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Back in the late 1960's, British Rail, in it's infinite wisdom, aided and abetted by a Government keen to save a few pence, was busily downsizing it's network. Nobody really saw any great future for rail travel, motoring became cheap and freely available to the masses. The stone was set. Or was it...
Fast forward 40 years, and Network Rail, realising it had a busy line that was choking for more capacity, resignalled, squeezing signal spacing to it's barest limit, expensively remodelling junctions to increase speeds and putting in lots of shiny new LED signals. 5 years later and the problem persists, the ex-GW main line from Snow Hill to Dorridge is at full stretch, no amount of signal tweaking is going to help. The only real solution now is to restore the quadruple track section lifted in that 1960's fit of pique, but an expensive solution it will be.
The 172/153 combo will have to wait for the Manchester Voyager to clear two sections before it can proceed, the Leamington bound 172 at right will have one, if not two fast services on it's tail by the time it reaches it's destination.
Dorridge, 16 July 2012.
Regal Virginia Center (60,472 square feet)
10091 Jeb Stuart Parkway, Glen Allen, VA
Opened January 20th, 1995
Pictured: auditorium 14 (originally 8 prior to 1999), capacity 257
IFLA's Building Strong Library Associations programme held its Latin America and Caribbean convening from 24-27 March 2014 in São Paulo, Brazil. The meeting included representatives from IFLA LAC, IFLA Governing Board and FESABID. 8 associations participated in the convening, including FEBAB (Brazil) which acts as a national and umbrella association in the country. In addition to the association representatives, trainers came from Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina.
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Wednesday @ #OKfest: okfestival.org/onlineschedule/#wed
This set of pics taken during:
* Open Research and Education: Communicating Science
* Open Development and Aid Flows: How to use Aid Data
* Africa Live! - Live broadcast between Helsinki and Africa's Innovation and Technology Hubs
* Taking it local: 10 ways to make ‘Open’ relevant in low Resource or marginalized Contexts
- The 'yellow capacities' refers to #6Tmethod I'm experimenting throughout the unconference week
- Building capacity has a lot do with: Understanding mechanisms 'round fear, learning to manage fear, encouraging feeling through experimenting and collaborative and connective (re)construction of next perspectives
"Where there is love there is life."
- Mahatma Gandhi -
Be Inspired, Be an Entrepreneur is a series of live interviews at Dublin Institute of Technology that gives students a chance to hear first-hand how successful entrepreneurs achieved their success. Pictured at the first talk in the 2011 series are DIT students Alex Kinsella, Nadia Wong, Ruth Murray and Dan O'Broin.
Dave Kitson kindly pointed out my washer bottle must be able to contain at least 1 litre of water to pass SVA - when I checked, it only held 900mls.
I've now extended it, increasing the capacity to 1.6 litres.
The crease in the centre is to allow the tank to follow the bulkhead profile.
Proposed new sections of railway track near Dore & Totley station and between Bamford and Hathersage.
Network Rail intends to deliver this package of work to allow more trains to run on the Hope Valley railway line between Sheffield and Manchester. The work is a key part of over £1 billion of investment to deliver faster, more frequent services across the north of England.
Demand for train travel between the two cities is increasing, with forecasts showing by 2029 demand will grow by 56% in Sheffield and 66% in Manchester. These proposals will deliver better journeys on the Hope Valley line, improving capacity, frequency and reliability.”
Consultations were held on the original plans in November 2013. These proposals included the construction of a new 1km passing loop near Grindleford station as well as improvements around Dore & Totley station. Since then, the project has developed a new option to the East of Bamford station as a replacement for the previous proposal at Grindleford
While Grindleford was the optimum location for new track that would allow four fast trains to run each hour between Manchester and Sheffield; timetable constraints meant it would not be possible to evenly space those services. As a result, the rail industry decided to progress plans for three fast trains per hour and a review of the scheme developed the revised proposals for Bamford.
The new option close to Bamford is easier to build than the previous one at Grindleford and does not affect any ancient woodland. The new plan will also free up capacity for additional local stopping services.
Proposals for the area east of Bamford station include a new section of track running alongside the existing railway between the station and Jaggers Lane in Hathersage. At Dore, the railway line between West View Lane and Dore West Junction will be extended and a new platform constructed with a footbridge and lifts at Dore & Totley Station.
A Transport and Works Act Order from the Secretary of State for Transport will be required to build the new sections of track. Subject to ministerial consent, work is due to complete by the end of 2018.
Source: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD)
HD and The Habibie Center (THC) brought local stakeholders and interfaith actors from both sides of the divide together in a neutral setting for them to discuss the communities’ issues.
HD and THC organized capacity building workshops on dialogue, mediation and peacemaking. These workshops were tailored to the local context and targeted at relevant interfaith actors or institutions. They included trainings on practical skills such as mediation approaches and what works for different contexts; explored confidence building measures; and communication skills in a conflict setting.
Read more about HD's work in Indonesia here: www.hdcentre.org/activities/building-mediation-capacity-o...
What is earth's CARRYING CAPACITY for a modern, industrialized humaninty with, at a minimum, a Western European standard of living for all?
Many economists, policymakers, and even some academics MISTAKENLY imagine that humanity's maximum population size is largely or exclusively governed by various "running-out-of" suppositions such as running-out-of food, or water, or oil, or resources.
There are OTHER, quite powerful limiting factors, however, such as:
(1) Levels of sheer physical ERADICATION of the only planetary / biospheric life-support machinery so far known to exist anywhere in the universe (would you eradicate 50% or 93% of the operating systems of an automobile, a space vehicle, or the human body, for example, and expect it to continue to function as it has always done in the past?), and
(2) Production of WASTES (again imagine the owner of automobile or space vehicle who every day adds unprecedented, ongoing and, ever-increasing levels of wastes to its radiator, gasoline, battery fluid, brake fluid, air-intake system, and gasoline and then cannot understand why his vehicle, which has always worked in the past, doesn't function anymore). Not so bright, is he?
Why should we expect that the earth's biospheric life-support machinery is invulnerable?
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A Honda CR-V seating capacity lawsuit alleges 2017-2018 CR-Vs don't have 3-point seat belts in all seating positions, something that makes the marketing of a seating capacity of five blatantly false.
According to the lawsuit, Honda advertises the CR-V as having a seating capacity of five and equipped with 3-point seat belts at all seating positions. However, the rear seat belts are configured so that only two back seat passengers can properly buckle their seat belts at any given time.
This causes a safety danger as it prevents customers from safely seating five people in a CR-V at any given time.
Plaintiff Bill Schepler says he purchased a 2018 Honda CR-V in December 2017 because he has three grandchildren and wanted a vehicle with a seating capacity of five for him, his wife and their grandchildren.
The plaintiff says he soon realized the rear driver’s side seat belt buckle was “backward” and the rear driver’s side passenger could not buckle the seat belt without overlapping the middle passenger’s anchor buckle.
Schepler took his CR-V to the dealership in May 2018 for help with the problem and technicians photographed the buckle configuration and sent the picture to Honda.
In addition, technicians allegedly sent a message to Honda that said the CR-V cannot have three rear passengers in the back seat at the same time because the seat belts overlap and twist.
In the end, Honda didn't repair or correct the seat belt issues, leaving the plaintiff unable to safely transport back seat passengers.
Mr. Schepler isn't the only CR-V owner who has noticed the safety dangers of the configuration.
"The rear left and middle seat belts overlap. The vehicle is advertised as a 5 seater vehicle but cannot safely be used for 5 passengers, or with a car seat in either of those seats with a passenger in the other one.
"My brand new 2017 CRV touring appears to have the detachable anchor for the 2nd row center seat belt crossed with the 2nd row left seat belt buckle. This configuration causes the center belt and the left seat belt to cross one another and also makes it difficult for the left seat passenger to connect or disconnect their seat belt with the center passenger buckled in."
The owner went on to complain the seat belt situation doesn't allow the person sitting behind the driver to wear their seat belt when their child seat is buckled into the center because the buckle cannot be accessed.
"This is a huge safety concern as I travel frequently with my infant daughter, son, and son’s friend in the back seat. There have been multiple other complaints about this which can be googled. Something needs to be done here."
Honda CR-V owner's manuals for 2017-2018 models are allegedly false because both manuals claim that “[a]ll five seating positions are equipped with lap/shoulder seat belts with emergency locking retractors.”
In addition, the plaintiff claims the false advertising includes a brochure for the 2018 CR-V that claims the SUV is “[e]xcellence in every detail,” including “spacious seating for five.”
Honda CR-V rear seat belts are designed in such a way the rear driver’s side seat belt and rear passenger’s side seat belt are retractable to the side of the vehicle nearest the passenger’s shoulder. However, the seat belt for the rear middle seat is a seat belt with a detachable anchor which retracts into the ceiling of the vehicle.
There is an “anchor buckle” to the middle passenger’s left where a small latch plate may be buckled. The passenger may then proceed to fasten the seat belt normally, inserting the large latch plate into the buckle to the passenger’s right.
But according to the CR-V lawsuit, the middle passenger’s anchor buckle is to the left of the rear driver’s side passenger’s buckle, making it impossible for the anchor buckle and rear driver’s side passenger’s buckle to be used at the same time without both of the seat belts overlapping or twisting.
"Accordingly, Defendant’s advertised statements that the CR-V has a seating capacity of five with 3-point seat belts at all seating positions are deceptive." – Plaintiff Schepler
The Honda CR-V seating capacity lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California – Bill Schepler, et al., v. American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
The plaintiff is represented by Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller & Shah, LLP, the Murphy Law Firm, and the Frasher Law Firm, P.C.
Honda CR-V Seating Capacity of Five is False: Lawsuit syndicated from sinacarremovals.blogspot.com/
On 20 May 2016, ILRI’s Iddo Dror delivered a presentation on CGIAR Capacity Development Community of Practice at the International Rice Research Institute’s headquarters in Los Baños, Philippines. The seminar was co-organized by IRRI’s Training Center and Social Sciences Division (photo credit: ILRI/Jules Mateo).
Original abstract artwork
24x18 in.
Oil stick, oil pastel, acrylic, pastel on Canson watercolor paper
Original work for sale by contacting ajeffries101958@yahoo.com
Prints, etc. are available at www.redbubble.com/people/atj1958
Thanks for taking the time to look at my work.
We had an impeccable experience with the Ram Brand in Phoenix, Arizona recently for their national press launch of the talented 2019 Ram 1500 pickup truck. Built from more high-strength steel than Superman himself the latest Ram workhorse has been fortified with a 12,750-pound trailer tow capacity and 2,300-pound payload capability from a newfangled body that is longer, stronger, tougher, lighter, wider, and far more accomplished.
FAO is working to strengthen the organizational capacities of youth organizations and individual capacities of youth agri-entrepreneurs to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems. This includes the development and application of capacity assessment tools, such as the one that has been applied in four workshops with a total of over 100 participants from Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. This tools guides stakeholders through a set of questions to assess the existing and needed capacities for youth to implement and benefit from investments.
URBACT Summer University (USU) is conceived as a unique learning experience, primarily aimed at strengthening individual skills and capacities to develop participative and integrated action-planning in urban policies. - See more at: university2013.urbact.eu
Advertisement from "The Engineer" magazine. Then ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
9 August 1951
Heat In Thames Water To Warm Festival Hall
By A STAFF CORRESPONDENT IN LONDON
The grey Thames water swirling past the piers of Hungerford Bridge is soon to be used to heat the great Royal Festival Hall (capacity 3.500), standing nearby on the South Bank exhibition site.
The plant, which can be described as a giant refrigerator working in reverse, is known technically as a heat-pump. It was designed by the scientific staff of the Fuel and Power Ministry as part of its fuel-conservation programme, and tests indicate that it has a thermal efficiency in the region of 150 per cent. - which means that the heat generated exceeds by one half the amount of fuel used to produce it.
Although the possibilities of the heat-pump - in principle quite a simple device - have been known for nearly a century, this is the first attempt to prove on a large scale its commercial possibilities. The high cost of pioneering and of manufacturing the considerable number of working parts required in such a heating system, which has to be specially designed to the requirements of a building, has discouraged its development by commercial firms. However, the scientists and engineers associated with the Festival Hall project say that three months of experiment have proved its efficiency and have opened up practically unlimited commercial prospects for the system.
This achievement can perhaps best be evaluated in the light of Britain's critical fuel shortage, intensified in recent months by the added strain of rearmament. Against the 150 per cent, heat efficiency of the heat-pump, the efficiency of the millions of tons of coal burnt annually in the open grates is approximately 15 per cent.; and that of the huge amount of electricity consumed by electric fires is less than 30 per cent.
The heat-pump system contains the equivalent of the main parts of the mechanical refrigerator a condenser and evaporator containing a refrigerant, also a compressor. The difference is in the layout. In a refrigerator the evaporator is in the cabinet and cools it by absorbing heat and passing it by means of the refrigerant to the condenser outside, which dissipates it into the atmosphere. In the heat-pump system the process is reversed. The liquid refrigerant, which will boil at a low temperature and pressure, is circulated through this system by the compressor.
The river water, piped through the evaporator, is of sufficient temperature to make the liquid refrigerant boil and vapourise. The vapour then passes through the compressor, which builds it up to a maximum pressure of 285 pounds a square inch in the condenser. Under pressure it condenses at a temperature of 165 Fahrenheit and releases the heat it has gained from the river water. This heat is in turn absorbed by water circulating in another system of pipes leading from the condenser to the hall, where it is finally released. The refrigerant liquid returns to the evaporator through a valve which reduces the pressure, thus turning it back into vapour, and the cycle is set off again by the initial heat absorbed from the river water.
Two Rolls Royce Merlin en- gines, modified to run off the mains gas, supply power for the system. A waste-heat boiler transfers further heat, generated by the exhausts of both Merlins, to the water circulating in the hall.
But this is not the end of the story. By a simple adjustment of the heat-pump, the roles of the condenser and the evaporator can be reversed so as to cool the hall.
Dawn Chmielewski discusses mobile capacity and wireless opportunities at sporting events at #SuperMobility
Vehicle make FORD
Date of first registration 06 November 1989
Year of manufacture 1928
Cylinder capacity (cc) 3300cc
CO₂Emissions Not available
Fuel type PETROL
Export marker No
Vehicle status Tax not due
Vehicle colour GREEN
The aim of this Capacity Building Seminar is to have an international exchange of information on the most successful programmes and policies supporting the establishment of effective ecosystems for social enterprises across the EU.
URBACT Summer University (USU) is conceived as a unique learning experience, primarily aimed at strengthening individual skills and capacities to develop participative and integrated action-planning in urban policies. - See more at: university2013.urbact.eu
Kiser Barnes, former member of the Universal House of Justice, facilitates a class during the family session “Championing The Oneness of Humanity: Exploring Bahá’í Teachings Related to Sports” in August 2015 at Green Acre Bahá'í School in Eliot, Maine. Photo by Jasmin Kemp
We worked with Tseshaht and Hupacasath Fisheries to host a field trip that highlighted the different opportunities in the marine and fisheries industries. Four teachers and eight students in total in grade 8 through 12 from the 8th Avenue Learning Centre joined us for a day on the Somass River - it was a great day! May 22 2018
150210-N-RB579-176 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 10, 2015) A Chinese fisherman interacts with Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and Ghanaian servicemembers as they conduct visit, board, search and seizure operations in support of Africa Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership (AMLEP) Feb. 10, 2015. Spearhead is on a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of the international collaborative capacity-building program Africa Partnership Station. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Joshua Davies/Released)
Moderated High-Level Policy Session 14: Knowledge societies,
capacity building and e-learning / Media
Speaking: Mr. Abdelrahman Mohamed, Global President of AIESEC International (Netherlands), AIESEC
©ITU/R.Farrell
Since 1999, Burgutta is the SLU, Project Leader of the ILRI-SLU Project on Capacity Building for Sustainable use of Animal Genetic Resources in Developing Countries. She is an editor of the Animal Genetics Training Resource AGTR is a product of ILRI-SLU Capacity Building Project (photo credit: ILRI).