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Friday, July 20, 2012
Episode 20: A 38-year-old intern confronts underemployment
At 27, Lorrie decided to go back to school full time to better provide for her three children. Eight years later, she had an associate's degree, two bachelors degrees, and a master's degree - but no job. So for the last four years, Lorrie has been working as a paid intern and looking for full time work simultaneously.Career expert Tory Johnson talks to Lorrie to help re-boot her job hunt.
Please share your solutions, personal stories, and honest opinions. Please do not add personal attacks, vulgar language, or other offensive comments; they'll be removed.
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Time Shift: Is London's Big Ben Falling Down?
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Rumors abound about the famous clock tower's imminent demise, blaming the 1999 construction of an underground train station. But those in the know say it ain't so
?| July 19, 2012
In December 2011 British newspaper headlines warned that London's Big Ben was about to topple over. Locals instinctively blamed the London Underground's Jubilee Line Extension, which opened in 1999 and sends trains rumbling under the tower and the Palace of Westminster. What most did not know, however, was that rumors of the tower's doom, like Mark Twain's death, were greatly exaggerated; a reporter misread the final report on the extension's construction and its impact on the tower, which was filed in 2009 and released last year under the U.K.'s Freedom of Information Act. In fact, the builders took careful steps to ensure Big Ben's stability.
No building is ever completely still: they expand, contract and sway in response to the sun and wind, and they tilt and move when the ground underneath them shifts.
"It's like a sunflower. It bends with the weather and the time of year," says John Burland, an emeritus professor at Imperial College London.
Burland has a long, intimate history with the clock tower. He was called in to ensure its stability both when the Westminster station was reconstructed and extended downward to a depth of nearly 40 meters as part of the Jubilee Line Extension project and during the construction of a nearby underground parking lot in the 1970s. Burland also served in the early 1990s on a commission to stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa and, he says, now spends a lot of time on other projects that require building underneath sensitive, priceless buildings in built-up areas. The world's major cities have nowhere to expand but downward.
The technology to manage building movements has become very precise. A key component is accurate monitoring. Inside Big Ben's tower, a permanent automated plumb line-simply, a weight suspended on a string that serves as a vertical reference with which to compare the tower's angle of tilt-provides real-time measurements of its movement. A second surveying instrument, an optical plumb, now makes it possible to look up a vertical line from the tower's base to a target behind the clock.
"We're detecting movements to an accuracy of 10 millimeters daily."
During the extension work, the goal was to keep the tower from tilting more than an additional 27.5 millimeters over the length of the 55-meter span between the ground and the center of the clock face. Burland, however, prefers to talk in angles and gradients: 27.5 millimeters over 55 meters is a gradient of one in 2,000.
To meet that goal, construction crews injected what is called "compensation grouting"-a mix of cement, sand, water and other components-into horizontal tubes drilled into the clay under the clock tower's foundation. The idea sounds simple: just push up on part of the foundation to counteract the building's lean. The secret, though, is being able to predict the direction and amount of building movement and knowing exactly where to place the channels and inject the grout.
The 61-meter-tall clock tower (technically, only the biggest bell inside it is "Big Ben") is built of brick, clad in stone and stands on a concrete raft 15 meters square, three meters thick, at a depth of seven meters below ground level. It is physically attached to the rest of the Palace of Westminster by a three-story building that houses the Parliamentary press and the offices of state.
The project installed the horizontal array of 16 steel tubes, each 50 meters long, by drilling outward from a vertical shaft immediately to the north, on Bridge Street. Whenever the tower's movement reached 22 millimeters, workers injected, in stages, 122 cubic meters of grout.
The exact ingredients of this mix are a proprietary secret known only to the contractor who supplied it. Even Burland isn't entirely sure of the recipe, although he says it includes some bentonite, used in the oil industry as a component of drilling mud, and that the mix is nontoxic and viscous enough to stop the ground from squeezing it.
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Dr. Hsieh Stays Active for Liberty in Medicine - Ari Armstrong's Free ...
Last year I conducted several interviews on political activism, including one with Dr. Hsieh. I am publishing those now.?Please see my ?activism? category?for additional interviews and discussions about political activism.
Ari: Briefly, how did you get into free-market activism?
Paul: I began in January 2007 in response the Colorado state legislature?s decision to appoint a special commission to create a ?universal health care? plan for our state. A group of local free market advocates decided to organize the ?Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine? (FIRM) project to speak out against government-run ?universal? health care, and to support genuine free-market health reforms.
Our founder, Lin Zinser, attended and spoke out at numerous meetings of that state commission. She also participated in several panel discussions, town hall meetings, community groups, radio shows?all to discuss and promote free-market health reforms.
For my part, I wrote several letters to the editor and op-eds on health care policy for local and regional newspapers. After this particular issue died in the 2008 state legislature, we?ve continued working on this topic when health care policy heated up as a national-level issue following the election of President Obama.
Ari: Will you please summarize what your activities entail, and how specifically you became interested in health policy?
Paul: I mostly write letters to the editor, op-eds, and articles for various venues. My op-eds have appeared in outlets including the Christian Science Monitor, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Denver Post, and PajamasMedia. Some of my longer articles have appeared in The Objective Standard, which is a quarterly journal of culture, arts, and politics.
Some of my work has also been cited by Investor?s Business Daily and?major political blogs such as Instapundit and Real Clear Politics.
Our web page offers a summary of our published op-eds and articles.
My interest in health policy was driven initially by a specific state-level political initiative. But since then, I?ve found that topic of health policy (including what constitutes genuine health care ?reform?), encompasses some more important fundamental issues?such as the nature of individual rights, the propriety (or lack thereof) of government ?entitlement? programs, and the proper role of government in our lives.
Because of my tight work schedule (and personal inclination), I?ve mostly concentrated on writing. I do relatively little public speaking. Nor have I chosen to accept invitations to appear on TV or radio. Of course this may change in the future as my own personal goals and circumstances change.
Ari: What personal rewards and benefits do you find come with free-market activism?
Paul: Some of the key benefits include:
1) I?ve gain a much better understanding of some of the fundamental ideas (such as the nature of individual rights and the proper role of government) by having to think about and articulate them to others.
2) I?ve met some truly fine people who are also interested in free-market health care reform (and more broadly in the restoration and preservation of American freedoms in general).
3) I?ve become a better writer.
4) I?ve gained a greater sense of rational optimism about our future. Although I recognize that the battles ahead will be difficult, my activism has helped give me hope that the fight can be won. By being active, one is helping to steer the debate in the right direction, rather than being a helpless passenger at the mercy of others driving the discussion.
Ari: How do you mesh your professional life with your activist life?
Paul: I do all of this writing on my own time, typically during evenings, weekends, and vacation time.
My employers are fine with my activist work, provided that I don?t presume to speak for them on any political issues?a perfectly reasonable and understandable position. Hence, my author byline always states that I?m a co-founder of FIRM, but does not mention my professional practice affiliation.
My physician colleagues at work know of my views. But my various medical practice partners encompass an extremely wide range of political views, varying from religious conservative to libertarian to mainstream Republican and Democrat to socialist. So I?m merely another person in a politically diverse group and it doesn?t affect our professional relationships with one another.
Ari: What tips do you have for the budding free-market activist? Why should others get involved?
Paul: Budding activists should get involved for personal, selfish reasons. They shouldn?t view activism as grim painful ?duty? where they are ?taking one for the team.?
Instead, they should find ways to make activism a positive enhancement to their lives. This will include finding areas of interest (perhaps specializing by topic or geographic region) and finding vehicles that suit their time and personality (writing vs speaking vs. technical or support activities).
It also requires a realistic approach to one?s goals. You can?t expect to publish columns in the Wall Street Journal after a month. Rather, one should start small and work your way up. A budding writer might start with blogging, then move up to letters to the editor, then op-eds, then longer articles. A budding speaker might start with small community groups or local Rotary Clubs, then try local radio and TV, etc.
Also, one should network with other potential allies and find ways to provide mutual intellectual and emotional support for each others? projects.
Finally, be patient and persistent. And savor the small victories when they arise!
These tips will go a long way towards helping budding activists preserve their ?staying power,? rather than burning out too quickly and quitting from frustration.
Source: http://ariarmstrong.com/2012/07/dr-hsieh-stays-active-for-liberty-in-medicine/
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Japan Nuke Disaster Will Kill Up to 1,300 People Worldwide, Study Estimates
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Electric plane performs taxi tests as prelude to transatlantic attempt (video)
EV flyer Long-ESA has started high-speed taxi tests on its quest to become the first electric airplane to cross the Atlantic. Using a Long-EZ kit plane designed by Burt Rutan as a platform for the volts-only powertrain, the Flight of the Century project is the brainchild of electric enthusiast Chip Yates, who already holds the speed record of 190MPH on an EV motorcycle. The developer's plan is to use a fleet of five drones to dock with the main Long-ESA ship and exchange batteries in mid-air, giving it enough juice to make the trip. Successful ground trials should lead to flight tests later this month, with the transatlantic attempt slated for 2014, followed by EV airplane speed and altitude attempts, to boot. It remains to be seen if the complex plan might result in commercial electric aviation as Yates predicts -- but judging by the video after the break it'll be fun to watch them try.
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