Three-D) world?
None of this time travel could adversely influence ones three-dimensional past. Unlike speculations that, should one return to the past and shoot ones parent, one might simply disappear from reality; it's not the way of the universe. The history from (Three-D) time would be recreated within the Virtual Time Machine as a Virtual world existing only within a specific Time period. It could be remade an infinite numbers of times, and the futures of each possibility could be different . . . INCREDIBLE!
There is much more to the Time Machine. You there in your own personal past Virtual History would be completely safe from harm. You could live and experience that world while being snatched from the grasp of death by a bodement in the Time Machine.
Into the bargain, the virtual world would not permit savage treatment of virtual beings beyond a reasonable threat. Savage human beings will have no place within the Virtual Time Machine; and those already within the Virtual world will meet their justice from YOU. Furthermore, by the time that the doctor informs mankind of the Time Machine he will have changed (human nature).
How does the Virtual Time Machine Work?
When the doctor finally unraveled the schematic codes it was hardly a cliche. It was hardly an epiphany. It was something grander than mere words could describe. It was a Magic Carpet ride, Aladdins Lamp, an eternal vision right out of the Arabian Nights and antiquity.
Come along with me on a Magic Carped ride, said the alien (our parent).
This time, it was a more poignant piece of evidence; that the aliens really were our parents. But then, Dr. Warpenstein was pretty convinced of that fact already. But then, how wondrous is the incontrovertible and VIRTUALLY tangible proof?
The Virtual Time Machine postulated an exact ingress into unerring mind memory. Inside the machine ones memory could be transposed from a three-brane dimension into a two-brane and infallible history of ones past . . . of anyone and anything as seen through ONES EYES. A world based on ones (only eyes) was exactly why the recreated past would be personalized within each revisited history. You will have returned to a past all your own. You, alone, would become its master in virtual two-brane reality.
The doctor marveled at the ingenuity. Our three-dimensional existence and memory was ephemeral because it inescapably deteriorates back toward two-brane reality; there it remains for most of time and space as determined by a quantum inseparability; its properties divided into exact Plancks constants for aeons . . . Maybe not aeons, but a much longer period of time before reducing back into separate single Planck branes, or about ten billion, billion times smaller than a proton. The intellection was startling.
Considering that our three-dimensional world is a folded two-brane reality, the machine, using memory markers, simply unfolds our three-dimensions back into TWO; there they become a perfect record of the past selected.. Ones past, as seen from ones personal perspective, is unveiled . . . and can be relived, or remade. Simply, incredible!
Dr. Warpenstein couldnt imagine any reason for further ruminating over the exact process. It is enough that it actually works. A three-dimensional being can remain safely in a two-brane dimension for ages before the Universe exhaust its order and once again collapses back into a primeval nugget the size of a Planck mass.
For the moment, it was as close to Occams Razor as the doctor would tarry. True, the present explanation was a somewhat spacious and ethereal kind of substance or conclusion compared to usual quantifiable data. For the time being, the doctor would not illuminate further.
So one is left with taking all of the ifs and for sures in a mere spacious delineation, one might still end up with a lot of MAYBEs. The exegesis was inherently complex. The doctor would elucidate soon. The concept was innately enigmatic within a unfamiliar actuality. Besides, the doctor wishes to provoke a magnificent surmise.
The doctor had but one remaining revelation from the VIRTUAL TIME MACHINE: Because of the extrapolation of the laws of the universe (laws true here on earth are also true throughout the universe) man may never "go where no man has gone before" as imagined in the movie STAR TREK. He can create any scenario that may exist within the VIRTUAL TIME MACHINE and "go where no man has gone before" without ever leaving his place of birth.
Dr. Warpensteins entire crew was there watching and ready for the first test of the VIRTUAL TIME MACHINE: Dr. Andersen was there; General Baumnsted was there. Well, just about everybody on Mars was there . . . TWOOY was there.
TWOOY, informs the doctor. Place the rabbit in the machine.
With a large retinues at stark attention, TWOOY places the rabbit directly in the middle of a prominent launching platform of the VIRTUAL TIME MACHINE. He withdraws hastily from the machine to the forefront of the large throng of witnesses. Dr. Warpenstein is standing ready at a large promenade of controls as his fingers flit lightly, cascading over an impressive chorus of buttons and knobs. Abruptly, he stalls with but one finger positioned ominously above the initiating button. Looking first to the entourage, and then, to the rabbit, he hesitantly presses downwards.
The Time Machine strums to life as it enfolds to embrace the rabbit; sealing itself off from three-dimensional reality; it disappears from view. In its place appears an enormous three-dimensional life like image of a rabbit being born to perceive a verging world for the first time. The image is not clear, but then, neither was the rabbits vision.
All of a sudden, the image is replaced by that of a lordly swaggering alien. His eyes piercing any veil, or any doubting his preeminence. He is standing there as though directly in their presents. He begins to speak!
Doctor! Have you no FAITH? You send a rabbit in your stead...as your very first test subject, rebukes the alien. I must commend you, though. You have recreated our Time Machine perfectly. As a result, Im here to show you earths parents from the stars, and how and when we brought your ancestry to this world many a millennium ago.
I stand here as a living being . . . just as real as you, discloses the alien. We had programmed the machine for our eternal resurrection at the very moment that you turned it on. Those of us who believed in the possibilities for the Virtual Time Machine are back to walk among you throughout time and eternity.
Just like the nonbelievers in your world, the nonbelievers in our world, will only exist within our memory inside the Virtual Time Machine. We will be their judge and jury and creator. Let me explain the final purpose for the Virtual Time Machine:
The Virtual Time Machine can be used to transpose your three-dimensional world into a peaceful place forever. You will become the judge whom decides who remains behind to rule over ones own personal virtual worlds, and whom will vanish from earth forever, to then, exist only in a Virtual world ruled by you and the favored worthy. You and the worthy will all possess a virtual world to rule from personal memories until the end of time.
The alien continues "Before you vanquish the undeserving, take a magic carpet ride with me, back to the beginning of all modern Homo sapiens on earth. Come sit with me on this magic carpet and travel back to earths most ancient history; a place were epic tales and legends arose. Those tales and myths have helped to spawn civilization on your world.
For the first time the doctor becomes aware of an enormous rug beneath the aliens feet. He haltingly walks, as though drawn, toward the inviting prestige. The alien sits down on the carpet as he beckons to the doctor to do the same. The doctor, yet unsteadily, forces his legs to bend as his body sags ever so unsurely downwards. Finally, he is seated.
What could possibly hold him on the carpet's surface when it begins to fly?
The alien anticipating his concerns, speaks with a placating persuasiveness, Do not be afraid. You can not fall off of the magic carpet.
Although, what the alien had said was reassuring, the doctor was not reassured with the same conviction. Well, there was no going back. He was there for the ride.
In the midst of a zephyr, the magic carpet disappears . . . PUFF!
Dr. Warpenstein and the alien emerge above an ancient crescent valley somewhere in the Middle East. A small village looms ahead as they float ever so swiftly over small fields of grain. Shortly, they find themselves floating among shoddy huts made of dirt, clay, and rocks; when unannounced, cries of alarm fill the air. Panicky eyes and outstretched arms and fingers point toward the sky. The doctor looks upwards to gleaned the object of their terror. The silhouette of an enormous craft effervesced in the bright sun light of high-level cirrus clouds. Its colossus size is drifting ever so slowly and ominously downwards toward the village.
It was the ancient episode foretold by the aliens, of our ancestors from the Stars whom would arrive to hasten the evolution of man.
Dr. Warpenstein and the alien sit placidly on the Magic Carpet, completely invisible to their surroundings, as the enormous craft suddenly stays it descent. Huge shuttle crafts exit the ship descending in all directions. Clouds of mist spray from beneath the shuttles as they traverse the relatively clear sky above the villages and primitive peoples. The orderly movement of the shuttles drifts back and forth, from on end of the valley to the other, in an intelligent cross pattern. The nearly imperceptible mist drifts downwards toward utterly ignorant and oblivious breaths of air. Its only effect is on homo sapiens and not lesser animals.
Nano-Molecular idiosyncratic patterns of genetic RNA and DNA had been bio-engineered with complex computer like intendment to, unheralded, enter into the bodies of the primitives byway of breath-of-air, and there, with the aid of viruses to slit the human cell nucleus and implant a new and improved genetic ensoulment. The aliens continued to spread the new genetic message throughout the as-yet small world of humanoids on Earth. It was now time for the next phase of their colonization.
Waves of shuttle crafts transport alien colonist to a nearby mountain range. Incredibly advanced survival gear are stored in caves and makeshift shelters to await the construction of more formal habitations.
(You see, the massive ships above must return to their home stars to aid the final battle for hope, sanity, and survival. This small colony would be left to fend for itself).
The colonist are not left helpless by any means. Many android command ships are stationed throughout earths near space and Solar System to protect the future of the world . Nonetheless, the androids are not permitted to interfere directly in the success of the colony. They can only protect the earth from cataclysmic events which could destroy the world; such as an extinction size impact from asteroids or comets. There would be no more mass extinctions like destroyed the dinosaurs some sixty-five million years ago.
The aliens possess technologies far advanced to many modern worlds - much less this primitive one. They would have no fear for their survival: They had stored in the mountain caves beautiful Magic Carpets that fly; Magic lamps with Genies that could cater to their every wish; books of knowledge to accomplish most anything imaginable. They had dreamt up their technologies in configuration that would transfix the imaginations of primitive peoples and spear their evolution to ever grander heights.
(You see, nature does not allow one to advance primeval peoples evolution instantaneously. Their intelligence may be improved instantly, but their evolution must be elaborated the old fashion way . . . over time).
Long, long ago, the aliens had understood that the most favorable way to hearten the evolution of a primitive world is to create legends, epic tales, and myths. Fantasies and fables can rule the verging mind. They would create folk tales that engender the imagination; then truth and falsehood; then right and wrong; and then, reasoned knowledge of science and technology.
The alien sit placidly beside Dr. Warpenstein on the Magic Carpet. They watched with great interest and amazement as the alien shuttles unloaded time after time before withdrawing one last time back into the formidable ships in the sky and vanishing (FOREVER?).
And yes, it turns out that their edict to the androids was considerably short sighted!
Dr. Warpenstein and the alien move forward through time as the colony builds magnificent palaces and temples. Their mansions supplant acres of land beside the River Euphrates in a today Iraq. Their lives become the stories and legends of ancient Babylonia. Their Sumerian language, like no other in recorded history, is past down through the epic tales of the Sumerians, Gilgamesh great flood, Hammurabi code, Sargon the empire maker of Akkad, and the laws of Lipit-Ishtar.
Much was to follow the great Gods (aliens) of the Bronze Age and the collapse that led to Chaos and the Dark Ages. By then the Aliens were gone and the myths and fables succeeded. Great sages arose in the lands, and the arguments continued on over truth and falsehood, right and wrong; and in time, over the meaning of an empirical conclusion and a supernatural explanation for the world.
The doctor believed that one might argue the difference between the supernatural (ensoulment) and the scienctific (or empirical conclusion) until one turned PURPLE; but then, all that will ensue is that, one would turn PURPLE.
Mathematical formulas may ascertain that the Universe came from nothing, but then, that nothing is always associated with something elsewhere in the formula. One may spend all the money in ones bank account, but then, there is always something elsewhere to refill the void. Such events are simultaneous and Mobius Loop . . . or they're not at all.
The meanings were simultaneous. It was a fruitless argument like, "which came first, the chicken or egg", "the beginning or end". To the doctor, they were simultaneous realities conexistent. Unlike the relative nature of two separate events in the Theory of Relativity, these entanagled events are simultaneous.
These arguments were much like wondering whether time exist; whereas time does not exist except as it relates to things, and things do not exist except as they relate to time. Nonetheless, time disappears within entangled realities at the beginning of time (Big Bang) and at all times within entangled events . . . So you may ask, but never get an answer before both are a reality; then the question is the same and the answer is the same quandary. Why? Because the answer will come when you get there(iterate). Because time seems implicit in every QUESTION when it may not be implicit in EVERY ANSWER (wrangle-dangle).
The doctor stopped ruminating. Their sojourn was meant to travel back into an age of the Aliens and the myths that followed. They were back in a time some 3000 years B.C.
The story of Gilgamesh, a Babylonian king, begins on a journey to find the secret of immortality. On his travels, he happens upon a survivor of a great flood sent by the Gods. The survivor, Utnapishtim, is forewarned by the alien God, Enki, to construct a boat to save his family and friends, including artisans, animals.
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Obstacle Avoidance through Deep Networks based Intermediate PerceptionShichao Yang, Sandeep Konam, Chen Ma, Stephanie Rosenthal, Manuela Veloso and Sebastian Scherer
Miscellaneous, arXiv.org, April, 2017
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author = {Shichao Yang and Sandeep Konam and Chen Ma and Stephanie Rosenthal and Manuela Veloso and Sebastian Scherer},
title = {Obstacle Avoidance through Deep Networks based Intermediate Perception},
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month = {April},
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The Roman city of Pollentia (Alcúdia) is one of the main cities for the study of the Roman period in Spain. Archaeological excavations conducted since 1923 have uncovered the forum, residential quarters, the theater and several necropolises among other remains. The city was founded after the conquest of the Balearics by Quintus Caecilius Metellus in 123 BCE. At the end of the 3rd century CE, a fire destroyed many parts of the city. However, the city continued inhabited through the Vandal (455 CE), Byzantine (534 CE) and the Islamic (902/903 CE) occupations.
Over the forum area, a large necropolis with more than 300 graves has been excavated since 1980. This cemetery was traditionally dated to the 4th century CE, right after the fire. However, recent excavations have yielded data to question this dating. The types of inhumation graves, the disposition of the bodies and the lack of goods suggest that is a Christian cemetery from the late antique period but dated at least after the 7th century CE.
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