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MAROONED SET OF LOBBY CARDS
Description: original; set of 8; set of lobby cards;
Dimensions: 14" x 11"
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Adventure
AKA: marooned (1969) movie poster
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- Cast/Crew Overview
- MAROONED Cast Overview:
- Gregory Peck .... Charles Keith
- Richard Crenna .... Jim Pruett
- David Janssen .... Ted Dougherty
- James Franciscus .... Clayton Stone
- Gene Hackman .... Buzz Lloyd
- Lee Grant .... Celia Pruett
- Nancy Kovack .... Teresa Stone
- Mariette Hartley .... Betty Lloyd
- Scott Brady .... Public Affairs Officer
- Craig Huebing .... Flight Director
- John Sturges .... Film Director
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Perfect for beginners and intermediates who appreciate a smaller group and more advice
Photography of you bodyboarding
Group ratio 1:5 instructor to students
Equipment, changing rooms, tuition and insurance included.
Progress your bodyboarding in Cornwall at Newquay Activity Centre’s specialist Bodyboarding School and learn some radical moves. Our Explorer Bodyboarding Lessons are designed to improve your riding, whatever your age, level or ability and you will leave with photography of you riding waves. A small group ensures plenty of useful tips and close quarters tuition for faster progression.
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From paddling out, trimming technique and wave selection for novices through to shredding different types of waves and picking off juicy tubes for more advanced riders, this lesson is the perfect choice for improving your bodyboarding.
How does it work?
You’ll get changed in our heated locker rooms, with safe storage for your valuables before warming up on Newquay’s infamous Fistral Beach. Newquay Activity Centre is the only bodyboarding school in Cornwall that uses a 1:5 ratio of instructors to students. We’re a certified Surfing England Centre of Excellence and all our courses and bodyboarding lessons have been designed by British Team Coach, Rob Barber.
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You’re guaranteed the highest level of unparalleled tuition in the industry when you learn bodyboarding in Cornwall with us.
To find out more, check out our ultimate guide to bodyboarding.
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Allocation of equipment, Rip Curl wetsuit, fins, ID vest and bodyboard
Small group with maximum of five bodyboarders
One two-hour bodyboarding lesson
Consolidation of skills and fast progression
Photography of you in action
Bodyboarding Progression Log
50% discount on half-day hire of bodyboard and wetsuit for practice after your lesson
10% discount for your following session to feed your addiction!
10% discount for a coasteer, surfing, kayak or SUP experience with us
10% discount on Found and Core bodyboards at the Bodyboard-Depot shop
15% discount at the Rip Curl store in Newquay
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HOW IT WORKS
The Up&More Contest is a prize competition that each month puts an object of design or a fashion accessory up for grabs. To participate all you have to do is vote your favorite among the 2 objects presented each day, for 25 days. At the end of the contest the objects with the most votes from the LTVs community are revealed. The winner is whoever guessed the greatest number of correct objects, those that got the highest percentage of votes.
How to participate
To participate you have to subscribe to LanciaTrendVisions.com and vote your favorite style among 25 pairs of objects proposed during the contest. Each person can choose whether to vote an object a day, vote them sporadically or vote them all in just a few minutes before the closing of the competition. What counts is to vote your favorite among all 25 pairs of objects presented.
Duration and development of the contest
The contests start each 15th of the month and end on the 10th of the successive month. In this timeframe, each day, for 25 days, a comparison between 2 objects is proposed.
Between the 10th and the 14th of each month a winner will be selected and announced. In total there will be 12 monthly contests.
Picking a winner
Only once the contest has ended, after the 10th of each month, will the percentages of votes for the 25 pairs of objects be communicated. The winner is whoever guessed the greatest number of objects with a higher percentage of votes.
The ranking of the participants will also be published, and in case of a tie, the winner will be whoever subscribed first, chronologically, to the Lancia TrendVisions site.
fruit bowl (6)
graphic design (2)
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Barrow dad's inquest could have far-reaching effects
Last updated at 16:52, Monday, 28 January 2013
IT took little more than two hours from the moment a neighbour of Dale Burns noticed water flooding through her ceiling from his flat to him being pronounced dead at Furness General Hospital.
However, in the spotlight of a formal inquest, the events that unfolded in Barrow on the evening of August 16, 2011, have been described, discussed and re-examined over many hours. Decisions made in the blink of an eye have been analysed to an extent that was never possible at the time.
The inquest has heard how the neighbour called the agent for the property where she lived in Hartington Street after hearing noises coming from upstairs and seeing water coming through the ceiling.
The agent went into Mr Burns’ third-storey flat and found him in the bath, surrounded by the wreckage of the toilet and a ceiling fan, which had been ripped off the wall.
Police were called and decided to arrest him for criminal damage, as well as calling for an ambulance which arrived but left after police decided he was too dangerous to be treated.
Officers described how Mr Burns – who told them he had taken a gram of “madcat” – became increasingly agitated presenting a “danger” to them. He was tasered four times in a minute and pepper-sprayed, but to little effect. Eventually, four or five officers were able to put him in the back of a police van and drive him to FGH where he had a cardiac arrest and died.
The main questions that have been asked so far include:
- Was it necessary to taser Mr Burns in the first place and was he really representing a serious threat to officers?
- Why did the ambulance crew leave the flat when it may have been more appropriate for them to stay in case he needed treatment?
- Did police really take the fastest route by driving to FGH via Ormsgill rather than down Abbey Road?
For so many, a deep personal tragedy lies at the centre of this case.
However, Mr Burns’ death could have implications far beyond the already great pain it has caused for those who loved him. It has not been easy to arrange for all the necessary witnesses to be available in the three-week timeframe this inquest covers. Not only are there ranks of local witnesses to be called, but international experts on the issues involved. The spectrum of legal representation covers at one end Mr Burns’ two young children, and at the other the Home Office, no doubt conscious of the policy and protocol implications of the hearing.
Today the inquest was due to hear from Michael Brave, the legal counsel for Taser International in America. Not only could the ripples from this inquest wash up on the shore of our own constabulary and government, they could also reach all the way across the Atlantic.
First published at 16:35, Monday, 28 January 2013
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
Have your say
The man had a long history of abusing illegal and then so called 'legal highs' and died because of that. The medical facts are that the taser did not kill him the drugs did......it's very sad indeed and I feel for his family and friends but stop look for fault in the authorities....the inquest was transparent and all the facts know, stop spinning the truth
A very sad case of a young life lost for no reason. The media would do better to label this muck "Knocked up in a filthy garage in Amsterdam" rather than "Designer Drugs". It conveys the image of coolness and acceptability, when it is so far from that, and it has cost this poor family their loved one.
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I hope everyone had an enjoyable summer. Now that there are signs of the changing season, I wanted to share the exciting events planned over the next few weeks.
There are several events lined up for September starting with the 2016 Information Summit organized by the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association in Vancouver on September 22. I look forward to attending the event and will be discussing the modernization of the Access to Information Act.
This year, Right to Know Week takes place from September 26 – October 2. Events of the week raise awareness of access to information rights while promoting freedom of information as essential to both democracy and good governance. Watch this space for events across the country. I am kicking off the week with Minister Brison and Dean André Plourde with a seminar at Carleton University, organized with the School of Journalism and Communication and the School of Public Policy and Administration. If you are in the National Capital Region, I encourage you to register for this exciting event to learn more about access and journalism, open government, and major public policy issues in the context of access.
As always the return of Parliament brings a renewed sense of excitement to Ottawa. Expect the government response to the Report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics on the Access to Information Act and, watch for the first phase of amendments to the Act.
The OIC had its own share of excitement following the receipt of additional funding, it welcomed a number of new employees in the past two months. As well, Toronto Star journalist Jayme Poisson, the 2016 recipient of the Greg Clark Award, will spend four days in our office in September to better understand the inner workings of access-to-information requests and complaints. This Award provides an early-career journalist the chance to gain insight on a specific subject. We look forward to having Jayme join us. | <urn:uuid:c00b6c79-8ed0-4279-b849-6bc327f83ffc> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://suzannelegault.ca/2016/09/15/access-to-information-spotlight/ | 2017-08-20T22:47:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886106996.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170820223702-20170821003702-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.951195 | 374 |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 37, 2012MESON 2012 – 12th International Workshop on Production, Properties and Interaction of MESONS
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|Section||Meson decays - parallel talks|
|Published online||06 December 2012|
Vector-meson dominance revisited
Division of Nuclear Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden
a e-mail: email@example.com
The interaction of mesons with electromagnetism is often well described by the concept of vector-meson dominance (VMD). However, there are also examples where VMD fails. A simple chiral Lagrangian for pions, rho and omega mesons is presented which can account for the respective agreement and disagreement between VMD and phenomenology in the sector of light mesons.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2012
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Amidst all the campaigns used by retailers to advertise their Black Friday deals last week, one stood out from the crowd - and for all the wrong reasons.
In a shockingly tasteless move, Singapore fashion brand Supergurl swapped the normal "shop now" button on their homepage for one that read "rape us now". Even worse, the button was placed next to a young model reclining in a sexually provocative pose.
Unsurprisingly, visitors to the site were shocked by the campaign, and took to the brand's Facebook page to complain.
User Wei Wei Gee said, "Rape isn't an advertising angle that one can exploit when thousands of victims suffer the irreparable damage rape has caused to them everyday.
Not only do you make light of sexual assault, you used this really young girl in a suggestive pose which seems to be extremely inappropriate. I wonder how the model will feel if she knew her photo was being used this way."
Another user, Gavin Moey, added, "Absolutely vile, inappropriate and disgusting. I'm shocked beyond words on how you can put this up on your webpage."
Following the complaints, the brand removed the slogan and issued an apology on their website.
Titled Our Deepest Apology, the statement from Creative Director, Jordus Lim, says:
"I am writing this to express our sincerest apologies pertaining to our insensitive action and the choice of word – rape during our ‘Black Friday’ sale.
We do not mean for it to be offensive to anyone, and I extend my sincerest apology for the lack of negligence.
As the director of the company, I have failed to review my Graphic Designer’s work before approving the image to be displayed on our site. I hereby acknowledge that we have made a mistake, and that our caption does not advocate the right values to the young women community today.
Having regretted for what we have done, the team at Supergurl will definitely be more careful with what we will put up in future as this is also a lesson learnt for us.
This is an honest mistake that we have made on our side, and we do know that it is indefensible.
We hope that the public will accept our apology for what we have done wrong." | <urn:uuid:0189747e-d6b6-4260-bdc5-fcf495419ed9> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://www.stylist.co.uk/fashion/black-friday-supergurl-rape-us-now-shop-buy/116673 | 2018-03-22T06:16:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647777.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20180322053608-20180322073608-00162.warc.gz | en | 0.960467 | 462 |
Internet wildlife trading comes under the spotlight
Vancouver, Canada, 24th February 2009—Parties to CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Wild Species of Fauna and Flora, meet today to discuss the growing use of the internet for trading wildlife.
In 2004, TRAFFIC first drew attention to the use of internet auction sites for trading ivory in the United States through its seminal report Tackling the ivories: The status of the US trade in elephant and hippo ivory.
According to the report, between February and May 2004, an average 1,000 elephant ivory items per week were advertised on the internet.
In 2008, following the advice of TRAFFIC and others, well-known internet auction site eBay announced a ban on all ivory sales, because of difficulty in policing the trade.
“One of the key issues the Vancouver meeting will discuss is how to separate legitimate from illicit wildlife internet trade,” said Ernie Cooper, Canadian National Representative, for TRAFFIC North America.
“However, at some point, illegally traded items need to be physically transported to the buyer. It doesn’t matter how high-tech the dealing is, catching trade violations still requires old fashioned enforcement work.”
Cooper will be presenting results of TRAFFIC’s research into e-commerce. They include an eight-month study of the Chinese-language internet that found more than 4,200 advertisements offering illegal wildlife products in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
“Even accounting for the proportion of adverts that will be bogus, the extent of wildlife being offered for sale over the internet in apparent contravention of international and national laws is alarming,” said Cooper.
An investigation into the sale of Kaiser’s Spotted Newts revealed 10 websites claiming to stock the species. One Ukrainian company claimed to have sold more than 200 wild-caught specimens in a single year.
The salamanders are found only in Iran and are Critically Endangered, believed to number fewer than 1,000 individuals.
“If trade is happening at that kind of level, the future for Kaiser’s Spotted Newt is very bleak indeed,” commented Cooper.
According to TRAFFIC, buyers should ensure their internet purchases are legal, and governments and other agencies should co-operate more to police the international sale of all wildlife items, not just those listed in CITES, across the internet.
The meeting began the day a Georgia man was fined USD15,000 in a US Court for illegally possessing wildlife parts including the carcass of an endangered Snow Leopard he had bought over the internet.
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Making friends as an adult is not easy. Yet, we are designed to be a part of a community, we crave it. We desire to be known, to be heard, to be accepted, to be welcomed and to be loved. This is why the Central Territory launched Embrace. We felt and heard the need of women to be connected to a community that accepts them where they are in life: single, wife, mother, grandmother, single-mother, married with no kids – there’s a place for you in Embrace.
Embrace is a Central Territory program that brings together women in groups of 6-8 within your corps (and beyond) to encourage purposeful conversations about life and Jesus and to build friendship and sisterhood within the Body of Christ.
Embrace groups are designed to meet once a month, on a day that works best for each group, for up to two hours at a time. The intended format of Embrace is to share a meal together and then engage in guided discussion with provided questions/challenges to help open up the doors of sharing and vulnerability – creating true sisterhood.
Click Embrace FAQ to answer some of your questions!
Ideally the groups would take turns hosting in each others homes, intentionally inviting each other into one another’s lives.
Each group should have a designated leader, but hosting locations, ideally, should change monthly.
To lead your own EMBRACE group at your corps please sign up here to receive monthly questions and supplies. Once you sign up you’ll receive a guide to answer some of the questions you may have, a poster and bulletins to promote Embrace, jpeg images in case you plan to make a Facebook event invitation or community group and the questions for your first meeting. : If you’re not ready to lead but want to join a group, click HERE. | <urn:uuid:511a759f-343f-4784-beeb-d3dd6ab88aef> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://uscwomensministries.com/embrace/ | 2019-08-23T11:09:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027318375.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20190823104239-20190823130239-00169.warc.gz | en | 0.945505 | 384 |
With this third and last portrait of Canadian companies transforming the digital ecosystem with the use of virtual reality, we explore the possibilities of storytelling with the imagiNATIVE Indigenous Festival, showcasing film and digital voice media productions that are not generally heard beyond traditional media spheres.
Over the last two decades, imagineNATIVE has grown considerably to become a leading international organization in the screen-based media industry. It has deeply contributed to the shift in perception and changed the landscape of this industry by giving more opportunities for Indigenous work to be seen. imagineNATIVE’s presentation is not limited to the annual 5-day festival held in October, but consists also in year-round initiatives including touring and presentations of work, as well as workshops and special projects.
From the early days, digital media has been a component of the festival, even if imagineNATIVE did not always have the time or capacity to nurture that side of its presentation. Over the last few years, however, with the proliferation of more accessible technologies in the digital and interactive areas (e.g. VR/AR hardware, smartphones, game development and computer animation software), imagineNATIVE was finally able to support the development and the presentation of this kind of works.
Indigenous Perspective in Virtual Reality
2167 was a key virtual reality project initiated by imagineNATIVE. In collaboration with TIFF, Pinnguaq and the Initiative for Indigenous Future, imagineNATIVE commissioned four Indigenous filmmakers and artists to share their vision of Canada 150 years in the future through four VR experiences. Jason Ryle, Artistic and Managing Director at imagineNATIVE, and a science-fiction and alternate reality enthusiast, had the idea of 2167 in contemplating what the festival would do for the sesquicentennial. According to its mission, imagineNATIVE chose to propose something other than a celebration of the past 150 years. At first, this project was intended to be a short film series. Jason tried the Google Cardboard in 2014 and had a revelation: VR was the right medium for 2167.
“With the potential of this new medium, and what it could become, it was important to ensure that Indigenous perspectives are present.”
Three of the four VR short films premiered at TIFF Bell Lightbox in June 2017 and all works premiered during the 18th edition of imagineNATIVE festival. It was also presented at the Berlinale European Film market, and was the subject of a panel during imagineNATIVE festival, available online for free. 2167 has been successful both because it presents very different content (a collection of VR dystopian experiences), and because it represents original, forward-looking, and conceptual Indigenous content. 2167 is now part of the touring presentations that imagineNATIVE offers year-round across Canada.
With the growing interest and potential of VR, it was also important for imagineNATIVE to ensure Indigenous perspectives are present. This need was further heighted by the realization that that VR is particularly conducive with non-linear, non-western forms of storytelling. Indigenous storytelling often relies on unconventional structures, loops and fragments. The art of storytelling in virtual reality offers a point of view and a unique sense of place, space and environment that can be compared to Indigenous oral storytelling practices.
Digital or Interactive?
After years of success in the film industry, the organization would like to achieve the same positive shift in perception of digital and interactive media, which is why VR is becoming more prevalent at imagineNATIVE. Indeed, the recent addition of Meagan Byrne as Digital and Interactive Coordinator starts a new stage in the way imagineNATIVE conceives digital works made by Indigenous artists.
This shift started by realizing that there are two types of VR works: interactive experiences (the user has the control) and 360-degree films (no action required). ImagineNATIVE then built two different strategies for developing and presenting each type of content. Because imagineNATIVE serves primarily filmmakers, VR is mostly used for film, although an increasing number of interactive projects are also supported by imagineNATIVE. Of course, VR remains an experimental field, which has not reached mass adoption in the marketplace meaning that nobody can say with certainty that it is here to stay or how it is going to evolve.
Ethics of VR
Developing and presenting Indigenous content raises a whole range of questions, especially when these considerations meet the ethics of virtual reality. As a leader in the screen-based industry, imagineNATIVE is developing a framework called On Screen Protocols and Pathways (based on an existing Australian initiative), to guide both Indigenous and non-Indigenous content creators, producers and distributors in the process of using Indigenous stories on screen. While this framework is focused on TV and film, the principals and protocols can be applied to digital and interactive content until a specific framework is developed. The intention of the framework is to be a tool that enacts generational change on the screen and one that ensures that negative stereotypes are no longer perpetuated. It will also help to make sure that adequate permissions have been granted for the use of stories or sacred places and that ceremonies are not misappropriated. In this context, the sense of immediacy and intimacy that VR can offer makes it especially important to find ethical solutions. imagineNATIVE commits to encourage conversation within the sector to promote healthy cross-cultural projects.
“With VR used as a so-called empathy machine, ethics and protocols must be put in place.”
The road ahead is paved with many other considerations that the VR sector will have to address with the help of imagineNATIVE: access and education, attribution and copyright or archiving and preservation of digital media.
Jason and Meagan are confident in the future of the Canadian screen-based industry and role of Indigenous creation within that industry. With the increasing awareness of historical and contemporary Indigenous issues, the audience has become more prone to access these stories that were marginalized or ignored for too long. VR is a great tool to share these stories and meditative experiences and to build bridges between cultures. This interest is reflected in the recent creation of Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office, intended to cover all screen-based content, including digital media.
After two decades of presenting Indigenous-made screen-based work, imagineNATIVE’s archive presents new opportunities to further explore and contextualise Indigenous cinematic history. We can now look at Cree cinema specifically or explore aspects of Anishinaabe cinema in ways we could not in the last century. | <urn:uuid:ee866af0-7d5f-4163-9b33-40ec2e74805c> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://devtrends.cmf-fmc.ca/focus-on-the-artists-with-imaginenative-festival/ | 2021-09-18T22:32:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056578.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20210918214805-20210919004805-00315.warc.gz | en | 0.947893 | 1,310 |
Six RAF Typhoon fighter jets leave UK for Cyprus. Four of them deploying right now.
News agencies are reporting that six Typhoon aircraft are being deployed to RAF Akrotiri on the island of Cyprus only 120 miles off the Syrian coast.
The British Ministry of Defense released the following statement on their website.
“As part of ongoing contingency planning, six RAF Typhoon interceptor fast jets are deploying this morning to Akrotiri in Cyprus.
This is a precautionary measure, specifically aimed at protecting UK interests and the defence of our Sovereign Base Areas at a time of heightened tension in the wider region. This is a movement of defensive assets operating in an air-to-air role only. They are not deploying to take part in any military action against Syria.
The Prime Minister has made clear no decision has been taken on the UK’s response to the situation in Syria and there will be a Commons vote before any direct military involvement.”
A new Voyager tanker aircraft left with four of the six Typhoons at just gone 09.00 AM (Local) and headed south, it’s not known whether the other two Typhoons were with this small formation or will be deploying separately.
It’s thought the Typhoons may have come from XI Squadron based at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire although this hasn’t been confirmed.
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Ladies’ devotion is deeply rooted in their minds, so it comes from prehistory, religion, and Confucian credos. Their core belief is—”Divorce brings household shame.” Marriages with Asian brides are always about devotion, love, respect, and support.
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If you’ve ever walked around Needham, chances are you’ve noticed that people here really love their dogs. Making sure our canine companions are comfortable and safe during the day is easier when you’ve got a great deck. Here’s what you need to know about pet friendly deck design, with local tips from Needham deck contractors.
Composite Decking: Better for Dogs
Traditionally, decks and porches in our area have been built from wood, including white pine and redwood. Dogs can be tough on wooden decks and porches. Their toenails can dig into the surface, creating deep scratches and gouges. And some dogs are chewers – they love to bite banisters, railings, stairs, and other deck features. But composite decking doesn’t taste good, and dogs don’t chew on it with the same degree of enthusiasm. The tougher surface also resists damage better, and maintains its color for years.
Shade Features for Safe, Happy Puppers
Summer’s almost over, but that sun’s still pretty hot. Dogs, especially young puppies and their elderly counterparts, are especially vulnerable to sunstroke and can become overheated easily. To keep everyone safe and happy, consider having your Needham deck contractor add a shade feature to your porch. Having a roof over some or all of your porch makes it a comfortable space the whole family can enjoy.
Screen Porches – Smart Protection from Biting Insects
If you love your dog, you know you can spend a lot of time and money at the vet trying to keep them healthy. One way to help your dog stay healthy as possible is to protect them from biting insects that spread diseases – especially mosquitoes and ticks. The diseases these insects carry can also be harmful to human beings! Screen porches protect everyone while adding to the elegance, privacy and comfort of your deck. Talk to your Needham deck contractor about adding a screen porch to your deck today. | <urn:uuid:81e03452-263c-4c3b-b76d-36a985694683> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.creativedecksmass.com/the-dog-friendly-deck-must-have-features-for-the-pampered-pooch/ | 2021-08-01T04:11:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154158.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20210801030158-20210801060158-00219.warc.gz | en | 0.944078 | 410 |
Crowley County, Colorado recently signed on as one of eFORCE Software’s newest customers. They will be using eFORCE Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), Records Management Software (RMS) and Jail Management Software (JMS) to improve simplicity and efficiency for their agency.
“eFORCE will significantly impact our agency in several areas,” said Undersheriff Mark Morlock. “Going to a CAD system was a major step in bringing technology to our agency. Technology which will significantly improve efficiency for our dispatchers and patrol deputies alike.”
Crowley County Sheriff’s Office serves citizens in four rural communities in southeast Colorado; Crowley, Olney Springs, Ordway and Sugar City.
“We were in need of a new RMS and eFORCE was suggested by our neighboring law enforcement partners,” Morlock stated. “We decided on eFORCE after looking at other RMS vendors. We found that all law enforcement administrators in our judicial district (except one) were already using eFORCE and were happy with the system.”
In addition to anticipating time savings and an increase in overall efficiency, the sheriff’s office is also looking forward to the improved reporting capabilities available with eFORCE.
“The system will also simplify the way we gather statistics for NIBRS as well as other reports we prepare,” said Morlock.
As for the sheriff’s office’s experience working with eFORCE, Morlock exclaimed, “The overall customer service so far has been outstanding. First with sales, then with the implementation and training.”
He concluded by stating his agency had not had enough contact with technical support yet to provide a comment on their customer service.
“We’re very excited to welcome Crowley County as one of our newest customers,” said Cory Bowers, President and CEO of eFORCE Software. “We look forward to helping them meet the growing demands of their agency and the citizens they serve on a daily basis.”
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Remy suffered through some serious sleeping problems on Ravenswood Season 1 Episode 8, which featured the young woman spending time in a sleep clinic.
But unless the doctors there had a degree in the supernatural, they wouldn't be much help.
Miranda, meanwhile, was able to tap into Miranda's head when she touched the locket, raising all kinds of questions. That's how she ended up saving her life, though.
Also at the hospital, viewers saw Springer, who mentioned to Olivia that Dillon is the one who made him bury the knife.
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Keywan Tarran Conner didn’t beg for his life yesterday when he addressed a Franklin County jury that will decide whether he should receive the death penalty or life in prison.
Instead, he calmly told jurors that he is innocent of aggravated murder, a crime they convicted him of more than a week ago.
“I respect y’all’s verdict, even though I strongly disagree ’cause I didn’t do it,” Conner said. “It’s not in my character, and I’m not a murderer. I’m a child of God, just like everybody else."
The jury heard a full day of testimony that defense attorneys presented in hopes of persuading them to spare Conner’s life.
The jurors deliberated for about two hours before retiring to a Columbus hotel, where they were to be sequestered until resuming deliberations this morning at the Common Pleas Courthouse.
On June 15, the jury convicted Conner of fatally shooting Tenishia Latham, who was 27 weeks pregnant, and attempting to murder her husband, Larry Latham, for a small amount of marijuana at their Clinton Township house.
Under Ohio law, the sentencing phase allowed Conner to make an unsworn statement that was not subject to cross-examination by prosecutors. He didn’t testify during the trial.
He said he doesn’t know how his name became linked to the crimes. “We’ll probably never know the truth,” Conner said.
But jurors believed the testimony of Larry Latham, who said that Conner, a longtime friend he considered family, shot him in the back of the head after stopping at the couple’s Elmore Avenue house to buy marijuana just before midnight on Feb. 27, 2011. Latham testified that he blacked out temporarily, then crawled into an adjacent room, where he found his wife “lying motionless.”
Tenishia Latham died of four gunshots in her head. Doctors were able to deliver the couple’s baby, Miracle Latham, who suffers from serious developmental problems because of her premature birth.
Conner, 27, is subject to the death penalty because the jury found that he murdered Tenishia Latham to escape detection, that he purposely attempted to kill two or more people, and that the deaths occurred during an aggravated robbery and an aggravated burglary.
The jurors are required to weigh those aggravating circumstances against the mitigating factors presented at yesterday’s hearing or those that they heard during the trial. Their sentencing recommendation must be unanimous. Their choices are death, life without parole and life with a chance of parole after 25 or 30 years.
The defense called four witnesses to provide mitigating evidence about Conner: his mother, the mother of his child, one of his brothers and his paternal grandmother.
They painted a picture of a man who, despite spending much of his childhood in the crime-ridden Windsor Terrace public-housing complex, comes from a strong, supportive, churchgoing family that sheltered him from the neighborhood’s negative influences.
His grandmother, Juanita Thomas, begged jurors for mercy.
“If you please let him live, he’ll make a positive difference,” she said through tears.
Assistant Prosecutor James Lowe reminded jurors in his closing argument that “mercy is not a mitigating factor.”
Defense attorney Mark Hunt told jurors that the witness testimony demonstrated that Conner’s life has value.
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When you are looking to buy a Cutting mix, it is important to know how to use it. This type of mix is used to cut through materials, such as metal, plastic, or wood. It is also effective at removing rust and paint. In order to use a Cutting mix, you will need to apply it to the surface that you want to cut. Be sure to use safety gear, such as gloves and goggles, when using this type of mix.
What is the action of Cutting mix for bodybuilding? Results and side effects
Cutting mix is a performance enhancer that is used to improve the body’s cutting cycle. It is made of two ingredients: caffeine and aspirin. These ingredients work together to help the body burn fat and lose weight. They also help to improve endurance and athletic performance.
One of the main side effects of Cutting mix is that it can be addictive. It can also cause heart problems, especially in people who are already at risk for heart disease. It can also cause problems with the liver and kidneys, and can lead to seizures in some people.
Cutting mix is a bodybuilding supplement that is designed to help athletes reduce body fat. The ingredients in Cutting mix are thought to help the body break down and use stored fat for energy, which can help improve athletic performance and reduce the amount of fat on the body. While there is some scientific evidence to support the use of Cutting mix, there is also some potential for side effects. Some of the ingredients in Cutting mix can cause stomach upset or diarrhea, so it’s important to start with a low dose and increase gradually as needed. Additionally, Cutting mix should not be taken by pregnant or breastfeeding women, as it may cause harm to the baby.
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When it comes to Cutting mix, there are a lot of things to consider. The first thing you need to know is where to buy legal Cutting mix in the United States. There are a few reputable vendors that sell quality product, so do your research before making a purchase.
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TLF Gems Newsletter June 2022
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while I am pleased that so many companies have embraced NPS, I am deeply troubled how badly most of them are implementing it.
In 1983 researchers at IBM ran a study on the benefits of a "listening typewriter" (i.e. dictation software). The interesting thing about that study (which you can read here) is that speech recognition technology at the time was years away from making the listening typewriter a reality. The authors aren't really interested in the technology, they're interested in the benefit to users and the human factors angle of how it might work, so they fake the back end by having a typist hidden in a back room to play the part of the machine.
This is something all organisations should do more of - test customer experiences that you can't yet create by faking it with a prototype.
Too often what we do instead is ask customers whether they think something is good, then spend masses of time and money building it only to find out it doesn't actually work. This month's Top Read is the best book I know on the importance of sketching and prototyping in experience design (and it's where I learned about that IBM study).
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Here are 6 things we think are worth your time this month
Thought this was interesting - a tool which formats text in a way that is claimed to make reading quicker and easier by supporting the way we scan text in a series of eye jumps ("saccades"). I'm not totally sold, but playing with the settings does seem to make some things easier to read. Could be useful for text-based customer interactions? "...Bionic Reading aims to encourage a more in-depth reading and understanding of written content."
I thought this was a brilliant piece showcasing Gary Marcus' criticism of current approaches to AI which rely on huge datasets and computing in place of anything that could meaningfully be described as thinking. Hybrid approaches are probably the way forward. "Current AI is illiterate. It can fake its way through, but it doesn’t understand what it reads."
The Psychology of Referrals
It's pretty common to incentivise referrals, but what's the best way to do it? In this response to a reader question, Dan Ariely suggests that it may be more important to incentivise the new customer than the existing one making the referral. "The new customer is the one who needs to go to the effort to get signed up, and an incentive can help make jumping through those hoops more attractive."
Blowing Up PowerPoint
Edward Tufte's crusade against PowerPoint is well known, but this is an interesting example of a company (Amazon) embracing his ideas about more effective ways to communicate, specifically starting meetings with everyone quietly reading an information-dense document for 20 minutes instead of sitting through an interminable slide show. "Amazon relies far more on written words to develop and communicate ideas than most companies, and this difference makes for a huge competitive advantage."
Intuit Content Design
I love it when companies put their style guides online, and this is even better. Intuit's content design hub is a treasure trove of advice on topics from tone of voice to formatting and antirascist language. "Show customers why they should care before you tell them what to do. For instance: To add a new customer, go to the Customers tab. (Not Go to the Customers tab to add a new customer.)"
Top Reads: Sketching User Experiences
There are lots of books about design thinking, but few of them actually help you think the way designers do. For me, Bill Buxton's 2007 classic really changed the way I thought about how products and experiences should be developed, and sold me on the importance of testing with rough sketches and prototypes as early as possible. That's how you get experience front and centre in the innovation process, instead of getting bogged down in technology. "Despite the technocratic and materialistic bias of our culture, it is ultimately experiences that we are designing, not things."
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China has announced plans to send a top official to Tehran to discuss a way to settle the ongoing dispute between Iran and Western nations. India is also said to be planning to play a similar role.
This is because the ever-growing number of sanctions imposed by the Obama Administration and the European Union are crippling trade with the major central Asian nation, doing serious harm not just to Iran’s civilian economy, but to its trading partners.
Food prices are soaring and trade under normal circumstances, using the US dollar, is all but impossible with all the sanctions imposed. Increasingly, Iranian traders are using gold as an alternative means of exchange.
Barter for gold isn’t necessarily an impractical way of conducting international trade. This was the standard for most of the world’s trade in centuries past. The suddenness of the shift, and its forced imposition through broad sanctions, have left many struggling to keep pace, and have brought imports of many commodities to a standstill. Iran’s export of oil, particularly to China, seems to be flowing mostly unchanged, however, meaning once again the sanctions are not having their expected goal but are instead having a bunch of unintended side-effects, punishing Iranian civilians.
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diSessa’s motivation was to understand students’ intuitions of mechanisms in physics and how those intuitions affect formal learning of physics (the actual title of this paper is “Toward an Epistemology of Physics”). The Knowledge in Pieces framework used in this paper, and which will be the focus of this summary, has since been used across many topics, such as learning recursion in computing (Chao et al., 2018). The framework is based on empirical work, but as the paper is 126 pages long, those parts of the paper, and many others, are excluded from this summary.
Knowledge in Pieces (KiP)
The KiP framework is intended to describe learning of complex topics in a way that accounts for learners preconceptions (i.e., intuitions and informal self-explanations) of the topic. In addition, KiP explores the misconceptions that arise as knowledge develops. diSessa discusses four issues related to “theory building about any knowledge system” (p. 111) and how they relate to phenomenological primitives (p-prims), the building blocks of KiP:
Elements: P-prims are knowledge structures that are minimal abstractions of common phenomena and typically involve only a few simple parts, e.g., an observed phenomenon, like a person hitting a pen and that pen rolling across the table, and an explanation, like when people hit things, they move. P-prims are both phenomenological, meaning that they are interpretations of reality, and primitive, meaning that are (1) based on often rudimentary self-explanations and (2) an atomic-level mental structure that is only separated into parts by excessive force.
Cognitive Mechanism: P-prims are only activated when the learner recognizes similarities between a p-prim and the current phenomena. Recognition is impacted by many different features, such as cuing, frequency of activation, suppression, salience, and reinforcement. Because activation of p-prims depends on contextual features of phenomena, novices often fail to recognize relevant p-prims unless the contextual features align.
Development: Understanding of complex concepts develops from an unstructured and disjointed collection of p-prims. Through instruction and deliberate experience, p-prims become organized so that highly useful ones become central to a concept and more obscure ones develop few connections within the developing knowledge structure. P-prims that are based on incorrect or incomplete explanations can lead to misconceptions as learners negotiate relationships among p-prims. Ultimately, p-prims are subsumed into more formal knowledge structures that are based on principles in the field, such as physics laws, that are applied more consistently than recognition-activated p-prims.
Systematicity: The systematicity of knowledge development depends on p-prims’ mutual use (recognition of one p-prim activates recognition of another), common attributes (similar vocabulary among p-prims allow for relationships among them), top-down coherence (early salient p-prims align with later p-prims), mutual plausibility (phenomenological syllogisms), completeness (a set of p-prims should explain different expressions of the same concept), and abstraction (the breadth of phenomena that a p-prim can explain intuitively).
Later work on the KiP framework has expanded the elements that contribute to development of knowledge structures to include p-prims, coordination classes, epistemological beliefs, and meta-representational beliefs (Hammer et al., 2005 as cited in Chao et al., 2018). Most notably, Taber and Garcia-Franco (2010, as cited in Chao et al., 2018) identified knowledge structures that are similar to p-prims but are not reliant on physical experiences.
Why this is important
As much as I don’t want to write a summary that says, “you should really go read the paper,” the paper has much more to offer than this limited summary. Especially from a methodological perspective, diSessa discusses how to identify p-prims and common difficulties that you would face, such as that learners have a hard time articulating p-prims because they are not strongly related to vocabulary. By describing his work in physics in detail, he demonstrates how to apply the KiP framework, including to other fields. Researchers in other fields find the KiP framework useful for exploring how learners develop knowledge about complex concepts based on preconceptions.
Chao, J., Feldon, D. F., & Cohoon, J. P. (2018). Dynamic mental model construction: A Knowledge in Pieces-based explanation for computing students’ erratic performance on recursion. The Journal of the Learning Environment, 27(3), 431-473.
diSessa, A. A. (1993). Toward an epistemology of physics. Cognition and Instruction, 10(2&3), 105-225.
Hammer, D., Elby, A., Scherr, R. E., & Redish, E. F. (2005). Resources, framing, and transfer. In J. P. Mestre (Ed.), Transfer of learning from a modern multidisciplinary perspective (pp. 89–120). Greenwich, CT: Information Age.
Taber, K. S., & Garcia-Franco, A. (2010). Learning processes in chemistry: Drawing upon cognitive resources to learn about the particulate structure of matter. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 19(1), 99–142.
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Today I wanted to write about my audience. Whether I like it or not, their comments, likes and dislikes feed into the type of music I perform on the street. Some buskers prefer to only play what they like and hope that someone else will like it too. They do it purely for love, not money and that’s fine. I, however, prefer to get an income from busking so in this case it’s important for me to read my audience and think about what might encourage them to tip something.
People come from all walks of life. Old, young, tattoos and piercings, prim and proper, happy, sad, everyone has their own tastes and the moment they pass you on the street they could be in any kind of a mood. A musician sets the atmosphere around them. They can play something exciting, melancholy, angry etc. With other types of acts I find that they are usually only able to create one mood. For instance, one act might be comedic, another might create awe, and another could just be entertaining. I think this is what makes music special. In a film, when you hear a certain type of music you can tell something bad is about to happen. Or something good might have just happened. Musicians have the ability to create moods within other people. So it’s important that musicians pay attention to the people that walk by them if they want to earn decent money. This is my experience with creating an audience.
When I used to play just Irish music, I usually played it very cheerfully. There are some slower tunes I would add to break it up a bit. However, people threw the most money in when I played loud and fast. I suppose because it’s more impressive to them. Many different types of people tipped me but the majority of my income came from parents whose children begged them to stop walking and watch or to put money in. I started busking with someone else last year who insisted on playing particular songs (mostly oldies). His main focus was to get the attention of older people because in his eyes they had more money so were likely to give the most. I didn’t particularly like the songs he picked, and for me it’s really important to like what I play. So when I went off on my own I had a different goal in mind. Attract everyone from all age groups. I incorporate some songs by the same artists that he picked, but only the ones I like. Additionally I play some more modern stuff which also gets people’s attention.
Sometimes it’s difficult to keep track of which songs make more money because it’s not an exact science. Sometimes I could play Pachelbel’s Canon for 5 mins and make £6 in that time. Other times I might not make anything. Sometimes the same happens if I play Nothing Else Matters. I usually pay attention to who is walking by when I decide on a piece of music. If there are a lot of kids I’ll skip the Canon and play something more upbeat because kids usually like to jump around and dance to the music. Even when I play some Irish tunes I get some teenagers jokingly doing a few steps, then they come back and drop some money in my case.
You don’t get to choose your audience when busking, but you can certainly make a good impression on a lot of folks.
Apart from that it’s really difficult to judge what sort of music people might like on a particular day. Sometimes I’ll be playing the Canon and some tough looking guys will come by and drop money in and say that sounds really beautiful. That surprises me because I sometimes think only little old ladies will like it. It just shows you that you can never truly tell what people will enjoy. I usually have to test a few songs in the beginning of my set. If I find a song that works, then I start playing other stuff that is similar. For instance I sometimes start with some Irish jigs and suddenly I’ll get a few people swarming around me saying they love it. So I’ll continue to play more tunes for a while before I switch to something else. Basically I end up playing whatever I feel like playing within certain parameters.
Occasionally people request certain songs and sometimes I happen to have it on my set list, other times not. I have a very good ear so occasionally I can figure out how to play it on the spot. This always makes people happy and certain drop in a few coins. One time in Lincoln at the top of the hill, a lady said her son really liked 7 Years by Lukas Graham. I couldn’t even remember how it went so asked her to hum it. From that I worked out how to play the chorus and played that for them. However, I don’t particularly like that song and don’t think it would be that popular so I haven’t bothered to add it to my set list.
Other times if it’s something that I think other people will like too, I’ll learn it properly and sort out backing music for it. For instance, once in Newark this guy asked me to play the Game of Thrones theme. I had learned it from the sheet music months before but couldn’t quite remember how to play it so I had to disappoint him. However, I do like that one and figured others would too. So I added it to my repertoire and it’s become really popular. That guy saw me a few weeks ago in Lincoln and heard me play it and was impressed that I’d taken the time to learn it.
I’ve noticed that some buskers don’t look at their audience at all. I think partly because they are so focused on what they are doing. However, I’ve been performing long enough to be able to play and focus my attention on my audience at the same time. I think smiling with eye contact is important, because it shows the person that you noticed them and it’s another way to connect with that person. Also you can tell if they are enjoying what you are doing. I also watch people’s feet and hands if they are sitting down. People can’t help but tap along if they like what they hear. Or they could just have a bored look on their face and then I know that I need to change styles. Sometimes people will do a funny dance as well. Yesterday morning I was playing a tango and some old guy (who was pushing another old guy in a wheelchair) suddenly lifted his leg up behind him as if he were about to dance the tango. It made me chuckle and he chuckled as well while he passed by. I also get a lot of thumbs up and smiles from people who haven’t given money. Occasionally they do come back and drop something in.
Music is its own form of communication. There are times when I go somewhere to busk (like a market), I set up, play, then pack up and leave when I earned enough money… all without having spoken to anyone. Yet somehow I leave feeling like I’ve had a conversation with all the people around me. It’s a very eerie feeling. Other times I do end up actually speaking to a lot of people around me. They ask me all sorts of questions, sometimes they tell me which specific songs they liked. It’s all helpful for me in trying to understand my audience. Sometimes people will tell me that a certain song has brought up a nice memory or that they were feeling gloomy and I cheered them up. Sometimes people excitedly want to take a picture with me. I just think ok, don’t know why you’d want a picture with me, but ok! At least that definitely tells me they are enjoying my music.
You don’t get to choose your audience when busking...
but you can certainly make a good impression on a lot of folks. I aim to set the mood and brighten people’s day in any way I can when I go out to play. That’s the best thing any busker can do. In my next post I'll expand on what type of music is in my set list.
What are your thoughts and experiences? Are you a busker with different ideas on how to gather an audience? Of course this is from the perspective of a walk by performance so people with circle performances will have different views. Please leave your questions and comments in the comment section below!
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“While everyday expenses such as utility bills are top of mind with homeowners, a hidden danger to their budgets can be the cost of unanticipated home repairs, such as a heating system breakdown or water line break”
When it comes to home-related expenses, homeowners are crossing their fingers that nothing goes wrong this year: the survey found that only 40 percent of homeowners are budgeting for home maintenance expenses and even fewer (38 percent) are accounting for home repairs in their budgets. In addition, more than one-third (35 percent) of homeowners would not have enough money saved or are not sure if they have enough money saved to replace their heating system if it were to break down this winter.
The survey also found that most homeowners aren’t worried about a major home repair in 2015 with 59 percent indicating they are not at all or not very concerned. So it comes as no surprise that 40 percent of homeowners gave equal weight to budgeting for a vacation, a more discretionary expense, as they did for home maintenance in 2015.
On the other hand, energy/utility bills are a priority for homeowners with 55 percent claiming they regularly track or monitor their home energy use/utility bills such as those for oil, gas or electricity. Their primary motivation for tracking these closely may be cost considerations – 67 percent express concern about the cost of energy use in their homes – or environmental factors, since 45 percent expressed concern about the environmental impact of energy use in their home.
“While everyday expenses such as utility bills are top of mind with homeowners, a hidden danger to their budgets can be the cost of unanticipated home repairs, such as a heating system breakdown or water line break,” said Tom Rusin, CEO, HomeServe USA. “The cost of a water line replacement, for example, averages $2,200 nationally and replacing a heating system can cost thousands. Because many homeowners aren’t budgeting for these unexpected expenses, it might make sense for them to consider a service repair plan for a fixed monthly fee to provide financial certainty and avoid the surprise of a costly system repair or replacement.”
This survey was conducted online within the United States between December 19th and 23rd, 2014 among 2,022 adults (aged 18 and over) by Harris Poll on behalf of HomeServe via its Quick Query omnibus product. Figures for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, region and household income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population. Propensity score weighting was used to adjust for respondents’ propensity to be online.
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A dead bat was picked up by Animal Control on Friday at Melvin Place Apartments off Rosehill Road and sent for testing.
Officials say residents in the vicinity of Melvin Place Apartments should remain alert for sick or abnormal acting wildlife. There will be people on hand in the area to alert residents of the incident.
Health Director Buck Wilson advises parents that if their child may have had contact with the bat at the complex during the last couple of days to contact him at (910) 703-1207 immediately. It is critical that anyone who may have had contact with the bat to seek treatment.
It is also important to vaccinate pets for rabies and keep their shots current. Pet owners are reminded that all dogs and cats must be vaccinated against rabies, as required by state law.
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Everyone millennial on the planet has grown up watching cartoons that have revolutionized children Television. Amongst the list of these fascinating cartoon shows that glued us to our television seats, there is one that stands out.
Tom and Jerry have been a part our childhood. The cartoon left children captivated and eager for more. It is interesting to see that an irritated cat and a charming mouse, was the most relatable content, kids could find back then. The mastermind behind the creation of these loveable creatures, Gene Deitch passed away at the age of 95.
The Life and Early Career of Gene Deitch
Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1924, Deitch showed an incredible aptitude towards drawing and animation since a very young age. Gene Deitch began his career are as blueprint illustrator for aircrafts in the North American Aviation. He was later drafted in to the army, but could not make it as a pilot due to pneumonia. After being honourably discharged from the military, Deitch went on to creating cover art and illustrations for the popular American Jazz Magazine, ‘The Record Changer’.
A Career in Animation
Deitch began his animation career in 1955 for the United Productions of America (UPA) Studio. The big break in Gene Deitch’s career when Rembrandt Films, based in Prague agreed to fund his project ‘Munro’. The plot revolves around the life of a 4-year-old boy who is accidentally drafted into the army. None of the characters in the film notice that he is just a boy, and he goes on to fight at the border. ‘Munro’ is one of the pioneers of animation films around the world. Deitch went on to win an Oscar for best animated short film in the year 1961.
Deitch’s stay in Prague was supposed to be restricted only till the direction of Munro got over, but he decided to permanently settle their after he met his second wife Zdenka.
Gene Deitch continued to work with Rembrandt Films which led to the creation of the popular show ‘Popeye: The Sailor Man’. The show was a massive success and Deitch popped up on the radar of Television Giant MGM. Between 1961 and 62, Deitch directed 13 episodes of the kids’ show.
‘Tom and Jerry’ was a project that Deitch was reluctant to pursue. He found the violence between the two characters way too much for a children’s cartoon program. After reading the script and directing the first episode, the animator developed a special bond with the characters of the show. He claimed that ‘Tom and Jerry’ was a show that gave people hope. The show sees the little brown mouse, constantly escaping and outsmarting the big cat. Deitch related these two characters to the popular Biblical story involving David and Goliath, adding that the show gives people the confidence that the small and weak character can survive.
In 1969, Gene Deitch started working for Weston Woods Studios that converted children’s picture books into short animated films. He worked there for almost there for almost 4 decades before retiring in 2008 with the release of his last film ‘Voyage to the Bunny Planet’. Deitch was awarded with Annie Awards’ Winsor McCay Award by ASIFA-Hollywood for a lifetime of contribution to the industry art and animation.
Gene Deitch was married twice and had three children with his first wife. All three of his sons are also cartoonists and animators working in Hollywood. While working on ‘Munro’ Deitch met the production manager of the studio, Zdenka Najmanová. The couple got married in 1964 and Deitch permanently settled in Prague.
His memoir, ‘For the love of Prague’ talks about his career as an American Animator is the communist ruled Prague.
Gene Deitch Death
The ‘Tom and Jerry’ director’s death was reported when his Czech publisher, Petr Himmel informed The Associated Press that Deitch had unexpectedly passed away on Thursday night in his apartment. No details were given regarding his death except for the fact that he had been suffering from some intestinal issues.
There has been no evidence that his death has been caused by the Corona Virus and we can only wait for the actual cause of demise.
Social Media websites, especially twitter boomed up with praise and respect for the legendary animator. Lots of people wished his family well and hoped that his work and creations would influence the coming generations as they had influenced them. His legacy is continued by his sons all of whom have ventured into the field of animation.
The death of Gene Deitch at the age of 95 marks the end of an illustrious career. His work has contributed to the rise of animated cartoons across the world that children even today cherish whole heartedly. Deitch’s ‘Tom and Jerry’ is bound to be enjoyed and valued by generations to come. | <urn:uuid:81c41da9-e8c0-4dff-8f2c-592fd7ba0a80> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://societymutter.com/death-of-gene-deitch-director-of-tom-and-jerry/ | 2022-05-19T09:33:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662526009.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519074217-20220519104217-00649.warc.gz | en | 0.979792 | 1,030 |
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Advances in Mathematical Physics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 281705, 42 pages
A New Approach to Black Hole Quasinormal Modes: A Review of the Asymptotic Iteration Method
1Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tamsui, New Taipei City 25137, Taiwan
2National Institute for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits 2050, South Africa
3Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
4International College and Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
Received 18 November 2011; Revised 12 March 2012; Accepted 15 March 2012
Academic Editor: Ricardo Weder
Copyright © 2012 H. T. Cho et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We discuss how to obtain black hole quasinormal modes (QNMs) using the asymptotic iteration method (AIM), initially developed to solve second-order ordinary differential equations. We introduce the standard version of this method and present an improvement more suitable for numerical implementation. We demonstrate that the AIM can be used to find radial QNMs for Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordström (RN), and Kerr black holes in a unified way. We discuss some advantages of the AIM over the continued fractions method (CFM). This paper presents for the first time the spin 0, 1/2 and 2 QNMs of a Kerr black hole and the gravitational and electromagnetic QNMs of the RN black hole calculated via the AIM and confirms results previously obtained using the CFM. We also present some new results comparing the AIM to the WKB method. Finally we emphasize that the AIM is well suited to higher-dimensional generalizations and we give an example of doubly rotating black holes.
The study of quasinormal modes (QNMs) of black holes is an old and well-established subject, where the various frequencies are indicative of both the parameters of the black hole and the type of emissions possible. Initially the calculation of these frequencies was done in a purely numerical way, which requires selecting a value for the complex frequency, integrating the differential equation, and checking whether the boundary conditions are satisfied. Note that in the following we will use the definition that QNMs are defined as solutions of the perturbed field equations with boundary conditions: for an time dependence (which corresponds to ingoing waves at the horizon and outgoing waves at infinity). Also note the boundary condition as does not apply to asymptotically anti-de-Sitter spacetimes, where instead something like a Dirichlet boundary condition is imposed, for example, see . Since those conditions are not satisfied in general, the complex frequency plane must be surveyed for discrete values that lead to QNMs. This technique is time consuming and cumbersome, making it difficult to systematically survey the QNMs for a wide range of parameter values. Following early work by Vishveshwara , Chandrasekhar and Detweiler pioneered this method for studying QNMs.
In order to improve on this, a few semianalytic analyses were also attempted. In one approach, employed by Ferrari and Mashhoon et al. , the potential barrier in the effective one-dimensional Schrödinger equation is replaced by a parameterized analytic potential barrier function for which simple exact solutions are known. The overall shape approximates that of the true black hole barrier, and the parameters of the barrier function are adjusted to fit the height and curvature of the true barrier at the peak. The resulting estimates for the QNM frequencies have been applied to the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordström, and Kerr black holes, with agreement within a few percent with the numerical results of Chandrasekhar and Detweiler in the Schwarzschild case , and with Gunter in the Reissner-Nordström case. However, as this method relies upon a specialized barrier function, there is no systematic way to estimate the errors or to improve the accuracy.
The method by Leaver , which is a hybrid of the analytic and the numerical, successfully generates QNM frequencies by making use of an analytic infinite-series representation of the solutions, together with a numerical solution of an equation for the QNM frequencies which involves, typically by applying a Frobenius series solution approach, the use of continued fractions. This technique is known as the continued fraction method (CFM).
Historically, another commonly applied technique is the WKB approximation [7–9]. Even though it is based on an approximation, this approach is powerful as the WKB approximation is known in many cases to be more accurate and can be carried to higher orders, either as a means to improve accuracy or as a means to estimate the errors explicitly. Also it allows a more systematic study of QNMs than has been possible using outright numerical methods. The WKB approximation has since been extended to sixth order .
However, all of these approaches have their limitations, where in recent years a new method has been developed which can be more efficient in some cases, called the asymptotic iteration method (AIM). Previously this method was used to solve eigenvalue problems [11, 12] as a semi analytic technique for solving second-order homogeneous linear differential equations. It has also been successfully shown by some of the current authors that the AIM is an efficient and accurate technique for calculating QNMs .
As such, we will review the AIM as applied to a variety of black hole spacetimes, making (where possible) comparisons with the results calculated by the WKB method and the CFM á la Leaver . Therefore, the structure of this paper will be as following: In Section 2 we will review the AIM and the improved method of Ciftci et al. [11, 12] (also see ), along with a discussion of how the QNM boundary conditions are ensured. Applications to simple concrete examples, such as the harmonic oscillator and the Poschl-Teller potential, are also provided. In Section 3 the case of Schwarzschild (A)dS black holes will be discussed, developing the integer and half-spin equations. In Section 4 a review of the QNMs of the Reissner-Nordström black holes will be made, with several frequencies calculated in the AIM and compared with previous results. Section 5 will review the application of the AIM to Kerr black holes for spin fields. Section 6 will discuss the spin-zero QNMs for doubly rotating black holes. We then summarize and conclude in Section 7.
2. The Asymptotic Iteration Method
2.1. The Method
To begin we will now review the idea behind the AIM, where we first consider the homogeneous linear second-order differential equation for the function : where and are functions in . In order to find a general solution to this equation, we rely on the symmetric structure of the right-hand side of (2.1) [11, 12]. If we differentiate (2.1) with respect to , we find that where Taking the second derivative of (2.1) we get where Iteratively, for the and the derivatives, , we have and thus bringing us to the crucial observation in the AIM that differentiating the pervious equation times with respect to leaves a symmetric form for the right-hand side: where For sufficiently large the asymptotic aspect of the “method” is introduced, that is where the QNMs are obtained from the “quantization condition”: which is equivalent to imposing a termination to the number of iterations . From the ratio of the and the derivatives, we have From our asymptotic limit, this reduces to which yields where is the integration constant and the right-hand side of (2.8) and the definition of have been used. Substituting this into (2.6), we obtain the first-order differential equation: which leads to the general solution: The integration constants, and , can be determined by an appropriate choice of normalisation. Note that for the generation of exact solutions .
2.2. The Improved Method
Ciftci et al. [11, 12] were among the first to note that an unappealing feature of the recursion relations in (2.8) is that at each iteration one must take the derivative of the and terms of the previous iteration. This can slow the numerical implementation of the AIM down considerably and also lead to problems with numerical precision.
To circumvent these issues we developed an improved version of the AIM which bypasses the need to take derivatives at each step . This greatly improves both the accuracy and speed of the method. We expand the and in a Taylor series around the point at which the AIM is performed, : where the and are the Taylor coefficients of and , respectively. Substituting these expressions into (2.8) leads to a set of recursion relations for the coefficients: In terms of these coefficients the “quantization condition’’ equation (2.10) can be reexpressed as and thus we have reduced the AIM into a set of recursion relations which no longer require derivative operators.
Observing that the right-hand side of (2.17) involves terms of order at most , one can recurse these equations until only and terms remain (i.e., the coefficients of and only). However, for large numbers of iterations, due to the large number of terms, such expressions become impractical to compute. We avert this combinatorial problem by beginning at the stage and calculating the coefficients sequentially until the desired number of recursions is reached. Since the quantisation condition only requires the term, at each iteration we only need to determine coefficients with , where is the maximum number of iterations to be performed. The QNMs that we calculate in this paper will be determined using this improved AIM.
2.3. Two Simple Examples
2.3.1. The Harmonic Oscillator
In order to understand the effectiveness of the AIM, it is appropriate to apply this method to a simple concrete problem: the harmonic oscillator potential in one dimension: When approaches infinity, the wave function must approach zero. Asymptotically the function decays like a Gaussian distribution, in which case we can write where is the new wave function. Substituting (2.20) into (2.19) then rearranging the equation and dividing by a common factor, one can obtain We recognise this as Hermite’s equation. For convenience we let , such that in our case and . We define Thus using (2.8) one can find that and the termination condition (2.10) can be written as . Hence must be a nonnegative integer, which means that and this is the exact spectrum for such a potential. Moreover, the wave function can also be derived in this method.
We will point out that in this case the termination condition, , is dependent only on the eigenvalue for a given iteration number , and this is the reason why we can obtain an exact eigenvalue. However, for the black hole cases in subsequent sections, the termination condition depends also on , and therefore one can only obtain approximate eigenvalues by terminating the procedure after iterations.
2.3.2. The Poschl-Teller Potential
To conclude this section we will also demonstrate that the AIM can be applied to the case of QNMs, which have unbounded (scattering) like potentials, by recalling that we can find QNMs for Scarf II (upside-down Poschl-Teller-like) potentials . This is based on observations made by one of the current authors relating QNMs from quasiexactly solvable models. Indeed bound state Poschl-Teller potentials have been used for QNM approximations previously by inverting black hole potentials . However, the AIM does not require any inversion of the black hole potential as we will show.
Starting with the potential term and the Schrödinger equation, we obtain As we will also see in the following sections that it is more convenient to transform our coordinates to a finite domain. Hence, we will use the transformation , which leads to where . The QNM boundary conditions in (1.1) can then be implemented as follows. As we will have . Hence our boundary condition is . Likewise, as we have and the boundary condition . As such we can take the boundary conditions into account by writing and therefore we have where Following the AIM procedure, that is, taking successively for , one can obtain exact eigenvalues: This exact QNM spectrum is the same as the one in obtained through algebraic means.
The reader might wonder about approximate results for cases where Poschl-Teller approximations can be used, such as Schwarzschild and SdS backgrounds; for example, see [1, 4]. In fact when the black hole potential can be modeled by a Scarf like potential, the AIM can be used to find the eigenvalues exactly and hence the QNMs numerically. We demonstrate this in the next section.
3. Schwarzschild (A)DS Black Holes
We will now begin the core focus of this paper, the study of black hole QNMs using the AIM. Recall that the perturbations of the Schwarzschild black holes are described by the Regge and Wheeler and Zerilli equations, and the perturbations of Kerr black holes are described by the Teukolsky equations . The perturbation equations for Reissner-Nordström black holes were also derived by Zerilli and by Moncrief [21–23]. Their radial perturbation equations all have a one-dimensional Schrödinger-like form with an effective potential.
Therefore, we will commence in the coming subsections by describing the radial perturbation equations of Schwarzschild black holes first, where our perturbed metric will be , and where is spherically symmetric. As such it is natural to introduce a mode decomposition to . Typically we write where are the standard spherical harmonics. The function then solves the wave equation: where , defined by , are the so-called tortoise coordinates and is a master potential of the following form : In this section with cosmological constant . Here denotes the spin of the perturbation: scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational (for half-integer spin see [25–27] and Section 5.2).
3.1. The Schwarschild Asymptotically Flat Case
To explain the AIM we will start with the simplest case of the radial component of a perturbation of the Schwarzschild metric outside the event horizon . For an asymptotically flat Schwarzschild solution (), where from we have for the tortoise coordinate .
Note that for the Schwarzschild background the maximum of this potential, in terms of , is given by
The choice of coordinates is somewhat arbitrary and in the next section (for SdS) we will see how an alternative choice leads to a simpler solution. Firstly, consider the change of variable: with . In terms of , our radial equation then becomes
To accommodate the out-going wave boundary condition as in terms of (which is the limit ) and the regular singularity at the event horizon (), we define where the Coulomb power law is included in the asymptotic behaviour (cf. (5)). The radial equation then takes the following form: where Note that primes of denote derivatives with respect to .
Using these expressions we have tabulated several QNM frequencies and compared them to the WKB method of and the CFM of in Table 1. For completeness Table 1 also includes results from an approximate semianalytic third-order WKB method . More accurate semianalytic results with better agreement to Leaver’s method can be obtained by extending the WKB method to 6th order and indeed in Section 5 we use this to compare with the AIM for results where the CFM has not been tabulated.
It might also be worth mentioning that a different semianalytic perturbative approach has recently been discussed by Dolan and Ottewill , which has the added benefit of easily being extended to any order in a perturbative scheme.
3.2. The De-Sitter Case
We have presented the QNMs for Schwarzchild gravitational perturbations in Table 1 however, to further justify the use of this method, it is instructive to consider some more general cases. As such, we will now consider the Schwarzschild de Sitter (SdS) case, where we have the same WKB-like wave equation and potential as in the radial equation earlier, though now where is the cosmological constant. Interestingly the choice of coordinates we use here leads to a simpler AIM solution, because there is no Coulomb power law tail; however, in the limit we recover the Schwarzschild results. Note that although it is possible to find an expression for the maximum of the potential in the radial equation, for the SdS case, it is the solution of a cubic equation, which for brevity we refrain from presenting here. In our AIM code we use a numerical routine to find the root to make the code more general.
In the SdS case it is more convenient to change coordinates to , which leads to the following master equation (cf. (3.3)): where we have defined It may be worth mentioning that for SdS we can express in terms of the roots of , where is the event horizon and is the cosmological horizon (and is the surface gravity at each ). This is useful for choosing the appropriate scaling behaviour for QNM boundary conditions.
Based on the pervious equation an appropriate choice for QNMs is to scale out the divergent behaviour at the cosmological horizon (note that this is opposite to the case presented in , where they define the QNMs as solution with boundary conditions as , for time dependence): which implies in term of . Furthermore, based on the scaling in (3.17), the correct QNM condition at the horizon implies where with , and is the smallest real solution of , implying . The differential equation then takes the standard AIM form: where Using these equations, we present in Table 2 results for SdS with .
Identical results were generated by the AIM and CFM, both after 50 iterations. Though results are presented for , and modes only, the AIM is robust enough to be applied to any other case where like the case, agreement with other methods in more extreme parameter choices would only require further iterations.
As far as we are aware only (who used a semianalytic WKB approach) has presented tables for general spin fields for the SdS case. We have also compared our results to those in for the cases and find identical results (to a given accuracy in the WKB method).
It may be worth mentioning that a set of three-term recurrence relations was derived in for the CFM, valid for electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations (), while for this reduces to a five-term recurrence relation. However, for the AIM we can treat the perturbations on an equal footing; see for more details. Typically Gaussian Elimination steps are required to reduce an recurrence to a 3-term continued fraction; for example, for Reissner-Nördtrom see and for higher-dimensional Schwarzschild backgrounds see (for an application of the CFM to higher-dimensional asymptotic QNMs see ). However, all that is necessary in the AIM is to factor out the correct asymptotic behaviour at the horizon(s) and infinity (we showed this for higher-dimensional scalar spheroids in ).
3.3. The Spin-Zero Anti-de-Sitter Case
There are various approaches to finding QNMs for the SAdS case (an eloquent discussion is given in the appendix of , see also [36, 37]). One approach is that of Horowitz and Hubeny , which uses a series solution chosen to satisfy the SAdS QNM boundary conditions. This method can easily be applied to all perturbations (). The other approach is to use the Frobenius method of Leaver , but instead of developing a continued fraction the series must satisfy a boundary condition at infinity, such as a Dirichlet boundary condition .
The AIM does not seem easy to apply to metrics where there is an asymptotically anti-de-Sitter background, because for general spin, , the potential at infinity is a constant and hence would include a combination of ingoing and outgoing waves, leading to a sinusoidal dependence . However, for the scalar spin zero () case, the potential actually blows up at infinity and is effectively a bound state problem. In this case the AIM can easily be applied as we show here in after.
Let us consider the scalar wave equation in SAdS spacetime, where , and is the AdS radius. The master equation takes the same form as for the graviational case, except that the potential becomes Here for simplicity we have taken the AdS radius , the mass of the black hole , and the angular momentum number . Hence the horizon radius equals 1. Thus, with this choice we can compare with the data in Table 3.2 on page 37 of (see Table 3).
To implement the AIM we first look at the asymptotic behavior of . As , the potential goes to zero. In addition, For QNMs we choose the out-going (into the black hole) boundary condition. That is,
On the other extreme of our space, , the potential goes to infinity. This is a crucial difference from the case of gravitational perturbations. In that case, the potential goes to a constant. However, in the scalar case, as , , and to implement the Dirichlet boundary condition, we take
For the AIM one possible choice of variables is and we see that to accommodate the asymptotic behaviour of the wavefunction we should take Finally, after some work we find that the scalar perturbation equation is where and . Using the AIM we find the results presented in Table 3.
4. Reissner-Nordström Black Holes
The procedure for obtaining the quasinormal frequencies of Reissner-Nordström black holes in four-dimensional spacetime is similar to that of our earlier cases. Starting with the Reissner-Nordström metric, where and is the charge of the black hole. If we consider perturbations exterior to the event horizon, the perturbation equations of the Reissner-Nordström (charged and nonrotating) geometry can be separated into two pairs of Schrödinger-like equations, which describe the even- and odd-parity oscillations, respectively [20–23]. They are given by where corresponds to even- and to odd-parity modes: for (), where and . Here is the frequency, the angular momentum parameter, and and the radii of the inner and outer (event) horizons of the black hole, respectively. Note that and at the Schwarzschild limit ; at the extremal limit . Here the tortoise coordinate is given by which ranges from at the event horizon to at spatial infinity.
The QNMs of the Reissner-Nordström black holes are ordinarily accompanied by the emission of both electromagnetic and gravitational radiation, except at the Schwarzschild limit [31, 41]. Equation (4.2) corresponds to purely gravitational perturbations for the radial wave functions and purely electromagnetic perturbations for at the Schwarzschild limit. Chandrasekhar has shown that the solutions for the even-parity oscillations and for the odd-parity oscillations have the following relationship: so one can just consider solutions for a specific parity, as in the Schwarzschild case, to understand the property of the black hole. Since the formalism of the effective potential in the odd-parity equation is much simpler than in the even-parity equation, it is customary to compute the QNMs for the odd-parity modes.
Note that the mass of the Reissner-Nordström black hole has been scaled to , so its quasinormal frequencies are uniquely determined by the charge , the angular momentum , and the overtone number of the mode.
The following procedure is similar to that in Section 3. At first we change to the variable in (4.2) for the odd-parity mode. From (4.4) we have Substituting (4.9) into (4.2) for the odd-parity mode, we get Considering the QNM boundary conditions in the Reissner-Nordström case and incorporating this into the radial wave function , we have a form involving the asymptotic behaviour : Differentiating (4.12) one and two times with respect to , we have where is defined by Substituting (4.13) into (4.10), we obtain
For the same reason as in Section 3, here we change the variable to by the definition , which ranges from 0 at the event horizon to 1 at spatial infinity. Thus we have Substituting (4.16) into (4.15), and rewriting the equation in the AIM form, we obtain where
The numerical results to four decimal places are presented in Tables 4, 5, and 6. They are compared with and from and , respectively. The quasinormal frequencies appear as complex conjugate pairs in ; we list only the ones with . Note that we arrange as . In Table 6 the quasinormal frequencies obtained by the WKB method are not available. It is apparent that the quasinormal frequencies obtained by the AIM are very accurate except for in the extremal case in Tables 4 and 6.
Some comments on the higher () overtones for the Reissner-Nordström black hole for the extremal limit () are perhaps necessary. In general, much like the CFM the AIM begins to break down for larger overtones, requiring more iterations. However, near the extremal limit () the horizons become degenerate and the singularity structure of the corresponding differential (radial) equation changes (the number of singular points is different in the nonextremal and the extremal cases) and causes the current implementation of the AIM (cf. (4.12)) to break down. Thus, we see in Tables 4–6 that for some of the values have large errors when compared to the CFM.
5. Kerr Black Holes
A rotating black hole carrying angular momentum is described by the Kerr metric (in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates) as with where is the Kerr rotation parameter with , being included as a general black hole mass. The horizons and are again the inner and the outer (event) horizons, respectively. Teukolsky showed that the perturbation equations in the Kerr geometry are separable, where the separated equations for the angular wave function and the radial wave function are given by where we have the following function: In , is the spin weight, is the spin-weighted separation constant for the angular equation, and is another angular momentum parameter. For completeness the evaluation of the separation constant using the AIM is discussed in Appendix A.
In order to use the AIM we need to solve for the angular solution in the radial equation. However, for nonzero the effective potential of the radial equation is in general complex. A straight forward application of the AIM does not give the correct answer. In fact a similar problem occurs in both numerical and WKB [7–9] methods. For this reason we will look at each of the spin cases () separately in the following subsections.
5.1. The Spin-Zero Case
Because the AIM works better on a compact domain, we define a new variable , which ranges from 0 at the event horizon to 1 at spatial infinity. It is then necessary to incorporate the boundary conditions, expressed in the new compact domain, where is By making the change of coordinates and change of function, (5.7) takes the following form: where As aforementioned, we have defined where , and is again our rotation parameter. Equation (5.8) is now in the correct form to use the AIM for QNM frequency calculations. Note that the potential is where the angular separation constant is defined via . (Even though the radial and angular equations are coupled via the separation constant, , we are able to find excellent agreement with the CFM by starting from the Schwarzschild () result for our initial guess of the Kerr () QNM solution using FindRoot in Mathematica in our AIM code (at least for )).
Presented in Tables 7 and 8 are the QNM frequencies for the scalar perturbations of the Kerr black hole with the two extreme (minimum and maximum) values of the angular momentum per unit mass, that is, and . was set to 0, while was given values of 0, 1, and 2 and varied accordingly.
Included in Table 7 are the numerically determined QNM frequencies published by Leaver in 1985 . The percentages bracketed under each QNM frequency via the AIM are the percentage differences between the calculated value and the numerical value published by Leaver. With the exceptions of the QNM frequencies for , , and , , the AIM values correspond to the CFM up to four decimal places and even those anomalies differ by less than , proving, at least in this case that the AIM is a precise semianalytical technique.
In Table 8, all three values were calculated in this work, even though published values are available for the third-order WKB(J), at least graphically, where numerical values using the CFM were taken from [45, 46]. Since the WKB(J) is a generally accepted semianalytical technique for QNM frequency calculations, the percentages below the AIM values are the differences to the sixth-order WKB(J) values. Only in the case of and does the AIM QNM frequency significantly differ from the sixth-order WKB(J) value. Note that in an upcoming work, further values will be presented for values of , , and , with the same variations of and with .
5.2. The Spin-Half Case
For the spin- case we would like to know how the AIM can be used to derive an appropriate form of the Dirac equation in this spacetime background using the basis set-up by four null vectors which are the basis of the Newman-Penrose formalism; for further details see . That is, in the Kerr background we adopt the following vectors as the null tetrad: where and are nothing but complex conjugates of and , respectively.
It is clear that the basis vectors basically become derivative operators when these are applied as tangent vectors to the function . Therefore we can write where and with .
The spin coefficients can be written as a combination of basis vectors in the Newman-Penrose formalism which are now expressed in terms of the elements of different components of the Kerr metric. So by combining these different components of basis vectors in a suitable manner we get the spin coefficients as Using the aformentioned definitions, and by choosing , , , and (where and are a pair of spinors), the Dirac equation reduces to We separate the Dirac equation into radial and angular parts by choosing Replacing these and and using as the separation constant, we get where is redefined as .
Equations (5.19) and (5.20) are the angular and radial Dirac equation respectively, in a coupled form with the separation constant . Decoupling (5.19) gives the eigenvalue/angular equation for spin-half particles as and satisfies the adjoint equation (obtained by replacing by ). (Note that this angular equation is that given by (5.3) for and hence using the method in Appendix A, we could solve this numerically). Decoupling (5.20) then gives the radial equation for spin-half particles as and satisfies the complex-conjugate equation. Furthermore, unlike the case of a scalar particle, a spin-half particle is not capable of extracting energy from a rotating black hole; that is, there is no Penrose Process (superradiance) equivalent scenario .
Returning now to the AIM, recall that it will work better on a compact domain, where we define a new variable , which ranges from 0 at the event horizon to 1 at spatial infinity. It is then necessary to incorporate the boundary conditions, expressed in the new compact domain, where where we have defined satisfies the WKB(J)-like equation: with potential and (for more details see ).
By making the change of coordinates and change of functions, our equation takes the following form: where as in Section 5.1 we have
Presented in Tables 9 and 10 are the QNM frequencies for the spin-half perturbations of the Kerr black hole with the two extreme values of the angular momentum per unit mass, that is, and , was set to 0, while was given values of 0, 1, and 2 and varied accordingly.
Included in Table 9 are the numerically determined QNM frequencies published by Jing and Pan . Even though the WKB method has been used to calculate the Schwarzschild limit QNM frequencies before , the sixth-order WKB values and AIM values are novel to this work and will be explored more fully in . The percentages bracketed under each QNM frequency is the percentage difference between the calculated value and the numerical value published by Jing and Pan .
As expected, since there are additional correction terms, the sixth-order WKB QNM frequencies are closer to the numerical values than the third-order WKB values. While the AIM does not prove as accurate in its calculation of the spin-half QNM frequencies as it did with the scalar values (both for 15 iterations), none of the differences between the AIM values and the numerical values exceed , except for when and (better accuracy can be achieved by increasing the number of iterations).
Similarly in Table 10 are the numerically determined QNM frequencies published by Jing and Pan . Both the third- and sixth-order WKB values along with the AIM values are novel to this work and will also be explored more fully in . The percentages bracketed under each QNM frequency are the percentage differences between the calculated value and the numerical value published by Jing and Pan, at least for and . For , the AIM values are compared to the sixth-order WKB values. As already noted, since there are additional correction terms, the sixth-order WKB QNM frequencies are closer to the numerical values than the third-order WKB values. Again the AIM does not appear to be as precise in calculating the QNM frequencies for spin-half perturbations of the Kerr black hole as it was for the scalar perturbations (at least for 15 iterations). As we mentioned, additional tables and plots of these Kerr processes will constitute a future work .
5.3. The Spin-Two Case
As we have mentioned earlier, the radial equation for nonzero spin is in general complex. In fact, it does not even reduce to the Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equations when the rotation parameter is . Detweiler has found a way to overcome this problem, where he defined a new function If the functions and are required to satisfy then it can be shown that the radial equation in (5.4) becomes where As Detweiler has indicated, it is possible to choose the functions and so that the resulting effective potential is real and has the following form: where When the Kerr rotation parameter approaches zero, the potential in (5.33) coincides with the Regge-Wheeler potential for negative and coincides with the Zerilli potential for positive . Here we choose to be negative, where the choice of the sign in (5.35) is determined by the sign of [7–9, 44].
The QNM boundary conditions for are where Hence, we write Substituting this into (5.31), we have where As we did earlier, we define the variable which has a compact domain . Equation (5.40) can then be written in the AIM form: where
The results for the gravitational (spin-two) case are presented in Tables 11 and 12. In general the error in the separation constant is smaller than that of the quasinormal frequencies. As for the quasinormal frequencies the error in the Kerr case is larger than that of either the Schwarzschild or the Reissner-Nordström cases, where this is due to our consideration of the angular and the radial equations simultaneously. The number of iterations that can be performed in the code is relatively small: much like the number of continued fractions in the CFM is typically smaller due to the coupling between radial and angular equations.
6. Doubly Rotating Kerr (A)DS Black Holes
Rotating black holes in higher dimensions were first discussed in the seminal paper by Myers and Perry . One of the unexpected results to come from this work was that some families of solutions were shown to have event horizons for arbitrarily large values of their rotation parameters. The stability of such black holes is certainly in question [50, 51], with numerical evidence recently provided by Shibata and Yoshino [52, 53].
Another new feature of the Myers-Perry (MP) solutions is that they in general have spin parameters, making them more complex than the four-dimensional Kerr solution. The first asymptotically nonflat five-dimensional MP metric was given in . Subsequent generalizations to arbitrary dimensions were done in , and finally the most general Kerr-(A)dS-NUT metric was found by Chen et al. .
In this section we review how the AIM can be used to solve the two-rotation scalar perturbation equations (for more details on the metric and resulting separation see ). The scalar field master equations are found to be where the radial and angular frequencies are defined by and . In the aformentioned is the curvature of the spacetime satisfying (e.g., see ), and are the two rotation parameters, and for later reference we define .
Doubly rotating black holes are more complicated than simply rotating black holes (cf. ), because two rotation planes lead to two coupled spheroids which are also needed for the solution of the radial equation.
6.1. Radial Quasinormal Modes
For simplicity we will consider the flat case, setting , which leads to easier QNM boundary conditions (cf. Schwarzschild to Schwarzschild-dS). These satisfy the boundary condition that there are only waves ingoing at the black hole horizon and outgoing waves at asymptotic infinity.
As we have shown with the previous examples, it is easier to work on a compact domain and define the variable , so that infinity is mapped to zero and the outer horizon stays at . The domain of will therefore be . Thus the QNM boundary condition is translated into the statement that the waves move leftward at and rightward at . We again choose the AIM point in the middle of the domain, that is, at .
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Emory University has been selected by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, globally headquartered in Chicago, as one of 10 universities worldwide to receive significant support in the amount of $900,000 to create a new master’s degree program in development practice.
The MacArthur Foundation has awarded $7.6 million to seed the creation of master’s of development practice (MDP) degree programs that will provide rigorous post-graduate training for a new generation of development experts over the next three years.
“It’s a privilege to receive this grant and to continue to expand Emory’s engagement with sustainable development around the world,” said Lisa A. Tedesco, vice provost and dean of the Graduate School. “This program will build on Emory’s abiding commitment to scholarship and teaching that contributes to the public good, and to collaboration with partners outside the academic world. We are proud to help train a new generation of development professionals who will address some of the greatest problems facing the world.”
"This is a very exciting moment for Emory," said David Nugent, director of Emory's MDP program. "We are deeply honored to have been selected by the MacArthur Foundation to help train the innovative development practitioners who will define the future of sustainable development practice."
The MDP programs are designed to provide graduate students with training beyond the typical focus on classroom study of economics and management found in most development studies. The program’s core curriculum bridges the natural sciences, health sciences, social sciences and management. It combines classroom study with field experiences in a range of disciplines, including agriculture, policy, health, engineering, management, environmental science, education and nutrition.
“Through our work around the globe, we at MacArthur understand that poverty, population, health, conservation, and human rights are all interconnected, requiring sustained and comprehensive interventions,” said Foundation President Jonathan Fanton. “These new programs are a model for training the next generation of these critically needed professionals."
Through financial and other support, Emory's program will emphasize the health and governance-related aspects of sustainable development through its work with partners that include the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CARE and The Carter Center.
Other universities that will receive funding to establish MDP programs are: Columbia University (New York, N.Y.), The Energy Resources Institute University (New Delhi, India), James Cook University (Cairns and Townsville, Australia), Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland), Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), University of Cheikh Anta Diop (Dakar, Senegal), University of Botswana (Gaborone, Botswana), University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.), and the University of Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria).
Columbia will serve as secretariat in helping to manage the MDP network of universities, and will develop an open-source repository for the MDP curriculum and other teaching materials. Ultimately, materials will be shared with other universities as part of an open-source resource on sustainable development for students worldwide, including an online global classroom.
The universities are expected to produce 250 graduates with a master’s degree in development practice by 2012, with a total of 750 students enrolled. Universities were selected based on numerous criteria, including support from top university leadership, excellent infrastructure and academic programs, the ability to serve as a regional hub, geographic representation among students, exceptional faculty, and a timeline and business plan for financial sustainability when funding ends in three years.
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Finally, as 2014 rings in, its a good news for multi-brand retail FDI. Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approves Tesco’s proposal to invest $110 million in Indian retail market in JV with Tata’s Trent Hypermarkets.
The approval makes Tesco the official first in the Indian retail market to set shop in JV with an Indian brand.
Tesco will own 50 per cent stake in Trent Supermarkets that currently runs 16 Star Bazaar hypermarts across Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu. But Gujarat and Tamil Nadu not yet up for FDI, the current JV will focus on the stores in Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Arisaig India Fund has further acquired 2.36 per cent additional stake in Tata’s retail arm, Trent. This acquisition takes the total stake of Arisaig in Trent to 9.88 per cent. The deal has been struck at a price of Rs 116.2 crore.
Under the deal Arisaig bought 12 lakh in Trent.
Arisaig has also invested in companies including Westlife Development, the McDonald’s franchisee.
One of India’s leading design company, Tata Elxsi, has signed its first startup for its recently launched incubation centre incub@TE. The centre has appointed Big V Telecom, an emerging tech start-up that offers customized Business Telephony Solutions for businesses and consumers. Currently operational with its solution in select region, the company now looks at scaling its presence across India and also various international markets.
Founded and led by Keshor Daga, Big V has won the “Most Innovative franchise business in the service sector” award by BIG Research in partnership with NDTV Profit; “Most Innovative Managed Services” during Aegis Graham Bell Awards 2012; and “Business Excellence Awards” by the Institute of Economic studies.
Tata Starbucks Limited has announced the appointment of Manmeet Vohra as its new Director – Marketing and Category. In her new role, Manmeet will lead all marketing and category aspects for the company in India. Prior to this, she was the Marketing Director at TAG Heuer and brings with her eleven years of extensive marketing experience in the luxury industry.
She takes over Sushant Dash’s position, who has been associated with the Tata Group for close to twelve years and joined Tata Starbucks Limited in August 2012, will continue this association in his new role as the Global Brand Director of Tata Global Beverages Limited. Continue reading Manmeet Vohra joins Tata Starbucks as Director – Marketing & Category
Tata Trent, the retail arm of Tata Group, has ended its six year old agreement with Xander Group, which funded its stores opening across malls. The arm now plans to open standalone Star Bazaar stores and not restrict itself to malls.
Unfortunately, Tata Trent which has a franchise and a wholesale supply arrangement with Tesco Plc, could not open any Star Bazaar in 2012-13 as they all were located in malls. These stores could not operational as the overall package din’t come across as attractive. Continue reading Tata Trent says no to malls for Star Bazaar; breaks ties with Xander Group | <urn:uuid:59bf8ef6-80ae-47d2-9ba8-238c6abe80c5> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://igrowcommunity.wordpress.com/tag/tata-group/ | 2018-04-25T02:37:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125947690.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20180425022414-20180425042414-00442.warc.gz | en | 0.959965 | 664 |
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This year, members of the Ethiopian community in the Greater Houston, Texas, have sent a significant gift of encouragement to the Anuak who have been uprooted from their land and homes.
December 13, 2014
PRESS RELEASE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Vancouver, BC, Canada) December 13, 2014 will mark the 11-year anniversary of the horrific massacre of 424 Ethiopians of Anuak ethnicity in Gambella, Ethiopia. Even though it has been over a decade, it still seems like yesterday to the Anuak, especially to those who lost members of their families. Some of the victims remain in unmarked mass graves. The Anuak as well as the other people in the region have never really recovered from this traumatic tragedy, let alone the fact that no justice has been done.
Part of the reason for this is that the lives and livelihoods of the people surviving the tragedy have been in turmoil ever since. Seventy-eight thousand Anuak and others in Gambella have been forcibly evicted from their ancestral land in order to lease the land to foreign investors and TPLF/EPRDF regime cronies. The Anuak have never been consulted or compensated as would be done in a country where there was a rule of law.
Those who survived the 2003 massacre and the following three years of destruction, harassment, and human rights abuses, only had temporary relief before the TPLF/EPRDF began a master plan to remove them from their homes and land. Those that resisted quickly discovered that their lives were in danger. Those that complied, found it nearly impossible to survive in the resettlement sites designated to them by the regime due to inferior land, difficult access to water and absent services. Many were forced to leave Ethiopia in order to save their lives. They are now living in refugee camps in South Sudan and Kenya. Yet the ethnic apartheid regime of the TPLF/EPRDF continues to round up Anuak men in Gambella who are now in prison in Addis Ababa. With all of these actions, these past eleven years have been some of the most painful for the Anuak.
Today, December 13, 2014 these Anuak refugees and other Anuaks throughout the world, namely in Europe, United States of America, Canada and Australia will be holding a memorial service to commemorate this tragedy. As they remember what took place at mid-day eleven years ago and as they reflect on the needless loss of the lives of their loved ones, it will rekindle much emotion.
Widows will try to describe what fathers, brothers, sisters, or other relatives were like to their now grown children and try to explain how a regime that is supposed to protect its citizens could do such a horrible thing to their own people. It is difficult enough when you are in a stable environment, but it is all the more difficult being in a refugee camp, trying to find ways to move on with such few resources.
In the midst of this darkness, out of the hearts of the Ethiopian community in the greater Houston Area, has come an unexpected source of hope and encouragement—a large monetary gift to help the Anuak who have been displaced. In their letter of explanation they say: “We would like to kindly request that this small token be allocated to our fellow Ethiopians that have been uprooted from their land and homes by some greedy land grabbers who have little to no regard to their fellow mankind.”
The funds will be divided between Anuak in refugee camps in South Sudan and Kenya and Anuak in Gambella. The Anuak Justice Council (AJC) has chosen to distribute the funds to both refugee camps in conjunction with the December 13th memorial gatherings in both camps; but in Gambella, no commemoration is allowed, other than privately, so we are still working out the best way to distribute the funds.
Mr. Ochalla Abulla, Chairman of the Anuak Justice Council (AJC) was very moved by this generosity, “This gift has been a tremendous encouragement to the people in the camps, but what these Ethiopians did when they reached out to the Anuak should now be an example to all of us, including the Anuak, to reach out to others beyond their ethnic groups. The impact of this could be huge and could inspire us as a nation to help our people—not only those from our own groups. There are some other examples of Ethiopians who are already doing this. Some Ethiopians have formed small groups of five members who all contribute $20 a month to support the family of some of our Ethiopian political prisoners who used to be the breadwinners of their families.”
AJC Vice Chairman, Mr. Ojulu Lero, added his thoughts, “This gesture is reconciliation in itself! These people have reached out to the Anuak and now the Anuak can reach out to other people like the Majangir or the Oromo who can reach out to the Amhara or Tigray who can reach out to the Southerners or the Afar and so forth. It reminds me of the recent SMNE forum in Washington D.C. that encourages us to talk to each other rather than about each other. In this case, these Ethiopians from Houston helped others rather than only helping themselves. If we all follow this model of action, it will be another way to unify the Ethiopian people. Once the people are unified, the leaders will be more unified.”
As the Anuak in South Sudan and Kenya come together on December 13, 2014, they will know they are not alone. They will be thinking of those fellow Ethiopians far away who have torn down a wall of isolation through their gift of love. These funds will be put to good use, but the impact of it will live on as building blocks to a New Ethiopia. The power of love can break the walls of hostility and division like nothing else.
May the actions of these and other Ethiopians like them, inspire our people to reach out to others with love, humility, and generosity. May God deeply comfort the Anuak during this time of remembrance of the massacre of December 13-15, 2003 as well as all Ethiopians who have lost loved ones over these past years at the hands of the TPLF/EPRDF. May He also bring freedom to all political prisoners from every region throughout the country who are locked up simply for trying to bring justice and freedom to Ethiopia. ______________________________________________________________
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Life in Jakarta's rubbish dump
Mar 19, 2013 : As Indonesia develops, its thriving economy produces a lot of waste. In Jakarta, most of it ends up at Bantar Gebang. The FT's Ben Bland visits the landfill site to spend a day with Mrs Rastinah and her family, who eke out a living by collecting trash to sell for recycling. It is dangerous, unpleasant work but for those left behind by the Indonesian boom, there are few other options. | <urn:uuid:79ab523e-de9a-46ae-a18f-46218549a5a1> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://video.ft.com/2210713844001/Life-in-Jakartas-rubbish-dump/World | 2016-07-31T09:42:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257828314.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071028-00060-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937624 | 100 |
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Slipperooz by Deer Stags Womens Utopia Slippers - Purple
Stay cozy in custom fit style with these indoor/outdoor slippers. The super soft fabric upper, hook and loop closure, and ribbon trim embellishment truly set these slippers apart.
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(Hamburg – 18 June 2020) – Shocking images of a fin whale with amputated tail flukes have been released following a recent sighting by mariners off the west coast of Greece, in the Myrtoan Sea, and then in the Strait of Messina, Italy. Experts agree it is likely the whale lost its flukes either through an entanglement with fishing lines or by a ‘ship strike’, with a ship propeller cutting off at least one of the flukes.
"It is amazing and agonizing to learn this whale has made an odyssey from Greece to Sicily without flukes”, says Sharon Livermore, Marine Conservation expert at IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare). "This animal must be suffering tremendously and human activities in the ocean are the cause of this horrific injury. The tail flukes are critical for whales to propel themselves through the water. It will be a huge challenge for this individual to dive, feed and travel. As emaciated as this wounded whale is, it is unlikely to survive much longer."
From the pictures and video available, experts suggest that this fin whale could have lost its tail flukes some time ago in the Mediterranean Sea.
"There are far too many cases of whale entanglements and ship strikes”, continues Livermore. "We were made aware of this particular case by our colleagues at the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute in Greece and several other groups including MareCamp, Blue Conservancy and Tethys have spotted this animal in different locations in the Mediterranean. Injuries by entanglement are often severe and cause extreme suffering to the whale. In many cases, the entanglement will lead to an eventual death through either starvation or infection, as we are seeing with this poor fin whale. For some whale species, like the North Atlantic right whale, entanglement in fishing gear threatens the very survival the population. The plight of this fin whale highlights the consequences of two visible threats to whales - entanglement with fishing gear and collisions with ships.”
One hotspot for ship strikes is the Hellenic Trench, just southwest of Greece, and the fin whale without flukes was originally spotted not far from this area, in the Myrtoan Sea. Overlap with critical whale habitat, increasing ship traffic and increasing ship speeds are all linked to the prevalence of ship strikes and associated injuries and deaths. Critically, the speed a ship is travelling when it strikes a whale is directly linked to the severity of the injury a whale will sustain.
Entanglement in fishing gear is another serious threat. Fishing ropes are often found running through the mouths of whales, or wrapped around their flukes or tail, impairing their ability move freely and to feed. Rope wrapped around the tail or other extremities can cut off the blood supply and will gradually cause that body part to die and fall off, as was probably the case with this fin whale.
"Injuries like these do not have to happen. There are ready solutions to both threats,” explains Livermore. "Slowing ships down by 10 percent worldwide reduces reduce the risk of a whale being hit by as much as 50 percent. Also, where it is possible to move shipping lanes away from critical whale habitat, this should be a priority. Entanglement can be prevented by less rope in the water overall and rope that sinks to the seabed rather than floating. Technological solutions for so-called 'ropeless' fishing are also being developed. These measures are being trialed in collaboration with fishers in Scotland and North America."
Fin whales are the second largest mammal on earth after the blue whale, growing to 25 m in length. A subpopulation of between 3,500 and 5,000 lives in the Mediterranean. Fin whales are classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN. Fin whales are considered fast swimmers and mainly feed on krill, small schooling fish and squid
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Moscow combines the best of old and modern architecture. It is a city of long avenues and majestic squares, leafy boulevards, parks and gardens, the granite embankments and elegant bridges of the Moscow River. Our night tour showcases the best of the city’s unique cultural and historical sites, many of which are illuminated after sunset. Together with your guide, you’ll explore Moscow’s tourist highlights by car, making frequent stops to continue sightseeing on foot. We’ll visit Red Square, home of the 16th century Cathedral of St Basil whose colourful onion domes grace many an iconic photograph of the Russian capital. Our mode of transport enables us to cover more ground, so we’ll be also be able to see the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and learn something of its tragic history. We’ll stop at the Bolshoi Theatre, Victory Park, Moscow State University and Novodevichy Convent, often referred to as New Maiden’s Convent. It has a fascinating cemetery, final resting place of Chekhov, Shostakovich, Khrushchev and more, which is all the more atmospheric by night. | <urn:uuid:5d647a04-1bdb-46f5-b617-a6e06568263f> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.justgorussia.in/in/excursion_moscow_by_night_city_tour_by_car.html | 2021-10-23T05:17:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585561.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20211023033857-20211023063857-00251.warc.gz | en | 0.929515 | 251 |
A wastewater-treatment plant expansion may cost Leoni Township as much as $887,000 less than earlier estimates.
O'Harrow Construction Company, the Jackson firm hired as construction manager, lowered its maximum price for the project to $2.186 million down from $3.073 million. The overall project is expected to cost about $34 million, township Supervisor Kip Ballast said.
In other business ...
Also Wednesday, the Leoni Township Board voted to lease two new police vehicles. Public Safety Director Bill Lenaghan said the township has been down to one working vehicle on more than one occasion in his 13 months with the township.
"Once was bad, more than once is uncomfortable," Lenaghan said.
The township will lease the two 2009 Ford Explorers for about $8,000 annually per vehicle for four years. After the leases expire, the township has the option to buy the vehicles for $1 apiece through a finance program for municipalities.
The treatment plant expansion is necessary to meet Michigan Department of Environmental Quality pollutant standards. The plant serves 13 local municipalities and will cost customers about $100 more per year for sewer service. The DEQ has tendered a $34.1 million loan to the township that will fund the project.
The plant expansion was expected to cost about $32 million, Ballast said. The township followed the state's recommendation to account for unexpected costs that could occur by adding a 6 percent contingency fee to the project budget, he said.
If the township avoids any unexpected costs, the loan can be restructured to account for the lesser amount. The township wouldn't have been able to increase the loan amount, township Clerk Michele Manke said.
"If we take out a loan and don't need it all, that's great," Manke said. "If we don't take out enough, we're in trouble."
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Rock/Jazz Guitarist Cooper Tisdale steps out as bandleader of a fine collection of Atlanta-area players. If original melodies, jaw-dropping musicianship, and a powerful performance peak your musical curiosity, then CT & Friends will definitely deliver a stellar show.
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On November 26, 2000, at 2313 central standard time, a Piper PA-46-310P Malibu single-engine airplane, N9298Y, was substantially damaged during a forced landing following a loss of engine power near Gainesville, Texas. The instrument-rated commercial pilot, sole occupant of the airplane, received minor injuries. The airplane was owned and operated by D and L Flyers Inc., of Dallas, Texas. Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed and a visual flight rules flight plan was filed for the 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The flight departed Wiley Post Airport (PWA) near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, approximately 2220, and was destined for Addison, Texas. Use your browsers 'back' function to return to synopsisReturn to Query Page
During a telephone interview conducted by an NTSB investigator, the pilot stated that approximately 15 to 20 miles north of Gainesville, Texas, the airplane experienced a "severe" vibration. The engine oil pressure began to rise, then dropped, and the engine lost power. The pilot attempted a forced landing to runway 17 at Gainesville Municipal Airport. The airplane touched down short of the runway and came to rest in a grassy field approximately 200 yards from the runway threshold. During the landing, the airplane's right wing separated, and the landing gear collapsed.
The engine was disassembled under the supervision of the NTSB investigator-in-charge on December 19, 2000, at the facilities of Air Salvage of Dallas, Lancaster, Texas. The examination revealed a hole in the top of engine crankcase between the number 3, 4, 5, and 6 cylinders. The number 3 connecting rod was found separated from the crankshaft and its connecting rod bolts were found fractured and displayed "necking" near the fractured area. The number 4 piston exhibited a hole in the crown structure of the piston. The hole was burned through the crown structure along a crack that extended from the forward side just past the center of the piston, in-line with the piston pin. The number "4" was stamped in the top of the crown, and the fracture ran through the stamped number. The piston was retained and sent to the NTSB Materials Laboratory in Washington D.C. for further examination.
In addition to examining the engine, on December 19, 2001, NTSB investigators removed the turbine inlet temperature (TIT) gauge, thermocouple, and temperature probes from the accident aircraft for examination. The thermocouple leads were found spliced in two locations.
A review of the aircraft's maintenance records revealed that the Continental TSIO-550-C (1) remanufactured engine, serial number 814533-R, was installed on the airplane on June 26, 2000, and at the time of the accident, it had accumulated 265.5 total hours. At the same time the remanufactured engine was installed, maintenance personnel replaced the TIT probes with new probes. The records did not reveal any maintenance performed on the TIT thermocouple during that installation or prior to that date.
The number 4 piston was examined by the NTSB Materials Laboratory on March 7, 2001. The crack through the piston contained crack arrest marks typical of fatigue cracking that emanated from the stamp mark "4" at the top surface of the crown. The fatigue crack propagated into the crown as well as laterally across the crown. According to TCM, the stamp mark "4" was made at the TCM facility during build up of the engine.
During the investigation, it was learned that the accident airplane experienced an in-flight engine failure approximately 7 months prior to the November 26, 2000, accident, in which the same pilot executed a forced landing on a road. The aircraft landed on the road without incident and the pilot was not injured. The Continental TSIO-550-C (1) remanufactured engine, serial number 814506-R, was disassembled on May 11, 2000, at the Teledyne Continental Engine (TCM) facilities in Mobile, Alabama. According to the TCM report, the engine had accumulated 640 total hours. The examination revealed that the engine crankcase displayed holes above the number 2, 4, and 6 cylinders. All of the connecting rods, except the number 1 connecting rod, were found disconnected from the crankshaft. The number 6 piston exhibited a hole in the crown structure of the piston, and the hole was burned through the crown structure along a crack that extended from the forward side just past the center of the piston, in-line with the piston pin. A TCM metallurgist examined the crack and determined the fracture originated at the upper crown structure and progressed through the structure in fatigue. There were no marks stamped in the crown of the piston.
According to the Pilot's Operating Handbook for the PA-46-310P, during cruise flight, "maximum continuous Turbine Inlet Temperature (TIT) is 1,750 degrees Fahrenheit. Temporary operation up to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit is permitted in order to define peak TIT. In no case should the aircraft be operated more than 30 seconds with a TIT in excess of 1,750 degrees Fahrenheit. The engine has been designed to attain the maximum possible fuel efficiency while maintaining the desired cruise power. This requires operating on the lean side of peak TIT. Although this procedure is different from conventional leaning procedures, it will produce the maximum fuel efficiency and will actually produce cooler engine temperatures than conventional peak TIT or rich of peak operation. The cruise mixture setting is 50 degrees Fahrenheit lean of peak TIT." The airplane flight manual supplement for installation of the TSIO-550-C engine in the PA-46-310P states, "insure cylinder head temperatures and Turbine Inlet Temperatures, as stated in the Basic Flight Manual, are not exceeded." The pilot stated he leaned the engine by referencing the TIT gauge. He further stated that he "never believed in running [engine temperature] high."
The Piper PA-46-310P Aircraft Maintenance Manual states, "if the [thermocouple] leads to the gauge are faulty in any way they should be replaced. When replacing the leads, it is important to use the same type and length of wire, as the resistance of the leads is critical for the proper operation of the gauge." According to the Glencoe Aviation Technology Series textbook, Aircraft Electricity & Electronics, "since thermocouple leads are made with a specific resistance, they must never be cut or spliced." | <urn:uuid:3a1076c1-b841-48c5-8ff9-f1e31458b0f1> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20001212X22291&ntsbno=FTW01LA026&akey=1 | 2014-08-23T03:35:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500825010.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021345-00277-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95417 | 1,320 |
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Gone are the days of saving pearl jewellery for special occasions. Pairing elegant pearls with more casual clothing creates a unique contrast and adds a little extra something for an eye-catching everyday look. Not sure where to start with styling pearls in this way? Read on for our handy tips on how to wear pearls every day.
When should you wear pearls?
Casual or formal, night or day, pearls can be worn whenever and however you like So, if yours spend most of their time tucked away at the back of a drawer, we’d suggest you dig them out and start wearing them.
As naturally porous gemstones that require moisture to maintain their lustre, pearls actually benefit from being worn. The natural oils in your skin help to revitalise the nacre which gives your pearls their shine, thus improving their finish the more you wear them. If left to dry out over long periods, your pearls will likely crack or turn yellow.
However, it’s worth bearing in mind some other substances that aren’t good for your pearls. Products like fake tan, hairspray and perfume can erode a pearl’s surface, so take care to put pearls on last when getting ready and wipe them down with a damp cloth after use. Read our pearl care guide to learn more.
How to wear pearls every day
Keep it simple
The key to wearing pearls every day is keeping it simple. Save ornate multi-strand necklaces and chandelier-style earrings for black-tie events and focus on the basics. Elevate a day dress with a subtle pearl pendant and pearl stud earrings for a hint of glamour. Or pair a short single strand pearl necklace with a crew-neck top and fitted blazer to create a polished look for the office.
Delicate pearl chain bracelets can also be worn every day, but make sure you choose a close fitting one so that it doesn’t get caught on things. It’s also a good idea to stick to just one or two items of pearl jewellery to avoid looking overdressed.
Dress them down
If you’re seeking a casual look for the daytime, try dressing down a contemporary leather pearl necklace or a double strand of white pearls with jeans, a block colour t-shirt and trainers or ankle boots. This will create a laid-back look with just a hint of elegance that’s perfect for every day. Alternatively, opt for a single strand of pearls with a chunky knit jumper and high waisted jeans for a relaxed and youthful finish.
Layering necklaces first became popular in the iconic 1920’s then again in the 1980s. In 2021, the trend has been seen on the catwalks of leading designers like Chanel, with pearls incorporated too. For everyday wear, layer long pearl necklaces with shorter styles and add in a pearl chain necklace for contrast. Pair them with a black top, jeans and a leather jacket for an edgy look or if you prefer boho styles, opt for a flowy summer maxi dress and sandals. Alternatively, stack pearls on your wrist with a multi-strand pearl bracelet.
Forget uniformity. This year, instead of perfectly smooth spherical pearls, irregular shaped pearls in their natural form are right on trend. Quirky, bold, fun and often less expensive than their classic counterpart, baroque pearls are suitable for a variety of occasions and will add interest to any outfit. A single pearl pendant or chain necklace design is a great way to incorporate baroque pearls into your look for the daytime.
Add a splash of colour
White pearls are a staple in many jewellery boxes, but there are lots of other options available too. Coloured pearls offer a modern twist on a classic look and can bring a sense of playfulness to a simple outfit. Grey pearls are sleek and versatile, while soft pink pearls have a romantic, feminine feel that’s ideal for a lunch date. Or, if you’re looking for an alternative pearl colours for the office, golden South Sea pearls with gold accessories or chic black Tahitian pearls will create a sophisticated look.
Introduce pearl accessories
If you’re still not convinced that pearls can be worn every day, how about trying some pearl accessories instead? Men can easily incorporate them into their work attire in the form of pearl cufflinks or a stylish pearl tiepin, while women have a whole host of options. From belts to brooches and handbags to hair slides, there’s a style for everyone.
This season you will find faux pearls sewn into knitted jumpers or used as elegant buttons on cardigans. This kind of clothing works perfectly with a pair of pearl studs or simple hook earrings and a single strand pearl bracelet as the weather turns colder.
Combine pearls with other materials
Mixing pearls with colourful beads was another popular trend on recent spring/summer runways and it can certainly spice up an everyday t-shirt and jeans combo. At Coleman Douglas Pearls, we supply a variety of pearl necklaces, bracelets and earrings which feature vibrant gemstones like amethyst, amber and citrine. Pair our colourful designs with neutral clothing to help them stand out, or get a beach-ready look with an eye-catching multi-coloured pearl bracelet and shimmering Biwa pearls.
We also offer a selection of pearl jewellery which combines more unusual materials like leather and silk. Can these pearls be worn every day? Absolutely. In fact, we have several easy-to-wear leather and pearl designs specially for casual wear.
Discover pearls for every day
As we’ve demonstrated above, our pearl jewellery is highly versatile and we have a design to fit every occasion. The benefits of wearing pearls are endless, from improving their quality to elevating a simple outfit with very little effort. As such, we’d encourage you to wear your pearls as much as you can – every day if you wish!
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Bucklin Journal, March 16, 1889
MARRIED - At the residence of the bride's parents, four miles southeast of this
city, on last Sunday after noon, the 10th. inst., Mr. James E. Fishback and Miss
Rosa A. Coons, Rev. W. H. Rose, of Greensburg, officiating.
The contracting parties have resided in this vicinity for a considerable time
and are among our most highly respected citizens.
Mr. Fishback came from Barren county, Kentucky, in 1884, and settled in Sumner
county, in this state. After a short residence in that place he removed to
Finney county, where he proved up a preemption and a homestead claim. Early in
1887 he located in this county. About June 1st he cast in his fortunes with the
new town of Bucklin which has just been started. Shortly afterward he was
appointed postmaster by president Cleveland, and he still holds that honorable
Miss Coons was born in Jasper county, Indiana. In March, 1887, she removed to
Kansas with her father's family and settled on the claim where the family still
resides. She is a teacher by profession and has been prominently identified
with school work, both in Indiana and in this state.
The marriage ceremony was performed at the bride's residence after which the
bridal party and invited guests drove to St. Charles Hotel in this city, where a
sumptuous supper was served by mine host, G. A. W. Boedecker, which proved Mrs.
Boedecker to be an expert in the culinary art.
The groom wore an elegant suit of conventional black.
The bride was dressed in Old Gold Tricot, with front draperies, bodice rimmed in
Cream Oriental lace, breast knots of White Tea Roses.
A number of useful and elegant presents were received as is shown by the
Napkins, Mrs. R. F. Scoffern.
Bed-spread, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Howell and G. F. Trager.
Tidy, Miss Ellsworth Apperson.
Silver butter knife and sugar spoon, E. O. Clark and Miss Belle Gosslee.
Set knives and forks, Wm. Lawter and Fred Perry.
Set silver knives and forks, W. E. Apperson.
Silver pickle castor, Gus K. Henrick, with Nave and McCord Mercantile Company.
The following invited guests were present:
R. F. Scoffern and wife.
E. S. Howell and wife.
G. W. Fredendall and wife.
Daniel Fisher and wife.
Sam Coons and Miss Ida Work.
G. F. Trager and Miss Eva Coons.
Joe Ellis and Miss Carrie Coons.
E. L. Coen and Miss Belle Prichard.
E. O. Clark, and Miss Belle Gosslee.
R. T. Roby and Miss Ella Culver.
W. E. Apperson and Miss Jennie Dellinger.
Wm. Dellinger and Miss Ellsworth Apperson.
Col. Banning and Wm. Lawter.
Fred Perry and Morton Henkle.
After an evening pleasantly spent in social amusements, the guests took their
departure, wishing the bride and groom the long lives of prosperity and
happiness they so richly deserve.
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Tim O’Brien was born in Minnesota in 1946 and grew to become a legend American writer and a novelist specializing mostly with his own life experiences during the Vietnam War. The repercussions of the war to both American soldiers involved in the war and their families also formed a rich area of literature for Tim to adventure on and explore in writing. His early imaginations, experiences and development as an author developed when they moved to Worthington, Minnesota. In 1968, Tim earned his M.A degree in political science from Macalester College. During the same years after graduation, Tim was recruited in the American army and posted to fight the Vietnam War where he served for three years. After his assignment for three years, he went back Harvard University and joined a graduate class where he received an internship position with the Washington post. His writing skills were manifested in 1973 when he released his first writings about his war experiences entitled, “If I die in a Combat zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home.” O’Brien’s writing works contained a vague impression and distinction between reality and fiction which he labeled as ‘verisimilitude.’ There were actual detailed contained in his works concerning the actual experiences he had during the war period (O’Brien par 2).
However, there is an extraordinary approach taken by O’Brien when distinguishing between what was a fact and a fiction which he described in an unusual, explicit, conscious and metafictional approach. His categorization of story truth which represented fiction truth and the happening truth depicted by truth of occurrences of facts were clearly distinct. O’Brien argued that story truth was more reliable than happening-truth. Many quotes of his are still widely used and relevant to the present and modern societies. One such is, “Though it’s odd, you’re never more alive than when you’re almost dead.” According to Tom O’Brien, he was assigned to Alpha Company which was consisted in the 5th Battalion all through to the 46th infantry in the 198th infantry brigade. He received trainings in America but had to undergo finer tunings at the American base of Chu Lai in Vietnam before proceeding to war for orientation. O’Brien was airlifted from the fighting base in Vietnam where he had encountered a rear echelon official who was a battalion executive officer. The officer was responsible for the insight and investigation of what transpired during the My Lai Massacre which was responsibility of the Charlie Company which formed the same battalion but under different wing. This novel of “If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home” ends with O’Brien being flown home (O’Brien par 6). | <urn:uuid:c76d267d-c954-4e2e-a00c-f466e9617429> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://primeessays.com/samples/world-literature/tim-o-brien.html | 2020-02-26T15:11:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146414.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20200226150200-20200226180200-00176.warc.gz | en | 0.985291 | 561 |
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Erin in California asks: How were the co-directing duties split? Did one of you cover one side of the in-home interactions strictly, and the other the other? Or did all the participants have close-to-equal exposure to each of you? If the latter, did the African-American residents open up more to Linda than Laura, and vice versa? Thanks.
Linda Goode Bryant: All of the participants had equal exposure to both of us. During the course of filming, the willingness of OTE residents to be frank and forthright in expressing their feelings had less to do with their identification with either one of us because of race and sexual orientation than it did with the relationships we developed with them over the course of four years. Certainly, living full time in the community for about a year and a half helped us develop those relationships.
Laura Poitras: We were very up front about who we were and what the story was about, i.e., what happens in a black working-class neighborhood when gay white professionals buy and renovate houses in the community?
Karen in New York asks: How did you get so much access? Did you know some of these people before?
Goode Bryant: I grew up in the neighborhood and my parents still live there and are the elderly couple featured in their home throughout the documentary. Nina Masseria, Baba Olugbala, and Linda Mitchell we met during pre-production. Jim Yoder and Chuck Spingola, the street minister, we met after we began shooting. It didn't hurt that I could say I grew up in the neighborhood when we introduced ourselves to residents, but it wasn't the deciding factor that gave us access. Living in the community, spending time and building relationships with the "characters" we followed provided us with the access.
Poitras: When people ask, "how did you get the access," I answer, "we asked." Everyone we approached agreed to be filmed. The only time our cameras were denied access was when Baba (who is a Yoruba priest) was doing a reading of Linda Mitchell, and he told us that the ancestors said to turn our cameras off.
Ann in Maryland asks: I just finished watching Flag Wars and it made me both angry and sad. I was especially angered by the judge's interrogating a clearly ill Linda. If it stirred such emotions for me as a viewer I can only imagine how it felt for you as filmmakers. Were you able to maintain an emotional distance during the filming of this project?
Goode Bryant: I don't think it's possible to maintain an emotional distance when making documentaries, especially when they are about people in crisis and facing seemingly insurmountable odds as Linda Mitchell was. When we began "Flag Wars," we made a commitment to ourselves and the residents of Olde Towne East that we would fairly represent what we observed during our time in their community. Thus, our challenge was not to maintain an emotional distance but to make sure our emotions did not get in the way of keeping that commitment.
Poitras: As a documentarian, you need to be very careful about not doing things that will alter the outcome of events. There are limits to this commitment, though. We did drive Linda Mitchell to the emergency room when she was ill on a few occasions.
Jen in Minnesota asks: Do you have a hard time walking away from a project once your film is complete? Do you ever follow up to satisfy your own curiosity about the outcome?
Goode Bryant: The relationships we developed during "Flag Wars" are forever. We will maintain contact and relationships with the people of Olde Towne East who were amazingly generous, courageous, and patient in allowing us to film them over four years.
Poitras: I look forward to knowing the people we filmed throughout my life. The reason is not out of curiosity, but a desire to maintain these relationships.
David in Tennessee asks: Were the gay flags flown year around or just during 'Gay Pride' month?
Poitras: Residents in the community fly rainbow flags year round from their homes. The rainbow flag only flew at the State House during the Gay Pride Parade in 1999.
Pam in Indiana asks: While the filmmakers depicted Miss Mitchell's physical problems, they seemed to ignore her psychiatric issues. Was this intentional? Or was it edited out (I write and am used to my editor deleting things I think should stay)? Did anyone advocate for her in terms of her mental health? My husband and I watched the documentary with interest since we live in a Queen Anne Victorian and have been restoring it over 20 years and the birth of five children. He is the CEO of a community mental health center and I teach psychology at the local colleges. We are both advocates for the mentally ill as well as the developmentally disabled.
Goode Bryant: Linda Mitchell had a network of elderly women in the neighborhood that helped her as they could to make sure she had her basic needs met (i.e. access to telephones, food, a warm place to stay during winter months, etc.) We perceived Linda as a bit eccentric but not mentally ill. She was able to get hospital care when she needed it and had access to hospital social workers. As indicated in the film, she was fiercely independent and was not receptive to the help social workers offered.
Poitras: During our four years of filming in Columbus, Linda did not seek or receive psychiatric care. Linda was a very powerful and willful individual who wanted to live her life on her own terms. These terms might be different than yours or mine, but they were the ones she chose. We never questioned her mental competency.
Steve in California asks: As a white middle income gay man (I am a school teacher), I found your film provocative and disturbing. Here's my question: are there no gay people of color in Columbus, Ohio? The equation of gay = white is as problematic as the other issues. That feeds a popular myth. We are not all rich. We are not all white. Thank you for your work.
Goode Bryant: There are African American gays and lesbians living in Olde Towne East that we met who are "closeted." After six months of approaching them about being in the film we were able to tape 8 gay black men in a conversation. We were unable to use this footage because it was not in the cinema verité style in which we chose to tell the story.
Poitras: In our descriptions of "Flag Wars" we were always very clear to indicate that we were following white gays (and lesbians) moving into Olde Towne. We used this description because that is what we witnessed and what we were interested in understanding. If you look at gay urban gentrification across the country, you see that it is largely white gays who are transforming and redefining these urban spaces. This is not to say that there are no gays and lesbians of color also living in these neighborhoods (or in Olde Towne), but when we looked at the organizations, individuals, and businesses that were driving the changes happening in Olde Towne, they were run, organized, and attended by whites (including some straight whites).
As for the myth that all white gay men are rich, we chose to follow Jim because he is struggling financially to renovate his house. We thought it was very important to include that in the film. We also think that being white and male, Jim had greater access to loan money than he would have if he were a person of color. In other words, we wanted to show how structural forms of inequality impacted the changes taking place in Olde Towne.
Ramon in Michigan asks: Your documentary was incredibly powerful and moving. I went through a range of emotions while watching the show and am still wrestling with a few things in deciding how I really feel about the entire situation. Even as I write, there are riots and rumors of more rioting going on not two miles from me in Benton Harbor, Michigan where this sort of wrangling has been going on for 20 years or more... My real question to you as filmmakers is where did you lay your heads at night, how can you not take sides after being immersed in the situation? Your documentary made me search myself and ask, "is there anyone whom I can help, is there anyone that I have been ignoring, is there anyone whom I have forgotten about?"
Goode Bryant: At the start of "Flag Wars" we made a commitment to ourselves and the residents of Olde Towne East that we would represent, as fairly as we possibly could, what we observed in the neighborhood while living and documenting there. Keeping that commitment helped us to not take sides. Human beings are complex. We're not simply one thing versus another thing. There are many facets to who we are and how we act and interact in the world. Getting to know people opened us to appreciating that complexity and not judging people.
Poitras: As a society I think we've become a little too good at taking sides, and that this is part of the problem. When we take sides we often tend to de-humanize people. Linda and I really wanted the viewer to identify with everyone in the film. We also wanted to reveal human contradictions -- the beautiful and the ugly. It was both a challenge and a privilege as a filmmaker to not take sides and be open to the people we followed. Our job was to listen and understand and recognize what is universal among all of us.
Adrianne in Missouri asks: As a resident of a recently restored historic area, I was curious as to the fate of its former occupants, although few, and that led me to your documentary, which I thoroughly enjoyed and which has already sparked heated debate. My question is this: Where were Columbus' nonprofit/service agencies/churches? Why weren't they taking a more active stance in helping the residents discover all available options, rather than simply wringing their hands in defeat? Thanks in advance.
Goode Bryant: Ultimately, nonprofits did provide some assistance to Linda. There were a number of reasons their help didn't come sooner. Linda's needs were so great that no one organization could help her on their own. It took Randy Black who works for the city in its Historic Resource Commission, to bring the groups together so they could collectively provide assistance that would begin to address some of Linda's code and zoning violations.
Benjamin in Illinois asks: Do you know if it's possible to purchase the beautiful music which scored the documentary?
Poitras: Graham Haynes composed and recorded the music for the film. It is currently not available for sale, but we have talked about making a CD. If you are interested, please email us at FlagWars@ZulaPearlFilms.com and we will contact you when/if it becomes available.
Stella in Ohio asks: It appears that the Canon XL1 [camera] was used. I thought the cinematography was great! Was there a special wide screen lens used? Also, how was the flat film look achieved in some shots and was there any special motivation as to when to use this look and when to use the straight video look? There was very nice color. Was there a filter on the lens or was this achieved in post?
Poitras: When we began filming, we hired director of photography Arthur Jafa (DP on Daughters of the Dust, Crooklyn, etc). AJ shot the first 11 days of filming and worked closely with Linda to create a visual palette and look for the film (we then did rest of the filming over the next four years). This including shooting at different shutter speeds and balancing the camera (Canon XL-1) to different colors rather than the typical white card. For instance, we wanted a really cool, bluish look in the courtroom footage, so we balanced the camera to a salmon colored card. This subtracted red from the image, creating a very anemic palette. All these decisions were made in the field while shooting, though we also did an extensive color correction during post (mostly to enhance the look we had already established). The only footage with a "straight video look" was by mistake. | <urn:uuid:908f2772-8501-42f7-b4eb-8d08b408a3fa> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://www.pbs.org/pov/flagwars/ask-the-filmmaker/ | 2018-04-21T00:34:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125944848.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20180420233255-20180421013255-00191.warc.gz | en | 0.98311 | 2,509 |
by Adrian Hughes
Last Friday, February 6, 2015, youth leaders of the Inner Harbor Project met with Lieutenant Steve Olson to discuss the new policies pertaining to weapons in the downtown area. I think it is a great thing when Baltimore City officers take time out of their day to answer questions that they could really brush aside. He started by explaining what constitutes an illegal weapon but he also came to learn why we think it’s necessary to carry weapons. His willingness to hear our side of the story was truly inspiring. He explained why the new rules were needed and the middle ground he was willing to meet people on.
This was all great, but the thing that I will remember most is how he was able to connect with us on a personal basis. Many of us have had unpleasant experiences with law enforcement, but if you walked into the room you wouldn't have been able to tell. The fact that everyone was able to look past Lieutenant Olson and see Steve Olson was truly a sight to behold.
We asked Lieutenant Olson what positive things officers do for the community. He told us stories of many officers who spend not only their time but their money to help Baltimoreans in need every day. I was amazed, thinking to myself how everyone is so quick to judge officers by what they hear from the media and other people, but they rarely get information themselves or take into account the good things that is actually going on around them every day.
The truth is there will always be two sides to a story; make sure you hear both of them before you pass judgement. One last thing that will really stick with me was when he was asked by Shawna about his views on police brutality. I will always remember his reaction. He made it very clear to us that he takes the oath of protecting the citizens in his care very seriously. He continued to say that he believes every officer that breaks this oath should be held accountable, kicked out of the force, and prosecuted.
This was not Lieutenant Olson speaking; this was Steve Olson, the man behind the uniform. Lieutenant Olson once told me that I was a man among men, but he is truly a man among men, to come into a room full of youth armed to the teeth with questions ranging from many different topics and walk out with this same group of youth as if he was a friend they had known forever. This was truly special. These are the conversations that will bring a brighter day for not only our city but our nation as a whole. | <urn:uuid:cf13ef89-7beb-49f0-b67c-aae23bf4ef82> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.theinnerharborproject.org/blog1/2015/02/09/real-talk-by-adrian-hughes | 2017-05-30T09:08:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463614620.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170530085905-20170530105905-00043.warc.gz | en | 0.991091 | 502 |
All You need to Learn about Bone Grafting! Bone Grafting is a surgical process used to repair problems with bones or joints. Bone grafting, or transplanting of bone tissue, is beneficial in preservative which are broken from pains, or joints issues. It is also helpful for rising bone round an implanted methodology, resembling a total knee substitute. A graft could fill an invalid place the place the bone is absent or help to offer essential stability. An allograft uses from a lifeless donor or a physique that has been cleaned and saved in a tissue financial institution. An autograft originates from a bone inside your our bodies, similar to your ribs, hips, pelvis, or wrist. The type of graft used relies on the type of harm your surgeon will probably be restoring. Allografts methodology is usually used in hip, knee, or lengthy bone restoration. Long bones embody arms and legs. The advantages are there isn’t a supplementary surgical procedure needed to obtain the bone. It additionally decreases your threat of infection since additional scratches or surgeries are not required.
Why is Bone Grafting Performed? Grafting is done for many causes equivalent to diseases or because of any harm. 1. A bone graft remedy could also be used within the state of affairs of a number of or compound fractures or those that don’t heal effectively after early remedy. 2. Fusion helps two bones heal together across a diseased combined. Fusion is most often achieved on the backbone. 3. Restoration is used for bone misplaced resulting from illness, infection, or injury. This could embody using small quantities of bone in cavities or massive sections of bones. 4. A graft can be utilized to help the bone heal round surgically rooted devices, like joint replacements, plates, or screws. 1. A significant Risk of Grafting is that the sinus membrane could possibly be impaled or torn. In some cases, the surgery is stopped general and the scratch is given time to rectify, usually three to six months. Frequently, the sinus membrane develops back thicker and stronger, making success more seemingly on the second operation. 2. Besides ripping of the sinus membrane, there are different dangers with are problematic in sinus augmentation surgery. Most remarkably, the shut affiliation of the augmentation place with the sinonasal advanced could make sinusitis, which can chronic and root simple symptoms. Tissue or nerve damage. Oro-antral communication / oro-antral fistula. Leaning or loosening of implants. Viktor Hajko is the supervisor of the Hungary Dental Implant is a dental care clinic offers comprehensive range of dental care providers and have expert dentist from Hungary that are properly-recognized for their dental implant services like bone grafting, all on four dental Implant and many extra treatments, all over the world. The dentistry provides smile makeover, cosmetic dentistry, dental implant companies, and different remedies to present finest attainable result.
Poppyseed muffin lovers throughout the United States cringed this month after seeing two photos tweeted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The first picture depicts a perfectly golden poppyseed muffin speckled with the black seeds – or so it appears. But after squinting our eyes and pulling our phones closer to our faces – our stomachs turned. There! On the second photo – a closer image – we noticed the tiny, blacked-legged ticks, (known as nymph ticks) – atop our favorite poppyseed muffins. Comments of all sorts, from the backyard-variety jokester to critics and advocacy teams, came flooding in. Lyme disease, transmitted by tick bites, is likely one of the fastest rising infectious diseases in the United States. Preventing Lyme illness and different tick-borne illnesses has been on America’s radar for a while, however we frequently consider ticks as these easily visible, half dime-sized bugs that burrow into our pores and skin – or our dogs’.
So, what’s the difference between the tiny ticks and bigger ones? Nymph ticks can’t be that harmful, right? A single tick will progress through four levels of growth in its lifetime: egg, larva, nymph, and grownup. The nymph tick is most energetic within the spring by means of the summer time months, and it’s about the size of a poppy seed. And so they don’t pack less of a punch due to their dimension. Nymph ticks are actually the most prone to transmit Lyme disease or another tick-borne infection to people than ticks at different phases, in accordance with the CDC. Less than two millimeters in dimension, nymphs can chunk people and remain virtually undetected. In addition they burrow into your or your pet’s skin. Although adult ticks may also transmit Lyme illness, they’re much larger, so you’re more likely to see them and promptly take away them. 1. Inspect your self, your youngster, and your pets for ticks at any time when you’ve been outdoors. | <urn:uuid:864bdbf8-fdff-4abc-ad83-b213eaf1c75e> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.warpseed.net/all-you-should-know-about-bone-grafting/ | 2024-02-28T22:34:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474746.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228211701-20240229001701-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.929903 | 1,048 |
“How will they learn right from wrong?” is usually the first question, and I can see them picturing a household run by unruly hellions jumping on furniture and swinging from the ceiling fans.
It’s not that we don’t have those moments (maybe not quite that extreme) — but as much as I want punishment-free to mean always calm, always peaceful, and rules always followed, that isn’t the truth either.
What we have in our home is a lot of love, a lot of respect, a lot of empathy, and a lot of communication.
I can’t remember exactly when I started time-outs in our home, but I definitely remember when we stopped them. It was after one or two efforts, and putting my son in the corner was like doing an exorcism. I stayed calm, I took a deep breath, I explained what the transgression was and how long he needed to sit there, and those were the worst thirty seconds of my life.
I could see that if I wanted a punishment to work on my strong-willed, spirited, and stubborn son, I would have to break his will and wield complete control over him. I needed to find another way. It’s been over two years since then, and we’ve traveled on our journey together as a family.
We have two hot-button issues in our house: hitting and sharing; not surprising considering my sons are 4 and 2. My goal is that some day not too far in the future, my boys will be self-motivated to share, and also have the self-control to not hit when they’re frustrated or angry. They’re showing signs of doing this — all without punishment.
When it comes to sharing, I want them to have control of their toys and their actions — I’m not an all-knowing, omnipresent being who dictates toy possession. They are responsible for working out who plays with what toys, for what length of time, and in what manner. When scuffles inevitably arise, I’m there to narrate, prevent feelings from escalating to the point of hurting each other, and suggest alternatives if they get stuck.
When I deal with sharing issues in this way, there is no room for punishment — it’s just all about learning. My boys are learning to control themselves. They’re learning to problem solve. They’re learning to negotiate, and to look at situations from different angles. Once we started working out conflicts like this, the idea of punishment seemed ridiculous.
With hitting, it’s not quite as clear-cut.
It pains me when one of my children hurts the other, and these are situations where my husband and I still learning how to effectively deal with it — mostly because we have to check our own anger. Sometimes we separate everyone until we all calm down, but then we still have to come together afterwards and talk about what happens. Usually it’s best when we deal with it straight away.
First, I attend to whoever got hurt, and I give kisses and cuddles. I include whoever the aggressor was. If they’re acting out, they need cuddles too. I narrate what happened, and if there is still anger and hot tempers, I firmly say, “I won’t let you hurt your brother again”. We talk about alternatives to hitting when our tempers rise, and we talk about how it hurts the other person.
In these situations, I can of course see how it makes sense to punish, but I don’t see how it would benefit my children.
I don’t understand what they would learn from a punishment, but I can see them learning when I bring them together. They’re learning that someone cares about them and doesn’t want them to hurt other people when they get out of control. They learn that they are the ones who control their actions, and they have different options. They learn that when they make mistakes, they have a safe, loving place to come to where they can learn a better way of doing things.
The result of not punishing my children is trust.
While they still have occasional squabbles over toys they need me to help them work out, more and more they can play together for hours and regulate themselves. They still hit each other, but more and more they move away and say, “I’m so mad! I want to hit him” and come to me for a hug. They don’t run away from me, and they respect me.
Ending punishments was the best thing we’ve ever done for the relationships in our family. Now that we’ve had some practice at it, I really can’t imagine our life any other way.
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Patent application title: ARRANGEMENT USED IN OIL FIELD WELLS FOR LIFTING HYDROCARBONS
Juan Carlos Marie Arlandis (Boulogne, AR)
IPC8 Class: AE21B4300FI
Class name: With below and above ground modification eduction pump or plunger in well with above ground (1) motor carried by casing or casing support or (2) well fluid pump
Publication date: 2009-10-29
Patent application number: 20090266534
Arrangement for the lifting of hydrocarbons in oil field wells, comprising
a lifting assembly formed by a fluid collecting hose and a fluid suction
tube within the well casing. The suction tube extends along the
collecting hose, which has an open upper end, through which passes the
upper section of the suction tube, which has an end attached to the
pulling cable of the "collecting hose/suction tube" assembly. The lower
end is closed by means of a one-way check valve, letting the fluid flow
into the space formed between the hose and said tube. The upper section
projecting beyond the open upper end of the collecting hose has a
laterally conformed fluid discharge opening. When the "hose/suction tube"
assembly rises by action of the pulling cable and reaches the end of its
travel, said discharge opening is positioned within a sealed chamber in
the wellhead defined between a pair of sealing rings, so that the fluid
may be discharged by means of a suction pump and/or under the gas
pressure from within the well casing.
7. An arrangement for lifting hydrocarbons placed within oil field wells, the oil field well having a wellhead assembly and a bailer device disposed along a well casing and connected to a pulling cable attached to the bailer, said pulling cable extending up to a drum which forms part of the driving mechanism of the lifting arrangement, wherein the lifting arrangement extends along the well casing and wherein the lifting arrangement comprises:a fluid collecting hose, the hose having an open upper end and a lower end;a fluid suction tube extending along said hose, said suction tube comprising an upper section projecting beyond the upper end of the collecting hose in which a hole is formed for discharging the fluid to be suctioned by a suction pump connected to the wellhead, the end of said upper section being attached to the end of the pulling cable which drives the lifting arrangement.
8. The arrangement according to claim 7, wherein said c open upper end and a lower end of the hose is closed by means of a one-way check valve which opens into the hose to let the fluid flow into it, so that the fluid can also enter through the upper end of the hose.
9. The arrangement according to claim 7, wherein the lower end of the suction tube is open and reaches the proximity of the lower end of the fluid collecting hose, while its upper end is closed and said fluid discharge opening is laterally conformed in the upper section of said suction tube.
10. The arrangement according to claims 7, wherein the length of the upper section of the suction tube is such that, when the hose-tube assembly reaches the end of the ascending travel, the discharge opening is placed between a pair of sealing rings--an upper ring and a lower ring--which are positioned in a section of the wellhead where a sealed chamber is defined to which a fluid suction pump is connected.
11. The arrangement according to claim 10, wherein a cable attached to the upper end of the suction tube passes through a bushing through said pair of sealing rings during the descending travel of the hose-tube assembly until it reaches the end of said travel, where said bushing is positioned as a guide for the cable.
12. The arrangement according to claim 11, wherein said bushing forms part of a member having an lower section and an upper section, said lower section defining the bushing itself, while the upper member--which has a larger diameter than the lower member, defines a guide for the displacement of the bushing, and, in addition, defines a sensor detecting the final position of the hose for its discharge, and an abutment on the upper sealing ring.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to an arrangement used in oil field wells for lifting hydrocarbons, and more particularly it is directed to a new arrangement of elements placed within production wells for safely lifting liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons, avoiding gas venting and thus allowing for an increase in productivity of the facility, among other important advantages.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Lifting of hydrocarbons from oil fields involves introducing into the well a casing that extends down sufficiently to reach the hydrocarbon-containing strata, so that any oil, gas and water found therein may flow upwardly to the surface through the casing to be then separated, stored or channeled to its next destination. The oil, gas and water from the strata enter the casing and, because of their different densities, they segregate from each other so that water remains at the bottom of the casing, while oil floats over it and gas flows up through the casing.
Conventional oil lifting requires the use of pumping units disposed on the surface of the field ground and on the wellhead, which include, among other components used for fluid extraction, a pump lever, a suction rod and a pump placed downhole within the casing at the deepest possible production position. For operating the suction rod, its lower end is connected to the pump, while its upper end is connected to the pump lever disposed on the ground surface. By means of a mechanical arm lever, the pump lever drives the upwards and downwards reciprocating movement of the suction rod, thus performing the pumping work in the production well.
Another widely known type of pumping system consists in using a bailing system disposed on the ground surface adjacent to the production well, using a bailer mechanism disposed on the ground surface adjacent to the production well, comprising a bailer type (tube and hose) system, a pulling strip or cable which extends along an admission tube or arm, and a hoist mechanism. In this system for lifting hydrocarbons, the bailing system is operated by spooling and unspooling a pulling cable from a hoisting mechanism, to which one end of the wireline is attached, while the other end is attached to the upper end of the bailer-type mechanism placed within the well casing. During operation of the hoist mechanism by spooling and unspooling the wireline or cable, the latter makes a reciprocating movement and undergoes considerable stresses when it is spooled to lift the bailer or unspooled for lowering it to the oil-containing section of the well casing. When the bailer is submerged into the oil-containing section, it collects some oil and gets filled with it. Then, the bailer is lifted up to the surface and the oil is poured into a storage dam.
In these conventional systems for lifting hydrocarbons, fluid discharge from the hose that extends along the borehole is achieved by the action of gravity. These systems have disadvantages that must be overcome. In fact, during the lowering operation, the hose may stick to the tube due to the presence of viscous or paraffin hydrocarbons. These conditions may be affected by external temperatures and the tubes may be worn off by friction with the hose, which may cause ecological damage. In addition, the hose must have thicker walls in order to withstand the strain caused by the rollers over the curvature of the header when entering into the PVC tube. Furthermore, the hose diameter is limited by the header's entrance hole and the recovery capacity of the hose is limited by the length of the tubes, all of which leads to a reduction in productivity. Another disadvantage is that the hose detection system is external and has no protection. In addition, harsh environmental conditions (temperatures, wind, sunlight), the presence of animals, mishandling, etc. can damage the tube joints and cause leaks. The presence of gas pockets may damage PVC tubes and cause environmental damage. In addition, the horizontal tube where the fluid is discharged is made of plastic and can only withstand low gas pressure. Consequently, the gas cannot be transferred by its own pressure and requires permanent venting.
In order to solve the above mentioned drawbacks of conventional hydrocarbon-lifting facilities, the inventors have developed the arrangement of the present invention, which provides outstanding improvements over the prior art. In fact, the arrangement to be used in oilfield wells for lifting hydrocarbons is capable of capturing gas from the well and thus avoid venting, which increases productivity of the lifting equipment. One of the most important factors favoring productivity is the use of the gas pressure from inside the casing for draining the hose. The hose length may be made proportional to gas pressure at a ratio of 10 ml per 1 kg/sq. cm. of gas pressure, without modifying the length of the surface equipment. In addition, there will be less tubing on the surface and all the moving elements of the arrangement will remain within the casing, thus avoiding possible leaks of fluid at surface level and providing greater safety to the lifting process. It should also be underlined that equipment, mounting and operation costs are lower than those of conventional arrangements, no "pulling" is needed, it is easily maintained and consumes less power, among other advantages.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention discloses an arrangement for the lifting of hydrocarbons, which is used in oil field wells, and comprises a lifting assembly having a fluid collecting hose and a fluid suction tube within the well casing. The suction tube extends along the collecting hose, which has an open upper end, through which passes the upper section of the suction tube having an end attached to the pulling cable of the "collecting hose/suction tube" assembly, and a lower end closed by means of a one-way check valve, through which the fluid flows into a space comprised between the hose and said tube. The upper section extending beyond the open upper end of the collecting hose has a laterally-conformed fluid discharge opening. When the "hose/suction tube" assembly is risen by action of the pulling cable to reach the end of its travel, said discharge hole is positioned within a sealed chamber in the wellhead, which is defined between a pair of sealing rings, and in this way the fluid is discharged with the assistance of the suction pump and/or the inner gas pressure from the casing.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIGS. 1A to 1C are schematic side elevation views showing the arrangement of the present invention positioned in a production well, which as a whole represents the lifting operation sequence for the fluid contained in the field.
FIG. 2 is a schematic overall view showing a hydrocarbon lifting facility including the arrangement of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic overall view showing a facility for lifting hydrocarbons comprising the arrangement of the present invention, where said facility includes a device for lowering gas pressure within the casing.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
FIGS. 1A to 1C show that the hydrocarbon lifting arrangement placed within oil field wells of the invention comprises a lifting assembly formed by a suction tube 1 and a fluid collection hose 2, said assembly extending along the well casing 3. The hose 2 has an open upper end 4 and a lower end 5 closed by means of a one-way check valve 6 which opens into the hose 2 to let the fluid flow into it. In turn, the suction tube 1, which extends from the proximity of the check valve 6 and beyond the upper end 4 of the collecting hose 2, has a lower section 7 and an upper section 8 having a laterally positioned discharge opening 10 for the fluid being lifted. The upper section 8 of the suction tube 1 has a closed end 9, to which the pulling cable 11 is connected to cause the upwards and downwards movement of the lifting assembly defined by the suction tube 1 and the collecting hose 2.
The upper section 8 of the suction tube 1 is of a length such that, during operation of the facility, when the "tube-hose" assembly reaches the end of its upwards travel, the discharge hole 10 is positioned between a pair of sealing rings--a lower ring 12 and an upper ring 13--which are placed in the lower section 15 of the wellhead 14, a sealed chamber 16 being formed between said rings, where said chamber has a discharge opening coupled to a fluid outlet duct 17 connected to a suction pump 18.
The pulling cable 11, attached to the upper end 9 of the suction tube 1, passes through a cable guide bushing 19 and an actuating device that senses the sealed chamber 16. The bushing 19 is part of a member having a lower section 20, which defines the bushing itself and an upper section 21 having a larger diameter than said lower section 20 and defining a guide and an abutment on the sealing ring 13 within the upper section 22 of the header 14. As shown in the drawing, the bushing 19 passes through said pair of sealing rings 12 and 13 during the travel of the "tube-hose" assembly. In addition, the pulling cable 11 passes though a cable seal 23 positioned next to the upper section 22 of the wellhead 14.
As shown in the operation sequence represented in FIGS. 1A to 1C, when the "tube-hose" assembly is pulled up by the cable 11 until it reaches the end of the travel, the upper section 8 of the suction tube 1, and consequently the discharge opening 10, are positioned within the sealed chamber 16 defined between sealing rings 12 and 13. Immediately after the discharge opening 10 connects with the sealing chamber 16, the suction pump 18 begins to force the circulation of the fluid contained in the collecting hose 2 towards the outlet duct 17, passing through the discharge opening 10. Liquid flow, and consequently, oil production, is maintained during the parts of the cycle comprising ascending and descending of the "tube-hose" assembly, as long as the discharge opening 10 is in communication with the sealed chamber 10 and until the hose 2 is drained. In this part of the lifting process the check valve 6 remains closed.
During the descending travel of the "tube-hose" assembly, when the end 5 of hose 1 is submerged again into the fluid content of the well, the check valve 6 is opened by the pressure exerted thereon by the fluid, and consequently the hose 2 is filled again until the "tube-hose" assembly reaches the end of its descending travel, to be subsequently discharged in each "up/down" cycle of the "tube-hose" assembly. In gas-containing wells, the pressure exerted by the gas, depending on its intensity, will cause discharging of the hose 2, thus contributing to an increase in the fluid flow rate from the suction pump 18.
FIG. 2 shows an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, in which the outlet duct 17 comprises a flow-rate control 24, which, by means of a one way check valve 25, is fluidly connected to the corresponding flow line, together with the outlet duct of pump 18, so that the produced gas will be driven to the storage facilities under its own pressure. The figure also shows that the pulling cable 11 goes through a pulley mechanism 26 and extends along a tube 27 to enter a motor driven equipment 28 where it is spooled on a drum 29.
FIG. 3 shows a further embodiment of the present invention, which includes a device 30 designed to lower gas pressure within the well casing 3 whenever it is deemed convenient. Said device 30 comprises a storage tank 31 having an inlet 32 connected to the suction pump 18 outlet, a first outlet 33 connected to a screw pump 34, and a second outlet connected to the corresponding fluid transportation line. The outlet of the screw pump 34 is connected to an auxiliary inlet of the suction pump 18. In addition, in this exemplary embodiment the sealed chamber 16 of the wellhead 14 has an attached pressure switch 36 and a positioning sensor 37.
When the tube-hose assembly is in its discharge position as detected by sensor 37, the device 30 suctions the fluid to discharge hose 2. On the other hand, when the tube-hose assembly is not in position--during the upwards and downwards movements--if gas pressure is higher than desired, the pressure switch 36 actuates the device 30, allowing only gas to flow out.
Patent applications by Juan Carlos Marie Arlandis, Boulogne AR
Patent applications in class With above ground (1) motor carried by casing or casing support or (2) well fluid pump
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At the end of July, the beginning of August is the hottest time. Swimming is a great project for us to solve the heat.
Because the water has a certain tension, it enters the narrow external auditory canal to form a barrier and divides the external auditory canal into two segments. Due to the gravity of the water, a secondary pressure is generated between the water barrier and the tympanic membrane, maintaining the balance of pressure on both sides of the water barrier. Water does not easily flow out automatically.
When our ears are in the water, they will be depressed, hearing loss, dizziness, etc. It can be said that it is quite uncomfortable. At this time, people will definitely want to get the water out, even using keys, bamboo sticks, etc. Sharp objects puncture this layer of water, although it may be lucky to poke the water out to make it flow out, but it is very easy to hurt our ear canal and even the tympanic membrane. Once damaged, it will cause infection, leading to hearing loss in ear diseases. of.
So what is the correct way to do when our ears are soaked in water?
The first one: the jumping method.
Put the water in the ear down, then jump on the dead, use gravity to let the water out.
Second: active ear canal method.
Continuous use of the palm of the hand to oppress the tragus, and then repeatedly open the mouth, chew, these movements of the temporomandibular joint, so that the external auditory canal up and down to make the water flow out.
The third type: the cleanup method.
Use a clean cotton swab and slowly penetrate into the external auditory canal. Once you reach it, you can suck out the water.
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Readers of The Buddha Diaries will be as moved and inspired as I was by the HBO documentary, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present. It's the story of the preparation and installation for the artist's 20120 retrospective exhibition of the same title at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with its new performance designed especially for the occasion: "The Artist Is Present."
And is she ever. Abramovic is known for performances that explore the breadth and depth of her humanity, sometimes in its most vulnerable aspects. She is willing to expose both body and soul to the scrutiny of observers in order to share those human qualities that many others seek to hide, repress or deny. In telling us most intimately about herself, she offers us the opportunity to learn more about who we are. It is often a challenging, sometimes even a painful experience--for the artist, as well as for her audience. But she shrinks from nothing, it would seem, to achieve this goal.
I tend to recoil from performance work that smacks of exhibitionism, but even when naked this artist manages to banish the ego from the work at hand. It's not "Marina's body" so much as "human body" that we see; it's not "Marina's story" that we're told, so much as our own. It's the story of our own vulnerability, our own fear, the pain we experience in our own lives.
"The Artist Is Present" could not be simpler in design: two chairs are set up at the center of a large, white gallery space, with a table in between. Simply robed in red, white or black, the artist occupies one of the chairs. She invites any person who might so wish to occupy the other for a long enough period to receive her gaze and to gaze, in turn, into her face. No words are exchanged, no gestures, and no touch. There is barely anything that could be described as an "expression" on her face. In this way, the artist is able to become the mirror for each participant, reflecting back to them everything that comes to the surface in their face: their pain, their fear, their grief... sometimes, their joy.
The "performance"--I hesitate to call it that, because this is as "real" as it gets--is profoundly moving. It required immense physical discipline and stamina of the artist, who sat virtually immobile for hours on end each day of the exhibition's three-month run in what she called her "square of light" in the museum's atrium. It required the same measure of emotional discipline and stamina, and an immense resource of compassion. The full range and depth of her personal emotional well was plumbed each day, as visitors received their share of her and offered their own emotional life for her to absorb and, in some way, to heal.
It was an exemplary performance, a tour de force that most of us would lack the strength and fortitude to contemplate. Compassion at its best is the ability to empathize fully with the suffering of others, but without taking it on board and making it our own. Abramaovic reminds us of the commonality of simply being human, and offers us the comfort for knowing that it's shared. I wish now that I had been smart enough to take a flight to New York a couple of years ago to be present myself for "The Artist Is Present." Failing that, I'm glad to have seen the documentary. Don't miss the opportunity to see it for yourself. | <urn:uuid:b431b934-2f26-4740-b01d-7e9c6a63b8ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-clothier/the-artist-is-present_b_1681174.html | 2016-02-08T21:26:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701154221.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193914-00338-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979793 | 726 |
SPORTS >> Local family races for fun and future
By JASON KING
Leader sports writer
The Glaze family of Austin is building a family tradition in racing, although in many different forms of racing. Brothers Kip, 38, and Bryan, 34, started out racing on dirt in hobbies and modifieds.
Bryan has made the recent move to the Hooters Pro-Cup Southern Series, racing asphalt shows in one of the country’s premier stock-car racing series.
Kip has raced several seasons in the IMCA modifieds around central Arkansas after racing late models in the Georgia and Florida area in the late 90’s up until 2002.
Add Kip’s son, 14-year-old Nick into the mix, and you have three drivers all in the same stable. Nick has spent this season racing primarily in Batesville in the economy-modified division weekly series.
The long-term plan is for Nick to get asphalt experience before he eventually makes his way into the Hooters series. For Bryan, it is a chance to help his nephew gain experience, while carrying out a life-long dream of his own.
“This is something I’ve always wanted to do,” Bryan said. “We’re gaining knowledge that Nick can use later on. I don’t know my future in the series, or in the sport in general for that matter.”
Bryan’s first attempt at Hooters racing came last year at Peach State Speedway in Georgia. A practice wreck prevented him from running the race, but he is hoping that a year of learning the car will help him when he returns to the speedway this weekend.
The race after Peach State is the one that Bryan is really anticipating. The Glaze Motorsports team will travel to the famed Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee for a Pro-Cup race the same weekend that the stars of the Nextel Cup series will take to the famed high-bank, one-half mile oval.
“That will be our biggest race of the year by far,” Bryan said. “All of the cup guys will be there, and we will be racing the same day as the Craftsman Truck Series.”
Although he says his racing season is over, Kip is probably the busiest of the trio. Along with helping out son Nick with his e-mod racing, he also serves as a spotter for Bryan on the Hooters side.
The spotter acts as a second set of eyes for a driver in many asphalt divisions. With all of the safety devices that are required around the head and neck, drivers have a hard time seeing what is around them. The spotter communicates a driver’s position via radio, telling him if there are cars alongside him on the outside or inside.
Racing is not the only game in town for the Glaze family. Through their successful family business, Five-Star Airbags in Cabot, they have found a lucrative way to finance their racing endeavors as a hobby, and a potential professional career for Nick.
“I’m too old to make a career out of this,” Kip said. “Nick is still young enough that he can still do it, so I’m going to give him every opportunity that I can.”
It has not been all fun and games for the Glaze family this year. Kip and Nick are just one month out of a tragic accident on their way back from Batesville that not only destroyed a car, it also claimed the life of Nick’s mother. Kip was injured in the accident as well, but says that help from friends and fellow racers have made a big difference.
“I didn’t realize how good of friends we had,” Kip said. “I knew we had a lot of friends, but I didn’t know just how good. The best therapy has been getting Nick back into a car, it helps to keep my mind off of it and has kind of helped to get things back to normal.”
Nick has had a good rookie season in the e-mod division. He has held his own with modified standouts like Jason Wilkey and Jerry Waugh all season, and holds ninth in the season standings despite missing a couple of races. The biggest moment in his career so far came last year in the Beebe mini-stocks, where he won a feature race in just his eighth start. He was technically not eligible to race at the time due to his age, but says what the old track management didn’t know won’t hurt them.
“They can’t get their money back now,” Nick said. “Or the trophy either for that matter. It was an adrenaline rush to win that race, it gave me some bragging rights.”
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What is HR 158?
The Visa Waiver Program Improvement Act is a White House backed, bipartisan effort to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to include terrorism risk as a factor when determining an alien’s eligibility to travel to the United States. The Visa Waiver Program currently allows citizens of 38 participating countries to travel to the U.S., Europe, Japan and South Korea without a visa for stays of 90 days or less. This legislation would exclude those with Iranian, Iraqi, Sudanese and Syrian nationality or anyone who has traveled to those countries in the past five years from using the program to enter the country. The amended bill was fast-tracked and passed in the House of Representatives on December 8, 2015 by a vote of 407-19.
Who will it affect?
HR 158 will require those who have “travelled to” or are “nationals of” Iran, Iraq, Sudan, or Syria to attain a visa from the United States to be able to enter the country. It also includes dual-nationals of these states from the visa waiver participating countries (those who hold two passports). For instance, according to the ACLU’s interpretation of the bill, it is conceivable that a person who was born and raised in France but whose father is an Iranian citizen would be forced to get a visa before visiting the United States, even if that person has a French passport and has never been in Iran. However, others have interpreted travel to Iran within the past five years as the main determinant.
The original bill was initially produced to increase security components of the Visa Waiver Program’s structure in order to help prevent terrorist from entering the country. However, provisions were later added to bar people who had travelled to the primary states where ISIS operates, Iraq and Syria, as well as states labeled by the US as State Sponsors of Terrorism, which includes Iran and Sudan. Ironically, Saudi Arabia, the country which produced fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 perpetrators or Turkey, which many of the recruits use to enter Syria and join ISIS, were not included in the list.
How does this bill affect those of Iranian descent?
This issue is particularly complicated, as Iran does not recognize the foreign citizenship of people whose parents are nationals of that country. Europe has a large number of residents of Iranian descent, many of whose parents settled there after the 1979 revolution in Iran or to escape persecution.
If the legislation passes through Congress, it may require, depending on the interpretation of the law, that all aliens of Iranian descent obtain a visa prior to travelling to the United States for any period of time. It will certainly require those who have visited Iran within the past five years to obtain a visa.
How will this bill affect Iranian Americans?
The Visa Waiver program is based off of reciprocity. For example, a UK citizen can travel to the US for up to 90 days and a US citizen can also travel to the UK for up to 90 days without a visa. If this legislation becomes law, it will very likely trigger reciprocal restrictions from other participants in the Visa Waiver program. So, if the US requires Iranian-Europeans to obtain visas to travel to the United States, the EU nations will require Iranian Americans to obtain visas to travel to Europe.
Iranian-Americans (US citizens) who travel to Iran and return back to the US are not directly affected by this bill.
Why should people of Iranian descent be taken off of the list?
The purpose of HR158 is to prevent acts of terrorism within the United States. Of particular concern are citizens of the Visa Waiver Program participating countries who have been radicalized and have travelled to countries where ISIS operates. However, there is no evidence to suggest that persons of Iranian descent have become radicalized or committed an act of terrorism in the United States, or in any way acted against American national interests. Iranians are, by definition, sworn enemies of the Islamic State which considers all non-Sunnis – and specifically Iranians – as infidels and thus their main targets. To place a group of American dual citizens into a de facto suspicious category while leaving out other dual citizens of the many countries that ISIS operates in is ineffective policy at best and highly discriminatory at worst.
The United States is host to the largest expatriate community of Iranians in the world. Iranian Americans have contributed to the economic strength and cultural diversity of America. They serve as government officials, in the military and law enforcement, working to uphold the U.S. Constitution and protect all Americans.
Iranian Americans are by any objective standard, the second most successful immigrant group in the United States and contribute to every level of American society every day.
Among the victims of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino was a Christian Iranian American woman who came to the United States in search of religious freedom. Among the first-responders of the same attack was an Iranian American who serves as a SWAT team embedded medic.
In a time where the US national interest depends on promoting diplomacy and greater interaction between the peoples of the two countries moving forward, the successful passing of this legislation would be an enormous step backwards for US-Iran relations. To the extent that the bill discourages Iranian Americans from future travel to Iran, it plays into the hands of hardliners in the Iranian government whose goal is to keep the country isolated from the West, undermine US-Iran rapprochement, and inhibit social and economic reform and moderation.
What is PAAIA doing?
PAAIA staff, board members and trustees are in direct communication with Members of Congress to take those of Iranian descent off the amended bill.
Board members and trustees have also been contacting their Senators in an effort to stop the bill from passing the Senate.
PAAIA has reached out to legal organizations and is currently researching the constitutional legality of passing this bill and to discuss its implications.
PAAIA is putting together a survey targeted to the Iranian American community in order to shed light on our identity, affiliations and beliefs.
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Cannabis license fees help address budget shortfalls, but be ready to document and defend those fees from legal challenges.
The 2020 election results saw four more states legalize recreational cannabis (Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota) as well as medical use in Mississippi and South Dakota. Recreational use is now legal in 15 states and almost nationwide for medical uses. The trend has been clear for years, and now legalized cannabis helps states address critical needs in this Covid-19 era: the need for more money.
State and local revenues have plummeted this fiscal year and next fiscal year will lag behind as well, since revenues tied to income traditionally lag behind overall economic activity. Many states have released revenue forecasts for FY 2022, predicting declines, some in the high teens on a percentage basis. Reliance on various revenue sources impacts state and local governments differently. That said, governments are following the traditional steps in responding to these revenue shortfalls:
- Spending from fund balance reserves
- Raising fees and taxes
- Borrowing to pay operating expenses
- Deferring capital investments
- Refinancing long-term debt
- Pension contribution holidays
- Across the board budget cuts
With the legalization of cannabis, it presents an opportunity for state and local governments to tap a new revenue source. The demand for cannabis licenses signals the level of interest by the industry to enter markets in various states. That level of interest also invites legislatures to match that with high license fees.
Most states require that licenses and fees bear a relation to the services provided. When looking at these license fees, every government should ask the following questions:
- What are the services we’re providing?
- Will the services change over time as we move from initial to renewal licenses?
- What does it cost to provide the services?
- Can we document the costs if we’re challenged?
In the face of severe fiscal challenges when every government is looking at non-tax revenue sources to make up the difference, it’s tempting to take advantage of new revenue opportunities. But are you able to support the fees you’re charging? We can help!
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Originally Posted by DrnknZag
I've heard that some Unions have problems with the quality of their ratchets. Is there any truth to this claim?
I have Union Data's from 2008 and the only time I ever had a problem with the ratchets was on a 5-10 degree day where ice built up in the toe. That happened once and was resolved in less than a minute. The only other issue I've had with them was the toe strap sliding up on my old Nitro MFM boots. Once I switched to my Northwave Decades it wasn't a problem because the toe box is more squared. I know they've changed the toe over the last couple of seasons but I hear this is still a problem for some people and it really does depend on the shape of your boot. The more square the toe is the better. | <urn:uuid:edf2a97f-46ad-437c-a11d-2772819b6ca2> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.snowboardingforum.com/297075-post9.html | 2014-10-25T23:07:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119651018.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030051-00246-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987597 | 176 |
You get lots of sunlight in this summer freely and abandon. In contrast, in the next several month, you must be ready to set yourself for the coldest season, winter! Of course, you have to prepare it from now. With elegant and comfortable furniture, you can have a casual sunroom design that is suitable to meet any season. Give it a look!
A blue sunroom mirrors a really wonderful casual design. It appears just like ordinary room. the large bar glass windows are the only thing differ. The combination of rattan chairs and the floral patterned sofa give sophistication of traditional style.
To live near a lush vegetation like forest, you must be smart to take any advantage! For instance, a truly open plan sunroom with furnished natural wooden frame. From the nuance shared, it is clear that the room nests aside fertile vegetation. Then, to elevate the comfort, a swinging bed is installed for you to sweep the outside view as well as to breath the fresh air relax. Small rustic wooden table is the only one to accompany on the trimmed wooden floor.
Completing your sunroom with green dining table is also stunning. It adds the green nuance of the surrounding with the artificial one. I like the open plan style and also the stunning wooden frame and pergola installed in the room. The white sectional sofa also gives perfection to everybody to sit comfortably beneath the lush and shady vegetation outside. For simpler design, two reclining rattan chairs inside your sunroom is also enough! | <urn:uuid:d2fd9436-93bd-4c85-a03f-584c47d54d70> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://homesfeed.com/casual-sunroom/ | 2021-05-06T04:15:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988725.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20210506023918-20210506053918-00592.warc.gz | en | 0.940809 | 305 |
Hotbeds and Cold Frames
This is a combination of a hotbed and a cold frame. Think of these as miniature greenhouses. The hotbed does have heat within it. And in this case, it’s electric heat. The cold frame does not, and therefore, I always start my plants over in a hotbed. But when they’re ready to be hardened off, just before they’re transplanted, they get moved to the cold frame. That gets them toughened up enough so that when they go outside, they’re not going to undergo any shock due to the change in environment.
So, I don’t want it to get too cold in the hotbed, nor too hot in either one. I need to have a way of controlling that temperature. What a lot of people do now is use an automatic vent opener. As the temperature rises, the gas inside this cylinder heats up. And as it heats up, it pushes this rod further out. That’s actually what lifts that cover.
Early in the season, I’ll use just a watering can. You can water once, and It’s going to last maybe three or four days. Later in the season, I’ll use an automatic method, as you’ll notice here where we have those tubes. They have very small holes in them that allow them to drip water onto the material that you see here. This is called a capillary mat. It holds a lot of water, and it can then release it to the bottom of these containers. I like that later in the season because it eliminates any problems you may have with disease – that foliage never gets wet. It also allows me to totally automate this, so that if I need to water twice a day, I can do that automatically without having to be here.
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AMHA World Show Invitation
The American Miniature Horse Association recently published a beautifully done promotion video for the AMHA World Show on Facebook zur AMHA World Show. The video shows some impressions from the World Show 2018 and is much too good to not be shared! The AMHA World Show 2019 will take place from August 23 to 31, 2019 in Fort Worth/Texas (USA).
The AMHA World Show is the highlight of the year for AMHA registered miniature horses. Hundreds of minis are being shown and compete over the course of ten days in many classes. These range from many different halter classes (divided by age, sex, height, status of the handler etc.) to the various driving divisions, jumping, versatility, obstacle and showmanship. There are classes for pretty much everybody, now matter how old or young you are, experienced or a newbie.
The best ten horses of each class are being placed and awarded a ribbon. The first and second placed horses of each class compete against each other in the Grand Champion classes. There the Grand and Reserve Grand Champions are being crowned.
If you want to learn more about showing and the rules and regulations, you can download the AMHA rulebook for free:
Our beautiful “Kelly” (Aloha MRF Silent In Red) was successfully shown at the AMHA World Show. She holds two World Champion titles which she was awarded in 2010 and 2012. | <urn:uuid:56c7ddfe-f31e-4aea-84df-06f9357542f4> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://miniaturpferdezucht.de/en/news/amha-world-show-invitation/ | 2018-11-17T04:34:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743282.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20181117040838-20181117062838-00202.warc.gz | en | 0.938567 | 293 |
Medieval hit of the week (132,153+ on YouTube) and spreading via Reddit and sim:
[Yes it’s SKELTONMANIA again: comments thereon and musing inspired thereby; updated, revised, extended, expanded, bludgeoned gently, coaxed, cajoled, hugged gently around the middle where it needed consolation, direct references to certain grants removed because, really, there’s silly and then there’s suicidal, etc.]
Want more manuscript images of pre-Modern parrots? Well, on this here blog back in January, there were some more of Skelton’s feathered friend’s poetic family and friends, perky and pesky and sometimes profoundly sad, but usually loquatious. One such (featured in the aforementioned post) is a near-contemporary cousin, Jean Lemaire de Belge’s marvellous and touching parrot (1505; une merveille touchante / où tout chante, as I like to think Apollinaire would have had it), here is the 1512 edition via BNF Gallica:
I found out about the Skelton poem on FaceBook, as one does, thanks to friends and networks of friends’ friends and so on. It is, I hope you will agree, not only a great bit of YouTube video-ing and breathing life into old things and a good performance, but also a brilliant and hilarious poem.
Herewith some thoughts. They may be obvious or banal: this is the first time I’d met the poem, so I’m still in the “smitten kitten” of love: full of wonder and tunnel-vision focussed blindness, of gigglings and flutterings, of play with a new toy.
I don’t know
enough anything at all, really about Skelton, but the many wonderful and witty things going on in his poem look to me like they might include some dealings with the French poem, at least via ideas in common (be they from a specific poem or in general circulation: these two poets are approximate contemporaries) and some nice satirical pokes at empty-headed scholarship. To my ear, mostly at a post-Medieval perception of stereotyped “gothic scholasticism” at its worst. Think of Gargantua’s moving letter to his son, and that generational shift; angry young men throwing out the baby with the bath-water, only to continue the old radical Paris tradition…
This is complicated by Skelton’s participation in the Grammarians’ War, on the side–correct me if I’m wrong or over-simplifying–of a grammar-first approach to teaching and learning Latin. Thus against a method of model citation-examples first, grammar later; hence comic effect of random ridiculous “parroted” sentences / sentenciae. Now, this is interesting if you’re asking what literature is and how we tell it apart from what it isn’t, via literary history and literary criticism, via what people at various times say about it. One venue for such discussions is poets writing and talking about poetry; and is is often while talking about how you do or make poetry, how you compose, the finer points in slow motion of that work. That will include reading other poets’ works, including the Dead Poets’ Society of Classical authors. That in turn means that anyone interested in reading, writing, and understanding poetry–interlinked activities–needs to learn certain other languages. Admittedly, schoolboys learning Latin around 1520 don’t necessarily all do so because they want to become poets. Their parents are even less likely to like the idea.
But what’s happening with this “war” in England in the period, the invectives flying around, the grammar-books at the heart of the debate, the new approaches of Erasmus that are a key factor behind the writing of a new sort of grammar: these are also part of two larger European literary histories. The first is a history of literary debates: my own favourites (see elsewhere on this blog) include those involving Occitan lyric poetry, mainly in the 13th century, expressed in poetic exchanges, some satirical; and the Querelle de la Rose, around a century before the Grammarians, started by Christine de Pisan in criticism of Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose. Jean’s work remains in the air a century later, in part thanks to Chaucer and his readers.
The second literary history is that of writing about composition, in treatises or grammars, for the purpose of teaching and learning. Again, it is a conjoined activity of reading, writing, and understanding. It is a learning by doing, with–as in the Grammarians’ War–various ways of working out whether to start first with examples or with abstracted rules, what sorts of examples to use, how exemplary they should be and in what way (see also: the “crisis of exemplarity”), and at what point learners start actually doing creative work themselves. Favourite examples: again in 13th-century Occitan, in grammars, treatises, razos on learning to compose (and appreciate) poetry in that language; and the wave of poetics treatises for French, in France, of the later 15th and mid-to-late 16th centuries: from the “Grands rhétoriqueurs” to the Pléiade. While the English grammars and debate are about the teaching of Latin, these Continental ones are about vernaculars that have acquired literary status. Once we are into the later period–15th to 16th centuries–they’re all also about nation, nationalism, national identity in a modern-feeling way.
In all cases–13th or 16th century, England or France–we’re dealing with matters of teaching and learning, and with language politics. Our discussants are asking questions about the point and purpose of learning a language, and how “alive” that language and its use can be. Should one learn all about a language before one may be permitted to put it into practice? Should one be allowed to play with it, enjoy it, have fun? May one play around with it, get one’s hands dirty, mess up something with special (and, for most of the languages concerned, sacred) status? What is a language being used for? Is it dead or alive, active or passive, used or abused through different kinds of usage? Uses: reading, reuse as Authoritative Material for Impressive Citation and other rhetorical use, translation, adaptation into another language (ex. Latinate lexis, syntax, and rhetorical tropes in English or French), composition of certain very formulaic fixed rigid (dead) types, free compositional use including for regular communication, poetry: and of what form, how formal, when does the formal become formulaic, is that good or bad,…
The debates continue: in the last century, the removal of the obligation to take Anglo-Saxon/Old English in order to obtain a degree in English at Cambridge; teaching Old French and its grammar through texts, rather than after a year of historical morphology (and pure dislocated grammar); in what some of my colleagues and I do when teaching language, in trying to combine grammar, and examples (of varous sorts), and practical use, and (we hope) that enjoyment that makes learning engaging and alive (by making you and your brain feel more alive) and that keeps that which is being learned (a language, any other field of knowledge, and learning itself) alive. Preservation, continuation, dissemination.
Composition continues to be taught, for good or for ill. Here at UBC, there is good: some of the creative writing courses, the fine and imaginative work of colleagues in French, the main university writing centre for English, and writing centres attached to my own department and to History. All too often, though, there is bad; oft in courses on “academic writing.” It is, my students report, as it sounds: like the kind of drear dry work that people do in a Balzac novel before breaking free from art school and becoming a proper artist, starving in a garrett and madly in love with someone desperately inappropriate and, if we’re really in luck, inappropriately desperate. What every painter worth his salt from Turner onwards revolts against. Why there was a Salon des refusés, and think where the visual arts would be if we hadn’t had it, or where the literary arts would be had Baudelaire not reviewed earier Salons and championed the non-formulaic and lively.
Yes, it’s that bad and then some, all too often, alas, hai las mors mi. Cookie-cutters and rubber stamps are applied, for different kinds of writing (“genres” if you must; in the sense of producing “generic” end results from a same mould) as appropriate and proper to different kinds of academic area and subject-matter. The end result, as far as I can ascertain, is bad writing. Ugly. Incomprehensible. Random collections of buzzwords and jargon vaguely strung together and meaning nothing, devoid of any content. Speaking parrot. Language is rendered down into the purely functional and then applied mechanically: this is as impoverishing and dehumanising as Victorian education to produce competent industrial machinists. Bad writing becomes a culture of bad writing, institutionalised machines of bad writing and Kafkaesque institutions built on and structured by it.
The worst of its “academic” nature can be seen this week in live action: if you are in Canada, keep a look-out for harrassed-looking university academics. Thanksgiving here is also, perversely, grant-application season. Grant paperasserie is the highest expression of bad academic writing, veritable zenith and glorious high apogee to which the whole bad-composition-course machine leads. (Besides, of course, moulding cookie-cutter bad citizens, good corporate clones, and stellar unthinking unquestioning consumers.) Sensitive people who care about words and ideas–for whom words and ideas are their work, their life, their living breath–these poor souls are made to suffer the most heinous offences against the English and French languages through horrific paperwork, the incomprehensible, the senseless, the absurd and irrational. To be charitable, if one tries very hard to understand and to be understanding, there is some sense in the process and its verbiage. It’s hazing for hazing’s sake. Adding injury to insult, in a gross affront to basic dignity academics suffer public humiliation when they themselves are forced to use bad language in bad writing.
So: this approach to composition results, eventually, in dreadful abuse.
Often, such courses are taught from manuals that are more antiquated in content and approach than anything from the period of the Grammarians’ War (let alone the funky fun of Occitan poetics); rigid, tyrannically doctrinaire, doctrinally orthodox, formulaic, fun-killing, soul-destroying, dull, lifeless; and prone to kill reading, writing, and any intelligent questioning creative thought or pleasure in life–or life itself. They and their introductions read like the prelude to dystopian totalitarian science fiction, a horrible doom for humankind via university compulsory writing courses. The rise of the machines? Bring it on. AI / The Machines offer more hope for poetry, beauty, pleasure, and life.
I am not, I regret to say, a friend of the “preserve it in aspic” school of thought either. That way leads to fossilisation, fossils, and fossils crumbling into dust.
I also happen to like grammar and other people’s bon mots: I enjoy them and would like others to have the opportunity at least to find out for themselves if they, too, find them amusing and reviving, a source of happiness in life, of getting to the end of a day and knowing that one has changed and gained something from it.
Matters of language and liveliness permeate some of the differences between our English and French parrots. There is less in the Skelton poem than in Jean in comment on true love: including shadings and shiftings over the preceding millennium and a half or so, across distinct periods of cultural differences, the latter a point of keen contemporary intellectual interest; through true love, on goodness, nobility, and other ethical values; and exploring how ethics and poetics intersect and interplay. All of these are enabled by the word “vert”: green, true, glass, fancy fur, young, alive, inexperienced and naive, the worms of the grave, poetry itself via “vers” as a line or a poem (Lat. verso – vertere), plus revers, subversion, perversion, diversion, etc. Bref: a delicious homophonic pun, of more than one meaning, that semantic multiplicity enhanced by extended meanings (green = young, alive, bringing back to life in the spring/ Renaissance, etc.), one of the most-used rhyme-words in medieval French poetry (and in other related languages where the equivalent word works similarly), and those other poetic uses then contributing further to the word’s allusive associations via citation. On which topic, see further: Adrian Armstrong and Sarah Kay.
Let’s be fair to Skelton’s parrot: the main / frame-language in the poem is English, and all that is good and beautiful and marvellous about “vert” just can’t really work. Verdant and verdure will sound a bit Latinate, maybe Italienate, adding foreignness and fanciness, changing the sense again; though they would keep the Renaissance/liveliness sense:
Maybe one just can’t “love truly” or be a “true lover” in English, in the way in which one can in French, Occitan, Italian, etc. Love is different in these different languages: is it the language that makes the culture different, or the other way around? How does the idea of love in a specific culture relate to any abstracted idea of Love with a capital L (or truth, or “vers”-and-everything-that-is-associated-with-it): does the former derive from the latter, or vice versa, or do they exist independently of one another: separate distinct things that–for some people, in some places, at some times–occasionally happen to appear to coincide?
Might there be some comments on French humanism? Or rather: on its perception in certain English circles, its reception, and the added meaning given by historical and cultural distance? By the time of Skelton’s poem (a least 1520 if it ties in with the Grammarians’ War), continental humanism (of the 15th- to 16th- century, post-Italian, etc. sort) is into at least a second phase, the Collège de France is up and running, and the political and intellectual matters and persons of 1504-05 and Jean’s activities and associations of the time have moved on (Paris, Lyon, Margaret of Savoy). Jean has moved from Margaret and Habsburg service to Anne of Brittany and the French court. Where a king has had troubles with the Church and its singular authority, a messy divorce, and a marriage to the wife of a deceased relative. This king has another connection to Skelton’s king, by marriage to Mary Tudor. Our French king has died in 1515 (just after the first publication of the Amant Vert, and no connection I am sure. Nor to the contemporary writings of Erasmus, More, etc.).
Our poet dies around 1525. So does Skelton: our two poets’ lives overlap, as do their readings and influences, and as may some contacts and travels. If I were doing some research on this–I mean, properly, not just a rapid-response piece like this–I would be looking into such historical facts of the matter next: all known writings; biography; evidence for biblio-biography via education and readings and known associates; correspondence; records of books bought, borrowed, lent, bequeathed; work, commissions, patrons, and their circles; immediate and later reception, publication history, circulation, reading, commentary.
And that’s just a start, continuing a direct reading into a networked reading of other primary texts. A rapid search (Google scholar, Google books, Google plain and simple) already brings up several secondary works that look like the obvious next things to read. Resemblances and affiliations between the poems have been observed by others, starting with the very obvious fact that they fit into a tradition of parrots. Over the last thirty years or so, they would speak to scholarship on the monstrous and marginal, and on go-between and liminal figures (as contrasted with Major Players and The Great Self vs. anonymous masses of objectified others). I would expect to see a lot more recently, as parrot-poetry dovetails nicely with recent trends (and political and very practical necessary interest) in eco-criticism; as expressed through newer approaches to texts and intertextuality (borrowing from anthropology, biology, environmental studies, and the study of systems), looking at textual relationships as dynamic familial groups and networks; and as expressed through newer approaches to anthropomorphism, looking at human/animal relations, humans as animals, and posthuman beings and being posthuman (or: we have always been pre-modern and post-human).
Back to The Text; revenons (de nos perroquets) à nos moutons.
Maybe there are also, to varying extents, references via the languages “parroted” to some of the earlier, Medieval parrot-corpus? For ex. a Middle Dutch parrot (see: Keith Busby; not himself a parrot) which could make sense re. circulation and reception in England?
The Skelton parrot’s comments on languages and linguists, and on parrots as cunning linguists, would be part of the usual topic of the role of go-betweens, court jesters and clowns, and other diplomats. Heralds as diplomats and as mouth-pieces, oracular. That brings us back to poetry via oracles voicing muses, gods, and other higher powers.
There may, I said earlier, be pokes at French humanism.
Via humanism, or via anti-caricature-medievalism, there may be mockery of these funny foreigners with all their languages, untrustworthy, possibly Jewish; at best, earnest and irrelevant quote-spouting egg-heads. Being a non-English person who is somewhat familiar with England and the English, I’d be inclined to see there some anti-intellectualism, xenophobia, and anti-semitism.
But remember, it’s satire and it’s a parrot speaking: whose words are these, what are we actually to think of the original speaker, and should there not of course be some titillating ambiguities there? It is, after all, a poem and a rather good one at that. (This is not my field, I am not an English literary scholar, but by the criteria of the fields I know a bit more about: it’s good.) And it’s fun and funny as hell. Let the ambiguities be, and do their thing, and titillate. Don’t resist and try to wrestle it into flattened submission, you’ll just kill it. If you must resist something of a literary persuasion, resist convention-ridden composition courses.
Let the poem stay fun and have its fun with you: relax and go with it. Let it fly and fly with it.
That is what Sebastian Sobecki and the Skelton Society video performers did. This is poetry. It’s performed, creative, alive. Jewel-studded with commentating images: the poem played with, added to, enriched, translated to 2014. May such YouTube renditions become more commonplace, and a standard way to cite; jewel-embedded miniature-style in essays, commenaries, discussions of all forms. Compostions that should themselves so clearly be in electronic form, translated to 2014 and to the liberties offered by digital media, freedom to breathe and to live. The poem has now been “read” by more people, I would bet, than have read the poem and works on and around it in the last year. Or in the current century? Whatever these readers do with it next, they have been touched by it, flown with it, and it’s become part of them.
Here’s the Skelton Project‘s introductory promotional video, with appropriate heavy serious dramatic music:
(I was tempted to end this with one of the classic “Red Bull Gives You Wings” ads. I might still do so in a later addition. I’m also trying to remember the title of an excellent MC Solaar track that had a nice use of a “vers” rhyme-scheme.)
Yes, here we go: dedicated to all those who suffer indignities in everyday life, and especially to those suffering from the brutal application of grants to their sensitive psyches. I am lucky: I have no contractual obligation to apply for the nasty man-eating big state grants, though I am not immune from such things thanks to a certain UBC internal scheme… | <urn:uuid:80e5a333-8571-4f53-a110-dec7db327a29> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://metametamedieval.com/2014/10/11/parrots/ | 2023-02-07T21:04:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500641.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230207201702-20230207231702-00614.warc.gz | en | 0.946419 | 4,597 |
59 Political Prisoners Remain Behind Bars in Burma: Rights Group
By Nyein Nyein 28 May 2014
Burmese human rights groups said that at least 59 political prisoners remain behind bars in Burma, while 85 defendants are currently facing trial for political reasons.
The Thailand-based Assistance Association for former Political Prisoners (AAPP) and Rangoon-based Former Political Prisoners Society (FPPS) said in a statement Tuesday that President Thein Sein has not fulfilled his promise to release all political prisoners before the end of 2013, while his government continued to arrest new political prisoners.
The rights groups said the government’s public pledges “convinced much of the outside world that all political activists had been freed from Burma’s jails.
“These statements not only served to undermine the plight of those political activists still in jail at the beginning of 2014, but also shifted focus away from the ongoing restrictions and harassments of political activists.”
The groups added that, “The willingness of the international community to believe [government promises] is as concerning as the ongoing arrests themselves.”
“The dangers to journalists, farmers, demonstrators, and political activists are as real as ever—a fact reflected in the number of arrests made since the start of the year.”
AAPP secretary Bo Kyi said 29 political prisoners were sentenced this year, while another 30 prisoners of conscience have been held longer.
“In 2014, there have been 85 people charged under Article 18 of the Peaceful Assembly Law, Section 505 (b) of the Penal Code, Section 447, and a number of other laws,” he said.
Burmese authorities have increasingly used the Peaceful Assembly Law’s Article 18, which sets a six-month prison sentence for holding an unauthorized protest, and the Penal Code’s Article 505 (b), which sets a two-year sentence for “disturbing public order,” to suppress public dissent.
Burma has seen an increase in public protests after political reforms began in 2011 and many communities, such as farmers who suffered from land grabs, began to air their long-suppressed grievances.
Since taking office in 2011, Thein Sein’s quasi-civilian government has released thousands of political prisoners and last year about 200 prisoners were released in several rounds of presidential amnesties.
Last year, Thein Sein ordered the formation of a committee to establish the exact number of remaining political prisoners in order to arrange for their release. The committee is led by President’s Office Minister Soe Thein and comprises several human rights groups, including AAPP, and government officials of relevant ministries.
The committee has been unable to agree on the definition and release of the last remaining political prisoners, however, and Bo Kyi said the last meeting had been held on March 1, 2014. “The stakeholders have called for the further meeting to solve the matter,” Bo Kyi said.
“We urge [the government to] release all remaining political prisoners, ensure that former political prisoners are freed from current repression and that [the government] defines the meaning of the term political prisoner,” he said.
In their statement on Tuesday, AAPP and FPPS said they were also increasingly concerned over the growing number of journalists that have been detained in recent months, which included the sentencing of Democratic Voice of Burma journalist Zaw Pe to one year in prison and the arrest of five journalists of Unity Journal.
“This attitude of oppressing journalists and restricting press freedom is evidently still prevalent in Burma, with the press hamstrung in their attempts to question the actions of government and state officials,” the groups said. | <urn:uuid:a778d528-55e0-4c40-93a2-dd9e0aa1d3d3> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/59-political-prisoners-remain-behind-bars-burma-rights-group.html | 2019-08-20T20:19:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315618.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820200701-20190820222701-00058.warc.gz | en | 0.971852 | 772 |
More Smart Interior Design Ideas For Any Condo
If you live in a nice luxurious condo you still need to upkeep it with a little sprucing up every now and then when needed, and the same can be said for when renovations need to be done. Well, we have some more smart interior design Singapore ideas just for you! Here are a few ingenious interior design Singapore ideas that you can use to design your condo hassle-free:
Time is on your side
When it comes to conducting an interior design Singapore overhaul and renovation, conducting a process as strenuous and punishing can and will take up a lot of time and resources. Hence, to alleviate the strain of the situation don’t rush to get it done as the more you hasten, the more mistakes and crucial areas of your home get overlooked. Take as much time as need be and don’t rush the process! You have time on your side, so use that to your advantage.
Take note of the renovations taking place
Your condo, just like any home, is precious to you, even during renovations as walls get hacked by your interior design Singapore contractor to make more room and maximise the space. Therefore, as the homeowner, you need to keep track of the going-ons and happenings during the entire renovation from beginning to end. Also, make sure you keep track perhaps through a personal diary or even a schedule so you know what’s being done on those days and how long it might take, for example.
Keep your neighbours in the know
The last thing you want to keep in mind is to keep your neighbours in the know of what’s happening during the renovation. This is a good interior design Singapore rule of thumb to follow, as you also build a sense of rapport with them especially when you show how much you respect and trust them as a whole. If need be, send them a copy of the interior design Singapore renovation schedule personally so that they better know what to expect as your home undergoes renovation.
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Battlefield 3 (2011, DX11)
Introduced five years before either AMD’s Radeon RX 480 or Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, Battlefield 3 was an afterthought by the time we wrote our reviews of both cards in 2016. Back then, even Battlefield 4 was hardly relevant. As such, we don’t expect either AMD or Nvidia put much effort into optimizing for this game, and it’s even less likely that the company revisited it since.
AMD’s Radeon 16.6.2 driver handled Battlefield 3 well right out of the gate, serving up low frame time variance and high frame rates at 1920x1080 using the Ultra graphics preset.
Interestingly, the Crimson ReLive Edition 17.7.2 driver package, published a year later, tightened frame time variance overall, but introduced some spikes that hurt the last percentile of our measurements.
Fast-forward another year and Adrenalin Edition 18.7.1 smoothed everything back out again, nudging average performance up just a bit. That’s a 1.8% improvement over two years in a game that everyone forgot about.
Microsoft’s DirectX 11 API afforded Nvidia plenty of opportunity to optimize its drivers for better performance, and it was no surprise when GeForce cards turned in higher frame rates than comparable Radeons in DX11-based games.
In Battlefield 3, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB started faster than Radeon RX 480 and sped up an additional 2.7% over the next two years (even though we suspect Nvidia didn’t spend much time, if any, tuning for this title specifically).
Today, Nvidia’s card is about 12% faster than AMD’s in Battlefield 3 at 1920x1080 using Ultra settings. Of course, that only matters if you want to play the campaign: EA’s multiplayer servers are now offline. Still, a trip back to 2011 gives us a historical baseline to compare newer games against.
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Glenn is at a 4 today- he asked me to just leave him alone...thats how I know it's bad. Ha cannot stand the light, the sound, the smell, the movement of anything. Its awful, its hard to watch- its a nightmare actually. I think one of the hardest things I deal with is the fact there is nothing I can do to help it, I cannot fix it, I cannot comfort him. Hello...I am a fixer (my downfall) it is beyond frustrating.
On a lighter note- kids enjoyed St.Pattys day and had fun at school. I think Spencer intentionally did not wear green today in hopes of being pinched! Think I will watch some "Rescue Me" episodes in light of the Irish holiday- You know I was never really into TV to much but now that I rarely leave the house except to work my TV time is way up...pathetic!!! | <urn:uuid:adad0108-b58b-4a4d-b7a8-e920bc7b6e32> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://spsglennsstory.blogspot.com/2010/03/st-pattys-day.html | 2018-03-19T18:03:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647044.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319175337-20180319195337-00052.warc.gz | en | 0.987599 | 191 |
Presentation on theme: "Chi-Cheng Lin, Winona State University CS412 Introduction to Computer Networking & Telecommunication Theoretical Basis of Data Communication."— Presentation transcript:
Chi-Cheng Lin, Winona State University CS412 Introduction to Computer Networking & Telecommunication Theoretical Basis of Data Communication
2 Topics l Analog/Digital Signals l Time and Frequency Domains l Bandwidth and Channel Capacity l Data Communication Measurements
3 Signals l Information must be transformed into electromagnetic signals to be transmitted l Signal forms Analog or digital Periodic or aperiodic
4 Analog/Digital Signals l Analog signal Continuous waveform Can have a infinite number of values in a range l Digital signal Discrete Can have only a limited number of values E.g., 0 or 1
5 Figure 3.1 Comparison of analog and digital signals
6 Periodic/Aperiodic Signals l Periodical signal Contains continuously repeated pattern Period (T): amount of time needed for the pattern to complete l Aperiodical signal Contains no repetitive signals
7 Analog Signals l Simple analog signal Sine wave 3 characteristics 1. Peak amplitude (A) 2. Frequency (f) 3. Phase ( ) l Composite analog signal Composed of multiple sine waves
9 Figure 3.3 Amplitude t s(t): instantaneous amplitude
10 Characteristics of Analog Signal l Peak amplitude: highest intensity l Frequency (f) Number of cycles/rate of change per second Measured in Hertz (Hz), KHz, MHz, GHz, … Period (T): amount of time it takes to complete one cycle f = 1/T l Phase: position of the waveform relative to time 0
26 Example 3 If a periodic signal is decomposed into five sine waves with frequencies of 100, 300, 500, 700, and 900 Hz, what is the bandwidth? Draw the spectrum, assuming all components have a maximum amplitude of 10 V. Solution B = f h f l = 900 100 = 800 Hz The spectrum has only five spikes, at 100, 300, 500, 700, and 900 (see Figure 13.4 )
28 Example 4 A signal has a bandwidth of 20 Hz. The highest frequency is 60 Hz. What is the lowest frequency? Draw the spectrum if the signal contains all integral frequencies of the same amplitude. Solution B = f h f l 20 = 60 f l f l = 60 20 = 40 Hz
30 Example 5 A signal has a spectrum with frequencies between 1000 and 2000 Hz (bandwidth of 1000 Hz). A medium can pass frequencies from 3000 to 4000 Hz (a bandwidth of 1000 Hz). Can this signal faithfully pass through this medium? Solution The answer is definitely no. Although the signal can have the same bandwidth (1000 Hz), the range does not overlap. The medium can only pass the frequencies between 3000 and 4000 Hz; the signal is totally lost.
31 Digital Signals l 0s and 1s l Bit interval and bit rate Bit interval: time required to send 1 bit Bit rate: #bit intervals in one second
32 Example 6 A digital signal has a bit rate of 2000 bps. What is the duration of each bit (bit interval) Solution The bit interval is the inverse of the bit rate. Bit interval = 1/ 2000 s = 0.000500 s = 0.000500 x 10 6 s = 500 s
33 Digital Signal - Decomposition l A digital signal can be decomposed into an infinite number of simple sine waves (harmonics), each with a different amplitude, frequency, and phase A digital signal is a composite signal with an infinite bandwidth. A digital signal is a composite signal with an infinite bandwidth. l Significant spectrum Components required to reconstruct the digital signal
Figure 4-20 WCB/McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1998 Harmonics of a Digital Signal
35 Bandwidth-Limited Signals l (a) A binary signal and its root-mean- square Fourier amplitudes.
36 Bandwidth-Limited Signals (2) l (b) – (e) Successive approximations to the original signal.
Figure 4-21 WCB/McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1998 Exact and Significant Spectrums
38 Channel Capacity l Channel capacity Max. bit rate a transmission medium can transfer l Nyquist theorem C = 2H log 2 V where C: channel capacity (bit per second) H: bandwidth (Hz) V: signal levels (2 for binary) C is proportional to H Significant bandwidth puts a limit on channel capacity
39 Figure 3.18 Digital versus analog To transmit 6bps, we need a bandwidth = 3 - 0 = 3Hz
40 Channel Capacity l Nyquist theorem is for noiseless (error- free) channels. l Shannon Capacity C = H log 2 (1 + S/N) where C: (noisy) channel capacity (bps) H: bandwidth (Hz) S/N: signal-to-noise ratio dB = 10 log 10 S/N l In practice, we have to apply both for determining the channel capacity.
41 Example 7 Consider a noiseless channel with a bandwidth of 3000 Hz transmitting a signal with two signal levels. The maximum bit rate can be calculated as Bit Rate = 2 3000 log 2 2 = 6000 bps Example 8 Consider the same noiseless channel, transmitting a signal with four signal levels (for each level, we send two bits). The maximum bit rate can be calculated as: Bit Rate = 2 x 3000 x log 2 4 = 12,000 bps Bit Rate = 2 x 3000 x log 2 4 = 12,000 bps
42 Example 9 Consider an extremely noisy channel in which the value of the signal-to-noise ratio is almost zero. In other words, the noise is so strong that the signal is faint. For this channel the capacity is calculated as C = B log 2 (1 + S/N) = B log 2 (1 + 0) = B log 2 (1) = B 0 = 0
43 Example 10 We can calculate the theoretical highest bit rate of a regular telephone line. A telephone line normally has a bandwidth of 3000 Hz (300 Hz to 3300 Hz). The signal- to-noise ratio is usually 35dB, i.e., 3162. For this channel the capacity is calculated as C = B log 2 (1 + S/N) = 3000 log 2 (1 + 3162) = 3000 log 2 (3163) C = 3000 11.62 = 34,860 bps
44 Example 11 We have a channel with a 1 MHz bandwidth. The S/N for this channel is 63; what is the appropriate bit rate and signal level? Solution C = B log 2 (1 + S/N) = 10 6 log 2 (1 + 63) = 10 6 log 2 (64) = 6 Mbps Then we use the Nyquist formula to find the number of signal levels. 4 Mbps = 2 1 MHz log 2 L L = 4 First, we use the Shannon formula to find our upper limit.
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The purpose of this tutorial is to teach you how to rename database tables with phpMyAdmin. We will assume that you are already logged in to phpMyAdmin. For this tutorial, we will use a database with one table for an example.
Let's learn how to rename database tables. The left side of the main screen of phpMyAdmin is where you will find your database listed, with the table listed below the database name. The right side, a big white screen is where the actions take place. To start, select the database table you wish to rename in the list on the left hand side window. Select the table by clicking on it. The window on the right hand side will open up with the details about the table you have selected. Now, at the top of the right hand screen, click on the Operations button. This will open a list of actions you can perform on the table you have selected.
Scroll down to the box titled "Table Options". The first line is Rename table to with an empty box. Enter the new name for your table in this box. When you are done, click on the Go Button in the lower right corner. This will open the confirmation window, which shows that the table has been renamed. If you look in the panel on the left hand side, the table you selected is now showing the new name.
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Ipsos-Reid has a newish poll out on Ontario politics. It was taken in mid-December, but is the most current provincial poll.So, the Liberals under Dalton McGuinty hang on to a lead with 38% but, as Ipsos-Reid points out, that is seven points lower than where they were this time last year. The Progressive Conservatives are within striking distance, and the MOE, with 34%. The NDP is at 15% and the Greens are at 10%.
The Liberals lead in the GTA and in southwestern and northern Ontario. Their biggest number is in the GTA, where they lead with 45%.
The Progressive Conservatives under Tim Hudak lead in central and eastern Ontario. Their 45% in central Ontario is their best result.
The New Democrats do not lead in any part of the province, but have their best results (22%) in southwestern and northern Ontario.
The last poll that was released concerning this subject was by Angus-Reid at the end of November 2009. In that poll, the Progressive Conservatives were at 41% to the Liberals' 27%. Of course, at that time, the HST issue was tops. It could be that the results their methods provide are different, or it could be that people have lost a bit of their anger.
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As those who follow the Freshwater affair know, John Freshwater appealed his termination as an 8th grade science teacher to the Ohio Supreme Court, filing a Memorandum in Support of Jurisdiction that induced the Court to accept his appeal, then a Merit Brief which laid out his argument for overturning the termination decision and which, not incidentally, made a different argument than that made in the Memorandum in Support; in effect, Freshwater pulled a bait and switch on the Court. The Board of Education filed a Memorandum in Response to Freshwater’s Merit Brief, and Freshwater has now filed a reply. I’ll describe some salient features of his reply below the fold.
One preliminary remark: Freshwater’s reply brief nowhere mentions his bait and switch–the change in Propositions of Law between his Memorandum in Support of Jurisdiction and his Merit Brief. The Board’s Merit Brief called attention to that shift, but Freshwater’s reply ignores it. The Board also moved to strike the Propositions of Law of Freshwater’s Merit Brief that were not previously contained in the Memorandum in Support of Jurisdiction. No action has yet been taken by the Court on that motion.
In his reply Freshwater makes several arguments. I’ll summarize those that are most interest to me, and refer you to the document itself for more. The core claims of Freshwater’s argument are encapsulated here:
The Board has gone beyond its legitimate curriculum choices and enforcement of duly-enacted policies to systematically eliminate a single line of inquiry-that which challenges evolution theory. Along the way it has also undertaken an unlawful effort to sterilize the classroom of any acknowledgement of religion, having identified religion as the putative basis for the academic theories that challenge its orthodoxy. Under these circumstances at least, the Court should apply the First Amendment as a shield to protect Freshwater from the Board’s fervor to indoctrinate students in evolution and to banish competing ideas from the classroom. (p. 8-9)
Ugh. So much trash in so few words.
Freshwater’s first specific claim is that his case is unique, that prior jurisprudence associated with the creationism/evolution issue (e.g., McLean, Edwards v. Aguillard , and so on) and prior jurisprudence regarding the free speech rights (or lack thereof) of public school teachers is irrelevant.
Freshwater does not claim a generalized First Amendment right to free speech in the classroom or to determine classroom curriculum. Rather, he seeks a modicum of protection pursuant to academic freedom and free speech principles under the First Amendment where his teaching methods and speech were consistent with Board policy but singled out for viewpoint based censorship. This is a case of first impression, and no known precedent provides a useful framework for its analysis. (p. 1)
And a bit later:
Freshwater claims only that First Amendment free speech and academic freedom principles protect him from termination flowing from viewpoint-based censorship where he has complied with all Board policies and all clear directives from his superiors. The analysis applied in Evans-Marshall and other “teacher speech” cases do not, therefore, provide a useful framework for this case. (p. 3)
In a John Scalzi novel, The Android’s Dream, a case is won by appealing to the judge’s vanity by claiming that the case enables the judge to make new law. I see hints of that tactic here.
Freshwater’s argument revolves around the notion of “viewpoint discrimination,” and depends on the premise, unstated until later in the brief, that what Freshwater was teaching by way of intelligent design and creation science was purely secular and is only coincidentally consistent with three world religions:
On this record, where Freshwater did nothing more than facilitate discussion and consideration of elements of the alternative theories to evolution (which happen to be consistent with several major world religions) as part of a secular examination of the weaknesses of evolution theory, it defies logic to argue that he violated Policy 2270. (p. 10-11; italics original)
The Board’s action, on this argument, discriminates against what the brief holds to be nothing more than alternative secular scientific views–intelligent design and creation science–which are only tangentially related to religion:
In this application, however, the Board itself violated the Policy by expressing intolerance for any idea that is tangentially related to religion and disposing of the idea and the one who expresses it as inherently inappropriate for the classroom.
In other words, the Board illegitimately fired Freshwater just because he taught legitimate secular scientific alternatives to evolution that happen to be distantly related to (some sects of) Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and that’s impermissible viewpoint discrimination. The First Amendment’s Free Speech clause, or a subset thereof, ‘academic freedom,’ should be construed to protect Freshwater’s (science classroom) speech in this respect.
This argument ignores both the judicial record concerning creationism and intelligent design, and expert testimony given during the administrative hearing on Freshwater’s termination, where Patricia Princehouse analyzed handouts and a video used by Freshwater, and traced the history of creationism up through intelligent design. Freshwater’s argument requires accepting the false proposition that creation science and/or intelligent design are secular scientific alternatives to evolutionary theory.
I am reminded of plaintiff Fred Callahan’s testimony in Kitzmiller:
We’re said to be intolerant of other views. Well, what am I supposed to tolerate? A small encroachment on my First Amendment rights? Well, I’m not going to. I think this is clear what these people have done. And it outrages me.
Me, too. Though I have to confess: I practice viewpoint discrimination. I discriminate against the views that the earth is flat, that the sun goes ‘round the earth, and that Celine Dion is a good singer. :)
There’s a fair amount of text that argues that the narrow protection Freshwater claims to seek is not covered in preceding cases. I’m not qualified to evaluate that argument, but it seems to be fishy on the face of it. The brief argues that Kitzmiller is not applicable here because it addressed a curricular requirement of a Board of Education, while Freshwater’s case involves a teacher:
The U.S. Supreme Court’s precedents addressing laws mandating certain treatments of origins of life theories are useful in understanding its perspective on academic freedom, but do not provide a useful framework for analyzing this case, where no general Board mandate is at issue. Kitzmiller v. Dover, a federal district court opinion relied upon heavily by the Board, is inapposite for both factual and analytical reasons; it involved a challenge to a school district policy that compelled teachers to make statements about intelligent design. 400 F.Supp.2d 707 (M.D. Pa. 2005). McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education is likewise unhelpful for the same reason. 529 F. Supp. 1255 (E.D. Ark. 1982). The Board has never officially prohibited classroom discussion of intelligent design, and Freshwater has not challenged its mandate of evolution curriculum. (p. 5-6)
In fact, of course, the District Science Curriculum Committee and the Board of Education both rejected Freshwater’s proposal to teach intelligent design in 2003. (I should also note that the Board has never officially prohibited classroom discussion–as legitimate competing academic theories–of phlogiston theory, N-Rays, astrology, alchemy, homeopathy, and the bad air theory of disease causation.
Freshwater’s reply ignores the salient findings of McLean, Edwards v. Aguillard, and Kitzmiller that are in fact directly relevant to Freshwater’s behavior. Those findings are that creation science and its lineal descendant intelligent design are inherently religious notions; they are not secular scientific alternatives, as Freshwater’s argument would have us believe. In all three cases, expert testimony, including that of Barbara Forrest in Kitzmiller, established that the teaching of both creation science and its intellectual offspring intelligent design (here in its Discovery Institute guise of “helping students to understand the strengths and weaknesses of aspects of evolution theory” (p. 10)) is in itself unconstitutional. The issue is not whether the Board did or did not require it, it is that Freshwater himself chose to introduce constitutionally impermissible material in his 8th grade science classes. As the Board argued in its merit brief, Freshwater’s behavior, acting in his role as an agent of the Board, put the Board itself in legal jeopardy, and the Board has the right and obligation to ensure that it is protected from that jeopardy. Since Freshwater’s behavior was persistent over the years, and since the Board, both itself in 2003 and via administrators subsequently, had given Freshwater clear indications of his problematic behavior, termination was the final step in the Board’s effort to stop the unconstitutional behavior.
There’s more in the document. The last part of it is devoted to arguing that the Board’s action in terminating Freshwater fails all three of the prongs of the Lemon test. Again, I’m not competent to evaluate that, though some of the claims of fact in the section are dubious. For example, the document says
Recall that Freshwater was not terminated for having a classroom “full of religious items” but rather for failing to understand the administration’s alleged desire for him to remove a few items from his room that were permitted elsewhere in the school.
That ignores the fact, established in testimony in the administrative hearing, that subsequent to the instruction to remove the religious display from his room he added two religious books, “Jesus of Nazareth” and a Bible, to his lab table in the front of the room.
I still see Freshwater’s argument to the Ohio Supreme Court as being mainly an attempt to induce the Court to accept the premise that creation science and intelligent design are legitimate secular scientific theories, and that their congruence with sectarian religious views is purely incidental. If the Court accepts that premise the public schools are in (more) trouble, kids.
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Township designations in the Federal Township-Range Survey System are the numbers along the bottom and right side in red. The boundaries of these townships are in gray, dashed lines when they don't match the townships designated by names.
The eastern border of Logan County is formed by the Third Principal Meridian, a survey line from which the townships are measured.
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The weather here has been unseasonably warm and that has made for much outdoor activity as well as not much else getting accomplished. On Sunday, we visited a friend’s house that has 9 Rottweiler puppies that are entirely too cute for words. Hubby is not exactly a dog person but I don’t want the kids to be afraid of dogs so whenever they have the opportunity to encounter animals I try to encourage it. Of course, I love puppy smell so not only did I visit on Sunday but again on Tuesday. 🙂
While returning home from their house on Sunday, hubby saw a home for sale and I looked up more info and that led us to go see the house on Monday and he (read we) are seriously considering putting an offer on it and that would involve putting our home on the market. The house is a tad smaller than ours but it has more land which has been a desire of ours plus the huge detached garage is more like a carriage house and would provide more space for our home church. Of course it is all in God’s hand but we do solicit your prayers for wisdom. We have thought of renting our home, but that can be more than we want being that we already rent our townhome and of course the home would be much more $$$$.
Putting our house on the market would be the handful reference above being that with little people, trying to keep a house in “show” condition is definitely not something that I feel ready for….we had our house on the market almost 2 years ago and I tell ya, it was an experience. People make appointments and do not show up, keeping toys/laundry all up and taken care of daily, the quick run through cleaning for that impromptu walkthru and now factor in keeping my craft area clean….Lord, give me strength. 😀
The weather is suppossed to start to change a bit and head more towards normal for January so I will be forced to stay in and start the process of simplifying. The last time we had our home on the market, it was a major catalyst for us to get rid of things that really did not serve a purpose so maybe that will be the case this time around as well, at least one can dream. 🙂 | <urn:uuid:ca077271-aac8-49d8-acea-4a7e582650f1> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://farmsteadlady.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/a-pinch-dash-and-handful/ | 2017-10-19T23:51:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823482.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019231858-20171020011858-00384.warc.gz | en | 0.986175 | 468 |
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A Guide to the Haden Edwards Papers, 1836-1838
Born to U. S. Senator John Edwards in Virginia, Haden (or Hayden) Edwards (1771-1849) studied law before marrying Susanna Beall, with whom he had thirteen children, in 1820. Three years later, Edwards joined Stephen F. Austin in convincing the Mexican government to allow American colonization in Texas. As empressario in the Nacogdoches area in 1825, he angered original settlers by making them prove their claims before he sold the lands to new inhabitants. After he certified the election of his son-in-law, the older settlers received aid from the militia to instate the opponent. Following these and additional issues, the Mexican government revoked Edwards’ grant in October 1826. He then established the Fredonia Republic with his brother and others, but they fled before Mexican forces arrived in early 1827. Edwards later returned to Nacogdoches to fight in the Texas Revolution, remaining there until his death in 1849.
McDonald, Archie P. "Edwards, Haden."Handbook of Texas Online. Accessed May 25, 2011. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fed04.
Comprising photocopies of legal documents, the Haden Edwards Papers, 1836-1838, document the career of Edwards in Nacogdoches, Texas. A 1836 letter of authorization from the Nacogdoches Committee of Vigilance and Safety sanctions Edwards to raise troops in the United States to aid the Texas Revolution, while an 1838 article of agreement between Edwards and the firm of Kaufman & Gould concern a land lawsuit.
This collection is open for research use.
Haden Edwards Papers, 1836-1838, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s “History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project,” 2009-2011.
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The Tradition of the Three Kings
by Patricia Purvis with recipes edited by Gael Stirler
Bearing gifts we traverse a-far
Field and fountain
Moor and mountain
Following yonder star!
Twelfth Night or Twelve Nights, as it is called in some places, celebrates the arrival of the Three Kings to the birthplace of Christ. It is observed on January 5th, the night before Epihany, and marks the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas, although Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the arrival of the Three Kings on a different day.
The Three Kings, also known as the Wise Men or the Magi, were traditionally called Caspar, King of Tarsus, the land of myrrh; Melchior, King of Arabia, the land of gold; and Balthasar, King of Saba, where frankincense was said to flow from the trees.
The Kings presented gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the Christ Child. Gold symbolized kingship, frankincense depicted godliness, and myrrh represented a painful death. In return, charity and spiritual riches would be offered for the gold, faith for incense, and truth and meekness for the present of myrrh. The Wise Men returned home and, in 7 A.D., it is said, Saint Thomas the Apostle discovered the Kings in India and baptized them. They are said to have become martyrs and their bodies buried within the walls of Jerusalem. It is believed the remains were later moved to Turkey by the Emperor Constaine's mother and, later still, to Milan, Italy until they were finally laid to rest in Cologne (Köln) on the Rhine River in Germany.
Twelfth Night was a part of the year-end festivities in the British Isles and France. These celebrations originated in the 5th century when French and English churches created the "Feast of Fools." "Temporary Bishops" and "Archbishops of Fools" play-acted, reveled and generally caused mischief. By the fifteenth century, such ceremonies were banned from church by the French government due to lewd behavior. A new street festival was created and a temporary "king" for the season known as the Prince des Sots was elected. In England, this king was called the "Lord of Misrule" and, in Scotland, the "Abbot of Unreason." The king's reign began on Halloween and lasted for three months.
The "state duties" of both the French and English kings ended on Twelfth Night. A cake called Galette du Roi or "King's Cake" was consumed and marked the end of the celebrations. In addition, a large cake with a hole in the center was placed on the horns of bulls for the Twelfth Night Games and wine and ale was imbibed by all. Originally, cake was a symbol of the pre-Christian Goddess. Bulls' horns represented the consort of this Goddess and her spirit was the ale and wine. This custom is the origin of communion.
Celebration of such Twelve Nights festivities was no longer a tradition by the mid-19th century, but were replaced with "Mummer Plays," which are still performed today throughout the British Isles. The troupes of performers are known as Morris Dancers and consist of six men who dance complex steps to the accompaniment of an accordion or fiddle. One of the men is dressed as a woman and is called Maid Marian. Other characters include Robin Hood and Friar Tuck. Another man, dressed in a horse-skull mask and a wide-hooped petticoat, chases young women and covers them with his skirt. He is known as the "Hobby Horse."
Supernatural events are thought to occur during the Twelve Days of Christmas. The "Wild Hunt" and "Faery Host" are thought to ride through the countryside collecting souls. In Ireland, these beings are referred to as the "Yule Host."
In Whittlesey, the Sunday before the first Monday after Twelfth Night is the "Procession of the Straw Bear." A man wrapped in straw from head to toe dances through the streets while other Mummer Plays feature such characters as the "She-Males." These are men who dress up as old hags for the celebrations and represent the Goddess of Winter.
During early times in rural Austria, the Twelve Nights between December 25th and Epiphany (January 6th) used to be referred to as "Smoke Nights," due to the fact that incense was burned. Today, this is done on January 6th. The head of the household moves through the farm with incense in order to "smoke out" any evil spirits. Holy water is sprinkled on the house, the grounds and the barns. The head of the family then uses chalk to mark the door with the initials of the Three Wise Men—K(aspar), M(elichor) and B(althasar)—along with the number of the year. This lettering replaced the original pentagram chalkmark of ancient times which prevented evil spirits from entering the home.
Austrian Twelve Nights celebrations also feature parades of costumed characters who blow horns and crack whips intended to drive away spirits. In Styria, a parade of bellringers known as Glocklerlauf takes place on January 5th. Elaborate headdresses are made for this occasion. On December 6th, children dress up as the Three Kings and the Star of Bethlehem in order to go caroling. They are rewarded with hot chocolate and gingerbread. In certain areas of the Alps, the traditional Twelve Nights custom is to light bonfires.
In the Netherlands, midwinter horn blowing known as midwinterhoornblazen is an ancient Yuletide tradition that dates from 2500 B.C. The sound is designed to drive away evil spirits and sometimes the horns can be heard up to three miles away. The instruments are specially carved from birch and elder trees, with a competition held on January 6th to decide the most proficient musician. "Saint Thomas Ringing", called St. Thomasluiden by the Dutch, is continuous bell-ringing in the bellhouses of Friesland cemeteries. The bells toll for the death of Saint Thomas a Becket, the English Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered in his Cathedral on December 29, 1170. January 6th is known as"Three Kings' Day" or Driekoningendag. An Epiphany cake is baked and whoever finds the bean inside is king for the day, complete with gold paper crown. After this ceremony, the holiday season comes to an end and families remove their decorations. Many Dutch towns have organized burning of Christmas trees.
In France, the Twelve Nights feature the displaying of a creche or crib. This was invented by Saint Francis of Assisi in Italy on Christmas Eve, 1223 A.D. He turned a nearby cave into a stable, erected a manger and held a service. The French creche or manger scene is put up in the home and gifts are exchanged on January 6th. Young people dressed as shepherds and shepherdesses go to midnight mass at church carrying drums and pipes and torches to find their way. The French carol, "Bring a Torch Jeanette-Isabella" is a lyrical illustration of this custom.
Galette des Rois
This marzipan-filled puff pastry is a favorite Twelve Nights treat in Paris, northern France and Belgium. It is usually decorated with a golden paper crown like this. You can prepare this cake ahead of time, refrigerate, then bake it just before serving.
Thaw puff pastry in the refrigerator overnight. Take the puff pastry out of the fridge and let it warm up to room temperature before using it. Pre-heat the oven to 450° F. Roll each sheet of the pastry to 10" (if necessary) and cut off the corners to form a 10" circle. Butter a medium size pizza pan or a cookie sheet and lay one circle of puff pastry on it. Cream the butter and one egg in a bowl. Add the marzipan and mix them thoroughly. Roll or pat marzipan paste into a circle. Lay the paste on the pastry base, leaving two finger widths all round. Bury one or more beans or charms in the paste.
Lay the second circle of puff pastry on a work surface and decorate by slitting the top layers with the point of a sharp knife. Beat the other egg in a small bowl. Brush the beaten egg on the edge of the pastry around the marzipan. Place the other decorated puff pastry circle on top, gently pressing down the edges to seal them. Brush egg over the top layer. Place the cake in the pre-heated oven and bake for 25 to 30 minutes. When the pastry is all puffed up and the glaze is golden brown, remove from the oven and allow to cool 10 minutes. Best if served warm, but it can also be eaten cold. Place a gold paper crown on top before serving and crown the "King of Festivities" when the bean is found. (Serves 6-8)
Orange Epiphany Cake (or Goddess Cake)
This cake comes from the British Isles and uses fresh oranges, imported from the Mediterranean this time of year. Decorate the cake with candy to make it look like a jeweled crown for the Three Kings or, in homage to goddess traditions, bake the cake with a hole in the middle and decorate with fruit slices. Either way, you can hide a bean and a dried pea in the cake batter before baking. When it is eaten, the person who finds the bean is the King of Fools and the one who finds the pea is the Queen, regardless of the gender of the finder!
Powdered Sugar Glaze
Cream the butter and sugar and add the eggs one at a time until well mixed. Mix in grated orange peel and orange juice. Fold self-rising flour into the batter. Pour into a 9" buttered round springform, angle food cake, or in a bundt cake pan. Bake at 350° F for 55 minutes or until it is browned and pulling away from the edges. Turn out of the pan and poke holes in the top with a fork. Drizzle the Triple Sec liqueur over the top (optional). When completely cool, decorate with sugar glaze, gum drops, candied fruit or orange slices. (Serves 8-12)
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WASHINGTON – The US Treasury has said that it would exhaust its ability to borrow funds to pay all its bills by late February if Congress does not increase the country's borrowing limit.
"I respectfully urge Congress to provide certainty and stability to the economy and financial markets by acting to raise the debt limit before February 7, 2014, and certainly before late February," Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said on Wednesday in a letter to Congress.
Lew said the agency can take "extraordinary measures" in managing its finances to keep funding the government after the debt cap is reached on February 7. But such measures would only give it flexibility to meet all of the country's obligations through late February.
Lew noted that in the previous political showdowns over raising the borrowing cap over the past three years, the Treasury had more flexibility in its accounts to manage longer after the ceiling was hit.
But the February 7 deadline – when the cap will be locked at the total amount borrowed at that date – comes at a time when the government experiences larger-than-usual outflows for things like tax refunds, Lew said.
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There is a new age of electric cars hitting the market. The era of Tesla having the only high-performance electric vehicles is becoming a thing of the past. While Tesla is by far still the frontrunner in electric cars, drivers now have many more options. High-powered electric cars are becoming available all over the world, from Ford’s new electric Mustang to the Jaguar I-PACE and Audi e-tron Sportback. And with it, travelers can now feel free to roam with a fully electric vehicle.
And forget the stereotypes you may have heard that electric cars are bare-bones. Many electric vehicles (EVs) now come equipped with lots of horsepower, regenerative breaking, touchscreen displays, and luxury features like deluxe surround sound, park assist, and power sunroofs. Whatever assumptions you’ve had about electric cars in the past, forget them! This is a new generation of electric vehicles.
Why electric vehicles are so important
For decades, the complaint about electric cars was the range. For example, GM’s original electric car, the EV1, which was released briefly in the 90s, only had a range of about 78 miles per charge. But now, drivers can not only feel comfortable taking their electric vehicles to work, but with all modern EVs having ranges of over 200 miles, they’ve become perfect for day trips and weekend getaways as well.
And making EVs with better range is critically important for our planet. The better range the car has, the more people will want to buy it. And the more EVs we have on the road, the less pollution we have in our air…just imagine a day when Los Angeles isn’t covered with smog. Also, EVs are way more efficient than gas-powered cars. EVs have about 77% efficiency, whereas conventional gas engines only have an efficiency of around 12%-30%. That is a huge difference!
There’s also one component to EVs that make them more convenient than gas vehicles…they can be charged from anywhere – from your garage to the parking lot and even dedicated charging stations. In a world of EVs, the landscape of how we “refuel” can change. Just imagine if your car was always charging whenever you weren’t in it. When you’re at home, at the grocery store, at work… You’d never have to worry about when and where to recharge your car, because, with electricity rather than gasoline, it would be easy to install a national network of charging ports everywhere.
Going electric is also critical politically and for national security. America’s dependence on fossil fuel is what keeps our country tied to the Middle East, and it’s one of the main reasons why oppressive governments, like that of Saudi Arabia, are so wealthy and wield so much power.
And beyond the points of politics, fossil fuels are dirty. Drilling for, refining, and burning them is really messy stuff. Habitat is destroyed, runoff makes its way into our lakes and rivers, toxic emissions burn into the air, our oceans become more acidic, and the greenhouse cycle continues to worsen. The sooner we can drop our dependence on fossil fuels, the better and healthier our planet will be. Electric cars have so much potential because there’s a multitude of ways we can produce the electricity, including things like wind, solar, hydroelectric, and more.
Traveling with electric cars
Switching to an electric vehicle doesn’t mean giving up the fun of a luxury car. With many models having ranges of over 200 miles (and some even have ranges of over 300), they’re now perfect for everyday city driving, as well as tons of day trips and weekend getaways. For example, a day trip from downtown Chicago to Starved Rock State Park is only 94 miles, meaning a roundtrip drive is well within the range of almost every modern electric vehicle.
For longer trips, you’ll just need to stop for a charge the same way you’d stop for gas in a traditional car. Some cars even help you find charging stations. The Audi e-tron, for example, offers the e-tron route planner. This app works both on the car’s touchscreen display and can also be downloaded onto your phone, and provides you with the quickest route to your destination along with showing where every charging point is along the way (the US Department of Energy says there are now over 22,000 EV charging stations around the country, providing more than 55,000 individual charge ports).
Hyundai also offers some great road trip features. Their EV, the Hyundai Kona, comes equipped with features like Driver Attention Warning, Rear Cross-Traffic Collision Warning, a Blind Spot Warning, and more. It’s the perfect car for any family looking to stay safe during long trips on the road.
And all EVs come loaded with the great features that make for an epic road trip experience. From Serius XM capability to high-def sound, Bluetooth, and more, you’ll have all the luxuries of a traditional car, plus, the added benefit of a much quieter and smoother ride since there’s no combustion engine.
A new era of electric vehicles
These days, electric vehicles are popping up everywhere. Everyone from Porsche to KIA has at least one EV on their roster, and as the years go by, you’ll continue to see more and more on the road. If you’re an avid traveler, things to keep in mind when choosing your electric car are range, how long it takes to charge, and of course, how comfortable the car is to drive.
And as more and more charging stations pop up around the country (Tesla has even started installing them in my hometown of Toledo, which is not wealthy or forward-thinking, so they truly are popping up everywhere) and as EVs get better range, we’ll begin to see more and more on the market. And it’s absolutely critical that we as an entire population switch over to cleaner automobiles. Fossil fuels are unrenewable resources and they’re extremely toxic. There’s never been a better time to go electric, not to mention there are some pretty awesome subsidies out there for people who buy electric cars (almost all EVs make you eligible for a $7,500 tax credit).
So, what are you waiting for? It’s time to hit the road in a new EV. This country is a beautiful place and nothing rejuvenates the soul quite like travel. If you’re looking for some day trips ideas, check out our articles on the best day trips from cities like New York, Seattle, Honolulu, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, more!
Looking for your first electric car? Here are 10 EVs with the best ranges (how many miles you get per charge):
Audi e-tron Sportback – 218 miles
Nissan Leaf – 226 miles
Jaguar I-PACE – 234 miles
Hyundai Kona EV – 258 miles
Chevy Bolt – 259 miles
Mustang Mach-E – 300 miles
Tesla Model Y – 326 miles
Tesla Model 3 – 353 miles
Tesla Model X – 371 miles
Tesla Model S – 402 miles
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Using the management interface for ASDM, how should I setup the AIP? Currently my M0/0 is 192.168.100.1, the AIP is 192.168.20.2, the inside G0/2 is 192.168.20.1.
The interfaces are all connected to a switch, with my management PC on Vlan 10, the M0/0 on Vlan 10, the switch has interface Vlan 10 192.168.100.3, and int vlan 4 192.168.1.254, the AIP and G0/2 are on Vlan 4. IP Routing is enabled on the switch. I cannot access the IPS management through ASDM this way. I Have tried it without IP Routing as well. What do I need to do in order to have full access to the IPS and ASA through the ASDM?
What is the preferred method to set this and the Trend Micro SSM-10? I have one of those also on the same setup, but with different addressing, the ASA for internet is 192.168.1.1, and the TM is 192.168.1.80, the M0/0 on that device is 192.168.100.2. I would prefer to access both devices off the management Vlan using ASDM or the web interface for the modules as needed. | <urn:uuid:432a1348-c2b1-4e38-ba08-46b20767abc7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/10127621/aip-ssm-5520-routing-question | 2016-10-22T12:28:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00286-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940712 | 284 |
The International Liver CongressTM 2018
11-15 April 2018
The International Liver CongressTM is the annual EASL meeting, and the flagship event in EASL’s educational calendar. Every year in April, scientific and medical experts from a broad range of fields including hepatology, gastroenterology, internal medicine, cell biology, transplant surgery, infectious diseases, microbiology and virology, pharmacology, pathology and radiology and imaging come together from around the world to learn about the latest in liver research. Specialists share recent data, present studies and findings, and discuss the hottest topics on liver disease. The annual Congress attracts around 10,000 delegates and 250 media representatives from all over the world making this a truly international networking opportunity!
Venue: PARIS CONVENTION CENTRE
Paris expo Porte de Versailles – Pavillon 7
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Gifts Baskets: Create one-of-a-kind gift baskets filled with locally sourced items
The view from my windows reflect a white winter world. The air is crisp and refreshing to all winter lovers. Although I’m a warm-weather type of girl I do enjoy the holiday season. I love creating special things for my friends and loved ones, as I’m sure many of you do as well.
With the holiday season around the corner many of us are trying to figure out what to give to all those special people. The options are endless if you prefer to purchase your gifts. But many people enjoy making home-made gifts for friends and loved ones. But what do you make? How about Gift Baskets? I suggest you create one-of-a-kind gift baskets filled with locally sourced items.
We are in the heart of the gift giving season and us crafty people are always looking for that extra unique gift that we can hand make for those special people in our lives. Gift Baskets are a fun and super easy way to create a one of a kind gift. Although we need to look out of the box, or should I say ‘basket’ and look around for unique and original ‘containers’ to hold the gifts! Here a few ideas that you can expand on… just remember, be creative and have fun, that special person will know that you spent extra time in this gift of love!
Gift for the Localvore~
Container: Go to the local Farmers Market that you know the recipient attends and purchase a shopper bag from the market if they have one or purchase a large shopping type basket from the Basket Vendor there. If the market has neither of these, then purchase one from Bolga Baskets– a wonderful basket that is hand made in countries by the poor- http://www.bolgabaskets.com
Contents: Again, patronize the local farmers market and purchase items from the vendors there to fill the container. You can often get gift certificates from vendors and this will allow them to purchase what they like- especially from meat, egg, dairy and produce vendors- things that won’t keep in a ‘basket’but need to be included! You can also include a gift certificate from a local restaurant that purchases and uses locally sourced items. Get a copy of your area’s Edible Communities publication. Go to www.ediblecommunities.com to find an Edible Publication near you!
Gift for the gardener~
Container: large Terra Cotta or Clay pot, Garden Caddy Bag, Old Wooden tool box from Antique or thrift shop, Wicker basket.
Contents: Hand tools- trowel, shovel, scratcher, weed digger; gardening gloves, pad for kneeling, few cute garden name tags, garden step stone, several seed packs- include veggies, flower and herbs, gift certificate for a seed catalog with the catalog- my choice would be Baker Creek Seed http://www.rareseed.com, gardening book- my personal choice would be “Tomatoes Love Carrots” by, Louise Riott, gardening magazine- my first choice would be Organic Gardening published by Rodale, http://www.organicgardening.com
Gift for the baker~
Container: big ceramic or stoneware bowl, large cookie sheet, 9×13 baking dish, large enamel ware bowl.
Contents: Bag of flour, chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, other flavored chips, sprinkles, sugar, vanilla, almond and maple extracts, salt, baking powder and soda, walnuts, pecans, rolling-pin, hot pads, glove and towel set, cookie cutters, cookbook, gift certificate for a class at a local shop.
Gift for the cook~
Container: Enamelware Roaster, Stainless Steel Stock Pot, Cast Iron Skillet.
Contents: Several types of salt and pepper- Pink Himalayan, White pepper corns and grinder, several rubs, spices, cooking utensils, hot pads and glove, cookbook for using LOCAL ingredients, gift certificate for a local cooking class- check out http://www.ediblewow.com for local classes.
Gift for the griller~
Contents: Grilling tools, rubs, several Bar-b-que sauces- pick up some at your local Farmers Market, hot pads and gloves, salts & peppers and grinder, cookbook for grilling and a gift certificate to a local grocery store.
Gift for the sewer~
Container: sewing basket, wicker basket.
Contents: Scissors, sewing needles, variety of thread, pins, measuring tape, seam ripper, buttons, couple spools of decorative ribbon, rotary cutter and mat, thread organizer, sewing machine needles, gift certificate to a local store for a class. If you want to go all out, get them a sewing machine too!
Gift for the Scrapbooker/ Stamper~
Container: Any type of Scrapbook Tote, Large wicker basket.
Contents: oh my where do I begin- this is one of my personal fave’s!!! Paper Card Stock Stack pads- 12×12, stickers, ribbons, stamps & pads, paper-cutter, adhesives, markers, chalks, pencils, any other accessories you can find. Scrapbook magazine and even better a subscription, gift certificate to a local scrapbook/stamping store for a class! I think it would be easiest to stick with a theme for the contents. If you really want to go all out for a gift, pick up a die cut machine and a cartridge.
Gift for the shopper~
Container: Large pretty shopper bag, large Wicker basket meant for shopping. Contents: Gift certificates to a few local shops in town taking into consideration what the ‘shopper’ enjoys shopping for! Nice pair of walking shoes, directory of shops, thrift stores or whatever else she likes, GPS.
Gift for the reader~
Container: Wicker Basket, cloth bag.
Contents: several books by favorite author, Readers journal, gift certificate to local bookstore, a few handmade book marks, magazines that would interest the person, mug with coffee, tea and cocoa packs, lap blanket to cozy up with while reading. If the recipient is a techie, get them an e-reader.
Gift for a pet~
Container: Dog or Cat bed.
Contents: new dishes for food & water, home-made treats- go to your local farmers market and find a treat maker and support local, toys, sweater, new leash & collar, gift certificate for a grooming at a local pet salon.
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By: Dr. Jamie Gavin
Blessed are those that make Dad mad
“Blessed are those who make Dad Mad!” Isn't that like what Jesus alluded to when He said, "blessed are you when people persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely"?
“Madness” is another term for insanity, while the term “mad” also is commonly refering to the emotion of anger. Angry well-intentioned and upright people, like my father, often have displayed erratic and untoward behavior. It is often considered that “If they weren't angered, they would not have behaved that way.” We are thus taught to look at emotions as the cause of behavior, and to consider that changing emotions will change behavior. So we try to avoid or change “unwanted emotions that make bad behavior.”
Since I was 7, I have focused my abilities to be able to behave in a certain way so I can cause others to behave in the way I want. I consistently endeavored to keep Dad from getting mad. This is Carnal Parenting 101. The first tenet of Carnal Parenting is that I am responsible for the emotions that lead to the behavior of others. A parallel tenet of behaviorism is that the environment causes behavior.
Born and raised for scholarship in Carnal Parenting, I continued to work on it when I joined church (age 20). No longer chronologically a child, I have had to become a child to learn from Christ to allow others their emotional responses. I have had to learn that circumstances and emotions shouldn't dictate my response.
In an awesome display, while requiring strict reverence, the preincarnate Christ thundered the 10 Commandments. This done in the presence of the Hebrews (just emancipated from slavery) and the former Egyptians who joined them. Like children who have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar, everyone responded to the Commandments with the strong behavioral affirmation, “All these things we will do!” It was freedom from slavery resolution time, and their resolutions were as firm as most new year resolutions today.
It was an opposite response Jesus received from the 12 disciples when, at the last supper, he noted that one of them would betray him. The disciples echoed, “Is it I?” How had the disciples learned that of which the newly forming Jewish nation was ignorant?
Have you heard the saying, 'train children properly, and after many days they won't depart from it.' Spiritual Parenting is completely at odds with Carnal Parenting. Yet, there is similarity. Carnal Parenting looks to do all the right things and get the right response. Spiritual Parenting looks to just be in the right, acknowledging we are all emotionally messed up. Carnal parenting is by hypocrisy ('do as I say and not as I do'). Spiritual parenting is by example, by love (something I cannot control, no matter how hard I try).
Jesus walked on water in the midst of a storm. Peter asked to walk with Him. Jesus bid him. Peter walked with Jesus. Peter thought, “Now I am special!” Arrogantly, he looked toward his companions and began to sink. Dismayed and terrified, he called Jesus for help. Taken by Jesus' hand, he entered the boat. Peter didn't get it. I didn't get it. God help me! I take credit for the miracles of Christ that surround me, and sink into despondency and despair just as quickly. Until Jesus was crucified, the disciples continually argued as to who had the best parenting skills. Behaviorism and carnal parenting are only shaken at the cross.
I want to patent or copyright 'walking on water,' get credit for it, and then distribute it to others, so I can be the best. I want to learn a spiritual technique that will put me ahead of the game in teaching others. Intending to follow Jesus, I am often carnal-minded.
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The Chargers are hard at work preparing for the 2019 NFL draft next month. As we are heading towards the tail end of March, the team is meeting with various prospects that have caught their attention throughout the process to get more familiar with them and gather final thoughts.
Among the first ones that we’ve been able to confirm is with former South Carolina wide receiver Deebo Samuel, according to NFL Media’s Jeremy Bergman.
South Carolina is set to have their Pro Day on Thursday, and it’s undisclosed whether or not the meeting will be around the event itself, or if Los Angeles is flying him in for a private meeting.
Samuel is one of the nation’s top wide receivers in this draft class as he shredded competition from the SEC and tore up the pre-draft process.
In 30 games for the Gamecocks, Samuel posted 148 receptions for 2,076 yards and 16 touchdowns. He also had 25 carries for 154 yards and seven touchdowns. He was a threat as a specialist, returning 42 kickoffs for 1,219 yards and four touchdowns.
Samuel is currently projected as a second rounder in April’s draft.
While the team is just doing their due diligence, it’s interesting that they’re meeting with a highly touted player like Samuel when they don’t even have a pressing need at wide receiver. L.A. may have moved on from Tyrell Williams, but there are plenty of other areas needed to be addressed first.
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Okay, well, lately I've been down. I have to get my enbrel shot, and my joints are hurting me like crazy. I've been staring at the ceiling for an hour because I wish I was someone else. I mean, I have diabetes, JRA, low thyroid,low vitamin D, and i have skin issues. I don't know what I did to deserve anything… I just want to be happy, not depressed 24/7.
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Raisins offer health benefits that can help boost health and contribute to adequate nutrition. In a new study, researchers discovered that the dried fruits do not only aid physical health, it can also predict how well toddlers will do in school by age 8.
Preterm birth has been associated with a multitude of effects. Researchers from the University of Warwick wanted to find out if the adverse effects of prematurity on academic performance and attention span at eight years of age are influenced by children's suppressive control characteristics.
The study used data from a German longitudinal study, which comprised of 558 children born between the 25th to the 41st week of gestation. The results of the investigations for preterm babies or those born at 25-38 weeks were compared with that of full term newborns, who were delivered between 39-41 weeks.
At 20 months, the toddlers were given a raisin placed in a reachable opaque container. Training sessions were run first, after which the participants were instructed to wait until they are allowed to grab and consume the raisin. The total waiting time allotted was 60 seconds.
During the course of the experiment, the authors discovered that preterm children had a greater tendency of getting the raisin before they were instructed to do so.
Follow up studies were performed when the study subjects turned eight. Experts employed three varied behavioral ratings of attention from mothers, psychologists and the entire research group.
Academic performance in the subjects of reading, mathematics and spelling or writing were also assessed using standardized examinations.
The findings of the academic evaluation study showed that those who had a hard time suppressing their behaviors as toddlers (preterm babies) exuded lower ratings in school performance, compared to their peers who were born full term.
In the end, the authors concluded that lower gestational age is associated with lower inhibitory control, and that these children are more prone to have limited attention span and poor academic performance at the age of eight.
Lead author of the study and honorary research fellow at the university Julia Jaekel said that the findings play a key role in understanding underachievement in preterm children. For senior author Dieter Wolke, the study was able to devise a quick assessment tool that can help predict attention and learning both in preterm and full term children.
"The results also point to potential innovative avenues to early intervention after preterm birth," he added.
The study was published in The Journal of Pediatrics on Thursday, Nov. 19.
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George Jackson - I'm Gonna Wait (Hi 2212)
I'm Gonna Wait
George Jackson, in so many ways the pure essence of Southern Soul, has left us. I don't think you can say enough about this man's importance in the development of this music. Known primarily for his incredible songwriting skills, his career as a performer is often forgotten. This emotional gem we have here was released by Willie Mitchell as a B Side twice, once 1n 1967 and again in 1972... that's how good it is. You can feel George put his heart and soul on the line, just as he did with everything he touched. From Memphis and Muscle Shoals, to his longstanding position as the poet-laureate of Malaco Music, George Jackson's gentle genius defined what it meant to be a Soul Man.
He will never be replaced.
There is an excellent overview of George's recording career over at Deep Soul Heaven, and re-printed below is an appreciation of him I wrote back in 2006:
My Desires Are Getting The Best Of Me
As the final installment of our 'fame fest', I thought we'd focus on the quiet genius behind so much great southern soul, George Jackson.
Born in B.B. King's Indianola, George grew up on the river in Greenville, Mississippi. When Ike Turner rumbled down Highway 61 from Clarksdale, the teenaged Jackson went to see him and showed him some of the songs he'd been writing. Ike was impressed, and brought George downriver to New Orleans to record at Cosimo Matassa's studio in 1963. His idol was Sam Cooke (as he was for most every other aspiring singer in those days), and the record they cut Won't Nobody Cha-Cha With Me was an attempt to cash in on the recent Cooke-inspired 'cha-cha' craze. Released on Turner's Prann label, the single sank like a stone.
Jackson next moved to Memphis, and placed a couple of novelty type singles with the Dot and Doro labels through local impresarios Dorothy and John Hester. Also around this time, he recorded under the first of many pseudonyms, Louie Palmer, for Earl Forrest's Bootheel label in 1965. George's best friend in Memphis, Dan Greer, soon became his songwriting partner, and they formed their own short-lived label, Gre-Jac the following year. The label's only release, You Didn't Know It But You Had Me, was by 'George & Greer', and didn't sell much.
As legend has it, George lived in a big old house in Memphis and the landlady let him use her broken-down piano to write songs. He and Dan would spend most of every day working on material, and they were soon noticed by Quinton Claunch and 'Doc' Russell over at Goldwax Records. Claunch offered Jackson a contract as a songwriter for Goldwax, and one of the first tunes he contributed to the label, Old Friend (You Asked Me If I Miss Her) (Goldwax 312) became a local hit for the great Spencer Wiggins in 1966. In what was apparently part of the deal, Goldwax 313 was a re-release of the George & Greer single. It didn't sell this time either.
George (and Dan) took to their duties at Goldwax, and soon had artists like Wiggins, James Carr, Willie Walker, and The Ovations gathered around the old piano as well, rehearsing the songs they wrote for them. George was a particular fan of Ovations' lead singer Louis Williams, and worked with the group often (although it remains unclear to me if he was ever actually a member). Goldwax didn't have its own studio, and would record whenever and wherever they could get the best deal. It was Dan and George's job to drive the singers to the recording dates, armed with whatever it took (like a bottle) to get the best performance. Jackson became the de-facto producer as well, often running through take after take until he was satisfied with the song. If George was happy, Quinton Claunch was happy too.
George began working with Memphis legend Willie Mitchell around this time, and released So Good to Me on Hi in 1967. Mitchell was able to place a single with Decca the following year, under yet another name - 'Bart' Jackson. A demo George had recorded, Cold Cold Love was released on the Public label in 1968, but he had nothing to do with it.
Fame was one of the studios that Claunch had been using off and on, ever since James Carr's earliest sides for Goldwax in 1964. He began sending Jackson down there as well, along with Spencer Wiggins and his brother Percy. They recorded some great material, but Claunch folded the label before it was released. Rick Hall wasted no time, and signed George up as the new staff songwriter at Fame in 1969. Rick also recorded him as an artist for the house label, and today's cool record is The B side of his first Fame single, Find 'Em, Fool 'Em, And Forget 'Em (now up on the A side). Recorded right around the time the 'second' rhythm section left, I'm not sure if it's them or the 'Fame Gang' backing him up, all I know is that it's great! Co-written with his new running partner Raymond Moore, George is at his best here spinning yet another tale of the vagaries of love. His next (and last) single for the label, That's How Much You Mean To Me, would result in his first chart appearance when it cracked the R&B top 50 in the summer of 1970. Hall had secured the rights to the unreleased Goldwax recordings at this point, and when he put out Spencer Wiggins' rendition of Jackson composition Double Lovin' later that year it broke the top 50 as well (Spencer's only chart hit).
When MGM sent floundering boy band The Osmonds down to Fame in 1971, they took a song George had originally written with the Jackson 5 in mind, One Bad Apple, all the way to number one on the pop charts. The record would spend five weeks there, and become an international success (it even made #6 R&B!). The Osmonds were on top. Ironically, their follow-up single would be a cover of Double Lovin', which would make it to #14 pop (Wiggins' original hadn't even 'bubbled under' the Hot 100). MGM would release a George Jackon single on their Verve subsidiary, I Found What I Wanted, later that year, but nothing much came of it.
1972 saw George back in Memphis, working with Willie Mitchell at his Royal Studio. Top 40 R&B hit Aretha, Sing One For Me would become his second Hi release, and George's last chart entry. Another great record, Let Them Know You Care would follow in 1973, but it didn't sell. the B sides of both of these singles, I'm Gonna Wait and Patricia, respectively, are simply wonderful in their own right, and reflective of the phenomenal work that was going on at Royal in those days.
Although George's main focus remained on his songwriting (George Soulé's Get Involved and Clarence Carter's Too Weak To Fight are but two examples of the great work he was doing at the time), MGM continued to release singles on him through 1974. The company also backed a label he had formed with his old partner Dan Greer, Sounds Of Memphis. Back recording former Goldwax artists like The Ovations and Spencer Wiggins, they were producing some great music, but times had changed, and the records weren't selling. MGM promo man Eddie Ray believed in George's talent (even after his employer had moved on), and in addition to placing one single with Chess in 1975, he put out what many consider to be George's finest record, Talking About The Love I Have For You/I Don't Need You No More on his own ER label in 1976.
By the late seventies, George had left Fame and began working with cross-town rivals Muscle Shoals Sound. There was one 'disco' single released on the studio's short lived record label, but the main work was going on behind the scenes. Unknown to the general public, Jackson was hunkered down with what may just have been the best band in the world recording demos of the songs he was writing. The resulting tapes became legendary, and remained unheard for over twenty years (more on that in a moment). His work from this period included blockbusters like Bob Seger's Old Time Rock & Roll in 1978, and James Brown's It's Too Funky In Here in '79.
As we've mentioned before, Tommy Couch and Wolf Stephenson up at Malaco heard George's demos and selected a couple of tunes for their new signee Z.Z. Hill's second album, Down Home in 1981. Jackson composition Down Home Blues, which Malaco refused to release as a single, was just huge and helped make the record the largest selling 'blues' album in history. When they released George's Cheatin' In The Next Room as a single from the album in early 1982, it took off, spending five months on the R&B charts. On the basis of such unprecedented sales, Malaco hired Jackson as their new staff songwriter later that year. He still holds that position today, and has written countless fantastic songs for the label's soul stalwarts like Denise LaSalle, Little Milton, Bobby Bland and Johnnie Taylor (the Jackson penned Last Two Dollars was a gigantic hit in 1996, and helped make Taylor's album Good Love Malaco's biggest seller ever).
George himself hadn't recorded much in the eighties, except for a few singles on local southern labels like Crosstown and Washataw. He recorded a duet with old favorite Louis Williams for Happy Hooker in 1985, and did some work with good ol' Senator Jones, who had moved his Hep' Me operation to friendlier quarters in Jackson, Mississippi in the early nineties. The Hep' Me material has been made available again on a Black Grape CD, Heart To Heart Collect.
Malaco had bought Muscle Shoals Sound lock, stock and barrel in 1985. George's demo tapes were included in the sale along with hundreds of other items. When Grapevine Music became the UK licensee for Malaco around the turn of the century, they began an ambitious search of their 'vaults'. Finding Jackson's Muscle Shoals demos intact and sounding just as good as the day they were recorded must have been like finding the Holy Grail. They have released two excellent CDs of the material so far, and you should buy them. They are superb.
George Jackson is truly a living legend, and one of the most 'unsung' of the heroes of southern soul. The BMI Reperoire database lists him as the writer or co-writer of 435 songs.
He's A Man And A Half.
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GRNA INSTALLS NEW SIGNAGE - THANKS TO MPARKS GRANT!
New directional and wayfinding signage went up week of Dec 15th at GRNA! We received a substantial and generous grant through MParks Michigan Recreation and Park Association as well as funding from a private donor to support this project. The lumber used is long-lasting Black Locust, a non-native species of tree in Michigan with an extremely rot resistant heartwood. We are so grateful to have worked with the talented Gene Ullery-Smith at Gene Ullery-Smith Graphic Design as well as the enthusiastic crew at Image360 - Traverse City. And, Chelsea Bay Design created the new logo and brand earlier this year. It takes a village on a project like this! We thank the many volunteers who over the years contributed invaluable input to our long-term "signage plan". Now please, visit us this weekend and enjoy! Grass River is yours to explore...#puremichigan #antrimcounty #mparks#grassriverNA
THE FIELD GUIDE IS HERE!
GRNA, Inc. has published a field guide to the region! This book is an authoritative 152-page guide with color photography describing over 400 species in the Northwest Michigan region, including wildflowers, trees, fungi, insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals, and more! Once released, it will be for sale at Grass River Natural Area and local stores.
Go here for more information.
JULY 2016: ADDITIONAL 40 ACRES ADDED TO NATURAL AREA
GRNA NOW 1492 ACRES : A TIME FOR GRATITUDE
An additional FORTY contiguous acres has been added to Grass River Natural Area. Thanks to Antrim County for being a proactive partner in protecting Grass River's riparian corridor!
Knowing the parcel had unique ecological value, Antrim County commissioners were proactive in acquiring this 40 acre parcel through foreclosure methods with First Rights of Refusal. As a conservation partner and manager of Grass River Natural Area, GRNA, Inc. Board of Directors recommended the protection of this parcel and expressed the great benefits (water quality, wildlife habitat, biodiversity) of forested wetland habitat.
THANK YOU ALL for celebrating with us!
Below is a great resource. Read more about lowland conifer forests on page 46: http://www.miwaterstewardship.org/…/Michigan.Forest.Communi…
December 2015: GRNA EXPANDS
Grass River Natural Area, Antrim County – On December 18, 2015, Grass River Natural Area, Inc. (GRNA) purchased an additional 9.066 acres of forested wetland located on the south shore of Clam Lake – an ecologically significant peninsula contiguous with existing GRNA land. This important addition enlarges GRNA’s protected lands from 1443 to 1452 total acres.
This acquisition could not have been possible without a substantial matching challenge grant from the J.A. Woollam Foundation and significant matching funds from Mr. and Mrs. Matt and Deb Knudstrup of Rapid City, MI. In addition, many generous donors have given to our Land Protection Fund over the years which aided in the preservation of this parcel. GRNA, Inc. Board of Directors, Executive Director, and staff could not be more grateful for the generosity of all who made this acquisition possible.
This particular parcel has been on GRNA, Inc’s priority list for about 30 years. It is not only significant in order to maintain high water quality within the Elk River Chain of Lakes Watershed but also to maintain the ecological integrity of wildlife habitat for species like the river otter, the common loon and several other species of waterfowl, diverse reptiles and amphibians, and sensitive wetland plant species.
Grass River Natural Area’s (established in 1969) very first conservation efforts centered on acquisition of vital lands that offered resource protection of the Grass River and associated tributaries and wetlands. This 9.066 acre parcel has been a very important “piece of that puzzle” and is finally protected in perpetuity.
BOARDWALK PLANNING GRANT
In December 2015, GRNA Inc received an $8,000 planning grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation. The Land Use & Conservation Planning grant funds will specifically be used to work with an engineering firm to develop preliminary concept plans. They will also provide an estimate for replacement of 1.5 miles of wetland boardwalk of the existing trail system based on the established alignment and trail routes. Stay tuned for more information as the plan develops!
TOP 10 NORTHERN MICHIGAN SUMMER ESCAPES
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St Julians Apartment
A furnished waterfront APARTMENT located within an attractive and well established complex and minute’s walk to all amenities and some of the islands best entertainment establishments and restaurant. Overlooking the picturesque St. Georges sandy bay and also beyond, to the open Mediterranean sea. The property enjoys floods of natural light through its many glass apertures and was refurbished to a high standard by the current owners in recent years. The apartment comprises a spacious open plan sitting/dining enjoying the spectacular sea views, kitchen/breakfast, 3 double bedrooms (main with en-suite)and a main bathroom. The apartment also benefits from excellent parking facilities and comes with 2 parking spaces in a secure communal parking lot and a guest parking space. A great investment opportunity and also ideal as a buy-to-let investment
St Julian’s, an old fishing village and a renowned seaside resort, developed around the Chapel of St Julian built in 1580 in an area where many Knights of the Order of St John had hunting lodges. St Julian’s overlooks a delightful bay. The typical narrow streets of the town wind up along the rise of the coast.
Spinola Palace dominates the bay and is surrounded by a lovely garden. The palace dates from 1688 and was the summer residence of the Genoese knight Paolo Raffaello Spinola who was the bailiff of the Order. In the 18th century the palace was renovated under the direction of the famous architect Romano Carapecchia. During the Second World War it was used as a military hospital.
Today, Spinola Bay is one Malta’s most picturesque corners and features several fine restaurants which enjoy a romantic setting with a view of the pretty bay. Properties in St. Julian’s vary from apartments, penthouses and maisonettes to unique houses of character which were the first properties built in the area. As the demand for property in the area increased, so did the development. St. Julian’s now adjoins the popular town of Sliema as is just as much sought after. It is close to nightlife and all amenities including a large supermarket. A vibrant place to live. | <urn:uuid:482f2b97-91bb-41ea-8416-aa856748d891> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://oystermalta.com/property/st-julians-apartment-for-sale/003016/ | 2021-04-11T18:25:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038064898.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20210411174053-20210411204053-00452.warc.gz | en | 0.967352 | 458 |
This book is different from the two last books I read. Indeed, it tackles a specific Python library, Twisted, and how to use it.
I’ve already given some answers in one of my first tickets on manifold learning. Here I will give some more complete results on the quality of the dimensionality reduction performed by the most well-known techniques.
First of all, my test is about respecting the geodesic distances in the reduced space. This is not possible for some manifolds like a Gaussian 2D plot. I used the SCurve to create the test, as the speed on the curve is unitary and thus the distances in the coordinate space (the one I used to create the SCurve) are the same as the geodesic ones on the manifold. My test measures the matrix (Frobenius) norm between the original coordinates and the computed one up to an affine transform of the latter.
In March 2008 issue, IEEE Computers published a case study on large-scale parallel scientific code development. I’d like to comment this article, a very good one in my mind.
Five research centers were analyzed, or more precisely their development tool and process. Each center did a research in a peculiar domain, but they seem share some Computational Fluid Dynamics basis.
Some of the widely used method are based on a similarity graph made with the local structure. For instance LLE uses the relative distances, which is related to similarities. Using similarities allows the use of sparse techniques. Indeed, a lot of points are not similar, and then the similarities matrix is sparse. This also means that a lot of manifold can be reduced with these techniques, but not with Isomap or the other geodesic-based techniques.
It is worth mentioning that I only implemented Laplacian Eigenmaps with a sparse matrix, due to the lack of generalized eigensolver for sparse matrix, but it will be available in a short time, I hope.
Analytical solutions to the dimensionality reduction problem are only possible for quadratic cost functions, like Isomap, LLE, Laplacian Eigenmaps, … All these solutions are sensitive to outliers. The issue with the quadratic hypothesis is that there is no outilers, but on real manifolds, the noise is always there.
Some cost functions have been proposed, also known as stress functions as they measure the difference between the estimated geodesic distance and the computed Euclidien distance in the “feature” space. Every metric MDS can be used as stress functions, here are some of them.
In my lab, we frequently process huge amounts of data, each process can take hours or days. The problem is that we don’t have a usable tool to do this.
Our legacy software is in C and we plan on moving to Python in the next weeks. We could use some commercial software, but it is not optimal.
This is where P2P comes into the game. We have a lot of unused computers or dual cores that are not used even at 50% because we are not trained in parallel computing (and we won’t in the near future). By “we”, I mainly mean PhD students. Our background is signal or image processing, not Computer Science and even less parallel computing. Those unused computers could be used for our computations, but this implies that the computer is only used if nobody works on it, that we only use what is available at a precise moment, and that some computers may get used during the computations. That’s why P2P seems an elegant idea, as a grid computing tool.
P2P computation is not new in the lab (we developed P2P-MPI in Java for instance), but for our team, it is. For the time being, I did not find much about the tools that we could use, but the JXTA protocol seems a good start. I hope I will be able to talk more about this subject in the near future.
I got the word today that my paper was accepted, so I can now focus on delivering the code.
I’m in the process of refactoring it so that it depends less on some of our libraries here. In two weeks, there is a nipy sprint in Paris I will attend, and machine learning is one of the topic we will discuss, so this may indicate where and how I’ll contribute the code I will keep going on showing some results next week.
One of the most cited algorithm in nonlinear manifold learning, with Isomap, is LLE. Contrary to Isomap, LLE tries to retain the local data structure of the sampled manifold. Whereas Isomap preserves absolute distances, LLE preserves local relative distances (it preserves barycenter weights).
This means that LLE is not suitable for every dimensionality reductions. For visualization purposes, it can lead to very different solutions if the manifold is noisy.
Before going into more details about nonlinear manifold learning, I’ll present the linear description that is used in most of the applications.
PCA, for Principal Components Analysis, is the other name for the Karhunen-Loeve transform. It aims at describing the data by a single linear model. The reduced space is the space on the linear model, it is possible to project a new point on the manifold and thus testing the belonging of point to the manifold.
The problem with PCA is that it cannot tackle nonlinear manifold, as the SwissRoll that was presented in my last item.
Isomap is one of the “oldest” tools for dimensionality reduction. It aims at reproducing geodesic distances (geodesic distances are a property of Riemanian manifolds) on the manifold in an Euclidiean space.
To compute the approximated geodesic distances, a graph is created, an edge linking two close points (K-neighboors or Parzen windows can be used to choose the closest points) with its weight being the Euclidean distance between them. Then, a square matrix is computed with the shortest path between two points with a Dijkstra or Floyd-Warshall algorithm. This follows some distance and Riemanian manifolds properties. The number of points is generally chosen based on the estimated distance on the manifold.
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I remember my first and only visit to Peggy's Cove in 1994. It was late spring and it was quiet and serene.
Emma said it looks like the swamp before Mordor. Yep.
Turns out that while it remains a beautiful place, it's a busy place in late August. And we came early.
It is amazing. All those rocks being pushed by glaciers into this craggy shore.
The fog giving it this gloomy cool feel. The waves crashing scarily on the rocks--a dangerous place.
It was fun to boulder along, inspect the rocks and sea. I even saw a seal in the water.
And it's so different from anywhere we saw this vacation.
We explored the village a bit.
Our visit to the fourth provincial capital would not be complete without a tour of the Nova Scotia Legislature.
Emma tries being the angry politician.
I loved the little library.
The chamber is bigger than PEI's!
We had time for a quick walk on the tourist trap pier (which I'm sure has another name) where I sampled another lobster roll and Emma confirmed that poutine is a life sustaining food.
We had a hotel booked in Moncton so back in the car for us. It is a shorter drive so I got it in my head that we should do something along the way. We were right at the end of the Bay of Fundy and the timing was just about right so we drove to the end of Tidal Bore Road outside of Truro and waited.
This is a time when knitting is a very good thing.
Turns out that this tidal bore thing isn't all that exciting. But watching the water current change direction as the river filled in was pretty interesting. At least for Craig and I.
What it looked like as we left:
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
This marks post 101. Heh. I guess I'm really doing this.
I did get a nice affirmation from the readers at Monkey House Games that there were some V&V players who tuned it for last month. Glad to have the company.
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ABOUT Jini VAIL
What American girl would not love to
meet a French Count?
Well, author Jini Jones Vail did just that!
Graduated from Sweet Briar College in Virginia with a BA in French literature, Vail set out to extend her knowledge of all things French. She applied her facility as a travel writer in Public Relations at Air France and at The French Embassy, both on Fifth Avenue, New York.
After her children were grown she decided to pursue graduate studies in French at Southern Connecticut State University while teaching French. For the ensuing ten summers Vail studied at the Universities of Touraine and Bourgogne and traveled extensively in France with a concentration on French history of the 12th and 18th centuries. One of those summers, while writing outside of Tours, France, she received an unexpected invitation from Count Michel and Countess Madeleine de Rochambeau to visit them at the Château de Rochambeau near Vendome. This was the beginning of her passion for their ancestor, General Rochambeau.
She has devoted her life and career to the sharing of her fervent interest in French history, art, culture and language with others. Ms. Vail has done this through her writing, teaching and volunteering.
Jini Jones Vail currently resides with her husband in Connecticut.
Additional works by Jini Jones Vail include:
Rochambeau in America
Conversations with Queen Alienor of Aquitaine (Three Act Play)
Summering in the Loire Valley: A Decade of Art, Cuisine, History & Music
Within the Walls Mysteries
Magellana Flies Home for Christmas
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EAGAN, Minn. — Forget simple fly patterns, Kendall Wright’s career has been all about learning on the fly.
The dubious stat line not of his doing: nine different starting quarterbacks, four head coaches and four unique offensive coordinators in his first six pro seasons.
Selected by Tennessee in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft, Wright played for three head coaches (Mike Munchak, Ken Whisenhunt and Mike Mularkey) and four offensive coordinators (Chris Palmer, Dowell Loggains, Jason Michael and Terry Robiskie) in five seasons with the Titans.
Seven quarterbacks — Matt Hasselbeck, Jake Locker, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Zach Mettenberger, Charlie Whitehurst, Marcus Mariota and Matt Cassel — started games for the Titans during that span.
Wright started 41 of 66 games in Tennessee and recorded 280 catches for 3,244 yards and 18 touchdowns.
At the end of his rookie deal, Wright landed in Chicago for 2017, adding two more starting quarterbacks — Mike Glennon and rookie Mitchell Trubisky — and another head coach (John Fox). At least Loggains was the Bears offensive coordinator last season when Wright led Chicago with 59 receptions for 614 yards.
Fast-forward to April when Wright signed with Minnesota. He talked to former Baylor teammate Robert Griffin III and liked what he heard about fellow 2012 draftee Kirk Cousins, who had signed with the Vikings when free agency opened, after previously teaming with Griffin. Wright caught 108 passes for 1,663 yards and 14 touchdowns in 2011 at pass-happy Baylor to help Griffin win the Heisman.
Another starting quarterback, another offensive coordinator (John DeFilippo) and another head coach (Mike Zimmer).
“I’ve had quite a bit of adjustment. It’s no different,” Wright said. “You’ve just got to be a pro about it, handle it how you’re supposed to handle your business, do everything you’re supposed to do and do it the right way. Everything will start picking up.”
For all of Wright’s experience, he said there was a transition period here during spring Organized Training Activity practices. He worked heavily with the second team and Trevor Siemian, who was acquired by Minnesota in a trade, and worked his way into some reps with the first team during camp.
Adam Thielen and Stefon Diggs are returning after dazzling in 2017, and Laquon Treadwell has had a strong offseason in preparing for his third pro season.
DeFilippo said during a session with media members on Monday that Wright has “done everything that we’ve asked him to do and at a high level.”
“I’ve told him this, so I’m not telling you anything that I haven’t told him, I thought when he [got here, he started out] a little bit slow, and I think he was trying to grasp everything,” DeFilippo said. “And then once he grasped what we were really trying to do, I think over training camp and the last few OTAs, you really saw his game take off.”
Wright said he studied hard and incorporated a method that he’s found helps him the most.
“They don’t give you the iPad just to give them like you give to your kids. You’ve got to look at the information and take notes. That’s what I do,” Wright said. “I go up there and draw every play up. I don’t use the position. I just draw the concept of the play. If you draw the concept up, you’ll be able to play any position instead of just going out there and trying learn one position. I try to learn all of them.”
Back in 2013, when Wright totaled 94 receptions and 1,079 yards with Locker (334 on 31 receptions) and Fitzpatrick (745 on 63), Fitzpatrick said Wright had a “streetballer-ish” way of running routes. It was a compliment, accompanied with the expectation that the receiver would get to the spot he was supposed to reach at the right time.
When the Titans changed coaches and systems in 2014, they requested that Wright change his approach. His targets, receptions and yards decreased, but his six touchdowns were a career-best.
Asked if any of the “streetballer” elements fit within the Vikings system, Wright said he is mindful of running routes the requested way while incorporating the ways he knows to get open.
“You don’t want to be a robot,” he explained.
Wright said he feels comfortable playing any receiver position in the Vikings offense.
“If Diggs gets tired, Adam gets tired, Tread, whoever, I can come in and play either position and be successful at it, I think,” Wright said.
Diggs and Thielen have shown the ability to play multiple receiver positions, so Wright could help maintain versatility.
DeFilippo said the 5-foot-10 Wright is a “really good inside receiver” because of the way he effectively creates separation.
“He understands leverage. He understands how to get a DB back to straight-stem them,” DeFilippo said. “I’ve been very, very pleased with Kendall, and he doesn’t make mistakes. He’s got very few, if any, mental errors. I’ll tell you, he’s done a fabulous job at improving himself, no doubt.”
As for what he thinks makes a good inside receiver, Wright pointed to quick-twitch muscles and a plan.
“You’ve got to know what you want to do, be able to read the defenses,” Wright said. “You’ve got to catch the ball quicker. It’s a lot of things, as far as inside and outside. A lot of people like outside because it’s kind of easy out there, but when you’re inside, it’s a little harder. You’ve got to work a little more, but I mean, you can get open, catch the ball and make big plays.”
Wright has one reception for nine yards on two targets in three preseason games, but he’s also turned in some shining moments in Vikings practices.
“I don’t know how many I had, but that’s not how I look at it in the preseason,” Wright said. “To me, I haven’t had many targets, but what I was looking at was, ‘Was I getting open? Was I running the route at the right depth,’ and those types of things. … I was just playing the game I love to play and doing my job.” | <urn:uuid:cb48e294-1e1e-44c8-a8fa-96cb52444493> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://www.vikings.com/news/defilippo-kendall-wright-s-flight-in-vikings-offense-recently-able-to-take-off | 2019-04-25T04:05:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578681624.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190425034241-20190425060241-00454.warc.gz | en | 0.970791 | 1,463 |
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I apologise in advance if i got you totally wrong.
Which boy from 5SOS is perfect for you? *LONG RESULTS*
- What's your eye colour? :) - Favourite artist? (Not 5SOS..sorry) :) *Answers are just random they DO NOT correspond with the boy you want* - If you were to live anywhere where would you go? :) - Where do you want to meet him? 6 more questions
- You are given a gun and told that you must shoot someone. Whoever you do not shoot, you must guide to safety in a dangerous place, with enemy fire on - A bully beats you up at school. You are terrified of this person. What do you do? - You are at a committee meeting for an event that is incredibly important to you and the people around you. The leader of the meeting calls for silence - One of your distant friend is in a relationship with someone, and has told you that they love their partner. You start to develop feelings for your fr 2 more questions
This is a quiz i made. I was kind of depressed. Guys can take this quiz too, i guess, but it is more meant for girls. Sorry.
Who is your Youtube boyfriend?
- What's your favorite animal? :3 - What's your dream job? - Which one of these outfits would you most likely wear out? (OPEN LINK TO A NEW TAB TO VIEW) - If you could have ANY of these things, what would it be? 3 more questions
- Have You Ever Felt Misunderstood? Like People Don't Understand You..? - How Do You Feel Right Now or Most Of The Time? - Between You and Your Family; What Is Your Relationship Like? - Do You Have a Boyfriend/Girlfriend? 3 more questions | <urn:uuid:b7701f12-d9b3-49fc-abda-367adc466d64> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.quotev.com/quiz/1573569/Divergent-Faction-Quiz/ | 2014-09-02T21:23:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535922871.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20140901014522-00399-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960661 | 941 |
- 5 May 2016 9:00 AM
Parliament is expected to vote on the bill before the middle of June and it could enter into force later in the summer.
Taxi drivers staged a demonstration on Tuesday afternoon demanding that the gov-ernment ban the app-based service Uber.
About 150 cars paraded from Heroes Square to the city centre. They blocked one of the two lanes on the Chain Bridge and on the four-lane Szabadság Bridge during the afternoon rush hour, eventually leaving at 5:30 p.m.
Taxi drivers demand that authorities con-fiscate the cars used for illegal taxi services and ban app-based taxi services.
However, Development Ministry state sec-retary János Fónagy has encouraged taxi companies to adopt such technology, and some already have.
Similar protests are planned for every Tuesday for the next five weeks, demonstra-tion organiser Géza Gottlieb pointed out.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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