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The caveat lector
guerrilla campaign is chronicled online, where the dubious claims of cell phone marketers and placard-wielding politicians are treated with equal suspicion.
For those engaged in proving Shakespeare's Catholicism from what he wrote, Hamilton's book on Munday would seem to carry an implicit warning: caveat lector
: This reviewer's name, unbeknownst to her, appears in the credits of this video.
: the latest work by the late Philip Rieff is impenetrably, almost excruciatingly hard to read.
For now, Rampersad's book is required reading, but an admonition is in order: CAVEAT LECTOR
So, when it comes to ingesting popular literature about "research": caveat lector
To the philosophical novice I would give the advice: caveat lector
Just keep in mind: Caveat lector
, or, reader beware.
(It is a trifle disconcerting, for example, to thumb back to the first of his copious endnotes and light upon the following caveat lector
: "The reader should treat the historical detail in these lectures with caution; its value is sometimes more mythical than factual.") But say what you will, the man knew how to command the bully pulpit.
Her remarks on African American history, culture, and writing are guaranteed to spark strong reactions, both positive and negative (though it is worth prefacing this caveat lector
with a reminder that Conde has never been one to avoid controversy).
But caveat lector
, the average page is packed with 550 words.
Z.'s book turns out to be a good example of "rubberband Messianism." Caveat lector | <urn:uuid:fb4cc85b-da5e-45cf-82a4-2d459c1299ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Caveat+lector | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.933141 | 377 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Home sweet home birth : a qualitative study on the perceptions and experiences of home birth : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University
The management of pregnancy and childbirth, and the home as a location of birth, are all topics subject to considerable debate. Such debate often relies on emotive appeal rather than reference to relevant research. A series of three interviews were conducted with seven women planning home births. The most important reasons why women decided to have a home birth were the desire to have an established relationship with their midwife, wanting continuity of care from their midwife, wanting family involvement in the birth and wishing to retain control and avoid interventions. Postnatally, in most instances, high levels of satisfaction were expressed by women about the quantity and quality of information they received, the care they received from health professionals, their satisfaction with the birth experience and with their relationships with health professionals. Most women did not experience feelings of loss of control at the birth and the majority of women did not experience feelings of depression postnatally. Women's perceptions of pregnancy and childbirth were in accordance with the midwifery model of childbirth and it is proposed that women seeking home births hold a deeper and more encompassing belief in the tenets of the midwifery model in comparison to women who have hospital births. Findings are also in accordance with other research, both national and international. | <urn:uuid:651f3da1-7212-4651-b977-2ff740f3494e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/5813 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00381-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976903 | 289 | 1.875 | 2 |
Even in NY you'll have bouts with fusarium wilt, early blight, late blight among many others. I couldn't get the pdf to open due to problems on my end but I've seen the studies before. If you garden long enough and talk to commercial farmers and small urban community farms you learn that it appears great under controlled conditions but in real world scenarios it fails miserably. If it were practical every farm would do it. And I know of none that do. At least here.
My season down here is opposite yours. In fact I have two seasons. I've got tomatoes, squash, cukes, corn, pole and bush beans down. Next month cold crops go in. Lettuces, Broccoli, radishes, carrots, etc. Come January it's time to start tomato seed again along with eggplant and peppers. etc.
There was so much info here and I was so sleepy that I missed some important points. Your absolutely right. Field studies are much more important than primarily studies. I have a study somewhere in JSTOR but I can't find it at work. However, I was actually over at sycamore farms and I talked to the owner about his amazing heirlooms. His tomato, Aunt Ruby was rated #1 in New York in the farmers market. I asked him about grafting and he said he tried to do it him self but they failed to graft and next year is using a company to get them grafted for him. But he did have about 20 plants that did graft and he said even though it was a small sample, it was overwhelming in what the plant produced. It was able to stand up to the outside conditions and had a much higher yield in both the early and late harvest. Maxifort is an extremely vigorous plant and I had suspect as much. But not just me or this farm, many people have people have had great success with grafting root stock for tomatoes. Places like North Carolina State University and the University of Maine have done field studies for years in terms of disease management.
Your harvest season's really cool. I'm so use to NYC climate that I can't even think of harvesting anything in the coming months. I envy you.
With your small area what's the worst that can happen if you plant winter rye now? It grows for a spell and dies from snow? Turn the soil a little and plant it.
11 years later I am constantly fighting things. Early blight. Late blight. Blossom end rot. Caterpillars.
So you may not have them now. But you will.
Great point. I will buy some seeds now. I was just worried that it won't give it enough time for it to build the nitrogen fixing roots to enhance my soil.
And thanks for the advice. I will look into it. I don't have enough space for crop rotations but this square foot gardening sounds like a great alternative. I am almost done reading the book. I think I'll aim for that next year.
Here's my garden this year
Blackberries are an evasive plant here... I've been beating them back all season. If you need some, let me know. I can send you plenty. lol
Your garden is beautiful! Really I am envious. I am ashamed to post a picture of my garden.
And Yes! I think I will take you up in your offer. By any chance, do you know what variety of blackberries you have? Sorry I don't mean to be so picky, but since I don't have much space I really have to try to get the sweetest best blackberries to make up for my lack of space.
Not only public urban gardens but also rooftop gardens.
While true, you guys are over estimating the amount of gardens we have. Its really only the nice neighborhoods that have that luxury. I live in a relativity nice area so I have more gardens here. About 1/3 of the people who live hear have backyards but less than a quarter actually have growing gardens. A lot of us here use container gardening since we don't have that much space. Roof top gardens are awesome and I visited this new rooftop farm in Brooklyn. I really wish I had the money and permission to take on such a project. But again its widely publicized but not as much as it might seem. The only area that I have seen that actually have a good concentration of rooftop gardens are in soho. They are wealthy enough to afford such commodities. Even with these rooftop bee hives, man I wish I could get one but NYC could only support so much and I its more common in certain areas. Most people that I know here do apartment gardening.
The point is that there shouldn't be enough contact between gardens for plant diseases to spread. But again, I will remain cautious
Many people have the wrong idea about compost though. It's nutrient level is low compared to other types of fertilizer. It does however have more benefits than just the nutrients. I swear by it. It can be used to break up a clayey soil and to bind together a sandy one. (I still wonder about that sometimes though. I've dumped literally hundreds of pounds into my sand and can't tell much of a difference. I use the neighbors front end loader to dump it.)
Correct me if I am wrong, but is it more so about the organic matter in the compost that breaks down over time that releases the nutrients that the plants need rather than the immediate uptake of available nutrition? I'm just studying this field and I am more in the chasing hype phase than understanding it. | <urn:uuid:6f271430-59e4-4cdc-8152-1a0733c2c614> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/13-lounge-introductions/194861-anyone-here-garden-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00320-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984784 | 1,145 | 1.765625 | 2 |
tween/teen summer art retreat. monday to thursday, august 8th-11th. 1:00-3:30pm.
This week long summer camp will offer tween and teen artists an opportunity to explore a wide variety of materials inspired by contemporary artists and art principles. They will create paintings on magazine pages, coins, and old black and white photographs. They will make large graphite drawings, discover printmaking on gelatine plates, learn to make needle felted sculptures and much more. Camp size is limited to six artists.
Creating art can be messy, please dress appropriately. An allergy-free snack and water in a no spill container may be brought from home. | <urn:uuid:97ebaf0f-7b14-4d1f-bac8-6bcc14b198a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kudzustudio.com/store/p307/tween%2Fteen_summer_art_retreat._monday_to_thursday%2C_august_8th-11th._1%3A00-3%3A30pm..html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.933034 | 143 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges is the regional accreditation agency responsible for the evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of institutions offering the baccalaureate degree and above in California, Hawaii, Guam and the Pacific Basin. Samuel Merritt University has been reaccredited until Spring 2021. The core purpose of WASC accreditation is to assure the educational community and general public than an institution meets the Standards of Accreditation, and the Core Commitments to Institutional Capacity and Education Effectiveness. Student learning is at the heart of the review process.
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Discovery Learning Research Center names recipients of 2010 Faculty Research Fellowships
May 20, 2010
The Discovery Learning Research Center has selected the research team of Rachael Kenney and Melanie Shoffner for its 2010 Faculty Research Fellow Program.
Kenney and Shoffner's project, titled "Writing to Learn Mathematics: Teacher Reflection on the Use of Writing as a Tool to Support Student Learning in the Mathematics Classroom," addresses one of the Discovery Park center's signature themes to promote articulation between education research and actual practice, said DLRC managing director Willie Burgess.
The project will focus on providing preservice secondary teachers with experience on the writing to learn writing-to-learn- mathematics approach, then engaging them in developing their own WTLM-based lesson plans and course materials for their own student teaching. A team-taught WTLM lesson then will be implemented with middle school students at the Hall for Discovery and Learning Research in Discovery Park.
Kenney is assistant professor of mathematics and curriculum and instruction, and Shoffner is assistant professor of English and curriculum and instruction.
The Faculty Research Fellow Program is designed to support Purdue tenure-track faculty members to plan for and carry out research on a topic that will further the mission and goals of the Discovery Learning Research Center.
Special emphasis this year was placed on supporting a team that represents a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)/non-STEM collaboration. The program provides partial salary and graduate student support, travel or supply funds, and access to the educational research facilities in the DLRC.
Applicants were asked to develop a research project that specifically promotes the mission and strategic themes of the center and will be carried out in collaboration with the center. Faculty fellows are then expected to apply for external funding of their project during the period of their fellowship.
Burgess said many worthy and interesting projects were submitted for the competition.
For more information about the program, contact Burgess at 494-0668 or firstname.lastname@example.org, or go online to www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/learningcenter/about/faculty.php.
- Willie Burgess
July 14, 2016
After a successful run of more than a decade, Discovery Park has made the decision to sunset the Discovery Learning and Research Center. The DLRC will officially close as a Discovery Park center on December 31, 2016. Although the DLRC is closing, many key functions of the center will continue. The research and evaluation activities of the center, which have supported and continue to support a number of internal and external projects and stakeholders, will be maintained under the auspices of the College of Education.Read Full Story | <urn:uuid:90b8552d-596c-4072-93d1-b8035b564dc2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://purdue.edu/discoverypark/learningcenter/news/view.php?id=398 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00358-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936921 | 548 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Despite improperly obtained medical reports mis-reported by the vegetarian group "Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine", Dr Atkins was quite healthy when he fell. His coma caused his bloat in weight.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has been a loud opponent of the low carb diet plan, because they feel that vegetarianism is the only proper way of eating. In this latest salvo, they pressured Dr. Richard Fleming - a researcher in Nebraska who had Dr. Atkins' medical reports, to provide them with the details. They then deliberately mis-represented that information in press releases to prove to "prove" to people that low carb diets were dangerous.
Here are the two key points that the Physicians Committee mis-represented.
Dr Atkins was Heavy
The Physicians Committee stated that Dr Atkins was 258 pounds at death. They then said that because the 72 year old was 6' tall, he was therefore obese. However, Dr Atkins was under 200 pounds when he fell! This is a QUITE healthy weight for a 6' tall man. The only reason that Dr Atkins gained the additional 60 pounds was that he was IN A COMA and as his organs failed, his body bloated, mostly with water. The Physicians Committee KNEW this and despite claiming to be "responsible", they misrepresented the truth.
Dr Atkins had Diet-Related Heart Trouble
The Physicians Committee stated that Dr. Atkins had a history of heart disease and heart attacks and that these were due to his "unhealthy diet". However, nothing is FURTHER from the truth. Dr. Atkins was always quite clear about his heart issues which were caused by *VIRAL INFECTIONS*. His condition was called "cardiomyopathy" which causes a weakening of heart muscle. This is a common ailment and as the man was 72 years old, it's normal for systems to start failing at that age! To somehow tie a VIRAL infection to DIET related failures is incredibly irresponsible.
It is one thing for an obviously vegetarian group to say "don't eat meat, eat vegetables". It is QUITE another thing for that group, which calls itself "responsible" to deliberately mis-represent the truth to try to get converts. If this group REALLY feels that low carb diets are unhealthy, they should use sound medical reasoning and run research studies to prove it. If they cannot do that, they should NOT resort to unethical methods to force people to abandon meat products.
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NEW ZEALAND - New research shows the true cost of California thistle to be close to $700 million in lost pastoral farm revenue each year and also suggests that previous estimates of the cost of other agricultural weeds has been significantly underestimated.
The figure is the work of scientists in the Farm Systems team at AgResearch and is based on the development of a robust new method for quantifying the economic losses attributable to pasture weeds.
The scientists developed the “seasonal pattern” model primarily for Californian thistle (Cirsium arvense) but it is applicable to any weed species that exhibits a seasonal pattern in its pasture occupancy.
The work has just been accepted for publication in Weed Research, an international journal of weed biology, ecology and vegetation management.
Lead author Dr Graeme Bourdôt says researchers can now use this new model for accurate economic analyses for Californian thistle at various scales.
“We applied the model at the national scale, scaling it using farmer estimates of peak whole-farm cover to derive mean monthly covers, and then mean annual percentage covers of the weed for dairy, beef, sheep/beef, sheep and deer farms.
"The percentage of pasture lost, in combination with 2011-12 farm statistics, revealed that Californian thistle caused a national loss in pastoral farm gross revenue in 2011-12 of $685million ($446m dairy, $233m sheep/beef, $6m deer)."
Dr Bourdôt says that at the scale of a particular farm, in conjunction with a single point-in-time estimate of the weed’s cover on the farm, the expected cover of the weed on for each month of the year can be determined.
“These estimates can then be used in a farm system model such as Farmax, to explore the impact of the thistle and compare the economics of alternative management methods.”
Dr Bourdôt says that previous estimates of economic cost of California thistle (and of pasture weeds in general) have been based on either anecdote or single point-in-time estimates of the weed’s occupancy that do not account for the seasonal dynamics of the weed in a pasture nor the changing feed value of the pasture over the year.
“Since Californian thistle is not eaten by most classes of livestock, the loss in pasture production due to the weed is directly related to the pasture area that it covers. Our research uniquely provides a way of quantifying that.
"We have established, through a two-year field experiment in which we measured the within-patch cover of the thistle on many pastoral farms throughout New Zealand, that the seasonal pattern of thistle’s cover is the same on all farm system types (dairy, sheep, beef, deer) throughout New Zealand. So we have one simple model of how Californian thistle ground cover changes over the year in a pasture.”
Dr Bourdôt says the $685 million is a significant loss and confirms that the thistle is a very significant constraint to production. A financial loss of this magnitude also indicates that research leading to a long-term reduction in the coverage of the thistle has the potential to deliver a very significant return on investment and large benefits for pastoral farmers, he says.
Dr Bourdôt says the size of this estimate of the national value of lost production due to this one weed species indicates that previous aggregate estimates of pasture weed impacts in New Zealand, such as the $1.2 billion per year derived from a Monsanto study in 1984, are large underestimates.
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Vitamin K, or phylloquinone, is a fat-soluble vitamin best known for its important function in the biological activity of several blood coagulation factors. Recent research has also shown a role for vitamin K in bone health. Vitamin K plays a key role in the synthesis of the bone proteins osteocalcin and matrix Gla-protein, which are involved in calcium and bone metabolism.
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Rafael F. Lang
- Assistant Professor at Purdue University since 2011
- Postdoctoral research at Columbia University, New York, working on the XENON100 experiment, 2009-2011
- Dissertation: Search for Dark Matter with the CRESST Experiment, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik and Technische Universität München, 2008
- Diplom: Search for Point-Sources of High-Energy Neutrinos with the AMANDA Detector, DESY Zeuthen and Universität Ulm, 2005
What is the Universe made of? All we know today is that we don't know what most of the stuff in the Universe really is. We have names for it, calling it Dark Matter and Dark Energy, but we don't know its true Nature. Is Dark Matter made of a new particle species? And if so, what are its properties? How is it distributed? Can Dark Matter interact with us?
I build and run detectors that try to shed light on these issues, in particular utilizing liquid noble gases. I am a member of the XENON collaboration that use a liquid xenon target to search for rare Dark Matter interactions. I am in particular interested in unconventional signatures of Dark Matter. Further, I am working on using these detectors to detect neutrinos from processes in our Sun or from supernova explosions across the Milky Way. In addition to these collaborative efforts, I operate dedicated R&D setups at my lab at Purdue to advance these detector technologies further
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In East Liberty, a 110-year old home has been given new life as the Pittsburgh Green House
. A project of ACTION-Housing, Inc., the Green House will be a weatherization training and educational facility, where classes and workshops will focus on residential energy and water savings, and making homes healthier.
ACTION-Housing is the largest provider or weatherization assistance to low income residents in Pennsylvania, serving Greene, Washington, and Allegheny County. However, according to program administrator Lindsay Ruprecht, the Green House will offer a new service that is unlike any other resource in the region.
Ruprecht says that while other institutions do offer great weatherization training, because they’re often in sterile, classroom settings, contractors aren't necessarily prepared for the rough conditions of the region’s aging housing stock. To address that, the Green House has been left intentionally "raw," so that learners can experience hands-on what it's like to retrofit a home more similar to the majority of houses in Pittsburgh.
"We wanted to do it in a real house where the contractors would have real opportunities, in a 110-year-old house, to really see what happens in something that's wonky," Ruprecht says. "Things aren't perfect."
In addition to providing this training, Ruprecht says her organization wanted to fill what it perceived to be a middle-class resource gap. For those households that don't qualify for low-income programs, Ruprecht says the Green House will allow greater access to do-it-yourself projects that can reduce a home’s carbon footprint.
Classes will be taught on a rotating basis by ACTION-Housing staff, as well as product specialists and experts from local nonprofits. For contractors, hands-on training includes building science, weatherization skills, blower door technology, and Building Performance Institute certification. Some courses are free, while others have associated fees.
The Pittsburgh Green House, 308 N. Sheridan Avenue, is open for public tours Wednesday through Saturday. Call 412-362-4PGH for more information.
March 21st, Home Energy 101, 12pm. Learn easy, inexpensive ways of cutting your energy consumption around the house. Focus areas will be water, light, heating/cooling and electricity.
March 22nd, Water Use in the Home, learn about the different ways to save water in your home, and why decreasing burden on Pittsburgh's water system is important. 6pm.
Writer: Andrew Moore
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Communication networks are prevalent in both natural and artificial systems, enabling information and resource exchanges amongst system parts. In most systems, the network topology influences system performance, which, in turn, reshapes the network topology; hence creating one or several feedback cycles. Understanding how such system growth and restructuring processes function becomes critical in today's increasingly connected world. This paper describes a generic model of feedback-based growth and adaptation for systems with tree-like control topologies. Inspired by plant vascular morphogensis, the model is transferred here for studying the development and adaptation behaviour of business organisations, operating in fluctuating economic environments. Experimental results show the impact that various degrees of internal competition have on overall business growth, productivity and reactivity to changing business landscapes. The preliminary findings presented seem to fit existing economic studies on related topics. The proposed model offers a solid basis for studying morphogenetic processes and associated performance indicators, applied to tree-shaped business organisations, and transferable to further domains. | <urn:uuid:abe4855e-4378-4b42-a1ed-8a8c6ebeebfd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal2020/614/98439 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.922966 | 200 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Hip-hop music is a genre that has often been criticized for having violent and sexual lyrics. It is also one of the most popular music genres. In recent weeks, more than 30 of the songs on the U.S. Billboard Top 100 have been hip-hop.
“I think it is popular among college students and the youth because hip hop is still relatively fresh, similar to rock in the 1960s,” said Bradley Bishop, the owner of The Lyric in Oxford.
And like rock in the 60s, some oppose the musical genre. In the U.K. for example, The Guardian recently reported that five universities have banned the playing of the song “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thick, Pharrell Williams and T.I. because ‘the song undermines and degrades women” and “It promotes rape.”
Professor Cooper Owens, an African American studies professor at Ole Miss, says that the major corporations are largely responsible for helping to promote songs like “Blurred Lines.”
“There are all these flavors of hip hop.” Owens said. “But, and I’ll blame this on marketing and all that too, they’ve realized there’s a very particular narrative in hip hop and when I say ‘they.’ I mean the corporations that put it out: BMI, Sony, the folks who make money off of producing this stuff. There’s a certain narrative that folks like. The celebration of wealth, the celebration of partying, this very hedonistic, carefree party atmosphere and so hip hop has really become centered on that.”
Cooper Owens says that narrative has always been popular with the younger crowd.
“Hip hop, like rock n roll before it, celebrates rebellion. It celebrates all these things that you’re not supposed to do, but also, more importantly, hip hop is marketed toward young folks. It’s already doing what young folks want and young folks are being told this is what you want. So, it’s everywhere.”
According to Bishop, hip hop is one of the top-selling music genres at The Lyric; second only to country music.
“I think hip-hop shows do so well and are popular because they appeal to a broad swath of concert goers and cut across a lot of demographics. They are by far our most integrated audiences. You might have country fans, indie music fans, electronic fans that all will listen to some hip hop, and that translates into a broader audience buying tickets.” Bishop said.
Is hip hop too violent and sexual to be played on the radio and at public concerts? Or is it simply another music genre that brings people from many different backgrounds together? You can check that out for yourself. The next show at The Lyric with some appeal to hip-hop fans is set for Nov. 7, featuring MiMOSA, a producer who makes electronic, house, hip-hop beats.
Anthony Dicandia is a journalism student with the Meek School of Journalism and New Media
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- adjective curved outwards like the outer surface of a sphere or ellipsoid
- Said of a curve that bulges toward some reference point, usually the horizontal axis or the origin of a diagram. More formally, a curve is convex from below (or convex to something below it) if all straight lines connecting points on it lie on or above it. Contrasts with concave.
- Said of a set that contains all straight line segments joining points within it.
- Having a surface, side, or boundary that curves outward, such as the outer surface of a sphere. This contrasts with concave, which has a surface or boundary that curves inward.
- adjective curving towards the outside
Origin & History of “convex”
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Managing Spring Configuration Files
Spring configuration files contain bean definitions and other information. They are used to provide context information to the Spring framework.
IntelliJ IDEA lets you manage "traditional" XML configuration files and also
@Configuration-annotated Java classes.
Mutually-related configuration files can be arranged in file sets to make their editing more effective.
When working with configuration files in the editor, you can generate beans, properties, dependencies, etc. using the IntelliJ IDEA's code generation feature ( or Alt+Insert). You can also analyze the structure of your application using the Spring dependencies diagram.
- Creating a New XML Configuration File
- Adding an XML Configuration File to a File Set
- Creating a @Configuration-annotated Java Class
Creating a New XML Configuration File
- In the Project tool window, select the package or directory in which you want to create a configuration file. Then choose File | New or press Alt+Insert.
- Select XML Configuration File and then select Spring Config.
- In the New File dialog, specify the name of the configuration file and click OK.
As a result, the new configuration file is created and opened in the editor.
- If necessary, add the configuration file to a file set.
Adding an XML Configuration File to a File Set
There are three ways to add an XML configuration file to a file set:
- Unless an XML configuration file is included in at least one file set, the Configure File Set link is available in the editor for the configuration file. This link is located above the editing area, in the upper-right corner of the corresponding editor tab.
- Click the Configure File Set link.
- If you haven't defined any XML file sets yet, the Edit Application Context dialog opens. Configure the file set as required and click OK.
If at least one XML file set already exists, you can add the configuration file to an existing file set or create a new file set and add the configuration file to it. To do that, select the necessary option from the Choose file set menu:
- To add the configuration file to an existing file set, select the necessary file set.
- To add the configuration file to a file set that does not yet exist, select <new file set>. Then, in the Edit Application Context dialog, configure the file set and click OK.
- Click the Create Default Context link in the upper-right corner of the editor tab where the unmapped configuration file is opened:
- Add a configuration file to a file set by editing the relevant file set as described in Managing File Sets. See also Creating a file set.
Creating a @Configuration-annotated Java Class
The procedure for creating
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Henry Booth was born in 1788. He became a Liverpool corn merchant and was an early advocate of railways. In 1822 he became the secretary and treasurer of the proposed Liverpool & Manchester Railway. Booth organised and raised the initial capital of £300,000, wrote all the prospectuses and most of the reports published by the company between 1824 to 1830.
Booth worked for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway until the company was merged with the Grand Junction Railway in 1845. Booth became a director of the new merged company London & North Western Railway until 1859.
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During this first week of May, more than 165 independent Goodwill Industry organizations will celebrate the 60th annual National Goodwill Industries Week, recognizing the organization’s growth over the decades. Since 1930, Goodwill Industries of San Diego County has significantly expanded its social entrepreneurship role, supporting over 813 local residents and protecting the environment through socially conscious donations. The network of non-profit groups has also increased visibility through key partnerships, including television network Planet Green.
Goodwill Industries of San Diego County is a local non-profit with the central mission of helping people with disabilities and other employment barriers, attain jobs by helping them develop their skills and providing opportunities through training and real work experience. San Diego’s Goodwill funds its job training programs and employment services through revenue generated from selling donations. Goodwill Industries of San Diego County will continue to serve the local community by utilizing new partnerships and staying true to its purpose.
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A top adviser to the Jeb Bush campaign has signed on to lobby for Uganda’s virulently anti-gay government.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni last year signed into law a bill that criminalizes homosexuality, with some acts punishable by life in prison. The move was widely condemned, both internationally and within the United States. President Barack Obama sharply criticized the anti-gay law, telling Museveni that it would “complicate our valued relationship” and mark a “step backward” for all Ugandans.
In desperate need to improve its image in Washington, Uganda has turned to Vin Weber, a well-connected lobbyist who is advising Bush’s presidential campaign.
Uganda hired Mercury Public Affairs, Weber’s firm, for a $50,000 per month retainer with Weber as the only registered lobbyist on the account. The contract calls for Mercury to provide general “lobbying services” as well as communication services to promote trade and investment opportunities in Uganda.
Weber joined the Bush campaign effort in February as an outside adviser. According to the Washington Post, Weber has worked behind the scenes to develop ties between Bush and major donors and conservative leaders. He told the Post in June that he intends to “coordinate policy” for the campaign.
Neither the Bush campaign nor Mercury Public Affairs responded to a request for comment.
The anti-LGBT laws proposed in Uganda have found support from some religious right figures in the American conservative movement. According to journalist Jeff Sharlet, Ugandan politician David Bahati, the sponsor of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, is a member of a conservative Christian organization known as The Family, whose members include Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Ok., Jim DeMint, and Tom Coburn.
Religious right figures Bryan Fischer and Lou Engle have also provided praised the effort. (Notably, Hillary Clinton is one of a very small group of Democrats to attend private Capitol Hill prayer services organized by The Family.)
The Anti-Homosexuality Act was scaled back last year to remove the death penalty, but was ultimately blocked by the Ugandan courts for procedural reasons. Still, Bahati pledged to reintroduce the bill this year.
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Today we publish our 2008 edition. While this is not a scientific survey, it has been fascinating to ask our panel of experts — from both the Standard and beyond — who they think is truly influential. Status or position is not necessarily a prerequisite — many of the people on the list operate behind the scenes or away from the public gaze.
The magazine itself has 22 categories, from politics and business to fashion and art. Here we have selected 50 of the people that our panel believes are most influential in each of those 22 categories. Some of the people who are most influential appear in more than one section — and in the case of Boris Johnson, in no fewer than six categories. Together they show how fast influence has been shifting in our capital.
And to underscore that point, since the magazine went to press, Gordon Brown has dramatically reshuffled his Cabinet. So we have made room for one more Influential: Peter Mandelson.
Boris Johnson, 44
MAYOR OF LONDON
His ousting of Met boss Sir Ian Blair demonstrates the new Mayor has real clout. Beneath the bluster, he is savvy and steely. Recovered from quick-fire departure of two deputy mayors.
See Environment, Politics, Property, Running London, Society, Social London
Roman Abramovich, 41
CHELSEA FC, OWNER
The most famous Russian oligarch in London is as committed as ever to making Chelsea the best side in Europe. Also making a big impact in the art world, letting lover Daria Zhukova spend some of his millions.
John Armitt, 62
OLYMPIC DELIVERY AUTHORITY, CHAIRMAN
Vital role overseeing the planning and infrastructure of London 2012. Former Network Rail boss is raising the tempo after Beijing Games.
See Property, Sport, Running London
Nikesh Arora, 40
GOOGLE, EUROPEAN VP
Boss of the internet giant's most important base outside California, bringing in close to a billion pounds a year in advertising revenue in the UK. Landed Google job after 17 interviews.
See New Media, TV & Radio
Ed Balls, 41
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES
His political fortunes have faltered with Labour's but his influence over London's schools is stronger than ever.
See Education, Politics
Victoria Barnsley, 54
HARPERCOLLINS, CEO AND PUBLISHER
Founder of 4th Estate, the formidable Barnsley took over at HarperCollins and has now expanded her remit to cover international operations.
See Literary London
Camila Batmanghelidjh, 45
KID'S COMPANY, FOUNDER
Works tirelessly for the capital's children, helping thousands to avoid a life of crime. Has twice remortgaged her flat to keep Kids Company afloat.
Michael Boyd, 53
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Has been busy restoring the Royal Shakespeare Theatre to its old glory. Directed all the history plays in sequence and brought them to the Roundhouse to critical superlatives.
Gordon Brown, 57
Regained initiative with reshuffle, by recalling old foe Peter Mandelson to Cabinet. Hopes his better handling of banking crisis will see off plotters. Says it's "no time for a novice".
Sarah Brown, 45
PRIME MINISTER'S WIFE
Has significantly raised her profile, making Labour conference address in support of PM. Set up well-regarded Piggybankkids charity after losing her first baby Jennifer at 10 days old.
See Society, Social London
Arpad Busson, 45,
and Uma Thurman, 38
FINANCIER and ACTRESS
Anglo-Swiss financier "Arki" Busson, who runs children's charity ARK, has married his star companion. The couple united to host the annual ARK fundraisers on both sides of Atlantic.
See Social London, Society, Education
David Cameron, 42
LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION
In the ascendancy, with a big poll lead, donations piling in and the Tory Right wing acquiescent. The economic crisis has altered the political landscape but it may play into his hands if the Government takes blame for downturn.
See Politics, Environment, Social London
Samantha Cameron, 37
SMYTHSON, CREATIVE DIRECTOR
The baronet's daughter and Tory leader's wife is in demand in her own right as the creative director behind luxury stationer Smythson.
See Social London, Retail
Richard Caring, 60
Powerhouse owner of the Caprice Group (Le Caprice, The Ivy, J Sheekey, Scott's and more), 80 per cent of the Soho House group and the late Mark Birley's dining clubs.
See Food, Social London
Shami Chakrabarti, 39
Leading opponent of 42 day' detention of terror suspects and opposes introduction of ID cards. Principled and outspoken. Often described as Britain's most powerful Asian woman.
See Society, Politics, Law
Prince Charles, 59
PRINCE'S TRUST, CHAIRMAN
Dedicated and enthusiastic spokesman for charitable causes. Prince's Trust raises £1 million a week and is heavily involved in anti-knife initiatives.
See Society, Environment, Social London
Simon Cowell, 49
TV STAR/MUSIC MOGUL
The success of X-Factor and Britain's Got Talent means rarely a Saturday night passes without one of his shows. He owns programme rights too.
See Television & Radio, Music
Alistair Darling, 54
Cemented his position with sure-footed handling of banking crisis in recent weeks, with moves to rescue HBOS and nationalise Bradford & Bingley. Still faces rough ride as recession looms.
Lord Darzi, 48
Pioneering surgeon, pushing ahead with reforms such as better care standards for patients. Plans to turn GP practices into "supersurgeries" have been attacked.
Edward Enninful, 35
A maverick who pushes boundaries. His Black Issue cover for Vogue Italia, highlighting paucity of black models in fashion, created a media storm.
Eric Fellner, 48, and Tim Bevan, 50
WORKING TITLE, PRODUCERS
Run the UK's most successful film studio with hits such as Four Weddings and a Funeral. Next up is Frost/Nixon.
Christine Gilbert, 58
HM CHIEF INSPECTOR OF EDUCATION, OFSTED
Her expanded Ofsted covers all areas of education apart from universities. Has the power to make or break a school's and a minister's reputation.
Lucian Grainge, 48
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP INTERNATIONAL, CHAIR AND CEO
Britain's most powerful record label boss, presiding over seven of the 10 best-selling UK albums in 2007. Successes include Mika, Take That and troubled Amy Winehouse.
Sir Philip Green, 56
Billionaire owner of Topshop and Bhs signed up Kate Moss in a hit clothing deal. Has a new elder statesman role campaigning for the fashion industry.
See Business, Fashion, Social London
Steve Hilton, 38
CONSERVATIVE DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY
Svengali figure who masterminded Tory conference and is Cameron's most trusted strategist. So influential he still keeps his role despite being based in US, where his partner works.
Nicholas Hytner, 52
NATIONAL THEATRE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Commands the theatrical field after his five years in the job. Has presided over a fine line of new plays.
George Iacobescu, 62
CANARY WHARF, CEO
Suave boss of Docklands landmark that rivals the City as financial district. Landed a coup by convincing Wall Street giant JP Morgan to move in.
Jonathan Ive, 41
APPLE, DESIGN GURU
The world's most influential product designer, involved in the iPhone and iPod. He is returning to British roots, buying a £2.5 million retreat here.
See New Media
Sir Igor Judge, 67
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
The nation's top legal authority is new in the job this year. Known for his humanity, yet he takes a tough line, throwing out unmeritorious appeals.
Mervyn King, 60
GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND
Had a good sub-prime crisis — made his point about "moral hazard" and the peril of rewarding bankers for failure.
Sir Terry Leahy, 52
Canny and tough, Britain's biggest retailer has switched his focus from upmarket rivals to new cheap upstarts, proclaiming Tesco is "Britain's biggest discounter". Also expanding in Asia.
Stella McCartney, 37
Sir Paul's savvy daughter has confounded critics with not only her catwalk shows but also her empire of perfumes and an organic skincare range. Reigning Designer of the Year.
See Fashion, Social London
Sir Simon Milton, 46
DEPUTY MAYOR, POLICY AND PLANNING
Mayor's chief of staff and most powerful of four deputies. His powers were increased after fellow deputy Tim Parker quit. In charge of policy as well as planning.
Lakshmi, 58, and Aditya Mittal, 32
MITTAL ARCELOR, CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Steel mogul and world's fourth richest man uses London as his base for his global steel empire. Bought vast Kensington home for £117 million. Aditya is his son and heir.
See Business, Health
Jamie Oliver, 33
TV CHEF, RESTAURATEUR AND AUTHOR
Setting the agenda again with his campaigning TV show Ministry of Food. Practises what he preaches with charitable restaurant foundation Fifteen expanding. His recipe books sell by the shelf-load.
See Food, TV & Radio, Literary Life
George Osborne, 37
Impressed at Tory conference with a sombre speech about economic woes. Respected in the City, his £1 million inheritance tax policy is credited with singlehandedly boosting Tory hopes.
Antonio Pappano, 48,
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, MUSIC DIRECTOR
Still young to hold such a distinguished position. Now entering his sixth season and set to continue to 2012.
Gail Rebuck, 58
RANDOM HOUSE, CHAIRWOMAN AND CEO
Empire includes Transworld, Cape, Chatto, and Century. Married to Labour stategist Philip Gould, she signed up Alastair Campbell's diaries and Tony Blair's memoirs.
See Literary London
Amanda Ross, 45
CACTUS TV, MD
Guiding force behind the phenomenal Richard and Judy Book Club. So far 82 titles have been chosen and some 26 million copies sold.
See Literary London
Charles Saatchi, 65
Britain's most famous contemporary collector unveils his new gallery in Chelsea this week. He leaves third wife Nigella Lawson to be the glamorous frontwoman.
See Art & Design
John Sauven, 54
Oversaw the "Greenfreeze" campaign to change refrigeration technology. In the past year he has spearheaded opposition to Heathrow expansion.
Sir Nicholas Serota, 62
Eminence grise, presiding over a string of hit exhibitions (Bacon, Rothko). Plans for Tate Modern extension have assuaged critics. Pulled a diplomatic masterstroke in lending the Turner Prize to Liverpool to kick-start its European Capital of Culture year.
See Art & Design
Sir Martin Sorrell, 63
Advertising giant whose views on the economy, media and foreign affairs are constantly in demand.
Michael Spencer, 53
ICAP, FOUNDER AND CEO
Far and away the City's kingpin, he has added re-financing the Conservative Party to his day job. Touted as the Square Mile's richest self-made man.
See Finance, Politics
Sir Nicholas Stern, 62
LSE, IG PATEL CHAIR
Penned the well-regarded 2006 report bearing his name which analysed the economic impact of climate change. Previously the Government's chief economist, he now runs the LSE's new Grantham Research Institute.
Jack Straw, 62
The first keeper of the Great Seal to sit in the Commons has handled the job more successfully than his predecessor, Lord Falconer. As Justice Secretary, Straw is also responsible for prisons and reforming the constitution.
See Law, Politics
Mark Thompson, 51
From deception scandals to swingeing job cuts, Thompson has had to weather many storms while rival broadcasters pitch for a slice of the corporation's income from the licence fee.
See Television & Radio
Adrian Wootton, 46
FILM LONDON, CEO
Wootton is dedicated to removing the red tape that used to stymie anyone trying to make a film in the capital.
Alan Yau, 46
Innovator whose latest creation is cut‑price Chinese restaurant Cha Cha Moon — his response to the credit crunch. Founder of Wagamama, he cannily sold his stakes in Hakkasan and Yauatcha for £30 million.
... And not forgetting
Peter Mandelson, 54
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Essential Tips for Doing Your Own Health Care Research
his issue of our newsletter picks up from where we left off last month: separating fact from hype in the health care news that washes over us from the television, Internet, friends and others.
This month: More lessons on how to look at Internet articles with a skeptical eye. And more resources for unbiased health care information.
The good news is that we live in a golden era when patients can really educate themselves thoroughly about any aspect of their health that we want to know about.
The bad news is that we live in an era when it’s possible for any patient to be badly misled by slick, biased, or just wrong information.
You just have to know where to look.
As before: Feel free to “unsubscribe” on the button at the bottom of this email. But if you find it helpful, pass it along to people you care about.
WebMD: Another Hype Alert
Last month we reviewed a reviewer: HealthNewsReview.org., a web site that systematically and thoroughly reviews health news and rates the quality of the stories on a one to five star scale. I gave it five stars for overall excellence.
Shortly after that, the New York Times Magazine had a piece about WebMD, a popular website that the Times rapped — rightly — as “a hypochondriac time suck,” and more importantly, tilted toward expensive prescription drugs. (Read the Times article here.) Too often WebMD has alarmist pieces that act as an extended Infomercial for the pharmaceutical products that sponsor the site.
So we checked the reviews of WebMD articles on HealthNewsReview.
Sure enough, while there were times that the WebMD writers did a decent job covering an issue, there were many other times that the reviewers caught WebMD wholesale cribbing from industry press releases. Click here to see a list of the WebMD stories with the ratings from the HealthNewsReview folks.
Nothing wrong with a bit of copy-and-pasting now and then. But when the press release is the ONLY SOURCE for the article, shouldn’t readers be warned that what they’re reading is an Infomercial and not real journalism?
Are there better options for your Internet health research? Indeed. Read on below…
Top Sources for Reliable Health Care Information on the Internet
Here are some of my favorite free resources for unbiased, hype-free, non-commercial health information on the Internet.
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from government agencies and private health care organizations. It was put together by the National Institutes of Health with the National Library of Medicine, which has long operated Medline, the premier search engine for the ever growing universe of medical journal articles from all over the world (16 million articles in 5,200 journals, at last count).
Medline-Plus has preformatted Medline searches to help you get started in researching your disease. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and health news.
This is a noncommercial collaboration that brings together 3,800 top experts in all medical specialties who write, edit, and peer-review a comprehensive set of articles on 7,400 medical topics. Hundreds of these topics written for patients are available free, but for detailed information you have to pay a fee.
This site got lavish praise from the same New York Times article that slammed WebMD. One caveat: MayoClinic takes drug company ads too; it’s just that the line between news and advertising is a little less blurry than on the WebMD site.
Harvard Medical School’s site for patients is chock full of useful, free special reports on a host of common health issues. You can also find a place on the same site to subscribe to the Harvard Health Newsletter and several other related newsletters. Truth is that you’ll get 99% of the up-to-date stuff you need from the free part of the web site.
One Click to a Healthy Diet
The Department of Nutrition at Harvard’s School of Public Health has put together a Healthy Eating Pyramid that beats the official government’s diet guidelines in two ways: more up-to-date science and no agribusiness influence. Click here to read all about it.
My patient safety blog had an article about the difference between the Harvard guidelines and the official USDA/HHS guidelines. Read it here.
For non-clickers, here’s a quick summary of the Harvard diet advice:
Go with plants. Eating a plant-based diet is healthiest. Choose plenty of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and healthy fats, like olive and canola oil.
Cut way back on American staples. Red meat and processed meat, refined grains, potatoes, sugary drinks, and salty snacks are part of American culture, but they’re also really unhealthy. Go for a plant-based diet rich in non-starchy vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. And if you eat meat, fish and poultry are the best choices.
To your continued health!
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WASHINGTON IRVING was born in the city of New York, April 3, 1783, in which place his father, William Irving, had been settled as a merchant some twenty years. After receiving an ordinary school education, at the age of sixteen, he commenced the study of the law. Three years later he contributed, under the signature of Jonathan Oldstyle, a series of letters to the Morning Chronicle,' a newspaper of which his brother, Peter Irving, was editor. These juvenile essays attracted much notice at the time, were extensively copied by other journals, and in 1823 or 1824 were collected and published without the sanction of the author. In 1804, in consequence of ill health, he sailed for Bordeaux on a visit to Europe, and traveled through the south of France to Nice, where he took a felucca to Genoa, in which city he remained some two months. He then went by sea to Sicily, made the tour of the island, crossed from Palermo to Naples, passed through Italy, meeting Allston at Rome, who strongly recommended his devoting himself to art, thence over the St. Gothard, through Switzer land to Paris, where he remained several months. He then went to Holland, whence he embarked for England, where he spent part of the autumn, and returned to New York in March, 1806, completely restored to health. He again resumed the study of the law, and was admitted to the bar in November of that year, but never practiced. Shortly after he took the chief part in Salmagundi,' the first number of which appeared in January, 1807, and the last in January, 1808. In December the following year, he published his Knickerbocker's History of New York.' In 1810, two of his brothers, who were engaged in commercial business, one being at the head of the establishment in New York, and the other in Liverpool, gave him an interest in the concern, with the understanding that he was not to enter into the duties and details of the business, but pursue his literary avocations. During the war with Great Britain, in 1813-14, he edited the Analectic Magazine,' and in the fall of the latter year, joined the military staff of the governor of the state of New York, as aid-de-camp, and military secretary, with the title of colonel. On the close of the war, May, 1815, he embarked for Liverpool, with the intention of making a second tour of Europe, but was prevented by the sudden and great reverses which followed the return of peace, overwhelming, after a struggle of two or three years, in which Mr. Irving took an active part to avert the catastrophe, the house in which his brothers had given him an interest, and involving him in its ruin. In 1818, he determined to try his pen as a means of support, and commenced the papers of the SketchBook,' which were transmitted piecemeal from London, where be resided, to New York for publication. Three or four numbers were thus published, when, finding that they attracted notice in England, he had them published in a volume, February, 1820, by Mr. John Miller; but he failing shortly after, the work was transferred to Mr. Murray, with a second volume, published in July of that year. Mr. Murray had bought the copyright for L200, but its success far surpassing his expectations, he sent Mr. Irving, of his own accord, first L100, and the sale still increasing, an additional L100. After a residence of five years in England, Mr. Irving removed to Paris in August, 1820, and remained there till July of the following year, when he returned to England and published his Bracebridge in London and New York in May, 1822. The following winter he passed in Dresden, returned to Paris in 1823, and crossed to London in May, 1824, to publish his Tales of a Traveler,' which appeared in August of that year in two volumes, and in four parts in New York. In August, he returned to Paris, and in the autumn of 1825, visited the south of France, spending part of the winter in Bordeaux. In February, 1826, he left that city for Madrid, where he remained two years. Here he wrote the life of Columbus,' which appeared in 1828. In the spring of 1828, he left Madrid on a tour to the south of Spain, visiting Granada and the main points mentioned in the Chronicles of the Conquest of Granada, by Fray Agapida,' of which he had made a rough sketch. This he prepared for the press at Seville, and transmitted to London and New York for publication; it appeared in 1829. In the spring of this year he again visited Granada, and resided some three months in the Alhambra, where he collected materials for the work published under that name in 1832. In July he went to England, being appointed secretary of legation to the American embassy in London, which office he held until the return of Mr. M'Lane in 1831, when, after remaining a few months as charge, he resigned, on the arrival of Mr. Van Buren. While in England, in 1830, Mr. Irving received one of the fifty-guinea gold-medals, provided by George IV, for eminence in historical composition; the other was awarded to Mr. Hallam, the historian. In 1831, the university of Oxford conferred on Mr. Irving the degree of LL.D. In the spring of 1832, he returned to New York, after an absence of seventeen years. His return was greeted on all hands with the warmest enthusiasm; a public dinner was given to him, at which Chancellor Kent presided; and similar testimonials were offered in other cities, but which he declined. In the summer of this year he accompanied Mr. Ellsworth, one of the commissioners for removing the Indian tribes west of the Mississippi, and whom he had met on a tour to the west, on his expedition. The most interesting portion of this journey has appeared in the Tour on the Prairies,' published in 1835. | <urn:uuid:3237ad68-8f04-4ba7-8e2a-7e59d44a7580> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://encyclopaedic.net/american-encyclopedia-biography/washington-irving | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00146-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985158 | 1,276 | 2.09375 | 2 |
There’s a drug that came out after paclitaxel called albumin-bound paclitaxel. And the thing that inspired this was that tumors usually have more albumin binding proteins than the rest of your normal tissue. So when you bind albumin to paclitaxel, you hope that the delivery is more concentrated in the tumor. For this reason, the side effects of albumin bound paclitaxel are usually less than that of paclitaxel by itself. Except for neuropathy. The neuropathy can be worse with albumin bound paclitaxel. However, it can also be more reversible than the neuropathy seen with paclitaxel.
Because it’s better tolerated, you usually don’t need the same pre-medications that you get with paclitaxel and the incidence of what we call grade three or four myelosuppression, which means your counts fall quite a bit, especially your neutrophils that fight infections, that’s less. Significantly less when you have albumin bound paclitaxel versus paclitaxel. Now your physician doesn’t always have a choice on doing one or the other, because certain indications call for albumin bound paclitaxel, and certain indications call for paclitaxel specifically, and don’t let you exchange them. It depends on the tumor type as well as the way it was studied. And this is something you can talk to your physician about. | <urn:uuid:5f60e962-1712-4890-a571-8e020986f7a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.doctorpedia.com/videos/chemotherapy-albumin-bound-paclitaxel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.931184 | 308 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
The number of beats per second, equal to the difference in the frequencies of two interacting tones or oscillations:‘amplitude modulated beat frequency’[as modifier] ‘a beat frequency oscillator’
- ‘When I got home, I noticed an interference pattern on many channels resembling the beat frequency when signal cables are too close to power cords.’
- ‘In insects, including Drosophila, cold temperatures lower wing beat frequency and thus power output, resulting in reduced flight performance.’
- ‘The diagnosis is much less likely to be missed if beat pattern analysis and electron microscopy are undertaken in addition to beat frequency measurement.’
- ‘Only one patient had severely reduced beat frequency.’
- ‘In contrast, RLC phosphorylation is elevated in rats during increased beat frequency or left ventricular pressure due to exercise or inotropic agents.’
- ‘While ‘Sine Wave Study’ illustrates boldly the capacity for beat frequencies to produce low pitches from two high pitches.’
- ‘It was gratifying to see that the lowest fundamental frequency (resonant frequency) predicted by their model was in good agreement with our observed 3 Hz tail beat frequency preferred by tadpoles of the same size and species.’
- ‘In particular the wing beat frequency of intact tethered locusts flying in a wind stream becomes essentially insensitive to temperature increases after a prior heat shock.’
- ‘Some people are sensitive to beat frequencies, the difference between flickering sources at two different rates.’
- ‘For example, 10 cm R. catesbeiana at room temperature swim at tail beat frequencies that cluster around either 3 Hz or 10 Hz.’
- ‘The motion of all structures was smooth and periodic, with a period corresponding to the beat frequency.’
- ‘However, at tail beat frequencies at or below 3 Hz, there was a clear phase shift of as much as 1deg per 1% body length between the wave of EMG activity and the bending wave.’
- ‘This beat frequency is obtained in electronic form on the output side of the detector.’
- ‘The separation distance of images of your hand would be the velocity of your hand divided by the beat frequency, or, as a formula.’
- ‘The measurements were made at a frequency of 10 Hz, because this frequency approximates to human airway ciliary beat frequency.’
- ‘His interest is in the kind of beat frequencies, harmonics and overtones made by combining tones that differ from each other by only a few hertz, sketching out his ideas using sine waves and oscilloscopes.’
- ‘Flight ability and wing beat frequency were measured at 15°C, the same temperature at which muscle mechanical measurements were performed, to allow direct comparison of muscle kinetics and flight parameters.’
- ‘Its useful range was approximately fourfold lower than the wing beat frequency range capable of supporting Drosophila flight.’
- ‘The low frequency tone emitted in flight is plainly audible to the ear and microphonic filtering yielded the wing beat frequency, as Sotavalta reliably showed for many insect species.’
- ‘Hypertonic nasal irrigation has been shown to increase mucociliary clearance and ciliary beat frequency.’
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
The definitions of ‘buddy’ and ‘bro’ in the OED have recently been revised. We explore their history and increase in popularity. | <urn:uuid:af5efdc5-7742-4069-ab4e-fa3cc2e27fbc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/beat_frequency | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00294-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951335 | 815 | 3.15625 | 3 |
HOW DO YOU GET HEALTHY SOIL?
- Work on an ideal starting position
It is not so long ago that the construction of a new ornamental garden started with planting potatoes in the first year. It was intended to preserve the peace, the often applied and deeply excavated soil (to break through disturbing layers) is given a season to settle back to its original cohesion. The weeds were also removed for a year and the potatoes and winter frost caused the structure to crack. We no longer have the patience of yesteryear and perhaps we don’t have to. Zooming in on the status of the soil first and seeing what can be improved lays the foundation for future garden happiness. Take a good look at the water permeability (disturbing layers), you can’t do anything about that at a later stage. It is not necessary to remove (drain off) your soil type, you can promote practicality by starting an organic process. With clay you can mix sharp sand, basalt flour and lava granules to improve the old structure. Sandy soil is indeed easier to work with, but it also has the disadvantage that it heats up more quickly and dries out. You can increase the humus content, sow a green manure (phacelia), add a thick pack of leaves and also add clay minerals Bentonite in the spring.
- Build an underground cycle
Beneath your garden surface there is a huge network of fungi, bacteria, microbes and all kinds of worms, which ensure the conversion of organic (plant) material into food that can be absorbed by plants. A number of organisms live on each other and also provide lightness and flow of water and nutrients. Everyone knows the earthworm. They draw up minerals from the soil and pull down organic matter such as dead leaves and grass clippings. The tunnel system that arises provides air and moisture transport, a climate in which plants like to grow. In addition to the earthworm, there are many more ‘critters’ in the top 15 cm of your garden soil. On an average humus-rich square meter, 50 to 100 earthworms, 50 snails, dozens of woodlice, a few hundred millipedes and millipedes and beetles live easily.
You start the underground cycle and maintain it by providing a sufficient supply of organic material at the top. A good starting point is to immediately return everything that leaves the garden, for example in your vegetable garden. But you shouldn’t dispose of leaf waste in your ornamental garden but just reuse it immediately, take a look at leaf facts
- Leave your garden soil alone
Here too we have to talk about the past and the still customary contemporary agriculture. For a long time it was very common that you lay your garden in the autumn on ‘the winter furrow’. This still happens in agriculture. It’s understandable that you do some digging or forking to mix old cow manure or other organic matter, but think about the time and make sure you leave the top 6 inches in place. After all, the top 20 cm contains your living, invisible factory that promotes and maintains the cycle of life. Deep digging and/or very severe winter frosts can completely destroy the years of build-up of soil life.
Sometimes doing nothing is just better. The pronounciation; “Nothing is more beautiful than a freshly cut garden!” is completely obsolete in our opinion. We assume that traditional agriculture will increasingly make way for an organic approach. A collaboration with and not against Mother Nature.
- Protect your soil
The changed climatic conditions also have consequences for your garden soil.
Your garden soil will have to deal with more extreme periods of lots of water and just as many periods of extreme heat and drought. Remember that your garden soil is a living organ and that you need to protect it against the climatic conditions just like yourself.
So cover that bottom with a blanket. You can do it in countless ways. With mulchingThis process has also been given its own term. It can be done in several ways with straw, leaves, wood chips and cocoa shells. It is fair to say that mulching is mainly motivated to prevent germinating weeds. Also a good argument, but counteracting leaching of nutrients, activating soil life, which enjoys it under the moist (waste) layer, and not drying out due to warming, we find more important than weeds. As long as you understand that everything is connected. You can water your plants when there is a drought, but if ‘a well-oiled underground machine’ is active every day, your plants are more resilient, they root deeper and therefore suffer less from drought. It is exactly the same in extreme cold.
- Fertilize with policy
You now understand that your auxiliary troops in the top layer are quite vulnerable and that you must do everything you can to keep them in their value and function. Fertilizers and pesticides are literally ‘lethal’. The problem with many nutrients and fertilizers is that, despite the titles and descriptions, you don’t really know what has been added to elements. So caution is advised. A reason to rely extra on your own compost heap and to make generous use of it. In fact, your compost heap is part of the somewhat larger garden cycle. The vegetable and fruit waste, your leftovers and the temporary excess of leaves from certain garden corners are perfect as extra nutrition and care. The bottom line is that you should/may use organic and ecological materials, but handle them in moderation.
- Break through disturbing layers
If water remains in your garden, this is often the result of a disturbing layer in the subsoil. You can break through such a layer by digging deep into the border with a mobile crane. Another option is to drill deep vertical holes by means of a motor drill (which is normally used to place fence posts). If you fill the holes with organic material, they don’t immediately close again and you also help the worms, who do the same.
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There are many reasons for choosing a Dyson vacuum cleaner and the new DC49 model gives us a new one to consider. The incredibly compact design of this machine means that it is ideal for anyone who doesn’t much storage space or who doesn’t fancy moving a big vacuum cleaner around the house.
In terms of size, the Dyson DC49’s footprint isn’t much bigger than an A4 sheet of paper. Part of the reason that it can be made so small is that it is built around one of the smallest fully integrated motors around. This is the first ever Dyson mains powered cleaner to come with a Dyson digital motor inside it. In fact, it is the same motor which the firm uses in their range of Airblade hand dryers.
Light and Powerful
As well as being so small, the Dyson DC49 is also incredibly light. It weighs in at 2.7 kg, with the powerful digital motor inside it taking up just 670g of that overall weight. This is around half the weight you would expect a traditional AC motor to be. However, the compact proportions and lightness of the DC49 don’t take away from its power, Dyson claims it gives the sort of performance needed to keep any home clean.
Another important factor in any vacuum cleaner is the noise it generates. In this model the acoustic engineering work on it includes a double cyclone skin and extra casing. Finally, the central steering mechanism means that you can use this great little cleaner into any space without any problems. All in all, the Dyson DC49 vacuum cleaner seems like a fine choice for anyone who wants the convenience of a small, light and quiet machine without losing any power.
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EsoCap AG organized a multidisciplinary scientific advisory board meeting in Zurich with thirteen international experts on June 27, 2019.
As an introduction, Prof. Werner Weitschies, Center for Drug Absorption and Transport at the University of Greifswald, gave a presentation on the Esophageal Wafer Study conducted in healthy volunteers by the University of Greifswald. The excellent results regarding acceptability and functionality were shared with the experts.
EsoCap AG presented the clinical development approach for its unique drug delivery technology in the first indication, EOE (eosinophilic esophagitis). The experts discussed the role of EsoCap’s technology for the topical treatment of EoE and explored the broader application of EsoCap’s drug delivery platform in reflux disease and Barrett’s esophagus. | <urn:uuid:95718da8-f5a4-43ed-b5b0-b86114b35f2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://esocapbiotech.ch/2019/06/27/esocap-holds-a-multidisciplinary-scientific-advisory-board-meeting-with-thirteen-international-experts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.894536 | 176 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The arrival of a new year usually has everyone resolving to shed excess things and start anew. Maybe it’s pounds gained from holiday indulgences. Maybe it’s sheer “stuff,” extra possessions that seem to have multiplied after a season of gift exchanges.
While kicking off 2017 with promises to eat healthy or live more simply is a great start, have you ever thought about resolving to reduce the environmental impact that your lifestyle has on the planet?
We’re talking about your carbon footprint. Although carbon dioxide, a colorless, odorless gas known as CO2,occurs naturally in the atmosphere as part of the life cycle of oceans, soil, plants and animals, human activities are causing harmful amounts to be released into the environment. The resulting greenhouse gas effect is causing climate change.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the majority of human-related carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas and oil), the decay of solid waste and the combustion of wood products. In 2014, CO2 from human activities accounted for 81 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
The three main sources of carbon pollution in the U.S. are:
It’s also important to note the role that methane plays when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. Methane (CH4) is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted in the United States from human activities, according to the EPA. In 2014, CH4 accounted for about 11 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. And, livestock and their byproducts are responsible for 51 percent of CO2 emissions worldwide.
Why is it so important to reduce our carbon footprint? More than 6 million deaths a year can be attributed to air pollution, according to a recent New York Times report.
How to Reduce Your Carbon Dioxide Footprint
Did you know that a family of four with two cars and a 2,000-square-foot house in Northern Florida could generate more than 106 tons of CO2 a year, depending on how many airplane trips they take and other factors, including how much food they consume? (Check out how you compare by plugging in your numbers to this carbon footprint calculator tool.)
While you might feel like one family can’t do much to solve global warming, if everyone were to live their lives more sustainably, collectively we could make a difference in the health of our planet, especially when it comes to the air we breathe.
So get started by calculating your carbon footprint. Many of your daily activities, such as throwing away trash instead of recycling, or running the air conditioner instead of opening a window, can impact your household’s carbon footprint.
Then, make a commitment to reduce your footprint. Here are some steps you can take:
Go solar: Of all forms of renewable energy, solar is considered to be one of the best solutions when it comes to reducing the world’s reliance on electricity sources that cause carbon pollution. Solar energy requires no combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity. This is good news because in 2014, about 37 percent of total U.S. CO2 emissions and about 30 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions came from burning fossil fuels for purposes such as heating homes and buildings. A home with an 8.6-kilowatt solar system avoids the emission of approximately 9,600 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere a year.
For comparison, this amount of carbon dioxide is the equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions from driving a passenger car 10,000 miles or to burning 4,650 pounds of coal.
If you can’t go solar, there are many things you can still do to make your home more energy efficient, whether it be investing in ENERGY STAR® certified energy efficient appliances or weatherproofing your windows. (Learn more in this post about reducing your electric bill.) You can also choose to patronize businesses that have made the switch to renewable energy. Learn more about businesses that have gone solar with Solar Technologies.
Spend less time in your car: Most cars and trucks use gasoline and diesel to transport people and goods, and this accounts for about 31 percent of total U.S. CO2 emissions. Consider biking to work (find 45,003 mapped miles of cycling routes via the U.S. Bicycle Route System), walking to the grocery store, or taking public transportation. You could also drive an electric vehicle. Florida Solar East has a partnership with Ford that offers rebates to EV owners who go solar, and we’ll donate money to The Sierra Club on your behalf.
Reduce, reuse, recycle: The industries that produce the goods and raw materials that we use every day are one of the three main contributors to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Rather than throwing glass or aluminum in the trash, take advantage of local recycling programs. Recycling one good into another means you’re reducing your reliance on new products that add more waste to our landfills.
Florida Solar East is committed to being a responsible corporate citizen, and we’re the first and only solar company to earn the National Science Foundation’s Sustainability Landfill-Free verification for our module assembly sites. This honor requires at least 99 percent of a site’s waste to be diverted from landfills. We’ve also offered PV Takeback and Recycling to our customers and led the industry in creating a U.S. Solar PV Recycling Network.
Our philosophy is to make our solar panels as sustainable as the clean energy they produce and to ensure that our installations benefit the environment by leaving it better off than how we found it.
Make conscious food choices: Just like working out and getting in shape, conscious food choices start with one meal at a time. Try weaving in just one vegetarian meal a day. If you like the results, consider eating veggie for a whole day or week. Forming healthy food habits will help our animal friends and the planet.
Small choices add up to huge collective reductions in our collective footprint.
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The cable news channel CNN ran a story on their website this summer that raised the question “Does 4-H desensitizes kids to killing?”. As a former 4-H member for 13 years and the parent of a first year 4-H member this certainly caught my attention. Over the course of those 13 years I spent countless hours leading, washing, combing and clipping on calves. I did everything I could to make them as comfortable and healthy as possible. So how could anyone ever believe that this somehow desensitizes kids?
According to the story, some believe that 4-H helps desensitize youngsters into having no emotional attachment to animals raised for food. A few of the commenters even tried to claim that this was some grand conspiracy by the meat industry to keep them in business. Apparently by forcing these kids to sell their livestock to be processed somehow turns them into greedy, uncaring people and will lead to a life of mistreating the animals in their care.
The truth of the matter is that it teaches kids about responsibility and how life works and is sustained. We just capped off our 4-H year with a trip to Rapid City, SD for the Western Junior Livestock Show. It’s a tremendous show that our son was very excited to be part of. For his first year in 4-H he decided to show a bred heifer named Morgan. All summer and through the fall he learned how to care for his calf. He probably put a hundred miles on his bike just going back and forth to the barn to check on her. In the end his hard work paid off when he proudly marched his well-behaved heifer into that show ring with a grin on his face.
While we were at the show I tried to figure out how all of the hard work each one of those kids had put in that summer could somehow be a bad thing? I didn’t see any desensitized kids. What I saw were hard working, polite young people, working with their families and their fellow 4-Her’s to learn responsibility and proper livestock care.
I also couldn’t help but think what a better place our world may be if every kid had a “Morgan” in their life for just one summer. Morgan will be in our herd for the next several years but like every cow on the ranch her time will come to an end. However, the lessons she taught our son will last forever and for that I’m grateful. | <urn:uuid:4c42023c-7295-4b7d-b433-c74c4d9fe0fc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://advocatesforag.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-november-column.html?showComment=1322666930847 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00302-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987137 | 524 | 1.945313 | 2 |
After that, you’ll be informed that your tax return has been garnished as a result of not paying tax.
The IRS will bite you if you don’t pay your taxes. The scenario mentioned above is not much compared with what could happen when you have to pay the IRS. If you’re in the process of paying real estate taxes, you might be able to get a lien on your home. In the case of a bank levy, or more sales tax could be assessed on your property.
Then, what exactly is a bank levy, and what is taxes on back sales? Bank levies are powerful tool for collection for lenders when their customers have fallen behind in their payment. A bank can place frozen the money on the account of the individual which owes the lender. To pay the debt, banks must transfer money from the account to the creditor. The bank could also consider selling the property in a back tax sale.
Be sure to avoid allowing such dramatic incidents happen. It’s important to make tax payments if you are owed the government. If you’re unable to pay the entire amount in one go You can pay in installment payment. You have options that can help you for avoiding bank levies. Are IRS tax liens official documents? There isn’t a need to ask. 6lbn6nkg59. | <urn:uuid:863df406-bba7-483d-8582-a0aa9a191c12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arochester.com/how-to-eliminate-state-tax-liens-free-litigation-advice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.953447 | 280 | 1.914063 | 2 |
- Time – varies depending upon quantity & type of contamination.
- Temperature – most chemistry works best at higher temperature but ultrasonic cavitation reduces above70 C.
- Chemistry – alkalinity/acidity, surfactants, wetting agents, dispersants, emulsifiers, saponifiers, sequestrants, inhibitors, defoamers etc.. are all part of the equation in taking the contaminant off without damaging the part being cleaned. The correct chemistry will depend upon the composition of the contaminant and the part being cleaned.
- Transducers – must be placed at the correct distance on the tank walls and from the parts being cleaned. Badly placed or bonded transducers will affect the power, uniformity and durability of the cleaning action.
- Frequency – Lower frequency for denser harder items with hard dirt, higher frequency for delicate smaller items with smaller particulate contaminant requiring a finer clean. 40KHz is often cited as the “sweet” spot for general cleaning.
- Power – This is usually measured as watts per litre of INPUT power. In tanks of a capacity less than 200 litres 13-25 watts per litre is usually cited as optimal, for tanks greater than 200 litres 5-12 watts per litre. Whilst this is the most frequently quoted measure of ultrasonic capability it must be recognised that:
- This measures input power not effective output as reflected in cavitation;
- Temperature, chemicals in the solution, loading, baskets, transducer placement all affect the effective cavitation produced from any given power input.
- Loading of parts being cleaned affects the ultrasonics and general cleaning effectiveness dramatically. Generally the parts being cleaned should be less than half the weight of the solution in the tank.
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Cigarettes' power may not be in nicotine itself, according to a new study, which suggests that, its 'influence' may be in how it enhances other experiences.
The study by Kansas State University psychology professor explains why for a smoker who enjoys drinking coffee, the nicotine may make a cup of joe even better.
AdvertisementMatthew Palmatier, assistant professor of psychology at K-State said that people might not be smoking to obtain a pleasurable drug state, but they may be smoking in order to regulate their mood.
He said this might be a reason why people find it hard to kick the butt.
"People have very regimented things they do when they smoke. If you think about where people smoke or who they smoke with, you realize that it occurs in very specific places, often with a specific group of people," said Palmatier.
"Maybe it's a reason why nicotine is so addictive - if you get used to having that extra satisfaction from things you normally enjoy, not having nicotine could reduce the enjoyment in a given activity," he added.
Palmatier is currently focussing on how this phenomenon can be used to better design tobacco addiction treatments, usually offered in patches and pills.
During the study, rats were allowed to self-administer nicotine by pushing a lever. The main source of light in their testing environment shuts off when the rats earn a dose of nicotine. After about a minute, the light comes back on to signal that more nicotine is available.
The analysis showed that the rats weren't really that interested in nicotine by itself.
"We figured out that what the rats really liked was turning the light off," Palmatier said.
"They still self-administered the nicotine, but they took more of the drug when it was associated with a reinforcing light," he added.
The study appears in the August issue of Neuropsychopharmacology.
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The dynamical assumptions underlying the Slater and RRK classical-mechanical theories of unimolecular reaction rates are investigated. The predictions of these theories for several nonlinear, triatomic, harmonically bonded molecular models are compared with the results obtained from the integration of the classical equations of motion. The accuracy of the small-vibration and weak-coupling assumptions are found to break down at energies above about one-quarter of a bond dissociation energy. Nonetheless, the small-vibration approximation predicts reaction frequencies in good agreement with the exact results for the models. The effects of rotation on intramolecular energy exchange are examined and found to be significant.
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Opening Song: My Hands Say Hello (our standard opener)
Book: Jump, Frog, Jump! by Robert Kalan, illustrated by Byron Barton (Greenwillow Books, 1986). This cumulative story has the repeated refrain "Jump, frog, jump!", which I asked all the kids to say along with me. There's a definite opportunity for STEM connections here - you could talk about pond life or the food web.
Song with Prop: Five Green and Speckled Frogs. I am pretty sure that this prop idea came from Susan Dailey. The frogs are on thin strings and as each frog "jumps into the pool", I pull its string and it hides behind the board.
Words & tune compliments of Jbrary:
Book: If You're Hoppy by April Pulley Sayre, illustrated by Jackie Urbanovic (Greenwillow Books, 2011). Since I had a little bit of a squirrelly group, I had everyone stand up and we did actions to this book. We hopped like bunnies and frogs (and crickets), growled like dogs and bears, etc. This is a fun action book, but you could also use it to practice some brainstorming - think of more animals that hop or growl, etc. I had a kind of young crowd, so I just did the actions with the book.
Book: The Grasshopper Hopped by Elizabeth Alexander, illustrated by Joung Kim (Golden Books, 2010). This book has some fun rhymes and a really strong rhythm. Tabs move the grasshopper as he hops from place to place, keeping the kids' interest. I like to read this one very rhythmically.
Song with Scarves: Popcorn Kernels. I know that popcorn kernels don't exactly LEAP, but I figured it was close enough and this is one of my favorite scarf songs (you know I love me some scarves in storytime!) This is another one I learned from the lovely ladies at Jbrary:
Whenever I pass out the scarves, we start with a few little "warm ups" and wave our scarves high and low, fast and slow, and toss them in the air. When we finished our song, I asked the kids to bring them up to me by color.
Song: Jumping and Counting by Jim Gill, from the album Irrational Anthem. I don't use a ton of recorded music in my storytimes, but I love, love, love Jim Gill and this one fit in perfectly with our theme and it was super fun. Kids dancing along to this song are practicing listening and following directions as well as tons of counting.
Closing Song: Do You Know What Time It Is?
I had planned some more stories and songs, but we ran out of time! Other books and activities you could include are:
- Jump! by Scott Fischer (Simon & Schuster, 2010)
- Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
- Jack Be Nimble (children take turns jumping over a candlestick)
- Sleeping Bunnies
- Any books, songs, or activities having to do with animals that jump, hop, or leap: frogs, rabbits, kangaroos, crickets, fleas, etc. etc.!
I had thought about putting masking tape down on the floor for hopscotch boards, but I couldn't find any masking tape and I was working the weekend and didn't have time to go get any. So I ended up just putting out some random play stations:
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MSP430 Development with Linux
Flashing LEDs get boring pretty quickly. Once you get the bugs worked out of your blinking LED, you probably are going to want to design a custom PC board with interfaces to the outside world. One of my projects is a one-wire lock controller with an RS232 interface that uses Dallas Semiconductor iButtons for access control.
For this project, I chose one of the smallest of the family, the MSP430F1101 with 1KB of Flash and 128 bytes of RAM. It uses a pair of transistors to switch a DC motor on and off and a MAX3221 for serial communications with a PC. The C code to control the lock just barely fits into the 1K Flash space of the '1101. A low dropout voltage regulator is used to power the board and provide a clean reset to the processor. I drew the schematic and designed the board using Eagle CAD Lite under Linux. Eagle has several versions of its schematic and PCB auto-router, including a free version for noncommercial use:
Free for noncommercial use.
Board size limited to 3.2"x4" and two layers.
One schematic sheet.
Lite version for $49 US with same limitations as the free version.
Standard version for $600 US.
Pro versions for $1,200 US.
Linux, Windows and Mac versions are available
Eagle CAD is easy to get started with, low cost and very powerful. A user scripting language allows you to add features and customize the program to fit your needs. User support for Eagle is very strong, and the Web site has an extensive collection of user-created libraries.
The Eagle auto-router supports advanced features like back-annotation, keepout areas, design rules checks and one of my favorites—flood fill with thermal relief. If you have ever tried to solder a pin surrounded by a large ground plane, you will appreciate the advantage of thermal relief on power pins. Without it the ground plane acts like a large heat-sink and solder won't stick. All levels of the PCB and Schematic editor support the concept of back (and forward) annotation. You can make changes on the PCB, and they will be reflected on the schematic and updates made to the schematic are reflected on the PCB.
After designing a PC board, you actually need to make one. You can etch your own, but it is difficult to match the quality of even the least-expensive board manufacturers. Some manufacturers will accept Eagle PCB files directly, which saves you the step of converting the design to the Gerber format. The Gerber format is a lot like an old pen plotter, it tells PCB etching equipment where to draw the trace and how large a line to draw. Most PCB manufacturers still require Gerber files, so Eagle includes a script to output the necessary Gerber files.
One difficulty in dealing with Gerber files is that although Eagle can export the PCB in the correct format, it has no way to view the output to verify it was converted correctly. Linux has needed a good Gerber viewer for years, but it has been available only with recent releases of the gerbv program. It isn't as intuitive as I would like, but it does function well enough to display the Gerber files so that you can check the final output before sending it off to have 1000 of your latest widget design created.
I have used four different PCB manufacturers myself. Their prices and features vary, but customer service and quality from all four have been excellent. Olimex and PCB Pool both accept Eagle CAD files directly, with no need for conversion to Gerber. Olimex is in Bulgaria, and turn-around time can be up to three weeks, but prices are excellent. PCB Pool is in Ireland and has quick turn-around or longer turn-around times, depending on price (as do most). I used PCB Pool for the one-wire Wi-Fi boards (Figure 6).
AP Circuits is in Canada and has very good prices and very fast turn-around. The bare one-wire lock boards were ordered on a Saturday, and I received them on Wednesday. I ordered them with no silkscreen or solder mask in order to keep the price low. For production, I used E-Teknet for my DT-1A temperature sensor boards with excellent results.
The MSP430 is a fun and easy-to-use processor; its wide range of features and access to free development tools and low-cost JTAG hardware make this processor a good choice for both the hobbyist and the professional developer. Using the GNU gcc toolchain reduces the learning curve and allows you to use the same tools for developing code on the MSP430 that you would use for Linux projects. My set of development tools includes make, gcc, gdb and joe.
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Polarized Training is Good Running Training Plan To Maximize Your Time
Even in running training plans for beginners, runners like to run.
And the conventional wisdom has always been to run lots. As many miles as possible in a week.
Research seems to indicate that a solid running training plan to get faster is a polarized model: go slow and go fast.
A running training plan for beginners needs to include more mileage if they want to get faster,
But the research seems to indicate a diminishing return for more than 40 to 50 miles per week.
The other main issue, though, for putting in long miles is the intensity at which you’re running.
If you run a tempo pace, 80 to 90 percent of your max HR, you accumulate a LOT of training stress.
What if you could run fewer miles but get faster in the process?
Polarized Training Can Be Best Running Training Plan to Get Faster
There has been a growing body of research shows that polarized training increases:
- VO2 max, your ability to use oxygen to fuel your efforts;
- time to exhaustion;
- adaptation to training stress;
- overall aerobic endurance
With polarized training, runners do a majority of long, slow distance work at their base aerobic level.
And they do a surprisingly small amount of high-intensity intervals at a challenging level.
He and his colleagues found that these athletes spend the majority of the training time (90 percent) simply putting in the time and only 10 percent doing huge effort intervals.
This results in greater systemic adaptation (aerobic capacity) as well as greater muscle efficiency in regard of running training plan to get faster.
This is the essence of Simple Endurance Coaching: Training should not be complicated or overly difficult all the time.
The growing body of research suggests that what works is simplicity: run long, slow distances, or go hard.
Blood Markers are Key to Training
Essentially the research focuses on two physiological markers that occur when lactic acid builds in the blood. This is really oversimplified, but at around 2 milliMoles of blood lactic acid, your body has activated key energy systems for aerobic performance. And at around 4 milliMoles, your body does not have the ability to flush the accumulating lactic acid out of the bloodstream.
So researchers have shown that athletes who train for long durations at around 2 mMol and for short durations around and above 4 mMol have been able to get stronger, faster, and build more adaptation to training stress.
Seiler and others say 2 mMol is around the upper end of the traditional zone 2 – about 75 percent of maximum HR or threshold power.
Recovery for about two-minutes seems to be a good amount between intervals. You will still slowly fatigue.
Harder is Not Necessarily Better for Best Running Training Plan to Get Faster
The key variables of intervals are the intensity, the volume of the intervals to build the accumulated time. Harder is not necessarily better.
It is true that there are other ways of training that have worked in the past for many athletes!
For example, many athletes use tempo or sweet spot intervals to build aerobic fitness because it is shorter than multi-hour workouts.
There’s some evidence that a running training plan for beginners needs moderate-paced (tempo) runs.
This does indeed work to build fitness; the challenge, though, is that tempo and sweet spot run take longer recovery periods.
I?m not in any way saying doing tempo is wrong.
What we?ve learned in the past few years seems to indicate, though, that polarized training works better than other models.
Periodizing with Polarized Training
As we periodize a training schedule, the relative percentage of training zones doesn?t change much.
Low intensity stays low, and will even get lower as you peak, and the high intensity gets a bit higher.
Total volume will decrease as the target event nears with a lot of increased rest and recovery.
Peaking can benefit from several anaerobic capacity intervals prior to the target event, but that is kind of different level of adaptation.
It is a rapid adaptation, but short-lived. In other words, we can build a peak quickly, but it will not last – especially if you haven’t done the long, slow work.
What Does This Mean for Training?
How should we create a running training plan to get faster?
For a running training plan for beginners, I’d build a mix of mostly slow distance, one day a week of moderate efforts, and one or two days a week of hard interval work.
Typically, I’d recommend one long slow day, one moderate effort day, two days a week of intervals.
If you have more days available for training, you can add another shorter easy day plus strength training and yoga.
If you are already doing over 30 miles a week, do most of your running at a slow, conversational pace. Your heart rate should usually be no more than 140 bpm.
Do one moderate day and one to two hard interval days..
Any additional run training days should be slow.
If you don’t use an HR monitor, you can use the talk test:
- Long, slow runs: It’s easy to talk with someone else. You may not be able to get into religion or politics, but the most casual conversation is easy.
- Moderate runs: Conversations are a bit more challenging. You can still talk but your speech will be more clipped and labored.
- Hard intervals: You don’t want to talk. You won’t be able to get more than a word or two out.
Slowing Down Means More Time for Podcasts and Scenery
For me, the best part of slowing down to do the long runs is putting in headphones and listening to podcasts.
I listen to the TED Radio Hour, Pod Save the People, 99 Percent Invisible, On the Media, and others.
Podcasts are a great way to keep my mind occupied.
Got questions about polarized training? Concerns? Email me at firstname.lastname@example.org or text at 262.705.4892.
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A low NO.sub.x burner combustion system which may be adjusted for optimum
burn rates, temperature and oxygen levels. The burner incorporates a
plurality of gas nozzles which individually inspirate a portion of the
combustion air and a spin vane diffuser to rotate and mix the gases within
the primary combustion zone. The diffuser is axially adjustable in order
to vary the distance between the vane and the first combustion zone while
the blades of the diffuser can be angularly adjusted to optimize the
rotation and mix of the gases. Air for combustion is supplied through
primary, secondary and tertiary passages to create distinct combustion
zones for complete combustion. The flow rate of the combustion air is
controlled through a damper in accordance with the burn characteristics.
Further reductions in noxious emissions are accomplished by recirculating
flue gases and mixing such gassed directly with combustion fuel prior to
introduction into the combustion chamber through eductor nozzles. Still
further reductions are attained by mixing a secondary compound such as
water or a chemical into the recirculated flue gases to optimize burn
levels thereby reducing emissions.
Lang; Jerry M. (Lindale, TX), Scott; David W. (Garland, TX)
NO.sub.x Reduction on Natural Gas-Fired Boilers Using Fuel Injection Recirculation (FIR)--Laboratory Demonstration, Kevin C. Hopkins, et al
(Unpublished paper summarizing presentation at Int'l Power Generation Conference, San Diego, California)., Oct. 6, 1991.
. "Several Technologies Available to Cut Refinery NO.sub.x ", Oil & Gas Journal D. Fusselman et al, Nov. 2, 1992., pp. 45-50..
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/395,164, filed Feb. 27,
1995, now abandoned, which was a continuation of application Ser. No.
08/034,327, filed Mar. 22, 1993, now abandoned, which was a
Continuation-In-Part of application Ser. No. 07/786,869, filed Nov. 1,
1991, and issued on Nov. 2, 1993, as U.S. Pat. No. 5,257,927.
What is claimed is:
1. In a burner adapted to reduce emission of noxious gases upon combustion of a fuel and air, the burner including a source of combustion fuel, at least a portion of the
combustion air flowing through a central air passage into which the combustion fuel is supplied for combustion within a combustion zone of the burner creating combustion gases, the improvement comprising:
an annular combustion fuel passageway radially surrounding said central air passage;
an annular combustion gases passageway radially surrounding said central air passage and being in fluid communication with said combustion fuel passageway;
a plurality of eductor nozzles radially spaced about the central air passage for combining combustion fuel with combustion gases recirculated from the combustion zone, said eductor nozzles having an outlet in fluid communication with said central
air passage and an inlet which extends into the combustion fuel passageway, said inlet being in fluid communication with both said combustion fuel passageway and said combustion gases passageway for mixing said combustion fuel with said recirculated
combustion gases within said eductor nozzles and directing said mixture into said central air passage for combustion, said combustion fuel and combustion gases being combined prior to mixture with the combustion air and introduction into the combustion
zone for optimum combustion and reduction of noxious emissions; and
a plurality of staged combustion zones axially spaced along said central air passage, each of said combustion zones having a set of radially spaced eductor nozzles in fluid communication with both said combustion fuel passageway and said
recirculated combustion gases passageway for introduction of a mixture of combustion fuel and combustion gases into said staged combustion zones.
2. The improvement as defined in claim 1 and further comprising means for introducing a secondary compound into the mixture of combustion fuel and combustion gases prior to combustion within the combustion zone to optimize combustion flame
temperature and further reduce noxious emissions.
3. The improvement as defined in claim 2 wherein said secondary compound is combined with said recirculated combustion gases prior to mixing with said combustion fuel.
4. In a burner adapted to reduce emission of noxious gases upon combustion of a fuel and air, the burner including a source of combustion air and a source of combustion fuel, at least a portion of the combustion air flowing through a central air
passage into which the combustion fuel is supplied for combustion within a combustion zone of the burner creating combustion gases, the improvement comprising:
an annular combustion fuel passageway radially surrounding said central air passage;
an annular combustion gases passageway radially surrounding said central air passage and being in fluid communication with said combustion fuel passageway;
means for introducing a secondary compound for mixture with said combustion gases and recirculating said mixture of combustion gases and secondary compound to the combustion zone through said combustion gases passageway;
a plurality of eductor nozzles having an outlet in fluid communication with said air passage and in inlet disposed in the combustion fuel passageway, said inlet being in fluid communication with both said combustion gases passageway and said
combustion fuel passageway for combining said recirculated mixture of combustion gases and secondary compound with the combustion fuel; said eductor nozzles outlet directing said combination mixture of combustion gases, secondary compound and combustion
fuel into the combustion zone of the burner;
said combustion gases being combined with said secondary compound prior to delivery to said eductor nozzles for combination with said combustion fuel and said combustion fuel, recirculated combustion gases, and secondary compound being combined
prior to mixture with the combustion air and introduction into the combustion zone for combustion thereby optimizing combustion and reducing noxious emissions.
5. The improvement as defined in claim 4 wherein said burner includes a flue gas circulation chamber for recirculation of combustion gases from the flue of said burner, said secondary compound being introduced into said flue gas recirculation
chamber and said flue gas circulation chamber being in fluid communication with said combustion gases passageway.
6. A process for optimizing combustion within a burner while reducing NO.sub.x emissions as a result of combustion, the process comprising the steps of:
providing a burner including a central air passage and a plurality of eductor nozzles, said eductor nozzles having an outlet in fluid communication with said central air passage and an inlet disposed within a combustion fuel passageway
surrounding said central air passage, said inlet being in fluid communication with a combustion fuel supply for delivering combustion fuel into a central air passage for combustion within a combustion zone of the burner;
recirculating combustion gases resulting from combustion within the combustion zone to a flue gas recirculating chamber;
introducing a secondary compound into said flue gas recirculating chamber to form a mixture with said recirculated combustion gases;
delivering the mixture from said flue gas recirculating chamber to a flue gas passageway surrounding said central air passage, said flue gas passageway being in fluid communication with said combustion fuel passageway and said inlet;
introducing said mixture from said flue gas passageway into said combustion fuel passageway; and
combining said mixture with said combustion fuel in said eductor nozzles prior to delivery into the central air passage for combustion whereby NO.sub.x emissions from combustion of said mixture within the burner are reduced.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
I. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a burner having reduced NO.sub.x emissions and, in particular, to a burner wherein flow and mix rates may be varied in accordance with the combustion characteristics and demand rate of the burner. The specific
adjustments of an existing burner may be retrofitted to vary for optimization with demand.
II. Description of the Prior Art
Combustion system burners have come under increased scrutiny for the toxic emissions which are a by-product of the combustion process. Depending upon the extent of combustion, carbon monoxide and NO.sub.x may be omitted at unacceptable levels.
Carbon monoxide levels can normally be controlled through complete combustion resulting in carbon dioxide. However, three factors contribute to the formation of NO.sub.x in combustion systems. The first and most widely recognized is flame temperature.
Most current systems incorporate some method of staging fuel and air to reduce flame concentration and resultant high temperatures. A second factor is excess O.sub.2 levels. Higher O.sub.2 levels tend to provide more oxygen for combination with
nitrogen; however, the higher O.sub.2 levels results in excess air which tends to balance the effect of lower temperatures. The laminar mix in most current low NO.sub.x burners requires more O.sub.2 for complete combustion. If lower O.sub.2 levels are
utilized the result is incomplete combustion in the form of carbon monoxide. The third factor is residence time in a critical temperature zone which is virtually ignored in modern burners because reduced time means higher velocities producing
One common practice for-reducing NO.sub.x levels is to use external, induced or forced flue gas recirculation (FGR). A common misconception about FGR is that the process is destroying NO.sub.x in the original flue gas. However, recent research
has determined that FGR simply reduces or dilutes the flame front thereby reducing the formation of NO.sub.x. Further, external flue gas recirculation results in higher temperature and increased volume combustion air producing higher pressure drops
through the system requiring more horsepower, the resultant higher velocities also reducing heat transfer thereby reducing the efficiency of the burner.
Several burner manufacturers have developed low NO.sub.x systems with mixed results. Although NO.sub.x systems emissions have been reduced many of the systems do not meet the stringent emission levels. Moreover, the modern burners are
specifically designed for the particular application and will not control emissions in different combustion systems or under different conditions because of their inflexibility. An additional drawback in prior known systems, as NO.sub.x emissions were
reduced the carbon monoxide (CO) levels would increase.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
The present invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior known burner systems by providing a low NO.sub.x burner with an adjustable design for application in many different systems and in response to different operating conditions. As a
result the burner of the present invention may be installed as a retro-fit adapter for existing burner systems.
The low NO.sub.x burner of the present invention includes a plurality of coaxial passageways through which combustion gases flow. Primary air flows through an inner passageway within which a spin vane is positioned. The spin vane may be axially
adjusted to optimize combustion. The flow of primary air from the forced air windbox into the burner is controlled by a damper having adjustable louvers to further improve combustion. As the primary air passes through the vane, it is caused to spin and
mix with the fuel supplied through a series of eductor nozzles radially spaced about the primary combustion zone. The nozzles mix the fuel with secondary combustion air from the windbox prior to eduction into the combustion chamber. Alternatively,
recirculated flue gas may be mixed with the fuel in the eductor nozzles. A chamber throat formed of refractory materials forms a secondary combustion zone where reradiation from the refractory throat heats the fuel/air mix and speeds the burning
process. A final tertiary burn takes place in a tertiary combustion zone beyond the refractory throat where laminar mixing occurs as a result of the tertiary air supply which bypasses the initial combustion zones. Thus, three distinct combustion zones
and two recirculation areas are produced resulting in low NO.sub.x emissions.
The system of the present invention provides improved reduction of NO.sub.x emissions through three distinct means: (1) Recirculation of flue gases for mixing with combustion fuel prior to injection into the combustion chamber; (2) Use of eductor
nozzles to mix combustion fuel with recirculated flue gases prior to combustion; and (3) Injection of a chemical or other secondary compound into flue gas inlet. With flue gas temperatures approximating 400.degree. F. the compound injected into the
flue gas is vaporized which cools the flue gas resulting in more efficient operation of the eductors and lower flame temperatures. Possible injection compounds include chemicals such as methanol, steam or water, cool air or waste materials.
The present system reduces NO.sub.x emissions without the trade off of increased CO emissions of prior known burners by optimizing the volume and mix of combustion air to the staged combustion zones.
Accordingly, NO.sub.x emission levels are reduced by In turn, the burn temperature and residence time of the combustion gases are controlled through the various adjustments of the burner system. Accordingly, NO.sub.x emission levels are reduced
by controlling the O.sub.2 levels within the combustion zones, temperature of the recirculated combustion gases and residence time within burner. These parameters are controlled by varying the pitch angle of the diffuser blades, the length of the
chamber from the vane diffuser to the fuel jets, and the ratio of primary combustion air flowing through the central passage to secondary and tertiary (if present) combustion air flowing to subsequent combustion zones. In addition, the present system
includes internal flue gas recirculation which maintains the temperature of the recirculated gases while ensuring complete combustion. While the adjustable vane reduces CO levels, recirculation through the eductor nozzles reduces NO.sub.x levels.
Other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The present invention will be more fully understood by reference to the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the present invention when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which like reference characters
refer to like parts throughout the views and in which:
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a low NO.sub.x burner embodying the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective of the eductor nozzles within circle 2 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of an alternative embodiment of the low NO.sub.x burner;
FIG. 4 is an end view thereof;
FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective of the eductor nozzles of FIG. 3 for injecting combustion fuel; and
FIG. 6 is an enlarged perspective of the eductor nozzles of FIG. 3 for injecting recirculated flue gases.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
Referring to the drawings, there are shown refined embodiments of a low NO.sub.x burner in accordance with the present invention. FIG. 1 shows a high efficiency, low NO.sub.x emission burner 10 while FIG. 3 shows an alternative construction for
optimizing recirculation and mix of combustion fuel with recirculated flue gases to reduce NO.sub.x emissions. With the advent of stricter emission standards for all types of combustion systems, the elimination or reduction of noxious emissions such as
NO.sub.x and CO becomes increasingly important. The embodiment of the present invention provide a high efficiency burner whereby flame temperature, burn rate, etc. are strictly controlled yet undesirable emissions are substantially reduced. These
embodiments of the invention provide still further reductions in emission levels by first ensuring that the recirculated flue gases are mixed with the combustion fuel prior to injection by the eductors and through the introduction of a secondary compound
such as water or methanol prior to injection into the combustion chamber.
Referring now to FIGS. 1 and 2, the burner 10 of the present invention includes an outer housing 12 adapted to be bolted or welded to a wall of a boiler or similar structure. The housing 12 directs combustion air from a forced air windbox
through adjustable louvers 14 into a central air passage 16. Axially positioned within the air passage 16 is a pipe 18 through which combustion fuel, such as refinery oil or natural gas, may be supplied. A spin vane 20 attached to the pipe 18 imparts a
rotational mix on the combustion air flowing across the vane 20 to ensure an optimum mix of combustion air and fuel. In one embodiment of the present invention, the axial position of the spin vane 20 and the angle of the vent blades may be selectively
adjusted to optimize burn rates while minimizing emissions such as CO. Additionally, the damper 14 may be selectively adjusted to control the volume of combustion air flowing into the combustion zones in the central passage 16 to further optimize
In accordance with the present invention, it has been determined that substantial reduction in NO.sub.x emissions can be attained by recirculating flue gases for mixing with combustion fuel prior to injection into the combustion chamber. Since
the combustion fuel is supplied under pressure, the mixing must be conducted under compression to achieve the optimum mixture of combustion fuel and recirculated flue gases. By combining the recirculated flue gases with the combustion fuel, the
temperature of the combustion mix is increased resulting in an improved burn rate and a more thorough combustion thereby reducing noxious emissions. To this end, the burner 10 includes passageways for delivery of both combustion fuel and recirculated
flue gases to the combustion chamber 16.
Flue gases are recirculated through an inlet 22 which communicates with the flue of the burner 10. The flue gases are directed through a plurality of passageways 24 which communicate with annular flue gas chambers 26 extending about the central
passage 16. Combustion fuel is supplied through a fuel inlet 28 and diverted through a plurality of passageways 30 to annular combustion fuel chambers 32 extending about the central passage 16. In a preferred embodiment, the annular fuel chambers 32
are disposed within the annular flue gas chambers 26 to facilitate ready communications. Furthermore, the annular chambers are longitudinally spaced along the central passage 16 in accordance with the desired combustion zones of the burner 10. In the
example depicted in FIG. 1, three longitudinally spaced chambers are utilized to create primary, secondary and tertiary combustion zones.
A primary combustion zone is created by a first set of eductor nozzles 34 in fluid communication with both the combustion gas chamber 26 and the combustion fuel chamber 32. The first eductor nozzles 34 are circumferentially spaced about the air
passage 16 to deliver the mixture of flue gas and fuel into the passage 16 just downstream of the spin vane 20 creating the primary combustion zone.
A secondary combustion zone is created by a second set of eductor nozzles 36 in fluid communication with both the combustion gas chamber 26 and the combustion fuel chamber 32. The second eductor nozzles 36 are circumferentially spaced about the
air passage 16 to deliver the mixture of the gas and fuel into the passage 16 downstream of the first eductor nozzles 34 creating the secondary combustion zone.
A tertiary combustion zone is created by a third set of eductor nozzles 38 in fluid communication with both the combustion gas chamber 26 and the combustion fuel chamber 32. The third eductor nozzles 38 are circumferentially spaced at the mouth
of the central air passage 16 to deliver the mixture of flue gas and fuel into a tertiary combustion zone. Refractory material 40 lines the combustion chamber 16 to direct combustion through the burner 10.
Operation of the eductor nozzles 34,36,38 is best shown in the enlargement of FIG. 2. The eductor nozzles comprise tubular bodies with an outlet 42 in communication with the combustion chamber 16 and an inlet 44 in communication with both the
flue gas chamber 26 and the combustion fuel chamber 32. The combustion fuel is supplied under pressure to the chamber 32. The chamber 32 includes an aperture 46 axially aligned with the eductor nozzle 36 and in close proximity to the inlet 44. The
pressure of the combustion fuel directs the fuel through the apertures 46 into the eductor nozzles 36. However, the nozzles 36 are spaced from the chamber 32 creating a gap placing the inlet in direct communication with the flue gas chamber 26. Thus,
as combustion fuel flows into the eductor nozzles, recirculated combustion gas is drawn into the eductor nozzles 36 and mixed with the fuel under compression. As a result, a mixture of combustion gas and combustion fuel will be injected into the central
air passage 16 by the eductor nozzles 34,36,38. In addition, since the flue gas temperature is approximately 400.degree. F., the temperature of the combustion fuel will be increased prior to combustion. The resulting mix and increase in temperature
optimizes the burn rate while substantially reducing noxious emissions such as NO.sub.x and CO.
Further reductions in emissions have resulted from the injection of a chemical or other secondary compound into the flue gas chamber for mixture with the recirculated flue gas. In a preferred embodiment, the secondary compound is injected at the
flue gas inlet 22 for mixture/vaporization in the recirculated flue gases. The raised temperature of the flue gas causes vaporization of the secondary compound injected therein. Examples of possible secondary compounds include chemicals such as
methanol, steam or water, and chemical waste materials which are combustible. The injection of water has a cooling effect on the flue gas resulting in more efficient operation of the eductors and a lower flame temperature for a more even or complete
burn. The flue gas/compound mixture then proceeds to the annular passages 26 for mixture with the combustion fuel as previously described.
FIGS. 3 through 6 show a retrofit version of a burner 100 embodying the principles of the present invention. The retrofit assembly 100 is utilized in replacement of exiting burners on older boilers and the like. The central air passage 116
includes a spin vane 120 mounted to tube 118. Recirculated flue gas is delivered through inlet 122 to an annular flue gas chamber 126 which is in fluid communication with both first eductor nozzles 134 and second eductor nozzles 136. Combustion fuel is
supplied through inlet 128 to annular chamber 132 to force combustion fuel through apertures 146 into the eductor nozzles 134,136, recirculated flue gas is drawn into the nozzles for injection into the combustion chamber 116. Thus, the principles of a
newly constructed burner can be applied to a retrofit version for installation in existing boiler construction.
The adjustable aspects of the burner system of the present invention are designed to be adjusted for the specific combustion system being employed. The diffuser vane angle, the axial position of the diffuser, and the damper opening can all be
individually set in accordance with known parameters of the burner system, namely fuel type, desired temperature, burn rate, etc. This is particularly significant in the retrofit conversion system where the operating parameters have been established. In
the present invention, primary combustion occurs at the fuel nozzles 34,134 where initial mix of fuel and air occurs. The products of the primary combustion, which is approximately 60% combustible, enter the refractory lined combustion zone 16,116 where
further mix occurs with combustion air from the central air passage 16,116 and the diffuser 20,120. A secondary burn is accomplished in this highly controlled area where the reradiation from the refractory heats the products thereby speeding the burning
process which consumes approximately 80% of the remaining combustible products. A final tertiary burn takes place in the furnace area where laminar mixing occurs. Thus, the system produces three distinct combustion zones and recirculation in two areas
with resultant low NO.sub.x emissions. The distinct combustion zones are created through the creation of low pressure areas within the burner, namely directly downstream of the vent diffuser 20,120 and at the exhaust of the circumventing air. The low
pressure area proximate the diffuser is affected by the pitch of the vane blades--as the vane diffuser is opened the pressure behind the flame is reduced. This requires adjustment of the ratio of primary to secondary or tertiary air through use of the
damper 14,114. It is desirable to optimize this ratio to control the air flowing into the burner thereby controlling the O.sub.2 levels to produce optimum combustion without excess for the production of NO.sub.x emissions.
The several adjustments of the burner system of the present invention creates a NO.sub.x trim system wherein the emission levels can be optimally controlled along the complete range of demand levels of a modulating burner. The NO.sub.x trim
system automatically adjusts the angular and axial position of the vane diffuser to vary the swirl number of the combustion air mix, the ratio of core air to annular air and the O.sub.2 levels in the burner across all the demand levels of the burner.
These adjustments may be optimally determined across all demand levels of the burner such that as these levels are attained the trim system automatically adjusts the components of the system to reduce emission levels. Typical prior known burners have
their emission levels set for operation in a nominal operating range sacrificing emission levels when demand levels fall outside of this range. The several adjustments of the present invention allows continuous automatic control of emission levels at
all operating demand levels. Modern burners require continuous monitoring of NO.sub.x levels from the burner. The data from these monitoring systems can be utilized to automatically adjust the NO.sub.x trim system according to the present invention.
In addition to the adjustment features which can be used to optimize burn levels, steps can be taken to further reduce emission levels or, alternatively, to reduce emission levels in fixed or non-adjustable burner systems. Whereas prior known
systems have attempted to recirculate flue gases through the combustion chamber, it has been determined that combustion is optimized when flue gases are mixed with combustion fuel prior to introduction into the combustion zones. In the present
invention, this mixture occurs through the eductor nozzles which communicate with both the combustion fuel chamber and the flue gas recirculation chamber.
Still further reductions have been noted upon injection of a secondary compound into the flue gas recirculation chamber for mixture with the combustion fuel. Secondary compounds which have resulted in notable reductions in noxious emissions
include chemicals such as methanol, steam or water, waste compounds, and cool air. These secondary compounds are vaporized by the 400.degree. F. flue gases. The resulting cooling effect on the flue gas leads to more efficient operation of the eductors
and a lower flame temperature. Furthermore, mixture of the secondary compound and/or recirculated flue gases with the combustion air results in significantly lower NO.sub.x levels. However, recirculation with the fuel requires higher levels of
compression than with combustion air. The eductor nozzles of the present invention facilitate this by utilizing the pressure differential of the compressed fuel to cause the desired mixing. Thus, the various aspects of the present invention provide
significant reductions in noxious emissions including NO.sub.x and CO allowing users to meet increasingly strict emission criteria.
The foregoing detailed description has been given for clearness of understanding only and no unnecessary limitations should be understood therefrom as some modifications will be obvious to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope
and spirit of the appended claims. | <urn:uuid:7d3ea0ca-a12e-4915-a65d-a2517604a284> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://patents.com/us-5603906.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00325-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906714 | 5,951 | 1.695313 | 2 |
There's no need to fear arsenic poisoning if you grew up in the Argentinian Andes -- hundreds of years of drinking arsenic-laced groundwater will have left you with a genetic tolerance for it.
Geneticists from Lund and Uppsala universities had noticed that certain plants and bacteria could live in environments with lots of arsenic, with natural selection favouring a gene known to improve their ability to metabolise the poison. Curious to see if humans could also gain some kind of arsenic immunity, they looked at a group of people who they knew would have been exposed to the poison over many generations -- the indigenous peoples of the Argentinian part of the Andes. Sure enough, a higher-than average proportion of people they studied possessed the AS3MT gene, which lets them flush out toxins faster than "normal" people.
The genetic samples tested for the AS3MT gene came from 346 residents of the small, isolated town of San Antonio de los Cobres, located more than 3,700m above sea level in the Andes. Not only does the bedrock in the surrounding area contain a lot of arsenic which gets into the groundwater, but mining operations from the era of Spanish colonisation onwards have released even more arsenic -- so both modern people and mummies dating back 7,000 years have had high levels of arsenic found in their hair and internal organs.
Comparing the San Antonio de los Cobres residents to other populations of Andes-dwelling Peruvians and other native South American populations found that the incidence of the AS3MT gene was far more common amongst the people who had lived in the arsenic-rich environment for centuries. In the study's conclusion, lead author Carina Schlebusch wrote that "our data raises the possibility that, during a few thousand years, natural selection for tolerance to the environmental stressor arsenic may have increased the frequency of protective variants of
AS3MT". Their research has been printed in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Since arsenic pollution is a potentially dangerous side effect of many heavy manufacturing and mining industries, a better understanding of how people can be protected from the effects of arsenic and other poisons could help save lives.
While the AS3MT gene is rare among most populations, most people can nevertheless develop a similar kind of tolerance to arsenic if they take tiny doses of it for many years. Famously, Mithridates the Great of Pontus was said to have been terrified that someone would try to assassinate him with arsenic, and took small doses with his meals to build up a tolerance. When, in 63BCE, the Roman Republic finally beat back his armies and closed in on his palace, the story goes that he tried to poison himself to avoid capture -- but his immunity stopped the poison working. So he had a servant kill him with a sword instead. | <urn:uuid:735ddcce-0d51-492a-8685-843fb31e948b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wired.co.uk/article/genetic-immunity-to-arsenic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00451-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9684 | 571 | 3.234375 | 3 |
PACE EH, Colorado
San Juan Basin Health Department, Durango, Colorado
Completing PACE EH in less than 12 months
The facilitators from the San Juan Basin Health Department, drawing on extensive experience working with community members on a number of environmental health advisory committees, organized PACE EH (Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health) work around existing community environmental health interest networks. This greatly reduced the time and expertise normally required for facilitators to work through the first four tasks of the PACE EH methodology.
One of the primary facilitators of the San Juan PACE EH process was well-versed in community based participatory research methods, filling a need that many other PACE EH sites have to either find or develop.
The relatively short time frame ensured that volunteers always "saw the light at the end of the tunnel." Their commitment increased because the project requirements were well established and alternates were chosen for each crucial team member.
Strict meeting times and schedules were established and adhered to, as were clear and concise channels of communication between facilitators and volunteers.
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The frenzy of civil disorder we have been witnessing in Iraq's cities suggests at the outset just how hard it will be to win the peace in that devastated country.
But managing chaos under law will surely be a prerequisite to delivering adequate quantities of humanitarian aid, beginning recovery operations, and achieving normalcy. The tasks involved are similar to those faced in a variety of settings over the past decade in places like Haiti and Afghanistan.
How, then, can the rule of law be achieved in Iraq?
To start working that out, the Justice Department will send the first members of a 26-person judicial assessment team to Iraq Thursday. When the team - including representatives from Canada, Denmark, and Britain - returns in two weeks, it will surely report that the needs are immense and the tasks daunting. But this is the current system - a group of smart people improvising furiously.
Of course, experience dictates that at the outset the military must impose basic security, suppressing hostile forces and ensuring crowd control and basic public order. While lawlessness in the wake of the US victory in Iraq has trained much of the public debate on the need for police, this is only a threshold issue.
If persons suspected of committing serious crimes are arrested, where will they be incarcerated? Who would prosecute, defend, and judge them? Under what law? (For example, the former head of theft investigations for the Baghdad police said in a Monitor interview Tuesday that officials released criminal suspects Sunday because "we were not sure what to do with them."
Initially, prison and judicial functions must be undertaken directly by the military. But this would not be a durable arrangement where even the appearance of a military occupation will have negative political consequences. So, as soon as feasible the relevant functions - including police, prison officials, and the judiciary - must be transferred to predesigned civilian structures, such as a justice ministry or courts.
Iraq had a highly developed judicial system with lower criminal and civil courts, appeals tribunals, and special security structures. Judicial independence and legal integrity, however, were badly eroded over the past decade by the Baath Party. Nonetheless this group cannot be completely excluded from a new system - not every person was corrupt.
Therefore careful efforts by the US-led military administrationwill be needed to screen a cadre of indigenous police, prison administrators, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges. Where government offices and local personnel still function, foreign personnel would have a monitoring and local capacity-building role.
The basic problem is that neither the US government nor anyone else has a formula for quickly achieving the rule of law in post-conflict settings. But reality dictates a response now.
As a first step, the external actors - the US and other like-minded governments and international organizations - should prepare as soon as feasible a comprehensive plan with benchmarks and timetables to rebuild Iraq's legal institutions.
Priorities should be assigned to meting out justice for past atrocities and rebuilding the justice system. A careful inventory of the many constituent sources of law and legal traditions, including Islamic law, will be needed. This transitional exercise should address such questions as what law applies, an issue that vexed UN peace-building missions in Kosovo and East Timor.
A transitional development plan for a return to the rule of law would have to be implemented in an open-ended manner, reflecting both the elusive nature of the concept, and the patience and resolve required to invest capacity in such endeavors. International action here would connect with broader ongoing efforts undertaken by a wide array of donor governments and institutions such as the UN Development Group and the World Bank. This would be done with a view toward reforming and restructuring Iraq's legal system relating to criminal proceedings, and through civil matters such as private investment.
International efforts to promote the rule of law in Iraq will inevitably reinforce a sobering lesson: The US and its allies enjoy a decisive advantage in war-fighting; no one has a decisive advantage in nation-building.
Arthur C. Helton, a lawyer and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of The Price of Indifference: Refugees and Humanitarian Action in the New Century. | <urn:uuid:5c9fbc54-376e-487a-b746-f8b29b22c031> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cfr.org/iraq/victory-iraq-vs-order-iraq/p5944 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00420-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957587 | 840 | 2.125 | 2 |
Personalized medicine is on the rise – the German government has also recognized this and confirmed the research funding focus on personalized medicine as part of the “High-Tech Strategy 2020 for Germany”.
Personalized Medicine can no longer be limited to drugs
Personalized Medicine supports the optimal patient-specific treatment plan in every phase of treatment, from diagnosis to the right therapy – in other words, treatment is always individually tailored to the patient and considers his or her anatomical and physiological characteristics.
This comes very close to the vision of predictive, preventive, participatory and personalized medicine (“P4”), long advocated by Leroy Hood and other pioneers of systems medicine.
However, in the context of personalized or individualized medicine, thanks to advances in information technology, computer modeling, and engineering, one must now consider much more than stratified medicine with the patient-specific use of drugs.
Advances are enabling a fundamentally new approach to the prevention medicine, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease.
In this context, the term personalized medicine is broadly defined as a set of in silico methods used in healthcare with the fundamental intent of building and maintaining digital patient twins.
The “in silico” part includes all types of methods and techniques based on extensive use of computational modeling and simulation (CM&S), while the “personalized” part indicates that the approach explicitly considers patient-specific data.
Among all aspects of personalized medicine and in silico methods, we focus here on physics-based, patient-specific modeling of the human body, its functions, and medical devices that interact with the body, such as prostheses and implants. Personalized medicine in this context only works in the context of simulation. This is also referred to as personalized physics-based modeling.
Data-driven applications and pharmacogenetics/pharmacogenomics are thus not considered in this contribution to personalized medicine. This also includes precision medicine, which is based on modern diagnostic methods such as genome sequencing or molecular imaging.
How can medicine be personalized and what are the advantages of personalized medicine?
Computer-aided modeling and simulation are powerful tools for improving the quality of medical care. Following geometric design in 3D, simulation is the next logical step towards verification of personalized medical devices.
Numerical simulations provide important information that can be used both a priori, e.g. for virtual evaluation of the desired therapeutic outcome, and a posteriori, e.g. for clinical follow-up. For example, simple virtual proofs of the safety and performance of personalized implants can be performed.
Access to sometimes complex physical simulations in personalized medicine opens up many new possibilities and advantages for personalized treatment of patients:
- Cost and time savings for medical device manufacturers: the virtual test setup and use of medical simulation can eliminate the need for costly animal and human testing. The safety of the medical device is tested in the digital patient twin, thus accelerating the approval process.
- More innovation: by testing medical devices in the digital patient, even ethically difficult experiments can be carried out and innovative treatments can be developed
- Tailored & safe: personalized medicine enables patient-specific treatments and better adaptation to individual patient needs. This often results in shorter treatment times and less invasive interventions with personalized medicine. This leads to shortened follow-up care, if needed at all. In addition, the risk of implant failure is reduced while tolerability is improved.
Meanwhile there are many fields of application for patient-specific in-silico models in personalized medicine:
- Virtual product development
- Virtual testing / virtual test procedure
The applications differ depending on the general maturity, readiness, user group, complexity, capability and degree of automation of the simulation.
Using the example of our software Simq VIT for virtual implant testing with the help of simulation, it quickly becomes clear what is meant by personalized medicine. Simq VIT is the first, easy-to-use software for the digital verification of patient-specific implants. By virtually applying physiological or standardized loads to a patient-specific situation, performance and safety can be tested quickly and efficiently using objective criteria. Computer tomography or magnetic resonance imaging scans of the patient are used for this purpose and the implant designer can personalize the implant for the respective patient based on the individual situation. This ensures optimal patient care and increases quality and safety for medical device manufacturers and patients at the same time.
In addition to strength testing of implants and implant fitting, there are already other field-tested possibilities for personalized medicine in the areas of manufacturing of devices, support of diagnoses and the most appropriate selection of treatment methods, as well as surgery planning.
Regulatory perspective/future prospects of personalized medicine
The approach of personalized medicine through in-silico methods has the potential to be used as an approval method for medical devices in various fields in the future.
In addition, simulation will not only be used primarily to support diagnoses in the future, but will also be used for therapy and planning and thus be classified as a medical device. Potential examples of this are Simq OSA and Simq RPE.
With the help of Simq OSA, we aim to optimize the diagnosis for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) using patient-specific data and numerical flow simulation, and to support the treating physician in finding the most suitable therapy for the respective patient.
Our medical software Simq RPE is already in use as a preoperative planning tool for forced palatal expansion. Here, simulation-based optimization is used to specifically optimize the surgical incision in order to achieve a symmetrical result for all patients.
Furthermore, there are already approaches for verification & validation (V&V) for patient-specific models and software as a medical device (SaMD) using in-silico methods. Of particular note is ASME V&V 40, which provides a framework for evaluating the relevance and adequacy of completed V&V activities that establish the credibility of a computational model. In addition, there is the FDA 1807 guidance. The purpose of this guidance is to provide recommendations to industry for the formats, organization, and content of computer modeling & simulation (CM&S) study reports used to support medical device submissions.
Medical simulation will also provide quality management relevant reports and documentation for medical device manufacturers and physicians and support post-market surveillance (post-market surveillance) of medical devices with objective data.
Until we can fully exploit the aforementioned benefits and application areas of personalized medicine and thus further improve patient care, acceptance and the necessary regulatory requirements must be created.
Currently, we see the following challenges for the use of personalized medicine with the help of in-silico methods:
- No requirements for Notified Bodies on how in-silico methods should be evaluated in the approval process. The current Medical Device Regulation MDR only confirms that they can be used for evidence generation.
- There are no guidelines yet for medical device manufacturers in the EU on how simulations should be documented for regulatory approval.
- No certainty whether guidelines from US FDA (1807 Guidelines describing recommended documentation) or ASME (all V&V documents) will be accepted by notified bodies.
- No harmonization between US-FDA and EU MDR guidelines, for example.
In addition, several barriers currently stand in the way of integrating simulation-based personalized medicine into clinical workflows. One of them is the accessibility of numerical simulations to non-CAE engineers (medical professionals and medical device manufacturers). We at Simq have recognized this problem and are working to make personalized medicine accessible to the widest possible audience.
How do Simq’s solutions help with personalized medicine?
Personalized medicine is the central approach of Simq’s software products. Numerical simulation is used to open up new possibilities for personalized treatment of patients.
Our solutions are all based on our Simq platform, which also enables physicians and medical professionals to use state-of-the-art Ansys simulation technologies within predefined workflows without any prior computer-aided engineering (CAE) knowledge.
To enable personalized medicine, we convert specific medical questions into Simq modules. The modules work as a stand-alone product together with the Simq platform. Our goal is to provide an easy-to-use, scalable and secure SaaS solution that allows medical professionals to benefit from highly complex numerical simulations.
A prerequisite for personalized medicine is the use of individual patient data such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. Of course, the security of this patient data is always our top priority.
What else should I know about Simq and personalized medicine?
Simq is a certified simulation service provider and software manufacturer in the field of medical technology and is one of the pioneers of in silico medicine.
Simq products and services enable medical device manufacturers, physicians and medical staff to practically apply numerical simulation and use it for more effective, safer and personalized patient care.
Simq is committed to the standardization and broader application of in silico medicine as part of the Avicenna Alliance, thereby ensuring safe, affordable and cost-effective healthcare.
Personalized Medicine means that each patient is treated in the best possible way according to the individual circumstances of the disease diagnosis. This also includes the effective adaptation of therapy.
Personalized Medicine offers cost and time savings for medical device manufacturers by eliminating animal and human testing. Furthermore, it gives innovative treatment methods and is tailor-made as well as safe.
Simulation will be used for therapy and planning in the future. In the future, medical simulation data will also be relevant in the area of quality management for medical device manufacturers as well as physicians.
In order for there to be uniform methods in the approval process for medical device manufacturers in the EU, the necessary guidelines must be created. In addition, there is no guarantee whether guidelines from the US FDA will be accepted. Furthermore, the guidelines vary between the US FDA and the EU MDR.
Simq’s software solutions enable physicians and medical professionals to use state-of-the-art Ansys simulation technologies without prior computer knowledge. With predefined workflows, new possibilities for personalized patient treatment emerge. The goal is to make highly complex numerical simulations as easy as possible to use, scale and offer secure SaaS solution.
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The Nepalese government has announced that, beginning in May, the country’s census will include a category for people who identify as transgender. Nepal’s government, although conservative, has been remarkably progressive in terms of LGBT rights. In 2007, the Nepalese Supreme Court ordered the government to remove laws that discriminated against people because of sexual orientation.
Sunil Babu Panta, Nepal’s first openly gay parliamentarian, said this about the decision.
“This shows that the government has started to recognize them. I hope this will help to ensure their rights,” he said “But challenges remain for the community as they have often been forced to leave their villages and taken refuge in cities due to discrimination.” | <urn:uuid:abe9d8c7-d19b-407d-ba79-1439f0193bb7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.revelandriot.com/transgender-is-now-an-official-sex-in-nepal-97292/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.981136 | 154 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Ammonium Interference Reduced Copper uptake by Formaldehyde Crosslinked Sargassum sp. Seaweed
Author(s): Wenfa Ng
Sargassum sp., a marine brown macroalgae, is an efficient sorbent for various heavy metals at high concentrations. However, the efficiency at which seaweed removes heavy metals from dilute solutions and the effect of ammonium on metal removal is not well understood; an issue of importance given the ubiquity of nitrogenous compounds in the environment arising from various surface runoffs. Herein, the effect of ammonium on copper removal (at trace to low concentration) by formaldehyde crosslinked Sargassum sp. (treated SW) was studied. Due to high copper background, equilibrium sorption experiments was inconclusive concerning treated SW’s ability in removing copper (<1000 ppb), but rapid copper sorption observed in kinetic experiments suggested potential feasibility of the process. Within initial copper concentration of 4 to 20 ppm and pH 2 to 5, experiments revealed that, above a threshold concentration of [NH4+-N] of 50 ppm, ammonium impede copper update on treated SW in a concentration dependent manner. Specifically, sorption kinetics slowed, and uptake capacity decreased with increase in [NH4+-N] from 0 to 2500 ppm. Collectively, beyond demonstrating that treated SW could remove copper from dilute solutions, revelations that ammonium reduced copper sorption highlighted the importance of accounting for the effect in data interpretation and modelling. | <urn:uuid:44849d8d-c57f-4d67-a94a-c1b1e912554b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fortunejournals.com/abstract/ammonium-interference-reduced-copper-uptake-by-formaldehyde-crosslinked-sargassum-sp-seaweed-2680.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.91351 | 303 | 1.585938 | 2 |
First, do no harm. As a physician, my first responsibility as I try to care for people, is to ensure that my actions do not cause harm. This isn’t always as easy as it sounds. We need to regularly assess the evidence to see which interventions are truly beneficial and which end up causing harm. Many of the treatments I learned decades ago have since been proven ineffective or even harmful, and it can be hard to keep up with the rapidly changing science.
We have been incarcerating people in this jail and others for a long time. We are taught that this intervention is needed to ensure community safety. However, the evidence is clear. Incarceration does not actually make communities safer. Just like outdated medical interventions, we now understand that incarceration actually causes harm, by separating children from their parents, making it harder for people to find housing or feed themselves, and thus making crime more—not less—likely.
In the last hundred years, life expectancy has increased dramatically because of public health advances like widespread access to clean water. We should be proud of how far we’ve come. On the other hand, incarcerated people experience a 2-year decline in life expectancy for each year they are incarcerated. And people with one immediate family member who has ever been incarcerated lose 2.6 years of life expectancy.
I’ve known for many years that incarceration worsens health outcomes. But it was not until last summer’s uprisings that I learned how connected I am, as a white person, to the systems that continue to cause these harms. Each of us with privilege is responsible for addressing these harms, including every member of our Board of Supervisors.
In June of 2020, the Board passed a resolution in solidarity with Black Lives Matter in which they committed to dismantling systems of oppression. It is now time for the Board to put real anti-racist policy change behind their words in that resolution. I specifically want to repeat what my own Supervisor, Joe Simitian, quoted just two months ago, from poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox: “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
Here, where Main Jail South once stood, we have a giant open pit, like a wound. Instead of filling it with another jail that disproportionately harms our Black and Brown neighbors, we need to invest in services that create real community safety. | <urn:uuid:723a5bbf-6b87-4e1f-966b-a4748fa5af22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/stories/first-do-no-harm-a-physician-s-call-for-care-not-cages-in-santa-clara-county | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.972155 | 488 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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What Is Misdemeanor Expungement?
Misdemeanor expungement is the process by which misdemeanor charges may be sealed, or in some cases, permanently erased from one’s criminal record. Depending on the severity of the case, as well as the individual laws of each state, most misdemeanors can be expunged. Misdemeanor expungement is commonly used in connection with juvenile records. Some states automatically expunge juvenile records once the defendant reaches 18 years of age. A misdemeanor is generally defined as a less serious crime that is punishable by a monetary fine or a sentence of less than one year in jail.
Expungement also goes by many names, including:
- “Setting Aside a Conviction”
- “Petition for Dismissal”
- “Record Sealing”
What Are Some Misdemeanors That Are Commonly Expunged?
The laws on misdemeanor expungement frequently change, and in nearly every state. For example, the state of Illinois has recently enacted laws which allow expungement of “minor in possession of alcohol” charges. Some common misdemeanors include:
- DUI and Traffic misdemeanors
- Simple theft crimes
- Non-violent crimes
- Resisting arrest
However, depending on the laws of the state, expungement may not be available for certain misdemeanors. Many misdemeanors are very close in nature to felony crimes. These can include misdemeanors such as DUI cases involving a serious injury of another party. These misdemeanors are known as “wobblers” and can either be treated like a felony or a misdemeanor. Most felonies are not expungeable, and many of these wobblers may not be expunged in some states.
What Are the Requirements for Misdemeanor Expungement?
In order to be eligible for misdemeanor expungement, you must first apply for the expungement in writing with the proper court. Misdemeanor is not always automatically granted and should be specifically requested. Expungement laws may vary by state, but generally the applicant is required to:
• Fulfill a waiting period (usually 1-3 years after discharge from jail or paying fines)
• Have no more than a specific number of prior charges
• Serve or fulfill the terms of the original sentence
• Have no pending proceedings
• Complete probation without any incidents or violations
What Can Misdemeanor Expungement Not Accomplish?
While misdemeanor expungement can help to clear or seal one’s criminal record, there are certain measures that it cannot accomplish. Including:
Finally, some misdemeanor crimes are classified as “priorables”. A priorable is a crime that can be used to increase the severity of the sentence for future related crimes. For example, most DUI convictions can be used as a prior, meaning that any additional DUI charges will be punished more severely due to the first offense.
If a priorable misdemeanor has been expunged, it will still be deleted from the person’s record. However, convictions for similar crimes in the future may lead to an enhanced conviction, even if the priorable was already expunged.
Do I Need a Lawyer for a Misdemeanor Expungement?
Misdemeanor expungement can be a very powerful resource for those who are eligible for it. Having a clean record can lead to other benefits, such as increased chances of obtaining employment or housing. However, the laws on misdemeanor expungement vary widely by state and according to the type of misdemeanor. You should contact a criminal defense lawyer if you need advice on how to get your record expunged. An experienced attorney can work with you and advise you on misdemeanor expungement in your state.
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Background: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, devastating, interstitial lung disease, with few therapeutic options. IPF is characterized by pulmonary restriction, dyspnea, hypoxemia, exercise intolerance and poor quality of life (QOL). Objectives: We aimed to examine the effect of exercise training (ET) on clinical outcomes in IPF patients. Methods: A randomized controlled study included thirty-two IPF patients (aged 68 ± 8 years) who were allocated either to the ET group (n = 15), participating in a 12-week, twice-weekly 60-min supervised ET-based pulmonary rehabilitation program, or to a control group (n = 17) continuing with regular medical treatment alone. Cardiopulmonary exercise test, 6-min walking distance (6MWD) test, 30-second chair-stand test, pulmonary function tests, dyspnea and QOL were assessed at baseline and at the end of the 12-week intervention. Results: Significant differences were observed between the ET and the control groups in raw mean deltas (Δ = post- - pre-intervention): Δ6MWD, 81 m, p < 0.001; ΔVO2 peak, 2.6 ml/kg/min, p = 0.002; Δwork rate, 22 W, p < 0.001; Δanaerobic threshold, 3.1 ml/kg/min, p < 0.001, and ΔFVC % predicted, 6%, p = 0.038. Dyspnea, QOL and 30-second chair-stand were also improved significantly following the program. Conclusions: ET improves exercise tolerance, functional capacity, pulmonary function, dyspnea and QOL in patients with IPF, suggesting a short-term treatment efficacy for clinical improvement, and should be considered the standard care for IPF.
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing
- Exercise tolerance
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Marian, Livia and Thøgersen, John (2012) Direct and mediated impacts of product and process characteristics on consumers’ choice of organic vs. conventional chicken. Abstract at: IAREP 2012 Conference, Wroclaw, Poland. , 05-09-12 - 08-09-12.
There is a lack of research into why consumers value process characteristics. In this study, we test the hypothesis that the impact of process characteristics such as organic and free-range on consumers’ choices of food products is at least partly mediated through expected eating quality or taste expectations. In other words, the process characteristics partly function as cues to (eating) quality. Using a traditional metric conjoint approach based on an additive model, four product characteristics (production method, price, size and information about farmer and rearing conditions) were varied in a fractional factorial conjoint design, creating nine profiles of whole chickens. 384 respondents rated the nine different chickens in terms of taste expectations and willingness to buy.
Since the nine records for each respondent are not independent, we used linear mixed modelling for the mediation analysis, We find that, as expected, taste expectations are a strong predictor of willingness to buy. As hypothesized, the impact of both product and process characteristics on willingness to buy is at least partly mediated through taste expectations. Hence, the study shows that process characteristics are important for consumers, not only in and off themselves, but partly because consumers make inferences about eating quality from knowledge about such process characteristics.
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Vaginal cancer symptoms
Vaginal cancer is a rare but serious kind of cancer in women. There are around 260 new cases of vaginal cancer diagnosed in the UK each year.
The two main types of vaginal cancer are primary vaginal cancer, which originates inside the vagina itself, and secondary vaginal cancer where a cancer has spread from another part of the body.
For primary vaginal cancer, the most common type is squamous cell carcinoma. Less common is adenocarcinoma. Another rare type is melanoma.
Although most cases of vaginal cancer occur in women over 60, a very rare type of vaginal cancer, clear cell adenocarcinoma, can affect teenagers and younger women.
Symptoms of vaginal cancer
Bleeding from the vagina is the most common symptom of vaginal cancer. However, this can have many other causes and is very unlikely to be due to cancer of the vagina. However, seek medical advice if:
Diagnosing vaginal cancer
If a doctor rules out other reasons for the symptoms, the next step is usually a referral a gynaecologist for specialist tests.
These may include looking for unusual lumps or swellings during an internal vaginal examination or a colposcopy using a colposcope to look at the inside of the vagina.
If abnormal tissue is suspected, a sample will be taken in a biopsy for testing in a laboratory.
Depending on the outcome of earlier tests, X-rays, CT scans or MRI scans may be recommended.
Risk factors for vaginal cancer
Doctors do not yet know what causes vaginal cancer, but risk factors are believed to include being a smoker, being over 60, having a history of cancer, having a persistent type of human papilloma virus ( HPV) or having HIV.
The now banned anti- miscarriage medicine diethylstilbestrol is a known risk factor for vaginal cancer. Use of this treatment in pregnancy was stopped in the 1970s.
Treating vaginal cancer
Vaginal cancer is treated with a combination of radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery.
The outlook for someone with vaginal cancer often depends on how far advanced it is at the time it is first diagnosed and the woman's age. Doctors refer to this as staging - where stage one is least advanced and stage four indicates the cancer has spread beyond the pelvis.
Being under 60 and in otherwise good health improves the outlook for women after vaginal cancer treatment.
According to Cancer Research UK, more than half of all women in the UK diagnosed with cancer of the vagina or cancer of the vulva will live for five years or more after diagnosis.
Side effects of treatment for cancer of the vagina may include tiredness, nausea, loss of interest in sex, early menopause in women below the normal age for menopause and fertility problems.
Having treatment for any cancer can be a very emotional time and cancer organisations like Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK may be able to help with support and advice.
Preventing vaginal cancer
Although the exact causes of vaginal cancer are not known, reducing the risk of HPV is believed to also help reduce the risk of cancer of the vagina.
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There is new hope for the physically disabled as “Ekso” is being developed to become a wearable robot that can be a part of every home in the country, a report from CNN said.
The exoskeleton was developed by Ekso Bionics. It first started as a project for the military. But now, it is being developed by the company so that it can be a part of every home and can be used by paraplegics in their everyday lives. Those who are curious as to how this technology works can now find it in many rehabilitation centers and hospitals in the U.S.
Eythor Bender, Chief Executive Officer of Ekso Bionics, told CNN that the Ekso has been in development in the last decade. Funded by the same people behind GPS systems and the Internet, the company had a breakthrough in 2005 as they discovered a way to make the Ekso transfer all the human’s weight down to the ground. This, he added, is an important development because the person wearing the Ekso won’t have to carry the weight of the machine.
Powering the Ekso
There are four electric motors that work on the Ekso, Bender said. Most of the machines being used now by amputees only have one moving component. But Ekso wants to make life easier for these people, so it utilizes four moving components—two at the hips and two at the knees. It also has a battery pack on the back. Between the two batteries at the back is a computer that acts as the brain of the machine.
The Ekso was made in such a way that it will imitate a human’s bone structure. Then to recreate the nervous system, there are 15 sensors that powers this Ekso.
Ekso in the Future
Although wearable robots used to be a thing that is only found in fictional movies, Bender said that his company hopes the Ekso can help paraplegics live a fuller life. He said that it is a tool that people can use during recovery or rehabilitation. It is also something that paraplegics can wear instead of a prosthetic leg.
Eventually, Bender hopes that Ekso will find its way into the homes of those who are unable to walk. He said that his company has partnered with the best rehab centers in the world to find another tool, aside from the wheelchair, that can help paraplegics be mobile again. He said that the wheelchair has been around for more than 1,500 years. And up to now, the device is the single mobility tool that paraplegics have to depend on.
Empowering the Disabled
The science and technology reliant people have once again proven themselves as they are now capable of empowering those who have been deprived of their basic functions like walking. Soon enough, I am sure that there will also be a technology made for those who cannot see, hear or talk. Such innovation will allow people who became disabled in an accident to gain back their lives. Through these wearable robots, paraplegics would have a semblance again of a normal life based on the CNN report. | <urn:uuid:3692cbdb-68ca-4290-9273-13d81d7a4587> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thedroidguy.com/2013/03/wearable-robots-developed-for-the-physically-handicapped-55061 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00153-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974906 | 635 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Pakistan’s ‘cold response’ to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious SAARC satellite project has prompted India to go ahead with consultations with other member states of the regional grouping without Islamabad’s participation.
“All SAARC countries have responded positively to the proposal, but Pakistan. Everyone else has responded. It (Pakistan) said that their internal consultation process was still on,” said a senior government official, noting that the government will go ahead with consultation process with other member countries.
“A meeting with the member countries will be held later this month,” ISRO chairman A S Kirankumar told PTI.
After the successful launch of PSLV C-23, along with foreign satellites from Sriharikota last year, Modi had called for a greater cohesion between the SAARC nations and having a satellite for the region.
It was also seen as a move to counter China in South Asia, as its space agency has been involved in launching satellites of several other countries. Following Modi’s call, formal proposals were sent to all countries involved.
After initial responses have been received, ISRO and representatives from SAARC countries will sit together later this month to discuss the nitty-gritty of the project, sources said.
ISRO officials said the endeavour would be to have a communication satellite which the member countries can use for different purposes like disaster management, tele-medicine and education.
“May be we can offer them one transponder. But this is still very much in its preliminary stage and after the consultation process things will be more clearer,” said an official.
Incidentally, some SAARC countries already have communication satellites in place. For instance, Pakistan has a communication satellite PAKSAT-1R, which was launched 2011 with the help of China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC). More importantly, its space agency Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission has already been working with Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA).
Unlike other South Asian countries, it also has a reasonably fair infrastructure and manpower in the field of space sector.
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Finding degreed teachers for pre-k not so tough, group argues
The Children's Campaign certainly doesn't give up without a fight.
For nearly four years now, the Tallahassee based group has argued passionately about the need to have teachers with 4-year degrees in early education teaching the state's prekindergarten students. With almost dispassionate regularity, Florida lawmakers and even some folks who run pre-k programs have said finding the teachers would be too tough - especially as schools endeavor to meet the class-size reduction amendment.
Not deterred, the Children's Campaign asked the Florida State University Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy to look at data from the Florida Department of Education with one question in mind: Could the state meet teacher capacity levels for all pre-k to be taught by degreed teachers within five years? (That's the time frame proposed in identical House and Senate bills [HB 741/SB 702] that don't get heard.)
The group got its answer this week, and it looks to be a solid "yes."
The FSU center reported that Florida's current Voluntary Pre-K enrollment is about 120,000 children in 8,846 classrooms. For a three-hour day per program, that requires somewhere between 4,423 and 5,000 teachers. Already, 2,770 of the pre-k teachers have degrees. "Based on those figures, it is projected by FSU that only 1,653 to 2,230 new teachers would be needed over the next five years," the Children's Campaign states in a release.
That's a far cry from the 12,000 teachers that many lawmakers contend the pre-k program needs.
Could the supply meet the demand? Sure, the FSU center and Children's Campaign contend. More than 14,500 teachers are expected to graduate from Florida's colleges and universities by 2013. Another group of teachers are expected to come to the state from elsewhere, and recent retirees might be interested in supplementing their income too.
"We're already more than half way toward capacity," Children's Campaign president Roy Miller told the Gradebook. "We're just blown away by the numbers. The whole argument against degreed teachers ... is bogus."
He suggested that the state agencies in charge of VPK oversight should stop simply marketing the program and instead work to make it be the "high quality" system that voters approved in 2002. It shouldn't take an advocacy group to figure out what the state's numbers say, Miller said.
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A recent survey conducted by Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro of KDnuggets, found a “strong interest in online certificates and MS degrees in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science, even among those who already have graduate degrees.”
According to Piatetsky’s analysis of graduate degrees in these fields, they started to emerge in 2007, with a big spike in 2012. The proliferation of these programs--which the survey’s findings indicate will continue unabated for the foreseeable future--prompted a strong response on Twitter from Meta Brown, a consultant and writer on business analytics, and rejoinders by Piatetsky and Shlomo Engelson Argamon, director of Illinois Institute of Technology’s new Master in Data Science program. Delighted, I convened via email a virtual panel on data science education.
Brown didn’t mince words: “More than thirty percent of student loans are now delinquent. Over 500 schools now have student loan default rates higher than their graduation rates. I have lost count of the number of my personal acquaintances who have obtained advanced degrees with the aim of career advancement, yet found that advancement eluded them. Much of what's on offer these days is of poor quality, and even academically excellent programs are no assurance of concrete rewards.”
Piatetsky disagreed, arguing that the proliferation of these programs is “a reasonable response to industry demand” and predicting that “market forces will take care of the weeding out of weaker degrees.” Argamon, for his part, had strong words of his own: “The development of data science degree programs is absolutely necessary. We all know that there is a clear need now and in the foreseeable future for many more data science professionals. These people need to have the strong statistical knowledge, software engineering ability, and communication skills which only a well-designed multidisciplinary program can provide. This distinct body of knowledge and skills cannot be conveyed by traditional educational programs such as statistics or computer science.”
Indeed, there is no doubt that the proliferation of these graduate programs is driven by various estimates of the current meager supply and expected high demand in the future of people skilled at data analysis (see MGI and Gartner). Yet Brown warns of jumping to conclusions regarding the expected return on investment on these programs and points to the lack of agreement on what constitutes data science: “Money is not the only reward of education, yet it is surely the primary selling point used to market data science programs, and the primary motivator for students. But there's no clear definition of data science and no clear understanding of what knowledge employers are willing to pay for, or how much they will pay, now or in the future. Already I know many competent, diligent data analysts who are unemployed or underemployed. So, I am highly skeptical that the students who will invest their time and money in data science programs will reap the rewards they have been led to expect.”
Argamon agrees that “there are as yet no standards for data science curriculum content” which leads to differences in the quality and nature of the educational experience in the programs on offer today. But unlike Brown, he finds a silver lining in the lack of consensus regarding data science and thinks that the very proliferation of these programs “shines the attention on data science education that will help us evolve such standards.”
There is more or less a consensus about the lack of consensus regarding a clear definition of data science. And no lack of complaints about the murky situation. See, for example, Robin Bloor’s “Data Science Rant”--“These two words, when conjoined, are utterly misleading.” Bloor’s rant is “philosophical,” but I can share empirical evidence about both the current fuzziness and the prominence of the term. I learned from a recent Department of Defense DARPA announcement, asking for proposals to investigate “the national security threat posed by public data,” that there are “principles of data science,” presumed to be understood by all potential proposers (the exact language is “Based on principles of data science, develop tools to characterize and assess the nature, persistence, and quality of the data”). Intrigued, I emailed Dr. Christopher White, the “Topic Author,” and asked what he meant by “Principles of Data Science” and whether he can point me to a relevant reference. His answer: “My usage was general, like ‘natural science.’ There isn’t a specific reference.”
Just as the lack of clarity and established principles do not stand in the way of using “data science” in requests for proposals, it hasn’t slowed down the sprouting of new graduate programs with “data science” in their names. In addition to the one at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), there are, for example, the Master of Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley’s iSchool (online only), MSc in Data Science and Management from Imperial College (London), MS in Data Science from New York University, Graduate Certificate of Advanced Studies in Data Science from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, and the Certification of Professional Achievement in Data Sciences from Columbia’s Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering.
Until the launch of these programs this year, “Business Analytics” used to be the most popular term used in the name of these programs. I asked IIT’s Argamon why they went with “data science” instead. “’Data scientist’ as a job title is significantly trending upwards,” Argamon says, “while ‘analyst’ is trending downwards (as is the more specific title ‘data analyst’). A second consideration (perhaps related to these trends) is that "analytics" is both too specific as well as too general a term. Data analysis is just one part of data science… In our view, the term ‘data science’ more clearly delineates the field we seek to teach—technically rigorous statistics, machine learning, and scalable computation, together with practical training in working with data, developing meaningful visualizations, and communicating usefully with a variety of non-technical stakeholders.”
Are we seeing the eclipse of a term—“business analytics”—which became a buzzword only six or seven years ago? The sudden emergence in 2007 of graduate programs in “business analytics” mentioned above can be attributed to a single paper that launched the term into buzzwordom: Tom Davenport’s Harvard Business Review article “Competing on Analytics,” published in January of 2006.
But “business analytics” —which replaced “data mining” as the term of choice for describing the analysis of data—was soon to be eclipsed by the rise of new players, new participants, and new tools and technologies. “Big Data” changed the landscape. The “old’ guard tried for a while to jump on the new bandwagon by using “big data analytics,” but the new players persisted and eventually took over the discussion with a new term: Data Science.
In October 2012, Davenport (with DJ Patil) heralded again the dawn of a new era by publishing “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century,” again in the Harvard Business Review. Davenport was also instrumental earlier in his career in the success of “business process re-engineering” and “Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),” so his ability to call a major trend and his timing are indisputable. Guided by Davenport’s uncanny intuition (ignoring his hedging of bets with Analytics 3.0), and assuming that the rise of one buzzword signals the beginning of the decline of the one it is replacing, I conclude that the half-life of a buzzword (at least in the case of “analytics” or “business analytics”) is exactly 81 months, the time that passed between the publication of Davenport’s article on analytics and the one on data scientists.
“Data Science” could disappear, to be eclipsed by the next buzzword. But it may stick around, just like another incongruous joining of two words, “computer science,” did. This will happen, I predict, only if it becomes, like computer science, an established and well-defined discipline, with its own academic departments and all the necessary paraphernalia such as professional associations, journals, conferences, and awards. | <urn:uuid:d8fcfa99-17c2-4e22-94a5-a71d7ae8fb1d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2013/08/19/data-science-whats-the-half-life-of-a-buzzword/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00166-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945446 | 1,848 | 1.828125 | 2 |
IEEE Xplore challenge Training Sessions at ITU
ITU Library and the Department of Training and Events, in collaboration with IEEE Xplore, is organizing a hands-on training session on 27th and 28th April 2016
The IEEE Xplore Challenge for Researchers in Pakistan is designed specifically to promote scientific excellence in research across Pakistan. Designed to inspire innovation and encourage users to discover new research and cutting edge ideas via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, the IEEE Xplore Challenge invites you to put your research skills to the test.
IEEE Xplore is a powerful resource that enables discovery and access to leading scientific and technical content published by the IEEE and IEEE publishing partners. The IEEE Xplore Challenge is an online contest in which you are asked to submit correct answers to a series of questions developed to test how well you can search within IEEE Xplore.
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Rome in Adams County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
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Erected 1980 by the Adams County Historical Society and the Ohio Historical Society. (Marker Number 1-8.)
Marker series. This marker is included in the Ohio Historical Society / The Ohio History Connection marker series.
Location. 38° 39.979′ N, 83° 22.533′ W. Marker is in Rome, Ohio, in Adams County. Marker is on Ohio River Scenic Byway (U.S. 52) 0.3 miles west of Blue Creek Road (County Highway 18), on the right when traveling west. Click for map. Marker is in this post office area: Rome OH 44085, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 1 other marker is within 9 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Buckeye Station (approx. 9 miles away).
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If you’re selling your house you’re looking for the biggest market of buyers you can get. This means that you should ensure that you’re putting your home before the maximum number of people possible. To achieve this it is necessary to put your home on Multiple Listing Service, or MLS.
If you have an agent for real estate the agent will handle the listing process on your behalf. This means that you don’t need to think about how to put a house in the MLS. However, if you’re looking to sell your home by yourself or for mls for sale by owner. you must consider your options of listing the house on MLS without the assistance of a real estate agent.
While it may be much more difficult to handle the listing process on your own. This guide will help you understand all you should know about the MLS. How you can post your listing on MLS without having a realtor represent the listing.
What is an MLS?
First of all, there isn’t just one MLS There are a variety of MLS across the nation. And you’ll have to register your property on the MLS in your area.
MLS is a shorthand as Multiple Listing Service. It’s essentially a huge database of homes for auction. Brokers who are cooperating in every local area are required to put their listings in the same massive databases (the MLS) and to make changes as properties go to and from the market. However, because different realtors join together to pool information for their specific regions, there’s no common database across the country.
This might sound odd when you’re looking for listings online for properties. Since you can go to an website like Zillow and Realtor.com and enter your address to find a home. That is available anywhere in the world and see the listing immediately. However, what these websites do is combine the information from the various databases of the local MLS databases into one searchable website.
Each regional MLS However, each regional MLS has its own rules regarding listings. In general realtors have to pay fees to list their properties in the database as well as to look up information about other properties listed. If you’re not a real estate agent who has to pay to be listed on the MLS however, it’s not possible to include your property in the database.
The majority of regional databases have adopted a number of the same guidelines. That were formulated in the National Association of Realtors. This includes requirements regarding how fast an item must be updated in the event of a pending offer, and the requirement that all properties to be sold display what commission that the seller is required to pay in order to sell the property.
What are the advantages of listing your business on the MLS?
The advantages of listing your property in the MLS are straightforward. The property will receive the greatest possible exposure to your home.
The majority of real estate agents utilize the for sale by owner mls to search for properties to sell that they can display to prospective buyers. In fact, 64% of agents describe their use of the MLS as being among their most useful technology tools they employ for their business in accordance with the National Association of Realtors.
A lot of people who are searching for homes on their own are able to access MLS databases. The realtor’s website or via websites (like Zillow) that collect information of MLS services. NAR revealed that more than half the home buyers 52% discovered their home through the Internet as opposed to 29% who found the property through their agent or percent who saw their home by way of an outdoor advertisement. Properties Online also found 87 percent of buyers use the MLS as a tool realtors employ to sell houses, as opposed to 51% of buyers who used Realtor.com or 45 percent who used the broker’s website.
If you do not list your home on the MLS It could show on websites. That combine data from other sites for instance, the For Sale By Owner listings. However, those who use only the locally-based MLS as their sole source to locate properties won’t notice it. The absence of listing your property with the MLS is like not having your website appear on the most well-known search site (like Google). It’s possible that people will still find it, but it’ll be more difficult to find and you’ll see considerably fewer people visiting your site.
Of course, just putting your property on the MLS database won’t be enough to attract buyers’ attention. You must create the MLS listing as appealing as you can in order to attract potential buyers to view your property in person. This means that you must include professional photos and a compelling description.
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What does Conductivity mean in Water?
Well, the thread name is basically the question.
I have never heard anyone talking about conductivity in the aquarium until I started doing hardcore research into rainbowfish.
For example, a species conductivity range is:
Conductivity: 12−646 ÁS/cm (sorry it's in cm, Americans).
I'm just wondering, what does this mean? Is it relevant to anything? Should it be measured? That seems like quite a wide range, so I'm guessing not.
Basically the waters ability to carry electrical current in relation to the amount of dissolved solids / ions.
Less ions = less ability to conduct electricity , more ions = more ability to carry electricity.
Here is a good article explaining it a bit more..
It's like hardness, and toxins in one? It seems like it'd be useful, yet not needed...
I don't even want to know how much the tester costs. :lol:
Quick look at it seems $70-80 is about the price range.
hehe unless you have crocodiles or sharks that or eels that hunt with electric signals you wont need a tester like this :)
Hmm, what about black ghost knives? They use electrical signals to navigate. :)
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Measuring conductivity is not something to worry about or fuss over, fortunately [provided we are doing water changes as noted below]. We have enough of that already in an aquarium.:blueshake:
As that linked Fluval article mentioned, conductivity just measures the TDS (total dissolved solids) in aquarium or habitat water. You will frequently come across "conductivity" rather than "hardness" in articles about natural habitats. Most of us think of hardness as GH and KH, caused by various minerals. And these are extremely important for fish. But so is the actual water in terms of the TDS which are related but not necessarily minerals.
As I mention in the article I recently posted on hardness, and again on salt, TDS get into the tank from all sorts of places. Fish food, water conditioner, medications, treatments, plant fertilizers, any chemical substance... etc. These too affect all fish. But fortunately we can control them easily by regular partial water changes. [obviously, this topic will form a major aspect of my forthcoming article on water changes;-).] We can't help adding TDS via conditioner and fish foods, but with regular water changes we remove them so they do not continue to build up.
You mention knifefish, and obviously such fish would be sensitive to TDS. But the water changes still deal with these adequately.
That was my thought too.. Another thing to measure?!
Good to know that is isn't that important to have numbers for.. Even the fluval article says that when conductivity increases it just means change the water.. which we do anyways.
Thanks everyone. :)
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Gay and lesbian groups in Taiwan have received a boost in their hopes to make their home the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, AFP reports.
Fish Huang and her partner You Ta-ting will, in August, become the first same-sex couple to receive blessing from Buddhist monks and nuns. Huang told AFP, “After being together for six years, we feel we need to make a life-long commitment to each other.”
Taiwan is considered one of the most culturally liberal societies in East Asia, making gay and lesbian groups hopeful that same-sex marriage will be legalized in the island soon. The cabinet drafted a bill in 2003 that would legalize same-sex marriage and allow homosexual couples to adopt children. President Ma Ying-jeou told AFP that public consensus was needed before the government could pass the law. | <urn:uuid:6c257819-bb72-4893-86a0-5d5240277afa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tokyoweekender.com/2012/07/first-same-sex-buddhist-wedding-in-taiwan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00247-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971157 | 171 | 2.015625 | 2 |
It seems my four-year-old has sticky fingers.
It started a few months ago. I noticed one day after school — as I was holding my son’s pants upside-down, dumping pounds of sand into the kitchen trash — a shiny, puffy, diamond-shaped sticker tumbled out in the dirt avalanche. I didn’t think much about it until it happened again, this time with a collection of tiny gem-like pieces and a plastic cow, clearly lifted from school.
“What’s this, buddy?” I asked.
“Treasure,” he replied, matter-of-factly.
He hesitated for a second and nodded.
“Neat,” I said, trying to think on my feet. “Well, we can’t bring home things that live at school. Let’s put this by the door so we don’t forget to take it back tomorrow.” He agreed. Problem solved. Except the very next week, another load of booty arrived in his sweatshirt pocket, and this time he seemed to be a step ahead of me with a cover story. It was a “gift” from a friend at school. Since then, colored sticks and bugs and (oddly) a D battery have hitched a ride home from school in his pockets.
— Christine Coppa
— Katherine Stone
— Meredith Carroll
The behavior stumps me a little, because my son is not a rule-breaker by nature. Swiping plastic farm animals isn’t exactly grand larceny, but it feels a little strange nonetheless.
When I asked around, I found the pattern of kids taking coveted objects to be pretty typical; my friends piped up with similar stories. I looked around online for commentary, and most people seemed to attribute the looting phenomenon to limited impulse control and a lack of conscience; little kids can’t help but take tantalizing items and don’t have the sense of right and wrong to know any other way. I can see this is true of toddlers, who might cart home a friend’s toy or an irresistible box of crayons without a clue that it’s not okay to do so. But it doesn’t explain my son, who has good powers of self-control. And while kids his age may not grasp the long-term implications of their actions, they do understand basic social rules.
I mentioned this to my son’s preschool teacher, and she said my son was conducting an important experiment. Little kids need to draw connections between the domains in their lives (school, home, friends’ homes, places they travel to, and so forth), she explained. When my son comes home with a token, it’s akin to taking a piece of school home with him — bridging the gap between his two most familiar and important places. She also agreed that four-year-olds understand right from wrong in many instances, but it’s still a work in progress, so he could be testing out concepts like ownership and boundaries.
To me, the harmless heisting also seems related to the “treasure” fascination most kids have at this age. My son, like many fellow preschoolers, collects things. Pieces of glitter, small rocks and pebbles from a walk, bottle caps — these possessions hold a special importance to him. Young kids seem to attach meaning to the objects they find and accumulate (making treasure chests and piggy banks especially intriguing). Perhaps it’s an evolutionary adaptation — the hunter-gatherer instincts telling our little ones to forage and pack valuables away.
Whatever the reason, taking objects might be a brow-furrowing behavior, but for young kids, it’s not a worrisome one; in my experience, it’s a developmental phase that will pass. That’s not to say that stealing is never a sign of a bigger problem. When I ask a colleague who works with adolescents about this, she tells me that for older children and teens, stealing can be an expression of anger, a need for instant gratification, a lack of impulse control, or all of the above. On the clinical spectrum, stealing “items of nontrivial value” is associated with conduct disorder, a psychiatric diagnosis for children and teens with serious, long-standing behavioral struggles. If stealing is accompanied by aggression, cruelty, and destroying property, for example, it could be a sign of a larger issue.
Back in the land of plastic cows, however, toddler and preschool pinching is not yet an expression of a problem. Your average child who stuffs a friend’s toy in mom’s purse is likely to be experimenting. In fact, I see it as an opportunity — fodder for conversation. When I debriefed my son on the gems and animals, I stayed neutral (I’d never want to shame him or make an emotional deal about this) when I stated the facts about how “things from school live at school.” It could also spark a discussion of how a fellow classmate would feel if he went to play with the objects and couldn’t find them, which is good practice with empathy and taking another person’s perspective.
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| Medical workers participate in an exercise involving 600 people to improve their efficiency in the fight against SARS in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China. (Reuters)
Beijing, May 6 (Reuters): The worst-hit district of China’s capital sent thousands of investigators on a hunt for SARS today as the World Health Organisation said the outbreak of the virus had yet to peak in the world’s most populous nation.
The army of SARS investigators was the latest sign of China’s desperate fight to contain Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, a disease which has triggered riots by villagers furious that people from infected areas have been put among them.
Motorola, the world’s second biggest mobile phone maker and one of the biggest foreign investors in China, closed its China headquarters in Beijing until Monday after a staff member there caught the disease.
“We have not seen a peak in China yet. We still have a considerable size of outbreak in Hong Kong,” UN health chief Gro Harlem Brundtland said in Brussels, adding that it was too early to say whether the outbreak was receding worldwide.
Brundtland met EU health commissioner David Byrne ahead of an emergency meeting of EU health ministers later to discuss how to prevent SARS spreading Europe.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday the crisis remained “grave” despite stepped-up prevention, detection and treatment of the disease which has struck hardest in Beijing, where 1,960 cases have now been confirmed.
“A great deal of arduous work has to be done to bring the epidemic under control at an early date,” the official Xinhua news agency quoted Wen as saying. China’s health ministry announced 138 new cases of SARS today. It also reported eight more deaths, taking the toll in the world’s most populous and worst-hit nation to 214.
In Haidian, the Beijing district with more SARS cases than any other, some 30,000 investigators in 4,000 teams made rolling inspections of businesses, neighbourhoods and work sites, district official Zhou Liangluo said.
Twenty patrols have the job of making continuous examinations of the many construction sites in the district, China’s high-technology hub where many uninsured migrant labourers work.
“For those who do not meet proper standards, they are put into overhaul and we’ll suspend their operations,” said Zhou, who took no questions and did not go into detail.
Households in the district of 2.2 million people have been given a thermometer and emergency contact numbers. Offices and businesses must install temperature-monitoring systems.
The flu-like disease has infected 4,409 people across China. Half of the deaths, 107 out of 214, have occurred in Beijing. Nearly 7,000 people have been infected worldwide.
Hong Kong said today the virus had killed six more people and infected a further nine. The death toll there is 193. Elsewhere, there were signs the disease, which has caused panic and hurt the travel industry, may be coming under control.
The Philippines reported seven more cases, taking its total to 10, but said they were all on their way to recovery.
Singapore reported its first case in three days as its death toll rose to 27. The tourism board said a damaging drop in visitor arrivals due to SARS had probably bottomed out after a record plunge of 67 per cent in April from a year earlier.
But the government said growth in Singapore and elsewhere in Asia remained hostage to the spread of SARS in China.
Thailand said health ministers from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, which includes China and the US, would meet in Bangkok on June 28 to assess efforts to combat SARS and revive business confidence
In China, Motorola told about 1,000 employees to work from home until next Monday after 27 workers had close contact with the infected employee, spokeswoman Mary Lamb said. Other foreign firms have closed offices or pulled employees out of China, reflecting a fear of the little-understood disease. | <urn:uuid:72047335-faf0-4fbe-9bbf-a7cec5d5d152> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.telegraphindia.com/1030507/asp/foreign/story_1945369.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00146-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968809 | 843 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Every 220 volt electric heater can be prone to damage, malfunctioning, and cause fires when not used properly. Hence, it is always important to practice proper usage of an electric heater to ensure efficient and safe heating. Using your 220 volt electric heater more efficiently may help reduce your heating bills, too. Take a look at these tips to help run your electric heater more efficiently: Continue reading “Using Your 220 Volt Electric Heater More Efficiently”
The microwave oven is a truly revolutionary household appliance that has changed how people heat and even cook food at home. It scores huge points for convenience as well as for efficiency in doing what it is designed to do—which is to cook food quickly. Microwave ovens use special electromagnetic radiation, which heats objects from within, thus making the device most convenient to use for otherwise time-consuming heating tasks like melting butter and heating water. Continue reading “The Need for 220 Volt Microwave”
Coffee makers are electric appliances that have changed and improved the way we create custom and fresh brews. The most basic coffee makers can brew anywhere from one to four cups of coffee, making them practical for small homes or offices. Others have larger capacities and additional features that make them more versatile. There are many different types of coffee makers in the market these days, and the 220 volt machines are among the options.
Modern kitchen appliances are more than just mere luxuries. They are necessities that bring great convenience to everyday living and help enhance your quality of life. Investing in various types of kitchen appliances that are of practical use in your daily kitchen routines will help ensure maximum functionality in your home’s central hub. The kinds of modern kitchen appliances you need largely depend on the type of cooking and food preparation you do on a daily basis. Some essential kitchen devices you might want to invest in include dishwashers, refrigerators, microwave ovens, blenders, toaster ovens, food processors, coffee machines, and oven hobs, among many other that bring great convenience in your daily food preps.
Investing in a high-quality 200 volt refrigerator can make a difference in the way you store food and keep it fresh longer. On average, kitchen appliances like refrigerators must be replaced every 10 to 15 years, but proper maintenance should help extend the life of your fridge and keep it in good, reliable working condition for a much longer period. Here are tips to maintaining your 200 volt refrigerator:
- Set the correct temperature – Keep your refrigerator running between 37 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The freezer must be at zero degrees.
Now is a good time to shop for a new coffee maker. There are 220 volt coffee makers that come with different features to make serving your favorite brew easier and more enjoyable. It can be handy to have a 220 volt coffee maker, too, especially if you are planning to move to a country that uses 200 volts or simply like the special features that may not be available in some 110-volt versions. Here are some of the new features that are present in some of the best 220 volt coffee makers: | <urn:uuid:7cb053de-fe05-4a0e-a18c-514e5d813d2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.blog.samstores.com/2016/02/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.932081 | 629 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Wrongful Termination in Florida
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What Are the Wrongful Termination Laws in Florida?
In Florida, as in most states, employment is "at-will." This means that an employee may be fired for any reason, no matter how arbitrary or irrational, or for no reason at all. However, the "at-will" employment power is not absolute, and is subject to some exceptions.
Under federal law, employers cannot fire an employee based on a protected characteristic such as race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, religion, age, disability, and citizenship status.
Under Florida law, employers cannot discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, religion, disability, age, marital status, AIDS/HIV, or sickle cell trait.
When Can I Bring a Wrongful Termination Lawsuit in Florida?
In Florida, you cannot be terminated for bringing a good-faith claim for workers’ compensation. If you are terminated for this reason, you may have grounds for a wrongful termination suit. If a Florida employer fires an employee for discriminatory reasons, in violation of an employment contract, or in retaliation for exercising their employee rights, the employee may have a legal claim against their employer for wrongful termination.
Also, Florida law does not allow an employer to fire an employee for reporting illegal activities, policies, or practices by the employer to the authorities (i.e. whistle blowing). But for this law to apply, the employee must first bring the matter to the attention of the employer, in writing. Afterwards, the employee can seek a court order preventing further violations of the law, lost wages, reinstatement of employment, and other damages.
How Can I Bring a Wrongful Termination Lawsuit in Florida?
Before bringing a wrongful discrimination lawsuit against an employer in Florida, you must first file a complaint with the appropriate government agency. In Florida, the Florida Commission on Human Relations enforces state laws that prohibit wrongful termination and discrimination lawsuits.
Also, under Florida laws, employers may not fire or threaten an employee for making a workers compensation claim or retaliate against an employee who wants to file a claim against the employer.
Should I Consult an Attorney?
Wrongful termination is a confusing area of law and navigating the legal system may be difficult. An employment lawyer can help you determine whether there is a legal basis for a claim, and if so, she can help you recover monetary damages.
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The International Atomy Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday was set to end its 12-year investigation into Iran’s nuclear weapons program, leading the way for sanctions to be lifted and normalized international relations with Iran to resume.
“While it was not possible for the agency to reconstruct all the details of activities conducted by Iran in the past, we were able to clarify enough elements to provide an assessment of the whole picture,” said Yukiya Amano, director of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog.
The investigation’s closure comes despite the fact that earlier this month, the IAEA published a report revealing that Tehran did indeed have a nuclear weapons program at least through 2003. Iran has publicly denied the existence of a weapons program, claiming that its nuclear program has peaceful purposes. Amano said Iran’s weaponization activities were focused on scientific studies and obtaining “certain relevant technical competencies and capabilities.”
In July, the P5+1 powers (including the United States) agreed on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—a deal to restrict Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of at least $100 billion in economic sanctions.
“Significant progress has been made on the Iran nuclear issue, but now is not the time to relax,” Amano said. “This issue has a long and complex history, and the legacy of mistrust between Iran and the international community must be overcome.”
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) said in a statement that it “deplores” the IAEA’s decision to close the probe into an Iranian nuclear weapons program.
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SBIR/STTR Grant Programs
Research discoveries may lead to products for commercial development. In some cases a university out-licenses the intellectual property, while in other cases the investigator may want to be involved in the development process and choose to start his or her own company to develop, and possibly to manufacture and sell the product. Before undertaking such a challenge, however, the investigator-turned-entrepreneur must consider a variety of issues, including: career goals, financial and time commitments, potential conflicts of interest and/or commitment, start-up funding, as well as his or her ability to run a company or step aside to allow business experts to make necessary decisions.
A faculty member (through the university, as a registered non-profit) can also serve as a subcontractor with small businesses, receiving funding under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) federal programs. Faculty members do not have to own a small business to take part in projects funded by these programs. PIs would submit proposals to businesses seeking small business funding the same way they would submit to any other potential sponsor. Contact one of FSU's experts to find out how.
The SBIR/STTR program’s stated purpose is to strengthen the role of innovative small business concerns in federally-funded research and development. SBIR/STTR awards are limited to U.S.-based, for-profit small businesses.
Brent Edington, Director of Office of Commercialization
Michael Tentnowski, Senior Licensing Manager, Office of Commercialization.
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A partnership between a Florida State University research center and a local business is bringing big bucks to the Tallahassee area while also contributing to the development of the Navy’s new fleet of all-electric ships.
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Mapping YugabyteDB Concepts to PostgreSQL and MongoDB
If you are developing a new distributed application or are extending an existing one with a new set of microservices, chances are you are going to need to store data in a distributed SQL database. The plethora of niche databases that have emerged over the last decade make the task of selecting a database challenging. With many databases, each with its own nomenclature and nuances to choose from, learning a new database can be a daunting task. But what if the programming and architectural model of a new database were very similar to one that you’re already familiar with, minus all the gotchas?
Say “hello” to YugabyteDB, a fully open source high-performance distributed SQL database purpose-built for internet-scale, geo-distributed applications. YugabyteDB marries the best features of a SQL database – PostgreSQL compatibility, ACID transactions, relational modeling with JOINs, secondary indexes, and schemas, with characteristics that are often only found in NoSQL systems like – auto sharding, fault tolerance, low read latencies, and support for flexible schema designs with JSON documents.
If you are new to YugabyteDB, this blog post will help map key architectural concepts to PostgreSQL and MongoDB, databases you are likely already familiar with.
Concept 1: The Node
In production, YugabyteDB is deployed over a cluster of multiple machines that may be virtual, physical or containerized. Typically, the term node is used to refer to a single machine in the cluster.
So, what’s inside a YugabyteDB node? Let’s look at it from both the logical and physical perspectives. YugabyteDB has 2 logical layers – Yugabyte Query Layer and DocDB. The YQL layer includes the API specific aspects, for example, the SQL implementation, corresponding query/command compilation, and run-time components. And, DocDB is the distributed document store responsible for foundational aspects such as sharding, replication consistency, and other storage subsystems.
Logical Architecture of a YugabyteDB Node
From the physical aspect, YB-TServer (aka the YugabyteDB Tablet Server) is the main database process. It is responsible for serving application client queries as well as the automatic sharding, replication, transactions management tasks.
Physical Architecture of a YugabyteDB Node
Additionally, there is the YB-Master (aka the YugabyteDB Master Server) process that is responsible for storing system metadata (such as shard-to-node mappings) and coordinating system-wide operations, such as automatic load balancing, table creation, or schema changes. YB-Master does not come in the regular IO path used by application clients. Irrespective of the number of YB-TServers present in the system, there should be at least three YB-Master processes running across the system at any time for reliability.
Concept 2: The Cluster
A cluster is a logical group of nodes that run together. Clustering is used for high availability as well as for load balancing the application workload across several nodes. A cluster is expected to have a minimum of 3 nodes and can horizontally scale, as the workload demand grows, to as many nodes as required. A cluster can span multiple zones in a single region, multiple regions of a single cloud or multiple clouds to achieve global reach and scale.
In a YugabyteDB deployment, replication of data between cluster nodes can is by default setup as synchronous which guarantees strong consistency. Optionally, asynchronous replication which guarantees timeline consistency (with bounded staleness) can be configured in the context of read replicas. Note that YugabyteDB does not support any form of eventual consistency that’s common in traditional NoSQL databases. A synchronously replicated cluster is known as the Primary Cluster that can accept writes to the system. A primary cluster can become the source for an asynchronously replicated cluster known as a Read Replica. These read replicas allow the application to serve low latency reads in remote regions.
Logical Architecture of a YugabyteDB Cluster with 5 Nodes
As shown in the figure above, scaling a cluster simply involves increasing or decreasing the number of YB-TServers present in the cluster. Addition or removal of YB-TServers essentially leads to data shards (discussed in a later section) getting automatically re-balanced across the available YB-TServers. Note the above logical architecture also includes 3 YB-Masters not shown in the figure.
Concept 3: The Universe
A universe in YugabyteDB is comprised of one primary cluster and multiple optional read replica clusters. Each cluster is installed on a collection of nodes that may be located in one or more availability zones, regions or even multiple hybrid clouds.
Logical Architecture of a YugabyteDB Universe
Together, the clusters function as a single logical, highly resilient, global-scale database known as a Universe.
Concept 4: From SQL Tables to Tablets and Nodes
- The YSQL API is best fit for RDBMS workloads that need scale-out and global distribution while also needing fully relational SQL features like JOINs, referential integrity, and multi-table transactions.
- The YCQL API is best fit for internet-scale OLTP apps that want a semi-relational distributed SQL that’s highly optimized for write-intensive applications as well as blazing fast query needs.
Similar to most distributed databases, table data in YugabyteDB is split into multiple chunks or shards and spread over multiple nodes. These shards are called tablets in DocDB, YugabyteDB’s distributed document store. Initial sharding and ongoing shard rebalancing across nodes is completely automatic in DocDB.
Data sharding in DocDB happens with the help of a hashing function over the partitioning columns in the primary key. In addition, the primary key can also contain additional range-based/clustered columns that help co-locate related data in a given partition in a sorted manner. In addition to hash-based partitioning, which uniformly distributes the workload across multiple nodes, DocDB plans to support range-based data partitioning that will useful for cases where querying of ordered records might be needed.
When a data read or write occurs, the partition columns of the primary key are hashed, and the request is routed to the correct tablet server that hosts the tablet.
Concept 5: Replication and Storage
Depending on the replication factor, tablets are replicated and have tablet-peers. For example, as shown in the figure below, Tablet 16 has 3 peers, and each peer is placed on a separate node for high availability in case one of the nodes goes offline.
In the world of distributed systems, Raft has become the de-facto consensus replication algorithm when it comes to building resilient, strongly consistent systems. DocDB uses the Raft protocol for tablet leader election as well as data replication between tablet peers. Every tablet and its peers form a Raft group in YugabyteDB as shown in the figure below. “How Does the Raft Consensus-Based Replication Protocol Work in YugabyteDB?” describes the various benefits derived in such a replication architecture.
Once data is replicated via Raft across quorum of tablet-peers, DocDB applies the change to the local storage engine on that node. This local storage engine is a highly customized version of RocksDB, a widely popular embeddable fast key-value storage engine. To learn more about how DocDB leverages RocksDB, check out “How We Built a High Performance Document Store on RocksDB.”
Mapping Core Concepts to PostgreSQL & MongoDB
Now that we have reviewed the major YugabyteDB concepts, let’s quickly look at how these concepts map to PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
PostgreSQL vs. YugabyteDB
PostgreSQL is a single node relational database (aka RDBMS). Tables are not partitioned/sharded into smaller components since all data is served from a single node anyway. On the other hand, YugabyteDB is an auto-sharded distributed database where shards are automatically placed on different nodes altogether. The benefit is that no single node can become the performance or availability bottleneck while serving data across different shards. This concept is key to how YugabyteDB achieves horizontal write scalability that native PostgreSQL lacks. Additional nodes lead to the shards getting rebalanced across all the nodes so that the additional compute capacity can be more thoroughly utilized.
There is a concept of “partitioned tables” in PostgreSQL that can make horizontal data partitioning/sharding confusing to PostgreSQL developers. First introduced in PostgreSQL 10, partitioned tables enable a single table to be broken into multiple child tables so that these child tables can be stored on separate disks (tablespaces). Serving of the data however is still performed by a single node. Hence this approach does not offer any of the benefits of an auto-sharded distributed database such as YugabyteDB.
MongoDB vs. YugabyteDB
As detailed in “Overcoming MongoDB Sharding and Replication Limitations with YugabyteDB”, MongoDB by default operates in the context of a single shard. A single shard can be made highly available using a Replica Set, a group of mongod processes that maintain the same data set. This group has 1 primary member and 2 secondary members. Given the single write node limitation in both MongoDB Replica Set and PostgreSQL, they face the same horizontal scalability challenge.
If data volume grows beyond what can be handled by a single shard running on a single node, then the Replica Set has to be converted into a Sharded Cluster where multiple Replica Sets can be managed as a more unified unit. This conversion also comes with the addition of MongoDB Config Servers as the metadata store and cluster coordinator. In contrast, YugabyteDB functions in a fully sharded mode by default and hence can be horizontally scaled to large number of nodes much more easily than MongoDB. Note that a single YB-TServer manages multiple shards (aka tablets) where as a single mongod daemon is responsible for only one shard. This leads to significantly better CPU and memory utilization in YugabyteDB compared to MongoDB especially for the common case of uneven traffic distribution across shards.
As a single node RDBMS, PostgreSQL is a strong contender for powering small scale business-critical apps. However, when the rigidity of relational schema modeling and/or the lack of automatic failover becomes a concern, developers tend to gravitate towards MongoDB. MongoDB works fine in the context of a single Replica Set as long as horizontal write scalability with low read latency is not the top priority. If that becomes a priority then developers have no choice but to look for an alternative. As a PostgreSQL-compatible high-performance distributed SQL database, YugabyteDB is such an alternative.
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The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council.: Canon VII
Since we have learned that in some churches deacons hold ecclesiastical offices, and that hereby some of them with arrogancy and license sit daringly before the presbyters: we have determined that a deacon, even if in an office of dignity, that is to say, in whatever ecclesiastical office he may be, is not to have his seat before a presbyter, except he is acting as representative of his own patriarch or metropolitan in another city under another superior, for then he shall be honoured as filling his place. But if anyone, possessed with a tyrannical audacity, shall have dared to do such a thing, let him be ejected from his peculiar rank and be last of all of the order in whose list he is in his own church; our Lord admonishing us that we are not to delight in taking the chief seats, according to the doctrine which is found in the holy Evangelist Luke, as put forth by our Lord and God himself. For to those who were called he taught this parable: “When ye are bidden by anyone to a marriage sit not down in the highest room lest a more honourable man than thou shall have been bidden by him; and he who bade thee and him come and say to thee: Give this man place, and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. But when thou art bidden, sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who bade thee cometh he may say to thee, Friend go up higher: then thou shalt have worship in the presence of them that sit with thee. For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.” But the same thing also shall be observed in the remaining sacred orders; seeing that we know that spiritual things are to be preferred to worldly dignity.
Ancient Epitome of Canon VII.
A deacon in the execution of his office, if he shall have occasion to sit in the presence of presbyters, shall take the lowest place unless he be the representative of the Patriarch or bishop.
Balsamon, Zonaras, and following them Van Espen point out that this canon is a relaxation of the XVIII. Canon of Nice which punishes presumptuous deacons not only with loss of rank in their grade, but also with expulsion from their ministry.
Van Espen well remarks that the Fathers of this synod had in mind not only the presp. 369 ervation of the distinction between deacons and presbyters, but also between those in ecclesiastical orders and those enjoying secular dignities with regard to ecclesiastical matters, but who were not to gain there from ecclesiastical precedence. This is what is meant by the last clause of the canon.
Beveridge gives a list of these quasi ecclesiastical dignitaries as follows: Magnus Œconomus, Magno Sacello Præpositus, Magnus Vasorum Custos, Chartophylax, Parvo Sacello Præpositus, Primus Defensor.
Next: Canon VIII
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Let’s hit the boost button and apply a few leverage tips to optimize your profits. Effective use of financial concepts in your business can really add to your bottom line each year and hopefully this will help you with a couple of ideas.
Cost Cutting Mistakes
The first concept that I really want to address is cost cutting. Most people try and reduce costs instead of increasing profits and this is what keeps people poor. Stop being obsessed with “cost”. They can only ever be reduced by 100%. What you need to be doing is to focus on getting the profit and I’m going to show you some formulas to help you explain this. Lets open our eyes to bigger possibilities…
Total Sales x Margin = Profit
I have to give credit to Jay Abraham because he is the pioneer teacher of this method. Total sales x your margin = profit. So take everything you sell times your margin equals profit so if that’s true let’s just look at some numbers.
$100K x 50% = $50k
If we sell a $100k and our margin is 50%, we make $50k. Our costs are $50k and most people will try and focus in reducing that costs and try and get more of that $100k.
But what happens if we increase our costs? If we call it an investment and we go and buy some really targeted traffic using everything we’ve learned in a course like Traffic Grab? If we would increase our investment in traffic 10 times, if we would’ve go crazy and spend $500,000 and if we could scale it to a $1,000,000 sales amount then now, we have a $500,000 profit. We spent ten times more but we made ten times more.
Advanced Financial Mindset
Lets apply an advanced mindset to the process. Frankly, a lot of people just don’t have a good financial mindset so your big question should be, ‘How can I invest more into my business that converts so that I can sell more than what I spend?’ and that’s the goal.
The Next Level
Take this up a notch. If you can increase your expense by another factor now you’re generating $3 million in sales and let’s say that you have a margin of 50% because a lot of these things are completely scalable (and I know this because this is about what’s happened to my business). You’ll end up with a $1.5M profit.
Sure your cost is 1.5M and your profit is 1.5M. Now if you remember that first example you’re making $50,000. So what I’ve just shown you is pretty much my business graduation from the beginning to now and I can tell you I’ll keep looking to increase my sales if I could do $10M and it costs me $5M, that’s okay because I’m still going to make $5M profit when it’s all said and done and there’s other side effects too.
I can tell you that it’s more likely if I’m investing $1.5M a year into websites and domains and teaching my team, then I’m pretty sure I’ve got an amazing asset that could be sold for multiples and at the end of the day, the goal of the business for me is to build up equity that I could sell to somebody else. I want to create a business that has cashflow and is sale-able.
Three step Action Plan
So that’s a leverage concept worth grasping. Stop playing with ‘push button magic’ and start growing your REAL business. Here are some action steps you can take that are partly inspired by business genius Peter Drucker.
1) Identify what needs to be done that is best for your business
2) Develop an implementation plan (and be responsible to carry it through)
3) Focus on opportunity (investments) rather than problems (costs)
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B.—THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF EGYPT.
Me. Newberry's Work, 1892-93.
Before the Archaeological Survey party left London in December, 1892'
it was intended that the main work of the season which has now drawn
to a close should be devoted to the exploration of the tombs situated in
the hills to the east of the site of the ancient city of Khutaten,1 a site
known to the Bedawin of to-day by the name of Tel Beni 'Amrau, but
to the world more generally, and to tourists in particular, by the name
Tell el Amarna. It proved, however, that for this year the site had been
placed at the disposal of another worker ; and so our labours there had
to be deferred. Meanwhile, I at once decided that the main basis of
operations should be the tomb3 of Sheikh Sa'id, which are situated on
the east bank of the Nile, a few miles to the north of Tell el Amarna.
Our survey of the Sheikh Sa'id tombs (which, of course, includes copying
the bas-reliefs and inscriptions), however, by no means comprises all that
the officers'sent out by the Fund have accomplished this year. We
1 Khutaten and Khuenaten would be more properly rendered by Aklietaten and
2 The officers this year were : Mr. Percy E. Newberry (officer in charge), Mr. Percy
Buckman (artist), Mr. John E. Newberry (architect), and Mr. Howard Carter (artist).
Prom February 7th to April 13th Mr. Carter was absent from the Survey Work,
having been sent by the Committee to join Mr. Guthrie Roger at Simbelawin in
the Delta. Prom February 21st to April 2nd Mr. John Newberry was working with
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WASHINGTON — Spring has brought new reason to hope for the release of Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen shackled and imprisoned in Iran.
The Persian New Year “Nowruz,” which began on the first day of spring, is a 13-day celebration of the rebirth of nature, but it’s also when Iranian prisoners are historically granted amnesty.
The Iran Daily Brief reported 12 prisoners were released March 20. Although there is no sign yet of clemency for Abedini, politicians and religious leaders remain hopeful.
“Pastor Saeed Abedini should be released from prison immediately. So, too, should all those languishing in Iranian prisons for merely practicing their faith or expressing their political views,” David Brog, executive director for Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel organization in America, told WND.
Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry told WND: “I join pastor Abedini’s family in praying for his health, safety and immediate release.”
In a phone interview, Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, said he can’t comprehend how the president of the free world can seemingly look away while Christians, including Abedini, are jailed in hostile countries for their religious beliefs. At the same time, the U.S. has released prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.
“This shows Obama’s impotence and lack of concern,” Stockman said. “(Former President Jimmy) Carter even spoke up for imprisoned Americans in the Cold War, but this president seems reluctant to bring up the prisoner situation, whether it’s in North Korea or Iran.”
Abedini, a U.S. citizen, was sentenced in 2012 to eight years in an Iranian prison on charges related to his religious beliefs.
Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, or ACLJ, represents Abedini. He told WND his client is receiving medication and some treatment for beatings stemming from his initial arrest, but he’s still being refused the critical surgery he needs to treat his injuries.
Stockman believes Obama must pressure the Iranians and that the president could be effective if he would do it the right way.
“In a clever ploy, if I were president, I would tell Iranian leaders what they are doing is worse than what was done to terrorists in Gitmo,” he said.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told WND that if the U.S. lets “thugs loose from Guantanamo,” it should be able “to stand up for Christians who have never done anything but try to save souls.”
“At this point, we ought to be demand his release,’ he said. ‘If we can’t secure the release of nonviolent Christians who commit no crimes, then we shouldn’t be talking about dealing with other nations.”
Sekulow said the clemency tradition of the Persian New Year opens the door for the Iranian government to quietly release Abedini to his family for further medical care without having to directly admit fault.
“It’s an important time for any prisoners of conscience, a time when most people are taking off of work because the government shuts down. It would be a key time for the prisoner release when you look at the historical practices of the Iranian government,” he said. “They could say he wouldn’t have to report back to jail.”
Meanwhile, Abedini’s children grow older in their father’s absence. Jacob just celebrated his sixth birthday with his 8-year-old sister, Rebecca, and their mother, Naghmeh, who has launched a relentless campaign for the release of her husband.
“I had anticipated that I would battle the Iranian government for my husband’s freedom. I never anticipated that I would also have to battle my own government and that the journey would become even much more difficult than it had been,” she told Fox News last December after the Obama administration failed to negotiate the release of her husband in a deal with Iran.
In the deal, Iran reportedly received billions in sanctions relief and the ability to keep its centrifuges, key to building nuclear weapons. Also immediately prior to the deal, the U.S. released an Iranian scientist who was being held in a U.S. prison.
“These brave prisoners of conscience are shining a light on the true nature of the Iranian regime – a regime which has not changed one iota since the recent presidential election,” CUNF’s Brog said. “We in the West must not forget these heroes. And we dare not ignore the troubling truths about Iran to which their continued incarceration testifies.”
Since Abedini was detained in Iran two years ago, Christian persecution has grown at an alarming rate. One in four of the world’s Christians live in countries now hostile to their faith, according to a report released March 20 by Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
President Hassan Rouhani’s new regime hasn’t brought Iran’s Christians any relief, according to a new United Nations report that found the Islamic Republic’s Bible believers more persecuted than ever.
The U.N. also reported Iran has continued to imprison Christians for their faith and has designated house churches and evangelical Christians as “threats to national security.” At least 49 Christians were among 307 religious minorities being held in Iranian jails as of January, noted the U.N., which also blasted the regime for its hostility to Jews, Bahais, Zoroastrians and Dervish Muslims.
“Most Americans think the U.S. wouldn’t tolerate things getting this bad, but they are,” Gohmert said. “Persecution is growing as nations see us appear to be weaker than we have been.”
WND recently reported on slaughterhouses where Muslims are killing Christians in Syria.
“I have never seen something like this,” Christian convert and former Muslim terrorist Walid Shoebat told WND.
“I have been investigating this story for the past two weeks. The story is probably the most horrific I have ever [done]. It proves with footage actual systematic slaughterhouses of human beings, including Christians in Syria.”
“Look to your own soul, and understand your own obligation to help the Christians,” Shoebat said.
As Obama prepares to meet with the Vatican Thursday, Stockman said it would be a good time for both the pope and Obama to “go public on religious liberties and not just give generic statements.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s: The Author Incorporated
Hardback | Jan 2020 | Anthem Press | 9781785272844 | 242pp | 228x152mm | RFB | AUD$125.00, NZD$210.00
An investigation of R. L. Stevenson and the geographies of his literary networks
Focusing on an author characterised by geographical and aesthetic mobility, and on those who worked with him or wrote for him, Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s investigates the operations of transatlantic literary networks during a period of key changes in transatlantic publishing through a series of critical case studies.
'A groundbreaking account of transatlantic publishing and reputation in the 1890s focusing on the uniquely talented, uniquely peripatetic property known as Robert Louis Stevenson, enmeshed in a network of agents, mentors, friends, fans and gatekeepers. Norquay's invaluable study explores the 'incorporation' of the modern author under new concepts of authorship, ownership and commercial competition.' — Roderick Watson, Professor Emeritus, University of Stirling, UK
'Glenda Norquay tells a story as surprising and absorbing as any tale of adventure created by Robert Louis Stevenson himself. In her hands, scholarship on late-Victorian publishing history comes to life as a narrative about obsessive love, greedy self-interest, legal machinations, and high-minded dedication to Art (with a capital 'A'), all focused on the works that RLS left behind at the time of his premature death. […] This volume offers new points of origin for everything from modern marketing strategies to popular notions of celebrity authorship and fandom. At the same time, the thread running so invitingly throughout is Norquay's own deep appreciation of RLS and her ability to reawaken interest in novels of his that have wrongly been neglected.' — Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities, Department of Women & Gender Studies, University of Delaware, USA | <urn:uuid:49462043-d3e8-4757-97c5-2c4df6347b35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publishers.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/r-obert-louis-stevenson-literary-networks-and-transatlantic-publishing-1890s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.923854 | 425 | 1.632813 | 2 |
ATLANTA - Georgia is being invaded, wildlife officials say, but not by a foreign nation or a terrorist group.
Instead, the intruders are from nature. They are invasive species, both plant and animal, and they are costly, and the state is trying to come up with a way to get rid of or control them.
Nationwide, researchers concluded in a 2000 paper for the journal Bioscience, "invasive" or "nonindigenous" species are responsible for $137 billion in economic losses.
"If we had been able to assign monetary values to species extinctions and losses in biodiversity, ecosystem services and aesthetics, the costs of destructive nonindigenous species would undoubtedly be several times higher than $137 billion per year," wrote David Pimentel, Lori Lach, Rodolfo Zuniga and Doug Morrison. "Yet even this understated economic loss indicates that nonindigenous species are exacting a significant toll."
The problem of invasive species is not necessarily a new one for Georgia, said Ted Hendrickx, senior fisheries biologist at the state Department of Natural Resources.
"It's getting more (public) awareness now," Hendrickx said.
One of the most common and recognizable invasive species is the sprawling patches of kudzu that cover so much of Georgia and several other states. That is though, just one example of a widespread problem.
Chinese privet and cogon grass are two examples of plants that have come into Georgia. Pacu, a fish that looks like a piranha, also is a problem. And hydrilla covers rivers, streams and lakes where it is introduced.
"It's kind of a losing battle in some areas," Hendrickx said.
Where do the unnatural critters come from?
A variety of sources - many of them seemingly harmless activities carried out by unsuspecting Georgians.
One of the major sources of pacu, for example, appears to be people who keep them as pets but get tired of feeding and dealing with the growing fish. Hendrickx said wildlife officials usually get a handful of calls from fisherman who find pacu around July 4. Often, the fish are about the size that's just too big to fit in a standard, 20-gallon aquarium.
Some animals escape from researchers. Others come from water gardens or plants that people keep outside.
And some "invasive" species begin in one area of Georgia, but people take them to areas the animals are not usually found. In recent years, spotted bass and flathead catfish - a problem in southeast Georgia - have been found in other parts of the state as well.
"People have moved them outside of their natural drainages," Hendrickx said.
The toll, what to do
The cost of invasive species can be twofold. The Georgia General Assembly has set aside $200,000 a year to try to battle the infiltration of flathead catfish in the Satilla River, for instance. But other problems also emerge. Hydrilla, for example, tends to attract and fuel the growth of blue-green algae associated with a brain-wasting disease that can strike birds such as coots. Bald eagles then eat the coots, Hendrickx said, and can contract the disease themselves.
The Georgia Forestry Commission and others have begun raising concerns about the hemlock woolly adelgid, an insect that feasts on evergreen trees that provide shade for hiking trails and cool down trout streams in the north Georgia mountains.
Key to any plan to control the unwanted visitors, officials say, is education - warning anglers not to dump their bait buckets into the water when they're done or urging residents not to abandon former pets in rivers or streams.
"We're trying to educate people and trying to modify some of those behaviors," Hendrickx said.
Retailers and others who sell plants or animals are far easier to find and punish. For example, the state Department of Agriculture can revoke the license of someone who sells plants that aren't supposed to be in the state. And there are bans on improperly stocking fish.
"The average person, member of the public, we really can't do anything about," Hendrickx said.
The state also is working up an invasive species management plan, a process that almost 30 other states have undertaken, Hendrickx said. The plan would contain blueprints for dealing with aquatic invasive animals - opening up a potential source of federal funding. Under a 1990 law passed by Congress, any state with a plan qualifies for matching funds that bring in $3 for every $1 the state spends.
The proposal also is helping state officials from a variety of agencies tasked with dealing with invasive species - including the DNR, the agriculture department and the forestry commission - to better coordinate their efforts.
"Everybody's just been kind of doing it on their own ... and it's based on personal interests," Hendrickx said.
So far, he said, the state has largely avoided some of the major problems with invasive species that have plagued other states.
"The hardest thing," he said, "is (that) we don't know what the next big thing is going to be."
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The first rule of public relations: check the calendar before your big product launch.
Slashdot's readers aren't easily fooled. Or are they?
Google, one of the savviest firms on the internet, has learnt this lesson the hard way after announcing it was taking a leap into the e-mail market.
Thanks to the date on its press release - 1 April - most of its target market was convinced the launch was a hoax.
Despite the firm's reassurances, online message boards have been full of speculation about Google's Gmail.
"It's going to go down in history as one of the biggest
pranks ever pulled," wrote one visitor to Slashdot.org, a major talking shop for tech workers.
Google's insistence that Gmail was genuine was undermined by the oddly jokey style of its initial announcement.
A Google user, the release said, "kvetched like crazy" about existing web e-mail programs.
"Millions of M&Ms later, Gmail was born."
The company has a reputation for unconventional humour, and did publish a genuine April Fool's joke - a fake advertisement for engineers to work on the moon.
"It is April Fool's Day. We were having fun with this
announcement," said Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's vice-president of products.
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By Sarah Hunt, AZFB Communications Intern
Ever wondered why its so hard to lose weight, get into shape, or change your eating habits? I’m constantly relearning this phrase my grandpa always said: “the easy way is the hard way!”. It means if you want something done right, you have to do it the right way. There’s no shortcuts or sidesteps that you can take.
Now, in our modern world where we get many things instantly and at the touch of our fingertips, even a small wait like when our cell phones are buffering can bug us. So today, I’m sharing the key attributes you need to develop or strengthen to be successful in your healthy endeavors.
You have to decide if you want something bad enough, or if you are genuinely happy with where you are. Distinguish the difference between being content and complacent with your health. Dictionary.com defines complacent as “pleased, especially with oneself or one’s merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect”. Content is defined by the same source as “satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else”. In the end, improving your health will always be worth it.
Making a commitment means you do what you say you’re going to do. You make your goals, and then follow through, one day at a time. To commit is defined as “to bind or obligate oneself, as by pledge or assurance; devote or engage oneself to a person or thing”.
Diligence is similar to commitment, but has a few key differences. Diligence is “constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind”. Whereas commitment is a promise you are constantly making and keeping to yourself, diligence is the effort you need to put forth every day to see the improvement in your health that you want to see.
This is one of the most important traits to improving your health, although all the others listed are needed to support it. Consistency is a “steadfast adherence to the same principles, course, form, etc.”. When you are consistent, you are sticking to your schedule of when you are going to accomplish your daily goals. It doesn’t necessarily mean you have to work out at 6 am every morning, but rather you did your workout that day, regardless of what time it was at.
You met your goal of, say, working out Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this week, even if it wasn’t at the exact time you planned. When you are constantly repeating and meeting your goals week after week, you are bound to see results as the months go by. It’s not always easy to do this, which is why we’re introducing the next couple principles.
It’s inevitable; we’re all human, and we all make mistakes. We all get too busy, or forget to do our workout, or simply don’t have the time or energy or willpower to make a healthy meal or whatever our goal was that day. Forgive yourself for not making your goal that day and resolve to do better the next day. Don’t let missing one day make you give up on your long term goals entirely. Progress is still progress, no matter what it looks like. Don’t let it go to waste!
Patience is defined as “bearing provocation, annoyance, misfortune, delay, hardship, pain, etc., with fortitude and calm and without complaint, anger, or the like. Quietly and steadily persevering or diligent, especially in detail or exactness”. It can be easy to get so frustrated with your multiple failed attempts that you want to give up on ever improving your health entirely. But when you take a deep breath, calm down, and ponder why you’re trying to accomplish your daily goals, you find the motivation to keep going, despite annoyances or delays.
Practicing patience is one of the best ways to remain consistent with your goals. Keep going, and as time passes, you will start to see results. Try adopting daily mantras to give you the motivation to keep going, such as, “I may not be there now, but I will one day if I keep going” or “my work today is bringing me closer to my ultimate goal”.
Resilient is defined as “springing back; rebounding. Returning to the original form or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched. Recovering readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyant”. When you are resilient, you get back up when you fall, so to say. When you miss a workout or eat a not so healthy meal versus a healthier one, it doesn’t faze you anymore. Ultimately, you will come to this point where you snap right back.
It takes a lot of practice and consistency, but as you make yourself get up and accomplish that daily goal, you will be more likely to do this in the future. It will get easier to keep doing this, and it will be easier to stick to your schedule more and miss your daily goals less. Surround yourself with positive motivation. Some of my favorites are mantras, quotes, a healthy reward (food or a retail item), and having a workout partner, who makes similar goals as you, so you can motivate each other, be accountable to each other, accomplish your goals together, and celebrate your achievements together.
It is SO important to celebrate your success, whether you just finished your workout on an especially challenging day, finished running a marathon, or you simply decided to go with a healthier option at a restaurant over getting a Big Mac. Small and big wins should both be celebrated regularly. It’s important to remain humble and grateful about your successes as well. Be proud of yourself, but give credit where credit is due, whether it’s your accountability partner for keeping you going, Walmart for providing you with healthy groceries, or being able to afford a gym membership and have a place to go to work out.
Lastly, keep going! There’s always more progress you can make when it comes to your health, whether it’s your emotional, mental, physical, or spiritual health, amongst other types of health. Take your time, make time for breaks, and avoid burn out. As you consistently adhere to your daily goals and make time for rest, you will see the progress appear that you are seeking.
Endurance is defined as “the fact or power of enduring or bearing pain, hardships, etc. The ability or strength to continue or last, especially despite fatigue, stress, or other adverse conditions; stamina. Lasting quality; duration”. When you endure, you persevere and push through the tough times, because you know it will eventually be worth it. If you continue to endure and power through, you will reach your ultimate goal. Endurance also increases over time as you practice it, and you will be more likely to get through tough times in your health journey easier.
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Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism - American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback)Jennifer Haytock
Hardback Published: 01/07/2008
- Can be ordered from our supplier
This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton's voice in those debates.
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The Cutting Edge
Can stone-tool marks on fossils be distinguished from tooth marks?
Cuts Versus Chews
I have great personal interest in this report on the Dikika fossils. Almost 30 years ago, Rick Potts, now of the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian Institution, and I were the first to demonstrate (as we published in Nature) that the microscopic appearance of stone-tool cut marks is distinctly different from marks produced by animal teeth.
We had collected large samples of bones with marks of known origin, then “visually inspected” (eyeballed) and documented the marks under a scanning electron microscope. Our known samples included carnivore tooth marks, rodent gnawing, weathering, sedimentary abrasion, digestion, trampling, excavators’ marks, and root marks; the known samples expanded in number and diversity as years passed. By comparing the known pieces with each other and with the unknown ones, we were able to identify diagnostic characteristics that consistently showed up in true cut marks that were lacking in other kinds of marks.
Our paper on identifying surface marks on fossils kicked off a flurry of controversy and excitement. Some colleagues challenged our ability to make these identifications correctly. Others undertook parallel studies examining many different kinds of marks and surface damage, including percussion (hitting a bone with a stone tool to break it open). What once seemed simple is now complex. We now know that several types of marks can closely mimic cut marks, including trampling by animals and the action of crocodile teeth on their prey. Great care must be taken to distinguish such marks from cut marks.
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Please see attached for Science work for this week. Please return your completed work to me, on or before Friday, 27th March.
This week we are finishing the Forces chapter.
1. Please complete the attached forces missing words worksheet.
2. Question: Is it possible to pull apart two interleaved phone books? Write down your answer/predictions, and give reasons for your answer.
Watch the following two YouTube videos to find the solution. Reflect on your answer.
You can try this experiment at home, instead of using phone books, you can use post-its. Try the experiment first with two stacks of 5 post-its, record your observations. Then, try the experiment with two stacks of 30 post-its, record your observations. What can you conclude from carrying out this experiment?
3. Complete the following quiz on Forces, please enter your first name when prompted for your Quizizz name.
Our text book, Active Science, is now available online here:
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Only 1 Shortz Era entry found. Click the date to see the answer in context. See the dictionary definition.
|Thursday, April 26, 2012||13D||Group making billion-dollar loans||Julian Lim|
1 result for WORLDBANK from Variety puzzles.
|April 3, 2016||acrostic||N||International organization once headed by Paul Wolfowitz (2 wds.)||Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon|
2 results for WORLDBANK from older pre-Shortz puzzles.
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Lack of access to wireless internet in classrooms is making it harder for those in teaching jobs to ensure their pupils are computer literate, a new report has indicated.
The government has made improving schoolchildren's ICT skills a priority, with computer science to be taught in secondary schools as part of the revamped National Curriculum.
Education secretary Michael Gove also wants primary teachers to educate their pupils about basic computer code and in how to create simple animations and websites.
Yet a new study conducted on behalf of the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) has shown that poor internet access could be a barrier to these objectives, with only 22 per cent of 250 secondary schools surveyed having wi-fi in all or most of their classrooms.
A further 39 per cent only had it in some of their rooms, BBC News reported, while 39 per cent only had wi-fi in very few or none of their classrooms.
Meanwhile, out of 350 primary schools looked at, 28 per cent had wi-fi access in all or most rooms, 22 per cent in some rooms and 50 per cent had little or no wireless internet access in their classrooms.
The need for good wi-fi access was stressed by Valerie Thompson of the E-Learning Foundation, who described it as "vital to a 21st century learning environment" and as enabling children to continue learning "in the sports hall, the playground or over lunch".
Ms Thompson's sentiments were echoed by Sean Larner, of wi-fi provider Xirrus, who predicted that in future most lessons will involve digital technology and urged the government to take responsibility for ensuring pupils have sufficient internet access.
However, a Department for Education spokeswoman stated that head teachers managed their own budgets and were best placed to decide the extent to which wi-fi should be made accessible in their schools.
She added that new school buildings were always built with high standards of wi-fi access, while all new teachers are trained to use ICT in the classroom.
Lack of wi-fi access in schools could be exacerbated by the fact that 29 per cent of children in the UK's poorest households have no access to a computer and 36 per cent no access to the internet, according to recent E-Learning Foundation analysis of official government statistics.
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RE: st: st)why log linear model is better?
The same applies, even more strongly, to
interpretation of standard errors, which
are no longer on the same scale.
In addition, look at diagnostic plots
such as residual vs fitted, in each case.
> YOu have to be careful in comparing R-square for a regression in which
> the dependent variable has been transformed with one in which
> it has not
> been transformed. The dependent variables are not measured on the same
> scale, and this can throw off the comparison. IF it does turn out that
> the equation with transformed variables provides a better fit, the
> explanation will not be a statistical one, but a substantive one. The
> equation with transformed variables better describes the processes at
> work. Only someone with a knowledge of those processes could offer an
> explanation as to why that is.
> > I need a help to find out reasonable explanation for my model
> > specification.After running simple linear regression using OLS,
> > ROBUST standard errors(due to
> > heteroskadasticty) and SUR, it turned out that log linear
> > log(y)=a1+a2log(x1)+a3log(x2)+a4log(x3)+...e
> > seems to be fit so well in any cases rather than level or other
> > transformationregressions:
> > y=a1+a2x1+a3x2+a4x3+.....+e
> > in terms of lower standard errors and higher R squares.
> > I am looking some explanations why this happens and also want to
> > know how tell
> > whether the log linear regression method is my best specification
> > Mostly y x2 x3 are ratio and x1 is level( but x1 is not a
> > denominator of other
> > ratios)
> > Within my knowledge, the log transformation would be helpful for
> > multiplicativedata set. I don't know it would be applied to my case
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vorbiscomment - List or edit comments in Ogg Vorbis files
vorbiscomment [-l] [-R] [-e] file.ogg vorbiscomment -a [ -c commentfile | -t “name=value” ] [-q] [-R] [-e] in.ogg [out.ogg] vorbiscomment -w [ -c commentfile | -t “name=value” ] [-q] [-R] [-e] in.ogg [out.ogg]
vorbiscomment Reads, modifies, and appends Ogg Vorbis audio file metadata tags.
-a, --append Append comments. -c file, --commentfile file Take comments from a file. The file is the same format as is output by the the -l option or given to the -t option: one element per line in 'tag=value' format. If the file is /dev/null and -w was passed, the existing comments will be removed. -h, --help Show command help. -l, --list List the comments in the Ogg Vorbis file. -q, --quiet Quiet mode. No messages are displayed. -t 'name=value', --tag 'name=value' Specify a new tag on the command line. Each tag is given as a single string. The part before the '=' is treated as the tag name and the part after as the value. -w, --write Replace comments with the new set given either on the command line with -t or from a file with -c. If neither -c nor -t is given, the new set will be read from the standard input. -R, --raw Read and write comments in UTF-8, rather than converting to the user's character set. -e, --escapes Quote/unquote newlines and backslashes in the comments. This ensures every comment is exactly one line in the output (or input), allowing to filter and round-trip them. Without it, you can only write multi-line comments by using -t and you can't reliably distinguish them from multiple one-line comments. Supported escapes are c-style "\n", "\r", "\\" and "\0". A backslash followed by anything else is an error. Note: currently, anything after the first "\0" is thrown away while writing. This is a bug -- the Vorbis format can safely store null characters, but most other tools wouldn't handle them anyway. -V, --version Display the version of vorbiscomment.
To just see what comment tags are in a file: vorbiscomment -l file.ogg To edit those comments: vorbiscomment -l file.ogg > file.txt [edit the comments in file.txt to your satisfaction] vorbiscomment -w -c file.txt file.ogg newfile.ogg To simply add a comment: vorbiscomment -a -t 'ARTIST=No One You Know' file.ogg newfile.ogg To add a set of comments from the standard input: vorbiscomment -a file.ogg ARTIST=No One You Know ALBUM=The Famous Album <ctrl-d>
See http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html for documentation on the Ogg Vorbis tag format, including a suggested list of canonical tag names.
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‘Hindutva groups using poor and unemployed youths in MP to spread hatred
Civil society organisations in Madhya Pradesh blamed poverty and unemployment among youth for the upsurge in incidents of mob fury in the name of cow protection and communal violence in the state. The “increasing grip” of Hindutva politics that use such poor and unemployed youths and failure of the state machinery to curb the trend are also to be blamed, they said on Friday.
Representatives of the organisations, who conducted fact finding in two separate incidents of mob fury and communal clash in Seoni and Dewas districts respectively, said it was unfortunate that even the Congress government had not been able to plug the incidents. They demanded firm steps by the government to curb the menace of violence and hatred in MP.
At a press conference held in Bhopal, they accused ‘Hindutva groups’ functioning by the names of Bajrang Dal, Shri Ram Sena and Karni Sena of being those responsible for spurring of such incidents and using the impoverished, poorly educated and unemployed youth to further their cause of hatred.…
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Great Allegheny Passage
Frostburg is a Certified Trail Town at mile marker 15
on the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP), a 150 mile trail that runs from Pittsburgh, PA to Cumberland, MD. Completed in 2013, much of the GAP trail was built on abandoned rail beds on the Western Maryland Railway and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad.
Made up of packed crushed limestone and some areas with asphalt this trail offers a smooth ride.
You can access the Frostburg Trail Head by car from New Hope Road NW, Frostburg, or if you are riding your bike, take the switchback next to the train tracks on Depot Street.
Visit The Great Allegheny Passage for more information!
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Immediate Release from: Diversified Rail Services & Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 10/8/2018 If you heard the sweet sounds of a steam whistle echoing across the hills in Cumberland, Maryland last Wednesday, it wasn’t a dream. It was the deep melodious voice of...
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It’s “Patch Tuesday”, the second Tuesday of the month, which means that later today Microsoft will release its latest bundle of essential security patches.
And we already know that it’s going to be a big one.
According to an advance notice published by Microsoft last week, we know that the patches are designed to fix security holes in the likes of:
* Internet Explorer
* Microsoft .NET Framework
* Microsoft Silverlight
* Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway
* Microsoft Office
* Microsoft SQL Server
* Microsoft Visual Studio
* Multiple flavours of Windows itself.
Nine of the 16 bulletins have been given Microsoft’s most serious severity rating – “critical” – because the flaws risk the sort of remote code execution attack we see commonly exploited by hackers to run malicious code on victims’ computers, such as a worm.
That probably sounds bad enough, but what may create for some system administrators even more of a headache is that many of the patches will require Windows computers to be rebooted.
Just think about what your poor IT guys have to deal with on a regular basis, and remember to treat them gently on the second Tuesday of each month (and probably for a few days afterwards too!)
Whether you’re a home user or a business it makes sense to apply Microsoft’s security patches in a timely fashion – so don’t delay, or you might find the cybercriminals are exploiting these vulnerabilities to take over your computer or gain control over your sensitive data.
Oh, and it’s not just a day to update your Microsoft software. Adobe is issuing its security fixes for Adobe Reader and Acrobat too.
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Ethical dilemma in fetal stem cell research – UK stroke study
“The world’s first clinical trial of brain stem cells to treat stroke has recorded no adverse effects to date, BBC News has reported. The BBC website reports that research using stem cells to treat strokes “is set to move to its next phase” after independent assessors approved continuation of the trial of the experimental treatment. So far the therapy has been tested on three patients left disabled by strokes.”
via Stroke stem cell trial gets extended – Health News – NHS Choices.
The problem is that the cells were harvested from the brains of 12 week old aborted fetuses. The researchers at the University of Glascow, Scotland, working with the company, “ReNeuron,” harvested the cells, manipulated them with genes to induce them to become immortal stem cells that will divide infinitely and now have what appears to an endless supply of proprietary cells for future research and treatments of stroke victims.
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American River Conservancy officials closely collaborated with Folsom/Auburn Trail Riders Action Coalition and volunteers at REI in Folsom on the project. More than 75 volunteers from all the organizations worked together this past year to complete the trail system.
Another bike trail in the works:
A future trail project is a 13.5-mile dirt trail in the Crystal Basin that SMUD is building for the USFS that will wrap around the entire south shoreline of Ice House Reservoir. The trail, funded entirely by SMUD, is being designed by International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) Trail Solutions team and the draft design is currently under review. Construction is planned to begin in 2022. Go here to see more about SMUD Crystal Basin recreation area.
Dillon Brooks, the stewardship manager at the ARC, said the new trail system is referred to as the Salmon Falls Ranch Connector Trail and it, along with other trails built off it, are great for the community.
“This new stretch provides a safe connection from the South Fork American River Trail to Folsom State Recreation Area,” said Brooks. “It eases congestion and parking concerns at the Skunk Hollow and Darrington parking lots. This connection bypasses a dangerous section of the Darrington Trail, making it safe and more family friendly to users.
“Our biggest challenge in creating new trails is always fundraising because other agencies like the U.S. Forest Service, State Parks or Bureau of Land Management don’t always have the resources to provide the labor,” he continued.
The new Pilot Hill trails, though connecting to public lands managed by California State Parks through a contract with the Bureau of Land Management, were built on Salmon Falls Ranch, which is owned by ARC — purchased from the Bacchi family through two grants in 2010 and 2011.
Brooks said BLM, USFS and California State Parks have always been great to work with in protecting open spaces and creating recreation opportunities in the area. “The trails like this one, because they connect to public lands, require approvals on things like environmental impacts,” he said.
The new recreational trails that opened Dec. 1 are much closer to populated areas like El Dorado Hills, Cameron Park.
“They provide a way for people to remain active and healthy, while gaining a better appreciation for the environment. These are also benefits to the county,” he explained. “Outdoor recreation is also big business so the more opportunities you provide for outdoor recreation, the more people will travel from outside of the area to use the county’s recreation assets, which benefits local businesses and the county economy in general.”
“The El Dorado Community Foundation also pledged $10,000 and the Latrobe Fund gave us a matching grant of $10,000. .
In the future new trails are being planned by ARC programs. Members will also work with the El Dorado Hills Community Services District on plans for a bike park and plan to host or participate in several local events next year, including a bike demo day with California Expedition and the USFS on the trails outside Georgetown.
To learn more about the American River Conservancy visit arconservancy.org.
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Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds—part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no- man’s-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging.
In A Drop of Midnight, Jason draws on conversations with his parents, personal experiences, long-lost letters, and pilgrimages to South Carolina and New York to paint a vivid picture of race, discrimination, family, and ambition. His ancestors’ origins as slaves in the antebellum South, his parents’ struggles as an interracial couple, and his own world- expanding connection to hip-hop helped him fashion a strong black identity in Sweden.
What unfolds in Jason’s remarkable voyage of discovery is a complex and unflinching look at not only his own history but also that of generations affected by the trauma of the African diaspora, then and now.
About the author
Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité is one of Sweden’s most well known hip-hop artists. Born in Lund to American parents—an African American dad and a white mom—he has released eight solo albums and numerous singles, the majority of which have reached gold or platinum status. His accolades include eight Swedish Grammy awards and four P3 Guld (Swedish radio) awards. He has performed all over the world, from Africa to Svalbard, from the Apollo in New York City to the Roxy in Los Angeles and at the Polar Music Prize and Nobel Peace Prize award ceremonies. Jason is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir A Drop of Midnight, which has sold more than one hundred thousand copies in Sweden and was adapted by the author into a stage performance in 2017. | <urn:uuid:8d1c6bd2-de26-4a55-bb7f-8c9a74219eed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adropofmidnight.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.966835 | 417 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Suppleness is a quality that’s crucial for success in dressage and is the second of the dressage Scales of Training.
There are four areas of suppleness;
Supple joints are a byproduct of correct longitudinal and lateral suppleness training, and a horse that has supple joints will stay sounder and enjoy a longer career than one that’s stiff and tight.
In this article, we look at why suppleness of the joints is important in dressage and how you can improve this quality.
What is ‘suppleness of the joints’?
Suppleness of the joints refers to the horse’s ability to bend the joints without stiffness and the range of motion of the joints that the horse can achieve.
Those joints include:
When the horse stiffens in any of those joints, his whole body becomes stiff.
In contrast, when these joints are supple, the horse is able to show more expression in his paces with a greater cadence. The horse is able to concertina his hind legs, making it easier for the horse to engage and weight-carry, along with helping to create an active hind leg.
A horse with supple joints can display a greater range of movement and gymnastic ability.
Causes of stiff joints
Unless the horse has arthritis or a previous injury, it’s generally the tissues around the joints that are tight and stiff rather than the bony joint itself.
It then becomes the rider’s job to make these tissues more pliable through correct systematic training, thus improving the suppleness of the joints and the horse’s overall way of going.
How to improve ‘suppleness of the joints’
Before you can begin working on suppling the horse’s joints and increasing his range of motion, the horse must be able to work on one track and bend uniformly around circles and turns with an adequate degree of impulsion.
Once that is achieved, it’s then a matter of transitions, lateral exercises, and pole work to help elasticize the joints.
Here are a few basic exercises that you can use to develop your horse’s joint suppleness.
Exercise 1 – Transitions, transitions, and more transitions!
Transitions are an excellent way of developing suppleness of the horse’s leg joints and of sharpening up the horse’s reactions, and improving his balance.
Start in halt. Wait a moment for the horse to relax and soften.
Ride a transition to walk.
If the horse tends to be lazy, you want him to anticipate walking forward. So, ride lots of walk-halt-walk exercises. The idea is to activate the joints of the hind legs as the horse makes the transition.
Now, move on to riding walk-trot-walk transitions.
Each time the horse makes a transition, he has to flex his joints and step more underneath himself. That helps to stretch the soft tissues surrounding the joints, strengthening and improving the suppleness of the whole joint.
Next, ride trot-canter-trot transitions.
Over time, you can begin to work on more extreme variations of transitions, e.g. walk to canter, canter to walk, trot to halt, halt to trot, even canter to halt and halt to canter, and don’t forget to use rein back too.
The more direct your transitions, the more value they will have.
Exercise 2 – Variations on transitions
Transitions can be used in more advanced exercises to develop joint suppleness.
You can ride this exercise in walk and trot.
That exercise connects the horse from your inside leg to your outside rein, brings his inside hind leg more underneath him, and demands increased joint flexion.
Exercise 3 – Move sideways
All lateral work is valuable when it comes to improving the suppleness of the horse’s joints.
Here is an example exercise.
Ride down the long side of the arena in shoulder-fore.
Just after the corner, ride down a long side, and ask for leg-yield across the diagonal.
As you reach the quarter-line, change the bend and ride half-pass for a few steps.
Change the bend and ride back to the track in leg-yield.
Incorporating some polework into your schooling program is a great way of keeping your horse interested in his work and is extremely useful for encouraging the horse to flex his leg joints while in motion.
Working over poles increases the range of motion of the joints and limbs, improves balance, increases stride length, and helps to build core stability, all of which are crucial to the development of the dressage horse.
Pole exercise 1 – Raised poles
It’s helpful to recruit an assistant for this exercise, as you’ll need someone to adjust the poles for you.
Throughout the exercise, keep the horse balanced and straight. Let the horse find his own way without holding him together.
Arrange six poles in a line. Space the poles so that there’s one footfall between each pole.
First, walk through the poles.
That enables the horse to get the hang of the exercise at a slower pace while allowing you to make sure the distance between the poles is correct.
Now, trot through the poles, keeping the horse working forward into an elastic contact.
Next, raise alternate ends of the poles to about a foot high.
(If your horse is inexperienced, start with one pole and gradually increase the degree of difficulty by raising one pole at a time.)
The aim of this exercise is to increase the range of motion in the horse’s joints.
Pole exercise 2 – The fan
Arrange five poles in a fan shape, leaving a foot’s width between each pole at the narrowest end of the fan. The distance between the widest ends of the poles should be between five and six feet, depending on your horse’s natural stride length.
Walk through the poles, keeping the activity and energy. You can shorten and lengthen the horse’s stride according to the line you take through the poles.
To maximize the effectiveness of the exercise, make sure you have the horse bent in the direction of the fan.
The benefits of polework in developing joint suppleness
To get the maximum benefit from polework, it’s best to perform the exercises in the walk. That’s because the walk doesn’t have a moment of suspension. Therefore, muscular effort is required for all the movement that the horse makes, making the soft tissues around the joints work harder.
If you have the poles close together, the horse must use his hindquarters to push himself along from behind. The further apart you set the poles, the more the horse must lengthen his stride. Both scenarios require the joints of the legs to increase their range of motion, thus developing greater suppleness.
Essentially, the more supple your horse’s joints are, the longer he will stay sound, and the better his performance will be in the dressage arena.
To make the joints of the horse’s legs supple, you need to work on loosening up the tissues surrounding the joints. That can be achieved through systematic training and exercise on the lunge and under saddle, especially using poles, transitions, and lateral work.
- How to use Poles to Improve Your Horse’s Way of Going
- How to Use Cavaletti for Dressage Schooling
- How to Activate Your Horse’s Hind Legs
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VEHICLE MOT WITH
What is an MOT test?
An MOT is an annual examination of a vehicle that is three years old or more. The MOT tests both the safety of your vehicle and the level of emissions in the exhaust. The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) is responsible for ‘licensing’ both the MOT test station and the MOT tester.
It is your responsibility to ensure that your vehicle is tested every 12 months. Without a valid MOT certificate, you will be unable to renew your road tax and your insurance may be invalid. Having a current MOT certificate is also a legal requirement in the UK.
The importance of an MOT test
The MOT confirms that at the time of the test and without dismantling it, the vehicle meets the minimum acceptable environmental and road safety standards required by law. It doesn’t mean that the vehicle is roadworthy for the length of time the certificate is valid. The MOT certificate is also no guarantee of the general mechanical condition of your vehicle. The test doesn’t cover the condition of the engine, clutch or gearbox.
Your MOT can be done up to 1 month before it is due; this is to give you time to have any repairs done before the old certificate expires.nMost vehicles need their first MOT when they are three years old, then annually.
Simple steps to ensure a smooth MOT test
Below are minor faults that the you can easily have fixed beforehand:
Screen wash not topped up. This basic task takes minutes, so don’t be caught out by it.
The car was dirty or full of clutter. Clear the mess from the boot and cabin and give the windows and mirrors a quick wipe.
A registration plate problem. For example, the plate showed the incorrect type face/spacing, or was dirty or missing altogether. If you have a personalised plate, make sure it follows DVLA rules.
Stickers on the windscreen blocking the driver’s view. Make sure that anything stuck to the windscreen, including tax disc and parking permits, is outside the wipers’ sweep area.
Lit-up warning light on the dashboard. The MOT has included lit-up warning lights since 2012. So make sure you know what lit-up up car warning lights mean and if you have any sort out the underlying problem before the MOT.
Our 6 month interim service includes a vehicle health check, oil change, oil filter and top up of all levels.
Our 10,000 mile full service includes a vehicle health check, oil change, oil filter, air filter, spark plugs, top up all levels and a wash.
Our major service is perfect for high mileage users and includes a vehicle health check, change oil, oil filter, air filter, fuel filter, pollen filter, spark plugs, top up all levels and a wash.
How long does an MOT check take?
The average MOT test should last approximately 45 minutes. While the test is taking place you should be able to remain at the garage, if you wish to do so you’ll be able to oversee the range of checks being carried out by the technician.
What happens if my car fails?
If you have no serious issues requiring correction then a pass certificate known as the VT20 can be awarded, although a VT30 means the test has been failed. As long as it has a re-test carried out within ten working days then a pass certificate can still be obtained. If there are any problems that need to be resolved but that do not prevent a pass, a VT30 can be designated.
How soon before the MOT expires can I get the test done?
You can get the vehicle tested at any time – however if you want to preserve the existing expiry date you can come in up 29 days beforehand. E.g. if the expiry date is 27th December, the first day you can book is 28th November. This ensures you have plenty of time to book a convenient test slot before the existing certificate expires.
I don’t know my vehicle’s MOT class?
Most cars will be Class 4. Motorbikes are Class 1 (up to 200cc) or 2 (over 200cc, including with sidecar). Motorhomes and most smaller vans are Class 4 too.
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Covington in Kenton County, Kentucky — The American South (East South Central)
John A. Roebling Bridge
Erected 1984 by American Society of Civil Engineers.
Location. 39° 5.42′ N, 84° 30.548′ W. Marker is in Covington, Kentucky, in Kenton County. Marker is on Court Avenue (Kentucky Route 17) 0.1 miles north of East 3rd Street, on the right when traveling north. Click for map. Marker is in this post office area: Covington KY 41011, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Roebling Suspension Bridge (within shouting distance of this marker); Civil War Fortifications (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Covington Blue Sox (about 500 feet away); Ben Lucien Burman (about 600 feet away); Simon Kenton Simon Kenton (about 700 feet away); Kennedy House (about 800 feet away); The Point (about 800 feet away). Click for a list of all markers in Covington.
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oa Professional Nursing Today - Using biodiversity for food, dietary diversity, better nutrition and health : nutrition
A significant proportion of the diverse foods available in our environment have been progressively neglected in spite of modern and "improved agricultural practices", thereby narrowing the base of global food security. This has resulted over the years in food supply crises, hunger and malnutrition. Despite strides made in reducing global hunger through increases in cereal productivity, the world is still hungry, and the availability of cheap cereal foods has coincided with the erosion of agricultural biodiversity and a reduction in dietary diversity.
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Chrome Connecting To Random Domains On Start? Here Is Why!
If you are monitoring your network traffic closely you may have noticed that the Google Chrome web browser and its Open Source counterpart Chromium are both trying to connect to three random ten letter words on start up. For most users, it is not clear why the browser is making those connections, and some have even assumed that they were either made to send information privately to Google, for tracking purposes, or even caused by malware running on the system.
Mike West analyzed the part of the browser's source code that was responsible for making the connections. He discovered that Chrome and Chromium are making those connections to help the browser's Omnibox figure out user intents correctly.
The issue that Google aims to fix with these connections is easily explained. Some Internet Service Providers have started to intercept requests that do not resolve properly. If you enter ghacks for instance in the address bar and tap on the return key afterwards, Chrome needs to figure out if you want to search for the term ghacks, or if you want to visit the site http://ghacks/. Since it cannot do that, it displays an infobar if the word would resolve to an existing domain name giving the user the chance to open the domain with another click.
When ISPs intercept the lookups to display their own error pages, usually filled with advertisement and search options, then it appears to the browser as if the word would resolve just fine. This in turn would mean that users would see the infobox in the browser even for words that do not resolve.
To prevent this, Google is making these three initial lookups on start up to see if ISPs intercept requests that cannot be resolved. It compares the IP addresses of the pages that are returned, and turns the infobox off if they are identical (as this suggests an ISP is intercepting the look ups).
How can you find out if Chrome or Chromium are making those requests? You can use programs that monitor traffic on the system. One example would be the free tool Fiddler which can show you the connections the browser makes.
The three random connections are highlighted in the screenshot above.
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This is in continuation with the previous article on how introduction of Sec 194DA has enforced insurance companies to cut TDS on Life Insurance policies which are not compliant with Sec 10(10(d)) and whose income exceeds 1 lakh in a financial year. If you haven’t read that article yet, we strongly suggest you do that before you read this one. This article will specifically focus on how to calculate taxable returns based on the impact of this new Section 194DA.
Firstly, let’s be honest here. When you had originally invested into a plan whose Sum Assured is less than 10 times of the annual payable premium, clearly with the motive of getting returns and not from the primary point of view of getting life insurance cover. So you shouldn’t be surprised if now, after this new Section 194DA has been introduced, your ‘investment’ in insurance is getting taxed.
Your life insurance policy may have suddenly become a leaking bucket. But you should not worry because you will not be worse off than your normal tax liability.
Most of the cases affected by Sec 194DA are Single Premium policies which do not meet the 1:10 criterion. Most traditional Single Premium policies almost always yield profits, i.e. net positive returns. However, ULIP Single Premium policies being market-linked may yield negative returns as well. That is, what you get as final returns may be less than the total premium you paid.
Calculate Taxable Returns in case of Profits from Life Insurance
This case is fairly straightforward. All you need to do is calculate the profits and add it to your income in the year of receiving proceeds from the life insurance policy. Here is an example to illustrate how the tax calculation works.
Calculate Taxable Returns in case of Losses from Life Insurance
This is where there is some ambiguity amongst many of our readers. In such a case, we refer to Circular No. 7/2003 dated 05-Sep-2003, Finance Act 2003 from the Income Tax department. As per that, tax should be paid on income accrued on life insurance policies which does NOT include premium paid by the assessee.
Here’s the extract from the said circular.
Therefore, when you calculate taxable returns if there is a loss from investment into the insurance policy, i.e. what you get as return (before TDS deduction) is less than what you paid as premium (including top-up), then no tax is payable by the assessee. This is pretty logical as well since premium you invested is anyway taxed earlier. It is also in sync with the treatment for most other investment products. It is surprising though that insurers are still deducting TDS on such cases.
Customizing the Calculation of Taxable Returns
Please note the following for both the calculations above.
- Tax rate slab is assumed at 30%. You may make changes as per your actual tax rate.
- TDS and Tax payable shown here are only the basic taxes, i.e. they do not include any cess or surcharge. Please add/deduct them from payable amount/TDS respectively.
- Effective June 1, 2016 the effective TDS rate has been reduced from 2% to 1%. Please use the rate that is applicable for your policy.
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This rare archive War Office film tells the story of the aircraft carrier and HMS Ark Royal 3, a war service record that were so packed with incident that the ship was rarely out of the headlines. Still a new ship, she was attached to the Home Fleet at Scapa when World War II began and chalked up a 'first' by the first Luftwaffe casualty to the RN. In early 1940 Ark Royal went to the Mediterranean and took part in many operations with Force H and in May 1941 she flew off a striking force of torpedo aircraft which scored two hits cripplig the Bismarck. On 13 November 1941, returning from an aircraft ferrying operation to Malta, the Ark Royal was torpedoed 30 miles from Gibraltar by U81.Although she was taken in tow, the flooding could not be controlled and the following day she sank, 14 hours after being hit. Incredibly and a testament to her Captain and crew, only one rating was lost of her complement of nearly 1600.
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“Garbage in, garbage out” is an old programming concept that is today somewhat similar to the “Building the right product versus building the product right” mantra. In Agile project management approaches like Scrum, the role of the product owner is fundamental to deliver value to the customer. Scrum. The Product Ownership book written by Robert Galen is completely dedicated to this crucial role and aims at presenting approaches, behaviors and attitudes of great product owners.
The Scrum Product Ownership book discusses with a pragmatic view the main aspects of the product owner life, from the definition of user stories and release planning to attendance to Scrum meetings or the incorporation of software architecture and design in Agile projects. The book is clearly written and well structured. The chapters are presented at the beginning of each section, thus allowing you to pick up specific content if you need it. The book contains also an extended list of external references if you want to explore other sources on specific topics. The balance between the definition of concepts and the presentation of Robert Galen personal experience is good. There are many insights that you can get from this book and it was a difficult task to choose the quotes published below from all the material I had selected while reading the book.
I will recommend this book naturally to every Product Owner, but also to all people involved in Scrum development or working in the requirement areas, like business analysts or product managers.
Reference: Scrum Product Ownership (2nd edition), Robert Galen, 236 pages, ISBN 978-0-9885026-2-8
There are many Scrum Product Owners and/or agile customers who feel their job solely revolves around creating a Product Backlog or list of prioritized features for their product development efforts. While all of the agile methodologies are essentially driven by such list, there is an incredible amount of nuance and breadth beyond this to getting the role “right”.
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- Conditions that attract termites
- Timber in contact with the ground & my home.
Hi my name is Shane O’Donnell & in this series of Blog Posts I will be highlighting common issues or conditions around homes that attract termites or increase the risk of attracting termites. Many of these conditions can be easily corrected and often for very little cost.
Check the perimeter of your home (& under your sub-floor / decks, if you have them) for any area where there is timber in contact with the ground.
Common areas are:
Timber piers in contact with the ground
- DIY | Dig soil away and expose steel stirrups – there should be at least 75mm between base of timber pier and finished ground level.
- Employ the services of a professional builder to redesign the piers.
DIY | Self treat piers in ground contact with termite chemical| See article we wrote a few years ago. Really good article.
Shadow walls (Timber palings that cover the sub-floor opening)
- DIY | Take time to redesign the original installation to ensure that no timber – Even if it is treated timber – is in ground contact.
- You can employ the services of professional home maintenance service like Phill at Under 1 Roof Home Services
Timber in ground contact
Timber stored against the external wall or in my sub-floor
Timber retaining walls in ground an home contact
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Same location as posted before – slightly diff. perspective:
Haifa has the most sacred shrine to the Baha'i faith.
The area with the buildings and garden of the Baha'i complex stretch from tops of the Mt. Carmel down to lower town where the German-Colony district on Ben-Gurion blvd.
Enhanced saturation due to bright daylight.
Location of the shrine: 32.8146, 34.9873
*** A Wikipedia page about the Baha'i Faith.
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sandpiper (6788) 2013-03-16 3:38
good shot of this interesting location
krzychu30 (15512) 2013-03-16 3:43
delightful,panoramic view over the Bahai Gardens and Haifa!It shows how beautiful the place really is.The POV seems to be cut out for photographers.Excellent light and clarity make we enjoy this scene and details in superb quality.Nicely done!
Have a nice weekend
PaulVDV (31147) 2013-03-16 3:47
A spectacular view I remember of my visit of Haifa. The site is famous and absolutely worth the visit.
From your POV we can admire the beautiful gardens that are landscaped on different levels.
The location of the shrine overlooking the broad avenue and the district makes the sight very impressive.
Best regards, Paul
npecanhuk (76857) 2013-03-16 4:03
Highlights here are the chosen pov, vertical format, composition and exposure!
TFS - congrats,
Enjoy your week-end,
Fis2 (103832) 2013-03-16 4:12
Intersting POV and composition.
I like building.
Photo is unsharpen :(
snunney (104643) 2013-03-16 4:20
The plunging point of view is excellent; I like the lead-line offered by the as they direct the eyes toward the golden dome and then onwards up the broad avenue. Great colour contrasts and fine clarity.
cornejo (45380) 2013-03-16 4:48
Hello Ike, great photograph of this beautiful sanctuary and interesting view of the lovely gardens. Lovely and interesting picture nicely framed, with good clarity, depth and quality. Very good and interesting job perfectly done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing your interesting work.
Good afternoon and happy Sunday.
Greetings from southern Spain.
pierrefonds (69741) 2013-03-16 4:52
The length of the garden is giving depth to the composition. The point of view is showing the details and colors of the garden and of the architecture of the Golden Baha'i shrine. The good luminosity is enhancing the colors. Have anice day.
Cricri (123694) 2013-03-16 5:25
Une vue qui permet d'apprécier a la fois le jardin dans ces moindres détails, le dôme, l'avenue et le quartier, le tout sous une sublime lumière, très belle présentation
Sonata11 (33971) 2013-03-16 7:21
Hello Dear Ike,
what a spectacular view on this magnificent shrine and gorgeous gorden. Very, very splendour with pleasure to look at. So many beautiful details. I really love it and ejoy this picture. Tfs. Wonderful work. My compliments.
Best regards and have w great WE,
adramad (48368) 2013-03-16 8:31
Wonderful panoramic view from a high point, which gives us a great perspective on the beautiful gardens and the dome, the avenue that we see in the background increases the DOF of the composition.
Ideal brightness and sharpness.
Very well done. I love it.
Enjoy the weekend.
wolf38 (31296) 2013-03-16 8:42
Hello Ike. The view from above on the beautiful Haifa and the golden shrine is impressive. The garden next to the shrine is the most beautiful garden architecture. Fine composition and very natural colors and light. Informative text.
danos (101730) 2013-03-16 8:44
great the panoramic view of the place from this advantage point as we can see the Golden Baha'i shrine dome to dominating the place.I like the brilliant light of the image as enhance the vivid colours of the scene.
Have a good afternoon,Danos
pajaran (64354) 2013-03-16 10:32
Lep pogled ...
Dobar snimak, kontrast, lepe boje.
Dobar tekst, lepo pokazan park i arhitektura.
Lep park i arhitektura.
Prijatno vece i sve najbolje za vikend.
Nice view ...
Good shot, contrast, beautiful color.
Good article, nicely demonstrated park and architecture.
Nice park and architecture.
Good evening and all the best for the weekend.
siudzi (34141) 2013-03-16 11:50
This place is really beautiful and I see it gives many opportunities for great sights. Like this POV a lot. The view has many interesting elements but still looks very classy. Very well done! TFS.
Miguel82 (27648) 2013-03-16 12:41
A superb view Ike, good work
I can appreciate the work of the gardener
A very well designed place
Fine colors, good exposition
jcpix (13930) 2013-03-16 14:42
No matter how many times I've viewed your pictures of these gardens I'm still impressed. This may be similar to a previous shot, but that certainly doesn't take away from the beautiful and well cared for grounds, as well as your thoughtful composition. This positioning gives a touch of a birds-eye view of the space and elegance below, I really enjoy this kind of perspective. Beautifully exposed again, I'm glad you've posted another photo here! From a distance, the open space of the garden converging towards to the shrine and continuing up the street looks to be in the shape of the Eiffel Tower. :) Have a wonderful day.
Silvio1953 (150173) 2013-03-17 1:26
Ciao Ike, great POV on fantastic dome, excellent perspective, wonderful colors and splendid light, very well done my friend, have a good Sunday, ciao Silvio
carlo62 (53186) 2013-03-17 1:35
spendido il pov che ci mostra questa bellissima panoramica. I giardini sono meravigliosi e la costruzione mi ricorda il mausoleo di Teodorico a Ravenna.
Royaldevon (41732) 2013-03-17 2:15
Good Morning Ike,
Oh, wow, this viewpoint is quite spectacular in giving us an overall view of the city. We plunge from the heights over gardens and domes, as fleet as a bird!
I like how you have attracted us into the m/g with the dome and then used the proceeding road to complete the journey.
I cannot agree with Fis2; I find the shot perfectly sharp.
Have a lovely Sunday,
lousat (95800) 2013-03-17 2:35
Hi Ike,maybe thes best pic from there in your gallery talking about the perspective and the point of view,magnificent rich composition whit excellent colors,a bit oversharpened but no problem....have a nice Sunday and thanks,Luciano
jhm (157802) 2013-03-17 4:03
70 year ago was here almost nothing, now a wonderful big city.
You took these picture out of the hight, with a lovely perspective and depth image.
In centre of the picture the dome is wonderful taken.
Excellent composition, nice captured, TFS.
Have a nice Sunday,
ourania (49799) 2013-03-17 4:31
this is a very impressive and captivating view over the magnificent gardens, the shrine and the city. I love the sweeping depth and the brilliant colours that are so vividly defined and enhanced by the splendid sunshine. There's so much to discover all over this rich and rewarding composition. Congratulations and thank you!
All the best, have a lovely day,
Nicou (148366) 2013-03-17 7:58
quelle vue plongeante superbe image avec le beau jardin et cette coupole superbe vue ce vert et ces dorures fantastique vue.
Bravo et amitié
jemaflor (101241) 2013-03-18 5:38
Good pov on this dome, brightness with this sunny ay is perfect for the presentation,nice contrast and tones.
mesutilgim (96718) 2013-03-18 5:49
Nice capture of this famous Bahai shrine in Haifa !
Good pov and good chosen portrait format. Perfect TE entry with interesting notes.
TFS and have a nice day
clic (17883) 2013-03-18 12:52
That's how the different deities lodging in Paradise can see this Haifa's busy scenery adorned of lovely gardens giving life to Dome that keeps an eye in town for law and order in this modern city!
Many compliments to FZ 35 for the excellent depiction and to to you for having reach so high without getting dizzy by altitude!
ChrisJ (117197) 2013-03-19 1:57
A superb high pov with goo sharpness and the gold domed church featuring prominently. Good sharpness and marvellous use of diminishing linear perspective and vanishing point at the top of the image. I like the 2 fg courtyard gardens leading to the building. Tfs!
siolaw (38292) 2013-03-19 5:00
Another nice POV from the place, this one very dominating and giving a bird's eye view.
Vertical framing and sunny colours suit the scene well
claudeD (40846) 2013-03-19 10:43
very fine view over Haifa with a very good composition and showing much details. Excellent colors and sharpness. Very well done.TFS.
With regards from Luxembourg
delpeoples (59426) 2013-03-19 22:47
Hello dear Ike
I remember this temple well from your previous shots. The high POV is lovely and I like how you have completely cropped out the sky from the image. There is a wonderful graphism from the gardens and architecture and I like the vertical frame.
Didi (60590) 2013-03-20 3:55
Very good dominant point of view who gave me a vertigo :)
eldancer1 (36343) 2013-03-20 9:22
I like your pov, it shows a great layout and the beauty of this architectures. Good lighting and sharp details. Wonderful colors. Well done, tfs.
emilbo (22616) 2013-03-20 17:51
Quelle magnifique photo et tu as choisi le point de vue idéal pour nous montrer ces magnifiques jardins et le sanctuaire. Beau format vertical, belle végétation et merveilleuse harmonie de couleurs.
emka (104172) 2013-03-20 20:30
Hi Ike, Fantastic view of the dome of Bahai shrine and wonderful gardens. You found very good POV, the view is breath taking. I once talked to the bahaist and liked the ideas of this faith, specially nonviolence.
COSTANTINO (68146) 2013-03-22 7:22
one of the best postcards remitted to us
a great description of Haifa city,
excellent lightness and sharpness
make us enjoy and look carefully
this scenery,nice pov
thebest (4276) 2013-04-05 17:42
Just look at the magnificent grounds surrounding the Shrine - it looks amazing.
You were high up when you took this photo & you have been able to show us the landscaping & the avenue of houses to perfection.
Excellent POV & I like the natural colours despite the bright sunlight.
baddori (20159) 2013-04-06 0:56
Significant known and impressive perspective. Photographic excellence and a document of Israel the center of religious tolerance and integration, .. if peaceful. GF
amaryllis (37039) 2013-04-07 10:54
Une superbe vue en plongée sur ces beaux jardins que tu nous as fait decouvrir avec tes photos et ce dôme dore et une arcitecture sublime
macjake (70997) 2013-05-01 12:25
perhaps not the sharpest photo you have posted, but its the pov and subject matter that win me over :)
its wonderful to see the city from this type of vantage point, and to also include the Baha'i Faith, a friend of mine here locally is of that faith.
smart city view!
enjoy your day
kato (11630) 2013-05-21 2:03
You're capturing we;; this place by a good angle and excellent tone/clarity, so it's interesting and impressive to see the sacred sgrine with the golden dome and the beautiful courtyard designed well in front of shrine. And, it's impressive in the surrounding greenery and houses with red roof, too.
jmdias (67145) 2013-06-14 6:56
another marvelous view of this fantastic garden and building. I liked these details and the inclusion of the urban landscape we can see here., TFS>
fritzi007 (11858) 2014-12-23 13:00
sehr gute Perspektive und Fotoqualität, gut gemacht!
berek (50506) 2015-02-06 22:27
Good Morning Ike,
A view that allows to enjoy the garden at a time in these last detail, the dome, the avenue and the neighborhood, all in a gorgeous light, beautiful presentation .
Have a nice weekend.
silah (2798) 2015-03-26 7:49
This is very well taken shot with wisely chosen POV. Also framing looks so nice too. I liked the scene. TFS, GREETINGS. Salih.
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- Date Taken: 2012-10-28
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