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Palestinians collect body parts in a classroom at the Abu Hussein U.N. school in Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, hit by an Israeli strike earlier, on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. A Palestinian health official says 13 people were killed after tank shells hit the U.N. school in Gaza where hundreds of Palestinians had taken refuge from Israeli attacks. Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman for a U.N. aid agency, says tank shells hit the school around 4:30 a.m.
JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP (AP) — Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded U.N. school Wednesday sheltering Gazans displaced by fighting, killing 15 and wounding 90 after tearing through the walls of two classrooms, a spokesman for a U.N. aid agency and a health official said.
The relentless bombardment also killed 27 Palestinians elsewhere in the coastal territory Wednesday, further dimming hopes of a sustainable cease-fire. The strike at the U.N. school in the Jebaliya refugee camp came amid Israel's heaviest air and artillery assault in more than three weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting.
The Israeli military said it is looking into the incident. Its campaign escalated on Tuesday, with airstrikes destroying key symbols of Hamas power, including the home of the top Hamas leader. Gaza's only power plant was shut down after shells set its fuel tank on fire.
On Wednesday, Israeli aircraft struck dozens of Gaza sites, including five mosques it said were being used by militants, while several other areas came under tank fire. In Jebaliya, tank shells hit the U.N. school before dawn, said Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. The agency is sheltering more than 200,000 people displaced by the fighting at dozens of U.N. schools across the coastal strip.
Assad Sabah said he and his five children were huddling under desks in one of the classrooms because of the constant sound of tank fire throughout the night. "We were scared to death," he said. "After 4:30 a.m., tanks started firing more. Three explosions shook the school."
"One classroom collapsed over the head of the people who were inside," he said. In one classroom, the front wall was blown out, leaving debris and bloodied clothing. Another strike tore a large round hole into the ceiling of a second floor classroom. The wall of the lavatories was also damaged.
About two hours after the strike, hundreds of people still crowded the school courtyard, some dazed, others wailing. Aishe Abu Darabeh, 56, sat on the ground with her relatives, just a few meters (yards) away.
"Where will we go?" she asked. "Where will we go next? We fled and they (the Israelis) are following us." Four of the dead were killed just outside the school compound, two in their home nearby and two in the street, after returning from pre-dawn prayers, their relatives said.
The bodies of two members of the al-Najar family, 56-year-old Shaher and his 41-year-old brother, Bassem, were laid out in one of the rooms of their small home, surrounded by wailing relatives. Outside the gate, another relative held on to his crying son, hugging him tight and saying: "I'm here, I'm not going anywhere."
Abu Hasna, the U.N. agency spokesman, said the international community must step in. "It's the responsibility of the world to tell us what we shall do with more than 200,000 people who are inside our schools, thinking that the U.N. flag will protect them," he said. "This incident today proves that no place is safe in Gaza."
Ashraf al-Kidra, a Gaza health official, said at least 15 people were killed and about 90 wounded in the school strike. In all, 42 Palestinians were killed by airstrikes and tank shelling in different areas of Gaza on Wednesday, al-Kidra said.
In the southern town of Khan Younis, 10 members of one family were killed when an airstrike hit a relative's home where they had sought refuge from the fighting, al-Kidra said. In the Gaza City neighborhood of Tufah, shelling killed at last seven members of another family, including four children, said Ayman Sahabani, the head of the emergency room at Gaza's Shifa Hospital.
The total number of Palestinians killed since the start of fighting July 8 rose to 1,269, al-Kidra said. In addition, more than 7,100 Palestinians have been wounded. Israel has lost 53 soldiers and three civilians.
Israel has said its Gaza operation is meant to stop Hamas rocket and mortar fire that has reached increasingly deeper into its territory and to destroy a sophisticated network of Hamas military tunnels used for attacks in Israel.
Gaza militants have fired more than 2,600 rockets toward Israel over the past three weeks, according to the Israeli army. The Israeli military has said it is hitting targets linked to militants, such as rocket launching sites, weapon depots and Hamas military tunnels. Over the past 23 days, Israeli forces have hit 4,100 targets in Gaza, about one-third connected to the militants' ability to launch rockets at Israel, a statement said.
The military has not provided details on strikes in which multiple members of one family were killed. There have been several dozen such strikes, according to the Palestinian human rights group Al- Mezan.
The military says Hamas militants often launch rockets from crowded residential areas, thus endangering nearby civilians. The army says it has also given civilians a chance to leave dangerous areas by sending warnings in phone calls and leaflets.
On Wednesday, aircraft dropped leaflets over Gaza City's Rimal neighborhood. The leaflets urged residents to stay away from Hamas militants and to report possible rocket launches. The leaflet gave a contact phone number and email.
"The Israeli Defense Forces are going into a new phase in the coming operation and does not want to harm civilians," the leaflet said. "The army is warning residents in the areas where the operation will take place that for your safety, you have to keep away from terrorists and the locations from which they operate."
Separately, Israeli troops in Gaza's border areas are searching for Hamas military tunnels used for carrying out attacks in Israel. Israeli leaders have said troops would not leave until all the tunnels have been demolished.
The army said 32 tunnels have so far been located but did not say how many remain. Since Tuesday morning, troops have demolished three more tunnels, a statement said. __ Enav reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writer Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City contributed to this report.


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Clock Screensaver - A screensaver application that puts a Clock on the screen in idle mode.
The application allows you to choose a number of different types of Clock and set the time zone. Battery information and the selected profile are also shown.
The screensaver must be chosen in the Themes application. (Choose Options-> Edit and then Set Screensaver in Themes).

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Dragon kill points (usually abbreviated with the acronym DKP) designates a kind of currency which is earned by participating in endgame raids and spent by acquiring loot from endgame bosses. The term DKP is also frequently used to designate raid-level loot system in general. The most popular systems for endgame loot distribution are point-based (and thus DKP systems). The very first endgame loot distribution system was developed by the guild Afterlife in 1999 and named for the original two EverQuest end bosses, both of whom were dragons.[1]
Creating a DKP system gives an example of how to build a DKP system from scratch.
EQ origins
From EQDKP - About:
- What is DKP?
- DKP, short for Dragon Kill Points, is a concept originally created by Thott of Afterlife, at a time where the only two raid targets in Everquest were two dragons, Lady Vox and Lord Nagafen. These points are awarded to each guild member as they attend a guild raid. The current DKP of each member reflects his or her priority for loot. When a member "wins" an item, they lose a DKP amount that reflects the value of that item.
- DKP allows for an unbiased comparison between guild members when decisions about loot are to be made based on attendance and recent items that have been awarded.
DKP automation
Most guilds using a formal loot system will use a website to communicate current standings to their members. There is a plethora of ways to do this ranging from simple lists updated manually, to highly tailored full-fledged graphic mods. When setting up such a system it helps to keep it simple at first, and not to get carried away with fancy features and time-consuming projects.
The technically simplest method of dealing with DKP is to just have a list on the guild forums or a flat html file in which the standings are manually updated. The disadvantage of this solution is that there will be no item history, and it's not easy to do fast searches while raiding. Updating can also be time-consuming and error-prone. If a simple system (like Suicide Kings) is used, this approach may still be appropriate.
The vast majority of raids though use some ingame mod to collect data, and a website with a database to display the statistics. These DKPSoft systems need some time to set up, and a little learning on how to use them, but offer a lot of nice features, and are quite safe and simple to use.
The most popular such systems are eqDKP, eqDKP Plus, bbDkp, nDKP, AutoDKP.
Most are PHP/MySQL based, thus need a website supporting that.
eqDKP is something like a gold standard, the grandfather of all such systems. It is rather well documented, and sports support forums on its website. It's not a bad idea to simply start there if there are no specific reasons to use one of the other systems.
A recently popular dkp system is called GDKP or originally created as Perfect dkp which is essentially a zero sum gold exchange system.
A Project (namely eqDKP Plus) with extended Functions and as well supported Games has evolved from eqDKP. It has an included Raid Planner, Boss Progressing Graphs, an Importer for Raids from WoW and supports many CMS and Forums to login with the same username.
If you wish to integrate your DKP within a phpBB3 forum then you can use bbDKP, includes multiple dkp pools, multiple guild support, headcount & ct_raidtracker import, bossprogress, automated guild application template, bbTips plugin with item, itemico, spell, quest, achievement tootltips, Guild roster with Armory update. Games supported : WoW, Aion, EQ2, Lotro, FFxi
Some live DKP standings examples:
- Guild Lusitanos (using EQDKP-Plus official site)
- Vanguard (using gsdkp)
- Totus Solus (using WebDKP official site)
- Plan B (using PBDKP)
- For The Lose (using nDKP official site)
- Dark Destiny (using AutoDKP HTML postings official site)
- Thor's Requiem (using ThorDKP, still in Beta with no official site)
- MLdkp (DKP System made by Moonglade Lumberjacks. With WoW in-game Support official site)
- Aegis Guild using bbDKP
- Danir-Horde using bbDKP
- Heldenbund @ ZdC, EU using bbDKP
- Exercitum Guild using bbDKP
- Y los cuarenta ladrones (using Dkpboard)
Other Popular Systems
- Rapid Raid Rapid Raid has full in-game support and advanced reporting
There are also addons that use Officer/Public notes to handle DKP. As such DKPs are tracked in real time and everyone has the latest standings readily available, in the expense on not being able to handle DKP tracking for people outside the guild:
- EPGP (download addon at Curse Gaming)
- Quick DKP (this one falls back to internal storage for people outside the guild)
And there are also systems that don't use the Officer/Public notes, but keep their own storage mechanism:
- RDKP (Can be found at Curse Gaming)
- DKPmon Full in-game display and bidding for Zero Sum, Boss Auction, EPGP and Fixed. Also allows for development of custom plugins to support additional DKP types.
Scientific research on DKP systems
Meanwhile, the economics of MMORPGs in general, and the loot distribution systems in particular, have become the subject of scientific research. Notable articles include:
- Spohn, Dave. DKP - dragon kill points. About.com.
- Neils Clark (August 2006). "Addiction and the Structural Characteristics of Massively Multiplayer Online Games" (PDF). University of Hawaii.
- Oppenheimer. Loot Distribution for Raids. World of Warcraft Stratics.
- Castronova and Fairfield (October 16, 2006). "Dragon Kill Points: A Summary Whitepaper" (PDF). Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research.
- Developing management skills through MMORPGs
See also
External links
- Info
Dragon kill points, general article about the origin and some basic variants
- Management sites
- WarcraftDKP - A website and sync system for managing DKP in Classic World of Warcraft
- WebDKP - A free addon and website for managing DKP


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See, we'll be talking about Nazis, something many of us are doing lately. Indeed, just this week a fellow named Joseph e-mailed me about a caller he heard on a radio show. The man, vexed over health-care reform, likened President Obama to Adolf Hitler. Asked why, he said, "Hitler took over the car companies, then health care and then he killed the Jews."
Said Joseph: "I almost swerved my vehicle off the road when I heard that."
But the caller is hardly unique. Google "Obama + Nazis" and you get almost 7 million hits. Nor is the phenomenon new. Substitute President Bush's name and you get nearly 2.8 million.
Even granting that many of those hits are benign, it seems obvious the Nazis have invaded American political rhetoric in a big way. As in Rush Limbaugh declaring health-care reform "a Hitler-like policy," swastikas popping up at protest rallies, a poster depicting Obama with Hitler's moustache and a pamphlet that says: "Act Now to Stop Obama's Nazi Health Plan!"
It's important to remember that the Nazis are passing out of living memory; U.S. soldiers of that era are said to be dying at the rate of 1,200 a day. Which makes it too easy, I think, for a nation of notorious historical illiteracy to remake the Nazis as some kind of all-purpose boogeymen for slandering political enemies and scoring cheap rhetorical points.
So I thought it would be good to make you sick, i.e., to spend a few minutes reminding some and teaching others what you invoke when you invoke the Nazi regime.
For the record, then: It was Nazis who shoved sand down a boy's throat until he died, who tossed candies to Jewish children as they sank to their deaths in a sand pit, who threw babies from a hospital window and competed to see how many of those "little Jews" could be caught on a bayonet, who injected a cement-like fluid into women's uteruses to see what would happen, who stomped a pregnant woman to death, who once snatched a woman's baby from her arms and, in the words of a witness, "tore him as one would tear a rag."
That's who the Nazis were, ladies and gentlemen -- those obscenities plus 6 million more. They were the triumph of ideology over reason and even over humanity, the demonization of racial, religious and political difference, the objectification of the vulnerable other. And the authors of a mass murder that staggers imagination, still.
You would think, then, that where they are invoked to draw a parallel or make a point, it would be done with a respect for the incalculable evil the Nazis represent. You would think people would tread carefully, not because of the potential insult to a given politician (they are big boys and girls) but because to do otherwise profanes the profound and renders trivial that which ought to be held sacred by anyone who regards himself as a truly human being.
But in modern America, unfortunately, rhetoric often starts over the top and goes up from there. So fine, George W. Bush is "a smirking chimp." Fine, Barack Obama is "a Chicago thug." We have a Constitution, after all, and it says we can say whatever we want. It doesn't say it has to be intelligent.
And yes, you are even protected if you liken Obama or Bush to Hitler. Yet every time I hear that, it makes me cringe for what it says about our collective propensity for historical amnesia and our retarded capacity for reverence. Once upon a lifetime ago, 6 million people with DNA, names and faces just like you and I, were butchered with gleeful sadism and mechanistic dispatch.
You and I may no longer respect one another, but is it asking too much that we still respect them?
LEONARD PITTS JR. is a columnist for the Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla. 33132. Write to him at email@example.com.
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Educational Background
Emory University, Ph.D., Neuroscience
Selected Publications
- Research Papers
Anlys Olivera, Yan Liu, Zuoxin Wang. "Neonatal exposure to amphetamine alters behavior and central dopamine activity in male prairie voles." (Undergraduate honors thesis in submission to European Journal of Neuroscience, 2007)
Anlys Olivera, Andrew H. Miller and Thaddeus W.W. Pace. The role of the transcription factor nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kB) in depressive symptoms. (In preparation)
Anlys Olivera, Fang Hu, Andrew P. Brown, Hyunsuk Shim, Dennis C. Liotta, Andrew H. Miller and Thaddeus W.W. Pace. EF31, a novel curcumin analog, is a potent inhibitor of the nuclear factor kappa B pathway in mouse RAW264.7 macrophages. (In preparation)
Anlys Olivera, Fang Hu, Drew Johnson, Robert Martin, Andrew H. Miller and Thaddeus W.W. Pace. Bi-phasic CNS cytokine and behavioral response at 6 and 24 hours following peripheral administration of LPS in male C57/BL6 mice. (In preparation)
Anlys Olivera, Fang Hu, Drew Johnson, Robert Martin, Andrew H. Miller and Thaddeus W.W. Pace. The effects of UBS109, a novel NF-kB inhibitor, on LPS-induced depressive-like behaviors in male C57/BL6 mice. (In preparation)
Published Abstract
A. Olivera, F. Hu, A.P. Brown, H. Shim, D.C. Liotta, A.H. Miller, and T.W.W. Pace. 111. The curcumin analog, UBS-109 decreases peripheral expression of LPS-induced inflammatory cytokines. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. Volume 22, Issue 4, Supplement 1, May 2008, Page 36. PNIRS 2008 - Promoting Innovation in PNI: From Cytokines to Society, 2008 Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society Meeting.
A. Olivera, F. Hu, A.H. Miller and T.W. Pace. 100. UBS109, a novel curcumin analog, is a potent inhibitor of nuclear factor-kappa b activity in mouse RAW264.7 macrophages. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. Volume 23, Supplement 2, July 2009, Pages S52-S53. PNIRS 2009, PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society Annual Meeting 2009
A. Olivera, D. Johnson, R. Martin, A.H. Miller, T.W. Pace. 112. Bi-phasic CNS cytokine induction at 6 and 24 h following peripheral administration of LPS. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. Volume 24, Supplement 21, August 2010, Pages S34-S35. PNIRS 2010 - PsychoNeuroImmunology: Crossing disciplines to combat disease, 17th Annual Meeting of The PsychoNeuroImmunology Research Society
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Fellowship, NIMH, Predoctoral NRSA (F31): Effects of UBS109, a novel NF-kB inhibitor, on depressive-like behaviors
Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Sciences, NIH
Academic and Professional Honors
- Florida State University Grant, 2002-2006
- Freshman Incentive Scholarship, 2002-2006
- Florida Bright Futures Medallion Scholarship recipient, 2002-2006
- Gates Millennium Scholar, 2002-present
- President's List, Florida State University, 2005-2006
- Dean's List, Florida State University, 2002-2006
- Florida State University Undergraduate Honors Thesis Research Grant, 2005-2006
- Florida State University Featured Undergraduate Student, 2006
- B.S. awarded with honors, Magna Cum Laude, Florida State University, 2006
- FACES Graduate Fellow, Emory University, 2006-present
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Fellow, 2008-present
- Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society Trainee Award, 2009
Professional and Honors Society
- Phi Beta Kappa, 2003-2006
- National Scholars Honor Society Induction, 2003
- Society for Neuroscience, 2005-present
- Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society, 2008-present


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At 5 pm we went to church and my older daughter sing two beautiful songs with her chorus.
6 pm we were back home and hungry! 8 pm we had dinner and later exchange the family gifts! The girls went to bed early because they were so tired and anxious to see what Santa would bring in the morning!
Here are a few pictures of our Christmas!
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Based on surveys of our department, we know that approximately 50% of our faculty members have a formal mentor. Great strides have been made in ensuring that mentors are identified for new faculty and we would like to see these efforts extended to all faculty, thereby ensuring good mentorship is received by our members across their careers. With support from our Chair, we will be developing the role of mentorship facilitators, appointed within each division to facilitate identification of mentors for faculty and support the mentoring relationships. We will also be launching regular mentorship workshops starting with the new faculty (including mentors and mentees) but extending to all faculty members over the next five years. We are also committed to evaluating the mentorship program through qualitative and quantitative methods.
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Anaerobic digestion
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is the biological degradation of organic material in the absence of air. An anaerobic digester is a man-made system that harnesses this natural process to treat waste, produce biogas that can be converted to heat and electricity and anaerobic digestate, a soil improving material.[1][2] Anaerobic Digestion (AD) is the preferred stabilisation process for the treatment of wastewater sludges and organic wastes. The process provides volume and mass reduction and delivers valuable renewable energy with biogas production [3].
A biogas powerplant is an anaerobic digestion system that is designed and operated specifically for the purpose of generating energy.[4]
Anaerobic digestion has a long history dating back to the 10th Century BC. It is presently used to treat many biodegradable wastes including sewage, industrial effluents, farm waste and the organic component of municipal solid waste.[5]
The four stages key of anaerobic digestion are hydrolysis, acidogenesis, acetogenesis and methanogenesis. These stages result from the biological treatment of organic waste by two key bacterial groups- acetogens and methanogens.
A simplified overall chemical reaction of the process can be summarised as: C6H12O6 → 3CO2 + 3CH4
There are a number of different configurations of anaerobic digestion systems that will include either:
- Batch or continuous loading
- One-stage or multi-stage digestion tanks
- Mesophilic or thermophilic operational temperatures
- High-solids or low-solids feedstock content
Anaerobic digestion can be considered to be a sustainable technology and has many environmental benefits that lead to it contributing to the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases to atmosphere.
- 1 Background
- 2 Stages of anaerobic digestion
- 3 Products of anaerobic digestion
- 4 Feedstock considerations
- 5 Process configuration
- 6 Consideration of suitability
- 7 Contribution to prevention of climate change
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 External links
History of anaerobic digestion
Biogas was first recorded to have been used for heating bath water in Assyria during the 10th century BC and then in Persia during the 16th century. In the 17th century, Jan Baptita Van Helmont found that decaying organic material produced flammable gases. In 1776, Count Alessandro Volta resolved that there was a direct connection between how much organic material was used and how much gas the material produced. In 1808, Sir Humphry Davy determined that methane was present in the gases produced by cattle manure.[6][7]
The first anaerobic digester was built by a leper colony in Bombay, India in 1859. In 1895 the technology was developed in Exeter, England, where a septic tank was used to generate gas for street lighting. Also in England, In 1904 the first dual purpose tank for both sedimentation and sludge treatment was installed in Hampton. In 1907, in Germany, a patent was issued for the Imhoff tank
In the 1930's, people began to recognise anaerobic digestion as a science, and research was done that led to the discovery of anaerobic bacteria and that led to more research into the required conditions to grow methane bacteria.[8] This work was further developed during World War II where in Germany and France there was increased digestion of manure.
Anaerobic biochemistry
In an aerobic system using free gaseous oxygen (or air), the end products are primarily CO2 and H2O which are the stable or oxidised forms of carbon and hydrogen. If the organic waste contains nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur, then the end products may also include NO3−, PO43− and SO42−.
In contrast to this, in an anaerobic system, there is an absence of free gaseous oxygen. In the case of anaerobic digestion, oxygen is prevented from entering the system through physical containment and isolation from the atmosphere in sealed digestion tanks. The oxygen source may be the organic waste itself or it may be supplied by inorganic oxides (in the waste). When the oxygen source in an anaerobic system is derived from the organic waste itself, then the 'intermediate' end products are (primarily) alcohols, aldehydes, and organic acids plus CO2. In the presence of specialised methanogens, the intermediates are converted to the 'final' end products of CH4, CO2 with trace levels of H2S.[9][10]
Uses of anaerobic digestion
Anaerobic digesters are commonly used for effluent and sewage treatment or for managing animal waste. Anaerobic digestion is a simple process that can greatly reduce the amount of organic matter which might otherwise end up in landfills or waste incinerators. In developing countries simple home and farm-based anaerobic digestion systems offer the potential for cheap, low cost energy from biogas.[11][12][13]
Increasing environmental pressures on solid waste disposal in developed countries have increased the use of anaerobic digestion as a process for reducing waste volumes and generating useful byproducts. Here anaerobic digestion may either be used to process the source separated fraction of biodegradable waste or alternatively combined with mechanical sorting systems to process mixed municipal waste. These facilities fall under the category of mechanical biological treatment.[14]
Almost any organic material can be processed with anaerobic digestion. This includes biodegradable waste materials such as waste paper, grass clippings, leftover food, sewage and animal waste. Anaerobic digesters can also be fed with specially grown energy crops to boost biodegradable content and hence increase biogas production. After sorting or screening to remove inorganic or hazardous materials such as metals and plastics, the material to be processed is often shredded, minced, or hydrocrushed[15] to increase the surface area available to microbes in the digesters and hence increase the speed of digestion. The material is then fed into an airtight digester where the anaerobic treatment takes place.
Stages of anaerobic digestion
There are four key biological and chemical stages of anaerobic digestion:[16][17]
- The first is the chemical reaction of hydrolysis, where complex organic molecules are broken down into simple sugars, amino acids, and fatty acids with the addition of hydroxyl groups.
- The second stage is the biological process of acidogenesis where a further breakdown by acidogens into simpler molecules, volatile fatty acids (VFAs) occurs, producing ammonia, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide as byproducts.
- The third stage is the biological process of acetogenesis where the simple molecules from acidogenesis are further digested by acetogens to produce carbon dioxide, hydrogen and mainly acetic acid.
- The fourth stage is the biological process of methanogenesis where methane, carbon dioxide and water are produced by methanogens.
A simplified generic chemical equation of the overall process is as follows: C6H12O6 → 3CO2 + 3CH4
Products of anaerobic digestion
There are three principal products of anaerobic digestion: biogas, digestate and water.[18][19]
Biogas is a gaseous mixture comprising mostly methane and carbon dioxide,[20][21] but also containing a small amount hydrogen and trace levels of hydrogen sulfide. The methane in biogas can be burned to produce electricity, usually with a reciprocating engine or microturbine.[22] The gas is often used in a cogeneration arrangement where both electricity is generated and waste heat used to warm the digesters or to heat buildings. Excess electricity can be sold to suppliers or put into the local grid. Electricity produced by anaerobic digesters is considered to be green energy and may attract subsidies.[23]
Since the gas is not released directly into the atmosphere and the carbon dioxide comes from an organic source with a short carbon cycle biogas does not contribute to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations; because of this, it is considered to be an environmentally friendly energy source. The production of biogas is not a steady stream; it is highest during the middle of the reaction. In the early stages of the reaction, little gas is produced because the number of bacteria is still small. Toward the end of the reaction, only the hardest to digest materials remain, leading to a decrease in the amount of biogas produced.
Digestate can come in three forms; fibrous, liquor or a sludge-based combination of the two fractions. In two-stage systems the different forms of digestate come from different digestion tanks. In single stage digestion systems the two fractions will be combined and if desired separated by further processing.[24] [25]
Fibrous; acidogenic digestate
The second by-product (acidogenic digestate) is a stable organic material comprised largely of lignin and chitin, but also of a variety of mineral components in a matrix of dead bacterial cells; some plastic may be present. This resembles domestic compost and can be used as compost or to make low grade building products such as fibreboard.[26]
Liquor; methanogenic digestate
The third by-product is a liquid (methanogenic digestate) that is rich in nutrients and can be used as a fertiliser dependent on the quality of the material being digested. Levels of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) should be chemically assessed. This will be dependent upon the quality of the original feedstock. In the case of most clean and source-separated biodegradable waste streams the levels of PTEs will be low. In the case of wastes originating from industry the levels of PTEs may be higher and will need to be taken into consideration when determining a suitable end use for the material.
The final output from anaerobic digestion systems is water. This water originates both from the moisture content of the original waste that was treated but also includes water produced during the microbial reactions in the digestion systems. This water may be released from the dewatering of the digestate or may be implicitly separate from the digestate. It will typically contain high BOD and COD that will require further treatment prior to being released into water courses or sewers. This can be achieved by oxygenation of the end effluent in tanks associated with the digesters.
Feedstock considerations
The first and foremost issue when consideration of the implementation of anaerobic digestion systems is the feedstock. Digesters typically can accept any biodegradable material, however the level of putrescibility is the key factor. The more putrescible the material the higher the gas yields possible from the system. The anaerobes can breakdown material to varying degrees of success from readily in the case of short chain hydrocarbons such as sugars, to over longer periods of time in the case of cellulose and hemicellulose. Anaerobic microorganisms are unable to break down long chain woody molecules such as lignin. Anaerobic digesters were typically designed for operation using sewage sludge and manures. Sewage and manure are not however the material with the most potential for anaerobic digestion as the biodegradable material has already had the energy content taken out by the animal which produced it.
A second consideration related to the feedstock will be moisture content. The wetter the material the more suitable the material will be to handling with pumps instead of screw presses and physical means of movement. Also the wetter the material, the more volume and area it takes up relative to the levels of gas that are produced.
The level of contamination of the feedstock material is a key consideration. If the feedstock to the digesters has significant levels of physical contaminants such as plastic, glass or metals then pre-processing will be required in order for the material to be used. If it is not removed then the digesters can be blocked and will not function efficiently. It is with this logic in mind that mechanical biological treatment plants based on anaerobic digestion are designed.
Process configuration
Anaerobic digestion systems can be designed to operate in a number of different configurations:
- Batch or continuous
- Temperature: Mesophilic or thermophilic
- Solids content: High solids or low solids
- Complexity: Single stage vs multistage
Batch or continuous
A batch system is the simplest form, where the biomass added to the reactor at the beginning and sealed for the duration of the process. Batch reactors can suffer from odour issues which can be a severe problem during emptying cycles. Typically biogas production will form in a normal distribution pattern. The operator can use this fact to determine when they believe the process of digestion of the organic matter has completed. Bioreactor landfills and anaerobic lagoons can take form.
In the continuous process, which is the more common type, organic matter is constantly added, or added in stages to the reactor. Here the end products are constantly or periodically removed, resulting in constant production of biogas. Examples of this form of anaerobic digestion include UASB, EGSB and IC reactors.[27][28]
There are two conventional operational temperature levels for anaerobic digesters, which are determined by the species of methanogens in the digesters:[29]
- Mesophilic which takes place optimally around 37°-41°C or at ambient temperatures between 20°-45°C with mesophiles - mesophilic archaea - are the primary microorganism
- Thermophilic which takes place optimally around 50°-52° at elevated temperatures up to 70°C where thermophiles - thermophilic archaea - are the primary microorganisms
Methanogens come from the primitive group of bacteria called the archaea. This bacterial family includes species that grow at the hostile conditions hydrothermal vents. These species are more resistant to heat and can therefore operate at thermophilic temperatures, which is unique to bacterial families.
Typically there are a greater number of species of mesophiles that are present in mesophilic digestion systems. These bacteria are more tolerant to changes environmental conditions than thermophiles. Mesophilic systems are therefore considered to be more stable than thermophilic digestion systems.
As mentioned above, thermophilic digestion systems are considered to be less stable, however the increased temperatures facilitate faster reaction rates and hence faster gas yields. Operation at higher temperatures facilitates greater sterilisation of the end digestate. In countries where legislation, such as the Animal By-Products Regulations in the European Union, requires end products to meet certain levels of bacteria in the output material this may be a benefit.
A draw back of operating at thermophilic temperatures is that more heat energy input is required to achieve the correct operational temperatures. This increase in energy may not be outweighed by the increase in the outputs of biogas from the systems. Hence it is important to consider an energy balance for these systems.
Solids content
Typically there are two different operational parameters associated with the solids content of the feedstock to the digesters:
- High-solids
- Low-solids
Digesters can either be designed to operate in a high solids content, with a total suspended solids (TSS) concentration greater than c20%, or a low solids concentration less than 15%.[30]
High solids digesters process a thick slurry that will require more energy input to move and process the feedstock. They will typically have a lower land requirement due to the lower volumes associated with the moisture.
Low solids digesters can transport material through the system using pumps that require significantly lower energy input. Low solids digesters will require a larger amount of land than high solids due to the increase volumes. There are benefits associated with operation in a liquid environment enabling more thorough circulation of materials and contact between the bacteria and their food.
Digestion systems can be configured with different levels of complexity:[31]
- One stage or single stage
- Two stage or multistage
A single stage digestion system is one in which all of the biological reactions occur within a single sealed reactor. This gives benefits associated with lower construction costs, however there is less control of the reactions occurring within the system.
In a two-stage or multi-stage digestion system different digestion vessels are optimised to bring maximum control over the bacterial communities living within the digesters. Typically hydrolysis, acetogenesis and acidogenesis occur within the first reaction vessel. The organic material is then heated to the required operational temperature (either mesophilic or thermophilic) prior to being pumped into a methanogenic reactor. Acidogenic bacteria produce organic acids and more quickly grow and reproduce than methanogenic bacteria. Methanogenic bacteria require stable pH and temperature in order to optimise their performance.
Residence time
The residence time in a digester varies with the amount and type of feed material, the configuration of the digestion system and whether it be one-stage or two-stage.
In the case of single-stage thermophilic digestion residence times may be in the region of 14 days, which is relatively fast. The plug-flow nature of some of these systems will mean that the full degradation of the material may not have been realised in this timescale. In this event digestate exiting the system will be darker in colour and will typically have more odour.
In two-stage mesophilic digestion, residence time may vary between 15 and 40 days.[32]
In the case of mesophilic UASB digestion hydraulic residence times can be (1hour-1day) and solid retention times can be up to 90 days. In this manner the UASB system is able to separate solid an hydraulic retention times with the utilisation of a sludge blanket.[33]
Continuous digesters have mechanical or hydraulic devices, depending on the level of solids in the material, to mix the contents enabling the bacteria and the food to be in contact. They also allow excess material to be continuously extracted to maintain a reasonably constant volume within the digestion tanks.
Further treatment
Many digestion plants have ancillary processes to treat and manage the by-products. These systems can include:
- Biogas refinement
- Digestate maturation
- Effluent treatment
Biogas refinement
Biogas may require further treatment and cleaning or 'scrubbing' to further refine it for other uses.
Hydrogen sulphide
Hydrogen sulphide is a toxic product of the anaerobic decomposition of sulphates contained within the input feedstock. This hydrogen sulphide is released as a trace component of the biogas.
National environmental inforcement agencies such as the US EPA or the English and Welsh Environment Agency put strict limits on the levels of gases containing hydrogen sulphide. The US EPA has mandated that industrial facilities may not burn any fuel gas that contains more than 160 ppm by volume (0.016 percent by volume) of hydrogen sulfide.
Therefore, if the levels of hydrogen sulphide in the the gas are high, gas scrubbing and cleaning equipment (such as amine gas treating) will be needed to process the biogas to within regionally accepted levels. [34]
If siloxanes are present in the gas, they will adversely affect gas engines. The siloxane forms mineralised deposits on the physical elements of the engine, which will increase wear and tear. Therefore, increased levels of siloxane will render greater attention to the maintenance of the gas engine. Over certain threshold levels the gas will not be suitable for processing in the gas engine.[35][36]
Methane concentration
In countries such as Switzerland, Germany and Sweden the methane in the biogas may be concentrated in order for it to be used as a vehicle transportation fuel or alternatively input directly into the gas mains. In countries where the driver for the utilisation of anaerobic digestion are renewable electricity subsidies, this route of treatment is less likely as energy is required in this processing stage and reduces the over all levels available to sell.[37]
Digestate maturation
Digestate typically contains elements such as lignin that cannot be broken down by the anaerobic microorganisms. Also the digestate may contain ammonia that is phytotoxic and will hamper the growth of plants if it is used as a soil improving material. For these two reasons a maturation or composting stage may be employed after digestion. Lignin and other materials are available for degradation by aerobic microorganisms such as fungi helping reduce the overall volume of the material for transport. During this maturation the ammonia will be broken down into nitrates, improving the fertility of the material and making it more suitable as a soil improver.
Effluent treatment
The wastewater exiting the anaerobic digestion facility will typically have elevated levels of BOD and COD. Some of this material is termed 'hard COD' meaning it cannot be accessed by the anaerobic bacteria for conversion into biogas. If this effluent was put directly into watercourses it would negatively affect them by causing eutrophication. As such further treatment of the wastewater is often required. This treatment will typically be an oxidation stage where air is passed through the water in sequencing batch reactors or similar aeration tanks.
Consideration of suitability
As with all industrial systems, to be economically viable, there must be a use, market or acceptable disposal point for the outputs of anaerobic digestion. Biogas can be sold or used in almost all parts of the world, where it can offset demand on fossil fuel stocks. Alternatively biogas can be used to provide cheap sources of energy in the developing world and help reduce methane emissions to atmosphere.[38]
Digestate liquor can be used as a fertiliser supplying vital nutrients to soils. The solid, fibrous component of digestate can be used as a soil conditioner. This material can help boost the organic content of soils. There are some countries, such as in Spain where there are many organically depleted soils, the markets for the digestate can be just as important as the biogas.[39]
When considering alternatives to anaerobic digestion such as composting, anaerobic digestion performs excellently with higher renewable energy production and lower carbon emissions.
Contribution to prevention of climate change
Methane produce in anaerobic digestion facilities can be utilised to replace methane derived from fossil fuels.[40] The carbon in biodegradable waste is part of a carbon cycle, as such the carbon released from the combustion of biogas can be thought of as having been removed by plants in the recent past, for instance within the last decade, but typically within the last growing season. If these plants are re-grown, as is the case with crops, it can be argued that the systems can be considered to be carbon neutral.[41][42] This contrasts to carbon in fossil fuels that has been sequestered in the earth for many thousands of years.
Furthermore, if the putrescible waste feedstock to the digesters was landfilled, it would break down naturally and often anaerobicly, in this case the gas may escape into the atmosphere; As methane is about twenty times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide this would be considered more harmful.[43] In this way correctly engineered and utilised anaerobic digestion can be considered to be sustainable and biogas considered to be a renewable fuel.
See also
- Anaerobic digester types
- Bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels
- Mechanical biological treatment
- Sewage treatment
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- ↑ Anaerobic digestion, www.energy.ca.gov, retrieved 17.08.07
- ↑ Anaerobic digestion, http://www.monsal.com, retrieved 18.09.07
- ↑ Application of biogas installation to produce electrical power in Szczecin, barzyk.pl, retrieved 17.08.07
- ↑ Svoboda, I (2003) Anaerobic digestion, storage, olygolysis, lime, heat and aerobic treatment of livestock manures, www.scotland.gov.uk, retrieved 17.08.07
- ↑ Cruazon, B. (2007) History of anaerobic digestion, web.pdx.edu, retrieved 17.08.07
- ↑ Anaerobic digestion, www.waste.nl, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ Humanik, F. et al (2007) Anaerobic digestion of animal manure, www.epa.gov, retrieved 17.08.07
- ↑ Adapted from Beychok, M. (1967) Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants, First edition, John Wiley & Sons, LCCN 67019834
- ↑ What is the anaerobic digestion process?, www.anaerobic-digestion.com, retrieved 17.08.07
- ↑ Anaerobic Digestion Page, www.remade.org.uk, retrieved 17.08.07
- ↑ Friends of the Earth (2004) Anaerobic digestion Briefing Paper, www.foe.co.uk, retrieved 17.08.07
- ↑ Cardiff University (2005) Anaerobic Digestion Page, www.wasteresearch.co.uk, retrieved 17.08.07
- ↑ Juniper (2005) MBT: A Guide for Decision Makers – Processes, Policies & Markets, www.juniper.co.uk, (Project funding supplied by Sita Environmental Trust), Accessed 22.11.06
- ↑ Finstein, M. S., Zadik, Y., Marshall, A. T. & Brody, D. (2004) The ArrowBio Process for Mixed Municipal Solid Waste – Responses to "Requests for Information", Proceedings for Biodegradable and Residual Waste Management, Proceedings. (Eds. E. K. Papadimitriou & E. I. Stentiford), Technology and Service Providers Forum, p. 407-413
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- ↑ Ciborowski, P (2004) [www.epa.gov/ttn/airinnovations/2004conference/less_polluting/peter_ciborowski.ppt Anaerobic Digestion in the Dairy Industry: Pollution Control Opportunities], Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Air Innovations Conference, www.epa.gov, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ Abstract from Operation of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants Manual of Practice-MOP 11 Fifth Edition, www.e-wef.org, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ Feasibility study concerning anaerobic digestion in Northern Ireland, www.eunomia.co.uk,retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ Beginners guide to biogas, www.adelaide.edu.au, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ How Anaerobic Digestion (Methane Recovery) Works, www.eere.energy.gov, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ GE Energy - Jenbacher Gas Engines for Power Generation, www.power-technology.com, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ UK Biomass Strategy 2007, www.defra.gov.uk, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ Fact sheet on anaerobic digestion, www.waste.nl, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ Biomass and biogas, www.globalwarming101.com, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ Oaktech Environmental Consultation Response, www.alexmarshall.me.uk, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ BIOPAQ® IC, www.paques.nl, retrieved 19.08.07
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- ↑ Song, Y.C., Kwon, S.J., Woo, J.H. (2004) Mesophilic and thermophilic temperature co-phase anaerobic digestion compared with single-stage mesophilic- and thermophilic digestion of sewage sludge, Water Res. 2004 Apr;38(7):1653-62
- ↑ Feasibility study concerning anaerobic digestion in Northern Ireland, www.eunomia.co.uk,retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ Feasibility study concerning anaerobic digestion in Northern Ireland, www.eunomia.co.uk,retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ HIMET—A Two-Stage Anaerobic Digestion Process for Converting Waste to Energy, www.gastechnology.org, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ Finstein, M. S. (2006) ArrowBio process integrates preprocessing and advanced anaerobic digestion to recover recyclables and generate electricity, www.oaktech-environmental.com, retrieved 19.08.07
- ↑ Removal of hydrogen sulfide from anaerobic digester gas, U.S. Patent, www.patentstorm.us, retrieved 17.08.07
- ↑ Siloxane quantification, removal and impact upon landfill gas generation facilities, www.p2pays.org, retrieved 17.08.07
- ↑ Wheles, E. & Pierece, E. (2004)Siloxanes in landfill and digester gas, www.scsengineers.com, retrieved 17.08.07
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- ↑ Doelle, H. W. (2001)Biotechnology and Human Development in Developing Countries, www.ejbiotechnology.info, retrieved 19.08.07
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External links
- Anaerobic digestion forum
- Anaerobic digestion website
- US Government Information Sheet: Methane from anaerobic digesters
- Anaerobic biodigester design for small tropical producers
- Low cost biodigester, Vietnam
- Appropedia article on home biogas systems
- Biogas Community on WikiSpaces
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superb linesOriginally Posted by iravu sooriyan
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Expecting the world to be good to you coz you're good to them is like expecting a lion not to eat you coz you're vegetarian. ~!~
Thanks mate... have fun!
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Thanks Viji for your appreciation. Have fun around.
Wow.. Nice lines! Enna oru Imagination... Simply superb!
Keep writing and posting Night-Sun. Thanks for sharing with us.
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I don't let my poems online. I delete them when time arrives.
I will try to find this one and will repost it, hope I will find it.
Thanks for comments.
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So new members cannot read your poems?
It's ok Night-Sun
As promised
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Momed is actually short for "modern mediterranean" - and is a sleek but cozy space that offers a restaurant, deli, espresso bar and marketplace in one. On a lazy Saturday morning (morning means sometime after noonish on weekends for me), after enjoying a SpaWeek deal ($50 for treatments that normally run around $100 and up!) closeby, I decided to stop at Momed for an off the beaten track brunch.
And then I saw it: the mouthwatering options on their brunch menu. Basically it's a prix fixe brunch: you get your choice of entree + Intelligentsia coffee + orange juice = $14.50. All of the choices looked fantastic, but the ones that struck me as more unusual were the Khachapouri "traditional breakfast flatbreads". There were two options: the "Kaseri cheese, organic scrambled eggs, onions and seasoned with dried mint and sumac" seemed more to be different in flavor profile, whereas the "Spicy soujok sausage, organic scrambled eggs, Halloumi cheese and kalamata olives" seemed to have more unique ingredients. My super friendly and helpful server Malena (more on her later!) validated this line of thinking when she recommended the sausage flatbread - so I went for it.
What arrived was a fantastic creation that was like a thin-crust pizza but roughly oval shaped, topped with breakfast staples with a mediterranean twist and wrapped around the edges like a calzone. With eggs baked in with the flatbread.
Despite the menu listing 'scrambled eggs', they actually came sunny-side up, which I actually prefer both cuz it looks way more fun that way, and I get to have my unadulterated, beautifully runny yolk - the way I usually like to have my eggs anyway. The flatbread was fresh baked and incredibly fragrant, while the sausage (which actually resembled and tasted like tiny pieces of spicy pepperoni - with mediterranean flavoring) lent a bit of heat. The Halloumi cheese was perfectly melted in (NOT a thick, congealed mess which is one main reason I don't like most pizzas) and everything just worked together in harmony.
I'm not normally a big coffee drinker, but do like Intelligentsia coffee and couldn't resist the fragrant (and refillable) cup along with good ole OJ (also refillable) with my flatbread.
All in all, a lovely, easy way to kick off the day on a sunny SoCal morning. And for dog lovers - your best friend is welcome on the patio as well.
Aside from the awesome food / brunch set - I wanted to take a moment to rave about service as well - I don't know if Malena is representative of all of the servers at Momed, but she was a big part of making my brunch experience great. It was fairly busy out on the patio that morning and she seemed to be the only one helping with all the tables, but never wavered from her sunny disposition - even with the annoying non-customer who perched on the patio to loudly complain about the overabundance of actors in this town - all while flirting with the also cliched director guy and trying to get him to take her number (an oh-so-LA moment?). Malena's one of those people who you can see are just genuinely happy, enjoy their jobs no matter what they're doing, and want to make sure you're having as good a time as she is. And she had pretty good intuition about when to stick around and chat, and when to just hover a ways away - offering help if needed but giving you enough space to enjoy your meal. I don't normally review service in this much detail, but really wanted to say that I wish more people were like Malena - because everyone she served that morning left in a good mood and ready to take on whatever the day may bring. And people like her are a reminder that every person can make an impact on someone else in their lives - it doesn't have to be ground-breaking work like philanthropy trips overseas for victims of great tragedy - it can be as simple as spreading a little bit of sunshine to everyone you interact with in your daily life, in a moment as undramatic as neighborhood brunch.
In any case, a week later, I'm still dreaming about the insanely delicious flatbread. Hope to be back to Momed soon!
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Routine is great for kids when they have daily responsibilities and commitments. But if you want a real adventure, then leave the security blanket behind and head to Big Bear for undiscovered adventures. I grabbed my kids: Kyla (16), Cole (12), and Hudson (4) and we headed south. Big Bear is Southern California's alpine mountain resort with altitudes range from 6,750 to 8,200 feet. Big Bear Lake offers 23 miles of accessible and sparkling shoreline.
It was a weekend filled with "firsts" for all of us. It was our first family road trip since my daughter had turned 16. It was a great excuse to get away and give her some driving experience….in the desert…on a straight road….with not much to hit.
Before the trip, it seemed like we were "disagreeing" about anything and everything: homework, being grounded, potty training, too many video games, what to eat for dinner, what movie to see, etc. I often felt like I was "forcing" my kids to hang out together and sad that they didn't seem eager to do things as a family anymore. With the age gap, it's often really difficult to find something that they all agree on (besides fighting). We needed a vacation. But not just a vacation…we needed a reconnection, a renewal of sorts.
The Big Bear Lake Resort Association mapped out our trip for us. I warned them we were coming, and they helped us plan activities that would fit the age range for each kid. It was as if they knew exactly what each of us would love.
When we rolled into town, it was nighttime, but we could immediately feel the sleepy, mountain hospitality oozing out of every pore. The kids stopped playing their games, got off their phones, and began to marvel at the old fashioned, small-town charm of this lakeside community. It was love at first sight.
Cole asked, "Mom, can we move here?"
Kyla snarked, "at least if you retire here, then I'll come visit you."
Even Hudson woke up and pondered, "Where is the Big Bear?"
When I told the kids we were staying at a place called 'Grandpa's Axe', they were even more intrigued, and began to conjure up potential anecdotes of its origin. Truth be told, it was a private residence that we found through Village Reservations Service. When we arrived at the cozy cabin, the serene and tranquil environment was shattered with squeals of delight as they kids ran from room to room, excited to be in a real mountain cabin. Each new discovery lead to a higher pitched frenzy – including a fireplace and a Jacuzzi outside on the deck overlooking the San Bernardino National Forest. It's actually quite a normal amenity to offer Jacuzzis on site or even in the rooms. This particular cabin was 3 levels and slept 6 people. It had cable television, wireless internet, a full kitchen, and all the amenities, including toiletries in the bathroom. It was a 5-minute drive from Big Bear Boulevard, quaint shops, antique stores, restaurants, and the Marina. There were even fresh flowers and snacks to welcome us. How did they know that Gerbera Daisies were my favorite?
One of my favorite things was the old lantern. I found it humorous, and ironic, that the kids had to use modern technology (iPhone, the internet, and YouTube) in order to find out how to operate an old fashioned lantern. They were proud of themselves for figuring it out. We promptly took it outside as we relaxed in the Jacuzzi after a long day.
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We were all eager to start our adventures. I kept the entire itinerary as a surprise, so the kids didn't know what was ahead. This kept them on their toes and ready for the next activity.
The first day, we had a quick breakfast, and then headed to the Marina. We actually flew over Big Bear Lake with Action Aqua Flight. This was, without a doubt, one of the coolest things we have ever done. The best way to describe it is that it's like Iron Man. This brand new sport is called Flyboarding. It is surprisingly simple and safe, so even kids can do it (16 and up). We were, essentially, strapped onto a board similar to a snowboard that is attached to a jet ski via a long tube. There are also two tubes attached to your arms. The jet skis fueled the momentum that propelled us out of the water and into the air. Nolan Warriner and Anthony Vargas did a great job training us and operating the jet skis. We had a blast (literally). This was definitely a "first time" experience for both my 16-year-old daughter and I, and one we will never forget.
Next, we took a charter fishing trip for a few hours with Fish Big Bear. Our captain and guide was former professional fisherman, Curt Dills. If anyone could teach my kids how to fish – he was the man. Hudson, my 4-year-old, caught his first fish that day: a 10-inch rainbow trout. It was a proud and memorable moment for all of us. With multiple lines, good bait, and many years of experience from our guides – we had no trouble catching fish our quota of fish very quickly.
At this point in our journey, Dan McKernan, from the Big Bear Lake Resort Association, joined us. He was our gracious host (and rock star tour guide) who kept us entertained the entire time. There are many trails to explore in the area, but Dan chose to take us on the Castle Rock Trail. It's just off Big Bear Boulevard, 1.2 miles east of Big Bear Dam with a small marker on the trail. As we hiked, he shared stories, legends, history, and wildlife trivia along the way. Did you know that you can eat a single pine needle from a white fir pine tree and it will give you a full daily dose of Vitamin C?
At one point, Hudson asked Dan "Are we at your castle yet? Because I'm getting fricking tired!".
I don't know many 4-year-olds who could hike and climb the 2-mile trek up and back, but he was a trooper. I was amazed at the agility and determination of all the kids and their natural love of climbing. It was truly an incredible bonding experience for our entire family. Together, we climbed rocks, shared water, swapped stories, celebrated each peak, and then reveled in the glory of reaching the summit together, atop the perilous rocks that create the famed 'Castle Rock'. We marveled at the majestic view of Big Bear Lake and took a new family photo. Somehow, we all looked older, wiser, and stronger than we had just 24 hours prior.
The next morning, we went on a kayak tour at the Fawnskin Marina. This is a branch of the Southern California Mountains Foundation that supports youth development through conservation initiatives for forest and outdoor lovers. Being in a kayak was a first for 2 out of 3 kids, but they took to it naturally and paddled their own. They loved the ability to be right on the water and learn about the lake. We saw a beaver dam and looked for American Eagles as we paddled around coots and mallards.
Then we went to the Big Bear Discovery Center for an educational tour that included the chance to see many animals and even touch their skins. Where else can you pet a real grizzly bear? Or put your head in its jaws or play with its teeth? Or touch a raccoon pelt? These were certainly "firsts" for all of us.
Just outside is the New Discovery Nature Zone with outdoor activities for kids that include mining for gold, art projects with nature, finding natural instruments, and more. Cole and I enjoyed a brief respite on the giant web as Kyla and Hudson taught themselves a song on the outdoor xylophone.
We had dinner at Dynasty, an authentic Szechuan Cuisine restaurant. Barry, the owner, was a gracious host and made some great suggestions. He is always up for a challenge to make new, creative dishes even if they are not on the menu. They are the only restaurant in town that offers live Maine lobster and live crab. Hudson enjoyed his first chicken wonton there. We had to convince him that it was like a chicken nugget, but much better. We also told him the sweet and sour sauce was like Asian ketchup. He, thankfully, agreed – and loved it. Since he tried something new, the rest of us made a pact to try something we had never tried before. We chose the shark fin with crabmeat soup. Real shark fin is actually verboten in California, but they had the next best thing – and it was pretty tasty. Our unanimous favorite was the Walnut Shrimp.
We had breakfast at Grizzly Manor Café and enjoyed watching Charlie, the cook; flip enormous pancakes on the grill. If you are looking for a quiet, healthy, politically correct place to eat, then this is NOT the place. They have big food and a big attitude. There is a lot of local flavor – and that is just from the customers. Real pancakes, real bacon, real people, real fun. It's the quintessential epitome of Big Bear. We all signed our names on Big Bear stickers and stuck them to the wall with the other collection. Hudson even challenged Charlie to make bear pancakes. It truly is the big diner with a big heart. You know it has to be good because they don't even have a website, yet they always have a line out the door.
Free, fit and fun
If you are traveling with kids, make sure you pick up the Kids Adventure Stamp Passport from any participating vendor or the Visitor's Center. As your kids visit each activity in town, have them collect a stamp. As they collect stamps, they can turn in the passport to get free activities and also qualify for a chance to win bigger prizes like ski passes or a free trip to Big Bear.
Favorite Things
when I asked the kids what they liked best, Kyla appreciated the hospitality and community feel of the area. She said it was very welcoming and comforting. Her favorite activity was Aqua Flight. Cole's favorite was the hike to Castle Rock and learning about nature and trees. He discovered that he loved rock-climbing. Hudson's favorite was catching a fish and the hike to Castel Rock. He loved climbing rocks and hearing the stories of the area.
As a single parent, I appreciated the simple pleasures of a small town and the warm and inviting people. I felt like a local after one day and could find my way around town very easily.
With so many special "firsts" and great memories, there is no doubt that Big Bear will hold a special place in our hearts for years to come. There is a magical essence about this place that I know our family will treasure forever.
When it was time to go, I had a hard time prying the kids away from Big Bear, or from the multitude of huggable bears around the city that they had come to love. Two days was not long enough, we can't wait to return!
Getting There:
Big Bear is located in Southern California off Hwy 18 and Hwy 38. It is less than a tank of gas from Los Angeles, Las Vegas, or Fresno.
For more information, visit the Big Bear Lake Resort Association


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Lush & Plush Trends from Fabric.com: Minky and Satin Baby Blankets
Recently, movie star and trendsetter, Nicole Kidman was photographed holding baby Faith wrapped in a plush pink baby blanket with a lush satin ruffle. Dozens of commenters on the photo demanded to know where she got that adorable blanket. Nicole's not telling, but no worries because we have an even cuter design you can make yourself. It's part of our new S4H Series sponsored by Fabric.com: the lush-est, plushest, most trendy fabrics for Fall and Winter. Mar Bella Minky and rich satin combine today for this double-sided beauty!
Recently, movie star and trendsetter, Nicole Kidman was photographed holding baby Faith wrapped in a plush pink baby blanket with a lush satin ruffle. Dozens of commenters on the photo demanded to know where she got that adorable blanket. Nicole's not telling, but no worries because we have an even cuter design you can make yourself. It's part of our new S4H Series sponsored by Fabric.com: the lush-est, plushest, most trendy fabrics for Fall and Winter. Mar Bella Minky and rich satin combine today for this double-sided beauty!
Fabric.com has a wonderful selection of the absolutely gorgeous Mar Bella Minky and it's all on sale! In fact, there are so many pretty Mar Bella patterns to chose from, we had to make our design double-sided. Minky is rather slippery on the back, and with wrong sides together; we knew there could be a problem with our layers shifting. However, we didn't want to add any quilting stitches to hold the layers together as we felt it would take away from the beautiful look of the motifs. Instead, we came up with a clever solution: there's a secret layer of flannel in between the two layers of Minky. The double-napped flannel keeps the two layers from shifting and adds a little extra oomph and insulation as well.
As we mentioned in our previous Flannel Pillowcase tutorial, make sure you pre-wash your flannel. Otherwise, it could shrink up more than the Minky and cause your lovely blankie to twist and turn.
Big, big thanks to all the friendly folks at Fabric.com for helping us bring this series to you. We have a great group of projects, tips and product reviews to get you working like a pro with flannel, Minky, faux fur and faux leather. They've also provided us with a wonderful Great Giveaway Gift for one lucky Sew4Home fan.
If you haven't visited Fabric.com before, scoot on over there today. They offer free shipping on orders of just $35 and more. When you combine that with a 100% satisfaction guarantee, free return shipping and the ability to order swatches, you have a no-risk way to shop online for fabric and more.
Sewing Tools You Need
- Any Sewing Machine (we recommend the Janome HD3000)
NOTE: You will be sewing through a number of slippery layers, make sure you have a machine with a good feeding system, like the 7-piece feed dog on the Janome HD3000.
- Ruffler attachment (optional… but a super-cool time saver)
Fabric and Other Supplies
Amounts shown below are for ONE blanket. Multiply as needed for twins, triplets and beyond.
- 1 yard of 44-45″ wide fabric for the blanket front: we used Mar Bella Minky Madrid Cuddle in Rosa Pink from Fabric.com and Mar Bella Minky Barcelona Cuddle in Marina Blue from Fabric.com
- 1 yard of 44-45″ wide fabric for the blanket back: we used Mar Bella Minky Valencia Cuddle in Rosa Pink from Fabric.com and Mar Bella Minky Granada Cuddle in Marina Blue from Fabric.com
- 1 yard of 44-45″ wide flannel for the interior blanket layer: we used Double Napped Flannel in White from Fabric.com
- 1½ yards of 44-45″ wide fabric for the blanket ruffle: we used Adore Duchess Satin in Ivory from Fabric.com
- All-purpose sewing thread in colors to match fabrics
- Scissors or rotary cutter and mat
- See-through ruler
- Tape measure
- Fabric pencil or pen
- Straight pins
- Hand sewing needle
- Iron and ironing board
- Pressing cloth for ironing the Mar Bella Minky
Getting Started
- From the front fabric cut ONE 35″ x 35″ square.
- From the back fabric cut ONE 35″ x 35″ square.
- From the cotton flannel fabric, cut ONE 35″ x 35″ square.
- Using a small glass or cup, round each corner of each layer (front, back and flannel).
- From the ruffle fabric, cut EIGHT strips 6″ x width of fabric (WOF). Trim off the selvedges.
NOTE: We used the rule of thumb that says your ruffle needs to be approximately 2½ times the length of the edge to which you're applying the ruffle. Since our quilt will be 34″ square when finished, we multiplied 34″ by 4 to get 136″. Then we multiplied 136″ by 2.5″ to get 340″. Finally divide this new total length by your WOF to get the number of strips you'll need. In our sample, that meant dividing 340″ by 45″. This equaled 7.56, which we rounded up to 8. We wanted a 2½" finished ruffle, so we knew our ruffle strips would need to be 6″ to account for folding the strip in half plus a ½" seam allowance. After all this math-noodlin', we cut EIGHT 6″ x WOF strips. Sewn together, this gave us approximately 352″ of ruffle fabric to work with. If you are new to this technique, you can check out our tutorial: Gathering & Ruffles Made Easy .
At Your Sewing Machine & Ironing Board
The ruffle
- Sew all eight 6″ strips together end to end. To do this, place two strips right sides together and stitch along the 6″ edge, using a ¼" seam allowance. Repeat to create one long strip. Press all seams open.
- Fold and press this long ruffle piece in half lengthwise wrong sides together.
- Hem one end of ruffle. To do this, turn one end under ¼" and press, turn under again ¼" and press, and then sew in place close to the folded edge.
NOTE: This is a LOT o' ruffling, which is why we opted to use the a ruffler attachment for our Janome machine. These contraptions look intimidating but are easy to use. Most machine manufacturers offer something similar to what we show, and the Janome version is actually made to fit both Janome machines as well as machines from other manufacturers. It comes with pretty good instructions of how to set the ruffle depth and insert the folded fabric. If you don't have a ruffler attachment, you can ruffle the traditional way with two lines of machine basting. With this much length, it's good to do the machine basting in easy-to-work-with sections of about 18″ or so. Again, you can take a look at our tutorial: Gathering & Ruffles Made Easy. Janome also has a good video tutorial on their Ultimate Ruffler.
- The satin fabric we used for our pretty ruffle can be very slippery, so it is best to pin the raw edges with the head of the pin facing to the raw edge side of the ruffle, and with a pin set about every 3-4″. This will help keep the satin fabric from twisting and torquing as it is fed into the ruffler. Be sure to remove pins as you feed the satin fabric into the ruffler!
- Gather the entire length of the ruffle to the approximate length of the four sides of the quilt (136″). Leave some extra length for overlapping to finish the ends. No need to have an exact measurement, just give yourself plenty to work with.
- Starting with the hemmed end, and with the back of that hem against the right side of the blanket (wrong side to right side), pin the ruffle to the BACK fabric. Align the raw edges of the ruffle with the raw edge of the fabric.
- When you have about six inches remaining before the beginning and the end meet, lay out the end of the ruffle so it overlaps the beginning by about 2½".
- Cut off the excess, then hem this end in the same manner as you hemmed the other end. If you've used a ruffle attachment, you'll need to switch back to your regular presser foot.
- Overlap the two finished ends so the ruffle lays flat and finish pinning.
- Machine baste the ruffle in place around all four sides.
Assembling the layers
- Machine baste the flannel square to the wrong side of the blanket FRONT fabric using a ¼" seam allowance.
NOTE: Your corners should be rounded at this point. Remember that step from above. I happened to take this photo prior to my "rounding."
- Carefully pin the extra ruffle fabric away from the corners so it does not get caught up in the stitching when the quilt top is sewn on.
- Layer the flannel/front fabric and the ruffle/back fabric right sides together. The ruffle is now sandwiched in between the layers.
- Pin in place, using plenty o' pins. Leave a 3-4″ opening along one side for turning.
- Using a ½" seam allowance, stitch through all layers around all four sides, remembering to leave that 3-4″ opening for turning. Stitch slowly, smoothing the layers as you go; this will help insure your ruffle stays flat.
- Clip all four corner curves. Then, trim the flannel/front fabric close to the seam, but be careful not to cut into your stitching. DON'T trim the ruffle/back fabric.
- Turn quilt right side out, pull out the ruffle, and press from each side.
NOTE: Use a pressing cloth/towel and low heat as the Minky does NOT react well to direct or high heat from an iron. It will ruin the nap and any embossing in the fabric.
- Use a long, blunt-end tool to round out the corner curves; a long knitting needle or chopstick works well.
- Fold in the raw edges of the opening so they are flush with the sewn seam. Finger press. Pin in place.
- Hand sew the opening closed with a small whipstitch. Minky is great for hiding hand stitching; it simply disappears into the nap.
Project Design: Alicia Thommas
Sample Creation and Instructional Outline: Gregory Dickson
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22 Year Old Matthew Cordle Takes To YouTube To Confess To Murder [VIDEO]
In today's society, it is rare to see someone own up to their mistakes. When they do it is amazing and moving. 22 year old Matthew Cordle took to YouTube to confess to the murder of Vincent Canzani.
When I first watched this video, I was brought to tears. Not only does he say what happened the night of the accident, but he also confesses to talking to lawyers about helping him get off.
Fortunately, he decided against a lying and wants to take full responsibility. He owns his mistakes and even has a warning for everyone out there. Take a minute to watch the video, you'll be glad you did.
What an amazing young man. More people should step up and own their mistakes, the way he did.


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Last August, Facebook bought up all of Friendster's old social networking patents and patent applications, but at the time there was little fanfare about it. From the GigaOm post:
The Friendster patents, which date back to the early days of social networking, are incredibly broad. They cover things like making connections on a social network, friend-of-a-friend connections through a social graph, and social media sharing. Friendster had received its first patent back in 2006, when it was already on the decline.
Basically, all the things people do to communicate to one another online, including "friending" others, could all be owned by Facebook. While this may not mean much to average users, it means a lot more to any company who would like to compete with Facebook. The latest application is based on "a degree of separation between the first user and each second user within a social-networking system," or similar to friending, according to BNET.
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How could any new company hope to compete with Facebook if online social interactions are patented? Any new company couldn't, which means Facebook would corner the whole social network market until it expires.
That's not great news for the average person unless s/he believes that Facebook has it right and its social network could never be improved upon. But if one believes there's some innovator or creator out there who might have something better, Facebook lawyer goons could crush that start-up easily.


text: UN peacekeepers have been criticised for not responding to the rape attacks until ten days after they began [AFP] UN troops failed 242 women and children who suffered a mass rape attack in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a top UN peacekeeping official has said. Congo hosts the largest and most costly UN peacekeeping mission in the world, but the mass rape attacks happened just 30km from a UN base some time between July 30 and August 3 in the North Kivu region. "Our actions were not adequate, resulting in the unacceptable brutalisation of villages in the area," Atul Khare, the under-secretary general for peacekeeping operations, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday. He said that government of the DRC holds the primary responsibility for security in the area, but acknowledged that "Clearly, we have also failed". The area was reportedly over-run by rebels from neighbouring Rwanda and Congolese Mai Mai militia. Rape warning On July 30, the day the rapes began, the UN mission in North Kivu apparently received an e-mail warning that rebels had moved into the town and one woman had been raped there. But the UN did not report it until ten days later. Al Jazeera's Cath Turner, reporting from the UN in New York, said the response of peacekeeping forces was "the biggest contention in this whole controversy". Our correspondent said Khare wants to see peacekeepers doing "more spot patrols, more random patrols and more night patrols" in an attempt to prevent further attacks. Khare also wants to improve communications in the area as "there is next to no mobile phone coverage. The UN wants to put in signal towers ... so it can better communicate with the troops there" in addition to improving early warning systems, our correspondent said. Broad statement Margaret Wallstrom, the UN special representative on the prevention of sexual violence in conflict, told the Security Council that some of the women were gang raped by up to five or six men and many were rounded up. In terms of finding the perpetrators, our correspondent said there was a broad statement about bringing "them to justice". "A commission was formed, but there is no date set for when they will go to the DRC," she said, noting that the UN is frequently criticised for talking a lot but not taking action. "There is a kind of sense here that something has to be done. We are just going to have to see how that red tape and bureaucracy takes it forward," our correspondent. SOURCE: Al Jazeera and agencies Politics Africa Congo Republic Rwanda


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Originally Posted: September 4, 2012
FROM Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN)
Demand that Harvard Medical School receive the largest fine possible under the Animal Welfare Act for the negligence which has killed multiple monkeys. Primates at Harvard have died of dehydration, traumatic injuries, and following medical procedures.
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Harvard Medical School is cited for mistreatment of lab animals
By Patrick Cole, WashangtonPost.com, Monday, September 3, 2012
In less than two years, four monkeys have died in labs at Harvard Medical School, including one that was left in a cage as the cage went through a mechanical washer. The most recent death occurred this spring, when a cotton-top tamarin monkey died of thirst for lack of a water bottle.
In addition, 41 deer mice died in April at a Harvard facility after their
water source was cut off.
The Department of Agriculture has given the medical school an official warning for violating the U.S. Animal Welfare Act.
"When you see multiple incidents at the same facility over a period of time, that's when you realize that this is indicative of a system-wide problem," said Michael Budkie, executive director of Stop Animal Exploitation Now!
Harvard University made the nonprofit group's top-10 list of animal-welfare violators for the first half of 2012, along with Harvard Medical School. The two institutions have separate licenses from the USDA to use animals for research and testing.
The Animal Welfare Act, enforced by the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or APHIS, requires labs to handle research animals as carefully as possible to prevent trauma, overheating, physical harm, behavioral stress or unnecessary discomfort.
APHIS also is investigating the death of five monkeys at the Harvard-affiliated New England Primate Research Center, said USDA spokesman David Sacks. The center's interim director, Frederick Wang, stepped down in March after the death of the tamarin monkey.
In March, Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier ordered an independent review panel to evaluate the management and care of animals used in experiments. The panel's recommendations included the appointment of a veterinarian and biosafety officer to oversee the primate center and the development of "new approaches" to its oversight process.
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Lavamachine posted a topic in 3D Story Challenge #1Hi, I have painted this 3d art in virtual reality together with another VR artist (Piers Goffart) from LAVAMACHINE. Since we are totally new to Unity + FIGURAMA I wanted to use this challenge to learn both. I also want to check out if it is possible for Figurama to handle the file size of VR painting meshes and to learn how I can create a good experience from these. . ... I know I can't handle to paint an entire animation within the short time left. .... so the only animation you will notice is water particles and some light flickering. If thats not enough for the challenge then so be it. Grek already helped a lot (thanks) "Moby Dick" is entirely painted in VR with tiltbrush. Our approach at LAVAMACHINE is always "story is king" so I chosed this scene because it is meant to tell a story, based on Ahab's journey. Perfekt for subtiteling. Hope you like it. Have fun!


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MOUNT PLEASANT, MI -- Taking its cue from TV's "The Biggest Loser," a Central Michigan University residence hall complex began a "Battle of the Shrinking Halls" contest this week to determine which hall can lose the highest percentage of weight in a five-week period.
All residents of the Towers complex and its employees are eligible for the contest, which runs through Feb. 29, according to Central Michigan Life.
"We're all just trying to start off with a clean slate, with a brand new year to motivate each other and move together," university recreation graduate assistant Chris J.L. Dillon told the student newspaper.
Participants must weigh in each Monday during the competition in the Towers Fitness Center to receive credit. The amount of pounds lost will be added up weekly, with the weight-loss percentage sent to each hall, the newspaper reported.
All participants will receive a towel with the contest logo on it as well as a pedometer. The winning hall competitors will receive free T-shirts with the logo on it, a plaque for the hall and a party.


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