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In the early years of World War II, Allied leadership was in a desperate struggle to match Nazi Germany's political and military command.
In May and June of 1940 the attacking Germans had a supreme authority, Hitler, and an army that—if skeptical, even in places traitorous—was subdued and followed orders with astonishing competence. The Allied leadership who faced this tested and, in Poland, victorious combination of political leader and masterful military could not muster a winning one of their own.
Gamelin served as Joffre's Chief of Staff during the First Battle of the Marne. He then successively commanded in combat a brigade, a division, and a corps. In the 1920s he pacified the Druze tribes of the Middle East. In 1931 he was named Chief of Staff of the French Army, and four years later was appointed Commander-in-Chief-Designate (in the event of war) upon the retirement of General Maxime Weygand from that post.
During 1939-1940 Gamelin's title was Chief of Staff of National Defense and C-in-C Land Forces. Under him was his C-in-C Northeast Front, General Joseph Georges (1875-1951), with whom Gamelin didn't get along particularly well. In effect, Gamelin was the Generalissimo of an unwieldy structure that included neither the Air Force of General Joseph Vuillemin nor the Navy of Admiral Jean Darlan.
Politically, the structure was also muddied. Premier Paul Reynaud—who headed the civilian government from March 21 to June 16, 1940—had as a Minister of War a political rival, Edouard Daladier (1884-1970), whom he had succeeded as premier. It did not augur well for harmonious work once the German attack began.
The same was true of the British political situation in London's War Cabinet. Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) had been British Prime Minister for three years beginning in May 1937, and left office on the day of the German offensive in the West, May 10, 1940. The monarch and head of state—King George VI—wanted to appoint as his successor Lord Halifax (the former Edward Wood, 1881-1959), with Chamberlain's approval.
"But," according to author M.R.D. Foot, "[Halifax] refused the post: he was no military strategist and probably calculated he could restrain the impulsive Winston Churchill better by serving under him [and] was a self-confessed anti-Semite." Thus it came to pass that the man whom both Chamberlain and Halifax had opposed politically for a decade left his post as First Lord of the Admiralty in the War Cabinet to become Prime Minister.
Churchill inherited a murky military command. The reigning Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) was "Tiny": General Sir William Edmund Ironside (1880-1959), who was also anti-Semitic, 60, a Scot, and a gifted linguist (he taught himself Arabic while recovering from an airplane accident).
Commissioned an artillery officer, Ironside was in the South African War and later served as a spy in German Southwest Africa before World War I. During the war he was a staff officer with the Canadians until, in 1916, he became commanding officer of the British Army's Machine Gun Corps, then commanded the 99th Infantry Brigade in September 1918. He led the Allied Expeditionary Force (AEF) at Archangel, Russia, during 1918-1919, and then served on the Sea of Marmara and in Persia.
Despite feeling that he was incompetent as CIGS, Ironside had foresight. He toured Poland in July 1939 and predicted that Poland would quickly be overrun by Germany, that accordingly there would be no Eastern Front there, and that France would not attack the German West Wall (called the "Siegfried Line" by the Allies). He also urged a military alliance with the very Russian Communists whom he hated.
Ironside wanted an eventual BEF of 20 divisions, twice what was actually in place on May 10, 1940. He correctly guessed that Hitler wanted to attack in the autumn of 1939 (bad weather and stubborn generals putting him off). Ironside's fatal miscalculation as CIGS was that he took for granted that France was secure.
Ironside's boss, Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha (whom Ironside called "The Jew") thought the coming struggle would be fought not in France at all, but in war-torn Spain, where the rival factions of both left and right, Communist and Fascist, were even then engaged.
When the formation of the BEF was announced on September 3—the day the Allies declared war—the French wanted as its leader Sir John Dill (1881-1944). Much to everyone's surprise, they got John Vereck, Lord Gort (1886-1946), the man whom Ironside had succeeded as CIGS and whom both he (and virtually everyone else) thought was out of his depth in the top spot in London.
Gort had been commissioned from Sandhurst in the prestigious Grenadier Guards, and in World War I had been awarded the Distinguished Service Order as well as having been mentioned in dispatches eight times. Between the wars he served in China and India. Although promoted to lieutenant general by Hore-Belisha, he fell afoul of his boss, who sent him to France to run the BEF out of spite.
Nicknamed "Jack" and "Fat Boy," Gort nonetheless held the coveted Victoria Cross, but was too obsessed with detail and not concerned enough with the big picture. Considered ideal to command a division-sized unit in combat, Gort failed to prepare the British Army for modern, mechanized, armored warfare, didn't believe in air-ground coordination, and—though a faithful ally to the French—for these reasons was the least likely choice to command the BEF.
Once the shooting started, Gort's chief accomplishment was to briefly stop the Waffen SS and Rommel's 7th Panzer Division on May 21 at Arras, and then effect the "Miracle of Dunkirk" that saved the British Army. He later commanded the Home Guard, Gibraltar, and Malta. He, Ironside, and Dill were all eventually promoted to Field Marshal.
Tags Allied Expeditionary Force, Charles de Gaulle, Dunkirk, Eastern Front, First Battle of the Marne, King George VI, Neville Chamberlain, William Edmund Ironside, Winston Churchill.


**The WR Library is looking for 8 volunteers to help with Family Reading Night on Thursday, November 19th from 5:30-8 PM. There is a sign up sheet in the Attendance Center.
**The Fall 2015 Sports Awards Night will be this Thursday, November 12, beginning at 5:30pm in the auditorium. Parents are invited to attend.


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THERE'S a weekend of free family fun planned for August 6-7 as Urban Exchange retail park in Piccadilly Basin off Great Ancoats Street become Wonderland for a day.
On Saturday August 6, an all-day Mad Hatter's tea party will take place from 10am – 4pm. The covered plaza in front of the retail scheme will be transformed into an Alice in Wonderland themed children's party. Alice, the White Rabbit and Mad Hatter will be on hand to entertain youngsters with balloon modelling and card tricks.
A face painter also will be on-hand to create Alice in Wonderland characters including the Dormouse, White Rabbit and Cheshire Cat faces. As it's always time for tea, cupcakes and drinks will be available for children all day (subject to availability). There will be three hours free parking in front of the stores too.
On Sunday August 7, as more than 20,000 cyclists make their way through Manchester city centre, Urban Exchange is offering a Park'n'Ride with free all-day parking on the Port Street car park.
Located just across the canal footbridge from Urban Exchange, free parking will be available (on a first come first served basis) for anyone travelling into Manchester by car with their bikes.
From 9.30am – 4pm there will be free bike advice courtesy of Go Outdoors, spinning exercise taster sessions in association with Pure Gym and a pedal-powered smoothie maker. A cycle circus entertainer will also be on hand to entertain visitors and there will be complimentary cyclist energy snack packs (subject to availability).


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For nearly 30 years, the Poly Girls' Basketball team has been a paragon of success under New York State Hall of Fame Head Coach Mike Junsch '71, P'94, '95. During that time, the Blue Devils have collected 14 Ivy Prep League championships, six NYSAIS championships, and 500 overall wins. Among its top players, Chinyere Vann '96, who holds the girls' team single-game record of 55 points, went on to star at Fordham University, and our all-time leading scorer Shanniah Wright '18 joined the program at Georgetown University. Coach Junsch teaches unselfish team play, high basketball IQ, and a focus on fundamentals.
Can't make it courtside? Families and friends can stream Blue Devil basketball action via Locallive.tv and On-Demand video.
Girls' Basketball Highlights
1992 Has qualified for the NYSAIS Tournament every year since the tournament's inception in 1992
14 Ivy Prep League Championships
#6 Coach Junsch is # 6 all-time Girls' wins in New York State
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Michael Junsch '71, P'94, '95
Business Phone: (718) 836-9800 ext. 3420
Education: Springfield College, BS, Brooklyn College, MS
A member of the Poly Class of 1971, where he was a three-sport captain, Junsch returned after graduating from Springfield College to spend the duration of his professional career at his alma mater. His initial forays into coaching lacrosse and soccer gave way to head coaching positions of both boys' and girls' basketball. He also remains the school's resident martial arts expert as a 10th-degree black belt in jiu jitsu. Over more than four decades on the sidelines, Junsch has guided Poly girls' and boys' basketball to 18 Ivy Prep League and 6 NYSAIS championships and compiled more than 700 wins across both programs. His accomplishments have led to Private School Coach of the Year honors from the New York Post, the Daily News, and New York Newsday, as well as induction into the Basketball Old-Timers of America Hall of Fame and the Basketball Coaches Association of New York Hall of Fame. "I believe that success is not determined by where my players are now, but where they will be 10 years after college," he says. Coach Junsch's players have gone on to compete at the Division I, II, and III level including Georgetown, Fordham, Bucknell, Colgate, Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, Bentley, and Franklin & Marshall.
Over 700 career wins in boys' and girls' Poly Prep Basketball
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Poly's basketball players practice and compete in the Legacy Gymnasium. Learn more about Poly Prep's Facilities.
Brianna Nurse '20
"Poly supports me tremendously because they give me the resources to take advantage of every opportunity. I learned how to balance my time for academics and athletics. On the court and across campus, you see that Poly students are determined and willing to put in the extra work for what they want to achieve."
Shanniah Wright '18
An ESPN Top 100 player, Shanniah scored more than 2000 points—a basketball school record—during her career at Poly before signing to play for Georgetown University. She was a two-time MVP at Poly and named three times to the Basketball Coaches Association of New York's Private School First Team All State. Shanniah also served as Spirit Captain on the Student Government, shone as a spoken word artist, and sang in Concert Choir.
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A depositor protection scheme protects investors' capital in the event of insolvency. This provides a guarantee for investors that they will receive the money protected by the depositor protection scheme if their bank becomes insolvent.
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If you invest in companies via a fund such as an ETF, the dividends are paid to the fund provider. The provider can either pay out the dividends or reinvest them in fund units, with the result that dividend payment is reflected in the value of the fund. This type of fund is also known as an accumulating fund.
ETF stands for exchange-traded fund, i.e. an investment fund traded on the stock exchange that generally tracks an index (such as the SMI for Swiss equities).
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Passive strategies have lower costs, and many studies show that fund managers rarely manage to beat the benchmark index over an extended period of time (after costs and adjusted for risks). The average product costs for ETFs are around 0.25%, whereas actively managed funds can easily cost 1.50% per year or more.
When it comes to investing, fees are extremely important as they directly reduce the profit on the investment. It is much easier to increase the return with lower costs than it is to do so by improving the selection of investment instruments. The most important and highest costs arise from the management fee (administration fee), performance fee, bank charges, product fees and retrocessions (including indirect costs). It is therefore essential to consider all fees when investing your money.
Hedge funds are funds which are subject to less stringent legal or other restrictions. The primary reason they are purchased is because they promise higher returns, but this also means that they involve higher risks.
High-frequency trading is a form of trading carried out by computers. The strategy is to invest for a very short time (usually just a few seconds) with the aim of generating an above-average return. An algorithm reacts to various market developments in order to take advantage of short-term market movements and distortions.
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Passive investing involves buying low-cost (index) funds which track the performance of a market (index) very reliably. Due to its low costs in particular, passive investing enables investors to earn attractive returns for the same risk.
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Short for robotic advisor, robo advisors serve to digitise and automate the services of a traditional financial advisor. However, not only the advisory process but also the investment itself is completely digitised. An algorithm compiles an optimal investment portfolio and monitors it continually. If a portfolio stops performing in line with the investment strategy, the investments are automatically reallocated.
The Swiss Federal Tax Administration charges a tax known as stamp duty in Switzerland.
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L'històric Centre de Planificació Familiar, actualment Centre Jove de Salut Integral, és un edifici del municipi de Girona que forma part de l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya.

Història
Fins al maig del 2005, va estar funcionant com a Centre de Planificació Familiar. En aquell moment, els Centres d'Atenció Primària van assumir els serveis que es prestaven a l'edifici. Per decisió de l'Ajuntament de Girona, i amb el suport del Departament de Salut, l'equipament es va reconvertir en el seu ús actual, i es va decidir adreçar-lo als joves. Des del juny del 2005 l'edifici acull el Centre Jove de Salut Integral, el qual ofereix una atenció «integral i confidencial».

Descripció
És un edifici de planta rectangular, teulat a dues aigües i carener paral·lel a la façana. La façana és un porxo de 4 arcs de punt rodó de pedra polida. Es clou amb un ràfec treballat de motllures i de pedra polida. El segon arc per la dreta insinua la porta d'entrada a l'edifici, per dins el porxo, mercès a un escut borbònic a la clau de l'arc. Dins el porxo, remolinat, hi ha quatre obertures, coincidents amb els arcs. Són d'arc rebaixat i s'hi barregen finestres i portes. Fou restaurat sobre 1960-1970.

Referències

Patrimoni monumental de Girona
Edificis de Girona

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Guests Kevin Smith, Colin Hanks, Heidi Androl and Dave Joseph joined us for the January 25, 2014 edition of West Coast Bias on NHL Network Radio.
Jonathan Davis and I were live from Dodger Stadium to provide all the post-game action following the Kings v Ducks outdoor game at Chavez Ravine.
Guests Mike Goldberg, Kevin Kurz, Sarah McLellan, Isaiah Mustafa and Chris Peters joined us for the December 22, 2013 edition of West Coast Bias on NHL Network Radio.
West Coast Bias on NHL Radio with Greg Hetson, Josh Brewster and Adrian Dater.
We were live again on NHL Network Radio Sunday night and we had plenty of surprises in store for our listeners.
Ten men have come before him and only one has been successful at beating UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre in a title fight – leaving the man known as GSP to be considered by many as the greatest mixed martial artist of all-time.
Zombies are invading Brazil tonight, namely a Korean Zombie in the form of one Chan Sung Jung. He'll be challenging Jose Aldo, the UFC's featherweight champion.
Hey, not sure if you've heard yet, but hockey is back!
Heavy Metal and hockey, they go together like – well, everything and hockey!
Robert Hight is used to going 320 miles per hour in about four seconds.
Yet, prior to kicking off the NHRA's season finale in Pomona this weekend, he stopped by the Ontario Reign game Wednesday night to drop the first puck and take a lap around the rink on a Zamboni.


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OpenAI launches Universe training platform
Tags: #artificial-intelligence #deep-learning #machine-intelligence #openai-universe #vnc
Companies: #facebook #openai #tesla
The Tesla-backed OpenAI group has announced the launch of Universe, a new software platform designed to allow artificial intelligences to be trained against any software - including games.
OpenAI's Universe builds on the Gym toolkit the group launched back in April, and extends its capabilities by allowing AI agents to interact with software the same way a human would: viewing images on a display and submitting keyboard and mouse inputs to control the on-screen action. Unlike previous attempts at the same task, though, Universe offers full compatibility with no need to modify the underlying software: instead, packages are launched behind a VNC remote desktop environment, which is then accessed by the AI agent.
'Our goal is to develop a single AI agent that can flexibly apply its past experience on Universe environments to quickly master unfamiliar, difficult environments, which would be a major step towards general intelligence,' the OpenAI group claimed in its blog post announcing Universe's public availability this morning.
The library of software available to Universe is, thanks to a number of publisher partnerships, impressive: Users can spin up environments ranging from games running on an emulated Atari 2600 to more modern browser-based flash games, in-browser tasks like Kahn Academy lessons and Amazon Mechanical Turk jobs, and even mainstream PC games like Portal, Shovel Knight, Wing Commander III, Mirror's Edge, and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. In each case, the AI agent learns the game in the same way a human would: by making observations about the on-screen activity, submitting inputs, and working towards a reward or other goal.
'Systems with general problem solving ability — something akin to human common sense, allowing an agent to rapidly solve a new hard task — remain out of reach,' explained the OpenAI group of the thinking behind the Universe project. 'One apparent challenge is that our agents don't carry their experience along with them to new tasks. In a standard training regime, we initialise agents from scratch and let them twitch randomly through tens of millions of trials as they learn to repeat actions that happen to lead to rewarding outcomes. If we are to make progress towards generally intelligent agents, we must allow them to experience a wide repertoire of tasks so they can develop world knowledge and problem solving strategies that can be efficiently reused in a new task.'
The Universe project is publicly accessible through the official OpenAI website.
Microsoft invests £800m in OpenAI
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Author Topic: Chris' Build of a Lombard Hauler Engine (Read 288985 times)
crueby
Re: Chris' Build of a Lombard Hauler Engine
Quote from: Captain Jerry on October 23, 2016, 04:21:10 AM
Wow! This is going to be a great show. I am happy to see you undertake the undercarriage parts yourself. Just one track frame with sprockets and tracks would be a challenge for anyone. You will surely produce a great model.
Tracks are an area of special interest to me since I spent a fair part of my life in the construction equipment industry, mostly involved with surface mining machines. The biggest Caterpillar and Komatsu dozers are used in strip mining and the details of track maintenance and repair constitute a a major share of the operating expense for these huge machines. Draglines and power shovels are also track mounted but they move material by swinging a long boom rather that pushing it around, track wear is less of an expense factor.
Lombard's early track design was much more like today's dragline or shovel tracks than they are like modern buldozers. The track pads or plates of today's dozers do not incorporate a pivot pin. They are bolted to links which are pinned together to form the track chain. Lombard's later machines used this link structure but his original machines used pinned pads as you have shown.
There are some details of these pads that do not show up in your plan but may be critical in keeping the track in alignment under the machine. These details can be seen in some of the photos and on other views of the manual. I am talking about the four bars on the inside surface of the pad which form guide channels for the track rollers. These are visible on view 81M of the pad. There is also a large lug in the center that is engaged by the deep groove on the sprockets (#77 and 76 Lags on the manual page). The shallow groove in the sprocket engages the roll #89 which is on the pivot pin but the deep groove engages the lug which is located on the narrow part of the pad in the center.
For a lightly loaded model, you can probably ignore the lug but I think that the guide channels may be important. It will need a thicker plate to start with the channels milled back to your working dimension. I am pretty sure that the originals were cast. You will still want the deep grove in the sprocket to avoid contact with the shoe. I can't help using current terminology for these track parts. Today, we say pads or shoes instead of lags.
Hi Jerry,
I had seen the guide channels on the inside of the pads in the photos on the museum site, but didn't know what they were for. Makes sense that they helped keep things aligned with the roller chain. It should be possible to mill them in though. There is enough thickness of the plate to do a shallow ridge there. Do you think that it will make much difference in a track that is only 5" long? That lug on the inside of the center post may not be as easy to do, may be able to do it with a ball end mill, have to experiment with that. Thanks for the information, this is my first attempt at making anything with tracks so it is all new to me!
Captain Jerry
Summerfield, FL USA
Chris - I don't know that length makes much difference. There are a lot of pin to pad holes that must be loose enough for the track to flex and it will flex right and left as well as around the sprockets. I see a real challenge in drilling those pivot holes in the pads
The lug doesn't do much for track alignment but the guide chanels may be critical. It is not unusual for a modern dozer to run out of a track if the track is not well maintained and adjusted. Wear of the pivot pins and bushings causes the track to get longer but wear of the sprocket causes it to get smaller and eventually, the difference in pitch will let the sprocket climb out of the track. This usually happens in a turn where there is a lot of side force.
You will not likely get enough wear to make a difference but unless you have enough clearance in the pivot pin holes, the track may be too stiff. The Lombard does not have a very tight turning radius and unlike modern dozers, it has a differential to equalize some of the forces. If you run it on grass or snow there may not be much side force and you can run it with skis instead of wheels.
There are thing that you can do and some things you can't do.
Don't worry about it. try it anyway.
Quote from: Captain Jerry on October 23, 2016, 02:30:36 PM
Good info, thanks! I can see where the side loads on dozers can be much higher, especially when running one forward and one back, which the Lombard can't do, but still will be forces like that. It sounds like it would be a good idea to make up a few sections to test before making mass quantities of them.
Chris - Big dozers don't have the ability to counter rotate. That is only on the smaller machines using hydrostatic drives. Big dozers with mechanical drive have a clutch and a brake for each track. For a short turn, one track is locked by releasing the clutch and applying the brake. The other track can run forward or reverse to swing the machine. There were two big dozers that could counter rotate but I don't think it was used often. The Euclid dozer had two separate engines and drive trains that could operate independently and the Komatsu 455 had one engine but two independent transmissions, one for each track. Of course things may have changed a bit in the past twenty years. John Deere has been using hydraulic transmissions in bigger machines but they don't compete in the biggest class of dozers.
It never hurts to make a few test pieces to see where the sticky parts are.
Never knew that about the dozers. Can tell you have spent a bit of time with the big machines - sounds like you need to model one...
That's a fine challenge you have set for yourself I will be following along
One of this type of log hauler was featured in the German 'Maschinen in Modellbau' magazine a little while ago.
Quote from: Roger B on October 23, 2016, 07:26:04 PM
I was looking at their site for it, looks like a nice magazine. Do you know what issue it was? I looked in their archive but did not see it.
I have found old articles in the 1975/76 issues of Live Steam magazine, some good history mixed in there.
UPDATE: Found the article, it is in the March 2016 issue. It is actually about the Phoenix Hauler version. Lombard licensed the patents to another builder, who made the Phoenix version for a number of years. They were slightly different - they used a pair of vertical cylinders per side, looking more like a Shay engine, and the steering linkage angled back rather than straight down. Also the tracks were a little different, being a shaft/gear drive rather than the drive chain from the differential, and the roller chain took a different route. Same basic ideas, implemented a little differently. Now, if some one of you were to build a Phoenix at the same scale, we could have some nice races between them....
Thanks for the tip to the magazine, have to brush up on my German skills...
« Last Edit: October 23, 2016, 08:19:51 PM by crueby »
Started in on the track plates, couple short sessions with the recip saw and got all the blanks cut to rough length, leaving a bit to square them up and trim them to exact length, making a good bin full:
Then started in on the mill, first I took a light pass on one end to square up the rough cut end. This went pretty quick - clamp in, back/forth on the table, stop motor and swap out for the next one, repeat for an hour...
That left the parts bin full of plates with one end done, then took a few minutes to take one down to exact length, and zeroed the handwheel at that position. Now, should be able to trim the rest in fairly short order, just need to make sure that no chips get in the slot when changing parts.
Here is how the plates will fit into the jig for working on the sides, using the wider section of the recess in the top of the jig:
When I get to cutting the 'fingers' at the edge, I will first make slightly wider slots in the top surface of the jig so the end mill can project through the part a little and does not rub on the jig.
« Last Edit: May 31, 2018, 08:10:30 PM by crueby »
Captain Jerry - Was taking another look through the piles and piles of photos they have up on the logging museum site, and found the picture set that shows the ridges you were describing on the inside of the tracks to hold the rollers from the lower chain in place:
https://get.google.com/albumarchive/111959800036861918331/album/AF1QipNNXIOUWoS_f5aig9hyvnSdLkBsJImiUwNzdagu
I will definitely get that detail in on mine - thanks!!
I still have lots of the albums from their restoration to sort through, it will be a constant process through this build I am sure. For those who are interested, here is the link to all the album sets they have from the students helping the restoration, tons of great details:
https://get.google.com/albumarchive/111959800036861918331
I am sure that you will be happy that you are including the guide channels. You didn't have to go that far to see them. They are clear enough in your first post on this thread in the photo with the rollers. That photo also shows the drive lug. That roller system is a very nice feature and though not used on later track designs looks like it would be very efficient. It brings to mind the recirculating bals in a linear bearing system.
By the way, that same photo is also the only one that I have found that clearly shows that there are two roller chains on each track frame, four in all. I was almost sure that there had to be but it took me more than a few looks at that picture before I spotted the inside rollers and chain, peeking through the spokes of the sprocket.
I had wondered early on about whether there was a roller chain on both sides of each track too, saw both in some of the photos and videos they have of the underside of the frames. It was interesting to see how different the Phoenix hauler track system is too, lots of changes there. I gotta make a trip up to the museum in Maine sometime...
Steamer5
The "Naki" New Zealand
oh and more , plus or two to wash it down with all sorted!
You don't let the grass grow under your feet! Once you get this finished any grass left growing at your place is going to be under threat!
Question for you..... How come you are not building a full loco style boiler, ie multi tubes but only a fire tube?
Cheers Kerrin
Get excited and make something!
kvom
For display at shows, hopefully you'll be able to raise the model so that the tracks can be seen moving in place.
Quote from: Steamer5 on October 24, 2016, 05:02:49 AM
The boiler burner is going to be one from a Gauge 1 supplier, as will the butane tank. I have that setup in a couple of locos, nice and simple both to build and to run. The original was fired on coal or wood, but for easy running, plus ability to run indoors at events, butane is a much better choice. The outside of the firebox will be shaped to look like the original but inside there will be the single burner into one larger firetube.
RonGinger
Boothbay Maine USA
In the 'Small World' vein, you found that some work was done at the University of Maine on the restoration. Brian Barker, who now owns the Mach3 CNC software business was at the U then and made the cylinder, Piston and rod, and some track rollers. I just told him about your project and he is interested. Why dont you come out to Maine for a few days, we can visit the museum and Brians shop.


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Covering Your Tracks – Do you have something to Hide?
This week we are running a series of articles written by Professor William Buchanan of Napier University. He takes a look at serious crime in the cyber world. This first article introduces 'vishing' the act of using the telephone to scam and cites the case of Glasgow based Feezan Hameed who was recently jailed for 11 years.
In a world of Microsoft Windows, the job of the digital forensics investigator has been relatively easy, and where the operating system and applications leave lots of fragments of evidence. These were then relatively easy to piece together, and build up a timeline activity. We too leave traces of evidence all over the Internet, such as in chat logs, location tracking traces, Web accesses, and so on. But in a world where serious crime can generate millions in funds, criminals and terrorist are becoming a whole lot smarter in covering their tracks. So while you continue to be tracked by a whole range of things, including your ISP monitoring your network activity, the criminals often find ways of not leaving traces of their activities.
Burn phones
While many people think that phishing emails is one of greatest risks for fraud, it is vishing - the act of using the telephone to scam - that can have the greatest impact in terms of fraud. Many people, still, will give away the login details over the phone, if they think they are talking to a trusted person.
Recently, Glasgow-based Feezan Hameed, also known as Feezan Choudhary (see the image with this article), was jailed for 11 years, and is thought to have made over £113m by scamming companies through a telephone scam. He then used the money to purchase supercars, mansions and expensive holidays. As a cover, Feezan, also known as 'King', pretended that he was a music producer and who owned a Bentley, a Rolls-Royce, a Lamborghini and two Porsches.
His crime was that he defrauded over 750 UK firms, at a rate of around £3million every month. It criminal activity involved gaining information on bank accounts from insiders within banks, and then using this information to cold-call companies and telling them they had been hacked by someone called 'King' from Aberdeen. Once he had their trust, we then proceeded to ask for the bank details (including their log-in name and password).
Within hours he managed to syphon off funds from their accounts, while jamming their telephone network with fake calls, in order that they did not get messages from their bank. So that the calls could not be traced, the gang used 'burner' mobile phones (which are often used by terrorists and criminals), which, once activated, were ditched after one day. The usage of proxies and Skype could have covered his tracks, but the usage of a proxy can often show up on call records, so the burn method allowed Choudhary to work for years without being traced.
He also paid insiders in the banks, such as Amy and Emma Daramola and who were Lloyds customer service assistants. Initially they asked for £50 for each record, but increased this to £250, in order to fund their desire to new clothes.
Most people these days can spot the e-mail scams. We need to get to the same level of awareness with our phones. A telephone is not always our friend.
Our Something to Hide series continues tomorrow with a look at encryption - it can be used for 'good' and 'bad'. Whilst we aim to protect the rights of privacy for individuals, the same methods can be used by criminals to hide their tracks.
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Focus on B2C vs. B2B: Social and mobile have an impact on both B2B and B2C, however the greater impact is on how organizations engage with external constituents, customers or citizens, vs. internal constituents, partners or employees.
Lean product development: Build. Measure. Learn. When you are building a product for the consumer, its best to build lean and iterate vs. to build bulky and pray.
Centrality of UX: If you cannot impress a consumer in the first 30-60 seconds of interaction with a new mobile app, then you might have lost them forever. In this new world UX is king.
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What Should You Do When You Fail at Quitting Your Job?
Note from Caleb: I've been hard at work for the upcoming launch of Make It Rain (just a week away!), so I've asked a few really interesting people to share their journeys into the world of entrepreneurship and self-reliance. I hope you've been enjoying them. I have some other great ones coming up as well. Today's cubicle renegade escape story is from Melissa Anzman.
I joke that I am a failed quitter. The first time I went from cubicle dweller to business owner, it didn't stick. So, I have had to leave the corporate world twice before I had enough knowledge and experience to sustain an actual business. For me, giving up was never an option, it was just a matter of figuring it out.
I knew early on in my career that Corporate America was not for me. I started climbing the ladder with the intent of getting out as soon as possible, but along the way I got wrapped up in the money, my title and the stability of a steady paycheck. So I kept on climbing until I just about snapped.
Instead of losing my marbles officially, I planned my first exit strategy… which varied greatly from my second time around.
I had been known to take career risks along the way, but I was finally ready to throw the corporate world firmly behind me following a near-meltdown in July. I was on a bonus-contract through the end of the year, which provided me with a solid deadline – I could not leave the company before then without owing them a lot of money, so instead, I used that date as my "get free" deadline. With six months to plan in advance, I went about creating my exit strategy, focusing on all of the wrong things.
My main goal was to save as much money as possible – putting my high-salary to good use and cutting down on my miscellaneous spending. I had an arbitrary number in mind of having $40,000 saved in liquid savings to cover my costs and any unforeseen emergencies for the transition I planned.
That was literally my ONLY plan – I did not have anything else figured out: where I would live, what I would do, what my own business would actually be, how I would earn income, what my freedom would actually be like.
My mindset was that I wanted to be my own boss and if it didn't work out, I could always land another corporate job.
And that is where it all went wrong. Every morning I would sit at my computer and spent hours pondering what my business was going to be and different ways to earn income. I even launched a website, the first that I fully designed, but never went all in and didn't make a single sale. I was so busy being stuck in analysis paralysis that I ended up having to get another job to pay my bills (note: I did not spend all of my savings, but I started to get nervous and bored).
So I transitioned back into Corporate America.
The first day back in the office, was soul-crushing.
It was worse than anything I ever felt before – I knew I wasted an amazing opportunity to follow my dream… because I never figured out what my dream was. So back to work I went, but I did it strategically. I accepted a "bridge job" position so I could earn a steady income, but also have the time and mental capacity to build my own business. And I put myself on notice – I had a new deadline, but I made sure I applied the lessons I learned the first time around.
My new plan to quit was structured. I had a quit date; a money saved amount ($10,000 this time around); and business milestones.
I was not allowed to leave my corporate job until I had a fully functioning business that was earning income (I had a specific income target, number of clients, and number of website visitors). And with it, I removed the final safety net – when I quit this time, it would be for good.
There would be no "going back to a corporate job" should my own business not work. It had to work.
Leaving the safety and security of a corporate job is not easy and cannot be learned. I was constantly searching online for ways that other people made it work. The steps that they followed to lead me straight to success. I tried to find a secret hidden formula. I finally realized that it was different for everyone. I never thought I valued the security that a corporate job had, but that was one of the hardest things for me to part with when I ventured out on my own. The work schedule, responsibility of covering everything, the lack of constant interaction – all things I enjoy now, but they were difficult to adjust to during the transition.
Having a viable plan in place is key. I was asked by a fellow entrepreneur who promised some advice (it never did come by the way), to review my business plan. Uh, I didn't have one. And while it has only been referred to a few times since launching my business, the process of creating a plan and thinking through the plan, was critical to my success. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail" – great advice… I wish it didn't take me so long to apply it!
Money saved does not equal success. There isn't an exact number that will ensure you can pay your bills. I had a magic number in my mind of what would help me be successful, and it didn't matter. It is not about the money saved or the cushion you have – it is about the viability of your business and ideas. And if you are like me, the less money you have, the more creative you get – so the pressure has helped my business become successful more quickly.
Take the comfort of stability to tweak your business and idea, without the income pressure. Being able to test your ideas out before you are counting on them to sustain you, is ideal. It allows you to figure out what you like and dislike, and work on your funnel and strategy without taking huge income hits. Having a side hustle is a pain, but the outcome is worth all of the juggling.
Clearly knowing what makes you tick, will drive your success. When you know what motivates you, particularly when it comes to work, it is much easier to build your business to support your motivating factors. For me, being on my own was more about freedom than income – so not making as much money (yet) as my corporate job, is easy for me to live with. Getting to the root of your motivation will help sustain you when you do finally make the leap – you will have a constant reminder of WHY you are on the path you are on.
Am I glad I had to quit twice? Absolutely.
It was a hard road, and it is embarrassing at times, but I learned more about myself during my first "sabbatical". Through those lessons I have since created a sustainable business (or two), and truly understand what it takes to be my own boss.


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Nautilus cookanum — вид вымерших головоногих моллюсков из отряда Nautilida. Он жил в эпоху эоцена. Nautilus cookanum помещен в род Nautilus вместе с ныне существующими видами на основе сходства в строении их раковин. Окаменелости этого вида из Hoko River Formation позднего эоцена отмечены как одни из двух древнейших находок этого рода.

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Вымершие головоногие
Фауна эоцена
Фоссилии из эоценовых отложений США
Фоссилии, описанные в 1892 году


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ANNA MEADOWS
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Anna Meadows started her career in advertising in London with Lowe Lintas before moving to Sydney in 2000 where she worked as Client Service Director at Lowe Hunt. She has worked with some of the world's largest advertisers (e.g. Nestlé, Unilever, MasterCard, CBA) in developing communications strategies for their many brands.
Anna has a wealth of consultancy experience advising a diverse range of companies including The Harry M Miller Group (Telstra Stadium naming rights, Big Brother), McCann Erickson, Jack Watts Currie (Yahoo) and Draft Worldwide in the areas of research, marketing and brand and communications strategy.
In her role as Director – Millward Brown Firefly Sydney, Anna had direct experience of devising and implementing large and ongoing qual and quant research projects for clients including HSBC, Coca Cola, L'Oreal, Diageo, Disney Channel and The Australian Wool Institute. Anna was awarded by the Millward Brown network for her work in providing seamless qual / quant solutions to Clients.
In 2010 Anna relocated to Singapore with her family and whilst in Singapore has worked with Firefly MB (formerly Millward Brown Firefly) as interim Head of Qualitative. Sycamore (Singapore) was formally established in 2012 with foundation Clients: The American Hardwood Export Council, Millward Brown Singapore, IPAF and Pacific Magazines. Anna is also a Unilever accredited research lead for marketing and technical insights and a regional mentor for Insight Asia.
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William Williams (1731 - 2 sierpnia 1811) –  delegat Kongresu Kontynentalnego ze stanu Connecticut, sygnatariusz Deklaracji Niepodległości Stanów Zjednoczonych.

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William Williams, urodził się w Lebanon, w stanie Connecticut; ukończył studia przygotowawcze; rok studiował teologię,  ukończył studia na Uniwersytecie Harvarda w 1751 r.; zajmował się kupiectwem; urzędnik miejski Lebanon w latach 1753 - 1796, członek ekspedycji wojskowej do Lake George w 1755 r.; członek Kongresu Kontynentalnego w latach 1776-1777; sędzia sądu okręgowego w Windham w latach 1776-1804; radny przez 24. lata; zmarł w Lebanon, w stanie Connecticut.

Bibliografia
 Williams William, Biograficzny Katalog Kongresu Stanów Zjednoczonych
 Stark, Bruce P. Connecticut Signer: William Williams, Chester, Conn.: Pequot Press, 1975.

Sygnatariusze Deklaracji niepodległości Stanów Zjednoczonych
Urodzeni w 1731
Zmarli w 1811


Scientific paper contribution: De-growth approach to the European chemicals management.
Abstract: The number of newly synthesized chemicals is continuously increasing, and many of these are now affecting ecosystems as well as human health. The overall objective of chemical risk assessments and management is to assess and contain the risks associated with the introduction of these chemicals. Evidence shows, however, that chemical assessments fail to live up to this objective. Assessments are currently a purely technical and science-based activity, which explicitly leave out an evaluation of how chemicals contribute to, or impede, long-term societal and environmental well-being. To address these shortcomings the paper explores if and how chemical assessments can evaluate risks against substantial values that go beyond pure technocratic evidences. The paper specifically highlights principles of de-growth as values that can orient and organize chemical risk assessments.


�����Purpose: To allow NCATE accredited colleges/universities to follow the NCATE schedule for their state site visits and to require non-NCATE accredited colleges/universities to have a state site visit very five years.
�����Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 180-78A-100.
����� Adopted under notice filed as WSR 04-24-072 on November 30, 2004.
�����Date Adopted: January 14, 2005.
WAC 180-78A-100 Existing approved programs. Chapter 180-78A WAC rules shall govern all policies related to programs upon adoption by the state board of education, which shall provide assistance to colleges and universities in the revision of their existing programs.
���� (1) All professional education programs shall be reviewed for approval under the 1997 program approval standards of chapter 180-78A WAC by August 31, 2000. Colleges and universities may permit individuals accepted into preparation programs on or before August 31, 2000, to obtain certification by meeting requirements of programs approved under approval standards described in chapter 180-78 WAC if the individuals complete the program on or before August 31, 2003, and the college or university verifies program completion to the superintendent of public instruction on or before December 31, 2003: Provided, That the state board of education or its designee may waive this deadline on a case-by-case basis.
���� (2) All principal/program administrator programs shall be reviewed for approval under the 2002 program approval standards of chapter 180-78A WAC by August 31, 2004. Colleges and universities may permit individuals accepted into principal/program administrator programs on or before August 31, 2004, to obtain certification by meeting requirements of programs approved under 1997 approval standards described in chapter 180-78A WAC if the individuals complete the program on or before August 31, 2006, and the college or university verifies program completion to the superintendent of public instruction on or before December 31, 2006. Provided, That the state board of education or its designee may waive this deadline on a case-by-case basis.
���� (3) All school counselor, school psychologist, or school social worker programs shall be approved under the 2004 program approval standards of chapter 180-78A WAC by August 31, 2005. Colleges and universities may permit individuals accepted into the school counselor, school psychologist, or school social worker programs on or before August 31, 2005, to obtain certification by meeting requirements of programs approved under the 1997 approval standards described in chapter 180-78A WAC if the individuals complete the program on or before August 31, 2007, and the college or university verifies program completion to the superintendent of public instruction on or before December 31, 2007. Provided that the state board of education or its designee may waive this deadline on a case-by-case basis.
���� (4) Institutions shall be given at least one year notification prior to a state board of education review for compliance with these standards: Provided, That if an institution requests a visit with less than a year's notice, the state board of education shall consider that request.
���� (5) The state board of education shall determine the schedule for such approval reviews and whether an on-site visit or other forms of documentation and validation shall be used for the purposes of granting approval under the 1997 program approval standards. In determining the schedule for site visits, the board shall take into consideration the partnership agreement between the state and the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) as such agreement relates to the NCATE accreditation cycle and allow NCATE accredited colleges/universities to follow the NCATE schedule for their state site visit. Non-NCATE accredited colleges/universities shall have a state approval site visit every five years. The state board of education may require more frequent site visits at their discretion pursuant to WAC 180-78A-110(2).
���� (6) Each institution shall submit its program for review when requested by the state board of education to ensure that the program meets the state's program approval standards and to provide assessment data relative to the performance standards to the state board of education for the year prior to the site visit.
���� (7) Institutions seeking National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs, and National Association of School Psychologist accreditation may request from the state board of education approval for concurrent site visits which would utilize the same documentation with the exception of material submitted by the institution to the state for the professional education advisory boards and the accountability standards.
���� (8) In submitting a request for approval under these standards, the approved program shall provide a description of the criteria that the program will use to assess, in multiple ways, over time, its certification candidates' knowledge and skills, including, where appropriate, evidence related to positive impact on student learning. Based on the documentation submitted and/or an on-site visit, the state board of education shall grant approval or request specific revisions that need to be made in order to obtain state board of education approval.


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Welcome to the website of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in Rome
The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in Rome سفارة الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية في روما is pleased to make this site a tool for daily contact between itself and members of the Mauritanian community.
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The Embassy hopes to provide through this website useful services to investors and people who need to visit the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, in particular to obtain a visa or need to know about the country and its regions, climate, companies, tourist and investment information. ➼
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On 10 December 2020, Her Excellency Ms Zeineb Ely Salem presented to the President of the Italian Republic her letter of credence in her capacity as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to the Italian Republic.
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ASCG launches in-house training programme
With a firm focus on upskilling its workforce, end-to-end supply chain experts, Advanced Supply Chain Group (ASCG) has launched an in-house training programme.
The programme kicked off with a week-long 'train the trainer' course which saw representatives from across the business receive their initial training. Each participant successfully completed this phase and is now prepared to undertake their roles as trainers.
The business is in the process of designing in-house courses for all levels and all departments which will be delivered by the new in-house trainers. These courses are being developed with a focus on delivering and driving the business' six core values – customer first, agility, respect, people, innovation and excellence.
This comes as part of a wider commitment to upskill employees which sees staff on outsourced training programmes including the ILM Leader & Management Qualification.
Group Head of ISO & Skills Excellence at ASCG, Sue Chapman said: "We are committed to investing in our people at all levels to provide a platform for career-long development. This training aims to equip our staff with the skills and knowledge to give them a long and prosperous careers with ASCG.
"Feedback so far has been brilliant and we hope that as the scheme is rolled out business-wide. The whole team benefit from an informative – and, hopefully enjoyable – learning process."
This news comes on the back of the business' launch of its inaugural graduate scheme which has seen four trainees begin a tailored programme across the finance, operations, commercial and transport departments.
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It's no secret that COVID-19 has caused massive disruptions for retailers. Unpredictable customer demand has led to stock issues, impacting supply chains across the globe. Companies have had to adapt almost overnight to rethink how they move and manage stock to mitigate risks which are increasingly unpredictable and show little sign of becoming any less challenging.
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Perform defensive and offensive operations, day and night fire exercises, scenario training, and hump numerous grueling hikes.
Upon completion, the Marines will be basically trained infantrymen and will be assigned their infantry Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) before reporting to their respective unit to receive additional training.
Camp Pendleton, California - Sergeant Mitchell Savage supervises and instructs Private Tanner Welch and Private Dustin Taylor as they fire the M224 60mm Light Weight Mortar system at Camp Pendleton, California, January 30, 2014.


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Fed sees recovery spreading across the U.S.
Jan. 13, 2010, 7:05 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
The economic recovery is spreading to more parts of the country even as a growing number of people can't find full-time jobs.
The duality of the recovery is underscored in a Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday: The economy is growing, and the recovery is extending its reach geographically. Yet 27 million people are either unemployed, forced into part-time jobs or so discouraged that they've stopped looking for work.
The Fed said that while the economy is still sluggish, conditions have improved modestly. But it also said the job market in most of the Fed's 12 regions remained "soft" as the new year began.
In a worse-than-expected report last week, the government said companies chopped 85,000 jobs in December. The unemployment rate held steady at 10 percent — but only because more than a half-million people gave up their job searches and left the work force. If they hadn't dropped out, the unemployment rate would have jumped to 10.4 percent, analysts say.
Counting the people who have given up looking for work and the part-time employees who would rather be working full-time, the so-called underemployment rate edged up to 17.3 percent in December. The record high is 17.4 percent, reached in October.
The Fed's survey painted a picture of an economy growing modestly. To drive down the unemployment rate, the economy needs to grow consistently at a robust pace.
"The bottom line: The U.S. economic recovery continues to unfold. Slooooowly," economist Jennifer Lee of BMO Capital Markets wrote in a note to clients.
Still, economic improvements are spreading to more corners of the country. Ten of the Fed's 12 regions reported that activity had increased or conditions had improved. The remaining two -- Philadelphia and Richmond — described economic conditions as mixed.
In the Fed's previous survey issued in early December, eight regions said activity had increased or conditions improved, while four said they were little changed or mixed.
The new survey found that manufacturing activity increased or held steady in most Fed regions. Factories in the Fed regions of Boston and Chicago said they were benefiting from rising demand from customers in Asia.
And manufacturers in the San Francisco region said demand for semiconductors strengthened, while demand for airplanes and parts stabilized at a moderate level. Factories in the New York region boosted production and offered an optimistic outlook. But factories in the Fed regions of Richmond, Atlanta and St. Louis said production sagged.
Consumers spent more during the holiday shopping season, but the gains were relatively small, the Fed survey found.
"Consumers were variously described as cautious, price sensitive and focused on necessities but sometimes willing to spend on discretionary purchases," the survey found.
High unemployment and tight credit are expected to keep consumers cautious about spending in the coming months, slowing the recovery.
To sustain the recovery, the Fed is expected to leave a key bank lending rate at a record low near zero when it meets next on Jan. 26-27. The Fed has kept rates at those levels for just over a year, with the goal of enticing consumers and businesses to boost spending.
But the Fed survey found that demand for loans declined or stayed weak in most regions, while credit quality deteriorated.
The housing market, meanwhile, is healing, though most sales involved lower-priced homes and were helped by a federal tax credit for buyers. And in most parts of the country, home building stayed at low levels.
The commercial real-estate market remained soft across the nation, with vacancy rates rising and rents falling in most places.