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Les Mangeurs d'atomes est un roman de science-fiction de la série Bob Morane, écrit par Henri Vernes et publié en 1961.

Publications
Le roman est paru pour la première fois, avec une illustration de couverture de Pierre Joubert, aux éditions Marabout, collection Marabout Junior / Bob Morane  en 1961.

Le roman a été réédité en 1963, 1966, 1970 et 1979.

Résumé
Bob Morane est chargé par le ministère des Affaires étrangères français de découvrir le secret du retraitement des déchets nucléaires détenu par l'infâme Confédération Balkanique, sorte d'avatar de l'Union soviétique. Prenant l'apparence du chercheur François de Hauteclare, Bob Morane se rend dans le pays vivant sous la dictature, au Centre de Biologie marine de Varna.

Il y rencontre un scientifique de l'Est, le  Von Hass. Inspectant un bassin top-secret, il découvre que le savant a créé des trilobites qui se nourrissent de déchets nucléaires. Mais son identité a été percée à jour par son vieil ennemi, Roman Orgonetz, alias « l'Homme aux Dents d'Or ».

Bob s'enfuit précipitamment de la Confédération Balkanique en se faisant passer pour Orgonetz et en volant un hydravion. Se dirigeant plein sud, il amerrit en Turquie. Il se rend à Istanbul et contacte l'ambassade de France. Il est retrouvé par les agents secrets ennemis mais parvient à les semer. Il prend un vol commercial pour Rome puis Paris. Arrivé à Orly, il est de nouveau intercepté par un agent ennemi, qu'il détecte à temps. Enfin, il arrive à son domicile situé quai Voltaire. Une troisième tentative d'interception a lieu par Orgonetz lui-même, qui avait anticipé le fait que Morane parviendrait à semer ses collègues. Une lutte a lieu entre les deux hommes à la fin de laquelle Morane a le dessus, blessant Orgonetz et le faisant prisonnier.

L'examen des documents secrets ramenés par Morane permet d'apprendre que le  Von Hass avait élevé en laboratoire des mérostomes et des limules, et les avait « nourris » d'éléments radioactifs. Ces derniers sont devenus des trilobites géants se nourrissant de matière radioactive, formant une nouvelle espèce et devenant des « Mangeurs d'atomes ». Von Hass avait trouvé là un moyen de débarrasser l'humanité des déchets nucléaires difficilement entreposables en les faisant disparaître ou en les rendant inoffensifs.

Personnages

Personnages principaux
 Bob Morane
 Roman Orgonetz : un des plus anciens ennemis de Bob Morane. Il s'agit de leur sixième rencontre.
 Colonel Jouvert : un des chefs du Deuxième Bureau français. C'est lui qui engage Morane comme espion dans cette aventure.
 Major Clark : major des Services secrets américains.
 François de Hauteclare : savant spécialiste des effets des radiations sur les organismes marins. Ressemble beaucoup physiquement à Bob Morane. A déjà eu des sympathies pour la Confédération balkanique. Bob Morane se fait passer pour lui lorsqu'il est chargé de rapporter des renseignements sur le secret des Balkaniques concernant leurs déchets atomiques.

Personnages secondaires
 Bastien : employé du  Bureau. « Transforme » Bob Morane en François de Hauteclare.
 Michael Norgha : agent de la Confédération balkanique.
 Boris Aïlovitch : agent de la Confédération balkanique.
 Natan Zvordo : agent de la Confédération balkanique.
 Commandant Zanko : directeur du Centre de Biologie mariene de Varna.
 Gert von Hass : biologiste allemand travaillant pour la Confédération balkanique. Il parvient à recréer des trilobites qui ont la particularité de se nourrir de déchets atomiques.
 Urfa : capitaine du navire turc Uskudar.
 Jacques Macaire : il travaille à l'ambassade française d'Istanbul.
  Durant : concierge de l'immeuble dans lequel habite Bob Morane.

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Débat sur l'énergie nucléaire
 L'intrigue de ce roman d'espionnage (la recherche d'un secret scientifique majeur pendant la Guerre froide puis la fuite à l'Ouest) n'est pas sans rappeler Le Rideau déchiré, film d'Alfred Hitchcock, sorti cinq ans plus tard aux États-Unis.
 1961 en littérature
 Liste des romans de Bob Morane

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Roman d'Henri Vernes
Roman de Bob Morane
Roman belge paru en 1961
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Roman d'aventures belge
Roman de science-fiction belge
Déchet radioactif
Utilisation humaine de l'énergie nucléaire
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Why the Watched Pot May Actually Never Boil, According to Quantum Physics
By Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times
Could your thoughts prevent a particle from decaying? Could your thoughts speed up the particle's decay?
Experiments in quantum physics have shown that the researcher can physically impact what he or she is observing simply by observing it.
Researchers have found that the act of measuring some particles can either stop or speed up the particles' decay. Measuring more frequently inhibits the decay. It's like the proverbial watched pot that never boils.
By adjusting the measuring time in other ways (described in more detail below), the researchers were also able to speed up decay. These effects of observation violate the classical universal law of exponential decay.
Slowing the decay is known as the quantum Zeno effect. It was first presented in the 1977 paper "The Zeno's Paradox in Quantum Theory," published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics and written by Baidyanaith Misra and George Sudarshan. It is named for the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea.
Long-time physics writer Andrew Zimmerman Jones explains Zeno's paradox in an About.com article: "In order to reach any distant point, you have to cross half of the distance to that point. But to reach that, you have to cross half that distance. But first, half of that distance. And so forth … so that it turns out you actually have an infinite number of half-distances to cross and, therefore, you can't actually ever make it!"
It's a mind-bender, but so is almost anything to do with quantum physics.
The act of speeding up the decay is known as the anti-Zeno effect.
Physicists at The University of Texas–Austin tested the Zeno and anti-Zeno effects on unstable particles and published their findings in the journal Physical Review Letters in 2001. Their research focused on sodium atoms.
The Zeno effect worked. In comparison to unperturbed samples, the decay was suppressed in the particles that were frequently measured. The anti-Zeno effect was also successfully produced.
Anti-Zeno Effect
When the particles were left to decay uninterrupted by measurements, they showed a pattern in which an initial period of slow decay was followed by a steep drop, which was then balanced out to a more steady rate of decay.
The physicists hypothesized that, if they interrupted the decay right after the steep drop, they could keep the particles in that state—the state of very rapid decay. When they put this hypothesis into action, they found it worked.
This won't help us achieve immortality, slowing our bodily decay to a virtual stand-still—or at least not without huge leaps in understanding from what scientists now know. But, it could help us develop quantum computers.
The super-computing power of the hypothetical quantum computer could help solve complex problems in a variety of fields, from chemistry to artificial intelligence.
In an article titled "Microsoft Makes Bet Quantum Computing Is Next Breakthrough," New York Times reporter John Markoff explained: "Conventional computing is based on a bit that can be either a 1 or a 0, representing a single value in a computation. But quantum computing is based on qubits, which simultaneously represent both zero and one values."
"In an 'entangled' state—physically separated but acting as though they are connected—with many other qubits, they can represent a vast number of values simultaneously," he continued. "And the existing limitations of computing power are thrown out the window."
Researchers at Humboldt University in Berlin found that the quantum Zeno effect may take place in diamonds, making diamonds a candidate material for building quantum computers. The researchers published their findings in the journal Physical Review A in 2013 titled "Study of the Quantum Zeno Phenomenon on a Single Solid State Spin."
The team focused on an electron found in a kind of imperfection in a diamond. The team used microwaves to change the magnetic spin state of the electron. They found that the electron would stop oscillating between the two possible states if it was measured frequently.
Ronald Walsworth, an atomic physicist at Harvard University, had suggested in 2010 that the Zeno effect may operate in diamonds. After the Humbolt University researchers published their findings, Walsworth told Nature that evidence is growing, but before we start planning to build quantum computers with diamond, further research must verify that the disruption is due to the quantum process and not to other factors.
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Hi all, I'm new to this forum so a bit nervous. I'm pretty sure my husband has undiagnosed PTSD from when he was working for government. He also has lots of unresolved issues from his childhood. He tells me that he has sorted it out for himself and that it is me that needs help (I was myself probably mildly depressed before, but am currently going through significant situational distress because he wants to leave me) , but he gets very low moods when either topic comes up and still has regular nightmares about the things that happened. I feel that this is contributing to the breakdown of our marriage because despite all my efforts, he still feels that I am not there for him. How do I learn how to support him in a way that is helpful to him? I've tried letting him know that I care for him and I'm here to listen any time he wants to talk, but he won't reach out as he seems to think I should just know. At other times, I'm afriad that if I bring it up when he's otherwise okay, I will remind him and bring him into a slump. I am worried about him and even if he leaves I want to help and support him, especially since he has no one else to turn to. What can I do?
I'm sorry to hear about how things have been for you and your husband. You want to support him and work on the relationship but it feels as though there's a lot of pressure on you to fix everything alone.
Living with PTSD can be an incredibly distressing experience and it's not uncommon for men to have a hard time reaching out for support. I think the question you asked, is a great one "How do I learn how to support him in a way that is helpful to him?" Sometimes it can be a good question to put to ther person you want to support, and they can give you a bit of guidance on what might help.
If you're feeling as though you've tried different stratgies and that communication has been shut down around his mental health, it might be a good idea for you to chat with a counsellor to get a bit of guidance in how to talk to him, and also how to look after yourself amongst everything. Sometimes in couples or families, when one person takes the step to seek support first (even if the support is mainly around how to support the other), it can model help-seeking for the other person and in time, open them up to the idea of seeking help too.
Thank you for your reply. I have managed to convince my husband to see a psychologist for his PTSD and depression which I am very relieved about. However we now have added complications because as well as his MH, my emotional state and the state of our marriage (which is what my husband blames his MH on), I have also just discovered that my husband is continuing his emotional affair with a friend of ours. While he says that he would be willing to break off contact with her to give our marriage a chance, there is a real risk that she may commit suicide if she loses his emotional support.
I feel stuck. I don't feel like him, I or our marriage can move forward while they continue their emotional affair (they are providing emotional support for each other in a flirtatious and secretive way). I am also very concerned about her mental state if I insist they stop. And while I am comitted to being here every step of the way in helping my husband recover, even if he leaves me, I don't think I am equiped to provide that for her also.
What do I do? I feel like the lives and MH of both families and the people within are being held to randsom by her depression (which isn't her fault and she is trying to work through).
It makes sense you're feeling stuck @Treehugger. You're in a really difficult situation. It's important that you have the right support to navigate this difficult dynamic. You and your husband might be interested in having a look at the resources on the Suicide Callback Service website around supporting a person experincing suicidal thoughts. They offer counselling and crisis support too if ever you need to talk with a professional more immediately for advice and direction.
Your support and understanding of your husband amongst everything really comes through in your words. I'm really glad to hear he has decided to reach out to a psychologist too. It's such an important step in his recovery.


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Starving for Justice
December 23/30, 2013 Issue
From California to Israel, hunger strikes are erupting around the world—because they work.
By David Mizner
(Illustration by Eugene Mihaesco)
This past April, the Youth Against Settlements website posted a letter from Samer Tariq Issawi, a Palestinian imprisoned by the Israeli government. "I invite you to visit me, to see a skeleton tied to his hospital bed, and around him three exhausted jailers," he wrote. "Sometimes they have their appetizing food and drinks around me. The jailers watch my suffering, my loss of weight and my gradual melting."
Initially locked up in 2002 for violent crimes, Issawi was released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange. In July 2012, Israeli forces imprisoned him again after he violated the terms of his parole by traveling to the West Bank. A military committee refused to let him see the evidence against him as it sought to impose the remainder of his original twenty-six-year sentence. Facing an unfair trial and seventeen more years in prison, he started a hunger strike in August 2012. He was still fasting on April 22 when the committee held a bedside hearing. Issawi had become a hero to many Palestinians, a symbol of resistance. News of his debilitation had triggered clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian protesters in Bethlehem. Clearly fearing what would happen if he died, the committee agreed to release him in eight months. If Israel keeps its word, Issawi will leave prison in December.
This was the year of the hunger strike—did you notice? The mainstream press didn't. While the fasts in Guantánamo and California received significant coverage, the broader phenomenon went unremarked. There were dozens, perhaps hundreds, of sustained hunger strikes all over the world. In fact, it's difficult to identify sizable countries where there wasn't at least one noteworthy fast. Most took place in prisons. Together, the strikes reflect the universal disregard for the rights of prisoners as well as the worldwide increase in radical protest of all forms.
Palestinians acting as Israeli soldiers who are depicted as ghosts, stand behind a wheelchair with a man playing the role of Palestinian prisoner Samer al-Issawi, who has been on intermittent hunger strike in an Israeli jail, inside a mock cage in Gaza City March 20, 2013. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)
The hunger strike dates back thousands of years in countries as different as India and Ireland, but it became more common in the early twentieth century, as the advent of mass communications enabled fasters and their supporters to generate much greater publicity. A hunger strike is usually an act of desperation, but it is also a rational response to state oppression. Fasters have included activists no less esteemed than Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Cesar Chavez, the suffragists and the students at Tiananmen Square.
Activists fasted this year for the same reason this ancient tactic has endured: it's effective, all the more so when the possibility of martyrdom exists. "No target of protest wants that on their hands," says Stephen Scanlan, a sociologist at Ohio University who has researched hunger strikes. "Once a protest campaign reaches this level, concessions are typically won."
Yet serious hunger strikers risk illness and sometimes death. Many also suffer abuse. First-person accounts from Guantánamo reveal the violence of force-feeding prisoners, which violates international law, yet governments do it with impunity. This past July, in response to high-profile hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners, Israel's Justice Ministry began drafting a bill that would allow force-feeding. As governments grow ever more determined to deny martyrdom to hunger strikers, force-feeding is becoming an urgent civil liberties issue, one that ought to unite prisoners' rights, anti-torture and right-to-die advocates.
In 2013, hunger strikers seemed to be everywhere. People of all regions, races and religious groups fasted, targeting governments of all kinds. That said, there were trends.
Prisoners have made up the majority of hunger strikers in the modern era, and this year was no exception. From Colombia to Russia to Vietnam, they fasted to protest abuse, unjust imprisonment and inhumane conditions. The fast is a logical form of protest in a place that breeds desperation and robs people of their autonomy. To refuse to eat is one of the few ways prisoners can exercise control, and usually the only way they can pressure the state.
Of the fasts outside prisons, many took place in refugee detention centers. It must be a special kind of hell, the bottom beneath the bottom, to escape persecution, war or a natural disaster only to be locked up indefinitely in a place every bit as dehumanizing as a prison. At the Menogia detention center in Cyprus, twenty-five Syrian refugees fasted to try to end their mistreatment, which included the denial of food and medical care. Enduring horrid conditions at the Békéscsaba detention camp in Hungary, five Malian refugees stopped eating, inspiring fifty-five other refugees to join them.
Hunger strikes were also notably common in Middle Eastern countries, including ones untouched by war or revolution: Oman, Qatar, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In Yemen, twenty-two men jailed without charge tried to compel prison officials to comply with a cabinet decision ordering the release of nineteen of them. In September, Iraqi forces killed fifty-two Iranian exiles and took seven into custody, purportedly to quell unrest. The attack triggered a mass fast at Camp Liberty, the former US military base that now houses 3,000 Iranian exiles.
The hunger-strike watchers I spoke with agreed that the tactic is being used more frequently. They cautioned, however, that a lack of comparative data makes it difficult to distinguish fact from perception. But perception influences fact: social media increase public awareness of hunger strikes, which in turn increases their prevalence. "There is a feedback loop in which social media creates a greater audience for those strikes and more hope for success—if only for the success of some public attention," says Sharman Apt Russell, author of Hunger: An Unnatural History.
A study points to another explanation for the increase. "Starving for Change: The Hunger Strike and Nonviolent Action, 1906–2004," by Scanlan, Laurie Cooper Stoll and Kimberly Lumm, finds that hunger strikes spike during eras of protest. Today's fasts, then, can be understood as part of the activism that has erupted across the globe—from uprisings in the Middle East, anti-austerity protests in Europe and resistance in Russia to deepening corruption and repression, the Occupy movement, national security whistleblowing in the United States, and on and on.
But no one should glamorize the tactic. The fasting body usually begins to fall apart after about forty days. In Hunger: An Unnatural History, Russell describes what happens:
First you have double vision. Then your sight dims. You vomit green bile. Your speech is slurred. You can't hear very well. You have jaundice. You have scurvy from lack of Vitamin C. Your gums begin to bleed. You may be bleeding into your stomach and intestines. You may have thiamine deficiency, which weakens the muscles of the heart and causes lesions in the central and peripheral nervous system. As your nerve fibers degenerate, you feel a sharp pain down your arms. One day, you cannot move your legs. Niacin deficiency may be the reason for the sores in your mouth. You have what is called "skin breakdown." This is the process of starving to death.
This grisly prospect accounts for its power. The "stunt" becomes, at a certain point, proof of its own seriousness. It says, "I am willing to die for this," or, "I would rather die than live like this." It exposes the brutality of state power and calls the bluff of government leaders who claim, as all government leaders do, to oppose suffering. In 1981, Bobby Sands led a fast of Irish Republican Army prisoners and died from starvation along with nine others. Their deaths turned Irish Republicanism into an international cause and Sinn Féin into a political power.
Impending martyrdom explains why the displays of support for anarchist Kostas Sakkas unsettled the Greek government. He was arrested in December 2010 for alleged membership in the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, which the government considers a terrorist organization. Imprisoned for two and a half years without a trial, he stopped eating in June. "I would like to clarify that, for me, the choice to go on hunger strike is not a gesture of despair, but a choice to continue the fight," he wrote. Amid widespread austerity-induced agitation on both the left and right, 6,000 Sakkas supporters marched through Athens on June 29. The left-wing opposition party Syriza called for his release and urged the European Court of Human Rights to intervene. More than a month into his fast, Sakkas appeared at the barred window of his hospital room and addressed protesters. "To victory! Until the end!" he shouted. The anarchist activist and alleged terrorist was becoming a folk hero. On July 12, two days after a doctor reported that Sakkas was in the "final stage" of life, the government agreed to release him on bail.
Such victories, narrow but significant, were not uncommon this year. In June, Yemen released seventeen of the twenty-two hunger-striking prisoners. In response to a July fast by dozens of prisoners—including some who had sewed their mouths shut—at Colombia's Doña Juana Penitentiary, the bureau of prisons agreed to improve medical care and to investigate three deaths caused by a lack of it. In Russia, Maria Alyokhina, one of three Pussy Riot members imprisoned for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred," stopped fasting when officials at her prison in the Ural Mountains ended the security crackdown pegged to her parole hearing, which, she said, had turned fellow prisoners against her. Her bandmate, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, also used a hunger strike to pressure the government. From Penal Colony No. 14 in Mordovia, Tolokonnikova wrote a letter in September detailing the reasons for her fast: seventeen-hour workdays, filth, sadistic prison guards, collective punishment. "I demand that we be treated like human beings, not slaves," she wrote, reigniting debate in Russia about prison conditions. The government acceded to one of her demands by transferring her, but the move was likely an effort to silence her because her new prison is in Siberia. In August, four months after the Israeli government conceded to Issawi, it agreed to take hunger striker Dirar Abu Sisi out of solitary confinement. These victories follow a wider one in 2012, when a fast by 1,500 Palestinian prisoners secured family visits for 400 and the release of nineteen from solitary confinement.
Solitary confinement drove the hunger strike in California prisons, which some 30,000 people joined at the outset. Their number quickly dwindled, but forty days in, dozens were still fasting. In 2011, after the previous major fast in California's prisons, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Méndez said solitary confinement longer than fifteen days should be banned. Nearly 200 prisoners have spent more than a decade in solitary in California. In July, hunger striker Michael Russell wrote a piece that poetically conveyed its horror: "I've spent a quarter of my life in this prison's cages, in its mud, learning to deal with the loud rhythm, the madness and isolation, the absence from my family and friends that has turned me into a total stranger, with so much empty uncertainty. I don't sit here and cry. Nobody does."
Unlike Israel's Palestinian prisoners, California's are not part of a larger political movement, at least not one with the capacity to frighten the government. Even after hunger striker Billy Michael Sell hanged himself, Governor Jerry Brown refused to negotiate. Officials claimed that gangs were behind the fast and, absurdly, that solitary confinement didn't even exist in California. Prisoners called off the fast in early September after two state legislators vowed to hold a hearing on solitary confinement—hardly a major victory.
Yet solitary confinement has become a more prominent issue, and California's prisoners deserve much of the credit. While a PR victory is not their goal, it's a prerequisite for a substantive victory. Solitary confinement—"even more damaging than physical torture," writes Atul Gawande—will someday be widely seen as barbaric and banned.
Guantánamo's hunger strikers also won that insufficient prize, attention. What began as "just another" fast at Gitmo became a major story as more than 100 prisoners joined. Unable to project images to the world, fasters like Shaker Aamer relied on words published with the help of their lawyers. Aamer is a Saudi resident of Britain imprisoned for nearly twelve years without charge even though the US government has twice cleared him for release. "I do sometimes worry that I am going to die in here," he wrote in the Daily Mail. "I hope I don't, but if the worst comes to the worst, I want my kids to know that I stood up for a principle."
Guantánamo's hunger strikers managed to do what civil liberties and human rights groups had been unable to do: force President Obama to take up an issue he had ignored for months. Its subsequent redisappearance from the DC discussion underscores, rather than diminishes, their accomplishment. And their accomplishment wasn't wholly intangible. The hunger strikers got Obama to release two men to Algeria in August—the first such transfers in nearly a year.
Of course, it wasn't only the fast that commanded attention; it was also the government's response to the fast. Because mass death would be even worse PR than mass abuse, the Obama administration has waged a brutal and illegal campaign of force-feeding. I use the present tense because Gitmo prisoners are still being "food-boarded," as Jon Stewart calls it. More recently, in August, a federal district judge granted California authority to force-feed prisoners. It was preparing to do so when the strike ended. The horror of force-feeding is all the more reason not to root for hunger strikes to happen even as we on the left root for them to succeed.
It's likely that as this age of protest carries on, so too will hunger strikes. We should spotlight this trend and, more important, the causes of hunger strikes. In the summer, Edward Snowden's search for asylum prompted American pundits to denounce the human rights records of other countries, which, they claimed, were far inferior to that of the United States. The discussion obscured an important truth: that all governments—democracies and dictatorships and combinations thereof—violate the rights and deny the dignity of the most marginalized people, especially those forced to live in cages. That's why they starve themselves.
In the past year our coverage has included Tom Hayden on the California prison hunger strikers, Aura Bogado on the hunger strike by Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence and Jason Leopold on Shaker Aamer, the last British resident still imprisoned at Guantánamo, who launched a hunger strike in February.
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I live on Napier Hill and have two grown up children who live and work in Welliington. I love teaching and supporting students who need some extra help in their literacy, numeracy or academic study skills.
I have worked for approximately 17 years as a Private Tutor in literacy, numeracy and learning disabilities/dyslexia. I also have been in a role of computer support to tertiary level students. Other support I can provide is learning advice and assignment writing, preparation for tests for employment for tertiary and/or adult students.
I have a passion for supporting students of any age, culture and diverse abilities. I enjoy being able to help students to succeed in an quiet one to one environment and understand that this environment allows me to encourage and develop learning areas that may be of difficulty to them.
ColleenFrom Charlotte (5/5): friendly, personable and easy to contact. appreciated the fact that she made space for my child. two lessons in and going well.
Reply from: Colleen: Thanks for great feedback. A lovely student to teach.
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Works out well with exams next week.
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The Direct Mount Regulator (DMR) is the perfect solution for simplifying a high-flow fuel injection system. This variation can be used with some OEM fuel rails to replace the factory regulator. The included adapter mates to an 11mm bore and M6 bolt holes that are symmetrically spaced 39mm apart. Two interchangeable orifices are included with calculated flow diameters to match the fuel pump flow to the regulator. Furthermore, this added precision will resist diaphragm flutter and optimize pressure stability. See the installation instructions for more details. Either of the lower two opposing -6AN ORB ports can be used for the return line. Using the included fittings, simply install the 6AN male into the port that points in the ideal direction and install the plug into the remaining port. Fuel pressure is dialed in using the preload set screw on top.
Note: While the DMR will properly secure to the these OEM fuel rails, compatibility has NOT been verified when installed with the intake manifold on the engine. In some cases, there will be an interference preventing the use of the DMR. As an example, this adapter will fit onto the Mitsubishi EVOX 4B11T fuel rail, but it interferes with the MIVEC solenoid. Reference the dimensions below to determine if the DMR can physically reside in your specific application.


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The Mission of UIW
Service Initiatives
Campus Landmarks
Mission News
Sisters' Narratives
Mission Retreats
Mission of UIW
Employee Retreats
Administrative Assistants Retreats
Semi-annual administrative assistants are invited to participate in a retreat that focuses on mission, identity, prayer, Scripture. The retreats provide opportunities for members of the community to grow spiritually, to build community, and to provide encouragement and support for each other as they present the University of the Incarnate Word to internal and external audiences.
Coaches' Retreat
Annually the coaches gather to reflect on their journey in living out the mission, values, and identity of the University of the Incarnate Word. In addition, the coaches appreciate the opportunity to share their journey, perspectives, and insights in working with student athletes as they form, shape, develop, and mentor young men and women as the leaders of tomorrow through collaboration, service, and selflessness.
Gruene Retreat
This is a retreat designed for faculty and upper level administrators. The goal of the retreat is to engage participants and to encourage the assumption of leadership of the Mission of the University of the Incarnate Word by making visible and tangible the presence of God in all encounters. The retreat helps build community across the different schools of the university, thereby enhancing interdisciplinary dialogue and sharing.
The Office of Mission Effectiveness in collaboration with the CCVI department of Spirituality in Ministry (a new joint ministry of the San Antonio and Houston CCVI's) offers a Heritage Pilgrimage to Houston-Galveston. Participants are housed at Villa de Matel, attend a workshop on the UIW Mission in the 21st century, and tour and spend time in prayer at the founding sites in Galveston.
Student Retreats
SALVE Retreat
Each year in the fall semester, University Mission & Ministry offers a SALVE retreat for UIW students. The weekend is designed to give you an opportunity for inner reflection and welcome you to the UMM community. Located at a beautiful site in the Texas Hill Country, SALVE provides the ideal get-away to help you pursue a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and, together with others, spread His joy to the world. SALVE is a Catholic-based retreat but is open to all Christian denominations.
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Free up your schedule this 1st, 2nd and 3rd of September as Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kanpur, brings once again its annual flagship event 'eSummit'. Wake the entrepreneurial spirit within you and gear up for an entrepreneurial event like no other. From inspiration to skill building, basics of starting up to raising funding, this summit covers it all.
With the theme of 'Seeding the Impact', it aims at providing the entrepreneurs with the right set of resources for laying a firm foundation of their venture, the key to any successful startup being 'getting it right' from an early stage. Comprising of talks, workshops, and competitions – there is bound to be not a single dull moment.
The pre-summit events are scheduled to be conducted in Kanpur and Lucknow starting from next week, catering to the young age entrepreneurs and the established ones alike. The line-up for workshops this year includes technical ones like Sixth Sense Robotics, Android App Development, and Ethical Hacking while the non-technical ones range from Design Thinking to Entrepreneurship through the eyes of Neuroscience.
Sounds unconventional? That's exactly what eSummit'17 promises to be. An event for those who think beyond, dare to venture beyond the ordinary and are not afraid to take the leap of faith.
So whether you're someone who's already familiar with the entrepreneurial world or just looking to explore the startup culture or looking for exciting stuff to do on the weekend, this is one event you should definitely watch out for. And not to forget, prizes worth INR 10 Lakhs are at stake!
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The 403rd Operations Group (403 OG) is the operational flying component of the United States Air Force Reserve 403rd Wing. It is stationed at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi.

Units
The 403rd Operations Group performs missions including airlift of personnel, equipment and supplies. Additionally, the group is the only unit in the Department of Defense tasked to organize, equip, train and perform all hurricane weather reconnaissance in support of the Department of Commerce.

 403rd Operations Support Squadron
 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron "Hurricane Hunters"
 815th Airlift Squadron "Flying Jennies"
 5th Operational Weather Flight
 36th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron

History
Trained for overseas troop carrier operations from late 1942 to the summer of 1943, when it moved to the South Pacific.

Transported men and supplies to forward areas in the Solomon Islands and flew passenger and cargo routes to New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, and New Caledonia. From August 1943 to July 1944 it was attached to the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command (SCAT), earning a Navy Unit Commendation. The group also moved personnel of Thirteenth Air Force units to the Southwest Pacific theater. Supported campaigns in New Guinea and the Philippines by transporting men and cargo to combat areas, evacuating casualties, and landing or dropping supplies for guerrilla forces. On 23 February 1945, dropped paratroops at Laguna de Bay, Luzon, to free civilian internees held by the Japanese.

Earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for transporting ammunition, food, and other supplies to Eighth Army forces in Mindanao and for landing on jungle airstrips to evacuate wounded personnel from Apr to Jun. From the Philippines, ferried occupation troops to Japan, evacuated liberated prisoners, and flew cargo and passenger routes to Japan and Australia.

From June 1949 until 1 April 1951, when it was called the active duty, the group trained as a reserve troop carrier unit in Oregon.

In Mar and April 1952, moved to Japan for operations against communist forces in Korea. Using C-119s, the group dropped paratroops and supplies, transported personnel and equipment, and evacuated casualties. On 1 January 1953, relieved from active duty and inactivated in Japan.

It activated again as a reserve unit, training for airlift, air evacuation, and aeromedical evacuation missions until inactivation in 1959. From 1992, the group flew Air Force Reserve airlift and weather reconnaissance missions, including Hurricane Hunter missions.

Lineage
 Established as 403rd Troop Carrier Group on 7 December 1942
 Activated on 12 December 1942
 Inactivated on 15 October 1946
 Redesignated 403rd Troop Carrier Group, Medium on 10 May 1949
 Activated in the Reserve on 27 June 1949
 Ordered to active service on 1 April 1951
 Inactivated on 1 January 1953
 Activated in the Reserve on 1 January 1953
 Inactivated on 14 April 1959
 Redesignated: 403rd Military Airlift Group on 31 July 1985 (Remained inactive)
 Redesignated: 403rd Operations Group on 1 August 1992
 Activated in the Reserve on 1 August 1992.

Assignments

 I Troop Carrier Command, 12 December 1942
 50th Troop Carrier Wing, 1 May 1943
 XIII Air Force Service Command, September 1943
 Far East Air Service Command, 13 December 1945

 322d Troop Carrier Wing, 1 January 1946
 54th Troop Carrier Wing, 26 January – 15 October 1946
 403rd Troop Carrier Wing, 27 June 1949 – 1 January 1953; 1 January 1953 – 14 April 1959
 403rd Airlift Wing (later, 403 Wing), 1 August 1992–present

Components
 6th Troop Carrier Squadron: 15 May – 15 October 1946
 9th Troop Carrier Squadron: 31 May – 15 October 1946
 13th Troop Carrier Squadron: 22 August 1943 – 15 October 1946
 19th Troop Carrier Squadron: 31 May – 15 October 1946
 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron: 1 November 1993–present
 63rd Troop Carrier Squadron: 12 December 1942 May-15 May 1946 (detached 10 October 1943 – 3 July 1944); 27 June 1949 – 1 January 1953; 1 January 1953 – 14 April 1959
 64th Troop Carrier Squadron: 12 December 1942 May-15 May 1946; 27 June 1949 – 1 January 1953; 1 January 1953 – 14 April 1959
 65th Troop Carrier Squadron: 12 December 1942 – 26 July 1943; 20 February 1945 – 27 January 1946; 27 June 1949 – 1 January 1953; 1 January 1953 – 16 November 1957
 66th Troop Carrier Squadron: 12 December 1942 – 21 July 1943; 20 February 1945 – 15 January 1946; 27 June 1949 – 17 April 1951
 815th Airlift Squadron: 1 August 1992–present.

Stations

 Bowman Field, Kentucky, 12 December 1942
 Alliance Army Air Field, Nebraska, 18 December 1942
 Pope Field, North Carolina, 3 May 1943
 Baer Field, Indiana, 20 June 1943
 Camp Stoneman, California, 18 July – 24 August 1943
 Pekoa Airfield, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 15 September 1943
 Momote Airfield, Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, 30 August 1944
 Mokmer Airfield, Biak, Netherlands East Indies, 4 October 1944

 Undeterined Location, Leyte, Philippines, 25 June 1945
 Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines, 1 February 1946
 Manila Airport, Luzon, Philippines, c. June-15 October 1946
 Portland Municipal Airport, Oregon, 27 June 1949 – 29 March 1952
 Ashiya AB, Japan, 14 April 1952 – 1 January 1953
 Portland International Airport, Oregon, 1 January 1953
 Selfridge AFB, Michigan, 16 November 1957 – 14 April 1959
 Keesler AFB, Mississippi, 1 August 1992–present

Aircraft
 C-47, 1942–1946; C/VC-47, 1952; TC-47, 1957–1959
 C-46, 1945–1946; C/TC-46, 1949–1952
 C-54, 1952
 C-119, 1952, 1957–1959
 C-46, 1953–1957
 C-130, 1992–present; WC-130, 1992–present

References

 403d Operations Group Factsheet
 Armstrong, William. (2017). Marine Air Group 25 and SCAT (Images of Aviation). Arcadia.

External links

Operations groups of the United States Air Force

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In this project we want to investigate the climate engineering method of cirrus cloud thinning during Arctic Winter (Arctic Winter Cirrus Thinning, AWiCiT).
Cirrus clouds are thin clouds at high altitudes consisting of ice crystals. They mostly have a warming effect on climate. Cirrus clouds can form with and without the presence of ice nucleating particles (e.g. dust particles). If they form without ice nucleating particles, the ice crystals are numerous but small. However, if there are some ice nucleating particles present, the ice crystals form on these particles. This occurs earlier than freezing without particles and therefore results in fewer but larger ice crystals (as the same amount of water vapor is distributed on fewer crystals). These are optically thinner, will sediment faster, and therefore have a smaller lifetime.
The general warming effect of cirrus clouds results from a cooling by reflection of incoming solar radiation and a warming by absorption and re-emission of the outgoing terrestrial radiation. As there is no solar radiation during polar night, there cirrus clouds have only a warming effect. The climate engineering approach is to seed the arctic winter atmosphere with additional ice nucleating particles. We will investigate if this could be done along flight routes of commercial airplanes. Then, ice crystals should form on these particles instead of freezing without particles. This should reduce their optical thickness, their lifetime, and thereby their warming effect. If successful, this climate engineering method could help to reduce the Arctic temperature amplification (stronger warming of the Arctic due to the ice-albedo-feedback) and to slow down the melting of the Arctic sea ice.
To study AWiCiT we will use the AIDA chamber to investigate the freezing processes, the ICON-ART model to study the cirrus cloud seeding and the ECHAM-HAM model to investigate the global influence of AWiCiT on radiation and sea ice.
Are cirrus clouds dominantly formed with or without ice nucleating particles in the present climate?
What is the perfect seeding particle?
Is AWiCiT feasible and what is the maximum extent of cooling that could be achieved?
Could AWiCiT reduce the polar amplification and the melting of sea ice?
What are the risks and side effects: Are the stratosphere, the ozone layer, or lower-lying clouds affected by AWiCiT?
Schematic of seeded and unseeded cirrus cloud properties. The yellow arrows represent solar shortwave radiation and the red arrows represent terrestrial longwave radiation. The seeded cirrus reflects less solar radiation but it also absorbs less terrestrial radiation. As the last effect dominates in average the seeded cirrus has a lower warming effect.


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Important Current Affairs Quiz 27th October
Indian Railways is building the world's highest rail lines that will connect which to cities?
Leh with Shimla
Shimla with Jammu
Ladakh with Delhi
Delhi with Jammu
Kargil with Solan
Indian Railways is building the world's highest rail lines that will connect Ladakh with Delhi.
The location survey of the first phase is complete. The final location survey is expected to be completed in 30 months after which a detailed project report will be finalised.
The national transporter plans to build a strategically-important Bilaspur-Manali-Leh line along the Indo-China border.
The World Bank has approved $425 million to improve road connections in ________.
The World Bank has approved $425 million to improve road connections in Bangladesh.
It will be done through the building, maintaining and improving rural bridges in a programme that will benefit two-thirds of the country's people.
The 'Operation For Supporting Rural Bridges Programme' will maintain 85,000 m of bridges and build another 20,000 m of new bridges.
The Reserve Bank said it will inject Rs 40,000 crore into the system in November through OMO. What does it stand for?
Opening Marketing Operation
Openly Making Offers
Open Market Operation
Opposite Market Operations
The correct answer is Open Market Operation
The Reserve Bank said it will inject Rs 40,000 crore into the system in November through the purchase of government securities.
The central bank had already injected Rs 36,000 crore into the system in October.
An Open Market Operation (OMO) is an activity by a central bank to give (or take) liquidity in its currency to (or from) a bank or a group of banks.
The theme of the second edition of the Guwahati International Film Festival (GIFF 2018) is ________.
Satyamev Jayate
Ahimnsa parmo dharma
Vishva Shnati
The second edition of the Guwahati International Film Festival (GIFF 2018) began in Assam.
The week-long festival will witness the screening of more than 100 films from 50 countries.
The theme of GIFF 2018 is: 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam'.
The focus region is the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region.
The opening film was 'Bhoga Khiriki' (Broken Window) by filmmaker Jahnu Barua.
Read the following sentences carefully:
1. The 11 Base Repair Depot (BRD) of the Indian Air Force in Maharashtra's Nashik district handed over its first indigenously overhauled Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jet to the IAF.
2. The ceremony was held at the Air Force Station Ojhar.
3. The Sukhoi Su-30MKI is a twin-jet multi-role air superiority aircraft developed by Russia's Sukhoi and built under licence by India's Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).
Which of the above sentences is/are correct?
None is correct
The 11 Base Repair Depot (BRD) of the Indian Air Force in Maharashtra's Nashik district handed over its first indigenously overhauled Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jet to the IAF.
The ceremony was held at the Air Force Station Ojhar.
The Sukhoi Su-30MKI is a twin-jet multi-role air superiority aircraft developed by Russia's Sukhoi and built under licence by India's Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).
Who has won the 'World Health Summit Startup' award 2018?
Krishnan Bhaskar
Preeti Chaubey
Roopam Sharma
Kapil Gupta
Roopam Sharma, a 23-year old Indian scientist, won the World Health Summit Startup award, 2018.
He won for his invention, Manovue – the world's first intelligent personal assisting system for the visually impaired.
He is the youngest person to be recognized as one of the top innovators under 35 by the MIT Tech Review in 2016.
According to which of the following reports, Fertiliser major IFFCO has been ranked as the biggest cooperative in the world?
World Bank's report
Word Cooperative Monitor report
Food and Agriculture Organisation's report
Reserve Bank of India's report
Fertiliser major IFFCO announced that it has been ranked as the biggest cooperative in the world by 'Word Cooperative Monitor' report 2018.
The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse) publish the world cooperative monitor report.
The report was based on the ratio of turnover over GDP per capita.
Who has won the 2018 'World Billiards Championship' title at Leeds in the UK?
Pankaj Advani
Geet Sethi
Subhash Agarwal
Sourav Kothari
Michael Ferreira
India's Sourav Kothari defeated Peter Gilchrist of Singapore 1134-944 to clinch the 2018 World Billiards Championship title at Leeds in the UK.
The former national and Asian Billiards champion Kothari was pipped at the post for the coveted World Billiards crown on two occasions in the last two years.
India's ________ has been crowned the first runner-up of Miss Grand International 2018 at the sixth edition of the pageant held in Myanmar.
Kalki Singh
Meenakshi Chaudhary
Sheetal Bhatt
India's Meenakshi Chaudhary has been crowned the first runner-up of Miss Grand International 2018 at the sixth edition of the pageant held in Myanmar.
Chaudhary was narrowly edged out by Paraguay's Clara Sosa for the top honour
. Sosa succeeds Miss Grand International 2017 Maria Jose Lora of Peru.
She has been the winner of fbb Colors Femina Miss Grand India 2018 title earlier.
JP Nadda addressed the 2nd International Conference on Primary Health Care. Where was the Conference held?
Arkalyk
Aktobe
JP Nadda, Minister for Health and Family Welfare addressed the 'Second Plenary Session of '2nd International Conference on Primary Health Care towards UHC & SDGs', at Astana, Kazakhstan.
The conference aims to renew the commitment to primary health care to achieve universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Mr Nadda spoke on the theme "The Future of Primary Health Care".
IDFC Bank is planning to change the bank's name. Which among the following will be the new name of IDFC Bank?
IDFC New Bank Ltd
ID & FC Bank Ltd
IDFC First Bank Ltd
IDFC & IDFC Bank Ltd
IDFC Bank proposed to change its name to 'IDFC First Bank Ltd' in the wake of its amalgamation with the non-banking financial company Capital First.
The decision was taken during the meeting of the Board of Directors of IDFC Bank.
The proposal now needs the approval of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
'Experiencing North East' festival begun at which of the following places?
The 'Experiencing North East' festival depicting the uniqueness of North Eastern culture is being organised at India International Centre, Delhi from 27th-31st October 2018.
The festival is a part of Destination North East series.
It is being organised by the North Eastern Council (NEC), Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) in collaboration with India International Centre.
Which among the following Mini Ratna Public Sector Undertaking companies has been awarded the prestigious 'Top Challengers Award 2018'?
Bharat Dynamics Limited
Dredging Corporation of India Limited
Bharat Earth Movers Limited
Indian Rare Earths Limited
Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML), a Mini Ratna Public Sector Undertaking, under the Ministry of Defence, received the prestigious 'Top Challengers Award 2018'.
It won the prize for the excellent performance during the financial year 2017-18 and Best Seller in Crawler Equipment-Dozers and Rigid Dump Truck segment for mining sectors.
The award is instituted by ASAAP Information Global Group.
Where was the 5th edition of the 'Women of India National Organic Festival' inaugurated?
The 5th edition of the 'Women of India National Organic Festival' was inaugurated at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi.
The Festival celebrates and promotes women entrepreneurs/producers and farmers in the organic field from across India.
Festival will have producers and manufacturers of Organic Products from 26 Indian States.
India will host the 24th edition of the Technology Summit in New Delhi with ________ as a partner country.
India will host the 24th edition of Technology Summit with Italy as the partner country.
The two-day summit will be inaugurated on 29th October 2018.
This is the first time that Italy has been selected as a partner country for this prestigious event.
The Summit is envisaged to serve as a wide-ranging knowledge-business partnership platform.
Who has been sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?
Jeewan Kumaratunga
Chamath Palihapitiya
S. M. Chandrasena
S. B. Navinne
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as the new Prime minister of Sri Lanka.
He replaced Ranil Wickremesinghe.Mr. Rajapaksa was administered the oath by the President Maithripala Sirisena at his office in Colombo.
With which country has the Punjab government signed four MoUs to address issues of farmers and depleting groundwater level in the state?
The Punjab government has signed four MoUs with Israeli institutions to address issues of farmers and depleting groundwater level in the state.
The MoUs were signed in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.The MoUs will help boost cooperation between Punjab and Israel in areas such as water conservation as well as agricultural research and education
Whom among the following has won the 'UN Human Rights Prize' for the year 2018?
Biram Dah Abeid
Liisa Kauppinen
Joenia Wapichana
Khadija Ryadi
Pakistan's human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir has been posthumously awarded the UN Prize along with three other winners.
Rebeca Gyumi of Tanzania, Brazil's first indigenous lawyer Joenia Wapichana and Ireland's human rights organisation Front Line Defenders are the other winners of the prize.
The Prize is an honorary award given for outstanding achievement in human rights.
Recently, Maruti Suzuki's new marketing campaign 'A destination called you. A feeling called Maruti Suzuki ARENA' is seen in the news. Who is the brand ambassador of ARENA Channel?
Maruti Suzuki India announced Bollywood Superstar Varun Dhawan as the brand ambassador for Maruti Suzuki ARENA channel.
The youth icon will be the face of Maruti Suzuki's new marketing campaign 'A destination called you. A feeling called Maruti Suzuki ARENA.'
The Car Maker is working on the transformation of its retail network across India.
When is the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage observed?
The 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is celebrated on October 27.
Its theme is "Your Story is Moving".
The General Conference of UNESCO approved the commemoration of a World Day for Audiovisual Heritage in 2005 as a mechanism to raise general awareness of the need to preserve and safeguard important audiovisual material for future generations.
Remembering Homi Bhabha – Father of Indian Nuclear Program
Important Current Affairs 26th October 2018 in Hindi with PDF
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John George (John) Walker KNZM, CBE (Papakura, 12 januari 1952) is een voormalige Nieuw-Zeelandse atleet, die gespecialiseerd was in de middellange afstand. In de jaren zeventig behoorde hij tot de wereldtop op de 1500 m. Hij werd Engels AAA-kampioen op de 3000 m en meervoudig Nieuw-Zeelands kampioen op de 800 m en de 1500 m. Ook nam hij tweemaal deel aan de Olympische Spelen en won hierbij een gouden medaille. Hij bezat tevens de wereldrecords op de Engelse mijl en de 2000 m.

Biografie

Eerste internationale successen
In 1974 liet Walker voor het eerst internationaal van zich spreken bij de Gemenebestspelen. Op de 800 m won hij met een persoonlijke recordtijd van 1.44,92 een bronzen medaille achter de Kenianen John Kipkurgat en Mike Boit. Op de 1500 m won hij een zilveren medaille. Met een tijd van 3.32,52 finishte hij achter de Tanzaniaan Filbert Bayi (goud; 3.32,16). Bayi verbeterde met zijn prestatie het wereldrecord, maar ook Walker bleef met zijn tijd van 3.32,16 onder het oude record van 1967.

Olympisch kampioen
In 1976 maakt hij zijn olympisch debuut op de Olympische Spelen van Montreal. Op de 1500 m veroverde hij een gouden medaille. Met een finishtijd van 3.39,17 bleef hij de Belg Ivo Van Damme (zilver; 3.39,27) en de West-Duitser Paul-Heinz Wellmann (brons; 3.39,33) voor.Wegens de boycot kon hij zijn land niet vertegenwoordigen op de Olympische Spelen van 1980. In 1984 moest hij zich op de Olympische Spelen van Los Angeles tevreden stellen met een achtste plaats op de 5000 m. Door blessures kon hij niet meedoen aan de Gemenebestspelen van 1978.

Wereldrecords
Ook op de mijl is John Walker beroemd geworden. Op 12 augustus 1975 verbeterde hij in Göteborg met een tijd van 3.49,4 het wereldrecord. Hij was hiermee de eerste loper die binnen de 3 minuten en 50 seconden finishte.Een jaar later deed hij, kort voor de Spelen in Montreal, in het Bislett Stadion in Oslo een van tevoren aangekondigde recordpoging op de relatief weinig gelopen 2000 m. Hij slaagde in zijn opzet en tracteerde de ruim 15.500 toeschouwers op een tijd van 4.51,4, die hem prompt beloonden met de beroemde "Bislett Roar". Walker verbeterde het bestaande record van Harald Norpoth met bijna vijf seconden!

Overigens was John Walker drie jaar ervoor al betrokken geweest bij een wereldrecordverbetering in het Bislett Stadion. Op 22 augustus 1973 had hij, samen met zijn landgenoten Tony Polhill, Rod Dixon en Dick Quax op de 4 x 1500 m estafette een tijd neergezet van 14.40,4, ruimschoots onder het bestaande record van 14.49,0. Aangezien echter door de organisatoren was verzuimd om een ander estafetteteam te contracteren en er uiteindelijk te elfder ure een gelegenheidsteam werd samengesteld, waarvan een van de deelnemers het bovendien bestond om zijn aandeel zonder estafettestokje af te leggen, waardoor deze onbedoeld als 'haas' voor Walker fungeerde, werd het record door de IAAF niet geratificeerd.

De Nieuw-Zeelander was aan het einde van zijn sportieve carrière de eerste 40-jarige die de mijl binnen de vier minuten liep. Door blessures was hij genoodzaakt om te stoppen met sport.

Ziekte van Parkinson
In 1990 werd John Walker opgenomen in de Nieuw-Zeelandse Sport Hall of Fame. In 1996 maakte hij bekend dat hij de Ziekte van Parkinson heeft. In 2009 werd hij geridderd en werd zijn naam veranderd in Sir John Walker.

Tegenwoordig runt hij met zijn vrouw een winkel voor de paardensport. Samen met zijn vrouw heeft hij vier kinderen: Elizabeth, Richard, Timothy en Caitlin.

Titels
Olympisch kampioen 1500 m - 1976
Engels AAA-kampioen 3000 m - 1990
Nieuw-Zeelands kampioen 800 m - 1972, 1973, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1988, 1990
Nieuw-Zeelands kampioen 1500 m - 1974, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986

Persoonlijke records
Outdoor

Indoor

Werelddeel- en wereldrecords

Palmares

800 m
1973:  Pacific Conference Games - 1.50,0
1974:  Gemenebestspelen - 1.44,92
1976:  Engelse AAA-kamp. - 1.46,86
1977:  Engelse AAA-kamp. - 1.47,75
1979:  Engelse AAA-kamp. - 1.47,73
1981:  Pacific Conference Games - 1.49,41
1982:  Engelse AAA-kamp. - 1.46.10
1982: 4e Gemenebestspelen - 1.46,23

1500 m
1974:  Gemenebestspelen - 3.32,52
1976:  OS - 3.39,17
1980:  Engelse AAA-kamp. - 4.04,62
1981:  Wereldbeker - 3.35,49
1982:  Gemenebestspelen - 3.43,11

3000 m
1981:  ISTAF - 7.46,85
1990:  Engelse AAA-kamp. - 8.05,01

5000 m
1981:  Engelse AAA-kamp. - 13.20,89
1984: 8e OS - 13.24,46
1986: 5e Gemenebestspelen - 13.35,34

1 Eng. mijl
1987:  Emsley Carr Mile - 3.58,75

halve marathon
1987:  Waiatarua Half Marathon - 1:08.39

veldlopen
1975: 4e WK - 35.45

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Nieuw-Zeelands olympisch kampioen
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