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Operators did not immediately make the correlation between the intermittent high-level spikes and material sticking on the cables. They would occasionally spray the cables with high-pressure water jets during the periodic washdowns to keep the basin and surrounding area clean.

The global food-service giant Aramark has reported 30 percent progress on its declaration to eliminate gestation crates from its supply chain by 2022. In 2017, Kathy Cacciola, Aramark’s senior director of environmental sustainability, confirmed to Civil Eats that the company is on track with suppliers to meet its goal.

Marine geological and geophysical investigations (42) coupled with numerous 2D seismostratigraphical interpretations have allowed the general thickness of Quaternary deposits, or the depth to bedrock, to be mapped on the continental shelf around NW Scotland (19, 20). These offshore Quaternary thickness maps show both Pleistocene (i.e., predominantly glacial, glaciomarine, and nonglacial marine) and Holocene sediments (exclusively nonglacial, marine) sediments as an amalgamated unit. In this study, we determined the ice-stream bed substrates at the time of the last glaciation (Late Weichselian; MIS2-3). Using existing and newly acquired geophysical sub-bottom profiles (figs. S1 and S2), sediment cores (figs. S2, S8, and S9), and archived marine geological data (fig. S1), we separated the deglacial stratigraphic component (deposited mainly as glaciomarine sediments during ice-stream retreat), and the Holocene component (deposited during nonglacial marine conditions), from the Late Weichselian subglacial and pre-Weichselian sediments (older than MIS3) (fig. S2). Note, for simplicity and brevity in the main manuscript, that these younger sediments are sometimes referred to as simply “deglacial sediments” to distinguish them from sediments deposited at the bed of the ice stream during Late Weichselian times. This classification has enabled a simplified geological substrate map to be generated for the ice-stream bed at the time of maximal Late Weichselian ice sheet glaciation (MIS2-3) (i.e., 22 to 28 ka BP) (36, 43).

(Top) Trough elevation versus distance diagram showing an along-flowline elevation profile of ice-stream bed and mapped GZW locations. Note that GZWs 1 to 9 occur on low-strength deformable-sediment bed; GZWs 10 to 17 occur on high-strength bedrock-dominated bed. (Bottom) Trough width versus distance diagram showing along-flowline variations in trough width (defined by the 100-m water-depth contour) and positions of GZWs. Note bifurcation of trough into east and west troughs at a distance of ~150 km from the shelf break. Blue bars show regions of seafloor where grounding-line features are notably absent, indicating uninterrupted ice-front retreat. GZW locations (GZW 1 to 17) shown along the distance axes. The T marks final grounding at the terrestrial transition.

Country View Family Farms, a family-owned pork producer founded on the outskirts of Philadelphia in 1895, was the earliest U.S.-based adopter of group housing—the alternative to gestation crates—and the first U.S. company to install the no-crate technology that Smithfield has adopted.

Although the pigs drink more from the tanks, the farm now uses 50pc less water overall because of reduced wastage, spillage and evaporation in the summer.

No aspect of our world is as mysterious as consciousness, the state of awareness that animates our every waking moment, the sense of being located in a body that exists within a larger world of color, sound, and touch, all of it filtered through our thoughts and imbued by emotion.

In conclusion, scientists determined that social competition between dairy cows at the water trough could accurately be identified by using an electronic drinking system.

Sure, Kylie is a billionaire. Yes, Kim is slaying her law exams and keeping us all entertained with her sink saga. But the eldest Kardashian is the real MVP.

In 2001, Country View President Bob Ruth began experimenting with the electronic sow feeding (ESF) technology developed in Europe that allows sows to live in open pens using chips implanted in their ears that track and regulate their health, feed, and other activities. After formally testing the technology in 2007, Country View found that ESF was a “home run” for animal care and productivity, and the company has installed ESF in all new barns and remodels ever since.

Filter beds are an easy level measurement for transmitters using noncontacting ultrasonic technology. As the name implies, to obtain a level measurement with this technology, the sensor does not contact the liquid or solid’s surface. Instead, the measurement is derived using the time of flight principle: The echo signal generated by the instrument is transmitted and received by the transducer and the corresponding distance or level can be viewed on the device’s local display. 

The bird hospital is one of several built by devotees of Jainism, an ancient religion whose highest commandment forbids violence not only against humans, but also against animals. A series of paintings in the hospital’s lobby illustrates the extremes to which some Jains take this prohibition. In them, a medieval king in blue robes gazes through a palace window at an approaching pigeon, its wing bloodied by the talons of a brown hawk still in pursuit. The king pulls the smaller bird into the palace, infuriating the hawk, which demands replacement for its lost meal, so he slices off his own arm and foot to feed it.