Yearly Archives: 2022

Lake Country Faces: Meet Pine River’s two Florences who both are 102 years old – Pine and Lakes Echo Journal

Lake Country Faces: Meet Pine River’s two Florences who both are 102 years old – Pine and Lakes Echo Journal

PINE RIVER — Pine River is home to many unique and interesting personalities. There are inventors dabbling in cold fusion theory, renowned blacksmiths, authors, painters and more. They all have stories. Riverside Assisted Living in Pine River is full of storied individuals as well. Among them is not one, but two 102-year-old women named Florence. Florence Ronnenberg and Florence Carlson may share an age and name and grace the same living facility, but they have their own personal, unique stories and personalities. Ronnenberg has fewer stories, but no less zest for life. She was born in December in Winona, a place where she says there wasn’t much to do. “It was OK,” Ronnenberg said. “I didn’t mind living there. It was just… Source link

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

Physicists first suspected more than a century ago that the fusing of hydrogen into helium powers the sun. It took researchers many years to unravel the secrets by which lighter elements are smashed together into heavier ones inside stars, releasing energy in the process. And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. But the prospect of meeting our energy needs this way remains elusive. The extraction of energy from nuclear fission, by contrast, happened relatively quickly. Fission in uranium was discovered in 1938, in Germany, and it was only four years until the first nuclear “pile” was constructed in Chicago, in 1942. There are currently about 440 fission reactors… Source link

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Deuteron-Deuteron Fusion – IEEE Spectrum

Deuteron-Deuteron Fusion – IEEE Spectrum

Physicists first suspected more than a century ago that the fusing of hydrogen into helium powers the sun. It took researchers many years to unravel the secrets by which lighter elements are smashed together into heavier ones inside stars, releasing energy in the process. And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. But the prospect of meeting our energy needs this way remains elusive. The extraction of energy from nuclear fission, by contrast, happened relatively quickly. Fission in uranium was discovered in 1938, in Germany, and it was only four years until the first nuclear “pile” was constructed in Chicago, in 1942. There are currently about 440 fission reactors… Source link

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Web Developer job with City of Bradford MDC

Web Developer job with City of Bradford MDC

The Code of Practice on the English language requirement for public sector workers, Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 requires that Councils ensure that all candidates applying for customer facing posts must be assessed in order to establish their fluency in English.  The criteria under special knowledge and experience on the job profile which is shown in this advert outlines what level of fluency you will be expected to demonstrate.  Therefore, it is essential that you provide examples in your application. We have an exciting opportunity to join one of the UK’s largest Pension Funds at the start of an exciting digital transformation journey. As the full-stack developer you will manage and develop web solutions at both the front-end (website and application user-facing… Source link

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Inside incredible HYPER STING supersonic nuclear-powered airliner that is TWICE as fast as Concorde at 2,600MPH

Inside incredible HYPER STING supersonic nuclear-powered airliner that is TWICE as fast as Concorde at 2,600MPH

YOUR transatlantic flight from London to New York could take just 80 minutes if you climb aboard this incredible supersonic plane. The concept aircraft is known as the Hyper Sting and is hoped to hit speeds of more than 2,600mph – twice as fast as the legendary Concorde. 7 The Hyper Sting is a concept supersonic airliner faster and bigger than ConcordeCredit: OSCAR VINALS 7 The plane would be powered by a theoretical nuclear reactor using cold fusionCredit: OSCAR VINALS 7 It could hit speeds of up to 2,600mphCredit: OSCAR VINALS The aircraft is also bigger – being 328ft long with a 168ft wingspan – and is hoped to be able to carry up to 170 passengers. Passengers would sit in two rows of three – with a similar capacity to an Airbus A320, aircraft often used by easyJet and RyanAir. With… Source link

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Wildlife restoration project leads to cold fusion honey business for Sunshine Coast beekeepers

Wildlife restoration project leads to cold fusion honey business for Sunshine Coast beekeepers

When Leisa and Tony Sams bought a farm and set about reconnecting bushland that had been divided for a century, they never imagined where it would lead them. Seven years later, they are producing an award-winning range of pure raw honey infused with flavours including organic ginger, turmeric, lemon myrtle, rose petals, chilli, cinnamon, lavender, finger lime, vanilla beans, truffle, and black garlic. “We actually started not because of a desire to have a honey business,” Ms Sams said. “We did a Land for Wildlife project on our 300 acres [121 hectares] at Peachester, on the Stanley River, with the goal of revegetating and securing a wildlife corridor from our back ridgeline through to the river. “With the help of a grant and Sunshine Coast Council’s environment officers we sat down and… Source link

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Wildlife restoration project leads to cold fusion honey business for Sunshine Coast beekeepers

Wildlife restoration project leads to cold fusion honey business for Sunshine Coast beekeepers

When Leisa and Tony Sams bought a farm and set about reconnecting bushland that had been divided for a century, they never imagined where it would lead them. Seven years later, they are producing an award-winning range of pure raw honey infused with flavours including organic ginger, turmeric, lemon myrtle, rose petals, chilli, cinnamon, lavender, finger lime, vanilla beans, truffle, and black garlic. “We actually started not because of a desire to have a honey business,” Ms Sams said. “We did a Land for Wildlife project on our 300 acres [121 hectares] at Peachester, on the Stanley River, with the goal of revegetating and securing a wildlife corridor from our back ridgeline through to the river. “With the help of a grant and Sunshine Coast Council’s environment officers we sat down and… Source link

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Letters & Op-Ed, September 14 2022 |

Letters & Op-Ed, September 14 2022 |

Doesn’t failing to show up usually get you fired? In the days when my dad was a councillor in Pickering, and then Chair of the Durham Board of Education, the paycheque was an honorarium. Not one person found the paltry excuses this Gang of Four finds when they don’t feel like doing their job or going to meetings and voting on matters of importance to the town. I wonder if the folks who work for some of these councillors would still have their jobs if they behaved the way the Gang does. The lack of integrity among all of the Gang of Four leaves a bitter taste, but the fact that they get paid for their insolence to the town is reprehensible. I hope the door slams them all in the rear-end when they leave the building. Hopefully the young people in our… Source link

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Wildlife restoration project leads to cold fusion honey business for Sunshine Coast beekeepers

Wildlife restoration project leads to cold fusion honey business for Sunshine Coast beekeepers

When Leisa and Tony Sams bought a farm and set about reconnecting bushland that had been divided for a century, they never imagined where it would lead them. Seven years later, they are producing an award-winning range of pure raw honey infused with flavours including organic ginger, turmeric, lemon myrtle, rose petals, chilli, cinnamon, lavender, finger lime, vanilla beans, truffle, and black garlic. “We actually started not because of a desire to have a honey business,” Ms Sams said. “We did a Land for Wildlife project on our 300 acres [121 hectares] at Peachester, on the Stanley River, with the goal of revegetating and securing a wildlife corridor from our back ridgeline through to the river. “With the help of a grant and Sunshine Coast Council’s environment officers we sat down and… Source link

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