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CNN – 2013-04-27 00:47:20
Syria: US Manipulating Chemical Weapons Evidence, Like It Did with Iraq
Mariano Castillo and Greg Botelho / CNN
(April 26, 2013) — Syria denies that it has used, or even possesses, chemical weapons, accusing the United States and Britain of lying in order to pressure the embattled Damascus government.
Syrian Information Minister Omran Al-Zoubi talked to Russia TV on Friday, dismissing a claim by US officials a day earlier that they had evidence the chemical weapon Sarin had been used in Syria on a small scale.
“Everything that the American minister and British government have said lack credibility,” Al-Zoubi said. “It’s baseless, and it’s a new tactic to put political and economic pressure on Syria.”
Al-Zoubi said the Syrian government is the one that called for an investigation of an incident in which it claimed chemical weapons were used by “terrorist groups.” The government routinely labels rebel fighters as terrorists.
Syria does not have chemical weapons and would not use them if it did, he said.
The Americans “want to manipulate the issue, to let whoever used the chemical weapons … get away (with it), and to repeat the Iraq example,” Al-Zoubi said.
After a meeting on Friday with Jordan’s King Abdullah, President Barack Obama reiterated US “preliminary assessments” that “chemical weapons have been used on … populations in Syria.”
He didn’t backtrack from his earlier statements that it would be a “game changer” — as far as how the world deals with Syria — if it’s proven definitively that President Bashar al-Assad’s forces used chemical weapons on his own people.
Still, Obama didn’t specify what actions the United States might take if that determination is made. For now, he said, the United States is planning to continue its own “very vigorous investigation” and to work with its Middle Eastern allies and the United States.
“We to have act prudently,” the president said. “… But I think all of us, not just in the United States but around the world — recognize how we cannot stand by and permit the systematic use of weapons like chemical weapons on civilian populations.”
Israel, for one, is asking the United States to take the lead in crafting a response to the evidence of chemical weapons.
“I think the US, as the leader of the Western world, should lead the efforts with our partners in Europe and Israel and to take action with what we’re seeing happening today in Syria,” Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon said on Friday.
While he didn’t offer specifics, Danon said that Israeli military intelligence also has information indicating “Syria has used chemical weapons.”
Also Friday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the man heading the world body’s investigation into chemical weapons use in Syria to report to UN headquarters on Monday for “consultations,” a UN spokesman said.
Ban had “taken note” of comments Thursday from the US government that it has evidence Sarin has been used in Syria.
The UN leader has repeatedly asked the Syrian government to give UN inspectors unrestricted access to the country as it looked into chemical weapons use allegations. The team, led by Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom, is ready to head to Syria within 48 hours if an agreement is reached.
“We remain in close contact with the Syrian authorities, most recently through another letter (Thursday) urging the Syrian government to grant unconditional and unfettered access to the mission,” UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said. “The secretary-general strongly urges the Syrian government to respond swiftly and favorably so that this mission can carry out its work in Syria.”
Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich responded Friday by criticizing Ban’s position as “nothing but a demonstration of a politicized approach.”
“The inspection system proposed is analagous to that used at the end of the previous century in Iraq, which — unlike Syria — was under UN sanctions,” Lukashevich said in a statement posted on the foreign ministry’s website.
“It is difficult to understand why the UN secretariat prefers to take its cue from those who care not about concrete steps to prevent attempts to use chemical weapons in the Syrian crisis but to change the regime of a sovereign state.”
Earlier this week, the Russian foreign minister also warned against a repeat of the “Iraqi scenario” in which claims that Saddam Hussein’s government possessed so-called weapons of mass destruction were the basis of the US-led invasion. He also said that international investigators were asking “too much” by demanding access to all facilities in Syria and to have the right to interview any Syrians.
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This week the children have been super busy in the garden learning about growth and decay in the natural world. From exploring flowers in our tuff tray, to planting our already sprouting ‘magic beans’ and carrot seeds in pots outside.
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Emulators and simulators are software tools used in the electronics industry to emulate or simulate the behavior of electronic components or systems in a virtual environment. Emulators are hardware devices that are used to mimic the behavior of electronic components or systems, allowing them to run in a simulated environment. This allows engineers to debug and test their designs without having to physically build the circuit. Emulators also offer advanced debugging capabilities, such as the ability to halt the execution of the code at any point and inspect the values of the registers and memory.On the other hand, simulators are software programs that replicate the behavior of electronic components or systems using mathematical models. These simulations provide an accurate representation of the behavior of the electronic components, allowing engineers to test and optimize their designs before building a physical prototype. Simulators also offer the flexibility to change parameters and inputs to observe the effects on the system, without the cost and time associated with building and testing physical components. Emulators and simulators are essential tools for modern electronics development, providing efficient and cost-effective solutions for testing and debugging electronic systems. | [
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Anatomy of a Shipwreck: The Tug “Celtic” and Its Barge “Cape Race”
By Robert Bachand
Since the early days of our Nation, Long Island Sound has always served as a vital waterway for commercial and some military traffic. During some years, as many as 1,900 barges are towed on these waters along with a host of other vessels that use the Sound. These include bulk carriers, refrigerator ships, tank vessels, passenger ships, oyster and lobstermen, recreational vessels, naval vessels and two major year-round ferry services.
There are a great many wrecks lying on the bottom of Long Island Sound (AWOIS LIST, 1997). In her book, Perils of the Port of New York,1973, Jeanette Rattray recounted that “the bottom of Long Island Sound is paved with coal, a legacy of a time when schooners and long strings of barges, towed by a single tug.” Unanticipated storms could send these barges crashing into each other, causing a number to sink.
The fate of the tug Celtic and her tow, Cape Race, is but one of these stories. The tug towing an empty barge left Port Newark, New Jersey, on October 17, 1984. Sailing into Long Island Sound, she arrived in late morning at Bridgeport Harbor, where her crew moored their tow. The 85.9-foot tug then proceeded to the port’s Jacob Brothers scrapyard where she was to take on two scrap-loaded barges, Herbert E. Smith and Cape Race, for a return trip to Port Newark.
Scrap barges are loaded using a grappler or an electromagnet. As the materials are dropped into the barge, they can cause “dents, holes and even occasional cracks in a barge’s hull.” As the Herbert B. Smith was being loaded, the crane operator noticed that she was listing to one side. Inspection by welders revealed two cracks in the forward part of the hull. Repairs were made but just before their scheduled departure, the barge was again found to be leaking. It was thus decided to return to Port Newark with only the Cape Race in tow.
The Cape Race however, was not in much better shape. She reportedly had not been drydocked for the decade proceeding October of 1984. At that time, she was taken in the shipyard to repair leaks in her hull. During that entire span of 10 years, there apparently had been neither bottom painting nor replacement of zinc anodes. The Coast Guard was not required to inspect scrap barges that were limited to “saltwater routes, through harbors, bays and sounds.” But tank barges had to be drydocked and inspected every 2 to 3 years.
The repairs to the Cape Race proved to be less than adequate. When a weld was attempted, the metal over the leak proved to be too thin. The barge’s owner then decided to have a doubler-plate welded over the site. But it was later concluded by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that its installation “may have weakened the bottom structure of the barge.” Coast Guard regulations for tank barges would not have permitted that type of repair.
On November 17, 1984, a couple of hours after dark, the Celtic left the harbor, pushing the attached barge ahead of her. The bridge tender at the Pleasure Island Bridge would later state that the “barge had about 4 to 5 feet of its hull above water, and that the barge appeared to be level.”
As the tug entered the open Sound with Penfield Reef Lighthouse to her starboard, she encountered 3- 4-foot seas out of the west. The Celtic’s 6-man crew had no inkling that the Cape Race was leaking. But as she sailed just off Norwalk’s Sheffield Island, the mate suddenly reversed the engine. Water rushing through a hole in the barge’s hull had apparently filled the vessel to a point where waves broke over her freeboard. In a terrifying instant, the tug was dragged down by the barge to below the surface. There was no time to send a distress signal or time for the crew to abandon ship.
On the next morning, around 8:30 am, it became apparent that something might be wrong. The Celtic had not arrived as scheduled at the Port of Newark. The tug company’s dispatcher tried to contact the tug on VHF channel 5, but got no response. The Coast Guard was then notified. USCG helicopters were dispatched, but there were no signs of the vessels.
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Super Bowl jet-setters get top-flight travel treatment
PHOENIX (AP) — For some travelers visiting Arizona for the Super Bowl, the trip may be just as memorable as the game.
Hundreds of luxury jets will arrive at eight airports around metropolitan Phoenix by kickoff Sunday.
Perks for passengers include goody-filled swag bags, a concert by country group Lady Antebellum, complimentary cocktails and high-end catering once they emerge from their Lear jets and Gulfstreams.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says 1,200 to 1,400 private and commercial flights will inundate metro Phoenix during Super Bowl weekend.
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“Estimates are that hay prices will settle in the four-to six-cents-per-pound range this year with a strong possibility that these prices will soften”
July is usually the most difficult time of year to determine hay prices. Yields and quality are uncertain and demand is an unknown factor. July of 2009 was no exception and was, in fact, even more difficult.
“Spring and early-summer drought forced many cow-calf producers to cull their herds heavily even to the point of total liquidation,” says Ted Nibourg, crop specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Stettler. “There were reports of extreme hay prices earlier this summer, and these prices were typically paid by producers in desperate situations; they ran out of feed and pastures were not growing. These producers were waiting for an opportunity to get their cattle to market in a swamped auction market system. They just did not want their cows to lose condition before they were able to get to the auction market.
“Some decent rains during the first part of July throughout most of the province resulted in some increased hay and pasture production. As well, a second flush in cereal crops that were written off earlier will allow for increase forage production. Coupled with reduced demand due to a smaller cow herd, a softening in forage prices compared to earlier expectations can be expected.”
The value of a standing hay crop is based on the estimated market value of hay in the bale, less cutting and baling costs plus an allowance for weather risk. The weather risk allowance would be at least 10 per cent (e.g. for grass hay) and as high as 30 per cent (e.g. for alfalfa) of the expected market value. Without this allowance, a badly weather-damaged crop could cost the producer the same amount as if they had purchased ready-made, top-quality bales from someone else.
The 2009 Custom Rates Survey Summary outlines the current rates being charged for most custom haying operations. Producers can also use Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development’s online Machinery Cost Calculator to determine what these costs will be for an operation.
Many Alberta producers include the asking prices in their “hay for sale listings” on the Alberta Hay and Pasture Directory, which can also be found on Alberta Agriculture’s website. Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) publishes historical forage price data for all regions of the province.
A crop share is another simple but effective rental arrangement for a forage crop. The tenant harvests the crop and gives the landlord a share of the crop in bales. The landlord then has a product that is ready for sale or for their own use. With this year’s higher-valued hay crop compared to the past few years, the landlord’s crop share for a hayfield can vary from 40 to 60 per cent. It is important that the estimated market value, yield potential and harvest costs for the crop are considered to ensure that the arrangement is fair for both parties. Often the final settlement is determined in late October when prices are more firmly established.
“Estimates are that hay prices will settle in the four-to six-cents-per-pound range this year with a strong possibility that these prices will soften,” says Nibourg. “Certainly with a reduced supply, hay prices will be firmer than last year’s prices which averaged three to 3-1/2 cents per pound. Six cents appears to be the upper limit, or the tipping point, that will force producers to sell more cows rather than suffer increased production costs.
“I recently calculated some average production costs for cow-calf producers which indicated that when hay prices are at 3-1/2 cents per pound, producers would be losing about $20 per calf based on anticipated fall calf prices. It would seem highly unlikely for them to lose even more farm equity by paying too much for hay.” | [
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Costs high, Andhra healthcare model a ‘burden’
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Not only does the scheme take away about 50 per cent of the total Plan money on health in the state, it has also garnered criticism for promoting costly surgical interventions, many of them in the private sector, over primary and preventive healthcare.
From Rs 50 crore in 2007 when it started, the total expenditure incurred by the Andhra Pradesh government on the Rajiv Arogyashri Community Health Insurance Scheme (RACHIS) now stands at approximately Rs 1,400 crore annually, providing coverage to 233 of the 255 lakh BPL families in the state. This is an increase of a whopping 2700 per cent in five years. In the same period, the Plan fund for health has grown up by about 200 per cent.
A brainchild of late Andhra chief minister Y S Rajashekhara Reddy, the scheme covers surgical procedures costing up to Rs 2 lakh. It is one of the most popular schemes in the state and YSR is credited as having been one of the first politicians in the country to have understood the political potential of healthcare. However, the scheme has consistently been criticised for its emphasis on surgical care at the cost of preventive medicine.
As early as in 2009, when the scheme was just 18 months old, a study commissioned by the Andhra Health Department, done by Mala Rao of the University of East London, had faulted RACHIS for its assumption that the public sector was providing primary healthcare to the extent that it should.
"A more balanced approach that strives to prevent disease and promote health, as well as to provide safe, high-quality treatment through an integrated model encompassing primary, secondary and tertiary care, would be of greater benefit to the BPL families in AP and prove to be more cost effective for the government," it said.
Srikant Nagulapalli, CEO of the Arogyashri Trust, refuses to comment on whether the burgeoning Arogyashri bill is starting to affect primary healthcare but concedes that it indeed comprises half the total Plan expenditure for health in the state. "However, it is difficult to provide primary healthcare with the demand-side financing model of Arogyashri. That can only happen through supply-side financing, which the government is already doing. There is a debate going on about whether primary healthcare is being neglected but the process for strengthening it is already underway through other schemes like the NRHM," he says.
The state Health Department has incidentally commissioned another assessment of the scheme by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and the Academic Staff College of India, where Mala Rao is an advisor. She says one of the things she would attempt to explore in this second study would be whether Arogyashri is drawing resources away from primary healthcare.
However, she admits: "There are no equations one can apply to this. There are no standards for how much a government should spend on tertiary care. So there are no easy answers to that."
The Arogyashri model of reimbursing procedures in the private sector, which was seen to promote unnecessary surgeries, too has come under fire.
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Client (integrator): Business Engeneering Kazakhstan (Almaty, Karaganda)
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Filling, expenditure and drain data recorded by the sensors are transmitted to the monitoring system via Wi-Fi or transferred to the monitoring system by regular uploading via tracker's USB port.
Examples of fuel consumption reports before and after the implementation of the fuel consumption control system
Results of implementation of the fuel consumption control system on special equipment
Before the fuel control system was installed, about 8-10% of the fuel was stolen before it got into the tanks of machinery. After installation, this value was reduced to 0-2%. If we compare these figures in money: 15 756 814 - 1 995 589 = 13 761 231 Tng. (2,457,362 rubles)
That is, at the cost of diesel fuel 190 tng/l (34 rubles/liter), in October the fuel was drained for 5 443 975 tng (972 138 rubles).
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|2011||The Euro changeover and price adjustments in Italy||Caporale, GM; Girardi, A; Ventura, M|
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- The Beam Test Facility ( BTF ) is an area equipped for the testing of detectors and beam diagnostics through the production of electrons, positrons and photons of known energy and characteristics. The Facilty is part of the DAFNE accelerator, at the INFN National Laboratory of Frascati. The working configurations of the BTF and the characteristics of the beam strongly depend on the energy and multiplicity - that is, the number of particles per package - that we want to obtain.
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A lottery live sdy is a game of chance that gives winners a chance to win money through a random drawing. Most state governments have lotteries where participants pay a small amount of money in order to have the chance to win a larger sum of money, often millions of dollars. While financial lotteries have been criticized as addictive forms of gambling, they are a popular source of funding for a variety of public projects.
While it may seem counterintuitive, the chances of winning the lottery are based on the number of tickets sold and the odds of each individual ticket. This is why the jackpots of lottery games such as Mega Millions and Powerball are so large – the number of people playing is much greater than for smaller lottery games like state pick-3. If you want to increase your chances of winning the lottery, buy more tickets and play more frequently.
Many players choose their lottery numbers based on the birthdays of family and friends, or numbers that they consider to be lucky. While this does not always work, it can improve your chances of winning by reducing the number of potential combinations. Another way to increase your chances of winning is to pool money with friends and neighbors to purchase a large number of tickets. This can significantly increase your chances of winning, especially if you play a lottery game that has lower odds.
In addition to improving your chances of winning the lottery, purchasing more tickets will also improve the quality of your odds. By buying more tickets, you are increasing the chances that at least one of your ticket numbers will match the winning combination. Also, it is important to keep in mind that not all tickets will be sold, so even if you do not win the lottery, your chances of winning next time are still good.
The history of the lottery goes back centuries. The Old Testament cites that Moses was instructed to take a census of the Israelites and divide their land by lot, while Roman emperors used lotteries as a means of giving away slaves and property during Saturnalian feasts and other entertainment events. Lotteries were introduced to the United States by British colonists, and while some states banned them in the 1800s, most did not until after the Civil War.
The lottery is a popular form of gambling in the United States that offers a wide range of prizes, including cash and merchandise. In addition to the traditional scratch-off games, some lotteries offer video games that can be played online. The New York State Lottery is a popular choice for New York residents, offering numerous games and a wide variety of prize options. When choosing a lottery, it is important to read the rules carefully and make sure that you understand how your winnings are distributed. If you’re not comfortable with the terms and conditions, you should look for a different option. | [
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The BJP on Wednesday slammed Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his apparent comparison of alleged “Naxal activists” with NGOs and human rights activists and argued that the ruling party appreciates “dissent” but not “disintegration of the country”.
“We need to enlighten Rahul Gandhi. The most important thing in the country is its Constitution. Democratic process has a special role in it…. Dissent, not disintegration. Democracy is all about dissent. The Constitution guarantees the right of dissent and we stand by it. But not for disintegration of the land, not for disintegration of the country,” BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said.
Pointing out that former PM Manmohan Singh had called Maoist terror the gravest threat to the country, Patra said, “Today, Rahul Gandhi considers Naxals as human rights activist…. It is a matter of regret…”
BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said, “Never expected this from Rahul Gandhi. In Parliament, he said there was no hatred in his mind and he embraced the Prime Minister. (But) when some people conspired to assassinate the PM, he is backing them with his comments and tweets.” | [
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Arduino Interface Library
Just a short update, our Arduino Interface Library is finally here! You can use it to connect an OpenMV Cam to an Arduino over SoftwareSerial, HardwareSerial, SPI, I2C, and even CAN! The library includes supports for connecting your Arduino to your OpenMV Cam (or many via SPI/I2C/CAN) and also support for connecting to another Arduino (or many via SPI/I2C/CAN).
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Debate continues on legalization of marijuana issue
For pot smokers, April 20 has, for years, been a day to light up and celebrate the cannabis counterculture. Known as 4/20, the event has been something of an underground holiday.
But within just the past few years, public opinion toward the legalization of marijuana seems to have shifted around the nation, and North Carolina — including Alamance County — is no exception.
State by state, it appears America is becoming a nation that’s increasingly tolerant of the use of marijuana, and North Carolina may be on its way.
What previously may have been unfathomable — people freely smoking joints with no fear of penalty — has come to pass in Colorado and Washington, and use of the drug as a medical treatment is legal in 21 states.
In Alamance County, sentiment on the legalization of marijuana is fairly evenly split: 43 percent of residents are in favor of legalization, while 47 percent remain opposed, according to Elon University Poll results released earlier this month.
The percentage of supporters in Alamance County is slightly higher than the number statewide, which the Elon Poll found to be 39 percent.
“I think what happens in Colorado and Washington will ultimately determine how (North Carolina) changes in the long term,” said Jason Husser, assistant director of the poll. “If people see lots of crime and negative side effects associated with legalization, national headlines could turn people against it. If they don’t hear much about it, I imagine support slowly trickles up.”
BUT IN North Carolina, before attempting to legalize cannabis, the plant that’s smoked and cooked as marijuana, and turned into oil and other substances for medical use, a group of lawmakers are first tackling the passage of a medical marijuana bill.
Legislation being drafted for the 2014 short session of the General Assembly could, in theory, put a constitutional amendment regarding medical marijuana on the ballots of North Carolina voters this November, said Rep. Kelly Alexander Jr., D-Mecklenburg.
Last year, Alexander introduced two marijuana-related bills that didn’t get out of the House, but is currently working on legislation that essentially would suggest the issue be put to vote by the people this fall, he said.
“The way the rules are written, during the short session, you can only deal with constitutional issues or budgetary issues,” Alexander said. “Because of the type of bill that was introduced in the long session, the only way to get at this is through a constitutional amendment. If the measure were to pass both houses, it would then go to a vote of the people whether to modify the state constitution.”
Alexander is hopeful about the fate of the bill, saying he has seen a shift among legislators concerning the use of cannabis to treat certain ailments. Previously, many lawmakers wouldn’t discuss the possibility of legalizing any form of marijuana, but that’s hardly the case any longer.
“In the past, I think it started out with folks thinking it was a joke, more than anything else,” he said. “And then more and more states started taking it seriously. I think the thing that began to catch people’s attention was the fact that the revenue projections for Colorado for this year are somewhere in the neighborhood of $125 million in tax money.”
Alexander said the last projection he heard for tax revenue strictly from medical marijuana in North Carolina was around $40 million to $50 million.
In February 2013, an Elon poll asked North Carolinians their opinion on marijuana used for medical purposes. A vast majority — 76 percent — admitted they supported the state allowing doctors to prescribe medical marijuana for uses such as helping cancer patients.
Though the poll results indicate using the word “cancer” may have evoked more sympathy from respondents than mentioning medical marijuana alone, Alexander said based on survey results he has seen, support for the medical use of the drug is most likely between the mid-50s to 60 percent statewide.
RANDY JONES, public information officer for the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, affirmed that cannabis could treat a variety of medical issues, though based on conversations with law enforcement officers elsewhere, he believes medical marijuana laws are being abused in other states.
“I think there are a lot of legitimate medical uses for marijuana,” Jones said. “But I think it’s being so abused in places like California right now. I’ve talked to other officers, and it’s a joke. Every 25-year-old weightlifter or surfer in California has medical marijuana because his back hurts.”
Jones said he is opposed to the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, mostly because it would be difficult to identify whether a driver is impaired by the substance, and there isn’t a “medically established level of intoxication for THC,” or tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component of cannabis. The lack of research on THC would make it difficult to charge and convict | [
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The approach presented in this paper aims at combining the advances of a sophisticated document repository with a flexible access control mechanism. It proposes an authorization model for hypertext documents stored in an object-oriented database system (ODBMS). The work is based on the idea of an ODBMS working as an Internet server for hypermedia documents. The approach introduced offers fine grained storage and retrieval of HTML documents, providing document maintenance, referential integrity, document integration, integration with application objects and access control. In contrast to comparable systems it acts transparently to the WWW users, i.e. without using proprietary query languages or protocols. While achieving the full benefits of a modern document repository it keeps the ease of the traditional file system it replaces. An access control mechanism establishes the support of different views on documents. This is favoured both by the need for security and the request for role dependent information presentation.
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Since they got married, William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have been a bolster to the hospitality industry wherever they go. As California continues to struggle with budget issues, some people believe that a visit from the Royal Couple could be good for business.
The Vancouver Sun reports that following their seven-city tour of Canada, the Duke and Duchess have plans to head to Los Angeles, and the state of California is already hoping that it will be a boost to the tourism industry.
"No matter where they venture in California, the royal visit will create a global postcard for the Golden State this summer," Caroline Beteta, head of the California Travel and Tourism Commission, told the news provider. "Certainly at a time when international travel is leading the rebound in the industry, it’s a pivotal time for California to be on the world stage with a such a highly-publicized visit by the royal newlyweds."
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Method for using grounding resistance tester
The connection point between the grounding main line and the grounding body or the connection point of all the grounding branch lines on the grounding trunk is disconnected, so that the grounding body is independent from any connection and becomes an independent body.
Prepare work using ground resistance tester1) with grounding resistance measuring instrument for use, structure, performance and operation methods should be a comprehensive understanding of the instrument.2) prepare the necessary tools and all the accessories of the instrument, and wipe the instrument and the grounding probe, especially the ground probe. Make sure the surface affects the dirt and rust of the conductivity.
Use grounding resistance tester to measure step1) insert two grounding probes along the radiation direction of the grounding body into the ground of the ground body 20m and 40m respectively, and the insertion depth is 400mm, as shown in the following figure.Diagram of grounding resistance testGround resistance test using diagrams: a) actual operation b) equivalence principle2) place the grounding resistance measuring instrument horizontally near the grounding body and conduct wiring. The wiring method is as follows:Use the shortest special wire to connect the grounding body with the ground terminal of measuring instrument "E1" (three button measuring instrument) or the common end (four button measuring instrument) after short connection with C2.Using the longest special wire, the measuring probe (current probe) from the grounding body 40m is connected with the measuring button C1 of the measuring instrument.The special wire by the rest of the length of the center distance will be m, grounding measurement probe (potential probe) and measuring instrument wiring terminal "P1". | [
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Your email address will not be published. Love to connect with you Sarah as ive never met another sister with the same birthday. This page report breaks down the overall energy of Uranus in Taurus, and also highlights specific dates where we may feel its influence most intensely in our relationships. They both are in it for the long-haul. Forty years later I still love her.
As amazing as we are, dating a Scorpio isn't always easy. Sometimes if the person you're dating doesn't want to become Facebook official, it's not because they're cheating. If you are dating and falling in love with a Scorpio, chances are the following things are true. We are sensitive and guiding with one another. So we keep standing beside each other no matter what happens, and other people should to.
Since they are deep thinkers with impressive observational skills, Scorpios have a crystal clear vision of what you deserve, the kind of treatment they should give you no matter your obvious claims. Yes then Scorpios go to the depths grieving their loss. Scorpios have a knack for predicting the future and knowing what you're thinking before you open your mouth.
Now wish me luck that this wonderful, sexually and mentally so powerful relation will hold! Oh my u described me and my Scorpio man to a T! As long as she's not inviting Captain Howdy over via a Ouija board, just let her be. Scorpio and Scorpio have this tendency to bring out the worst in each other.
We were both involved in other relationships. Not only will they be super-helpful in whatever you need, they also will withhold judgment and keep their mouths shut about it. If they both decide to break down their tough walls and trust each other with their deep, dark secrets, their link will strengthen and deepen even more. Scorpio woman - information and insights on the Scorpio woman.
- This is something that we have felt within ourselves, and it will now manifest outwardly.
- Any one who comes in your life will teach you something till you reach the maturity and wisdom Enjoy life.
- He is very sexually powered, but somehow Im not?
- We have dated about a month and a half now with sex added.
He is so loving selfless and kind. When emotional baggage is not a part of their everyday communication, the depth both of their minds have will be an incredible stimulus for each conversation they have. We have been through our ups and downs, but what couple hasent?
Kris & Bruce Jenner
Being away literally feels unnatural. After proposing marriage and getting me pregnant he cheated on me and left me three months pregnant. And we generally get along very well, we both have the steamiest time together and he does simple things that turn me on too that not just anyone can do. Last one i got heart attack. They were living the evolved Scorpio life.
Nick Lachey & Vanessa Minnillo
We respect eachother and are equal partners and each persons feelings and opinions are taken into consideration. Now, you can celebrate that with a kindred spirit! What can you tell me about us? After all, a look into her eyes clears up a lot of the spite in her words, often her radical words and her feelings are quiet different!
- But I want to care, I want to get jealous over him.
- We sound needy but we also have such independence with work and work so hard.
- These sleepless nights did not stop over the last months.
- Mating with someone from the same element offers the comfort of familiarity.
- They will challenge, push, and pressure one another to be the best they possibly can.
We bring a lot of stubborn emotion into play time and arguments. Do you like to take charge and have a plan, or do you prefer to go with the flow? We lost connection but recently reconnected. They do value similar things, but they are not entirely rational or realistic in their choices. No one can understand a Scorpio intellectually as much as another Scorpio.
We met others and married. This is a relationship that will stand out for the rest. Each one plays an important role in the greater whole of humankind. Im a scorpio woman dated a Scorp guy for two years I now understand why a Scorp man should mate for life Once hurt they just N.
Although water can be placid and beautiful, it can actually do great damage. He is polar opposite of my X. There has been times when ive forced myself to give up, and open but just as sure as I wake up she crosses my mind. Could you please tell what is our situation in the chart.
Our birthdays are six days and one year apart. They will fight to make up, manipulate obviously to make each other angry, and do things out of spite. | [
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Carson Optical Telescopes can be used for both astronomical or terrestrial observation. Whether you want to see galaxies and nebula, or see what's on the next mountaintop, Carson Telescopes give you a powerful and affordable way to do it. Carson makes several models of reflector telescopes, all of which are perfect for the beginning observer or the budding scientist. Carson Telescopes are known for their quality and rugged construction, as well as their bright and clear images. Carson specializes in beginner and entry-level telescopes, great for people of all ages and interests. Each Carson Telescope has a stylish design for a truly innovative telescope at an affordable price. | [
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Started by Gabriel Lang of Altruiste bikes, who was once the production manager at legendary east coast brand Dobermann Bikes.
Mtbr: Who are you and what do you do?
Gabo: I’m Gabriel Lang. They call me Gabo in this industry! I own and run the Altruiste bicycle company in Notre-Dame, New-Brunswick, Canada. Every morning I wake up and try to build the best bicycle frames I can.
Mtbr: If you had to describe your brand in seven words or less, what would they be?
Gabo: Purpose-driven, honest, accessible, uncompromising, trend-setting. And sexy.
Mtbr: How does being located in New Brunswick influence your bike design?
Gabo: It allows me to be creative without being influenced by the criteria and standards of a more bike-dense area of the world. I’m free to develop my frame-building style.
Also. This is where I grew up. There is a way of life here, a certain beat, that permeates the Acadian culture. You can feel it in our art and our music as well as our work ethic, and I think that shows in my product. I try to build efficient and clean frames that are first and foremost very fun to ride. | [
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Mercerising is essential for high-quality pre-treatment at various stages. Post Bleaching, scouring or desizing; each of those ways has its own merits. The fabric is held under tension by a series of rollers in contact with each other in the primary immersion/Impregnation tank. The fabric enters in a very absorbent state.
There are two rows of strong rollers of which the Top rollers are coated with rubber and bottom rollers are Flexinip buoyant bearing-less rollers. These rollers, one above other, allows the fabric to run alternatively ultimately carried by the top row of rollers which run on ball bearings.
Stainless steel buoyant drums allow full immersion of fabric with 100% impregnation of caustic. This favours uniform liquor wedge across the fabric width.
The fabric then runs through a squeezing mangle at a pressure of about 5 to 8 tons assuring impregnation & the excess caustic to recover.
The fabric then passes through a stabiliser containing a similar set of rollers which allows washing under controlled tension.
A further mangling is done before the fabric passes through four or five recuperators or washing compartments. Steaming reduces the amount of alkali in the fabric to minute proportions.
In the final compartment, the spray pipes running across the width of the fabric maximises the cold wash which removes the residual alkali content making the fabric Neutral.
Consumption of dyestuff can be reduced up to 30%, levelness in dyeing is improved, and higher brilliance is achieved. Lustre is enhanced with an increase in strength and dimension stability.
Superimposing fabrics or running them side by side can increase the rate of Production.
Bearing-less Buoyant Drums.
Stainless steel buoyant bottom drums allow full immersion of fabric providing 100% Impregnation of caustic which favours uniform liquor wedge across full fabric width.
Top Rubber Rolls
Top Rubber Rolls are mounted on a master seal bearing. This allows the Flexinip to maintain uniform pressure throughout the cross-section.
Vertical Thrust of Buoyant Drums.
Vertical Thrust pertains 50% more soaking and squeezing in the impregnation and Stabiliser tank resulting in excellent silky lustre.
Recuperators and Washing
Stainless steel close body washing recuperators provided with s.s guide rolls allows creaseless movement of Cloth. Countercurrent system, spray and pneumatic nip expedite the removal of excess caustic ensuring no centre selvedge variation for after-treatment.
Post Impregnation and Stabilisation, the heavy duty Anti-deflection squeezing mangle improves the expression and evens the Squeezing throughout the cross-section and avoids centre selvedge due to Mercerise.
Enclosed heated Stabiliser
Enclosed heated stabiliser conserves heat, attains high temperature, and forced spray on fabric layer along with heavy squeezing under controlled tension rapidly reduces caustic lye. This provides the fabric with minimum width shrinkage, excellent stabilisation, and tensile strength.
The machine is designed to optimise the interchangeability of components like bearings, rubber/ebonite, s.s Rolls, pneumatics, motors etc.
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A new frequency-domain channel estimation and equalization (FDE) scheme is proposed for single carrier (SC) underwater acoustic communications. The proposed SC-FDE employs a small training signal block for initial channel estimation in the frequency domain and converts the estimated transfer function to a desired DFT (discrete Fourier transform) size for channel equalization of the data blocks. The frequency domain equalizer is designed using the linear minimum mean square error criterion. A new phase coherent detection scheme is also proposed and deployed to combat the phase drift due to the instantaneous Doppler in the underwater channels. The channel transfer functions and group-averaged phase drift are re-estimated adaptively in a decision-directed manner for each data block in a packet, which contains M blocks of QPSK data. The proposed SC-FDE method is applied to single input multiple output (SIMO) systems using the experimental data measured off the coast of Panama City, Florida, USA, June 2007. The uncoded bit error rate of the SIMO systems varies between 1.3% to 6.8 x 10^-5 when 4 ~ 8 receive hydrophones are utilized, and the source-receiver range is 5.06 km.
Y. R. Zheng et al., "Frequency-Domain Channel Estimation and Equalization for Single Carrier Underwater Acoustic Communications," Proceedings of Oceans 2007, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Jan 2007.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2007.4449247
Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
United States. Office of Naval Research
Keywords and Phrases
Channel Estimation; Discrete Fourier Transforms; Equalisers; Hydrophones; Underwater Acoustic Communication
Article - Conference proceedings
© 2007 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
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Research Article | Open Access
Wan Nasarudin Wan Jalal, Huda Abdullah, Mohd Syafiq Zulfakar, "Effect of Zn Site for Ca Substitution on Optical and Microwave Dielectric Properties of ZnAl2O4 Thin Films by Sol Gel Method", Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 2014, Article ID 619024, 8 pages, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/619024
Effect of Zn Site for Ca Substitution on Optical and Microwave Dielectric Properties of ZnAl2O4 Thin Films by Sol Gel Method
( = 0.00, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25, and 0.30) thin films were prepared by a sol gel method. The XRD patterns displayed the characteristic peaks of (Ca/Zn)Al2O4 with the standard pattern of face-centred cubic (fcc). The addition of Ca decreased the lattice constant from 14.6 nm to 23.2 nm. The optical bandgap of undoped thin film was found to be at 3.84 eV while for doped Ca was observed at 3.50 to 3.73 eV. The substitution of Zn2+ by Ca2+ in ZnAl2O4 thin films was found to increase the crystallite size, grain size, and surface morphology which evidently affect the density and dielectric constant. The thin films were characterized at 20 to 1 MHZ frequency to determine the dielectric constant and unloaded quality factor using LCR spectrometer. It can be observed that specimen using Ca0.25Zn0.75Al2O4 possesses and which is suggested as a candidate material for millimetre-wave applications. Therefore, this ceramic is suggested as a candidate material for GPS patch antennas.
Microwave dielectric ceramics play important roles in the global telecommunications industry with varieties of applications that have been developed. The microwave dielectric ceramic is widely used for applications that operate in the range of microwave band frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz [1, 2] such as wireless fax, cellular phones, global position satellite (GPS), military radar systems, intelligent transport system (ITS), and direct broadcast satellites. Nowadays, these applications have been operating in the range of millimeter wave due to miniaturization of devices especially as a patch antenna for GPS applications. The miniaturization of GPS patch antennas has become a primary issue in these few years.
Many researchers have tried to study the dielectric properties of ZnAl2O4 ceramics such as Wang et al., Surendran et al., Wu et al., and Lei et al. [6–9]. They have found that the ZnAl2O4-based microwave dielectric ceramics have a very extensive prospect research for millimetre-wave applications and GPS antenna in the future with various dielectric properties. The values of the ZnAl2O4 were found in the range of 8.3 to 9.01, while their unloaded quality factor () for ZnAl2O4 was around 4,590. These ceramics were prepared by conventional solid state and aqueous gel casting methods, which involved the high sintering temperature (above 1400°C). The sintering temperature above 1400°C cannot satisfy the requirements for the preparation of modern functional ceramics. Thus, the alternative method should be selected in these exploratory studies due to the fact that ZnAl2O4 has a large number of material types and phase compositions. Moreover, the preparation of ZnAl2O4 ceramic products typically involves heating processes of raw powders material which must undergo special handling in order to control purity, particle size, particle size distribution, and heterogeneity. These factors play important roles in the properties of the finished ZnAl2O4-based microwave dielectric ceramic.
Recently, there are many methods to prepare microwave dielectric ceramics such as solid state mixing reaction of zinc and aluminium oxides [11, 12], coprecipitation, hydrothermal [14, 15], microwave hydrothermal, combustion, and sol gel methods [18, 19]. Among the various methods, the sol gel method is a useful and attractive technique for the preparation of the ZnAl2O4 nanostructure because it offers the advantages of good stoichiometric control and is high homogeneity, producing pure and ultrafine powders and is able to produce thin films at low temperature processing (<900°C) [20, 21]. Furthermore, sol gel is being employed increasingly for the low cost fabrication of ordered high specification materials since its structural and morphological characteristics may be tuned in order to tailor the electrical properties of the material. Therefore, the sol gel method was selected in these exploratory studies of new ZnAl2O4 due to having a large number of material types and phase compositions.
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While motor oil is used in many different kinds of engines, we usually consider using it in our automobiles. Whether you change your oil at a dealership, in specialty business, or in your own garage, you will need to determine what kind is best for your car. It can make a big difference in how long your car's engine will last.
Consult your owner's manual for the recommended viscosity (5W-20, 5W-30, 10W-20, etc.). You may also intend to speak with a professional about the most effective choice for your vehicle, given your driving habits and the typical operating conditions for the area. Next, you'll have to decide the type of motor oil you would like in your car.
Conventional: This type is used usually by dealerships and service companies. It is also the least costly. Most don't have many other additives that may benefit your engine. If you are diligent about keeping your oil changed, about every three months or 3,000 miles, this kind should be fine.
This type is more expensive than conventional, and not all engines need it. Refer to your owner's guide, and if it doesn't recommend this type, it may just be an additional cost that doesn't add that much value to your engine.
Synthetic Blend: As the name suggests, this type is actually a blend of conventional and synthetic. It is designed to give the engine better protection during heavier loads and higher temperatures. It is frequently used in trucks and SUV's. Even though there is the synthetic component, it does not cost much more than premium conventional types.
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I’ll admit, it’s a bit weird seeing the word “autistic” next to the word “cat.”
Similar to schizophrenia, some cats seem to exhibit behaviours that are very similar to this developmental disorder, but does that mean that cats are actually autistic?
Today I’m going to cover the reasons why folks seem to believe that some cats exhibit autistic behaviours and whether or not licenced vets agree with these claims.
WHAT DOES AUTISM REALLY MEAN?
According to dictionary.com the meaning of autism is as follows:
A pervasive developmental disorder of children, characterized by impaired communication, excessive rigidity, and emotional detachment: now considered one of the autism spectrum disorders.
SO WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH CATS?
Well, there are actually a number of similarities in the way that some cats interact with humans and each other that suggests that they are autistic.
Even in the definition of autism, some things stick out to me, such as excessive rigidity and emotional detachment.
These are two behaviours or traits that the majority of cats get lumped in to, especially for cats who run away from their owners whenever they try to get cuddles or some lap time.
The following is a breakdown of some of the behaviours some autistic folk exhibit that are similar to the ways cats behave.
Due to the fact that autism is an extremely nuanced developmental disorder, the following list is going to be fairly general and is not going to be fully accurate to an individual’s experience with autism.
COLD BEHAVIOUR OR LACK OF COMMUNICATION
Sometimes folks who have autism may be perceived as having “cold behaviour,” being antisocial or may be perceived as being disinterested in communicating with others.
Now, this may sound very similar to many cats, especially cats who are more independent and don’t require extra attention.
If you have a cat like this, it’s important to know that this behaviour has nothing to do with you, but has to do with the overall temperament of your cat.
That being said, it is believed that the amount of exposure to social interactions (also known as socialization) plays a very big part in the development of a cat’s temperament, especially if they are not an adult yet.
Due to the fact that cats can be conditioned, it is believed that all cats have the ability to be cuddly or will desire human interaction. However, as the saying goes, “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” it may be more difficult to get your cat to become cuddly when they’ve passed the threshold of being an adult, especially because by then they will already have a decently concrete temperament.
Now, that isn’t to say that there is absolutely no chance that your cat is going to become cuddly after they’ve become an adult, but it will be more difficult.
As much as cold behaviour and being ignored are two very unattractive behaviours that cats can have towards their owners, they are not behaviours that are considered unhealthy or inappropriate for cats.
It is important to allow your cat to do what they need to do, and perhaps over time they will continue to warm up to you.
Kalista, our youngest, wasn’t the fondest of me when we first adopted her, because I’m someone who is immediately ready to cuddle cats and play with them.
Kalista would ignore me and would spend lots of time with my partner, so I completely ignored her… and guess who’s her favourite now? Me!
Well, I guess it helps that now she wants lots of belly rubs and head scratches from us! Though Kalista is much warmer than she was when she was younger, she is still much more independent than Beau is.
You can pick Beau up at any time and pet him and he’ll be happy. Kalista will squirm her way out of being held every opportunity she can get.
EXCESSIVE MEOWING OR LACK OF VOCALIZATIONS
Many folks who are autistic have a difficult time or are unable to communicate with many other individuals, especially strangers.
On the flip side, many autistic individuals have an extremely easy time sharing or talking to one individual with little to no problems.
Cats have been known to exhibit similar behaviours, becoming overly chatty with one of their owners and avoiding individuals who are new to them or that they dislike.
The main difference is, the majority of cats will warm up to their owners or strangers, especially if they are properly socialized.
Not only that, but meowing, chirping, purring and other forms of vocalizations are not the only forms of communication cats use to talk to their owners.
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Porcelain bowl. The bowl has a fine white body and celadon glaze. There are separated blossoming and fruiting branches in transparent 'famille verte' palette enamels and gold on the exterior.
- Made in: Jingdezhen
- (Asia,China,Jiangxi (province),Jingdezhen)
- Height: 61 millimetres
- Diameter: 120 millimetres
Inscription TransliterationDa Ming nian zhi
Inscription TranslationMade in the Great Ming dynasty
Inscription CommentFour-character inscription in underglaze blue on the base
Published PDF date : Qing 18th-19thCRoom 95 label text:
Celadon bowl with fruiting branches
Early Qing enamels fire as thin, translucent watercolour-like colours, dominated by green, black, aubergine, red and yellow pigments. Black (made from manganese and cobalt) and iron-pigmented red were used for outlining as they were more opaque than the other colours. Albert Jacquemart (AD 1808–1875) coined the term famille verte in his Histoire de la céramique published in 1873, to describe this palette dominated by shades of green. There is a four-character inscription reading 大明年製 (Da Ming nian zhi 'Made in the Ming dynasty') in underglaze blue on the base.
Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue mark, celadon glaze, and overglaze enamels
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
Qing dynasty about, AD 1700–1800
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My podcast has a very clear subject: what I think about just about everything hahaha. Below is a brief history of my personal philosophical mind set and what lead me to the name of my podcast.
My Econ class with May Akabogu-Collins was the best philosophy class I have taken. She was so interesting to me. Her explanation of the concept of Opportunity Cost changed my life. No philosophy class or explanation of Economics or Opportunity Cost before her's had any impact on me. But with her thick Nigerian accent and sharp mind, she sparked something in me that sent me exploring the subject for the next 4 years of my life, and the path my life would take. [see Economics]
My own personal brand of philosophy is made up of the experiences, knowledge, and pondering inspired by a number of very important people in my life. And of course StarTrek, which let’s be honest taught me everything I need to know. I watched a great episode of StarTrek TNG: "Ship in a Bottle" in which one of the characters, Beverly Crusher, becomes trapped in a warp bubble. The bubble is collapsing and this means that she would stop existing as things could only exist inside the bubble she was in. As it collapsed even the parts of the ship which would be outside the bubble seised to exist. Trying to understand what was happening to her she says "Here's a question you shouldn't be able to answer. Computer, what is the nature of the universe?" The computer replied "The universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter." This was so profound to me. Amazing to think of a scenario where the nature of the universe was completely explainable and limited.
StarTrek really did give me a lot to think about. But my greatest influences were mostly a few great teachers, a handful of insightful professors, and some key family members. Oh! and two complete strangers: Father Ulman and Henry David Thoreau.
While Economics was a huge influence on me as an adult, my philosophical path was set when I was just a kid. I was raised catholic, and did a lot of listening to sermons growing up. None really mattered much to me. My unreligious grandfather had taught me early on that religious rules all just fall under one overarching rule: don't hurt other people. He said to the extent possible, follow that one rule and you would get into whatever heaven there maybe without much trouble. I agreed and believed it, so church seemed very patronizing and repetitive.
One day there was a sermon that I did find interesting. It wasn't about how great god and jesus were, or how most of the enjoyable things in life are sins, or what hates about us. As a kid no one would tell you much about death other than that we are all going to die someday. But today Ulman was talking about death and so he had my full attention. He said "You know not the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." He was referring to a quote about the return of jesus to judge us... but he didn't focus on that. Instead he went on later to repeat the quote as "you know not the day nor the hour of the time of your death." This time he was paraphrasing the quote he had previously made from Mathew, and I was smacked into realization that the truly critical thing to know about death wasn't that you were going to die but that you didn't know the timing.
Ulman's interpretation of that quote blew my mind wide open. Maybe he knew that the powerful thought there was not that we didn't know when our time would come for judgement but that we didn't know when our actionable life would end. That either way, we would have no more time to think, no more time to speak, to build, to protect, to love. It was pencils down. As a kid swinging my feet in a pew, hearing this and really understanding it when I was still so young seems remarkable and lucky now. This singular event changed me right there; an instant transformation. I didn't cry in the shower anymore thinking about my parent's or grandparent's future deaths after that sermon. I became and continue to become more and more concerned with right now.
I was forced to read Walden in school. Getting kids to read the work of an American philosopher was a good idea I guess. Considering there really aren't many others choose from, you end up with Thoreau, Jefferson, or Emerson. Walden is a dumb book about the forest and it is mostly a bunch of old-time sounding talk about working as a farmer and stuff. It is so boring and irrelevant. Or so I thought when I was a teenager. I rediscovered this book in my 30s. WOW! How had I missed the most self assuring and commiserating written work I would ever read. Reading this book opened my | [
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Liquid-liquid phase flow in pipes merits further investigation as a challenging issue that has very rich physics and is faced in everyday applications. It is the main problem challenging the fluid flow mechanism in the oil and gas industry. The pressure gradient of liquid flow and flow pattern are still the topics of numerous research projects. In this paper, the emphasis is on further investigation to research the flow pattern, water holdup (HW), and pressure decrease for vertical, horizontal, and inclined flow directions of oil and water flows. Test section lines of 4.19-in. (106.426 mm) inner diameter (ID) and 5-m horizontal, 5-m inclined, and 5-m vertical test sections were serially connected. The experiments were conducted at 40°C using 2-cp viscosity oil and tap water, and oil density of 850 kg/m3, at the standard conditions. Fifty experiments were executed at 250 kPa at the multiphase flow test facility, with horizontal, upward (0.6° and 4°), downward (-0.6° and -4°) hilly terrain and vertical pipes. The oil and water superficial velocities were changed between 0.03 and 2 m/s. This evidence was obtained using video recordings; the flow patterns were observed, and the selection of each flow pattern was depicted for each condition. For horizontal and inclined flow, new flow patterns were documented (e.g., oil transfer in a line forms at the top of the pipeline, typically at high water rate, and water transfer at the lower part of the pipe at a high oil rate). The data were taken at each flow condition, resulting in new holdup and pressure drop. The results show that the flow rate and the pipe inclination angle have major impacts on the holdup and pressure drop performances. In the vertical flow, a clear peak was demonstrated by experiments after the superficial oil velocity reached a certain value. This peak is known as phase inversion point, where after this peak, the pressure starts declining as the superficial oil velocity increases. Also, slippage has been observed after varying inlet oil flow rates between the two phases. The experiments showed that with minor alteration in the inclination angle, the slippage was significantly changed. This study presented new experimental results (measured mainly at horizontal, inclined, and vertical flow conditions) of HW, flow pattern, and pressure drop. These findings are key evidence of the evolving oil-water and flowline estimate models.
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Across Germany's Solar Valley and beyond, the story is the same, despite the subsidies and the continuing rhetoric from Berlin about the threat from global warming. Workers are struggling with lower pay and are being hit not just by a global recession but by a crisis in an industry whose potential was once considered almost limitless.
The US and China have begun to outstrip Europe in renewable energy, both generation and manufacturing. Last year, the US overtook Germany to become the country producing the most wind energy. China added more wind capacity than any country but the US. China also overtook Japan as the biggest manufacturer of photovoltaic components.
Full story from the Financial Times.
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Alonso regretted lost Porsche Le Mans chance "for a long time"
Fernando Alonso admits he regretted losing the chance to race for Porsche in the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2015 "for a long time" after Nico Hulkenberg won the race.
Speaking to selected media during his debut FIA World Endurance Championship race weekend at Spa, Toyota driver Alonso discussed how he first became interested in sportscar racing and Le Mans.
He had agreed a deal to join the Porsche LMP1 team for the French endurance classic in 2015, one year after serving as the race's starter in 2014, but then-McLaren Formula 1 engine supplier Honda is believed to have blocked the move at the eleventh hour.
Fellow F1 driver Hulkenberg ended up taking the vacant seat in Porsche's third-string 919 Hybrid alongside Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber, and took outright victory at the first time of asking.
Asked when it was he decided he wanted to race at Le Mans, Alonso replied: "I think it was 2012 or 2013. I was always interested in the race. One of my best friends Antonio Garcia raced a Corvette for many years and won Le Mans [in the GT1/GTE Pro class] a couple of times.
"He was telling me how special Le Mans was, so I was following the race from that time, and then even more closely in 2012, 2013. I was thinking I would like to do one time the race in LMP1.
"In 2015 I was so, so close to racing. I regret it for a long time, because Nico took the place, and not only the place - he took the trophy!
"In 2016 I tried again, in 2017 I gave up a little bit because we [McLaren] were in a different situation [in F1]. For 2018 I made sure that it was a possibility."
Alonso has driven the famous Circuit de la Sarthe in both the Automobile Club de l'Ouest simulator - mandatory for Le Mans rookies - and Toyota's Cologne facility since joining the Japanese marque for the full 2018/19 WEC superseason, which includes two editions of the 24 Hours.
"The Porsche [Curves] are the more demanding corners," the Spaniard said when asked to name his favourite part of the Le Mans track.
"Indianapolis area, I like that in the simulator so in the real car it will feel even better. Probably those are the two things every time you pass there, you feel adrenaline. Hopefully it’s the same in the real car."
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This easy to use software allows data from a Norbar torque measuring instrument to be down loaded onto a PC and formatted as a torque calibration certificate.
To access available Norbar torque software, please click here.
Norbar has devised easy-to-use online calculators that support the correct application of torque in three key areas:
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The announcement was made at the Fifth International Conference on Solid State Lighting in San Diego, CA, part of the SPIE Symposia and Exhibition.
The Ewing, NJ company's record-breaking white OLED performance is based on a novel panel design that consists of an array of red, green and blue colored stripes. Adjusting the intensity of each primary color generates infinite shades of white color, typically characterized by color temperature and color rendering index (CRI).
Power efficiencies of this 6 x 6-inch prototype panel were measured at color temperatures between 2900 and 5700 K. The record 30 lm/W white OLED power efficiency was achieved at a color temperature of 4000 K; these figures are comparable to a cool fluorescent lamp. By comparison, typical incandescent light bulbs emit light at around 15-20 lm/W with a color temperature of 2900 K.
The 6 x 6" panel can also operate very brightly, and has produced 150 lumens of optical power at an efficiency of 15 lm/W and 3,700 K color temperature. In addition, the CRI was greater than 80 across the measured color temperatures because of the broad spectral output formed by combining the constituent red, green and blue stripes.
Increasing the efficiency of lighting by a small amount has the potential to generate tremendous savings in both cost and energy use. Universal Display says that the development of this white-emitting OLED lighting panel is an important step in this direction.
These results were reported in a paper entitled "Phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices for solid-state lighting," presented Brian D'Andrade, Senior Scientist at Universal Display. This work was partially funded by a US Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant.
"By harnessing the efficient nature of our proprietary phosphorescent OLED technology in a novel device architecture, we have been able to demonstrate record-breaking power efficiencies in white OLED devices," stated Steven Abramson, president and COO of Universal Display. "This advance is an important milestone toward the future adoption of white OLEDs for lighting applications such as those envisioned under our DOE research contracts." | [
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Generally the future of the ocean and its inhabitants, due to the climate crisis, doesn’t give us reason for optimism. But there seems to be hope for some cephalopod species to thrive.
The data collected by the seals brings ‘The Blob’—a warm-water heat wave in the Pacific from late 2013-2015—was deeper and much more extensive than previously reported. This deep warming lingered into 2017, well after surface temperatures had returned to normal.
“The elephant seals collect data in different locations than existing oceanographic platforms,” explained senior author Christopher Edwards, a professor of ocean sciences at UC Santa Cruz. “This is an underutilized dataset that can inform us about important oceanographic processes, as well as helping biologists understand the ecology of northern elephant seals.”
Octopuses have a relatively big brain just like other smart animals. But their highly complex nervous system evolved independently from vertebrates. Surprisingly, most of the neurons that do the computing for the brain are in the octopus’s arms. And that means they may have essentially nine brains, not one.
Scientists think it’s their long evolutionary history that explains their smarts. Cephalopods have been on earth for around 520 million years ago; the oldest known octopus fossil is about 330 million years old.
Investigations into the brains of octopuses found that they contain high levels of regulatory RNA molecules (microRNA), which could have helped them develop lots of different neurons and greater neuronal complexity. The scientists say“…the brains of cephalopods evolved greater complexity in the same way as vertebrate brains did – by using a lot more regulatory RNAs to control gene activity.”
Listen to a Podcast about octopus intelligence with author Sy Montgomery.
Love octopuses? OctoNation, the world’s largest octopus fan club may be the place for you.
In the April of 2022 the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) opened a new deep sea exhibit called Into the Deep: Exploring Our Undiscovered Ocean. “From football-sized giant isopods to transparent jellies that glow, the deep sea is brimming with life. Meet the mysterious and wonderful animals that thrive in the dark, cold — and mostly unexplored — world of the deep sea.”
GOOD NEWS! Scientists discovered a new coral reef that’s in pristine condition.
The reef, off Tahiti, appears to be untouched by climate change. The reef sprawls approximately two miles and 30 meters (about 100 feet) to 65 meters in depth. This is deeper than the coral reefs we’re most familiar with, which include the Great Barrier Reef. At this depth the symbiotic algae living within the coral tissue can still thrive with less light than found at the surface.
See how the shape of the corals resemble rose petals? Scientists say the ’floral shape petals’ provide the coral more surface area and so they receive more light. It’s a clever way to work-around the warming shallow ocean due to climate change.
What happens when top predators, Great White Sharks and Orcas, meet?
Dr. Sal Jorgensen and his colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium have tagged great white sharks in the Central Coast of California for many years. They analyze long-term data from tagged sharks, observe shark predatory behaviors, and killer whale occurrences at Southeast Farallon Islands. Using that data, they have clarified the frequency and consequences of interactions between white sharks and killer whales.
The baleen whales, like humpback, blue and fin, consume huge quantities of food. And when they poop, they cycle massive amounts of nutrients back into the ecosystem.
A new study found that the large whales eat and poop far more than previously thought: they consume approximately triple the amount of food previously estimated. Scientists have seriously underestimated the role large whales play in ocean health.
Flatworms are some of the most colorful marine creatures. Their spectacular colors and patterns can be eye popping. Scuba divers and tide-poolers love to take pictures of them for good reason; they are dazzling.
These ferocious predators are found in all habitats, feeding on tunicates, small crustaceans, worms, and molluscs. Some species have coloration that mimics other animals or acts like camouflage. But most are very colorful and easy to see. This is an example of warning coloration (called aposematism), advertising that the flatworms are poisonous to eat. Some species contain tetrodotoxin: the same poison found in a number of other poisonous creatures, including puffer fish, some species of frogs and the blue-ringed octopus.
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In news that isn't so shocking, Justin Bieber has officially pulled a Kanye, creating a line of merchandise for his upcoming Purpose tour that will likely have Yeezy-wearing fuccbois and Supreme cult-followers camping out for days. On Wednesday, the singer's camp gave Complex an exclusive sneak peek of the hoodies, long-sleeved tees, and crewneck sweatshirts (among many other streetwear items) that will be sold both online (though the reported website is currently not active) and at concert stops along the way. "We wanted to obviously continue to communicate to JB's core fan base, but also appeal to his new followers," an unnamed source told Complex. "We wanted to make something they would wear, and stuff [Justin] would wear, too. We believe JB's story of redemption and purpose is bigger than what's happening currently in culture, and we wanted to create something that would complement his message." If you think the offerings look oddly familiar, you're not wrong. Keeping in tune with Bieber's sartorial aesthetic, the goods resemble the now insanely popular French label Vetements, with its oversized silhouettes, text-printed sleeves, and Thrasher-esque fonts. In fact, the black sweatshirt that reads "World Tour" in red-pink lettering looks particular similar to...
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All guesses aside, there's no doubt that these goods are going to end up on eBay with a 10-times-the-price markup, not unlike West's Yeezus tour merchandise, which pretty much sold out and doubled in price online overnight. So if you're a high-fashion Belieber (or just a hardcore fan), we recommend refreshing the merch site all day long, since there's no word on when these fresh-off-the-runway-style goods will officially drop. Leave it to Bieber to have us on our toes, all for a damn black hoodie. | [
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With the emphasis being more on SUV’s than any other model, the news of the imminent release of 2019 Kia Cadenza, a luxury sedan is welcome news indeed. Granted that the sales for sedans have been flat-lining of late, in the US markets but hopefully, Kia would set it on its head. The moment we heard the news, we started hunting for any information that we could find on the new model – from leaked images to interviews and we can tell you that the images hardly do justice to the all-new Kia. But we did get enough to prep this review, so let’s take a closer look at the new Kia Cadenza and see what makes it tick.
The 2019 Kia Cadenza is all set to roll out soon, but let’s get one thing cleared first – it seems that the new model will not be a completely redesigned variant but will carry the same design as last year with more than a few cosmetic changes. From what we could make out and thanks to the leaked images, the new model will come loaded with more than few changes to the exterior as well as the interior, with the emphasis being on luxury and comfort.
Exterior, under the hood:
The 2019 Kia Cadenza comes with more than a few changes to the exterior; it comes with a refurbished front fascia, with the tight grille now extending to the headlights. The new model comes with restyled LED headlights as well as LED daytime running lights, sizeable front flares as well as well contoured side panels. It looks a lot slimmer and why not, it certainly stands out for all the right reasons. It carries the same trims as last year with the higher trims getting a more enhanced grille with chrome accents.
The rear end gets the same treatment as the front, with re-styled LED tail lights with Z shape accents. On the whole, the design is a lot more aerodynamic than before and better yet, it comes with the enhanced suspension which should provide you with a smooth ride sans any bumps. The wheelbase is larger which translates to more space on the interior as well as the cargo area. On the whole, the overall design is appealing and with the addition of more colors, you should be able to get one as per your preference.
The 2019 Kia Cadenza’s interior does get a small makeover of sorts with the interior featuring plush leather seats, plush leather upholstery, cloth fabric for the seats, heated/ cooled adjustable driver’s seat, power steering, power windows, and much more. The dash is the same as last year but still looks quite good. The car also comes with easy access keyless entry with touch button, along with a panoramic sunroof to add to the effect.
It also comes with the rear camera, well-ventilated seats with enough leg and headroom as well as 8-inch touchscreen infotainment system with navigation. The car also features rain-sensing wipers along with advanced safety features such as stability control, semi-autonomous self-driving tech along with emergency braking, radar cruise control and much more.
Engine Detail, launch date, Price:
The 2019 Kia Cadenza comes with all-wheel drive, as well as 3.3-liter twin-turbo V6, 8-speed automatic that cranks out 365 HP and 376 lb-ft of torque. The car certainly packs a lot of power and comes with the required dampers so you should be able to enjoy a quiet comfortable ride for all intents and purposes. The new model is all set to be launched by the end of this year and it is expected that the pricing would range around $55000. | [
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What is better stranded wire or solid?
In general, solid cables are better electrical conductors and provide superior, stable electrical characteristics over a wider range of frequencies. They are also considered more rugged and less likely affected by vibration or susceptible to corrosion since they have less surface area than stranded conductors.
What does stranded mean in wire?
What is Stranded Wire? These thin, bundled wires are compressed and insulated with non-conductive materials. Stranded wire is more flexible, making it ideal for connecting electronic components in cramped spaces or for twisting and bending to fit intricate geometries.
What is the difference between solid wire and stranded?
The physical differences between the two wires are straight forward enough: a solid wire consists of a solid metal core while stranded wires are made of a quantity of thinner wires that are twisted together into an organized bundle.
Does stranded wire have higher resistance?
Stranded wire will have higher resistance than solid wire of the same diameter because the cross-section of the stranded wire is not all copper.
Can you use stranded wire on a breaker?
When installing a circuit breaker to protect a circuit, many installation factors must be considered. One of these decisions is to choose the best suited means of connecting the circuit breaker to the load. For molded-case circuit breakers, the most common connection means are solid and stranded wire conductors.
Can you mix stranded and solid wire?
It is possible to mix a solid and a stranded wire but that does not necessarily mean that you should do it. Connecting a solid copper wire to a stranded wire is a relatively complex process. There is a significant chance that something may go wrong.
Can stranded wire be used for ground?
The grounding conductor can be bare or insulated, stranded or solid, and must be securely fastened in place and run in a straight line from the discharge unit to the grounding electrode (Photo 2).
Can you use stranded wire for water heater?
Use only 600 volt solid copper wire. Do not use stranded wire or extension cord. Do not use solder anywhere on residential 120-240 volt wiring.
Can you connect stranded wire to a breaker?
Can you use push in connectors with stranded wire?
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Kyiv is accusing Russia of deliberately targeting nuclear facilities after shells hit a nuclear plant in southern Ukraine. But Moscow denies the attack, saying Ukrainian forces were responsible.
The Zaporizhzhia facility is the largest in Europe. Ukraine says the shelling damaged radiation sensors and hurt a worker. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned any attack on the nuclear site is ‘suicidal.’ He was speaking in the Japanese city of Hiroshima after marking the 77th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack. Guterres called for international inspectors to be allowed to inspect the site.
Meanwhile, Russia’s plans to hold referendums in the Ukrainian territories it now occupies have drawn ire from Kyiv, where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been adamant that Ukraine will not cede any of its territories to Russia.
And the first shipment of grain to leave Ukraine has yet to arrive at its destination of Lebanon. | [
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Characteristics and Behavior:
The Atlantic spadefish is a striking, laterally compressed, and disc-shaped fish with a deep, rounded body. It features a distinctive black-and-white pattern, with alternating vertical bars along its body and a black spot at the base of the tail. Atlantic spadefish are known for their schooling behavior, often seen in groups of various sizes across habitat types and depths.
- Atlantic Spadefish inhabit the warm waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, ranging from Massachusetts, USA, to the Gulf of Mexico, including the Caribbean Sea.
- They prefer nearshore and offshore habitats with a penchant for artificial structures, such as shipwrecks, jetties, and buoys.
- These fish are often found in areas with strong currents and surge, making them skilled swimmers.
- They are frequently encountered around artificial structures, coral reefs, and rocky outcrops, and are a valuable component of the state's diverse marine ecosystems.
- The average lifespan of Atlantic Spadefish typically ranges from 5 to 10 years.
- They reach sexual maturity at around 1 to 2 years of age, depending on environmental factors and location.
- Reproduction involves the release of eggs into the water column, where they hatch into planktonic larvae. These larvae eventually settle in nearshore habitats and grow into juveniles.
- Omnivorous Feeders: Atlantic Spadefish are opportunistic feeders, consuming a varied diet that includes small fish, invertebrates, and algae. They often nibble on the tentacles of jellyfish and are known to follow divers to feed on the small organisms stirred up by their activities.
- Clever Camouflage: The striking coloration of Atlantic Spadefish serves as a form of disruptive camouflage, making it challenging for predators to single out an individual from the swirling school.
- Sportfishing Attraction: Atlantic Spadefish are highly sought after by anglers in Florida and the surrounding regions for their challenging fights and delicious taste, making them a popular sportfishing species. | [
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Macaronesia, a group of archipelagos (Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and Cape Verde) in the Atlantic Ocean, is one of the global biodiversity hot-spots. However, for species that occur throughout these archipelagos the extent of genetic and morphological differentiation between the archipelagos and mainland Iberia and Africa is often unknown. Here we investigate phenotypic and genetic differentiation of Kentish Plovers Charadrius alexandrinus, the most common breeding shorebird of Macaronesia. We show strong genetic and moderate morphological differences among breeding populations. Our results suggest that although these populations are far from being a species-level endemism, they deserve conservation attention given their uniqueness in terms of genetic variation. Recent loss in suitable breeding sites in Canary Islands and Azores put substantial pressure on the extant plover populations. Further studies of the conservation status and threat to these populations are needed along with a comprehensive conservation action plan to halt population decline and facilitate recovery.
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Macaronesia is a collection of five archipelagos located in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Europe and Africa. It includes Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, Canary Islands and Cape Verde. The Macaronesian Islands are an excellent study system to investigate evolution and radiation of various taxa including plants, reptiles and birds given their substantial variation in distances from mainland and between members of the various archipelagos, and the variations in geological age of different islands (Juan et al., 2000; Whittaker & Fernández-Palacios, 2007; Illera et al., 2007; Illera et al., 2012). The islands of Macaronesia have a unique biogeography and given their high habitat diversity they are home to a rich endemic biota (Izquierdo et al., 2004; Arechavaleta et al., 2005; Borges et al., 2008, 2010), and are considered one of the global Endemic Bird Areas (Stattersfield et al., 1998). Much of the avifauna of the Macaronesian Islands exhibits genetic differentiation between islands or archipelagos, suggesting that there is limited gene flow between islands providing the opportunity for population differentiation and eventually new species to arise (Pestano et al., 2000; Dietzen et al., 2003; Kvist et al., 2005; Päckert et al., 2006; Illera et al., 2007). Various processes, however, threaten the unique fauna and flora of these islands. Poaching and illegal killing of marine turtles, bycatch of dolphins and sharks, logging of forests for timber and firewood, clearing vegetation for grazing and agriculture, and the introduced exotic plants and animals by humans threaten the endemic plants and animals (Garzón-Machado et al., 2010; Martín et al., 2010; Fontaine et al., 2011; Vasconcelos et al., 2013; Dutra and Koenen, 2014). As a result, many of the endemic species of the islands are seriously endangered or extinct (Hazevoet, 1995; Martín et al., 2010). Several studies documented that throughout the last million years island faunas have been gradually destroyed through the process of human disturbance, biological invasions and habitat exploitation (Seoane et al., 2011; Illera et al., 2012).
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How do radioactive elements decay? Elements that emit ionizing radiation are called radionuclides. When it decays, a radionuclide transforms into a different atom – a decay product. The atoms keep transforming to new decay products until they reach a stable state and are no longer radioactive.
What causes an atom to decay? Atoms radioactively decay when a lower-energy nuclear configuration exists to which they can transition. The actual decay event of an individual atom happens randomly and is not the result of the atom getting old or changing through time.
Do all radioactive elements decay? Radioactive decay is seen in all isotopes of all elements of atomic number 83 (bismuth) or greater. Bismuth-209, however, is only very slightly radioactive, with a half-life greater than the age of the universe; radioisotopes with extremely long half-lives are considered effectively stable for practical purposes.
What is radioactive decay used for? Scientists and engineers use radioactivity as a source of heat for satellites, for medical imaging, for targeted cancer treatments, for radiometric dating, and for research into the laws of nature and the origin of matter.
- How do radioactive elements decay? – Additional Questions
- What element decays the fastest?
- Which element does not decay?
- Which of the following is not a mode of radioactive decay?
- Is radioactive decay random?
- How long does it take for radiation to decay?
- Can radioactive decay be stopped?
- What increases radioactive decay?
- Are Nagasaki and Hiroshima still radioactive?
- Did people’s eyes fall out in Hiroshima?
- Is Chernobyl still active?
- How long will Chernobyl be uninhabitable?
- Why would Russia want Chernobyl?
- Why does Russia want Chernobyl nuclear plant?
- Can Chernobyl still explode?
- Is Chernobyl core still melting?
- Why is Chernobyl still radioactive and Hiroshima is not?
- Will Chernobyl ever be habitable again? | [
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The latest version of Chinas J-8 fighter-bomber, the J-8H, has entered service earlier than expected. The J-8H has a new radar (allowing it to use longer range air-to-air missiles), more powerful engines and electronics enabling it to deliver smart bombs. The J-8 is a Chinese redesign of the old Russian MiG-21, and is equipped with two engines. The J-8H is another example of how China is taking older aircraft, and making them quite lethal by equipping them with more powerful electronics. The U.S. Air Force has long advocated the use of long range, radar guided, air-to-air missiles. The drawback with this is that it now becomes possible to turn a relatively slow and unmaneuverable aircraft like the J-8 into an F-22 killer by giving it good radar and long range missiles. | [
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Las casas han sido diseñadas para lograr el sello LEED Platino. Dana Beligan photo. The first step is to figure out how you’re going to use the space, whether it’s for lounging in front of the television, as a play area for your children, or for a more formal seating or dining area, Morris said. A white interior in a row house will make the room looks modern. Bonus: it is also a perfect home for giving a growing #family the space it needs. Follow Brownstoner on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. “If the budget allows, that’s the best way to go.”. We considered a gas insert but it was mighty spendy! My picks for what I think is going to be big (or continue to be big) in interior design in 2017. Sketch Building Design. georgianadesign: Brighton contemporary, Melbourne, AU. “The biggest problem is that that space was never meant to function the way that we now live our lives, which is with more generous pieces of furniture and a more open idea of American living where kitchen, living and dining spaces blur together,” said interior designer Jennifer Morris. Ohoh deco - DIY, crafts and sewing ideas for your home. Whether it's a floor plan for the kitchen, living room or bedroom in your house, avoid these common mistakes when it comes to planning the layout of your home. The most typical elements of row house design are – two floors, where the living room is situated in the front and dining room and kitchen in the back. While you may have envisioned your future bathroom with a huge ceramic soaking tub, if your current reality means you live in a tiny apartment or smaller starter home, you’ll still be able to enjoy the pleasure of taking a bath. Row houses, as a general rule, don't have attached garages, so there can be parking issues. Build amazing sheds with over 12,000 different projects! Architectuurarchief has uploaded 1142 photos to Flickr. In the case of a renovation, interior designer Barbara Cannizzaro encourages clients in narrow homes to remove the wall between the hallway and front parlor to gain several feet of living space and make furniture placement a bit easier. The parlor level often serves as the kitchen, dining room and main living area, and the layout may be further complicated (or enhanced) by the location of fireplaces or a pier mirror. Posts about Uncategorized written by mydeco, hollybarder, Jenny Cooper, and cleberry. … A question was asked on a popular woodworking site. The etymology of different real estate terms used to describe homes is difficult to pin down, but for the most part, houses described with this term are multistory units that are at least consistent, if not identical, to all adjoining homes. Modern White Row house Interior. If the parlor level functions as the kitchen, living and dining area, then most people prefer to place the living area near the front windows. See more ideas about House plans, Row house, House. “The layout is most affected if the front parlor needs to serve as both living and dining space,” Fearins said. It makes the space feel big.”. Material: Bamboo Brand: We Do Wood Designer: Sebastian Jorgensen Dimensions: L100 x W18 Number of pins: 12 pins in three different lengths Length of pins: 4…. “In a way the constraints of a townhouse really make the setup a bit easier because you really only have a couple of choices,” she said. The split entry foyer and towering vaulted ceiling of the Dauphine II creates a reassuring first impression, and instantly gives you a comfortable, cozy feeling. Design by: @studioairputih Location: Jakarta, #indonesia…”, narrow row house floor plans - Google Search, Many of Australias leading home builders and architects trust Mazer Visual to deliver their home visualisations.We work as partners with many of these home builders providing both photography, visualisation and animated film to build a style which is tr…. Another option is to enlarge the existing openings without taking down whole walls, which can make the whole space feel bigger and preserve details. It faced both out the window and toward the fireplace. “Try to put seating in shorter parts of the room, like a small sofa to divide the living space.”. Less frequently, homeowners choose to place the dining table at the front of the parlor, separating it from the kitchen with the living area. The bench provides additional seating for the living room or a spot for an after-dinner cocktail in the dining area. In a Boerum Hill townhouse, interior designer Erin Fearins placed an upholstered bench in the center of the parlor to separate the living and dining areas. For now, we have a Chimney Balloon and a piece of foam insulati. When deciding whether to place | [
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Wanna be nicer? Instead of “What do you need?” Say, “What’s up?” That’s what I said when I supervised paras and they needed me for something. I dunno, that’s just me, I’m tactful, that way.
No matter what I say, it’s important to me that people like me. Obviously. I get upset when they don’t—case in point, Sally. Although she’s not a great example, I think she finally likes me okay, as much as Sally likes people she hasn’t known that long.
I care deeply what people think. Even people I totally disagree with. Except for my nemesis. I was actually relieved that she never liked me; I disliked her that much.
Her disapproval of me was highly inconvenient, though.
Anyway, my auditory processing’s not great; I think that’s why I misheard Kevin. Or it’s another attention thing, I’m not sure. They evaluated me for suspected auditory processing delay in 2016, but the speech pathologist didn’t find any obvious auditory processing problems. She found my verbal ability to be in the 98th percentile, though, and no, I’ll never get tired of mentioning that.
And, as we know, the psychologist uncovered attention problems and high impulsivity.
I think most people want to be liked or accepted. Human nature. I don’t know too many people who really honestly don’t care what you think of them. But it’s a superpower I’d love to have. You know, other than blushing. Actually, blushing is my Kryptonite. | [
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CHICAGO, Monday, October 8, 2012. A film junkie’s dream…the 48th Chicago International Film Festival comes to Chicago October 11th through October 25, bringing 150 films from 50 countries, big name stars, glamour packed red carpet opening ceremonies along with panel discussions and other special events.
The films selected for the festival are a mix of films previously screened at film fests including Cannes. Berlin, Toronto, Gaudalajara, plus brand new submissions which will premiere in Chicago.
Awards at the Chicago International Film Fest are given in five categories (see below). If you would like to attend the fest but aren’t sure where to start, you can break your viewing down by country, by category, by buzz…or just hit or miss. To get an overview of the fest, you may want to start by viewing one film in each of the five award categories. Below is a primer on what type of films are in each category and a suggestion as to a film to view in that category. For a full list of the films and tickets go to the Chicago International Film Festival website.
Five Award Categories in the 48th Chicago International Film Festival Competition.
1. International Feature Competition. Representing a wide variety of styles and genres, these films compete for the Festival’s top honor, the Gold Hugo—as well as trophies for best actors, director, and writer—in North America’s longest-running competitive film festival. Suggested films:
Beyond the Hills, Romania (Director: Cristian Mungiu) – Mungiu, who took Cannes’ top prize in 2007 with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, returns to feature filmmaking with another gripping existential drama. Inspired by the real-life horror of a modern-day exorcism gone-wrong, Mungiu follows two friends, Voichita and Alina, whose lives have taken them down drastically different paths. When the pair reconnects, Voichita’s stern, oppressive monastery proves to be a harsh, claustrophobic and ultimately tragic environment for Alina. Chicago Premiere.
Cloud Atlas. From acclaimed filmmakers Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski, the powerful and inspiring epic Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, present and future. Drama, mystery, action and enduring love thread through a story that unfolds in multiple lifetimes as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. Cloud Atlas stars Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, and Jim Broadbent, among others.
2. New Directors Competition. This selection of first and second feature films, a mix of World, North American and U.S. premieres, celebrates the spirit of discovery and innovation upon which the Festival was founded.
The Cleaner, Peru (Director: Adrián Saba) – In the midst of a mysterious epidemic that has decimated Lima’s population and shows no signs of abating, Eusebio – a forensic cleaner whose job is to remove corpses and sterilize the apartments of the dead – discovers an eight- year-old boy hiding in an uninhabited house. A grizzled loner who’s never been able to relate to people, Eusebio suddenly finds that he must care for the boy as civilization crumbles around them in this quietly compelling dystopian drama. North American Premiere.
3. Docufest Competition. Real stories, real people, real emotions. This selection of international documentaries competing for the Gold Hugo go beyond the headlines in telling those true stories that surprise, entertain, and challenge us.
Numbered, Israel (Director: Dana Doron, Uriel Sinai) – An estimated 400,000 people were tattooed with serial numbers at Auschwitz, of whom only a few thousand survive today. This intimate and visually rapturous documentary details the current lives of some of these survivors,their memories of the camps, and their relationships with the numbers. Numbered is an emotionally affecting portrait of memory and history, and their enduring presence in individual lives. North American Premiere.
4. After Dark Competition. Blood, terror, and dark, twisted senses of humor run rampant throughout this selection of the most chilling films from around the world. Get a first look at tomorrow’s cult classics and midnight favorites.
The ABCs of Death, Various (Director: Various) – This eclectic encyclopedia of terror and bloodshed features 26 alphabetized segments, each helmed by a different prominent horror movie director. Spanning 15 countries, the offerings range from chilling and gruesome to irreverent and hilarious, as the directors explore the theme of death in many guises. Essential viewing for horror aficionados, The ABCs of Death is | [
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Dear DOSI and INDEEP Members,
The SPC-EU-DSM Project has launched two regional frameworks that could be considered and used as a guide for Pacific Island countries when developing relevant national policy, legislation and regulations related to financial and environmental aspects of deep-sea minerals development.
The Regional Environmental Management Framework contains an overview of deep-sea mineral deposit environments and potential environmental impacts of deep-sea mining projects, as well as management and mitigation strategies, including an environmental impact assessment report template. It serves as a guide for Pacific countries, informing and supporting them to make sound decisions regarding their deep-sea mineral resources and to take appropriate measures to reduce environmental risks, should they wish to engage in the mining industry.
Prepared in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund through the Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Centre, the Regional Financial Framework is aimed at providing Pacific countries with a guide to the major issues to be addressed when setting up national financial frameworks, and provides an overview of key issues in the financial management of revenues and wealth associated with the potential development of deep sea minerals in the region. | [
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BELLEVUE, Wis. - Local teachers, administrators, and other school staff will have access to safety training on how to react to a situation involving a wounded student.
The training will include online courses, a safety app, and response kits.
"It's not only for an active shooter, it's for things that can happen in the school... any kind of thing that happens that would involve a student being injured," said Chief Deputy Ed Janke of the Oconto County Sheriff's Office.
The Northeast Wisconsin Regional Trauma Advisory Council (RTAC) and the Northeast Wisconsin Healthcare Emergency Readiness Coalition (HERC) announced the program, which is part of a partnership with citizenAID North America (citizenAID).
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What is a halving?
With the upcoming halving just days away for the Helium network, you maybe asking yourself what impact it’ll have on you and your rewards. In order to understand that, we’ll first need to understand coin halving itself: Simply put, halving reduces the rate of new coins by cutting down the rewards provided to miners. For example, if your miner is currently earning 6 HNT a day that would essentially be cut in half to 3 HNT a day. Ultimately this process reduces the supply and in essence decreasing the rate of inflation for the specified cryptocurrency – in this case being HNT.
When is the $HNT halving?
On August 1, 2021 will mark two years since the Helium genesis block. With every halving scheduled to occur every two years, the date markets the first halving of HNT. It will reduce the net HNT issuance from 5,000,000 HNT to 2,500,000 HNT per month. In layman’s terms, on August 1, 2021 the supply goes from 5,000,000 HNT to 2,500,000 HNT. This process continues until the maximum supply of HNT is in circulation.
How is HotspotRF handling the halving?
Both portals and the API will reflect the halving in reward estimates on August 1, 2021.
What will this do to my estimates?
You’ll definitely see a drastic change in rewards due to the halving. Please understand that this is apart of the Helium network and the tool is only as good as the data fed into it. To keep that information as accurate as possible, the HNT supply being a key element of determining estimated rewards, means it’s to be reflected in our estimates.
Hope that answers some burning questions in regards to the halving. If you have any questions, comments or concerns you’re always welcome to e-mail us at [email protected]. | [
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Kale Consultants was selected by LAN for its Revera Interline service to process passenger interline billings.
Kale Consultants was selected by LAN for its Revera Interline service to process passenger interline billings. Airtel ATN and ARINC jointly announced the launch of a new commercial Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN) test facility in Dublin. The ATN has been designated by the European Commission as mandatory for all aircraft flying in European airspace above flight level 285. It must be implemented for all new aircraft operating in European airspace by February 2013 and...
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I created a screencast video titled “How to Complete a Market Order on Robinhood” using Adobe Captivate 9. For this project, I took screenshots of my app while I completed each step, then uploaded the images into Captivate and added a pointer and text to demonstrate the steps. This was the first time I had created a project like this and the first time using Captivate 9. For the image on the front title screen, I took a mock-up graphic of an iPhone 6 and placed a screenshot of my own Robinhood app in it. I uploaded it using Captivate’s publishing tool for YouTube.
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It’s finally beginning to look and feel like spring, but, my, it’s been a long time coming.
March’s record-setting days of rain (29 of 31!) combined with sustained low temperatures left many of us unable or unwilling to tackle gardening tasks typically saved for late winter.
Only now am I able to put my well-gloved hands into the soil, so dividing perennials, weeding, and digging up what remains of last year’s root crops are still on the to-do list.
No matter. April is here and winter’s chores need to get done quickly. April is, after all, the time for spring planting and the inevitable promise of what the year will bring – if we manage to do everything right, that is.
Whether you grow ornamentals and vegetables in a big way or limit yourself to containers on a balcony, successful gardening starts with understanding your own garden’s environment and knowing how to nourish it. Plants, like children, tend not to thrive unless the conditions in which they are growing are favourable. At minimum this means the availability of good food, the proximity of supportive companions, and the absence of enemies.
A lot has changed in gardening over the years, as scientists continue to discover new facts about plants and how plants respond to their environment.
The ongoing development of new plant varieties and new growing techniques makes it possible for just about everyone to have a productive garden, however large or small.
Have you adjusted your garden practices to help keep your home garden environment thriving while at the same time reducing the amount of work you have to do?
This month, the Sooke Garden Club welcomes master gardener Paula McCormick, well known to locals not only for her expertise, but also for her practical, easy-going approach when it comes to gardening education.
McCormick will walk us through the basics of garden ecosystems and offer advice on how we can further develop them to sustain ourselves and the nature around us. We’ll be talking soils, plant picks and more. Bring your questions.
Join us on April 26, 7 p.m., at St. Rose of Lima Church on Townsend Road. Also scheduled: April parlour show, plant sale, and sale of contest potatoes. Annual membership is $15, and new members are welcome. No gardening experience necessary. Questions? Visit our website at sookegardenclub.ca or email us at email@example.com.
Please note: The Sooke Garden Club will be holding its annual Public Plant Sale on May 13, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in front of Evergreen Centre.
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In 2008 the director Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight,” the second in his trilogy of Batman movies, introduced some audiences to a character not before seen in the franchise, or any studio narrative feature until that time. But that character wasn’t on the screen. Itwas the screen.
That would be Imax, a vast screen that can be as tall as an eight-story building. Though the name is popularly used to refer to screens, it is primarily a format involving special cameras and large-scale film, and before “Dark Knight” it had been known best for short documentaries about ocean life and space travel. Mr. Nolan shot parts of “The Dark Knight” using Imax cameras, with 30 minutes of such footage making it into the final film. When those images were seen in an Imax theater, they filled the screen from top to bottom with a giant, high-resolution image.
Other directors soon followed. For the 2009 “Transformers” sequel, “Revenge of the Fallen,” Michael Bay included over seven minutes of Imax-shot footage. And Brad Bird’s 2011 installment in the “Mission: Impossible” series, “Ghost Protocol,” included about 25 minutes of Imax-shot scenes.
Mr. Nolan’s latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises” — he says the film, due Friday, will be his last in the series — features 72 minutes of Imax footage, currently the most any studio film has used. The rest of the movie is presented in 35 millimeter, a squatter, more rectangular look that may be likened to letterbox. The film freely changes format from scene to scene, but viewers who look closely may notice one transition in particular: a gate slams down, and the screen goes from standard to Imax within the shot.
“The sharpness and the depth of the image, projected onto those enormous screens, is simply the best quality image that has ever been invented,” Mr. Nolan said by phone from Los Angeles.
How does that quality translate to the big screen? And in what ways is the difference noticeable? Take a look at these stills, below, from “The Dark Knight Rises,” from a scene in which Batman (Christian Bale) returns to Gotham City after a self-imposed exile, better to understand Mr. Nolan’s enthusiasm.
The image was shot in Imax, but the smaller still represents what audiences will see in a 35-millimeter print at a standard multiplex. Batman’s right hand is cropped out at the bottom of the frame, as is much of the smoke and fog above the buildings at the top. The sprocket holes (for the projector) are on the sides, running four per frame, with the soundtrack vertically to the right of them.
By comparison the Imax version of the frame is about 10 times larger with 10 times the resolution. Greater detail makes it in the shot, like the smoke and fog, and also more vivid-looking extras. To allow for as much screen space as possible, Imax runs its film through the cameras and projectors sideways, with the sprocket holes — 15 per frame — at the top and bottom instead of the sides. And the audio track doesn’t appear on the film print, but on a separate program that is synced to the projector. All this makes for more surface area on the frame to create a denser, sharper image.
Its pretty cool stuff, right? There is also a new photo gallery with nine new images featuring all the usual suspects. I particularly like the picture of Bane in the Gotham offices of Wall Street.
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CLAVERACK, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A woman is recovering after a tractor trailer carrying propane and a car collided Wednesday afternoon.
The accident took place just before noon on Route 9H in the town of Claverack.
The truck was heading north and pulled off the road at a local gas station when the crash occurred.
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Broadband Pickup Seen Next Quarter8/17/2007 8:00 PM Eastern
Investors were in a tizzy earlier this month after the four major cable operators reported weak growth in high-speed Internet subscribers, taking it as a sign that cable’s perennial cash cow was losing some of its luster.
But in a research report last week, Sanford Bernstein cable and satellite analyst Craig Moffett offered some perspective. While broadband growth indeed showed signs of a slowdown in the second quarter — a typically weak period, as college students and snowbirds disconnect service as they return to summer residences — it should come roaring back in the third quarter.
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GROSS ADDS ARE UP
While net growth was down across the board for the four top publicly traded cable operators — Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications and Cablevision Systems — Moffett wrote that gross additions were actually up. Gross additions were particularly strong for Comcast — up 27% or 360,000 customers from the year-ago period, according to Moffett — and for Charter. Gross additions were more modest at Cablevision and TWC.
That growth in gross additions, Moffett wrote, suggests that cable operators will report solid rebounds in the third quarter.
Of the four major cable operators, only Charter (with 57,000 net additions) showed any material acceleration from the previous year. But Moffett added that second-quarter broadband growth at the phone companies — long the bane of cable operators — was even worse.
Moffett estimates that in aggregate, broadband additions were down 20% at the cable companies in the period. At the telcos — Embarq, Qwest Communications International, Verizon Communications and AT&T — the aggregate growth fell 44.6%.
Operators had several excuses for the deceleration of broadband growth — a weak housing market, a focus on adding digital subscribers and normal seasonal churn. While Moffett wrote that all of these factors have some merit — he estimated that weak housing starts reduced net additions by between 100,000 and 200,000 customers in the period — he placed more weight on growing churn rates.
Moffett dismissed the severity of the housing slump on broadband growth, mainly because unlike the basic-subscriber market, high-speed Internet service is more about share shift from dial-up than organic housing growth.
“The impact of the housing slowdown therefore remains relatively small compared to the rate at which share is changing hands,” Moffett wrote.
But if the deceleration is due to increasing churn, shouldn’t cable operators be concerned? Not really, Moffett wrote, because the greater the season churn, the greater the third-quarter rebound.
Moffett looked at broadband subscriber churn in the cable sector for the past two years, determining that churn rates rise from an average of 2.4% in the first quarter to an average of 3% in the second quarter. Those churn rates dip to 2.4% in the third quarter and 2.5% in the fourth quarter. Based on that data, Moffett expects a sharp rebound in third-quarter net additions.
Moffett estimated that Comcast will add about 555,000 high-speed data subscribers in the third quarter, compared to 536,000 additions in the third quarter last year. The growth will be more modest (286,000 additions versus 251,000 in 2006) at Time Warner Cable — mainly because of the addition of the former Adelphia properties, which have less robust growth rates.
Moffett appeared most encouraged by the continuing “melt down” in the dial up market. Subscriber growth at two of the top four dial-up ISPs — United Online and EarthLink — has been in freefall since the fourth quarter of 2004. At United Online, subscriber growth went from 7.3% in the fourth quarter of 2004 to a negative 21.7% in the second quarter this year. EarthLink’s subscriber growth declined from a negative 2.6% in fourth-quarter 2004 to a negative 9.9% in second-quarter 2007.
That trend, Moffett wrote, suggests that “dial-up subscribers are showing no greater stickiness than they have in the past.”
GOOD QUARTER VS. DSL
While dial-up market share is dwindling, Moffett wrote that cable’s slice of the broadband pie is growing substantially versus its chief competitor, digital subscriber line service from telephone companies.
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First post. Thanks for this site, it has helped me so much over the last three years!
I just opened my sparkling clean pool here in middle Ohio. Everything is fine and readings are good. I know I'll have a sparkling clean pool for all of June and July. However, come early August, I'll start to get yellow/green sediment on the bottom of the pool(has happened every year). Very frustrating. What could it be? I am right across from many acres of farmland (corn or soybean depending on the year), is that the issue? Would think I would get that earlier when the crops pollinate.
Has happened every year since we installed. It is a weekend place for us so we can't vacuum everyday, but when we come down for the weekends, I have to vacuum to waste so it doesn't get in the sand filter as the sediment is so fine it kicks back through the filter into the return jet and pool.
Any idea? Tips? Advice?
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The Mausoleum of General Yue Fei (岳飞), situated near the West Lake, is a memorial built in honor of the great general Yue Fei who had won many wars against the armies of the Jin Dynasty. He was politically executed by traitors and since then, he has evolved into the role model of loyalty in Chinese culture. Above the statue of Yue Fei is a tablet bearing an inscription in his very own handwriting that says, “Restore Our Lost Land”, or literally means “Give me back my rivers and mountains”.
Yue Fei’s mother wrote four words on his back: 盡忠報國 (jin zhong bao guo), means “serve the country with utmost loyalty“.
The four kneeling iron statues are Qin Hui (秦桧), his wife Lady Wang (王氏) and two of Qin Hui’s subordinates, Moqi Xie (万俟軼) and Zhang Jun (張俊). They were made to kneel before Yue Fei’s tomb, and for centuries, these statues have been spat, urinated, cursed, and Jacky even touched one of them! Yucks! Now these statues are protected as historical relics. There is a poem that reads, “the iron was innocent to be cast into the statues of traitors”!
There is a legend saying that the direct descendant of Qin Hui and his wife threw both statues into the West Lake and the next day, the lake turned pitched black and smelt of vomit!
The tomb of Yue Fei in front of the kneeling statues.
From then onward, the angry Chinese made “you tiao” (油条) to deep fried and eat them. “You tiao” is made of two doughs joining in the middle, resembling the traitors Qin Hui and his wife. “You tiao” is actually called “Yow Cha Gui”, literally means “oil fried ghosts”, as 桧 (hui) and 鬼 (ghost) are similar in Chinese dialect pronunciation. Try one of these “you tiao”, they are yummy!
Next: Zhexi Valley, Zhejiang! | [
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RADOM, city in Kielce province, Poland. The first Jews to visit Radom mainly traveled there as representatives of the Jewish communities at the sessions of the Polish Sejm (Diet) or to negotiate with the tribunal of the treasury, which met at Radom between 1613 and 1764. Jewish residence in the city was banned in 1633, 1724, and 1746; a few Jews settled in the suburbs and numbered 67 by 1765. They were later permitted to reside in a special quarter. The settlement began to develop after 1814, and an organized community was formed; a cemetery was established in 1831 and the first synagogue built in 1884. The community increased from 413 in 1815 (about 16% of the total population) to 1,495 in 1856 (23%); 11,277 in 1897 (37.6%); 24,465 in 1921 (39.7%); and 25,159 in 1931 (23.3%). Before World War I and during the period between the two world wars Jews played a considerable role in the development of commerce and industry in Radom, both as entrepreneurs and employed workers. Jewish organizations in 1925 included a merchants' and artisans' bank and trade unions; there were numerous welfare institutions, including the hospital, founded in 1847, and an old age home, founded in 1913. Religious and secular educational and cultural needs were met by yeshivot, the first founded in 1908, the talmud torah, and prayer houses (shtiblekh) for the ḥasidic community, as well as schools of various types, including a high school, and five libraries. Periodicals published in Radom during the inter-war period were the Yiddish daily Radomer Tsaytung until 1925; the weekly Radomer Lebn, later Radomer-Keltser Lebn; Radomer Shtime; and Trybuna (in Polish). The first rabbi of the community officiated at the beginning of the 19th century. Rabbis of note were Samuel *Mohilewer and Simḥah Treistman (1904–13), later rabbi of Lodz.
In 1939 over 30,000 Jews, comprising 30% of the total population, lived in Radom. During the German occupation it was the capital of the Radom District in the General Government. The German army entered the city on Sept. 8, 1939, and immediately subjected the Jewish population to persecution. During the first months of German occupation, about 2,000 Jews from the Poznan and Lodz provinces were expelled to Radom. In turn, 1,840 Jews from Radom were expelled to the smaller towns in the Kielce Province (December 1939). In August about 2,000 young men and women were deported to slave labor camps, where almost all of them perished. In March
1941 a decree for the establishment of the ghetto was issued and by April 7, 1941, the entire Jewish population was concentrated in two separate ghettos. At the beginning of 1942 the Nazis conducted a number of terror actions within the ghettos, among them an action of February 19 ("bloody Thursday") when 40 men were shot, and on April 28, when 70 men were killed and hundreds deported to the concentration camp in *Auschwitz. On Aug. 5, 1942, the smaller ghetto was liquidated and its inhabitants (almost 10,000 people) were deported to *Treblinka death camp. On Aug. 6–17, 1942, the larger ghetto was liquidated and its 20,000 Jews dispatched for extermination. Within the part of the ghetto that was transformed into a slave labor camp (the "small ghetto"), only about 4,000 Jews remained. On Dec. 4, 1942, about 800 inmates of this camp were deported to Szydlowiec and afterward exterminated. On Jan. 13, 1943, another 1,500 prisoners were deported to Treblinka. On Nov. 8, 1943, the prisoners of the "small ghetto" were transferred to the newly established forced labor camp in the town. On July 26, 1944, all but 300 prisoners were deported to Auschwitz, where only a handful survived. The last 300 prisoners were liberated on Jan. 16, 1945.
At the time of the mass deportations in August 1942, hundreds of Jews fled to the forests to organize guerrilla units. Such units were composed mostly of persons who escaped from Radom. All the partisans fell in battles with the Germans. Many who escaped from Radom reached Warsaw and took part in the Polish Warsaw uprising (August 1944). In the whole Radom District 380,000 Jews lost their lives during the German occupation, according to figures of the Radom Regional Commission to investigate Nazi Crimes. A few hundred Jews settled in Radom for a short time after World War II, but soon left due to the hostility of the Polish population. Organizations | [
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Terrorists behind twin explosions in Xinjiang
Updated: 2014-01-26 07:21
By Cui Jia (China Daily)
Two explosions in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region's Aksu prefecture on Friday have been deemed terrorist attacks and the death toll has risen from three to 12, local authorities said on Saturday.
Late on Friday, local authorities said in a statement that two explosions took place at a hair salon and a vegetable market in the county seat of Xinhe at about 6:40 pm on Friday, killing one person and injuring two.
Police arrested three suspects.
Later, a vehicle also exploded while being pursued by police, killing two people inside. According to the latest statement released on Saturday, the attackers also threw explosives at police. One officer was slightly injured. No civilian casualties were reported.
Six of the attackers were shot dead at the scene and six others committed suicide by detonating explosives. The police also arrested five people and seized a batch of detonation devices.
"Social order has been restored in the county. Police are still investigating the case to make sure all (remaining) members of the terrorist cell are in their custody," Luo Fuyong, spokesman of the autonomous region, said on Saturday.
Also on Saturday, police in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi said they have conclusive evidence proving Ilham Tohti, a Uygur economist at Beijing's Minzu University, has been involved in secession activities.
Police said Ilham's case is being processed but did not say when and where he was detained.
Ilham uses "UighurOnline", a website he set up, to spread rumors and separatist thought as well as misrepresent events to instigate ethnic hatred and call for "Xinjiang independence", the Urumqi Public Security Bureau said in a statement released on Saturday evening.
He also tells students that "Uygurs need to use violence to protest". He called those who have carried out terrorist attacks "heroes" and instigates students to hate and even "overthrow" the government.
Police said Ilham uses his status as a teacher to draw or lure people to form a group connected with key members of the overseas East Turkestan Islamic Movement that is listed as a terrorist group and sanctioned by the United Nations.
Ilham's group also helps to organize and send people abroad to carry out separatist activities.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Jan 17 that the arrest of Ilham was within the law.
"Ilham is suspected of breaking the law. Currently, China's relevant departments are handling the case according to law," he said.
"We oppose any country or party using human rights as a pretext to criticize another country's normal law enforcement."
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Melatonin is a natural hormone produced by your body’s pineal gland which regulates the body’s circadian rhythm. Melatonin production is related to time of day, rising in the evening and falling in the morning. The normal melatonin cycle can be disrupted by many factors, including exposure to electromagnetic pollution, blue light at night, stress or travel. Supplemental melatonin can assist in restoring normal, healthy sleep patterns.
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Mazda Miata Transformed Into Classic Corvette
I guess there really is something to all the interest Corvette Forum has for the Mazda Miata lately. Perhaps even more than just some admiration for the new model, as highlighted in earlier post here. There appears to be a deeper connection between Corvette lovers and the Miata.
Take for example, Omer Troester, who customized his 2004 Miata to look like a 1957 Corvette, complete with features like the classic red and white paint scheme and chrome grille.
Troester was inspired to give his Miata a touch of vintage ‘Vette appeal after coming to the conclusion that he might not ever be able to afford his lifelong dream of owning a real ’57 model.
“My income didn’t increase as fast as the price of Corvettes increased,” Troester told The Fremont Tribune, according to GM Authority report.
Apparently, Troester’s inspiration is paying off. In addition to drawing a lot of attention on the road, the Corvette (oops, I mean Miata) has won several awards for its custom look.
Chime in with your thoughts on the forum. >>
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Line a loaf pan with plastic wrap. Make sure the wrap is long enough to come up over the sides to wrap the entire pan.
Wash and hull the strawberries, then cut the berries into small dice. Wash and dry the raspberries. If they are large, cut them in half.
In a large bowl beat the softened cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until smooth and creamy
In another bowl, beat the whipped cream until stiff peaks form.
Combine the whipped cream into the cheesecake mixture.
Gently fold in the chopped strawberries and the raspberries, just until combined
Pour half the mousse into the prepared pan.
Sprinkle the graham cracker crumbs over the mousse.
Spread the second half of the mousse over the graham crackers
Wrap the mousse in the plastic wrap and put in the freezer for 3 or more hours.
When ready to serve, remove the mousse, remove from the freezer, and let sit for a couple of minutes then remove from the pan by pulling up on the plastic wrap. Turn the mousse upside down onto a serving tray. Remove the plastic wrap and slice.
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Auburn Students View Transit of Mercury
“My dad graduated from Auburn in the 1980s and I am sending him photos of this event around the globe to New Zealand,” explained Clay Vinson, a mechanical engineering major.
He not only saw Mercury for the first time, but he texted his dad more than 8,000 miles away in his native New Zealand to share photos of this Transit of Mercury.
The smallest planet in our solar system passed in front of the sun and Auburn’s Department of Physics held an outdoor event so that students could participate.
Mercury was projected onto a screen through a solar filter-equipped telescope where it appeared as a black dot as it crossed the face of the sun. During a Transit of Mercury, the planet passes directly between the sun and another planet, so viewers watched it move during the five-hour event on the morning of November 11.
Faculty and students from the Department of Physics explained what students were viewing and the significance of the transit including that this type of event was used to measure the true distance to the planet.
Lindsey Stephens, an electrical engineering major, saw the planet for the first time.
“It is really great that Auburn students have a chance to be part of an event on their way to class,” Lindsey shared.
Jaden Jarman, a communications disorders major, missed the eclipse a few years ago and had to stop by this event.
“This is my first outdoor astronomical event, so it was really amazing to see it on the screen,” Jaden explained.
Connor Sullivan is a professional flight major and is looking forward to flying commercial airplanes one day.
“I love things like this and it is a fun opportunity to see something you would miss out on,” Connor explained.
Doctoral students in chemistry, Yvette Kayirangwa, had to stop by the event. She took physics in high school and loves celestial events.
“This is an absolutely fascinating day and I am glad to participate in something that won't happen again for 13 years,” Yvette said.
Previous Transits of Mercury occured on May 7, 2003, November 8, 2006, May 9, 2016, and November 11, 2019. The next will occur on November 13, 2032.
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Record of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs by Henry Benjamin Meigs
Harris, Walter, embarked March 5, 1631, came to Plymouth upon an engagement with Mr. John Atwood, of London, under command of Mr. John Done, of Plymouth for five years; was transferred to Henry Howland April 8, 1633.
Walter, of Dorchester, frm. June 2, 1641, signed the inv. of John Pope in 1649. (P. of M. p 215.)
Walter Harris died Nov. 6, 1654. A vessel called the William and Francis came to America in 1632, bringing among its passengers, Walter Harris, who settled in Weymouth, where he remained about twenty years and then came to Pequot Harbor. On his first application for a house lot he is styled of Dorchester, which makes it probable that his last temporary abiding place had been in that town.
He had two sons, Gabriel and Thomas. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Fry, survived him less than three months. One inventory and settlement of estate sufficed for both. The non-cupative will of Mrs. Harris will be given at large omitting only the customary formula at the commencement. It is one of the oldest wills extant in the County and is rich in allusions to costume and furniture. From a clause in this will it may be inferred that Thomas Harris had been betrothed to Rebecca, daughter of Obadiah Bruen. This young man, according to tradition, had been sent to England to recover some property that had fallen to the family, and was supposed to have been lost at sea, as he was never heard of afterward.
The last Will and Testament of Mary Harriss, taken from her owne mouth, this 19th day of Jan., 1655;
I give to my eldest daughter, Sarah Lane, the bigest brass pan, and
to her daughter Mary, a silver spoone, and
to her daughter Sarah, the bigest pewter dish and one silken ribon.
Likewise, I give to her daughter Mary, a pewter candlestick.
I give to my daughter, Mary Lawrence, my blew mohere peticote and my straw hatt and a fether boulster, and
to her eldest sonne I give a silver spoone.
To her second sonne a silver whissle
I give more to my daughter Mary, my next brass pann and a thrum cushion, and
to her youngest sonne I give a pewter Sassen,
I give to my youngest daughter, Elizabeth [Weeks],
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a gold ring, a silver spoone,
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thirty shillings, alsoe
a red whittle [which is a short cloak],
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I give to my three daughters aforesaid, a quarter part to each of them of the dyaper table cloth and ten shillings apeece.
I give to my sister Megges, [Thomasin Fry Meigs] a red peticote, a cloth jacket, a silke hud, a quoife [cap], a cross cloth and a neck cloth.
I give to my cozin Calib Rawlins, ten shillings.
I give to my two cossns [nieces], Mary [Fry Pierce] and Elizabeth Fry [Fiske], each of them, five shillings.
I give to Mary Barnet a red stuff wescote.
I give to my Daughter Elizabeth, my great chest.
To my daughter Mary, a ciffer [some kind of cap or head dress] and a white neck cloth.
To my sister, Hannah [Fry] Rawlin, my best cross cloth.
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I give to my sonne Thomas, ten shillings, if he do come home or be alive.
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In Virginia v. American Booksellers Association, 484 U.S. 383 (1988), the Supreme Court certified two questions to the Virginia Supreme Court about the state’s “harmful to juveniles” statute regulating the commercial display of adult materials. The state had argued that the statute affected only a very narrow category of “borderline obscene” material, while the plaintiffs argued that the statute was overbroad, was unconstitutionally vague, and effectively criminalized the display of anything with adult content in violation of the First Amendment.
Virginia statute made it unlawful to display “harmful to juvenile” material
The Virginia statute made it unlawful for any person “to knowingly display for commercial purposes in a manner whereby juveniles may examine and peruse” materials “harmful to juveniles” as defined in the statute. The plaintiffs argued that the statute imposed excessive burdens on the First Amendment rights of adults because of the economic and regulatory burdens on booksellers for compliance; that the statute was overbroad in construction because it restricted mature juveniles’ access to works that were “harmful” only to young children; and that the statute was unconstitutionally vague because it did not distinguish among propriety standards for juveniles of different ages.
Court remanded case to resolve two questions
This article was originally published in 2009. Lynnette Noblitt is a professor of government at Eastern Kentucky University. Michael W. Hail (1966-2020) was a professor of political science at Morehead State University.
The Court remanded the case — originally tried in federal court — to the Virginia Supreme Court to resolve two questions:
- (1) Whether any of the books submitted as exhibits by the plaintiffs would fall within the statute’s definition of “harmful to juveniles” and how the law distinguished among different ages and levels of maturity;
- and (2) whether a bookseller could avoid violating the statute by stopping a juvenile from reviewing materials “harmful to juveniles,” even if the materials were not segregated.
Brennan reasoned: “The unique factual and procedural setting of this case leads us to conclude that an authoritative construction of the Virginia statute by the Virginia Supreme Court would substantially aid our review of this constitutional holding, and might well determine the case entirely.”
Virginia Supreme Court upheld law
In Commonwealth v. American Booksellers Association (Va. 1988), the Virginia Supreme Court determined that none of the 16 books submitted as exhibits by the plaintiffs were harmful to juveniles. The state high court also determined that the law was not aimed at mere browsing by minors. Based on these state court rulings, in American Booksellers Association, Inc. v. Virginia (4th Cir. 1989) a federal appeals court upheld the Virginia law from a First Amendment challenge. | [
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Introduction to the Aerodynamics of Flight
by Theodore A. Talay
Publisher: NASA History Division 1975
Number of pages: 198
This volume is a result of several semesters of the author's teaching of an introductory course in aerodynamics to apprentices and technicians at the NASA Langley Research Center. The problem faced was to provide more than a layman's treatment of the subject but not the detail as taught in many individual courses on the college level. The result is a highly qualitative, illustrated set of notes which, through the teaching process, was modified to fulfill the objectives better.
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by T.I. Ligum - NASA
This book presents the physical bases of practical high-speed aerodynamics, and the influence of air compressibility on the aerodynamic characteristics of wings and aircraft. Primary attention is turned to passenger jets.
by William Hallauer - Virginia Tech
This is a formal college engineering textbook, complete with homework problems. It will be understandable for students of engineering system dynamics, a valuable teaching resource for course instructors, and a useful reference for self-study.
by Richard W. Orloff - NASA History Division
With the passage of time there are opportunities to reconsider Project Apollo anew. This book draws out the statistical information about each of the flights that have been long buried in numerous technical memoranda and historical studies.
by Dave Doody - NASA
This tutorial is designed to help operations people identify the range of concepts associated with deep space missions, and grasp the relationships among them. It also enjoys popularity with people interested in interplanetary space flight. | [
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New council member appointed in Bondurant
The Bondurant City Council voted Monday to appoint Mike Reed, 39, to a council seat vacated last month by Eric Johnson.
Reed, who has never held elected office before, is employed as a project manager with Wolin and Associates, a mechanical and electrical design build contractor.
Reed, an Iowa Falls native, said he'll seek to use his expertise of assisting companies on construction projects to help the city handle development issues. "I've got basically 20 years in the construction field. I think I'll be able to bring a good insight," he said.
Reed was the only resident to apply for the vacancy on the five-member body. His seat will be up for election in 2015.
Councilwoman Amy Bogaards plans to step down next month due to responsibilities associated with her job, Mayor Keith Ryan said. City officials will plan to appoint someone to fill Bogaards' seat, Ryan said.
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In Star Wars movies, it is said that Anakin Skywalker is way older than the age he is supposed to start training, however strangely enough Luke gets his training in his adulthood?
Anakin Skywalker was taken to the Jedi Order for training. At that time, it was unusual for them to train anyone as old as Anakin, for various reasons. The fact that Anakin is so powerful in the Force that they ended up training him anyway. (In hindsight, all the people who said he was too old were probably right.)
Luke was not trained by the Jedi Order; there was no Jedi Order. As far as Yoda knew, Luke was literally the only person left in the galaxy that could be trained as a Jedi. Even then, note that Yoda runs down a laundry list of things wrong with Luke, and his age is on that list:
BEN'S VOICE: So was I, if you'll remember.
YODA: He is too old. Yes, too old to begin the training.
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Thus it makes us think and challenge the very concept of the Nations. If mankind could abandon outdated old systems, we too can abandon the present one. One day we need to abolish this concept of nations to establish new order of the the world…One World: One Nation!
If we peep into the early history of mankind, we find that numerous changes in the human life have taken place over the millenniums. Many systems emerged to suite the need of the contemporary times came into existence to collapse under internal or external pressures to give way to new one or because they simply wont work with changing times.
Primordial man was wanderer, a food-gatherer-hunter man as anthropologists describe them. Being nomads, in constant search of food and game, there couldn’t be eternal emotional ties with any particular land or region. Every human being was closely tied up with some or other band that formed tribes in later course of the time. The tribes trod almost every region that came in his sight. The perpetual wars, amongst tribes to establish temporal right over the forests where abundant game was available, would take place. Subjugated tribes would be taken for slave. Women would be used to grow population of the tribes.
In later course human being learnt very important art to domicile useful animal for food and even for protection, like dogs. Still he was a nomad as he had to move on constant search of grazing lands.
There were no permanent settlements till human being invented agriculture. Agriculture made human life easy, comparatively far cozy. He made settlements around water sources and fertile lands. This revolutionized human life and his way of thinking. His perspective towards human society and life got entirely changed. The drastic change in lifestyle made an everlasting impact over his psyche which can be traced even today. First time ever a concept of “ownership” arose in his mind, and he started implementing it. It was but natural there would be constant disputes amongst tribal-man about boundaries of the land and its expansion. The wars between tribes too were constant those would try to force out settlements to establish their own. In a way beginning of agrarian man was in the state of confusion, violence and uncertainty.
This was the time when human being thought of some system in an order to safeguard individual interests and protection from aggressors. Thus first idea of State came into an existence. This was very rudimentary organization which was going to develop through next millenniums. Since still human being was a tribal man, the tribes constituted their assemblies headed by chieftains to govern the interests of the tribe. The assemblies formulated the laws and ethical regulations with general consensus of the tribal people. In wars all those capable of fight would join to protect boundaries or for aggression. Internally rights over land, wealth and women were designed. The primordial religion too got tremendously modified in this period. In the course of the time City-State concept was developed. Some places partially democratic assembly systems were developed. Such States were too small with limited boundaries. We can see such examples in Greek and Indian civilization where kind of rudimentary republics were established. Jatak stories give us insight about the governance of such Republics.
But this system gradually took its last breath, because of its inherent limitations, to give way to the emergence of Kingdoms. This new system was of a representative of the Divine, a King, who would rule over the people, govern them, protect them and expand the boundaries by defeating other kingdoms. Vedik literature tells us a myth how first king Many was appointed by Brahma…to rule the people so that there would not be anarchy. Many accepted the difficult task in return with taxes from the people he would govern. This King became representative of the God. Early kings were chiefs of the religion as well.
With Kingdoms we find expansions of the boundaries. Constant wars to retain the boundaries. When kingdoms found the losses being incurred by constant wars the early pacts of alignments too came into an existence. So some kingdoms became allies and some sworn enemies. People were taught to be loyal to the king and kingdom. We find seeds of early patriotism sown in ancient times. Dying for the State in wars became a matter of pride as a heaven was assured by the religion. Though these were artificial and illusionary promises, they worked. We find numerous examples of such patriarchs in the past in ballads, in epics and in legends.
I can say creating artificial concepts in an order to make easy and profitable governance was necessity of those times which was destined to last till now.
Foundations of imperialism were laid down in Kingdoms. The ambitious Kings wouldn’t be satisfied with limited territories. Thus subjugating other kingdoms to annex to their own begun as back as in sixth century BC. The imperialism started in India with Brihadrath dynasty. Later on Chandragupta, Ashoka and so many followed the suite. They acquired most of | [
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Outline of the Article
- Introduction to overnight porridge
- What is overnight porridge?
- Benefits of overnight porridge
- Convenience and time-saving
- Nutritional benefits
- Improved digestion
- Sustained energy throughout the day
- How to make overnight porridge
- Ingredients needed
- Step-by-step instructions
- Variations of overnight porridge
- Fruit and nut toppings
- Flavor options (cinnamon, cocoa, etc.)
- Dairy-free and vegan alternatives
- Tips for making the perfect overnight porridge
- Choosing the right type of oats
- Adjusting the liquid to oats ratio
- Adding sweeteners and spices
- Storage and serving suggestions
- Frequently asked questions about overnight porridge
- Can I reheat overnight porridge?
- How long does it last in the refrigerator?
- Can I make a large batch for the week?
Overnight Porridge: A Nutritious and Easy Breakfast Option
Are you tired of the same old breakfast routine? Are you looking for a nutritious and delicious start to your day? Look no further than overnight porridge! This simple yet satisfying dish has gained popularity in recent years for its convenience, health benefits, and mouthwatering flavors. In this article, we will explore everything you need to know about overnight porridge, from its definition to various recipes and tips for making the perfect bowl. So, get ready to revolutionize your mornings with this wholesome meal.
1. Introduction to Overnight Porridge
Breakfast is often considered the most important meal of the day, providing us with the energy needed to kick-start our day. However, hectic morning schedules often leave us with limited time to prepare a nutritious breakfast. This is where overnight porridge comes to the rescue. With just a few minutes of preparation the night before, you can wake up to a ready-to-eat, flavorful bowl of goodness in the morning.
2. What is Overnight Porridge?
Overnight porridge, also known as overnight oats, is a simple and healthy breakfast option made by soaking oats in liquid overnight. The oats absorb the liquid, resulting in a creamy and soft texture that is easy to digest. This no-cook method of preparing oats has gained popularity due to its convenience and ability to be customized according to individual preferences.
3. Benefits of Overnight Porridge
Convenience and Time-saving
One of the main advantages of overnight porridge is its convenience. By preparing it the night before, you save precious time in the morning. No more standing over a hot stove or waiting for your oats to cook. With overnight porridge, you can have a nutritious breakfast ready in an instant.
Oats, the main ingredient in overnight porridge, are a nutritional powerhouse. They are rich in fiber, which aids in digestion and keeps you feeling full for longer. Oats also contain essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that support overall health and wellbeing. Additionally, overnight porridge can be customized with various toppings and additions, such as fruits, nuts, and seeds, to further enhance its nutritional profile.
The overnight soaking process breaks down the complex starches in oats, making them easier to digest. This can be beneficial for individuals with sensitive digestive systems or those who experience discomfort after consuming traditional cooked oats. Soaking the oats also releases phytic acid, a substance that can interfere with nutrient absorption. By reducing phytic acid levels, overnight porridge allows for better nutrient assimilation.
Sustained Energy Throughout the Day
The combination of slow-releasing carbohydrates and fiber in overnight porridge provides a steady release of energy throughout the day. This helps prevent energy crashes and keeps you feeling satiated for longer periods. Say goodbye to mid-morning hunger pangs and hello to sustained productivity and focus.
4. How to Make Overnight Porridge
Making overnight porridge is incredibly easy and requires minimal effort. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you create a delicious bowl of goodness:
- Rolled oats
- Liquid (milk, plant-based milk, yogurt, or a combination)
- Sweetener (honey, maple syrup, or agave nectar)
- Toppings of your choice (fruits, nuts, seeds, etc.)
- In a clean jar or container, combine 1/2 cup of rolled oats with 1/2 cup of liquid.
- Add your preferred sweetener and mix well.
- Seal the jar/container tightly and place it in the refrigerator overnight, or for a minimum of 6 hours.
- In the morning, give the oats a good stir and add your desired toppings.
- Enjoy your delicious and nutritious overnight porridge!
5. Variations of Overnight Porridge
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Deeptech startup NEU Battery Materials has raised a total of S$800,000 in seed funding from Momentum Venture Capital, the corporate venture arm of SMRT Corporation and Se-cure Waste Management, a battery recycling & processing company in Singapore.
This seed round also includes angel investments from two business angels in the energy storage and sustainability sectors, as well as earlier funding from the NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP). A flagship initiative of the NUS Industry Liaison Office, GRIP consists of three months of intense venture hothousing followed by nine months of incubation support, enabling NUS researchers, inventors, and students to transform the university’s world-class research into deep tech startups. NEU Battery Materials will use this seed funding to build a pilot recycling plant in Singapore to recycle lithium from used lithium batteries.
Lithium batteries are a type of rechargeable battery. They are composed of cells where lithium ions move from the negative electrode to a positive electrode during discharge, and back again during the recharging process. Lithium iron phosphate batteries are a type of battery that uses lithium iron phosphate as the cathode material. They typically are lower in cost, with a long cycle life and low toxicity. Lithium iron phosphate batteries are used in many products, including Electric Vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems.
Bryan Oh, CEO and Co-founder, NEU Battery Materials: “The demand for lithium batteries is high, due to their everyday use. This demand will continue to increase drastically as EVs become mainstream. However, mining for lithium used in batteries is not an environmentally-friendly process. Furthermore, most lithium batteries are dumped into landfills at the end of their lifespan, creating environmental waste. We want to further develop and bring to market a method for producing sustainable lithium, resulting in clean and sustainable lithium batteries.”
NEU Battery Materials is bringing to market a patented electrochemical redox flow recycling process that was originally invented by Associate Professor Wang Qing, Deputy Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NUS College of Design and Engineering. Assoc Prof Wang is Co-Founder and Advisor to NEU Battery Materials.
Assoc Prof Wang, Co-founder, NEU Battery Materials: “I’ve been conducting research in the area of electrochemistry and flow batteries for the past 20 years, and believe that electrochemical battery recycling is the future, set to replace hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy. This recycling process is the first time that it has been demonstrated to be possible to recycle lithium from the cheapest battery type – which is the lithium iron phosphate battery. I am delighted that NEU Battery Materials will be commercialising this technology, and demonstrating its use in battery recycling.”
In order to recycle used lithium batteries, the batteries are first discharged and dismantled. A series of crushing procedures reduces and sorts through the key components of the battery. The remains of the battery are called ‘black mass’ and this then enters the electrochemical redox flow recycling process, which involves the following steps:
- The black mass is put into an anodic reactor tank, which is filled with a proprietary mix of chemicals. These chemicals will react with the black mass, to extract out the lithium. Unlike traditional battery recycling methods, this proprietary mix of chemicals does not include harsh acids (which leads to problems such as waste water). Furthermore, the chemicals are regenerative, allowing multiple cycles using the same batch of chemicals, significantly lowering pollution levels.
- The solution is circulated between the tank and the electrolyzer. Electricity facilitates the movement of lithium across to the cathodic reactor tank.
- The cathodic reactor tank is filled with water, which reacts with the lithium to form aqueous lithium hydroxide.
- The lithium hydroxide is dried, resulting in battery-grade lithium hydroxide powder. This can be sold to battery manufacturers.
To translate this technological process which was developed in a laboratory setting and demonstrate how this technology can be scaled and used to recycle lithium batteries, NEU Battery Materials will use their seed funding to build a pilot plant. To do this, they have partnered with one of their investors, Se-cure Waste Management, a company that handles the recycling of metal waste and scrap materials. NEU Battery Materials will build and operate a 150 square-metre pilot plant at Se-Cure Waste Management’s facility. This pilot plant will be able to process approximately 150 tonnes of lithium batteries a year.
Vince Goh, Managing Director, SWM: “Our partnership with NEU Battery Materials and the setting up of the pilot plant allows Se-Cure Waste Management (SWM) to now handle the recycling of all types of lithium batteries, including lithium iron phosphate batteries, which has never been done before. We have already started sourcing for used lithium iron phosphate batteries, letting our industry contacts know that such recycling is now possible. As lithium is a valuable material, we foresee battery manufacturers’ interest in this development. With NEU Battery Materials’ | [
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Childrens infectious diseases
As a child, the person transmission of infectious diseases, which later as an adult, he was never ill.
That is why they are called "children's infectious diseases"
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the Epidemic parotitis or svinka |
the Poliomyelitis |
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the Scarlet fever
In the childhood the person transfers infectious diseases which subsequently, being the adult, he already never is ill.
For this reason they have received the name «nurseries infectious
Children's illnesses are absolutely necessary for formation at the person of high-grade immunity.
that the adult was not ill, it should in the childhood, to be exact till 14 years, to get high resistibility in relation to infections, i.e. to save up enough of antibodies.
for this purpose the child should have been ill with the most different infectious diseases and including children's illnesses.
the immune system of children should train constantly. Co-operating with various antigenes.
the child gets proof lifelong immunity or after acute disease transferring, or, without being ill, at the expense of constant contacts to infecting agents in small concentration.
it is necessary to tell that healthy children are perfectly adapted for overcoming of children's infections. At them these diseases proceed easier, than at adults and, as a rule, do not happen are aggravated by complications. Поведенческие факторы
It is necessary to allocate especially importance of transferring children's infek-tsionnyh diseases for girls who potentially are the future mums.
it is very important, that the girl has had been ill with all children's illnesses thanks to what at it proof lifelong immunity which it can transfer to the children will naturally be generated.
It is necessary to notice that the majority of children who are on the chest
Feeding till 3-4 years, are ill very seldom.
if during this period also there is a disease, as a rule, against feeding by parent milk it passes benign.
the basic period of a meeting with children's illnesses is necessary on age from 4 till 14 years, but at this age the immune system of the child appears already enough mature, and now accumulation of antibodies goes to its problems in as it is possible bolshemu quantity of alien agents.
It is absolutely necessary that subsequently the adult person
Has been is minimum subject to various diseases.
Heavy current of diseases and serious complications after them
Are peculiar to children with hereditary diseases and congenital sufferings of immune system.
children who are on artificial feeding are inclined to the aggravated course of diseases also.
besides, propensity to a heavy current to disease and serious complications after them first of all
It is inherent in socially unsuccessful levels of population. To this
Categories should be carried persons with alcoholic dependence, addicts, smokers, glue sniffers etc., and also those who lives
Half-starving, has no reliable roof over the head and is exposed
To other deprivations.
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Systems, as a rule, in population of such people no more than 5 %.
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Eagle vs Shark official site. Flash, the evil of all semi-evils, but ah well. Director Taika Waititi (he is human don't ya know ;) gave a recent interview over on indieWIRE. Eagle vs Shark also has a rather nifty new film poster....
Read more about this film in theongoing discussion on the WTF! forum. Reviews included there as well as thoughts from others. Opinions expressed are the indivuduals own. Tastes are subjective. But its good to have a discussion ;)
August 2007 - Eagle vs Shark out in New Zealand and UK this month
The Times Online has an interview with Taika Waititi......
The accidental director - He paints, acts and designs clothes. But does Taika Cohen really want to be known for directing movies?
His first short film, Two Cars, One Night, was nominated for an Oscar. His first feature, Eagle vs Shark, was lauded at the Sundance Film Festival and has won a clutch of other awards. But the director Taika Cohen (his first name is pronounced “Tie-ka”) is uncertain he even wants to be a film-maker.
The 31-year-old New Zealander has no shortage of other talents. As a comedian in the Humourbeasts, performing alongside Jermaine Clement, star of Eagle vs Shark, he’s well known “in certain circles”. He’s a painter and illustrator, a photographer and a sometime fashion designer (“I’m really into sewing, there’s something very meditative and hands-on about it”). Perhaps not surprisingly given his striking looks, he has a burgeoning career as an actor.
Cohen (he also known as Taika Waititi, he uses both his parents’ surnames) talks about his movie-making with ambivalence — almost like something that crept up and hi-jacked his life. “I’ve never really had a ‘career’. Now film-making is kind of like my job. It’s bizarre. I’ve only been doing it for four years.”
Empire has reviewed Eagle vs Shark for the UK movie going audience. Gave it 4/5 star rating. Read the full online review at EmpireOnline
FilmThreat has an interview with Taika Waititi. Read it here
Interview with Taika Waititi and Samuel Flynn Scott of the Phoenix Foundation talking about Eagle vs Shark. They discuss working together on the Taika's first feature film, Eagle vs Shark, hanging out in New York with their Wellington mates, and whether Taika is the most laid-back man in cinema. Go download the MP3 of the interview here (9MB) From PA Radio in New Zealand.
While I'm here and banging on about the film I decided to update the Eagle vs Shark page with more interviews. Eagle vs Shark had a decent opening weekend considering only 3 cinemas in the entire US are showing it :p In at number 30! Eagle vs Shark is having its NZ premiere at the Wellington Film Festival on July
June 13 2007- New Eagle vs Shark reviews out today. The lady over at 680 News was full of choice descriptions for how dire the film was. But hey, she at least was original and compared it to some film called Napoleon Dynamite Read others via the Eagle vs Shark review page and all its linkies.
Jemaine must be wishing he had a robot version of himself, or at the very least a clone or twin as he is not only finishing up on the HBO series and promoting it, but also due for release soon is Eagle vs Shark and promotion for that. Most recently Jemaine did a short radio interview for NPR. Listen to it here (Real Player and Windows. Bleh)
Eagle vs Shark also got a bit of coverage in Marie Claire US this month. You know the magazine ladies, the one thats a little more mature than Cosmo... (read for the slightly older woman) Guys out there probably won't be picking it up to browse through so I've included a scan of it, if there are men out there brave enough to wade through girly style writing. Click here or image for full size scan.
May 2007 - Inching ever nearer to its US release
Eagle vs Shark inches ever nearer to its US release date. The official site has lots of new stuff added to it recently, including upcoming contests, soundtrack info, and a directors blog which I found very amusing. Toy Car/Traika/Taiger/Taika is much amusing.
The soundtrack to Eagle vs Shark was written and performed by mates of the Conchords The Phoenix Foundation. They are on tour in the US at the moment and you can read about them over on Exitfare and check out some of their songs and find gig info on their ArseOfTheInter... I mean My | [
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Statement Attributable to
the Spokesperson for the High Representative for
the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)
on the occasion of
International Day of Sport for Development and Peace 2022
New York – 6 April 2022
On the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) celebrates the role of sport in advancing diversity and social cohesion. The values inherent in sport, such as mutual respect, solidarity and integrity, among other humanistic principles, are needed now more than ever. These values are at the heart of the mission of UNAOC.
In the context of United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/73/24, UNAOC underpinned sport as a key priority area in its 2019-2023 Action Plan. We believe that sport can be a powerful engine for social inclusion by bringing together people from diverse cultures, religions, and ethnicities.
To amplify the role of sport in preventing and countering violent extremism conducive to terrorism, UNAOC, in partnership with the United Nations Office on Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), UNICRI, and the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), have been implementing the “United Nations Global Programme on Security of Major Sporting Events, and Promotion of Sport and Its Values as a Tool to Prevent Violent Extremism”. As a partner, UNAOC plays an important role in mainstreaming youth perspectives in the programme, as well as highlighting the role of sport in PCVE.
To this end, UNAOC partnered with renowned soccer clubs and international sports entities and launched the #OneHumanity campaign. The campaign calls for taking a stand against discrimination, xenophobia, and identity-based conflict.
Further, UNAOC introduced the #Sport4OneHumanity initiative this year to recognize the value of grassroots organizations as key partners in delivering sport for peace and development programs at the community level to scale up their impact to the national and global level. Through its support of the #Sport4OneHumanity, UNAOC strengthens the capacities of civil society organizations (CSOs) to maintain and expand their contribution to peace and development, as well as other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through sport. The initiative aims to support sports-based grassroots projects promoting diversity and inclusion, education and empowerment of youth, women and girls, and the fostering of peaceful and inclusive societies through sport.
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Despite the common wisdom that it's a bad idea and can have a disastrous impact on one's career, office romances are alive and well.
Like her late billionaire husband, Paul, Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon has always put a premium on privacy, even as some of the world’s most public people—including John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth, and Prince Charles—flocked to her exquisite Virginia estate.
With an unprecedented interview (and amid two scandals), the redoubtable Mellon, who turns 100 this month, shares with the author her precious horticultural legacy, fruit of a lifelong passion for gardening.
Rumors have swirled over the identity of the famous woman since then, and now a source is making major claims about the affair."He was cheating on his wife with Kerry when they were filming ['I Think I Love My Wife'] about him, ironically, having fantasies of cheating on his wife.
That went on for a while, for like six months, and she found out. The movie was filmed in 2006, and Kerry was engaged to actor David Moscow at the time.
Kerry's ex was asked about the alleged affair, to which he responded: "No comment." Portrait of actor and comedian Chris Rock, wearing a large gold ring across the fingers of his left hand that spell 'Gusto' and a large gold dollar sign as a necklace, while in costume for his movie CB4, Los Angeles, CA, 1993. TABLOIDS OUT) Actor Chris Rock makes an appearance on MTV's Total Request Live to promote the 'The Longest Yard' on May 23, 2005 in New York City.
(Photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images)369098 03: Actor And Comedian Chris Rock And Film Director Spike Lee Watch The Action During The New York Knicks Vs. (Photo by Peter Kramer/Getty Images)PASADENA, CA - SEPTEMBER 25: Actor Chris Rock accepts the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Theatrical Film at the 2005 BET Comedy Icon Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on September 25, 2005 in Pasadena, California.
Though she will turn 100 on August 9, there were no indications that services would be needed anytime soon.
On the contrary, her voice was breezy and cheerful.
“[It’s] the most valuable asset that money can buy,” he wrote at the conclusion of his 1992 memoir, The only son of financial titan Andrew Mellon, he had the means to purchase plenty of this commodity, along with so much more, and thoroughly enjoy it all. Guests such as John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, and the scarlet-coated members of the Piedmont Foxhounds found arguably the most understated refinement this country has produced. | [
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I have all sorts of gemstones. But none in the shape I wanted for the design I had in my head. So I created my own resin "gemstones" for this wire wrapped earrings tutorial. The starting inspiration were Nunn Design's small open round bezels which I bought some time ago. I thought it would be fun to suspend Swarvoski montees inside them.
I mixed up a batch of resin (courtesy of Little-Windows) and colored it. I happened to use Ranger's Perfect Pearls in gold but you can use other pigments (see first link below). A couple of tips about resin jewelry making. Make sure you have other resin projects in mind so you use up the resin you make up. Instead of squinting your eyes trying to see each level of the resin parts, use weight. This sweet little scales does the job.
Silicone molds are the best as no mold release agent is needed. Check out the baking section too! But remember not to use the molds for cooking afterwards. I particularly liked Wilton's Wedding Jewelry Fondant Mold ($6.53 on Amazon). There were some faceted shapes.
As I wanted to try many of the molds for earrings, it made sense to purchase two to make up pairs of resin components at the same time. Colored batches might vary slightly. Once the molds are filled with resin, cover them up to prevent dust settling on it. Leave 24-48 hours to cure.
The "facet" edges did not stand out until I traced them out using a gold oil paint marker.
I used a spiral ratchet drill to quickly drill holes in the resin cabochons. These manual drills are great for polymer clay and resin clay too. Takes a bit longer than electric drills and far less likely of accidentally skipping across the surface. See this post for a review on manual drills.
You can suspend beads or montees by wire wrapping. As montees have 4 holes, I used 2 lengths of wire. Each was secured to the bezel with wire wrapping. I used 24 G fine silver craft wire in gold (courtesy of Parawire).
I would have preferred square wire which would have wrapped even tighter on the frame and reduced the slippage. However, I did not have the gauge required to go through the montees.
The rest is easy. Just do a wire wrapped loop to attach the resin gemstones to the open bezel. Have one end of the wire longer so the wire wrapping can be extended down the top part of the resin cabochon. Add ear wires and you are done!
I receive books and products for review. I do receive a small fee for any products purchased through affiliate links. The opinions expressed are solely my own. They would be the same whether or not I receive any compensation.
I used natural light my iPhone 6S with the camera+ app and the Modahaus TS320 tabletop studio for final project images. Tutorial photos were taken using the same equipment but with artificial light. Check out my How to Photograph Jewelry Webinar.
Before You Go:
- How to Color Resin for Jewelry Making
- Gorgeous Briolette Wire Wrapped Earrings Tutorial
- How to Make Tear Drop Jewelry Tutorials
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The 1000FR is a light, versatile hand-held cutter with an ergonomically designed handle that makes it a pleasure to use. High quality components ensure that you can count on the 1000FR for your daily low ply cutting tasks. The advantage of a small blade vs. a larger blade is improved maneuverability, and ability to cut a tight radius corner. The 1000FR will cut a single ply to multiple ply’s up to 1/4” thick. It reduces the amount of sharpening, lengthening the life of the blade, and reduces pull of the fabric.
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Ineos has urged Falkirk Council not to re-open Bo’ness Road which runs through the middle of its Grangemouth complex.
The petrochemical giants claim safety and security could be at risk.
It has been closed to traffic for almost a year while the site has been redeveloped to accommodate the biggest Ethane storage tank in Europe which will allow it to run at full capacity for the first time in almost a decade.
Ineos say making the route available to traffic again “defies” common sense.
John McNally, chief executive officer, said: “Having a public highway running through a massive petrochemicals plant results in obvious and unnecessary added safety concerns we have to manage and unnecessary given there is a perfectly good alternate route that runs around the periphery of the site.
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“There was a movement to not have me in the role. I didn’t want to be in the role,” Pacino, who played Michael Corleone in The Godfather, said in an interview
Al Pacino wasn’t Paramount Pictures’ first choice to play Michael Corleone. Paramount Pictures and Francis Ford Coppola had a falling out over the casting of Michael Corleone in The Godfather. Premiering exclusively on Paramount Plus in April, The Offer explores the behind-the-scenes origin story of The Godfather.
The 1972 film The Godfather is widely regarded as one of the greatest American films of all time, but The Offer focuses on the narrative behind its creation. Casting these iconic characters will be one of the many themes explored in the limited series. The actors who ended up playing these roles weren’t the original choices of the creators, but they turned out to be fantastic.
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What can fans look forward to in The Offer?
When it was first released, The Godfather took the world by storm. It won Best Picture and Best Actor for Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone at the Oscars. It’s easy to see how, with hindsight, all of these elements came together to make a fantastic film, but as The Offer will show, that wasn’t the case when they put it all together. There was a dispute between Paramount Pictures and Francis Ford Coppola over casting Michael Corleone for the film. Ryan O’Neal, Warren Beatty and Robert Redford were the studio’s top picks. Coppola was looking for an undiscovered Italian-American actor.
Al Pacino had only appeared in one film, The Panic In Needle Park, in which he played a heroin addict. Pacino was brought in by Coppola for several tryouts, but the then 31-year-old actor kept forgetting his lines. Pacino was reportedly referred to as “that little midget” by producer Robert Evans, who warned Coppola that “a midget isn’t going to play the main character. Martin Sheen, David Carradine, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro were among the actors Coppola auditioned for Michael. James Caan was pushed by the studios to play Michael, but he wasn’t Sicilian enough for Coppola. In an interview, Pacino admitted that “there was a movement to not have me in the role. I didn’t want to be in the role.”
Coppola threatened to leave the project if Pacino was not selected; Evans eventually agreed as long as Caan was chosen as Sonny. Coppola had reconsidered the film a few weeks into production. Pacino’s portrayal of the character was too shy and soft, he feared. Coppola warned Pacino, “You don’t cut it for me, kid.” Pacino followed his Actors Studio direction in taking his time to figure out who Michael was as a character. Marlon Brando was aware of Pacino’s methodical acting style. He stood up for Pacino and encouraged Coppola to keep him.
The restaurant scene, where Michael steals a gun from the restroom and shoots Sollozzo and the corrupt cop, saved McCluskey Pacino’s job. The scenario is a master class in acting. There are no subtitles for the conversation between Sollozzo and Michael in Italian. With the viewer having no idea what the cast is saying, they are forced to focus solely on Pacino’s eyes, slumped shoulders, and subtle head movements to hide his inner struggle. It is at this point that Michael’s transformation from an innocent young man into a violent mafia lord takes place. It’s also the point where Al Pacino goes from “obscure” to movie star.
Many stories have been told about the making of The Godfather over the years. The Offer, on the other hand, is based on producer Albert S. Ruddy’s “unique experiences” while working on The Godfather. “The Godfather’s background is so extensive that a film could be developed that would cover all three of the family history films. The Offer, on the other hand, focuses on the original film.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION
- BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates generally to a portable electronic device and, more particularly, to a portable electronic device with a rotary camera unit for capturing images.
European patent application EP1383324 discloses a portable electronic device in the form of a mobile phone which includes a display for displaying an image, and a camera unit supported by a bearing and a hinge module for forward and reverse rotation so as to be able to take pictures of images, which can be displayed on the display, from a front side to a rear side of the display. The mobile phone comprises a reflector which is rotated in accordance with the rotation of the camera unit and has a plurality of areas of different reflection factors arranged along its circumferential direction. For determination of a control mode, a reflective photo-sensor optically detects the rotational position of the camera by projecting a beam of light toward the reflector and by receiving the light reflected from the reflector.
- SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Thus, the position of the camera unit is determined using optical detection means. Such a portable electronic device requires a perfect sealing so as to avoid reception of parasitic light sources but also dust that could tamper the detection of the rotational position of the camera unit. The implementation of such a protection sealing is therefore complex and particularly costly.
It is an object of the invention to propose a portable electronic device comprising a rotary camera unit and means for detecting the rotational position of the camera unit, which are cost-effective and easier to implement than the solution of the prior art.
To this end, the portable electronic device in accordance with the invention is characterized in that it comprises:
a camera unit, which can be rotated relative to the housing, for capturing an image;
magnetic detection means for detecting a rotational position of the camera unit;
image processing means for modifying the image captured by the camera unit depending on the rotational position detected by the magnetic detection means.
As a consequence, the optical means of the prior art have been replaced by magnetic detection means. Said magnetic detection means are particularly cost-effective and easy to implement since they are not sensitive to dust or other parasitic features and therefore do not require to be sealed.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the magnetic detection means comprise a magnetic transmitter attached to the camera unit and a magnetic receiver attached to the housing. The magnetic transmitter may be a magnet. The magnetic receiver may be a Hall effect sensor.
According to another exemplary embodiment of the invention, the portable electronic device comprises a crown gear fixed to the camera unit and a flexible plate fixed to the housing, the crown gear and the flexible plate being coupled to each other.
Still according to another exemplary embodiment of the invention, the portable electronic device further comprises a display, the camera unit comprises a camera lens, the magnetic detection means are able to detect a predetermined rotational position of the camera unit where the display and the camera lens are on opposite sides of the housing, and the image processing means are adapted to reverse the image captured by the camera unit if said camera unit is in said predetermined rotational position.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
These and other aspects of the invention will be apparent from and will be elucidated with reference to the embodiments described hereinafter.
The present invention will now be described in more detail, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 shows a portable electronic device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 illustrates the use of the portable electronic device in a first operation mode;
FIG. 3 illustrates the use of the portable electronic device in a second operation mode;
FIG. 4 shows a perspective view of the camera unit and the magnetic detection means according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 shows an exploded view of the camera unit and the magnetic detection means according to the same exemplary embodiment of the present invention; and
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 are cross-section views illustrating the operation of the magnetic detection means in order to detect the rotational position of the camera unit.
Referring to FIG. 1 of the drawings, a portable electronic device 20 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is depicted. This portable electronic device is either a cordless phone or a mobile phone. It may also be a personal digital assistant (PDA) or even a camera. The portable electronic device comprises a housing 26 including a key entry section 21 which comprises a number of button switches 22 for dial entry and other functions. A display unit 23 is disposed above the key entry section 21. A microphone 24 and a loudspeaker 25, located at opposite ends of the portable electronic device 20, are provided for receiving audio signals from the surrounding area and transmitting audio signal coming from the telecommunications network, respectively.
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Global obesity prevalence has reached epidemic proportions, with 37 % of men and 38 % of women now either overweight or obese( Reference Ng, Fleming and Robinson 1 ). Poor dietary choices and inadequate physical activity are the primary causes of obesity( Reference Hill, Wyatt and Peters 2 ). Current strategies for improving diet and other lifestyle behaviours, such as consuming five portions of fruit and vegetables per day( 3 ), are based on ‘one size fits all’ generalised dietary guidelines. Given that the burden of obesity is increasing( Reference Ng, Fleming and Robinson 1 ), alternative strategies for improving dietary behaviours are being developed, including predictive, personalised, preventive and participatory interventions( Reference Hood and Friend 4 ). Recent evidence suggests that genetic-based personalised nutrition (PN) improves dietary intakes more than non-personalised advice( Reference Nielsen and El-Sohemy 5 ). However, since dietary intakes tend to cluster( Reference Berrigan, Dodd and Troiano 6, Reference Leech, McNaughton and Timperio 7 ), it may be possible to enhance the efficacy of interventions by further characterisation of participants according to their dietary and lifestyle behaviours and, subsequently, use this information to strengthen the basis for personalisation of the intervention. For example, lower intakes of fruit, vegetables and whole grains are often associated with higher intakes of red or processed meat( Reference Newby, Muller and Hallfrisch 8 ). In addition, less healthy dietary clusters are associated with increased disease risk( Reference Moore, Singer and Bradlee 9 ) and unhealthy dietary and lifestyle behaviours are associated with higher levels of sedentary behaviour( Reference Leech, McNaughton and Timperio 7 ) and mortality( Reference Khaw, Wareham and Bingham 10, Reference van Dam, Li and Spiegelman 11 ). Clustering individuals based on whether they meet dietary recommendations may be a useful predictive tool for estimating response to an intervention( Reference Kesse-Guyot, Castetbon and Estaquio 12 – Reference Zamora, Gordon-Larsen and He 14 ) and may help to stratify or personalise interventions.
The Food4Me Proof-of-Principle study was the first Internet-based study to demonstrate that PN advice was more effective in improving dietary intakes, including lowering intakes of red meat, compared with conventional ‘one size fits all’ population-based advice( Reference Livingstone, Celis-Morales and Navas-Carretero 15, 16 ). However, the characteristics of individuals clustered on the basis of adherence to current recommended dietary intakes of fruit and vegetables, whole grains, oily fish, dairy products and red and processed meat are unknown. Thus, the aims of the current analysis were to: (i) characterise European adults participating in the Food4Me study( Reference Celis-Morales, Livingstone and Marsaux 17 ) according to clustering based on European recommendations for healthy eating; and (ii) determine whether cluster membership predicted dietary changes following a PN intervention.
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The Food4Me study was a 6-month, four-arm, Internet-based, randomised controlled trial (RCT) in 1607 individuals conducted across seven European countries( Reference Livingstone, Celis-Morales and Navas-Carretero 17, Reference Livingstone, Celis-Morales and Navas-Carretero 18 ). Participants were recruited via the Food4Me website( 16 ) to emulate a web-based PN service. This was aided by local and national advertising of the study via the Internet, radio, newspapers, posters, e-flyers, social media and word of mouth. Recruitment took place between August 2012 and August 2013 in the following sites: University College Dublin (Ireland), Maastricht University (The Netherlands), University of Navarra (Spain), Harokopio University (Greece), University of Reading (UK), National Food and Nutrition Institute (Poland) and Technical University of Munich (Germany). The Research Ethics Committees at each University or Research Centre delivering the intervention granted ethical approval for the study. The Food4Me trial was registered as an RCT (NCT01530139) at Clinicaltrials.gov. All participants expressing an interest in the study were asked to sign online consent forms at two stages in the screening process.
Participants were randomised to receive non-personalised, generalised dietary advice (Control) or one of three levels of PN (Level 1, Level 2 or Level 3). Briefly, non-personalised dietary advice was based on national dietary recommendations in each of the seven European countries. These ‘standardised’ recommendations included advice on energy intake and on the consumption of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fish, dairy products, meat, type of fat and salt. Participants randomised to Level 1 received personalised dietary advice on how their intakes of these food groups at baseline compared with guideline amounts. Participants randomised to Level 2 received advice based on their dietary intake (as for Level 1) and also on | [
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The circular swing sieve is an efficient screening machine which is designed to meet the large output, high screening accurate of manufacture. The movement is similar with hand screening. Because of the motion trajectory of the griddle box, the circular swing sieve is also called compound circle screen. The vibration force produced by the drive system is a kind of inertia force which is circling the dead axle and changing regularly. It is suitable for fine powder,needle shape material etc.
when the machine begins to work,the vibrating part---the screen box takes circling motion under the influence of the vibrating force.The screen box drive the sieve to take circling motion periodicity,The materials is continuously fed into the centre of the top screen, from where it spreads out evenly to the outside across the entire screening surface. so the material on screen surface take bounce motion,meanwhile,the material less than the aperture drop to the next deck,and the oversize are discharged by the outlet. Finally, the screening work is completed. From the aspect of its structure and working principle, the exciter can in two ways according to the motion of the material, uniformly or contrarily. As a result, we'd better make a choice between throughput and efficiency according to our practical demand.
Features of circular swing sieve
1.Chemical industry: resin pigment, medicine, grease, paint, palette, etc.
2.Abrasive material and ceramic industry: building sand, mica, alumina, abrasive, refractory material, slurry, etc.
3.Food industry: sugar, salt, alkali, gourmet powder, starch, milk powder, yeast powder, pollen, food additive, bean milk, juice, etc.
4.Metallurgy and mining industry: quartz sand, ore, titanium oxide, zinc oxide, etc.
5.Mechanical industry: casting sand, powder metallurgy, electromagnetic material and metal powder, etc.
| Model || Screen slope || |
Screen mesh area
| CWYS-600 || 0-100 || 0.28 || 220-280 || <100 || 20-70 || 0.75 |
| CWYS-1000 || 0.66 || 220-280 || <100 || 20-70 || 1.5 |
| CWYS-1200 || 0.98 || 220-280 || <100 || 20-70 || 2.2 |
| CWYS-1500 || 1.67 || 220-280 || <100 || 20-70 || 3.0 |
| CWYS-1800 || 2.37 || 220-280 || <100 || 20-70 || 4.0 |
| CWYS-2000 || 2.89 || 220-280 || <100 || 20-70 || 4.0 |
| CWYS-2600 || 5.3 || 220-280 || <100 || 20-70 || 5.5 |
Packing & Delivery
Chenwei Machinery has a professional production team, complete equipment, strong technical force. Mainly produces vibrating screen, air flow screen, solid liquid separator,polishing machine,screw conveyor,vacuum conveyor,etc. Various materials and equipment, widely used in food, chemical, resin, pharmaceutical, ceramics, metal powder mining and metallurgy, paper and other industries.
XINXIANG CHENWEI MACHINERY CO.,LTD
Xinxiang Chenwei Machinery located in Xinxiang City,Henan Province,is specialized in providing solutions for material handling and processing,being in this field for over 30 years.
Main products cover screening and filtering equipment,conveying and lifting equipment,drying machine,crushing and grinding machine,mixer,packing machine,waste material recycling machine etc,Besides providing single equipment,we can also provide whole production line,such as dry mortar production line,wood pellet production line,pellet feed production line,organic fertilizer production.
We are qualified with ISO quality management system and CE certificate, all the main components are fine manufactured in our own factory with strict inspection, and quality is always our priority
Due to our continuous investment on R&D and upgrading in industrial application year by year, Chenwei Machinery had formed its own unique and beneficial characters in design and process technology. All the equipment are manufactured strictly under guideline of ISO 9001:2008.
Till now, our products have been exported to USA, Canada, Korean,Poland, North Korea, Britain, Turkey, Sweden, Japan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine,Russia, Albania,Sri Lanka, Israel, Cyprus, Uzbekistan, Thailand,Egypt, India, Pakistan, Peru, Brazil etc.
We formed our own insight for biscuit and candy processing industry and our solutions are verified successfully for customers. Chenwei Machinery are always ready and expecting chances to serve you at home and abroad.
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