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Each of our physical, mental and spiritual health affects how we interact with those around us, and shapes the dynamics of our communities. Improving access to care is a concern that touches us all—from those seeking health care, to the concerned caregivers and families who support them.
We are proud to celebrate and support five Acting Up award winners who work to improve health access and services throughout Chicago, to help make a stronger community:
Feeding the Soul, Feeding the Body
ALSO and the Logan Square Ecumenical Alliance are working together to address the need for a more holistic perspective on the healing of mind, body and spirit. Their proposal provides a spiritual approach to healing, as they will be using their award to provide a safe sanctuary where people can heal in communion with others in their neighborhood.
Honest, Open, Proud
The stigma relating to mental health is often the biggest barrier to seeking out treatment. Honest, Open, Proud is a proposal to expand NAMI Chicago’s pilot program, already in practice at Cook County Jail’s Mental Health Transition Center, which focuses on contact-based strategies.
La Brocha – The Paintbrush
La Brocha – The Paintbrush is a proposal to bring art therapy for people with Alzheimer’s in the Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods, where many currently do not have access to these programs. This grant will fund two workshops to help patients and their caregivers take advantage of a therapy that has been shown to improve attention, social behavior and self-esteem.
Never Go Without
An essential for health and full civic participation for women is reliable access to feminine hygiene products. The program proposed by Never Go Without provides “mobile pad pop-ups” in underserved areas, as well as advertising to make women in these communities aware of the availability of pads, tampons and incontinence supplies products in their neighborhoods.
Roots to Wellness – Support the Continuation of Mental Health Training
Inspired by an On the Table discussion revealing that leaders often do not know all the available mental health services and other social supports that they can offer to residents in their communities, the Roots to Wellness Network will continue their mental health trainings, teaching community residents and leaders about mental health resources in Southwest Chicago.
Each of these projects received $1,000 from the Acting Up awards to make their great idea possible. The Trust and Goodcity Chicago are so honored to be a part of each piece of the puzzle that makes our neighborhoods better, one idea at a time. | [
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France : NOx FROM BOILERS.
Project Funding: 87000 EURO
General information: A European standard method is being developed for measuring the NOx emission from domestic boilers. The standard would in principle require that the ambient temperature and humidity (possibly even pressure) are fixed. As this is in practice not feasible (for economic reasons), a model will be included to convert the NOx emission measured at given ambient conditions to the standard conditions by calculation. This model requires a data base of measurements on the same boilers under different ambient conditions. As the available empirical data were far insufficient, a systematic study was undertaken in two laboratories where the temperature and humidity can be varied in a fairly wide range.
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Gadolinium is a silvery-white, malleable and ductile rare-earth metal with a metallic lustre. It crystallizes in hexagonal, close-packed alpha form at room temperature, but, when heated to 1508 K or more, it transforms into its beta form, which has a body-centered cubic structure.
Unlike other rare earth elements, gadolinium is relatively stable in dry air. However, it tarnishes quickly in moist air and forms a loosely-adhering oxide that spalls off, and then exposes more surface to oxidation. Gadolinium reacts slowly with water, and it is soluble in dilute acids.
Gadolinium-157 has the highest thermal neutron capture cross-section of any known nuclide with the exception of Xenon-135, 49,000 barns, but it also has a fast burn-out rate, limiting its usefulness as a nuclear control rod material.
Gadolinium demonstrates a magnetocaloric effect whereby its temperature increases when it enters a magnetic field and decreases when it leaves the magnetic field. The effect is considerably stronger for the gadolinium alloy Gd5(Si2Ge2).
Gadolinium is used in nuclear marine propulsion systems as a burnable poison. The gadolinium slows the initial reaction rate, but, as it decays, other neutron poisons accumulate, allowing for long-running cores. Gadolinium is also used as a secondary, emergency shut-down measure in some nuclear reactors, particularly of the CANDU type.
Gadolinium also possesses unusual metallurgic properties, with as little as 1% of gadolinium improving the workability and resistance of iron, chromium, and related alloys to high temperatures and oxidation.
Because of their paramagnetic properties, solutions of organic gadolinium complexes and gadolinium compounds are used as intravenous radiocontrast agents to enhance images in medical magnetic resonance imaging. Magnevist is the most widespread example.
Besides MRI, gadolinium (Gd) is also used in other imaging. In X-ray, gadolinium is contained in the phosphor layer, suspending in a polymer matrix at the detector. Terbium-doped gadolinium oxysulfide (Gd2O2S: Tb) at the phosphor layer is to convert the X-rays releasing from the source into light. Gd can emit at 540nm (green light spectrum = 520 – 570nm), which is very useful for enhancing the imaging quality of the X-ray that is exposed to the photographic film. Beside Gd's spectrum range, the compound also has a K-edge at 50 kiloelectron volt (keV), which means its absorption of X-ray through photoelectric interactions is great. The energy conversion of Gd is up to 20%, which means, one-fifth of the X-ray striking on the phosphor layer can be converted into light photons.
Gadolinium oxyorthosilicate (Gd2SiO5, GSO; usually doped by 0.1-1% of Ce) is a single crystal that is used as a scintillator in medical imaging such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or for detecting neutrons.
Gadolinium gallium garnet (Gd3Ga5O12) is a material with good optical properties, and is used in fabrication of various optical components and as substrate material for magneto–optical films.
In the future, gadolinium ethyl sulfate, which has extremely low noise characteristics, may be used in masers. Furthermore, gadolinium's high magnetic moment and low Curie temperature (which lies just at room temperature) suggest applications as a magnetic component for sensing hot and cold.
Due to extremely high neutron cross-section of gadolinium, this element is very effective for use with neutron radiography.
In older literature, the natural form of the element is often called an earth, meaning that the element came from Earth. In fact, gadolinium is the element that comes from the earth, gadolinia. Earths are compounds of the element and one or more other elements. The two most common combining-elements are oxygen and sulfur. For example, gadolinia contains gadolinium oxide (Gd2O3).
Gadolinium-based contrast agents are dangerous in patients with kidney disease. The contrast agent is normally chelated as it is expected to pass through the body quickly. In patients with kidney disease, the excretion is slower and the gadolinium becomes unbound, causing serious health issues.
See also Gadolinium compounds.
Naturally-occurring gadolinium is composed of 5 stable isotopes, 154Gd, 155Gd, 156Gd, 157Gd and 158Gd, and 2 radioisotopes, 152Gd and 160Gd, with 158Gd being the most abundant (24.84% natural abundance | [
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Romantic Places to Go in Athens, GA
Home to the University of Georgia, or UGA, as it's more commonly referred to in the state, Athens is a college town with a vibrant music scene. It's also a city filled with romantic charm in its historic districts, green spaces and on campus. Unless you're a serious college football fan, it's best to avoid visiting Athens for an amorous excursion on game days in the fall, as the streets and parking lots become overrun with the drunken revelry of tailgaters looking to party and cheer on their beloved Bulldogs.
Music for Your Soul
Besides college football, Athens' dynamic music scene is what lands it on the radar of most tourists to the Classic City. In the 1970s and '80s, it was the spawning ground for such notable acts as the B-52s and R.E.M. And the scene has grown tremendously since then. Best of all, the legendary venues to take in a show, such as the Georgia Theater and the 40 Watt Club, are within walking distance of each other downtown. Pick up a copy of the Flagpole -- the town's newsweekly that lists all the clubs and shows -- and head out for a night of live music from a diverse array of local, regional and national acts. Another good thing about club hopping in this college town: drinks and cover charges are cheap compared to much bigger cities such as Atlanta.
Noshing 'Round the Clock
Athens has become quite a culinary destination, gaining a reputation to match its vaunted music scene. For a nice dinner before the show and late-night munchies afterward, you'll have options aplenty. Like anywhere, restaurants come and go in Athens, but a handful are local institutions with an ambiance worth checking out. For higher-end fare, head to the Last Resort Grill, Five & Ten or the National; grabbing an affordable meal at the Taco Stand or the Varsity is a tradition for many in town, including lovebirds; for quality diner food at anytime of day, the Grill is the place to go; and the Grit is a vegetarian's paradise where even carnivores are happy to put their name on the waiting list.
Strolling With Heart
Athens' historic neighborhoods near downtown contain wide, shady streets and sidewalks that make them ripe for strolling hand in hand. Put on your walking shoes for a jaunt through the Cobbham and Boulevard historic districts, two of Athens classic neighborhoods filled with historic homes. The older section of the UGA campus, called North Campus, sits adjacent to downtown and is similarly alluring with its old trees and architecture. The State Botanical Garden of Georgia just outside of town contains miles of wooded trails by the Middle Oconee River and footpaths winding through immaculate gardens. It's also a favorite wedding spot, with facilities to host a ceremony and reception.
Top of the Town
Downtown Athens rests on a broad hilltop gently sloping in all directions. The hilltop aspect of downtown is almost unnoticeable, until you get up above all the buildings and trees and see the view. No real public observation platform exists, but in the 1990s a multilevel parking deck was built across from City Hall on College Avenue. After opening to the public, locals soon discovered that the open-air top level of the parking deck provided views of the city and points beyond that they'd never seen before. You won't find anything on the Athens CVB's website about this behemoth of a parking deck being a romantic destination, but if you make your way to the top level, you'll be rewarded with scenic views, especially on clear days when you can see the Blue Ridge foothills in the distance to the north.
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Sacramento is Creating a Vast Lawsuit System to Enrich Luxury Developers and You’ll Be Tapped for the Cash -
Two bills that let luxury housing developers shake down cities in court and overrun communities, written by Bay Area Democrats Scott Wiener and Nancy Skinner, are speeding along and will likely become law if they reach Gavin Newsom’s desk.
Thousands of Californians, including Livable California and allies, visited legislators, wrote and called, urging them to kill Wiener’s SB 592 and Skinner’s SB 330. But these twin “trickle-down” gentrification bills were greased by huge Silicon Valley interests.
Here’s what SB 592 & SB 330 do, and why we ask you to click here to find your legislator here and urge them to stop these bills on the floor.
- Both create a lawsuit industry in which luxury housing developers can sue any city that fails to meet bizarre new deadlines for approving private projects.
- Both severely cut down community input on housing proposals, giving luxury developers the bully pulpit in any neighborhoods they target.
- Neither SB 592 or SB 330 requires a single unit of affordable housing.
What on earth is Sacramento doing? They’re panicking.
They’re panicking over a false claim that we need 3.5 million housing units by 2025. This false 3.5M shortage was entirely conjured up by developer consultants McKinsey & Co.
The false 3.5M has been fully debunked by think tanks like Embarcadero Institute and by no less than California’s Department of Housing. But the media love citing that frightening and false 3.5M.
California needs 1.1 million housing units, not 3.5M. Cities can achieve the 1.1 million by 2025 WITHOUT punishment, or community silencing or devastating gentrification overkill.
Join us in educating the media, who buy into the false 3.5M number, driving the panic that’s unfolding right now in Sacramento.
Thanks for speaking up,
President, Livable California
Our mission is to build local empowerment to shape truly affordable, sustainable communities built upon social equity and a chance at the American dream.
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Every Saturday, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, you can find Freddie and Heather Bacon at the Fernandina Beach Market Place. They represent half of Bacon’s Select Produce, a family farm located in North Jacksonville, Florida. Freddie’s parents, Fred and Sharon Bacon, make up the other half of the team.
The Bacon Farm is focused on providing fresh, pesticide-free produce. The Bacons’ do no reselling, so everything you find on their table has been grown by them. From specialty lettuces to sweet bell peppers, cucumbers, kale and herbs, all produce is grown hydroponically in greenhouses.
In the case of lettuces, the hydroponic growing method permits the harvest of the head as well as the roots, ensuring long-lasting freshness.
The farm is glad to accommodate businesses, neighborhoods or restaurants.
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Bridge deck runoff control trough drainage, treatment and irrigation system: The case study of the bridge Ostruznica over the Sava river
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The paper presents main design project of the bridge Ostruznica deck drainage and runoff treatment. An integral solution of drainage and irrigation and/or discharge water into the Sava river of pre - treated runoff from the portion of highway Dobanovci – Bubanj Potok and the bridge The treated water is taken for irrigation into the groundwater as a recharge, along the series of wells for potable water within sanitary protection zone of the Belgrade Water supply system. The first flush of the criteria rainfall runoff volume is to be pre - treated using a StormwaterR barrels. Such a solution is considered as an additional water source at the aquifer by the rivers’ banks. Also, it is a measure of water cycle improvement. The project is completed by a SwermR preventing system for accidental situation, such as leakage or accidents of vehicles and potential pollution and risks of vulnerability for the potablewater wells.
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A hydraulic cylinder is a mechanical unit that converts hydraulic electricity into linear drive and movement. It consists of a cylindrical barrel, China hydraulic cylinders supplier a piston, a piston rod, and various seals. This is a simplified rationalization of how a hydraulic cylinder operates:
1. Hydraulic Fluid Source: The hydraulic cylinder is linked to a hydraulic procedure that materials pressurized hydraulic fluid, typically oil, to the cylinder.
2. Cylinder Barrel and Piston: The cylinder barrel is a hollow tube where the piston moves again and forth. The piston divides the cylinder into two chambers: the rod facet (also named the “blind” side) and the cap aspect.
three. Piston and Piston Rod: The piston is a cylindrical ingredient that matches tightly inside the cylinder barrel. It has sealing rings or seals about its circumference to avoid fluid leakage in between the piston and the cylinder walls. The piston rod is hooked up to 1 conclusion of the piston and extends exterior the cylinder barrel.
four. Hydraulic Fluid Strain: When hydraulic fluid is equipped to just one of the chambers, it generates pressure on the piston, pushing it in direction of the reverse conclude of the cylinder. The tension is produced by a hydraulic pump and managed by valves in the hydraulic method.
five. Linear Motion: As the hydraulic fluid pressure acts on the piston, it forces the piston and piston rod to shift in a linear route. The course of the linear motion depends on which chamber is pressurized.
6. Pressure and Perform: The China hydraulic cylinders exporter cylinder generates pressure in proportion to the hydraulic fluid pressure and the efficient area of the piston. The drive exerted by the cylinder can be calculated utilizing the system: Power = Strain × Piston Region.
seven. Sealing: Seals or sealing rings are utilized to prevent hydraulic fluid leakage amongst the piston and cylinder barrel. These seals assure that the hydraulic tension is contained inside the cylinder, allowing it to crank out pressure and perform get the job done effectively.
eight. Handle and Direction: The movement of hydraulic fluid to the diverse chambers of the cylinder is controlled by valves in the hydraulic process. These valves immediate the fluid to the wanted chamber, letting for exact manage of the cylinder’s motion and operation.
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I haven’t been to Old Navy in a while but wanted to check out their new arrivals. They tend to have amazing Fall pieces and they definitely didn’t disappoint. Their current selection is amazing and the best part is EVERYTHING is 40% off, ends 8/28.
It’s definitely possible to look stylish and chic for less.
This dress was pretty much love at first sight. It seems to be well made and as you can tell I’m excited to style it for Fall. Just one of many looks this dress will be styled with. It looks so cute paired with Flats or Sandals for summer too.
I don’t see it online, but here is the exact style just with pretty lace details on sleeves. Didn’t see this one in store, but will be ordering it as I love the lace details.
Moto jacket old – similar style
Hat old – similar
Love this color combination. Both pieces seemed nicely made. The trousers were surprisingly really nice and they fit great. The sweater comes in multiple colors and it’s quite nice.
Sweater in small – comes in 4 colors
Trousers in sizes 2 – available in multiple colors and prints
Love this tee (scroll below for another look with this tee). It comes in multiple colors. I purchased this striped one and one in black (both in Small).
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It saddens me how short this dress is. It is the same style as the dress above and size Small is just a tad longer. It is SO pretty but clearly looks more like a tunic on me in XS (I’m 5’6″). It comes in tall as well, so I’m hoping it will be long enough.
Dress – here is XS
Great basic tee. I purchased it in stripes (even though now I do kind of want it in this color as well as in black). Great price too.
This blazer is another great basic piece, nicely tailored! The fabric felt more casual but it definitely can be dressed up or down. I loved it!
Blazer in XS- available in 4 colors
I have a thing for cardigans. Love the length of this one. A must have especially for the price. Comes in four colors.
Cardigan – in XS
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Cosmetic Dental Services in Lynnwood
We value the unique beauty of each patient at Crosspoint Dental, so we take great joy in enhancing and highlighting people’s natural appearance with dental treatments. Even simple treatments can make a big difference in adding appeal. For patients seeking more substantial services, we provide treatments that complement the facial structure, skin tone, and jaw size and shape of individuals.
Dr. Luke Daining welcomes patients who want to touch-up their smiles with dental enhancements. Located in Lynnwood, Crosspoint Dental Center strives to help patients look their best, so they can feel their best.
Brighter Smiles in Lynnwood
A simple way to boost the aesthetics of your smile is with a professional tooth whitening treatment. These take less than an hour and can conveniently be done after a routine teeth cleaning. Professional gels lighten teeth by as much as seven shades in one treatment, and there are also take-home options both to maintain your smile and lighten teeth at your own pace in the convenience of your home.
Teeth-whitening is also recommended for those intending to pursue other cosmetic services. Restorations like crowns and veneers cannot be lightened like your natural teeth can, so whiten first, then get other dental enhancement work done.
Enamel-colored Fillings and Bonding for Added Aesthetics
Composite resin is a tooth-colored substance that can be used to treat cavities and to replace old silver-colored fillings with composite fillings to add beauty to your smile. Composite resin can also be molded and placed over many dental imperfections for a seamless and appealing result. Discoloration, chips, fractures, and other inconsistencies in your teeth can be concealed with composite bonding.
Porcelain Veneers and Crowns for Dramatic Enhancement
Porcelain veneers can provide a dramatic transformation to smiles, completing altering teeth. Many imperfections can be treated with veneers, such as:
- Undersized Teeth
- Mild Misalignment
- Gaps and Asymmetrical Teeth
Porcelain veneers are ultra-thin shells that shine like natural enamel. Patients typically treat the most visible six to eight teeth in their upper and lower jaws. The veneers are identically matched to surrounding dentition. After Dr. Daining prepares the teeth, he takes an impression so a lab can custom design your veneers to fit onto the unique contours of your teeth.
Dr. Daining works with patients in customizing veneers that most ideally suit the shape and size of their mouth. The result is a gorgeous smile that is durable, and when properly cared for, will last for many years.
Porcelain or ceramic crowns are another way to dramatically add attraction to a smile. Crowns encase teeth for a treatment that protects teeth and they are very durable, often lasting a lifetime. Patients can influence the size, shade, and shape of their crowns, so they receive a signature, one-of-a-kind smile. Crowns, like veneers, can dramatically change teeth creating smiles that are healthy and beautiful.
Dr. Daining at Crosspoint Dental in Lynnwood for Beautiful Smiles
If the condition of your teeth is holding you back from smiling confidently and securely, then consult with Dr. Daining to learn about the various ways you can alter their appearance. He is a compassionate dentist who enjoys working with you to maintain a healthy and beautiful smile. Crosspoint Dental in Lynwood can make a difference! | [
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Reply: Are You Excited About a Third 'Hobbit' Movie? Fans Chime In
by Alex Billington
July 31, 2012
It has been decided. There will be a third Hobbit. We will see Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, and all that it contains, because we know it has to be more than just the story told in J.R.R. Tolkein's The Hobbit. But of course it will have a lot more, and Peter Jackson has plenty of wonderful Tolkien material to draw from anyway. We already know Elijah Wood's Frodo is in it, plus Orlando Bloom is back as Legolas, and there's Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel. But how many are excited for a third movie? Are they stretching it thin? In our latest Reply question series, we're asking the fans if they're really into this third movie, or not.
Rumors of a third movie first kicked up at Comic-Con, where he said, "I'd like to shoot a bunch more material that we [couldn't] shoot. There's so much good stuff in the appendices that we haven't been able to squeeze into these movies," But earlier this week, PJ took to Facebook to confirm. "So, without further ado and on behalf of New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Wingnut Films, and the entire cast and crew of The Hobbit films, I'd like to announce that two films will become three." While it seems like due to rights issues they can't pull from Silmarillion, they've got plenty of other material and can likely come up with another epic Middle Earth ensemble adventure that involves more than just a Hobbit.
What was the general reaction to the news? Before we even asked our question, tons of tweets started flying in about it, but a few of the better ones made fun of the decision — and potentially what could come next.
I'm excited for THE HOBBIT: PART 3 because General Grevious was my favorite character.
— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) July 30, 2012
The Hobbit or There and Back Again. Again and Once More. The End. Epilogue. Coda. Surprise and Finally Home. Probably. Maybe Not.
— sizemore (@sizemore) July 30, 2012
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Jackson adds a fourth Hobbit film, THE HOBBIT LEGACY.
— Matt Singer (@mattsinger) July 30, 2012
@mattsinger @firstshowing EXCLUSIVE: Peter Jackson adds a fifth Hobbit film -- THE HOBBIT RISES.
— Domenico Salvaggio (@DomSalvaggio) July 30, 2012
I followed up by asking a more open-ended question: "Are you excited about the third Hobbit movie and why (not)? Will they have enough good material?" Hoping to spark a discussion on both the good and bad, we got a good variety of replies that range from the positive and negative completely. However, it seems like most people are actually just waiting to see how the first one is and how the rest turn out anyway. It's a little too early to tell with only one trailer released, and shooting just finished, if the adventure will be worth it, but maybe we should trust in Peter Jackson. Let him take us on his complete journey. The best replies:
@firstshowing No. Why? LOTR: 3 books, 3 movies. The Hobbit: 1 book, 3 movies…
— Merrill Barr (@sonic43) July 30, 2012
@firstshowing I was… am… excited for pt1. But more talk about 48 frames/second and other tidbits coming from Jackson have me worried.
— Ignatius (@THEIG) July 30, 2012
@firstshowing they are stretching the story far too much just to earn money. Hobbit simply doesn’t have enough oomph. #ReplyFS #TheHobbit
— Roebot Films (@RoebotFilms) July 30, 2012
@firstshowing just because a story can be told in 11 hours doesn't mean it should.
— \m/ (@SteveWhoVain) July 30, 2012
@firstshowing The Hobbit is three 2.5 hr movies? I'd say this was a waste of time if I was capable reading aloud at 48FPS #ReplyFS
— Da7e Gonzales (@Da7e) July 30, 2012
@firstshowing I'm not really that excited. Seriously, Pete needs to find a new project. Doesn't anybody feel like 3 LotR films were enough?
— Jay Runham (@jayrunham) July 30, 2012
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Friends Ivory & Sime (FIS) will rebrand itself Isis and launch an Oeic with four sub-funds in Septem...
Friends Ivory & Sime (FIS) will rebrand itself Isis and launch an Oeic with four sub-funds in September as part of its expansion into the retail market following its acquisition of the retail business of Friends Provident, writes Adam Lewis.
Isis is to offer an Aim Growth fund, to be run by Bill Brown, a UK Smaller Markets fund, managed by Nicholas Malins-Smith, a UK Dynamic fund, which will be run by Rodger McNair and Richard Bell. Later in the year it will launch a fund investing in zeros.
The Aim Growth portfolio will be run similarly to the Aim investment trust, for which the goal is to provide long-term capital growth by investing in a portfolio of Aim Companies. However, the retail fund will have slightly more of a technology bias to differentiate it from the investment trust.
On Brown's team will be Robert Mitchell, who also works on the investment trust, Robert Rasbach and Stuart Rollason.
Rasbach used to work as a technology analyst at the Japanese investment bank Nomura and Rollason, also formerly at Nomura, was a biotech and healthcare analyst.
The UK Smaller Markets fund will be a retail-based version of FIS's mid-small cap institutional fund, which Malins-Smith runs with a growth philosophy and a diversified portfolio of around 200 stocks. However, it is expected that the retail fund will be more aggressively managed, with a portfolio of 40-60 stocks.
The UK Dynamic fund, also likely to run between 35-50 holdings, will target absolute rather than relative returns and, as such, will use no benchmark.
At the end of September, the UK Progressive fund, investing in zero dividend preference shares, will be launched. Dent, the fund manager, currently runs the Friends Provident trust of investment trusts and manages £600m in investment trust portfolios. He is also a member of FIS's asset allocation committee.
In May, when Investment Week first reported FIS was planning this Oeic range, David Norman, head of retail and group marketing, said the Oeic would have the capability to go into more specialist areas.
What made financial headlines over the weekend?
Caring for children and elderly relatives
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“When we get to [the augmented reality] world, a lot of the things we think about as physical objects today, like a TV for displaying an image, will actually just be $1 apps in an AR app store.” — Mark Zuckerberg
If you have Snapchat or Instagram on your phone, you are already using it, but did you know what it was called. Augmented reality, in laymen’s terms, is a technological advancement where digital content is added onto a live camera feed, making that digital content look like it is part of the physical world.
A computerized vision understands the world through the camera feed and allows relevant content to what a user is looking at, and makes it looks realistic. We can see the National Geographic bring dinosaurs to life with an AR experience, and what a pleasure it was to the eyes.
It is not just that even students are taking over distance education with AR. Imagine how good it would be when it is in almost every management. And that dream is more likely going to come true.
Ways B2B Businesses Have Been Using Augmented Reality in Their Marketing
Everything begins with the product or the service. So does the utilization of AR in B2B. You most probably saw it coming. Construction companies make evaluations and test different spacing solutions before buying one.
Another great example of that is Cisco. Cisco launched a product and service catalog that relies entirely on new technology. It included interactive content, through which their customer could interact with products in 3D, rotate them, explore features, and learn about all of the advantages.
Personalization is essential when it comes to B2B. Not that much when it comes to B2C. But B2B has the phenomenon of going around becoming a long-term business partner, someone to trust and rely on.
In B2C, a business can always find another relevant customer, but it is a longer and more tedious process in B2B. And this is why personalization has become essential in this industry.
Through AR, it is possible to rearrange every single product to the customer’s environmental needs and make it fit. By this, it can match needs and expectations right where they are.
Training and Trails
Training and trials are part of every B2B purchase, and it will not be a surprise to have some technological advancement here too.
Trial and error though, a commonly followed business activity is not very cheap, and not all businesses can afford to lose. Some manufacturing companies have been using AR in their marketing procedure to skip that loss.
Decreasing the Sales Cycle Span
Shortening a sales cycle is now a trend among B2B marketers, as they have more to focus on. A sales cycle consists of the staff meeting clients multiple times, which costs time and resources.
Now that we saw B2B business using AR in their marketing cycles, we can also find that industry giants are leveraging the technology.
Facebook and Apple are serious about augmented reality. There is no doubt. Here is what they did with augmented reality in their business.
Apple released its ARkit 2.0, an SDK for developing AR apps.
Facebook introduced features where it allows the integration of images, logos, and signs with augmented content.
Challenges of Integrating AR Into Your B2B Marketing Strategy
Of course, you can overcome these challenges, but you must know that they are going to be a barrier waiting to be broken.
Creativity and Expenditure
Every job needs creativity, or it will not work in the right way, and it will turn out to be monotonous. Implementing AR requires a 3D specialist design team to take you a step further. But do not be afraid to take the first few simple starters, giving your marketing a head-start.
Spreading the News
Now, you have already perhaps bought AR into the picture, but do your audiences know that you have? Not everyone will find out if you do not give them clear education and instructions.
At times it is hard to focus on educating the audience on the new technology. But in the end, it is your responsibility to include clear and visible instructions.
Measuring the Results
Implementing AR in marketing is not like an email marketing campaign. It is not easy to measure how your AR implementation is working out. There are very few ways in which you can know if it is doing as expected among your audience.
It is not possible to monitor emotional outcomes when evaluating the effects of AR implementation. But it is always possible to get your numbers through KPIs (key performance indicators), app downloads, and marker scans.
The Bottom Line
The challenges weighed against the benefits that AR brings are comparatively low. A business can benefit a lot more from being subject to constructive changes.Guest Post
About the Guest Author(s)
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Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea) The scarlet tanager is a medium sized American songbird. Adult males are bright red with black wings and tail; females are yellowish on the underpants and olive on top, with olive-brown wings and tail.
Exhibit A. [internal dialogue] Well, that just looks stupid. AS IF there's a royal-blue-and-orange raptor. This looks quite a lot like a Peregrine falcon. I wonder if the original picture will be easy to find. Got it
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June 27 marks the birth of Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869–May 14, 1940), an anarchist who was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women’s equality and independence, and unions. After reading Richard Drinnon’s biography of Emma Goldman, Rebel in Paradise, Howard Zinn read Goldman’s autobiography, Living My Life. As a historian with a PhD, he was astonished he had never learned about Goldman in his studies. “Here was this magnificent woman, this anarchist, this feminist, fierce, life-loving person.”Read More...
The 35th anniversary edition of A People’s History of the United States is now available featuring a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, Howard Zinn’s long-time collaborator. Arnove begins, Howard Zinn fundamentally changed the way millions of people think… Read More
French filmmakers Daniel Mermet and Olivier Azam of Les Mutins de Pangee have released part one of a three-part documentary about Howard Zinn. Only available in French, it can be rented or purchased on Vimeo.com. The 1:40 hour… Read More
The Zinn Education Project collects stories from former students at Spelman College and Boston University about his role as a teacher. Here is one example, a story by Michael Stavros, Class of 1973. If you are a former… Read More
As we approach a new calendar year, we revisit Howard Zinn’s warmth, humor, and optimism in this interview with David Barsamian from July 1997. Zinn discusses being considered non-scholarly in the academic world (“…if you write stuff that… Read More
As the school year gets underway, we share this excerpt from Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics on democratic education, the value of skepticism, and building trust with students. In this interview with David Barsamian at Alternative Radio,… Read More
August 6 and 9 mark the anniversary of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. In the following excerpt from You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Howard Zinn, a WWII bombardier, recalls,… Read More
In New York, a small army of policemen, laid off and angry, have been blocking the Brooklyn Bridge, and garbage workers are letting the refuse pile up in the streets. In Boston, some young people on Mission Hill are illegally occupying an abandoned house to protest the demolition of a neighborhood. And elderly people, on the edge of survival, are fighting Boston Edison’s attempt to raise the price of electricity.
So it looks like a good Fourth of July, with the spirit of rebellion proper to the Declaration of Independence.Read More...
Published on June 2, 1976 in the Boston Globe and republished in The Zinn Reader with this brief introduction: Memorial Day will be celebrated … by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.Read More...
The Nation • August 6, 1960 and republished March 23, 2015
One afternoon some weeks ago, with the dogwood on the Spelman College campus newly bloomed and the grass close-cropped and fragrant, an attractive, tawny-skinned girl crossed the lawn to her dormitory to put a notice on the bulletin board. It read: Young Ladies Who Can Picket Please Sign Below.
The notice revealed, in its own quaint language, that within the dramatic revolt of Negro college students in the South today another phenomenon has been developing. This is the upsurge of the young, educated Negro woman against the generations-old advice of her elders: be nice, be well-mannered and ladylike, don’t speak loudly, and don’t get into trouble. On the campus of the nation’s leading college for Negro young women—pious, sedate, encrusted with the traditions of gentility and moderation—these exhortations, for the first time, are being firmly rejected.Read More...
PEN New England selected Ferguson activists and bloggers Johnetta Elzie and DeRay McKesson to receive the 2015 Howard Zinn Freedom to Write Award. Formerly named the “Thomas Paine Award,” the Freedom to Write Award was re-named in honor of Howard Zinn. PEN… Read More
This year, as the Pentagon prepares to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, we revisit this essay by Howard Zinn written in 1998, the 30th anniversary year of when he traveled with the Reverend Daniel Berrigan… Read More
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A compulsory car insurance scheme was first introduced in the United Kingdom with the Road Traffic Act 1930. This ensured that all vehicle owners and drivers had to be insured for their liability for injury or death to third parties whilst their vehicle was being used on a public road. Germany enacted similar legislation in 1939 called the "Act on the Implementation of Compulsory Insurance for Motor Vehicle Owners."
Insurance is a fact of everyday life. If you want to own a car, a home, or a business, or simply want to protect your family’s health, you need to be—and in some cases, have to be—insured. Getting coverage can sometimes become an overwhelming and confusing process, and sometimes an expensive one, but it doesn’t have to be. NetQuote provides you not only with the ability to compare quotes, but also with the information you need to make the process easier.
State legislators set limits on how much a company can increase your rates after a crash. Our hypothetical accident resulted in only $2,000 worth of damage. That caused average annual rates to spike by $1,000 or more in some states, while others jumped by far less. One thing’s for sure: Your rates will definitely increase after an at-fault accident, so be sure to compare car insurance rates if you have one on record.
The Road Traffic Act, 1933 requires all drivers of mechanically propelled vehicles in public places to have at least third-party insurance, or to have obtained exemption – generally by depositing a (large) sum of money to the High Court as a guarantee against claims. In 1933, this figure was set at £15,000. The Road Traffic Act, 1961 (which is currently in force) repealed the 1933 act but replaced these sections with functionally identical sections.
Liability auto insurance protects you from that worst case scenario by providing a cushion between your assets and the amount you’re on the hook for. For this reason, choosing the right auto liability limits is the most important part of your car insurance quote comparison. NerdWallet typically recommends having at least as much liability coverage as your net worth. | [
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This pages give information about State Bank Of Patiala Vijayawada branch IFSC code, contact number, services and facilities offered at the branch etc... Vijayawada branch of State Bank Of Patiala is located in Krishna, Andhra Pradesh. Get the complete postal address of the branch and its working hours.
IFSC code of State Bank Of Patiala Vijayawada Branch along with branch contact number is given in the box below.
SBP Vijayawada IFSC Code: STBP0000577
Branch Phone Number: 476793
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|Branch Name||State Bank Of Patiala Vijayawada|
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Herschel's view of the Galactic Centre
The centre of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, about 25 000 light-years away, as seen seen by ESA's Herschel space observatory.
Clouds of gas and dust appear distributed along a giant, twisted ring, over 600 light-years wide, which encompasses the supermassive black hole sitting at the Galaxy's core.
The image is a composite of the wavelengths of 70 microns (blue), 160 microns (green) and 350 microns (red).
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SCHENECTADY – A city council member’s failed bid to denounce a Black school board member’s call to defund the police drew a rebuke from a member of the local chapter of the state Civil Liberties Union during Monday’s City Council meeting.
On Sept. 7, the council’s Public Safety Committee declined to take action on a proposal by Councilwoman Karen Zalewski-Wildzunas to denounce School Board member Jamaica Miles’ call to defund the police department.
The matter was debated at length during that meeting and a subsequent City Council meeting.
Zalewski-Wildzunas had said her request was timed ahead of the city’s 2022 budget presentation in October. She had also said Miles’ remarks were undermining the police’s work in the community.
Melanie Trimble, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Capital Region Chapter said during Monday’s meeting it was “truly chilling to see individuals of an elected body use their authority to condemn an activist” for her views.
Trimble said the civil liberties union was relieved the council dismissed the action.
“The issue of defunding the police and deciding where to allocate city dollars for the safety and health of the community is central to the work of the city council, and it is outrageous that some of its members would seek to use their authority to silence someone, rather than consider their ideas – when police have continued to abuse their power with impunity in Schenectady and beyond, the question of how to fund and oversee them is a fiscal and moral imperative.”
Trimble said it was “unnerving” that council members were so willing to abdicate their responsibility of overseeing and funding the police “in favor of the status quo,” and at the expense of Miles.
“The individuals on the council who supported this resolution may think that singling out an individual associated with the Black Lives Matter movement is not racist,” Trimble said of Zalewski-Wildzunas and Majority Leader John Polimeni, who also supported the resolution.
“But ask yourself if you would have even proposed such an action if the individual were white,” Trimble said. “We think not.”
Trimble said the organization implored the council “not only to reject the thinking embodied in this resolution concerning Ms. Miles but also to look for ways to repair the damage the council has done in providing evidence that confirms the public’s perception of the city’s racist underpinnings.”
Reach Gazette reporter Brian Lee at 518-419-9766, [email protected] or @bleeschenectady on Twitter. | [
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By linking people, cars, and communities, Toyota is working toward a society where everyone can feel safe, secure, and happy as they move through each day of their life.
We dare to adopt the newest technologies and deliver them to as many people as possible. Our success in putting 5,000,000 hybrid cars on the road is a realization of this ambition.
Now, we are forging forward toward an integrated world where cars and information technology are one. We want to deliver this world to your fingertips. Toyota is already working to make it a reality.
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Red Hook Houses was a project which is part of the Recovery and Resilience Program of the New York City Housing Authority as part of Hurricane Sandy constructions repairs and relief. The main scope of this project was the roof replacement and taking down the knee-high curb wall and replacing it with new solid bar roof top railing system that was installed according to the New York City Building Code requirements. This work took place on all 28 Red Hook House buildings over a period of two and a half years. These 28 rooftops include 2, 873 residences over a 60 acre plot of land.
The roof project is the first phase of a nearly $550 million investment in the Red Hook Houses as part of NYCHA’s Sandy Recovery to Resiliency program which aims to rebuild the neighborhood to be stronger and more resilient. The project entails providing new roofs, as well as repairing or replacing old parapets and railings, on all 28 high-rise residential buildings at the Red Hook Houses development, improving the quality of life for the more than 6,000 NYCHA residents living there.
The rails and roof top ladders were all galvanized, brushed blasted to SSPC-SP16 and then a two-part epoxy paint system applied, all within 48 hours of receiving at the galvanizer. This was process was done in 48 individual sequences providing quality control throughout the Duplex System and being such a high profile job, all 28,000/LF of railings had to be smoothed out by using only hand files to be certain of no excessive zinc build up that would show through the paint.
The construction and installation of the of the steel railings required careful coordination between the fabricator and installation teams with the galvanizer. The schedule for installation by sequence and the schedule for galvanizing and painting had to be managed carefully in order to meet the needs of the jobsite and the needs of the stringent duplex specification. The duplex coating system was selected in order to provide the durability and corrosion protection of hot dip galvanizing along with a paint color that will blend in to the roof lines of the buildings.
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The output properties are extinction, scattering, and absorption coefficients; single-scattering albedo; asymmetry parameter; and aerosol optical depth
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2010) integrated the satellite-based aerosol optical depth
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We agree that integration of satellite-based aerosol optical depth
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Currently passive sensors provide information on aerosol optical depth
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5] concentrations using total-column aerosol optical depth
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The main task will be the development of a climatology of stratospheric aerosol extinction and optical depth
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5] concentrations using total column aerosol optical depth
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The association between satellite-based aerosol optical depth
We hope this exchange will highlight some of the key issues in using aerosol optical depth
(AOD) for air quality purposes, in particular with regard to our focus on epidemiologic use.
Assuming similar optical properties of biomass smoke in Southeast Asia and Brazil, where UV-B and optical depth
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What is Neurofeedback?
How would you like to improve your response to all of your day-to-day situations? Able to be in control of your thoughts and moods, regardless of your day-to-day stresses? Neurofeedback training can offer a solution to you do just that.
Neurofeedback utilizes a non-invasive technique for measuring and improving your brain activity. Small sensors are attached to specific areas of your head, using conductive gel. Our computerized software records the brain wave function, then provides continuous feedback to teach your brain how to think more efficiently.
During your brain training session, you will be watching a video input, using our photic lenses, accompanied by an audio input. Using a method known as operant conditioning, audio and visual feedback is used to help your brain create new, healthier brainwave patterns.
Balanced Brainwaves = Balanced Mood, Better Cognitive Function
The software compares your incoming brainwaves to that of optimal brainwave distributions in the desired range. If your brainwaves go outside these parameters, it creates a change in the audio or video inputs. Your brain automatically detects this, and refocuses itself back into the desired range, balancing your brainwaves.
The training is painless. In fact, all you have to do is watch a video! Sessions usually last 30 minutes.
As in a college classroom, your brain will learn to stay in the normal ranges on its own without the computer. With your brain functioning normally, your symptoms will improve, or in many cases, disappear entirely.
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Not only that, but growth hormone is increased during fasted states (both during sleep and after a period of fasting). Combine this increased growth hormone secretion:, the decrease in insulin production (and thus increase in insulin sensitivity ), and you’re essentially priming your body for muscle growth and fat loss with intermittent fasting.
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Since all of your hormones are so deeply interconnected, when one hormone is thrown off balance, the rest are also negatively impacted. It’s like a domino effect. As the “messengers” that regulate nearly every function in your body — from energy production to digestion, metabolism, and blood pressure — you don’t want to disrupt their natural rhythm.
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So, the idea that intermittent fasting is bad for women is only partially true. Your body will do strange things if it thinks it’s starving. That’s normal, expected, and part of your evolutionary biology. The key to making it work is to give your brain the energy it needs and assuring your metabolism that everything is a-o-k and you’re not in the middle of a famine or disaster.
According to a study published in Translational Research in 2014, intermittent fasting can reduce your weight by 3 to 8 percent over three to 24 weeks. A systematic review published in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology in 2015 confirmed these results by reporting that, on average, participants following a fasting diet lost between 7 and 11 pounds in 10 weeks.
You’re consuming less food and thus spending less money. Rather than overeating to put on 1 pound of muscle and 4 pounds of fat in a week or two, you’re aiming to eat exactly enough to put on 1 pound of muscle without adding much fat on top of it. Yeah, it’s a delicate balance, but there’s far less swing involved. You are just slowly, steadily, and consistently building muscle and strength over many months.
This fasting process will not only activate autophagy in your cells, it will also increase your ketones much more quickly than if you were just eating a standard ketogenic diet. If you start implementing intermittent fasting and activities (like walking, cycling, or lifting weights) together, you can raise ketone levels and increase autophagy more than you would with intermittent fasting alone. This suggests that intermittent fasting would be a great addition to your life, but it is important to be familiar with the negative symptoms that can arise before you start.
How It Works: Fast for 24 hours once or twice per week. During the 24 hour fast, which creator Brad Pilon prefers to call a “24 break from eating,” no food is consumed, but you can drink calorie-free beverages. After the fast is over, you then go back to eating normally. “Act like you didn’t fast,” Pilon says. “Some people need to finish the fast at a normal mealtime with a big meal, while others are OK ending the fast with an afternoon snack. Time it however works best for you, and adjust your timing as your schedule changes,” he says.
There are MUCH bigger fish to fry with regards to getting healthy than a few calories here and there during a fast. 80% adherence that you stick with for a year is better than 100% adherence that you abandon after a month because it was too restrictive. If you’re trying to get to a minimum bodyfat percentage, you’ll need to be more strict – until then, however, do what allows you to stay compliant!
Another program called the 5:2 Fast Diet involves eating 5 days a week and fasting for the other 2 days, when women can get no more than 500 calories and men no more than 600. That’s a quarter of the amount you likely eat on the days when you don’t fast. Whether you eat those calories in one sitting or spread them across micro-meals throughout the day is up to you. | [
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I’m attempting to write some code for turret aiming and I am using two limit switches to limit the swing of the turret. Currently the turret uses the camera to aim at the goal using a PID controller and there are no limit switches.
I don’t know how to write the code that will cause the motor to move in the opposite direction and not confuse the PID controller. The code is written such that if the target moves out of the field of view of the camera, the turrnet will rotate in the direction the target was last seen.
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A growing industrial sector and record-high export activity are expected to be key drivers of increased U.S. natural gas demand this winter, according to a leading trade group.
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports are expected to grow by 16% over last winter, while pipeline exports to Mexico are expected to get an 18% boost, the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) said in its annual winter outlook released Thursday. Combined, the increases are expected to boost exports by 2.7 Bcf/d compared with last winter.
Energy Venture Analysis (EVA), which prepared the report for NGSA, said LNG exports would remain a primary driver of domestic natural gas demand growth in this decade. The firm expects LNG feed gas deliveries to average 12.0 Bcf/d this winter, up 1.7 Bcf/d over last year.
Industrial growth, meanwhile, is expected to grow by 1 Bcf/d this winter compared with last year as newbuild facilities and capacity expansions come online in natural gas-intensive sectors such as petrochemicals. According to the NGSA, 22 major gas-intensive projects are planned from 2021 to 2024.
“The fundamentals in NGSA’s outlook show strong demand for natural gas at home and globally,” said NGSAA Chairman David Attwood, who is a vice president at ExxonMobil.
Including exports, customer demand for U.S. natural gas is expected to increase to 111.9 Bcf/d compared with 110.9 Bcf/d last winter. However, the domestic market is predicted to shrink by 1.4 Bcf/d compared with last winter, driven by a decline in electric demand. NGSA expects the that market for natural gas will shrink by 2 Bcf due to “less temporary ‘economic switching’ to natural gas-fired power.”
Meanwhile, weather is not expected to be a huge factor this year. The report’s authors predict this winter will be 1% colder than last year, meaning residential and commercial demand will likely stay the same.
Is Natural Gas Supply Growing?
On the supply side, production is expected to grow by a modest 4%, reflecting an increased rig count and well completion rate. NGSA is predicting a 3.7 Bcf/d increase in natural gas production over last winter. Overall supply, which also takes into account storage and LNG and Canadian pipeline imports, is expected to average just over 99 Bcf/d this winter.
NGSA is also predicting higher Henry Hub prices this winter compared with last year’s $3.09/MMBtu average. The trade group credited “a combination of strong economic growth, growing demand for natural gas, resurgent production, and decreased storage inventory,” for the forecast.
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This is my sister`s favorite nail design!!! I know that a lot of us loves dots nail designs cause it`s basically the easiest design that we can ever make! Doing a dot is very simple even if we don`t have the right tool to do it cause there`s always a sub tool in our home like toothpick,bobby pin pencil etc..etc.. I saw a lot of nail designs with dots to their work and it can always make a design fun and eye-catching just like this one.As you can see it`s just a black background with different colors of dots but this simple work is just so cute to see!!!
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ABOUT THE END PHOTOGRAPHY
More than a photographer, I want to be a storyteller.
Lexington Area Fine Art Photographer Heather Rous Weeks launched The End Photography in 2010. The End Photography features on-site, natural-light photography.
Let's tell your story together.
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Concert Preview: Flogging Molly at The Pageant
By Jerry McGrath
Flogging Molly graces the stage of the Pageant with The Bronx and Vandoliers on Tuesday, Sept. 12. Witness their one-of-a-kind punk sound that has fueled a spirit for 20 plus years since their start in Molly Malones. Let them sing you Drunken Lullabies as you listen from the Devil’s Dance Floor. It definitely won’t be your Worst Day.
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like the automobile industry, the motorcycle community could also benefit from a new entrant or two every now and then, you know, for variety and freshness sake. unfortunately, the barrier of entry of bike making is as intimidating as automobile industry, which means new maker don’t appear as often as one might have hoped for. then the Bultaco Motorcycle came about in 1958 as an alternative to mainstream offerings and in the process, sort of carved its name in motorcycle racing in Europe, but unfortunately, it was wound down in 1983. that was history. fast forward to 2014, the defunct Barcelona-based motorcycle manufacturer has officially announced that it will be making a comeback and the bike you see here, the Rapitán, is the bike that will pave the way for more to come.
though the brand will uphold the values as it was founded on, its rebirth is in fact a transformation of an engineering firm, LGN TECH Design S.L. that has, since its founding in 2010, been developing its own electrical and mechanical designs and putting them to their paces in electrical motorcycle racing. so yes. the Bultaco is of an electric ride. though there is no official word if electric is the sole path or will there be a revival of old gasoline favorites like the Sherpa T and the TSS125 Road Racer. anywho, the Rapitán and the Rapitán Sport will be the company first bikes anticipated to be built this year. at the heart of the Rapitán is a Bultaco PowerCore eMK1 air-cooled brushless motor producing 40 kW and 125 Nm of torque, capable of a top speed of 145 km/h and up to 200 km range.
a Bultaco-developed lithium-ion battery keeps the electric motor juiced, while regenerative braking puts back some of the those energy back into the system. an onboard charger lets you recharge the vehicle in just 3.5-5 hours and a quick charger will keep that topped in mere 45 minutes to an hour. and since it does without gas, Bultaco has cleverly integrate a storage compartment, big enough for a full-face helmet, into where the gas tank would have been. the Rapitán seats two and rides on 17-inch wheels wearing 120/70R17 and 150/70R17 rubbers. of course, there are more to it then what we can detail and when it rolls into the market, the Rapitán will likely be one of the most advanced electric motorcycles to date, if not the most advanced. | [
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. sanctions may not deter Russia from its alleged election meddling and cyber hacking in the short term but will signal Washington’s renewed willingness to hold the Kremlin publicly to account for acts it views as malign.
President Joe Biden has vowed Russian President Vladimir Putin will “pay a price” and is expected to impose sanctions as soon as this week that could range from freezing the U.S. assets of Russians to curbing Moscow’s ability to issue sovereign debt.
Russia denies meddling in U.S. elections and orchestrating the cyber hack that used U.S. tech company SolarWinds Corp to penetrate U.S. government networks.
The Kremlin has also dismissed reports it offered bounties to Taliban militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
While the two nations’ presidents quickly extended the New START arms control treaty, Biden has taken a much tougher stance toward Putin than his predecessor, Donald Trump, and the U.S. and Russian leaders have made no secret of their disagreements.
In an interview last week the new Democratic president agreed with an interviewer who asked if he thought the Russian leader was a “killer,” prompting Putin to respond with a Russian playground chant that “he who said it, did it.”
Analysts said sanctions were unlikely to deter Russia and it was necessary to harden U.S. society to resist disinformation campaigns like the one Putin likely directed to try to sway the 2020 U.S. election in favor of Trump, a Republican, according to a U.S. intelligence assessment released on Tuesday.
The assessment showed Russia did little to hide its hand in trying to influence the election, suggesting such efforts may now simply be a fact of life, said Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank.
“That’s a long-term problem for Western societies and we shouldn’t expect the administration is just magically going to solve it,” he said, adding Washington wanted “to send a message: we’re watching these activities, we’re going to call them out.”
A former U.S. official said that even though sanctions may not change Moscow’s behavior in the short term, there can be a benefit to drawing clear lines about what is not acceptable.
“What they are trying to do with their Russia policy is to discourage risk-taking by the Russians, to carve out small areas where there are abilities to cooperate and to be very clear in specific and timely reactions that there will always be a cost to Russian behavior,” said the former U.S. official.
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Speaking intelligently about changes in global atmospheric temperature over time – whether looking backwards or forwards – is a dangerous business. Those on left and right are coiled to pounce. Still, in the spirit of scholarship, education, and optimism, a few thoughts.
First, everything related to climate is now politicized, which means if you support President Trump’s insistence on enforceable treaties, hard science, and a balance of public and private sector solutions, including absorption, sequestration, and carbon capture, you are a troglodyte, dense, depraved, a denier. Discussion ceases.
On the other hand, if you think that centralized governments are the answer, that histrionics work, that terrifying little children into speaking before the UN is appropriate, and that suppressing the private sector is the price of reducing carbon levels, you are on the right team, worthy, politically acceptable. You have religion. We can talk.
This divide must stop. Clearly, there are timeless oscillations in global climate, and core samples prove this as far back as we can measure. These have historically occurred without human carbon emissions, even if the past 150 years track increased human carbon emissions.
Let’s go further. Increased atmospheric carbon – sourced to both natural (e.g. solar, volcanic, and recurring cyclic causes) and human carbon production – elevate overall global temperatures. While other factors periodically accelerate, offset, maximize and minimize this process, temperatures have recently been rising.
Now comes the big question: Are we better off using gaps in data to delegitimize each other’s broad prejudices – the inveterate optimists and apocalyptic pessimists – or are we better off working together to distill a thoughtful analysis of recently rising temperatures, in part tied to elevated carbon levels?
Let’s assume the unlikely, that we can work together. What is the answer? Here is one. President Trump could roll out a comprehensive – but workable – invitation to the private sector, as well as countries interested in a genuine carbon reduction, which includes three factors.
The first is carbon absorption or sequestration, which involves reduced deforestation, increased intergenerational reforestation, and a clear understanding that one meaningful way to reduce carbon is trees.
If this sounds too good to be true, it is not. While it undercuts the need for centralizing governments, redistributing of western wealth and the political advantages of stirring mass hysteria, it is part of the solution – a real part.
A 2019 Zurich study noted that extensive reforestation, especially by China, Russia, the US and Brazil, could potentially absorb up to two-thirds of the carbon created by humans over the past 150 years.
Likewise, another 2019 study – based on supercomputer modeling and published in the journal Biogeosciences – offered that southern forests are absorbing carbon at a rate that neutralizes carbon production by southern hemisphere countries. More, the rate at which these southern forests are growing, is accelerating with increased carbon absorption.
On the other hand, the study warned that clearing, burning and otherwise deforesting these southern forests would reduce their ability to serve this carbon absorbing role. While “forests around the world are absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,” the need is high to elevate, not reduce overall forestation. Trees, it turns out, are central to carbon absorption – and restoring balance to the atmosphere.
As a scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research pointed out, we are missing a fundamental truth: “Global forests are helping to mitigate climate change or at least helping to mitigate the impacts of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.” We need more of them and need to preserve what we have.
Second, carbon is produced, in part, by fossil fuel extraction. Thus, a big part of reducing carbon emissions does not involve halting air, land and sea traffic, but promoting within the private sector the sequestration or “capture and storage” of carbon during extraction and processing.
This is one reason that, in September, a group of 13 top oil companies have launched investments in “carbon capture” technology. They know that reducing this element of carbon production falls to the private sector, and they are promoting this solution.
Could governments agree to incentivize, offer tax breaks, and otherwise encourage growth of carbon capture, thus voluntarily – and profitably – reducing the overall emissions that occur in the fossil fuel industry? Yes, of course.
In a nutshell, while production aims for carbon neutral, “carbon sequestration technology works by trapping carbon in caverns or porous spaces underground,” often in liquid form. This prevents intrusion on the atmosphere. The industry aspires to “double the amount of carbon dioxide that is currently stored globally by 2030.”
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Here's the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 pictured with the SEIBON Carbon Fiber Hood, Diffuser and Trunk at the SEMA show 2012.
Here's some good pics of the Cobra-R style rear bumper. One of the cleaner styles for the mustang.
Here's some great install pics of the GT500 hood and carbon fiber trunk installed on a Ford Mustang. The carbon fiber looks great installed on a white ford mustang.
Here's some hood pictures of the actual hood for the Ford Mustang by Carbon Creations. It is similar in design to the Eleanor hood but has the added inverted scoop on the cowl.
Here's some better pics of the Duraflex hood for the 05-09 mustang. As you can see on this version of the fiberglass hood being sold as of (oct 25 2011) the louvers are functional and it does have ducting to the airbox. This hood looks great on a Shelby Mustang!
Check out this 2008 Shelby GT-500 glassback. It has the V-8 Factory SuperCharged 590-610hp California emissions certified engine.
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This car includes a large amount of vis racing carbon fiber parts.
Thanks for our customer Eric for sending in these pics of his Ford Mustang Foxbody. Hood pins are definitely required on this heavily modified Mustang. It appears Eric has a TruFiber fiberglass cowl hood. The hood pins are a great match, high end Aerocatch hood pins are the professional and discreet way to pin your hood.
The mustang Cobra-R cowl hood by Duraflex. This Duraflex (fiberglass) hood is a little over 2 inches high. Here's some pics of the actual hood, Part #:ED_102255
How cool is that? It's the Drift Speed mustang with Behrman aeroparts, a full wide body kit and all the extra, like the Behrman window scoops etc.. This is the last wide body in stock here in the United States as of (May 3 2011). After that it will strictly be a special order item. It looks like this Ford Mustang also has the SEIBON SS carbon fiber hood, part "sei_HD0506FDMU-SS".
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It turns out that while the Indian government has tied itself into knots explaining the Indo-US nuclear deal to Indian political parties, and is seeking a vote of confidence in the Parliament right now, at least some International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) officials seem to be a little more relaxed.
“I have not yet read the document,” commented Diane Fischer, senior safeguards analyst at IAEA, after a presentation on Monday (July 21) at the Euroscience Open Forum on how the agency tracks nuclear smugglers. A bit surprising given that entire rules are being re-written in the deal, and one would have expected at least some passing academic interest from IAEA officials in the matter.
Fisher was asked by Indian journalists about whether certain IAEA conditions on broader access to nuclear facilities apply to India-specific safeguards in the nuclear deal signed between the two countries in March 2006.
Since then, and even weeks before the signing, there has been much debate in the country about India-specific clauses in the deal, which basically allow India, which has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to buy nuclear fuel from the US for its civilian reactors. This would normally have not been permissible under the US Hyde Act.
After many a hand-wringing among strategic and nuclear science analysts over the India-specific clauses and umpteen changes in the text, officials from India’s Department of Atomic Energy went to IAEA headquarters in Vienna last week to seek approval of the deal. The board of governors at IAEA will meet on August 1 to decide on the issue.
Back home, the coalition government in India tottered, with the Communist parties withdrawing support to the coalition government.
At the time of writing the blog, the result of the Indian parliamentary debate and vote of confidence is yet to be out. And looks like not all IAEA safeguard officials are aware of what the document holds.
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So we found shelter in a store. The best place to be in a snow storm for Caitlin. I was distracted though. I wanted to watch the storm. Fortunately I found a window overlooking an intersection. I sat in the window with my camera and snapped away. I watched the people struggle against the snow and wind. They became some of my favorite subjects to paint.
Today I prepared some textured boards and decided to revisit some of these photos. Textured boards make a great base for painting a snow storm. It is easy to paint falling snow. Read on for some tips.
|Working on a home made textured surface toned yellow|
|The painting before the addition of snow|
- I paint the big simple shapes of the composition first. I paint the snow on the ground but I don't worry about the falling snow at first.
- Once the painting is complete it is time to add the snow. I choose a white or very light value soft pastel and a palette knife. These are the tools of the trade!
- I hold the pastel over my painting and shave the pastel over the painting using the palette knife making sure I move it all over the painting. I want to avoid having clumps of pastel dust.
- I press the bits of dust into the board with the back of the palette knife. Now I have what looks like a gentle snow fall.
- To create a snow storm I take my pinky finger and quickly flick some of the snow bits so that they smudge. This gives the illusion of movement....as if the wind is blowing the snow.
- I wanted to create even more movement in the snow so I used the sharp edge of a hard white pastel and paint some thin lines in the direction of the blowing wind.
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We need to integrate several temperature sensors attached to a PT-104 into our central monitoring solution Icinga. The PT-104 can be accessed via ethernet. We are currently running the PicoLog Recorder, capture the individual channels and process the data manually.
The PT-104 should be constantly, automatically and regularly polled by Icinga (to avoid measurment loss, human error and to make our work easier).
Icinga is running on a linux server and the Icinga/Nagios plugin is required to run on linux as well.
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This year is all about knocking books off that ever-growing TBR pile. At least, in theory. It does, however, seem that I’m still NOT doing a very good job because I keep acquiring more books and not reading the books I already own.
August was all about the readathon to help me get caught up with my reading challenges. Did it work? Let’s see.
August Book Haul
I’m quite proud of myself for the month of August I only bought... Wait for it. Wait for it.
That’s right, according to Count von Count and his superior counting skills, I bought 3 books. And truthfully 1 of 3 I may return. That is if the person who checked it out of the library ever decides to return it before my book starts reading it next week. It was due back a week ago and I’ve been on the hold list for almost a month. Anyway, enough of that.
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (may return)
And I had the pleasure of winning Circe by Madeline Miller for participating in the 2018 Discussion Challenge.
Read in August
- I read Sadie by Courtney Summers for ARC August. Oh my gosh! I said it once, but I think it bears saying it again. YA is killing it! I have read some really good YA in the last year and some odd months.
- I read Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin for The Classics Club Spin #18. You can see my list here. I’ve read Baldwin before and have always enjoyed his writing style and storytelling. However, I did not enjoy it. Not even a little bit. I didn’t like any of the characters.
- I read Furyborn by Claire Legrand for ARC August and I have to say it was just meh. I’m wondering if I read it to soon after Children of Blood and Bone. To be truthful, I felt like I was reading another version of CoB&B, but without being invested in any of the characters.
I DNF’d Ahab’s Return, or The Last Voyage by Jeffrey Ford for ARC August. I read about 5 pages and knew that it wasn’t going to end well for me. I typically try to give books at least 25% before I call it quits, but I knew in my heart of hearts this was going to be a snoozefest.
Even though I’m not where I want to be with my reading I have made some progress with the reading challenges
Tsundoku Bingo Challenge: Read 3
TBR Pile Challenge: FAILED!
Back to Classics: Read 1
ARC August: 3 of 5
Bout of Books: 1
Women in Translation: 1 of 2
Books Read in April: 3
Pages Read in April: 989
Books Read YTD: 16
Pages Read YTD: 4315
My September TBR reading list is ambitious
- The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (Bookclub)
- The Sinners by Ace Atkins (ARC from publisher)
- The Boy at the Keyhole by Stephen Giles (ARC from publisher)
And three other books. I asked for you to choose which books I read for September for each of the following challenges. Thanks to those that voted. And the winners are
- 2018 Official TBR Challenge
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Back to Classics
- Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- The Thirst by Jo Nesbo
Coming Up in September
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Bookstore
- What Makes a Literary Classic
- A Reader’s Manifesto
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Furyborn by Claire Legrand
- And hopefully books read in September
And do you see a number theme? If not, I refer you back to Count von Count.
I’m so sad you didn’t enjoy Giovanni’s Room. That’s one of my favourites lol. But we can’t all have the same tastes. 😛
Looking forward to your review on Kindred.
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I’m sad too. Baldwin is one of my favorites. I might give it another go later.
I loved Americanah so I hope you enjoy it! Sadie sounds really good. I’ve asked for it on NetGalley.
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Sadie is really good. I hope you get it.
Sadie is one I would definitely like to read! Happy September!
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Feb. 5th, 2022
Yo-yo robot part 3: encoders, setup, and O-Drives.
Occasionally being pleasantly told... Oh no odrv0 disappeared
A few small updates of the general kind before we begin — the first is that we've started a Simmons Hall official small business. Located right next to Carl's Chair Consortium and across from Anita's Jank Salon, our robotics company will be called "Boston Falls Over." And we put the logo on our room door.
The next update is we've officially taken up a small spot in MITERS, something we've been planning to do since first year of MIT. I want to be a deeper part of the MITERS community and come work on the amazing projects they do here with the amazing people. Today I've come by with the yo-yo robot to see if we can't get some yo-ing action going.
Alrighty so here's the plan for the day and a picture of the yo-yo bot (with the man, the myth, the legend, John Henry in the background).
Glue on the encoder unit on the back of the motor.
Mount the encoder and wire it up.
Flash the O-Drive, calibrate, modify settings, and test control.
Start working out a yo-yo control strategy.
Amber and Electra are also here so we're going to have fun tonight! Depending on how long this takes we may split this up into one or two more controls posts because the testing and electrical bring-up might take the whole night (especially because we need to find a battery and etc).
Ok so step one is to get this encoder mounted to the back of the motor. The encoder is used by the motor controller to determine the position of the motor's rotor so the motor controller can precisely send electrical signals to the three phases of the brushless motor for fine torque control (which is what we need in this case as opposed to just spinning at a constant speed back or forth).
This precise torque/current control into the motor takes the form of Field Oriented Control a technique for controlling BLDC motors. Since motor torque is proportional to current (directly), we can use the O-Drive in FOC/current control mode to output a precise torque at any given time.
The encoder has two parts, the actual encoder itself and a spinny gear thing that gets attached to whatever is spinning. To attach the spinny gear thing we first super glued the spinny gear to the center of the back of the motor. And then to keep it a little more secure, we added hot glue into the center for support. We did the same kind of thing on the Pixar Lamp to attach both encoders.
The encoder we're going to mount onto this is an AMT102-V from CUI Devices. It runs on 5V and is capable of a resolution of 2048 PPR incremental with a Z-index pulse. Here's the datasheet for those who are interested.
So the next step was wiring in the encoder. We took some standard female header connectors, in this case a 1x5 CONN housing for the 5V, GND, A, B, and Z of the encoder. We also took some 22awg copper wire with a lovely orange coating and cut five pieces to size. We crimped the female headers on each end and put them into the 1x5 housing ensuring the right wires were going to the right ports. The ports on the O-Drive are labeled and so are the ports on the encoder itself.
We did a conductivity test between all of the ports on the O-Drive and the connectors, the connectors at the beginning of the wire to the end of the wire, and the connectors at the encoder itself to ensure full continuity. We then zip-tied the wire down to the frame.
The tension in the wire will prevent the encoder from rotating since the friction inside the encoder itself is so low, that little bit of constraint is enough. This means we don't need an additional mechanical mount to make the encoder stay in one place.
It was late last night and John Henry wanted to go home — and I wanted to sleep. Now it's tomorrow and we're back at a favorite campus makerspace 4-409 to finish up what we wanted to do yesterday. We also didn't have a USB-C to USB adapter yesterday but we have one now!
Before we left last night we made a power cable that could connect the yo-yo bot to a power supply that supplies around 20-24V at input. We probably don't need that much current at least for setup and calibration.
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Since 2011, Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have been negotiating an agreement on the filling and operating of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), intended to be the largest source of hydroelectric power in Africa, with a capacity of 6,500 megawatts.
Ethiopia considers the dam necessary for its economic development, while Egypt deems it a serious threat to its water supply, as the Nile provides about 95 percent of the water it needs for domestic, agricultural, and industrial use. Although Egypt and Sudan depend on the Nile for their water supply, 85 percent of the river flows in Ethiopia.
According to reports by the Central Statistical Agency, the Blue Nile has a total length of 1,450 kilometres (900 mi), of which 800 kilometres (500 mi) are inside Ethiopia.
Water conflicts between these three countries date back to the year 1980, when the Transitional Military Council in Ethiopia filed a complaint with the African Union against Egypt, after former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had announced the resumption of a project aimed at diverting Nile waters to the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.
Egypt and Sudan have called on the international community to prevent Addis Ababa from a second filling of GERD.
Now 41 years later, Egypt and Sudan have called on the international community to intervene and prevent Addis Ababa from a second filling of GERD, a plan it announced in July 2021. In order to explore this issue, it’s important to look at the historical factors and the current stances of the parties directly and indirectly involved—which all suggest a long road towards any resolution.
Timeline of Events
In May 2010, the Cooperative Framework Agreement was signed between some Nile Basin countries (Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi) to achieve sustainable use of Nile resources, which was rejected by Egypt and Sudan. In April 2011, Ethiopia announced the project to build a hydropower dam. The same year, Egypt and Sudan agreed to form an international committee to study the effects of the new dam.
In 2015, a document titled “Declaration of Principles for the Renaissance Dam” was signed in Khartoum between the three countries. However, when a final report about the dam was published in 2017, a dispute erupted over its assessment, which was accepted by Egypt, but rejected by Ethiopia and Sudan.
In 2018, Egypt proposed to involve the World Bank in the Tripartite Committee, but Ethiopia refused. This prompted Egypt in 2019 to inform Ethiopia of its rules for filling and operating the dam. In October of the same year, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared that “no force can stop” his country from building the Renaissance Dam.
Meanwhile, the US attempted to mediate by hosting the three parties, in the presence of American representatives and the World Bank. However, these meetings ended without any agreement. In June 2020, Egypt requested the intervention of the UN Security Council. That month, the African Union announced its sponsorship of the negotiations, supported by the UN Security Council.
On July 5, 2021, Ethiopia announced the start of the second filling of the dam, despite the objections of Egypt and Sudan. This process was completed on July 19.
Ethiopia has always maintained that the sole aim of the dam is to generate electricity, meaning that sufficient water will continue streaming down to Egypt. The state declared that politicizing and internationalizing the Dam negotiations is not necessary and will hinder the cooperative process.
Both Egypt and Sudan reject any unilateral action taken by Ethiopia and view the dam as a grave threat to their Nile water supply. This is especially true for Egypt, which almost entirely depends on the river and is already plagued by chronic water scarcity.
Egypt continuously refers to its “historical rights,” based on a 1959 treaty in which Sudan and Egypt gave themselves exclusive rights to all of the Nile’s waters.
Egypt continuously refers to its “historical rights,” based on a 1959 treaty in which Sudan and Egypt gave themselves exclusive rights to all of the Nile’s waters. Neither Egypt nor Sudan signed the Cooperative Framework Agreement, a treaty signed by the upper riparian states in 2010.
Egypt and Sudan want joint management of the Renaissance Dam, without having played any role or participated in any way in its financing or construction. Ethiopia views this as an infringement of its sovereignty and believes that their rights are limited to the access and exchange of information and guidelines for the operation of the dam.
A Symbol of Cooperation or Dispute?
Many commentators agree that Ethiopia has succeeded in bringing most of the Nile Basin countries to its side, tempting them with electricity exports. It even offered to sell some of the 6,000 megawatts to Egypt in 2013. On the other hand, Egypt and Sudan have failed to convince the international community – particularly the US, UN Security Council, UK, and EU – to intervene and put pressure on Ethiopia to stop the second filling of GERD.
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Telecoms group Orange has unveiled its third-generation (3G) mobile phones in the UK after a long-delayed commercial launch.
Orange's 3G service will be integrated with the existing 2G network
The French-owned firm's move comes almost one month after its arch-rival Vodafone began selling 10 new 3G handsets across 13 countries.
Orange said its shops were offering four models in the UK and promised to expand that to six in the coming weeks
"This is just the start of the 3G evolution," Orange said.
The launch is being backed by a similar marketing campaign to Vodafone's, with a budget of around £12m which aims to attract up to two million 3G customers by the end of December 2006.
Orange UK hopes to lure customers by undercutting Vodafone whilst equalling deals offered by video phone pioneer '3', which was the first to launch 3G services in the UK in March 2003.
With the new phones, customers will have access to video calls and clips, movie clips, ring tones, music downloads, film trailers, email and fast mobile internet access.
Handsets will cost from nothing to £199.99 depending on the tariff and the contract.
The 3G option will cost from £30 a month for contract customers who sign up before the end of January.
Handsets offered by Orange have been manufactured by LG Electronics, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Sanyo Electric.
Orange's 3G service will be integrated with the existing 2G network, so there will be no loss of signal outside of a 3G area when making an ordinary call.
Orange claims its 3G network covers 70% of the UK population.
However, consumer magazine Which? last week advised people not to upgrade to a 3G phone.
It said that UK network coverage for 3G is too limited to make the cost of the phones worthwhile.
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BRADBURY, Ca, July 17 /Christian Newswire/ -- Dr. Ted W. Engstrom, the former president of World Vision International, died July 14 at his home in southern California. He was 90.
"The evangelical community today has lost one of its most influential leaders of the past 50 years," says Richard E. Stearns, president of the U.S. offices of World Vision.
Dr. Engstrom is recognized for making two fundamental contributions to American evangelical culture in the 20th century. He introduced standard business practices and management principles to churches and other faith-based institutions, which often went awry because they paid too little attention to the bottom line. Second, he combined social outreach with evangelism, contending that service to mankind was as important as preaching salvation in Christ.
"Ted was best known for his uncompromising commitment to serving the poor and for helping others grasp God’s perfect and immeasurable love," Stearns says.
As an author and editor, Dr. Engstrom combined his business acumen with his passion for Christian service. He co-authored the best-selling Managing Your Time and wrote The Making of a Christian Leader and The Fine Art of Mentoring. Averaging a book a year for 50 years, he also wrote hundreds of magazine articles on subjects ranging from the pursuit of excellence to neighborhood evangelism.
Dr. Engstrom was born on March 1, 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio. The son of a machine shop supervisor, he grew up the eldest of four children in a humble Christian home. He worked his way through Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, by operating a print shop. With a journalism degree and publishing experience, Dr. Engstrom joined the then-small Zondervan Publishing House, which would become one of the largest Christian publishers in the world.
While employed at Zondervan in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he also became the local director of Youth for Christ International, an evangelistic ministry to teens. In 1947, the organization’s local chapter invited a then little-known evangelist named Billy Graham to conduct a crusade. Dr.
Engstrom directed the 10-day crusade, which led to a lifelong friendship with Graham.
In 1951, Dr. Engstrom was named executive director of Youth for Christ International. He visited more than 60 nations and preached at rallies in most of the world’s major cities. In 1963, a chance rendezvous with World Vision founder Bob Pierce convinced Dr. Engstrom to join the then-struggling World Vision as executive vice president at its headquarters in Pasadena, California.
As executive vice president and later president and chief executive officer of World Vision, he helped turn a small Christian agency focused on war orphans into one of the world’s largest and most extensive relief, development and advocacy organizations. He served as vice president for 19 years and president for two, retiring in 1987.
World Vision International President Dean R. Hirsch articulated the essence of Dr. Engstrom’s character: "His ability to integrate the Gospel with everyday life was absolutely inspiring. Dr. Ted made work and faith walk together."
According to Stearns, "That tireless walk will no longer be alongside children on the streets of Nairobi, Mumbai, or Mexico City, but now and forever is an effortless stroll alongside his Saviour."
Dr. Engstrom received many honors. Five colleges, including Taylor University, his alma mater, awarded him honorary doctorates. He chaired or was a member of numerous boards including Youth for Christ International, Focus on the Family, the Asia Centre for Theological Studies, the International School of Theology, Azusa Pacific University, the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, African Enterprise, Taylor University and World Vision International.
He and his late wife, Dorothy, were members of Pasadena’s Lake Avenue Congregational Church, where he also chaired the board, for more than 40 years.
Dr. Engstrom is survived by his three children, Gordon, Don and Jo Ann.
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This video from the International Atomic Energy Agency includes many enlightening facts and images that should help people to understand why nuclear energy is a valuable, long-term investment.
About Rod Adams
Managing member at Nucleation Capital, LP.
Atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. Financial, strategic, and political analyst. Former submarine Engineer Officer. Founder, Adams Atomic Engines, Inc. Host and producer, The Atomic Show Podcast. Resume available here.
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Small doses of the Butterfly Effect..
I saw “the butterfly effect” over the weekend and became an instant fan.. Ok, the idea is impossible and absolutely crazy.. but then i like to think of the “what if?” scenario.. the consequences of such a possibility could be amazing and possibly life changing..
any person who has reached a point in his life where everything seems pointless would agree with me.. in such a possibility we all would never be satisfied u might argue.. well, are we truly content as of now i would question.. the arguments would be endless and again pointless.. it is an impossibility atleast to the sane mind..
as the title suggests i dont want the whole big chaos theory but just a lil of it.. like when we say something and regret it instantly.. when we dont and wish we did.. when we had one drink too much and puked away to shame.. or when we wasted just one minute too long in saying just the right thing to the gal on the bar stool next to you.. all those lil things we forget the next day and carry on as if nothing happened coz nothing actually happened.. i just need a little of it and i am sure my life would be pretty colourful.. ofcourse the mischef would be inevitable, but then life would be so much better..
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The Varieties Of Casino Games
There are generally three types of casino games: poker games, gambling machines, and slot machines. Most gambling machines, including slots and poker, are performed by only 1 player at a time and do not require the constant supervision of casino workers to operate. Casino games such as for example blackjack, craps, baccarat, roulette, bingo, bop, etc. require the effective participation of at the very least two participants.
There are numerous casino game types plus they are divided further into two types: video slots and electronic slots. Slots are comprised of three or more card tables, which rotate around a main location, receive coins inserted into their slot, and disburse the winnings from those coins. Electronic slots operate on a similar principle except they use an integrated circuit and electronic devices to create spins instead of traditional cards inserted in to the slot. Video slots are available for the most part casinos.
Baccarat is really a casino game with four variations: live, semi-live, and bonus offer baccarat. With its live version, individuals take turns trying to win a jackpot until somebody wins and takes it out of the pot. The final variation, bonus baccarat, is equivalent to regular baccarat other than players are permitted to opt not to stake money on a bet if the current line will not favor them. As generally in most types of casino games, individuals can switch in one variation to another without taking their money out from the pot. This ensures that they can adapt their strategies to various circumstances.
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All three of the casino game groups have something in common. They are games of chance with a little element of skill involved. The skill that is applied in any one of them depends largely on how well the player can figure out what numbers come after that on the baccarat wheel. Whether the player should be able to make accurate predictions or not necessarily 온라인 카지노 relies on their knowledge of the overall game.
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How Small Businesses Can Help Boost Productivity Following a Year of Uncertainty
Small businesses faced an immense change in 2020. Many were forced to re-evaluate their role in the marketplace after the pandemic struck as some services and offerings could no longer serve the same purpose.
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Board Of Trustees
They are a group of brothers and sisters with various skills working to support the statutory requirements of the Sanctuary, the Charity Commission and the U. K. Government. They present an annual account and summary of activities for the church's calendar year. The Board is presently made up of four members.
The church runs a small bookshop where members can purchase books, bibles and other audio –visual materials to support their growth in Christ. Material can also be ordered upon request.
Church Administrative Office
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This group ministers the word of God in drama. Jesus spoke many parables to explain great spiritual truths. He used audio-visual messages to speak the word of God in the language that even children could understand. The aim and goal of this group is to bring the message of the cross to the level of every person cutting across age, race, sex, denominations and religious persuasions using drama, plays, recitations and dance.
The evangelism team is open to all ages with a crack team of individuals passionate about sharing the gospel by one to one preaching, tract distribution and various expressions of outreach both indoors and outdoors. We partner with local and international groups carry out this first phase towards'making disciples' as commanded: Mark 16:15 KJV And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature….. We meet fortnightly to go out to preach and run a service at the faith zone in Stratford Westfield shopping Centre. We actively work with the setting up of new parish as has occurred in Harlow, Liverpool, Kent for example and supported our parishes once established such as in Cyprus. We trust God to do likewise for Sri Lanka.
We are responsible for the collections - tithes, offering, etc. We collate the monies for banking, produce a collection report for accounting and audit purposes ensuring that collection envelopes have the necessary information. We serve in an advisory role in finance matters. We pray for the givers, those not able to give and for the proper administration of the funds.
In the Great Commission, Jesus did not simply tell His apostles to baptise, He wanted them to follow-up those who were baptised and make disciples of them. Mathew 28: 19-20. Too often, once people are won over for Christ, they are left to simply drift, and in many cases they drift back in to the world or into a state of apathy about their devotion and service to the Lord. At the Sanctuary, the follow-up team was created and mandated to promote love, friendship, and kindness among all church members. We offer and provide timely support of any kind to every member of the church in need. We aim to create a spirit of oneness and togetherness among the people in and out of the church and to prevent this drifting away among new or old members. We make visitors feel welcome, and support new members in becoming fully integrated into church life.
We are a group of men and women who like the deacons in Acts Chapter 6:1-7 serve the tables, clean and decorate the church. We do this so that our ministers can concentrate on the ministry of the word and prayer. We cater for the needs of the church members and guests at all times and in every season. Like Phillip may we be called out of the kitchen to join with the chariot of the Ethiopian eunuch who read scriptures but did not understand what he read. Phillip preached to the eunuch and baptised him. Acts 8:26-39
The department is the church unit whose activities include intercession for the church universal, the nation, the local assembly and individual needs. It is a place to serve and grow in the ministry of prayer. The department is also positioned to take the lead in the prayer programs of the parish. We meet on Fridays 8.00pm.
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Heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier takes on Stipe Miocic in a rematch on Saturday night in the main event of UFC 241. The 12-bout card from the Honda Center in Anaheim features the main card starting at 10 p.m. ET and preliminary bouts at 8 p.m. ET. Cormier is a -145 favorite (risk $145 to win $100), while Miocic is a +125 underdog in the latest Cormier vs. Mioicic odds.
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This page groups sessions by Lecture Series adding global information about the series when available.
Bernard Derrida, Collège de France
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I've not completed the project, but I may be able to lend a hand.
From the list of components you give, you don't seem to have an LDR (Light Dependent Resistor). However, the green LED that you do list is still needed here, just elsewhere. For this tutorial, the LED should be connected to the board as it is for the blink programme, so you are on the right track here.
To answer your question, an LDR is not the same thing as an LED (Light Emitting Diode). An LDR is like the 10k ohm resistor but its resistance varies with the amount of light falling on it. They typically have a high resistance in the dark (a few megaohms) and a lower resistance in light (a few kiloohms), depending on the brightness of your light source. I've found the following links to show you what an LDR looks like: LDR picture 1
and LDR picture 2
. These two pictures may not look that similar but the difference between them is mostly due to how the sensor is packaged. To connect the 10k (see ) resistor and the LDR to the board correctly, connect one leg of the LDR to the "5V" pin, the other leg of the LDR to the 10k resistor and the other, free leg of the 10k resistor to the "GND" pin. Now connect the junction made between the LDR and the 10k resistor to the "A1" pin.
To answer your other question, there are two things going on here with the 10k resistor and the LDR (see ). The first thing is that the 10k resistor will set the maximum current that can flow through the LDR (and itself). If the LDR were in very bright light, its resistance would be close to zero and therefore the current through the LDR would be nearly equal to 5 (volts) divided by the resistance of the ordinary, invariable resistor. Using a 10k resistor here gives a maximum current of 0.0005 amps (or 0.5 milliamps), by Ohm's Law (V = I * R). As there will also be a voltage drop across the LDR (more on this later), the voltage dropped multiplied by the current will give the amount of power the LDR has to dissipate (P = V * I). As this power is dissipated as heat, too much and the LDR will be damaged or even melted/burned. Hence, careful selection of the value of this invariable resistor will protect the LDR. The second thing (hinted at earlier) is that the two resistors will divide up the 5 volts that you have put across them in proportion to their resistances. Hence, this circuit fragment is called a voltage divider
(or potential divider, see the link on how they work). As the resistance of the LDR changes with the amount of light that shines on it, the voltage at the junction between the LDR and the 10k resistor also changes, as a result of this voltage division. As this voltage is sensed by the board at pin "A1", you now have a light level sensor to which your Arduino can be programmed to respond.
I hope this helps, sorry if you know any of this already but as you say you are starting out, I thought some detail was appropriate. Enjoy your adventures with Arduino and let me know here how you get on.
All the best,
As resistance is always measured in ohms, electronic engineers usually omit this (the unit) in circuit diagrams and just give the number and a multiplier of the value of the resistor, so k = kilo, 1,000; M = mega, 1,000,000 etc., thus 10k is 10,000 ohms.
Resistors are known as passive components and as such just do what their resistance value (and ability to dissipate heat) dictates. They don't "work" as such. That blob (some sort of plastic or resin) in the middle of the "wire" contains the resistance and the two legs (both good conductors) connect to either end of the resistance. It only looks like a blob on a single piece of wire. | [
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This commentary (1) raises the question about the possible conflation of core affect with the neural representation of interoceptive changes in regard to whether biological value is subpersonal or must be experienced, and (2) proposes that Wundt’s third dimension of core affect – strain-relaxation – can be accounted for in the target model under a generalised predictive model of attention.
This paper draws on studies of the Capgras delusion in order to illuminate the phenomenological role of affect in interpersonal recognition. People with this delusion maintain that familiars, such as spouses, have been replaced by impostors. It is generally agreed that the delusion involves an anomalous experience, arising due to loss of affect. However, quite what this experience consists of remains unclear. I argue that recent accounts of the Capgras delusion incorporate an impoverished conception of experience, which fails (...) to accommodate the role played by ‘affective relatedness’ in constituting (a) a sense of who a particular person is and (b) a sense of others as people rather than impersonal objects. I draw on the phenomenological concept of horizon to offer an interpretation of the Capgras experience that shows how the content ‘this entity is not my spouse but an impostor’ can be part of the experience, rather than something that is inferred from a strange experience. (shrink)
In this paper I review some leading developments in the empirical theory of affect. I argue that (1) affect is a distinct perceptual representation governed system, and (2) that there are significant modular factors in affect. The paper concludes with the observation thatfeeler (affective perceptual system) may be a natural kind within cognitive science. The main purpose of the paper is to explore some hitherto unappreciated connections between the theory of affect and the computational theory of (...) mind. (shrink)
The actions of affect are prominent in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and can be broken down for the purposes of education into two roles. The first alludes to the history of philosophy and the ways in which affect has been used by Spinoza (Deleuze, 1992) Nietzsche (Deleuze, 1983) or Bergson (Deleuze, 1991). In this role, Deleuze reinvigorates and challenges definitions of affect that would place them into systems of understanding that could take paths to metaphysics or (...) to becoming paradigms for capture in any further theorisation of affect. For example, scholars might attest to the use of affect as defined by Spinoza in the Ethics. Deleuze (1983, 1991, 1992) attends to the ways in which scholarly understanding of affect has been broached in order to free the idea up for empirical studies and also to show that the power of didactic language may be subsumed and subverted. The second role of affect in the work of Deleuze comes about in his first two co-authored books that he produced with Félix Guattari (Deleuze & Guattari, 1984, 1988). These publications have a distinct purpose from the scholarly work, which this article shall examine in terms of educational activism, group identities and the sociology of education. This level imbues the use of language in pedagogic acts with an intense affective resonance and the multiple traces of becoming that might be present in any teaching and learning context. (shrink)
Embodied cognitive science has argued that cognition is embodied principally in virtue of grossmorphological and sensorimotor features. This thesis argues that cognition is also internally embodied in affective and fine-grained physiological features whose transformative roles remain mostlyunnoticed in contemporary cognitive science. I call this ‘proper embodiment’. I approach this larger subject by examining various emotion theories in philosophy and psychology. These tend to emphasiseone of the many gross components of emotional processes, such as ‘feeling’ or ‘judgement’ to thedetriment of the (...) others, often leading to an artificial emotion-cognition distinction even within emotionscience itself. Attempts to reconcile this by putting the gross components back together, such as JessePrinz’s “embodied appraisal theory”, are, I argue, destined to failure because the vernacular concept of emotion which is used as the explanandum is not a natural kind and is not amenable to scientificexplication.I examine Antonio Damasio’s proposal that emotion is involved in paradigmatic ‘cognitive’ processingsuch as rational decision making, and argue (1) that the research he discusses does not warrant the particular hypothesis he favours, and (2) that Damasio’s account, though in many ways a step in theright direction, nonetheless continues to endorse a framework which sees affect and cognition asseparate (though now highly interacting) faculties. I further argue that the conflation of ‘affect’ and‘em | [
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This is my first post of an idea that I thought of. Let me know what you think! I hope you like it. Thanks!
It’s a rube goldberg: You found a very complicated way to simply drop all the blue balls. But no fair! Your last crossover (the one closest to the bottom) does not function a a crossover–it could be replaced by a ramp that dumps to the left. Of, course I didn’t run your program with all the possible bit combinations, so if you have a bit configuration that will make that crossover work like it was designed to, let me know. BTW, if it DOES work the way it’s supposed to, it will trigger a red ball.
OK, so here’s a challenge for you: Modify your setup so that you use ALL your components in such a way that only the blue balls drop. AND you are not allowed to have any redundancies–all your components have to work.
But how will you use the 3 incerpters?
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Parallel Computation of Finite Element Navier-Stokes codes using MUMPS Solver
- Mandhapati P. Raju
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The study deals with the parallelization of 2D and 3D finite element based Navier-Stokes codes using direct solvers. Development of sparse direct solvers using multifrontal solvers has significantly reduced the computational time of direct solution methods. Although limited by its stringent memory requirements, multifrontal solvers can be computationally efficient. First the performance of MUltifrontal Massively Parallel Solver (MUMPS) is evaluated for both 2D and 3D codes in terms of memory requirements and CPU times. The scalability of both Newton and modified Newton algorithms is tested.
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The fourth and most likely the final Nuclear Security Summit will be held March 31-April 1, 2016 in Washington, DC. The three previous summits in Washington (2010), Seoul (2012), and The Hague (2014) have been the most visible features of an accelerated international effort to help prevent nuclear terrorism. President Obama, who launched the effort in a speech in Prague in April 2009 and set the aim to ‘secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years’, has expressed his intention to ‘finish strong in 2016’. …
Further ratifications of legally binding instruments such as the 2005 Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) are necessary to sustain attention on the issue. With regards to the 2005 Amendment, the United States’ ratification in July 2015 brings entry into force one step closer but more states need to ratify it before the amendment can take effect….
The group of 35 countries that signed the Joint Statement on ‘Strengthening Nuclear Security Implementation’ at the 2014 Summit can take its contents as a template to implement a more ambitious agenda. The Joint Statement, also known as the Trilateral Initiative, is an initiative through which states agreed to implement the major recommendations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for nuclear and radiological source security. In October 2014, these 35 countries requested that the Joint Statement be circulated by the IAEA Secretariat as an IAEA Information Circular.
…How to include in the nuclear security system all nuclear materials, military as well as civilian. The mechanisms that already exist apply to only 17 percent of weapons-usable nuclear materials, those that are used in civilian applications..…[but do not apply to] the remaining 83 percent, commonly categorised as ‘military materials’...
The third potential challenge for the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit is Russia’s decision not to attend.,,[ and justification for abstaining from the summit]*,US cooperation with the Russian nuclear regulator continues; the US and Russia will continue to work to repatriate HEU from Kazakhstan and Poland. Also, Russia and the United States will continue to co-chair the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT).
Excerpts from Ana Alecsandru, 2016 Nuclear Security Summit: Can Obama ‘Finish Strong’?, European Leadership Network, Jan. 7, 2016
*According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova Nuclear Security Summits, “have played their role” and that their political agenda has been exhausted. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must be a central force “to coordinate the world’s efforts in global nuclear security,” Zakharova added. She also said that the nuclear summits try to interfere in the activities of international organizations, including the IAEA, and impose the “opinions of a limited group of states” on international structures, which is “unacceptable.” (Radio Free Europe, January 21, 2016) | [
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A Warrior’s Nightmare
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Jessica is excited about starting college in the fall, already enrolled at the University of Oregon. Every year for as long as she can remember, she has enjoyed spending a week camping with her father before school started, but this year is special because her best friends are coming with them. She has no way to know they will all be walking into a nightmare straight out of a horror movie.
Eighteen years before, Jessica’s mother died under mysterious circumstances right after giving birth to her. Her dad refuses to speak about it, though his eyes grow haunted every time the subject comes up. All Jessica knows is that it was a violent death. Her answers will come from a stranger, one who knows far more than he should.
Nethaniel is a Lycaeonian from the planet Laizahlia, a wolf shapeshifter. He is taking his first trip off world with his father when he runs across Jessica fly fishing at the lake. Though it shouldn’t be possible, he recognizes her immediately as his fated mate. Unfortunately, Nethaniel’s father has enemies, and three have followed them to Earth, vengeance on their minds. Jessica and her friends are considered little more than collateral damage.
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Determination of the photopeak detection efficiency of a HPGe detector, for volume sources, via Monte Carlo simulations
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AUTHOR: Julia Drake
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
DATE: June 15, 2021
The Last True Poets Of The Sea
by Julia Drake
The Larkin family isn’t just lucky–they persevere. At least that’s what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn’t drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer. But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can’t stop partying with the wrong people. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life.
Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family’s missing piece–the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes–and the bridges she builds along the way–may be the start of something like survival.
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Crime and the classics -- a musical mismatch: Bar owners flood Stockton
HD:Crime and the classics -- a musical mismatch: Bar owners flood Stockton
streets with Beethoven, Brahms and Bach
BY: Dogen Hannah
SO: The Record
CL: ERNIE, JERI FOPPIANO: Using speakers, top left, they are trying to regain
the street in front of their bar. -- STREET SCENE: A crowd gathers outside
downtown Stocktons Weber Inn, located at American Street and Weber Avenue.
Classical music blares from two speakers to drive the crowd away. -- CD SETUP:
Ernie Foppiano, owner of The Weber Inn in downtown Stockton, places a
classicial CD in his stereo player hooked up to two loudspeakers outside his
bar. The goal is to drive loiterers away from the entrance. (Record photos by
Nearly every evening at the corner of American Street and Weber Avenue, there
is a musical performance no one wants to hear.
As dusk falls on the downtown intersection, street people gathered on the
sidewalk in front of the dirt-streaked stucco wall of one of Stocktons oldest
bars prepare for what will come.
Its an area known by police and the owners of the bar -- the Weber Inn -- as a
magnet for loiterers, drug dealers and prostitutes.
Now, its also notorious for Beethoven, Brahms and Bach.
About 8 p.m., classical music erupts from two loudspeakers mounted about 15
feet above the sidewalk, one on each side of the bar.
And though the music is sort of an attempt at civic improvement, bar owners
Jeri and Ernie Foppiano do not play it for anyones pleasure.
Its meant to shoo everyone away.
They dont care for this Beethoven and Bach type of stuff, said Jeri
Foppiano, displaying an arsenal of six CDs kept behind the bar and jerking a
thumb toward the crowd outside.
When its not The Masters of Opera, its Vivaldis Greatest Hits, Brahms or
We played the same song over and over again, she said. It drives them
Apparently, the Foppianos are the first in Stockton to employ this
anti-loitering technique, according to business leaders, city officials and
Thats a new one on me, said Tim Viall, business-development director for
the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce.
Hey, if it works, Im all for it, said Councilman Duane Isetti, whose
district includes that section of downtown. I know it is a problem area....
Theyre trying to be innovative, and all the more power to them.
Business owners elsewhere stumbled on the idea in the early 1990s. For
example, the owners of a Sacramento 7-11 discovered that loiterers wouldnt
stand for the strains of Beethovens Symphony No. 6 in A Major or Paganinis
Trio for Violin, Guitar and Cello.
The Foppianos -- who turn on country-and-western tunes for their customers --
admittedly are not fans of the music they pump outside. They installed the
speakers after customers complained of being harassed and robbed outside the
bar, Ernie Foppiano said.
Foppiano also said he believes drug dealers have damaged the outside of the
building as they look for, and create, cracks in the stucco and tile siding in
order to hide drugs.
At first the Foppianos considered automatic sprinklers to keep the sidewalk
and outside wall wet, but both a friend and a Stockton police officer
suggested music, he said.
They spent about $500 on equipment and installed the system themselves,
Foppiano said. When they turned it on for the first time several months ago,
there were 42 people at the corner.
At first they thought it was funny, Jeri Foppiano said. They were doing
But in less than two hours, everyone had moved away from the corner, she said.
The Foppianos pointed out, however, that they dont believe the music
eliminates loitering, drug dealing and prostitution. Those activities merely
move out of earshot a half-block away, they said.
Several people gathered outside the bar on a recent evening expressed derision
Nobody gives a damn about the music, said a man who declined to give his
name. It doesnt chase them away. It doesnt distract them. It doesnt
attract them. The only thing that makes people go away from here is when the
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In this preliminary study, we report the mechanical and dielectric properties of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-ferritin hydrogel. This material was found to exhibit close resemblance to Aurelia aurita (jellyfish) mesoglea in terms of stiffness modulus and water content. Systematic experiments were conducted on natural jellyfish to identify its compression modulus a function of deformation. In compressive testing Aurelia aurita mesoglea was found to exhibit nonlinear modulus in the range of -10 kPa to 70 kPa depending upon the compressive strain (0-50% strain). The negative stiffness is an artifact of tensile force experienced by the specimen at the beginning of the test due to surface tension. PVA hydrogels with 60% water to dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) ratio without ferritin particle (H60) and PVA hydrogels with 80% water to DMSO ratio with ferritin particle (F80) provided a good alternative to natural jellyfish mesoglea exhibiting shear modulus of 33.06 Pa and 39.99 Pa respectively as compared to 4.75 Pa for Aurelia aurita mesoglea. This is a significantly better match compared to the 1041.67 Pa shear modulus of Ecoflex, a soft polymer material commonly used in biomimetic robotics. A Mooney Rivlin model suggests that H60 and F80 compositions are about 6.9 times and 8.4 times stiffer than natural Aurelia aurtia mesoglea whereas Ecoflex is 219 times as stiff. Nanocomposite hydrogel consisting of PVA matrix and ferritin nanoparticles were found to exhibit higher durability over regular PVA hydrogels and had more consistent properties due to increased cross-linking at ferritin nanoparticle sites. The ferritin nanoparticles were found to act as springs, increasing the modulus by increasing the surface area of the cross-linked polymer chains and disrupting long linear chain patterns of the polymer. Natural Aurelia aurita was found to have water content of 96.3% with a standard deviation of 0.57% as compared to 85% water content of PVA-ferritin hydrogels. Use of this material in the design of biomimetic unmanned underwater vehicles is expected to reduce the power consumption, increase swimming efficiency, and better replicate the rowing kinematics of naturally occurring Aurelia aurita.
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In this episode Shahriar presents the teardown of an Advantest TQ8325 Wavelength Meter. The principle operation of the instrument is explained along with a close up of the free space optics in operation. To verify the functionality of the unit, an infrared laser module is used as a CW coherent source. The impact of the laser diode’s temperature variation on the output wavelength is measured using the wavelength meter.
I’d like to Acknowledge Dr. Jeffery Lee for his consult and expertise on free space optics and fiber optic measurement systems. | [
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Low temperature synthesis of ternary metal phosphides using plasma for asymmetric supercapacitors
KAUST DepartmentComputational Physics and Materials Science (CPMS)
Functional Nanomaterials and Devices Research Group
Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Online Publication Date2017-04-06
Print Publication Date2017-05
Permanent link to this recordhttp://hdl.handle.net/10754/623863
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AbstractWe report a versatile route for the preparation of metal phosphides using PH plasma for supercapacitor applications. The high reactivity of plasma allows rapid and low temperature conversion of hydroxides into monometallic, bimetallic, or even more complex nanostructured phosphides. These same phosphides are much more difficult to synthesize by conventional methods. Further, we present a general strategy for significantly enhancing the electrochemical performance of monometallic phosphides by substituting extrinsic metal atoms. Using NiCoP as a demonstration, we show that the Co substitution into NiP not only effectively alters the electronic structure and improves the intrinsic reactivity and electrical conductivity, but also stabilizes Ni species when used as supercapacitor electrode materials. As a result, the NiCoP nanosheet electrodes achieve high electrochemical activity and good stability in 1 M KOH electrolyte. More importantly, our assembled NiCoP nanoplates//graphene films asymmetric supercapacitor devices can deliver a high energy density of 32.9 Wh kg at a power density of 1301 W kg, along with outstanding cycling performance (83% capacity retention after 5000 cycles at 20 A g). This activity outperforms most of the NiCo-based materials and renders the NiCoP nanoplates a promising candidate for capacitive storage devices.
CitationLiang H, Xia C, Jiang Q, Gandi AN, Schwingenschlögl U, et al. (2017) Low temperature synthesis of ternary metal phosphides using plasma for asymmetric supercapacitors. Nano Energy 35: 331–340. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.04.007.
SponsorsResearch reported in this publication was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Figs. 1 and 6a were produced by Ivan Gromicho, scientific illustrator at KAUST. | [
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I'm trying to stain colon cancer cells with PI to see both G0/G1 peak and G/M peak. I can see the G0/G1 peak, but it's not as sharp as I think it should be and I can't even see the G2/M peak. My method is the following:
Collect cells with trypsin, aspirate media from cell pellet
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In history, there are certain characters who seem to be able to bend fate around them, who can seize all power despite coming from more humble beginnings. Why are these people often seen as monsters? Why is it that history attempts to portray them as something other than a product of their time and circumstance? And when our new histories are written, about those today who seem determined to wrest power from the status quo… will they too be described as monsters and barbarians?
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Our dog, Shakira, ran off from Pomona Ave. on 12/24. She was spotted on the North Island base on 12/25 and 26th but no news since then. We are from the bay area and were in Coronado for a family visit- we have now returned home.
We reported her to Animal Control, the military police, and posted flyers around town.
If you see her, please let me know at email@example.com, or call 408-656-0763.
My mom lives in Coronado and could keep the dog until we can get back to pick her up, if she is found.
She is a skittish dog but may answer to "kiki" or "treat". Also, she lives with an 11-year old girl and a yellow lab so may follow a family with a young girl and/or dog.
We dearly love this dog and miss her so much so are really hoping she turns up somewhere on the island.
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Flash flooding threat continues from the Great Basin across the southern Plains
The wet pattern in place will continue from the Great Basin across the central and southern Rockies into the southern Plains into Wednesday. Ample monsoonal moisture with a frontal boundary in place will allow for shower and thunderstorm development with locally heavy rainfall at times. The heavier showers could lead to flash flooding in some areas, especially urban areas and burn scars.
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High and low forecast temperature values represent air temperature.
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Last Update: 6:55 am CDT Jul 30, 2014
Forecast Valid: 9am CDT Jul 30, 2014-6pm CDT Aug 5, 2014
- Today Variable winds less than 5 kt becoming S 5 to 7 kt in the afternoon. A slight chance of showers between 11am and 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Waves 1 ft or less.
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- Thursday Variable winds less than 5 kt becoming SSW around 6 kt in the afternoon. A slight chance of showers between 10am and 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Patchy fog before 7am. Waves 1 ft or less.
- Thursday Night SSE wind around 6 kt becoming variable and less than 5 kt in the evening. Partly cloudy. Waves 1 ft or less.
- Friday Variable winds less than 5 kt becoming SSE 5 to 7 kt in the afternoon. A chance of showers. Waves 1 ft or less.
- Friday Night Variable winds 5 kt or less. Partly cloudy. Waves 1 ft or less.
- Saturday NNE wind around 6 kt becoming E in the afternoon. Sunny. Waves 1 ft or less.
- Saturday Night ESE wind around 6 kt becoming SSW after midnight. Mostly clear. Waves 1 ft or less.
- Sunday W wind 5 to 8 kt becoming SSW in the afternoon. Mostly sunny. Waves 1 ft or less.
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How Has COVID-19 Impacted Enrollment and Persistence?Posted on
This is the second in a series of memos that we wrote to sharpen our perspective on COVID-19’s impacts on the U.S. labor market and begin to define the implications for Braven’s programming and support of Fellows. Click here for our first post on learnings about the job market from past recessions.
Braven seeks to scale its impact and support more underrepresented college students – first-generation students, students from low-income backgrounds, and students of color – nationally. The objective of this memo is to understand the latest trends in college enrollment and persistence and how these are impacted by COVID-19 and persistent disparities in financial need and access.
Our mission to help students attain career-accelerating first jobs is built on the foundation of college success, both in terms of accessibility and affordability. Improving our understanding of the challenges that underrepresented students face in affording, persisting, and completing college helps us strengthen our support of their future, long-term success. The high-level learnings in this memo are:
- COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting low-income and minority students’ enrollment and persistence.
- Fall 2020 enrollment decreased due to the pandemic with first-time and Black students showing among the greatest year-over-year declines. Low-income students were more likely to experience changes in financial circumstances as a result of COVID-19 and more likely to change their college plans.
- Even before COVID-19, first generation college students were more likely to need financial assistance – in number and total amount of loans – than their peers. Moreover, federal funding via Pell Grants has not kept pace with the cost of education, covering only 28% of the cost of attending a 4-year public institution today vs. 79% in the 1970s. Post-graduation, Black students are ~2x more likely to default on their student loans than Latinx graduates and ~5x more likely than white graduates.
COVID-19 IMPACT ON HIGHER EDUCATION ENROLLMENT
Higher education enrollment typically increases during recessions as the opportunity cost of attending college decreases. During the Great Recession, 4-year colleges saw a 6.1% year over year increase in enrollment, and 2-year colleges saw a 7.9% increase (7). Recession enrollment is typically characterized by high growth in adult students (aged 22 and older) (25) and growth in 2-year colleges and for-profit colleges (8).
However, COVID-19 is unique. Because of the uncertainty of the pandemic economy and the shift of the learning environment to be exclusively virtual, enrollment during COVID-19 is not following the patterns of past recessions (10).
The Fall 2020 semester saw an overall decline in enrollment of 2.6%. The decline has been particularly acute for first-time undergraduate students whose enrollment declined by 13.1% though public 2-year schools had the greatest drop in enrollment.
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “Current Term Enrollment Estimates: Fall 2020.”
All races saw a decline in enrollment (latest data from November 2020) though Black students saw the greatest decline at 7.5%. Hispanic students saw a 5.4% decline while white students saw a 6.6% decline. Across all races, men have seen disproportionate declines (e.g., -5.6% for Black males at public 4-year universities vs. -2.1% for Black females) (28).
Although not included in enrollment statistics, we do expect there was a drop in low-income students in the short term. ~100,000 fewer high school students completed FAFSA forms by the end of August 2020 as compared to the previous year. Similarly, educational research company EAB found that deposits from families with incomes below $60,000 to 100 4-year colleges were down 8.4% as of September 2020 (24).
Students from low and middle-income backgrounds were generally more likely to be negatively financially impacted by the pandemic. Although students were able to receive a reevaluation of their financial need requests at many colleges, many students and families may not have known this is an option (10). Last spring, at the start of the pandemic, McKinsey predicted that “in the virus-recurrence and pandemic-escalation scenarios, higher-education institutions could see much less predictable yield rates if would-be first-year students decide to take a gap year or attend somewhere closer to home (and less costly) because of the expectation of longer-term financial challenges for their families” (12).
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Extract from Zapproved’s article “How a Custodian Portal Can Help Corporate Legal Teams Fulfill Legal Holds”
You might be wondering, what exactly is a custodian portal? Why is it important? And more importantly, why should you care? Well, a custodian portal is an incredibly useful tool to help drive compliance rates for legal holds and bolster your company’s defensibility around ediscovery processes.
This is especially helpful to teams dealing with a large number of holds at once, where doing any help to ensure that custodians can manage their holds efficiently will help increase compliance. Depending on their data custodial responsibilities and/or job function, some custodians may have hundreds of holds themselves, each of which comes with its own notice and attachments. So for many custodians, keeping track of all of their legal hold obligations can be a daunting task. Here’s where the custodian portal comes in.
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Hijackers Make Off With 660 Pounds of Gold
December 1999 by Associated PressTen heavily armed men hijacked a plane November 5th, making off with 660 lbs of gold worth an estimated $2.3 million...
Personal letters from our readers.....
New Hampshire, one of five New England states, has an area of 9,351 square miles, a bit larger than Kern County, California. It is a playground for people who live in the large urban areas in the East.
The pit was a classic one—exposed shale bedrock with all the material being washed out one end of the pit. Within a few minutes I had a nice mellow signal that was in open ground.
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First, let me say that Eldorado Canyon is what we call this area, but it’s not the real name. It’s a piece of private property where we have permission to metal detect; I do not want to start another gold rush! The property is located in Mariposa County...
Australia’s Perth Mint currently holds the record for the world’s largest gold coin.
Prospectors and rock hounds should consider searching for platinum-group metals, as these metals are the most precious of the precious metals. Several localities have been identified where these metals have been identified In anomalous amounts.
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b. in 1760 at Derwen Groes, Abergwili, Carms., son of David Lewis. He was educated at Llanpumpsaint and at the Presbyterian Academy, Carmarthen, under Robert Gentleman. He matriculated at Oxford University from Jesus College in June 1782, but does not appear to have graduated. He served as schoolmaster and curate at Oswestry, being ordained priest in May 1785; in January 1787 he was instituted to the benefice of Aber-nant, Carms., and in March 1787 to the perpetual curacy of Cynwyl Elfed. He served these parishes till his death on 28 July 1850. In addition, he was from 1794 to 1850 rector of Garthbeibio, Mont. He was buried at Aber-nant. Lewis was a J.P. for the county of Carmarthen, and auditor of the Christian Knowledge and Church Union Society, founded by bishop Burgess of S. Davids, to assist candidates for holy orders. He was one of the supporters of the Carmarthen eisteddfodau, and wrote the preface to the pryddestau of the eisteddfod held there in 1819. He also published a translation of Wood on the Catechism.
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When you win a big jackpot, the last thing you want to think about is paying taxes on the winnings. If you like to gamble online, it’s important to know that you have to report winnings to the government when you file your taxes. Amounts smaller than $600 do not need to be reported, but when you win any amount that is $600 or more, the payer has to collect your social security number and report it to the IRS.
The IRS states that winnings in excess of $5,000 after the wager is subtracted from the total must have 25% automatically deducted from the amount paid to the winner. This means that if you wagered $5 and you won $5,006, 25% of the total winnings will be deducted immediately for tax purposes.
Even if you do not trigger W-2G form to be submitted to the government, you are responsible for reporting all winnings throughout the year on your tax forms. If you won a raffle, $25 scratch ticket or won at bingo, all of these activities are considered taxable income.
Now, for the good news about gambling and taxes. If you gamble on a regular basis, you can claim losses up to the amount of your winnings. Whether they are bad bets at the racetrack, scratch ticket losses or casino debt, you can claim your gambling losses along with your winnings when you file your taxes.
Make sure that if you claim gambling losses, they are not lower than the standard deduction you would receive anyway. It doesn’t make sense to do itemized deductions for gambling losses of $2,000 when you would otherwise receive a $6,100 standard deduction.
Gambling is fun and can provide a great outlet for stress relief and supplemental income. More and more websites and mobile platforms are offering a greater variety of games and payment options. If you are an active gambler, knowing the tax laws and understanding that you can claim losses is important when you go to file your taxes.
Save any scratch tickets that you may have bought that are losing ticket and save betting stubs from any horse track you visit. The more proof you have of any gambling losses, the better off you will be if the government decides to audit your return.
If you gamble online, you will have proof of gambling debt from money transfers out of your bank account. Keep good records and you will avoid any potential issues when you claim gambling debts to offset any winnings.
It is important to remember that all of your winnings over $600 will be reported to the government and you must report these winnings. Smaller amounts will not be reported, but it is still considered additional income and you have an obligation to the government to report these amounts too. Be as clear as you can when filing your taxes and report all losses accurately. If you are a consistent gambler, you will have losses and winnings every year. The best way to avoid penalties is to be an accurate tax reporter. | [
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HIV update: which single-tablet regimens, and when.
CASE * James G, age 43, recently had blood work performed for a life insurance policy, and his human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) test came back positive. At a follow-up office visit, Mr. G reports having anonymous male sexual partners when traveling to New York on business and rarely using condoms. His last HIV test was "about 4 years ago." He is otherwise in good health, takes no regular medications, and is not married.
Having recently completed a primary care CME program on HIV disease, you order a CD4/T-cell count, an HIV RNA (viral load) test, and an HIV genotype drug resistance test on Mr. G, along with other baseline lab work, including a complete blood count, chemistry panel, and hepatitis panel. You schedule a follow-up visit with Mr. G in 2 weeks when all of the lab results will be available so that you can discuss his plan of care.
A diagnosis of HIV has moved from being a fatal disease to that of a chronic condition that can be effectively managed with combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens over an almost normal lifespan. As a result, the role of the primary care practitioner in the ongoing care of patients with HIV has grown and will continue to do so, making knowledge of these drug combinations vital.
20 years have changed everything
Combination ART has existed since 1996 when the first protease inhibitors (Pis) were approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Prior to this, treatment was limited to mono or dual therapy with nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). These agents provided some short-term clinical benefit, but didn't significantly improve patient survival and ultimately failed due to viral resistance. (1)
Since the approval of zidovudine (AZT) in 1987, the FDA has approved more than 25 drugs in 6 different classes for the treatment of HIV disease. (2) These include the NRTIs, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), PIs, a fusion inhibitor (FI), a CCR5 antagonist, and, more recently, integrase strand transfer inhibitors (INSTIs). In addition, 2 drugs, cobicistat and ritonavir, are used solely to improve or "boost" the pharmacokinetic profiles of several antiretroviral drugs. (2)
Most of these newer agents are more potent, have a higher genetic barrier to resistance, and a longer half-life than their predecessors. Moreover, many are less toxic and thus more tolerable than older drugs. With the progressive development and approval of single-tablet regimens (STRs) that contain 3 or 4 drugs, the majority of patients with HIV in the United States now take just one pill per day to treat their infection, facilitating far greater medication adherence.
Initiation of antiretroviral therapy
The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) guidelines now recommend that all people infected with HIV, regardless of CD4 cell count, begin ART. (2) The evidence for this recommendation comes largely from the START (3) and TEMPRANO (4) trials, which found that early initiation of ART significantly reduces morbidity and mortality associated with HIV. In addition, the HPTN 052 study concluded that early ART is associated with a 93% lower risk of viral transmission in serodiscordant heterosexual couples. (5) The DHHS guidelines do note that when initiating ART, it is important to appropriately educate patients on the benefits of treatment and address strategies to optimize adherence. (2) (For more on factors to consider when selecting an initial HIV regimen, see TABLE 1. (2)) On a case-by-case basis, ART may be deferred because of clinical and/or psychosocial factors, but it should never be withheld unless the risks clearly outweigh the benefits. Ideally, ART should be initiated as soon as possible after the initial diagnosis of HIV.
The DHHS guidelines divide treatment options into 3 categories: (2)
* Recommended regimens are backed by randomized controlled trials that show optimal and durable virologic efficacy, they have favorable tolerability and toxicity profiles, and they are easy to use.
* Alternative regimens have less or lower quality supporting data than recommended regimens. Although they are effective and may be optimal for certain individual patients, they have potential disadvantages and/or limitations in certain populations.
* Other regimens have limited supporting data, reduced virologic activity, a higher pill burden, more drug interactions, and greater toxicity.
Currently recommended first-line therapies
An antiretroviral regimen for a treatment-naive patient should consist of 2 NRTIs in combination with a third active antiretroviral drug from one of 3 drug classes. These include: an INSTI, a boosted PI, or, in some situations, an NNRTI. The DHHS guidelines panel currently recommends 6 different ART combinations as first-line treatment in treatment-naive patients (table 2 | [
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Objective: To become more knowledgeable with the hydraulic system. The actuator is the general term used for the output device of hydraulic system. Two broad categories are linear actuators that deliver power in a straight line, and rotary actuator that deliver their power in a rotating or circular motion. The linear device is called a hydraulic cylinder. Hydraulic cylinder is linear actuator. This means that the output of a cylinder is a straight-line motion or force. The major function of a hydraulic is to convert hydraulic power into linear mechanical force to perform work or transmit power.
1. Make sure relief valve #2 is set at 500 Pound per square inch (PSI). Globe valve # 3 is open, Needle valve #4 is closed, and Needle vale #6 is open.
2. At manifold pressure gauge #5 used the hoses connect with direction valve # 7.
3. Two-output gauge on the direction valve # 7 use the hoses connect with cylinder #12.
4. Shift direction valve # 7 to center or neutral position.
5. Turn on hydraulic power supply.
6. Shift direction valve # 7 to extend and retract both piston rod. We will see cylinder pressure to extend and retract.
7. Turn off hydraulic power supply.
Now: Re-design the circuit to apply an equal pressure to the rod and cap end of the cylinder. What is the predicted result? What is the actual result?
When we turn power on then shift direction valve to extend and retract we will see the cylinder pressure to extend and retract. This is a double acting cylinder is the most common type used in industrial hydraulics. Hydraulic pressure is applied to either port, providing powered motion when extending or retracting. The majority of cylinder in use is basic double acting cylinder as above. That cylinder is classed as differential cylinder because there is unequal area exposed to pressure during the extend and retract movements. The difference is cause by the cross section area of the rod, which reduces the area under pressure during retraction. Rod extension velocity is slower than retraction because more fluid is required to fill the swept volume of the piston. However, greater force is possible because the pressure operates in the full piston area. When retracting, the same flow from a pump causes faster movement of the cylinder because the volume of the cylinder rod reduces the swept volume. With the same system pressure, the maximum force exerted by the cylinder is also less because of the smaller area under pressure. Cylinder speed, the output force available, and the pressure required for a given load are all dependent on the piston area when extending the rod. When retracting the rod, the affective area of the rod end of the cylinder must be used. This “affective area” or “annulus area,” of the rod end is determined by subtracting the area of the rod from the piston area.
Summary: Hydraulic cylinder is among the simplest of devices in fluid power, having one moving part: the piston and the rod assembly. However, forces generated by cylinders are also among the largest found in fluid power systems. Pressure in the cylinders can, and often do, exceed system relief settings. The life of the cylinder and the system can be highly dependent on proper specification and maintenance of a simple element, the rod wiper/scraper. | [
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Taraji P. Henson Fans Think She’s Single After Her Fiancé Kelvin Hayden Was MIA During Her B-Day Festivities
Is Taraji P. Henson back on the market? That’s what fans think after she appeared to celebrate her milestone 50th birthday solo.
Taraji P. Henson’s snapshots in a string bikini went viral as she showed off her curves, but one thing that fans noticed was missing was her engagement ring.
She later celebrated at dinner, and while she rocked jewelry on her ring finger, it didn’t appear to be an engagement ring.
Kelvin Hayden seemed to add fuel to the speculation when he didn’t mention the “Empire” star publicly to celebrate her birthday.
But there could be hope in their romance as they’re still following each other on social media.
Taraji P. Henson announced earlier this year that their wedding was put on hold because of COVID-19, as well as her uncle succumbing to the virus.
“I’m pausing because there’s so much to take into consideration now. I think we’ve all been changed after this… My grandmother who’s 96, his grandmother who’s 86, my mother who’s now 70, my aunts and uncles who are up there. And I just lost an uncle who we think had complications of corona.”
Kelvin Hayden proposed in 2018.
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The Black Lives Matter chapter in Dayton Ohio is scheduled to hold a rally on Saturday, May 25. Unfortunately for them, they will be met with resistance as the hate group called the Honorable Sacred Knights, which is affiliated with the KKK in Indiana, will also be there to have a rally.
Black Lives Matter purposely scheduled their rally on this day to counter the KKK’s rally which already scheduled for May 25.
Carlos Buford, the organizer of the BLM chapter released a statement, explaining the reason for holding the rally on the same day as the KKK’s rally.
“Our Black community is facing astronomical levels of systemic racism and the launch of Black Lives Matter Dayton would like to be that bridge of hope for Black citizens by focusing on challenging laws and policies that keep Black people and communities oppressed and terrorized by police brutality,” Buford wrote on the group’s GoFundMepage.
Some people in the Dayton area fear that the event could turn into a powder keg.
The two sides may clash on this day in a way that is similar to Charlottesville.
Even though Trump has shown frustration with the aggressiveness of National Security Adviser John Bolton, Trump has also kicked it up a notch by stating that military engagement would mean
“the official end of Iran.”
"I will not let Iran have nuclear weapons," Trump told Fox News host Steve Hilton. "I don’t want to fight. But you do have situations like Iran, you can’t let them have nuclear weapons — you just can’t let that happen.”
Trump has been known to talk tough in the past, however, he has been bullied by his best friend in the world Vladimir Putin.
No one knows what is really going inside the mind of Trump and ti be honest I don't think he knows either.
First-grade teacher poses with a noose. No, I did not just make that up. I repeat a first-grade teacher posed with a noose and posted it on social media.
Four first grade teachers and a principal at Summerwind Elementary School in Palmdale have been suspended after a photo of them laughing and holding a noose was leaked.
So this is just the beginning. The Principal, Linda Brandt is the one who sent the emails out to her staff.
“You hate them, little black babies. You hate them, little Spanish babies. All them little minorities. You hate em!” Darrin Harper told Fox 11 on Thursday. “Because I know what she about. The pictures prove it, that’s what she about and that’s what she allow to go on. So she need to go.”
In this day and age where Black people constantly accused of race-baiting and you have ignorant so-called African Americans like Candace Owens, who believe that racism is no longer an issue, this report is very telling and shows just how far we to go. Racism is not a thing of the past, it is and always has been a part of Americana.
Trump was at one of his rallies in Florida talking about border security. Trump asks the question, what do you do about the immigrants? One of his supporters shouted
“Shoot em!” and the audience clapped in agreement. Trump relplied to the man by saying “Only in the panhandle!” As Trump and his supporters laughed as if there was something funny about shooting migrants.
Watch for yourself and see how discussing this man and his supporters really are.
Before the racists get a chance to attack this message, let me just say that most of the school shootings are committed by White students. Secondly, these Black students have a reason to fear teachers being armed. Teachers are not trained police officers and lack the ability to implement the use of force. It is even fair to say that a good number of police officers lack the ability to implement the use of force.
I am in favor of increased law enforcement presence in the schools but armed teachers is just a step too far.
As it was admitted by a KKK member, White supremacist organizations have their members everywhere in America. The KKK member gleefully stated that there KKK members in politics, some of them are Judges, some of them are lawyers but the main thing that stuck out was how happy he was to admit that a lot of them are in law enforcement.
One Virginia Capitol Police Officer, Sgt. Robert A. Stamm has been connected to an extremist group called Asatru. According to the New York Times, the FBI foiled a plot by extremists in the Asatru faith to attack Black churches.
Per the New York Times-
Sgt. Robert A. Stamm of the Virginia Division of Capitol Police was fired this week after an investigation into a report that he had ties to white nationalists.
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The Library is exploring the possibility of building a new library. We hope these FAQ’s will help answer some of your questions.
Why does VTPL need a new building?
Since 1986, the Vernon Township Public Library (VTPL) has been operating at its 7,950 square foot location. This facility is too small to adequately serve the rapidly growing Fortville, McCordsville and unincorporated Vernon Township area.
The Library sits on less than one acre and is landlocked. Parking is extremely limited, constraining the construction of an addition to the existing building. Further, any addition or expansion to the existing building will require the building to adhere to current building codes. The age of the building and site constraints make an expansion all but impossible.
Many residents in the area are unaware that the Library exists to serve them. To that end, a Task Force was created by the Library’s Board of Trustee to analyze the issues facing VTPL. Through discussions with the community and its’ stakeholders, it became clear that the current Library is insufficient to serve the community.
How does the current building impact the community?
The Library is working to expand programs and services to meet the needs of the community. Our regular storytime puts us close to max capacity on a regular basis and without a separate programming room, it can be very loud in the rest of the library. We offer many of our programs off-site because we cannot accommodate larger groups of people. We have had several programs with attendance well over 100 people. We would like to offer more high-interest programs, but finding off-site accommodations limits the frequency we are able to offer events.
We are also at capacity for adding bookshelves. We cannot increase our collection size to meet the needs of a growing community without additional space to house these items. We would also love to offer a Library of Things, but lack the space to store the items.
Additionally, we do not have any meeting or individual study spaces available. Community members call weekly requesting this service. There is a clear need for this in our growing community.
Where will the new Library be located?
In August 2023, the Library Board of Trustees voted to move the Library to the Vernon Township Trustee building at 602 Vitality Dr. in Fortville. The Library will expand the current building. A secondary, Express Library will be built in McCordsville.
How will this affect my taxes?
If a new Library is to be constructed within the Vernon Township area, a bond will be necessary to help fund the construction. It is important to note that due to the unique manner in which the Library is funded, bonding will NOT RAISE TAXES or impact the funding received by any other governmental agency within the Township. This will be discussed in greater detail at planned events showcasing the site plans. If you have specific questions, please send an email to the Library.
What will the new Library look like?
The library hosted a focus group and conducted a survey of residents to solicit feedback on what you want and need in your library. The priorities identified from this are:
- Larger collection
- Larger, more inviting children’s area
- Meeting and study rooms available for public use
- Increased programs for all ages
- Welcoming, inviting interior
We will have more opportunities for the community to provide feedback on design elements after a final site decision is made.
Why don’t you merge with the Hancock County Public Library?
We explore the various reasons that VTPL remains an independent library here.
How can I get more information or get involved?
We hosted two public Site Plan Meetings to provide an overview of the planning process, how we will fund the project, discussed the site plans, and, most importantly, listened to public feedback.
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Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah will be seen doing some action stunts for his new film "John Day".
The film will see the 62 year old performing a lot of chase and fight sequences after 14 years. He was last seen performing stunts in 1998 film "China Gate".
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Like most people know the Donkervoort cars are equipped with Intrax shock absorbers. The Intrax shocks are equipped with easily accessible manual height adjusters.
This is next to the 4-way adjustability of these Black Titan ARC shocks of course.
For the Donkervoort D8 GTO and later model owners like the JD70 we made our EHC (Electronic Height Control) available. With our EHC you can change the drive height of your car with the push of a button. You can choose to implement this system on the front shocks or on the front and rear shocks. For he rear shocks a small and easy adjustment needs to be done on the diffuser (nothing visible when everything is fitted and nothing structural). This adjustment allows a higher drive height and also improves the handling of he car.
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31.2 Hill Country Acres with Views.
- County: Burnet
- Address: County Road 200A
- Zip: 78611
- Type: Horse Property, Ranches, Recreational Property
- City: Burnet
- Price: $310,000
- Acres: 31
- State/Zip: Texas 78611
- Status: Available
31 acres just recently fenced and cleared in 7 Creeks Ranch. Fantastic views in a beautiful hill country setting of mature oaks and attractive rolling topography. Black rich soil with some caliche. This property is perfect for hunting, cattle, horses, recreational activities or building your dream ranch home. This community offers a stocked community 8 acre lake, trails, gated entrance, ag exempt, high speed internet and PEC power at road. Water for well usually found around 300'. Best price on a ready to go tract.
Property has been cleaned and raked out with a few brush pile left to burn. Please note, the aerial does not reflect the recent clearing and fencing.
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Reading is a good habit, not only helps you expand one’s knowledge about the world but also effectively supports their progress in learning English. Check out these 10 children’s books that you can recommend to your students to practice reading skills at home!
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland is a novel by British author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). Throughout the content of the story is a dream about the journey of little Alice into a magical land with countless surprises and strangeness. This work of fiction will help unleash students’ imaginations of a colorful wonderland and make their English learning much more enjoyable.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the wind is a name that is no longer strange to readers as well as “movie nerds”. The novel revolves around the life and love story full of ups and downs of Scarlett O’Hara – a beautiful lady in the landowner family in the South of America. The film adapted from this book also became a classic, a monument in American cinema.
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Surely, our childhoods are all associated with at least one of these names: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats, The Frog Prince…. These are highly educational stories, directing people towards the good. And few people know that these stories are in the treasure of Grimm’s fairy tales – a famous collection of German folklore. With 60 different stories, moderate length, this will definitely be a very good choice for you to practice reading English.
Pinocchio – the long-nosed wooden man is a character quite familiar to our childhood. Created by elderly carpenter Mister Geppetto in the remote Italian countryside, the wooden puppet Pinocchio dreams of becoming a boy in the flesh. He often lies and makes up stories for various reasons and each time, his nose grows a little longer. Lovely story, words are also quite simple because it is especially a story for children, will be a good work for you to choose.
The Call of the Wild
The peculiarity of this novel is the main character – a dog named Buck. Buck has been tamed and pampered, but after being kidnapped from the farm, becoming a sled dog, the dog begins to have to start adapting to a miserable life, fighting for survival. After a hunting trip, witnessing the desolation and bloody scene with his loyal owner Buck, his feelings suddenly turned into pain, making Buck become wilder than ever.
With this novel, you will be taken through the wild lands, the battles, the hardships of the reins, the trail…
The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code is one of the best-selling books in the world with over 40 million copies sold and translated into 44 languages. The content of the novel revolves around the Catholic Church’s conspiracy to hide the truth about Jesus. This will be a top choice for those who love the thriller and detective genre.
“The Giver” begins in a very engaging way and grabs the reader’s attention right from the start. This novel has easy-to-understand grammar. Much of the grammar is past tense and past perfect. All sentences are very short and throughout the story the content is very clear. This is a longer book than the ones mentioned above. However, since it’s easy to read, you can finish it quickly.
The most famous novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway. The book is about a brave old Cuban fisherman, and the battle against Marlin the giant fish. Hemingway’s clear, coherent writing style and concise sentence structure make the book a great resource for English learners.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is also a name that is no less in the vast arsenal of classic novels. A novel through the life full of ups and downs of Jay Gatsby – a typical wealthy tycoon of American society in the 20s of the last century through the honest and emotional narrative of his neighbor Nick Carraway. However, it is something to be cherished that Gatsby comes up from nothing, has a dark past and a mysterious love. He reached the peak of glory but in the end lost everything and returned to dust…
Classified as one of the classics of children’s literature in the world, Peter Pan by James Mathher Barrie (1860-1937), is a wondrous work born of a rich imagination combined with a unique storytelling. “All children, except one, grow up” – The story of the wonderful adventure of Wendy, John, Michael and Peter Pan to Neverland began like that.
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New legislation to allow the Government Communications Security Bureau to spy on New Zealanders in certain situations has passed its first hurdle.
The bill had its first reading in parliament last night and passed through 61 votes to 59.
It will now go to the Intelligence and Security Committee for a shorter than usual period, because the Government says changes to the GCSB legislation are needed urgently.
The Bill will replace the current Telecommunications (Interception Capability) Act 2004.
There are two parts to the Bill; the first part relates to obligations for telecommunications companies, and is focused on modernising the existing interception capability.
It will also improve the existing administration and enforcement processes in order to lift compliance levels," Communications and Information Technology Minister Amy Adams said.
However Adams says the changes will not alter the authority of police or intelligence and security agencies to intercept telecommunications or reduce the checks and balances on how these agencies can access and use private communications information.
Those matters are dealt with under separate legislation, says Adams.
The second part of the Bill introduces a formal and transparent network security regime.
The proposed changes will mean network operators will be obliged to engage with the Government through the GCSB on network security, where it might affect New Zealand's national security and economic well-being.
"Updating the legislation will ensure New Zealand's telecommunications companies have a clearer understanding of how to meet their interception obligations while ensuring their network infrastructure does not pose a risk to New Zealand's national security or economic well-being, as we move to an increasingly online world.," Adams said.
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EU Dishes Out € 2Million to Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institut
In order to help improve the livelihood of farmers in the tree crop, livestock and horticulture subsectors as well as export their products to boost the ailing economy, the European Union (EU) has generously dished out €2 million to the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI) to carry out research in tree crop, livestock and horticulture sub sectors in Sierra Leone.
Speaking at a two day retreat at SLARI conference hall, Freetown, SLARI Acting Director General Dr.Matthew L.S.Gboku expressed his deep appreciation for the grant. He dwelled on the importance of the subsectors especially in helping to improve the quality of life of our farmers and generating needed foreign exchange for the country adding:
“the grant will to this end help my Institute tackle some of the major research challenges facing the subsectors including inferior planting materials, pests and diseases, limited genetic base and marketing constraints”. He therefore strongly urged participants of the retreat to offer their best by giving an incisive reflection of how to meaningfully deliver the goods the project intends to offer to our farmers and the country as a whole.
Presentation on cocoa, coffee, cashew, agroforestry and other fruit trees explained how the production of these tree crops during the life of the project can be productively enhanced and in a way that more money can be put into the pockets of our farmers and surplus exported to earn foreign exchange for the country. It also considered among many others the development of high yielding tree crop and fruit varieties, the raising of rootstocks for budding, establishing cocoa clonal garden, design for out planting; planting cocoa clones in the field, multiplying promising clones for field trials and the development of hybrids through manual pollination. The presentation also took into account capacity building including the training of field technicians, short term training for researchers and the farm manager. It also identified the development of viable agroforestry systems for cacao and coffee with time lines to undertake such operations including the acquisition of planting materials for both nursery and research purposes and establishment of nursery for propagation of trees.
On the issue of horticultural crops, the benefits and challenges were highlighted and the vital need to characterize and select the best vegetable crop varieties. The retreat also examined the issues surrounding production and plant health management of horticultural crops, strengthening nutrient and food security through mushroom cultivation and marketing; screening, characterization and testing of new and or crops that are not fully utilized.
While presentation and discussion was also done on the project procurement plan, multimedia approach was discussed as the most effective means to reach project audience. Considering the high degree of illiteracy among project target farmers and lack of power supply in most remote areas in the country farmers live, it was agreed with unanimity that SLARI Information, Communications and Documentation Unit should come up with a Communications Strategy in which case it will emphasize on the production and dissemination of extension materials including video and audio documentaries of technologies project farmers need to know about and adopt,postals and the use of community radio stations as well.
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The snow melted yesterday and there under the snow were the bright yellow buds of the winter aconites (Eranthus hyemalis) Two days later the sun came out and the flowers opened and turned their little yellow faces to the adoring sun and laughed at winter.
Winter aconites are really tough little guys and even though everyone says that snowdrops are the first sign of spring mine have yet to even show a leaf. If you want early spring color in the garden to cheer your spirits then winter aconites are the way to go. These lovely little yellow flowers grow low to the ground they produce a starburst of flat green leaves with one yellow flower in the center. Aconites grow from tiny bulbs about the size of a pencil eraser but they will self seed nicely once they are established. Collecting seeds is tough though, we tried it, it’s extremely time consuming and not at all cost effective. This is why the plants are usually sold as bulbs, which at present we don’t sell.
Aconites thrive in areas where there is summer shade. So planting them under deciduous trees where they get lots of winter sunshine but are shaded during the summer is ideal. The lovely rosette leaves last into the early summer providing a nice ground cover in the first part of the year. After that the bulbs go dormant during the summer months.
Don’t plant under bird feeders since they come up at the time feeders are most active they just get pecked to death. Birds don’t care about plants they care about the seeds around them.
Aconites are a cold loving species they are hardy from zones 3 -7 so they won’t grow in the warmer areas, but heck you don’t need spring indicators in the south! They will tolerate some moisture all year around but do like well drained soil. They thrive in sunshine or semi shade but not under pine or fir species. They like a rich humus soil which is found under deciduous trees. Left alone they will self seed and form a carpet of yellow flowers in early spring, then a ground cover which can be mown back by early to mid summer so they are ideal in a grassy area under trees or mixed with later growing perennials.
Winter aconite flowers open and close with the sun. when the sun is shining their petals open and they bath in the bright rays, when it goes down or on cloudy days the petals stay closed. The flowers can last for several weeks. More if there are a lot of cloudy days and less if there is lots of sunshine and warm temperatures.
I started my winter aconites with a dozen bulbs about 25 years ago, planted them outside my living room window they grew and proliferated. It was wonderful looking out the window every spring at the constantly increase carpet of early yellow flowers.
When I moved this farm twelve years ago I dug up as many as I could which turned out to be a several hundred. Not all of them survived the journey but a lot did. I planted these under trees and in flower beds that I can see from my dining room and living room windows. I think its important that you can see them from the house windows, it’s the first sign of spring in cold weather when most people are not working outside. Being able to appreciate them from the house lifts the spirits and see proof that spring is just around the corner. Back at my old house there is still a carpet of aconites every spring so I obviously only got a few of them.
Now I have a large clump on the berm under some of my Kousa Dogwood trees. These are always the first to flower as they get the most winter sunshine. The ones outside my living room window are located in a sheltered northern exposure and come up about the same time but don’t open as quickly. The ones in less sheltered northern exposures still have not shown themselves yet. This is fine by me. It means that my enjoyment of the yellow flowers is extended. The ones of the berm get mown over during the summer as they are in shade loving grass. The ones in the flower beds are mixed with Hostas which come up later in the year, about the time that the aconites are going down. So I get a carpet of yellow flowers followed by bright green ground cover with new Hosta leaves growing through them. By time the Hosta leaves are growing large the aconites are going dormant. It’s perfect.
Very early flowers are also important to pollinators especially honey bees. On warm late winter days they can come out of the hive for a fly around and a bathroom break. (bees don’t ‘go’ in the hive so these gals have been holding it all winter!) Finding some flowers while they are out is always a great bonus for them and an extra energy boost.
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Visa is the most widely accepted, and MasterCard is usually accepted where you see signs for Access or Eurocard. Diners Club is also increasingly recognized. American Express is less frequently accepted because it charges a higher commission and is more protective of the cardholder in disagreements.
Even when credit cards are accepted, most smaller restaurants and shops are reluctant to accept payment in plastic unless the bill is above a certain amount. Many small establishments will accept them only if you agree to pay their commission (usually about 6%); this seems fair enough, especially in some of the more out-of-the-way destinations where negotiating and receiving payment remains difficult and time-consuming for the proprietors.
Credit cards are a safe way to carry money, they provide a convenient record of all your expenses, and they generally offer good exchange rates. You can also withdraw cash advances from your credit cards at banks or ATMs, provided you know your PIN. If you've forgotten yours, or didn't even know you had one, call the number on the back of your credit card and ask the bank to send it to you. It usually takes 5 to 7 business days, though some banks will provide the number over the phone if you tell them your mother's maiden name or some other personal information. Your credit card company will likely charge a commission (1% or 2%) on every foreign purchase you make, but you may be getting a good deal with credit cards when you factor in things like ATM fees and higher traveler's check exchange rates.
Keep in mind that credit card companies try to protect themselves from theft by limiting the funds someone can withdraw outside their home country, so call your credit card company before you leave home. And remember: If you use your charge card to obtain cash, you are borrowing money and presumably going to pay very high interest. It might be better to use your bank's card as a debit card, which means you are simply taking cash out of your bank account.
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Education is a journey that shapes minds, fosters creativity, and empowers individuals to reach their full potential. At Metta School, we are committed to providing students with the best tools and resources to enhance their learning experience. As part of our dedication to excellence, we are thrilled to announce that enrolling in our school comes with a fantastic opportunity – free access to Canva for Education.
What is Canva for Education?
Canva is a powerful online design platform that empowers users to create stunning visuals, graphics, presentations, and more. With Canva for Education, students and educators gain access to a suite of creative tools that can revolutionize the way they express ideas and communicate information. Whether you’re a budding artist, a future entrepreneur, or an aspiring scientist, Canva’s versatile features can enhance your projects and assignments.
Benefits of Canva for Education:
- Enhance Visual Communication: Canva allows students to transform their ideas into eye-catching visuals. From designing posters for school events to creating infographics for presentations, Canva’s intuitive interface makes it easy for students to convey their messages effectively.
- Boost Creativity: Creativity knows no bounds with Canva. Students can explore a vast library of templates, images, icons, and fonts to craft unique designs. Whether it’s designing a magazine cover for a class project or creating digital artwork, Canva sparks imagination and innovation.
- Engage and Impress: Dynamic visuals can capture attention and leave a lasting impression. Canva enables students to design captivating presentations that engage their peers and teachers, taking classroom interactions to a whole new level.
- Collaborate Seamlessly: With Canva, collaboration becomes seamless. Students can work together on group projects, sharing ideas and refining designs in real time. This fosters teamwork and enhances communication skills.
- Access to Educational Content: Canva for Education provides access to an extensive collection of educational content, including templates tailored for various subjects and disciplines. This resource can complement classroom learning and help students express complex concepts visually.
- Develop Marketable Skills: In an increasingly visual and digital world, design skills are highly valuable. Canva equips students with skills that are relevant across disciplines and can be a valuable asset in future academic and professional pursuits.
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Enrolling in Metta School opens the door to a world of creative possibilities with Canva for Education. Upon enrollment, students and educators will receive free access to this dynamic platform, enabling them to explore, create, and innovate in exciting new ways.
At Metta School, we believe that education should be transformative and empowering. By offering Canva for Education, we are excited to provide our students with an innovative tool that can elevate their learning experience and prepare them for success in a visually driven world.
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This ultrafast sun-damaged reconstructive treatment repairs and hydrates sun-damaged hair immediately, intensely making hair feel nourished, soft, and shiny.
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Manage episode 207832485 series 89289
The gang talks to Chicago comic Jason Melton about the movie, Monster. Monster is a pretty heavy and violent movie so the discussion is a bit heavier and darker then normal, and we get into some pretty serious topics. With that being said, if you are feel that topics like serial killers and murder are not for you, maybe skip this episode. We try to keep it as light hearted as possible, but when the subject matter is a person who has been abused their whole life starts killing their prostitution clients, it can be difficult.
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The lymphatic vasculature provides crucial functions for the maintenance of homeostasis in a variety of tissues and organs by providing the primary route through which immune cells, large proteins, lipids, and interstitial fluid are returned to the blood circulation. This requires the movement of fluid up adverse pressure gradients, a process that is achieved primarily through the intrinsic contractility of individual contractile units known as lymphangions. Lymphatic pump failure has been implicated in a variety of disease processes including lymphedema, congestive heart failure, transplant rejection, and neurological disorders. All of these processes involve the growth and remodeling (G&R) of lymphatics as they adapt to changes directly from injury or to changes in the fluid demand placed on them. These processes are quite complex involving molecular mechanisms that adapt lymphatic function and structure across very short (seconds) and long (weeks) time scales. These changes that occur at the cellular level alter pump function of individual vessels at the tissue level, and ultimately could affect pump performance of the entire lymphatic network. Thus a multiscale model that recapitulates these changes at the cellular level, integrating both the biological and mechanical variables important to the cell response, and then predicts their impact on the entire lymphatic network will be crucial to understanding disease progression and developing new therapies to restore lymphatic function. This proposal seeks to develop such a model, through a collaborative effort of three co-PIs with complementary expertise, utilizing both experiments and novel approaches in computational modeling. This will be achieved in the following four Specific Aims: 1) Develop and characterize multiscale model of lymphangion G&R. This model will describe G&R processes at the cellular level using a constrained mixture approach of the various constituents that make of the vessel and the couple this into a lumped parameter model of long lymphangion chains. 2) Develop and characterize a computational G&R fluid-structure-interaction (FSI) model of a lymphatic valve. This model will develop an approach for capturing valve G&R processes through a coupled constrained mixture model of valve growth with a FSI model of complex fluid-valve interactions. 3) Incorporation of computational models of non-mechanically mediated growth.
This aim will develop a model of lymphangion growth driven by non-mechanically mediated factors coupled into the constitutive model of mechanically mediated growth. 4) Validation of computational models with a large animal experimental model relevant to human physiology. In humans, gravity is the primary mechanical load that the lymphatic system must overcome; this load is absent in small animal models. Thus the computational models of G&R will be benchmarked against a novel ligation model of the lymphatic in the leg of a sheep. Together this work will provide a?human-scale? model of the lymphatic network that incorporates molecularly events of lymphatic G&R and predicts the impact of these events on overall lymphatic system function.
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Beaver Ruin Study Makes the News
The Gwinett Daily Posthighlighted TSW’s work in Gwinnett County.
Task force: More homeowners, less renters would boost area
by Bryan Brooks – Staff Writer
Gwinett Daily Post
June 21, 2004
LAWRENCEVILLE — More parks, more sidewalks, more homeowners and less renters are some of the ways a team of consultants would begin to revitalize neighborhoods in the Beaver Ruin area.
Those were among several recommendations the consultants presented Thursday to the county Revitalization Task Force, which must devise a plan for reversing the fortunes of a 10-square-mile swath of land between Norcross and Lilburn.
That plan, along with one for the U.S. Highway 78 commercial corridor between Snellville and DeKalb County, and a commercial area around Gwinnett Place Mall, will be forwarded to the County Commission in December.
The most challenging area to rejuvenate will be the Beaver Ruin area, consultants said. Two-thirds of the area’s residents are renters; a problem with crime — both real and perceived — hangs over the area; and traffic threatens pedestrians and scares away shoppers.
Also, the area, which includes Jimmy Carter Boulevard and Singleton Road, has a diverse population that must buy into the rejuvenation effort, task force members said.
“We’ve got an area that is going down the toilet,” said task force member Mark Williams. “I hate to put it that way,” he added.
To reverse that trend, the county needs to lure investment to the area, including developers and business owners, the consultants said.
To that end, the county should stabilize the neighborhoods and create a variety of revitalization zoning districts that permit higher density, mixed-use development in “town centers.”
Each town center would serve as the focal point of the surrounding neighborhoods. When combined, the centers and the neighborhoods should form a pedestrian-friendly village of sorts, the consultants said.
In the residential neighborhoods themselves, nothing more dense than small-lot homes should be allowed, the consultants said, based on feedback from residents.
“People were very clear that within the neighborhoods, they don’t want townhomes, but they would be willing to support a little bit more density if it looks good and is compatible with what’s already there,” said Caleb Racicot, a consultant with Tunnell-Spangler-Walsh & Associates.
Although it covers 10 square miles, the study focused on six neighborhoods: Liberty Heights, Mitchell Road, Beaver Ridge, Tech Drive, Harbins Road and Singleton Road, and Jimmy Carter Boulevard and Singleton Road.
A Norcross resident who attended the Revitalization Task Force meeting at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center said he liked what he heard during the 45-minute presentation.
“I like it and I think it’s good,” said Al Karnitz, who lives in “old Norcross,” which is the residential area around that city’s downtown.
Karnitz, though, said whatever strategy the county comes up with will not work unless the area’s Latino community is involved.
The Revitalization Task Force will spend the next several months digesting the consultants’ report.
The consultants also recommended that the county:
- Increase the number of zoning compliance officers in the area.
- Allow police to write code citations.
- Proactively monitor code compliance, rather than just respond to complaints.
- Eliminate the notice of violation requirement before a citation can be written.
- Promote the formation and reactivation of homeowners associations.
- Establish a “Neighborhood Deputies Program” to train residents to monitor code violations and notify the county.
- Protect residential areas from commercial encroachment.
- Permit the redevelopment of “marginal” homes along major streets into high-quality townhomes or duplexes.
- Encourage more churches to make their facilities available for community functions.
- Encourage minority entrepreneurship and economic mobility by developing small-scale business incubator space in former big-box stores.
- Increase open space and recreational opportunities.
- Create a 133-acre community park on an undeveloped parcel at Interstate 85 and Satellite Boulevard.
- Build more sidewalks.
- Improve bus service to the area and erect bus shelters.
- Install a landscaped median on Jimmy Carter Boulevard and other major roadways.
- Continue existing efforts to target crime. | [
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