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To Riot
Source: RouteMagazine Categories: Letters from home, On the crisis, Protest
"I am not for or against it. I am it."
Howe, 2011 [1]
"To riot is to make a subjective statement, implicitly to declare how one relates to one's objective conditions."
Žižek, 2011[2]
Rather than yet another generalising analysis of the London riots, their causes and concerns, this is my own subjective statement, a declaration of my relation to the conditions of actions in public space that I experience in London, and the conditions I experienced during those days in August 2011. I do this both because there are already some excellent written and spoken analyses [3] to which I have little to add, but mainly because I would rather not be embroiled in the task of explaining and judging the conditions and actions of others, balancing each word to make sure it remains within the acceptable and politically correct. The riots, a spontaneous, dispersed and diverse series of events, are all too easily instrumentalised for political aims that in one way or another reduce what happened. This text is therefore the mere fragment that is my experiences in those days and in London more generally.
Not Our People.
"This was both about Mark Duggan and it was not … just as the recent rebellions in Oakland in 2009 were both about more than Oscar Grant, just as 2008 Athens was about more than Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 1992 L.A. was about more than Rodney King, the 1965 Watts Rebellion about more than Marquette Frye…"
Ciccariello-Maher, 2011 [4]
On the Monday, the third day of riots, when the eruptions had spread from Tottenham and Enfield to the borough of Hackney where I live, I was told by someone, who had recently participated in the student demonstrations, not to go out because "these are not our people". But I did go out. Firstly, because the police had killed Mark Duggan and looked like they were once again going to get away with it[5], and this made me angry, so if the people on the streets were also angry, then yes, they are my people. And secondly because the eruptions in the streets had been spreading from place to place over the last two days and were now looking like a response to more than the one killing, so I wanted to hear what people were saying on the streets.
"These are not our people". This person's comment expressed a sentiment that was not uncommon amongst what I heard from the political Left in the days of the riots. It reflects an intense but often ignored class and race segregation in England that runs deep both historically and materially and psychologically. It goes for not only the Right but also much of the Left that there are those who are a legitimate part of social and political life, and act accordingly, and those who "are not our people". They are the "feral youth", the gangs and the underclasses of England, whether black, brown or white. This underclass is supposedly irrational, they don't know what is best for themselves and they are governed by "base instincts" rather than "rational motivations". It is a suffocating condition. A pressure cooker of antagonism. And I was left wondering why so many people were surprised that riots had finally broken out.
The supposed irrationality of the rioters was finally challenged, at least slightly, when interviews and comments from "the youth" and people had taken part in those days and nights started to trickle through on youtube and facebook[6]. One comment of a person speaking to an ITV journalist[7]:
"You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?… Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you."
The next evening I read some status updates of some of my "friends" on facebook and saw some saying things like "send in the army and gas them all!" Disgusted, I thought about their responses, watched the news and realised that these TV screens, full of burning police cars and trashed buildings, overshadowed the triviality of many of the situations on the streets. What looked like an urban war on the screen was at times an almost calm suspension of law and order, the goods simply being there, free to take, with what seemed like no consequences at the time. People were meandering in the streets, one or two clashes and then the deserted shops, the burning cars left to warm people chatting about what was happening, some getting drunk, some arguing and discussing and other people picking up what they figured they needed, a can of beer, a TV, some cigarettes, diapers, crisps.
When the trials began in the subsequent weeks, it became clear that the looters had included people of all classes and backgrounds, and were not limited to the "feral youth" category of the English working class that had been blamed for the "mindless destruction". In other words, the looting had been done by anyone, people simply thinking, "why not?" The window is already smashed, and I kind of want those trainers, everyone else is doing it, so why not? The hypocrisy of my facebook "friends" was evident. It might as well have been them. But in the end, it was those who are "not our people" who got the blame and provided the excuse to call these events a non-political lashing out of mindless thugs and criminals [8].
"These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers."
Bauman, 2011[9]
Bauman's analysis forgets the other half of the story, that defective and disqualified consumers are also defective and disqualified producers. In other words the notion of the rioters being out of control consumers that just "want, want, want" – whatever the social cost – is a skewed analysis. It turns the actions into an individualistic pursuit and places the blame on the selfishness and base materialistic desires of the individual rather than recognising the (non)working conditions of an increasing amount of people in the country and the nihilist and no-future condition of the young: under suspicion in any public space, nowhere to go[10] and a future of unemployment or wasting life and energy on a shit job for shit pay. Instead, the majority of statements in the media, from all political spectrums, dismissed the rioters as selfish consumer thugs and the mantra "this is not political" was repeated over and over.
But the politics was everywhere, present in the discussions happening on every street corner about what the police had done in the neighbourhood, what the government had done to the education system and what the bankers had done to society. Politics was also present in the smiling faces behind bandanas, balaclavas and headscarves, an excitement and joy that I have never experienced on the streets of London before. I was on Clarence Road in Hackney, and the police were being pushed back and repeatedly challenged. At one point a police car was spotted down the road and half of the people ran towards it, jumped on top of the car and threw things at it until it sped up and escaped the scene. People had taken the streets. This was not a symbolic "taking the streets" of demonstrations in which permissions are granted by the correct authorities, safety and property laws respected etc. This was a territorial taking over of the streets in which the forces of the state no longer had control. And it was liberating. There could be no bystanders, everyone saw each other and you had to get involved, talk to people, participate in some way or another. Politics was everywhere. In the anger that was vented to the police, the shouts of previous abuse and repression, the discussions and arguments between people about the most efficient ways to react, the challenges to those who came to just watch and take pictures…
An essay by Christos Filippidis[11] describes the de-politicising apparatus of media discourse following the riots in Greece after the police killed Alexandros Grigolopulos in 2008. He describes how the city during the revolt was conceived as an urban jungle and how the jungle, the wild and primitive, had been associated with the impossibility of politics and therefore beyond comprehension, something to be repressed, cleared away, or eradicated. This was very similar to what was happening in London in those days and the fear that the irrationality of the urban jungle would take over entirely meant many people stayed inside in fear. But Filippidis then goes on to refute the basis of these assumptions, beginning with the notion of the jungle as pre-political. In Hackney I saw a few distinctly middle class people out with camera in hand, a "safari" through the jungle to get some "good shots" of the "animals". Most of the "animals" were smarter than that and would either steal the cameras which would otherwise incriminate them or simply make sure the safari tourist knew it was time to go. The usual segregation of this area in which young black kids are too frequently harassed by the police and where gang violence has resulted in too many deaths while white internationals can take advantage of the resulting low rents, but are otherwise unaffected by these conditions, was temporarily suspended. Everyone saw each other. And in one way or another, you had to show which side you were on.
"The fact that the rioters have no programme is therefore itself a fact to be interpreted: it tells us a great deal about our ideological-political predicament and about the kind of society we inhabit, a society which celebrates choice but in which the only available alternative to enforced democratic consensus is a blind acting out." …
Žižek [12]
A suffocating condition. And the riots were liberating to me. I know that there will be those who read this that will disagree with me and some will probably be very angry. Angry that I have anything positive to say about events that involved the destruction of some people's livelihoods, that involved the deaths of five people. But this is a description of my experiences in those days, my subjective statement, and no single person's statement will be able to capture what happened in those days. There was no unified group that acted and therefore no single social group can be held responsible for every act that was committed. To speak about the rioters having no programme – in fact to name "the rioters" as if they were a coherent group is a flaw in itself, but nevertheless Žižek's point about a "blind acting out" as the "only available alternative to enforced democratic consensus" describes well the liberating feeling I had when I went out: This was a (re)action that made no demands and asked for no dialogue with a system that would not change regardless. Žižek speaks of a society that celebrates choice, but one can add to that, a society that marvels in its democratic openness refusing any flaws, repressing anyone who dares critique its framework or reveal their suffering within this supposedly reasonable and rational system. One can freely demonstrate in this country, but only in the designated areas, at the designated time and in an orderly fashion. Because in that way, traffic can be redirected so as not to inconvenience to anyone, health and safety and public order can be upheld, commerce can continue unhindered and society can generally go on, ignorant and unchanged by any protest or event. The boundaries of legitimate action are heavily guarded. And when broken, there will be public moral hysteria resulting in severe punishments [13].
I overheard a discussion on the streets between one guy and a priest next to a burning car that went something like this: "Do you think that when the slaves rose up in Haiti that it was done peacefully?" This is not to say that riots is the one thing that can change everything, but rather that, sometimes, it is the only thing that signifies a refusal to communicate on the terms which are forced upon us. While inequality is a blatant and irrefutable fact, only increasing, people nevertheless refuse to make any connection between that and the riots. Instead, there are calls for higher punishments, increased security, and my housemate even suggested we put bars in front of our ground floor windows. I was reminded of a text written in the days after the riots by a friend who had recently moved back to Brazil:
"…why is it that what is crystal clear for people in the global North when talking about the global South seems so difficult to process when it happens 'at home'? Ask any relatively well-informed British citizen about violence in Brazil, and they are likely to tell you something about unequal wealth distribution, lack of opportunities, or even how the drug traffic goes to places where the state has never been, how many young men see carrying a gun as the only way to earn a sense of worth and respect, how the police make matters worse by being widely perceived as corrupt and prejudiced, and how the political system mostly reproduces this situation."
Orangoquango, 2011 [14]
In the meantime, back in London, police patrol the streets, helicopters and chinuks hover above the city, and parents in the borough of Hackney are receiving letters and text messages from the council, urging them to keep control of their children. The police have gathered every single piece of CCTV camera footage from both council and private security cameras and comparing with mainstream media and youtube video footage [15]. They are backtracking the steps of each individual involved in those days, tracing them back to any moment in which they are unmasked in order to register their identities. Thousands have been arrested. Convictions have been unprecedented in severity[16]. The space for discussion is shut tight. Like the thousands who took to the streets, whether arrested or not, I therefore say I was "never there", I "didn't see anything" and you will not know my name.
[1] Darcus Howe, speaking about the London riots at the anarchist book fair 22nd October 2011
[2] Slavoy Zizek http://www.lrb.co.uk/2011/08/19/slavoj-zizek/shoplifters-of-the-world-unite (Accessed 09.10.2011)
[3] See for example:
Mohammed Abbas and Kate Holton http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/uk-britain-riot-contrast-idUKTRE7785XQ20110809 (Accessed 18.10.2011)
George Ciccariello-Maher http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/12/planet-of-slums-age-of-riots/ (Accessed 17.10.2011)
Paul Gilroy on the riots, August 2011, Tottenham, North London, August 16, 2011
http://dreamofsafety.blogspot.com/2011/08/paul-gilroy-speaks-on-riots-august-2011.html (Accessed 18.10.2011)
BBC interview with Darcus Howe, for which BBC had to apologies for after for their accusations of Darcus Howe for being a rioter http://youtu.be/biJgILxGK0o
And for a relatively comprehensive list of reporting and analysis see: http://www.metamute.org/en/news_and_analysis/riot_round_up
(Accessed 10.10.2011)
[4] George Ciccariello-Maher http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/12/planet-of-slums-age-of-riots/ (Accessed 10.10.2011)
[5] See for example http://inquest.gn.apc.org/website/statistics/deaths-in-police-custody (Accessed 18.10.2011)
http://www.minorityperspective.co.uk/2011/04/13/black-deaths-in-police-custody-we-should-never-forget/ (Accessed 15.10.2011)
http://www.obv.org.uk/news-blogs/demetre-fraser-outrage-new-death-police-custody
http://www.injusticefilm.co.uk/ (Accessed 18.10.2011)
[6] See for example
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/sep/05/why-i-rioted-video
http://youtu.be/Zmo8DG1gno4 (Accessed 18.10.2011)
http://youtu.be/gYvc0B9QY-c (Accessed 18.09.2011)
[8] This was the general discourse of mainstream media. David Cameron stated: "This is criminality, pure and simple, and it has to be confronted and defeated." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8691034/London-riots-Prime-Ministers-statement-in-full.html (Accessed 20.10.2011)
"These riots were not about government cuts: they were directed at high street stores, not parliament. And these riots were not about poverty: that insults the millions of people who, whatever the hardship, would never dream of making others suffer like this. No, this was about behaviour." David Cameron
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/15/david-cameron-riots-broken-society (Accessed 20.10.2011)
The usual story that was reported in those days was that a small demonstration about Mark Duggans death was hijacked by looters and thugs when they took advantage of the situation.
http://uk.tv.ibtimes.com/london-riots-are-opportunistic-not-political-journalist/1561.html (Accessed 20.10.2011)
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3291677.htm (Accessed 20.10.2011)
[9] Zygmundt Bauman http://www.social-europe.eu/2011/08/the-london-riots-on-consumerism-coming-home-to-roost/ (Accessed 09.10.2011)
[10] http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/video/2011/jul/31/haringey-youth-club-closures-video (Accessed 18.10.2011)
[11] Filippidis, C. (2011) The polis-jungle, magical densities and the survival guide of the enemy within. In Dalakoglou, D. and Vradis, A. (Ed.) Revolt and Crisis in Greece. Athens and Baltimore: AK press
[12] Slavoy Zizek http://www.lrb.co.uk/2011/08/19/slavoj-zizek/shoplifters-of-the-world-unite (Accessed 09.09.2011)
[13] See for example:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024605/UK-riots-Daniel-Sartain-Clarkes-family-evicted-Wandsworth-Council.html (Accessed 17.10.2011)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/12/london-riots-wandsworth-council-eviction (Accessed 17.10.2011)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/facebook-rioters-who-incited-disorder-have-appeals-rejected-2372578.html (Accessed 17.10.2011)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/18/riots-lengthy-sentences-upheld-appeal-court?newsfeed=true (Accessed 17.10.2011)
[14] Orangoquango http://orangoquango.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/the-other-side-of-%E2%80%98we%E2%80%99re-all-in-it-together%E2%80%99/ (Accessed 09.10.2011)
[15] My housemate had his camera stolen during the riots. He reported it in order to claim his insurance money, and since then has been rung up by the police on a weekly basis who told him the progress they were making in gathering CCTV footage and tracing the movements of each individual during the riots.
[16] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/18/editorial-sentencing-rioters-alarming-benchmark (Accessed 17.10.2011)
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In the short run the market will not be overbought until the end of the day today or tomorrow. The reason it is unclear is because starting tomorrow the 10 day moving average of the NYSE Advance-Decline line will be dropping positive numbers for 3 days. But tomorrow's number is only slightly positive while Thursday and Friday we will be dropping large positive numbers. The oversold reading that has been supporting the bulls ends today and this indicator will soon be aiding the bears for a few days.
Many safe stocks such as consumer staples and utilities trade richly. Stocks such as Coca Cola and Colgate trade at twenty times forward estimates. This is the norm for these "safe" dividend paying stocks. The valuations are even more egregious in the REITs and MLPs.
Despite the rich valuation in many stocks the overall S&P 500 is trading at 14 times forward earnings. That is because if a stock does not fall into this safe or high dividend category no price seems to be too low. I understand the benefit of managements that return cash to shareholders. It makes it a lot less likely that they will do a stupid acquisition or destroy shareholder value in other ways.
I am doing my hunting in the cheaper area of the market. In many cases these managements are returning cash to shareholders, just in the form of a share repurchase rather than a dividend. I see limited upside in purchasing mature companies at twenty times earning. If any of these "safe", mature companies stumble the downside could be large.


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New Reception, Cadbury Sixth Form College
Education #Birmingham
Internally, the steel roof structure is exposed and integrated with the lighting system to give a clean and modern interior.
Electronic barriers have been installed to ensure security of access is maintained at all times.
The building uses a limited palette of materials with self-coloured render
A new entrance and reception building at a sixth form college, commissioned to ease student congestion at the existing main entrance. The new building links into a refurbished and re-planned social and cafeteria area from which several routes are available for dispersing students into the main college building.
The building has enabled college administration to be grouped in one location and incorporates student services in a 'one stop' shop. Electronic barriers have been installed to ensure security of access is maintained at all times.
The building uses a limited palette of materials with self-coloured render, and powdercoated aluminum windows and doors externally. Internally, the steel roof structure is exposed and integrated with the lighting system to give a clean and modern interior.

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Stefan Posch clears the ball.
Joshua Brenet clears the ball.
Jetro Willems shoots the ball into the penalty area from the free kick.
Joshua Brenet from Hoffenheim is tripping Filip Kostic.
Alfons Amade misses an unique chance to score!
Goncalo Paciencia from Eintracht Frankfurt shoots the ball.
Joelinton did not succeed to clear the ball the best way! Presure on the field!
Mijat Gacinovic is charged by Joelinton.
Andrej Kramaric gets yellow card.
Goal: Sebastien Haller Eintracht Frankfurt heads and scores.
Joelinton clears the ball into a corner.
Florian Grillitsch clears the ball.
Reiss Nelson is penalised for pushing Kevin Trapp.
Andrej Kramaric from Hoffenheim shoots the ball.
Mijat Gacinovic from Eintracht Frankfurt volleys the ball.
Mijat Gacinovic misses an unique chance to score!
Sebastien Haller shoots far away from the target.
Nadiem Amiri is injured and replaced by Alfons Amade.
Nadiem Amiri lays down injured.
Sebastian Rode is leaving the field and is replaced by Goncalo Paciencia.
Luka Jovic from Eintracht Frankfurt is sending the ball behind the defence.
The away team is putting a big preassure.
Ishak Belfodil is leaving the field and is replaced by Reiss Nelson.
Jetro Willems from Eintracht Frankfurt shoots the ball.
Filip Kostic from Eintracht Frankfurt is sending the ball behind the defence.
Ishak Belfodil clears the ball.
Adam Szalai from Hoffenheim shoots the ball.
Nico Schulz from Hoffenheim is sending the ball in the box.
Luka Jovic from Eintracht Frankfurt head-shoots the ball.
Danny da Costa from Eintracht Frankfurt is tripping Ishak Belfodil.
Mijat Gacinovic from Eintracht Frankfurt successfully passes the ball in the box.
Almamy Toure is leaving the field and is replaced by Jetro Willems.
A direct free kick from Filip Kostic is blocked by the goalkeeper.
After a professional foul, Kasim Adams gets his second yellow card. The referee sends him off.
Kasim Adams from Hoffenheim is tripping Sebastien Haller.
Sebastian Rode from Eintracht Frankfurt is sending the ball behind the defence.
Sebastian Rode from Eintracht Frankfurt fouls Joelinton but the referee waves play on.
Evan N'Dicka fouls Nadiem Amiri and a free-kick is awarded.
Joshua Brenet of Hoffenheim plays with a team mate.
Danny da Costa from Eintracht Frankfurt sends the ball in the box, but it is catched by an opponent player.
Danny da Costa clears the ball.
Nadiem Amiri shoots on target, but the goalkeeper saves it.
Crossbar: Adam Szalai shoots from a long distance, but the ball hits the crossbar.
Sebastian Rode is penalised for pushing Nico Schulz.
Ishak Belfodil is penalised for pushing Kevin Trapp.
Nico Schulz from Hoffenheim directs the ball in the box, but it's catched by an opponent player.
Almamy Toure clears the ball.
Nadiem Amiri from Hoffenheim is sending the ball in the box.
Ante Rebic is injured and replaced by Luka Jovic.
Makoto Hasebe shoots the ball into the penalty area from the free kick.
Adam Szalai is penalised for pushing Danny da Costa.
Mijat Gacinovic is injured and is taken outside the field.
Mijat Gacinovic lays down injured.
Ishak Belfodil shoots on target, but the goalkeeper saves it.
Joelinton of Hoffenheim plays with a team mate.
Florian Grillitsch has a deflected shot saved by the goalkeeper.
Kerem Demirbay is injured and replaced by Adam Szalai.
Sebastian Rode shoots on target, but the goalkeeper saves it.
Sebastian Rode from Eintracht Frankfurt plays a nice combination with Ante Rebic.
Nadiem Amiri from Hoffenheim directs the ball in the box, but it's catched by an opponent player.
Andrej Kramaric of Hoffenheim plays with a team mate.
Ante Rebic is injured and is taken outside the field.
Ante Rebic lays down injured.
Joshua Brenet from Hoffenheim is sending the ball in the box.
Sebastian Rode from Eintracht Frankfurt is tripping Andrej Kramaric.
Nadiem Amiri from Hoffenheim is tripping Sebastian Rode.
Nadiem Amiri misses a goal with a long shot.
Kerem Demirbay is injured and is taken outside the field.
Kerem Demirbay lays down injured.
Sebastien Haller from Eintracht Frankfurt directs the ball in the box, but it's catched by an opponent player.
Danny da Costa is penalised for pushing Oliver Baumann.
Joelinton from Hoffenheim is tripping Makoto Hasebe.
Goal: Filip Kostic scores from a direct free kick.
Florian Grillitsch from Hoffenheim is tripping Danny da Costa.
Kerem Demirbay is fouled by Sebastian Rode.
Evan N'Dicka misses an unique chance to score!
Sebastian Rode shoots the ball into the penalty area from the free kick.
Kasim Adams commits a foul and got yellow card.
Kasim Adams from Hoffenheim is tripping Ante Rebic.
Ishak Belfodil from Hoffenheim is sent offside by the referee.
Kerem Demirbay from Hoffenheim is tripping Mijat Gacinovic.
Ishak Belfodil from Hoffenheim head-shoots the ball.
Filip Kostic from Eintracht Frankfurt directs the ball in the box, but it's catched by an opponent player.
Almamy Toure clears the ball into a corner.
Sebastian Rode from Eintracht Frankfurt is doing a dangerous play against Joelinton.
Kerem Demirbay is penalised for pushing Sebastian Rode.
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Research themes of the Coast Division
1. Hazard assessment of storm surges
2. Needs of information on storm surges
3. Scouring of facility bases due to tsunami
4. Wave force of tsunami acting on coastal levees
5. Effect of coastal revetment on tsunami run-up
6. Simulation by reproducing storm surges
When running up ashore, a tsunami causes extreme rapid currents of several meters per second. Such rapid currents sometimes scour the bed around the facilities in the surrounding area, resulting in collapse and washout. In the disaster-stricken areas of the 2004 Off-Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami, scouring of 1 m or deeper has been confirmed.
The Coast Division conducted research on 1) scouring of the bed on the ocean side of a coastal levee and 2) scouring of the bed surrounding a cylindrical structure using our large-scale experiment facility (140 m in length, 2 m in width, and 5 m in depth).
Photo. 1-1 Water channel for wave experiments
1) Scouring of a coastal levee on the ocean side
When considering disaster prevention to counter the brunt of a tsunami which exceeds the design level, the properties of a tsunami which flows over the revetment and the mechanism of scouring in the surrounding area need to be clarified. (197) As shown in Figure 1-1, experiments were conducted by building a model inside a water channel.
Photo. 1-2 View of a tsunami-stricken area due to the 1993 Hokkaido Nansei-oki Earthquake
�@As shown in Figure 1-1, experiments were conducted by building a model inside a water channel.
Figure 1-1 Outline of the model
The distance from the coast where waves break and the shape of the breaking waves differ depending on the water level (tide level), wave height, and wavelength, including the case of tsunami waves. In our experiment, the state of waves when tsunami waves flow over the revetment was investigated by changing the position where waves break by varying the water level and wave height. As a result, the waves were classified into six types.
a) Waves flowed over the revetment without breaking.
b) Waves broke by bursting over the crest of the revetment.
c1) Waves broke immediately before the revetment and formed into a jet at the crest of the revetment.
c2) Waves did not break until the revetment and a jet was formed at the crest of the revetment.
d1) Tidal bore crashed, flowed up along the slope surface, and gushed at the crest of the revetment.
d2) Tidal bore remained intact and flowed up along the slope surface.
In addition, the overtopping wave discharge (the volume of water which flows over the revetment) was shown to be dependent on the position where waves break (Figure 1-2), and a simple method to obtain the overtopping wave discharge based on the waveform of offshore tsunami (Figure 1-3) was proposed.
Figure 1-2
Regarding scouring of the frontal surface of the revetment, it was clarified that overtopping waves cascaded when drawing down to the ocean side and caused large-scale scouring, although no significant scouring occurred at the moment when tsunami waves hit the revetment.
In addition, the steady vortex caused by the return flow was modeled (Figure 1-4) and validated based on the assumption that the maximum scouring depth is correlated to the return flow discharge and the height from the frontal water surface to the crest of the revetment, which produced a good correlation as shown in Figure 1-5.
For further details, please refer to the papers below.
Noguchi, K., S. Sato, and S. Tanaka (1997), Large-scale Model Experiment of Wave Overtopping and Frontal Surface Scouring of Revetment due to Tsunami Run-up, Coastal Engineering, JSCE, Vol. 44, pp. 296-300.
Noguchi, K. and S. Sato (1998), Large-scale Model Experiment regarding Tsunami Run-up, Civil Engineering References (Journal of PWRC), Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 44-49.
2) Scouring of the periphery of cylindrical structures
Scouring occurs to the periphery of structures due to ocean waves in shallow sea areas and due to river currents in rivers. In the case of tsunami, waves draw down after running up the coast, and rapid scouring and backfill may occur due to the rapid flows at both run-up and drawdown. When a tsunami strikes repeatedly, scouring and backfill may occur every time. Accordingly, as the landform after the brunt of the tsunami does not necessarily represent the maximum scouring depth, the maximum scouring depth during the tsunami needs to be taken into consideration when designing facilities.
Figure 2-1 Difference in the scouring process around the cylinder
Scouring of the periphery of a cylinder due to tsunami (solitary wave) was reproduced by installing a transparent cylinder of 50 cm diameter on a sand beach (central grain size of 0.35 mm) with 1/20 gradient in a large water channel of 140 m in length, 2 m in width, and 5 m in depth. As shown in Figure 2-1, a wave gage, an electromagnetic flow meter, and a pore-pressure transducer were installed around the cylinder, and a micro CCD camera was installed inside the cylinder to film the response of the bed around the cylinder.
Photo. 2-2 Tsunami waves surging onto the cylinder
Figure 2-2 Experiment model
The experiment was conducted for 9 cases by changing the water depth and wave height as listed in Table 2-1. The cylinder was placed on the shoreline when the water depth was 2.45 m, at 4 m landward from the shoreline when 2.25 m, and at 4 m offshore from the shoreline when 2.65 m. The maximum current velocity of 2 m/s occurred near the shoreline even when the wave height was around 0.2 m.
Table 2-1 Wave conditions
Case 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Water depth (m) 2.25 2.45 2.65 2.25 2.45 2.65 2.25 2.45 2.65
Wave height (m) 0.29 0.32 0.34 0.20 0.22 0.24 0.11 0.12 0.13
The video images taken from inside the transparent cylinder were analyzed, and the variation of the volume of scouring (nondimensionalized by Diameter B of the cylinder) on the offshore side, lateral side, and coast side of the cylinder during the period from the tsunami wave run-up onto the coast until drawdown was clarified as shown in Figures 2-3, 2-4, and 2-5. These figures show that the periphery of the bed of the structure was greatly scoured when tsunami waves washed the structure. In addition, as shown in Figure 2-3, in one case the scouring depth "just after run-up" on the offshore side of the cylinder was fivefold greater than that "just after drawdown."
Figure 2-3 Temporal variation of the scouring depth on the offshore side of the cylinder (sand seabed)
Figure 2-4 Temporal variation of the scouring depth on the lateral side of the cylinder (sand seabed)
Figure 2-5 Temporal variation of the scouring depth on the land side of the cylinder (sand seabed)
In addition to the experiments on a beach where the bottom sediment is sand, the same experiments were conducted for a gravel beach (central grain size of 3.59 mm), and the variation of scouring due to the variation of grain size was investigated. In the experiments of the latter, the wave height was around 0.2 m because the ratio between the wave height and the water depth was set to be 0.09.
Figures 2-6, 2-7, and 2-8 show the final scouring depth (scouring depth after the experiments) and the maximum scouring depth (maximum scouring depth during the experiments) on the offshore side, lateral surface, and landside of the cylinder, respectively. The horizontal scale in these figures shows the positions of the cylinder, and the scouring depth is nondimensionalized by Diameter B of the cylinder for all these three cases. The difference between the final scouring depth and the maximum scouring depth corresponds to the volume of backfill after the bed was the most scoured. Although gravel is considered to be more resistant to movement than sand, in one case the maximum scouring depth of gravel was greater than that of sand. This shows that the scouring mechanism differs between sand and gravel, although gravel is also washed away by the rapid currents caused by tsunami wave run-up. In addition, the ratio between the scouring depth and the cylinder diameter was around 0.3 at maximum, and scouring depths of around 70% of the wave heights were measured.
Figure 2-6 Final scouring depth and maximum scouring volume on the offshore side of the cylinder (left diagram: sand seabed, right diagram: gravel seabed)
Figure 2-7 Final scouring depth and maximum scouring volume on the lateral side of the cylinder (left diagram: sand seabed, right diagram: gravel seabed)
Figure 2-8 Final scouring depth and maximum scouring volume on the land side of the cylinder (left diagram: sand seabed, right diagram: gravel seabed)
The scouring mechanism slightly differs between sand bed and gravel bed. For further details, please refer to the papers below.
Kato, F., S. Sato, and H. Yeh (1999), Large-scale Experiment on Dynamic Response of Sand Bed around a Cylinder due to Tsunami, Coastal Engineering, JSCE, Vol. 46, pp. 956-960.
Kato, F., S. Sato and H. Yeh (2000): Large-Scale Experiment on Dynamic Response of Sand Bed around a Cylinder due to Tsunami, Coastal Engineering 2000, pp.1848-1859.
Kato, F., S. Tonkin, H. Yeh, S. Sato and K. Torii (2001): The Grain-size Effects on Scour around a Cylinder due to Tsunami Runup, Proceedings of International Tsunami Symposium 2001, pp.905-918.
Yeh, H., F. Kato and S.Sato(2001): Tsunami Scour Mechanisms around a Cylinder, Tsunami Research at the End of a Critical Decade, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.33-46.
Tonkin, S., H. Yeh, F. Kato and S. Sato (2003): Tsunami Scour around a Cylinder, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 496, pp.165-192.


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Could not load file or assembly 'System.Net.Http, Version=2.0.0.0 in MVC4 Web API
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musings on communication, reason and our lack of words
What do we lose when we lose our ability to express ourselves and our emotions? When we no longer have the capacity to explain to others, how we feel and what we believe?
Question. What do we lose when we lose our ability to express ourselves and our emotions? When we no longer have the capacity to explain to others, how we feel and what we believe? (Artists and writers aside.)
In my current grappling with the relevant, material consequences (if any) of our culture's inordinate lack of intellectual, or any, sense of curiosity, our surprising lack of reasoning abilities and our lack of interest in anything outside of our immediate activities, I'm finding examples, if not consequences, everywhere. The most obvious, perhaps, being a number of cultural trends which seem to perfectly illustrate our increasingly frequent verbal and rational failings.
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Author jennifersmart58Posted on July 21, 2015 July 21, 2015 Categories PhilosophyTags communication, history, language, millenials, politics
regarding the paradox of words
When an artist uses a certain color, is he using the color for the color's sake, motivated purely by the aesthetic pleasure, or displeasure, the particular color has on the brain? Or is he using a color to represent what it is that that color has come to represent, thanks to a collective definition forged over centuries? A context which, like it or not, is seemingly impossible to eliminate.
As an example.
Is the color blue in a painting, chosen for its beauty, its "blueness," if you will, or is it chosen as a signifier; intended to evoke, in the mind of the viewer, feelings of depression, or sorrow.
I'm fascinated by language, how words came to be and how they develop meaning far in excess of their dictionary definitions, and have written about the subject before in the context of David Lynch. Lynch is many things, foremost among them, Lynch is a filmmaker. As such, he uses the vocabulary of film to force his viewers to reconsider, visually, the innumerable associations we have with words. Why can't a scab be beautiful, for instance? And is there any way to shed the vast network of associations we bring with us to language?
William Gass is another intellectual fascinated by language; how it fails us even as it proves our dependence. After all, as I'm sure Gass is well aware, there is a harsh irony implicit in the necessity of words in examining the unreliability of language, as he was forced to do in On Being Blue.
The argument of Gass' casually philosophical treatment of the subject, hinges, in my summation, on whether writers want to express what their words represent, or the words themselves, and whether or not the two can be disentangled. Spoiler alert, he believes it's the former, that words are used for their particular properties rather than themselves. But he spends 90, give or take, fascinating (and humorous) pages expanding on that dilemma.
"Words are properties of thoughts and thoughts cannot be thought without them," he writes at one point, expressing the futility of the entire endeavor.
Its mind-blowingly complex, this issue. Like, make your head hurt complex. A recursive, ontological meditation on the paradox of words indelible and ever-shifting meanings and the staggering fact, that without these unreliable signifiers, we can't think at all.
It helps to think about the idea in the context of sex, as Gass does.
If we're going to discuss, or even think, about sex, we have no choice but to use words. It's a given. But try doing so and you'll quickly see it become obvious that "anyone who attempts to render sexual experience directly must face the fact that the writings which comprise it are ludicrous."
Words are everything, it could be argued that we wouldn't exist without them, and yet they are insufficient, even as they are essential. Unstoppable. Pervasive.
The struggle, for anyone perturbed by the idea, lies in how that fact, the centrality of words, can coexist peacefully in the intellect with the reality that "a random set of meaning has gathered around the word[s] the way lint collects."
The mind just does that.
The debate concerning language and its "true" meaning easily elicits an association with Plato and his theory of Forms as the true representations of reality, e.g., the Form (capital F) of any thing, is more real than reality's various manifestations of that thing; the Dog is the only true dog, therefore every particular dog is merely a shadow of the true Dog.
A rather conclusive take on ontology's search to explain what the features of things are. For Plato, there can be no features.
Gass grapples with that idea in the context of language, challenging the dogmatism inherent in Plato's line of argument in the context of language, the signifier, as opposed to the sign itself.
Approaching the idea in a different way, Gass instead allows for the particulars, or the features, although he reaches a conclusion of his own.
I read Plato's arguments as attempts to definitively eliminate those "random sets of meanings" which inevitably cloud a word's definition; to conclusively state that the ontology of a thing, exists only its universal, or essential.
But, in the words of Gass, if "signs are not the same as the things they designate, they are at least an essential segment."
In the context of color, which Gass uses frequently as illustration throughout his essay (the book's title is On Being Blue, after all), he somewhat boldly asserts as "fact" the idea that color is only somewhat subjective. "No one is going to call the sounds of the triangle brown or accuse the timpanist of playing pink."
Gass will give into the futile consideration of subjectivity, metaphysics, and ontology only to a point, what thinking person can do otherwise, but Gass fights throughout his writing for concession, in a sense, begging for mercy from the obliterating force of the philosophical argument.
As Virginia Woolf's ever-conflicted Orlando observed:
So then he tried saying the grass is green and the sky is blue and so to propitiate the austere spirit of poetry whom still, though at a great distance, he could not help reverencing. 'The sky is blue,' he said, 'the grass is green.' Looking up, he saw that, on the contrary, the sky is like the veils which a thousand Madonnas have let fall from their hair; and the grass fleets and darkens like a flight of girls fleeing the embraces of hairy satyrs from enchanted woods. 'Upon my word,' he said (for he had fallen into the bad habit of speaking aloud), 'I don't see that one's more true than another. Both are utterly false.' And he despaired of being able to solve the problem of what poetry is and what truth is and fell into a deep dejection.
Haven't we all had those out of body experiences? Who the hell decided what would describe what anyways?
But, as Orlando discovered, one can't live like that. Not all of the time anyways.
Various qualities, or the "lint" as Gass calls it, words pick up over time, may not be part of the essential word, but, as Aristotle would argue, since our experience of a word, or a color, is by necessity, an experience of the whole; composed of each of our innumerable and unpredictable associations with it, we cannot help but associate the qualities we observe in reality, with its use.
It is the balance, in the opinion of Gass, between all aspects of a thing, that makes it what it is.
Perceptions are always profound, associations deceiving.
But they're real, and we have no choice but to accept them.
I'm no philosopher but I would describe the two sides of the language debate as the essentialists vs. the pragmatists. In other words, those who believe in the existence, or the possibility of existence, of an essential nature to a word, just as there is for Plato with Forms, are on one side, and on the other are those who, like Gass, acknowledge and refuse to deny the cultural context words have.
Because life is just plain easier that way.
Author jennifersmart58Posted on March 11, 2015 March 11, 2015 Categories Art, Literature, PhilosophyTags criticism, david lynch, language, literature, On Being Blue, Ontology, philosophy, Semantics, William Gass, Words


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Q: I got an error when export dataGridView data to excel Here is my code:
public virtual void CopyToClipboard()
{
    gridView1.SelectAll();
    DataObject dataObj = gridView1.GetClipboardContent();
    if (dataObj != null)
        Clipboard.SetDataObject(dataObj);
}

private void barButtonItem1_ItemClick(object sender, DevExpress.XtraBars.ItemClickEventArgs e)
{
    CopyToClipboard();
    Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application xlexcel;
    Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Workbook xlWorkBook;
    Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Worksheet xlWorkSheet;
    object misValue = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;
    xlexcel = new Excel.Application();
    xlexcel.Visible = true;
    xlWorkBook = xlexcel.Workbooks.Add(misValue);
    xlWorkSheet = (Excel.Worksheet)xlWorkBook.Worksheets.get_Item(1);
    Excel.Range CR = (Excel.Range)xlWorkSheet.Cells[1, 1];
    CR.Select();
    xlWorkSheet.PasteSpecial(CR, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, true);
}

And this is the error:

Error 2   'DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Grid.GridView' does not contain a definition for 'GetClipboardContent' and no extension method 'GetClipboardContent' accepting a first argument of type 'DevExpress.XtraGrid.Views.Grid.GridView' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

All I need is export data form gridview to an excel file, only export what I see in the grid.

A: GetClipboardContent is a DataGridView method and you are using a DevExpress.XtraGrid. You can use CopyToClipboard.


Would You Hedge Your Vote in the Name of Peace?
In 2011, during an election far, far away, a British expat with a passion for libertarian principles looked at the slate of Republicans running against the incumbent President Barack Obama and wondered if the state of the union could do better. Placing civil liberties and a non-interventionist foreign policy first and foremost, political communications expert Robin Koerner devised a plan he would call the "Blue Republican" strategy.
The goal- get enough anti-war, pro-civil liberty Democrats to register as Republicans (just this one time, not permanently) during the 2011 Republican primaries in order to help push forward the candidacy of libertarian-Republican Congressman Ron Paul to the general election. The Texas congressman, who had once run for president as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988 and again as a Republican candidate for the GOP nomination in 2008, had half a lifetime's worth of evidence to show he was the champion of civil liberties and a Washingtonian foreign policy, something neither his Republican opponents or President Obama could say during the 2012 race.
As we are forcibly marched towards another presidential election, libertarians and Ron Paul Republicans may have a chance to bring their issues to the national conversation by helping advance the campaign of another proven pro-peace candidate with a staunch civil liberties streak- Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who announced her bid for the White House this past week.
While President Donald Trump is not a libertarian, libertarians have in fact benefited from his presidency during his first term – when you take into account deregulation on the economic front, as well as foreign policy regarding intervention and aid. The primary reason for concern among libertarians and Ron Paul Republicans came from Trump's controversial sale of military arms to Saudi Arabia, a decision he was against during the 2016 primaries but instead supported once he reached the Oval Office. Along with that, the question of a total military withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan has been met with a quivering response from the White House as a formal decision doesn't seem to yet be reached. The sudden resignation of Secretary of Defense James Mattis has also made many strong Trump supporters question whether the administration has a full understanding of the theater of war.
Gabbard, a US Army Veteran who has deployed twice overseas (and still serves in the Hawaiian National Guard) has stood with President Trump when his foreign policy goals were to remove US troops from what the majority of the public deems unnecessary conflicts, and against him when American tax dollars and military arms went to nation's whose partnership with us were less than ideal.
As the number of Democrats entering the primary grows, few of the declared and potential candidates have stood as principled on the issue of foreign policy as Gabbard. Gabbard's bipartisan effort to promote a non-interventionist foreign policy started as far back as the Obama administration when she criticized Obama's use of combat drones in nations we did not declare war on through congressional approval.
As Reason Magazine contributor Eric Boehm pointed out in his article regarding Gabbard's civil liberties chops, Gabbard has a proven record of standing against egregious law enforcement programs such as civil asset forfeiture, warrantless surveillance, and supporting the legalization of marijuana at the federal level. While her economic policies (such as her support for a Green New Deal) lack much desirability, her socially liberal policies regarding drug and criminal justice reform match that of the majority of Americans.
The gutter the DNC has found itself in is its own doing. The long term Democrat plan was always for Hillary Clinton to succeed Barack Obama, and since her defeat they have struggled to understand where their future will take them. In the 2016 race, Virginia Senator Jim Webb ran a brief campaign against the Clinton machine that ran the DNC like its own personal bank account during the Democratic primary. Much like Gabbard, Webb was a Democrat with a history of working across the aisle, supporting civil liberties, and advancing a non-interventionist foreign policy even when he went against his party so he could stand on principle.
While Webb had no chance of defeating Clinton (as things turned out, no one running in that primary did), there is no Clinton in this race, making it an open field where the odds, at least at face value, seem fair enough for Gabbard to have a chance at the nomination.
In 2008, the Republican establishment and conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh advised conservatives to vote for an inexperienced, yet popular senator from Illinois in order to potentially keep Hillary Clinton away from her party's nomination in an effort they dubbed "Operation Chaos." It worked, but their plans backfired and that man who was never supposed to beat the heir-apparent to the White House, John McCain, lost to the youthful and energetic Barack Obama. Things have never been the same since.
If libertarians and Ron Paul Republicans wish to put civil liberties and foreign policy at the forefront of the national discussion during this upcoming election, what better chance do they have at forcing the Republican and Democrat apparatus than with a Trump vs. Gabbard election? The choice seems clear, and if the goal is to force the Overton Window towards greater freedom, what is there to lose?
Yes, absolutely! Get her in office, then hold her feet to the fire on domestic issues.
Tulsi has earned the right to speak and be heard. It's about time the Neo-Cons and the Neo-Left have competition!
Here we go…NO! NO REPUBLICANS should support Gabbard. This is exactly the kind of nonsense that causes the Right to LOSE elections! SHEESH!
Admittedly, I didn't read the whole article, and I understand the concept of moving the Overton window. I hope everyone realizes, however, that Gabbard is disqualified just by virtue of the fact that she has aligned herself with Demonrats, today's party of evil. No, the GOP isn't perfect (far from it). But being a Demonrat is like being a member of the Church of Satan. It's clear where you stand.
Even though I am a registered Libertarian, I will cast a vote for either a Republican or Democrat in the NH primary. Will it be Tulsi Gabbard or Bill Weld?? hmmmm….we'll see. FYI Ron Paul secured 3.7% of the Democrat primary vote in 2012 coming in 2nd place to Barack Obama. That's pretty good for a Republican. Gabbard definitely should after the anti-war vote. It crosses party lines for sure. If Weld was smart he would do the same.


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Promises Book Five
Duke Webb has run the most successful bail recovery agency in Atlanta for over twenty years. That's because he has a team of trained, competent hunters backing him up to keep his name feared on the streets. But Duke knows that nothing can go on forever. His hunters are in committed relationships and ready to settle down, and so is he. That's what leads him to start his new training program.
"That's the new vision for Dukes. Veterans operating and tracking behind the scenes with a new powerhouse apprehension team on the streets."
Brian and Quick are the first to offer up two new recruits.
Kellam Knight has studied martial arts under his sensei, Quick, since he was eight years old. A tossed-out reject from high-society, Kell has a problem fighting on the right side of the law. If he sees an injustice, he has to correct it. He doesn't have to run and cower from his enemies anymore, he's a fighter who can protect himself and others. When Quick offers Kell the opportunity to join Duke's training program, he's all in. Except he's not prepared for the straight, over-confident, extremely disciplined, sexy man Brian has recruited to be his partner.
Tyrell Jenkins' world was flipped upside down when his father never returned home from his last deployment. He'd been Ty's teacher, mentor, his guide to living a righteous life as a good man. His father didn't raise him to be like every other young, stereotypical male in Atlanta. Instead, he's been taught to be respectful, to speak the language of real men. When Brian King – his father's most trusted comrade – finally comes to him with the truth, he doesn't come alone. He comes with trained men hidden in the shadows… and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join a brotherhood unlike any other.
"Did you pass?" Kell asked Ty the moment he stepped out of Duke's door. He'd been waiting for him to finish the Georgia exam on Brian's computer. He was sure Ty passed, since it had taken him less than twenty minutes to complete the one-hour test.
Ty turned in his direction. His smile was full of that 'swagalicious charm when he said, "If it weren't for your bright eyes, Kell, I wouldn't be able to see you in the dark."
Kell stood still as Ty approached him. His coat was buttoned over his broad chest, the sheep's skin collar was flipped up to protect his neck from the cold. His golden-brown skin and sweet almond eyes got darker the deeper into the shadows he came. Kell retreated farther, pulling Ty where he felt the most comfortable. His partner followed. Kell leaned against the side of the building with his hood low and his scarf over his mouth. Ty stood towering over him, his thickness shielding Kell from the wind.
"Yes, I passed." Ty's harmonious laugh drifted across Kell's face. "We'll be in the gun range in the morning with Dana, then we'll observe him doing a couple of those backlogged retrievals."
"Sounds like fun." Kell whispered.
"Agreed. I'm looking forward to it as well."
"I like the way you talk, ya'know." Kell confessed. "You're very intelligent."
Ty smirked. "You've commented on my style… my language." He stepped closer to Kell and put one hand against the brick wall next to his head. He leaned in close, his eyes blazing, "Did you think I'd wear my pants hanging off my ass and a puffy black coat loaded with Uzis and Tech9s underneath? Did you take one look at me and believe I'd only be able to speak Ebonics and street slang?"
"What the hell are you talking about? Why would I think—?" He shoved at Ty's chest, realizing his partner was messing with him. Ty caught his hand and held it. Kell exhaled sharply. He felt his wrist squeezed before Ty pulled his hand closer to him. They couldn't see anything in the dark, but he knew Ty felt them. His blades. The hunters all had their own arms, whatever they were most comfortable with. These were his.
"You just keep surprising me, don't you? I think you like doing it." Ty purred rubbing over Kell's wrist. "Are these…?"
"Demon's Daggers," Kell said breathlessly. "Throwing knives."
Ty's strong hand still held his palm up while he blindly caressed the stainless-steel blades around his wrist. "Are you a master with these too?"
Kell could've sworn Ty was turned on, but he couldn't see his facial expressions. He could only feel him. That's why he'd lured him there, into the darkness of the night where the face could lie all it liked. Kell was in the shadows to feel Ty's body's response to him. The body will betray the mind without its consent.
Ty may've said he wasn't ready to have Kell up in his head, but his body was saying something else. It wasn't a lie how close Ty was standing to him. He couldn't fake the heightened rise and fall of his chest, or the slightly labored breath ghosting across Kell's cheek with every hushed syllable he spoke.
"Would you like to see?" Kell asked.
"I can't see anything right now."
"You don't need to see." Kell took a chance and placed his other hand on top of Ty's. He was thankful for his fingerless gloves as he gently brushed his fingers over Ty's smooth brown skin. "You just need to listen."
Kell turned so his back was to Ty's chest. He didn't lean in, wanting to see if Ty would fill the small gap. He did. Felt Ty lean his tall frame over him and place his lips against his temple. Kell removed his hood. With Ty's hand on his waist, his body vibrated.
"Show me." Ty ordered gently.
"You ready?" Kell smiled into the dark.
"I am." He could feel Ty's smile behind him.
"Place your hand lightly on my left shoulder. Don't press. Just touch," Kell instructed, coolly leaving Ty's other hand on his waist.
When he felt Ty's warm palm lie delicately over his shoulder, Kell flung his left arm out as if he were tossing a dart. The sounds of his blades slicing throw the air before piercing the bark of the tree several feet in front of them broke the silence. Ty's breath hitched next to his ear.
"Where'd it go?" Ty asked. His voice heavy with something else besides wonder. "Do you know?"
Kell kept his hand outstretched in the direction he'd thrown his blades. Of course I know. He placed his other hand over Ty's, telling him to keep it there and led him into the shallow forest around Duke's building. When Kell got to the tree, he took Ty's hand and placed it on the cool handles of his daggers. Both of them.
"You threw two at a time?" Ty pulled the devil's tip from the bark.
"Yes. Would you rather I'd thrown more?" Kell admitted he liked showing off for Ty. "And, by the way, yes. I like surprising you."
Ty gave Kell his seven-inch blades and let him replace them in his wrist sheath. He took his hand and led them back out the way Kell had. When they were in the parking lot under the street lights, Ty turned and faced him.
They were silent. Neither of them speaking, just watching each other.
"What are you doing to me?" Ty whispered.
"I could ask you the same thing," Kell responded. He had no clue what was happening between them but whatever it was it was fast and it was consuming.
Title: Promises: The Next Generation
Series: Bounty Hunters Series Book Five
Genre: M/M Romance
Edited by: Sue Laybourn
Nothing Special VI: His Hart's Command


The NASA explores the surface of mars with a robot named Curiosity. A thermoelectric generator supplies its energy.
Waste heat is produced in all areas of daily life – in industry, homes and transport. In Germany alone, this adds up to a waste heat potential of 300 TWh per year. This energy volume corresponds to nearly half the total energy consumed by German industry. Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) can tap into this huge energy reservoir and transform the "waste energy" without moving parts into a higher form of energy. The TEG utilise waste heat and already produce electricity from small temperature differences. This recycling of waste or ambient heat that would otherwise be lost is also known as energy harvesting, which in future will make an important contribution to achieving energy efficiency and reducing CO2 emissions.
Thermoelectric modules can not only convert heat directly into electricity but also, in the form of an electric heat pump, use electricity to provide direct cooling and heating: these days, industry uses Peltier coolers for controlling the temperature of car seats or for stabilising the temperature of electronic components. In the consumer goods sector, these coolers can also be found, for example, in camping cool boxes and silent hotel fridges. In their simplest form, thermoelectric modules consist of a thermocouple that is used in many applications as a temperature sensor. This is constructed from two thermoelectric materials whose electrical junctions are at different temperature levels. The first thermoelectric materials could only be produced at great expense and generated only a few watts. These days systems are now available that generate up to 1000 watts. New materials and processing methods enable greater temperature differences to be utilised, whereby the power output will also continue to rise.
Researchers and manufacturers are working to increase the efficiency of thermoelectric generators and develop appropriate manufacturing processes for mass production. Similar to photovoltaics, the way has now been paved for using a technology originally developed to supply vehicles in outer space, such as the Mars rover, Curiosity, for a wide range of uses in various applications. This Themeninfo brochure provides an overview of how the technology functions and its application areas, as well as the materials that are being developed and optimised for different temperature ranges.