Last June I wrote about a web based app in development for calculating the angle of slope for an excavation. The Slope Calculator Tool was created to assist construction professionals with the design of excavation and trenching operations. Whether is be a 10 feet deep 3 feet wide trench for pipe installation or a large excavation for a building basement the OSHA requirements are very clear on the safety guidelines required for a safe work area.
The challenge for many Construction Site Superintendents is how to design and create a safe work area below grade. The process of calculating the angle of slope is a little more complicated that most want to admit. The process for determining the slope required for a safe work area under the OSHA guidelines is not really that straight forward. Once you have gone through your manual and visual checks, how do you calculate the actual angle of slope required? How do you visualize what that work area and slop will look like?
Some companies have made the transition from paper based pre-planning and inspection documentation to digital pre-planning. They are using tablets and apps to document their safety efforts. It is easy enough to create a electronic checklist to document a safety inspection. BUT how can you prove that you have pre-planned an excavation in a safe manner. Do these companies have a sketch or a BIM model of their plans?
If you have not figured out how to pre-plan excavations and document safety inspections then check out the online excavation planning tools from TrenchSafety.com on you tablet today.
This free online safety platform and app allows users to enter the dimensions of a proposed excavation or trench and the app will calculate the slope dentils and show you a diagram of how the excavation should look she completed. The online app will even let you email a PDF snapshot of the completed diagram to your sell or a client.
Here's a link to a video that explains why an app like this is necessary on construction projects… https://vimeo.com/123258108.


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Combine exploring the sights of Havana, with a stay upon Varadero Beach on an exciting twin centre package. Start your Cuba holiday at the Florida Hotel building was a residential mansion built in 1836 and converted into a hotel in 1885.
Since then, Florida Hotel has become one of the most famous hotels in Havana. This elegant hotel is located in Old Havana on lively Obispo Street, close to the Plaza de Armas where you will find shops, art galleries and museums. The hotel's beautiful architecture celebrates the area's past splendour. The tranquil courtyard is surrounded by stone columns and arches and provides a peaceful escape from the busy streets outside. The elegant guest rooms are decorated with period furnishings, wrought-iron beds and marble floors. Guests can dine in the hotel's atmospheric restaurant, enjoy a drink at the Piano Bar or enjoy the many restaurants and bars of Old Havana. Hotel Florida's fantastic location and old world charm offer a distinctive Havana holiday experience. Once you've exasperated the sites of Havana, head to Iberostar Bella Costa is located on one of the world's finest beaches - Varadero. Iberostar Bella Costa is an All -Inclusive Resort where there are various dining options to choice from including buffet and a la carte restaurants with fantastic wines, local and international beverages. The resort also offers the following activities and facilities water sports, land sports with equipment and instruction, entertainment and other activities are included in one single price.


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Brett Smith is an American freelance writer with a bachelor's degree in journalism from Buffalo State College and has 8 years of experience working in a professional laboratory.
Initially starting out his professional life as a laboratory technician working in private industry, Brett began to realize his innate skills were more suited to working with words, rather than numbers. He pursued a degree in journalism and after graduation began growing his career as a freelance writer, after many years of successful work in a laboratory setting. Eventually, he was able to establish his own freelance business and focus on specializing his writing in a few areas; mostly science journalism, food, and business culture.
He continues to relish any opportunity to combine his dual passions of creative writing and scientific research.
Brett has also found himself writing quite a lot about dining, food, and drink. One freelance gig with a local entertainment website resulted in the local paper asking for restaurant reviews. He then landed a freelance gig with start-up company covering beer, wine, and cocktail trends. Covering these topics offers a welcome change of pace from scientific writing, not to mention the perfect excuse to indulge in life-affirming food and drink. This work has happily fuelled his own personal cooking and mixology journeys.
Being a life-long resident of Buffalo, New York has shaped Brett's worldview and informed his writing. Like most cities around the Great Lakes, Buffalo has a past filled with industrial might and decades of decline. In recent years, the city has seen a massive resurgence, powered in part by an expanding medical campus and world-class cancer research centre.
As a Buffalonian, Brett also is proud to be a long-suffering Bills and Sabres fan, still waiting for one team or the other to lift a championship trophy.
Articles from Brett
Sustainable Implications of Biocarbons
Created by the high-temperature, pressurized breakdown of organic matter, biocarbons are being seen as a major weapon in the war against climate change.
Rheology of Graphene and Carbon Nanotube-Enhanced PLA
While recycling programs have made significant progress in reducing the landfilling of plastic waste, large quantities of plastic are still being placed into landfills and a significant amount of plastic ends up in rivers, lakes, oceans, and other waterways, resulting in devastating effects on the e
Clear-Welding Polymers with Laser Technology
Lasers have been used to weld together plastic parts for decades, but until recently the technology had one major disadvantage: it could not be used to weld clear polymers. Recently, high-powered laser technology has allowed for the development of clear plastic welding techniques with the use of spe
Can Wood Rival Metal Hardness?
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have been using different techniques to increase the strength of natural wood, but in a recent groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of Maryland unveiled a process that was capable of making wood as hard as steel.
New Recyclable DANU Composite Improves Powerboat Performance
Originally designed for watercraft, a composite material developed by the Scotland-based Ultimate Boat Company (UBC) could be a gamechanger in terms of both performance and sustainability for countless industries and applications, from wind power to yachting.
Why Reducing Gas Combustion for Glass Production is Increasingly Essential
Because it requires high amounts of heat, glass production is one of the most energy-demanding industries in the world. Alternatives to natural gas combustion are considered in this article.
Ringo: World-First Automated Management of Large-Scale Battery Systems
National French electricity grid manager, RTE, has announced the first fully operational effort to control the flow of electricity through the grid using automation on a large scale.
Next-Generation Battery-Powered Automotive Powertrains
Williams Advanced Engineering and Nyolbolt have joined a partnership intended to develop next-generation, high-performance vehicle batteries.
How Lignin Helps Create Game-Changing Supercapacitor Technology
In a new study published in Advanced Science, researchers from the Imperial College London and University College London described how they created novel free-standing supercapacitor electrodes with high energy storage capacity by making use of an organic by-product of paper manufacturing called lig
Recent Developments in Flexible Electronics for the Automotive Industry
The demand for printed, flexible electronics in the industry over the decade will rise to $13 billion, according to a 2021 report from IDTechEx. The use of thin electronics on flexible substrates will be driven by the need to reduce weight, a primary concern for the production of electric vehicles.
Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Bioceramics Fundamentals and Applications
Mohamed Rahaman
In this interview, AZoM talks to Mohamed Rahaman, professor emeritus of materials science & engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, about bioceramics and their potential uses in biomedical engineering.
Microbiota Survival on Photovoltaic Panel Materials
Dr. Duarte and Juliane Moura
AZoM speaks to Dr. Iolanda Duarte and Juliane Moura about their research that considers the presence of extremophile microbiota on photovoltaic panels.
How do Blocks of Carbonized Compressed Powder Purify Water?
Professor Andrea Fratalocchi
AZoM speaks with Professor Andrea Fratalocchi from KAUST about his research that focuses on a previously unrecognized aspect of coal.
Monitor Greasing and Lubrication with LUBExpert
Improper grease application accounts for a large amount of bearing failures. With 40% of bearings not lasting enough to deliver their engineered value, under and over lubrication are key areas to monitor. LUBExpert allows you to use the appropriate lubricant and the right time and the right place.
From SDT Ultrasound Solutions
TPC Foil (Tough Pitch Copper Foil)
This is a standard rolled copper foil from JX Nippon Mining & Metals with ideal flexibility and vibration resistance properties.
From JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation Functional Materials Division
Automated X-Ray Diffraction: XRDynamic (XRD) 500
Anton Paar's XRDynamic (XRD) 500 is an automated, multipurpose powder X-ray diffractometer. It is a highly efficient and versatile XRD machine.
1 Building Electromagnetic Wave Absorbing Materials
2 Natural-Gas-fired Power Plants with Integrated Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells
3 Crack Healing in Concrete Analyzed via Water Permeability Testing
4 Carbon-Negative Biochar Augmented Concrete
5 Employing IoT in Smart Agriculture
6 3D Printing Clay Bricks for Construction
UV Raman Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer as a Measurement Technique for Biologics Analysis
From IS-Instruments, Ltd. 13 Jan 2022
The Advantages of Digitization in Laboratory Technology
From Fink & Partner GmbH 11 Jan 2022
Perfecting Food Packaging Through Measurement of Tapped Density
From Bettersize Instruments Ltd. 8 Dec 2021
B&W Tek Raman System to Detect the Spices in Gingerbread Cookies
From B&W Tek 22 Dec 2021
Graphene: The Future of Solar Cells?
Solar energy has been at the forefront of nations' efforts to develop new technologies, and scientists are continuously looking for new methods to develop efficient energy-generating systems.
New Method to Design Nanomaterials with Less than 10-Nanometer Precision
This article will explore a novel method that has the potential to design nanomaterials with less than 10 nm precision.
Electrode Applications: 3D Bundle-Like Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Supercapacitors
This article reports on work where as-synthesized BCNTs are prepared by catalytic thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) resulting in fast charge transfer between electrode and electrolyte.

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On average, 115 Americans die from an opioid overdose each day in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The country has been grappling with a worsening drug epidemic for decades. In 2016, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids was five times higher than in 1999, for example. From 1999 to 2016, more than 630,000 people died from drug overdoses nationwide, including in communities where Navy personnel live and operate.
The woman smiles when she talks, and alternates between making eye contact and then looking at the floor. She sits straight, and has the military bearing of someone who has spent half of her life serving the country. She chuckles occasionally. At other times, she talks for minutes without blinking.
Actor Gerard Butler visited Naval Submarine Base (SUBASE) New London, Connecticut, ahead of an exclusive premiere of his new submarine movie, "Hunter Killer," Oct. 20.
Lieutenant Cmdr. Nate Scott, slot pilot for the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, discusses the human element that goes into every flight demonstration.
Colombian naval forces recently helmed UNITAS LIX, hosting 11 countries in Cartagena during the annual exercise, held Aug. 31 through Sept. 11.
Every inch of the stainless steel counters are utilized to chop vegetables, prepare pizza toppings and fry chicken wings. The cooks move and work together like a finely tuned, well-oiled machine in the galley aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88). They joke and sing along with every style of music, played from a Bluetooth speaker hanging overhead, from old country to underground rap.
Being selected as a chief represents the most significant change in an enlisted Sailor's career. Less than 10 percent of all who enter the enlisted ranks will be selected. The level of responsibility they assume is a reflection of their leadership potential as well as technical prowess. Chiefs not only are considered the subject-matter experts in their rates, but also assume many collateral duties, such as training junior Sailors and even junior officers.
"A tradition of honor" is not just a motto for the crew aboard USS O'Kane (DDG 77), it's something to live up to and a tribute to the ship's namesake.
One thing about the Navy is that every Sailor has a different background. Some come from the city and some from the farm. Some joined right out of high school, while others have been to college. Different countries, different languages and different cultures - one thing is sure, each Sailor has a story.
The world's largest international maritime exercise concluded Aug. 2 following more than a month of training events conducted in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California.
When guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG-61) shipmates Anthony White and Kiara Reyes arrived at the recent MyNavy Career Development Symposium in Norfolk, Va., they were undesignated E-3s.
It's overcast, a balmy 75 degrees with high humidity at 7 a.m. on day two of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technician dive school aboard Naval Support Activity Panama City, Florida. Students, that are still wet from the 500-meter swim portion of the physical screening test (PST), are now covered in sand and sweat as they drop to complete another set of push-ups at Thor's Playground, a slightly wooded workout area.
Twenty-five nations, more than 45 surface ships and submarines, 17 national land forces, and more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are taking part in a unique training opportunity around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California designed to foster and sustain cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's interconnected oceans. Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2018 is the 26th biennial exercise in a series that began in 1971.
Thousands of Sailors could be affected by this year's hurricane season. If you are in a hurricane prone area and you aren't prepared, you should be.
It's hard not to stare; it's the first thing you notice. A mass the size of a pineapple hanging from the right side of his face, pulling and stretching his eye and mouth under its weight. Harder to see though are the years of relentless torment he's had to endure, and the lonely boy lost behind the mask. That was the boy discovered by the Continuing Promise 2018 team.
They may not come issued with a seabag, but children are an important part of military families. Healthy, resilient children and families contribute to the readiness of individual service members.
Building trust, developing leaders, and driving high performance teams are never ending tasks. For the enlisted force, "Laying the Keel - Developing the Backbone of Our Navy" sets the structure and continuous learning conditions towards those ends.
For some Sailors, it's a deeply meaningful religious experience. For others, the echo over the intercom, "Tattoo, tattoo." Stand by for evening prayer," is simply a sign that another day at sea has passed, and that they're that much closer to going home.
The Navy's first role 2 light maneuver (R2LM) team completed its inaugural, 69-day deployment aboard the French navy's Mistral-class amphibious assault ship LHD Tonnerre (L9014), offering advanced trauma and life support capabilities while underway in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. This area includes the Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Red Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean - about 2.5 million square miles of water and 20 countries.
So you just received orders to Naval Base Guam, home to miles of pristine beaches and some of the best diving locations in the world, according to Scuba Diving Magazine. You can almost feel the warm, tropical air brushing against your face, but before you pack your bags, here are a few important things to know.
More than 6,000 Sailors assigned to the Carl Vinson Strike Group have been on a regularly scheduled deployment to the western Pacific since January.
The Hampton Roads Naval Museum held its 7th annual Brick by Brick Lego Shipbuilding event Saturday, Feb. 3.
Meet the men and women who know about fuel, the people for whom fuel is virtually their entire profession: aviation boatswain's mates (fuels), who serve aboard USS Reagan (CVN 76) and USS Wasp (LHD 1), among other ships.
Some 40 years ago, a young aviation electronic technician stood a cold and lonely mid-watch, the only sound the slap of waves against his ship and the echoing of his own thoughts. It was one of hundreds of watches Richard H. Thayer Jr. would stand over 13 years in the Cold War-era Navy, and almost 12 more in the Reserves.
"Man overboard!" The unthinkable can happen in a heartbeat, and an underway can go from routine to disaster. It can take hours to find a Sailor who has gone overboard, if he or she is found at all. The cold reality is that many Sailors have been lost at sea, and it is often an unnecessary cause of death in this day and age.
Like any other organization, the Navy is not perfect. Many times Sailors ask why things must be done a certain way. Often, they're convinced they know a more effective way. Sometimes, they're right. The Innovation Lab, better known as the iLab, gives Sailors a chance to take those ideas and possibly turn them into reality.
Deep below the cold steel decks of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), Sailors moving busily around the decks stop momentarily and listen to the soft strumming of an acoustic guitar, accompanied by a somber voice singing about life at sea.
In 1992, the owner of a wreath company in Maine had a surplus of decorations leftover toward the end of the holiday season.
Fifty Ike Sailors traveled to the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Historic Site, or "Ike Farm," with the mission of restoration and preservation of Eisenhower's estate, October 30.
Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) are small surface combatant ships with specific, yet flexible, capabilities. The ships employ a system-of-systems approach through a series of modular mission packages, unmanned vehicles and an innovative hull design.
As the holiday season approaches, the crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) prepares to celebrate on deployment. Being away from home for the holidays can be challenging, but the Nimitz crew comes together as a family to make the holidays special and memorable.
The USS Nimitz (CVN 68), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) strike groups commenced a three-carrier strike force exercise in the Western Pacific, Nov. 11-14.
The smell of crisp pine in the air, and the peaceful quietness of nothing but the rushing of emerald green glacial rivers as they flow down the side of a mountain describes most of the state of Washington. However, this heart-stopping landscape has a potentially lethal side that can claim even the most experienced hikers. But, luckily for those in northern Washington, there's a highly trained group of Sailors ready to answer the call.
When Indoctrination Day begins at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, the newest batch of nervous, anxious and sweaty plebes (midshipmen 4th class) hurry around the majestic, riverfront campus from one processing station to the next. They receive a crash course in military bearing. However, about 270 of them are ready for the challenge.
In 1811, facing a generation of aging Revolutionary War veterans, the nation made a promise. It promised to care for them, seeing to their medical needs. It fulfilled that promise with first the U.S. Naval Asylum in Philadelphia in 1834, then the U.S. Military Asylum in Washington, D.C., in 1851.
It began like any other day for Chief Master-at-Arms Joseph Pellicano: the familiar routine of waking up, putting on his uniform and getting in his car to drive to Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Florida.
The crew aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) had less than 36 hours to take on supplies and personnel to assist with relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in August. The crew has been conducting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts for more than a month now, first in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the wake of Hurricane Irma and later in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
Three weeks ago, as Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Josue Cordero-Fernandez worked in the jet shop aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68), Hurricane Maria was gaining momentum, churning in the Atlantic Ocean and barreling toward Puerto Rico.
On the bridge of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), somewhere in the Arabian Gulf, Lt. j.g. Colleen M. Wilmington, a Leon, Kansas, native, has just assumed the officer of the deck watch. Now officially in charge of maneuvering the ship, she has taken the lead of an entire watch team and is the direct representative of the commanding officer.
Every year, Plebe Summer begins with approximately 1,200 incoming freshmen shedding their civilian clothes and receiving new haircuts. They are introduced to their detailers, senior students who will provide mentorship that both shapes and humbles in equal parts, helping pave the way for plebes to one day assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government.
The months of August and September saw three catastrophic hurricanes carve paths of destruction throughout the Caribbean and U.S. Gulf Coast: Harvey, Irma and Maria.
Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen participated in a Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (Habitat LA) project in Long Beach, California during Los Angeles Fleet Week 2017.
His pencil scratches against the paper, the repetitive motion creating shadows and adding depth to his drawing. He's putting the finishing touches on a self-portrait, one that represents both his past and his future.
"Load! Make ready! Fire!" - These are the commands given to the new U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen during Plebe Summer at the small arms qualification course. Marksmanship training, like every challenge a midshipman faces, is overcome one step at a time.
Clear, sunny, blue skies and equally blue seawater set the stage for Sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) to take the plunge from an aircraft elevator during an all-hands swim call.
Somewhere in the world, disaster strikes. Perhaps it's a terrible hurricane in Central America, a shattering earthquake in Asia or a catastrophic tsunami in the Pacific. Thousands die. Millions lose their homes, their livelihoods, their families. Then, disease sets in.
A loud snap in the distance makes the Sailor immediately drop into a low crouch, his eyes wide and heart racing; the noise could have been anything - deadfall from the dry tree branches, a desert fox or mountain lion, or perhaps even the enemy stalking him.
Excitement and mystery flooded their system. They had found out just days before about the trip to an unknown platform. The step-by-step preparations only made them more anxious to find out what lay in further waters.
The pages of history continue to turn for the U.S. Navy's oldest commissioned warship, USS Constitution. She will soon exit the historic Dry Dock One at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston National Historical Park in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
The 2017 Warrior Games brought together more than 260 service members from across the military, as well as our brothers and sisters in arms from the United Kingdom and Australia.
After all the fanfare, the crowds and the cameras, Team Navy joined their fellow competitors July 8 at a small event at Navy Pier in Chicago to celebrate the conclusion of the 2017 Department of Defense Warrior Games, hosted by the Navy.
Many naval veterans will tell you ships are living creatures, the engines pumping out massive amounts of energy, allowing tons of steel to cut through the oceans.
On June 17, guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) collided with a merchant vessel southwest of Yokosuka, Japan. Seven Sailors tragically lost their lives and others were injured as a result.
Ryan Shannon grew up like most kids from a small town in suburbia. He played sports and hung out with his friends and siblings. After high school, he did what most kids were expected to do: go to college and earn a degree in a chosen career field. However, one event changed everything.
Bailey Wagner kicks off a drill by serving a ball over the net and yelling authoritatively and enthusiastically, "Ball! Get to the spot! Nice high hands!" It doesn't take long to tell that she is a competitor, almost as if she gives as much effort coaching as she would if she were playing the game.
Even inside a gym filled with chatter and laughter, he stands out. Built like a NFL linebacker, there is no question he is an athlete. He seems a little out of place, but he lines up in formation with the rest of his team and they begin doing warm-up drills on the freshly-glossed basketball court.
Life is an adventure with unexpected obstacles. The twists and turns people experience can drastically change their lives forever.
U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen from the Class of 2020 conquered the final hurdle of their freshman year during the annual Herndon Monument climb May 22.
You're up for orders and there are opportunities for you to be stationed almost any place around the globe. One such place is Japan.
You're up for orders and there are several opportunities for you to be stationed almost any place around the globe. One such place is Japan.
A hastily constructed 120-foot platform stretched off the hulking cruiser USS Pennsylvania (ACR 4), forming a crude runway high above the choppy waters of the San Francisco Bay.
The sun hasn't yet peaked over the horizon, but ships are already busy with life readying to transit one of the engineering marvels of the sea: The Suez Canal.
Without blood pumping, animals can't live. Without fuel, aircraft don't fly. Take a firsthand look at the "grapes" aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) as they conduct fueling operations at sea.
Composite training unit exercise, or COMPTUEX, is the last task between a ship's crew and finally setting sail for deployment.
It's four in the morning at Camp Shelby, Miss., and Builder Constructionman Richard Starcher wakes up to beeps from his watch. He rubs his tired eyes and glances over at his gear.
Being a leader is a never ending process of growth and development. In the 124 years of the chief petty officer rank, good leadership is one key to molding good Sailors.
When asked who he is, Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Benjamin Dobbs uses two words: Sailor and fighter.
The image is iconic: Marines pouring ashore, emerging from choppy waves to secure a beachhead in the name of freedom.
Curiosity led a young novice monk, Aroon Seeda, towards a site where U. S. Marines had set-up camp.
From the earliest days of each branch's inception, to the island-hopping of World War II, the jungles of Vietnam, and still today, the Navy and Marine Corps have worked side-by-side bridging gaps between each service's unique culture and mission.
"Medic! Medic! Someone help: I can't feel my legs! Help me please!"
As the Seabee 75th Anniversary approaches, Builder Constructionman Glenn Vaca from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5 remembers the past and looks towards the future as they help build facilities in the Svay Rieng Province in Cambodia.
Roaring waves from all corners of the map come together under one roof with the promise to reveal age-old seagoing secrets in the Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin (MASK) at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock, Maryland.
The Navy is ever changing, from command leadership to new NAVADMINs and new programs that are launched to improve not just the fleet, but individual Sailors. One such program is Sailor 2025.
As the Cambodian sun pours down on the already sweat-drenched Seabees, they continue to push on, knowing their efforts will not be in vain. They are on a mission to do whatever it takes to complete a new facility for the Sromo Primary School in Svay Rieng Province, Cambodia.
Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces (USFF) announced the authorization of the Improved Flame Resistant Variant (IFRV) coverall as an approved fleet organizational clothing item Jan. 19 via ALFLTFORCOM/ALPACFLT 191900Z JAN 17.
The roar of LCACs approach the desert beaches of Djibouti, Africa. Moments later dozens of Marines and equipment exit and scramble over sand and rocks away from the beach.
Small towns exist all over the country, and each is as different as the states they occupy. For many small towns, leaving to serve your country after high school is a high point of pride.
For most, going to the barbershop isn't an out of the ordinary experience. Day in and day out, service members trek to the barbershop to stay within Navy grooming regulations.
Where is your dad? What does he do? Where does he live?
Heat, humidity and chlorine hang in the air like a thick blanket and the flip-flop and intermittent squeak of flip flops echo down the hall.
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said "Nothing is permanent, but change," and mid-19th century writer Arnold Bennett said "Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."
Click, clack, snap - the cases are unlocked, revealing one of the Navy's newest technologies. With the sun peaking over the pines, this place seems innocuous, but it is the future of underwater warfighting.
Her day starts well before the sun comes up. Kids are still asleep, she moves through a silent house getting ready. The smell of coffee is in the air, her children's clothes are already laid out, and she checks the calendar one last time to make sure everything for the week is planned out.
This is a place where no light enters and only the creatures of the deep thrive, it is the deep, dark, cold, crushing depths of the world's oceans, this is the home of the Navy's "silent service."
White waves froth as a Navy submarine cuts through the water making its way toward the open ocean. Three small boats bob in the swells, over a dozen sets of eyes are on the surrounding area, weapons at the ready to protect this multi-billion dollar Navy asset and her crew.
The Navy Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA) provides senior enlisted leaders education in communication skills, leadership and management, national security affairs, Navy programs, and physical fitness.
"We are gathered today to honor the final wishes of former service members and their families by conducting military honors for committal at sea upon USS Carl Vinson."
The once-ribbing term "four-eyes" now secures a coolness factor, thanks to a team of Navy engineers who have developed a high-resolution, see-through, heads-up display embedded directly inside a KM-37 Navy dive helmet to keep its users safer, more efficient and more effective underwater.
On a high ledge in the corner of a 12-foot deep test pool containing some 33,000 gallons of 40-degree water sits an unfinished Sudoku puzzle.
For chief petty officer selectees, completing their extensive six-week Navy and chief heritage training is reason enough for celebration, but to complete the process alongside a husband or wife is a special event not often seen during CPO 365 Phase II.
The first week of August had first class petty officers on their toes with their palms sweating with anticipation, thoughts running wild and with their hearts beating faster than usual.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108), amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) and 170 embarked Marines from I Marine Expeditionary Force, departed the Port of Los Angeles, Sept. 6, bringing the inaugural Los Angeles Fleet Week to a close.
Thirteen has been a lucky number for the Navy. As Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Mike D. Stevens, the Navy's 13th MCPON, gets ready to retire, the legacy he is leaving behind will continue to thrive.
Sailors have many options to spend the little free time they get on deployment; they can play video games or watch movies, but Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Alex Perez uses his precious minutes to make children's books for his family.
In May 2015, 95-year-old Jean Marie Dorn Lowman wanted nothing more than to see her granddaughter, Midshipman 1st Class Amber Lowman, graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy and toss her cap high in the sky.
Amphibious dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45) gently rocked off the coast of Southern California as the ship's crew crowded onto the mess decks.
One year ago shots cut the Chattanooga, Tennessee air like a knife as an active shooter made his way through the city's Armed Forces Career Center.
The click click of nails across the floor, dogs panting and a cheerful, yet powerful voice giving commands can be heard as you head up the stairs of a converted barn.
The 2016 Warrior Games kicked off at West Point, New York, pitting wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans from all branches of the military against each other.
The waves crashed and the wind howled, freezing the crew and filling the air with a roaring din which drowned out our shouts and commands. I clung to the mast with one arm whilst standing on the winch drum, pulling down the mainsail.
He tries hard to think back on that day. He tries hard to remember. He knows he was heading back to work. He turned into a blind curve and there was a car on his side of the road.
With sparks flying, loud bangs of steel colliding and screeches from metal grinding, a hardened chief tightens his lips, slightly resembling a smile, as he sips his morning coffee.
When you hear the term "Top Gun," you probably picture a young Tom Cruise in a flight suit, giving a thumbs-up on a movie poster. Or perhaps you remember that epic flyby or fighter jets blasting through the sky on the big screen.
Azure blue waters lapping onto warm beaches stretching a spectrum of colors, from a silky smooth pearl white to the blackest of black, stretching as far as the eye can see. Peaks of long extinct volcanoes cut through the vibrant green landscape. Welcome to Hawaii.
Ships have an uncanny ability to either save your life or end it.
As summer approaches, some Sailors begin to dust off their motorcycle helmets and prepare to start riding again.
An increase of motorcycle riders in the warmer seasons can bring a potential increase in motorcycle accidents.
Senior enlisted leaders blog about their experiences at the Senior Enlisted Academy.
Beads of sweat hit the deck as energetic music pumps in the background. Sailors throw a jab followed by a swift hook, all in perfect unison.
"If we want to have the greatest Navy in the world, we must have the greatest leaders in the world," said Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Mike Stevens.
As service members and representatives of the U.S. Navy it is important to understand what is appropriate behavior during election season. The following guidelines are here to help you actively participate in the political process in a way that adheres to Navy core values.
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Retired Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) William "Bill" H. Plackett died peacefully the evening of March 4. He was 78.
Anyone who has been on deployment can attest to the fact that the ships on the water get some pretty good movies.
The puck drops, and the game is on. The hard rubber disc, like ice when frozen, can be a deadly projectile when shot too hard amongst the sticks on the ice.
Sailors are repeatedly warned of the dangers of drinking and driving. Sitting through briefs, whether it's aboard the ship before a long holiday weekend or before a visit to some exotic foreign port, Sailors are reminded to know their limits and use caution when consuming alcohol.
Bulkheads shake and rattle, the sound of jets taking off the flight deck as USS Nimitz cuts through the water leaving a white wake in its path.
Located on the lush and quiet island of Kauai is the world's largest instrumented multi-environmental range, Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands (PMRF). PMRF simultaneously supports surface, subsurface, air and space training and testing operations.
Culinary Specialist 1st Class Sean Zugsmith was selected by the World Master Chefs Society to receive the Master Chefs Diploma of Culinary Excellence in December, becoming only the fourth active-duty enlisted service member to receive the honor in the history of the Department of Defense.
After more than 40 years of service, the last S-3B Viking in U.S. Navy service launched one last time from the runway at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, Jan. 11.
The streets are still damp with rain left the night before. As apartment lights begin to pierce the night sky, dawn is still hours away but the city of Busan is waking up.
After spending 19 years together at one another's side, twin siblings Seaman Recruit Savannah Sturgis and Seaman Recruit Joseph Sturgis found motivation in their separation during boot camp at Recruit Training Command (RTC), Great Lakes.
"This is the TAO, away the SNOOPIE team! Away!"
Undergoing extended maintenance in the shipyard can be a trying time for any ship and her crew. The long days, paired with dangerous, stressful working conditions can be a challenging combination.
While USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) (GHWB) carries on with its Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) period in Norfolk Naval Shipyard, one of the many adjustments the ship's crew continues to overcome is a sudden lack of practical, hands-on training for the navigation team aboard the now stationary ship.
The U. S. Naval Academy Midshipmen squared off on the gridiron against the University of Pittsburg Panthers at the 8th Annual Military Bowl at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium presented by Northrop Grumman.
The Navy hasn't been quiet about its need for female Recruit Division Commanders. Since 2010 the Navy has been pushing hard for more women to make their way to Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes and into leadership positions.
When Culinary Specialist (CS) 2nd Class Kirstene Edwards, assigned to Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC), found out she was selected for Fab Lab training, she was both happy and scared.
The fear was real. Recruits have been going through the process since the early 1900s. Yet, that did not ease their anxiety.
It was after a snow storm when Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Laurie Wood saw her 9-year-old son outside. She peered out the window to see him scraping snow and ice from the wheel chair ramp leading up to their Norfolk home.
At Recruit Training Command (RTC), Sailors are learning a skill that can potentially save not only their life but many other lives as well. That skill is learning how to aim and fire a gun. While it's hopeful that they will never have to use it, it's also a terrifying reality being in the military.
A brisk wind rustles up fallen leaves and sweeps past the marble headstones of Arlington National Cemetery.
Enough sunlight hits the earth's surface in 1.5 hours to power the entire world's electricity consumption for a year.
Some of you know him as Chalee Jr. His friends and family know him as Tank. But most of his military brothers and sisters know him as the dude from the facebook videos.
It's time to transfer. The last three months have been spent in cold, wet Bremerton, Washington, and you are hoping for something different - Warm weather, nice beaches, history-rich museums, lavish shopping and the occasional sand storm.
Working around the clock, an ad hoc civilian-military team goes to great lengths, and depths to find the sunken merchant vessel El Faro.
Last year, over 10 million megawatt hours of energy were sold by Hawaii electric utilities and more than 46 million barrels of petroleum were imported for Hawaii's total energy use.
With gas prices hovering around $2 a gallon and environmental concerns on the horizon, most people are looking for ways to cut back on energy and reduce fuel consumption. The Navy is no different.
Don Holman was raised on a farm in Michigan and served 30 years in the Navy, which makes him a perfect fit to help test whether American warships could one day grow their own fresh vegetables.
Hawaii may not seem like a very scary place to visit, but somewhere on Pearl Harbor there is a butcher wearing the dead carcass of a pig's head, and he's scaring the locals.
The Leap Frogs are the U.S. Navy's parachute demonstration team.
On February 28, 1945, with the end of the war in Europe only weeks away, an American B-24 Liberator headed down the runway for a mission to Northern Italy. Their target was the Isarco-Albes Railroad bridge, a conduit for German forces being rushed to battle to the south.
Amphibious Construction Battalion (PHIBCB) 1 and 2 along with other Naval Beach Group (NBG) 2 Seabees, constructed a portion of the Elevated Causeway System (ELCAS) in Virginia Beach, Va.
The aircraft was lost at sea due to mechanical failure.
Navy divers and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians assigned to Commander, Task Group (CTG) 56.1 salvaged an F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft from the sea floor in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations, July 22, 2015.
Unmanned vehicles. It's a phrase very much of our times conjuring images of a sky filled with drone aircraft of various sizes and shapes.
It's no secret that military children have anything but a typical childhood.
Seaman Nathan Winn walks an average of five miles backward every day.
Ambling down the hall of his new duty station, Cmdr. Joe draws a lot of attention from patients and staff despite his best efforts to go unnoticed.
Master Chief Kyuuca-Ali Simpson pushes his Hawaii Sailors further with Total Body Fit.
With speakers blasting the latest hip tunes in the early morning at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, one certified fitness instructor is taking Navy physical training (PT) to another level. But this is no ordinary fitness instructor.
Retired Master Chief Musician advises Sailors on how to live a full and happy life outside of the military.
Nestled away in the little town of Edgewater, Maryland, a retired Navy musician's mate is doing the only thing he's ever known how to do and ever wanted to do, work with music.
As he stands on the sidelines, his limber gait attempting to work a worn path into the synthetic field, the bright, white sun is gleaming through a clear, oceanic blue sky.
"Why did you join the Navy?" is a question Sailors hear throughout their career. Often and in addition to "for money for school, a sense of purpose, or to do something with my life", the response is simply "to serve."
"How dare you embarrass me in front of my friends," Matt shouted at Ashley.
You get to work, attend quarters and head to your computer. With a fresh cup of coffee you open your email.
A slow march of visitors lined around a blend of American flags, patriotic balloons, and makeshift signs with messages written to the fallen at the memorial outside the Armed Forces Recruiting Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In 2001, Lt. Kelly Beamsley had a crazy idea. He decided to be a Navy Reserve recruiter in Fort Worth, Texas. But bringing a member into the Navy, he quickly realized, was the easy part. The hard part was what he could now do to support this member.
Sailors from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2 and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 6, along with Naval History and Heritage Command and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, are diving the Savannah River to salvage the Civil War ironclad CSS Georgia.
Rucking through the mountains of Afghanistan, scrubbing elbow deep in a scullery sink, recovering aircraft on the flight deck of a carrier in the world's greatest Navy - the life of an enlisted Sailor is filled with views from the peaks of success and even valleys of failure.
BLUF: Experts are revamping the PMS process, but need review and input from experienced Sailors. They are standing by for feedback.
The annual maritime excercie BALTOPS (Baltic Operations) is in its 43 iteration and bigger than ever. With 49 ships, 69 aircraft, and a submarine involved, naval and amphibious warfighting is back as a centerpiece of the exercise.
Adam Moses is practicing dog command gestures with an Xbox Kinect in his office at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). On the screen in front of him, a virtual Labrador dog obediently moves through an empty desert village; together, they're trying to locate a buried improvised explosive device (IED).
An underwater recovery team is in Northern Vietnam searching for the remains of two naval aviators who are believed to have crashed into the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War.
Members of the Army National Guard's 3rd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) worked hand in hand with members of the US Navy and US Coast Guard while conducting training at Naval Station Mayport, Florida.
Dozens of men killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are one step closer to finally going home. The first four caskets of the USS Oklahoma unknowns have been laid to rest.
Standing in a dimly lit room in front of a television laid on its back, a pair of 3D glasses causes a robotic hand to rise up out of the screen. Like Tony Stark playing with his many gadgets in the newest superhero movie, the user turns the hand over with a stylus.
USNS Comfort's primary mission is to provide an afloat, mobile, acute surgical medical facility to the U.S. military that is flexible, capable and uniquely adaptable to support expeditionary warfare.
When Mary Melson joined the Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES, program May 4, 1944, the now 91-year-old woman wasn't thinking about blazing a trail, raising the glass ceiling or strengthening women's civil rights - she just wanted to be in the Navy.
Change is happening at Recruit Training Command (RTC). Today's recruits, born into the millennial generation, are quickly adapting to this new implementation. Change is in their hands... literally.
Sputnik. The name alone evokes images of a bygone, atomic era: set to a soundtrack of post-war rockabilly, the world seemed to broadcast itself in Technicolor, and mankind was taking the first meaningful steps into the final frontier.
Military Sealift Command hospital ship, USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), departed Guatemala May 1 after completing a nine-day mission stop in support of Continuing Promise 2015 (CP-15).
Did you know that one in five heavy drinkers in the Navy has experienced serious consequences as a result of drinking ? Although April Alcohol Awareness Month is coming to a close, responsible drinking is a year-round priority for the Navy.
In January, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus established Task Force Innovation designed to reach out to Sailors, Marines, and civilians to harness the creative energy they have. The goal was to infuse those ideas into the Navy and its operations in order to ensure naval preeminence for the foreseeable future.
If eyes are the mirrors of the soul, then Louis Gilbert is a soul maker. From his dental laboratory at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center he is busy; creating handmade, lifelike prosthetic eyes that would make any soul proud.
When retired Navy Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Jim Castaneda arrived on Ford Island at Pearl Harbor he was under the impression he and his fellow brothers and sisters in the Navy Wounded Warrior-Safe Harbor program were attending a ceremony honoring the 2015 Wounded Warrior Pacific Trials being held in Hawaii.
Just south of the District of Columbia, in Dahlgren, Virginia, sits the Center for Surface Combat Systems (CSCS). Its main focus is developing and delivering surface ship combat systems training to both domestic and foreign fleets.
Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4's Construction Civic Action Detail consists of a small group of Sailors currently working on the Island of Cebu, Philippines.
It's 5 a.m. and the summer sunrise is gradually warming the waterfront near Naval Hospital Bremerton (NHB) as an active group of Sailors gathered on the grass in that early morning sun, each with a dedicated sense of purpose intent on their physical training task.
In the summer of 2011 Gee Mi Jorde joined the military. More specifically she was accepted to the United States Naval Academy. Three years later her sister, Gee Yong Jorde was also accepted.
It's easy to get lost and mesmerized amongst the spectrum of colors bouncing off the mirrors in the photonics lab at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific). The hypnotic colors reflected are, in fact, lasers and the kaleidoscopic light show is the future of data transmission.
"What draws men in initially is, 'hey, ... I wanna jump, I wanna dive,'"said Chief Hospital Corpsman Danny Lang, a 2nd Marines Special Operations Battalion (MSOB) SARC.
Most families have traits that are passed down through the generations. Often when people look at photos of their grandparents they can see where certain features came from. For better or worse it's usually Grandma or Grandpa who deserves thanks for some defining hallmark of appearance.
We waded on the surface, raised our hands out of the water and made a hand gesture in the form of a peace-sign, signaling to the dive supervisor that we were ready to descend.
In both war and peacetime scenarios, fire in the shipboard environment is serious and frequently results in excessive damage and high repair costs because the fire is not detected or controlled adequately.
Capt. Ron Ravelo, commanding officer of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), held a two-day all hands call for Lincoln Sailors at Naval Station Norfolk, Jan. 21-22.
There are two ships running side-by-side. A fast-moving river of deep blue water rushes and churns between them. The moving ships maintain synchronized speeds and courses because pallets - stacked 5 feet high and carrying hundreds of pounds of supplies - are traveling across cables from one ship to another.
"What you're doing is allowing us to live the way we live"
The All Hands team got a chance to talk with Bradley Cooper, star of American Sniper, at the Navy Memorial during a Washington D.C. premiere. Check out the video from the interview and find the rest of the conversation below.
Atlantic, Va. is a zero-stoplight town. There are a few stop signs, but not much else to interrupt the bucolic setting. Small farms and even smaller businesses line the main drag, Route 679.
Naval Aircrewman 1st Class Joseph Jiardina, assigned to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35, describes how he is supporting Air Asia Flight #QZ8501 search efforts and helping to bring closure to families affected by the tragedy.
Heroism; bravery; valor: these are qualities which are defined and made familiar to Marines and Sailors alike upon entering the service.
Chief Deidra Wright loves to bake. She bakes mostly for therapeutic purposes, which often leaves her with more food than she can eat.
When he tied his bootlaces and buttoned up his blouse that morning, Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Douglas M. Herbert had no idea that his seven years of rate training would be put to the test before he arrived at work.
Corpsmen are never off duty. They have to be ready for whatever, whenever. It was a whatever, whenever moment that came one night while two corpsmen were relaxing in their sleeping quarters.
Newton's third law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction; the same might be true when it comes to making choices as well.
Bugs. Six-legged, eight-legged ... never a good surprise to find in a house. What usually induces a blood-curdling shriek from many draws a few bold, curious Sailors in like ... well ... a moth to a flame.
After 42 years, NASA and the Navy are at it again. The Orion space capsule was recovered by Navy divers assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 11, Mobile Dive and Salvage Company 11-7 and the USS Anchorage. This is the first launch of this kind since the Apollo 17 mission more than four decades ago.
Members of the civilian business community received a unique opportunity to witness firsthand the capabilities of the Navy during the 2014 Navy Employer Recognition Event (NERE), held at Joint Expeditionary Base (JEB) Little Creek.
Musicians have a proud tradition and a rich history in the Navy. Starting in 1798 when the first ship was put to sea with a fifer and a drummer to present day, where Navy music has grown to 11 fleet bands, the Navy has kept pace to music.
I was born in a small town called Hot Coffee, Miss. My father had five children by five different women; some of these children were older than my mother. My father, a hustler, was abusive. My mother would escape my father's abuse by visiting my grandparents' house to do laundry. One day, she decided to stay permanently.
The Navy is changing mailing addresses for ships, afloat units, and ashore FPOs to improve service, reduce costs and get mail to service members more efficiently. The modifications will ultimately make the military mail system more compatible with the U.S. Postal Services management system. Here's what you need to know.
Sailors and military veterans were among the swarm of music fans who packed the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Tuesday for a free Veterans Day concert, bouncing to Rihanna, head-banging to Metallica and cheering anthems from Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl and other artists.
Last fall, I received a phone call from a close friend prompting me to investigate the Ms. Veteran America competition. Initially, I disregarded his comments due to the objectification that typically accompanies beauty pageants.
When Culinary Specialist 1st Class Stephanie R. Cooper, USS Forrest Sherman, got the call the day before Halloween, she wasn't sure if it was a trick or a treat. Did Rachael Ray really want her to appear as a guest cook on her show?
Navy test pilot Cmdr. Tony Wilson, assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23, landed the F-35C test aircraft CF-73 at 12:17 p.m. on board Nimitz.
When I first checked onboard USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), I knew absolutely nothing about amphibious assault ships. I had never heard the term "Gator Navy," and I kept hearing about something called "Bold Alligator." To be honest, I wasn't all that interested.
Wilbert McKinley has always had an interest in ships. Growing up on the East coast, he was fascinated by every vessel that caught his gaze.
"Are you a lifter or are you a leaner?" bellowed Command Master Chief Christopher Aldis, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, as he stared down eager chief petty officer (CPO) selects.
Chief Roberts discusses Benfold's offensive capabilities and an innovative energy competition he started onboard.
In the span of nine months, one's life can have a drastic change - a pregnancy, finding out what orders you've been selected for, or maybe something financially happens to you that can alter your life.
Navy divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit Two (MDSU 2) are in Colombia working with divers from the Armada de la Rebublica de Colombia as part of Southern Partnership Station 2014.
Situated in San Diego the eighth-largest US City - an area known as the birthplace of California and most recently as a healthcare and biotechnology development center - is a facility designed to provide advanced training to a select group of already highly skilled U.S. Navy, allied and joint personnel.
It was an early August morning when Sailors from the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego (LPD 22) got the call. Three National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists needed to be evacuated from Hermes Atoll, a small island chain in the Pacific Ocean.
Driving back to work after lunch that Wednesday afternoon was anything but ordinary once Jusino and Bishop saw a plume of smoke rising above the tree tops a few blocks away.
The amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) was the scene of yet another film production involving the U.S. Navy, only this time it's not, "The Last Ship," nor will the ship be fighting alien life forms with decommissioned battleships, instead the film is a documentary shot for Image Maximum (IMAX) to show the Navy's true, "Sea Power."
You're plummeting through the air at 120 miles per hour. The Earth is rushing up faster than any person should be comfortable with. Yet, you're cool, calm and collected. For the Navy Parachute Team, this is just another day at the office.
Navy divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit Two (MDSU 2) have just wrapped up two weeks in Guatemala working with divers from the Fuerza Especial Naval (FEN) as part of Southern Partnership Station 2014.
His heart was racing. The shouts and echoing boot stomps of Gestapo officers grew louder as they stormed the streets and raided nearby homes. It was 1938 and the Jewish society of Eastern Europe was considered an enemy of the German state.
The relationships formed during war are everlasting. Through bombs and battlefields, bonds become forged; spending countless days together in all conditions, just hoping that the pressure doesn't become too much, relying solely on each other for support.
Navy explosive ordnance disposal technicians from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 3 conducted a joint demolition training evolution with members of the Belize military as part of Southern Partnership Station 2014.
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing on your government computer is prohibited, bad for the network, and jeopardizes the mission.
Ask your average Sailor to describe their commute to work. You're likely to hear something like "Traffic, looking for a parking spot ..."
U.S. Navy medical professionals are traveling to rural areas with local doctors and nurses in Belize, Central America, to help with the patient load and observe how the local medical system operates.
Sesame Street and the USO have teamed up to bring military families a fun interactive way to address the challenges of having a parent in the military.
A Los Angeles native, steered by his search for greater adventure and opportunity, now does the steering aboard the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).
There may not be ocean-front property in Arizona, but there is a ship in the middle of the desert in New Mexico. It's made of pure concrete and never leaves port, but this landlocked ship (LLS) provides launch facilities simulating shipboard conditions for Navy surface-to-air weapons testing.
All Hands is starting a new feature series entitled Coolest Jobs in the Navy. We begin the series with Gunner's Mate 1st Class Brenda Reis, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, who launches rockets for NASA!
Navy explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians from Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) THREE are in Belize working with the Belize Coast Guard SEALs as part of Southern Partnership Station 2014.
Navy divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit Two (MDSU 2) are in Belize as part of Southern Partnership Station 2014. The MDSU divers will be working with divers from the Belize Coast Guard Service.
The author Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can't go home again, meaning home is a fixed place in time ... a memory, an ideal.
An ever-present hum, intermittently interrupted by the clanging of Sailors and contractors putting tools, alarms, and diesel engines through their paces, reverberates off the walls enclosing Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia's Land-Based Test Site (LBTS).
The sun reflected off the car's polished sky-blue metallic paint job. Inside the vehicle, a custom made wood centerfold extended from the back seats to the dashboard.
Navy Divers handle most of the underwater jobs in the Navy, but there is a small group of Sailors from other rates who get the opportunity to qualify as Navy SCUBA Divers.
Sailors know their ship. The constant hum of machinery, the pitch and roll of the ship as it rides the waves, and the routine announcements over the ship's 1MC (public address system) all become sounds of normalcy and provide a sense of comfort to Sailors at sea.
"There is still a very strong belief in the rest of the world that America is the land of opportunity," said Petty Officer 2nd Class David Oba. "It is the belief that there are always greener pastures, and I was raised to always aspire to do better and to seize any opportunity for a better life."
Sailors and Navy civilians specialize in a wide variety of jobs, many of which are unknown to the public. One of the often heard about, but little known commands in the Navy is the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), which seemed to me like a grown up science fair on steroids.
A manned mission to Mars has long been thought to only be possible in science fiction films. But for one Sailor, it could soon become a reality.
Man, what a blur. Ten hours down on the red carpet, dodging rain and crammed with more than 200 photographers and broadcasters into what seemed like a can of Pringles. I have never felt more like a sardine in all my life.
September 11, 2001, the U.S. came under attack when four commercial airliners were hijacked and used to strike targets on the ground.
For the past year, commuters traveling along the primary access road that connects the Heshikiya community to the White Beach Naval Facility in Okinawa, Japan, did so at their own peril.
Last week, All Hands featured an article titled "Show Me the Money; SCRA is Saving Sailors Thousands of Dollars.
It was midnight in the Indian Ocean with a storm bearing down; poor timing to lose access to the carrier's Intelink website. An information systems technician 3rd class petty officer (IT3) called NAVY 311 to find an expert who could quickly troubleshoot the problem.
Life is full of uncertainties, especially for those who choose to serve their country in the Navy and Marine Corps. Some of these uncertainties can place unnecessary burdens on Sailors and Marines.
In the ship's foc'sle stands a portrait of a brawny Sailor, with his cover cocked to the side and a pipe in his mouth. He controls the helm as fierce emerald waves crash behind him. Despite the chaotic scene, the mighty Popeye stands strong and proud over Deck department's space.
"What do you want from Santa this Christmas?"
Bells signal the start of cleaning stations, and Sailors aboard the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) pause as the ship's executive officer informs the crew that the self-service laundry is being closed due to a potable water shortage on board.
All Hands Magazine online is asking commands to put their creative talents to use and come up with an All Hands holiday cover.
Chief Machinist's Mate Edwin Garcia has a rhythm that can't be heard on your local radio station or even heard from your television. He has it in his heart.
For some people, family consists of blood relatives. For others, the Navy is the only family they've ever known.
Can you work for the reserves?
Across a conference room in Port Victoria, Seychelles, sits a sea of professionals: an FAA inspector, the president of a consulting firm, a pilot with a regional airline, a medical assistant, and a chief financial officer of a logistics firm.
In the small village of Guiuan, located in Eastern Samar province, villagers lined up outside the gate of a runway awaiting food, water and medical supplies to be delivered by helicopters from the George Washington Strike Group (GWSG) in support of Operation Damayan.
Just north of the white sandy beaches of the Emerald Coast of Florida's panhandle, a group of Sailors are working hand-in-hand with technical expert civilians to bring the Navy's fifth-generation fighter to the fleet.
The Kingdom of Bahrain is host to the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT), U.S. 5th Fleet, Combined Maritime Forces (CMF). Bahrain is an island nation of more than 1.2 million people, of which 8,000 are U.S. Department of Defense personnel and families.
Deep in the Northern Training Area of Okinawa, Japan, Seabees assigned to Squad 1 complete the first third of the wet maze and they stop for a break. Exhaustion blankets them.
The memory of his father wasn't blown away, but all around him nearly everything else was.
The Tarin Kowt district of Afghanistan is mired in poverty, wracked by warfare, and beset by a host of concerns such as lack of available medical care.
Anton's problems started within the first six weeks of his life, when profound neglect altered the way his brain developed.
Between the deafening scream of air wrenches, teams of Sailors participate in timed organized chaos. Seconds tick away - and every second counts. As Sailors perform their assigned task, the sweat builds, each Sailor careful not to waste time wiping it away.
The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, will return to its full schedule for the 2014 air show season.
A Petty Officer 3rd Class is seated before a group of seniors. His hands clasped together and his brow furrowed as he strains to remember the answer to a question he has been asked.
A medical physicist who joined the Navy Reserve last year says the day he received his selection letter was the most meaningful day of his life. But for his family back home in Africa, his example of success through hard work and sacrifice gives inspiration to those who want a better way of life.
The room is dimly lit by blue lights accompanied by the glow of orange and red buttons, and green-colored screens that display information useless to anyone who doesn't know what to look for.
Midshipmen, Marines and officer candidates from the more than 60 Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) units trained at U.S. Naval bases, ships, submarines, squadrons and commands around the country.
When the Littoral Combat Ship Freedom's gold crew returned home from deployment, it was on a plane, not a ship. Freedom remains deployed, swapping crew members instead of platforms.
With tight budgets and even tighter timelines for what can seem like endless administrative requirements, the Navy launched a website in July that allowed Sailors and Navy civilians to share ideas for cutting down on the tasking and processes that have kept the fleet from putting war fighting first.
Across America on most weekends between March and November there is a similar scene in at least five cities. Airports shut down and park 10,000 cars in the dirt. Military bases open their gates wide and ask the public to come on board. At the beach, there's something louder than a speedboat.
Navy trains Sailors supporting America's nuclear deterrence force.
A vital component of the nation's nuclear deterrence watch is the E-6B Mercury Airborne Command Post. Its main mission is to provide a survivable communications link to the Navy's fleet of ballistic submarines.
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) entered Dry Dock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) June 27, to begin its scheduled Docking Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA).
Three and a half seconds. That's about the time it takes for the average person to put on their seatbelt and start their car.
Henry Ford once said, "Coming together is the beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
As the daughter of a dentist, and as one herself, Lt. Corinne Devin, Orthodontist, U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Yokosuka knows how important it is to take care of your teeth.
After six years of steady progress toward fulfilling the U.S. Navy's goal of unmanned carrier integration, the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System (N-UCAS) program completed its carrier demonstration July 15.
Senior Chief Christopher Owen had just placed his most prized possession, his daughter, into the cramped 3 ft. x 6 ft. tornado shelter dug into the floor of his garage, when he heard the television say "IF YOU'RE NOT IN A SHELTER, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT!"
The story of two Sailors on leave in the wrong place at the right time.
When Cryptologic Technician (Collections) 2nd Class Arturo Guerra and Religious Program Specialist 3rd Class Sean Kelley traveled to Moore, Okla., on leave in May, they never imagined they would be providing life-saving assistance in the wake of one of nature's most destructive forces.
Lake Pend O'Reille provides the perfect spot for acoustic research.
When Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Stanley Maculewicz visits Camp Shorabak in Afghanistan's Helmand province to advise the Afghan army's 215th Corps Mobile Strike Force Kandak medics, he usually is welcomed with hugs and handshakes from his counterparts.
Darkness won't stop a bullet.
With 7,000 miles between them, they were face to face. One dressed in a uniform he'd been wearing for years, and the other dressed in a uniform he'd only just earned the right to wear.
A look at how the Naval Academy builds teamwork in first year midshipmen.
The Naval Academy Class of 2016 completed 14 continuous hours of rigorous physical and mental challenges, May 14, during the academy's annual "Sea Trials" training exercise.
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Vegan Eats and Treats!: Evans Boots for Stomping and Romping: A Vegan Shoe Review!
Evans Boots for Stomping and Romping: A Vegan Shoe Review!
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SWOON. Aren't these just the cutest boots ever??? I am so in love with my new Evans Boots from JBU (a sub-brand of Jambu Footwear). They are kinda my dream shoe and I can't stop wearing them, and I'm so glad the weather is cooling down so that I won't have to stop wearing them for a long time. I took them up to Northern California with me last week when I was leading a yoga retreat in Graeagle, CA - and they were just the PERFECT shoes for that trip!
First of all, they are absolutely crazy comfortable. They look and feel equally great with my yoga tights as with my regular pants or jeans. They are super easy to zip-on and zip-off. The soles are really high quality and feel supportive and durable. They kept my feet really warm and toasty without overheating.
Jambu makes lots of great vegan shoes for women, in a ton of different styles - from boots to sandals, and from casual to more dressy. They aren't all vegan though, so make sure you are looking at the vegan shoes part of their site before falling in love with a non-vegan shoe!
These shoes just make me so happy! They make me do crazy little dances and stomp my feet around like I am King Kong or like I am going to destroy my foes and emerge victoriously with my sword held high. I mean, really they just make me feel like a total badass and I love them! These are great attitude shoes when I mean business or want to feel extra confident. Obviously I am also a complete goofball who pulled over on the side of the road and took videos of herself stomping her feet around and pretending to be a monster.
The first time I tried these on, I was at a yoga course out of town, and I ended up going for an hour long walk up in the hills with them on: climbing hills, climbing and descending long staircases, traipsing through woodland trails... and even with brand new shoes my feet were happy as can be! At first the Evans boot felt a little on the narrow side for my feet, but as I have continued to wear them, that has entirely gone away and they feel perfect on my feet. I wear a size 9, and these fit me very true to size.
These pictures show the stylish detailing on the Evans Boots - I especially like the little buckle and the gentle crinkle of the faux leather. And check out the soles - they're really serious and have great grip. These boots are also "water resistant" (not water proof, but sturdier than some!). They come in black and brown and I found it hard to choose between the two because they're both really pretty. I'm glad I went with black in the end though because I have more black in my wardrobe.
The top left picture shows the Evans boot from the outer ankle view, and the top right picture shows the inner ankle view where the zipper is. The zipper goes pretty much all the way to the sole of the shoe, so it's really effortless to get my feet in and out.
Here you can see how fuzzy they are on the inside!!!
Around the front of the ankle, these shoes have a sort of faux shearling lining, and then the rest of the inside liner is super soft velvety fleecey fabric. Whatever it is, it's pure comfort magic. The insoles are made with memory foam and it's just an extremely pleasant experience to wear these shoes! I almost always wear them with socks, but a few times I've worn them out for errands without socks and they are still cozy and comfy even without socks.
Before heading home after my yoga retreat was over, I wore my Evans boots on a day hike with my friend and her beautiful dog. It wasn't a crazy demanding hike, but my boots did a great job walking along the trail, scrambling over some rocks to see salmon swimming upstream in the river, and keeping my feet comfy and secure the whole time. They got all dusty on the trail and easily cleaned up again when I got home!
The whole hike was super autumnal - with aspen trees turning bright yellow, a little chill in the air, and especially those amazing salmon. It had probably been at least 20 years since I had seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn. It's so amazing to watch.
I also found a perfect pinecone on my hike and brought it home with me. See how beautiful it was there?? I was basically oohing and aahing the whole time and I took so many pictures. My friend Emily took this picture of me balancing on a little foot bridge... feeling comfy and confident with my awesome Evans boots on!
In addition to day hiking and long city walks, I've been wearing these boots to go teach yoga, do errands, go to the farmers market, walk the dogs... you name it! They haven't failed me yet and I love them more and more everyday!
Let me know if you get any shoes for yourself! This season I have also reviewed the stylish Parker Boots and the Spirit Vegan Slip-ons in case you want to check out those reviews as well.
These look so cute and comfy! I wish I didn't have weird shaped feet and I could buy shoes online, they look like they would be worth the international shipping costs!


Science fiction writers like Douglas Adams (author of Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy) have always bestowed the future with some kind of universal translation device – it's kind of hard to keep the plot rolling along if none of your intergalactic protagonists can understand each other – but you don't have to stick a fish in your ear if you want to be understood on your own travels (in fact I would advise against doing so as it will just make you look odd and smell really bad). Instead, whip out your smartphone and let it do the talking for you.
Google Translate is a free online tool with apps available for Android, Blackberry, iPhone and Windows Phone. It uses voice recognition and text-to-voice to 'listen, translate and speak' over 50 languages on the go. I actually used this app once to help translate between the nurses and an Italian tourist with a broken arm in a hospital emergency room. Speech-to-speech translation makes it easier to have a natural conversation and you don't even need to struggle with pronunciation as the app will play a phrase back so that the person you are conversing with can hear it, straight from the smartphone's, err, mouth. If you're on Android you can even use the camera to photograph something like a menu or street sign and have that translated instantly too.
Not to be outdone, Microsoft offer Bing Translator, a similar web service with a Windows Phone app that will also translate text viewed through the camera in real time. If you're keeping an eye on your data consumption as well as the local menus, this app can even work with some languages offline.
iPhone users will have to fork out some cash to read menus with their camera phone. Word Lens from Quest Visual has downloadable language packs for three quid in each direction if you want to visually translate French, Italian, Spanish, German and Portuguese to and from English. The app is also available for Android, but why would you pay when the Google app works perfectly well free?
Having mastered the art of communication you're going to make lots of new friends you might want to stay in touch with once you get home. The Multilife is a social-network with a built in translator and speech synthesiser to blast away those language barriers. It's not as elegantly designed and busy as the likes of Facebook, but if you want a simple way to chat with all your multilingual buddies it is the perfect platform. If you or your friends have impaired vision this could also be useful to chat using text as you can have your comments spoken by the app in any language, even your native tongue.
As friendships continue to develop you'll probably want to learn each other's language to help the conversation flow. Duolingo is free and helps you learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and English. Lessons involve translating certain words with repetitive exercises to help it sink in. But what makes this service unique and special is that behind the scenes you are actually involved in translating pages on the web for this broader, clever, crowd-sourcing project. Free apps for Android and iPhone are also available to download.
Even the best language learning apps require you to practise, practise, practise – and the best way to do this is by talking to the locals. But this doesn't mean you have to wait until you get out there to start honing your language skills. Verbling is a social platform that pairs you up with a native speaker of whichever language you're trying to master; and they are someone who wants to practise your language too. You spend 5-minutes speaking together in each language, with conversation prompts and a guideline to coach each other to your best abilities. A lot of language pairings are offered, including sign-language.
But it's not just conversation smartphones can help you understand. Augmented reality has made it possible to point your camera at the world and learn a whole heap of fascinating facts drawn from the web. There are plenty of apps that will do this but I like Wikitude; free for Android, Blackberry, iPhone and Windows Phone. Just look at your surroundings through the app's camera viewpoint and anything in the area with a Wikipedia entry will be flagged on the screen. As well as pointing out restaurants and night life hotspots, there's information about landmarks and tourist attractions. Add to this more functional information about local services like police stations and cash machines. It's also the first AR app to integrate with Blackberry Messenger 6, helping you locate nearby friends as they too will be wearing an AR tag. When you've decided where to go, use the route feature to switch to Google Maps for turn by turn directions.


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Christina Wodtke has led redesigns and initial product offerings for such companies as LinkedIn, Myspace, Zynga, Yahoo, Hot Studio, and eGreetings. Christina has founded two consulting startups, a product startup, and Boxes and Arrows, an online magazine of design. She also cofounded the Information Architecture Institute. Nowadays, she works with startups and entrepreneurs, sharing her strategies for success and inspiring them to pursue big goals and outlandish dreams. Christina is the author of "101 Theses on Design," Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, and Radical Focus_, her new book about OKRs. Currently, Christina teaches at California College of the Arts and Stanford Continuing Education. She speaks everywhere from conferences to universities to boardrooms and opines across the Internet but most often on "_Eleganthack":http://eleganthack.com/.


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Jan Fogelbäck, född 16 februari 1943 i Stockholm, död 15 april 2017, var en svensk arbetarförfattare. Fogelbäck växte upp i Saltsjö-Boo och arbetade även som chaufför och transportarbetare. Från och med 1972 medverkade han i Folket i Bild/Kulturfront.

1994 gav han ut den självbiografiska boken Romanen om Ivar, där han beskrev sina möten med Ivar Lo-Johansson. Fogelbäck påstår bland annat att Lo-Johansson under hela sitt vuxna liv var bisexuell och att han var förälskad i Harry Martinson.

Bibliografi
1976 – Goliat (roman)
1977 – Bussbolaget (roman)
1979 – Körjournal (roman)
1980 – Sju och tio från Läggesta (berättelser)
1981 – Skönast på jorden är Kvikkjokk om våren (intryck från en resa i Sverige, tillsammans med Kurt Salomonson)
1994 – Romanen om Ivar
1994 – Uppbrottstider (en brevväxling om det rämnande folkhemmet, tillsammans med Crister Enander)

Priser och utmärkelser
1979 – Tidningen Vi:s litteraturpris

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The Michelin ManThe Michelin Man Born in 1898, The Michelin Man is the oldest mascot on this list..
: a person, animal, or object adopted by a group as a symbolic figure especially to bring them good luck the team had a mountain lion as their mascot.
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You might want to sit down before reading this: the average salary of an NFL waterboy is a whopping $53,000 a year, according to Stack.com. Some are unpaid or work as stipend interns, per reference.com, but the full-time water and towel boys are considered part of the training staff.
The title of highest-paid mascot in sports belongs to the Denver Nuggets' Rocky, who earns a whopping $625,000 per year.
Mr. Met is one of three MLB mascots in the mascot hall of fame. He was introduced on the cover of game programs, yearbooks and on scorecards in 1963, when the Mets called the Polo Grounds home. A live costumed version was introduced as the first mascot in Major League Baseball in 1964 at the Mets' new Shea Stadium.
The New York Yankees have never had an official mascot since Dandy's final game in 1981.
Southpaw is the mascot of the Chicago White Sox. He is a furry green creature donning a black cap, white jersey with pinwheel buttons, matching pants, and black shoes with pinwheel decorations.
The Angels are one of three teams — along with the Dodgers and Yankees — who don't have an official mascot, but the Rally Monkey has all the power of a good mascot.
The idea of the mascot came to America by way of a popular French opera from the 1880s called La Mascotte. The opera is about a down-on-his-luck farmer who's visited by a girl named Bettina; as soon as she appears, the farmer's crops start doing well, and his life turns around.
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Mascots generally make anywhere from $25,000 a year starting out in the minor leagues to $60,000 in the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL, said Raymond, who now runs Raymond Entertainment, a character branding and mascot training company which has created and worked on more than 100 mascots over the past 20 years.
PittsburghSouthpaw marks the first investment in an American film by Wanda Pictures, a division of Wang Jianlin's Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group. Principal photography began on June 16, 2014. It was originally to be set in Detroit, yet Pittsburgh was chosen for the filming and was used as a double for New York.
A rookie in the NBA makes a minimum of $893,310 to play in the NBA, a healthy raise over the five-figure deals that they would make in the NBA G-League. This scale puts owners off the hook for some of the money, with every penny over the $1.62 million earned by a player being paid out by the league.
Don't Talk A common characteristic of most mascots is that they do not speak. This serves several purposes. First, it allows you to be completely in character and put forth a physical performance without words. Second, your voice is heavily muffled when you're in a mascot costume, making it hard to hear you speak.
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BBC Studios has pulled the curtain back on its latest global streamer, BBC Select, which will go live across the U.S. and Canada early next year and is being characterized as a TV service for "independent thinkers."
BBC Select will launch on Amazon Prime Video and the Apple TV app and will specialize in factual programming, spotlighting culture, politics, and ideas. BBC Studios added that it will celebrate diverse voices with a candid, unbiased, and sometimes playful lens.
Its initial slate of shows will feature Louis Theroux's BBC documentaries Selling Sex and Surviving America's Most Hated Family, as well as Channel 4's Grayson Perry: Big American Road Trip.
Exclusives include classicist Mary Beard's Shock of the Nude, Reggie Yates in China, Putin – A Russian Spy Story, and Adam Curtis' All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace.
"BBC Select is for those who crave knowledge, new perspectives, and programs that are not your standard fare," said Louise la Grange, general manager and launch director. "BBC Select will combine a rich line up of never-before-seen shows in the U.S. and Canada with a prized portfolio of thought-provoking, eye-opening programs."
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why is the velocity of blood flow slower in capillaries than in arteries?
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The task of keeping an enough interstitial homeostasis (the appropriate nutritional atmosphere neighboring all cells in your body) requires that blood flows almost continuously with each of the millions of capillaries in the body. The following is a brief summary of the parameters that govern flow via a offered vessel. All bloods vessels have actually certain lengths (L) and inner radii (r) with which blood flows once the pressure in the inlet and also outlet are unequal (Pi and Po respectively); in various other words there is a push difference (ΔP) between the vessel ends, which gives the driving pressure for flow. Since friction establishes between relocating blood and also the stationary vessels walls, this liquid motion has a offered resistance (vascular), which is the measure of how challenging it is to move blood with a vessel. One have the right to then explain a family member connection between vascular circulation, the pressure distinction, and resistance (i.e., the basic circulation equation):
Flow = press differenceresistances or Q = ΔPR
wright here Q = flow rate (volume/time); ΔP = pressure difference (mm Hg); and R = resistance to flow (mm Hg x time/volume).
This equation might be used not only to a single vessel, yet deserve to also be offered to describe flow through a netoccupational of vessels (i.e., the vascular bed of an organ or the even your whole systemic circulatory system). It is well-known that the resistance to flow through a cylindrical tube or vessel counts on numerous factors (defined by Poiseuille) including: 1) radius, 2) size, 3) viscosity of the fluid (blood), and also 4) innate resistance to flow, as follows:
R = 8 L ηπ r4
wbelow r = inside radius of the vessel, L = vessel length, and also η = blood viscosity.
It is vital to note that a tiny change in vessel radius will certainly have a really huge influence (4th power) on its resistance to flow; e.g., decreasing vessel diameter by 50% will rise its resistance to flow by around 16 fold.
If one combines the preceding 2 equations into one expression, which is generally recognized as the Poiseuille equation, it deserve to be used to much better approximate the factors that influence circulation though a cylindrical vessel:
Q = ΔP π r48 L η
Importantly, flow will certainly only happen once a pressure distinction exists. Hence, it is not surprising that arterial blood pressure is probably the many regulated cardiovascular variable in the humale body, and this is principally achieved by regulating the radii of vessels (e.g., arterioles and metarterioles) within a provided tworry or body organ system. Whereas vessel length and blood viscosity are components that affect vascular resistance, they are not considered variables that can be conveniently regulated for the objective of the moment-to-moment regulate of blood flow. Regardmuch less, the primary function of the heart is to keep press within arteries greater than those in veins, for this reason to produce a press gradient to induce flow. Usually, the average press in systemic arteries is roughly 100 mm Hg, and also which decreases to near 0 mm Hg in the great caval veins (premium and also inferior vena cavae).
The volume of blood that flows via any type of tconcern in a given duration of time (usually expressed as mL/min) is called the neighborhood blood circulation. The velocity (speed) of blood flow (expressed as cm/sec) can generally be considered to be inversely related to the vascular cross-sectional area, such that velocity is slowest where the full cross-sectional location is largest.
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