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reptile natural history and captive care with Scott and "Boca" and model lizards at Boise State University Reptile and Amphibian Workshop October 29 - 30, 2016. "Boca" is a Colombian boa consrictor (boa constrictor constrictor) and the poster is of an African horned viper (Cerastes cerastes). Photo by Frank.
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The 02Ansjory0xSpaceship photo sets are for the Spaceship Assignment on my PHOT5 class in Fall 2009 at Foothill College with Prof. Kate Jordahl.
I am so excited that I was selected to be the first human being and will soon be sent to another galaxy. However, the light-speed trip will take many decades. Pretty much I won’t be able to come back home, Planet Earth in my lifetime. I am allowed to take 5 photographs with me in the tiny spaceship cabinet.
The first photo being put on my right is the latest photo of my wife. This was taken in front of the Smithsonian Institution Building during our Washington DC trip last week. She will be the person that I will miss the most. Even now at this moment, I am not able to see her since she is now studying in Florida. I would really like to go there one more time to tell her my assignment if I really have time to do so. This picture will definitely comfort me during my upcoming mission that I have no way to imagine how it will be. I will share this photo with the new beings in next galaxy as an example of a “couple” of life creatures – male, I myself can represent male if my physical appearance won’t be distorted after the light-speed journey and female from the photo. I will explain to them this is the most superior type of creatures in Planet Earth.
The second photo being put on my right is a photo of my kitty. This was taken at home on a suede sofa while she was about to get asleep. She was laying on one of her ears. This is an obvious indication to me that she was really exhausted. She has been with us for many years and she is definitely a significant family member who I will miss. I will also share this photo with new beings and tell them this is another type of creature in Planet Earth.
The third photo that I will bring along with me is a photo of a flower decoration. This was taken at my very first attempt with the aperture adjustment to alter the depth of field on my SLR. I am not sure if there is any vibrant color existing in the next galaxy. I hope this can remind me about the beautiful color that we all take it for granted in Planet Earth. I will also share this photo with them and tell them this is also a life creature which is called “plant”.
The forth photo that I will bring along with me is a photo of a lake, tree and cloud combination. This was taken at the back of my wife’s apartment when I visited her last week in Florida. Since I’m not sure if there is any trace of water in any form, this photo can remind me about water in liquid and semi-solid forms. Further, this can also remind me about the time that my wife and I spent walking along the lake. I will also share this photo with them and tell them we cannot live without water and hopefully they can let us know if they ever recognize any sources of water in their galaxy.
The fifth photo that I will bring along with me is a photo of a steam train. This was taken at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore MD on our Washington DC trip last week. This will remind me some history and civilization of Planet Earth.
These 5 photos will be the most valuable belongings to me probably for the rest of my life in the next galaxy.
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Any building that has a sprinkler and/or fire alarm system may be required by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101 Life Safety Code (LSC) to institute a fire watch in the event that one or both of those systems fail to correctly function as designed.
The LSC requires anyone with a fire alarm system and water sprinkler system to respond to any hindrances in their fire protection system per Chapter 15 of the NFPA 25 Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems. This regulation also lists the requirements for how to quickly and effectively take care of sprinkler system issues. In fact, according to Annex A of the NFPA 72 Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, a fire watch is needed in all instances where a fire alarm system is compromised.
Whether due to mechanical, electrical or other type of failure, if your fire alarm or sprinkler system have become unreliable or incapacitated, you most likely need a fire watch on-site in order to avoid fines, liability and potential losses both in assets and human lives should there be an actual fire emergency.
The information that follows in this guide will help you to understand what fire watches are, what they involve, and when they need to be instituted, as well as the options provided to building owners when running a fire watch.
What is a Fire Watch?
Chapter three of the LSC states that a fire watch is the delegation of one or more people with the tasks of:
Preventing a fire from happening
Dousing small fires
Notifying both the fire department and building occupants in the event of a fire emergency
Protecting the public from fire dangers and other circumstances that puts lives at stake
Fire systems can fail to operate due to interruption in the system’s water supply, ruptured or frozen pipes, general equipment failure, or other issues that are found during a regular system inspection. This code also covers preplanned issues with the system that take effect when the system is purposely turned off for open flame operations like welding, or when the system is purposely disconnected to allow for testing and maintenance.
The NFPA 72 considers a system impairment as any “abnormal condition” that prevents the system or part of the system from functioning properly. Impairments to the following equipment within your system could cause a required fire watch:
Hose system and fire pumps
Standpipe systems
Sprinkler systems, including water spray, mist, and foam-water systems
Water storage tanks and underground fire service mains
Water supply interruptions
Interestingly, NFPA standards do not specify how much of the fire protection system needs to be compromised in order for a fire watch to be instituted. However, a fire watch needs to be instituted any time the fire system or part of the system cannot properly operate as it should. It is also required to institute a fire watch despite the nature of the impairment.
Fire Watch Requirements
The NFPA requires a fire watch to be implemented if a system is down for more than four hours in a 24-hour timeframe. Water-based fire protection systems need to be down for 10 hours or longer in a 24-hour timeframe. In either situation, the fire department must be notified. Requirements to these regulations will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction as well as authorities having jurisdiction, or AHJs.
It is a common misbelief that fire systems need to be down for more than four consecutive hours prior to the implementation of a fire watch. This is not true. A fire watch is required when the sum of all outages within a 24-hour timeframe goes beyond more than four hours.
During a fire watch, all areas of the affected building must be continuously patrolled for smoke, fire, or any other abnormal conditions. If a life-threatening situation occurs, the person who is conducting the fire watch must contact emergency personnel immediately as well as notify all building occupants to the emergency and assist in safely evacuating them.
Those involved in the fire watch must also inspect unoccupied areas such as crawl spaces, storage rooms, and other hidden areas. Therefore, it’s advised that anyone involved with a fire watch be highly familiar with the building and the equipment that they are keeping watch over. Likewise, they also must know where all manual fire alarm stations and fire protection equipment are located should they need to put out a fire. Every activity that is associated with a fire watch needs to be documented in a log sheet.
Fire watches remain active until the fire alarm system is completely repaired and working properly and after any inspections and tests are completed verifying the system’s correct operation.
Locating and Securing Fire Watchers
Fire prevention systems can malfunction at any time. And when they do, it’s best to have a fire watch policy in place to ensure you act fast to comply with regulations. Building owners have the option to either perform the fire watch themselves by appointing employees to do the job or hiring a fire watch company to take on the fire watch responsibilities. If they decide to use their employees, building owners need to make sure they are following the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) requirements which state that employees need to undergo a detailed training on how to conduct a fire watch. Employees need to know when and how to conduct a fire watch and be provided with the appropriate equipment to wear during the fire watch.
It’s best for building owners to consider these factors when choosing who to conduct a fire watch:
Business interruption
Equipment and training costs
Legal Liabilities
Ensure That Your Fire Watch Policy Measures Up
Fire watch policies can sometimes be complex and confusing due to the many AHJs that need to be notified about system impairments and fire watch implementations. Fire watch policies are a necessary part of your building’s fire protection plan and may be interpreted differently by each AHJ. Contact our company to help you evaluate your current policy to ensure you are securely meeting each and every regulation without worry.
Apparently it was built to commemorate the capture of Suvarnadurg castle in India in 1775. So now you know!
At the Nowhere Else Festival, Peter Mulvey explained why intelligent life hasn't contacted us. It's a TED talk too: youtu.be/sNGUkdovn_8?t=2m16s
This photo is a composite of Peter Mulvey and a picture of the night sky I took in Enon, Ohio.
@CentralES1 : Bull explains ABCs of Bullying Prevention (A-Action, B-Bravery, C-Compassion) #centralschoolpride t.co/5UgAzwvqHH (via Twitter twitter.com/CentralES1/status/664470800943226880)
I kind of wonder how many Noh performers do that as their primary/sole occupation? Wonder too how they make a living doing it. I mean, sure, you charge money for tickets (and probably charge money for demonstrations like these too), but...
This fellow, if I remember right, is in line to become the head of the Ôe school (a branch of the Kanze school), so I guess I wouldn't be surprised if he and his master and a very small number of other people run the Nôgakudô as their primary/sole activity. And, I am sure they have plenty of students who pay for lessons, just as a hobby, or maybe for some as a more serious pursuit. But, do they also have professional members of their "troupe", so to speak? How many?
Anyway, I'm just envious they get to wear traditional clothing (and all kinds of different costumes) and to just be immersed in traditional culture everyday, as their normal everyday profession.
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Margam Castle is a large Victorian era country house, built in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, for Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890). It was constructed over a ten-year period, from 1830 to 1840, on a site which had been occupied for some 4,000 years and which from the 11th century until the dissolution of the monasteries was an abbey.
Although called a "castle", the building is really a large comfortable country house, one of many "mock" castles built in the 19th century during the Gothic Revival.
After making a Grand Tour of Europe as a young man, Talbot returned to south Wales and from 1830 he set about redeveloping the family estate at Margam. The new castle was designed in a Tudor Gothic style by the architect Thomas Hopper (1776–1856), while Edward Haycock Snr (1790–1870) was supervisory architect and designed parts of the interior and exterior of the house, the stables, terraces and lodges. Talbot also took a keen interest in the project, encouraging his architects to borrow elements from Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire (ancestral home of the Talbots and home to his cousin William Henry Fox Talbot) and Melbury House in Dorset (home of his mother's family, the Fox-Strangeways, Earls of Ilchester).
William Henry Fox Talbot was a frequent visitor to Margam, and the castle featured as an image in some of his early photographic experiments. Margam's links with photography also include being the location of the earliest known Welsh photograph, a daguerreotype of the castle taken on 9 March 1841 by the Reverend Calvert Richard Jones.
After the death of Emily Charlotte Talbot, the daughter of its first owner, the castle passed to her nephew and continued to be used by the Talbot family until 1941, when it was sold. David Evans-Bevan, who bought it, found it too large to live in, but could not find any public organisation interested in taking it on, and it fell into disrepair. For many years it belonged to the local authority, but was not open to the public. In 1977, a fire caused substantial damage, and it was only after this that a restoration project began in earnest.
Today Margam Castle is a Grade I listed building and is in the care of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.
Margam Castle was visited by the television programme Most Haunted in its 2006 series and also by SyFy's Ghost Hunters International in 2010. It has become a very popular venue for paranormal investigation events groups. In 2013 the Margam Ghost Walk (which seeks to explain the stories of the reputed hauntings but which does not undertake paranormal investigation) became the most popular attraction in the Neath Port Talbot authority area, according to the review website Tripadvisor.
FILM: Explaining BookCrossing during preparations for a BookCrossing Valentine's Day Event
LOCATION: Urban Coffee Co., Church Street, Colmore Row, Birmingham
DATE: Thursday 11th February, 2010
VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI39NoEzNJo
INFO: Birmingham book-lovers and fans of BookCrossing ( www.bookcrossing.com ) plan for a Valentine's Day event to raise money for Edgbaston-based charity LUCIA - Life Uplifted by Change in Africa ( www.luciacharity.org.uk ). Members of the public are invited to meet over a hot drink to share their love of books. Award-winning author R.J. Ellory ( www.rjellory.com ) will also be sharing his favourite reads ( www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&gid=243069614126 ).
The event took place on Sunday 14th February, 2010 (Valentine's Day).
FILM CREDITS:
Featuring: Liz Broomfield (Birmingham BookCrossing), R J Ellory (Roger Jon Ellory, Award-winning Author) and Laura Creaven (LUCIA Volunteer).
Director: Adam Yosef | Graphics: R3BELZ Inc. | Sound: Music Theme - Kevin MacLeod, Sound Editor: Kyle Kowalski | With thanks to: Bookcrossing.com, Urban Coffee Company, Cath Crockford.
MMX © I AM BIRMINGHAM / ADAM YOSEF
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