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Jongjitwimol, Jirapas, Feng, Min, Zhou, Lihong, Wilkinson, Oliver, Small, Lauren, Baldock, Robert, Taylor, Deborah L, Smith, Duncan, Bowler, Lucas, Morley, Simon J and Watts, Felicity (2014) The S. pombe translation initiation factor eIF4G is sumoylated and associates with the SUMO protease Ulp2. PLoS ONE, 9 (5). e94182. ISSN 1932-6203
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SUMO is a small post-translational modifier, that is attached to lysine residues in target proteins. It acts by altering proteinprotein
interactions, protein localisation and protein activity. SUMO chains can also act as substrates for ubiquitination,
resulting in proteasome-mediated degradation of the target protein. SUMO is removed from target proteins by one of a
number of specific proteases. The processes of sumoylation and desumoylation have well documented roles in DNA
metabolism and in the maintenance of chromatin structure. To further analyse the role of this modification, we have
purified protein complexes containing the S. pombe SUMO protease, Ulp2. These complexes contain proteins required for
ribosome biogenesis, RNA stability and protein synthesis. Here we have focussed on two translation initiation factors that
we identified as co-purifying with Ulp2, eIF4G and eIF3h. We demonstrate that eIF4G, but not eIF3h, is sumoylated. This
modification is increased under conditions that produce cytoplasmic stress granules. Consistent with this we observe partial
co-localisation of eIF4G and SUMO in stressed cells. Using HeLa cells, we demonstrate that human eIF4GI is also sumoylated;
in vitro studies indicate that human eIF4GI is modified on K1368 and K1588, that are located in the C-terminal eIF4A- and
Mnk-binding sites respectively.
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South Africa's new mining Minister, Gwede Mantashe, said on Wednesday he will finalize the latest version of an industry charter, which lays out requirements for black ownership levels and other targets, in the next three months.
Uncertainty around the charter has deterred investment into a sector that accounts for 8% of gross domestic product in the world's top platinum producer.
The government of new President Cyril Ramaphosa has said it will negotiate the latest charter with mining companies, prompting the Chamber of Mines (CoM) to temporarily suspend a legal challenge to the version drawn up by Mantashe's predecessor Mosebenzi Zwane.
"We will finish it within three months, I am putting that timeframe for myself," Mantashe told the eNCA news channel when asked about finalising the charter.
The industry had broken off talks with Zwane and said his new charter would drive many companies out of business. Bones of contention included raising the target for black ownership to 30% from 26%.
Mantashe is a former General Secretary of the powerful National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and is chairman of the ruling African National Congress. He is known for his gruff, blunt style and tough negotiating skills.
The CoM industry body this week described Mantashe as "a man of integrity and dignity, and who brings with him a sound and fundamental knowledge of the industry he will lead and enable". source: miningweekly.com

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The peripheral context in the world capitalist system has been a constant centre of attention in debating alternatives. It is even more so under globalisation that has shifted labour-intensive production to the periphery often under conditions of precarity (Cox, 1987: 319). Moreover, dissent is on the rise in tandem with social cuts and austerity measures. The economic crisis provides opportunities to reflect upon new strategies for labour and the Left. In this guest post, Elif Uzgören debates the labour situation in a peripheral context - Turkey – against the background of globalisation and the transnationalisation of production.
How is labour affected by globalisation and neoliberal restructuring in Turkey? What strategies do they develop and can they form a united struggle? In two research trips to Istanbul and Ankara in April-May and December 2010, I conducted interviews with twenty-two trade unionists and seven members from political parties in opposition. My empirical research illuminates that there is a clear intra-class struggle engendered by the transnationalisation of production between nationally and internationally oriented fractions that also reveals fractions inside the Left. Labour is united in assessing negatively globalisation that is conceived as a process generating unemployment, de-unionisation and atypical work and accelerating income disparities. However, the labour movement and the Left are split in their assessment of ways forward in the struggle against globalisation.
The internationally oriented fraction of labour– that is economically integrated with the transnational production structure such as the textile and automotive sectors, especially following the completion of the Customs Union with the European Union in 1996 – takes globalisation as a fact and defends internationalism as the only viable way of struggle. Interviewees refer to concrete mechanisms of internationalism such as application of the same social standards, social responsibility declarations and/or framework agreements. Yet this fraction is no longer concerned about de-industrialisation and unemployment that can arise from liberalisation and export-promotion strategies. This does not denote that they are in support of neoliberal restructuring, however. Rather their strategy is towards internationalism with the underlining rationale that globalisation has undermined – 'dynamited' even the struggle at the national level. Moreover, internationally oriented labour is in favour of developing a united struggle - 'societal resistance' - designed to create unity among retired and unemployed people, female labour, students, migrant workers, peasants and workers employed in the informal economy.
This fraction develops organic links with social democrat political parties, Kurdish political parties and social movements. They name themselves as the 'new left' or the 'emancipatory left' and distinguish themselves from the 'centre-left'. They aspire to unify class struggle with struggle around identity politics such as the Kurdish question. Additionally, they are critical about national reflexes inside the centre-left and defend supranationalism to contain nationalism and mechanisms of the so-called 'strong state'.
On the other hand, nationally oriented labour – for example, agriculture and public sector employees – associates globalisation with both de-industrialisation and de-unionisation. They criticise export-promotion strategies for compelling national industry to a `montage industry` that cannot produce added value for the national economy. It is argued that countries in a peripheral context cannot provide industrialisation and development through export-promotion. However, in developing a counter strategy vis-a-vis globalisation, they are more critical about transnational solidarity – though not the idea of internationalism. It is often argued that workers of developed and developing countries cannot cooperate as long as imperialism endures. Rather, they defend protectionism and the welfare state, a strategy that echoes arguments of the Keynesian period that had already been defeated with the neoliberal turn in Turkey during the 1980s.
It is pertinent to detect organic links between nationally oriented labour and centre-left political parties. The centre-left political parties fail to propose an alternative economic model other than a form of social market economy. They consider increasing competitiveness in global markets as essential for economic growth. Their criticism of globalisation centres on social policy and national interests without questioning the market economy model. In that sense they neglect to consider the capitalist nature of the developmentalist state.
Yet, it is imperative to question the prospects for labour to develop a united stance vis-a-vis globalisation. The reasons for division amongst the working class are manifold. As far as structural factors are concerned, globalisation has generated two processes: an intra-class struggle between internationally and nationally oriented labour (Bieler 2000: 155; Cox, 1981: 148), and the development of a cleavage between formal and informal labour (Bieler et. al., 2008: 6; Cox, 1981: 148). My empirical research supports these observations. First, these two fractions are situated differently within the transnational production structure and develop different strategies. Internationally oriented labour is no longer concerned with de-industrialisation and under-development or being exposed to pressures of competitiveness that can potentially result in closure of workplaces. Second, Turkey integrates into the transnational production structure with small workplaces that function as sites of sub-contracted work employing atypical labour. Hence, globalisation has entailed another cleavage between workers that are employed in the formal and informal economy. Notably, the bulk of workers employed in the small and medium sized enterprises are not organised at all. It is those production sites - which feature sub-contracted work and atypical forms of employment - that interviewees refer to as places where the mechanisms of 'wild capitalism' are operative. Moreover, interviewees highlighted that transnational capital threatens labour and unionisation in those sites by underbidding and moving to other countries. Third, trade unions that develop organic links with the AKP have adopted a neoliberal form of unionism - a stance that is identified by Cox as 'social partnership in Western Europe and business unionism in North America' (1987: 374). This cannot simply be related to the notion of labour aristocracy. Rather, they conceive of globalisation as progressive and are co-opted into the idea that `collective` problems of labour and capital can be addressed through mechanisms of social partnership - putting survival of the 'workplace' at the centre. These trade unions have increased their membership profile over the last decade. This does not only undermine the struggle against AKP`s neoliberal policies within trade unions – as they start to be authorised for collective bargaining – but also has the social purpose of disarticulating dissent via populist mechanisms such as charities.
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Bieler, A. (2000) Globalisation and Enlargement of the European Union, Austrian and Swedish Social Forces in the Struggle over Membership, London: Routledge.
Bieler, A., Lindberg, I. and Pillay, D. (2008) 'The Future of the Global Working Class: An Introduction.' In Bieler, A., Lindberg, I. and Pillay, D. (eds) Labour and the Challenges of Globalization, What Prospects for Transnational Solidarity, London: Pluto, pp. 1-22.
Cox, Robert W. (1981) `Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory`, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 126-55.
Cox, R. W. (1987) Production, Power, and World Order, Social Forces in the Making of History, New York, Columbia University Press.
van der Pijl, K. (1998) Transnational Classes and International Relations, London: Routledge.
Elif Uzgören is currently a senior researcher at the Department of International Relations in Dokuz Eylul University. She holds an MSc degree of Sociology from the University of Amsterdam where she studied as a Jean Monnet scholar. Elif completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham with her dissertation 'Globalisation, the European Union and Turkey: Rethinking the Struggle over Hegemony' in July 2012. Her research interests include critical political economy, alternatives to globalisation and Turkish politics. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Cultivation of GM crops looks to have hit a peak in the US as a soft international grain market pushes farmers to grow traditional varieties in exchange for premiums
EXCERPT: Major US grain producer Archer Daniels Midland announced in February it would invest in Harvest Innovations, which produces foods from non-GM soybeans.
Genetically modified crop cultivation plateaus in US
Nikkei Asian Review, 12 Mar 2016
Cultivation of genetically modified crops looks to have hit a peak in the U.S. as a soft international grain market pushes farmers to grow more traditional varieties in exchange for special premiums.
GM crops accounted for 94% of U.S. soybean cultivation by area in the 2015-16 growing season, unchanged from a year earlier, the Department of Agriculture reported last July. That share for corn fell from 93% to 92%. "The premiums paid for non-GM products have become more appealing amid a soft crop market," explained a representative for general trading house Kanematsu.
Growing and harvesting non-GM crops takes more time and effort than is required by their genetically engineered cousins. Farmers putting their non-GM products on the Chicago commodities market can thus receive premiums, which have risen in recent years. Those for North American soybeans are typically in the mid-$2 level per bushel, four times the level from 10 years ago.
A number of small soybean farmers in the U.S. and elsewhere have made the switch from GM to non-GM crops to take advantage of premium programs, Kanematsu reports. There is a good deal of interest as well in cultivating non-GM corn during the 2016 season, said Japan's National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations, or Zen-Noh. Some farmers also eschew GM crops out of resistance to using proprietary seeds from large agricultural companies.
General traders anticipate growing demand for non-GM products as well. Mitsui & Co. last year took a 50% stake in a U.S. grain handler specializing in non-GM foods, expecting that market to grow 5-10% per year. Major U.S. grain producer Archer Daniels Midland announced in February it would invest in Harvest Innovations, which produces foods from non-GM soybeans. Legislation in the state of Vermont requiring GM foods be labeled as such, among other developments, has stirred broader discussions in the U.S. over labeling requirements designed to let consumers choose non-GM products.
Zen-Noh, which imports non-GM corn to Japan for use in animal feed, has teamed with a U.S. seed company to supply American farmers with the most advanced non-GM seeds. The federation will also expand the farmer education programs run by its U.S. subsidiary.
Yet despite rising output of non-GM crops, they likely "will be as hard to get ahold of as ever", President Junji Torigoe of tofu producer Sagamiya Foods said. Only a small portion of farmers have abandoned genetically modified crops, and associated premiums remain high. Japanese consumers' shunning of GM crops presents a challenge for buyers at domestic food manufacturers.


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This ski is aimed at "powder hounds" looking for skis that love deep snow. It has been developed for skiers with medium experience in off-piste skiing and touring. This model weighs 1288g, with a width underfoot of between 88 and 90mm; The result, you get plenty of float for a lightweight ski when the pow alarm sounds. The Tour 88 gives an uncomplicated ride, the dimensions giving you support on piste and in challenging snow, whilst being loads of fun in powder.
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A STABLE Account is an investment account available to eligible individuals with disabilities. STABLE Accounts are made possible by the federal Achieving a Better Life Experience ("ABLE") Act. STABLE Accounts allow individuals with disabilities to save and invest money without losing eligibility for certain public benefits programs, like Medicaid or SSI. Earnings in your STABLE Account are not subject to federal income tax, so long as you spend them on "Qualified Disability Expenses."
STABLE Accounts have some similar features to normal bank accounts, but they are not checking or savings accounts. STABLE Accounts are investment accounts, similar to 529 college savings accounts or 401(k) retirement accounts. When you deposit money into your STABLE Account, your money will be invested in different options that you choose. While you can still withdraw and spend your money whenever you need it, STABLE Accounts also allow you to grow your money and to save long-term for disability expenses.
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Worship in the Orthodox Church
The Divine Liturgy
The central worship service of the Orthodox Church is called the Divine Liturgy (meaning 'The Divine Work'). The Divine Liturgy is a Eucharistic service and contains two main parts: the Liturgy of the Catechumens, sometimes called the Liturgy of the Word, at which the Scriptures are proclaimed and expounded, and the Liturgy of the Faithful, sometimes called the Liturgy of the Eucharist, in which the gifts of bread and wine are offered and consecrated. The Church teaches that these gifts, in a mystical manner, truly become the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The Lord says, 'unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day' (Jn 6:53-54). Thus the Orthodox Church has the Eucharist at the center of Her worship.
While the Divine Liturgy is the central worship service of the Church, and is served every Sunday, the Church has an entire daily cycle of services, which begin at sunset and are served at their appointed hour until sunset on the following day, when the cycle begins all over again with the evening service of Vespers.
The Clergy
Worship services in the Orthodox Church are celebrated by a priest, a man who has been called upon by his community and set-apart for special service to the Church. Each priest is ordained, through the laying on of hands, by a bishop. Each bishop has Apostolic succession–an unbroken line of ordination and common faith, extending back the Apostles themselves. The priest is the servant of his community, and serves with the blessing of his respective bishop.
Traditional Elements of Worship
The Orthodox Church has always made use of vestments, candles, incense, and icons in worship. This is in part due to the rich liturgical heritage that the early Christians received from the Jewish rites of worship in the Temple. The inside of an Orthodox church is to be, in as much as is possible, a reflection of the heavenly temple. Our worship is to be, in every way possible, a reflection of heavenly worship–which was witnessed by the Prophet Isaiah, the Apostle Paul, and others. For this reason, an Orthodox priest will be clothed in rich-colored vestments, candles will adorn the altar and iconostasis, and the air will be permeated by the sweet smell of incense. All of these things are meant to draw our minds upwards, away from the cares of this life, so that we may focus on Christ and the life that is to come.


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Last week Facebook unveiled partnerships with different apps like Netflix, Spotify and other services. Along with these changes, Spotify suddenly started revealing your musical tastes in automated Facebook updates.
We love sharing writing music playlists on this blog, but it is very annoying to bombard your friends with live access to your listening habits. If you want to stop showing your friends what music you you listen to or movies you have rented, you need to disable a number of automatic features your privacy and app settings.
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As many of you know I have been running a successful Detox and Weight loss program for a few years now. This program is full of delicious recipes, weekly meal plans, and is divided into 4 specific detox stages. As part of the program you get a 1 hour Naturopathic assessment, a weekly mentoring session with me and weigh-in on our bio-impedance machine. I have had great success with this program, not just for weight loss, but also in reducing pain and inflammation, and increasing vitality. But there is something that is bothering me about the program, and I wanted to share it with you.
Detoxing has become a dirty word.
Why? Because it was a big trend about 20 years ago, just like fermented foods and handlebar mustaches are today. Does that make them intrinsically bad?
What happened is that a bunch of people jumped on the "detox bandwagon" to make some quick bucks from riding the trend and preying on the weight loss market. And some of the products that ensued were, well pretty bad to say the least.
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Most products or programs in the Ugly and Bad realm focus on two key areas: Starvation and Purging. In the purging group are products like "flush away" "slim tea" "ballerina tea" "bowel cleanse" or "quick cleanse". This category contains nothing more than thinly veiled laxatives. The over use of unnecessary laxatives causes dehydration, microbiome disruption and irritation to the bowel, as well as the very uncomfortable symptom of urgently needing to poo. (several times day and night)
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I'm afraid that if Lost's Daniel Faraday were around these Legion parts, even he might be confused. That old "Whatever happened, happened" sentiment just isn't as solid as it used to be. In David Haller's (Noah Hawley's) world, even the actors don't exactly understand what's occurring week to week. Unraveling the mysteries of this particular mutant's brain is necessary work for Melanie, Ptonemy, Cary and Syd; their self-preservation (and for Syd, emotional well-being) demands and depends on it. But, for the audience, discerning reality is pure entertainment — a mental challenge wrapped inside a glorious Wonka concoction — with the promise of a golden, mind-bending ticket to board each progressive week's wild and addictive ride.
In comparison with the past four Chapters, number five brings relative clarity. Despite myriad quick change viewpoints, locations and morphing — absorbing — personae, deft direction by Tim Mielants (Peaky Blinders) grabs us by the hand for a smooth and strangely thrilling ride through David's Tomorrowland in a way that somehow feels just as smooth as the Disney attraction.
Back at Summerland, a bruised and stunned Cary anxiously observed Syd, David and Ptonomy bringing in his severely injured other half, tends to Kerry and removes the bullet while Melanie updates him on David's contact with Oliver. Whether her end goal for David was always to rescue Oliver from his self-created space/mind prison suddenly and simultaneously occurs to everyone, but as rapid-fire sequences (telepathy! healing absorption! secret mind rooms! butts!) cut between Cary and Kerry, David and Melanie and David and Syd, our minds are quickly wiped of suspicions just so we can deal with each happening.
When David shows Syd his new power — "I'm the magic man" — they're both intoxicated (frankly, so are we) by a newfound ability to touch — in his mindroom — an illusion he (like Oliver) can create. "Real, fake, it's all the same". Hmm … As she later explains to Melanie, Syd's not there for the fixing (treating); "He's my man". The question that begs — who exactly is driving David's actions at any given moment — recurs throughout the hour, though the mutant we think we know as Haller seems to gain control by episode's end.
Despite Melanie's penchant for planning and Ptonomy's increasing distrust, an evermore confident David takes off to rescue Amy all by himself. Grappling with the implications, "He's too powerful … if they turn him", Syd, Melanie, Ptonomy and Rudy head to D3, where they discover the remnants (bodies) David's already left behind. A dying Brubaker warns them "Be careful, it wears a human face"; indeed, Cary's theory that an incredibly old mutant has taken over — burrowed into Haller's brain — seems to be sound, perhaps the best summation of his condition we've heard.
Speaking of, Syd (after David telepathically contacts her) informs the group David went back to his childhood home, the group (and The Eye) follows and after Melanie's warning that they may not be in reality (rather, David's creation), something renders them all silent. In what is surely one of the best television sequences ever seen, Melanie, Ptonemy, Syd and Rudy wordlessly — with hand signals and hilarious lip reading) work their way through David's old house. Cary and Kerry pop in with Cary's ridiculous looking, purportedly mind-controlling headband contraption, Melanie orders Cary to release Kerry so she can help, The Eye swaps places with Rudy, and the whole of David's world goes bananas. Because, in between the group's rescue efforts, David found both his sister and the news he's adopted; Blenny (Lenny + Benny) and the Yellow Eyed Monster have all made themselves known and seem intent on terrifying (or harming) Syd. At the final, terrifying and thrilling moment, Syd calls David to go to the white room, meaning: create them a safe space and suddenly, the entire group — Melanie, Ptonemy, Syd, Cary, Kerry, The Eye — are all back at Clockworks in group therapy, with Blenny leading a suspect session. Shaken, confused, trying to make sense of what happened and where they are, there's not much for an exhilarated viewer to do but shout out, "Hey, got room for one more?"
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"I'm the magic man. It's all an illusion. I see that now; why'd I fight it so long? Real, fake, it's all the same. We're not really touching." David's discovery that he (it?) can make a world where he and Syd can be together is as exciting for us as it was for them. That kiss! Those bed scenes! Pardon me while I gif out.
I loved the gorgeous shots this hour, particularly the bugs on a bowl of strawberries fading to Kerry's similarly textured bloody patch,
and the red light under swaying curtains.
Dan Stevens was finally allowed room to break out, and he did. My doubts expressed last week are gone. Likewise, even I must give Aubrey Plaza credit for her fantastic work this week. I can't stand Blenny, but Plaza is burrowing her character into our brain.
Does Melanie's heartbreaking story — Jean Smart killed it in all her wordless scenes this hour — about how Oliver got to the astral plane forshadow David's future? I might predict the series ending with Syd and David in their own romantic, forever ice cube (mind palace). Will, as Melanie hopes and believes, David be able to bring back Oliver?
Ditto, Bill Irwin, who is absolutely brilliant in this role. He could do the entire season as a mute and be just as much fun to watch.
Melanie to Cary about Kerry: "Can't you just absorb her and fix her"?
Irritated Cary: "… it's a very delicate ecosystem".
David to Syd, on going to rescue Amy at D3: "It'll be fun, kick some ass, save the girl, get a snack".
Syd's story of her first sexual experience managed to be intriguing, horrifying, and funny, all at the same time: "My first time, he was with one of my mother's boyfriends … When he was inside me I changed back. Then my mom was there and everyone was screaming".
Even though Ptonemy seems increasingly angry about the group devoting so much time and energy to David, I don't get any bad feeling about him. I think he's rightfully worried about himself and protective of the other mutants.
Radiohead's The Daily Mail is the song that played over the group's arrival at D3, heralding David's destruction. David's banjo serenade in the white room to Syd, Kermit's Rainbow Connection.
Was Dr. Kissinger damaged during Division's questioning, or was he always that way? Smart to leave him in the cell, I think.
That video of David Melanie and Rudy watched was damned creepy.
And the Yellow Eyed monster going after Syd was terrifying.
Cary definitely seems to have honed in on what's happened with David: "I think we were wrong, the whole approach, he is schizophrenic — this monster isn't David, it's a parasite inside. This thing burrowed into David's brain, and it has been feeding off him all this time. Every time David sees this thing, this creature makes him forget. I think it made you forget too. The power is of this thing — not David [Melanie 'What is this thing'?]. An older mutant, this thing has separated from its consciousness, for 30 years".
Or did he? According to Jean Smart, there's a twist coming next week that's "just fabulous".
The Eye continues to be perfectly creepy, slipping in and out of people unnoticed.
I wonder if Cary's has mindcrown can work — paralyze the entity so they can talk to David — or if they'll even have the chance to get it on him.
Syd to David: "Who teaches us to be normal when we're one of a kind"?
Syd to Melanie: "I'm not treating him, he's my man".
Blenny's REM shoutout to David: "I love it here, all these shiny, happy people".
Was any of the original (Chapter 1) Clockworks stuff real? Or could this Clockworks be real? "Did you guys notice the door in the hall, it's not always there. We can run, there's just no place to go".


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The purpose of the F&E Subcommittee is to plan and carry out activities, such as picnics, dances, talent shows, etc., to raise money to help offset various costs related to holding RACNA. This subcommittee also has responsibility for entertainment activities, selecting the bands or Disc Jockeys to be used at all fund-raising and entertainment events. F&E will also arrange for all other forms of entertainment in conjunction with the convention and, most importantly, the subcommittee is responsible to generate fellowship awareness, excitement, interest and support for the convention.
The Fundraising & Entertainment Subcommittee (F&E) is comprised of a chairperson (elected by RACNA), vice-chairperson, secretary (chosen from F&E}, and voting members. Voting privileges are decided upon formation of the incoming subcommittee. As soon as possible, F&E should create a time-line for the planning year that includes all F&E duties with projected deadlines specified to complete each task. This timeline should be presented to RACNA as soon as it is developed. All expenditures need to be approved and receipts submitted to the F&E chairperson for reimbursement by RACNA treasurer.
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Under Construction - September 2014
Letter from the Editor
by James J. Sienicki
Welcome to our autumn edition of Under Construction. We have packed this issue with discussions of relevant construction issues, practical tips, legislative analyses and industry forecasts for construction and design businesses operating throughout the Mountain West and Southwest.
Jason Ebe starts off this edition with a series of practical tips regarding preparing design and construction contracts in order to mitigate or avoid claims. Cindy Schmidt follows with an analysis of the "cardinal change doctrine" in Arizona, a legal theory pertaining to construction contracts and the contractor's right to terminate the contract, and/or recover damages if an owner makes excessive, cumulative or otherwise material contract changes that are deemed to be a cardinal change of the contract. Owners and general contractors should be cognizant of this theory and should seek advice when faced with this significant issue.
Hot off the press, Rick Erickson provides an overview of the very recent Arizona Supreme Court decision, Weitz Company L.L.C. v. Heth et. al., noting several key takeaways regarding equitable subrogation, mechanics' liens and priority. Rick then offers an evaluation of certain courts' recent treatment of United States v. Spearin, a very old and seminal construction case; he opines that despite Spearin's legacy, both owners and contractors may be judged by a standard of reasonableness when it comes to following the plans and specifications, and any errors in those plans and specifications. Jeff Singletary and Colin Higgins follow with an overview of California's prompt payment statutes and highlight some of the most useful elements of these statutes for owners, contractors and subcontractors.
In our next article, Elizabeth Brereton considers electric utilities' growing investment in generation, transmission and distribution facilities, and predicts that a big construction boom may be coming soon in electric transmission infrastructure. Brett Johnson then discusses the increasingly scrutinized area of government contracting, noting that investigations of fraud, waste, abuse, and False Claims Act or other statutory violations are on the rise; Brett also advises on how to prepare for and mitigate these issues.
Leon Mead evaluates Nevada Revised Statute 608.150, which holds that an "original contractor" is liable for the debts incurred by a subcontractor for labor on a construction project. Leon notes that while the law seems to protect workers from unscrupulous employers, its broad application by union benefit trust funds against general contractors and property owners may necessitate a legislative change. Dan Frost winds up our issue by providing helpful suggestions regarding the effective use of baseline schedules, schedule approvals, schedule updates and schedule revisions as management tools to optimize project performance.
We hope you have a productive and successful fall and look forward to hearing your questions, comments and ideas for future editions of our newsletter!
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Devin Booker scores 27 points, Suns roll past Bulls 115-97
Bob Baum of The Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored 27 points, Eric Bledsoe added 23 and the Phoenix Suns rolled past the Chicago Bulls 115-97 on Friday night.
Jimmy Butler scored 20 and Dwyane Wade 18 for the Bulls, who were coming off a 31-point loss at Golden State two nights earlier.
The Suns, with the second-worst record in the NBA, snapped a three-game losing streak and won for just the second time in 10 games.
Butler played despite a bruised right heel, and Wade had an upper respiratory illness.
Chicago has lost three of four, with one stop remaining on a six-game road trip.
T.J. Warren scored 16 and Alan Williams had 14 points and 11 rebounds for Phoenix.


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Berry College professor and nationally renowned political scholar Peter Augustine Lawler passed away Tuesday.
"For 38 years, Peter has been a vital member of the Berry community and a legendary teacher, mentor and colleague," said Berry College President Stephen Briggs. "A keen observer of human culture and the human condition, Peter will long be remembered for his teasing and provocative approach to teaching and writing. His passing reminds us of the fragility of this life in which, as Peter taught us, we are destined 'to both wander and wonder.'"
Lawler was a prolific author and editor of more than 15 books, most recently "American Heresies and Higher Education." His wide-ranging interests and his acute understanding led to his extraordinary national service and reputation, including his recent appointment as the editor of the distinguished conservative academic journal, Modern Age. His work also has appeared in The National Review, the Weekly Standard and The New Atlantis.
He was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the President's Council on Bioethics, was a recipient of the Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Excellence and named the George Washington Distinguished Professor of the American Founding, The Society of the Cincinnati.
"Students had easy access to Peter – though not in his memorably messy office. He made time for them, drank many, many cups of coffee with them, listened to them, and formed them with their conversations. Countless students fell in love with political thought and the life of the mind through Peter's teaching and mentorship," said Tom Kennedy, dean of the Evans School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
Read more at Berry College News.
Related articles in memory of Peter Lawler.
- Learning from Peter Lawler – The National Review
- A Man Who 'Stuck With Virtue' – The American Conservative
- In Fond Memory Of Peter Augustine Lawler – The Federalist
- "A former student remembers his professor, a great thinker." – Weekly Standard


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Kitchen cabinets and an oven!
Shelves made from matchboxes, old tissue boxes and the trays from chocolate boxes; beds made from card with faux-woodgrain sticky back plastic headboards; mini cupcake cases for lampshades; off-cuts of carpet and fluffy fabric for doormats; a sofa made from tights packaging; and pillows made from scrap fabric sewn round cotton wool balls.
I think you would call this look "recycling box chic". I had a big box in the bottom of my wardrobe full of little cardboard boxes and other stuff I thought might come in handy for making stuff... and this is the sort of stuff it became.
The kitchen units are particularly adorable. The happy hours that must have gone into making them!
The counter-tops are made with off-cuts of vinyl flooring from my parents' DIY projects, and the cupboards are all decorated with faux woodgrain sticky back plastic.
The oven has an extractor hood (another bit of vinyl flooring) and cardboard hot plates on the hob (there were originally four, one seems to have fallen sometime in the past 25 years). The doorknobs are brass fasteners from the stationery department and the doors open and close.
The cabinet is made from an old toothpaste box, the drawers in the cabinet are made from two matchboxes stuck together...
... and there's a matching chopping board, too (made from a rectangle of vinyl covered in yet more sticky back plastic).
The kitchen sink is a little cardboard box lined with foil and sunk into the top of the cabinet. The foil looks quite thin (not like kitchen/baking foil), so I guess I must have saved it from something like a KitKat.
Who needs a store-bought dollshouse when you have a fancy kitchen like that?
Missed my earlier posts about this box of treasures? Click here to see my Sylvanian Families collection, and here to see the food and fashions we made for our Sylvanians when we were kids.


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While I don't think that hackers need any info on how to destroy their data in case of an FBI raid, other people might need a helping hand. Here's the easiest way to destroy your hard drive, in case of an emergency. FYI, you'd best keep a drill handy.
Just like in the movies, the "safest" way of disposing of a hard drive would be a strong electromagnet or some white phosphorous explosives. Since most of us don't have easy access to either of these, I guess this sticker do quite nicely.
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Dungeons & Dragons review by The Grim Ringler
I am not young, that's to be certain, but old though I may be getting, I do still remember quite fondly the cartoons of my youth. I mean, who doesn't miss cartoons based on Mr. T, and Snorks, and on any of the other action figures or toys that spawned animated offspring. Of the cartoons that I remember, D&D is one of those that really stuck with me. Its world of monsters, dragons and, yes, whiny unicorns, was one that really spurred my imagination. As you can imagine, I was pretty curious as to whether the old show held up after all those years – the 1980's were not kind to many television programs and don't lend themselves to reruns often – or if it was yet another case of the memories being better than the thing itself.
Six young people get on a Dungeons & Dragons ride at their local amusement park, hoping for a thrill and are transported to a world of sorcery and magic. In this world they are transformed into heroes that are told by their guide, the Dungeon Master, that they can find their way home, the catch being that in order to find home they'll have to help out the inhabitants of this new world in their struggle against the many evil forces. Along the way the kids will fight themselves and their own demons as well as the ones of this world, and through this journey they'll all discover things about themselves and one another that they'd never known before.
I was not just shocked but awed by how well this show holds up after all these years. The first episode is pretty rough and feels as if things are rushed, but from that second episode onward, the show hits its stride and keeps it up until the end. The characters are well realized, the animation is very good, and the stories all have some sort of moral lesson to them. The real pity with the show is that there was no firm ending, as things kind of ended with a season break. Luckily for fans, this is remedied with an extra in the form of a radio play version of the last script that puts a wonderful cap on the series.
The beauty of this boxed set is that it was made with the fans in mind and pulls together commentaries, character bios, a game, the radio play, a documentary, and a fan film, so that there is little left to want. The presentation is clean, the set attractive, and the extras fantastic. Truly, if you were a fan of this sword and sorcery cartoon, or are a fan of that genre, this is a show that deserves to be re-discovered after all these years.
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Kenya: East Africa's leaders meeting on South Sudan crisis
Kenya is holding a meeting of East Africa's leaders on growing violence in South Sudan, where more than 1,000 people are believed to have died.
The talks come a day after South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit met the Kenyan president and Ethiopian PM.
Meanwhile, the UN said the first peacekeeping reinforcements were expected to arrive in 48 hours.
South Sudan violence erupted 12 days ago between forces loyal to Salva Kiir and those backing his ex-deputy Riek Machar.
The fighting has forced more than 100,000 to flee their homes, with about 60,000 seeking refuge at UN compounds across the country, UN officials say.
East African regional leaders from the eight-member bloc, known as IGAD, are meeting in Kenya's capital Nairobi to follow up on issues raised during Thursday's talks with President Salva Kiir in South Sudan's capital Juba.
Salva Kiir met Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian PM Hailemariam Desalegn. The talks were described by Ethiopia as "very constructive and very candid".
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The last Jew who made aliyah from Iraq
Born and raised in Baghdad, Emad Levy experienced the vibrant life of the city's glorious Jewish community. After serving as the community's leader, rabbi and slaughterer, he finally decided to immigrate to Israel in 2010, but he is still in touch with the five Jews left behind.
Growing up in Baghdad, he experienced the vibrant community life, when thousands of Jews lived in the city and led a Jewish life under the local regime.
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"I think a lot changed in the 1970s. It was a terrifying period. There were Jews who simply disappeared and we didn't know what had happened to them, and many others chose to leave and come to Israel," he says.
Escaping with one suitcase
Since then, the number of Jews in the country gradually decreased, and those who remained began keeping a low profile and observing the Jewish holidays and customs in a modest manner.
"In 2003, I became the community leader. I traded in shoe materials for a living and managed to support myself, and simultaneously, I was in charge of everything that had to do with the Jewish life," he says.
"After the slaughterer left, I learned how to slaughter according to Jewish law, so we would be able to eat kosher meat. I took care of issues related to Jewish burial and tried to help the community members with different issues as much as I could."
How did you make the decision to leave for Israel?
"I wanted to leave a long time ago, during the Saddam Hussein era, but I was targeted by the Iraqi intelligence at the time and couldn't leave the country. I knew I wanted to leave because I wanted to start a Jewish family. I was born as a Jew and I will die as a Jew, and I knew I would be able to establish a real family only if I left Iraq.
"In 2010, after receiving death threats from local elements, I knew it was time to leave. With one suitcase, leaving everything behind, I flew to Jordan and from there to Israel."
A community of 5 people
After surviving six terror attacks in Baghdad, the situation became unbearable and Levy decided to leave, becoming the last immigrant to arrive in Israel from Iraq.
"I had a passport issued, and the Jewish Agency together with the Babylonian Jewish Heritage Center got me a flight to Jordan," he says. "I arrived in Israel on Hoshana Rabbah (the seventh day of the holiday of Sukkot)."
The person who was largely responsible for Levy's aliyah is Israel Prize laureate Mordechai Ben Porat, the founder of the Babylonian Jewish Heritage Center, who had immigrated to Israel from Iraq himself.
What is left of Iraq's Jewish community?
"There are five Jews in the country today, and one woman is the community director. I keep in touch with them in different ways, and they're taking care of themselves."
What does Iraq look like today?
"It looks very bad. The local regime is unstable and weak, and the situation has greatly deteriorated. There are no basic civilian services and it doesn't feel like a law-abiding state. Compared to previous years, the situation is very bad."
Levy's story has a happy ending: He fulfilled his dream to create a Jewish family. After arriving in Israel, he got married and had a child.
"While I was still in Iraq, I started dealing with pain treatment, and here in Israel I completed my studies and became on expert on the issue. I am certified in healing and massage and I'm very satisfied, both with life in Israel and with the fact that I get to help people through my profession."


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Authors, American -- North Carolina
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Nancy Tilly papers
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Abstract Papers relating to her novel, Golden Girl (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1985), which won the 1986 Juvenile Literature Award presented by the North Carolina division of the American Association of University Women. Includes drafts, correspondence with and notes of her editor, pages and galley proofs, and cassette recordings of the author reading her work. The earliest draft (1979) includes notes made by novelist Lee Smith, in whose class Tilly began the work. Also includes manuscripts of...
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Some wag remarked that Congressman Jerry Nadler decided to impeach President Trump on the day he won the election.
According to the Constitution, "the President, Vice President And all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors". Since no one has been able, including Mr. Nadler, to present any evidence whatsoever of high Crimes and Misdemeanors, Mr. Nadler in now embarking on a vast search — not for the high Crimes or Misdemeanors, but for the evidence that there actually were any Crimes, etc. This would seem to my untutored non-legal mind to be a highly questionable "fishing expedition."
ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked Mr. Nadler on Sunday if he thought the President had obstructed justice?
"Yes, I do," replied Mr. Nadler. "It's very clear that the President obstructed justice. It's very clear—1,100 times he referred to the Mueller investigation as a witch hunt, he tried to—he fired—he tried to protect [Michael] Flynn from being investigated by the FBI. He fired [FBI director Jim] Comey in order to stop the Russian thing, as he told NBC News."
Credit Mr. Nadler for candor that Democrats didn't display when they campaigned last year. Then they talked only about holding the President "accountable." Now they claim they already have enough to impeach Mr. Trump, though as Mr. Nadler admitted Sunday, "you have to persuade enough of the opposition party voters, Trump voters . . . that you're not just trying to steal the last—to reverse the results of the last election."
That may be harder than he imagines, and not only because of Mr. Nadler's Freudian slip there of "steal." Based on the public evidence so far, Mr. Trump hasn't obstructed justice in any of the examples Mr. Nadler cited. Mr. Nadler wants to turn the President's exercise of his normal constitutional powers into impeachable offenses.
The Wall Street Journal goes on to cite the opinions of such legal heavyweights as former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, David Rivkin, and Attorney General William Barr while he was still in private life. A president cannot obstruct justice when he takes actions that are consistent with his Article II powers under the constitution, which includes firing inferior executive branch officers like Mr. Comey.
Getting uglier by the day out there. I suspect that President Trump's remarkable success in revitalizing the economy and improving the lives of everyday Americans is what is enraging the Democrats so much. They don't understand economics, assume that tax cuts have no function beyond enriching the rich, and were quite sure Obama was correct when he said the economy could no longer grow at more than two percent because times had just changed.
ADDENDUM: House Democrats sent more than 80 letters on Monday, demanding documents from family members, business associates, political confidants and others with ties to President Trump, launching a sprawling probe into whether he and his administration have engaged in obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power.
Receiving letters from the House Judiciary Committee have included the president's two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump; his son-in-law Jared Kushner; his former personal secretary Rhona Graff; Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization; and former top White House aides Hope Hicks, Sean Spicer and Stephen K. Bannon.
Other demands for documents are directed to institutions including the White House, Justice Department, Trump campaign, Trump transition team and the Trump Organization.
The three chairmen making the demands, Intelligence chairman Adam Schiff, Foreign Affairs chairman Eliot Engel, and Oversight chairman Elijah Cummings. The overseer would seem to be Lavrenty Beria, Stalin's secret police head who once said "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime." (That last was a reminder from Tom Lifson of american thinker)
This is an outrageous fishing expedition. The business of Congress is supposed to be legislation, not the poisonous political pursuit of something, anything, with which to charge the President of the United States because you don't like him, and are furious that he defeated your candidate, and left you out of power.
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Planning Basics Additive Manufacturing: Cost Factors and Cost Optimization
Additive manufacturing of components can be an economical solution for many companies. However, there are several cost factors that should be considered.
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The cost structure describes the ratio of costs to benefits and is therefore decisive in answering the question of whether series production is economical or not. Since the cost structures of conventional and additive manufacturing processes sometimes differ significantly, the cost factors must be carefully weighed up against each other. An initial cost estimate for additively manufactured products is usually measured by means of cubic centimeters manufactured. The post-processing of the additive components is also a cost factor. Looking at the overall cost structure of additive manufacturing, it is largely determined by the costs for the AM machines, followed by the costs for materials and labor costs. Other factors such as consumables (e.g. gas) and energy costs can be neglected in the overall cost structure. Machines for selective laser sintering (SLS) and laser melting (SLM) are very capital-intensive, which increases the total costs per cubic centimeter. The cost of powder bed-based processes is often compared with that of tool-intensive conventional manufacturing processes such as injection molding and die casting or with machining processes such as CNC milling (Figure 1).
Cost Advantages of Additive Manufacturing by Lower Fixed Costs
Despite the higher variable costs, the use of additive processes in production can be economical, as a glance at fixed costs makes clear. For conventional manufacturing technologies, fixed costs are only allocated to a specific component design. For example, a die can only be used in die casting to manufacture the specific product for which it was developed. Accordingly, the costs of the mold must pay off in terms of the number of parts produced. The costs for setting up a machine tool or changing tools on an injection molding machine must be distributed over the number of parts produced in this production batch until the next set up. If only a few units are produced per batch or small series are produced, the fixed costs can exceed the variable costs. This makes additive production more cost-effective than production with conventional processes.
Additive manufacturing also involves a certain degree of fixed costs, but these costs can be more easily offset by the number of different products that are produced in a single batch. The actual costs incurred per cubic centimeter in an additive construction job depend on a complex combination of technical parameters and the operating conditions of the machines.
- Machine Data
- Materials
- Construction Job Parameters
- Consumables Data
- Operational Calculations
By changing the parameters, machine manufacturers and operators can reduce the overall costs of additive production. Since laser sintering and laser melting machines are very capital-intensive, the productivity of the machines is a critical parameter that influences the overall costs. The productivity of the machines results from the quotient of the actual throughput of a construction job (i.e. the exact material volume of the finished parts) and the throughput time of the construction job (i.e. the time required to execute the construction job).
It is therefore important to know the structure of the lead time of the construction job in powder bed-based processes, as they are key to optimizing overall costs.
The Lead Time Includes:
- Time for setting up the machine, loading the 3D files and removing the finished components
- Time the machine needs for preheating and cooling in additive production
- Time required for the laser to expose and melt all component surfaces
- Time required to apply and, if necessary, warm up the powder layers
- Time for quality control in the current construction job, if necessary
Cost Factor "Production Time" in the Additive Manufacturing Process SLS
Looking at the SLS process, the actual production time, i.e. the period that is determined exclusively by the activity of the AM machine and is independent of the operator, accounts for about 90 % to 95 % of the total cycle time of the construction job with efficient operation. The production time consists of preheating the machine, building the parts and cooling. The periods required for preheating and cooling are largely constant for each construction job and depend on the size of the installation space of the respective AM machine. The actual construction phase takes up about 60 % to 70 % of the production time, depending on the machine and installation space utilization. For an initial estimation of the space requirement of a component in the installation space, the envelope volume, also known as the bounding box, is often used. During normal operation, 50 % of the construction time consists of exposure / melting and 50 % of heating/application of new powder layers. These figures generally also apply to the SLM process, although the percentages differ considerably in some cases, as the melting of the metal powder takes place much more slowly.
A number of technical and operational measures can reduce the total costs per cubic centimeter. Technical measures on part of the machine manufacturers include the reduction of the time required for exposure and application of powder layers as well as the reduction of preheating and cooling times. This is often achieved by the application of a larger number of lasers and the development of concepts for faster application of the coatings. Figure 3 gives an impression of how much the production time can vary depending on the machine.
Cost Optimization: In-House Production or External Procurement of Additively Manufactured Components
Investment in Own Additive Manufacturing Machines
For in-house production, a company invests in AM machines and operates them for their own production. In order for the machines to pay off, high capacity utilization is necessary. These measures should also be taken into account in order to keep the overall costs as low as possible:
- 1. To ensure a tight filling of the installation space with components
- 2. Maximizing the share of actual exposure time in the overall throughput time, for example through high installation space utilization
In laser melting, tight packing can only take place on the horizontal plane of the machine, since in this process, the components cannot be produced in several layers on top of each other. The laser sintering process achieves the best economic efficiency if the components are manufactured tightly packed in several layers on top of each other. Figure 4 illustrates the effects of a high packing density on the unit cost of a small lever. It is apparent how the total costs largely stabilize after the first level has been filled. For efficient operation of laser-sintering machines, at least one dense level of components should be achieved. The discontinuities in the graph result from the fact that each time a new layer is started, the total time for applying the layers in the construction job increases. However, due to the shape of the components, the height of the components in the mounting direction (z-direction) usually does not use the entire available horizontal space (x-y-direction) of the machine. Accordingly, the increase in time and cost of construction is not fully spread over a new densely packed horizontal layer. It is therefore recommended that the height of the superstructure is planned as evenly as possible for the entire construction job. Some areas that reach higher z-coordinates unnecessarily increase the costs of the construction job.
Furthermore, it should be noted that in additive manufacturing, the factors time and component quality must be weighed against each other, since higher quality always goes hand in hand with an increased time required for production. In this case, the selected parameters are decisive, e.g. layer thickness. Thinner layers enable greater accuracy of detail and better surface quality but require more production time and thus increase overall costs. In laser sintering in particular, the factor of powder recycling also plays an important role in construction costs. The higher the proportion of recycled used powder, the lower the costs for the construction job. However, too much used powder can influence the flowability and deteriorate the construction quality or even lead to defects in the finished components.
Purchase of Additively Manufactured Components from External Service Providers
An alternative to in-house production is external procurement (buy). External procurement is the simplest method for a company to gain access to additive manufacturing technologies. It does not require any specific knowledge about the operation of the machines or any major investments in advance. The decision for external procurement also means lower risks and price fluctuations in production for the company, as the efficient use of AM machines is the supplier's responsibility.
The prices for external procurement depend on the total material volume of the order (in cm3) as well as on the effect of the component design on the installation space utilization. For example, bulky lightweight structures can take up a lot of space on the construction panel, although they only have a small volume of material. Orders with larger material volumes and higher packing density are cheaper because they are easier to produce on the supplier's machine. Figure 5 gives an overview of average prices for external procurement for SLS and SLM procedures.
According to a study conducted in 2014, two different price strategies can be identified for AM service providers. The study compares 21 offers from different AM service providers worldwide. Their results are shown in Figure 6 for prices per cubic centimeter when ordering in quantities of 1 and 100. The dashed line marks prices that are the same for quantities of 1 and 100. The AM service providers can be divided into two categories (A and B):
Category A (purple ellipse):
The AM service providers demand similar prices per cm3 for quantities of 1 and 100, which suggests that the suppliers in category A want to ensure optimum space utilization of their machine by combining orders from different customers. This procedure allows the supplier to offer stable prices per cubic centimeter.
Category B (green ellipse):
AM service providers charge higher prices for small quantities (between 5 and 10 euros per cm3) than for larger quantities (between 0.5 and 1 euro per cm3). Category B service providers obviously prioritize fast delivery and do not combine orders or only subordinate orders. The resulting cost situation is more similar to the one that would occur in the case of in-house production by the company, i.e. inversely proportional to the quantity of the ordered component volume.
The awareness of these two strategies of the service providers allows the planners of the company to optimize their purchasing methods and thus minimize the total costs of additive production.


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ca·lam·i·tous /kəˈlæmətəs/
Ca·lam·i·tous a.
1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]
Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South.
2. Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. "This sad and calamitous condition." --South. "A calamitous prison" --Milton.
Syn: -- Miserable; deplorable; distressful; afflictive; wretched; grievous; baleful; disastrous; adverse; unhappy; severe; sad; unfortunate.
-- Ca*lam*i*tous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lam*i*tous*ness, n.
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adj : (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed
on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle
was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such
doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my
theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war
without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a
fateful error" [syn: black, disastrous, fatal, fateful]


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Of all the comments from all the opportunists seeking to make political capital from a dying child, the most asinine, surely, comes from former US congressman Joe Walsh. The talk radio provocateur took to Twitter this week to ask: "Why does an American need an AR-15?" His answer: "To make sure what's happening to #AlfieEvans never happens here. That's why." As an NHS palliative care doctor, I assume Walsh is advocating semi-automatic assault rifles to protect against people like me. As a mother, I can scarcely comprehend someone using a child's plight to make a case for the weapons used in many of America's bloodiest school shootings.
Liverpool toddler Alfie Evans has spent most of his desperately short life reliant on mechanical ventilation in a neonatal intensive care unit. Born apparently healthy, he has never toddled and never will. A progressive neurodegenerative disorder has so corroded his brain that, in the words of high court judge, Mr Justice Hayden, a recent MRI scan shows "a brain that had been almost entirely wiped out", leaving Alfie in a semi-vegetative state. The family division of the high court has rejected multiple legal challenges from Alfie's parents, Tom Evans and Kate James, to prevent Alder Hey children's hospital withdrawing Alfie's treatment and to fly him to Bambino Gesù, a paediatric hospital in the Vatican. Accordingly, against parental wishes, Alfie has now been detached from his ventilator, with palliative care plans in place to ensure his comfort.
Rarely do doctors' and parents' wishes misalign so catastrophically that the courts are required to resolve what form of medical management is in a child's best interests. Usually – even amid all the anguish and heartbreak of paediatric terminal illness – both clinicians and family come to recognise, however reluctantly, the point at which valiant efforts at saving life have instead become the prolongation of dying.
Yet giving up hope can be unbearably painful. I shall never forget a paediatric oncology colleague describing, blinded by his tears, how the mother of one of his young patients had thrown herself from the hospital roof, unable to endure the knowledge that her child's cancer was terminal. I have held fathers as they collapse in my arms, seen a mother biting her own arm in her grief, and wondered, over and over, at the vastness of the pain this world can inflict on its youngest, most undeserving and innocent. Indeed, Mr Justice Hayden described this week "a father whose grief is unbounded and whose sadness, as I have witnessed in this court, has an almost primal quality to it."
The sheer rawness of anticipatory grief can obliterate reason. What helps, I have learned, in palliative medicine, is time, space, calm and quiet. Yet Alfie Evans's parents have been surrounded this week, at Alder Hey, by a mob of supporters who attempted to storm the entrance of the hospital, terrifying other young patients and their parents. A wider army of armchair vigilantes have stoked the vitriol – and their own agendas – from the comfort of their sofas.
Alfie's doctors, already subjected to death threats, have been described online as pursuing "a court-ordered execution". Even the pope has weighed in, while former Arkansas governor, Mike Huckabee, has commented that "Brits have decided some kids just aren't worth that much and are disposable."
And from former presidential potential nominee Ted Cruz, there was this. "It is a grim reminder that systems of socialized medicine like the National Health Service (NHS) vest the state with power over human lives, transforming citizens into subjects."
In fact – to my enormous pride – the NHS has kept Alfie alive for nearly two years, at no cost to his family, and without any judgments concerning the value of his life. But intensive care is only ever a temporary support for failing organs while a reversible pathology is treated. In Alfie's case, multiple doctors from multiple countries have all agreed that his illness is irreversible, progressive and terminal. Withdrawal of care is therefore neither killing nor murder, but enables him to die with comfort and dignity.
To witness powerful media, political and religious voices deploying grossly inflammatory and misleading rhetoric at the expense of a child is grotesque. Misuse of words is the antithesis of everything we strive, as doctors, to do for our patients. Clear, empathic communication can heal, build trust, assuage fears, instil hope – and help a patient and their family come to terms with the unavoidable. Capitalising on a family's grief is none of the above: it is simply – and inexcusably – exploitative. May Alfie Evans rest in peace.


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D-Link DAP-1522 forget password you will have to reset it to factory defaults
Some people forget the D-Link DAP-1522 password,This article teaches how do reset on DAP-1522.
Step 1: With the unit on, place a paper clip into the hole on the back on the unit labeled Reset.
Step 2: Hold paper clip down for 10 seconds and release.
Note: Do not repower unit during this procedure.
Step 3: The unit will reboot on its own. Once the WLAN light stops blinking, the unit is reset.
Resetting the D-Link DAP-1522 will change all settings back to factory defaults.
Note: The factory defaults name is admin, and password is blank(nothing).
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