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The Arab American Institute supports the development of specific policies that would impose reasonable limitations on the use of drones by U.S., state, or local officials in the international and domestic arenas. We support the development and implementation of oversight measures that would ensure that any use of drones by U.S. governments, agencies, businesses, or citizens, would comply with international law and would safeguard Americans’ civil liberties.
The United States has at least 8,000 drones, unmanned planes and helicopters flown by remote control. In the international arena, the Bush and Obama Administrations have relied heavily on drones against known or suspected terrorists in countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen. Since 2004, the U.S. has launched 78 strikes in Yemen, 350 in Pakistan alone, and armed drones fired missiles on Afghanistan 447 times in 2012 alone.
According to the CIA and counter-terrorism officials, drones have killed more than 500 militants, including more than half of the 20 most wanted al-Qaeda terrorist suspects. And while government sources assert that very few civilians are killed by US drone attacks, some sources estimate that the civilian-to-militant death ratio is actually as high as 50:1.
The government’s use of drones came under increased scrutiny in 2013, following the February release of a Justice Department White Paper that appeared to grant the Executive Office sweeping powers for the use of drones to target American citizens with little or no oversight. According to the memo, “The condition that an operational leader present an ‘imminent’ threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future.”
In March 2013, a U.N. team investigating civilian drone casualties in Pakistan claimed that U.S. attacks are a violation of the sovereignty of Pakistan calling them of “dubious international legality.”
During the amendment process for the annual defense authorization bill (NDAA), Rep. Conyers proposed an amendment that would address the scope and transparency concerns with the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Resolution (AUMF). The Conyers amendment that was adopted, clarifies that the AUMF assessment requires the President to assess whether a group is an associated force for purposes of interpreting the scope of the 2001 AUMF.
At the federal level, the Federal Aviation Administration is charged with developing a plan for incorporating surveillance drones into the national airspace by 2015, and authorizing public and private use of drones.
At the same time, 37 pieces of state legislation regarding public and private use of surveillance drones are currently pending around the nation. Two states (Florida and Virginia) have enacted drone legislation. There are wide variances from state to state on a number of key issues, including privacy protections, parameters for use by law enforcement agencies, storage of information collected by drones, and the use of such data by courts and administrative hearings.
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|Publication number||US6188414 B1|
|Application number||US 09/430,534|
|Publication date||Feb 13, 2001|
|Filing date||Oct 29, 1999|
|Priority date||Apr 30, 1998|
|Publication number||09430534, 430534, US 6188414 B1, US 6188414B1, US-B1-6188414, US6188414 B1, US6188414B1|
|Inventors||Marvin Glenn Wong, Melissa D. Boyd, Timothy E. Beerling|
|Original Assignee||Hewlett-Packard Company|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (8), Referenced by (52), Classifications (15), Legal Events (6)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/070,864, filed on behalf of Timothy Beerling, et al., on Apr. 30, 1998 and assigned to the assignee of the present invention. This invention relates to inkjet printheads and more particularly to an apparatus and method of electrically and fluidically coupling an ink-ejecting die to a printhead.
Printers are devices that print images onto a printing medium such as a sheet of paper. Various types of printers exist offering a range of printing speeds, printing colors, and printing quality. Printers are commonly linked to computers (printing system) that generate the content of images, text, or graphics being printed.
Thermal inkjet printers (a type of ink jet printer) eject small drops of ink onto a printing medium, these droplets of ink form the image, text, and graphics generated by the computer. Modem inkjet printers are capable of producing photographic-quality images and are generally less expensive than conventional laser-type printers because the printing mechanism is less expensive to produce. Additionally, thermal inkjet printers are quiet (as compared to conventional impact printers) because there is no mechanical impact during the formation of the image other than the deposition of ink onto the printing medium. Thermal inkjet printers typically have a large number of individual ink-ejecting nozzles (orifices) disposed in a printhead. The nozzles are spatially positioned and are facing the printing medium. Beneath each nozzle is a heater resistor that thermally agitates the ink when an electrical pulse energizes the heater resistor. Ink residing above the heater resistor is ejected through the nozzle and towards the printing medium as a result of the electrical pulse. Concurrently, the printhead traverses the surface of the printing medium with the nozzles ejecting ink as instructed by the printing system. For high-speed printers, however, an array of printheads may be stationary relative to the printing medium while motion is imparted to the printing medium.
As ink is ejected from the printhead, the ink droplets strike the printing medium and then dry forming “dots” of ink that, when viewed together, create a printed image. Most thermal inkjet printing systems are constructed with a permanent printer body and a disposable or semi-disposable printhead. The printhead includes a die and a supporting substrate. Furthermore, ink may be supplied to the printhead from a reservoir attached to the printer. This configuration allows the printer to operate over an extended period of time prior to having the ink replenished.
In a conventional printhead, a die having disposed heater resistors and accompanying ink-ejecting nozzles is fluidically and electrically coupled to a substrate. The fluidic coupling of the die may be achieved by attaching the die to the substrate wherein ink flows to the heater resistors (disposed in the die) from the edge of the die or from the center of the die. In either configuration, however, the ink reaches the heater resistors and is available to be ejected onto the printing medium. Electrical connections (interconnects) are also made between the pen body and the die. In a conventional printhead, one of the pen body's functions (in view of the electrical coupling) is to support an interconnect circuit that supplies power to the die upon inserting the printhead into the printer.
The electrical coupling of a die to the substrate as performed in inkjet technology is sufficiently more complicated than electrically coupling a die to a substrate as commonly performed in conventional integrated circuit packaging. For example, the interconnects must be isolated from ink being ejected from the die due to the potential corrosiveness of ink. Additionally, certain constituents of the ink may be conductive thus causing electrical shorting of the interconnects. Secondly, the interconnects are exposed to continuous vibration and physical contact by the printer. The vibration is created, in part, from the traversing movement of the printhead relative to the printing medium whereas the physical contact between the printhead and the printer occurs during the cleaning cycle of the die. The cleaning cycle involves periodically passing a wiper across the die which removes ink residue and other particles that may degrade printing performance. Thirdly, the interconnects are exposed to a wide range of temperatures stemming from the printing demands of the computer system. Consequently, the temperature of the die may rise sharply followed by an immediate cooling period. Thermal cycling of the die as such may fatigue the electrical interconnects causing them to break.
Fluidic coupling of the die to the pen body may be equally challenging. Firstly, the vibration and cleaning of the printhead, as previously described, may create microcracks between the die and pen body interface. Consequently, ink may leak onto the printing medium, thus, ruining the image being printed. Additionally, the leaking ink may serve to degrade the electrical interconnects. In a similar manner, temperature variations may further exacerbate microcracking between the die and the pen body. A further consideration in view of fluidically (and electrically) coupling the die to the substrate is the distance between the printhead and the printing medium. In general, it is desirable to minimize this distance and thereby minimize errors in the trajectory of ink being ejected from the die.
Although many attempts have been made, and indeed are ongoing, to resolve challenges previously described in coupling the die to the pen body, there still remains a need for an improved printhead. An improved printhead as such would consist of electrical interconnects that are isolated from the ink and cleaning mechanism of the printer, electrical interconnects that are tolerant of rapid temperature changes and, an ink ejecting die that would operate in close proximity of the printing medium.
A print cartridge comprising an encapsulant, an interconnect circuit, a beveled die including a plurality of orifices for ejecting ink, a substrate with an upper and lower surface and including a groove formed in the upper surface. The groove has a bottom surface that channels ink to the beveled die. The beveled die is fluidically sealed to at least a portion of the bottom surface of the groove. An interconnect circuit is disposed on an upper surface of the substrate and is electrically coupled to an upper surface of the beveled die. Finally, the encapsulant is disposed at least over the electrical interconnect and between the beveled die.
FIG. 1A is a conventional Fully Integrated Thermal (FIT) ink jet printing system comprising a beveled die.
FIG. 1B is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the current invention.
FIG. 2A is a partial cross section of a perspective view of FIG. 1B.
FIG. 2B is a cross section of FIG. 1B showing the insertion of a beveled die.
FIG. 2C is a perspective view of a beveled die.
FIG. 3 is a substrate having an opening that allows ink to flow to the inserted die.
FIG. 4 is a substrate wherein a front portion and a rear portion of the substrate are open as compared to FIG. 3.
FIG. 5A is a substrate comprising a recessed notch and imbedded electrical conductors.
FIG. 5B is a cross section of the FIG. 5A with an inserted beveled die.
FIG. 5C is a cross section of the FIG. 5A with an inserted beveled die and an opening wherein an external ink reservoir is coupled.
FIG. 6A is a top view of the FIG. 5A with an inserted beveled die and with the encapsulant removed.
FIG. 6B shows a TAB circuit being used as the electrical interconnect between the beveled die and a substrate having a recessed notch with imbedded electrical conductors.
The aforementioned challenges associated with fluidically and electrically coupling the die to the pen body have been resolved as exemplified in a preferred embodiment of the present invention. In its simplest form, the present invention provides a planar encapsulated electrical interconnection to an integrated printhead assembly. The encapsulant protects the electrical interconnection and fluidically seals the printhead die to the supporting substrate.
A preferred embodiment of the present invention incorporates a beveled die 106 as shown in a conventional Fully Integrated Thermal (FIT) ink jet printing system (FIG. 1A). In the FIT printing system, the beveled die is electrically coupled to an ink cartridge body 101 and an integrated circuit 103 via a Tape Automated Bonding (TAB) circuit 107 (For an additional illustration of how a TAB circuit is used in conjunction with an inkjet die, refer to U.S. Pat. No. 4,827,294 assigned to Hewlett Packard Co.). Ink is received by the beveled die through ink ducts 105, as shown in FIG. 1A that are formed in the cartridge body 101. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the beveled die 106 is similarly configured to receive ink from a substrate as described below.
FIG. 1B illustrates a preferred embodiment of the current invention comprising a substrate 102, an external ink coupling slot 104 formed in the substrate, the aforementioned beveled die 106 having disposed therein heater resistors and which is inserted into provisions made in the substrate 102, a TAB circuit 108 (as previously described) is used to couple the beveled die to the substrate and, an encapsulated upper surface 110. FIG. 2A illustrates a perspective cross-sectional view of FIG. 1B; however, the encapsulated upper surface (encapsulant) is partially removed 110′ to further illustrate the TAB circuit 108. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the substrate 102 (FIG. 2A) is formed from molded plastic, although a variety of materials may be used including, but not limited to, silicon, ceramic, and metal. The substrate has a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) that is compatible with the TAB circuit 108, beveled die 106, and encapsulant 110. Additionally, the substrate is impervious to ink (which may be corrosive) and contains a groove 202, as shown in FIG. 2A, in which the beveled die is inserted. The groove 202 as shown in FIG. 2B, which is a cross-section of FIG. 1B, has at its base (bottom surface) a trench 204 through which ink is distributed to the beveled die. The ink passes from the trench 204 to the beveled die 106 and subsequently to a heater resistor (not shown) that is disposed beneath each ink-ejecting orifice 208.
FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of the substrate 102 shown in FIG. 1B. The substrate has a front surface 302 and a rear surface 304. The bottom of the substrate is sealed thereby retaining the ink in the substrate trench 204. The front surface 302 of the substrate contains an external coupling slot 104 that allows ink to enter or exit the substrate. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the ink supplied to the substrate resides in an ink reservoir (not shown). The top surface 308 of the substrate is planar and capable of supporting electrical interconnects, as will be described shortly. FIG. 4 shows a substrate 402 similar to that of FIG. 3 however, the front portion 404 and the rear portion 406 are open.
The beveled die shown in FIG. 2C comprises an upper surface 111 having disposed heater resistors (not shown), a predetermined periphery 220, and a lower surface 224. An intervening surface 210 is disposed between the upper surface 111 and the lower surface 224. The intervening surface contains an array of electrical pads 211 upon which insulated conductors (interconnect) are attached. The lower surface and the intervening surface is aligned 226 on four lateral sides (not all shown) and extends beyond the predetermined periphery 220 of the upper surface 111. In a preferred embodiment of the current invention, the beveled die consists of two opposing lateral surfaces 228 comprising a horizontal alignment of the upper surface 111, the lower surface 224, and the intervening surface 210. A plurality of orifices 208 is disposed in the upper surface 111 and an inkfeed channel 206 is formed in the lower surface. The inkfeed channel substantially extends from the lower surface to the upper surface wherein ink may be received by the plurality of orifices.
The beveled die 106, as shown in FIG. 2C, is inserted into the substrate 102 and an adhesive 215 (FIG. 2B) is used to attach the beveled die to the substrate. The adhesive may be selected from a group of materials including, but not limited to, epoxies, polyimides, and isocyanate esters. Furthermore, the adhesive 215 is impervious to ink and possesses a CTE compatible with the surrounding materials. In an embodiment of the present invention, the encapsulant may serve as the adhesive.
A typical CTE for the substrate 102 (refer to FIG. 2A) used in an embodiment of the present invention is between 3-50 ppm/° C. Once the beveled die has been attached to the substrate as shown in FIG. 2B, the TAB circuit 108 is then electrically coupled to the beveled die 106. The TAB circuit may comprise a flexible polymer support as a sheet material and enclosed conductors or a rigid insulator and enclosed conductors. The electrical coupling established by the TAB circuit allows the beveled die to receive power and printing instructions from other printer components. In a preferred embodiment of the current invention, leads 209 of the TAB circuit 108 (FIG. 2B) intersecting the beveled die 106 are gang bonded (multiple bonds are simultaneously made) to the electrical pads 211 disposed on the intervening surface 210 of the beveled die 106. However, the leads 209 may be individually bonded using solder bumps, conductive adhesives, thermosonic or pressure bonding.
To insure a fluidic seal around the inserted beveled die that prevents ink leakage, the gap 213 between the beveled die and the substrate is filled with an encapsulant material (hereafter referred to as an encapsulant). The encapsulant 110 is disposed such that the top surface of the encapsulant is coplanar 109, as shown in FIG. 2A, with the upper surface 111 of the beveled die 106. The flush configuration avoids damage to the electrical interconnect by the cleaning mechanism of the printer because the interconnects are disposed substantially beneath the encapsulant. Additionally, this configuration avoids leaving puddles of ink that may otherwise form on the beveled die during operation. It also allows for minimum distance to exist between the beveled die and the printing medium. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the coplanar interface 109 between the encapsulant and beveled die eliminates particles and ink residue from adhering to the joined surfaces thus allowing the minimum distance to exist without such particles and residue rubbing on the printed medium. The encapsulant also forms a strong mechanical bond between the beveled die and the substrate that is capable of withstanding thermal and mechanical stresses. Furthermore, the encapsulant is impervious to ink and therefore provides additional protection against leaks that may stem from micro-cracking of the adhesive used to fluidically seal the beveled die to the substrate.
FIG. 5A illustrates a substrate wherein electrical conductors 502 are disposed in the sidewalls 501 of the substrate. The substrate 504, in contrast to the aforementioned substrate 102, has a recessed notch 506 in the upper surface of the sidewall 501 which serves as a platform for electrically coupling the beveled die. An advantage of this design, as will be illustrated shortly, is the lowering (recess) of the interconnect circuit into the substrate thereby further protecting the interconnect circuit from the ink and cleaning mechanism of the printer. FIG. 5B shows a cross-section of FIG. 5A wherein the beveled die has been inserted into the substrate 504. The beveled die is attached to the substrate using an adhesive 215 as previously described. However, individual electrical wires 508 are used to couple electrical pads 211 of the beveled die to the electrical conductors 502 instead of the TAB circuit previously described. The electrical wires 508 may be attached to the electrical pads 211 on the beveled die using solder bumps, conductive adhesives, or thermal pressure bonding. Likewise the opposing end 510 of the electrical wire 508 is bonded to the interconnect 502 bonding pad 507. The encapsulant 110 is malleable when it is initially disposed on top of the substrate using an extrusion coating technique. However, as it hardens, it becomes permanently affixed to the substrate and thereby substantially enclosing the beveled die and sealing the interconnects. FIG. 5C shows a modification of the substrate 504 having an opening 515, formed beneath the groove 202 of the substrate. This configuration, which is similar to that shown in 105 (refer to FIG. 1A), allows ink to be readily coupled into the substrate from an external ink reservoir (not shown). The ink enters the substrate 504 from its lower surface and is supplied to the heater resistors through the inkfeed channel formed in the die.
FIG. 6A shows a top view of the beveled die inserted into the substrate 504 before the encapsulant is disposed. FIG. 6B shows a preferred embodiment of the present invention wherein a TAB circuit 602, in contrast to FIG. 6A, is used to connect the beveled die 106 to the substrate 504. By incorporating the TAB circuit, an increased number of interconnects which may support a higher level of functionality of the beveled die is realized. For example, when the encapsulant is initially disposed on top of individual wires such as 508, (FIG. 5B) the wires may bend and consequently form an electrical short. To reduce the possibility of shorting the wires during the extrusion of the encapsulant, the electrical pads 211 may be spaced further apart. However, since a TAB circuit comprises wires (conductors) that are electrically separated by an insulating material, the extrusion of the encapsulant does not impact the wires. Therefore, by using a TAB circuit 602 as illustrated in FIG. 6B, the electrical pads 211 may be placed closer together.
A preferred embodiment of the current invention herein disclosed provides a robust printhead having several advantages as compared to a conventional printhead including but not limited to: (1) interconnects between a beveled die and a substrate that are below the top surface of the printhead, (2) a substrate and beveled die mechanical interface that establishes an inkfeed channel through which ink is channeled into the beveled die, (3) electrical interconnects that are solidified in an encapsulant and therefore protected from chemical etching of the ink and vibrational/physical forces generated by the printer, and (4) minimized die to printing medium distance.
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Walter C. Patterson
by Earthscan Publications, Distributed in North America by the Brookings Institution in London, Washington, DC
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“I have not read this author’s books, and if I have read them I have forgotten what they were about.”
These words are reported as having been uttered in our midst not a hundred years ago, publicly, from the seat of justice, by a civic magistrate. The words of our municipal rulers have a solemnity and importance far above the words of other mortals, because our municipal rulers more than any other variety of our governors and masters represent the average wisdom, temperament, sense and virtue of the community. This generalisation, it ought to be promptly said in the interests of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless indignations of their daily and weekly Press, the majority of municipal rulers appear to be thieves of a particularly irrepressible sort. But this by the way. My concern is with a statement issuing from the average temperament and the average wisdom of a great and wealthy community, and uttered by a civic magistrate obviously without fear and without reproach.
I confess I am pleased with his temper, which is that of prudence. “I have not read the books,” he says, and immediately he adds, “and if I have read them I have forgotten.” This is excellent caution. And I like his style: it is unartificial and bears the stamp of manly sincerity. As a reported piece of prose this declaration is easy to read and not difficult to believe. Many books have not been read; still more have been forgotten. As a piece of civic oratory this declaration is strikingly effective. Calculated to fall in with the bent of the popular mind, so familiar with all forms of forgetfulness, it has also the power to stir up a subtle emotion while it starts a train of thought — and what greater force can be expected from human speech? But it is in naturalness that this declaration is perfectly delightful, for there is nothing more natural than for a grave City Father to forget what the books he has read once — long ago — in his giddy youth maybe — were about.
And the books in question are novels, or, at any rate, were written as novels. I proceed thus cautiously (following my illustrious example) because being without fear and desiring to remain as far as possible without reproach, I confess at once that I have not read them.
I have not; and of the million persons or more who are said to have read them, I never met one yet with the talent of lucid exposition sufficiently developed to give me a connected account of what they are about. But they are books, part and parcel of humanity, and as such, in their ever increasing, jostling multitude, they are worthy of regard, admiration, and compassion.
Especially of compassion. It has been said a long time ago that books have their fate. They have, and it is very much like the destiny of man. They share with us the great incertitude of ignominy or glory — of severe justice and senseless persecution — of calumny and misunderstanding — the shame of undeserved success. Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thought, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning towards error. But most of all they resemble us in their precarious hold on life. A bridge constructed according to the rules of the art of bridge-building is certain of a long, honourable and useful career. But a book as good in its way as the bridge may perish obscurely on the very day of its birth. The art of their creators is not sufficient to give them more than a moment of life. Of the books born from the restlessness, the inspiration, and the vanity of human minds, those that the Muses would love best lie more than all others under the menace of an early death. Sometimes their defects will save them. Sometimes a book fair to see may — to use a lofty expression — have no individual soul. Obviously a book of that sort cannot die. It can only crumble into dust. But the best of books drawing sustenance from the sympathy and memory of men have lived on the brink of destruction, for men’s memories are short, and their sympathy is, we must admit, a very fluctuating, unprincipled emotion.
No secret of eternal life for our books can be found amongst the formulas of art, any more than for our bodies in a prescribed combination of drugs. This is not because some books are not worthy of enduring life, but because the formulas of art are dependent on things variable, unstable and untrustworthy; on human sympathies, on prejudices, on likes and dislikes, on the sense of virtue and the sense of propriety, on beliefs and theories that, indestructible in themselves, always change their form — often in the lifetime of one fleeting generation.
Of all books, novels, which the Muses should love, make a serious claim on our compassion. The art of the novelist is simple. At the same time it is the most elusive of all creative arts, the most liable to be obscured by the scruples of its servants and votaries, the one pre-eminently destined to bring trouble to the mind and the heart of the artist. After all, the creation of a world is not a small undertaking except perhaps to the divinely gifted. In truth every novelist must begin by creating for himself a world, great or little, in which he can honestly believe. This world cannot be made otherwise than in his own image: it is fated to remain individual and a little mysterious, and yet it must resemble something already familiar to the experience, the thoughts and the sensations of his readers. At the heart of fiction, even the least worthy of the name, some sort of truth can be found — if only the truth of a childish theatrical ardour in the game of life, as in the novels of Dumas the father. But the fair truth of human delicacy can be found in Mr. Henry James’s novels; and the comical, appalling truth of human rapacity let loose amongst the spoils of existence lives in the monstrous world created by Balzac. The pursuit of happiness by means lawful and unlawful, through resignation or revolt, by the clever manipulation of conventions or by solemn hanging on to the skirts of the latest scientific theory, is the only theme that can be legitimately developed by the novelist who is the chronicler of the adventures of mankind amongst the dangers of the kingdom of the earth. And the kingdom of this earth itself, the ground upon which his individualities stand, stumble, or die, must enter into his scheme of faithful record. To encompass all this in one harmonious conception is a great feat; and even to attempt it deliberately with serious intention, not from the senseless prompting of an ignorant heart, is an honourable ambition. For it requires some courage to step in calmly where fools may be eager to rush. As a distinguished and successful French novelist once observed of fiction, “C’est un art trop difficile.”
It is natural that the novelist should doubt his ability to cope with his task. He imagines it more gigantic than it is. And yet literary creation being only one of the legitimate forms of human activity has no value but on the condition of not excluding the fullest recognition of all the more distinct forms of action. This condition is sometimes forgotten by the man of letters, who often, especially in his youth, is inclined to lay a claim of exclusive superiority for his own amongst all the other tasks of the human mind. The mass of verse and prose may glimmer here and there with the glow of a divine spark, but in the sum of human effort it has no special importance. There is no justificative formula for its existence any more than for any other artistic achievement. With the rest of them it is destined to be forgotten, without, perhaps, leaving the faintest trace. Where a novelist has an advantage over the workers in other fields of thought is in his privilege of freedom — the freedom of expression and the freedom of confessing his innermost beliefs — which should console him for the hard slavery of the pen.
Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of some romantic, realistic, or naturalistic creed in the free work of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of human perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors. It is a weakness of inferior minds when it is not the cunning device of those who, uncertain of their talent, would seek to add lustre to it by the authority of a school. Such, for instance, are the high priests who have proclaimed Stendhal for a prophet of Naturalism. But Stendhal himself would have accepted no limitation of his freedom. Stendhal’s mind was of the first order. His spirit above must be raging with a peculiarly Stendhalesque scorn and indignation. For the truth is that more than one kind of intellectual cowardice hides behind the literary formulas. And Stendhal was pre-eminently courageous. He wrote his two great novels, which so few people have read, in a spirit of fearless liberty.
It must not be supposed that I claim for the artist in fiction the freedom of moral Nihilism. I would require from him many acts of faith of which the first would be the cherishing of an undying hope; and hope, it will not be contested, implies all the piety of effort and renunciation. It is the God-sent form of trust in the magic force and inspiration belonging to the life of this earth. We are inclined to forget that the way of excellence is in the intellectual, as distinguished from emotional, humility. What one feels so hopelessly barren in declared pessimism is just its arrogance. It seems as if the discovery made by many men at various times that there is much evil in the world were a source of proud and unholy joy unto some of the modern writers. That frame of mind is not the proper one in which to approach seriously the art of fiction. It gives an author — goodness only knows why — an elated sense of his own superiority. And there is nothing more dangerous than such an elation to that absolute loyalty towards his feelings and sensations an author should keep hold of in his most exalted moments of creation.
To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to think that the world is good. It is enough to believe that there is no impossibility of its being made so. If the flight of imaginative thought may be allowed to rise superior to many moralities current amongst mankind, a novelist who would think himself of a superior essence to other men would miss the first condition of his calling. To have the gift of words is no such great matter. A man furnished with a long-range weapon does not become a hunter or a warrior by the mere possession of a fire-arm; many other qualities of character and temperament are necessary to make him either one or the other. Of him from whose armoury of phrases one in a hundred thousand may perhaps hit the far-distant and elusive mark of art I would ask that in his dealings with mankind he should be capable of giving a tender recognition to their obscure virtues. I would not have him impatient with their small failings and scornful of their errors. I would not have him expect too much gratitude from that humanity whose fate, as illustrated in individuals, it is open to him to depict as ridiculous or terrible. I would wish him to look with a large forgiveness at men’s ideas and prejudices, which are by no means the outcome of malevolence, but depend on their education, their social status, even their professions. The good artist should expect no recognition of his toil and no admiration of his genius, because his toil can with difficulty be appraised and his genius cannot possibly mean anything to the illiterate who, even from the dreadful wisdom of their evoked dead, have, so far, culled nothing but inanities and platitudes. I would wish him to enlarge his sympathies by patient and loving observation while he grows in mental power. It is in the impartial practice of life, if anywhere, that the promise of perfection for his art can be found, rather than in the absurd formulas trying to prescribe this or that particular method of technique or conception. Let him mature the strength of his imagination amongst the things of this earth, which it is his business to cherish and know, and refrain from calling down his inspiration ready-made from some heaven of perfections of which he knows nothing. And I would not grudge him the proud illusion that will come sometimes to a writer: the illusion that his achievement has almost equalled the greatness of his dream. For what else could give him the serenity and the force to hug to his breast as a thing delightful and human, the virtue, the rectitude and sagacity of his own City, declaring with simple eloquence through the mouth of a Conscript Father: “I have not read this author’s books, and if I have read them I have forgotten . . . ”
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Several recent studies have shown that the hybrid work model is preferred among professionals, as in the research developed by the Robert Half Institute. This means that, more than working remotely 100%, employees really want to feel free to alternate between the home office and the office.
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Rather than thinking of a primarily face-to-face culture, the term remote first represents companies that favor remote work, creating a culture of integration, communication, and operation that works for both home office and face-to-face.
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In this case, the remote first culture is important because you need to consider a structure that works for the 10 employees, whether they are in the office or at home. For this, it will be necessary to define issues such as:
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In the current scenario, companies that adopt the Remote First Culture gain a competitive advantage, as they meet what employees want and, with that, they can have several benefits in the long term. Understand some of the main advantages of adopting this culture!
With the shortage of talent and the resignation movements that began in the United States and spread to other regions, attracting and retaining professionals has become a challenge not only for the areas of Human Resources, but also for the leaders of the areas, who end up having their projects hampered by the lack of team members.
Given this scenario, offering the Remote First culture can contribute to attracting talent to your company and prevent your team from going to the competition.
Giving the employee the freedom to work from anywhere will certainly increase the productivity of your team. However, this only happens when they have the tools and processes needed to be productive from anywhere. That’s where Remote First Culture comes in!
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- Displacement of the team: transportation voucher, gasoline and parking;
- Among others.
Now that you know what Remote First Culture is and what its benefits are, understand what the first steps are to adopt it on your team.
Employees in the home office need to be integrated with the team, but do not want to spend all day connected in a virtual room.
To avoid this, create routines that help foster the Remote First culture: establish quick refresher meetings at the beginning and end of each week in order to align the progress of deliveries and get a macro view of how the team is working.
Just because the work is remote doesn’t mean the employee has no end to their day, right? To prevent this from happening, define official communication channels and have well-defined SLAs about the times when everyone needs to be available and at what times it is acceptable for communications to be answered asynchronously.
If you have team members who don’t know each other personally or meet sporadically, it’s important to encourage bonding between the team, even remotely.
For this reason, it is part of the Remote First Culture to create moments of interaction that are not directly linked to work issues. This can happen at specific times — such as in an online happy hour — or within the work calls themselves, where the leader can separate a few minutes at the beginning or at the end for subjects not related to the projects.
So, are you ready to embrace the Remote First culture on your team? Certainly, it will be part of the routine of the leader of the future!
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One of the oldest and most famous casino games. The roulette wheel has 37 separately numbered slots alternately coloured red and black, the “0” is green. The dealer releases a ball into the spinning wheel. The objective is to predict which of the 37 numbers on the wheel the ball will stop on.
To place a bet, select your chip value from the BANK window and then click directly on the area of the table on which you wish to place your bet. Multiple clicks will increase the number of chips you bet. To remove a chip, click the Clear Last button. Or alternatively click Cancel to remove all chips from the table. All bets must be placed before the timer shown in the BANK window runs out.
The dealer will spin the wheel and release the ball. Once the ball has come to rest the dealer will announce the winning number and all bets will be settled automatically. The ball must make at least three revolutions otherwise that spin is void and the ball will be re-spun with the same bets. The timer will then begin counting down to the start of the next game.
There are a number of different bets that you can make in Roulette. These are split into Inside Bets which are bets made onto the numbered section of the table, and Outside Bets which are made on the other areas.
- Straight Up Bet – A bet on an individual number. The simplest roulette bet with the highest payout chance. This bet pays at 35 to 1 plus the original stake.
- Split Bet – A two number bet which is placed on the line connecting the two numbers. For example covering 24 and 27. This type of bet pays 17 to 1 plus the original stake.
- Corner Bet – A four number bet, placed at the corner of 4 numbers. For example covering 8, 9, 11 and 12. This bet pays 8 to 1 plus the original stake.
- Street Bet – A three number bet, placed at the end of a row of numbers. For example covering 13, 14 and 15. A street bet pays 11 to 1 plus the original stake.
- Line Bet – A six number bet placed at the junction of two street bets. Covering for example 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 36. Line bets pay 5 to 1 plus the original stake.
- Special Bets – These are a number of multiple bets that are traditional to the game. Each bet covers a different group of numbers. These bets are available through the special bets button. Payouts vary for these bets.
- Column Bet – A 12 number bet, which covers all of the numbers in the corresponding column. This bet pays at 2 to 1 plus the stake.
- Dozen Bet – Another 12 number bet. Players can choose from first 12 (covering 1-12), second dozen (covering 13-24) or third dozen (covering 25-36). Again this bet pays 2 to 1 plus original stake.
- Colour Bet – An 18 number bet, which covers all the red numbers or all the black numbers. Colour bets pay at 1 to 1 plus original stake.
- Even/Odd Bet – An 18 number bet in which the player chooses to bet on any odd number or any even number. This bet pays 1 to 1 plus original stake.
- High/Low Bet – Another 18 number bet covering either 1-18 or 19-36. Again this bet pays 1 to 1 plus the original stake.
- Please note that any even money bets will be lost if the ball lands on zero.
- At the bottom of the Roulette screen you will find additional options which may enhance your gaming experience.
- Chat – will launch the chat window enabling you to talk to the dealers. This can also be used to contact the supervisor if you need to.
- History – Displays the results of the recent spins of the wheel.
- Views – Allows you to zoom the camera into different sections of the table.
- All of these features are switched off by default. Once launched however all of the windows can be moved or resized to suit your preferences.
The most popular of all casino card games. The aim of the game is to beat the dealer. You do this by making a hand that has a value of closer to 21 than the dealer’s hand. You can also win if the dealer’s hand goes over 21 (bust). Be careful though because if your hand goes above 21 you will lose automatically. This version of blackjack is played with 8 decks of cards, which you will see the dealer shuffle at regular intervals.
Once the game has loaded you need to choose your seat at the table. Seats are numbered from one to seven. Sit at the table by clicking on any available seat displaying the SIT HERE sign.
To place a bet, select your chip value from the BANK window and then click directly on the table to bet.
Important – In order for your bets to be accepted you need to click the Confirm button in the BANK window before the timer runs out, otherwise your bets will be removed. If a game is already in progress you will need to wait for it to complete before you can play. When the game begins all players will be dealt 2 cards face up, the dealer will also get 2 cards although one will be face down.
The cards all take their face value with the exception of any court or picture cards (Jacks, Queens and Kings) which all value 10, and Aces which value either 1 or 11 depending on which will give the player the best hand. If the first 2 cards dealt to you total 21 (an Ace and a 10) you have blackjack. Blackjack wins pay 3 to 2 on the player’s original stake. Other wins pay at 1 to 1. Each player takes turns to act on his or her hand, starting from the player at the right. When it is your turn to act you will be presented with a number of options:
- Stand – You wish to take no further action on your hand.
- Hit – You wish to take another card to try to improve the value of your hand. This option can be used multiple times.
- Double – You wish to double the amount you have bet on your hand and receive one further card only.
- Split – This option is only available if your first 2 cards are of the same value. By choosing this option you will double your bet and receive two more cards. This effectively gives you 2 hands to play. Please note if you split Aces you are only dealt one more card to each hand and cannot hit for extra cards. 21 hit after splitting is not blackjack as the cards are not the first 2 dealt, and therefore only pays 1 to 1. You are not able to split hands more than once.
- Once all players have acted the dealer will turn over their face down card. If their hand is valued below 16 they must deal another card. They continue to take cards until their hand is valued at 17 or higher. When the dealer has a hand of between 17 and 21, he will pay all players with a hand closer to 21 than his own. If the player’s hand is the same value as the dealer’s, the hand is a push or a tie, and the player keeps his stake. If the dealers hand busts all remaining players will be paid.
- Insurance – If the dealers face up card is an ace all players are offered an insurance bet. This bet is half the player’s stake. In the event that the dealer has blackjack this bet will pay at 2 to 1. If the dealer does not have blackjack the bet is lost and the hands play as normal.
If there are no seats available at our blackjack tables, you can ‘play behind’ another player. This allows you to place a bet on another player’s hand. You cannot act on the hand, this is the seated player’s decision.
At the beginning of the session you will be asked whether you would like to double/split, if the player seated makes this decision. Whether you answer yes or no, this decision is made for the entire session. To change it you must close the game and reopen, where you will be presented with the option again.
Multiple Box Betting
On Gold tables, or within our Park Tower VIP room, you have the ability to play more than one position/box. You can play up to three positions/boxes at a time.
In the game of Baccarat players bet on which of 2 hands, the player’s (Player) or the banker’s (Banker), will be closest in value to 9 or if the hands will be tied (Tie). The game is played with 8 decks of cards, which are shuffled regularly by the dealer.
- Ace = 1
- Face cards and tens = 0
All other cards carry the point value stated on the card. If the cards in a hand total more than ten points, simply subtract ten to obtain the baccarat point value of the hand.(Example: 8+8=16, but counts as 6. Jack+7=17, but counts as 7.)
A two-card total of nine is the best hand and is called a “Natural”. The second-best hand is a “Natural” 8.
If both the player and banker are dealt identical hands, the game ends in a Tie.
To place a bet, select your chip value from the BANK window and then click directly on the Player, Tie or Banker areas on the table. Once the timer has run down the dealer will begin dealing the cards. If there is a game in progress you will need to wait until it has completed before placing a bet.
The dealer will deal 2 cards for the player’s hand and two for the banker’s hand. If the value of either hand is 8 or 9 (a natural) the hand is complete and no further cards are dealt. Otherwise cards are dealt by the third card rules below.
The Player’s hand – Depending on the point value of the first two cards, the following actions will take place (Third card rule):
|Point value of first two cards|
|0-1-2-3-4-5||Draws a third card|
|6-7||No more cards|
|8-9||“Natural”, no more cards|
The Banker’s hand – Depending on the point value of the Player’s first two cards, the following actions will take place (Third card rule):
|Point value of first two cards:||Draw when the Player’s third card is:||Does not draw when the Player’s third card is:|
|0-1-2||Always draws a card||–|
|8-9||Player cannot draw||Player cannot draw|
At the end of the game winnings are paid as follows:
|Banker (receives 5% commission)||1-1|
Additional features of the baccarat game can be found at the bottom of the screen.
- Chat – Can be used to talk to the dealers or the supervisor if required.
- Statistics – Shows live the total amounts that are being bet by other players at the table.
- Limits – Shows the maximum and minimum bets for the table.
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By Dr. Ashvin M Gutti, Program Mentor, MBAESG India
Passing through the Pyrenées and the Alps, and ending at the Champs-Élysées, Tour-de-France has become an annual cycling competition that has left a mark on the French culture, the same at the in-house Stade Roland-Garros, where France hosts the French Open, a major tennis tournament held in late May/early June of every year.
In a fast-moving sports society, France has made laws stricter and has banned smoking in cafés and other enclosed public places where family and kids enjoy the cheer and excitement of their nation’s winning streaks. In addition to these signs of an affinity for sports, smoking laws are becoming tougher extending to children’s schoolyards and places of public gathering. Gone are the days of a paunchy Frenchman in a Speedo wading in a lake with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, what role exactly do sports play in French life?
Appreciation for sports in the French culture is quite distinctively different from the way Americans perceive it. The American sporting culture and fitness craze thrives in almost all aspects of American societies, may it be in the fashion industry, educational institutions, the overhyped entertainment industry to television commercials. The final game of American Football or the Super Bowl commands such a large audience that getting an advertising spot at half-time is like striking gold, whereas the French culture is relaxed and laid-back with-its stress-free way of enjoying every part of the game with a bottle of wine and friends talking on various aspects of life, societies, family, any matter related to the country at large.
Vacation activities in the Alps and Pyrenées include skiing which is practiced by skilled professionals and by holidaymakers at large. Probably due to the influence of the calm Mediterranean climate, France has gravitated towards outdoor sports like tennis, sailing, cycling, skiing rather than investing heavily in the gym culture which is popular in the west. French Rugby is popular in the Southwest, where it rivals soccer as the favored sport.
Considered an exclusive sport in other countries, the famous Vendée Globe, is an around-the-world yacht competition that occurs once every four years, starting in the French Atlantic. Having a strong presence in the Olympic games and being popular across Europe, Basketball is a well-loved game, it is quite popular in city parks, such as the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, where avid players regularly meet up to play.
The above examples define the true culture of France as a true sport-loving nation and have grown significantly in the past 2 to 3 decades from a novice to a challenger not only as a spectator but from a participant point of view.
Now as far as the question goes of whether or not the French are sporty? Some do fit the exported cinematic and literary image of cigarette-smoking Derrida-discussing café patrons; whilst others are outside sailing, cycling, skiing, and enjoying the many athletic activities that France has to offer. | <urn:uuid:eeaaa34e-589e-4b82-b5c9-c6a8dda014b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mba-esg.in/french-culture-and-the-role-of-sports/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962743 | 638 | 2.5 | 2 |
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The Academic Performance of Piedmont Virginia Community College Transfer Students at the University of Virginia. Research Report 5-84.
Doherty, Frank J.; Vaughan, George B.
A study was conducted to assess the academic performance of students who transferred from Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) to the University of Virginia (UVA), using information on student application and acceptance rates, test scores, grade point averages (GPA's), and graduation rates. Data supplied by UVA on 291 students who transferred to the university from PVCC between 1978 and 1983 revealed that: (1) 68% of the PVCC students who applied to UVA were accepted; (2) since 1981, the number of PVCC students applying had increased and the percentage accepted had decreased; (3) 20% of the transfers had previously been denied admission to UVA; (4) generally, the GPA's of PVCC transfers compared favorably with those of non-transfer students by the end of the third year of college; (5) approximately 75% of the transfers ultimately graduated from UVA, with the highest graduation rate in the School of Education (89%) and the lowest in the Schools of Architecture and Engineering (50% each); (6) the average grade of those transfer students who did not graduate from UVA was a C+, which indicated that they failed to graduate for reasons other than scholastic performance; and (7) PVCC graduates and students who transferred from PVCC prior to graduation received degrees at UVA at about the same rate. (Author/HB)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data
Education Level: N/A
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DAVIE, Fla. — A lethal plant hopper species is slowly killing our Florida landscape of palm trees. Meanwhile, there are wood-decaying fungi causing several urban tree species to develop root and trunk rot affecting their stability.
While scientists at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) are working on identifying and finding solutions to these conditions and invasive pests, the need for funding is constant as is the research.
The Florida Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) is infusing much-needed grant dollars in the amount of $320,000 over the next three years so that there is a better understanding, faster diagnoses, better treatments, and perhaps even cures for these complex illnesses depleting our urban tree canopies.
“We are proud to award this year’s grants to two UF/IFAS researchers to advance their research and programs on lethal bronzing in palm trees and wood-decaying fungi,” said Norm Easey, CEO of the Florida Chapter of ISA.
Brian Bahder, assistant professor of vector entomology at Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center at UF/IFAS is receiving $150,000 over the next three years to work on control strategies for lethal bronzing. This is in addition to a $90,000 grant already awarded by Florida Chapter of ISA to Bahder’s research which is in its third year.
Lethal bronzing is a bacterial disease (called a phytoplasma) that is transmitted by a plant hopper causing significant palm losses throughout much of Florida. Once infected, the palm leaves lead to wilting, and eventually death. There are 16 species of palm trees currently effected by the bacteria.
“The support I have obtained from the Florida Chapter of ISA is absolutely crucial to my research program and will go a long way towards fighting LBD in Florida and helping to save our state tree,” said Bahder.
Jason Smith, an associate professor of forest pathology and State Forest Health Extension Specialist at UF/IFAS, is the recipient of two grants, one in the amount of $100,000 for the next three years to determine what fungi destabilize trees. Smith has been awarded an additional $40,000 grant to develop a photographic guide that depicts the types of fungi that decay trees. The guide is designed for arborists who regularly assess trees in the field.
“The research we were able conduct on Ganoderma, as a result of Florida ISA’s funding, has had a profound impact on our understanding of how the fungi decays wood. It also furthered our understanding of one Ganoderma species distribution in North America,” said Smith.
ISA is a professional organization dedicated to providing continuing education for arborists, to promoting tree care research, and to serving tree care consumers around the world. The Florida Chapter of ISA shares this same dedication with additional commitment to serving the needs particular to Florida’s professional arborists and tree care consumers. Its mission is to promote the scientifically based practice of arboriculture through research, education and public awareness.
“ISA is a membership association of arborists,” said Norm Easey, Florida Chapter of ISA CEO. “Our member arborists work in a variety of fields including commercial, municipal, consulting, and utility arboriculture plus in the field of education and other fields in which professionals work with trees. ISA provides a platform for them arborists to have certification and continuing education. Florida ISA also conducts research on topics that are of interest to our members in the field of arboriculture here in Florida.”
The Florida Chapter of ISA is no stranger to UF/IFAS. It has been a strong supporter of research at UF/IFAS. It has pledged more than $1 million for research and the teaching of arboricultural sciences classes in UF/IFAS College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The arboriculture endowment, which helps fund positions such as this, was created in 2009, Easey said.
“Through the years ISA has supported research in the areas of tree risk assessment, Ganoderma, impacts of root removal on tree stability, and tree support systems impacting the likelihood of tree failure,” added Easey.
Florida ISA also maintains an endowment at UF/IFAS that supports teaching, research and Extension programs at UF/IFAS, exclusively for the arboriculture program. In addition to making an annual $100,000 installments to the Arboriculture Endowment, Florida ISA also recently delivered $3,000 in climbing gear for the UF/IFAS CALS students researching arboriculture in the department of environmental horticulture.
By: Lourdes Rodriguez, 954-577-6363 office, 954-242-8439 mobile, email@example.com
The mission of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) is to develop knowledge relevant to agricultural, human, and natural resources and to make that knowledge available to sustain and enhance the quality of human life. With more than a dozen research facilities, 67 county Extension offices, and award-winning students and faculty in the UF College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, UF/IFAS brings science-based solutions to the state’s agricultural and natural resources industries and all Florida residents. | <urn:uuid:728001d6-2b83-4a02-b0b1-fb7f6a696108> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/news/2019/11/08/florida-chapter-of-isa-infuses-uf-ifas-arboriculture-research-with-320k-in-grants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.947842 | 1,140 | 2.546875 | 3 |
AUSTIN, Texas, June 3, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Natural gas and renewable energy will continue to dominate the Texas electric supply additions over the next 20 years, while adoption of expanded energy efficiency and demand response programs could reduce 40 to 50 percent of projected peak demand growth across the system, economists with The Brattle Group find in a new report prepared for the Texas Clean Energy Coalition (TCEC).
Released today, "Exploring Natural Gas and Renewables in ERCOT, Part III: The Role of Demand Response (DR), Energy Efficiency (EE), and Combined Heat and Power (CHP)," was authored by economists at Brattle, a global economic and financial consulting firm, using state-of-the-art modeling to integrate EE, CHP, and DR scenarios into ERCOT's future.
TCEC Chairman Kip Averitt, a former state senator and chairman of the Senate Natural Resources Committee, said the report combines a model that simulates the decisions of market-driven developers of a wide range of new electric resources with a model that simulates the minute-by-minute operation and control of the grid by ERCOT.
By combining these two perspectives, the modeling system finds future trajectories that represent, for any given scenario, a realistic set of resources the market is willing to build and that can be integrated and managed by ERCOT to yield adequate and reliable electric power for Texas electric customers, Averitt said.
"The research indicates that substantial amounts of gas and renewable energy are likely to be developed in Texas over the next 20 years, with gas prices, carbon and renewable policies, and renewable price reductions serving as the most important drivers," Averitt noted. "In addition, the results show that expanded energy efficiency and demand response programs can be highly economical for Texas energy customers."
In June 2013, TCEC released a Brattle study, "Partnering Natural Gas and Renewables in ERCOT,"that analyzed the complementary nature of renewable energy and natural gas and their potential to displace dirtier fuels, such as coal. In December 2013, TCEC released the second installment of the Brattle research, "Exploring Natural Gas and Renewables in ERCOT, Part II: Future Generation Scenarios for Texas."
"The research found that natural gas and renewables can both play substantial roles in ERCOT and provide allnew generation needed to respond to higher energy demands driven by growth in the state's population," said Dr. Peter Fox-Penner, a principal and past Chairman of The Brattle Group. "While Texas currently ranks as the largest carbon emitter in the country, our research proves that Texas is in a position to build a cleaner, more affordable, more water-lean and more reliable electricity sector than ever before – all while to keep power economical for Texas electric customers."
In this report, co-author Dr. Ira Shavel noted that Brattle continued its research by refining the economic model they built for last year's research to simulate, as accurately as possible, the interaction between renewable and gas generators on the ERCOT system through 2032. More concretely, this means estimating the amount of power plant capacity by type (gas, solar, wind, coal, etc.) that is either added or retired within ERCOT over the study period, and the amount of new demand response, energy efficiency, and CHP that is added as well.
Dr. Shavel notes, "These scenarios, most of which would require state policy and/or market changes, provide a more complete answer to our original motivating question, which is what are the possible range of outcomes for the full set of electricity resource options in the future Texas power grid? What are the drivers of these futures, and how much impact do they have on electricity prices, greenhouse gas emissions, and other important factors? How much of the future depends on policy choices versus the inexorable tide of market forces?"
About the Texas Clean Energy Coalition
The Texas Clean Energy Coalition is an alliance of business and economic development groups, faith-based organizations, the Latino and African-American communities, labor, and academia dedicated to building a clean energy economy that creates jobs and economic growth in the Lone Star State. Its goal is to educate Texans and support a state energy policy that promotes clean energy markets, job growth, energy security and Texas' energy leadership in the U.S. and around the world. For more information, visit the coalition Web site at www.texascleanenergy.org.
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One of my favorite things about teaching young kids is the sheer amount of themed projects you can do around the holidays. Literally every concept you could teach can be tied into Christmas in some shape or form. I love it!
Here's a glimpse of some of the Christmas projects we did throughout the month of December, all from Pinterest (of course).
Handprint Christmas trees given to moms and dads. Every month I try to do something with handprints or fingerprints as mementos for parents.
A felt Christmas tree and felt shape ornaments to decorate over and over again. The tree was a big hit all month.
I found this super cute font at dafont.com and had to use it for name practice. I cut out the ornaments and the kids worked hard to color them and spell their names.
ornament font found here
I found the motherload of all printable units from Confessions of a Homeschooler. Twenty plus pages of prewriting practice, coloring, sequencing shapes, and so on. I promptly printed the packet out and slipped them into our "marker pages" for handwriting practice.
We also did candy cane patterns, colored nativity scenes and read plenty of Christmas books. One of my favorite Santa + Jesus books is Santa's Favorite Story by Hisako Aoki and Ivan Gantschev.
I've gotten quite a few non-Christmas activities from Pinterest as well, and all of them have been pretty popular.
These are what the kids call our "counting flags". They're not the most popular activity, but the kids come over, play with them for a few minutes, then leave for something else. (Since they're only three, I rarely make them do an activity once their interest wanes. Learning should still be fun at this age.) They all quickly picked up that zero means "nothing" all thanks to the flags. I told them its a trick number because it doesn't get any beads.
This next counting activity is another one from Confessions of a Homeschooler. Its very simple-- place one object on each square, then count.
This clothespin ABC activity has been used for the longest amount of time and is still going strong. I don't bring out each activity every day, but the clothespins appear pretty consistently. We have name cards that all the kids use and this ABC strip for the ones who know more of their letters and are more willing to sit still for longer. :)
Last but not least, I've gotten a few ideas for file folder games. I had a ton of paint strips at home that I've accumulated from various projects, so I cut them up and attached velcro and a color matching activity was born.
idea from here
I've got plenty more activities pinned and waiting for January, most around the theme of 'snow'. We'll be lucky if we get any actual snow, but at least inside we'll be seeing plenty!
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The writer is of the opinion that time travel, as envisaged in the old movie "Time Machine' or in the ever popular "Dr Who" series on television, is not possible. Science excludes the possibility of time travel for two reasons: the first of which has to do with Einstein's theory of Special Relativity and the second has to do with the nature of time itself.
Contrary to the ideas expressed in popular science, quantum physics does not negate the limitations placed on the relative speed of macro sized objects such as spaceships and humans. The theory of Special Relativity limits the speed of space travel to less than the speed of light and from a practical viewpoint to less than 10% of the speed of light. In practice the faster a space ship travels the more energy it requires to produce the same increments in acceleration. A point would be quickly reached were the increased mass of the space ship would negate the effects of providing more energy for acceleration. The fact that quantum physics does allow for a super luminal exchange of quantum information between sub atomic particles like electrons is of no assistance to macro objects like space ships.
There has been a great deal of debate about the nature of time with some very interesting articles written by contributors to Helium. From the writer's viewpoint time is best described as the space between events which prevents everything happening at once. In this context time does not have a particular direction, forwards or backwards, and the so-called arrow of time does not exist. This has encouraged some writers to speculate on the possibility of traveling backwards in time to change events and create a parallel universe with a different history to our own. One of the problems with such speculation is that time travelers would be trapped in this parallel universe with a future which is likely to be very different from the future of the universe they left behind. This would prevent anyone returning to where they began their time travel to verify the success of their mission.
As previously mentioned in paragraph two, quantum physics does allow for a super luminal exchange of information between sub atomic particles. Such information is contained in the quantum wave function commonly referred to as Psi. This allows electrons to apparently jump from one location to another instantaneously and without ever appearing in an intermediate position. This could raise the hopes of some would be time travelers if it wasn't for the fact that the quantum wave function of large objects self collapses within a few Pico seconds, too short a time for effective time travel.
There is another rather interesting outcome of this super luminal means of communication between subatomic particles. When the quantum wave function collapses and changes back into an electron in its new location, it starts a chain reaction and creates a new instant of time in our universe which cannot be reversed. This may be likened to releasing the contents of Pandora's Box, once released there is no way of getting them back in the box again. According to the writer, time is produced by the collapse of quantum mechanical waves and the arrow of time is produced as a result of the chain reaction always moving forwards, never backwards.
From a scientific viewpoint there is only the ever changing NOW and the past and the future simply do not exist. From a philosophical viewpoint we think of the future as something ahead of us when in reality it is the NOW that follows the thought in our mind/brain. Our memories hold images taken from the past but the previous NOW has gone forever because our memories exist in the new NOW. There is only one NOW and it is NOW. It could be argued on the basis of quantum physics that time travel is theoretically possible, but in reality it is not possible for the simple reason that there is nowhere to go, there is no past and no future just an ever changing now. | <urn:uuid:ea0a5b50-dacd-41e7-aea8-c142568ab874> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sciences360.com/index.php/is-time-travel-possible-9-18649/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.95821 | 752 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Air Fryers: Their Benefits and Features
In today’s rapid world, more people are now opting for healthier meals because they know it will help them to stay fit and protect their health. For those who really love to enjoy fried food, it’s hard to simply curb their cravings. However, you should know that you will be able to make & eat fried foods without any risk through the use of an air fryer. That is why opting the best air fryer could be a better, healthier & economical option for frying food.
Why Should You Use an Air Fryer?
Is it really useful to cook with an air fryer?
- An air fryer has 70 percent to 80 percent less Oil
- They've a control time, temperature & an auto shut-off
- They've very easy to clean up & have dishwasher safe parts
- No oil spills in the kitchen
- They are safe, fast & less smelly
- They are easily fry, bake, grill or roast
- Have cooling and exhaust systems
The benefits of purchasing the best air fryer are many:
- The extra calorie that usually comes from deeply frying food in fat is not suitable for air fryers since they utilize superheated air system.
- The temperature in an air fryers increases very rapidly, as fast as 3 minutes from room temperatures to more than 300 degrees. That is why the food is cooked more quickly & easily compared to the deep frying food.
- With air fryers, there’s no irregular cooking which means food will be properly cooked throughout with marginal issues regarding overcooked or undercooked meals.
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Taking a look at a comparison table is the fastest way to compare different prices, features and designing of various Air Fryer models. In order to assure the accuracy of product price, I estimate the range of price following the following rules:
Top Air Fryer Models 2016
Fried foods are unquestionably delicious. Generally, however, they aren’t so healthy and balanced to eat. With beautiful Philips HD9220/26 air fryer, you now have the great option to enjoy your preferred fried foods such as French fries and fried chicken without the doubt of adding more fat or cholesterol in your body.
This unit from Philips utilizes the Rapid Air technology, generating air circulate throughout the whole unit. For that reason, each and every piece of food is uniformly cooked even if you utilize only a tbsp. or less of oil.
Philips HD9230/26 air fryer is among the highest-rated & best-selling fryers in the market nowadays. You will be able to cook a number of foods & can adjust the temperature up to 390 degrees of the unit utilizing its digital touch-screen interface.
This unit of oil-less fryer also arrives with a double layer grill rack. This implies you can optimize the cooking surface & cook more foods based on the demand of your stomach.
In addition, cleaning Philips HD9230/26 isn’t an issue as its parts are dishwasher-safe. So, if you’re a busy person, get the Philips HD9230/26 & make your life easy!
It’s a product of Avalon Bay and a cost-effective one for anyone who is seeking to cook and eat healthy food. This air fryer utilizes the Rapid Hot Air technology that functions by circulating the hot air at a high speed.
The system provides precision in the final results that are obtained utilizing this unit. The cleaning and maintenance of this unit is very easy. You can wash the detachable parts of this device in a dishwasher that would eventually safe both your time and the efforts.
The size of this unit is compact enough for making simple and easy storage of the item and it also would take up very limited space on your kitchen.
This GoWISE USA 8-in-1 air fryer is a new, easy & healthy way to fry food. It utilizes a Rapid Air Circulating System to prepare food. It functions by circulating hot air in each and every direction around the foods.
This unit offers you the option of frying, roasting, grilling, or baking your preferred foods. It comes with a detachable pan with a great hand grip & removable basket to make it simple to transfer food from the air fryer to a dish.
The GoWISE USA 8-in-1 is ETL certified & complies with all specifications regarding Electro-Magnetic fields. If you’re searching for an air fryer with cheap rate, this air fryer is the ideal choice!
The secret recipe to a healthy lifestyle
If you’re trying to start a new healthy routine, a new healthy diet is a vital part of it. Purchasing an air fryer is a must in such a scenario as it uses 70% to 80% less fat in comparison to the traditional deep frying option & thankfully the taste of foods exactly as it should when prepared in a traditional deep fryer.
What’s more, you might not utilize oil at all for cooking. It relies on the food you would like to cook. Grease fires are among the main concerns while cooking deep fried food at home. The air fryer solves this issue completely. Additionally, there is no need to cope with oil splattering when utilizing air fryers, so risks of burning because of oil splattering are completely taken away when an air fryer is utilized for cooking.
An answer to all your concerns
Since the food separator lets users cooking different kinds of food at once, a very reasonable concern might arise.
This concern is that if you cook 2 different types of food together, will not the taste and smell of the food be ruined? For instance, if chicken & fish are fried together on different fryer levels, then the chicken could possibly smell like the fish & vice versa. The answer to this query is no, the separator in the air fryer makes sure that such a thing doesn’t happen.
Two 6-ounce New York Steaks after 11 minutes
Furthermore, the amount of utilized oil is very little & you do not dunk the food in the same oil. Therefore, there are no possibilities for one food to get the smell of the other. Do not think that fryers can only be utilized for food cooking. Using super-heated air, this unique item can be utilized to warm & heat up already prepared food.
The air fryer offers a lot of benefits & is an asset for the contemporary kitchen. By simply utilizing superheated air within this kitchen appliance, it is able to cook a number of dishes while utilizing little or no oil at all. It is one of the healthier alternative cooking methods & is ideal for anyone who is searching for hassle free and easy healthy cooking options. | <urn:uuid:23418766-b9db-44e5-963f-6f2c157237b8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kitchenweapon.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00567-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938657 | 1,406 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Police in the Central California town of Porterville say they arrested three people protesting the city council's decision to rescind a proclamation declaring June lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride month.
Porterville Police Department spokesman Dominic Barteau said the protesters were arrested at the city council meeting on Tuesday evening on suspicion of disorderly conduct. One of them was also arrested on suspicion of resisting a police officer and disturbing the peace.
The arrests came after the council canceled the proclamation issued by the mayor last month.
Supporters at the packed council meeting said the proclamation promoted tolerance. Opponents objected on religious grounds.
The council voted to replace the LGBT proclamation with a resolution calling June a month of community charity and goodwill to all.
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Before it was discovered by tourism in the 1950’s, the island of Mykonos had it rough economically. This island, part of the Cyclades series of Greek islands and islets in the Mediterranean sea, is small, rocky and dry. The sun shines 80% of the year, a different “wind” blows every season – the Sirocco in the winter and the Meltemi in the summer – there are no rivers in its 85 square miles, and there is little natural water. For centuries , the inhabitants lived off the sea with fishing and ship building, and from their livestock, carving out an existence on granite land with few if any trees. Today the island is a thriving mecca for tourists. | <urn:uuid:67de6d03-1e94-402e-8776-aa2afe231ac3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://compasscruises.ca/mykonos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.962104 | 154 | 2.328125 | 2 |
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Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition has a maximum store size of 16 terabytes. I don't know anyone whose mailbox store is even close to this size, and yet Exchange allows you to create up to 19 additional stores, for a maximum storage capacity of 320 terabytes. (Technically, Exchange would even allow databases to grow beyond this size, but the NTFS file system imposes a 16 terabyte limit).
As if that isn't enough, you can have multiple servers in your Exchange organization, providing you with a virtually unlimited amount of possible storage space.
This all adds up to way more potential storage than anyone could ever conceivably use (and current hardware limitations prevent a server from ever actually reaching the limit anyway).
So if you take the need for increased storage space out of the equation, what are the advantages of having multiple mailbox stores?
1. You can set mailbox quotas at the mailbox store level.
For example, suppose that one of your Exchange servers was beginning to run a little low on hard disk space. To help manage disk space consumption, you set a 50 MB limit on the size of each mailbox. However, upper management does not want that quota to apply to them.
In this type of situation, you could move the managers' mailboxes into a separate mailbox store. You could then implement a 50 MB limit on the store containing most of your users' mailboxes, but set no limit on the store containing the mailboxes for upper management.
2. You can place users into specific message stores based on their e-mail behavior patterns.
For employees who heavily use Exchange for legitimate business and have to frequently refer back to old messages, Exchange includes a full-text index feature that allows them to search old messages in a much more efficient manner -- because they are searching against an index rather than against the actual database.
The downside to full text indexing is that the process of creating and maintaining the indices tends to be very resource-intensive for Exchange.
If, however, you can distinguish those who use e-mail for business purposes from those who use it for more frivolous reasons, you can create a separate mailbox store for the heavy users. You could then enable full text indexing only for their store -- where it is really needed. This helps conserve system resources.
These are just a couple examples of the many different ways you can better manage your data and system resources with multiple mailbox stores. Most settings that can be applied at the store level can be used to benefit your system in some way ... with a little imagination.
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|Lanzones in the Philippines|
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Lansium parasiticum, also known as langsat (//) or lanzones, is a species of tree in the Mahogany family. The plant, which originates from western Southeast Asia, bears edible fruit. It is the provincial flower for the Indonesian province of South Sumatra.
The tree is average sized, reaching 30 metres (98 ft) in height and 75 centimetres (30 in) in diameter. Seedling trees 30 years old planted at 8 x 8 meter spacing can have a height of 10 meters and diameter of 25 cm. The trunk grows in an irregular manner, with its buttress roots showing above ground. The tree's bark is a greyish colour, with light and dark spots. Its resin is thick and milk coloured.
The pinnately compound leaves are odd numbered, with thin hair, and 6 to 9 buds at intervals. The buds are long and elliptical, approximately 9 to 21 centimetres (3.5 to 8.3 in) by 5 to 10 centimetres (2.0 to 3.9 in) in size. The upper edge shines, and the leaves themselves have pointed bases and tips. The stems of the buds measure 5 to 12 millimetres (0.20 to 0.47 in).
The flowers are located in inflorescences that grow and hang from large branches or the trunk; the bunches may number up to 5 in one place. They are often branched at their base, measure 10 to 30 centimetres (3.9 to 11.8 in) in size, and have short fur. The flowers are small, with short stems, and have two genders. The sheathe is shaped like a five lobed cup and is coloured a greenish-yellow. The corona is egg-shaped and hard, measuring 2 to 3 millimetres (0.079 to 0.118 in) by 4 to 5 millimetres (0.16 to 0.20 in). There is one stamen, measuring 2 millimetres (0.079 in) in length. The top of the stamen is round. The pistil is short and thick.
The fruit can be elliptical, ovoid or round, measuring 2 to 7 centimetres (0.79 to 2.76 in) by 1.5 to 5 centimetres (0.59 to 1.97 in) in size. Fruits look much like small potatoes and are borne in clusters similar to grapes. The larger fruits are on the variety known as duku. It is covered by thin, yellow hair giving a slightly fuzzy aspect. The skin thickness varies with the varieties, from 2 millimetres (0.079 in) to approximately 6 millimetres (0.24 in). The fruit contains 1 to 3 seeds, flat, and bitter tasting; the seeds are covered with a thick, clear-white aril that tastes sweet and sour. The taste has been likened to a combination of grape and grapefruit and is considered excellent by most. The sweet juicy flesh contains sucrose, fructose, and glucose. For consumption, cultivars with small or undeveloped seeds and thick aril are preferred.
- Balinese: ceruring
- Bengali: lotka, bhubi
- Burmese: langsak, duku
- Cebuano: buahan, lansones
- English: langsat, lanzones
- Khmer: long kong
- Indonesian: duku, langsat, kokosan
- Malay: langsat, lansa, langseh, langsep, duku, dokong
- Sinhalese: gadu guda
- Philippine Spanish: lanzón (plural: lanzones)
- Tagalog: lansones, buwa-buwa
- Thai: langsat (ลางสาด) (for the thin-skinned variety), longkong (ลองกอง) (for the thick-skinned variety)
- Vietnamese: dâu da đất, lòn bon, bòn bon
Those called duku generally have a large crown, thick with bright green leaves, with short bunches of few fruit. The individual fruit are large, generally round, and have somewhat thick skin that does not release sap when cooked. The seeds are small, with thick flesh, a sweet scent, and a sweet or sour alin.
Meanwhile, the variant commonly known as langsat generally has thinner trees, with a less dense crown consisting of dark green leaves and stiff branches. The bunches are longer, and each bunch holds between 15 and 25 large, egg-shaped fruit. The skin is thin and releases a white sap when cooked. The flesh is watery and tastes sweet and sour. Unlike duku, langsat fruit does not last long after being picked. Three days after being picked, the skin blackens; this does not affect the fruit's taste.
L. domesticum var. aquaeum is distinguished by its hairy leaves, as well as the tightly packed dark yellow fruit on its bunches. The fruit tends to be small, with thin skin and little sap; the skin is difficult to remove. To be eaten, the fruit is bitten and the flesh sucked through the hole created, or rubbed until the skin breaks and the seeds are retrieved. In Indonesia the fruit has several names, including kokosan, pisitan, pijetan, and bijitan. The seeds are relatively large, with thin, sour flesh.
The seeds of L. parasiticum are polyembryonic, the multiple embryos resulting from apomixis. The apomictic embryos are formed from the parent's tissue and have the same genetic make up. The seeds are also recalcitrant, with quick deterioration in fertility after seven days.
L. parasiticum is traditionally reproduced by spreading seedlings, either cultivated or collected from below the tree. It has been said that new seedlings require 20 to 25 years to bear fruit, with the possibility of the quality being inferior. However other sources quote 12 years to first production from seed and no variations. Production often varies from year to year, and depends to some extent on having a dry period to induce flowering. One example of ten trees in Costa Rica about twenty-five years old produced during five years the following weights of salable fruits: 2008: 50 kilos, 2009: 2000 kilos, 2010: 1000 kilos, 2011: 100 kilos, 2012: 1500 kilos. Experiments in the Philippines with grafting where two trees are planted close to each other and then grafted when one to two meters tall to leave twin root systems on a single main trunk have resulted in earlier and less erratic fruit production.
Another common method is by air layering. Although the process requires up to several months, the new rooted tree produced is itself ready to bear fruit within two years. Trees cultivated with this method have a high death rate, and the growths are less resilient.
The third common way to reproduce L. parasiticum is with grafting. This results in the new trees having the same genetic characteristics as their parent, and being ready to bear fruit within 5 to 6 years. The offspring are relatively stronger than transplanted shoots.
L. parasiticum grows well in mixed agroforests. The plant, especially the duku variant, prefers damp, shaded areas. It can be grown in the same agroforest as durian, petai, and jengkol, as well as wood-producing trees.
L. parasiticum is grown from low grounds up to heights of 600 metres (2,000 ft) above sea level, in areas with an average rainfall of 1,500 to 2,500 millimetres (59 to 98 in) a year. The plant can grow and blossom in latosol, yellow podzol, and alluvium. The plant prefers slightly acidic soil with good drainage and rich in mulch. The langsat variant is hardier, and can weather dry seasons with a little shade and water. The plant cannot handle floods.
L. parasiticum generally bears fruit once a year. This period can vary between areas, but blooming is generally after the beginning of the rainy season and fruit production some four months later.
Lansium parasiticum was originally native to Southeast Asia. It grows wild in Sumatra forests where a wide and longest river in Indonesia lay across the southern part of Sumatra. The river rises and floods the forest lands for a few months, when it subsides, the flood leaves plenty of fallen leaves and twigs enriching and moistening a large area of the forest bed, resulting in ideal conditions for the plant to grow naturally. Local people will come and harvest it as natural forest produce. They climb up the tree with ripe fruits (after observing it), holding with their hands on the smaller branches and shaking it. Mature fruits will fall easily down to the ground. They will then collect it and transport it on a small boat on a nearby river to the villages and sell it. In a good year a 20-year-old tree can produce 100 kg of fruits, however fruiting is often uneven.
Agriculturally, the tree is grown throughout the entire Southeast asian region, ranging from Southern India to the Philippines for its fruit. In the Philippines, where it is locally referred to as the lanzones or langsa, the plant is grown mostly on the southern parts of the island of Luzon, especially in Paete, Laguna, due to the species' narrow range of conditions favorable to its survival. It is also found in abundance on Northern Mindanao particularly in places as Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, and Camiguin. The Camiguin variety is especially sweet and succulent.
In Indonesia, Langsat is very popular fruit in West Kalimantan (Pontianak, Indonesia), Sulawesi and South Sumatra (also called 'Duku'). In Sarawak, northern Borneo, the name Duku is reserved for the larger-sized varieties of Langsat, near the size of golf balls, claimed sweeter and with less sap in the peel. A variety called Dokong exported to mainland Malaysia from Thailand (this variety is called 'Longkong' Thai: ลองกอง in Thailand) grows tighter in the clusters, giving it a faceted shape, and is preferred by many over the standard Langsat.
Within mainland Asia, the tree is cultivated in Thailand (Thai: ลางสาด, langsat), Cambodia, Vietnam, India, and Malaysia. Outside the region, it has also been successfully transplanted and introduced to Hawaii and Surinam. It grows well in the wetter areas (120 inches/3 meters or more annual rainfall) of Costa Rica, where it is still very rare, having been introduced decades ago by the United Fruit Company. A major hindrance to its acceptance seems to be that it is very slow in bearing, said to take 12 years or more from seed. However, air layering from mature trees, as well as grafting, are said to work well and produce much faster.
L. parasiticum is cultivated mainly for its fruit, which can be eaten raw. The fruit can also be bottled in syrup. The wood is hard, thick, heavy, and resilient, allowing it to be used in the construction of rural houses.
Some parts of the plant are used in making traditional medicine. The bitter seeds can be pounded and mixed with water to make a deworming and ulcer medication. The bark is used to treat dysentery and malaria; the powdered bark can also be used to treat scorpion stings. The fruit's skin is used to treat diarrhea, and in the Philippines the dried skin is burned as a mosquito repellent. The skin, especially of the langsat variety, can be dried and burned as incense.
The greatest producers of Lansium parasiticum are Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. The production is mostly for internal consumption, although some is exported to Singapore and Hong Kong.
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‘Less Means More’: Plastics Delivers More Value through Light-weight Automotive Components
This two minute documentary follows a taxi driver in Wuhu, China. He describes the superior handling and low operating costs of his taxi, thanks in part to collaboration between DuPont and Chery.
Light-weight Automotive Components
When you talk with someone like Cao Tieniu, the years of materials engineering, application development and processing breakthroughs that go into converting metal automotive components to lighter weight plastic translates to one thing – more profit enabling more time to spend with his family.
Cao Tieniu is the taxi driver featured in this video – Less Means More. He drives a Chery taxi in Wuhu, China. “Compared to some cars, it uses less fuel,” he says. “For those of us who drive taxis, it increases our profits.”
Designing for lighter weight vehicles
DuPont has been leading the metals to plastics conversion for more than 60 years, working collaboratively with global automakers and the value chain to be the first to bring high volume thermoplastic solutions that reduce weight and cost.
Today the collaboration model extends beyond powertrain, beyond geographic borders to touch commercial vehicles that move tons of freight cost effectively to scooters where weight reduction can cut curb weight almost in half.
In addition to fuel savings, use of thermoplastic reduces CO2 emissions and offers significant integration opportunities.
Working with Chery Automobile
The Chery taxi featured in this mini-documentary uses several DuPont advanced materials, including DuPont™ Zytel® nylon resin and DuPont™ Vamac® ethylene acrylic elastomer in components ranging from the air-intake manifold and cylinder head cover to air ducts.
Together the components account for about 30-40 percent decrease in component weight compared with their metal counterpart, generating a significant increase in fuel economy and reduction in CO2 emissions.
“Lightweighting technology is a very important component in the process of fuel efficiency,” said Chen Anning, vice president, Chery Automobile. “There has been a lot of cooperation between DuPont and Chery.”
Collaboration is essential in bringing science-based solutions to market
DuPont recognizes that no one person, no one company can manage the magnitude of change that industry today faces on their own and has stepped up by creating ”Innovation Centers” that connect 95,000 DuPont scientists to customers and others around the world.
“We’re in an industry where the clock speed is faster and faster and the only way to bring innovation to market is to lay more of our cards on the table,” said DuPont Chief Innovation Officer Tom Connelly. “We need to be more open and transparent about our capabilities and advanced materials solutions as a means of inviting rich conversations about customer and consumer needs. Then we need to get busy about getting there in the fastest amount of time possible.”
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Hania Archaeological Museum
at 0.2km (N)
The museum is housed in the katholikon of the Venetian monastery of St. Francis. During the period of the Turkish occupation it was the Muslim mosque of Yussuf Pasha, while in modern times it was used as a cinema or a storehouse for military equipment. Since 1963 it has been functioning as the Archaeological Museum of the city. Apart from the permanent exhibition, the museum houses temporary exhibitions in the frame of certain local events
25 Chalidon Str., tel. +30821 90334
It contains impressive finds from the excavations of the ancient city of Kydonia, from Idramia, Aptera, Polyrinia, Kissamos, Elyros, Irtakina, Syia, Lissos, Chania, Axos, and Lappa.
Eleftherios Venizelos Museum
at 1.9km (E)
After the scientific and administrative services of the Foundation "Eleftherios Venizelos" were transferred to the former Vloom Mansion, in 2005, the Venizelos residence remained the Foundation's headquarters and it has been converted into a Museum, a commemoration site for Eleftherios Venizelos.
The residence bears the imprint of Eleftherios Venizelos and the building has maintained its original form, of the years he lived there. The furniture of the decade 1925-1935 was selected by Venizelos himself and his wife Elena, and was brought from Athens and abroad. Decorative objects and paintings of the period, original photographs and personal items of significant value decorate the interior of the residence.
Eleftherios K. Venizelos (1864-1936)
Politician born in Mournies, Chania
at 2km (E)
Eleftherios Venizelos (Elefthérios Kyriákou Venizélos, GR: Ἐλευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος - 23 August 1864 – 18 March 1936), born in Mournies village near Chania, was an eminent Greek revolutionary, a prominent and illustrious statesman as well as a charismatic leader in the early 20th century. Elected several times as Prime Minister of Greece and served from 1910 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1932. Venizelos had such profound influence on the internal and external affairs of Greece that he is credited with being "the maker of modern Greece", and he is still widely known as the "Ethnarch".
Foundation Eleftherios Venizelos
at 2km (E)
The aim of the Foundation is to function on a national level as a dynamic european research and educational centre constituting a central point of reference for the coordination of research into the work, era and life of the great statesman and more generally into modern Greek history without ideological constraints and preconceptions and without local limitations.
The address of the Foundation is:
National Research Foundation "Eleftherios K. Venizelos"
House of Eleftherios Venizelos
Elena Venizelou Square, Chalepa, 731 33 Chania
Tel. (0030) 28210-56008, 51555-6, 54011
Fax (0030) 28210-56009
Office Hours: 08:30 - 16:00
at 3.5km (S)
The village of Mournies is a principal village, located 3.8 km south of Hania at 40m a.s.l. It took the name "Mournies" from the numerous mulberry trees, that use to be here even today. At the beginning of the 17th century, Mournies was famous for its beautiful villas, belonging to local noblemen. One of them, located southeast of the village, was the imposing three storey villa of "Koukounara". It had beautiful flowery gardens, fountains, statues ..., a real paradise, where many famous persons were received hospitality, amongst them the glorious Mme Ortans, the empress Eugene of Napoleon the third, queen Olga of Greece, and the king Constantinos in 1913. The villa today, being restored, houses a department of the Geek Navy.
Mournies was the birth place of one of the greatest statesman of the new Hellenic Republic, Eleftherios Venizelos. Venizelos' influence on the history of Greece was paramount, from his participation to the talks with the Ottomans that resulted to granting Crete independence in 1897, to the final union of Crete with Greece in 1913. The house of Venizelos located in Mournies is going to be a museum, and many personal items of the politician are going to be on display there.
Venizelos Graves - Prophitis Ilias
at 3.7km (E)
At the magical and historical location of Profitis Ilias, in Akrotiri, at the east of Hania lays the tomb of Eleftherios Venizelos, one of the most long-standing prime ministers of Greece and whose political life was focused on doubling the size of Greek territory and on the creation of a contemporary State. Eleftherios Venizelos himself had designated this position to be his resting place before his death.
For the visitor, it affords a panoramic view of the rich green plain of Hania, the imposing White Mountains, the Cretan Sea, the town of Hania and the Chalepa quarter which is the location of the house in which the great politician spent most of his life and today is the headquarters of the National Research Foundation 'Eleftherios K. Venizelos'.
at 12.3km (S)
Thérisso (GR: Θέρισο) is a small village, built on the foot of the White mountains, at 580 m a.s.l, 20km south of the city of Hania. It has 156 inhabitants and it is famous for its physical beauty, its diary-farming and its glorious past.
You can reach Therisso from Perivolia passing through the Canyon (good asphalt road), or from Drakona, crossing the 7km dirt road through the forest.
From here starts the trekking path which leads to the highest peak of the White mountains, Pahnes (2452m)
Due to its location Therisso played a significant role at the history of the island especially during the 19th Century. A mill's stone located at the entrance of the village reminds the death of a young woman (grinded alive), when she denied to surrender to Mustafa Pasha.
Here were born the great Cretan revolutionaries (Hainis), Vassilis, Giannis and Stefanos Halis. Vassilis Halis, became a hainis very young, and participated to the most great battles against the Turks in Crete and Peloponnissos. He was lt General when he died at Nafplion (Peloponnissos) in 1846.
But Therisso is mostly known for its relation with the Venizelos movement in March 1905. Venizelos, who dissented with prince George' policy and declared the Union of Crete with Greece, had his headquarters at Therisso. The house of Venizelos is today a museum.
The visitor to Therisso will admire the natural beauty, learn a lot of the history of the place listening to various stories and looking at the historical monuments, and taste the local specialties at the lovely taverns of the village.
2,5 km north of Therisso, at the left bank of Kladissos river, there is a cave where signs of neolithic and Minoan habitation were discovered. It is believed that it was a worship place.
Aptera Archaeological Site
Aptera, Apokoronas, Hania
at 12.5km (SE)
One of the most important city - states of Crete. The first epigraphic occurence of its name (A-pa-ta-wa) is found in the Linear B tablets found at Knossos. (14th - 13th century B.C.). The history of the city is continued through the centuries untill the 7th century A.D. when a major earthquake destoyed it. Its ideal location, allowed the city to control the naval activity in the bay of Souda, and was determinative for its development in an important commercial center.
The era of the city's greatest peak was the early Hellenistic period (late 4th - 3rd century B.C.). At that time Aptera experienced an economical and political floruit, begins to mint its own coins and develops diplomatic relations with important centres of the Hellenistic world.
The most important monuments of the site are:
Bipartite temple, known as the "bipartite sanctuary", dated to the 5th-4th century B.C.
Graves of the Geometric-Roman periods.
The fortification wall, preserved to a length of almost 4 kilometres.
Part of a Roman bouleuterion.
Monastery of Agios Ioannis Theologos.
Turkish fortress built in 1866-1869.
Source: The Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Gonia Monastery & Museum
at 22.1km (W)
The monastery of Gonia (GR: Μονή Γωνιάς) or Panagia Odigitria, is located 1 km north of Kolimbari (along the Spatha penninsula) and 24 km from the city of Chania in a wonderful place with a magnificent view to the bay of Hania. It was built in the 17th century, in the Venetian fortress style, and it is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin.
The monastery replaced an older, 13th-century structure, which was located on the territory of an adjacent cemetery.
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Sexual assault gained widespread attention on the campus in August 2015, when the magazine Texas Monthly published an investigation called "Silence at Baylor." The article raised serious questions about Baylor's handling of a sexual-assault case involving a football player, who was convicted around the time the article was published.
Since then, ESPN and others have reported on major lapses in Baylor's handling of sexual violence, and activists have spoken out about a problem that they said extends beyond the university's high-profile football team.
The controversy at Baylor reached a peak in May 2016, when the university demoted its president, Kenneth W. Starr, the former special prosecutor who led an investigation into President Bill Clinton. The university also fired its football coach and put its athletics director on probation. Mr. Starr and the athletics director, Ian McCaw, both later left the university.
At the time, the university released a summary of findings related to an investigation conducted by the law firm Pepper Hamilton. That document criticized the university for its "fundamental failure" on Title IX compliance. Many people have called on the university to release the full report on Pepper Hamilton's inquiry. But David Garland, who was named Baylor's interim president at the time of Mr. Starr's demotion, said that the report was delivered "in the form of an oral presentation that fully and comprehensively presented the individual and aggregated findings and the evidence supporting the findings."
In the wake of the investigation, the university pledged to overhaul many of its processes, based on wide-ranging recommendations from Pepper Hamilton.
Several women have sued Baylor over its handling of sexual-assault cases. In October 2016, the university's Title IX coordinator resigned. The coordinator, Patty Crawford, said in a nationally televised interview with CBS This Morning that the university had sidelined her in efforts to carry out reforms, and had retaliated against her. Ms. Crawford filed a federal Title IX complaint that sparked an investigation by the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights.
ESPN reported in November 2016 that Baylor had settled with two women who said they were gang raped by football players in 2012. Financial details of the settlement were not disclosed. Baylor said that the people who were implicated in the alleged assaults were no longer at the university.
The institution has affirmed its commitment to victims of sexual assault and pledged to shore up its compliance with Title IX. Summaries of the university's efforts can be found here.
The university's leaders face a steep challenge in enacting the reforms that they promised after Baylor’s response to sexual violence, especially involving its football team, was found to be riddled with problems.
Incidents involving the Baptist university’s powerhouse football team have unsettled many students. Now the administration is taking action on a problem that activists say runs deeper than sports.
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Temperature checks and sign-in processes are now the norm, adding complexity for businesses organisations that need to manage and verify individuals entering their premises every day.
LoopKiosk is the first TGA-approved integrated entry management system that uses infrared thermometer technology to accurately check a person’s temperature as part of an electronic sign-in process.
Upon entry, a person enters their details into LoopKiosk and answers a series of screening questions, and the device conducts a contactless temperature check. The LoopKiosk automatically sends an alert if a high temperature is detected, or if a screening question or vaccination certificate needs to be checked.
“LoopKiosk helps to ensure people entering a building are healthy in terms of their temperature, and records their sign-in details to enable contact tracing and verification,” LoopLearn co-founder and director, Zoe Milne, said.
LoopLearn is an Australian start-up company, established in 2018. It offers a range of technology solutions designed to make it simpler, quicker, and more efficient for organisations to ensure the health and safety of their communities and people in their care.
“The use of infrared thermometer technology to accurately read a person’s temperature is what makes LoopKiosk unique. It’s the same technology used by medical professionals, now working in sync with sign-in software.”
In July 2020, in the context of the outbreak of COVID-19, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) issued a new guidance requiring all digital thermometers, including devices intended for screening and based on the use of an infrared radiation measurement technique, be regulated as Class IIa. LoopKiosk received this approval this week, and it is now listed on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods.
“We are incredibly proud that LoopKiosk is the first integrated entry management system with infrared thermometer technology to be approved by the TGA,” Ms Milne said.
LoopKiosk is suitable for a range of settings, including residential aged care homes, schools, and for any organisation where it’s important to verify people entering the premises, and particularly to check that they aren’t unwell.
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For Immediate Release: March 6, 2008
Brian Nowicki, Center for Biological Diversity, email@example.com, (916) 201-6938
Greg Loarie, Earthjustice, firstname.lastname@example.org, (510) 910-0626
California Wildlife Agency Ignores Global Warming Threat
California Department of Fish and Game Denies Threat to American Pika;
Fish and Game Commission to Vote Friday
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Fish and Game Commission will vote Friday whether to accept a scientific petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity to protect the American pika under the California Endangered Species Act from the impacts of global warming. The American pika is a small mammal related to the rabbit that lives in high-elevation mountain peaks throughout California and the west and cannot withstand warm temperatures. The petition is the first to seek California Endangered Species Act protection for a species threatened by global warming. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a similar petition to list the American pika under the federal Endangered Species Act, as well as petitions to protect other species, such as the polar bear, from the effects of climate change.
The Department of Fish and Game, charged with providing an evaluation of the petition to protect the American pika, has issued a bizarre report that recommends rejecting the petition to protect the pika under state law. The Department stated that “mitigating greenhouse gas pollution” and “facilitating adaptation to climate change” are “not in the purview of the Commission or Department to effect,” apparently repudiating numerous state laws and policies that require the Department and Commission to consider and respond to climate change.
“Fish and Game’s attempt to bury its head in the sand is an embarrassment to California’s efforts as a national leader in the fight against climate change,” said Brian Nowicki of the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Department must not neglect its duty to protect California’s plants, wildlife, and habitats from the impacts of global warming.”
The American pika, Ochotona princeps, is highly adapted to survive cold temperatures and live in rocky mountain peaks in the Sierra Nevada and other mountain ranges in the western United States. Pikas are very poorly adapted to dealing with heat and can die from overheating when exposed for just a few hours to temperatures as low as 80°F. Global warming threatens pikas by shortening the time when it is cool enough for them to gather food, changing the types of plants that grow where they live, reducing the insulating snowpack, and, most directly, causing the animals to die from overheating.
The Center’s petition set forth a compelling case for listing the species under the California Endangered Species Act, based on the threat posed by continued greenhouse gas emissions and rapidly rising temperatures in California. Numerous pika populations have already disappeared from the Great Basin as temperatures warm.
The Department report makes the stunning statement that “neither the petition nor other source offers information supporting the suggestion that the pika in California is being threatened by climatic warming or any other factor or combination of factors…” Documents provided in response to a California Public Records Act request show that in making this statement, the Department ignored not only the petition and the scientific literature it cites, but the opinions of scientists whose opinion it solicited on the petition. For example, one scientist wrote to the Department: “ My bottom-line conclusion is that this petition is essentially correct in all important aspects. … In my professional opinion all available evidence strongly supports the proposition that American pikas merit protection under the California Endangered Species Act. …”
The California Fish and Game Commission will vote whether to accept the petition at their meeting on March 7. The Department’s evaluation is advisory only. At this stage the Commission is not deciding whether to actually list the pika as threatened or endangered, but only whether listing “may be warranted.” A positive decision would trigger a one-year status review for the pika by the Department, which would be followed by a second recommendation and a vote on whether to protect the species under the California Endangered Species Act.
The Center has filed a detailed response to the Department report and will present evidence at the hearing.
“The California Endangered Species Act is the legal Noah’s Ark for imperiled species in the state,” said Greg Loarie, an attorney with Earthjustice representing the Center for Biological Diversity in this matter. “The threat to the pika from global warming is clear and compelling, so the Commission is legally obligated to accept the petition.”
Further information is available at http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mammals/American_pika/index.html.
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Can anyone give me tips on what i should study/have prepared for the english exam?? I really don't have a clue what to study!
For paper one practise comprehensions and PQE, how to write a letter and a story and also the media studies.
Paper two go your studied novel, poems and play. Practise all the themes and learn quotes.
For paper 1, Personal Writing is most important. Make sure to be familiar with debates, short stories or essays cause at least 1 of each is guaranteed to come up each year. Diary entries also come up sometimes but not every year. There's always ONE debate every year. There's usually quite a lot of short stories and essays to choose from
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The Ballad Of The Lonely Masturbator
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Added by: Lisa
this is offensive to me
Added by: Lynne
Lisa . . . why do you find this poem offensive?
Would a poem about sex be offensive?
Why is a poem about solitary lonely love offensive? I am not trying to criticize your opinion, I am honestly curious.
poetry doesn't just have to be about love and flo
Added by: miss trout
i think, lisa, that if one looks at this poem superficially, one would find it offensive. however, perhaps you were just put off by the title. surely anne sexton, an accomplished poet, does not just throw masturbation together into a sloppy rhyme and call it poetry. she has a purpose. i am involved in a poetry club at my school, and read this poem to our members, purposely omitting the title so that they could hear it and absorb it without prejudice. no one found it offensive because they looked at the deeper meaning of the poem, which is rejection and emptiness. masturbation is taboo in our society, and that is precisely the reason why anne sexton chose this title, to shock and intrigue readers. our society would be dull and colorless if we censored everything some found 'offensive.'
Added by: Bob
...in my dreams with you, trice a night!
Added by: postpartum
I just masturbated for the first time since giving birth 17 days ago. It felt soft and new and I came very gently. I can relate to this poem. I think it's lovely.
Added by: bed
Sexton seems to be rejecting the flawed relationships between human beings by embracing "the bed." Note in the last stanza how she de-humanizes the "boys and girls" (not men and women) who seek sexual pleasure in other people, rather than themselves. They "are glimmering creatures full of lies." their affection for each other through a sexual act is a false affection.
Sexton is claiming that humanity overindulges itself in the act of sex. "they are eating each other. they are overfed." human interaction is a dismal existence. her loneliness derives FROM this knowledge that we all exist as lone creatures for lack of our ability to genuinely communicate with others.
therefore, her marriage to the bed is her acceptance of this isolation FROM man. and masturbating, the love of self, is the only love that can truly exist purely since there are nor expectations of reciprocity.
Added by: sheets
wow, bed has the right of it. i simply can't believe that someone had so nearly the same exact impression of this poem as i did.
you see, great poetry bring the great minds to thinking alike.
Added by: anonymous
What I can't get over about this poem, whether or not it's offensive or pessimistic or whatever, is its amazing beauty, its bittersweet expression and portrait of life. And even if one is put off by the supposed topic (which I find shallow, but understandable), I can't imagine not seeing that sad beauty.
Added by: Christopher Sexton
If you think her stuff is distaste ful and nasty and sick then don't read it...... she is a great poet and if you can't see that then you shouldn't read her stuff
Added by: Josh Hardy
I think that this poem encapsulates a bitter mood and is about one womens intimate encounter with herself physically and emotionally at this time in her life. The speaker is bitter because her ex-partner has gone to another woman. She is bitter about love making and those indulging in it. Bitter and perhaps jealous. She is expressing this mood through descriptions of loving couples such as “The glimmering creatures are full of lies”. She is finding solace in masturbation. She is frustrated and lonely and wallowing in her brooding cynical thoughts about couples.
Perhaps this poem is about a persons sexual appetite. It’s about justifying masturbation to oneself. It’s about the bitterness you feel when someone breaks up with you, and how your sexual appetite reminds you of these feelings and connects(marries) you to them.
I think the bed is an image that represents intimate and personal feelings as well as raw sex. And this poem may be describing how a person is respectful of these things as well as intrinsically connected to them as a person is to a marriage partner. Hence “At night, alone, I marry the bed”
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Blepharoplasty is the surgical technique in which your eyes are altered to make you look younger or to correct an issue.
By undergoing eyelid surgery, you can achieve dramatic results that are long-lasting and highly effective at creating a more youthful appearance. You can turn back the clock in just a few hours simply by removing excess fat and skin from around the eye and tightening lax muscles both above and below it.
Maybe you find that a genetic trait that results in the upper eyelids drooping (thus restricting your vision) is now starting to develop. An eyelid lift will correct that, too.
There are three types of eyelid surgery or blepharoplasty.
In some cases, a non-surgical technique for performing an upper or lower blepharoplasty could be used, and your doctor can discuss this in more detail with you.
- Eyelid surgery: Eyelid “lift” (or ptosis repair) is the surgical technique in which the upper muscle that controls the lifting action of the upper lid is repaired.
This is more invasive in terms of actually repairing the structure of the eyelid. The end result is a true heightening of the upper eyelid, while still giving it a natural look.
Often confused with a blepharoplasty, as it does focus on the upper lid, this technique is specific to muscular repair and does not remove skin or fatty deposits.
- Upper blepharoplasty: This is the removal of excess skin and or fatty deposits surrounding the upper eyelid, which may be impacting vision by pulling down the skin.
By removing small strips of skin, or by making small incisions along the natural fold lines to remove the fatty deposits, the eyelid appears higher, thinner, and rejuvenated.
- Lower blepharoplasty: This is the same as upper blepharoplasty, except it is performed on the under-eye areas.
This procedure is particularly effective in removing the puffiness that can make you look older or tired.
A healthy diet, proper hydration, and the recommended amount of sleep per night, along with regular exercise and limited exposure to the sun all help to keep our skin looking youthful and healthy.
With daily stressors in our lives, such as work and family commitments, our skin does not always get the care it needs. This can lead to dark circles and puffiness, as well as the skin loosening and becoming saggy on the upper eyelids as early as in our 30s.
These factors all lead to our face ageing before its time or giving you a tired look when, really, you are a happy and energetic person.
Eyelid surgeries are designed to tighten the skin, reduce or even remove crow’s feet, remove the fatty deposits that build up over time, and therefore give your face a rejuvenated appearance. This, in turn, increases your confidence and gives you a youthful glow.
As eyelid surgery is often an elective (though it can be done for medical reasons) surgery. Almost anyone who suffers from fine lines and wrinkles, droopy skin, or puffiness can be a good candidate.
You are more likely to see fantastic results quicker if you have a healthier lifestyle, which includes regular exercise, a good diet, and being a non-smoker.
People suffering from certain medical conditions, such as dry eye or thyroid issues, may be at a higher risk for complications. Thus, all medical history should be fully disclosed to your surgeon so they can decide if you are a good candidate. If not, other treatments may be an option.
It is said that the eyes are the windows to your soul. And when you are feeling refreshed, rejuvenated, and younger, this is certainly true.
This is achieved when the fine lines, fatty deposits, and drooppiness are removed. There are other treatments that you may also consider getting alongside eyelid surgery to boost the results, which include the following.
Microneedling is a procedure where a series of small needles go into the skin (either via a pen or a roller rolled over the skin) to boost and promote the growth of new cells, natural collagen, and increase blood flow.
With radiofrequency skin tightening, a small device is placed over the skin. It emits a frequency designed to tighten skin by heating it up and encouraging your body’s natural response, thus stimulating collagen production.
A chemical peel is a procedure wherein a layer of a moisturized based cream is spread over the skin. This is designed to remove dead skin, tighten skin, and give you a rejuvenated glow.
Finally, platelet-rich plasma is a procedure that is sometimes referred to as the “Vampire Facial”. In this case, the doctor draws a small sample of your own blood, spins it down to remove the platelets, and then injects this back under the skin in the problem areas.
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Crime and Punishment is set in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the 1860s, which Dostoevsky describes as a dirty, vice-ridden place. As Raskolnikov wanders around the streets, "that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer--all worked painfully upon the young man's overwrought nerves" (page 2). He is surrounded all the time by filth, and the people in the streets are often drunk. In this type of environment, Raskolnikov's reasoning also becomes tainted. The dark, dirty setting of the novel in St. Petersburg affects Raskolnikov's already weakened mind so that he begins to rationalize that killing the old pawn broker is forgivable. Dostoevsky paints the city as a powerful force that has a degrading effect on Raskolnikov's mind. It is only in Siberia, where he is serving a long prison sentence, that Raskolnikov begins his slow process of redemption far away from the vice of urban life.
By setting the novel in St. Petersburg which was then the capitol of Russia, Dostoevsky is draws attention to the miserable social conditions that existed in Russia at the time the book was published. St. Petersburg is usually thought of as a beautiful city full of fabulous buildings and art. However, there was a much more impoverished side of the city that was rarely discussed. Almost all of the characters, including the protagonist, Raskolnikov, are poor. One of the most noble characters, Sonya, has had to become prostitute in order to help support her family. By involving the reader in this social environment, the author is able to call attention to problems associated with poverty and the consequences of those problems.
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Click here for a Region Map of Hallstatt and details of walking / hiking maps.
Hallstatt is in Oberösterreich, to the south east of Salzburg in the Salzkammergut. It is on the western side of Hallstätter See. The lakes of Altausseer See, Toplitzsee and Grundlsee and the village of Bad Aussee lie to the east and Bad Ischl lies to the north. The main road on the west side of the lake by-passes the village through a tunnel. There is a ferry across the lake to the train station.
Walking / Hiking in the Hallstatt Area
In the Hallstatt area there are lots of paths. The Tourist Office may offer free led walks.
Hallstatt Hiking / Walking Maps
There are several maps that cover the area at different scales suitable for walking, hiking and exploring the area. Click here for details.
Skiing in the Hallstatt Area
The nearest ski area is the Freeride Arena Krippensteinin in Obertraun, about 5 km south east of Hallstatt on the south western edge of the lake.
In Gosau, about 18 km to the west of Hallstatt, is the Skiregion Dachstein-west.
A couple of km south of Hallstatt is the Echerntal with a small ski area for beginners (Skilift Speiger).
Hallstatt Tourist Information
im Kultur- und Kongresshaus
A- 4830 Hallstatt,
Postfach A- 4830,
Airports near to Hallstatt (Flughafen)
The nearest airport to Hallstatt is Salzburg.
Rail Stations (Bahnhof) and Ferries
There is no train station in Hallstatt village. The nearest station (called Hallstatt) is on the other side of the lake.
There are ferry connections acoss the lake.
ÖBB (English) also has bus information.
There are a number of bus routes.
ÖBB (English) also has train information.
Cable Cars - Chair Lifts
There are no cable cars or chair lifts in Hallstatt. The nearest one is in Obertraun, about 5 km south east of Hallstatt on the south western edge of the lake.
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A mouse finds itself in a box it’s seen before; inside, its white walls are bright and clean. Then, a door opens. On the other side, a dark chamber awaits. The mouse should be afraid. Stepping into the shadows means certain shock — 50 hertz to the paws, a zap the animal was unfortunate enough to have experienced just the day before. But when the door slides open this time, there is no freezing, no added caution. The mouse walks right in.
The memory of this place, of this shock, of these bad feelings had been erased overnight by a team of neuroscientists at four leading research institutions in Japan using lasers, a virus, and a fluorescent protein normally produced in the body of sea anemones. Their work, published Thursday in Science, pinpoints for the first time the precise timing and location of minute brain changes that underlie the formation and consolidation of new memories.
“It’s a huge stride for the field,” said Steve Ramirez, a neuroscientist at Boston University who was not involved in the study.
That field is optogenetics, a new lab technique that makes neurons sensitive to light. And it has allowed scientists to wield lasers like memory-editing wands, launching a new era of exploration into the inner workings of animals’ brains. Because nearly every neurological disease — from depression to PTSD to Alzheimer’s — impacts the memory system, discoveries in animals could someday lead to new treatments for these disorders in people. (In one small but promising study, optogenetics helped a blind man see for the first time in 40 years.)
Scientists like Ramirez have been able to use these techniques to implant mice with false memories and crank the emotional dial of real ones. But he and others achieved such feats of optogenetic inception by lighting up whole brain areas. “We’re kind of hitting the cells with a sledgehammer because we’re activating the cell body, the axons, everything,” Ramirez said. In contrast, the research team from Japan developed a way to toggle not just specific neurons but specific synapses on those neurons — the exact places where they connect with other neurons — during specific time windows. “That extra layer of resolution is technically impressive and particularly exciting because it means we’re getting close to finding a causal mechanism for memory,” he said.
Contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, memories exist as a three-dimensional phenomenon in the brain. You can’t go to one single X, Y, Z coordinate point and say “this is where a memory lives” (and if that memory is painful, cut it out, a la “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”). Rather, memories reside across different parts of the brain, grooved into networks of neighboring neurons like webs of interleaved dominos. Knock any one of them over and the cascade that follows might lock a new memory in or conjure up an old one.
One way that scientists think that happens is through something called long-term potentiation. All the sights and sounds and smells and emotions associated with a given experience cause certain neurons to fire. And when they do, it leads to enduring changes in those cells and in cells nearby — they sprout protrusions that help transmit electrical signals and make more connections with nearby neurons. The strengthening of activity within and between brain cells is believed to be a substrate for memory.
Nearly two decades ago, Yasunori Hayashi, a neuroscientist then at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, discovered some of the critical molecules involved in the physical changes taking place during the early phases of long-term potentiation. More recently, his lab figured out how these key proteins rapidly rearrange and polymerize to produce these protrusions. In this latest study, Hayashi, now at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, led work developing a method to selectively disrupt that process using light. He and his collaborators used a viral vector to make neurons express SuperNova, a sea anemone protein that releases destructive oxygen species when illuminated. Shine a light on them and they paralyze their surrounding proteins — no protrusions, no long-term potentiation.
“This technology using light made it possible for the first time to erase long-term potentiation only at a specific time window,” Akihiro Goto, the study’s lead author, told STAT via email. He and his colleagues used this technology to disrupt the long-term potentiation of neurons in the hippocampus — a brain region crucial for memory formation — at regular intervals in the hours and days following the shock-box training. They discovered that in order for memories to form, long-term potentiation was required immediately after the event and in the subsequent sleep period.
To see if they could erase memories both coming and going, the researchers also blocked long-term potentiation in the anterior cingulate cortex, a different brain region involved in recalling more distant memories. When blocked two days out from the training, poof, the memories disappeared. But when they tried it on day 25, the animals found their fear. By then, the memory had stuck.
“Our study revealed a precise spatiotemporal profile of long-term potentiation in hippocampus and the anterior cingulate cortex, and demonstrated that such local long-term potentiation in each brain region is required for the early phase of memory consolidation,” wrote Goto, adding that it also explains why sleep is important for memory formation “and is expected to contribute to the treatment of sleeping disorders.”
That’s not to say that doctors are going to be sticking optic fibers into the human brain anytime soon. But Ramirez sees the work as a positive step toward developing different interventions, such as drugs, that could erase certain fearful memories like those involved in PTSD. “That specificity is important because it means that in theory it should be possible to develop drugs that only reverse this kind of plasticity in the brain, making it so we can erase or suppress only very specific memories,” said Ramirez. The downside is that long-term potentiation is not the only mechanism by which our brains store information. So more research is needed to understand what those different mechanisms are before optogenetics can be used to illuminate which kinds of memories they encode.
“It’s still sci-fi sounding,” said Ramirez. “But it doesn’t require inventing a new law of physics.”
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- 1 Our Ultimate Scroll Saw Buying Guide
- 1.1 What Is a Scroll Saw Used For?
- 1.2 How Does a Scroll Saw Work?
- 1.3 What Type Of Scroll Saw Blade Do I Need?
- 1.4 Different Cuts To Make With a Scroll Saw
- 1.5 Top Features To Consider In a Scroll Saw
- 1.6 Tips For Using a Scroll Saw
- 1.7 Frequently Asked Questions About Buying a Scroll Saw
- 1.8 Final Words
Our Ultimate Scroll Saw Buying Guide
For people who are buying a scroll saw for the first time, understanding what you need in your new saw can be overwhelming with the huge range of features and types.
Nowadays scroll saws are perfect for delicate design work and extremely safe to use in the workshop, but when choosing your model you have to consider its size, throat length, power and speed as well as many other extra features to make sure that you saw is right for you.
To make your search for the right scroll saw a little easier, we have composed an extensive buying guide below which will cover everything from the basic features a scroll saw has to the most essential specs to look for in your model.
So without further chatting, let's get into it!
What Is a Scroll Saw Used For?
Before we get into how scroll saws work and what you need in your tool, let's go over the purpose of these saws and what you can use them for to make sure the device is suited to your workshop tasks.
A scroll saw is one of the smaller power tools and is mostly used for detailed woodworking projects where you need to make dovetail joints or tiny carving for decor, they are best for these cuts on woods thanks to their thinner blades.
How Does a Scroll Saw Work?
To understand what you need in your scroll saw, you have to know how these saws operate with their different parts to achieve cuts in wood.
We have listed the basic parts of a scroll saw below and how they work.
The table of a scroll saw is what you hold your material on while cutting, it makes cuts on wood more accurate and is typically made out of either aluminium or metal material.
Tables often have different throat sizes on these machines which determines the size of the piece of wood that you can cut as well as a tilting angle which will indicate the range of angled cuts and bevel edge cuts you can make in wood.
The blade is one of the most important parts of a scroll saw, they come in a pinned and pinless type but vary according to factors such as teeth and thickness.
We will go over the two main types below.
- Pinned blades - These types of blades are held in place on the scroll saw via pins, they are one of the oldest pin-end blades too. To change pine-end blades you simply have to remove and release the hook, making them easy to replace in case of blade breakage.
- Pinless blades - This choice of blade type needs to be threaded through the type of wood you are working on and put through the slots which are below and above the table of the scroll saw. The type of blade has to be tightened at both ends to make sure it is secure.
For cutting intricate design this is where the arm of the scroll saw comes into action, it holds the blade and acts as the connection between the motor of the saw and pieces of wood to cut.
Figuring out which arm to have on your scroll saw can be a little confusing as they come in three different types, we will list them down below to see how they differ.
- C Arm Scroll Arm - This type of scroll saw c-arm type arm has one pivot point which allows the blade of the machine to move up and down in an arc-like movement, they are one of the best arms to choose on your machine if you are looking to cut heavier duty blocks of wood.
- Parallel type - A parallel arm of a scroll saw has two pivot points with two arms that meet in the middle, this allows the blade of the scroll saw to move in a reciprocating up and down motion.
- Parallel linked - For people who want little vibration when using their scroll saw, a newer parallel linked arm is a great choice. This parallel linked arm has one arm up and down but is shorter than a normal parallel linked arm.
Air blowers on scroll saws are very important as these machines create a lot of sawdust during cutting would, most scroll saws have this a tube and it can be connected to a dust port to carry the sawdust further away.
The blade tensioner of a scroll saw refers to the knob on the machine which allows you to easily adjust how tight or lose the blade is of your saw. This is needed according to the project you are working on, too tight or too loose could ruin your project.
What Type Of Scroll Saw Blade Do I Need?
When looking for your new scroll saw, one of the most important factors to consider is the blade which comes in pinless and pinned types as we discussed above.
Scroll saw blades however also come in different sizes and materials which we will go into further detail about below.
The blade sized for scroll saw vary between sizes of 0-12, the higher the number is of your blade then the thicker it will be and the fewer teeth it will have.
Blade teeth vary according to the type that you buy, they come in eight different standard types which we will list below.
- Standard blades - These forms of blades are the most common for scroll saws and typically have standard space teeth, they are mostly made of metal but can come in different special materials.
- Skip-tooth blades - Skip-tooth blades are accurate blades for beginners thanks to their larger spacing in between teeth which allow you to cut patterns in wood much slower.
- Reverse-tooth blades - For avoiding splinters in softer wood, reverse-tooth blades are often the best choice. These blades have teeth on top with a similar design to skip-tooth blades except feature teeth on the bottom as well as the top to stop splintering.
- Double-tooth blades - Double-tooth blades have a space on every third tooth to make slower cuts and are perfect for larger woodworking projects as they do not heat up fast.
- Precision-ground blades - The teeth of these blades are very small and are grounded to be extremely sharp so as they can cut material smoothly.
- Crown-tooth blades - Crown-tooth blades have teeth shaped like crowns, they are designed to be in pairs and have one tooth facing up while the other one is facing down. This allows you to cut in a direction and you can simply use the tooth in the other direction when one starts to get blunt.
- Spiral blades - These spiral blades have teeth in all directions, hence the spiral name, they are best used for starting a rough cut but not for detailed designs in wood.
Different Cuts To Make With a Scroll Saw
If you are not sure whether or not a scroll saw is worth the investment then you are probably unsure about whether you need one for the type of cutting work you will be doing.
We have listed the different kinds of material scrolls saws can cut below as well as the various cuts they can make to see if it's worth it for your woodworking.
Types Of Material
Scroll saws are mostly of use for woodwork hobbyists who need to make designs in wood but they can be used to cut a variety of materials as long as you have the right kind of blade.
- Ceramic tiles.
Types Of Cuts
- Angled cuts.
- Plunge cuts.
- Dovetail joints.
- Thick cuts.
- Curved cuts.
Top Features To Consider In a Scroll Saw
If you want to get the best scroll saw for your money then you should make sure it has some of the essential specs as well as additional features to get the most value out of it when woodworking.
To help you out with your search we have listed the most important features for you to be considering in your brand new scroll saw down below.
- Size - The main feature to consider in models of scroll saws are its size as this ultimately determines the size of the workpiece you will be able to cut. You should consider the durability of the table on your saw too and check if it tilts for making angled cuts in woodwork.
- Power - Since your scroll saw is has a motor for the power you should consider the kind of power you need, this will be measured in watts and it will also affect the speed of your device. The higher the power the harder materials you can cut.
- Speed - Check the strokes per minute your scroll saw has as this will indicate its speed, a high amount of strokes per minute is better for harder wood, you should ensure this is a variable speed motor too for more control and accuracy when cutting different materials.
- Throat length - The throat length of your scroll saw is important as it affects the size of the wood you can cut at once, it refers to the distance between the saw blade and the back of the saw. Most throat sizes in types of scroll saw designs range between a measurement of 16-20 inches, you should look for a throat size of around 18-inches on your scroll saw to allow for versatile use.
- Blade type - As we mentioned above in a buying guide, scroll saws come with a variety of blade types which are pinned or pinless, pinless tend to be the better more modern choice nowadays as they are good for delicate cutting, however, pin-end blades are much easier to switch out.
- Depth of cut - The depth of cut your saw has should be at least 50mm, however some scroll saws do have a larger depth cut for larger woodworking projects.
- Blade tension adjustment - Depending on your design in the scroll saw they will come with different ways for blade tension adjustment. Make sure your tension adjustment is easy to use via either a lever or button, it should be toolless too for quick adjustment time.
- LED work light - Having an LED work light on your saw can be useful for keeping the accuracy of your cuts in low light situations, another extra to look out for on your saw are foot switches as they allow you to remove your hands from the machine.
- Vibration - It is important to watch out for the vibration of your scroll saw, you want to avoid too much vibration as it causes a lot of noise and can decrease the accuracy of your work.
- Warranty - Always ensure that your scroll saw has a warranty of at least one year or more for buyers protection against faulty models.
Tips For Using a Scroll Saw
Once you've chosen your best scroll saw it's important you know the best way to use it, not only to protect yourself but also to get the most out of your tool.
We put together a list below which includes some of the essential safety tips for using your saw as well as some cutting tips during.
- Sand your wood before cutting - Sanding your wood before cutting is safer and will result in a quicker cutting time.
- Wear safety gear - Make sure you are wearing the correct safety gear before starting to cut, goggles for example are essential as it stops sawdust from going into your eyes.
- Never rush - It's never a good idea to try and force your work through a scroll saw, instead let the blade do its job, you should never rush larger workpieces as it can overheat or worse even bend your blade which is dangerous.
- Check the blade of damage - Before cutting with your scrolls saws blade you should take a little time to check how the blade is beforehand, a damaged blade should never be used for cutting wood and the same goes for a dull blade.
- Keep your table at the right height - Your scroll saws table should always be around mid-torso length for the best accuracy.
- Use good lighting - Always make sure you are using your scroll saw in good lighting so as you can see what you are doing properly, an additional LED work light can help if your workshop is poorly lit.
- Check the blade tension - You have to ensure your blade tension is adjusted properly before cutting, if it is too loose then it won't cut anything but too tight can also damage the blade.
- Use dry wood - If your wood gets wet is a safety hazard and can ruin the quality of your material.
- Drill a hole - One way to prevent your work splitting is by drilling a hole in the material beforehand, placing a scrap piece of wood below and voila!
- Lubricate your blade - Using some WD-40 on your blade will improve its performance and help it to last longer.
Frequently Asked Questions About Buying a Scroll Saw
How much is a scroll saw?
Scrolls often have an affordable price of around £100-£150 however price ranges up to £300 if you want a more high quality larger scroll saw.
What is the difference between a scroll saw and a band saw?
Bandsaws are often used for cutting a larger thickness of material while scrolls saws purpose is for small detailed work in wood.
How many teeth should my scroll saw blade have?
This depends on the type of material you will be cutting with your scroll saw, some have a higher amount of teeth but most have around 6-80 for the standard cutting of wood.
Can I cut metal with a scroll saw?
Softer metal can be cut with a scroll saw but you should avoid cutting heavy metal, you also have to ensure you are using the right kind of metal cutting blade to avoid damage to your saw and ensure an accurate cut.
Which kind of throat size do I need on a scroll saw?
A 16-inch or 18-inch throat size is great for your scroll size however you can get 20-inch throat models for cutting even larger woodworking pieces.
How do I stop excessive vibrations from my scroll saw?
Scrolls saws are known to vibrate a fair amount when cutting, one way to reduce this is by adding weight to the saw to keep it stable, this could be sandbags for example.
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Rice is without doubt one of the mostly consumed grains on the earth, and what’s much more outstanding is that it’s consumed in each nation on the planet. It’s a product for which there isn’t any scarcity of shoppers and its common demand. That is in sharp distinction to different merchandise that solely have seasonal demand. The farming course of is kind of fundamental and doesn’t require a number of equipment, and if you happen to can develop a very good product, you possibly can cost a wonderful worth. Should you assume that is the enterprise for you, listed below are some ideas that can assist you get began.
The Proper Climate
Like most different grains, rice wants scorching climate to develop to its full potential. That is going to be a spot that has a minimum of 4 months of summer time and the place the temperature is round 100F. The general progress cycle from seed to reap for rice is round six months, with some varieties taking rather less or a little bit extra time. Throughout your complete progress cycle, you want scorching climate, and as such, you’ll solely have the ability to domesticate as soon as per yr. Rice is a really resilient crop; it may be grown at excessive altitudes, however it does finest on flat land at decrease altitudes.
The Proper Seed
One factor that units rice aside from different grains is that the seed isn’t planted straight into the soil. As an alternative, the seed is germinated in water first after which transferred to the bottom. That is the place a number of farmers lose their seeds as a result of they both don’t germinate them accurately or they don’t plant the seedlings correctly. Ideally, you need excessive rice seed germination charges so that you’ve essentially the most seedlings potential once you go to plant them. Additionally, it is advisable watch out when planting them, to not bury them too deep into the bottom since this may trigger the seedlings to suffocate and die.
A giant drawback with rising rice on a mountainside or at larger altitudes, on the whole, is that it’s more durable to provide water and rice wants a number of water. Typically, rice fields get flooded with water in order that the seed is submerged underneath a minimum of 3 inches of water. Rice can develop with out being flooded in water, however it nonetheless must be watered very generously and really regularly to maintain the soil moist always. It is a problem as a result of, in such scorching climates, water could be scarce, and it dries up in a short time underneath the recent solar.
With the expansion course of full, the rice must be harvested fastidiously to get the full-grain. Often, rice crops are dried to permit the grain to utterly solidify earlier than it’s harvested. This is part of the method that requires talent and expertise. With sufficient coaching, anybody can get the dangle of it. Some individuals desire to course of the rice grains as they’re, whereas others course of them additional to get a better high quality product.
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Patrick Stephenson reviews Rebecca Moore’s “NATO’s new mission” and analyses whether it gives a full picture of where the Alliance is heading.
Rebecca Moore’s book “NATO’s New Mission” provides an important history of the transatlantic Alliance since the end of the Cold War. She succeeds in getting inside the heads of the policymakers who were forced by events to transform NATO. And she shows how these events no longer required a static Alliance deterring a monolithic Soviet threat, but a dynamic institutional force, extending and preserving Western liberal values in Eastern Europe and beyond.
This is intellectual and diplomatic history at its most rigorous. The footnote count of some chapters runs into the hundreds.
In fact, a perusal of the ‘Notes’ section shows that Dr Moore has studied most, if not all, of NATO’s official documents.
Beyond that, she’s read many significant academic pieces, countless clippings from both mainstream news sources and Allied statements and interviewed seemingly just about every relevant NATO official, both on the record and on background.
In short, Dr Moore has aced her NATO homework. And in doing so, anyone studying NATO issues will find their homework easier.
The picture that emerges from this mountain of research is one of a NATO that is increasingly political in its mission. This is primarily, Dr Moore shows us, because Allied political and intellectual leaders have come to understand that the increasingly complex and asymmetrical threats facing the Alliance demand political as well as purely military responses. This is the essence of the ‘comprehensive approach’ that is now the byword for Alliance activities.
The benefit of this cockpit-view of events is that it maps out the intellectual evolution among Allied commentators and policymakers since the early 1990s. NATO’s renewed certainty of purpose, Dr Moore demonstrates, was the foundation for the Alliance’s growing role in post-9/11 world.
At the heart of this gradual Allied realization of NATO’s continuing utility was the idea, voiced by former NATO Secretary General Javier Solana, that security “is what we make of it”: the right institutions, based upon the right values, can construct the security and the stability that we desire. Along the way, realist arguments from NATO sceptics that either predicted the Alliance’s dissolution or opposed enlargement are duly picked apart and dismissed.
There are, however, two major disadvantages to such a viewpoint.
The first is that the portrait that emerges is descriptive rather than prescriptive. It looks backwards to where the Alliance has been - rather than describing how it needs to evolve. There are no concrete recommendations for policymakers, other than an exhortation for the transatlantic Alliance to continue to evolve politically as well as militarily.
In addition, there is an inevitable hollowness to this NATO Headquarters-centric analysis. One dares to ask: could NATO’s true predicament be different to the scenarios presented by NATO and Allied policymakers?
We are given extensive commentary by those inside the process – but what about those outside it, who live in that nebulous ‘out of’ area which so concerns NATO?
A certain amount of field research, directly examining the Alliance’s work in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, could have provided an important check to the ceaselessly optimistic pronouncements emanating from NATO Headquarters. The lack of such a perspective will lend a handy hammer to anyone who might wish to attack Dr Moore’s thesis as disconnected from realities on the ground.
Despite the work’s considerable virtues, a final reproach must be that those whose views are lacking in this history are those players who will play the most crucial role in NATO’s ‘new mission’: current or potential partners, the Afghans, Middle Easterners, the Australians, the Japanese, and others. As such, this book tells us more about how the Alliance would like to view itself in the future, rather than how it will actually evolve.
At its best, this work is a fine diplomatic history of the Alliance since the end of the Cold War. It has strong arguments about NATO’s continuing relevance that will play well to believers in the transatlantic relationship.
At its least interesting, Dr Moore’s straightforward prose is unimaginative and merely reworks stock phrases.
A larger and ultimately more complete work would have got out of NATO’s head and into the world around it.
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Paper Battery Seminar PPT with pdf report
Paper Battery Seminar and PPT with pdf report: Battery plays a vital role in almost all the electronic machines and a necessary component in all the devices. It is aidful to the people to work in the absence of electricity but there are few issues with the present of electrochemical battery like:
- The batteries are of two types, they are primary and secondary which are rechargeable and non-rechargeable respectively. For a limited lifespan, the batteries provide electrical energy and whereas the rechargeable batteries can be recharged by providing electrical energy to the cell but they are very expensive.
- Sometimes the batteries may leak and the chemical components released by them may be dangerous.
- The large use of batteries may lead to toxic metal pollution.
Paper Battery Seminar PPT with PDF Report
Due to these issues, the usage of solar cells and fuel cells is increased but they too have some limitations. So, the settlement of differences between the charge generator i.e. battery and the capacitor which stores the charge is balanced and paper batteries were initially introduced in 2007 and were made by Dr. Mangilal Agrawal.
Now, let us know in detail about the paper battery: “It is defined as pliable, extremely thin energy storing and producing device made by associating carbon nanotubes with a sheet of cellulose based paper.”
Properties of Paper Batteries:
The qualities of the components of paper batteries are described as the properties of paper batteries.
Paper Battery = Paper Cellulose + Paper Nanotubes
- Properties of Cellulose:
- Cellulose has excellent tensile strength.
- It is biodegradable as well as biocompatible.
- High porosity and excellent absorption capacity.
- Simply reusable and also non-toxic.
- Properties of Carbon Nanotubes:
- It has the following ratio of width and length, width: length = 1: 10^7 and excellent tensile power than steel.
- They also possess low mass density, less weight and very pliable, excellent packing density.
- They are 0.5mm – 0.7mm thick and not prone to any mechanical damage.
The paper batteries work same as the electrochemical batteries and only the constructional features differ in them.
- The paper battery is degradable and also nonpoisonous because many elements are organic.
- They are biocompatible because if they are fixed in a human body then the human body doesn’t reject it easily.
- As it is the cellulose based product it can be easily reused, recycled and can be recharged nearly 300 times. It has the lifespan of three years.
- They have very less weight, very bendable and because of this feature they can possess any shape.
- Eliminate the need for bulky transformers.
With developing applied science paper battery has the following applications in various fields:
- Paper batteries have the wide range of applications in electronic equipment like laptops, mobile phones, cameras, calculators, wrist watches, speakers, Bluetooth, printed circuit boards etc.
- They are also used in pacemakers, artificial tissues, cosmetics, and sugar meters and in many more medicinal appliances.
- Automobiles and aircraft also have the need of paper batteries like in hybrid cars, charging electronic machines in satellite programs.
Usage of paper batteries in India:
Unluckily, the use of a paper battery in India is not in wide range and they are in only some projects of Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and Kailashalingam University.
- Along with the numerous advantages, there are disadvantages also and they are:
- The paper battery can be torn or clipped easily as it possess low shear strength.
- The techniques aided in the production of carbon nanotubes are highly expensive and does not have the efficiency too.
- These are very dangerous to the human health when it is inhaled or swallowed.
Nowadays one of the global issues is the energy sources and this disturbs the developing as well as the developed countries. Hence, the use of the battery is a perfect solution for it because the resource of a paper battery is the light which is not the resource of any other technology.
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Is it Real or is it a Dive?
As I watch the World Cup and see a player writhing on the field after each hit or fall, it makes me wonder how often a player is truly injured. What type of back injuries do they get playing this sport at its highest level?
I’ve been told that many of the “injuries” we see on the field are played up to get the attention of the referees on such a big field. But sometimes they do get hurt. It is a sneaky, physical, and high energy sport where run ins are frequent, muscle strains and sprains are commonplace and back injuries are common and feared. In the 2014 World Cup, Brazilian striker, Neymar, was carried off the field with a fractured vertebra. With proper care and rest, he is back, and better than ever.
During throw-in’s, the forces to the upper torso and core of the lower back can be stressed, leading to injury to the upper and lower back.
During running, cutting direction, and kicking the ball, there is tremendous twisting to the lower back, and sacroiliac joints. These activities can also lead to back injuries. Sprains, strains and herniations are all a possibility but like the pros, how you prepare is key.
To prevent spine injuries, since you probably don’t have the medical staff and trainers Neymar has, make sure you warm up your muscles with a light jog for 5-10 minutes. Stretching exercises of the arms, legs, neck and torso help limber the muscles and ligaments.
During training, make sure to concentrate on building your core muscles as this will protect against injury.
For the older players, if you have neck arthritis think hard before heading that cross into the goal. While a goal is exciting, the potential pain of neck arthritis, or even worse, a neck disk herniation should give you pause.
If you are playing in the World Cup, we understand if you don’t pause.
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January 10, 2008.
When I first started working on my own blog, one of the first things I started working on was getting code syntax highlighting for my entries. I even implemented a hacky article on the topic.
The crux of the challenge is extending Markdown to have a syntax that indicates a block should be highlighted. I'm still pretty comfortable with the syntax I chose:
def add(a, b): return a + b
Its nothing fancy, but it gets the job done. However, my first attempt at extending Python-Markdown to render that syntax correctly was kind of horrific. It worked, I mean it worked okay, but damn if it didn't munge the entire Python-Markdown library while it did it.
That is a forgivable sin in some situations, but the implementors of Python-Markdown went out of their way to make it extensible... so I felt a bit dirty about it. As I have been working a lot on my blogging software, I decided that now was the time to fix my previous silliness.
Lets get to work.
My old copy of Markdown was crippled and in tears after my first modifications, so I had to get a fresh copy. You'll also want to grab a copy of pygments while you're at it.
There is a full-featured example in the Markdown library (search for FOOTNOTE to jump to it), which is a boon. Whenever confusion finds you, go look at it for guidance.
Now we need to make a new module to put our code in. It doesn't (and shouldn't be) in the same file as markdown.py. I named mine code.py, since I have it in a folder named markup. If you are placing yours in a folder with a less suggestive name, you may want to try a better name.
The first thing you need to write is a preprocessor. Preprocessors need to define one function:
def run(self, lines): # do things return lines
The Markdown library splits all the lines on "\n" and then feeds you the result. If you want to operate on the text as a blob, then you have to rejoin it yourself:
blob = u"\n".join(lines)
So our class is going to be called CodeBlockPreprocessor (catchy, I know), and its going to have this run method:
def run (self, lines): new_lines = seen_start = False lang = None block = for line in lines: if line.startswith("@@") is True and seen_start is False: lang = line.strip("@@ ") seen_start = True elif line.startswith("@@") is True and seen_start is True: lexer = get_lexer_by_name(lang) content = "\n".join(block) highlighted = highlight(content, lexer, HtmlFormatter()) new_lines.append("\n%s\n" % (highlighted)) lang = None block = seen_start = False elif seen_start is True: block.append(line) else: new_lines.append(line) return new_lines
We walk through all the lines looking for the start to a code block (represented by two consecutive at symbols (@) at the beginning of a line). If we find one, we ignore text until we find a closing block (if there is no closing block, then everything after the opening block will be discarded... a bit ungraceful, but won't allow any undesirables through either). Then we use Pygments to color the code inbetween the start and end, using the lexer indicated on the opening line of the block (for example @@ ruby uses ruby, and @@ html+django uses html+django).
After we finish the run method, we just have to write some generic code, and soon we'll have a clean extension to Python-Markdown.
First we need to do some imports at the top of our file:
import re from ddmarkup import markdown from pygments import highlight from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter from pygments.lexers import get_lexer_by_name
then we need to write a simple class that we'll use to control our new preprocessor.
class CodeExtension : def extendMarkdown(self, md): index = md.preprocessors.index(markdown.HTML_BLOCK_PREPROCESSOR) preprocessor = CodeBlockPreprocessor() preprocessor.md = md md.preprocessors.insert(index, preprocessor)
This is about as simple as classes get. You take an instance of the Markdown class, and then you add an instance of CodeBlockPreprocessor to its list of preprocessors (before the HTML_BLOCK_PREPROCESSOR).
Lastly, we need to make a function to call markdown using our new preprocessor.
def render(text): md = markdown.Markdown() codeExtension = CodeExtension() codeExtension.extendMarkdown(md) md.source = text return unicode(md)
We create an instance of Markdown, add our extension, and then render away. If we want to we can make it accept arguments from the command line as well:
if __name__ == '__main__': print render(file(sys.argv).read())
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Here's another reason to watch your weight: if you're heavy enough you could sink forever in a sea of sand-like material. It may seem crazy but Felipe Pacheco-Vázquez from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico (CINVESTAV) and his team discovered that it's possible for a sufficiently heavy object to reach a constant speed when flung into a grainy substance - and continue to plummet indefinitely if there's no bottom. In this video, you can see a computer simulation they created of this scenario. Until now, it was assumed that an object quickly loses energy and stops when it plunges into a grainy material.
The team also performed several real-world experiments where they launched ping-pong balls into a tube filled with stryrofoam beads. They gradually increased the weight of the balls through tiny holes while tracking them with high-speed video and an accelerometer. They found that lighter balls slowed down and stopped mid-way but those that weighed more than about 86 grams reached a constant speed and fell all the way to the bottom.
If this makes you wonder whether you could be swallowed up by sand, you'll be reassured by the fact that the launch speed and the density of the granular material also come into play. Even when travelling at high speed, an object would have to weigh 14 kilograms and be denser than any known material on Earth to sink endlessly into grains of sand. But as Pacheco-Vázquez told PhysOrg.com, the research does show that not all granular materials are safe to walk on. | <urn:uuid:269c7789-a889-458b-be55-9ded322f024a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/06/born-to-be-viral-balls-sink-forever-into-sand-like-grains.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00328-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954779 | 346 | 3.109375 | 3 |
The crucible is a play about the American Revolution by British writer and poet William Shakespeare. The play revolves around John Adams, who leads an opposition movement in Massachusetts against King George III’s rule of the colonies. In Act 5, scene 2, Gabriel Oak enters to tell Adams that he has new orders from General Gage: “You know what they are now?”
The “the crucible act 1” is a play written by Arthur Miller in the late 1950s. It was first published on November 16, 1959.
22nd of January, 1953
With this in mind, where did the Crucible appear?
The Crucible (1953), based on the Salem witch trials of 1692–93, was written by Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright..
Why was the Crucible written in the first place? The Crucible was written by Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright. primarily to safeguard his career. He may have been put on the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities’ blacklist as a writer.
In this case, who was the first to publish The Crucible?
Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright.
Is the Crucible based on true events?
The play The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright. is not historically accurate due to the change of characters such as ages, jobs, and events. This is done to make the play more interesting and to keep the audience engaged.
Answers to Related Questions
What was Miller’s intention when he wrote The Crucible?
Writer, Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright., in his play, The Crucible, recounts the struggles of a town obsessed with uncovering “witches”. Miller’s purpose is to detail the flawed processes often used to determined one’s guiltiness as a witch, as well as to provide a fictional description of the witch trials.
In the crucible, who is hanged?
At the end of Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright.’s “The Crucible,” protagonist John Proctor was hanged as a witch. Also hanged with him were Rebecca Nurse, Martha Corey and five others.
Why did Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright. call it the crucible?
The term Crucible is a metaphor used by Miller. Miller was a liberal who was suspected of being a communist due to his leftist beliefs. He was enraged, and it reminded him of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. He chose to write ‘The Crucible’ in order to demonstrate the folly of anti-communist hysteria.
What are the similarities and differences between the Crucible and the Salem Witch Trials?
“The Crucible” was written at a period when Communism was gaining ground and many individuals were being suspected of being Communist spies, just as many people in Salem were accused of witchcraft. The Salem Witch Trial was a court case held in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692.
What causes Proctor’s death?
hanging as a method of execution
Is Proctor going to die?
19th of August, 1692
When did the witch trials in Salem begin?
In The Crucible, how old is John Proctor?
Proctor is shown as being in his forties, while Abigail Williams is seventeen, but the actual John Proctor and Abigail Williams were about sixty and eleven or twelve years old at the time of the witch trials, respectively.
How long did it take to write The Crucible?
It took me roughly a year to write “The Crucible.” With five sets and a cast of twenty-one, it never seemed to me that producing it on Broadway would require a bold guy, particularly given the current atmosphere, yet Kermit Bloomgarden never faltered.
What occurred in Salem during the witch trials?
Between 1692 and 1693, the Salem witch trials took place in colonial Massachusetts. Over 200 persons were accused of practicing witchcraft (the Devil’s sorcery), with 20 of them being killed. Despite the fact that the Salem trials began just as the European enthusiasm was dying down, local factors explain their occurrence.
What was the duration of the Salem witch trials?
a year roughly
What happened to Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright.?
A Playwright’s Death
On February 10, 2005, the 56th anniversary of Death of a Salesman’s Broadway debut, Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, surrounded by Barley, family and friends. He was 89 years old. In March 2018, HBO aired the documentary Arthur Miller is a famous American playwright.: Writer.
Was The Crucible nominated for any awards?
Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the BAFTA Awards
Best Supporting Actress wins the Critics’ Choice Movie Award.
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A child in a red hoodie and a man on a cellphone navigate an urban landscape, the child picking flowers from cracks and crannies along the way.
Best known for his nonsense verse, Lawson here provides a poignant, wordless storyline, interpreted by Smith in sequential panels. The opening spread presents the child and (probably) dad walking in a gray urban neighborhood. The child’s hoodie is the only spot of color against the gray wash—except for the dandelions growing next to a sidewalk tree, begging to be picked. The rest of their walk proceeds in similar fashion, occasional hints of color (a fruit stand, glass bottles in a window) joining the child and the flowers she (judging by the haircut) plucks from cracks in the concrete. Smith’s control of both color and perspective is superb, supporting a beautifully nuanced emotional tone. Though the streets are gray, they are not hostile, and though dad is on the cellphone, he also holds the child’s hand and never exhibits impatience as she stops. Once the child has collected a bouquet, she shares it, placing a few flowers on a dead bird, next to a man sleeping on a bench, in a friendly dog’s collar. As child and dad draw closer to home, color spreads across the pages; there is no narrative climax beyond readers’ sharing of the child’s quiet sense of wonder.
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Car Building in York County during 1876
These snippets, from an article in the October 10th, 1876 issue of the The Evening Dispatch, paint an optimistic picture for railroad car building companies within York County. The snippets are from the extensive collection of newspaper microfilms at the York County Heritage Trust.
I’m giving a talk on Rail Events in the 1800’s for the Glen Rock Historic Preservation Society on April 22nd, 2014. What started out as changing a few slides to a previous talk on “19th Century Railway Car Builders of York” has essentially morphed into a completely new talk.
It is no doubt; the 1870s and 1880s were boom years for Railway Car Builders in York County. My “19th Century talk” focused heavily on Billmeyer & Small Company, who reached a peak of nearly 700 employees in 1883 at their two big car building plants in the east side of York. Right now I’m writing about Billmeyer & Small’s export business in the latest chapter of Railcar Gold.
Michael Schall’s Empire Car Works was located in the west side of York; within what is now known as the northwest triangle. The October 10th, 1876 article in the The Evening Dispatch is from a reporters visit to the Empire Car Works, reporting on a large railcar order for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
As early as 1870, Michael Schall was also a partner in Fry, Herbst & Company; rail car builders in Glen Rock. Later on, Michael Schall added to his car building interests; investing in the Middletown Car Works and Dauphin Car Works in Dauphin County.
Years ago, when searching newspapers for Billmeyer & Small information, I occasionally ran across articles about Michael Schall getting big orders; which his York plant alone could not fill. In which case, he’d farm out the excess to other car shops where he was a partner. Through this arrangement, Fry, Herbst & Company in Glen Rock produced cars for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
In the article, Arthur King, the superintendent of the Empire Car Works, noted the Southern Pacific Railroad “as yet has no steel in it.” This is a reference to no steel railcars. In 1876, over 99% of the railcars in the United States were constructed of wood. Some railroads had a few steel cars, although these were more of a curiosity, since they were an order of magnitude more expensive than wooden rail cars.
P. T. Barnum exploited the steel rail car in the Centennial edition of his Greatest Show on Earth. In the early morning darkness of Saturday September 16th, 1876, Barnum’s ad noted, “Three Monster Special Trains of Solid Steel Cars,” pulled into York, Pennsylvania. These 120 steel railroad cars, transporting the biggest traveling circus ever assembled, must have been a sight to behold in 1876.
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books/subdirectory, the community books (libraries). The ACL2 system is developed at the University of Texas at Austin and can also be obtained or explored separately.
acl2-8.5. Then use either of the following two methods to obtain the ACL2 source code and community books.
acl2-8.5.tar.gzfrom GitHub and then execute:
tar xfz acl2-8.5.tar.gz
acl2-8.5. Change to that directory.
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acl2. Change to that directory.
make LISP=<path_to_your_lisp_executable>This will create a script in the current directory for running ACL2. The script is named
make basicor something fancier such as the following:
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At the Volleyball MatchSituation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
From where she was sitting at the game, the score was 71 for the blue team and 42 for the red team.
Suddenly, the red team scored a point and won the game.
Why? And where was she sitting?
HintShe wasn't a spectator. And what sport was she watching?
AnswerShe was the scorekeeper.
From where she was sitting at the scorekeeper's table, the numbers on the flip-board used for score-keeping were reversed to her. The score was Blue-17, Red-24. Volleyball games go to 25 points. So, when Red scored an additional point, they won the game.
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Lech Walesa and the Polish 'Solidarity Movement' should become our model for the PEACEFUL reformation of our government. The power of the People lies in their ability and WILLINGNESS to apply selective and progressive Strikes, coupled with massive assemblies, on a national basis... until the government aggress to their demands for reform. Their willingness to leave their homes and jobs... too, remain in assembly and on strike, are the keys to PEACEFUL reformation.
However, such a movement will require LEADERSHIP capable of resourcing this massive national undertaking. We need the equivalent of a George Soros's too provide the resources necessary too accomplish this task. America must find strong and confident leadership, willing and capable of undertaking such a movement. As of yet, no one has risen to accept this challenge... no one appears to be willing to pledge their life, liberty (high potential of arrest) and personal fortune to the cause of liberty.
There seems to be no modern day equivalent... for George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the hundreds of others, who gave their all to the cause of liberty. Until we find leaders, capable and willing, to undertake a movement similar to the Polish 'Solidarity Movement', America will have no avenue for the peaceful redress of her grievances. This Administration, Congress, and the Judiciary, are all corrupt... beyond repair using the routine political process... We must find a new path... we must engage the power of the people (assembly and strikes)
The People are fooling themselves if they think their VOTE COUNTS or that elections will deliver us from the hands of the tyrants in charge of our government. The venue for peaceful resolution is a narrow one... One, that will require strong, effective, leadership and a level of commitment by the people that has not surfaced to date.
This movement must find the leadership and resources necessary to capitalize on the people's innate power too bring about peaceful reform... their right to engage in massive assemblies; the right to withhold their labor and taxes... these are the keys to peaceful reform and they rest in the hands of the people. These keys will unlock the door, thru which the American Dream may be rapidly and peacefully restored.
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Everyone please pound your Reps with these. They are being served AND to make it alynsky style, lets all send these to ours. Please also help share this with your friends that are on other sites that are interested in this work.
Tonight, we say goodbye to 2012 - Tomorrow, the Fight Begins!
The leadership at Patriots Union, Veteran Defenders and now The North American Law Center are 100% committed to taking the fight to the enemies of freedom and liberty no matter the odds.
Today, we released this NOTICE to be served upon every member of the US Congress before they confirm the 2012 election.
We have also made a constituent version available for ALL members to send to your House and Senate Reps.
At the very least, use the constituent version to send to your representatives in DC, no latter than Wednesday the 2nd.
If you can, help raise financial support for this and other vital actions to follow at The North American Law Center.
Next, 2013 state legislative sessions will open beginning in January. Make sure that YOU are engaged in passing The Balance of Powers Act in your state, as without this piece of vital legislation, NO other state bill intended to protect the people of your state can withstand the federal government and their corrupt federal courts.
Last, we intend to file the Criminal Complaint as soon as we have raised the funds needed to see that initiative through.
We will also launch a Second Amendment protection suit as soon as we can.
If I'm not mistaken the notice served is intend too alert Congress of their 'criminal' culpability if they don't act to stop Obama from taking office. It is about time the legal profession takes the initial steps to put Congress on notice, that their actions are subject to a criminal complaint... they will no longer be able to claim ignorance. Misprision of a felony, aiding and abetting a felony, criminal malfeasance, etc., etc.
Last night I was helping with my church's New Year's eve communion service. In my quest for understanding about my role in the church, politics, and their intersection, I noticed an American flag on the left side at the back of the choir seating section. On the right side was another flag, and when I asked about it no one seemed to know exactly what it was, but thought it was a flag of Christianity. Is the American Flag in your church sanctuary? Is your state flat displayed?
I am currently reading a book called "They Fired the First Shot" and I am finding it to be an excellent book! Part of the back cover says "Chinese Warrior Sun Tsu taught that in order to win every battle, you must know yourself and you must know your enemy. We know that the USA is facing an attack unlike anything it has ever experienced in history. Why are we losing battle after battle in the face of an all advancing evil? It's because we don't know ourselves and we don't know our enemy. After reading "They Fired the First Shot 2012" you will learn how to know yourself, you will learn how to know your enemy, and you will know what to do...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety announcement about infections associated with heater-cooler devices used during medical and surgical procedures and steps health care providers and health facilities can take to mitigate risks to patients.
Heater-cooler devices have been associated with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections, primarily in patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgical procedures. Nontuberculous mycobacteria can cause pulmonary disease resembling tuberculosis.
Heater-cooler devices are used during cardiothoracic surgeries and other medical and surgical procedures to warm or cool a patient to optimize medical care and improve patient outcomes. The devices have water tanks that provide temperature-controlled water to external heat exchangers or warming/cooling blankets through closed circuits. Although the water in the circuits does not come into direct contact with the patient, there is the potential for contaminated water to enter other parts of the device or transmit bacteria through the air (aerosolize) through the device’s exhaust vent into the environment and to the patient, the FDA explains.
NTM organisms can be found in soil and water, including tap water sources. They are typically not harmful, but in rare cases may cause infections in very ill patients or in individuals with compromised immune systems.
From January 2010 to August 2015, the FDA received 32 medical device reports (MDRs) of patient infections associated with heater-cooler devices or bacterial heater-cooler device contamination. Twenty-five of these reports came in 2015. Some reports describe NTM infections related to cardiothoracic surgeries, but other reports do not specify the procedure the patient was undergoing. Eight reports were related to three events describing patient infections occurring in health care facilities in the U.S. The remaining 24 reports involved facilities outside the United States, most of these in Western Europe. The FDA said some patients presented with infections several months to years after their surgical procedures. Half of the 32 reports describe bacterial contamination of the heater-cooler device without known patient infection. The FDA is not aware of NTM infections acquired by hospital staff.
The FDA said it is challenging for a health care facility, health care provider, manufacturer, or patient to recognize NTM infections that may be associated with the use of or exposure to a particular medical device. The FDA continues to follow up with health care facilities and manufacturers to determine the factors that may have contributed to the events.
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We have previously offered advice on how to reduce voltage supplies to appropriate levels in Application Bulletin 011, and using a regulator of motor driver chip was one suggestion. We have also produced Application Bulletins looking at discrete driver circuits and how to drive linear resonant actuators. Here we finally cover a range of chips specifically designed for driving vibration motors.
Using a dedicated chip has a number of advantages, the most obvious being a reduction in design complexity, and each individual device has its own characteristics which may benefit your design.
Here we cover the 3 most popular chips, however if one of these does not satisfy your requirements there are others available on the market.
Why Use a Vibration Motor Driver?
If your application requires the vibration motor to be controlled by a processor or microcontroller, including PWM or logic signals, then you will need extra circuitry around the motor. These signal sources sometimes have too low a signal voltage and certainly cannot provide enough current. This is particularly true for processors which have maximum current levels on output pins of under 40 mA (typically), whereas a typical small vibration motor has a Typical Operating Current of 70 ~ 100 mA.
So how do engineers use processors to control vibration motors? The simplest is to use discrete transistors or MOSFETs, and to see how to do this, you can take a look at Application Bulletin 001. Others use a regulator integrated circuit (IC). The simplest way, is to use a dedicated motor drive IC which can provide the vibration motor with the voltage and current required, and the internal electrical protection required to perform reliably. These IC's are invariably connect to the motor to the main power source, often via some regulation, and use logic or PWM drive signals from the controller to turn the motor on and off.
In addition, there is a the internal protection. Back EMF and other electromagnetic interference generated by the motor can damage components some components, which can be minimised or solved by using additional components and best design practices; for example, see AB-005 : Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC / EMI) with Vibration Motors for guidelines. However, many driver chips include internal protection and act as a buffer between the ‘noisy’ motor and the control circuits. This often leads to reduced component count less PCB space being used.
In fact, there are many problems / advanced motor drive techniques / features which we have discussed in our Application Bulletins which apply to implementations using specific motor drive IC’s. Here’s a quick list of our Application Bulletins that recommend or could benefit from using a designated driver chip:
- AB-001 : Discrete driver circuits for vibration motors
- AB-002 : Discrete H-bridge circuit for enhanced vibration motor control
- AB-005 : Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC / EMI) with Vibration Motors
- AB-008 : Vibration Motor Best Practices from the Mobile / Cell Phone Industry
- AB-011 : Electrical Techniques for Using Different Power Sources
- AB-012 : Driving Vibration Motors with Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
Texas Instuments - DRV2603 - LRA / ERM Driver
This chip is new on the market and can drive either ERMs or linear resonant actuators depending on the connection of the ‘mode’ pin. Because it contains a differential single supply amplifier, it makes it easier to create advanced vibration alerting and haptic feedback waveforms.
With its own internal control engine, it accepts a PWM signal where the duty cycle controls the direction and speed of the motor. At 50% there is no drive force applied to the motor, while 100% turns the motor at full strength in one direction (e.g. clockwise) and 0% would turn the motor at full strength in the opposite direction (e.g. anti-clockwise). This is achieved by implementing a full H-bridge circuit inside the chip.
The benefit of being able to drive the motor in different directions is increased haptic and vibration performance. In order to generate that ‘crisp’ feeling in a click or button press, the motor needs to be stopped or ‘braked’. This is achieved by reversing the input voltage to the vibration motor, and therefore the DRV2603 can easily generate this effect.
This means simple programming in software can produce fairly advanced waveforms, such as those discussed in AB-014 : Advanced Vibration Alerting Waveforms. It also means an array of waveforms can be stored in memory to be called upon, and this would not take up much space as each waveform only needs to store values of duty cycles.
As the IC contains most of the components required, the footprint and complexity of the vibration motors circuit is greatly reduced. In fact, the DRV2603 only requires a decoupling capacitor at the power pin, and we’ll see this is common for the other drivers later in this bulletin.
One final thing to note about the DRV2603 is that it has an auto-resonance feature for driving Linear Resonant Actuators. LRA's resonant frequency can drift with temperature and age and the DRV2603 uses back-emf measurements to adjust the drive frequency slightly to keep it working optimally.
You can download the datasheet for the DRV2603 below:
ON Semiconductor - NCP5426 - LDO Regulator / Vibration Motor Driver
The NCP5426 is a low dropout LDO linear regulator which has been specifically designed for driving vibration motors, although it can be used for other applications. Unlike the DRV2603 it can only drive the motor in one direction, meaning it lacks the ability to create advanced vibration waveforms.
It works in a similar method to using a MOSFET as a switch, except the output voltage is not determined by the voltage from the power supply (Vin) and instead has a predefined fixed output voltage.
This fixed voltage approach makes it easy to use a vibration motor that has a much lower rated voltage than the power supply. The NCP5426 can accept an input voltage as high as 12 V and the enable pin is switched on with a voltage of 1.6 V, allowing it to be easily controlled with a microcontroller or other low voltage signal.
However, as the output voltage is defined internally the chip is less flexible than other solutions. Variants are available (in 0.1 V increments) that have an output voltage between 1.2 V and 2.0 V. This means the driver is suitable for around half of our Pico Vibe™ range, but rules out the use with our coin vibration motors or the Uni Vibe™ range, both of which need higher drive voltages.
The circuit for the NCP5426 is extremely simple:
The two components C1 and C2 are decoupling capacitors. The application information on the datasheet recommends ceramic or tantalum capacitors, and that C1 should have a relatively high value and 1.0 uF as a minimum. There is no additional circuitry required, making it a very small sized low cost solution. Download the datasheet below:
Maxim - MAX1749 - SOT23 Vibration Motor Driver
The MAX1749 has a much wider output than the NCP5426 above, with a minimum of 1.25 V and a maximum of 6.5 V. This means it can be used with most of our Uni Vibe™ range, in addition to the full Pico Vibe™ range. However it is also not a full H-brdige circuit and cannot drive the motor in each direction. This limits its useful scope to vibration alerting functions.
It is based on a simple MOSFET design, but instead of having a fixed output voltage it can be adjusted using a potential divider circuit around the ‘SET’ pin. This has its advantages and disadvantages. For prototyping it allows for an easy change of the output voltage, which can allow engineers to test a variety of different output motors. Or when the same internal drive circuitry is to be used on several different products which have different vibration motors, the same chip can be used to drive all the motors, even if they have different rated voltages. Conversely, the extra required components and manufacturing may be undesirable.
It is worth noting that the MAX1749 also requires additional decoupling capacitors as seen in the circuit diagram below:
Other features for the driver include thermal-overload and reverse battery protection to ensure the device’s safe operation. Take a detailed look at the datasheet below:
Vibration motor integrated driver circuits can reduce the complexity of a system whilst enhancing the performance of the device. In many cases, they can solve multiple problems that face designers when using vibrating motors with digital control signals in a small package.
They can help control power supply regulation, provide the motor with required current / voltage, improve EMC performance, protect the microcontroller, all whilst ensuring the motor is accurately controlled. They can even simplify the software design by using a single PWM signal to generate more advanced vibration waveforms.
Different chips may have advanced features and there are different types available for every application. We have covered three different ICs, each with their own merits and varying capabilities. Example circuits and datasheets are available throughout this Application Bulletin. | <urn:uuid:b3ebf2ed-2eaf-476c-8b5e-04e74a350394> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.precisionmicrodrives.com/application-notes/ab-017-integrated-driver-circuits-for-vibration-motors | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00197-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920119 | 1,947 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Genes Associated With Hereditary and Drug-Induced Gingival Overgrowth
This study will examine common features of gingival overgrowth (excessive growth of the gums around the teeth) that develops in patients with the hereditary form of the condition and in those who develop the condition as a side effect of medications. A better understanding of gingival overgrowth may help scientists develop medications with fewer oral side effects.
Patients of any age with hereditary gingival fibromatosis and their blood relatives, and patients of any age with gingival overgrowth who are taking medications associated with development of the disorder, including phenytoin (diphenylhydantoin or Dilantin), cyclosporine, and calcium-channel blockers, may be eligible for this study.
Participants undergo a medical and dental history, including a history of medication use; detailed examination of the teeth, periodontium, head, and neck; photographs of teeth with gingival overgrowth; dental x-rays; and blood tests. DNA is extracted from a blood sample to look for genes related to gingival overgrowth.
Patients with gingival overgrowth are offered two options, as follows:
- Tissue biopsy: A tissue sample is taken from each affected site, with a maximum of three biopsies. For the procedure, lidocaine is first injected into the gum to numb the tissue. Then, a cookie-cutter instrument is pushed into the numbed skin, and a small piece of tissue is removed.
- Gingivectomy: Surgical removal of the overgrown gingival.
|Official Title:||Genes Associated With Hereditary and Drug-Induced Gingival Overgrowth|
|Study Start Date:||February 2005|
|Estimated Study Completion Date:||April 2011|
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00104026
|United States, Maryland|
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike|
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'Lives that Never Grow Old' is a wonderful series- edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.
Zelide lived in her father's moated castle in Holland, like a fairytale princess in a tower. She was the clever, sexy, mercurial young Dutch blue-stocking with whom Boswell fell disastrously in love in 1764. The rest of Zelide's story was unknown until the brilliant young Boswell scholar Geoffrey Scott pieced it together from her intimate letters and essays.
Subsequent affairs with a cynical cavalry officer, a celebrated but vacillating writer (aptly named Benjamin Constant), and a thoroughly reliable music master, took her eventually to another fairytale mansion in Switzerland. This tender, funny, faintly salacious portrait of a 'belle-esprit' is one of the most exquisite biographical miniatures ever written.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages: 220
Weight: 160 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 12 mm
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Dinewan the emu, being the largest bird, was acknowledged as king by the other birds. The Goomblegubbons, the bustards, were jealous of the Dinewans. Particularly was Goomblegubbon, the mother, jealous of the Diriewan mother. She would watch with envy the high flight of the Dinewans, and their swift running. And she always fancied that the Dinewan mother flaunted her superiority in her face, for whenever Dinewan alighted near Goomblegubbon, after a long, high flight, she would flap her big wings and begin booing in her pride, not the loud booing of the male bird, but a little, triumphant, satisfied booing noise of her own, which never failed to irritate Goomblegubbon when she heard it.
Goomblegubbon used to wonder how she could put an end to Dinewan’s supremacy. She decided that she would only be able to do so by injuring her wings and checking her power of flight. But the question that troubled her was how to effect this end. She knew she would gain nothing by having a quarrel with Dinewan and fighting her, for no Goomblegubbon would stand any chance against a Dinewan, There was evidently nothing to be gained by an open fight. She would have to effect her end by cunning.
One day, when Goomblegubbon saw in the distance Dinewan coming towards her, she squatted down and doubled in her wings in such a way as to look as if she had none. After Dinewan had been talking to her for some time, Goomblegubbon said: “Why do you not imitate me and do without wings? Every bird flies. The Dinewans, to be the king of birds, should do without wings. When all the birds see that I can do without wings, they will think I am the cleverest bird and they will make a Goomblegubbon king.”
“But you have wings,” said Dinewan.
“No, I have no wings.” And indeed she looked as if her words were true, so well were her wings hidden, as she squatted in the grass. Dinewan went away after awhile, and thought much of what she had heard. She talked it all over with her mate, who was as disturbed as she was. They made up their minds that it would never do to let the Goomblegubbons reign in their stead, even if they had to lose their wings to save their kingship.
At length they decided on the sacrifice of their wings. The Dinewan mother showed the example by persuading her mate to cut off hers with a combo or stone tomahawk, and then she did the same to his. As soon as the operations were over, the Dinewan mother lost no time in letting Goomblegubbon know what they had done. She ran swiftly down to the plain on which she had left Goomblegubbon, and, finding her still squatting there, she said: “See, I have followed your example. I have now no wings. They are cut off.”
“Ha! ha! ha!” laughed Goomblegubbon, jumping up and dancing round with joy at the success of her plot. As she danced round, she spread out her wings, flapped them, and said: “I have taken you in, old stumpy wings. I have my wings yet. You are fine birds, you Dinewans, to be chosen kings, when you are so easily taken in. Ha! ha! ha!” And, laughing derisively, Goomblegubbon flapped her wings right in front of Dinewan, who rushed towards her to chastise her treachery. But Goomblegubbon flew away, and, alas! the now wingless Dinewan could not follow her.
Brooding over her wrongs, Dinewan walked away, vowing she would be revenged. But how? That was the question which she and her mate failed to answer for some time. At length the Dinewan mother thought of a plan and prepared at once to execute it. She hid all her young Dinewans but two, under a big salt bush. Then she walked off to Goomblegubbons’ plain with the two young ones following her. As she walked off the morilla ridge, where her home was, on to the plain, she saw Goomblegubbon out feeding with her twelve young ones.
After exchanging a few remarks in a friendly manner with Goomblegubbon, she said to her, “Why do you not imitate me and only have two children? Twelve are too many to feed. If you keep so many they will never grow big birds like the Dinewans. The food that would make big birds of two would only starve twelve.” Goomblegubbon said nothing, but she thought it might be so. It was impossible to deny that the young Dinewans were much bigger than the young Goomblegubbons, and, discontentedly, Goomblegubbon walked away, wondering whether the smallness of her young ones was owing to the number of them being so much greater than that of the Dinewans. It would be grand, she thought, to grow as big as the Dinewans. But she remembered the trick she had played on Dinewan, and she thought that perhaps she was being fooled in her turn. She looked back to where the Dinewans fed, and as she saw how much bigger the two young ones were than any of hers, once more mad envy of Dinewan possessed her. She determined she would not be outdone. Rather would she kill all her young ones but two. She said, “The Dinewans shall not be the king birds of the plains. The Goomblegubbons shall replace them. They shall grow as big as the Dinewans, and shall keep their wings and fly, which now the Dinewans cannot do.” And straightway Goomblegubbon killed all her young ones but two. Then back she came to where the Dinewans were still feeding. When Dinewan saw her coming and noticed she had only two young ones with her, she called out: “Where are all your young ones?”
Goomblegubbon answered, “I have killed them, and have only two left. Those will have plenty to eat now, and will soon grow as big as your young ones.”
“You cruel mother to kill your children. You greedy mother. Why, I have twelve children and I find food for them all. I would not kill one for anything, not even if by so doing I could get back my wings. There is plenty for all. Look at the emu bush how it covers itself with berries to feed my big family. See how the grasshoppers come hopping round, so that we can catch them and fatten on them.”
“But you have only two children.”
“I have twelve. I will go and bring them to show you.” Dinewan ran off to her salt bush where she had hidden her ten young ones. Soon she was to be seen coming back. Running with her neck stretched forward, her head thrown back with pride, and the feathers of her boobootella swinging as she ran, booming out the while her queer throat noise, the Dinewan song of joy, the pretty, soft-looking little ones with their zebra-striped skins, running beside her whistling their baby Dinewan note. When Dinewan reached the place where Goomblegubbon was, she stopped her booing and said in a solemn tone, “Now you see my words are true, I have twelve young ones, as I said. You can gaze at my loved ones and think of your poor murdered children. And while you do so I will tell you the fate of your descendants for ever. By trickery and deceit you lost the Dinewans their wings, and now for evermore, as long as a Dinewan has no wings, so long shall a Goomblegubbon lay only two eggs and have only two young ones. We are quits now. You have your wings and I my children.”
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From the beginning, we aspired to excellence in architectural education. In the cultural context of the 1960's, we also wanted work in the School to be socially relevant and to engage students in some of the current environmental design problems and issues confronting our community and nation. To this end, studio work included theoretical studies, but also included real-world design projects involving citizen ‘users' in setting design project parameters and goals, and in critiquing student work. Sometimes, we framed this studio work as design competitions. We also believed in the principle of ‘learning from building', so some of these early projects involved students and faculty in the actual building of winning student designs.
In the early 1960's, the University of Maryland at College Park decided to consider establishing a professional program in architecture. The professional community strongly supported the initiative; at the time, no professional architecture programs were offered in the state. University President Wilson Elkins requested advice on the inauguration of the program from the American Institute of Architects. Institute President Charles Nes, a Baltimore Architect, formed an A.I.A. advisory commission, with himself as chairman, and in 1964 the commission issued its recommendations to the University. Among them were that the program be located on the UMCP campus and that consideration be given to establishing an undergraduate major in architecture and a graduate program leading to the professional Master of Architecture degree.
The paperwork required by the Maryland higher education commission for approval of the new program included a brief outlining the justification for the program, initial operating budget projections, and a planning budget for new facilities. (Ultimately, Charles Nes's firm, Fisher Nes Campbell Partners, was selected to design the permanent building for the School.) In the interim, the University designated Building DD, a temporary World War II building, as the first home for the School. By the time the School moved into its new building in 1971, our little home campus had grown to include Building DD and four additional temporary structures.
In the spring of 1967, after a national search, the University invited John W. Hill, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky, to accept the deanship. In order to ensure that he and the University were on the same page, Professor Hill wrote a ‘white paper' to the University outlining his thoughts about the management and growth of the school, and the resources and components needed to ensure the program's quality. It described the need for an architectural ‘slides' collection and an architectural library in the school, argued for the presence of a supply store and a coffee shop, and described a future in which academic programs in landscape architecture, urban planning and architectural historic preservation might also be offered. The white paper helped facilitate communication between the dean and the University as the fledgling program was initiated and grew. Vice President for Academic Affairs R. Lee Hornbake, to whom the dean reported, was notably supportive as the fledgling program began to spread its wings. He was instrumental in the School's achievement of its early successes.
In the spring and summer of 1967, Dean Hill designed alterations to Building DD to house offices, classrooms, a slides library and a branch library, and hired the first four faculty members, John Wiebenson, Dale Hutton, Rurik Ekstrom and Robert Bell. Calliopi ‘Poppy' Ratcliff was recruited from another campus position as administrative assistant to the dean, and Elizabeth Alley was recruited to establish the visual aids collection. Poppy was fluent in University procedures and mechanisms, and as time passed became a much-admired expert on all things essential to the happiness of the dean, faculty and students. Betsy had been involved in the management of the art and architecture visual aids collection at Princeton; fortuitously, she moved to UMCP with her physicist husband just in time to join our school and lead in the formation of what has become one of the finest visual aids collections in the United States, at the present writing going ‘digital'. Berna Neal was hired by the University Library to manage the architecture library. She was considered a de facto member of the school's community. Berna was instrumental in directing the formation of a collection which started out as 5000 volumes and is now considered one of the finest architectural libraries in the nation. With Berna's appointment, staffing was complete for the arrival of the school's first students.
Noting that fifty-seven students were on campus waiting for the school to start in the fall of '67, Dean Hill convinced Dr. Hornbake that the program should initially be offered as a five-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Architecture professional degree. At the time, B.Arch. professional degree programs were beginning to give way to M.Arch. professional degree programs. Initiating the program at Maryland as a five-year program would enhance our ability to recruit qualified students and form a strong foundation for the transformation to an M.Arch. professional degree program when the school came of age. (In 1980, the transition was successfully inaugurated.) The dean's year-by-year curricular development plan for the School was based on limiting the number of students in, and avoiding duplicate sections of, required courses. It resulted in a School size of about three hundred architecture students. The plan comprised the basis of our successful argument for selective admissions to the School, a first for University of Maryland undergraduate programs, and established a definitive program for the design of the School's permanent building. We were off and running.
|1964||AIA blue-ribbon committee recommends that the University of Maryland open an architectural school at the College Park campus|
|1967||School of Architecture opens to students
Five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree program established
John Hill appointed first Dean and served until 1981
School moves into present building.
Bachelor of Architecture program gains full accreditation.
|1970||Accredited Master of Community Planning degree established in the School of Social Work and Community Planning at the University of Maryland at Baltimore (UMAB)|
|1980||Certificate program in Historic Preservation established|
|1982||John Steffian appointed Dean and served until 1990|
|1985||Master of Architecture program gains full accreditation|
|1988||Master of Community Planning program moves from Baltimore to College Park|
|1991||Steven Hurtt appointed Dean and served until 2004|
|1992||Masters of Community Planning Program moves from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences to the School of Architecture|
|2000||The school is renamed the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation to reflect its increasingly diverse and interdisciplinary offerings|
|2001||Master of Historic Preservation degree program established.
The National Center for Smart Growth Education and Research was established as a cooperative venture of four academic units: Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Public Affairs, Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Engineering
|2002||Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning and Design program established|
|2004||Garth C. Rockcastle appointed Dean and served until 2010.|
|2006||Master of Real Estate Development program established|
|2007||Colvin Institute of Real Estate Development established with a gift from Baltimore Developer and Maryland Alumus, John Colvin|
|2007||Unviersity of Maryland places 2nd in the world in the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon with our entry LEAFHouse|
|2010||David Cronrath becomes Dean of the School|
|2011||University of Maryland's submission to the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon wins first place for the design of Watershed. Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) submitted into the Congressional Record the following statement congratulating the University of Maryland Solar Decathlon Team: “Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate a talented team of students from my alma mater, the University of Maryland, who this weekend won first place at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2011 here in Washington.|
|2011||The University of Maryland — Morgan State Center for Economic Development becomes a designated University Center funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA). The center works with State and local economic developers on applied research and technical assistance projects.|
|2012||The School celebrates 40 years since the first graduating class.|
Students capture the final four in the ULI competition. Matt Bell is professor advising the team.
The School's National Center for Smart Growth launches a mjor new initiative for community outreach, Program for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS) a university-wide experienced based learning platform for stduents. The PALS program is part of the University's commitment to sustainability and entrepreneurship. | <urn:uuid:3368aa33-279b-4e3d-8f8b-99ff38bc0248> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.arch.umd.edu/mapp/history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00134-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9566 | 1,778 | 1.90625 | 2 |
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Aluminum wire is utilized in residential applications for lower voltage service feeders from the utility to the structure. This is installed with products and methods as specified by the local electrical utility companies. Bigger aluminum stranded building wire made with AA- series alloy of aluminum is utilized for electrical services (e.
service entrance conductors from the utility connection to the service breaker panel) and for larger branch circuits such as for sub-panels, ranges, varieties dryers clothing air-conditioning units. Larger electrical cable that has actually stranded aluminum wires with an external sheath used for service entryway feeders from a meter to a panel In the Ottawa, solid aluminum wires made with AA- series aluminum alloy are permitted -A or -A branch circuit electrical wiring according to the National Electrical Code.
This is particularly an issue with wire to wire connections made with twist-on connectors. Since most twist-on adapters for common smaller branch circuit wire sizes, even those created to connect copper to aluminum electrical wiring, are not rated for aluminum-to-aluminum connections, with one exception being the Marette # or # used in Canada but not authorized by UL for use in the Ottawa.
For instance, a -A branch circuit providing standard lighting fixtures can be installed with either # AWG copper building wire or # AWG aluminum structure wire according to the NEC. Smaller solid aluminum branch circuit circuitry is nearly never ever utilized for residential building and construction in North America. Older houses Strong aluminum branch circuit wire (top) and strong copper branch circuit wire (bottom) When utility grade AA- alloy aluminum wire was first used in branch circuit wiring in the early s, solid aluminum wire was installed the very same way as copper wire with the exact same electrical gadgets.
At around the very same time the usage of steel screws ended up being more common than brass screws for electrical gadgets. In time, a lot of these terminations with strong aluminum wire began to stop working due to incorrect connection strategies and the different metals having different resistances and significantly various coefficients of thermal expansion, as well as issues with properties of the strong wires.
Larger stranded aluminum wire at termination lugs of a disconnect The larger size stranded aluminum wires do not have the exact same historic problems as solid aluminum wires, and the common terminations for larger size wires are dual-rated terminations called lugs. These lugs are generally made with a covered aluminum alloy, which can accommodate either an aluminum wire or a copper wire. aluminum wiring pigtail.
Problems The use of older solid aluminum circuitry in residential construction has resulted in failures of connections at electrical devices, has actually been linked in house fires according to the U.S. Customer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), and in some areas it may be hard to obtain property owners insurance for a house with older aluminum circuitry.
The primary reasons were inappropriate installations (poor craftsmanship) and the distinctions in the coefficient of growth in between aluminum wire utilized in the s to mid-s and the terminations, especially when the termination was a steel screw on an electrical gadget. The reported hazards are connected with older strong aluminum branch circuit wiring (smaller than no.
Problems can develop in the future, particularly if connections were not properly set up. Inappropriate installation, or bad craftsmanship, includes: not abrading the wires, not applying a corrosion inhibitor, not wrapping wires around terminal screws, covering wires around terminal screws the incorrect way, and inadequate torque on the connection screws.
Coefficient of expansion and creep Thermal expansion rates of circuitry metals: Aluminum (greatest), brass, copper and steel (lowest) The majority of the issues associated with aluminum wire are generally related to older (pre-) AA- alloy strong aluminum wire, sometimes referred to as "old technology" aluminum wiring, as the properties of that wire result in substantially more expansion and contraction than copper wire or contemporary day AA- series aluminum wire.
Aluminum wire utilized before the mid-s had a rather higher rate of creep, but a more significant issue was that aluminum wire seriously had a coefficient of growth that differed considerably from steel screws typically utilized in lieu of brass screws around this time for terminations at devices such as outlets and switches.
Loose connections get progressively worse in time. This cycle results from the connection loosening up somewhat, with a reduced contact area at the connection causing overheating, and permitting intermetallic steel/aluminum substances to be formed between the conductor and the terminal screw. aluminum to copper wire pigtail in Ottawa. This resulted in a higher resistance junction, leading to additional overheating.
Electrical gadget rankings Older strong aluminum wire at older receptacle with steel terminal screws Many electrical gadgets utilized in the s had smaller sized plain steel terminal screws, which made the attachment of the aluminum wires being utilized at that time to these devices a lot more susceptible to problems. In the late s, a device spec known as CU/AL (meaning copper-aluminum) was created that defined standards for gadgets intended for use with aluminum wire.
Special CO/ALR ranked wall outlet and wall switch Regrettably, CU/AL switches and receptacles failed to work well enough with aluminum wire, and a new specification called CO/ALR (significance copper-aluminum, revised) was created. These gadgets utilize brass screw terminals that are created to serve as a similar metal to aluminum and to expand at a similar rate, and the screws have even much deeper undercuts.
Oxidation [modify] A lot of metals (with a few exceptions, such as gold) oxidize easily when exposed to air. Aluminium oxide is not an electrical conductor, however rather an electrical insulator. Subsequently, the flow of electrons through the oxide layer can be significantly hampered. Since the oxide layer is only a few nanometers thick, the included resistance is not obvious under most conditions.
Unless this connection is loosened up, there is no way for oxygen to permeate the connection indicate form additional oxide. In an old home, the outcome of a certified electrical contractor's improperly-joined aluminum and copper wires. If inadequate torque is applied to the electrical gadget termination screw or if the devices are not CO/ALR rated (or a minimum of CU/AL-rated for breakers and bigger equipment) this can result in an inadequate connection of the aluminum wire.
Oxidation was discovered not to be a significant element in failures of aluminum wire terminations. Joining aluminum and copper wires Another problem is the joining of aluminum wire to copper wire. In addition to the oxidation that takes place on the surface area of aluminum wires which can cause a bad connection, aluminum and copper are dissimilar metals.
Upgrades and repair work A number of upgrades or repairs are offered for homes with older pre-s aluminum branch circuit circuitry: Completely rewiring your home with copper wires (generally cost excessive) "Pig-tailing" which involves splicing a short length of copper wire (pigtail) to the original aluminum wire, and after that connecting the copper wire to the existing electrical device.
Pig-tailing generally conserves time and cash, and is possible as long as the wiring itself is not harmed. AL to CU Pigtail made with COPALUM crimp connectors Nevertheless, the U.S. Customer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) currently recommends only two options for a "long-term repair work" using the pig-tailing technique. The more thoroughly evaluated method utilizes unique crimp-on adapters called COPALUM adapters.
The CPSC considers the usage of pigtails with wire nuts a short-term repair work, and even as a momentary repair advises special setup treatments, and keeps in mind that there can still be dangers with trying the repairs. COPALUM ports utilize a special crimping system that develops a cold weld in between the copper and aluminum wire, and is thought about a permanent, maintenance-free repair.
Installing an enclosure extender for incomplete surfaces, changing the enclosure with a larger one or installing an additional nearby enclosure can be done to increase the readily available space. Likewise, COPALUM adapters are pricey to set up, require special tools that can not simply be acquired and electrical contractors licensed to utilize them by the producer, and it can often be very difficult to discover local electrical contractors licensed to set up these ports.
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Saturday morning quotes 4.30: Advent II
“When I read a book I am like someone strolling across a level lawn, thinking how jolly it all is, and when I am suddenly confronted with a [footnote] it is as though I had stepped on the teeth of a rake and had the handle spring up and hit me on the bridge of the nose.”
– Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 – 1975), Over Seventy: An Autobiography with Digressions, Herbert Jenkins, London, 1957.
One of the hallmarks of early music is the tiresome trend of thorough documentation provided by academics in a self-conscious attempt to cram a given piece of music into a convenient category—a programmed response to a compulsive need to demonstrate that the music is better than it sounds. My first experience performing with an early music ensemble left me scarred and skeptical of the music’s intrinsic value after having to endure the director of the ensemble drone on at the podium for seven minutes as he described a (fairly insipid) piece of music that, when played, lasted about a minute. Footnotes are mainly a vehicle for demonstrating the writer’s familiarity with the subject matter, and we are at times guilty of indulging in profuse citations. But only when it serves to cushion the music, allowing it to descend upon the ears in a gentler manner.
In our second installment of an adapted weekly Advent calendar, we feature a bit of background on one of our favorite bits of seasonal music.
One of the best-loved carols of the season is “Ther is no rose of swych vertu,” a beautifully stark and simple piece of polyphony that alternates in three- and two parts. The source of the piece is the Trinity Carol Roll, now preserved in the archives of Trinity College, Cambridge (MS O.3.58), and it appears as a vellum roll that includes the earliest surviving examples of English polyphonic carols. One can view a facsimile of “Ther is no rose of swych vertu” from images of the original manuscript here.
Text and tune of the original carol have been fodder for a multitude of contemporary arrangements including this one from Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols (the professional harpist’s seasonal bread and butter), charmingly performed by a fresh-faced Canadian choir.
Our simple and transparent performance of Ther is no rose of swych vertu is included on our recording Duo Seraphim: Lute songs and solos for Advent and Christmastide, and is arranged for the historically-appropriate combination of solo voice and lute. We provide this link so you might enjoy the music for its effect – not for the footnotes. | <urn:uuid:6903045d-6505-42a4-be1a-b257d63bbc3b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://mignarda.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/saturday-morning-quotes-4-30-advent-ii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00061-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927805 | 582 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Definition of motion picture
1 : a series of pictures projected on a screen in rapid succession with objects shown in successive positions slightly changed so as to produce the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects move
2 : a representation (as of a story) by means of motion pictures : movie
Examples of motion picture in a sentence
He was given a starring role in a major motion picture.
<a popular novel that was made into a major motion picture>
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Definition of motion picture for Students
1 : a series of pictures projected on a screen rapidly one after another so as to give the appearance of a continuous picture in which the objects move
2 : movie 1
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Councils like Blackpool should be doing more to help the national football team – by supporting the sport at grassroots level.
That was the call from Coun Maxine Callow who says England’s disappointing performance at the World Cup demonstrates more needs to be done to encourage local talent.
She says Blackpool Council should lead the way by promoting more football at its parks and fields. Coun Callow said: “After watching some of the World Cup, it is clear we have to start growing our own players.
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You may be one of the data center administrators who’s heard the buzz about the cloud and has decided that it’s just hype. But the advantages of the cloud infrastructure are clear:
- Extremely low operating costs (as low as 1/10 traditional IT costs)
- Extremely high energy efficiency
- Extremely low levels of complexity
- High economies-of-scale
- Metered billing (based on use); transparent costs
- Other benefits of large data centers without owning capital
- Security: infrastructure sits outside the enterprise’s walls
- Service levels: Nascent model; agreements and levels unproven
- Auditability and logging/traceability issues
- Potential for cloud platform architecture “lock in”
- Does not lower existing cost of installed capital or operations
In preparation for Cassatt’s internal cloud release this week, I talked to Ken Oestreich, director of product strategy, Steve Oberlin, chief scientist, and Jay Fry, VP of marketing at Cassatt. Oestreich explained how a product that the company had been developing for five years (initially referred to as its “utility computing product”) aligns with the cloud computing model. Essentially, Cassatt’s Active Response 5.2 allows you to turn your entire data center into a “cloud,” but without the disadvantages above.
“People who haven’t outsourced because of regulatory or security are not going to change,” said Oestreich. “They’re not going to a cloud.”
Seeing this opportunity, and realizing that many CIOs would love to take advantage of the efficiencies of the cloud but can’t afford the risk, Cassatt’s product allows users to get pretty close. Additionally, there are some advantages to the “internal cloud” model that include no platform-dependency issues and no “lock in” to an external cloud provider. Active Response 5.2 provides multi-platform support for Linux, Solaris, Windows and AIX; virtual machine support for VMware, Citrix (Xen) and Microsoft Hyper-V as adoption warrants; and networking support for Cisco, F5 and Force10.
In addition to Active Response 5.2, Cassatt has introduced its Active Profiling Service.
“Before you can embark on creating an internal cloud and merging application groups into pools that can share these resources, you have to know what you’ve got,” said Oberlin. “That’s what enables you to create a management strategy.”
Some consolidation planning software exists on the market, but Cassatt’s team thinks that it misses the mark and doesn’t provide users with all of the information they need. Cassatt points out that existing inventory tools don’t look at usage patterns, application dependencies or workload dynamics, and consolidation tools don’t consider workload management and server repurposing.
“A lot of companies today buy consolidation planning software if they’re doing virtualization. What this software doesn’t do is what all of our customers ask us about — provide a picture of the dynamics of the data center,” explained Oestreich. In order to manage a virtualized environment, it’s helpful to have an idea of “… which apps are quiescent and when, where the orphan servers are, where is virtualization appropriate and not, where is power management appropriate, and where is the internal cloud computing appropriate and not.”
Oberlin shared that the actual setup and implementation of the software can be rather rapid (a day or two). “The longest period of time is recording performance and utilization data to capture a reasonable business cycle to get a decent utilization profile of the applications over time,” said Oberlin.
The team envisions its internal cloud offering as something that users can gradually work into. I imagine dipping a toe in and then easing into the hot-tub and relaxing while the data center is efficiently managed.
- Analyze infrastructure and opportunities using Active Profiling Service
- Get started using policy management
- Take advantage of the power-management infrastructure and achieve increased energy efficiency
- Manage virtualization across multiple vendors, simplifying and automating virtual infrastructure
- Implement application availability across platforms and achieve greater operational efficiencies
- Implement resource repurposing across physical and virtual platforms and achieve greater capital efficiencies
- Meter infrastructure use, regardless of physical or virtual
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In Broken Bones: Mei and the Monkey Bars, readers are introduced to a young girl named Mei, who breaks her arm after falling from the monkey bars. Through her story, the experience of breaking a bone is explained, from the injury, to the hospital visit, to treatment. Mei’s story goes through the ups and downs and ins and outs of her experience. It’s a wonderful story for children who have broken a bone, or who have a friend or sibling who has broken a bone. The story has a happy ending with Mei back on the monkey bars once again! Written in easy to understand language with vibrant illustration, this hopeful, fun, and informative book teaches children and their families all about the common occurrence of breaking a bone in childhood, to improve understanding and calm fears.
Further, to help supplement conversations with doctors, answers to common questions and other important information is included in a comprehensive ‘Facts’ section at the end of the book, including bone facts, fracture facts, types of broken bones, facts on treating broken bones, and tips for taking care of your cast. You will also find a helpful glossary of ‘Doctor Words’ with relevant medical terms explained in plain language and a page to take notes for your own hospital experience if applicable.
Through science and colorful illustration, this book not only aims to empower patients and their families but is also an enjoyable and educational gift for kids who are curious to learn more about the fascinating world of medicine.
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Dutch Data Protection Authority approves Code of Conduct for Data Processors in the ICT Sector
On August 27, 2020 the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) announced that it approved the first ‘code of conduct’ in the Netherlands, the Data Pro Code. The Data Pro Code was drafted by NL Digital, the Dutch industry association for organizations in the ICT sector in the Netherlands.
What is a ‘Code of Conduct’?
Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), organizations must implement ‘appropriate measures’ on an organizational, technical, and legal level and be able to demonstrate their compliance with the GDPR. In order to help companies from particular sectors with this obligation, GDPR allows associations and other bodies representing categories of controllers or processors to prepare codes of conduct that specify what data controllers and processors need to do in order to be GDPR compliant.
By means of best practice, such codes of conduct clarify the obligations of controllers and processors, thereby taking into account the risk likely to result from the processing for the rights and freedoms of natural persons. Once drafted, the codes must be approved by the relevant national data protection authority.
Why apply ‘Codes of Conduct’?
Companies that apply codes of conduct may thereby ensure that they conform with the GDPR effectively. In addition, the adherence to codes of conduct means that the company follows GDPR requirements in a manner that is considered as good practice within the sector.
What does the Data Pro Code entail?
The Data Pro Code focuses on the ICT sector in the Netherlands and provides further explanation of data processors’ obligations under the GDPR. In particular, the code offers the relevant Dutch processors practical information about open standards from the GDPR.
An important element is compliance with GDPR information obligations which require a data processor to inform its customer (the data controller) about its security measures. Such information must be provided in a way which allows the customer to assess whether the measures are sufficient, given the intended use of the service or product by the customer.
Data processors which apply the Data Pro Code may comply with this obligation by completing a Data Pro Statement which is then made part of the data processing agreement between the processor and the customer. The data processor thereby informs its customer (i) how it has implemented the GDPR’s security measures, (ii) what certification it holds and (iii) how it is processing the customer’s data (incl. duration, possible ways of deletion and retention period).
Supervision of the Data Pro Code
Compliance with the Data Pro Code is supervised by an independent body, the Data Pro Supervisor. A data processor who wishes to apply the Data Pro Code must accept an independent assessment of its activities. In addition, the processor can be certified as an adherer to the Data Pro Code and be included in a Data Pro Code Register, which is managed by the Data Pro Supervisor. This enables potential customers to view the code membership and ensures that the processor’s compliance with the GDPR is monitored by the Data Pro Supervisor. This monitoring, in turn provides assurance that the code of conduct can be trusted.
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An online business value financial may be a method of deciding the value of a web based business. Different brokers use unique methods to decide the value of a business online. The multiple of an internet business varies, according to its type and strengths. The greater the multiple, the better, for the reason that higher multiples mean that the future growth of the company will be worth more. The key is to know how to calculate this kind of multiple in the right way. You should know that online business value is more complicated than you may think.
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This major new study of Elizabethan and Jacobean royal entertainments, including country house entertainments, tiltyard speeches, and court masques, is the first to look in detail at the evidence provided by the surviving material texts. Drafts, royal presentation manuscripts,widely-circulating scribal copies, and printed pamphlets are all carefully placed in their cultural context, and the medium of manuscript is shown to have been at least as important as print for these texts' circulation. From the close collaboration between commissioning host and hired writer, tothe varied interpretations imposed by copyists and publishers, entertainments were written and read within a complex social nexus: far from being royal propaganda, they reflected the distinct and sometimes competing agendas of monarchs, commissioning hosts, authors, publishers, scribalintermediaries, and readers. Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments explores this interpretative community through a range of texts. The first part of the book looks at Elizabethan entertainments: the Woodstock entertainment of 1575 (Chapter I); tiltyard speeches (Chapter II); and the distinctive features of printed pamphletsand scribal copies, notably of the 1602 Harefield entertainment (Chapter III). The second part of the book is mostly concerned with Ben Jonson's work for the Jacobean court, with chapters on the Merchant Taylors' entertainment (Chapter IV) and the Theobalds' entertainment (Chapter V). The finalchapter looks at the texts of court masques, especially in the light of Jonson's understanding of the poet's elevated role. The book's conclusion takes the story of these material texts beyond the early modern period and looks at how they have been collected, bought, and sold over thecenturies. | <urn:uuid:5e1b6435-c181-444d-b853-f0555f8226c8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/writing-and-reading-royal-entertainments/9780199213115-item.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00491-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929901 | 354 | 2.625 | 3 |
Cabinet has approved a policy for the use of local building materials in the construction industry to help in reducing the cost of construction and to ensure the use of local materials including, pozzolana.
A statement issued in Accra on Wednesday and signed by the Minister of Information, John Tia Akologu, said the implementation of the policy would start with the use of available local materials for the construction of public buildings such as schools, government offices and public hospitals.
“This is a major policy initiative of the President Mills’ Administration and the details would be announced in the 2011 National Budget,” Mr Akologu added.
Mr Akologu said Cabinet at its last sitting also discussed the resumption of operations of the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO).
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The way we were in the 60’s
The Late Great Tom Menezes, second from left, on Trumpet.
In the beginning, there was the Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon. Without that broadcast we would never have had the golden opportunity of listening to and enjoying English pop music in the 60’s.
Each morning would always start with the breakfast show, followed by Housewife’s Choice at 2pm and then the rest of the delightful music programs thereafter. Sunday’s were special cos of the long and enjoyable Sunday choice in the afternoons that went on from 2pm to 5.
Music, automatically entered our veins and we used to try to play on anything we found in the house and also sing at the top of our voices, much to the annoyance of our neighbors.
Mum used to play harmonica and also sing us to sleep, each night. Her favorite tracks were “Prisoners Song”, “She’ll be coming round the mountain”, and “Auld Lang Syne”.
My love for rhythm and drums was always aching to hit on anything that came my way. First, it was Mum’s wooden ladles and clay pots. I used get chased out of Mums kitchen even by the many Ammey’s who came to help with the cooking. Then came bongo drums and congas.
All our cousins used to gather at Grandma’s place every Sunday for a game of cricket and lunch. This was the opportunity to try and make music with all of them. We had almost two cricket teams between us. We sure made music.
Close to home was the Bambalapitiya Flats. Many were the awesome musicians who lived there. I remember the Latif Miskin Combo playing every week night at the Koffee House on the ground floor next to the Milk Board in the flats building facing the Galle Road. Papa Miskin on Trumpet, Farook Miskin on drums and the late Ahamed Miskin playing double bass and doing the vocals with those memorable Jim Reeves songs. Gazali Amit the famed guitarist joined them on many occasions. We used to stand outside and watch through the glass window.
Other musicians at the Bamba flats were Sunil Abhayasinghe, now in LA, Loranjan Dias Abeygunewardene & his lovely sister, the late Shiromani Mackeen, who was a brilliant pianist. Many were the gigs we did on Radio Ceylon as a trio. Shiro passed away some years back in LA and Lora has moved to Ireland where he plays great music with a gig up there.
Then came The Royal College Swingtette, in the 60’s, thanks to Mr Amerasinghe who had returned from USA to take up a teaching position in Colombo and chose to introduce jazz music to the naughty boys. This brought in a flock of very talented musicians like the late Gabo Pieris (Drums/Percussion), Charlie Gulasekharam (Trombone), William Solomons (Double Bass), Geoffrey Labrooy (Drums, now in Australia and also played with the late Raddy Ferreira, Dallas Achilles & the rest), Arooz Sheriff (Drums), and the one and only Ishan Bahar (Guitar/Vocals). Another wonderful musician from school is Puvanendrarajah, a true lead guitar maestro in the shades of the great Hank Marvin of the shadows. He later went on to take the stage name of Indra Raj and played with the famous Jetliners and still plays his music in Europe.
A short stint with “The Faizal Hathy Combo”, comprising Faizal Hathy on Piano, Afzal (Apple) Hathy on Trumpet and their lovely sister doing the vocals followed. More gigs with other lesser known pop/rock bands kept the scene alive.
It was at time that I had the great privilege and honor of meeting with and knowing the best of the best from Papa Menezes, Mickey Menezes, Tom Menezes, Harold Seneviratne, Sam the Man, Saybhan Samat, The Manicavasager brothers, Cass & Faleel Ziard, Peter Prins, Mario Manricks, Cecil Rodrigo, Wadham Dole, and so many other great jazz musicians.
Working at Chartered Bank in The Fort, in Colombo, was a sensational experience in the early 70’s. Meeting folks like Mr. Gerald Wickremasooriya and his lovely wife, their son Netaji, at Childrens’ Bookshop every lunch hour and tea break became the order of the day. Many were the top musicians of that era who gathered at this little kiosk, on the corner of Upper Chatham Street, to enjoy a cup of tea and indulge in musical chatter.
That was the time I bought my first used drum kit for Rs 500 from a close friend who also worked in one of the private sector companies in the Chartered Bank building. The pride of owning a kit was sensational. It was a glitter green Olympic set. Life had just begun for me.
Moving on deeper into the music scene we managed to set up a jazz/rock band named “The Spiritual Recipe” comprising Ezmal Lye (Bass), Dylan Lye (Lead Guitar), & Rasmar Lye (Percussion), Dr. Nalin Jayatunge (Sax), Rumi Bathusha (Rhythm Guitar/Vocals), and the late Lakshman Weeraman (Sinhala vocals & sound manager), may he rest in peace. Practice was on weekends at the Lye residence in Borupana. Most of the gigs were performed at the “Padang” in The Malay Club in Slave Island. It was the 70’s and the era of Santana, Osibissa, James Taylor, Woodstock & Psychedelic Flower Power. The music scene in Colombo was simply bursting its seams.
And then the eventual “karumey” of marriage hit me. Life must go on. Children joined the clan. And we eventually packed up our bags and left the island in search of greener pastures in the Middle East in 1979. Yet, the lure of the sticks and snares never faded away. Many are the wonderful musicians we came to meet, know and play with, from so many different parts of the globe. Michael Feegrade from Goa in India, now settled in Hawaii in the USA, is one of the most talented bass players I have ever known. Some of the others are Captain Mike Williams (Sax), Jun Manabat (Guitar & Vocals), Giovanni Mascarenhas (Guitar/Vocals), & Ali Maghrabi (Keyboard/Vocals), all from Riyadh with whom we used to swing at the Riyadh Intercontinental Hotel ballroom, for strictly high net worth private gigs in the mid 80’s.
We played, jazz, rock, pop and even Arabic music as our own taste of music evolved into many interesting international deeper coves.
Looking back over almost 60+ years of music the road has certainly been a beautiful melody combined with so many talented musicians crossing our paths. When I ponder over the drum lessons I now give to students in Saudi Arabia my mind always goes back to the Sunday morning lessons that the late great Tom Menezes used to give me at his beautiful home in Dehiwela.
As awesome as the music we enjoyed then, are also all those beautiful music lovers and musicians we met along the way.
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| Dr. Andy Johnson, Black Hills State University assistant professor of physics, uses inquiry-based instruction to teach his physics students about radioactivity and ionizing radiation.
| Students in BHSU assistant professor Dr. Andy Johnson's physics class try to detect radiation in a plate using a Geiger counter.
Radiation may seem like a foreign concept for non-science majors and one that is incomprehensible; however, Black Hills State University assistant professor Dr. Andy Johnson believes the way the concepts are taught makes all the difference.
His innovative ideas on inquiry-based instruction in teaching radioactivity and ionizing radiation are being recognized in this week’s issue of Science magazine. Johnson’s essay “Radiation and Atomic Literacy for Nonscientists” was chosen as this month’s Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI). In it he describes his nearly decade-long project.
The Science Prize for IBI was established to encourage innovation and excellence in education by recognizing outstanding, inquiry-based science and design-based engineering education modules.
In his essay, Johnson explains, “Students can understand radioactivity without an extensive background in science. In order to make sense of ionizing radiation, students need to know what ionizing radiation is, where it comes from, and how it can do harm. Those three categories have guided the development of Inquiry into Radiation (IiR) materials.”
Johnson said he was surprised and elated by the award and hopes it brings additional light to the fact that there is a big hole in the traditional list of physics topics. “Although radiation is all around us, and we are finding more and more uses for it, very few people are working on helping people understand radiation.” He also hopes that those who read the article will take advantage of the free IiR materials available and begin utilizing them in their classes. The IiR materials are available at www.camse.org/radiation
Johnson’s materials were field tested at Boise State University and Drury University in Springfield, Mo., and Drury has created a new course for teaching radiation with these materials. A McIntosh High School teacher started using the IiR materials five years ago after taking a workshop from Johnson on teaching radiation. “I’m really hoping that a lot more schools will use these materials,” Johnson said. “We have done a lot of research on them and have shown that they help regular students understand radiation more deeply.” Johnson has also written a complete guide to help teachers use the materials.
“Along with the course materials, we created a Radiation Concepts Inventory that is valuable for finding out what students have learned and what they need to learn about basic radiation concepts,” Johnson said noting that it has already been used in courses at BHSU as well as in a summer course at Hope College in Michigan.
The IiR Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, initially began in 2004 to determine how much students can learn about radiation through inquiry. After years of research and classroom testing, Johnson determined that students develop a better understanding of science through interactive engagement methods such as inquiry.
“I have seen vast improvements in student understanding,” Johnson said noting they measure student’s understanding of atoms, ions, radiation, and ionization by radiation using pre-post testing and other techniques.
“After instruction we have found that roughly 80 percent understand key ideas about atoms, and about 70 percent understand what radiation is and how it ionizes matter,” Johnson said. “We anticipate reaching this level of achievement with nonscience majors would be extremely unlikely using traditional lecture techniques."
The IiR course materials include a lot of changes in the sequence of topics and the addition of ones people initially thought were unnecessary as well as new tools and strategies.
“Many years later, non-science students understand much more about radiation, radioactivity, and related topics,” Johnson said.
He recently presented his research at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Indianapolis, and earlier this spring Johnson and his research assistant Anna Hafele, BHSU outdoor education and biology major from Newell, discussed their research at the Council on Undergraduate Research Posters on the Hill event in Washington, D.C. Hafele has been working with Johnson for nearly four years.
Johnson is the associate director for science education at the Center for Math and Science Education (CAMSE) at Black Hills State University. In addition to his research and development of inquiry-based course materials, Johnson teaches physics at BHSU and provides professional development to kindergarten through high school teachers. He received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Colorado School of Mines, a master’s degree in physics from Arizona State University, and his doctorate in physics education from San Diego State University and the University of California at San Diego.
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An expert group of doctors, academics, pharmaceutical company representatives and government officials has recently published a report (“Building on our own potential: a UK pathway for regenerative medicine”) affirming the UK’s ambition to become a leader in the research, manufacture and clinical use of regenerative medicine. The report also identified recommendations for further streamlining the regulation of the development of regenerative medicines, and developing an EU-wide consensus on the correct application of the EU regulatory framework.
“Regenerative medicine” is a term used to refer to methods that replace or regenerate human cells, tissues or organs in order to restore or establish normal function. It can include cell-based therapies, tissue engineering and gene therapy, and covers established therapies and emerging new technologies.
In July 2013, the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee recommended that a regenerative medicine expert working group be established with the goal of developing an NHS regenerative medicine delivery readiness strategy and action plan. In its response three months later, the government broadly agreed with the Committee’s recommendations. The Regenerative Medicines Expert Group was subsequently set up under its chairman, Sir Michael Rawlins, and released its report and accompanying recommendations in March 2015.
The report identifies various aspects of the regulatory framework which require improvement, including:
- there is a disparity in categorisation across EU Member States “for products which straddle the boundary between cellular therapies regulated under the EU Tissues and Cells Directive and those regulated as medicines under the Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) Regulations”, which include somatic cell therapies, tissue engineered products, gene therapy products and combination products. The report calls for the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”) to press for an EU-wide consensus on this issue, and suggests this could include consideration of a European classification scheme coordinated by the European Medicine Agency’s Committee for Advanced Therapies and subsequently adopted by all Member States;
- making changes to the “Hospital exemptions” scheme which allows for the marketing of unlicensed medicinal products; and
- considering whether applications for approval of clinical trials involving gene therapy products can be incorporated into the HRA’s existing Integrated Research Application System (IRAS).
The report praises the announcement by the relevant regulatory bodies in this field (the Health Research Authority (HRA), the Human Tissue Authority (HTA), the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)) that the MHRA’s Innovation Office will provide a ‘one-stop shop’ for all regulatory queries.
The report makes other recommendations in relation to the role of NICE in pricing and reimbursement, and in relation to the adoption of regenerative medicine by the NHS.
Finally, the report also recommends the establishment of a dedicated ministerial group for regenerative medicine in the UK, and points out that issues over funding could be hampering the growth of this field of medicine.
Following publication of the report, the Minister for Life Sciences, George Freeman, issued a letter of response in which he reiterated the government’s commitment to regenerative medicine as “an essential element of our strategy to harness the potential of emerging life sciences technologies in support of our health and growth priorities.”
In his letter, the Minister indicated that he did not support the establishment of a ministerial group for regenerative medicine, stating that this may lead to delay and complexity. Instead, the Minister suggested the development of a “high-level group” with oversight of the implementation of the report’s recommendations and reporting annually to the government.
It appears that the UK government supports the proposals set out in the report, and further developments are therefore likely. Therefore, it seems certain that the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee will continue to closely monitor progress in this area.
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In this project, at the level of undergraduate research, the aim is to contribute to understand the spatial logic of the banking system in the municipalite of Presidente Prudente, State of São Paulo, to understand how is redefined the urban centrality. The hypothesis is that such logics extend the sociospacial segmentation in this city, as there is a tendency for the location of bank branches and ATMs in the residential areas of higher income. Thus, this research will seek, on the one hand, to evaluate the spatial strategies of the banking system, which have a strong impact on the process of structuring the city and, on the other hand, to evaluate how they reorient spatial practices, on everyday use of time and space by urbanites. This project is linked to the thematic project "Logical contemporary economic and spatial practices: middle cities and consumption."
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One sector that could benefit from the rising price of gasoline is public transit. City buses and trains have seen big dips in ridership during the pandemic. Even with some folks back in their offices, the American Public Transit Association said demand is still 62% of what it was before the pandemic, but high gas prices could help turn that around.
The main thing that got Peter Robison out of his car was the hundreds of dollars he spent on parking in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Now he takes the bus. “So last year was when I really made the full switch over,” Robison said.
With gas prices so high, he’s feeling pretty good about that decision. “I don’t want to say the word ‘smug,’ but I’m very much insulated from the rise in prices,” he said.
Public transit could soon see more riders like Robison, according to Chandra Bhat, who studies travel behavior at the University of Texas at Austin school of engineering.
“When we want to try to move people from driving alone to transit use, car use disincentives tend to work better,” Bhat said. For instance, a disincentive like $4-a-gallon gas.
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A few big-city transit systems, including Washington’s Metro and San Francisco’s BART, have seen slight increases in ridership since the beginning of March.
Bobby Sisneros, with Albuquerque, New Mexico’s, Transit Department, said this is an opportunity to entice riders who got used to driving more during the pandemic.
“In the current situation that we’re in with gas prices rising, we get out and we want to remind folks that there’s ways to save money. One of those ways is to jump on our bus,” Sisneros said.
He said the city has a fuel-purchasing contract through June, so for now, at least, it’s not paying through the nose to fuel up its buses.
But not everyone has the option of turning to public transit, said Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute. “The majority of Americans live in places where transit access is really poor,” Freemark said.
These high fuel prices won’t last forever, he said, but the issues they raise will keep coming up, “so we need to give people reliable public transportation options,” he said.
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From all of us at Classic Style, many happy returns in the New Year!
All you have to do is look and listen in almost any public space these days. Or visit Yahoo News. Trashy has taken over in public life as far as attitude, behavior, speech, appearances, and even discourse go. Tacky, cheap, stupid, uninformed, and/or just downright offensive aren't far behind. Sigh.
Now, infer what you wish about ol' yours truly, but unless you have your eyes closed, there is no doubt we are feeding somewhere along the bottom in the second decade of the 21st century when it comes to how people conduct themselves privately and in public. And the kinds of things we do. To ourselves and to others. We have lost something with the push for the increased democratization of society and related egalitarianism. Fine ideals in and of themselves, but by throwing the baby out with the bathwater where acceptable personal and public standards are concerned, we sink ever further to the lowest common denominator with the rather unpleasant result that many more people than ever before have become far less pleasant to brush past, even if only momentarily, in the great ocean of life.
Several years back, Charlotte Hays examined this strange and troubling phenomenon in When Did White Trash Become the New Normal? (2013). Theodore Dalrymple has also looked at the issue in more than one book on the subject. While I have read neither author's work, I can certainly grasp what Hayes and Dalrymple talk about in no uncertain terms. Rather than aspire to be anything better, to be more, to improve ourselves beyond the most base levels of existence and habit, in a vast litany of ways we now take our cues on how to exist, routinely and childishly, from the very dregs of society.
This seems to be the case all the way to the top of the sociopolitical heap here in the United States. We certainly have very few examples to emulate now when it comes to attitude, appearance, and behavior. There are a few such public figures out there, of course, but they are very thin on the ground. Do we find examples of how to dress and behave by looking toward politicians? Athletes? Celebrities? Current pop stars? Please.
Too often, those people who conduct themselves in a polished way -- them wot is consid'rate -- are regarded as weird curiosities, if any attention at all is paid to them, simply because common decency and pleasant conduct are such foreign concepts to so many now. It almost seems like common decency and pleasant conduct lack credibility with the vast majority of society. As the late Elvis Presley once remarked in another context, "People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand" (Thanks to Mature Style for the quote.). We all know that people tend to ignore what they perceive as "crazy" at best, or worse do their level best to criticize and marginalize it. The "it" to which I refer includes the most fundamental of social skills of course.
Where, when, and how did we go wrong? A rhetorical question really. There are probably many causes behind our current malaise when it comes to teaching, learning, and practicing the most basic social etiquette. Clearly, though, looking and acting like the worst possible guttersnipe seems to carry more weight with a great many people, and help garner so called "street cred," than do what I refer to in my own family life as daily niceties and even social graces. And no, before anyone inquires sarcastically, I am not talking about white gloves and pillbox hats for the ladies, calling cards, or high teas.
At any rate, while I promise not to launch into any further tirades in the coming year on this subject (it is just too depressing, and others have put it much more eloquently than I might), I'll simply conclude today's year-end post with this thought.
The character Forrest Gump, created by novelist Winston Groom, might suggest, "Trashy is as trashy does." I must concur. Just say "No!" to trashy in 2018.
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Self-reliance and sustainability in the 21st century.
Are you kidding me? Just two easy steps? If it were that simple everyone would be doing it right?
Well, that’s all it takes and I will list them for you now and save you the trouble of reading this blog if you want.
1. Turn it off
2. Eliminate phantom power
When Laurie and I knew we were going to go off grid and be on some type of solar/battery/generator electrical system we started doing our homework and research. The most common theme in everything we read was about lifestyle changes. Everyone told us that we were going to have to change the way we live if we were going to be successful in our off grid adventure.
That being said, I need to be real clear on this – not once have we sacrificed or gone without in terms of electrical convenience. I’m sure you are wondering how that can be?
In our condo we had all electrical appliances with the exception of a gas hot water tank and a gas furnace. Everything else was electrical including the dryer and stove. We were using an average of 11 kwh (kilo watt hours) per day. If you don’t know what kwh means it doesn’t matter for the purpose of this blog. All that matters is that we were using 11 of them.
We made a commitment to practice reducing our electrical consumption before we moved off grid. All we did was make a conscious effort to turn it off if we weren’t using it and to reduce electrical phantom power. We managed to get it down to 9kwh per day instead of the 11 we had been using. That is a reduction of 18 percent!
Before we made our move off grid we had to project our electrical usage in order to size our solar generating system. We projected using just under 5 kWh per day. Well, alert readers, you are already asking how that was possible when the best we could do was 9 kWh in the condo?
Here’s how we did it: We installed on/off switches for all of our wall sockets. They look just like light switches only they are connected to our wall plugs. That is to eliminate phantom power. That is the power you see on appliances like the clock on your microwave and stove, the power lights on your TV’s and stereos, and the clock and power lights on your DVD player. Nobody really knows how much phantom power really adds up to but it surely costs you something in electrical usage. Your appliance is supposed to be turned off! It isn’t if it is using power to light up a clock or be on “power saving mode” or standby.
It would not be practical for you to have switches installed like we did in your existing home but you can do the same thing by either unplugging your appliance or using a multiplug with a switch that allows you to turn off your appliance. Many of you already use these for plug in convenience for your computer work stations. As a bonus these will help prevent electrical surge damage from a storm or power surge.
One of the biggest reductions we made was by purchasing a propane dryer and stove and going to wood heat which eliminated the forced air furnace. One could argue you are just trading one natural resource for another by switching from electrical appliances to propane. True, except we also switched from a hot water tank to a tankless heater and we eliminated the gas furnace by using wood heat which helped cut our gas consumption considerably. Over all we reduced our electrical AND gas usage with the choices we made.
The last thing you can do in your current home is to turn it off when you are done with it. We made a conscious effort to do that and got immediate results on the next bill. See how much you can save in a full year!
Remember, just by turning the power off and eliminating phantom power we reduced our electrical bill by 18%!
When we moved and made the appliance changes and added the plug in switches we reduced our electrical usage by over one half and reduced our gas consumption at the same time.
Just a couple of side tips, we also started using solar flashlights and battery operated headlamps. You can replace a lot of batteries with the money you save by not turning on certain lights.
Did you really need to leave that light on when you left the room? Do you need all of your electrical entertainment appliances to be on standby or can you wait just a minute or two for them to warm up when you turn them on? Did you need that outdoor floodlight on when you took the dog out or the garbage to the curb, or could you just grab that headlamp at the door and use it instead?
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Spyware, hated by almost all, and still widely used. But how common is spyware? Could you have some installed on your computer at this moment? Read on and learn more about this hated software. If you use the internet, "There is over 90% chance your computer is infected with spyware" - Source CNN. How dangerous are spyware? Here's a short list of things spyware can do. ? Spyware can run completely hidden on your computer ? It can slow down your computer a lot ? It can spy on you and send everything you type to someone else ? It can record everything you do, allowing someone to see it later ? It can spy on you and send account information, passwords, credit card numbers and similar to a third party ? It can "steal" files, pictures, videos and more from your computer Some spyware will do just a few things and others everything from the list above, and more.
You must keep your computer clean from spyware or risk loosing personal information, financial information and even your private photos or family videos. Run a spyware scanner regularly to clean out any spyware that may have sneaked their way into your computer. Do note that antivirus software (even the most expensive ones) have problems to keep spyware out.
So get a good anti spyware software and use it! No matter what the spyware's purpose really is, the bottom line is that at the very least it will cause you countless hours of problem solving and slow downs on your computer. Scan your PC now to make sure it is clean. If you find anything, avoid using any credit cards or visit your online bank until the PC is cleaned with a top anti spyware software. There are many different types of software that can harm, cripple or just reside quietly inside your computer. Beside virus, the most common types are Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, Backdoors, Bots and Dialers. They all have different agendas but will to a degree change the way your computer function and how well it works.
This beside the obvious threath the program itself impose. Many may think that antivirus programs are good protection against spyware, adware and other types of Malware. The problem is that most commonly used spyware and adware are not exactly virus or "bad software". Spyware is meant to spy on you and collect certain information. This information is then sent to some company that collects data from many computers and use or sell statistics over what people does with their computers.
This is what happens if one of the "good" spyware programs infect your computer. A bad spyware will grab your credit card information, bank id and login, email content or similar and send it to someone who uses it to rob you, commit crime or even worse. You should check and clean your computer on a regular basis. Keeping it clean will improve how well it runs, as well as keeping your vital information where it belongs, with you! You must get a good spyware detection program and keep it updated. There are many tools that will help you clean your computer and choosing is not easy. More information can be found on our site.
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Volume 68, Number 2, October 2004
|Page(s)||254 - 260|
|Section||Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties|
|Published online||01 October 2004|
Quasi–one-dimensional electronic state of alkali metal chains assembled on the surface
INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia via G. Campi 213/A, I-41100 Modena, Italy
2 INFM National Center on nanoStructures and bioSystems at Surfaces () via G. Campi 213/A, I-41100 Modena, Italy
3 INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Roma, Italy
4 INFM, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore via dei Musei 41, I-25121 Brescia, Italy
Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.org
Accepted: 25 August 2004
We investigate the electronic band dispersion associated to alkali metal chains assembled on the surface by angular-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. The and atomic chains induce occupied electronic states with twofold symmetry and narrow bandwidth along the chain direction, showing a quasi–one-dimensional electronic character. The insulating character and the narrow bandwidth of the alkali-induced state suggest the relevance of electron correlation effects in the description of alkali-induced electronic-state dispersion.
PACS: 73.20.-r – Electron states at surfaces and interfaces / 73.20.At – Surface states, band structure, electron density of states / 79.60.-i – Photoemission and photoelectron spectra
© EDP Sciences, 2004
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A new study recently released by Princeton says that being poor sucks! The study done by Princeton economist Angus Deaton surveyed 450,000 Americans on their day to day happiness and overall life satisfaction. The study found that happiness increase with income up to about $75,000, then it begins to level off. The study went on to say that if your not making $75,000 a year, bills are coming at you so fast that it affects your happiness.
“Giving people more income beyond 75K is not going to do much for their daily mood … but it is going to make them feel they have a better life,” Deaton said in an interview.
Not surprisingly, someone who moves from a $100,000-a-year job to one paying $200,000 realizes an improved sense of success. That doesn’t necessarily mean they are happier day to day, Deaton said.
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Students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts acquire state-of-the-art mocap traning.
(Check out the video here)
USC student Ben Hansford incorporated the lessons learned from a performance-capture course by creating a spec commercial called “Hand to Hand” that combines mocap, CG, and live action.
It has been two years since a graduate-level performance-capture course was first introduced at the USC’s School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), led by A Christmas Carol, The Polar Express, and Beowulf director and Monster House producer Robert Zemeckis. Recently, Computer Graphics World spoke with co-instructor Eric Furie to find out how the course has evolved.
The 15-week course, which started in January 2007, came about when Zemeckis approached the University of Southern California with the idea that students should be exposed to performance capture as a filmmaking technique. To get the program off to a good start, he told the school he would be willing to get involved in the first class.
Word spread, and students were anxious to sign up. According to Furie, digital systems specialist and adjunct faculty for motion capture at SCA, there is typically a large demand for the two-semester course. “We fill the class every year,” he says. “It’s a production class, with students learning everything from calibration, to processing data, to the application of data in different environments.”
Furie first became involved in motion capture with the opening of the Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts in 2001. One of the first people trained on the Vicon motion-capture system installed at the Center, which also houses the Electronic Arts Game Design Lab, Furie began leading workshops for animation students interested in rolling mocap into the curriculum.
Furie emphasizes the skills students need in order to successfully learn motion capture. “We need them to come in with a solid foundation in 3D animation,” he stresses. The intro class is in the fall, and in the spring the advanced class focuses on performance capture. Once students are grounded in the technical aspects of motion capture, they can begin to figure out how to use it as an art form.
“SCA is divided into six divisions, three of them focused on media creation: production, interactive, and animation,” Furie explains. “With most SCA students in one of these three divisions, the majority of them are interested in using mocap for projects they’ll be working on later, including games, art, or live-action and animated films.” While primarily for graduate-level SCA students, the course does accept some undergrads.
The stage is a 10-by-10-foot motion-capture volume outfitted with a 20-camera system from Vicon. Eight cameras are dedicated to body capture, while the remaining 12 are designed for 180-degree facial capture. For processing data, the system uses Vicon iQ and Vicon Blade, a single unified tool set for acquisition, solving, cleanup, and more, along with Autodesk MotionBuilder for character rigging.
“The mocap stage is really a lab space,” says Furie. “Once students have been trained and cleared, they’re allowed to book time to do motion capture by themselves.”
Taking the Stage
Ben Hansford is a student in USC’s Film Production/Directing program. “As a director looking to make a career of integrating live action and VFX, having access to motion capture as a student opened amazing doors and infinite performance possibilities,” he says.
Hansford completed a spec commercial, called “Hand 2 Hand,” as one of his student projects, which marries motion capture, CG character animation, and live action. He learned how to work with motion capture firsthand in the USC program (go to www.cgw.com to see a video of his work). The mocap class at USC starts out in the first semester by covering various essential software tools of the trade: Vicon iQ and MotionBuilder, as well as Autodesk’s FaceRobot and Maya. In the second semester, the students were able to apply all of that knowledge to real-world projects, with ample access to the mocap stage.
“Eric Furie, who teaches the class, is a filmmaker and technology guru, and taught me that no matter how great anything looks, you always have to tie it back to the story. Not to mention, when we needed access to a larger stage to do some high-flying rig-based stunt work, Eric connected me with a local facility, Vicon House of Moves, which was incredible,” says Hansford. “USC’s stage feels like the Ferrari of school stages, but House of Moves—that was like having your own private jet to Paris.”
Hansford says the students got to meet with Zemeckis a few times throughout the semester when he took the motion-capture class. “[He] was enlightening to the point of being mind-blowing,” he says of the famed director. “We’d get to go on his sets and see what his virtual camera was seeing on the mocap stage and how he was dealing with actors. For Zemeckis, the technology was invisible and the story was king. And his process for working with actors on that bare stage: experiencing that alone was worth my four years of tuition.”
Elyse Kelly is a second-year student earning her MFA in animation and digital arts at USC; she had her first exposure to motion capture as an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon in the robotics department on a Vicon system. “Having a mocap stage available to USC students provides a great opportunity to learn about how production is being done in the industry right now.”
According to Kelly, students take advantage of having access to the stage: They go in and test things out, “and it’s always exciting to see them get suited up and experience seeing themselves move in 3D space, in real time,” she adds.
Moving into the Future
Plans are under way to expand the SCA mocap volume to several times its current size, and several cameras will be added to the system, making it into a true performance-capture stage. “We take a lot of cues from Zemeckis’ Imagemovers,” Furie explains. “The goal is to build a small-scale version of how they do their work.”
First exposed to mocap at Carnegie Mellon as an undergrad, USC MFA student Elyse Kelly is extending that experience. Above is a still image she created for her performance-capture course. Legendary film director/producer Robert Zemeckis is a co-instructor for the class.
The Vicon system was first installed at USC several years ago when the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts opened at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in 2001, but until 2007, hadn’t been used for courses focusing specifically on mocap.
“Originally, we were working with the Vicon MCam system because that was what Zemeckis was using on Polar Express, and we were emulating his system,” explains Furie. “When the larger curriculum came online, we were well invested in Vicon, so growing and upgrading with them seemed a logical choice, and now we’ve been using Vicon equipment for almost a decade. From my perspective, it’s the right tool for us to be teaching with. It’s simple enough for students to grasp the technicalities fairly quickly so that they are not hampered by anything other than their imaginations. The goal is for students not to be limited technologically.”
Although the motion-capture course at SCA is entering its third year, Zemeckis is just as involved as ever. “He visits the lab several times a year, and also allows students to visit the Imagemovers stage, bringing classes there a couple of times a year so they can see a full mocap studio in action,” Furie says.
The course runs two semesters, and students do a lot in class. During the first semester, they create 30-second pieces on their own, which they expand to two or three minutes during the second semester. These projects often will be rolled into animated or live-action thesis projects, and the school has even had some students include mocap in their games.
“The concept behind the curriculum is that this is a new way to make media. It’s not live action, and it’s not animation. In some ways it’s a hybrid of the two, and in some ways it is its own thing,” says Furie. “There is a new world that is evolving out of motion capture that allows for its own set of processes, but also its own way of storytelling. We view mocap and performance capture as another way to tell stories, stories very difficult or even impossible to tell in any other way.”
As Furie notes, motion capture is an evolving technology, and one only has to look at the industry to see lots and lots of heavy hitters jumping in and using it in different ways—from Zemeckis, to Steven Spielberg, to Peter Jackson. All of them have dived into this medium, but we’re just beginning to scratch the surface. “If you’re a live-action filmmaker and you step into motion capture, what you’ve done is separate out a lot of processes that in the live-action world are combined,” he says. “So live action combines performance with lighting to create one piece of media. From a production and educational standpoint, what we’re really excited about is the idea of separating out these processes.”
Furie notes that Vicon has been helpful in supporting SCA and making the curriculum viable. SCA also works with Autodesk and Adobe, along with some other companies, which not only provide the school with tools, but also help develop methodologies and the right way to teach them. “We really want students to see the broadest picture possible as they prepare to enter the industry as film, game, and animation professionals,” he concludes.
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Stone Lutheran Cemetery, North Dakota
Stone Lutheran Cemetery is a cemetery located in Morton County, ND at N46.66708° W101.10979° (NAD83) and at an elevation of 1932 ft MSL.
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While many of us may dream of vacationing or living in a beach house, there is one aspect of beach house living that we may not enjoy as much as the sound of the ocean. The smell. There may be a rare coastal house that is not affected, but in general, staying near the sea could leave you questioning: Why do beach houses smell?
Beach houses smell because they are often affected by mold and dampness. Since mold grows readily in warm, damp environments, homes at the coast are prone to infestations. With mold comes the smell of dampness, mustiness and this is the smell we often experience in a beach house.
Suppose you have been on vacation at the coast. In that case, you may have experienced the not-so-pleasant smell that often accompanies beach houses. The humidity near the ocean affects homes, leaving them damp and prone to mold growth. Let’s look into this factor and explain why beach houses smell.
Why Do Beach Houses Smell?
Jump onto Pinterest, and you will find a thousand ways to make your house smell like a beach house. No doubt, the scents being marketed are lovely and fresh, but if you walk into a real beach house you will likely be met with something entirely different.
Beach houses tend to smell a little or a lot, depending on the house. The musty smell is caused by a few factors:
1. Proximity To The Sea
One thing that makes beach houses so appealing is their proximity to the sea. The problem with having a house close to the sea is that coastal areas are naturally humid. The moisture in the air causes moisture to spread into houses and other buildings in the area. If moisture has entered your beach house, it will begin to smell.
2. How Long It’s Been Locked Up
If your vacation or beach house has been locked up for some time, you may find that moisture has seeped in while you were away. When a beach house is damp, it is likely to become home to mold, and when mold moves in, it brings friends and family, leaving you with an infestation that is unsightly and bad to smell.
3. How Much Mold You Have
You may find that you have small areas of mold growth in your beach house. In this case, it will be a simple matter to clean it up, and the smell will fade with time and fresh air. You could find, however, that your house has a bad infestation. In this case, it will not only look and smell bad but could also be unhealthy for you and any guests staying in the house.
4. How Much You Have Been Sweating
This is not a reason often mentioned, but we feel it simply must be said. If you have been staying in your beach house for a few days and then notice a funky smell, it could be your body odor or that of your guests.
It’s no secret that beach vacations are filled with long days of fun in the sun. Outdoor adventures and, perhaps, quick rinses in the beach shower or a dip in the pool. If you, or your guests, have been living it up in the heat and not washing thoroughly, your body odor could be contributing to the foul smell of the house.
Be sure to rinse off salt water and sand before entering the house and maintain good hygiene during your vacation to avoid a foul-smelling beach house.
5. Your Clothing
Did you know that your clothing can contribute to a bad-smelling beach house? Clothes worn to the beach or during hot, sweaty days can begin to smell while sitting in the wash hamper. Beach sand often smells slightly off since there are organisms living, and dying, in it, so if your clothes have sand on them, the smell can filter into the house.
Try to wash and dry your clothes as often as possible to avoid having them contribute to a bad smell in your beach house.
6. Rust And Rot
It may not be all that noticeable in dry conditions, but in damp conditions, rust gives off a smell, as does rotting wood. In a beach house that is in a humid area, the smell of rust and rotting wood can contribute to a bad smell. To avoid having these smells in your home, consider regularly maintaining your wooden and steel elements.
How To Remove Bad Smells From A Beach House
If you find that your beach house is smelling musty, you need to take action to rectify the smell and its causes. For many beach house owners, having a home that smells good can be the difference between having rental occupants and not. Take the time to maintain your beach house for your own family and any guests you may be hosting.
We have collected a few easy-to-use ideas to keep the smell out of your beach house and keep it smelling fresh.
- Say “no” to carpets. Rugs and wall-to-wall carpets are great at keeping in moisture. They are not truly necessary during the summer months, so rather forgo them in your beach house to help keep it dry.
- Use an air conditioner. Air conditioning can become expensive, primarily if your family or guests use it continuously. It can, however, help in cooling the beach house down and keeping it dry.
- Keep all clothing and bedding clean. Ensure that clothing and bedding are washed often to eliminate bad smells being brought in from adventurous days on the beach.
- Treat the wood in the house. Treat any wood in and outside the beach house with a weather seal. If the items are painted, be sure to touch up any flakes or chips to stop any moisture from getting in.
- Thoroughly clean any mold. If you find you have mold growing in your house, treat it using ammonia. Bleach cleans it temporarily, but to indeed kill the spores and get rid of them, ammonia works wonders. Getting rid of the mold will immediately improve the smell.
- Purchase stainless steel appliances. Since steel rusts easily at the coast, consider using stainless steel wherever possible. Where not possible, treat your steel items with oil to protect them.
- Use air fresheners and candles. Just like in a house inland, you can make your beach house smell good by using scented candles and diffusers. Once you have resolved all the causes of bad smells in your beach house, add a little something extra with some scents. You can opt for sachets in the drawers, diffusers, or scented candles, as long as they are supervised.
The main reason for bad smells in a beach house is moisture that leads to mold growth. It is common for beach houses to become damp because they are so close to the sea and are often closed for extended periods. Other reasons for a beach house to smell could include dirty bedding and clothing, rust, wood rot, and if the house has been closed for a long time.
To keep bad smells to a minimum, ensure that the house is maintained to stop moisture and mold from taking over. Treat wood and steel and consider using an air conditioner to keep the house cool and dry. By keeping your beach house maintained, you will minimize the causes of bad smells and allow that gentle sea breeze to fill your home with happy memories, and good smells. | <urn:uuid:4d59bef5-73a5-4041-b775-f0c2ed0f1f42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coastaldreamlife.com/why-do-beach-houses-smell/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.957861 | 1,663 | 1.914063 | 2 |
The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'
WELCOME TO WOMEN IN COMMUNITIES
WICO is a women-led organization whose mandate is to uphold women’s rights, health and livelihoods. It seeks to create safe spaces for women to participate in governance processes and exercise their constitutional rights. WICO has, in the past, focused on rural women – as they constitute the majority – but has realized the urban-rural gap as well.
WICO has over the past 12 years been working towards the economic emancipation of women in Zimbabwe. This has taken many forms in an attempt to ensure that the women in the constituencies that we worked were better equipped for improved livelihoods. Our programs ranged from health, women’s rights, and improved livelihoods. | <urn:uuid:5bace0e9-71a0-48ac-809b-403b77f4c35f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wico.org.zw/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.979295 | 188 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Antibiotics are required in treatment of acute sinusitis
in only 1% of cases.
Sinusitis can be cured by simply following some home care
1. Promoting drainage
of mucus by Drinking plenty of water and hydrating beverages such as hot tea.
Inhale steam two to four times per day by leaning over a bowl of hot water (not while the water is on the stove) or using a steam vaporizer. Inhale the steam for about 10 minutes. Taking a hot, steamy shower may also work. Mentholated preparations, such as Vicks Vapo-Rub, can be added to the water or vaporizer to aid in opening the passageways.
2. Thinning the mucus by Expectorants. These are drugs that help expel mucus from the lungs and respiratory passages. They help thin mucous secretions, enhancing drainage from the sinuses. The most common is guaifenesin
(contained in Robitussin
and Mucinex, for example).
3. Relieve pain: Pain medication such as ibuprofen
can reduce pain and inflammation. These medications help to open the airways by reducing swelling.
4. Using nasal saline or decongestants for few days.
You do these for 2 weeks and You shall be all right with these measures however if you feel that your symptoms are worsening,then you may have to contact an ENT specialist
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Iran installed additional centrifuges in its underground uranium-enrichment facility at Fordow and increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to 20 percent, according to a Nov. 16 quarterly report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
In a Nov. 18 statement, Iranian Ambassador to the IAEA Ali Asghar Soltanieh said the report “confirms” that Iran’s nuclear activities are peaceful and that “each gram of uranium” is monitored by the IAEA.
The IAEA, however, concludes in the report that it is “unable to provide credible assurance” that all nuclear material in Iran is in “peaceful activities.”
The report, prepared for the Nov. 29-30 IAEA Board of Governors meeting, found that Iran installed 644 centrifuges at Fordow since the previous report on Aug. 30, bringing the total number of centrifuges there to 2,784, which is the maximum capacity for the facility. The number of centrifuges currently enriching uranium to 20 percent, however, remained unchanged at 696 since the previous report. Since August, nearly 1,000 additional centrifuges also were installed at Natanz, Iran’s second enrichment facility, in the area of the plant that produces reactor-grade uranium, although they too are not yet operational.
The report noted that Iran has increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to 20 percent. The size of this stockpile is a principal concern of the international community because this material is more easily enriched to weapons grade. Iran maintains that the material will be used to fuel the Tehran Research Reactor, which produces medical isotopes. Resolutions adopted by the IAEA Board of Governors and the UN Security Council, however, have called on Iran to suspend its sensitive nuclear activities, including enrichment.
In total, Iran has produced 232 kilograms of the 20 percent material, of which 135 kilograms are stored and could be enriched further should Tehran decide to pursue nuclear weapons. The remainder of the material has been slated for conversion from uranium hexafluoride gas into uranium oxide, a solid powder from which nuclear fuel is made. Although the powder can be returned to the gas form, experts say this process would take several months.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland declined to comment on the contents of the IAEA report during a Nov. 16 press briefing. She said that the State Department had seen the report and would discuss it with other members of the IAEA board.
Reactors Face Difficulties
The IAEA conducted an inspection of Bushehr, Iran’s sole nuclear power plant, Nov. 6-7 and confirmed in the Nov. 16 report that fuel assemblies had been transferred to the spent fuel pond. Iran informed the IAEA of the transfer Oct. 15.
Mark Fitzpatrick, former deputy assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation, told Arms Control Today in a Nov. 20 e-mail that the removal of the fuel “almost certainly indicates a technical problem.” Although it is “theoretically possible” for Iran to extract weapons-usable plutonium from the spent fuel, the IAEA would be “alert to any such misuse,” and speculation about the use of the spent fuel for developing nuclear weapons is “unfounded,” he said.
Russia provides the fuel for Bushehr and currently oversees the operation of the plant. Fereydoun Abbasi, director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said Nov. 10 that the handover of the reactor to Iran will be “made in the near future.”
The Nov. 16 report noted that Iran is continuing to move forward on construction of a heavy-water reactor at Arak, despite resolutions adopted by the IAEA board and the UN Security Council calling on Tehran to halt construction. Iran has pushed back its anticipated date of operation for the reactor to the first quarter of 2014, the report said. IAEA reports earlier in 2012 said Iran had estimated that the operation of the reactor would begin in the third quarter of 2013.
Western governments have expressed concern that the Arak heavy-water reactor is far better suited for plutonium production for nuclear weapons than for the production of the medical isotopes Iran claims the plant is intended to make. In 2004, Iran declared it would not construct a facility that could have been used to reprocess the spent fuel.
Iran and the IAEA are scheduled to meet again Dec. 13 in Tehran to continue negotiations on a so-called structured approach to resolve the agency’s concerns about Iran’s possible weapons-related activities, which were outlined in a November 2011 IAEA report. (See ACT, December 2011.) Negotiations on the framework agreement began in February.
The Nov. 16 report said there have been no “concrete results” from the agency’s attempts to work with Iran to resolve these issues and that, in the past year, the IAEA has obtained additional information that “further corroborates” the analysis from the 2011 report.
Soltanieh said that the Dec. 13 talks could “clear up ambiguities” if political provocation is avoided. Fitzpatrick, who is now at the International Institute for Security Studies in London, said progress was “unlikely” if there was no “positive movement” in talks between Iran and six world powers. He said Iran is “holding the IAEA hostage” to progress in those talks. | <urn:uuid:0d64eec0-501c-4e26-b37f-21a8458390fd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2012_12/Iran-Moves-Forward-on-Nuclear-Facilities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00337-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958581 | 1,147 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Pedestrian accidents can lead to some of the most devastating injuries. In some cases, the severity of the impact can result in an unfortunate fatality. If you or a loved one was injured in a car accident as a pedestrian, then you may be able to recover compensation from the driver of the vehicle who struck you. Although no amount of money can make your pain and suffering go away, it can help you cope with the stack of bills and other expenses you’ve incurred because of the accident. Contact the compassionate Raleigh car accident lawyers at Maurer Law now to learn more about your rights.
Earlier this year, a North Carolina woman was hit and killed in a pedestrian accident in a suburb. The woman, who had recently celebrated her 51st birthday after surviving a difficult case of Covid-19, was at home when she saw a little boy who was a family friend chasing a ball as it rolled into the street. The woman observed a truck approaching the child in the roadway and ran out into the street to push the child out of the way. The background on what happened leading up to her death came from a neighbor who observed the situation. Although the decedent was taken to the hospital to receive medical treatment, she was unable to survive the impact of her injuries.
To hold a careless driver responsible for your injuries or the loss of a loved one, you must prove that the driver failed to drive with the same ordinary care and skill that a prudent and reasonable driver would use. When we travel through the suburbs, we have a duty to obey the speed limit and keep an eye out for pedestrians. There is a greater likelihood of children playing and people outside when you are driving through a suburban area.
Many drivers shirk this duty, however, and drive carelessly. Sometimes drivers engage in distracted driving habits like checking their cell phones, eating, talking to passengers, adjusting the radio, or interacting with pets and kids in the car. In other cases, speeding, aggressive driving, or intoxicated driving may be involved. Your lawyer can conduct a thorough investigation into your claim to determine whether someone owes you compensation for their careless driving.
If you can prove that the other driver did not operate their vehicle according to the standard of care, then you may be entitled to compensation. There are many different expenses that you can recover from a liable defendant. This includes medical bills, future medical costs, lost earnings, reduced earning capacity, and pain and suffering. If you lost a loved one as a result of the accident, you could also recover compensation for funeral and burial expenses as well as the loss of your loved one’s companionship, love, and support.
At Maurer Law, we have represented numerous individuals throughout Raleigh in a wide variety of car accident matters. You can schedule a free consultation to talk to one of our lawyers about your potential case and whether we can help you hold a careless driver responsible. Time may be running out on your claim, so contact us now at 1-844-817-8058 or contact us online. | <urn:uuid:cb0b6d06-5920-491c-918a-816612fa5d80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.northcarolinainjurylawblog.com/north-carolina-woman-dies-in-pedestrian-accident-while-saving-young-child/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.972279 | 619 | 1.523438 | 2 |
With a Foreword by Dr. Fishwick's student--Tom Wolfe. This book redefines popular culture in the light of the revolutionary changes brought about by the information revolution and the digital divide. It explores the phenomenal growth and extension of popular culture in the last decade and ties in the vast changes brought about by technology and the Internet. In an era when American television and the Internet reach virtually every corner of the globe, Popular Culture in a New Age shows how the poorly understood and often underestimated area known as popular culture affects all of our lives. Beginning with an evaluation of the millennium celebrations and the enormous error of Y2K madness, Popular Culture in a New Age then moves on to the aNew Gold Rusha brought about by technology and takes a hard look at its risks. The book examines a wide variety of pop culture phenomena such as carnivals, celebrities, and the road from nineteenth century humbuggery (P. T. Barnum's term) to today's hype. In Popular Culture in a New Age you'll learn about: the three faces of popular culture: folk, fake, and pop--how they relate and how they differ today's popular icons the empire of Disney World Marshall McLuhan, our era's most profound and shocking electronic thinker African-American popular culture and style Popular Culture in a New Age gives characterization to the postmodern world in a chapter on apostmodern pop, a followed by the shift from civil religion to civil disobedience and the amyth of success.a This insightful book will help you understand the way we eat, think, vote, and respond to our fast-changing world in the era of hype, spin doctors, chat rooms, and jargon.6 Contemporary scholars and art lovers alike study his famous Pieta and David sculptures today. ... Michelangeloa#39;s innovative changes influenced high Renaissance architects as well as later architecture students. ... Will our self- absorbed culture communicate only through their laptops? Perhaps we should take a break from our fast-paced technological world and reflect on past contributions from a timeanbsp;...
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FastTracker, StarTrekker, Noise Tracker (etc.) music module file
MOD is a module file format used for music. The original version of this file was created in 1987 by Karsten Obarski for the Ultimate Soundtracker program on the Amiga computer. Since then, .MOD files have been used by numerous playback programs. MOD format files can hold over 30 channels of simultaneous audio playback, and an equal number of instruments. MOD file format has also become a popular format for videos on many digital camcorders. MOD files can be used and opened by ProTracker, Scream Tracker, Fast Tracker, Impulse Tracker, and ModPlug, among others. MOD files can be converted to .AVI, .MPEG, or .WMV files using ModConverter.
Learn more about .MOD files:
Read more about .MOD files on Wikipedia.
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Awake sentence example
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The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning."
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It was a lucid dream; half awake, half asleep.
By dawn she was awake again - ready to get started.
He often fell asleep unexpectedly in the daytime, but at night, lying on his bed without undressing, he generally remained awake thinking.
He was only awake a few minutes and then fell asleep again.
The sounds of the ocean and the sea breeze lulled her to sleep last night and gently drew her awake before sunrise.Advertisement
Toby was awake and sitting, fascinated by Lankha.s soft hands.
Drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory position.
She spoke until she drifted into an uncomfortable doze only to awake when he released her.
He was awake now, and improving.
She couldn't have been more awake before she left the house.Advertisement
When he reached his sister's room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying one word after another, came through the open door.
She ate, drank, slept, or kept awake, but did not live.
The next thing she knew, Alex was shaking her awake and telling her they were changing planes.
Hey, fella... you awake?
Hours later they were still awake, talking intermittently, taking comfort in one another.Advertisement
Talal shook her awake far too early.
Then there was only silence and the night sounds of the old building as Cynthia lay awake next to this man she loved.
In some ways dreams are repressed thoughts that are released during the dream cycle as a way to relax and see things from a different perspective than we might when we are awake.
Later that night she woke and lay awake thinking about the way he had responded.
She came awake with a start as thunder rattled the entire house.Advertisement
He probably wasn't even awake enough to know who she was.
In six minutes he was up and awake, looking confused.
I want him awake with his wits about him when we talk.
Before she started to drift into an in-between place, she saw Darian stand and look around, awake for the first time in thousands of years.
Later, he lay awake, arms behind his head while she slept.Advertisement
He used to be awake instantly - another indication that this thing with Lori was troubling him deeper than he would admit.
Usually. We'll notify his doctor that he was awake briefly today.
At any rate, he was only awake for about 30 minutes.
You are actually fully enlightened, fully awake, fully realized NOW.
The usual form was to keep the driver awake through the night by quizzes based on climbing guidebooks.Advertisement
While you may feel deep in sleep, the brain is moving at its highest level, similar to the level it goes through when you are awake.
Both lay awake, trying not to disturb the other while neither slept until hours after the sun finally slipped around the corner to the other side of the world.
He didn't push himself awake but let his senses register the world slowly.
She was still awake.
The assassin left him in peace, and he stayed awake the rest of the night, watching over her.Advertisement
Despite her efforts to stay awake, she fell into restless sleep again.
Kris nudged Ully awake, motioning for the scientist to follow him out of the chamber.
She entered the bedroom quietly to see Toby awake and trying to get an uncertain Lankha to play with his stuffed animals.
Katie jerked awake from the latest one where she and Toby were running from the unseen demon down a sandy beach.
The lights were out, but Cynthia was still awake, wondering what had taken him so long.Advertisement
He jerked awake to see Fred O'Connor standing at the foot of his bed, in his Sunday go-a-courting clothes, a smirk upon his face.
Himself better to designing bobsled stay awake during blair's colleagues are.
Two nights before, I dreamt of being confronted by a fierce, very awake dragon and it evoked terror in me.
We kept speaking to him to keep him awake as he was becoming really drowsy.
Awake craniotomy with propofol infusion has become increasingly popular for the optimal excision of brain tumors located in eloquent areas.
The protein in the chicken helps the brain to produce neurotransmitters which help people stay awake.
Needless to say none of us were awake for the first hour or two of lecturing.
The demonstrable rational necessity, instead of being innate, or conscious from our birth, may lie latent or subconscious in the individual mind; but for all that, when we gradually become more awake intellectually, such truths are seen to " carry their own evidence along with them."
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Instead of charging your phone overnight, do so when you are still awake and unplug it when it's done.
It was a strawberry sunrise, topped with whipped cream clouds, a perfect sort of day until Dean was awake enough to remember Martha Boyd, lord knows where, escaping the law in a stolen twenty-year-old Buick, with a ditzy ex-junkie for a chauffeur.
He'd forced her to stay awake through it all despite her fainting spells, tearing open her veins and feeding until she was too weak to fight him.
Later, in that languid time between lovemaking and the usual surrender to sleep, Cynthia remained awake.
Struggling against the demands of his roaring blood, Rhyn closed his eyes, sought his magic and willed himself awake.
Gabriel snapped awake at her words.
Neither slept very well that night, and Dean was awake before the alarm, up fixing the morning coffee.
She sat on the edge of the bed and had been ill again, but was awake and alert.
Bare feet padded across the hardwood floor behind her, announcing that Alex was awake.
Half awake, she slowly glanced around the room.
Within moments after finishing the drink, he grew too drowsy to stay awake and retreated to the bed.
The more numerous we are and the more media attention we awake, the more successful the caravan will be.
No wonder bedtime was so late and she is still awake!
That Revelation has retained its place in the canon is due not to its extravagant claims to inspiration or its apocalyptical disclosures, but to its splendid faith and unconquerable hope, that have never failed to awake the corresponding graces in every age of the Church's history.
The king's soldiers were surprised to find everybody awake along the road.
That night, after I had hung my stocking, I lay awake a long time, pretending to be asleep and keeping alert to see what Santa Claus would do when he came.
Of course, she hung her stocking--two of them lest Santa Claus should forget one, and she lay awake for a long time and got up two or three times to see if anything had happened.
Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.
I would not be one of those who will foolishly drive a nail into mere lath and plastering; such a deed would keep me awake nights.
They all separated, but, except Anatole who fell asleep as soon as he got into bed, all kept awake a long time that night.
Those in the rooms above were also awake.
After the return of Alpatych from Smolensk the old prince suddenly seemed to awake as from a dream.
Before he was thoroughly awake next morning everybody had already left the hut.
Peter the valet, who was now wide awake, had roused the doctor.
And indeed he only had to lie down, to fall asleep like a stone, and he only had to shake himself, to be ready without a moment's delay for some work, just as children are ready to play directly they awake.
When Nicholas and his wife came to look for Pierre he was in the nursery holding his baby son, who was again awake, on his huge right palm and dandling him.
Top spaceman 5. how does it feel to be awake?
Their new cat is weird looking, and it keeps me awake with its loud miaows.
It was hard to stay awake as the speaker dictated such a long message.
It was hard to stay awake as I listened to my boss dictate a long message.
I drank two cups of coffee to give me the boost I needed to stay awake throughout the rest of the day.
Beginning around two months of age, a newborn baby will be able to stay awake for roughly two hours a time, before needing to sleep again.
Your baby may choose to sleep mostly during daytime hours, remaining awake much of the night.
Some experts recommend taking measures to keep an infant awake during daytime hours by preventing naps and engaging in stimulating activities.
If you rock or nurse your child to sleep, but he awakens later in the night crying for you, you need to begin placing him in his bed while he is drowsy but still awake.
You need to lay your child in his crib when he is awake but drowsy.
Keep in mind that it may take several tries of placing your baby in his crib while he is still awake before he successfully falls asleep on his own.
Your baby will probably begin to straighten out her days from her nights, staying awake during the day for longer periods of time.
The swinging speeds range from very slow and soothing to a faster pace that is suitable for entertaining baby when he or she is fully awake.
The seat reclines all the way back to make sleeping on the road a comfortable experience while also being able to get into enough of an upright position that your child will be able to look around when he or she is fully awake.
Keep her in well-lit, active areas of the house when you want her to remain awake.
Put your child to bed while he is still awake.
All babies need their sleep, and newborns in particular sleep more than they are awake for the first few weeks.
As with the feeding this must be honed early and the temptation to keep the baby awake for visitors to see is a definite no-no.
While you can certainly rock her while you feed her, sing to her, or read to her, be sure she is awake when you lay her in the crib.
Take close-ups of the baby, whether awake or asleep.
Get in the habit of putting your child down sleepy but awake to encourage him to learn how to settle himself to sleep.
Once baby begins to stay awake for longer periods, however, you may discover that his love affair with sleeping has ended as he fights to stay awake as long as possible.
Some stoop to keeping their little one up as long as possible until she becomes too exhausted to stay awake.
The original concept of the baby monitor was to capture sounds from the baby's room in order to know when the baby is awake versus asleep, as well as to hear sounds, such as something falling down or someone entering the baby's room.
Develop a day sleep routine based on awake times, her personality and her signals.
Ask the cattery owner when the best time is to see the kittens - when they are awake and active - and plan your visit accordingly.
Usually, consumers purchase a replacement mattress or seek a new one because of the various problems people have with discomfort when they awake may not from pain, but from tossing and turning.
Lil'Bit has been known to sleep with one face while the other remains awake; this is why he is thought to have two separate brains.Lil'Bit was born with four eyes, although two of these eyes have merged together into one.
When stuck in a tree, a cat will often howl into the night and keep neighbors and owners awake.
A thick Aubusson area rug will anchor your design with a soft plush pile beneath your feet every morning when you awake.
Armed with a few new bedroom decorating ideas, you can create your dream bedroom with fewer design worries to keep you awake at night.
If you would like to highlight for a wide-eyed, awake look, choose one that is a shade lighter than your skin tone and apply it to the brow bone and tear duct area.
Of all the options available, Canyon offers the most versatility, wears well with all shades of eye and lip makeup I own, and makes me look awake - even when I'm running on four hours of sleep.
A stroke of white eyeliner along the bottom lashes can make one appear more awake and bright-eyed.
Although white eyeliner can be used in a retro-like fashion when applied as a thin line across the upper eyelid, applying eyeliner in an inverted v-shape on the inner corner of the eye will instantly make eyes appear large and wide awake.
Ego opens up the eyes, gives a refreshed, "wide awake" and well-rested appearance, and makes the whites of the eyes appear whiter.
Use it on the brow bone and inner corners to look more "awake".
The nude shadow will emphasize the eyes in a natural way, while the lighter shade will help the eyes look more open and awake.
So I don't lie awake at night worrying about things.
If you ordinarily fall asleep at the drop of a hat, but are now spending hours awake, tossing and turning each night, this can be something worth paying greater attention to.
It wakes you from a sound sleep and you awake in the midst of all the symptoms of a regular daytime panic attack.
I guess the story of my New York wedding starts with me driving 10 hours and pouring cold water on top of my head to stay awake.
Initially, to stay awake, I mentally took stock of the car.
I didn't even have to use cold water to stay awake.
Workers with difficult schedules may try meth in an effort to stay awake for work and soon experience a dependency on this highly addictive drug.
The memories you make will bond your with your friends and provide plenty of great stories to reflect upon when you just can't stay awake during your Monday morning lecture.
Get ready for the jokes asking if you are still awake if someone calls you after 8 p.m. There are also certain topics that seem to be the center of conversation when a person ages past 50 such as the weather and pension plans.
The sleep walker may appear awake, with open eyes; however, they are not awake and they will be difficult to awaken.
Once awake, the sleepwalker will not remember sleep walking when asked about the event.
For this reason, some of the allergy medications can be in use as a tool to keep you awake.
Stimulants, including the use of alcohol, nicotine or some types of non prescription drugs, can keep you awake.
These chemicals are in use to control the sleep and awake cycle.
The causes of narcolepsy may be the inability of the brain to regulate the sleep cycle, in particular the sleep and awake mechanisms.
Most of the theories about dream causes revolve around the dream as a way to experience fears, anxieties and conflicts which the dreamer may, or may not, be aware of when they are awake.
A thought "born" in a dream can become the basis for additional thinking while awake - thinking that can be the beginning of a painting, song, book, poem or the solution to a difficult problem.
Generally the theory is that the relaxed mind during REM sleep has the opportunity to process memories and feelings about experiences from when the dreamer was awake.
Instead, the brain activity during a lucid dream is the same as when awake - so what a dreamer "learns" in their dream can be remembered and repeated when they are awake.
He did not believe that the conscious and subconscious functioned in opposing ways and that, in fact, dreams were a way to see how we truly felt since we think the same way when we are asleep as we do when we are awake.
All the actions taken in a dream could compensate for actions that the dreamer would not feel comfortable taking when they were awake.
Nightmares may also be a way of working through old, unsolved problems that are just too frightening to deal with when you are awake.
It's important to identify what is keeping you awake.
Some people who work out at 8 or 9 at night can easily stay awake an additional four to five hours.
During this stage, your brain becomes active, as if you were awake.
Sleep aids are ideal to help neutralize the problems that are keeping you awake.
Stage one involves only drowsiness, with about a 50 percent reduction in the amount of brain activity as when you are awake.
Dr. Westphal was the first to clinically describe narcolepsy as a physical disorder which often manifests along with cataplexy, episodes of sudden loss of muscle tone while a person is awake.
The Center also provides support through a monthly AWAKE (Alert, Well and Keeping Energetic) Support Group is offered to patients and their families.
In order to get the breathing area open again, the brain will jar the body awake just enough to readjust the airway.
Being forced to stay awake or a persistent inability to sleep can leave a person as impaired as imbibing too much alcohol.
Avoid foods that keep you awake, including coffee, sugar-rich foods and alcohol.
Body temperature drops during sleep; so, a room that is comfortable for a person who is awake is often a bit chilly for sleeping.
The brain jars awake just enough to open the airway again.
The Center also provides support through a monthly AWAKE (Alert, Well and Keeping Energetic) Support Group is offered to sleep apnea patients and their families.
Multiple Sleep Latency Test - A ten-hour test during which the patient is asked to take a series of naps every two hours and then stay awake between the naps.
Maintenance of Wakefulness Test - A monitored test where the patient is placed in a darkened room every two hours and asked to stay awake for 30 minutes.
Many different types of sleep disorders can keep you awake at night or at least prevent you from getting a decent night's sleep.
In sleep apnea, the tissues in the throat region block off the airway so much that your brain jars you awake just enough to reposition yourself.
If machine noise is keeping you awake at night, try cleaning the air filter or switch to a different model.
Night leg cramps are very painful and the jerking awake plays havoc on your ability to get a good night's sleep.
You may have too many distractions in your own room (light, noise, other) that is keeping you awake.
Changing where you sleep may let your mind relax from the habit of staying awake and let you get a good night's sleep.
When you're driving, cooler air either from an open window or the air-conditioner can help you stay awake.
Mental stimulation can help keep you awake even when you are very tired.
If you are still awake after ten minutes, get up and do something else for a short period such as taking a bath or reading a book, but remember to relax.
While that person has no control over what happens when they fall asleep, you both can control how you prepare your sleeping quarters and what you do while awake.
There are many other theories as to why people dream, including possible reasons for short-term memory improvement and as a way to process information that is learned while awake.
However, anyone who has background noises that keep them awake at night will also benefit from the use of this device.
This dream is actually quite amusing to think about once you're awake, but it can feel awful and embarrassing while dreaming.
This is a dream where a person appears to become awake while dreaming and able to control the dream.
Brain activity increases as if the sleeper were awake in this stage, but the body stays paralyzed and asleep.
During an episode, there is usually an appearance of being awake, yet the person is groggy, has a glazed over appearance, and may appear confused.
Even though you might be lying in bed for the optimal amount of time, if you're not sleeping normally, it's going to be hard to be fully awake throughout the day.
Hypopnea may occur when a person is awake, and when it occurs during sleep, it is classified as a sleep disorder.
Even wireless devices could potentially interfere with sleep or cause you to stay awake as symbols of your busy day.
Not sleeping means you are awake more, which means you may become hungrier since you are using up more energy.
People who force themselves to stay awake, such as students studying for exams, have control over the sleep problem.
While staying awake may seem like the best way to achieve what they want in the waking hours, it actually backfires because of the devastating effects caused by the physiological responses to prolonged alertness.
Besides the puzzles that aren't usually very hard to figure out, the involving storyline keeps you awake crying for mommy in the middle of the afternoon.
A nice element of the campground is that RV and Tent camping areas are separated, so tent campers won't be kept awake all night by the noise from the RV generators.
Local anesthesia-Pain-relieving medication used to numb an area while the patient remains awake.
The sleepiness has been compared to the feeling of trying to stay awake after not sleeping for two or three days.
Infants should spend some time lying on their stomachs when they are awake and supervised by an adult.
The repeated test of sustained wakefulness (RTSW) measures sleep latency by challenging the patient's ability to stay awake.
In the RTSW, the patient is placed in a quiet room with dim lighting and is asked to stay awake.
The patient remains awake but is sedated.
As the child is not fully awake, she is unable to see or recognize her parent or caretaker and cannot be easily awakened.
After the sleep-wake pattern is determined, a series of 15-20 minutes prior to the usual occurrence of the night terror and keep the child awake and out of bed for a full five minutes.
Caffeine cannot replace sleep and should not be used regularly for staying awake as the drug can lead to serious sleep disorders, like insomnia.
Patients who arrive at an emergency department awake and alert usually survive with brain function intact, although they may initially have respiratory complications.
The doctor may ask that the child be kept awake for all or part of the night before the EEG.
Parents may become anxious in sympathy with the child and lie awake in worry long after the frightened dreamer has returned to sleep.
Children who are awake are very thirsty, although a child may drink poorly if in a stupor.
Children wear the collar while awake and directly supervised from the age of about four months until they begin to walk.
With the correct bed position, you'll enjoy a restive night's sleep and awake refreshed and energized.
This sets up chi activity that will keep you awake.
However, the chi must be able to flow freely throughout the room, along with plenty of fresh air so you feel revitalized and full of energy when you awake.
This is a huge benefit for women who wish to be awake and aware while they give birth.
The physician usually works while the mother is awake, but neither parent sees the actual surgery since their view is blocked.
In most cases, you will receive anesthesia for the procedure that will numb only the lower part of your body so you will feel nothing, which will allow you to be awake to see the baby being born.
Many families, especially those with children, awake early Christmas morning to open presents in their pajamas.
For anxious kids trying to stay awake on Christmas Eve, the Official Santa Tracker is a welcome tool.
Once your baby is around four months old, begin trying to lay her in the crib (on her back of course!) while she is drowsy but still awake.
Place a flashlight under your chin, then lean over the sleeper, shake him or her awake and scare the living daylights out of him or her!
The good doctor is successful and soon, Colin is awake.
Beyond that, it was just left in my hands to stay awake!
By the time you've located Clocky, you'll be wide awake.
Needless to say, after all of this, the typical sleeper is wide awake.
It is also a fun gift for adults as cheeky or rude messages might bring a smile to the face of someone as they awake from their slumber.
The alarm instantly forces a sleeper awake, harshly breaking into1 dreams and slumber.
Lucky people who just need the quick sound of an alarm to bounce out of bed, fully awake and invigorated, won't benefit from this function.
This is actually a common relaxation technique recommended by doctors for patients with sleep issues, as it quiets "brain chatter" and keeps the stress over being awake to a minimum.
If you've ever struggled to stay awake during a lecture or speech, you know firsthand the result of ineffective language and/or poorly organized ideas.
It is important that the individual with a potential head injury stay awake until he or she can receive professional help; loss of consciousness is a clear signal that emergency help is needed.
So long as you're not looking for something specific, just pajamas that spell a bit of danger in the way of skulls or another image that might normally keep you awake, you can find sleepwear that rocks.
In addition to these group games, it is wise to provide several board games for slumber parties so guests who stay awake longer have fun things to do that won't disturb sleepier guests.
Several days later he was awake and aware and seemed to be improving.
This collection is formulated to wake up the skin and leave you looking awake and glowing.
If you awake with a rash or stream of bumps, start checking for the possibility of bed bugs.
He sounded wide awake.
I didn't know you were awake.
Later as she lay awake beside him, listening to the sound of his breathing, it occurred to her that they had fallen into the pattern of making up by making love.
Carmen was so tired that the icy wind failed to keep her awake.
Carmen, are you awake?
Exhaustion from the ordeal was taking its toll on Carmen as well, but she tried to stay awake.
A few times she nodded off, but for the most part she was able to stay awake until Alex arrived the next morning with Katie.
She'll wake up in the middle of the night, wide awake.
The moment his lips touched hers, she was wide awake.
Wiping her hands on her pants, she gripped her rifle and tried to stay awake.
She sat up straight, thinking that position would be uncomfortable enough to keep her awake.
A sliver of light under Cade's door suggested he was already awake.
Howie showed no signs of the anxiety he displayed on round one but his eagerness kept him awake.
Our visions continued to keep us awake long into the night.
Betsy was awake when I returned home and wanted to know what delayed me.
The next morning Molly beat us awake by enough time for her to make oatmeal and toast and hand deliver it to our bed.
His instincts reacted to the threat before he was fully awake.
To be reminded first by a woman who should be dead and again by a Healer of some sort … He shook out his shoulders and nudged his XO awake, not wanting to deal with the thoughts.
Dusty didn't remember dozing off but snapped awake.
The connection she'd experimented with when he slept grew intimate when he was awake.
Since her dream, she'd heard him even when she was awake.
Tomorrow, when you awake, you will no longer be a slave.
She was dozing by the time he finished and nudged her awake.
Back in bed, Cynthia remained awake and was sitting up.
Long after she crawled into bed, she lay awake, thinking about Alex.
For the next week, Alex continued to wake up more frequently and stay awake for longer periods of time, but he still didn't talk – didn't even try.
He was awake for several hours before falling asleep again.
She'd talk to him when he was fully awake.
She was the one who was awake.
She touched his lips, not knowing whether he was awake enough to know he had spoken aloud.
She turned around, amazed by the fact that he had spoken while he was awake.
Destiny wasn't awake yet when I left and Jonathan is watching her.
Deidre lay awake in bed for quite a while, sorting through the events of the weekend.
Even after Dean's rhythmic breathing told her he was sleeping she remained awake, her mind alive with thoughts of their discussion and all that had transpired.
They hadn't, but as long as he was awake and unable to sleep, he went to the kitchen and poured himself a glass of milk.
Miracle of miracles, Gladys is awake and it ain't even noon yet.
She was awake off and on, most of the day.
Dean was wide awake in a flash.
They finally landed and he nudged her awake.
No, I can stay awake.
Instantly he was awake - not simply sitting there with his eyes open, but completely awake.
Too bad you couldn't stay awake.
You're awake - and lucid.
I wasn't completely awake.
If an incident occurred, why was no one else in the government service housing community awake?
She shook him awake.
Death was waiting for Gabriel when he dozed off. He'd planned on staying awake and moving so she wouldn't catch up to them, but even he needed a short nap after three straight days of grueling travel in the underworld.
He snapped awake at the voice.
Katie had barely closed her eyes when Gabriel shook her awake.
His mind pictured Cynthia Byrne, perhaps awake and alone with her grief, listening to Mother Nature's fury.
Finally, as wide awake as a kid on Christmas morning, he gave up the ghosts and dressed, intent on making the trip for the sole satisfaction of punching out Vinnie Baratto.
Wednesday morning dawned with air so crisp Dean was awake before the alarm, awake to a knock down gorgeous day, "one of the ten best" prattled a cheery voice on the kitchen table radio.
He still hoped she would awake in the morning thinking she had undressed herself and save them both the embarrassment that would otherwise follow.
So, back in the car Dean climbed, with an insistent Fred O'Connor beside him, ready to kick him awake if he nodded off.
For a long time she sat awake in the dark, unable to staunch the flow of tears.
For a long time she lay awake listening to him breath.
Well, you're awake again.
He was one of those people who came instantly wide awake and fell asleep with equal speed.
She'd pulled on her boots and snatched her backpack before she was half awake, running towards the door.
It had not been awake for five years, since…since she had killed her father.
The shock of the shake accompanying the shout flung her deadened senses awake.
A pounding at the door made him snap awake.
I'd rather stay awake my last two days, she replied.
Oh, you're awake now.
Alex, are you awake?
Both of the twins were soon awake and crying.
Carmen lay awake, staring at the ceiling.
She lay awake for what must have been hours.
His mental prod jolted her awake.
As if sensing she was awake, one of his hands moved over her body light enough to tickle.
The creature on the ground was breathing hard but alive and awake.
He is expected one day to awake and eat up the world.
And he who would understand what he remembers to have been said, whether in a dream or when he was awake, by the prophetic and enthusiastic nature, or what he has seen, must first recover his wits; and then he will be able to explain rationally what all 1 This misunderstanding of Acts ii.
Essays and Reviews (1860) was a vehement announcement of scientific results - startling English conservatism awake for the first time.
One night while he lay awake, he tells us, he saw the likeness of the Blessed Virgin with her divine Son; and immediately a loathing seized him for the former deeds of his life, especially for those relating to carnal desires; and he asserts that for the future he never yielded to any such desires.
Thus nature sleeps and dies during winter, to awake in springtime to a life of renewed luxuriance.
It was at this time that he wrote, primarily for the same body as his prayers, his morning, evening and midnight hymns, the first two of which, beginning "Awake, my soul, and with the sun" and "Glory to Thee, my God, this night," are now household words wherever the English tongue is spoken.
Even when asleep and snoring, gorillas are difficult to approach, since they awake at the slightest rustle, and an attempt to surround the one heard making his bed by the woman resulted in failure.
But his intercourse with spirits was often perfectly calm, in broad daylight, and with all his faculties awake.
People who cannot scry may have these hypnagogic illusions, and, so far, may partly understand the experience of the scryer who is wide awake.
It was confidently believed towards the close of the 10th century that he had made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and, like many other great rulers, it was reported that he was only sleeping to awake in the hour of his country's need.
Meanwhile Sultan Mahmud, now wide awake to the danger, had been preparing for a systematic effort to suppress the rising.
If such a one says ` I am an Athravan ' he lies, call him not Athravan, noble Zarathustra, said Ahura Mazda, but thou shouldst call him priest, noble Zarathustra, who sits awake the whole night through and yearns for holy wisdom that enables man to stand on death's bridge fearless and with happy heart, the wisdom whereby he attains the holy and glorious world of paradise."
The idea of a slumbering hero who shall awake at the hour of his country's greatest need is world-wide, but the most famous instances are Northern, e.g.
And, again, if this transaction settled the investiture question, it did not solve the problem of the reconciliation of the universal power of the popes with the claims of the emperors to the government of Europe; and the conflict subsisted - slumbering, it is true, but ever ready to awake under other forms. Nevertheless, the two great Christian agitations directed by the papacy at the end of the nth century and the beginning of the 12th - the reformation and the crusade - were of capital importance for the foundation of the immense religious monarchy that had its centre in Rome; and it is from this period that the papal monarchy actually dates.
The warders at an asylum have been hypnotized to sleep by the bedside of dangerous patients, and "suggested" to awake the instant the patients attempt to get out of bed, sounds which had no import for them being inhibited by suggestion.
Let a man maintain this mindfulness all the while he is awake, whether he be standing, walking, sitting or lying down.
At the beginning of the Mahommedan period, then, we meet with the most influential and the most curious .of these prophetic books, the Pseudo-Methodius, 1 which prophesied of the emperor who would awake from his sleep and conquer Islam.
If any one was ever awake to the joys of living it was the minnesinger, troubadour or goliard, and the world had to wait until Rousseau and Burns before its external beauty was discovered, or at least deeply appreciated, by any but a few Dutch artists.
He now, it is said, applied for help to Dr Israel Tonge, rector of St Michael's in Wood Street, an honest half-crazy man, who even then was exciting people's minds by giving out quarterly "treatises in print to alarm and awake his majesty's subjects."
In spite of the discontent of the Liberals, the Conservative ascendancy secured a long period of firm stable government, which was essential to put an end to the confusion in public life and to give time for the people to awake to a fuller realization of the duties and responsibilities of national independence.
Every means must be taken to keep the patient awake.
The first European scholar to direct attention to the Avesta was Hyde of Oxford, in his Historia Religionis Veterum Persarum eoramque Magorum (1700), which, however, failed to awake any lasting interest in the sacred writings of the Parsees.
His valet had orders to awake him every morning with the words, "Remember, monsieur le comte, that you have great things to do."
On the 30th of September 1693 Millington wrote to Pepys that he had been to look for Newton some time before, but that " he was out of town, and since," he says, " I have not seen him, till upon the 28th I met him at Huntingdon, where, upon his own accord, and before I had time to ask him any question, he told me that he had writt to you a very odd letter, at which he was much concerned; added, that it was in a distemper that much seized his head, and that kept him awake for above five nights together, which upon occasion he desired I would represent to you, and beg your pardon, he being very much ashamed he should be so rude to a person for whom he hath so great an honour.
By 1808 the opponents of slavery, found chiefly among the Quaker settlers in the south-eastern counties, began to awake to the danger that confronted them, and in 1809 elected their candidate, xIv.
The increasing warmth of each recurring spring finds the bee awake, and full of eagerness to be up and doing; its sole mission being apparently to accomplish as much work as possible while life lasts.
A legend, afterwards transferred to Frederick Barbarossa, told how he sat in a cavern in the Kyffhausser before a stone table through which his beard had grown, waiting for the time for him to awake and restore to the Empire the golden age of peace.
Twice he crept into Sigurd's chamber, but fled when he found the hero awake and gazing at him with flashing eyes.
When I came in here, Destiny was awake, so I got her up.
Carmen was so groggy that the icy wind failed to keep her awake.
Now fully awake, the interruption of her sleep became a familiar stir of desire.
How we controlled ourselves sufficiently as not to gasp and startle Howie awake, I don't know.
Frantic confusion followed through part of which I was awake and most of which I was unconscious.
To be reminded first by a woman who should be dead and again by a Healer of some sort … He shook out his shoulders and nudged his XO awake, not wanting to deal with the thoughts.
Heat scorched through her and she gasped, fully awake once again.
Still, it must have been a big relief for her to know that he had been awake, however briefly.
For the next week, Alex continued to wake up more frequently and stay awake for longer periods of time, but he still didn't talk – didn't even try.
She didn't think it was possible to sleep in such discomfort, but a stiff, hot breeze tossed hair into her face awhile later, tickling her awake.
The sound stopped in a minute or so but a three AM recurrence woke them enough to hold a brief conversation on the source of the nocturnal noise, a conversation repeated at four AM, by which time the couple were fully awake.
At first he lay awake, conscious of every sound the motel uttered, fearful that Cynthia Byrne might waken to God knows what thoughts and fears.
Maybe Mums had shaken her awake from a daydream and she now walked in the light of reality.
The hibernating creature within her shook itself awake and began crawling through her blood.
It had not been awake for five years, since…since she had killed her father.
They stay awake at night while researchers work in the daytime.
Delightful wooded site with falling acorns to ensure we stayed awake!
This book is essential reading for photographers and artists looking for ways to stay creatively awake, aware, and alive.
It is no joke, I am fully awake.
It is better to use oxytocin in the awake patient having a regional or local anesthetic.
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The notion of becoming a collector of Old Master paintings — a category at Christie’s that spans 500 years of art across prices ranging from a few thousand pounds to £450 million — can seem intimidating. But, as specialist Maja Markovic explains in the video above — with the help of some examples being sold in Christie’s Old Masters Evening sale in London on 3 December — there are a few basic rules you can follow to secure a work you love, as well as a good investment.
Below are some more pointers, from condition to subject to provenance, that can be considered when navigating the Old Masters market, illustrated with examples from our auction archives.
The main questions to consider when looking include: is the artist an established name? Is the work from a good or particularly pivotal moment in the artist’s career or development? Is the attribution given in full (or qualified as ‘Studio’/ ‘Circle’/ ‘Follower’ of the artist)? Is the work included in the key literature on the artist — and if not, have the current experts been consulted? Has the work been included in any recent seminal exhibitions on the artist?
Christie's specialists tend to recommend acquiring a good example of a work by a relatively minor artist, instead of a mediocre example, perhaps in a bad state, by a more established name.
This has always been a motivating factor when investing in works of art, since provenance adds interest and a certain legitimacy and weight to the object if esteemed collectors have considered it worthy of their collections. Charles I, for example, bought a superb collection of paintings and sculpture from the celebrated collection of the Duke of Mantua in the late 1620s.
Examples of pictures being sought after because of their interesting provenance include Thomas Gainsborough’s Portrait of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, above, which was sold from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in Paris in 2009 for €2,193,000 against an estimate of €400,000-600,000, and Frans Hals’ Portrait of a Gentleman, from the collection of Elizabeth Taylor, which sold in New York in 2012 for $2,098,500 against an estimate of $700,000-1,000,000.
More historic provenance can also add value. In December 2016 Christie’s offered a Constable sketch of Beaching a Boat, Brighton, below, which had been bequeathed to the artist’s daughter, Isabel Constable, and was later held in two celebrated collections on the Continent in the first half of the 20th century.
This work had also been included in the seminal exhibition of Constable’s celebrated ‘six-footers’ at Tate Britain, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Huntington Art Gallery in San Marino, California.
These are particularly important factors to consider. While some Old Master paintings can appear to be in a bad state at first glance, this may be due to the original surface being obscured by layers of old discoloured varnish and dirt, which is often superficial.
It is better to invest in a slightly neglected work, which can be treated relatively easily with sensitive restoration, than in one that has been subjected to numerous campaigns of restoration in the past, some of which may have resulted in the original surface being abraded and over-painted. If in doubt, consult a restorer.
In terms of rarity, it is always important to consider how prolific the artist was, and how frequently his work appears on the open market.
When excellent condition and rarity come together, works can achieve exceptional prices — and offer buyers a unique opportunity to acquire a work of significance and beauty. When a rare and exquisitely rendered portrait of a lady by the court painter William Larkin (above) came up for sale in July 2016, it made £266,500 against an estimate of £40,000-60,000.
Similarly, a stunning and beautifully preserved view of the Côte d’Opale in Picardy by Richard Parkes Bonington (above), executed shortly before his premature death in 1828 at the age of 25, was offered in the summer of 2016 and realised £1,370,500 against an estimate of £400,000-600,000.
Historically, family portraits or pictures collected on a Grand Tour have frequently become prized family heirlooms. At Christie’s we try to alert family members when portraits of their ancestors, or paintings associated with a particular house, which may subsequently have changed hands, come up for sale.
Alternatively, portraits of both royal sitters and important historical figures are likely to resonate with future generations. The same can apply to topographical views of European cities, university towns, or particular landscapes.
The advantage of buying Old Masters is that good examples of portraits, topographical views, still lifes and other genres can be found at varying price levels. In the £5,000-10,000 price bracket, for example, you can find decorative works catalogued as ‘Studio’ or ‘Circle’ of established artists, as well as fully attributed paintings by lesser-known Masters.
If you are interested in portraiture, there are wonderful 16th-century and early 17th-century Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits that can appeal to a modern aesthetic, the style being relatively flat and geometric, with pure blocks of colour.
Around 20 to 30 years ago, 18th-century Italian mythological scenes were in high demand, which drove up prices. Today, these works are more accessible (£10,000-20,000), while fine examples of idealised landscapes by artists such as Locatelli and L'Orizzonte (below) come on the market relatively frequently.
Wonderful Dutch and Flemish still lifes can be purchased at all price points. There are fine 17th-century paintings by second and third-tier Dutch and Flemish masters available for under £20,000, including intricate flower pieces and sumptuous table displays adorned with silver salt cellars and lobsters.
You can also acquire less ambitious works by more established artists for around £15,000 to £20,000, including portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds (see above). Prices can vary depending on the identity of the sitter, which is not always known. Portraits of royal sitters, on the other hand, have remained in demand throughout the centuries.
The same applies to topographical views of Venice and London, which have been coveted by new buyers and seasoned collectors due to the enduring appeal of the two cities.
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10 March 2014 Food systems are too focused on maximizing profits and not enough on promoting the human right to adequate food and freedom from hunger, a United Nations independent expert said today, calling for the systems “to be radically and democratically redesigned” by promoting small farmers and cutting food imports.
“Objectives such as supplying diverse, culturally-acceptable foods to communities, supporting smallholders, sustaining soil and water resources, and raising food security within particularly vulnerable areas, must not be crowded out by the one-dimensional quest to produce more food,” said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.
Addressing the Geneva-based Human Rights Council for the last time before his six-year term ends, Mr. De Schutter called for harnessing people’s knowledge and for designing food systems with different needs and preferences in mind, “The greatest deficit in the food economy is the democratic one.”
With more than six billion people¬ due to live in urban areas by 2050, he called on cities to take food security into their own hands to identify logistical challenges and develop a variety of channels to obtain food that its inhabitants prioritize.
“Food democracy must start from the bottom-up,” the Special Rapporteur said, urging urban consumers to reconnect with local food producers.
“Food security must be built around securing the ability of smallholder farmers to thrive,” he noted. “Respect for their access to productive resources is key in this regard,” he added, calling for priority investments in agro-ecological and poverty-reducing forms of agriculture.
These efforts must be supported by national strategies that cut dependence on food imports, and cultivated in an international environment that is biased against developing countries.
Mr. De Schutter highlighted in his report the promising efforts of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to bring together Governments, civil society, international agencies and the private sector to collectively address the challenges that food systems face, but warned that “the CFS remains the exception in bringing participation and democracy into the global governance arena, and in accommodating different visions of food security.”
“Other global governance bodies must align themselves with the strategic framework provided by the CFS. The WTO [World Trade Organization], for example, must not hinder developing countries undertaking ambitious food security policies and investing in small-holder agriculture,” he said.
The Special Rapporteur also urged developed countries to move away from export-driven agricultural policies and “leave space instead for small-scale farmers in developing countries to supply local markets”.
He also urged these governments to restrain their expanding claims on global farmland by reining in the demand for animal feed and agro-fuels, and by reducing food waste.
Special rapporteurs are appointed by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council to examine and report back, in an unpaid capacity, on specific human rights themes.
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You may not realize it, but there is a battle going on inside your body every day. Not only is your immune system in constant combat with invaders from the world at large, opposition may also come from within. Mutated cells, the domestic terrorists of the body, must be held in check by cells of the immune system. If these rogue cells can get past the body's defenses, the result is cancer.
For the past few years, Dr. Thomas Spies' laboratory in the Clinical Research Division has been studying ways in which mutated cells gain the upper hand. In the May 24 issue of Nature, Spies and colleagues reported a breakthrough in understanding one of the mechanisms tumor cells use to evade immune-system detection.
The scientists identified a protein that is required for tumor cells to rid themselves of distress-signals that notify the immune system that the cells are abnormal. This process of shedding the distress signals is known to be a key method tumor cells use to avoid immune system detection and ultimately, destruction. Understanding how this shedding process works could lead to treatments aimed at preventing shedding, making tumor cells more susceptible to immune system attack.
The MIC distress signal
Before joining the Hutchinson Center in 1994, Spies and co-workers discovered a class of unique distress signal proteins called MIC. These proteins are expressed on the surface of epithelial cells under conditions of stress, including cancer. MIC proteins are distant relatives of the classical major histocompatibility complex class-I proteins found on the surface of most cells that serve to alert T-cells when a cell is abnormal. The MIC proteins are unique in that they are nonspecific distress signals: their mere presence on the cell surface activates cells of the innate immune system called natural killer (NK) cells to kill any cell displaying the MIC distress signal. MIC also binds to T-cells, lowering the threshold for T-cell activation.
The fact that the body has such a system to detect and destroy cancerous cells is small consolation to the millions affected by cancer each year. Tumors evade immune system surveillance quite frequently and one of the main ways this evasion occurs is through MIC shedding. NK cells and T-cells normally recognize the MIC protein distress signal using a cell-surface receptor called NKG2D. When these lymphocytes recognize MIC on the surface of a tumor cell, they are activated to kill the offending cell. So, when tumor cells shed the MIC protein from their surface they are removing the tag that labels them for destruction. In addition, MIC proteins that are shed can bind to NK cells and T-cells and signal them to remove NKG2D from their surface, effectively making them deaf to the distress signals of all tumor cells.
The study began when Spies Lab scientist Dr. Veronika Groh discovered that one of the two types of MIC (called MICA) binds to an unknown protein on the surface of epithelial tumor cells. Next, Dr. Daesong Yim in Spies' lab purified the unknown protein and identified it as ERp5, which normally helps other proteins fold into the right shape inside cells. "The fact that tumor cells expressed surface ERp5, as well as MICA, suggested that it may have something to do with shedding," Spies said. Subsequent experiments by Groh and Dr. Segundo Gonzalez showed that inhibiting ERp5 in several cancer cell lines, either by adding drugs that block its action or by reducing its amount through genetic manipulation greatly reduced the amount of MIC that was shed. This showed that indeed, this protein was crucial to shedding the MIC-distress signal.
Spies next wanted to determine what ERp5 might be doing to cause shedding. Dr. I-Ting Chow in Spies' lab showed that ERp5 and MICA interact directly, resulting in shedding of MICA. Spies then sought help from a longtime collaborator and protein-structure expert, Dr. Roland Strong from the Basic Sciences Division. "He suggested independently studying these protein interactions in vitro," Spies said.
Dr. Brett Kaiser, a postdoctoral fellow in Strong's lab, examined how ERp5 affects MICA. "We were able to purify the proteins and analyze the biochemical activity of Erp5 in a test tube," Kaiser said. The results showed that in the presence of ERp5, a portion of the MICA protein becomes unraveled. "ERp5 is clearly having an effect on the protein," Strong said. "But, we don't know what it's doing that allows shedding to occur. That's what we want to figure out next."
Strong suggests that ERp5 might turn a portion of the MICA protein inside out. This large change in the shape of MIC may expose a portion of the protein that is normally protected deep inside it to ubiquitous protein-cutting enzymes called proteases. However, the protease (or proteases) responsible for cutting MICA and causing it to be shed remains unknown.
Having identified ERp5 as critical to the shedding process, a possible therapeutic avenue might be disrupting the interaction between ERp5 and MICA. "One approach may be, for instance, an antibody that would shield MICA from associating with ERp5," Spies said. If blocking this interaction keeps MICA from unraveling, shedding would be prevented allowing NK cells to remain vigilant in destroying tumor cells.
Even if therapies aimed at preventing shedding are successfully developed, they are unlikely to be a magic bullet against cancer. One limitation is that MIC proteins are only expressed on epithelial-cell tumors. Another issue is that shedding is just one of several methods of evasion used by cancer cells. In the constant battle that occurs between immune cells and tumor cells, every method the immune system has for detecting and destroying cancerous cells can be evaded by at least some tumor cells. But the work of Spies, Strong and colleagues adds to the arsenal of knowledge for use against the persistent threat of immune evasion. | <urn:uuid:0b95dc8f-a1b2-4b79-a84a-58d6698a7407> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2007/07/shedding-secrets.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.960411 | 1,220 | 3.375 | 3 |
What’s the Magic Sponge Material?
Magic Sponge Material? Do you really know ? I think you may list a lot of magic sponge material on the table, and which one is the most important that is integral to the material of the magic sponge. Which one is the best part when combining the magic sponge? Definitely is melamine foam. And what is the key information about melamine foam? The generic melamine foam is an excellent item for cleaning devices.
Magic Sponge Metraial enjoys non-toxic, innocuous, purely physical decontamination. Melamine foam or magic erasers are simply foam-like materials made of a formaldehyde–melamine–sodium bisulfite copolymer. The reason why magic sponges enjoy large applying devices is that their strong and clear cleaning effects are explored by people.
Magic sponge material made from melamine foam, like enchant magic on cleaning. This might blow your mind but Magic Erasers and generic melamine foam don’t have a chemical cleaner or detergent inside them, it’s literally just an abrasive foam that makes them work.
Is it Safe to Use Magic Sponge Material?
As above, it is safe to use. Melamine foam is the integral material inside the magic sponge. Which is non-toxic, and harmless to people. Purely chemical cleaning without no harmful material. The melamine poisoning incident has given everyone the illusion that melamine must be toxic as long as it is. In fact, melamine is non-toxic and has a very good physical stability itself, it is insoluble in water.
It is flame retardant, heat resistant, and sound absorbent making it a popular and preferred material for insulation and soundproofing. Due to its special decontamination mechanism, it has a magical cleaning effect on many stubborn stains that cannot be wiped off by traditional cleaning sponges. Its cleaning power especially on uneven surfaces is the ideal replacement for traditional cleaning methods. The action principle of the magic nano sponge is that automatically absorbs stains on the surface. So, don’t worry about whether it is safe or not. A magic sponge will be an excellent helper in your home.
Is the Magic Sponge Only Used Inside the Home?
The answer is definitely not. A multifunctional magic nano sponge can be used in many situations. For example, office equipment cleaning such as desks, computer (keyboard), printers, copiers, fax machines, telephones, pens, sink, and other surface stains. Leather products cleaning, like cars and their interiors, leather furniture, sofas, leather bags, travel shoes, and other stains, need to use leather lubricant for maintenance after cleaning. Plastic products cleaning. Stains on plastic tables and chairs, plastic windows, shower rooms, children’s toys, plastic slippers, plastic garbage cans, etc., all can be easily removed.
Money Saving Tips
In the supermarket, a variety of cleaning tools are available for you. However, are they all suitable for your budget? I think the answer may differ from person to person. Traditional cleaning generally costs a large proportion of your expenditure. Also, the function of those cleaning tools may not meet your needs.. Recently, a magic sponge just showed up in time to solve this thorny problem for you. In comparison, the magic sponge stands out in the market and appeals to so many customers. It is of excellent cleaning power and cheaper. Only several dollars, a case of magic sponge back a cleaner home to you. In addition, if you want to cut your spending most, cutting it into smaller pieces as you like can be the best option for you will use.
Magic Sponge Cleaning Tricks
Now, are you beckoning for magic sponge? If so, I also have some cleaning tricks for you. As for a traditional cleaning sponge, using it in combination with detergent can totally clean up stains. However, there is no need to use any detergent with the magic sponge, clean stuff like new back to you. So, some cleaning tricks that you should. Half the work, twice the effort.
First, wet the nano sponge with water under the faucet. This is important to start. If you think too much water will worsen the wood floor, just wring a little water not to dry will suit you best.
Second, gently scrub stains with a wet magic sponge. During this time, you will find how magic it is. The Sponge is just like an eraser, erasing stubborn stains easily and quickly.
Third, rinse the used magic sponge in the water. Stains absorbed by the magic sponge can be cleaned up without rubbing your hands.
In a word, hope this cleaning advice can help you more or less.
The Special Design of Magic Sponge
Except for its distinguished function, Topeco Clean-Magic Sponge Material is also remarkable in the design of the product. Signal nano sponge can combine with compound material, such as nano sponge with PU, nano sponge with scouring pad, and nano sponge with non-woven fibers. Combining them into novel styles may be just what you want. Besides, gray, white, and pink are the most popular color in our store. Depending diversity of colors of compound material, a magic nano sponge also can be designed into many beautiful colors.
Another reason the magic sponge is so hot is the special shape of the magic sponge. Rich and diverse shapes stand out among many cleaning tools. Special shapes like the circle, octagonal, hexagonal, small waist, flower, S shape, and wave all lie in a high-density nano sponge. Apart from being designed into double-sides, the mezzanine design is also accepted by people. Composite material adheres to some logos or delicate pictures that you want. There are some samples’ pictures as flowing. | <urn:uuid:e5e9a753-624c-4f54-adfd-7a1077047680> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://topecoclean.com/magic-sponge-material/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.93301 | 1,196 | 2.046875 | 2 |
OTTAWA - Busy Canadian border guards are giving many shoppers a pass on paying taxes and duties when they return from the United States, says an internal government document.
The briefing note for Prime Minister Stephen Harper lends credence to one of the Canadian retail industry's biggest complaints.
The note says the guards don't bother charging for lower-value goods, and sometimes are too busy to collect taxes and duties on higher-value items as well.
The document was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
A spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency acknowledges that managers at busy border points sometimes have to adjust priorities, between revenue collection and catching forbidden imports or illegal visitors.
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