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Pacific University honored its current and past military service members during a Veterans Day ceremony<|fim_middle|> society, and here how we at Pacific, have honored and supported these individuals has varied over time," Warman said. While noting a monument on the Forest Grove Campus that honors 31 students who lost their lives while serving in World War II, Warman emphasized the need to recognize the importance of all who have served.
The wall, located at pacificu.edu/wallofhonor, is an ongoing work in progress, and Warman invited anyone who knows of someone who should be added to contact the university at 503-352-6151.
Four of Pacific's veterans were posthumously recognized during the ceremony, including Paul Ostrander '46, Pat L. Woods '64, Bill Forst '67 and Thomas Neal OD '94. Ostrander flew in some of World War II's most dangerous combat missions over Europe and was shot down weeks before the war ended there. Woods was killed in action in Vietnam, Forst advocated for fellow veterans following service in Vietnam, and Neal became an Army Captain and later chief optometrist at bases in Korea, Virginia and West Point Military Academy.
Grimes led a singing of the national anthem to conclude the ceremony.
To learn more about Pacific University's commitment to supporting military veterans, visit pacificu.edu/veterans. | at the Forest Grove Campus on Wednesday that included the unveiling of an online Wall of Honor that aims to recognize all of the university's students, alumni and employees who have served in the United States Armed Forces.
Nearly 100 community members comprised of university students, faculty, staff and alumni and local Forest Grove residents came together to recognize the commitment and sacrifices of all current and past service men and women.
Several veterans were among those in attendance, including current Pacific students Tom Ahlberg '17, an 18-year Naval servicemen now majoring in criminal justice, law and society; and Irisa Grimes '17, an eight-year Marine corporal who served in Iraq multiple times and is currently majoring in public health at the university.
Like many in attendance, Veterans Day holds a special place in Warman's heart, with several family members having served, including her father in both World War II and Korea, and her nephew, an Army captain currently stationed in Afghanistan.
The Wall of Honor is intended to recognize all Pacific community members who have served, including those whose sacrifice has gone unnoticed..
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CHICAGO — Matt Cain's crucible glowed hot in the fourth inning Saturday. The Cubs had two runners on base, two outs and cleanup man Anthony Rizzo at the plate threatening to break the tie. The count ran full.
Cain threw a slider that Rizzo flicked foul. He threw another slider. Another foul.
There are times when a stubborn streak serves you well on a major league mound. Cain tripled up on that slider, Rizzo waved through it, and the Giants' stoic right-hander roared fury as he made the walk to the dugout.
Cain did not make that walk again. He could not retire a batter in the fifth inning, George Kontos allowed two inherited runners to score, and the Giants lost 8-6 at Wrigley Field.
The Cubs have not swept the Giants in a four-game series since 1977. They're all set to try Sunday. The best the Giants can do now is salvage a game here at the Friendly Confines and try to pocket a fourth win at the conclusion of this 10-game trip.
The Giants knew it would be a heatstroke to play 10 games in Texas, Atlanta and Chicago. They lucked into some cool, pleasant weather here on the North Side. But the mound became a pressure cooker once more for Cain, who gave up five runs on six hits, five walks and two hit batters on sliders that didn't slide — 13 base runners in four-plus innings.
In his two starts on the trip, Cain has thrown nine innings and yielded 25 base runners, nine of which scored.
Yet there are moments, such as the confrontation with Rizzo, when Cain displays the hardened visage and town-sheriff stuff that made him the ballast of the Giants pitching staff for close to a decade.
It is hard to soft-shoe around the obvious, and shortstop Brandon Crawford wasn't in the mood to dance.
Cain has regained the velocity on his fastball. He has not regained his feel for the pitch,<|fim_middle|> walk, and it took one of Crawford's most spectacular stops of the season to degrease the rally. Kris Bryant hit a rocket ball, and Crawford reacted instantly while making a diving stop. If not for Bryant's speed getting down the line, the Giants would've doubled him up. As it stood, Cain did well to escape the inning with one run on the hand-operated scoreboard.
Cain continued to live on the right side of BABIP Street, as the Cubs put two runners on and lined out twice in the second inning. But there was no retrieving the 0-2 curveball that Cain flipped to Bryant in the third. He hung the pitch, and the talented Cubs rookie flicked it amid the left field bleacher creatures for a two-run homer.
It was the 171st home run Cain has allowed in his career, and just the fourth on an 0-2 pitch.
Brandon Belt hit his fifth home run of the trip, a two-run shot that dropped into the basket above the ivy in the second inning. Crawford tied the score in the fourth when he drove in his eighth run of the trip, doubling off the greenery in the left field corner.
But three games into this series, Giants starting pitchers still have not retired a batter in the fifth. Cain started the inning by issuing a walk to Bryant before Jorge Soler hit a single to drive him from the game. Kontos entered and gave up a tiebreaking single to Miguel Montero. Soler scored as Crawford made a sliding stop up the middle to start an impressive step-and-throw double play.
The Giants scored three runs in the ninth, which only left them lamenting the Cubs' three-run eighth against Santiago Casilla and Javier Lopez.
Amid the parting gifts, Crawford had a showcase game at the plate and in the field, diving to start a double play and reaching across his body to tag a runner trying to steal.
"He had a terrific game, didn't he?" Bochy said of Crawford. "The fans here got to see how good he is. | or any other, in seven starts since returning from the disabled list. Tuesday marks the anniversary of his surgery to clean out bone spurs that had rattled around in his elbow for years, causing him to short-arm his delivery. He has greater range of motion now, which is good and also problematic. A ceiling fan with a loose fastener has a tendency to wobble.
Lately, so has Cain. He loaded the bases in the first inning on a hit batter, a single and a | 100 |
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The A to Z of Modern Italy
Mark Gilbert and Robert K. Nilsson
Italy is a country that exercises a hold on the imagination of people all over the world. Its long history has left an inexhaustible treasure chest of cultural achievement. The historic cities of Rome, Florence, and Venice are among the most sought-after destinations in the world for tourists and art lovers, and Italy's natural beauty and cuisine are rightly renowned. Italy's history and politics are also a source of endless fascination. Modern Italy has consistently been a political laboratory for the rest of Europe. In the 19th century<|fim_middle|> society, and culture.
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Mark F. Gilbert is associate professor of contemporary European history at the University of Trento in Italy, as well as adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Bologna and visiting research fellow of the Department of History, Birkbeck College, University of London. He became a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in June 2005.
K. Robert Nilsson established the Center for International Studies in Bologna, which was posthumously renamed in 2000 as the K. Robert Nilsson Center for European Studies. He was also chairman of the Italy Seminar at the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State and was editor of the newsletter of the Conference Group on Italian Politics and Society. | , Italian patriotism was of crucial importance in the struggle against the absolute governments reintroduced after the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15. After the fall of Fascism during World War II, Italy became a model of rapid economic development, though its politics has never been less than contentious and its democracy has remained a troubled one.
The A to Z of Modern Italy is an attempt to introduce the key personalities, events, social developments, and cultural achievements of Italy since the beginning of the 19th century, when Italy first began to emerge as something more than a geographical entity and national feeling began to grow. This is done through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a map, a bibliography, and some 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on prominent individuals, basic institutions, crucial events, history, politics, economics, | 182 |
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De Kerk van de Heilige Drie-eenheid in Chochlovka (Russisch: Церковь Троицы Живоначальной в Хохлах, Tserkov Troitsy Zjivonatsjalnoj v Chochlach) is een Russisch-orthodoxe Kerk in het Centraal Administratieve Okroeg van Moskou. De kerk bevindt zich in het district Basmanny, in het oostelijke deel van de Witte Stad. De kerk behoort tot Driekoningendecanaat van het bisdom Moskou. Het hoofdaltaar is gewijd aan de heilige Drie-eenheid en er zijn kapellen gewijd aan het Vladimir icoon van de Moeder Gods en Dimitri van Rostov.
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De toevoeging Chochlovka slaat op de Oekraïners die vroeger het gebied bewoonden nadat Oekraïne in de XVIIe eeuw bij Rusland werd gevoegd. Zij werden destijds door Moskovieten vanwege hun haardracht "chochly" (Russisch: хохол) genoemd. De kerk werd reeds genoemd in 1625 en de huidige kerk werd gebouwd in de 1696. Een brand verwoestte de kerk in 1737. Tijdens de bezetting van Moskou door de troepen van Napoleon was de Drie-eenheidskerk een van de tien kerken waar de vier<|fim_middle|> website van de Drie-eenheidskerk
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De kerk keerde terug naar de Russisch-orthodoxe Kerk in 1992 en vormt sinds 1998 een zelfstandige parochie (tot die tijd vormde de kerk een parochie met de nabijgelegen Vladimirkerk).
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Although La Scarzuola began as a Franciscan monastery<|fim_middle|> for his ideal city. | , today's architectural wonderland has little to do with traditional religion, reflecting instead the esoteric beliefs of a visionary Milanese architect.
The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.
That architect, Tomaso Buzzi, acquired the property in 1956 with the grand plan of juxtaposing the "sacred city" of the monastery with his own "ideal city" that would be a hauntingly dreamlike allegory for the mysteries and perplexing paths of the ideal life. His style blends reality with surrealist architecture, incorporating structures and details from Classical to Medieval and even Renaissance architecture, all tied together by overarching Neomannerist elements such as stairways leading in multiple directions, general unbalance and disproportion, and monstrous and fantastical design elements.
His work spans the body of surrealism from Dali and Miro to M.C. Escher, echoing their dark works in his immense compound. The core of the Città Ideale is formed by seven theaters, representing Buzzi's notion that the ideal life (and the mysterious initiations associated with it) is inherently and symbolically theatrical. The theaters are surrounded by grounds that include multiple grottos and reflecting pools and are surmounted by an "Acropolis" that consists of a riot of buildings all piled together (including many reproductions — the Arc de Triomphe, the Temple of Vesta, the Parthenon, etc.), which are mostly empty inside, save for stairways and inner bridges.
Each work is carefully constructed to represent the inner thoughts of the artist, as well as a blend of the philosophical tenets that guided his life. Although the styles and buildings change by the meter in the compound, his overall surrealistic approach is defined especially through the random scattering of quotes and strange symbols placed throughout La Scarzuola.
Considered the artist's "autobiography in stone," La Scarzuola is deeply personal and those familiar with the artist will find him in every brick laid in the compound. After his death in 1981, his nephew Marco Solari continued to work on La Scarzuola, eventually completing the vision his uncle had | 443 |
Reviews Taking Time: The Cinema of Theodoros Angelopoulos
An<|fim_middle|> "game" of reconstruction anymore.
In this sense, when Angelopoulos returns in his final shot to the crime but refuses to enter the house to reveal what is taking place within, it is an act of solidarity with Elena, joining in with her refusal and her silence. The circular route the film's narrative takes here is a final acknowledgement of the grim fate of this couple, of rural life, and of the nation itself.
Florian Hopf, "An Elegy for a Land Rotting Away: Reconstruction," in Dan Fainaru, ed. Theo Angelopoulos: Interviews, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001, p. 4. ↩
Andrew Horton calls him a detective. The character is neither named nor is his status identified. ↩
The only monograph to have been published in English: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. ↩
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Reconstruction, Angelopoulos' very first feature, opens with what seems very familiar territory: a long single shot of a bleak, rain-swept mountainous landscape into which a dilapidated bus struggles to make its way. It's a trope that practically became a cliché of Angelopoulos' cinema with its intentional resistance to the popular image of Greece as some kind of sun-drenched paradise. Yet for all this initial familiarity Reconstruction is in fact a "case apart" in Angelopoulos' filmography. It doesn't offer any true signposts forward to the later films—something that his second film Days of '36 very clearly does. In fact, with its overt documentary impulse and its jumbled and fragmented chronology, it very much offers a stylistic path not taken by Angelopoulos.
It's an ambitious film, one that takes a banal crime - a wife and her lover murder her husband on his visit home from working as a Gastarbeiter in West Germany - and makes it emblematic of the state of the nation. It is, in Angelopoulos' own words, "an elegy for a land rotting away, abandoned by its inhabitants."1 What is meant by this is made clear in the factual voice-over, spoken by Angelopoulos himself, that opens the film: the setting in the village of Tymphaia in Epirus (a mountainous region in the northwest of the country, bordering Albania); the ironic invocation of its links to the glories of Greece's classical past, there to underline the region's decline in modern times; the statistical details of population decline, from 1,250 in 1939 to 85 in 1965.
Angelopoulos is first addressing here the dramatic economic decline of rural Greece, accompanied and contributed to by waves of mass emigration. This was then exacerbated by the policy of the West German government in the early sixties to extend their "guest worker" (Gastarbeiter) programme to allow Greek citizens (without their families) to take up low-paid jobs, with the inevitable result of an even greater decline in the active male population. More than halfway through the film, a group of visiting journalists is confronted by the village mayor, who speaks bitterly on this theme: "What did you come to see here? Our miserable lives? Our poverty and all the fine men going away?"
A little later, a collage of voice-overs gives expression to villagers' experience of or attraction to the experience of living in Germany, to the sickness-at-heart that is brought on by the poverty that surrounds them, and to the envy of the life, even on low wages, that can be led in Germany. This then climaxes in a vision, spoken over shots of old people walking round the village, of a depopulated, dying community:
The villages will be deserted if this migration doesn't stop. Nowadays it's just us old people that are left in the villages. We're old and we'll start dying, and the villages will be empty. And when the villages are empty, that won't be good for the cities either.
The whole nation, then, is implicated in this rural decline; the economic and demographic devastation wrought upon the countryside is a symptom of the sickness of the country as a whole, a sickness that Angelopoulos, with his leftist sympathies, is implying should be blamed on the regime in power—whose representative in the film, the investigating magistrate,2 is, with his lack of sympathy and his assumed moral superiority, an object of criticism; indeed, in a scene at the end he's literally attacked by Eleni, the wife under investigation for the murder of her husband. Remember that this is the Greece of the Colonels, of the right-wing military regime that was put in place by coup d'état in 1967 and which lasted through to 1974; 1970, the year Reconstruction was made, is the midway point, but a point when Greeks of Angelopoulos' political persuasion would not have necessarily seen any end in sight. In fact, in the interview I've already quoted from, Angelopoulos dedicates Reconstruction to the Colonels' opponents, those friends of his "who have already left and those who are about to". This is the political dimension to the movement of people out of the country.
The story of Reconstruction is a straightforward one. Husband Kostas, working in West Germany, pays a visit back home to his village in Epirus and is murdered by his wife Eleni and her married lover Kostas. After trying, rather ineptly, to cover up their tracks, the couple quickly falls under suspicion and is investigated by the police without the precise details ever being clarified. At the same time the case is followed by a news/documentary team whose leader is played by Angelopoulos itself.
Given this crime story at the centre of the film's narrative, the critical default when talking about Reconstruction is, unsurprisingly, to invoke film noir; indeed, Andrew Horton in his book on Angelopoulos3 runs a whole gamut of film references: The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Detour, Angels with Dirty Faces, Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly. In fact, nothing could be further from Angelopoulos' interests. His film is a product of sixties art cinema, of a filmmaking practice that was both politically and aesthetically oppositional to mainstream Hollywood. More than a reconstruction, Angelopoulos is offering a deconstruction of crime narrative. His refusal to portray for us the actual murder is no delaying tactic to increase narrative interest as we anticipate a climax at the end of the film when all will be revealed. Rather, that revelation will never come.
Part and parcel of this indeterminacy, this lack of a sure footing offered to the viewer are both the film's scrambling of chronology - constantly shifting time periods and a final shot that takes us back nearly to the beginning again - and the web of "reconstructions." These are not only the police reconstructions where Eleni and Christos are made separately to act out their versions of the murder, but also the journalists' reconstruction of events through their observations and interviews, and, then of course, Angelopoulos' own reconstruction through his filmmaking of his transformation of this case into his own script. Bear in mind, too, Angelopoulos' deliberate muddying of the waters in terms of his dual roles as writer-director of the film and journalist-investigator within the film (as the latter, he's no more successful than the authorities).
Angelopoulos keeps the transitions between one level of reconstruction and another deliberately ambiguous; it's often some way into a new reconstruction or flashback before we realise that the time has changed either forward or back into time, that this is no longer a continuation of the previous scene. Likewise, narrative voice is unclear, where a sequence can be introduced by Christos' voiceover but then shifts perspective to that of Eleni: whose flashback is it then? There's even a fascinating series of brief scenes leading up to Eleni's confession to her brother Giorgios, scenes that don't seem to form a coherent narrative but rather give the sense of Eleni - or Angelopoulos - trying out alternatives.
For all this structural uncertainty (which, in itself, provides a fascinating texture to the film) Angelopoulos makes two aspects abundantly clear. On the one hand, there is the smug arrogance and blindness of the investigating magistrate as he limits blame in the case to "the lascivious temperament of the accused wife" adding, "Anyway, we are dealing with people devoid of moral fibre." (Blaming Eleni is a line that Christos also adopts, both in his interrogation and to her face.) On the other hand, there is Eleni's growing resistance which climaxes when she both literally attacks the magistrate and simply refuses to play the | 1,656 |
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[UVPAFUG] Press Release for UVPAFUG Meeting on 13 Sep 2008
Journalists, please run this as a news item and/or in your calendar of events. Ward newsletter editors, please include in your newsletters parts of the first paragraph and mention that there are classes for everyone. Email me, if you need further information. Thanks.
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UTAH VALLEY PAF USERS<|fim_middle|> and many other types, and the list shows which ones have images attached at present. Tim Crabb is the Product Manager for Record Search in the Family and Church History Department of the LDS Church and will be describing the project. Previously Mr. Crabb worked in the high-tech industry for 17 years in many different capacities including sales, Information Technology and development, and enjoys using that experience in the exciting project of helping people find their ancestors using Record Search. For further information about Record Search you can also log onto http://labs.familysearch.org/ and Click on Record Search. The FamilySearch Labs blog, accessible from there, will keep you up to date on new developments and you'll see Tim Crabb's name there answering many questions about the project. To volunteer to help index go to the FamilySearch Indexing website shown above.
Following the main presentation there will be several classes taught concerning technology and family history. As usual, there will be something for everyone at all levels of expertise. The classes currently scheduled for this meeting are the following: (1) Searching for Completed Ordinances: IIGI and new FamilySearch, by Duane Dudley; (2) LDS Databases, by Pat Andrus; (3) Q&A on Record Search, by Tim Crabb; (4) Individual Mentoring; (5) Ancestral Quest, by Paul Johnson; (6) Legacy, by Dean Bennett; and (7) RootsMagic, by Sue Maxwell.
All meetings of the Users Group are open to the public whether members of the Group or not. The Users Group has the goal of helping individuals use technology to further their family history and there are usually 100-125 attending the monthly meetings on the second Saturdays. Several of the officers, including Gerhard Ruf, President; Brian Cooper, 2nd VP; Eileen Phelps, PAFology Editor; Kay Baker and Gerry Eliason working with finances and membership; and Bruce Merrill, Lynne Shumway, and Marie Andersen, working with the DVD & Video Library, will all be there. They will help with membership, questions, distribute the current issue of the monthly newsletter PAFology, and check out DVD's and videos of past presentations and classes to members of the group. Information about the Users Group, main presentations, classes, and class notes are available on the Group's website http://uvpafug.org . For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvpafug.org (801-225-6106), VP1 Elder Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu, or VP2 Brian Cooper at vp2@uvpafug.org.
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The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley PAF (Personal Ancestral File) Users Group will be on Saturday, 13 Sep 2008, from 9 am until noon in the LDS "Red" Chapel at 4000 North Timpview Drive (650 East), in Provo. The main presentation will be by Tim Crabb on A RECORD SEARCH OVERVIEW. Record Search is the website linked on http://www.familysearch.org where the records are available that many of you are helping index through http://www.familysearchindexing.org . This is a wealth of indexed records worldwide with millions more being added regularly. The home page has a clickable world map that will take you to a list of indexed records for that part of the world, or click on "View All Collections" to see them categorized by world location. These records include census, vital, church, | 193 |
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So while other commonly prescribed antibiotics lost effectiveness as bacteria became resistant to them, CBD remained a powerful bacteria killer. And that's crucial, especially as health professionals globally are beginning to face a crisis of antibiotic resistance. Resistant bacteria are emerging rapidly worldwide, endangering the efficacy of antibiotics. Many decades after antibiotics were first introduced, bacterial infections are once again a major threat.
It's a crisis that has emerged due to the overuse and misuse of antibiotic medications, as well as a lack of any new drug development by pharmaceutical companies. Developing antibiotics to save millions of lives just isn't profitable for pharmaceutical companies, so none are actively working to develop new ones. As a result, antibiotic resistance presents an urgent, serious and concerning threat for health care systems, patients and their families, worldwide.
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Could cannabidiol (CBD) be the answer to the super-bug problem pharmaceutical companies aren't willing to solve?
Adam Drury
New research has identified another promising medical application for cannabidiol (CBD): its use as an antibiotic. At last weekend's gathering of microbiologists for the annual ASM Microbe conference in San Francisco, Australian researchers presented a study that found CBD kills anti-biotic resistant bacteria. Specifically, the study found that CBD is active against gram-positive bacteria, such as the kinds that cause dangerous staph and strep infections. The findings are very significant, especially as the world faces a looming crisis of antibiotic resistance.
CBD Is a Potent New Antibiotic
In addition to becoming a phenomenon in the wellness and beauty market, cannabidiol is also an ongoing sensation among health professionals and medical researchers. In fact, CBD, the non-psychoactive compound produced by cannabis and hemp plants, is the only component of marijuana to receive FDA approval. Besides its proven efficacy for treating epilepsy, researchers are also studying CBD as a treatment for an array of other medical conditions, from pain and anxiety to inflammation and neurodegenerative ailments.
But investigations into the use of CBD as an anti-biotic are something new. There is some data out there to suggest that CBD kills bacteria. But so far, its anti-biotic capabilities haven't been studied in any rigorous way. Indeed, the work of Dr. Mark Blaskovich at The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience's Centre for Superbug Solutions is one of the first to take a closer look at CBD's ability to fight infection.
In collaboration with Botanix Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a drug discovery company, Dr. Blaskovich and his team investigated topical uses of synthetic cannabidiol for treating a range of skin conditions. What they found was that CBD performed exceptionally well at killing a wide range of gram-positive bacteria. And that includes so-called "Super Bugs," bacteria that have become resistant to other antibiotics, like Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Even more remarkably, CBD did a better job killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria than common pharmaceutical antibiotics. That's because, unlike those drugs, CBD did not lose its effectiveness over time. Bacteria, in other words, were not able to develop a resistance to CBD.
Can CBD Solve the Super-Bug Problem?
"Given cannabidiol's documented anti-inflammatory effects, existing safety data in humans, and potential for varied delivery routes, it is a promising new antibiotic worth further investigation," said Dr. Blaskovich. Blaskovich also said that CBD's anti-inflammatory effects, which makes it so effective against epilepsy and pain, combined with its inherent antimicrobial activity, make it particularly attractive as a novel treatment for infections.
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Shots, ash clouds and baboon hugs...
After his busy day at UCL London, the weekend was calling for Lippe - the weekend, and the vet!!! Oh yes, Miss Posh Cat @jazzydacat had to get her yearly shots!!! I don't know much about that stuff, as I was only being shot once, when I had a bad inflammation in my eyes and the vet shot the vitamins right into my neck!!! I guess, she never heard about those painless little vitamin pills... But however, this is not about me... Darn it!!!
Before they took off to the vet, Lippe needed an English breakfast to start the day. Otherwise, the noises coming out of his tummy had been sooooo loud, that the vet would have thought he was the patient!!!
When Lippe's tummy was filled up with sausages, he was ready to leave the house. But where is our poshy cat?! Still in front of the mirror?! As if the pink carrier wasn't stylish enough!!!
Hours later - arrival at the vet's. Jazzy had to find her engagement ring from @cokiethecat first!!! She refused to leave the house without it!!!
Jazzy recognized the place, I will try to translate her expression: "Darn it, darn it, darn it!!! How come, they brought me here again?!" While Lippe still seems to dream about sausages, steaks, ice cream, sweets...
Miss Posh decided to take it all like a lady and to ignore the vet preparing the shots behind her back!!! Lippe did his best to calm her down and to pretend it wasn't him, who took her to this terrifying place. Did she believe him??? Check the look on her face to find the answer!!!
There she is, Samantha the vet, and Lippe got really excited, as he awaited an old grumpy man to be the vet... He tried to catch her eye, but his blue eyes didn't work, Samantha kept concentrating on her job.
We're all feeling with you, Jazzy!!! OUCH!!! But she kept her stiff upper lip and was like "anything going on here???" Lippe was a bit afraid to get prickled himself, so he tried to hide under Jazzy's tummy... And according to the vet, there is enough space to hide, as she mentioned the BAD diet word!!!
Back home, Jazzy and Lippe both needed a nappy. At least, it's not forbidden to dream of treats and you won't need a diet after tasting them!!!
But when Lippe had a look at sleeping beauty Jazzy, he thought, she might be a wonderful fluffy fur bed for him!!! He just had to give it a try!!!
Later on, they decided to play some funny games. Or maybe, the<|fim_middle|> up a museum with them!!!
Lippe was impressed with the World Cup mascots collection...
...and especially with the World Cup Willie toffee tin, which was created for World Cup 1966 in England. I bet, he thought, there were still toffees inside!!! And I'm sure, he would have eaten 44 years old toffees!!!
After looking at the pawsom football collection, Lippe had a chat with the Gunnersaurus, who has a very important job - he is working as the FC Arsenal London mascot. He had a lot to tell about being such a famous mascot and Lippe started to think about replacing Hennes, the living billy goat, as mascot for FC Köln, when being back home...
Later, Lippe went up to the balcony again, to enjoy the beautiful view, Kolo has from his home. He can see Portsmouth on one hand...
...and Southampton on the other.
But this was only Lippe's first day at Kolo's home and there is sooooo much more to tell... And I promise to catch up with my next post sooner!!!
But to let everybody know - Lippe already entered the US shores and is currently with his first US host @grrlysquirrel, who lives near Boston, MA!!!
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But when they turned on the TV, the fun was all over!!! Lippe's beloved BBC News girl told them about the Icelandic volcano with the funny name and the not so funny ash cloud it was sending towards them!!!
Oh boy, they needed protection from the ashes!!! So, they had a little chat about what to do and found the ultimate solution...
I proudly present their efficient little helper to fight aliens and ash clouds!!! The stylish (of course) "bad ash helmet"!!!
The bad ash helmet will soon be available for all sizes worldwide in a shop near you!!!
But the ash cloud did not only bring design awards for the bad ash helmet, it also caused BIG trouble to Lippe's schedule!!! He was set to fly to the USA after visiting Jazzy, but the cloud said NO, no one's gonna fly, where I am flying!!! Naughty!!!
Lippe was grounded and we had to find another solution!!! And the solution was called @Kolo_Martin!!! He offered to welcome Lippe at his house, as his pawson was kept grounded too, not because of the ashes, but due to an illness, which suddenly occured, when she was on her way to the airport, to catch a flight to Texas!!! Because of Judith's Texas holiday, Lippe was originally set to visit Kolo and his family on his way back home from the US and Australia, but destiny brought them together earlier!!!
There was a BIG pawty to say goodbye to Lippe at da Jazzy's house, but no one knew, he would return!!! But that's another story to tell... Oh yes, Lippe wanted adventure and he got plenty of it!!!
Moving on to Kolo was a rather short trip, as the Isle of Wight is not too far away from London and Kolo's pawson Judith even is a born London girl!!! The beautiful isle is located in the English channel 3-8 miles off the south coast of England and you can only reach it by hovercraft!!! What fun for Lippe!!!
The first thing Lippe saw when he arrived, were Kolo's wide open arms, to give him one of his BIG baboon hugs!!! And we all know, Kolo is a professional hugger!!!
Lippe mentioned to be a bit hungry, just a tiny bit and Kolo and his mate @Leroy_Sealion offered him chocolates and a warm welcome tea.
That made Lippe feel at home right away and he told Kolo and Leroy everything he had seen so far. They were quite impressed by his stories!!!
But Kolo had something on tab to impress with as well - his lovely garden!!! He took Lippe outside to show him around.
Lippe just loved Kolo's beautiful balcony with all the flowers and had to check if he could offer a helping hand to water them.
And Kolo had another surprise for Lippe - he and his family have their own football museum at their house!!! At least do they have enough footy collectibles, to open | 626 |
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Solid advice on back pain
2017-02-05 Raoul Popback pain, books, Exercise, health, pain
I recently finished reading a book called "Ending back pain: 5 powerful steps to diagnose, understand and treat your ailing back", written by Dr. Jack Stern, a back surgeon. Here's the English cover:
And for those of you who are in Romania, here's the Romanian cover:
Some of you may remember that I dealt with a bout of debilitating back pain in 2015-2016. As a matter of fact, as I write this short book review, I get to celebrate a year of living a fairly normal life again — as opposed to crawling on all fours and unable to walk, hopped up on pain killers and yet still in excruciating pain.
So it is with the authority given to me by first-hand experience that I recommend this book to you. Back pain has become an epidemic nowadays, because of the way most of us live and think, and there's a very good chance that if you're reading this and are over the age of 30, you've had some back pain. I know 25-year olds who are struggling with back pain. This was unheard of just a few decades ago. Back pain used to be a thing old people complained about. Not anymore.
This book truly does what it promises to do in its title. It walks you through its five steps that help you self-diagnose your back pain, guides you in the process of selecting a specialist to assist with your recovery and gives you solid advice about how to stop the pain from reoccurring.
What I liked about it (and there are many things to like) was its holistic approach. The author doesn't stress surgery, even though he's a successful and experienced surgeon. Like me, he thinks surgery is the absolute last resort. Even more so, he talks a great deal about natural ways to treat the back pain. He's not entrenched in the allopathic approach which, let's be honest, has failed quite miserably in the treatment of back in recent decades.
What you'll take away from the book depends on your particular situation, but what I want you to understand going in, is that back pain is a complicated beast that can have many causes: physical, psychological, genetic, postural, mechanical, food, lack of exercise and so on. Your particular back pain, even though it may have the same symptoms as that of someone else, may have entirely different causes. That's where this book shines: it talks about those causes and helps you to identify what's really ailing you, what's at the root of your back pain.
I've gained valuable insights through the reading of this book. It confirmed things I intuited when I was sinking deeper and deeper into a spiral of pain and despair and revealed new things to me about the nature of my particular back pain. It'll do the same for you if you read it in earnest, studiously and with the intent of getting to the bottom of things.
Good luck and good health!
Chasing RFI Waves – Part Seven
2012-04-15 Raoul Pop#WPLongform, books, chasing rfi waves, national radio astronomy observatory, nrao, photos, research, rfi, science 4 Comments
Here is part seven (the final part) of my non-fiction work about the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia. You can also read parts one, two, three, four, five and six.
The NRAO fleet
The cars used on the NRAO campus are different from what you might expect. You'll see photos of them below, and in case you're wondering why they look so old, let me explain.
Gasoline-powered cars generate more RFI than diesel-powered cars because they have spark plugs. That meant that NRAO had to purchase diesel cars when they bought their original fleet, and by the way, these cars are part of that original purchase. When NRAO wanted to renew their fleet, they found out they couldn't, because the newer diesel-powered cars on the market were all using chips and various other electrical equipment (seat belt buzzers, door buzzers, etc.) that generated unwanted RFI. Any electrical ark (spark plugs, power lines, bad thermostats, etc.) generates broadband radio signals, at various frequencies throughout the spectrum but mostly at the lower frequencies, below 2 GHz or so. So that meant they had to stick with their original fleet, whose diesel engines used no computer chips whatsoever and generated little RFI. You may look at these cars and call them clunkers but to NRAO technicians and scientists, they're reliable modes of transportation that do not interfere with their research.
You may see newer cars in the parking lot, but they're not used on campus. Only these blue diesel cars can go under and around the telescopes without causing problems.
Because they have no new technology to warm up the engine block on cold mornings, they keep them plugged in whenever they're parked, to make sure they can be started right away and to keep down on the wear and tear on the engines.
We were ferried around the NRAO campus in one of these cars by Mr. Sizemore, and they're quite comfortable.
One thing I can't get used to in these old cars is the gear shifter. It's so long and seems so awkwardly placed…
More on the telescopes
One of the telescopes on site is used as a teaching instrument. NRAO, being involved in both research and educational efforts, brings groups of school-age children on-site to teach them about radio astronomy. The telescope is not a fancy, cryogenically cooled machine but a simple wire-mesh dish with simple control and monitoring gear that the kids can play with. It's fully functional though, and it does pick up many radio waves. It's sufficient to teach radio astronomy and galactic coordinate systems and such.
The National Youth Science Camp is just up the road from NRAO. For two weeks each summer, groups of teachers (high school and college) come to NRAO for an intense course in radio astronomy. The staff turn on the knowledge firehose and "really pour it on them", as Mr. Sizemore puts it. They have classes during the day and then do research at night with the telescopes. He says it's not unusual at the end of two weeks to see them walking around the campus, muttering to themselves.
After they complete the course, they can bring their own students to NRAO (for a day or so) and use the 40-foot learning telescope to teach them about radio astronomy without much intervention from NRAO Staff.
As the young researchers sit and wait by the telescopes for the stars to come into position, they have nothing to do, so they doodle or draw. Sue Ann Heatherly, the NRAO Education Officer, loves to collect the better ones and she puts them up on the walls of various NRAO corridors.
As we drove around, Mr. Sizemore pointed to a dish and told me it was a polar mount, and that I will never see a dish built like that again. It's mounted on the plane of the galaxy (Milky Way) not the earth coordinate system. It's a right ascension and declination mount. If you were to stand on the axis of the telescope and look at the sky, you would be looking directly at Polaris, the North Star. (By comparison, the GBT (Green Bank Telescope) is mounted as an elevation and azimuth drive system, which is an earth based system. ) The reason this telescope was built like this in the 1950s is because computer power at that time wasn't fast enough to translate between the coordinates of the galaxy and the solar system in realtime. Now even a pocket calculator can do it.
Although the telescope has been sitting unused for 10 years, they recently brought it back online in order to do atmospheric research studies with MIT. The study involves bouncing radio signals off the satellites around the Earth, then measuring those signals to see how they were perturbed by the atmosphere. The MIT researchers brought their own trailer on-site, with their own receiver and computer equipment. After some work mitigating RFI leaks from the trailer, they were ready to go and NRAO was happy to see the telescope back in action.
When it comes to the GBT (Green Bank Telescope) one of the things NRAO doesn't want to do with such a large telescope is to set up vibrations in the structure when it's started and stopped. The way they handle that is to mount both forward and reverse motors at each drive wheel. In order to stop or start it, all the technicians have to do is to increase the current on the motors that move in the direction they need, and the structure will stop or start as fast or as slow as they want it. When you think about this and other precision equipment mounted on the dish, like the laser leveling equipment and the motors that power each plate in the dish, Mr. Sizemore likened the GBT to "building a battleship with the precision of a Swiss watch".
Even the track of the telescope is leveled to within 1/5,000th of an inch, and the rest of the structure is comparable to that all the way up. What about the land settling over time, I asked? There are no such problems, he replied, because they went all the way down to bedrock when they laid the foundation (about 40 feet).
The local cement contractor had no competition when it came to the contract for laying the foundation. The closest competitor was about 40 miles away, on the other side of the mountain, so he got the contract and had to rent three additional cement mixer/pouring trucks in order to keep up with the demand. For the entire period (three or four weeks) that it took to pour the foundation, the man kept grinning as his trucks pulled into the construction site, because he stood to make a lot of money.
The NRQZ monitoring station
While I was on-site, Mr. Sizemore showed me his "hiding place" – his monitoring station. It's a big trailer that can be hauled from place to place, but has been made stationary and hooked up to the power lines. That's where he does most of his work. Here he monitors the gross violations of the Quiet Zone and also looks at the local environment: powerline noise, illegal use of radios, etc.
For example, at the time of my visit there, the amateur radio bands were being used improperly by a group of people and the signal was strong enough to overload the 140-foot telescope, so it became a serious problem. Wesley told me that the problem will likely be taken care of long before I write up about it, and the likely action taken will be that he calls the FCC in to enforce the rules in place. After 20 years on the job, Wesley has built up a network of contacts he can call upon when he needs help. One of those contacts is the man in charge of the Enforcement Bureau at the FCC, whom Wesley knew when he was still a satellite technician.
While I was recording our talk, I asked Wesley if he could see the interference generated by my recorder, and he worked up a quick setup to find the noise it created. Sure enough, he tuned into the noise generated by my iPod as it was recording our conversation within a couple of minutes.
One of the teaching tools he uses with school groups that visit NRAO is a metal trashcan (a Faraday cage with an antenna and amplifier mounted inside the lid). He takes his spectrum analyzer, connects it to the antenna and amplifier assembly, then gets a student volunteer to put in their phone or laptop or MP3 player, then he shows the whole group the interference those devices create. The only thing the antenna sees is the RFI generated by the device put in the trash can, because it's a Faraday cage. Everyone is invariably wowed by this.
As we drove around the NRAO campus, we came across a car with a "cantenna" (a directional waveguide antenna for long-range WiFi), and I immediately pointed it out to Mr. Sizemore, as I knew he'd be on the lookout for WiFi transmissions in the area. Smirking, he admitted that was his service car, and he told me the story behind it. The FCC had donated it to NRAO, who had been using it to sniff out illegal transmissions. The car actually had antennas built into its roof and was already fitted with equipment for sniffing out radio transmissions. Mr. Sizemore outfitted it with WiFi "sniffing" equipment as well: a laptop with NetStumbler and a bunch of other apps, a GPS device for marking the location of RFI-causing WiFi and a "cantenna" on the roof, that he could rotate and point at various WiFi sources.
Before retiring from NRAO (years after my interviews with him), Mr. Sizemore outfitted a new Dodge Ram extended cab truck as an RFI vehicle, a feat which was written up in USA Today.
NRAO and the community
As we drove around the campus, Mr. Sizemore pointed to the farmhouses that surrounded NRAO. When the government took over the land, they invoked the right of imminent domain, forcing the farmers to move. That generated animosity toward the observatory, because the land was fertile and it was good for farming.
With time, things got better, to the point where there was only one farmer left who couldn't stand NRAO and wouldn't ever let them step on his property. All of the powerlines and phone lines for NRAO were routed around his property. At one point, the man chased Mr. Sizemore's predecessor off with a stick. If NRAO staff ever had to go visit him, they'd take a deputy sheriff with them. When Mr. Sizemore began working there, he knew to steer clear of the farm.
One day though, he got a call from the man. He had an outside TV amplifier, a tube-type amplifier made by a company called Blonder-Tongue, which had been struck by lightning. The old man couldn't find anyone to repair it and he didn't want to spend money to get a new one. He called the only one whom he knew could help. Mr. Sizemore was of course glad to do it, because he'd finally be able to atone for the bad blood between NRAO and the farmer.
He drove out to the man's place, where he had to wait off the property for the amplifier to be brought to him (he still wasn't allowed on the farm) and took it back to the lab to see what he could do.
He called Blonder-Tongue and was told they hadn't made that amplifier model in 20 years, and they hadn't serviced it for 10 years. They didn't think they could help. Mr. Sizemore insisted he speak with a supervisor and as luck would have it, the repair supervisor was an elderly guy who remembered working on them when he'd started with the company. He said, "Send it to me, and I'll show these young technicians how things used to be." Mr. Sizemore explained the entire situation to the man, about NRAO and the farmer, then mailed off the amplifier to the repair supervisor.
The amplifier came back repaired and it didn't cost anything either. The old farmer was elated when he got it back. He put it back up and everything was fine until a week later, when he called Mr. Sizemore. You know the old saying about lightning not striking twice? Not true for the old man. His amplifier had been struck again.
He didn't want to let Mr. Sizemore examine his property, to see if the lightning strikes could be prevented, so all he could do was to mail it off to Blonder-Tongue once more. Sure enough, it came back repaired as new again, at no charge. Thankfully, to the day of the interview, the amplifier evaded other lightning strikes so things were fine between NRAO and the old man.
Thanks to Mr. Sizemore's efforts, NRAO enjoys a very good relationship with the community. Being an isolated rural community, where all they have is each other, they tend to pull together and help each other.
For example, some people had learned to recognize the interference from awry TV amplifiers, which would show up as a herringbone pattern on their sets, and would call Mr. Sizemore to let him know. They also knew what powerline interference looked like, because it would show up on their sets once again, generating a specific noise pattern.
The NRAO site is basically a wildlife preserve. They let the animals live and roam free. The only practice they instituted a few years back was a controlled deer hunt, because the deer population had gotten out of control. Before they began, the Wildlife Management Institute wanted to do a headcount of the deer, so they fitted a plane with thermal imaging equipment and started to fly over the NRAO site one night.
Because they hadn't publicized this, the local people didn't know what was happening and all they could see was a plane which kept circling over NRAO at night. They thought the plane was in trouble, so they all pulled together, drove to the local airport (next to NRAO) and shone their headlights on the landing strip, to help it land. Well, after a while, they figured out the plane wasn't in trouble and went home, but let's just say that the next time WMI decided to do nighttime wildlife studies, they publicized it widely, to make sure everyone knew what was going on.
The NEACP encounters
As we talk about flyovers, another good story is that of the NEACP encounters. When the Cold War was going on, the US Military always had an aircraft in the air at all times, an airborne command post (NEACP: National Emergency Airborne Command Post). There were multiple such aircraft in service and one was in flight at all times. One would take off before one would land.
When they would fly over NRAO, all the radio equipment on board those planes (they used 1,000 Watt transmitters) would overload NRAO's equipment with RFI. Mr. Sizemore found the number for CMOC (Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center) and spoke to one of the people involved with NEACP. He introduced himself and said, "You have this aircraft, using this callsign, operating at this frequency, at this location." They got upset right away, because they didn't want anyone to know what their routes were. They started questioning Mr. Sizemore about the source of his information, to which he simply replied, "I used a 300-foot telescope and I looked at your aircraft." Then he continued to explain: "I have to track this source of interference down. That is my job. I have a solution. Let me send you my observing schedule every month, to tell you what frequencies I'll be observing on what days and tell you my station, and then you'll be able to avoid me. And if you can't avoid me, you can let me know, and I'll tell the astronomers to take a coffee break."
As a result of that phone call, Mr. Sizemore got the NEACP to avoid the Green Bank area, and when they couldn't avoid it, he got a few calls from them when they had to pass over NRAO, after which he would quickly tell the astronomers to take a break, as their equipment would soon get overloaded, making the data unusable.
That's the end of part seven and the series. As mentioned at the start, this work is unfinished, and that's why you don't see a nice story arc with good closure, but I hope that what I've published has proven enjoyable and interesting for you and has sparked your interest in radio astronomy and NRAO. You can also read parts one, two, three, four, five, and six.
I'd like to once again thank Wesley Sizemore, without whom this text would not be written (or edited properly). Thank you Mr. Sizemore!
Chasing RFI Waves – Part Six
Here is part six of my non-fiction work about the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. You can also read parts one, two, three, four, five and seven.
The NRAO site is around 2,700 acres. It runs along the crest of the adjoining mountains. One big current problem, that will only get bigger in time, are wireless routers folks are starting to use in their homes. Mr. Sizemore has actually gone out and identified every wireless router in the area. At the time of writing there were 45 such routers.
The NRQZ (National Radio Quiet Zone) gives the NRAO the right to file comments to the federal frequency regulation bodies (FCC and NTIA) for permanent, fixed, licensed radio transmitters wishing to be installed in the NRQZ. The NRAO does not have any "power" to regulate radio use. However, the FCC and NTIA "determine", in most cases, that it is in the public interest to uphold the NRQZ protection requests. However, there is a West Virginia state law that provides protection within a 10 mile radius of a radio telescope from any source, licensed or unlicensed, that causes interference. A wireless router, like a garage door opener, is an unlicensed device and thus falls under the state law.
Still, each case of interference has to be treated individually, and it is in everyone's interest that it's resolved it in a friendly way, for the sake of community relations. At the time of writing, Mr. Sizemore was working with the NRAO lawyers and local legislators to see how the problem of wireless routers could be addressed. They're a<|fim_middle|> off to have it nickel-plated. They also replaced the copper fabric on the walls around the windows with nickel fabric. If you put nickel and copper together, the electrolytic action isn't as bad and it doesn't corrode.
When they were refitting the windows in the GBT control room to do away with the "battery effect", they had to do a lot of banging. As they started away in the morning, they banged at the frames for about a half hour or so, until Phil Jewell, the Deputy NRAO Director, whose office was directly underneath, walked in to see what was going on, with a confused look on his face. Nathan couldn't resist: "Hey Phil, did we wake ya?" he spouted, a huge grin spreading across his face. Wesley was quiet as a mouse, not knowing how Phil would react to Nathan. Thankfully, Mr. Jewell just grinned and walked away.
They still had a problem with the sweating on the windows, which they needed to alleviate, since they were still made of metal that could corrode over time, though at a much slower rate than before. Some of the scientists on-site got together and offered a bunch of "solutions". One of them was to put Plexiglas over the windows to keep air circulation to a minimum. But then another decided to drill holes in the Plexiglass to keep the air circulating through, since the sweating still occurred. They then used a fan to blow air over the windows to cut down on the circulation. Not very practical!
The final solution was offered by one of the technicians, who happened to live in a mobile home. For those of you who haven't had this experience – including me – windows sweat a lot in mobile homes. He went to the general store in town and got a little window kit from 3M. It's film that is applied to the windows and shrunk with a blowdryer. After the fix was proven, the 3M film was replaced with plexiglass with a resealable access hole to allow desiccant packs to be inserted between the window and plexiglass covers.
Each window now has a round hole at the bottom that is used to exchange the dessicant packs once in a while, and also a moisture indicator that points out the approximate time when the packs need to be changed.
Sometimes it's a little hard to see the forest for the trees. It helps to stop over-analyzing things sometimes. It certainly becomes less of a headache when the problem is far less complex than originally thought!
In the Control Room, the GBT operator constantly monitors the equipment from the Control Console. The operator is responsible for two main things: the safe operation of the telescope, and the implementation of the different observing programs that various astronomers use. The observation is done in various modes. Normally most astronomers come and "babysit" their programs to make sure they're getting the data they need, although the trend nowadays is to observe more and more by remote access. The advantage with being there is they can change their program on the fly if adjustments need to be made. Other programs are run over and over, so there's no need for the astronomer to be there. NRAO operators record the data and ship it off to the astronomers.
In some cases, people that do research there win the Nobel Prize. In other cases, there are people who look at their data then chuck it to the circular file and try again. Some of the research pans out and some of it doesn't. NRAO is a basic research institute and that means a lot of effort is put in to look at things that only matter down the road.
In the computer control room, separated from the main area by a glass wall, the collective whir of each of the computers adds up to a somewhat deafening noise. The interesting thing about NRAO is that it has a good mix of both old and new technology. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this room. Most of the equipment in there is one of a kind. The pictures here are worth a thousand words. The synthesizer filters, the front panels, the painting of these panels, is all done in-house.
All of the fiber lines from the GBT come right into the equipment room, where the optical signal is converted back into a radio signal.
The spectral processor is another big piece they have in the room. Wesley told me to think of it as nothing more than a big radio. It takes the radio signals it receives and splits them into 1,024 different channels. Then if they have interference on one channel, they can drop it and still reclaim part of the data, provided the interfering signal is not strong enough to overload the first amplifier. The newer spectral process has over 250,000 channels and the technology gets better with each year.
If the signal is strong enough to overload the cryogenic amplifier, and drives it into a non-linear portion of its amplification, then everything in the entire band is lost. The data has to be collected again once the interference is done away with. If the interference is there but not strong enough to overload the first amplifier, then they may be able to drop that interference provided it doesn't occur precisely on the astronomical signal you're looking at: same frequency/wavelength. That's what the spectral processor is good at.
Inside the spectral processor you'll find another oddity that's part of that mix of unique, old and new equipment. The circuit boards aren't printed (they don't have the circuits embedded into them) but they are wire-wrapped. The cards have little posts sticking out of them, and wires are run from post to post to post. It's very old technology, but it works great. It's something NRAO has a lot of experience with, it's very robust, and it's cheap to do one card that way. If they were going to do dozens of cards, they would ship them out and have them done as printed circuits.
They also have equipment manufactured by other organizations. For example, they have a CalTech Pulsar machine. They get very picky about the equipment brought on-site. They have to be careful that it doesn't interfere with the other equipment there, and especially not with the telescopes.
NRAO operates frequency and time standards on the site. Because of the sensitivity of their work, they have to have very accurate frequency standards. They operate a hydrogen maser, a machine that gives them very accurate 5 MHz readings that are piped all over the site. Everything then gets slaved to that signal.
They also operate an atomic clock on site that gives a very accurate time standard. The clock may go away in the future, since a time signal just as accurate can be obtained from the GPS satellites.
Here Mr. Sizemore pointed out a common point of confusion for many people. Stores sometimes sell atomic clocks or watches. They aren't atomic clocks as scientists define them. A real atomic clock has a Cesium atom movement in it. The movement of those atoms is used to drive it. The clocks one can buy at Radio Shack or Sharper Image are normal digital clocks with a radio receiver built-in that can tune into the time signal transmitted by our government and set itself. Not quite the same thing.
One of their research efforts involves trying to excise interference from the astronomical data, provided, of course, that the amplifier isn't overloaded. They are looking at a real-time solution, one that would involve an antenna that receives and records only the interference, and the normal dish would record all of the signals. The two recordings would then be spliced together and the interference would be excised. It sounds simple, but it gets more complicated in practice. At any rate, one of the NRAO scientists is working on that very project.
And that's the end of part five. You can also read parts one, two, three, four, six and seven.
Chasing RFI Waves – Part Four
Here is part four of my non-fiction work about the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. You can also read parts one, two, three, five, six and seven.
A Walk Through the Jansky Lab
This is the place at NRAO where all of the circuitry is put together for the observatory. It was named after Karl Jansky.
First, let's understand their particular kind of telescope. We normally think of a lens-based device when we hear the term "telescope" but in NRAO's case, a telescope refers to a large radio antenna that helps them "see" radio signals that are emitted far away.
A radio telescope operates in two different fashions. In the first, radio signals come from space, hit the main reflector, the sub-reflector, and are then are beamed down to the receiver room. For the second type, a boom is swung out above the dish, and the signal is reflected directly into the receiver that gets mounted on the boom. For both types of telescopes, the signal is fed into a receiver through a feed horn that's machined out of aluminum and anodized. The receiver is housed in a vacuum.
The observatory has a complete machine shop, where they make their own circuits and components. The feedhorn is a funnel for radio signals. It's ridged, and there's a very good reason for that. The explanation is complicated – too complicated for me to understand – but the net effect is that it clarifies the radio waves; it breaks up different modes of propagation within the feed horn itself. The point is that you want to funnel the signal without affecting it. Mr. Sizemore's droll statement about feed horns is as follows: "I'm not a feed engineer, I don't want to be a feed engineer, there is entirely too much math involved."
The feed horn isn't made from layers, it's a single machined piece, milled from the inside. Feedhorns vary in size, but they fulfill the same purpose every time: they funnel the radio waves into the receiver.
Inside the receiver, they've got a wave guide, which is nothing more than a metal conduit, but it's a very special conduit, that drives the signals directly to the amplifier through the vacuum chamber, which is called a "dewar vessel".
An ortho-mode transducer "straightens out" the radio waves. If you look at the antennas in your neighborhood, you might see they're pointed either vertically or horizontally. Most of the man-made radio signals are transmitted with a linear polarization. They're either horizontal or vertical. The ortho-mode transducer takes circularly polarized astronomical radio signals and splits them into horizontal and vertical radio signals. These transducers also vary in size depending on the telescope where they're used.
All of the receivers are housed in vacuum chambers equipped with refrigerator pumps. All of the components are built in-house. The amplifiers, for example, are made in the Central Development Lab in Charlottesville, VA. Because the operations at the observatory are so unique, there are no companies making certain parts, and NRAO has to manufacture them. I gathered from talking to Mr. Sizemore that most every time they relied on outside contractors to do work at the observatory for certain projects, the results were much less than satisfactory, even with close supervision. In the end, more time, effort and money was spent with contractors, when it would have been quicker to do things in-house. The rule now is that they do everything they can do, unless it's not feasible or practical.
NRAO has gotten more involved with fiber optics. Interference problems in the past weren't necessarily caused by the feed from the receiver, but from the cables that connect the receiver to the control room. What NRAO now does is to convert the radio signals to optical signals and bring them to the control room that way, unaffected by line noise. It's converted back to a radio signal there, without any loss.
Long cables act just like antennas, and pick up signals unwittingly. That's why the quality of your cable TV signal improves if you use higher quality coaxial lines (thicker copper, more shielding). That's also why Monster Cable is doing so well. They've managed to convince most folks that it's worth it to pay extra for higher quality cables if you want less interference. Same concept. The difference there is that you experience little to unnoticeable interference for short cable runs like the ones from your TV to your amplifier, for example, so unless you're using really poor cables, your signal will barely suffer.
Another analogy is the use of optical fiber lines to connect buildings on a common LAN (Local Area Network). The signal would simply die out or incur too much interference if it would be carried through regular CAT5 cables from building to building, especially if they're spread apart, so what's done is the electrical signals from the CAT5 cable are converted to optical signals in a switch room, then carried through a fiber optic line from one building to another, where they are once more converted to electrical signals in another switch room. What people have now started doing is to forgo fiber optic lines altogether and simply transmit the signal through laser from one building to another. It's still an optical transmission; it's like shining a flashlight and seeing the beam. Here you'd need a clear line of sight, and during inclement weather, the quality of the connection would decrease or drop out altogether.
Usually, an engineer and a technician are assigned as a team to take care of a receiver. This photo shows the work being done on the W band receiver, which is a high-frequency receiver. NRAO hopes to be able to receive the high-frequency band in late spring or early summer of 2006, which is when I hope this book will be published [sic]!
The higher in frequency folks get, the harder it gets to focus the waves, because they are so small that any irregularities in the dish shape can smear them, or put them out of focus. As work is being done on the higher-frequency receiver, they've got to be really careful about what they're doing, or things won't work properly.
Most of your current devices have something called Field Effect Transistors. NRAO uses High Electron Mobility Transistors, which are the next generation of transistors. NRAO happens to be the proving ground for new technology. The first transistor they used cost about $50,000. Its manufacturer, a company in Japan, gave it to NRAO for free, asking them to try it. If NRAO would be happy with it, they'd know everyone would be also. Why? Nobody works to the standards of NRAO, in terms of signal fidelity, clarity, etc. If an electronics company can satisfy NRAO, they've just satisfied everybody in the world. For that reason, it's not seldom that companies contact NRAO and offer them products to try. All that they ask is for data in return. How did the product behave? What are its limitations? What can be improved? It works out very well for both parties. That's one of the direct spin-offs for NRAO's work. Everyone in the world benefits indirectly from the work they do.
Most amplifiers at NRAO start out as solid pieces of aluminum. They're machined by them, on-site. Nowadays, the amplifiers are made at the Central Development Lab in Charlottesville, VA, also part of NRAO. Again, the rationale is very simple. That sort of a product simply can't be bought commercially. It's not available, just like most of NRAO's components – they are one of a kind.
One of the other things that NRAO has gotten involved with is the surface-mount technology for different electronic components. Some of them are so small that if you were to sneeze around the technician, it would very likely mess up his work.
Each little cubbyhole, people are building different components. In one, folks are at work on the Alma Array, which is getting built in the Chilean Atacama Dessert. JD, a technician, and one of the engineers, are working on the little cards (circuits) that will process the signals received there. The Array will employ many telescopes and many cards will be needed.
It's a good working environment at NRAO. It's a rural area, so by nature people try to maintain good relationships. In Wesley's words, "the guy you piss off may be the guy you need to help you get out of the ditch in the winter," so there are extra incentives to maintaining friendly relationships. There are some downsides, as well. For major shopping, the closest towns are 1 ½ hours away, like Harrisonburg or Roanoke.
Interferometers and the GBT
The United States is not the only country involved in radio astronomy. There are observatories throughout the world. There are maps in one of the NRAO lobbies showing the locations of such observatories. The unique thing about the Greenbank observatory is that it is protected by the National Radio Quiet Zone. This is the only area where folks are compelled to coordinate all radio frequencies with NRAO. There are some other areas in the world such as Puerto Rico, where limited frequencies are controlled.
Incidentally, the Puerto Rico telescope was used in one of the James Bond movies. The NRAO folks are waiting (but not holding their breaths) for the Green Bank Telescope, the GBT, to be used in one of the science-fiction movies. It's just so out of this world, in both its proportion and look, that it's bound to end up in a sci-fi movie sooner or later.
Some of the telescopes are single dishes, and some are arrays. Why do you need an array of dishes? Well, why do you have two eyes instead of one? The answer is depth perception.
The term in radio astronomy is spatial resolution, but it's the same thing. You want the large collecting area of the single dish in order to get the weak signals. You want the arrays of telescopes in order to get the depth perception. Ideally, NRAO would like to have an array of GBTs, but it's not economically feasible. In those cases, the GBT can be used as one part of an interferometer – that's another word for arrays. That way you can get the best of both worlds. You can have a large collecting area – for signal strength – and a remote telescope, somewhere else, that gives the astronomers the base line signal, for spatial resolution. The further your "eyes" are spread apart, the better you perceive "depth".
For telescopes that are close together, technicians can use wave guides to gather signals from each, but for telescopes that are far apart, it becomes impossible. So what NRAO does is to use GPS signals. Each one of the telescopes records the data individually and marks it with GPS ticks from GPS satellites. The data then gets sent to the Array Operations Center, where all of the data is brought together and synced using the GPS timing ticks.
One of the first interferometers built was at Green Bank. It was a three-element interferometer. It worked great, so they got some money together and built the array in New Mexico, which is currently an array of 27 telescopes and will be expanded to 35-40 telescopes in the near future.
They got even more excited about the capabilities of interferometers and decided to make a very long baseline array of 10 telescopes. They used 8 telescopes in the US, one in the Virgin Islands, and one in Hawaii.
The long baseline array also worked very well, so they set to work on building an even bigger array. Unfortunately, the found out it couldn't be done on the face of the Earth. If the telescopes are too far apart, they can't see the same object at the same time. The solution to the problem is to put a radio telescope in orbit around the Earth. NRAO actually did a project with Japanese researchers, where they put a telescope in an elliptical orbit around the Earth, and NRAO used the GBT to get the best of both worlds. They had the large collecting area for signal strength and a huge baseline for spatial resolution.
Let's carry the situation even further. "What about sticking one on the moon?" I asked Mr. Sizemore. "We would like to," he said. There are plans to do that. Ideally, it should be located on the dark side of the Moon, because it's never toward us – the Earth. It always faces toward space, and thus would incur significantly less interference from radio signals coming from the Earth than terrestrial telescopes. The stepping-stone to that would be to put a telescope at the LaGrange points, the gravitational balance points between the Earth and the Moon or the Earth and the Sun.
This is the 300 ft telescope that fell down some time ago. It was a perfectly calm night, there was no wind, no weather at all. When it collapsed, they decided to do a finite element analysis on it, and discovered (after the fact) that indeed it would have fallen down sooner or later. At the time it was built, it was designed to the best of the available technology. Unfortunately it simply reached the end of its useful age. Nobody was at fault. What actually happened was that a gusset (a joining place) cracked, and when it failed, it took about 12 seconds for the entire telescope to crash down. They were able to determine that from watching the temperature data on the receiver. The temperature went up as the telescope went down, and then the data simply stopped recording as the sensors and wires got destroyed. Remember, the receiver's kept in a refrigerated vacuum, and it stopped functioning when the structure started coming apart. NRAO sold the telescope for $10,000 for scrap metal, then it cost them $30,000 to clean up the asbestos damage in the building. "We actually lost on that deal," said Mr. Sizemore.
He went on: "Senator Byrd, bless his heart, was able to get an emergency one-time appropriation to rebuild the telescope. NRAO used that money to build the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), which is a very unique piece of machinery."
The GBT has several innovations. The most obvious innovation is the offset feed. If you look at the other telescopes on site, you will see they all have the boom holding the receiver in the center of the reflector. Not so with the GBT – it has its receiver off-center. With a center-mounted feed, man-made signals will get reflected by the legs of the boom and cause interference. The GBT doesn't have that problem. All of the astronomical signals get correctly reflected into the sub-reflector, then into the receiver, and from there get transported into the Control Room.
Another unique innovation about the GBT is that it's fully adjustable. All of the panels – and there are over 2,000 panels – can be moved individually. The moving weight on the telescope's track is about 17,000,000 pounds. NRAO believes the GBT is the largest moving object on ground, and no one has disputed that yet. The only larger moving object on Earth is a ship at sea. The tipping weight on the elevation axle this year is around 13,000,000 pounds.
When you tip that much weight, gravity will tend to sag the reflecting surface and distort it. NRAO needs to keep that reflector as accurate to a parabolic shape as possible, because that will dictate their efficiency at high frequencies, where the wavelengths are shorter.
The dish is built in such a way that they can adjust each individual panel to take out any deformations in the overall shape. The original plan for solving this problem was to use a laser ranging system. Twelve lasers were set up around the dish, giving them a known reference plane. They would then use additional lasers pointed at the dish, at the feed arm, and other different points on the structure. Any movement of the structure could be monitored that way. By doing this, they found out that the gravity deformation was not as serious as the thermal deformation. The structure was getting heated and cooled at different rates depending on where those parts were located. The chief culprit was the sun. It would shine only on certain portions and not on others, subsequently causing thermal expansion in those exposed parts. So NRAO stopped relying on the laser sensors, and started using thermal sensors. They mounted about 20 such sensors around the structure, in order to compute the thermal variations and use that data to correct the focus of the receiver and the positions of the individual plates in the dish. They are still working out the details of the thermal sensor monitoring and adjustment. Once they work this part out, they'll go back to the laser sensors for the fine tuning. Their goal is to keep the 100-meter dish within 1/5,000th of an inch of the horizontal plane. That's the thickness of a sheet of paper. Amazing, isn't it?
Because of the fine adjustments they can make, they are able to advance to higher frequencies such as 50 GHz and soon, 100 GHz. They are doing science that hasn't been done before. They are finding things that could not be found with any other instrument in the world.
Mr. Sizemore showed me photographs of the construction of the dish. What many people don't know is that it was built three times! It was put together once, at the manufacturer site, then it was taken apart and shipped to NRAO. Once there, as many of the parts as possible were assembled on the ground. A large crane was then used to lift them into place.
One of the other unique innovations of the structure is that it is a continuously welded structure. There are no bolts supporting weight in the GBT. They will never build a structure like this that is bolted together, including bridges. When the 300-foot telescope collapsed, they did an analysis and found out that the collapse was caused by a tiny crack in the material that had gotten larger over time. Engineering studies have actually shown that any time one punches a hole in metal, one makes a stress fracture that will propagate over time. What one must then do to avoid these fractures is to never punch holes in metal that is supporting weight. It must be welded.
In building the GBT, over 50 tons of welding wire were used. About 300 welders tested for the job, and only about 30 of them passed. The welding needed to be very precise and very accurate. Some of the passes they had to weld involved dozens and dozens of back and forth welds to fill up large gaps. Of course, NRAO does constant testing of the structure. All of the welds are inspected, radiographs are also taken, and all of the constant maintenance ensures the structure remains in great shape.
That was part four. You can also read parts one, two, three, five, six and seven.
Chasing RFI Waves – Part Three
Here is part three of my non-fiction work about the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. You can also read parts one, two, four, five, six and seven.
Chasing the Interference
Wesley Sizemore's job at NRAO is to safeguard the NRQZ (National Radio Quiet Zone). As such, he is made aware of any RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) to the work being done at NRAO, whenever it occurs.
Following are stories about chasing the RFI, which are not only interesting in and of themselves, but provide very good data about how sensitive NRAO's telescopes truly are and why it is imperative that the NRQZ is properly maintained.
RFI may occur at night, but Mr. Sizemore will still only start chasing it in the mornings. He prefers not to go out chasing signals at night, because most of the folks in the surrounding area are hunters, they have loaded weapons inside their houses and know how to use them. "You don't go knocking on doors in the middle of the night unless you have a good reason, and you definitely don't go prowling around people's property."
"You get in, you find that you have a source of interference, and that becomes your priority for the day." As a result, he is never able to successfully plan his day. Every day was different. He'd come in expecting to do something, then the phone would ring and his schedule disintegrated.
For example, one day he got a call in the morning when he'd already planned his day that the 140 ft. telescope was receiving interference and after investigating the problem, they found it to be airborne radar. There was nothing to be done about it. An hour later, it was gone. He then started monitoring those bands just to see if and when it'll return.
During most of his career at NRAO, he was the only person taking care of interference. That included administration of the NRQZ and responding to interference complaints from the astronomers. Now there are three, soon to be four people doing it. He's got help on the administrative side and he can devote his time to interference problems.
The Grade School Thermostat
Thermostats arc when they close. They emit a small spark of electricity as two points of contact come together. They do so when the desired temperature in the room is reached. The thermostat measures the room temperature and can also be set to a certain temperature. Each temperature level has a metallic point of contact. When you rotate a thermostat lower or higher than the room temperature, you are in effect putting a little bit of distance between the two metallic points of contact. As the air conditioner or convector then works to increase or decrease the temperature in accordance with your desired setting, the point of contact assigned to the room temperature comes ever closer to the point of contact that corresponds with the setting you've chosen. When they get close enough, they're supposed to make contact, creating a short that activates a circuit which then shuts off your convector.
As thermostats get older, the points of contact get corroded; the room temperature is also measured inaccurately, etc. As the points of contact get closer, they start to chatter before they close. Instead of making contact, they sit there, close enough so that sparks of electricity are exchanged between them. These sparks are tiny enough that you don't see or hear them, but they're big enough to bother the radio telescopes at NRAO.
In this case, Mr. Sizemore came in one morning and found that RFI was occurring in the proximity of the site, and it really affected the work being performed on one of the telescopes. He started to track it.
It took him 2 days to track the signal for ½ mile. The signal was only there for a few seconds every 15-20 minutes. He would have to take the antenna and swing it around, find out which direction the signal was strongest at, and move toward it. You may be able to go about 100 yards, but then you have to sit and wait until the signal re-occurs. When it occurs again for 3-4 seconds, you spin the antenna like mad, and determine the direction again. You slowly triangulate onto the signal. When you finally beat it down to a building, you can finally say that it's in the building. Now it has to be found inside the building. You take portable equipment inside, and you begin to listen to the signal. When it occurs, you say, "It's loudest over here!" Eventually you reach it.
It was one of the heaters at the local school. It would cycle on depending on temperature changes in the room, whether or not kids were going out of the classroom, if windows were opened, etc.
He got to the heater, unplugged it, and waited 30 minutes to see if the noise would reoccur. It didn't. What he did was to take the heater off the wall, took it to the lab and replaced the switch onto the thermostat. Then he took it back down to the school, mounted it, and things worked fine afterwards.
The reason this thermostat was such a problem was that the grade school borders on the NRAO property. It was in a direct line of sight to the telescopes. The signals fall off just like optical signals, inversely proportional to the square of the distance.
Powerline Noise
Anything that generates an electrical arc will generate radio signals. A lot of time is spent chasing down just those things.
A lot of time is spent chasing powerline noise. A powerline can generate radio signals. You've got a power pole, a powerline coming in, and a powerline going out. What you don't want to happen is to have the powerline touching the pole, because that shorts it to ground and creates problems. So what is normally done is that the line is jumpered around the pole. It gets wrapped around a Bell insulator with a little hook. The line then goes around the pole and wraps around another Bell insulator. These insulators are bolted to the pole. There's a metal to metal contact there. If that contact, or hook, gets corroded, you build up a difference of potential between the two metal pieces. The potential will build up and then arc over in order to neutralize itself. This will be an ongoing cycle. Potential builds to a limit, then arcs, only to build up and arc again and again.
For example, if you tune your AM radio between stations and drive around, eventually you will hear the noise from powerline arcs. It'll make a recurring "bzzzzt" noise. Those are the arcs of powerlines. This normally doesn't bother most people, but amateur radio operators have problems with it. Most of it is spectral content, its radio energy is at lower frequencies. Because NRAO dishes are so sensitive, the relatively little arcs will cause problems for them. In the past, NRAO's 300 ft. dish did a lot of pulsar observation, and that particular band is very susceptible to power line noise. Mr. Sizemore spends a lot of time tracking down those noises.
Once the noise is located on his monitoring station, Mr. Sizemore locates it by driving in its general location and using a CB radio as his guide. That can get him as close as a ½ mile of the source. Then he takes a handheld device that will localize it to a particular pole. He swings it around. Since the antenna has a very narrow beam, he can get pretty good direction. He then uses an ultrasound machine – any electrical arc has an ultrasound component to it – to localize it to an area the size of a half dollar. He then contacts the power company and asks for their help in fixing a particular insulator-wire assembly on a particular pole. Understandably, he prefers to let the power company take care of the poles, because of the inherent danger that comes from working with such high voltages.
The Dead-blow Hammer
In the middle of a night, on weekends, you can't call the power company. They're not going to respond to an interference complaint from the observatory. So what do you do if an interference develops during non-business hours?
One of the techniques used is a dead-blow hammer. This is sort of a like a sledgehammer, but it's loaded with shot. When you strike something with it, like a power pole, the hammer hits the pole, then the shot impacts the head of the hammer and vibrates the pole without leaving big marks on the power pole. If you use a regular hammer, all of the energy goes into the pole immediately, not necessarily vibrating it, and you also make a big mark on it, which the power company won't like. With a dead-blow hammer, which has a fairly soft head, you simply make a much less forceful contact with the pole, which in turn causes the shot to impact the hammer head while it is still in contact with the pole, inducing vibrations. These vibrations hopefully remove some of the corrosion at the contact point between the wire and the hook, thus eliminating – or drastically reducing – the arc interference for a matter of hours, or sometimes even days, until it corrodes again. Eventually, of course, the power company will need to come out and replace the worn-out components, tighten the line and make sure things are working well.
Another thing that can be done is to shake the guide-wire of the pole. This wire is what secures the pole to the ground. Think of it as a line coming down from the maypole, or as a line you would tie around a young tree to help keep it pointed straight toward the sky. If you shake or pull on the guide-wire, you can get the top of the pole moving a bit, and thus clear out some of the corrosion and cut down on the interference. One has to be very careful when doing this, because if the top is set into motion, the lines will start to swing and may touch each other, shorting and causing a very large arc to occur. They may even snap or break and fall to the earth, or worse, on you – and that would be the end of you!
At one time, there was some very strong power line noise, fairly close to the observatory site. Mr. Sizemore got a direction on it, got into the mobile unit, found the general area, looked out across the field to the power pole, and he could actually see the wires arcing. The cable from the transformer to the hot clamp, which clamps onto the power cable, was broken. It was laying there, beside it, metal-to-metal contact, visibly arcing. That was as close as he got to it, for safety's sake.
You also run into situations where tree limbs get into the power lines. They will arc and spitter and sputter until the wires burn the limb in two, at which point they fall off. This is why you may see your power company out and about, trimming the branches of all the trees near power lines, once or twice each year.
Once an arc was traced down to a knot in an electric fence that people were using around their garden. They used a monofilament line that had threads of aluminum wire in it. It wasn't a solid wire, so it bent very easily, making it easy to manipulate. A loosely tied knot in the monofilament line was causing interference for NRAO! The solution to that was simple. Mr. Sizemore got the owner to turn off his fence, then he took out his Leatherman tool and tightened the knot. Problem solved! But it took half a day to trace down that particular knot.
There was an elderly couple that had retired from the observatory – they had been employees there – and NRAO started receiving low-frequency interference. Mr. Sizemore jumped into the interference truck and started looking around the site. Normally power line interference is localized to within a line of sight, or a mile or two from the observatory. Because they're in mountainous terrain, once there's an obstacle – a hill, a wall of stone – between the observatory and an earth-bound signal source, they're attenuated enough that they're not a problem. Thankfully for Mr. Sizemore, he doesn't have to patrol a big area because of that.
After chasing the signal for several hours, he localized it. There were several houses there. As usual, he got out of his truck and used his portable equipment to pinpoint the source. It so happened that it was in the couple's backyard. There they had a very nice tent for their dog. Mr. Sizemore loves dogs, has dogs of his own, doesn't hunt, but his characterization of the animal was stark: "it was an elderly dog, an ugly, nasty dog," he said.
Being the lovely couple that they were, they wanted to make their dog as comfortable as possible. The lady had taken her heating pad and placed it outside, in the doghouse. The dog's pen was off to the side of the building and the dog's house was built right against the side of the house and raised off the ground. There was an outlet next to it, rated for outdoor use, and the pad was plugged directly into it. Still, you don't lay on a heating pad. It's written very clearly in the instructions for these products. Also written in the instructions are clear warnings about not using the pad in wet environments. The couple was breaking both rules.
Mr. Sizemore traced the interference signal to the heating pad, which was cycling on and off frequently, because it was outside, in a cold environment. Every time it would turn on, it would generate interference. It was an old pad, worn out, perhaps by the dog's chewing or playing with it, and wires inside were broken. Luckily, for whatever reason, it didn't shock the dog, which was good.
The problem with interference is that NRAO is operating equipment (their radio telescopes) that cost several thousand dollars an hour to operate, and they're picking up garbage due to interference. The solution is to replace defective equipment, within reason.
Mr. Sizemore knew that they made heating pads specifically for dogs. What he had to do for the couple was to take their old heating pad, destroy it and purchase them a new pad after researching the market to see if one was rated for outside-use. A company called RC Steele sold it. He ended up on their mailing list for more than 10 years afterwards and couldn't get off it, just because he bought that one heating pad from them.
That was part three. You can also read parts one, two, four, five, six and seven.
Chasing RFI Waves – Part Two
Here is part two of "Chasing RFI Waves", my unfinished non-fiction work about the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. You can also read parts one, three, four, five, six and seven.
So, how in the world can they get these weak signals? How can they see them over the man-made noise? There are certain requirements whose details are given below.
A quiet area
That's why NRAO is in a high mountain valley, where it has fairly good terrain shielding. Radio signals don't like to go through dirt, forests and mountains.
A rural area in which the population growth will be limited into the future
How do you get that? Through a national forest. You cannot build a permanent dwelling in a national forest. You have difficulty even running power lines through a national forest. If you look at a map of the Green Bank area, you will see that they are surrounded by a lot of state and national forests. The population of Pocahontas County, which is one of the larger counties in West Virginia, is around 9,000. There are three stoplights in the entire county. NRAO was placed in this rural area – that will remain rural into the future – for a good reason.
A way to control transmitters around you
Hence the National Radio Quiet Zone. That's what Mr. Wesley Sizemore has cared for over the past two decades. The NRQZ was enacted by the two frequency-regulating bodies in the United States: one of them is the FCC (Federal Communications Commission); the other is the NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration), which regulates government users such as the military, Justice department, ATF, FAA, etc.
Those two bodies formed the NRQZ in 1959, which is an area of 13,000 square miles in WV and VA, in which all permanent, licensed radio transmitters must meet NRAO criteria. That means that NRAO enjoys the privilege of reviewing the specifications for proposed transmitters in the NRQZ and commenting on them to the FCC and NTIA. The enforcement authority stays with the FCC/NTIA. They make the final decision, but the comments/recommendations provided by NRAO play a large role in that decision.
There are instances where those limits are exceeded. Radio astronomy recognized that the protection of life and property is more important than radio astronomy. The best example are the local 911 services in Pocahontas County. They have a standing waiver from NRAO for emergency communications only. The dispatch is monitored by the Sheriff's Department, and they use it only for emergency communications. There's no chit-chat over the air, such as "John, your wife called, bring home a loaf of bread," and other such nonsense. Any such waivers are granted on a case by case basis. For example, if two towers need to be built in order to get proper coverage for an approved service, that might be okay. But if a thousand towers need to be built, that won't happen. NRAO entertains waivers for emergency communications only. If folks are out to make a profit from using the radio waves in the NRQZ, their application will not get approved.
Helpful local legislation
A WV House Bill, a Zoning Act, also gives NRAO a 10-mile radius of protection around any radio telescope in that state. The NRQZ only regulates permanent, licensed fixed transmitters. It doesn't regulate things like a digital camera, or a family's own radio service (think cheap walkie-talkies you can get at department stores), or radios, or emissions from motors on ski lifts at Snowshoe, or leakage from the cable TV system, or leakage from power lines, etc. The House Bill gives NRAO legal standing on everything else in the community that isn't regulated by the NRQZ legislation.
This all sets the groundwork for the reception of weak signals in terms of outside factors. But what about internal ones?
Cryogenically-cooled, vacuum-enclosed receivers
The next thing needed is a way to receive those weak signals without adding any more noise to the reception. The Robert C. Byrd GBT (Green Bank Telescope, not "Great Big Telescope") is a 100-meter dish. NRAO would like to have a 1,000-meter or a 10,000-meter dish, to be able to collect as much of the weak signals as possible, but that's not structurally or economically feasible. The GBT collects the very weak signals and runs them through a cryogenically cooled amplifier.
Why cryogenically cooled? Because of static, or internal noise from the components. Have you ever tuned your radio inbetween stations? What did you hear? That's the noise made by the internal components – it's little molecules, bumping into another and making noise. If you take that radio and put it into a deep-freeze, the molecules will slow down and the static will be greatly reduced, if not disappear altogether. You will have less thermal noise generated by the internal electronics.
So with the GBT, the first amplifier that the signal hits is cryogenically cooled. It's cooled down to almost absolute zero (0K or -273.15°C). They use liquid helium to get it around 7K or -266.15°C. When they do that, the very weak signals can be amplified without adding any more noise to them. The amplifier is also in a vacuum chamber, because it acts as a very good thermal insulator. Once that's done, they can shift it to an ambient-temperature amplifier, filter it, massage it, do what they need to do with it. It's now big enough to work with.
Band-optimized receivers
NRAO receivers are also optimized for a particular bandwidth. For example, one of the NRAO engineers can take any FM receiver and tweak the electronics in it so much that it will bring in your favorite station perfectly, but you won't be able to get any other station. FM receivers on the market are tuned for compromise. They are tuned in such a way that a range of stations can be received, but the quality of the reception for each of those stations is reduced.
Every one of the components in an NRAO receiver is optimized for a certain band. That means there are different receivers for different bands. It's like using different radios for different stations. Receivers are then mounted on turrets that can bring each of them into the focal point of the telescope depending on what band they need to observe. Right now, NRAO can observe anything from 100 MHz to 50 GHz.
Paraboloid dish surface
NRAO works with two types of dishes: a "perfect paraboloid" and a "partial paraboloid" (also called an "offset feed" or "clamshell design"). Their biggest dish, the GBT (Green Bank Telescope), uses a "partial paraboloid" design; its advantages will become clearer in Part Four of this series.
They are currently attempting to receive frequencies up to 100 GHz, but that depends on how accurate they can keep the surface of the telescope's dish. Any imperfections in the surface of the dish make it harder to focus the waves on the receiver. Surface accuracy becomes crucial for higher frequencies such as 50-100 GHz.
That's because the higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength. Think about this in very simple terms. If you were to stick a plank in a wading pool, and you caused a ripple, then a splash, and counted the waves (big and small) hitting the plank, in which case did more waves hit the plank? Was it the ripple, or the splash? It's the same with radio waves. Their size needs to decrease if they are to have higher frequencies. And if they're smaller, any irregularity in the telescope surface will deflect them at a different angle than the expected one, thus causing them to veer off the receiver's field of view, smearing the focal point.
Ability to track the signal
This is where movable telescopes earn their keep! Some of the telescopes only move North and South, and depend on the earth's rotation to bring objects into focus, and yet others, like the GBT, are fully steerable. The source can be picked up as soon as it comes across the horizon, and it can be tracked all day long. The added advantage to that is the ability to do a long-term integration, where numerous scans from days of tracking are combined in order to isolate and eliminate any random noise. As study over study is pasted on top of each other, the noise floor can be pushed down, and the true signal can be brought above it. However, there's a caveat to integrations. If there is a burst of interference during those times, it drives the noise floor up unexpectedly, obscuring the astronomical signal. Fortunately there are techniques to work around that, but it is something that researchers watch out for, such as taking short looks with the telescope and adding things together later.
Given the tiny strength of the signals received, and the problems inherent in capturing them, it makes sense to really worry about RFI, or Radio Frequency Interference. It doesn't take much to swamp the astronomical signals. One analogy Mr. Sizemore uses is that radio astronomy is like trying to see a flashlight in front of a spotlight. That is why the NRQZ is maintained. Interference is interference is interference. It doesn't matter where it comes from. NRAO and Mr. Sizemore work hard to maintain an interference-free environment on-site, in the local community and the larger area of the NRQZ. There is no one else in the world looking for signals as weak as the ones chased by NRAO.
They are now even concerned about digital cameras. Any electronics can emit signals. While they comply with FCC Part 15 rules about unlicensed devices, and won't interfere with any normal devices in the world, they will most definitely interfere with NRAO's telescopes. Things that don't interfere with anybody else in the world interfere with NRAO!
The higher the frequency of a wave, the harder it is to shield against it. While it's relatively easy to shield against AM waves by simply building windows with frames 1-2 meters apart, and to shield against cellphone signals by planting pine trees whose needles are about the same length as a phone's antenna, it's much harder to shield against smaller waves.
Most electronics nowadays are in the lower frequency range, which is below a few GHz, approximately 1.5 GHz. But as computers become faster – think about your 3.0 GHz Pentium processor, signals get higher and higher in frequency and they become more difficult to shield. But the good thing is that higher-frequency signals don't like to go through dirt and trees, and they become a little more attenuated.
NRAO has no legal standing when it comes to mobile transmitters and satellites, unless they're in an allocated radio astronomy band or happen to be encroaching into an allocated band. Even though the NRQZ exists, it's not totally RFI-free, but compared to the rest of the world, NRAO has a unique location. They have better access to the spectrum than anywhere else. There are quieter areas in the world, such as the Amazon, the Arctic and Antarctic, but it's not economically feasible to operate a radio telescope in those environments.
Water vapor can absorb high frequency waves. On foggy or cloudy days, high frequency work can't be done. That's why NRAO is building a telescope array in Chile, where the site is above the clouds. They'll get much better reception of high-frequency waves there.
Any electrical arc emits interference. Whether it's lightnining, at the lower frequencies, or spark plugs on a vehicle, or an arcing thermostat, RFI is emitted.
The NRAO is funded through the NSF (National Science Foundation). One area where they always have to watch for interference is their pocketbook. There are always people who demand "bang for their buck", or rather the taxpayers' bucks, since the NRAO is ultimately funded by them. Since NRAO is engaged in basic research on a daily basis, and this kind of research doesn't pay off immediately, they are constantly in need of justifying their existence. If you are a scientist, you know that knowledge for knowledge's sake is worth the pursuit, but for some people, like the politicians or the irate taxpayer, that isn't necessarily on their radar.
Here are just a couple of arguments in their defense.
In any area of basic research, there are always predictable and un-predictable spin-offs. The predictable spin-off in radio astronomy is radio receivers. The amplifiers that NRAO uses are the best in the world, period. Therefore, they are the proving ground for receiver technology. What they have in their receivers today will be in your home entertainment system, your cellphone, in 5-10 years.
The unpredictable spin-off could be the next Teflon, the material that was originally used in the Apollo project and is now used by all of us. The shining star in the area of radio astronomy, as far as unpredictable spin-offs are concerned, are the original MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) algorithms. When molecules in our bodies are placed in a big magnetic field that is turned on and off, they will emit radio signals. To a receiver, it makes no difference whether the signals are coming from space or our bodies. That receiver will record the signals and transmit them to a computer for processing. The algorithms and computer programs that astronomers were using to make sense of their data were directly translated to medical imaging technology.
While current-day MRI technology has advanced far beyond this, numbers from an MRI scan can still be plugged into NRAO programs today, and they can generate a false-color image of that particular radio signal. They can color it, set levels, so you can obtain contoured images. So the original MRI technology was a direct spinoff that couldn't be predicted yet turned out to be very useful.
That was part two. You can also read parts one, three, four, five, six and seven.
Chasing RFI Waves – Part One
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Updated 5/25/19: I have published a re-edited digital edition of "Chasing RFI Waves" which is available on the Apple Books and Google Play online stores. Check it out!
Back in 2005, I started writing what I'd planned to be a non-fiction book about NRAO (the National Radio Astronomy Observatory), based on visits, photos and interviews to that very interesting place. My contact was Wesley Sizemore, NRAO's public face and "Keeper of the Quiet", a term which will make more sense to you once you read more about NRAO and the NRQZ (the National Radio Quiet Zone).
I didn't get to finish the book. Life intervened, I got caught up in other things and my photos, interviews and written pages (there are quite a few of them) sat in my Documents folder, gathering digital dust ever since (it's been about seven years now).
Rather than let it all sit there till oblivion, I thought it'd do more good published, unfinished as it is. If I ever get the chance to make subsequent visits and finish writing the whole story, great. If not, here it is for your enjoyment. NRAO is a neat place doing interesting research into things that have always obsessed humans: outer space, planets, aliens, etc.
I am deeply indebted to Wesley Sizemore for this work. He welcomed me to NRAO with his wife, Sherry, who also works there, and took precious time out of his schedule to talk with me at length and drive me around the campus in order to show me the various telescopes. He was patient, welcoming and incredibly informative. The book is based, by and large, on my recorded interviews with him. I wouldn't sound nearly as smart as I do below if it weren't for his detailed explanations of these arcane concepts.
I also need to make it clear that the book isn't finished. Some sections aren't filled in properly. As I wrote them, I had more questions that would get clarification only during subsequent visits, which never materialized. So please forgive whatever rough edges you find, including my barely adequate photos, since I was also at the start of my photographic career at the time.
I'll publish a section of the book here, every Sunday, until it's done, so don't forget to check back every week in order to catch up on each installment. Here's part one. You can also read parts two, three, four, five, six and seven.
It was 1:22 pm on the 4th of September, 2005 that I visited NRAO (The National Radio Astronomy Observatory) with Ligia (my wife) and Chris and Lis, good friends of ours. We had just spent the weekend in a rustic cottage on the Greenbriar Trail in West Virginia. We had a lot of fun cycling on the trail and going up the mountains in the C&O Scenic Railroad, but I was disappointed about the lack of cellphone signal everywhere. This was due to the entire area being in what is known as the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ).
We'd had a real adventure finding the cabin earlier that weekend. With road signs sparse and a pitch black night to boot, Ligia and I spent a few hours hunting down the route. We couldn't use our cellphones and the few public phones we found weren't working. We made it in the end, but a few choice words were rolling around on my tongue about the "Quiet Zone" during those hours.
When we checked out of the cabin a wonderful weekend later, Chris proposed we visit NRAO with them to find out more about the Quiet Zone. The prospect of a straight four-hour drive back home to DC wasn't too appealing, so Ligia and I readily agreed we would stop at the Observatory for the tour, to give us a well-needed break from sitting in the car.
There we were, in the parking lot. The sun was out, but an icy cold wind descended from the surrounding hills and chilled us to the bone. Maybe it's the Florida in me, but I can't take winds like that, so I scampered inside the building like a scared puppy.
I can't describe how different this place is from the surrounding WV fare, but it's readily apparent when you drive through there. You've got your farms and forests and hills and mountains with snowy caps, and fields of corn or other crops, plus the occasional redneck sighting (rusted cars, mobile homes in various states of decay, etc.) and then there's NRAO, a modern stone and glass building. Just the fact that the door slides open as you approach it is a wondrously surprising thing after you've taken in the low-tech surrounding countryside. Here I need to clarify that the sliding doors are mechanical, not automatic — automatic sliding doors produce RFI (Radio Frequency Interference), which is to be avoided at NRAO.
Having had a bad customer service experience at one of the WV state parks that weekend, I fully expected the staff there to be unaccommodating, and I was pleasantly surprised when we were invited to join the tour even though it had already started. Into the auditorium we went, happily staking some cozy seats and settling down to enjoy the presentation.
It was that presentation, dear reader, that sparked the idea for this book. Two little stories mentioned during the presentation were simply too interesting to pass up. You see, the folks at NRAO not only "listen" to the stars, they're also on the lookout for the rogue toaster or thermostat or odd electric heating pad for the pooch. When things such as these are broken, they emit RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) waves, and they can be "heard" for miles around. They actually have folks who are dispatched at the first notice of such waves, and they drive around, Ghostbuster-style, chasing waves with scanners and other high tech equipment. Once they've found the source, they look for ways to banish them. The stories of their adventures are in this book, and I hope you will agree with me that they were begging to be published.
A Little Background Information
Let's get a little wonderful knowledge under our belts! The terms and issues I'm going to briefly address here will help you understand the stories a little better. You'll be in the know, and you'll be able to thumb your nose at the initiated who wonder what an omni-directional antenna is. Think of this as your own personal decoder ring to the world of NRAO.
Radio astronomy is a very young science. It all started in the 1930s with Bell Telephone Labs, and noise on their long-distance phone lines. They assigned one of their engineers, Karl Jansky to the problem. His directive was to, simply put, get rid of the noise.
Karl built an antenna like the one that sits in front of NRAO. It looks at low frequencies along the horizon. Using that antenna, he discovered that the radio interference affecting the phone lines was coming from three sources: local thunderstorms, distant thunderstorms, and from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. It was pretty easy to determine the first two sources. It was a bit trickier to find the third.
It just so happened that bursts of interference from the Milky Way galaxy came several minutes later each day. He started asking other folks why that was happening, and they said, "Oh, that's sidereal time!" Side-what? That's what I thought too, when I heard it. It turns out "sidereal time equals the right ascension of any point on the celestial sphere crossing the meridian at a given moment." (Definition obtained from this web page, which is now defunct.)
More confused? So was I. In layman's terms, this means the time at which a certain star is at its highest point in the sky, and this will vary each day, because of the various movements and rotations of heavenly bodies, of which we are one. Alright, so that explains why the bursts showed up later each day. But what to make of them? Well, that's where a telescope came in handy. Using his dandy new antenna along with it, he started watching the skies. Sure enough, when the Milky Way galaxy came into view, he started getting bursts of energy on his antenna. Bingo! He made the front page of the New York times with that little tidbit of information, back in 1937!
By the time he completed his research, WWII was starting. All of the research efforts shifted toward the war and everyone forgot his work, except for one gentleman. His name was Grote Reber. Mr. Reber is considered the father of Radio Astronomy. Why? Because he followed up on Jansky's research and made the first serious discoveries in the nascent field. Being a radio amateur, he wanted to confirm Jansky's work, so he built a larger dish, made mostly of wood – this same dish is now sitting in front of NRAO as well. He discovered that not only was interference coming from the center of the Milky Way galaxy at the frequency that Jansky was working, but also from other sources, and at other frequencies.
The lucky thing is that by the time Reber was solidifying his research efforts, WWII started winding down. There were a lot of advances made in the field of communications over this period of time, and there was a great big puzzle staring back at researchers: radio signals from space. There was a lot of radar and other equipment left over from the war, so radio astronomy had the tools to be off and running.
Some of Grote Reber's work, including his machinery, is on display at NRAO. He built these pieces in such a way that modern engineers still can't figure out how they work.
Grote Reber lived in Wheaton, Illinois when he did his research, but moved to Tazmania and stayed there until his death. He did that because the area was interference-free at low frequencies, at least from earthly sources.
He had grown up during the depression, and had gotten into the habit of living very sparsely. He would take any food left over from his lunches, wrap it up and take it with him. He was also deaf as a post and couldn't hear a thing without his two hearing aids.
He was at NRAO for 6 months or so, helping to set up his equipment for display. Mr. Sizemore likened Reber to Galileo. That's the man's stature in the field of radio astronomy. When he stayed at NRAO, there were a lot of summer students there, who always crowded around him, wanting to get to know him, asking questions, and when he'd get tired of them, the old gentleman wouldn't say a word, he would simply reach his ears and "click, click" turn his hearing aids off, then go about his business, oblivious to the incessant chatter of the children. That was the end of the conversation! You couldn't call him, because he wouldn't hear you. When he did that, you knew that was it, he was free for the day!
What generates radio signals?
There are two basic mechanisms that generate them naturally: thermal and non-thermal.
The easiest way to think of the thermal mechanism is to think of the structure of a molecule. Use hydrogen as the simplest molecule. There's a nucleus, and an electron in orbit around that nucleus. If you heat or cool the molecule, the electron will gain or lose energy, respectively. It will make a transition – a jump – from one orbit or energy state to another. When it's heated, it'll jump to an outer orbit, and when it's cooled, it'll come back down to an inner orbit. When it makes one of those transitions (either going up or down in orbit/energy) it will generate a very specific radio signal. That radio signal is unique to the transition of that electron on that molecule.
Hydrogen is the most abundant molecule in the universe. It's also the simplest molecule. All of its signals – at rest frequencies – are from 1400-1427 MHz. If you look at band allocation tables, you find that this band isn't used by anybody in the world. That is an exclusive passive research band allocated throughout the world. There should be no emitters in that hydrogen band.
Now it gets a little more complicated. Those unique frequency signatures hold true for every molecule, whether it's hydrogen, helium, formic acid, formaldehyde, water, etc. They all have unique frequencies associated with the transitions of their electrons. When radio astronomers look at a source – it may be some wispy clouds in the sky, or some unique galaxy – they see certain frequencies, and can identify the molecular composition of those sources by consulting "dictionaries" of "electronic signatures".
We can use a simple analogy to explain this even better. Look at a prism. You can use a prism to break up light into its various colors and get a rainbow where you can say the green is copper, blue is magnesium, the yellow is sodium, and so forth. We can do the same thing with radio signals.
Everything in the universe is moving relative to us and relative to everything else. All of the frequencies are Doppler-shifted to some degree.
Doppler shift is easily understood when you listen to an ambulance as it goes by you. The pitch of the car becomes higher as it approaches you, because the radio waves are compressed, and lower as it gets farther from you, because they're stretched. We can think of the Universe in those same terms. It's expanding, so it's like a balloon on which dots have been drawn. As that balloon's volume increases, the distance of the dots from the baloon's center increases, as well as their distance from each other. All of the signals perceived in radio astronomy are therefore Doppler-shifted to some degree.
We can gage how things are moving relative to us because of the Doppler shift. Radio astronomers have observed Hydrogen frequencies as low as 800 MHz, which meant that whatever object in space emitted those frequencies was moving away from us (the Earth) at some enormous velocity. Radio astronomy is now looking for Doppler shifted signals as low as 125-250MHz to identify "the epoch of re-ionization". Now we have a way through Doppler shift to get a handle on the motion of objects in space. That's the thermal mechanism in a nutshell.
The non-thermal mechanism has to do with charged particles moving on magnetic field lines. Let's take hydrogen again. If you have a conglomeration of molecules moving together, they're bound to bump into each other and knock a few electrons out of orbit. That means we'll be left with a negatively charged electron and a positively charged ion, floating around in space. The interstellar medium, the space between the stars and galaxies, is not completely empty, although people tend to think of it that way. It is not a total vacuum. There are molecules or charged particles in that medium. This same space is also permeated by magnetic field lines. Let's look at auroras to help you imagine this. They are created here on Earth when charged particles from the Sun hit the magnetic fields of the Earth and spiral down to the poles. In space, similar magnetic field lines exist, upon which charged particles can move. Now, depending on the velocity of their movement, and their movement itself, they can generate known radio signals. This can be anywhere in the spectrum, depending on their movement. These signals give us a way to study the interstellar medium.
Because these radio signals have traveled great distances in great amounts of time (billions of years), by the time they reach Earth, they are "astronomically" weak – pun intended.
How weak? The typical signal levels that NRAO looks for are 0.000000000000000000000000001 watts! That's 1 x 10-26 Watts / Hz · m2 or a Jansky. Most of their signals are milliJansky levels – that's 10-3 Jk!
This might not mean a lot to you until we look at the energy levels of a few common things:
Your cellphone needs approximately 1 milliwatt of power to reach its antenna in order for it to register a signal (10-3 W)
A cellphone tower broadcasts around 200-300 watts (3×102 W)
A lightbulb is 60 watts (6×101 W)
A broadcast station operates at 10-30,000 watts (3×104 W)
The energy released by rubbing your thumb and index finger together is an enormous amount of power compared to what NRAO looks for when they scan the sky!
This last comparison should drive the point home: the energy released by a single snowflake hitting the ground is more energy than has been received from space by all radio telescopes on the face of the Earth since the beginning of radio astronomy!
And that's the end of part one. You can also read parts two, three, four, five, six and seven.
Want to see what I did this summer?
2011-12-08 Raoul Popbooks, Deserturi pentru Parinti si Copii Sanatosi, Ligia, photos, Raoul, raw food, Retete Vegane Fara Foc, videos
If you're curious to see how I spent my summer, watch this video (you can see it below). It's Ligia and I, presenting our work. She wrote her fourth book (our third on raw food) and I did the design, layout, editing and photography for it.
The book is called "Deserturi pentru Parinti si Copii Sanatosi"; in English, that's "Desserts for Healthy Parents and Children". As you can imagine, it's a book filled with yummy and healthy raw food desserts that your whole family will love.
The second book we show in the video is Ligia's second book, which is now in its third edition. It's called "Retete Vegane Fara Foc"; in English, that's "Raw Vegan Recipes".
The video's in Romanian (and so are the books) but you'll get the gist of it even without understanding the language. It's short, sweet and to the point, and yeah, we spent the whole summer working on those two books. If you count all of the time spent on the book of desserts, writing and trying out the recipes, taking the photos etc., it comes to about a year's work.
Part of that year's work was finding a good print shop, one that can print at the highest quality possible, using only the best materials. We believe we found it, after a long search, and are very happy with the results. Both of the books we printed with them look amazing and are well worth the purchase. | real problem when it comes to interference, and they're unlike past problems, where faulty equipment was to blame, which could be fixed or replaced. Well-functioning routers will emit interference and cause significant problems to NRAO's daily work.
Of the 45 routers mentioned above, 26 were provided by the local telecommunications company to their customers free of charge, with the contract, so they could be removed by the telecommunications company itself. The rest were privately owned, and NRAO was naturally pursuing a voluntary removal approach with the router owners.
In the office space above the control rooms are the offices of the scientists and staff at NRAO. It's a long hallway, part of the new construction, cleanly carpeted. The walls are filled with research posters.
Mr. Sizemore and I stopped to talk about one of the posters. Before, folks thought of the galaxy as a fairly uniform soup of fog. With the GBT (Green Bank Telescope), Jay Lockman, one of the senior scientists at NRAO, was able to discern that this fog was more like clouds. To the layperson, this may not seem like a lot, but to astronomy, that's a big piece of the puzzle. Now they can try to figure out how the clouds work, what they're made of, how they move, etc. This discovery could not have been made until the GBT was online.
As we continue to walk, one side of the hallway draws particular attention. Framed photos of the various Jansky lecturers are mounted there. Every year one is chosen, and he gives a lecture on a subject of his choosing. A lot of them are Nobel prize winners. Grobe Rieber was one, of course. Frank Drake (the Drake equation) is also one. Arno Penzius and Bob Wilson are also on the wall. They are Nobel Prize winners for their early work on background microwave radiation. They are the two scientists that discovered background radiation.
There's an interesting story behind their work. In October of 2005, Mr. Sizemore met the technician who did the hands-on work for their experiments. The man and his wife visited NRAO one day, and Mr. Sizemore showed them around. The man acknowledged that he was scared for his life at times, as he worked with them. They had no sense of the practical or common sense, and would often ask him to do very dangerous experiments. Penzius, for example, could not figure out how to unbuckle his seatbelt. The technician had to do that for him. He couldn't figure out how it worked, and yet he won a Nobel prize for theoretical work in physics!
Mr. Sizemore showed me his old office, the Quiet Zone office. That's where the administrative work for the NRQZ is done. He used to be responsible for that, but he's thankfully gotten help in that area in late 2005, when NRAO hired an NRQZ Administrator and let him focus more on chasing down interference. While he was in that office, he conducted more than 10,000 propagation studies. Paulette Woody, the new NRQZ Administrator, started on the 17th of October, 2005.
As we drove on the NRAO campus, Wesley stopped to show me his "hiding place" – his monitoring station, where he does his RFI hunt-work. It's a big trailer that can be hauled from place to place, but has been made stationary and hooked up to power lines. Here he monitors the gross violations of the Quiet Zone and also looks at the local environment – powerline noise, illegal use of radios, etc. For example, at the time of my visit there, the amateur radio bands were being used improperly by a group of people and the signal was strong enough to overload the 140-foot telescope, so it became a serious problem. Wesley told me that it will likely be taken care of long before I write up about it, and the likely action taken will be that he calls the FCC in, to enforce the rules in place. After 20 years on the job, Wesley has built up a network of contacts he can call upon when he needs help. One of those contacts is the man in charge of the Enforcement Bureau at the FCC, whom Wesley knew when he was still a satellite technician.
Depending on the sorts of studies performed, the data collected by NRAO in a single day can get to be as much as 50 GB (nowadays it's probably more than that). The data is usually written to LaCie portable drives and either handed out or shipped out to scientists responsible for the studies. The data isn't archived locally. It's recorded for the individual astronomers. Once it's shipped out, it's someone else's data and they are responsible for it. If they lose the drive containing the data, they need to re-run the study. NRAO simply doesn't have the money or the staff to act as a data warehouse for the data. Astronomers, like most scientists, also guard their data quite jealously and consider it proprietary until they decide whether they can publish it.
The sewer system on site is unique. Because NRAO has to worry about interference, they didn't want any pumps on-site. What happens is that waste fluids from the sewer system flow into a series of sediment ponds that are built on a gentle slope. They are gravity-fed and include absolutely no motors. NRAO actually won an award for this design. As the water flows through the ground from pond to pond and through vegetation, it gets purified and is ready to be discharged into the adjoining streams of water.
The telescopes and their research
Mr. Sizemore had a story to tell about the motors that run the individual plates of the GBT. NRAO ordered a few samples, saw they worked alright, then ordered a whole batch, about 1,500 or so. When they started to do live testing, the motors ran out after a few days. They opened one up to see why and discovered that the carbon brushes were completely burned out. They'd disintegrated. Upon contacting the manufacturer, they found out that he'd switched the type of carbon brush from the harder ones they specified to softer brushes, which were a few cents cheaper per brush. They were basically cheating NRAO. NRAO's Business Office sent back all the motors and had the brushes replaced. Add to this experience countless similar others over the years and one can see why they're wary when dealing with contractors and manufacturers.
There are other radio telescopes on the NRAO Campus, all of which are involved in ongoing research. For example, the 45-foot dish is doing a project on solar radio burst spectrometry. They're looking at the Sun and measuring the bursts of radio noise from it (solar flares and the like).
They also have calibrators, which are rock-solid sources of radio waves. They always emit at the same frequency and strength. Researchers point their equipment at them to see if their equipment is reading correctly and make any needed adjustments.
One of the telescopes on site is used as a teaching instrument. NRAO being involved in both research and educational efforts, brings groups of school-age children on-site to teach them about radio astronomy. The telescope is not a fancy, cryogenically cooled machine, but a simple wire-mesh dish with simple control and monitoring gear that the kids can play with. It's fully functional though and it does pick up many radio waves. It's sufficient to teach radio astronomy and galactic coordinate systems and such.
The fastest telescope at NRAO is a 20-meter dish which will go from horizon to horizon in 90 seconds. It's not being used at the moment. In the past, the most popular program at NRAO was universal time and polar motion.
Time is not a naturally occurring thing. It's a man-made contrivance. Time is nothing more than your position relative to something else at a given instance. We keep time by the rotation of the earth on its axis, and the rotation around the sun. Einstein said time is all relative depending on your motion and such. In order to keep accurate time, not only do we have to know the rotation of the Earth on its axis and around the Sun, but we have to know the wobble. Because the Earth is a spinning body, just like a spinning top, it tends to wobble.
There's a plaque next to the telescope, with a plot of the position of the North pole of the Earth over 5 years. You'll see that it wonders around, it doesn't stay in one place. In order to have accurate time, we must know what that wobble is. How do you do that? There are quasars. They are quasi-stellar objects. We think they're the black holes at the centers of galaxies. They're very far out there, and they're very strong, so they can act as a point source. Even though the distance to them is enormous and they're moving relative to us, because of that distance to them, their movement is insignificant compared to the movement of the Earth itself. When we look at those quasars and we see any apparent shift in their position, we can determine what the Earth's wobble is. That's a use of radioastronomy that most people can grasp: timekeeping.
Source: NASA, Hubble Telescope
NRAO used to conduct regular time studies. Wesley actually started out at NRAO as an interferometer operator. The program running on the interferometer at that time was the universal time and polar motion. They fed that data into the master clock of the Naval Observatory. If you'll remember, at the end of 2005, there was some discussion in the news because a leap second would need to be added to clocks. Wesley would take out leap seconds from atomic clocks. It would be done over time, with microsecond increments. NRAO was a major contributor to time-keeping for the US.
We can use those same quasars to monitor tectonic plate movement, geodesic work. This is also documented on a plaque there. There are several major tectonic plates on the Earth's crust. If you put a radiotelescope on one plate and one on another plate, then look at a quasar, any apparent shift in their position will be due to the movement of the crustal plates. That means we can use radio astronomy for geodesic-type work.
The Howard E. Tatel Telescope was also the first telescope involved in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. Dr. Frank Drake, working on Project Osma, used it for his studies. That sort of work isn't done by NRAO anymore. It's not part of their primary mission. Now this sort of work is done through private organizations like the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute in California. You, dear readers, can participate in the study if you want, by downloading an application that will let your computer crunch through the data gathered from space in the search for signs of ET intelligence. The processing power of your computer will only be harnessed when your screensaver is active. This is a good example of distributive computing, where the power of many varied computers is put to work on a single task.
The HET Telescope is not being used currently. It's part of a three-element interferometer. The second element is another 85-foot dish on the NRAO site, and that's now used to do pulsar studies.
What are pulsar studies? Well, it starts with the sun, which is supposedly a fairly old star. It is hypothesized that in a number of significant years in the future (we're talking billions), the physical nature, the make-up of the sun will start to change. It will collapse and throw off its outer shell, being left with a big hot center called a white dwarf. Now, if you have a star that is several times larger than the sun, like 6-8 times, when it's in its death throes and its gravitation collapses, it blows off the outer shell, the nucleus will collapse to a very dense neutron star. A typical neutron star is several miles in diameter.
If we were to compare what's going to happen to the Sun in Earth-terms, It's like collapsing our planet to the size of a golf ball. A teaspoon of that sort of matter will weigh hundreds of thousands of tons. It would have an enormous magnetic field, so the only radiation that will escape from that neutron star will be through the poles of the magnetic field. Since the rotational axis and the magnetic poles do not have to align, the star could be spinning on its axis and the magnetic fields could be perpendicular to that axis, so that it will act as a sort of magnetic lighthouse. Every time it will sweeps its magnetic pole in the direction of the Earth, we will get a pulse of energy, hence the word pulsar.
Why are pulsars interesting? Because the spin of certain pulsars is as accurate as we can time it with an atomic clock. What's a second? 1/60th of a minute? No! It's over 9 billion vibrations of a Cesium electron at a certain pressure and temperature. That's the official definition. The pulsars that NRAO looks at spin at millisecond time intervals. A big research topic now is using the timing of pulsars to prove gravitational waves.
There are certain time standards kept in cities throughout the world, such as Paris, Moscow, DC, but they are susceptible to destruction from natural or terrorist events. With pulsars, we have out of this world time standards that cannot be destroyed. They also serve as perfect navigational beacons, if we will ever do space travel.
The question that's been asked in the past is, why don't pulsars slow down? Well, they exist in binary pairs, two of them orbiting each other. Our Sun is an oddity, because it's alone out there. There can also be trinary star systems, but gravity usually kicks the third star out. You know what they say, three's a crowd… So, these pulsars are in binary orbit with other stars like red giants, white dwarfs, or other some such thing. They feed off the energy of their companion, and they don't slow down, they stay in a constant rotation, or at least as constant as we can time it.
There are platforms out in the field at NRAO. They're actually crossed dipoles. One of the big questions in astronomy is reionization. The dominant theory of the creation of the universe is the Big Bang. When it occurred, that primordial soup was extremely hot, so everything was fragmented into elemental particles, such as quarks, muons, etc. As things cooled down, particles came together and created molecules, then stars, etc. When the stars started to fire up and generate ultraviolet light, they re-fragmented some of the elemental hydrogen left over from the big bang that had not yet coalesced. That hydrogen was re-fragmented to its elemental particles, and sometime later, it re-congealed. NRAO is looking at that reionization process. They're looking at this cycle of heating and cooling that takes places as the universe expands. Don Backer, one of the astronomers at NRAO, is looking at that extremely red-shifted signal (meaning very big waves) to see if he can determine when the heating/cooling cycles occurred. The signal is somewhere between 125-226 MHz. They're not sure where that signal is and what frequency they'll find it at, so they're hunting background radiation at the moment, trying to discern a "flashlight in a floodlight". When they do find it, it'll be interesting.
The powerlines
One of the things you'll notice at NRAO is that there are no powerlines on-site. All of the power cables are underground. There's a main cable that feeds the site, which NRAO runs through a generator where the power is conditioned, mostly in its frequency. The cables that run to each building are all buried. It's easy to understand why. They don't want any arcing of power lines above ground.
A couple of years back, one of their lines went dead and they started digging around, looking for the cause. It turned out to be a black snake which had crawled across two contact points and shorted itself and the lines. He was still there, unable to move, because he'd been fried!
And that's the end of part six. You can also read parts one, two, three, four, five and seven.
Chasing RFI Waves – Part Five
Here is part five of my non-fiction work about the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. You can also read parts one, two, three, four, six and seven.
Senator Robert Byrd
Senator Byrd (1917-2010) was a consummate politician. He was from a very poor state – West Virginia. He served in the Senate for over 50 years. He was the longest-serving senator and the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress. While in office, he used his seniority to help his home state. As such, there are a lot things in West Virginia named after him. He was directly responsible for obtaining the funding for the GBT.
The actual shovel used during the groundbreaking ceremony for the GBT by Senator Byrd is encased in a display box in one of the NRAO lobbies. If you happen to see it and notice it's a bit short and also very shiny, here's why: Senator Byrd used a normal, brand new shovel at the ceremony; afterwards, NRAO chromed it and also had the handle shortened, so it could fit in the display case.
I'll let Mr. Sizemore tell what happened at the ceremony, as it portrays Senator Byrd quite nicely:
"Senator Byrd went up to the podium and gave his dedicatory speech. He is a very good speaker. He frequently cites the Bible during his speeches. While you sit there, wondering where he's going with all the stuff he talks about, he draws it all together in the end and it starts making sense to you. The National Science Foundation dignitaries were gathered there, as well as some of the local politicians, and also all of the NRAO big wigs.
A public reception was held at the site after the ceremony, where the local population was invited. All of the suits gathered quickly around the Senator at the reception, trying their best to hobnob. The Senator's reaction was priceless. He laid his hand on the NRAO Director's shoulder, and said, "George, take all these people away and leave me alone!" He would not let any politician or dignitary come within 20 feet of him the rest of the day. He stood in the sun, on the pavement, for 2 hours, and shook hands with every local person that was there. Meanwhile the suits went over to a table set up for them and pouted. Well, as the reception drew to a close, Senator Byrd pulled out his fiddle and played with one of the NRAO employees, then stood up and left.
The night before, he stayed at one of the local hotels. The old gentleman got up at 5 in the morning, and went down and had breakfast with the kitchen staff. Now, can you imagine whose votes he got? "Hey, mom, guess who I had breakfast with this morning!" He got their votes, and their families and friends' votes! The man is a consummate politician!"
The total funding for the telescope came to 75 million. Fifty-five million went to the contractor for building it to the NRAO specs, and NRAO got the rest of the money to build the receivers, monitors, and other equipment that went along with it. After the telescope was built, NRAO needed to go into binding arbitration because the contractor wanted more money – 20 million more to be exact. In the end, they got almost 4 million – not their ridiculous figure – thanks to the arbitrator.
Here's Mr. Sizemore's take on basic research and general politics:
"The main problem with basic research, not just radio astronomy but physics, chemistry, mathematics, is the mindset of society. People want immediate gratification. They're not willing to put in the long-term effort required for projects on which the return is 20, 30 or even 40 years. We are very short-sighted. We can't see past the next election."
The GBT Control Room
The whole room is enclosed in copper sheeting and copper fabric – the walls, ceiling, floors and even windows have copper over them. The room is what they call a Faraday Cage. It attenuates signals inside by 60 dB at 1 GHz. That's not sound waves, it's radio waves. You can also measure radio waves in decibels.
The windows have a thin brass wire lattice, so light can penetrate. Here we get into some more murky ground. To most radio waves, the lattice wire is a solid wall. The smaller the wavelength, the more likely it is that the radio signal will pass through. As computer processors increase in power, the wavelength of their radio signals gets smaller, since the frequency of the processors increases. That means that soon enough the wire lattice for the windows won't suffice anymore to block out the radio waves generated by next-generation computers.
Even the door is made of copper and has a brass doorstep, on which Mr. Sizemore cautioned me not to step – apparently they need a tight seal and brass is pliable. Stepping on it would dent it. There are also copper "fingers" between the door and the doorstep. They need good contact between the two, and denting or dirt from your soles will prevent it — that's another reason why it's best to step over it as you enter or exit the room.
The reason for this is that the equipment generates radio interference. Since there's a direct line of sight from the control room to the GBT, the only way to minimize that is to make the room into a Faraday Cage.
Here's a tale of woe about the windows. The contractor "screwed up the execution of the design in any way possible". One of the main problems was the use of copper fabric on the walls. They applied it to the wall with a water-based adhesive. Now the fabric is slowly turning green. The copper is turning into copper oxide, which is not as conductive and is also poisonous. Around the windows, they don't have that problem, they have another, which is worse.
The contractor put copper and zinc together in the framing. The metal parts were zinc-plated. When you put those two elements together and add a little moisture from the sweating of the windows, you get a battery! The windows immediately corroded. You couldn't just plug your Walkman into the windows and run it off the electricity generated, but they did have a lot of corrosion, so that was a major problem that needed to be taken care of immediately. In Wesley's words, "watch contractors, they'll mess it up in any way possible."
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Discovery of remains brings on next phase of investigation
Outside of her family and friends, few are probably harder hit by the discovery of Katelyn Markham's remains than Dave Rader.
Katelyn Markham had been missing for 20 months before her remains were found Sunday, bringing an end to the uncertainty that haunted her loved ones."This was a fear, an expectation," said her father, Dave Markham. "I'm glad I can finally put her to rest and move on to the next chapter and find answers and figure out what happened."Markham's family – and the family of her fiancé, John Carter – still have many unanswered questions about her death.Although investigators have positively identified the skeletal remains found along a Franklin County creek as Markham's, they have not yet determined how or when she died."I think somebody knows something and I'd like them to step up and get us some answers," Dave Markham said. "I think it's not just me that wants answers, I think it's the community that wants answers, her friends want answers." But getting answers could take months.Timeline of Katelyn Markham caseCarter declined to talk on camera, but he replied to a text message seeking comment by WLWT News 5's Karin Johnson."I heard before the news did and I'm sorry but I do not want to talk to any news people at all," Carter said.Karen Winkler, Carter's mother, said her son is "devastated by the finality of the fact he will never see his fiancée again."Carter's family said they were praying for<|fim_middle|>
Markham's family – and the family of her fiancé, John Carter – still have many unanswered questions about her death.
Although investigators have positively identified the skeletal remains found along a Franklin County creek as Markham's, they have not yet determined how or when she died.
"I think somebody knows something and I'd like them to step up and get us some answers," Dave Markham said. "I think it's not just me that wants answers, I think it's the community that wants answers, her friends want answers."
But getting answers could take months.
Timeline of Katelyn Markham case
Carter declined to talk on camera, but he replied to a text message seeking comment by WLWT News 5's Karin Johnson.
"I heard before the news did and I'm sorry but I do not want to talk to any news people at all," Carter said.
Karen Winkler, Carter's mother, said her son is "devastated by the finality of the fact he will never see his fiancée again."
Carter's family said they were praying for the Markhams. Friends of the Markhams said the family had a feeling the remains belonged to Katelyn when they were found Sunday.
Anyone with information on Katelyn Markham's disappearance or death is asked to call Fairfield police or the Indiana State Police. | the Markhams. Friends of the Markhams said the family had a feeling the remains belonged to Katelyn when they were found Sunday.Anyone with information on Katelyn Markham's disappearance or death is asked to call Fairfield police or the Indiana State Police.
Katelyn Markham had been missing for 20 months before her remains were found Sunday, bringing an end to the uncertainty that haunted her loved ones.
"This was a fear, an expectation," said her father, Dave Markham. "I'm glad I can finally put her to rest and move on to the next chapter and find answers and figure out what happened."
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Pinterest and Warby Parker -- The Next Pre-IPO Stars?
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Senior Entrepreneurship Writer at CNBC
May 7, 2012 min read
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How's that? The companies top a list of "rising stars" from SecondMarket, an online marketplace for buying and selling private-company stock and other illiquid assets. The "rising stars" list spotlights companies with the greatest increase in the number of institutional and accredited investors, in addition to ordinary Joes and Janes, tracking them on the platform. SecondMarket calls these site users "watchers."
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1. Pinterest, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based visual bookmarking social networking site: nearly 670% (As of press time, 1,543 watchers total.)
2. Warby Parker, a New York-based online eyeglasses retailer: 455% (91 watchers)
3. Stripe, a San Francisco-based online payment platform: 392% (99 watchers)
4. ServiceNow, a San Diego-based business-tech operations company: 355% (62 watchers)
5. GlobalLogic, a McLean, Va.-based software product-development company: 232% jump (188 watchers)
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Companies talked about on SecondMarket have "arrived," says Michael Greeley, general partner of Boston-based VC firm Flybridge Capital Partners. "They have some scale, they have some notoriety," he says.
While the investing community once viewed the idea of entrepreneurs selling portions of their company before going public as a negative, that's no longer necessarily the case, according to Greeley.
"The IPO process -- notwithstanding the JOBS Act, which still has to be implemented -- is fundamentally distressed," says Greeley. "It is not working the way it should be working." Being able to turn some of a company's value into cash before it scales and completes an arduous IPO process relieves some pressure and allows entrepreneurs to take more risks and innovate, says Greeley. Entrepreneurs may be less apt to worry about whether and how they will pay for their kids' educations or buy a house, for example.
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There are risks, however. Being on SecondMarket takes some of the "private" out of being a private company. A company's value on SecondMarket can rise and fall in a public display of sentiment about the company. "Even Facebook was a little bit of an EKG chart: It went up, it went down, but ultimately it went up and to the right," says Greeley.
While Pinterest and Warby Parker topped the list of companies with the fastest-growing number of watchers, they are far from the most watched. The list of the most-watched SecondMarket companies among those with venture funding was led by Facebook, followed by Twitter. The most-watched company not backed by venture investors was Bloomberg, followed by Bose.
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The Year of More
January 11, 2023 - Toronto
By: Tammy Chiasson, Managing Director, Canada
Every year, as is tradition, we gather as a team to take time to pause, reflect and celebrate at the start of the new year - and this year will be no exception. However, what was exceptional was just how much we have to celebrate because, on January 10, 2023, we officially became Thoughtworks Canada. And while the cause for celebration is momentous, it's a little bittersweet, as this means we've officially retired our beloved Connected brand.
One question I'm continually asked is, "What's changed now that you're Thoughtworks Canada?"
The answer to that is both very little and a whole lot.
Our people, the Product Thinking methods we use and the impactful products we build for our partners hasn't changed. The only thing that has changed is now we can do even more! This is a great thing because last year while working on our 2023 strategic plan, I had the pleasure of catching up with many of our clients, seeking out feedback and learning how we can better help our clients. And while undeniably a diverse group, there was one consistent message from all of them - they want more from us. And as Thoughtworks Canada, we can deliver.
Welcome to 2023, or as I'll be referring to it - the year of more!
Our people have always been our greatest strength. Now that Connected and Thoughtworks Canada have fully integrated, the number of those people has grown, and their capabilities amplified, backed by over 12,500 Thoughtworkers globally. And although our numbers and resources have grown, we continue to focus on recruiting and retaining the best talent Canada has to offer.
Thoughtworks Canada will maintain and uphold the global Thoughtworks approach to diversity, equity and inclusion, an approach that ensures everyone is given a safe place where they feel respected and afforded the opportunity to grow while being recognized and valued for their contributions.
We'll also enjoy Thoughtworks' world-class learning and development program, providing everyone with an opportunity to further their career through multi-faceted learning experiences at both a regional and global level.
We are pleased to announce that our effort to recruit and reward the best talent has been recognized with the award of Greater Toronto's Top 2023 Employers.
If there is one constant in what we do, it is in HOW we do it - our Product Thinking Playbook. We continue to define the rules for product development thanks to our tried-and-true method for dealing with the most difficult<|fim_middle|> and scale, so together, we can partner with our clients to deliver extraordinary impact!
Happy new year and welcome to the year of more! | problems, and as a result, we have a long list of ground-breaking products that we are assisting our partners in bringing to market.
By popular demand, in 2022, we unveiled and launched our Product Thinking Certification program. This provided the opportunity for a select group of our clients to become certified in the tactics and techniques that our own practitioners utilize. And in 2023, it will be going global, with the certification being rolled out across Thoughtworks internally and externally. Through this program, we'll be able to inspire, educate, and empower others with a better way of building products at a scale and scope like never before.
I continue to be humbled by the trust our clients put in us. We often discuss building impactful products, but that impact isn't limited to its users. Education, empowerment and enabling a better way of working are byproducts of our partnerships and Canopy is a prime example. What started as work on a product within Ford's internal incubator grew into a standalone product company, one that attracted a partnership with security giant ADT.
Consumer electronics, automotive, financial services and everything in between; our clients come from diverse industries and verticals, but as I mentioned at the top, they all share a common theme - they want MORE from us. Something I also said we could deliver. But what does that look like?
It looks like fast team ramp-ups, providing you with the expertise you need when you need it. It looks like fast and efficient product launches, ones that provide constant feedback and the ability to ensure that each iteration is more usable, desirable, viable and feasible than the one before.
It looks like breadth and depth, provided through a network of talent across the globe, with clients already working with India with other partners exploring opportunities in Latin America and China and their potential impact.
As Connected, our clients recognized us as experts in 0-1 product building. And as Thoughtworks Canada, they can rely on us as their solution provider for all things digital, from data mesh to enterprise modernization, providing the strategy, design and engineering needed to do build products our clients love and drive business impact.
Rather than view 2023 as a year of change, I prefer to view it as one of growth. That's because the extraordinary impact our people make through the products we build and the methods we use to build them hasn't changed, nor likely will it. What it has done is grow in scope | 499 |
There is something about the relationship between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that fascinates Washington journalists — and then stymies them.
In 2009, we learned that NBC's Chuck Todd was writing a book about Obama and Clinton, a "nuanced analytical narrative" of their political relationship, according to Todd's agent. By the time "The Stranger" came out in 2014, though, it had devolved into a daily rundown of Obama White House coverage; the portions focusing on the president and secretary of state, however tantalizing, were a small part of the story.
Now Mark Landler of the New York Times offers "Alter Egos," promising the inside account of Obama and Clinton, "protagonists in a great debate over American power . . . archrivals who became partners for a time, trailblazers who shared a common sense of their historic destiny but different instincts about how to project power." The result is an outstanding book on U.S. foreign policy over the past seven years, a work that is granular when it must be and overarching when it can, revealing how foreign relations are conducted and deliberated, and packed with fly-on-the-wall anecdotes.
What it does not provide, however, is a particularly surprising look at the relationship between the two principals or<|fim_middle|> primary contest. But now it is Clinton who is campaigning for president, and Obama knows that his legacy hinges in part on her success. "Her campaign is Obama's as well," Landler concludes. History seems determined to keep Obama and Clinton as both team and rivals. | a clear sense of sharply contrasting foreign policy doctrines. Although Landler plays up the differences — "Clinton and Obama have come to embody competing visions of America's role in the world" — there is no real clash of worldviews here. As the author admits early on, "It must be said, [they] agreed more than they disagreed." Where they diverge, their differences are more of style than of substance, of instinct than of principle.
But when Clinton shifted from secretary of state to presidential candidate, she disavowed a major element of the pivot: the 12-country trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Though she supported it as secretary, her "political calculations during a Democratic primary were clear," Landler notes. The move, appeasing key Democratic interest groups, stung her former administration colleagues.
Political instincts guided Clinton away from issues she considered unwinnable, such as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, with the new secretary of state outright refusing an early trip to the region that then-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel urged her to take. They also served her well, as when she reached out to Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell to get buy-in for her efforts to reestablish ties with Burma. "This was the kind of courtesy call that Barack Obama almost never made on Capitol Hill," Landler emphasizes. And they compelled her to write lengthy for-the-record memos to the president as she exited the State Department, causing plenty of eye-rolling at the White House. "We didn't need a memo to know Putin is an a–hole," one Obama aide told Landler.
Of course, Clinton's political expediency reflected bureaucratic realities. The president liked running foreign policy out of the West Wing, Landler explains, and "Clinton had trouble penetrating Obama's clannish inner circle." That inner circle was devoted to finding symbolic, legacy-building opportunities for the boss. Ben Rhodes, Obama's foreign policy whisperer, regarded outreach to closed societies such as Cuba as "exactly what a history-making president like Obama should be doing," Landler writes, and threw himself into secret negotiations with Havana. Obama saw the Iran nuclear agreement as a once-in-a-generation achievement and pursued it accordingly. And he fretted that historians would remember him for the wrong thing. "I don't want to be just remembered as the drone president," he said to a top adviser in 2012.
In Landler's telling, Obama is often at war with himself. "What I want is for the kids on the street to win and for the Google guy to become president," Obama told aides, referring to the 2011 uprising in Cairo's Tahrir Square and the leadership of Google executive Wael Ghonim. "What I think is that this is going to be long and hard." Problem is, we elect presidents to reconcile their wishes and their thoughts.
The tensions between Landler's two protagonists often flowed from two staffs that still felt the sting of the bruising 2008 Democratic | 618 |
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A History of American Classical Music
by Barrymore Laurence Scherer
Naxos Books, 2007
Paperback: 978-1-84379-117-1
£15:00
Naxos has long regaled listeners with its American Classics collection, a series of recordings that cover American music from its earliest days to the present. There are 235 volumes in the series as of the writing of this review in June 2007. With discs from Stephen Foster to today's young composers, no other label offers such a wide-ranging collection of American classical music.
Naxos has now released a book that can be seen as a companion to this series. This provides an overview of the genre from its origins to the present. Together with the two accompanying CDs that contain excerpts from certain works, and access to a special web site where book owners can listen to many more excerpts, this package provides an excellent way for listeners to discover more music from the United States.
While many American composers have attained international status, few are well known outside the world of contemporary music. Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein and the minimalists Philip Glass and Steve Reich are familiar to most classical music listeners. Those more interested in this area will know John Cage, Morton Feldman, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem and others. But with this book in hand, you may be tempted to seek out works by lesser-known composers, such as - to mention just a few interesting composers I have discovered through the Naxos series - Edward MacDowell, Elie Siegmeister and David Diamond.
The book covers American classical music from its early days - discussing Stephen Foster, whose music I would hesitate to call "classical" - through the new millennium. As in all books of this kind, composer bios are more than succinct. An exception is made for Charles Ives and Leonard Bernstein, each of whom gets his own short chapter. As expected, the book proceeds more or less chronologically, and covers a vast range of other composers. What it lacks in depth it makes up in breadth, giving one of the best overviews available of American music.
The author attempts to integrate aspects of American history in order to place composers in their contexts. Curiously, some of his historic comments are such understatements that they make one wonder whether the author really thought about what he was writing. For example, when discussing the Civil War, he says, "in which thousands of<|fim_middle|> to books than this.
Despite these reservations, this is an excellent book for anyone interested in American classical music, and even more so for collectors of the Naxos American Classics series. Well written, well printed, with copious illustrations, there is plenty of meat in these 200-plus pages. One might want a bit more depth, but what is here is certainly worth reading.
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With each Life & Music biography comes access to a dedicated website for that composer, containing hours of extra music to listen to. The works featured on the CDs may be enjoyed in full on the website (so in the case of Mahler, there are seven symphonies and four major vocal works!) plus many pieces by contemporaries of the composer. There is also a substantial timeline showing the composer's life beside concurrent events in arts, literature and history.
These websites, together with the book and CDs, make for an unrivalled multimedia approach the biographical format and a uniquely rounded portrait of each composer.
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The accompanying CDs are very useful, but there are some annoyances with them. While the book comes with two generous CDs, totalling nearly 160 minutes, additional music is available from the Naxos web site. You have to enter a password and other information that you find in the book. However, the samples provided on the web require Windows Media Player, and are encoded at a desultory 20 kbps; needless to say, these are useful only to get an idea of the music, not to appreciate the recordings themselves. Also, the recordings on the CDs are not available from the website, so you have to juggle from one to the other to hear all the music. On the other hand, you do get to listen to a fair number of complete works on the web site - the book's CDs only contain short bits of works with the notable exception of the full American in Paris on the first CD. This is, I suppose, to be expected for this type of overview.
It's obvious that all the samples are from Naxos recordings, which makes the book a kind of advertisement for their CDs, but Naxos's American Classics collection is an extraordinary project, offering many recordings of great American works and lesser-known composers.
Finally, Naxos did not find the best way to include CDs with books. The CDs are in plastic sleeves glued to the inside front and back covers. To remove the CDs - which stick to the sleeves - you must insert a bit of card between the CD and the sleeve, or tear out the plastic sleeves, which would damage the covers. There are many better ways to add CDs | 364 |
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The functional properties of turbine blades are multifaceted. A curved surface gives them aerodynamic properties, and specially shaped cooling holes ensure their thermal stability.
With its multisensor concept, the Optiv Performance 663/664 Dual Z coordinate measuring machine from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence integrates multiple measurement processes in a single machine and, thanks to the optional Optiv Dual Z and Optiv Dual Rotary options, features innovative technologies that ensure accessibility to a variety of different features in the overall measurement volume and their measurement in a single clamping.
The coordinate alignment of the turbine blade occurs at its base, where corresponding control geometry elements are found. The required measurement points are recorded with the HP-S-X1 tactile sensor.
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The functionally relevant freeform surfaces of the turbine blade are digitalised using profile scans with the CWS in the same clamping. This contactless point sensor enables fast and surface-independent 3D scans with a high point density. The surface data obtained is evaluated against the imported CAD data set in the PC-DMIS CAD++ measurement software.
The Optiv Performance 663/664 Dual Z coordinate measuring machine from Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence represents a comprehensive metrological concept enabling the complete testing of the highly-complex geometry of turbine blades in a single setup. | .
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Smart contracts can redesign legal agreements, but businesses beware
Smart contracts provide plenty of benefits, but find out why those benefits can be just one side of a double-edged sword.
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Next PostCoinbase's Abrupt Hiring Reversal Blindsided Would-Be Employees | only to realize it's late yet again? You might relate to these headaches as an investor, employee or client. But the tension that affects each of these unique parties is often caused by one unwavering contributor: an underlying traditional contract.
Contracts affect every organization's workforce, and 26% of employees are involved in managing these agreements at some point, according to the World Commerce and Contracting Association. With such a vast effect on a company's contributors, these contracts should be up to par with the rest of a business's advancements. Unfortunately, contracts are still typically left to human maintenance and execution by either involved party, which can lead to some pretty costly oversight and error.
Blockchain-based smart contracts can revamp businesses and stakeholder relationships but, as with most major structural changes to a company, it's important to do them right.
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The current style of contracts is flawed and antiquated, but organizations have done little to change that. Poor contract management typically costs companies at least 9% of their bottom line, a consistent value leakage that can even reach a 40% loss, according to PwC. This revenue loss comes from incorrect data entry, unpaid accounts, client-management issues, incorrect reporting and discounting — essentially all caused by human error.
And the mishaps don't stop there. Miscommunications and unmet contract terms can occur simply because an involved party is not on top of the predetermined agreements. This creates a whole slew of complications, like friction between companies and their employees or external partners that is often left to legal experts to address. A contract should provide clarity and reliability, not raise questions that require even more time and energy to address.
Companies can proactively prevent these issues from arising by bringing their contracts up to speed with the rest of their innovation. Smart contracts are stored on the blockchain and, unlike traditional contracts, are executed by the blockchain's programming rather than by a person. So, smart contracts can enforce the terms of legal contracts automatically. This relieves either party from remembering the agreement and timelines, ensuring simplified and definite term executions.
Smart contracts don't just mean that the contract itself is smarter, but that everyone involved is working smarter too. Without the need to manage and meet terms, people can focus on their actual jobs, making for a more efficient and productive workforce. Employees, clients, vendors, and other parties on the receiving end of a payroll don't have to chase down a company for compensation. And people can trust unbiased code over an employer or business partner who could easily forget something or not have the other party's best interest in mind.
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What to look out for
The fact that smart contracts can execute agreements without human action can be extremely helpful for businesses. But something that sounds too good to be true often is. That's why companies must safely use smart contracts to enhance, rather than replace, traditional ones.
As with any contract, when there are loopholes in the agreement, either party can exploit it. Loopholes or oversights in smart contracts, which exist on a public ledger, can be exploited by an external bad actor. And we've seen it happen before: NFT creator Micah Johnson lost $34 million after an anonymous user exploited the smart contract during his NFT collection's launch. While a loss of this magnitude likely won't occur between most employers and employees, other meaningful losses can be prevented by businesses executing smart contracts through a private blockchain.
Nonetheless, the worst-case smart contract scenarios teach a valuable lesson on the importance of thoroughness when creating a smart contract. Ideally, a software engineer and a lawyer should work together to ensure the basis of the contract is sound and all necessary legal precautions have been taken.
By collaborating in the beginning stages of a smart contract's creation, a lawyer can ensure the predetermined terms are clear, precise and agreed upon. Additionally, the lawyer can ensure the traditional contract is adequately and accurately being translated to the code of the smart contract. The software engineer can then create the code to execute the terms, mitigating risk through extensive testing to catch even minor flaws.
Smart contracts can change the way businesses handle legal agreements and execute payments, but they can also be a double-edged sword. It's worthwhile to dedicate preliminary time to research the proper protocol, to mitigate any potential flaws, before implementing it. By doing so, companies can ensure they are modernizing the basis of their relationships and working smarter while they're at it.
The views, thoughts and opinions expressed here are the author's alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph.
Tudor Vrabie is a co-founder, chief technology officer, and project coordinator of SeedOn. He also co-founded HungryBytes in 2018, following his work as tech lead and PHP developer at Grapefruit. Vrabie is a software engineer, web developer, and tech enthusiast and is applying his expertise to revolutionize the crowdfunding process.
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Each performer will have 10 minutes and we are limited to 14 storytellers. Performers may combine a Spoken Word and Song Story in their performance. Artists can perform one story or multiple stories. Each story by an artist during a performance will be judged individually and artists can win multiple cash prizes based on their performance. Performers will be judged based on if it is an Original Story, Creativity, Presentation & Stage Presence, Imagery, Poetic/literary Content, If You Have Worked in the Maritime Industry, and Nautical Relevance. Judging will be industry leaders and media members.
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The 2018 Seattle Maritime Festival Stories of the Sea, which was sponsored by National Fisherman magazine and Pacific Marine Expo, was held on Thursday, May 10, at the Highliner Public House at Fishermen's Terminal.
Capt. Dano Quinn was the night's big winner, taking first place in the Spoken Word Story and winning the Best Overall Presentation Award. Alice Winship took home first prize in the Story Song category. A total of $600 in prizes were awarded.
Stories of the Sea kicked off the annual Harley Marine Seattle Maritime Festival, which is presented by the Seattle Propeller | 282 |
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The team believes its success and appeal is largely due to its mix of staff with city law firm experience and lifelong Chesterfield residents and its practice ethos is to deliver a city-style service to clients without forgetting our market town location and economy.
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Destination Chesterfield is responsible for developing a co-ordinated approach | 195 |
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| trying to achieve the result for : Pandoc Resume, which creates an intermediary tex file before a convertion to pdf using mtxrun.
Unfortunately, I cannot manage to convert the tex file into a pdf file.
mtxrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua'
It seems to be a fairly old error, dating back to 2011, and the internet resources say to do:
luatools --generate
But despite this operation, I still have the same error.
mtxrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua'
I cannot see clearly what's going wrong. So it is not easy to find the solution.
Any insight?
I am using the linux distribution Nixos v18.03
mtxrun is version 1.32 from package: texlive.combined.scheme-context
A: As suggested at the end of this page, running the command:
mtxrun --generate
solves the problem. Further calls to texlive now execute successfully.
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Tiffany Hainesworth Becomes First Black Woman To Independently Own Her Own Tequila Brand
A Maryland resident is breaking barriers as an entrepreneur, becoming the first Black woman to solely own a tequila brand. Tiffany Hainesworth embarked on her venture after a car accident forced her to leave her career in criminal justice.
"I was in a car accident, and, you know, things were bad for me, I wasn't working. I wanted to do something different, something fun," the TCapri Tequila founder told NBC Washington.
When she started her research in 2018, hoping to learn the tequila making process, the businesswoman found a distillery in Guadalajara, Mexico. She then worked in the field with the farmers, who harvested the agave plants, which would later produce tequila.
"It was important to me to pay homage to a product that I was producing," Hainesworth said. "I didn't want to just slap my name on a bottle and say<|fim_middle|> among the panelists, who were featured at an event organized by reality TV star Nene Leakes in 2019, The Miami Times reported. The Ladies of Success: All Girls Weekend event, which specifically catered to businesswomen, aimed to connect entrepreneurs with valuable resources and people who could help them grow.
"We had a pillow talk where the women came in their pajamas. We talked about relationships, business and anything you can think of. We did this as opposed to sitting in a class and taking notes and basically not getting the chance to know each other," Leakes said.
Leakes applauded Hainesworth and the rest of the panelists for their courage and dedication to their crafts.
"Basically these were women that you don't know," Leakes said. "They started at the very bottom and brought themselves up to million-dollar status. That takes a lot for a girl that just had an idea, but isn't known or even educated."
Before she narrowed her focus on tequila production, Hainesworth was baking mouth-watering treats. The owner of TCapri Gourmet Treats showed off her popular desserts in a 2018 segment for WJLA. One of the items featured on the segment was a bourbon butter bread pudding.
"Everybody has such a stigma on bread puddings, but my daughter's Nana taught me how to bake and she taught me how to make bread puddings," Hainesworth told WJLA.
Hainesworth, who also showed off her sweet potato cake and rum cake during the segment at the time, said most of her sweets are made with booze.
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MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL (Broadway) – Medley [LIVE @ The 2013 Tony Awards] | I have a liquor brand."
The tequila producer, who learned the value of hard work from her grandfather and aunts, now features her product on store shelves across Maryland. But the goal is to make her company a worldwide brand.
"It makes me feel like anything is possible for women, anything is possible for minorities," Hainesworth said. "You just have to focus, put your mind to it and stay at it."
Hainesworth was | 90 |
A Southfield-based realty company's plan to build almost 400 housing units on a golf course was shut down by the Meridian Township Board earlier this year, and now the company is suing.
Summer Park Realty bought Walnut Hills Country Club during a foreclosure sale with an eye toward redeveloping the 190 acres into single-family housing. But the denial of a rezoning request has the company stuck operating an unprofitable golf course, with the inability to redevelop the property into their desired amount of housing.
The company purchased Walnut Hills from Fifth-Third Bank in early 2016 with the<|fim_middle|>, but that the realty company is not satisfied with the amount they have been permitted.
The township alleges that Summer Park Realty is not pursuing the resources and options available to it. One option is called Planned Unit Development, or PUD. According to the township, if Summer Park Realty pursued the PUD option, Walnut Hill's two different property zones would have their densities averaged, allowing the developers to build 280 units.
Shafer is referring to a proposal from the developers mentioned in the lawsuit that would reduce the initially requested 383 units down to 314. The lawsuit calls the planning commission's actions against Summer Park Realty "arbitrary and discriminatory." However, the township's own legal response denies that Summer Park Realty truly offered such a compromise.
Summer Park Realty's lawsuit seeks no other financial compensation besides rezoning without interference from the planning commission. | intent to build a higher volume of housing than the property's current zoning allows.
Summer Park Realty began butting heads with the Meridian Township Planning Commission after presenting their concept plan in October 2016. The company's goal to build 383 housing units required the vast majority of Walnut Hills to be rezoned.
Why? Because 157 of Walnut Hill's 190 acres are within the township's Rural Residential Zone. Only the smaller remaining portion of the property permits the density necessary for Summer Park Realty's original concept plan.
Density is a keyword for real estate companies. The higher the density, the more likely the company is to make money on a development. For instance, an apartment building is more likely to create cash than a single family home on the same size lot.
Meridian Township residents who live near the Walnut Hills property were vocally opposed to Summer Park Realty's rezoning request. A Change.org petition pleading for the township to deny the realty company's application received 250 signatures.
"Summer Park Realty purchased the property knowing exactly how it was zoned," said LaNita Campbell, president of the neighboring Skyline Hills subdivision. "Our objection was that the area would have way too much traffic. Another objection is there's a lot of wetland in that area.
But the township's legal response counters by alleging that decisions such as rezoning applications are made with the consideration that the township's master plan is undergoing revision. If the board believes a rezoning application contradicts its vision for the township's future, under the ongoing revisions to the master plan, that application will be denied.
Summer Park Realty filed the lawsuit over the rezoning request denial, alleging that the current zoning density restrictions make it too difficult for the company to profit from the property they've purchased.
Fahey said the issue is not that Summer Park Realty has been denied permission to build housing in general | 388 |
Donald Trump crows about his 'Home Alone 2' cameo: "One of the biggest" Christmas hits
President Donald Trump made a video conference call to U.S. troops overseas today and took a question as tough as any he has faced from the Grinchy media. One sergeant posited whether Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, in which Citizen Trump has<|fim_middle|> story kind of felt like it's a rehash in some scenes.
But the rest... are TRASH! I'm not sure how many sequels they made. There's at least five that I know of, where Kevin is played by a different actor after the second movie, and the third film was not related to the others.
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Jan 21, 2021 by Demon_skeith | a cameo, is his favorite holiday movie.
'Well I'm in Home Alone 2,' POTUS said to laughter from the troops. "A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas. They say – especially young kids – they say, 'I just saw you on the movie.' They don't see me on television as they do in the movie. But it's been a good movie and I was a little bit younger, to put it mildly. And it was an honor to do it. "
Then, of course, he pivoted to the film's financial success, banking $365 million worldwide in 1992. "And it turned out to be a very big hit, obviously. It's a big Christmas hit – one of the biggest. So it's an honor to be involved in something like that, you always like to see success."
Source: Donald Trump Crows About His 'Home Alone 2' Cameo: "One Of The Biggest" Christmas Hits
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Andrews Academy has a long history in producing plays. Farrell Gilliland II, history and English teacher, began what has become a tradition with his production of Black Elk Speaks and A Man for All Seasons. When these plays were produced thirty years ago or more, students met once or twice a week during the evening and offered two evenings of public performance during the spring quarter. A Man for All Seasons, the first play to be presented in the new Andrews Academy auditorium, played to packed house. When Farrell Gilliland left the Academy in the spring of 1980, producing plays fell into the hands of Thomas Baker.
The first play he produced was Thornton Wilder's Our Town. For this production, students met in the last period of the day and returned again for evening practice sessions from Saturday night through Thursday night with the two major performances taking place on the Saturday and Sunday evenings before Thanksgiving break.
The Literary Interpretation course is offered in this format every other year. The repertoire has included the following productions:
The Mouse That Roared
Nikolas Nikkleby
Number the Stars (2001-02)
To Kill a Mockingbird (2003-04)
We Shook the Family Tree (2005-07)
The Family Nobody Wanted (2007-08)
Onions in the Stew (2009-10)
Our Town (2011-12)
Words by Fanny Crosby (2013-14)
Cheaper by the Dozen (2017-18)
Hello, Dolly! (2018-19)
The intent of the effort and time a production requires is, according to Thomas Baker, to offer students who may not have vocal talent or who may not be athletic giants an opportunity to shine on stage. Baker did not audition students for entrance into the course. He worked with the students who signed up<|fim_middle|>33 Garland Ave | for the experience in any given year. Students learned that they have within them a talent they never knew they had and that they can rise to a level of excellence that surprises them and delights an audience.
Starting in 2017, the school plays have been produced and directed by English teacher, David VanDenburgh.
Email: academy@andrews.edu
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We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be within us.
Reference: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on<|fim_middle|> world are irrelevant and the heart's only consuming passion is to know Christ and be more like Him. As Paul said in 3:18, the veil has been lifted and we now have the, 3:17, "liberty" to want God and allow God to make us like Himself. To put all things, even our lives into His hand, and permit Him to take us where the road leads believing with all our hearts that when He cuts the ties to all the idols we cherish for support, affirmation and security, we will be thankful when we arrive through the journey at His particular destination.
Lord, I am willing to receive what You give, to lack what You withhold, to relinquish what You take, to suffer what You inflict, to be what You require. | Prayer, Brace and World, p. 22.
We can never be too frequent or too solemn in the general surrender of our souls to God and binding our souls by a vow to be the Lord's forever: to love Him above all things, to fear Him, to hope in Him, to walk in His ways in a course of holy obedience, and to wait for His mercy and eternal life.
Reference: A Guide to Prayer.
I am talking about wholesale changes in lifestyles where fear is cast to the wind and submission to God is not held back and the opinions of the | 117 |
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La conferenza fu indetta in seguito alla morte di Stalin e alla rivoluzione ungherese del 1956, che avevano suscitato nell'ambiente intellettuale della Germania Est aspettative verso una maggiore libertà artistica. In particolare Hans Mayer alla conferenza dell'unione degli scrittori del 1956 aveva inneggiato a una "democratizzazione della letteratura", mentre Walter Ulbricht nel 1957 aveva scritto un manifesto in cui invocava la creazione di una nuova letteratura socialista, con il non recondito progetto di allentare le maglie della censura.
Per mettere a tacere le crescenti e sempre meno sotterranee critiche e per pilotare la protesta, fu organizzata una conferenza, promossa con lo slogan "Compagno, prendi in mano la penna, la cultura dello stato socialista ha bisogno di te!". Presentata come iniziativa proletaria, la conferenza stabilì la fondazione di una politica culturale socialista tedesca autonoma e autoctona attraverso alcune direttive, di cui la principale fu che nell'impegno artistico la precedenza dovesse essere data alla rappresentazione della vita reale del proletariato, e al raccontare in chiave ottimista i progressi del sistema socialista tedesco.
La casa editrice Mitteldeutscher Verlag, formalmente organizzatrice dell'evento, fu il fulcro dell'attività letteraria del movimento. Nonostante l'iniziativa non portò a maggiore libertà espressiva (che anzi in seguito alla costruzione del muro di Berlino si limitò ancora di più) ebbe comunque un peso rilevante per almeno un decennio | 443 |
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New program enables students and early career professionals to learn critical skills required in today's entry-level cybersecurity field, helping address urgent cyber workforce jobs gap.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. and LANHAM, Md., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council), a developer of world-class cybersecurity education programs and certifications, today announced that it has partnered with edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU), and committed to expanding access to vital cybersecurity education programs. EC-Council's Essentials Series is the first cybersecurity Professional Certificate of its kind<|fim_middle|>. edX was founded by Harvard and MIT in 2012 to make the world's best education available to everyone. Today, as a 2U, Inc. company (Nasdaq: TWOU), edX connects over 46 million ambitious learners with the skills, knowledge, and support to achieve their goals. Together with the world's leading universities and companies, edX offers thousands of free and open courses, professional certificates, boot camps, credit-bearing micro credentials, and undergraduate and graduate degrees. Discover purpose-built online programs in technology, business, healthcare, science, education, social work, sustainability, and more at edX.org.
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"The Essentials Series is purpose-built to help educate up-and-coming cybersecurity professionals and enable them to begin their careers," said Bill Kiriakis, Senior Vice President and Head of North America at EC-Council. "edX is a leader in online learning, bringing courses and certifications to over 46 million learners worldwide. With this new offering, edX and EC-Council can directly help address the global shortage of cybersecurity workers."
EC-Council's Essentials Series includes three individual courses covering network defense, ethical hacking, and digital forensics and costs $447 USDfor the full lab range and certification bundles. The series helps students and early career professionals learn employable skills required in today's entry-level cybersecurity field, educating students in a range of techniques and tactics across industry verticals, such as securing networks, mitigating cyber risks, conducting forensic investigations, ethical hacking, attack vectors, and more.
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For more information on EC-Council's programs on edX, visit edx.org/school/ec-council.
The sole mission of EC-Council is to advance the state of the cybersecurity profession on a global scale. Helping organizations, educators, governments, and individuals address global workforce problems is at the heart of the company's mission. To this end, it is developing and curating world-class cybersecurity education programs and certifications. It is also providing cybersecurity services to some of the largest businesses all over the world. More than 2,000 best universities, colleges, and training companies put their faith in EC-Council. This includes seven Fortune 10 companies, 47 Fortune 100 companies, the Department of Defense, global intelligence communities, and NATO. The standards for cybersecurity education are set by EC-Council programs, which have now been implemented in more than 140 countries worldwide. To acquire additional knowledge, please go to https://www.eccouncil.org/.
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Green light for the latest developments of the PLATO mission
ESA's PLATO mission has been given the green light to continue its development after a successful critical review on January 11, 2022.
PLATO, or PLANetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, is the third medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision program. Its objective is to find and study a large number of planetary systems, with a focus on the properties of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone around solar-type stars. PLATO has also been designed to study stellar oscillations through asteroseismology, which will allow precise measurement of the parameters of the planets' host stars, including their age.
The review verified the maturity of the entire space segment (the service module and the payload module), confirming the robustness of the satellite-payload interfaces and the payload development schedule. Particular emphasis was placed on the serial production of the 26 cameras, and the robustness of the development schedule for both modules. PLATO will use the 26 cameras to discover and characterize exoplanets orbiting stars similar to our Sun.
The European Space Agency adopts Ariel mission: Irfu is the project manager of AIRS instrument
ESA has<|fim_middle|> countries. They have published their scientific aims in a document over 200 pages long. This is the result of several years of work, and includes contributions from approximately fifteen Irfu researchers involved in X-ray and gamma-ray observatories (Fermi, Integral, XMM-Newton, H.E.S.S., etc.).
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Last update : Jan 14th, 2022 | adopted Ariel (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey), the 4th medium-class space mission of its Cosmic Vision program. Ariel is expected to be launched in 2029 by Ariane 6 from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. The French team, composed of CNES, CEA and CNRS, has taken charge of the design, production and delivery of the AIRS spectrometer. Pierre Olivier Lagage, astrophysicist at Irfu, is one of the 2 co-PI for the ARIEL consortium; the other co-PI is Jean-Philippe Beaulieu from IAP.
ELT/METIS instrument formally entering final design phase
On May 18th 2020, ESO formally closed the preliminary design review of the ELT/METIS thermal infrared instrument. Following this important milestone, the instrument enters into the final design phase (phase C) in which the its design will be frozen just before its building.
SPICA mission competing for ESA
The European Spatial Agency retains the mission of exploration of galaxies
The SPICA infrared space telescope has been shortlisted by the European Space Agency (ESA) to participate in the final competition which will see in September 2021 the choice of the next mission of medium size ESA (M5 mission). SPICA is a large infrared telescope (diameter 2.5 m) fully cooled to a temperature of only a few degrees above absolute zero. This concept was proposed to ESA as part of the competition for the M5 mission of the "Cosmic Vision" program (25 proposals submitted) by a consortium of European research laboratories led by Holland in close collaboration with the space agency Japan (JAXA), and in which the CEA (Département d'Astrophysique of CEA-Irfu), the CNRS and their associated universities participate in France with the support of CNES.
See the French version for more : La mission SPICA en compétition pour l'ESA
Science with the CTA observatory
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium brings together 1300 scientists from 32 | 454 |
'Meanwhile' is an installation that questions our relationship to architecture and disaster, and how we are hyper-connected to those through media streams. JG Ballard's "constant apocalypse" is manifested here in the use of a live feed of seismic data, concentrating the fragility of buildings in a simple, material object.
'Meanwhile' is a multif<|fim_middle|>. His release activity is equally deviant, releasing a 7" single without a central hole and a record composed from recordings vinyl being scratched by scalpel. His Phonotopy label proposes a conceptual approach to recording media and he also curates the DRIFT series on the Artkillart label which overlays several grooves onto a single record, causing randomised playback. | aceted project that exists both as a performance and an installation. The performance version premièred at ImPulsTanz Vienna (AT), in July 2014. The installation version was partly developed during several residencies at iMAL. This residency will end with a public showing moment at iMAL on Saturday October 29 2016 from 13:00 to 18:00.
Gaëtan Rusquet (°1984) lives and works in Brussels. He is currently working as a director, performer and scenographer in the field of performance, dance and visual art. After studying Applied Arts in Paris at ENSAAMA, he obtained a Masters degree in stage design and performance at ENSAV La Cambre. In his artistic proposals, Rusquet focuses on the relation between 'action' and medium, while sharing a visual as well as a performative experience with the audience. His work has been presented at various European festivals and venues such as Impulstanz (AT), Trouble Festival (BE), Accionmad (ES), MDT (SE), AvantGarden (NO), Accionmad (ES), FRAC Lorraine (FR), Homo Novus (LT), Palais de Tokyo (FR) and Performatik Kaaitheater (BE).
Brussels based sound artist Yann Leguay, defined as a media saboteur by the Consumer Waste label, he seeks to fold reality in on itself using basic means in the form of objects and videos or during installations and performances. His flagrant disregard for the accepted norms of audio behaviour appropriates industrial machinery for the playback of audio media: using an angle grinder to perform the live destruction of a microphone or using an hard drive as a turntable | 365 |
How we<|fim_middle|> Luckily you do not have to spend a lot of money to upgrade if you do it in a smart and economic way.
Selecting office furniture can be challenging. With so many office furniture Auckland based businesses out there, your task becomes even more difficult. Whether you're opening a new office or are simply ready for upgraded office fit outs, we want to help.
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Whether you realize it or not, you spend a great deal of your life in an office, in fact it may even be the best part of the day! Whether you are in an office building or your office is at home, it is important that it be suitably furnished and reflect not only order and efficiency, but must also be comfortable and have a suitable theme or style.
The decor of your office can inspire you or depress you - even tell people something about you! It is therefore necessary for you to have an office space that is sophisticated yet inviting. Achieving this cheaply can be a problem.
Tacky decor can kill all positive impressions, ideally you want cheap furniture which is also tasteful. There are many discount office furniture ideas for offices on a tight budget; your job is to make sure you know what sort of style you want your office to have, determined by the type of equipment that your office is likely to require and the amount of money you are willing to spend.
Before you utter one word to any client that walks through your door, your office furniture will already be doing the talking for you. So what is your furniture saying to your clients? Is it a statement of "Welcome to our successful business", or "We really are desperate for your money because we have none."
If you walk into an office that is well put together, you imagine that the business is doing well. | 504 |
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Compare the two Viruses Baculovirus vs. Flavivirus ?
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Describe the Transformation of E-coli?
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One of the most exciting discoveries made by the MESSENGER spacecraft is the evidence that Mercury is rich in volatiles. These are substances that readily change from solid to vapor at low temperatures. Mercury is a hot planet where daytime temperatures reach 800ºF so it was thought that Mercury would lack volatiles. Instead of a dead planet, Mercury has proved to be geologically active.
The ferocious heat throughout<|fim_middle|> The hauntingly beautiful hollows of Mercury are an important part of that knowledge. | Mercury's history meant it could never have oceans or flowing water, but MESSENGER found higher amounts of sulfur and potassium than what is found on Earth and Mars, which have substantial volatiles themselves. It is possible that internal processes could concentrate the volatiles at the surface as they are capable of lowering the melting point of rock and enhancing volcanism. This could enable the movement of faults thereby creating explosive eruptions and fascinating landscapes, including haloed depressions known as hollows. Clusters of hallows occur all over Mercury and range in size from about a half mile across to several hundred miles across. They are found mainly in impact craters. Hollows look like the surface has been eaten away, leaving depressions up to 150 feet deep. They are bright and were first seen by Mariner 10 when it flew by Mercury in 1974. Hollows look freshly made with sharp rims and are not covered by ejecta from nearby craters. This means that hollows are quite young relative to other geology and may be forming this very day.
Hollows have flat bottoms, which mean that they are not volcanic vents. Volatiles near the surface are heated and, in the process of changing from solid directly to vapor, the ground collapses and appears eaten away. The vapor that is created escapes forever into the thin atmosphere. Hotter areas have more hollows than colder regions. It would seem that volatiles would have been depleted long ago given the relentless heat from the adjacent Sun, but most hollows are found in impact craters. The impact creates the crater and exposes volatile-rich rocks hidden deep underground that have been protected from the merciless Sun. Once it is exposed to the intense heat of the sun, the volatiles are lost to space and leave behind bright material.
Mercury turned out to be far more volcanic than originally thought. Lava plains cover about 27% of the planet. Vents surrounded by bright red deposits dot Mercury and are a result of explosive volcanism. Volcanism lasted a long time on Mercury from the ancient lava plains of about 3.5 billion years ago to the younger explosive vents of about a billion years ago. Mercury should have cooled faster than other terrestrial planets because it is smaller, so active volcanism should not have lasted as long, but volatiles kept the magma beneath the surface molten at a lower temperature and thus, prolonged the period of active volcanism.
Our knowledge of Mercury's hollows and volcanism will improve in 2025 when BepiColombo, a dual orbiting spacecraft between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), arrives with equipment and cameras more sophisticated than MESSENGER. By understanding Mercury's volcanic history there will be a better understanding of how the Solar System evolved. | 583 |
All in the past few years: India and Pakistan have jousted over nuclear proliferation, while battling over the border region of Kashmir. India entered the world economy with an edge in computer technology and an expertise in Y2K, and Pakistan underwent a military coup that became Q & A fodder in the U.S. presidential race.
As U.S. foreign and economic policy increasingly focus on the region, Hopkins's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is developing a South Asia Program--a focal point for teaching, scholarship, and outreach--to deal with an area of the world often ignored by policy-makers and international schools.
"There is a big gap out there, and we felt we needed to do something," says Stephen Szabo, SAIS associate dean for academic affairs. "The region is not only important in terms of nuclear and military issues. India [for example] has a huge population, second only to China. And there is so much dynamism and growth in the Indian economy. Now it is emerging as a world power, and that always gets attention."
The program will focus on similar economic growth and political issues in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and other nations. SAIS already offers courses in comparative politics and international relations in the region, both taught by adjunct professor Walter Andersen, chief of the State Department's South Asia Division.
Andersen and Shirin Tahir-Kheli, a newly hired research professor at SAIS's Foreign Policy Institute, are leading the effort to launch the new program. It will fall under the umbrella of the graduate school's Asian Studies Program, which currently covers Japan, Korea, China, and Southeast Asia.
"One way we are looking at this is not just the traditional way. India would loom large in any South Asia program, but we want to look across national boundaries," says Tahir-Kheli, a former U.S. ambassador to the UN for special political affairs. She says SAIS hopes within the year to offer six courses on issues affecting the region: "Part of the fun is cross-pollination."
Among other offerings, the program hopes to feature seminars and conferences on such issues as the role of women in South Asia; to foster research projects on security or environmental dilemmas in the region; and to put together an online newsletter, student internships, and courses in Hindi and other regional languages. One high-profile research project is already under way, Tahir-Kheli says. Mahmud Durrani, a retired Pakistani general, was at SAIS this winter heading up a study on the cost of conflict and the benefit of peace between India and Pakistan, a rare joint-study between the nations.
Yet there are hurdles to navigate. To bring the program up to speed, SAIS is seeking funding, a sometimes difficult prospect in such a conflict-ridden area."If money is coming from India, [the program] could be considered pro-India," Szabo points out, "or if from Pakistan, proPakistan. But we have a two-headed approach, [Tahir-Kheli] is Pakistani-American and Andersen is an India expert."
What if I didn't care about people? A doctor needs humanism. What if someone calls at 2 a.m. and it's an emergency. You have to get up. You can't say, 'Hey, I don't care. Go die.'"
--Benjamin Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery, in an inspirational speech to schoolchildren at Hopkins's Turner Auditorium.
"I could be just as good as he is. I can do some of the things he could do. I want to be a doctor, a surgeon doctor. A brain surgeon. I plan to go to college. I'm setting my mind on that goal."
--Shonshana<|fim_middle|>,500 schools nationwide, was awarded $14.3 million, much of which will be used to expand its curriculum to middle school. Last year Success for All became an independent non-profit foundation, though it retains close research ties with the university.
Two newer programs, the Talent Development Middle and High School models, were awarded an expected five-year total of $12.7 million. | Bull, 11, talking to media after hearing Carson speak.
In 1997, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines scored a remarkable success: 122 countries signed the Ottawa Convention, banning the use and manufacture of deadly anti-personnel mines. Much of the work that brought about the convention was done by what Margaret Keck calls a "transnational advocacy network"--of governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), activists, politicians, and ordinary citizens--that shared information, strategized, and applied coordinated pressure to world governments.
Keck, a Hopkins professor of political science, studies transnational networks. Her recent book about them, Activists Beyond Borders (Cornell University Press, 1998), won the 2000 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for ideas that improve world order. She shared the $200,000 prize with her co-author, Kathryn Sikkink of the University of Minnesota.
Transnational networks have "multiplied exponentially," says Keck.
Explains Keck, "A transnational advocacy network is a set of connections among a group of actors in more than one country who share certain values and goals, and who coordinate strategically to accomplish them." In the example of the landmine campaign (not one of the examples in Keck and Sikkink's book), an extraordinary roster came together. At one time or another (according to the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs), it included the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, Handicap International, UNICEF, Physicians for Human Rights, and Human Rights Watch; NGOs in Germany, Sweden, Ireland, and Australia; the European Parliament, and sympathetic members of government in Canada, Afghanistan, Mozambique, Holland, and other countries.
These networks have existed for a long time, Keck says, but have "multiplied exponentially in the wake of the Internet and fax-machine revolution." Information technology, plus the precipitous decline in air fares, now allows an unprecedented sharing of ideas, knowledge, and energy. Activists around the globe can craft strategies that effectively pressure governments and large international organizations like the World Bank to address the concerns of people who previously had little or no political clout.
The anti-landmine crusade is a striking example of transnational advocacy. Others, says Keck, include the effort to discourage use of tropical hardwoods, and the anti-apartheid campaign against South Africa.
Keck describes a "boomerang pattern" common to many successful campaigns. Country A, for example, is pursuing a land development policy that is destroying the livelihood of indigenous people who have no means of effectively pressuring the government by themselves. An environmental group learns of their plight and creates or taps into a network of NGOs, international agencies, and sympathetic individuals in other governments. That network convinces the government of Country B to apply pressure to Country A, which now must pay attention to the victims of its policies because it does not want to lose prestige, or valuable trade concessions, or some form of aid. Keck says this pattern is evident in efforts to curb deforestation in Brazil.
Transnational advocacy networks don't always prove effective, Keck says. "Human rights campaigns were totally ineffective in Haiti because the Haitian dictator didn't care. He was perfectly willing to let the country go down the tubes." She's also found that successful campaigns can't be too abstract: "They need to be relatively clear who is responsible for what, and why.
In October, the U.S. Department of Education awarded $84.6 million to school reform models nationwide, and programs developed by Johns Hopkins came away with the biggest piece of the funding pie: some $27 million over five years. The funding supports three reform programs developed by the university's Center for Social Organization of Schools. All three programs are "comprehensive" school reform models aimed at turning around low-performing, high-poverty schools by changing the way they do almost everything.
"This is important news for education reform," said CSOS director James McPartland. "These grants show that the federal government is committed to adopting education reform strategies that are grounded in tested research and to making these reforms available to as many schools that want them. It also indicates an emphatic shift toward comprehensive school reform, and away from a piecemeal, fragmented approach."
Success for All, an elementary school program now in 1 | 896 |
Everyone feels sad now and then, but depression is far more serious than an occasional low mood. It lasts longer, it interferes with daily life and it can even cause physical aches and pains.
Many people who suffer from depression feel like there's no hope for recovery, but nothing could be further from the truth. Depression is a treatable mood disorder, and the sooner it's addressed, the sooner you can begin to restore your happiness and well-being.
Depression, also known as major depressive disorder or clinical depression, is a common mood disorder with serious symptoms. These symptoms affect nearly every aspect of your life, from how you feel and think to how you go about your daily activities, such as eating, sleeping, working, attending to personal hygiene and taking care of your family.
Major depression is diagnosed when at least five symptoms are present for a duration of at least two weeks. Major depression can be disabling, interfering with your ability to perform your normal activities of daily living. An episode of major depression may occur just once in your lifetime, or you may experience frequent episodes. An episode may onset gradually, or it may occur spontaneously as the result of a devastating life event such as a divorce or a death in the family.
Persistent depressive disorder is diagnosed when an episode of depression lasts two or more years. The symptoms of persistent depressive disorder are milder than those of major depression and typically include a loss of appetite or overeating, insomnia or oversleeping and low energy.
Bipolar disorder is characterized by alternating cycles of intense highs, known as mania, and severe depression. During the manic phase, an individual may experience feelings of euphoria, a reduced need for sleep and a marked increase in energy. Symptoms of the depressive phase are the same as those for major depression.
The Scope of Depression in the U.S.
14.8 million Americans over the age of 18 experience an episode of major depression in any given year.
Depression can occur at any age, but it most often begins in the late teens or early 20s or 30s. Although it's not known exactly what causes depression or how it affects brain function, a number of factors are known to play a role in developing depression.
Depression often co-occurs with a medical illness, and each tends to worsen the symptoms of the other.
They also have low levels of oxytocin, the "feel-good" chemical that promotes trust, bonding and a sense of well-being. Controlling stress can help alleviate the symptoms of depression in many cases.
Controlling stress can help alleviate the symptoms of depression in many cases.
Family therapy is often highly beneficial for helping families learn to cope with depression as a unit. It helps family members who have never experienced depression learn about the condition and the best ways to support their loved one. A strong support system can make a big difference in the lives of people who suffer from depression by giving them encouragement and offering reminders to practice coping techniques and other skills and strategies they've learned in therapy.
Family therapy is often highly beneficial for helping families learn to cope with depression as a unit.
Mood and<|fim_middle|> and glutamate. A device is implanted under the skin and sends electrical pulses through the left vagus nerve every five minutes.
While medication and therapy are often essential for treating depression, a number of lifestyle changes can have a dramatic impact on the severity of symptoms.
Exercise has a profound effect on depression. A Duke University study found that 90 minutes of exercise each week is as effective as antidepressants for reducing symptoms of depression, and it can even prevent it from returning later on.12 Harvard University points out that exercise is highly effective for relieving stress, a major risk factor for depression.13 Physical activity increases the production of endorphins, which are brain chemicals that promote feelings of well-being and relaxation, and it reduces the amount of the stress hormone cortisol in the blood.
Yoga relieves stress and promotes an overall sense of well-being to help combat depression. One type of yoga that involves cyclical breathing patterns, known as Sudarshan Kriya yoga, or SKY, has been shown to reduce feelings of depression by 75 percent, according to Harvard Medical School.15 In one study, four weeks of SKY, performed for 30 minutes, six days a week, led to a 67 percent remission rate for depression.
Will Your Insurance Plan Cover Mental Health Services for Depression?
There was a time when insurance companies could limit the amount of coverage for mental health services, which discouraged many people from seeking treatment for depression and other mental health disorders, including addiction.
If you're unsure where to begin looking for a mental health provider, Rebos can help.
Rebos offers depression therapy treatment, which can help address and alleviate the symptoms of depression. Depression therapy can help you start taking control of your emotions, thoughts and actions and allow you to start living your life again.
If you or someone you love suffers from depression, seeking help now will dramatically improve your quality of life. With treatment, you will likely find inner peace and begin to feel joy once again. Treatment with medication, therapy or a combination of the two will help restore your mental well-being, improve your motivation and enable you to get the most out of your life. | anxiety disorders commonly co-occur with substance abuse and addiction. It's difficult to determine which onset first, because anxiety and depression often lead to substance abuse as a form of self-medication, and drugs and alcohol almost always worsen a mental illness and can even cause its onset.
Around 32 percent of people who have a mood disorder also have a co-occurring substance use disorder and are twice as likely as people without a mood disorder to suffer from depression.10 Up to 67 percent of people seeking treatment for alcohol dependence have suffered from an episode of depression in their lifetime.
When depression and a substance use disorder co-occur, dual diagnosis treatment is absolutely essential for successful, long-term recovery. Treating just the depression won't have an effect on the substance use disorder, which will continue to worsen the depressive symptoms. Conversely, treating just the substance use disorder won't have an effect on the depression, which will likely lead back to self-medication with alcohol or drugs.
When depression and a substance use disorder co-occur, dual diagnosis treatment is absolutely essential for successful, long-term recovery.
Integrated dual diagnosis treatment is a collaboration among treatment teams for each disorder. The substance use disorder and the mood disorder are treated at the same time, each in the context of the other. This increases engagement in treatment and vastly improves the treatment outcome.
Due to the high prevalence of co-occurring disorders and the importance of integrated treatment, the intake process in most psychiatric treatment settings and addiction treatment programs utilize an integrated screening and assessment process to determine if those with a substance use disorder also have a mental illness, and vice versa.
It's important to be patient and continue trying alternatives if the first medication doesn't work as well for you as you'd like after around six weeks of treatment.
Medications for depression generally work to restore the balance of certain brain chemicals, including the neurotransmitters dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine, all of which are related to mood.
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). SSRIs include Prozac, Lexapro and Zoloft and work by blocking the reabsorption of serotonin in the brain. They're safe and effective and have fewer side effects than other types of antidepressants.
Norepinephrine-Dopamine Reuptake Inhibitors (NDRIs). Wellbutrin is the only NRDI on the market. It works by preventing the reuptake of norepinephrine and dopamine.
Serotonin and Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs). SNRIs include Cymbalta, Pristiq and Effexor, which block the reabsorption of norepinephrine and serotonin.
Serotonin Antagonist and Reuptake Inhibitors (SARIs). SARIs include nefazodone and trazodone, which prevent the reuptake of serotonin but also direct serotonin to specific receptors that improve communication among nerve cells directly within mood circuits.
Tetracyclics. Drugs like Asendin, Ludiomil and Remeron are tetracyclics, which don't prevent the reuptake of brain chemicals but rather stop the neurotransmitters norepinephrine and serotonin from binding with specific nerve receptors. Instead, they build up between the nerve cells, and their levels rise.
A combination of therapy and medication is typically the most effective way to treat depression. While medication is effective for treating symptoms, using medicine alone results in higher rates of relapse than using a combination of medication and talk therapy.
Talk therapy, also known as psychotherapy, is highly effective for helping people overcome depression.
If medication doesn't alleviate symptoms of depression, brain stimulation therapies may be a viable and effective treatment option, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is conducted while a patient is under general anesthesia and involves passing electrical currents through the brain. Although scientists aren't certain why it works, it appears to change brain chemistry and improve brain functioning.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is similar to ECT, but it targets more specific areas in the brain and can be done without anesthesia. An electromagnetic coil is held against the head, and small electrical currents stimulate nerve cells in the affected area.
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) alters brain chemicals associated with mood, including norepinephrine, serotonin, GABA | 908 |
1. Observe dogs' body language: You can watch your own dog in the home, when out on walks and during play sessions. See how they interact with you and the world around them. Observe well socialised dogs interacting together and look at the way they communicate too. Video recordings are useful to pick up on subtle body-language and things that you might have missed.
2. Watch how dogs' use their senses: The dogs' sense of smell is 10,0<|fim_middle|> with scent games and give them time to have a good sniff when out on walks.
3. Apply up to date methods of communication: It is now well known that trying to act like an alpha dog is an outdated method of training. Alpha rolls and muzzle grabbing only makes your dog think you are unpredictable and someone to fear. This can lead to self-defence aggression. Instead use positive reinforcement alongside quiet, non-threatening body language.
Understanding canine body language is like learning a whole new language so invest time and practice in getting it right. | 00 times better than ours. See how they take in information using it. Encourage them to use it | 22 |
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Stewart Hastie, 22nd September 1922 – 21st February 2018
Stewart Hastie died suddenly on 21st February 2018, aged 95 years. Stewart, a Scotsman, was a graduate of the University of Glasgow and worked as a veterinary surgeon for 74 years, focussing predominantly on horses throughout his career. After graduation in 1944, Stewart first worked in general practice in Kent, before moving to Buckingham to set up an equine and small animal practice. The practice, Hastie and Jenkerson, was where he was to meet his wife of 24 years, Jane Nixon, who came to work there in 1978 and who became a partner in 1983. Jane and Stewart founded Nixon Equine Veterinary Practice in 2005, which was to be rebranded and sold as Buckingham Equine Veterinary Practice in 2011. In a tribute Buckingham Equine Vets said, 'When he retired from hands-on veterinary work he left a legacy of pursuing the very best in clinical excellence, while maintaining the highest standards of professionalism. As a practice team we still strive to achieve these principles laid out by the father of our practice many decades ago.' Stewart, however, did not really retire and remained very much involved with Nixon Equine Veterinary Consultancy, providing advice whenever asked for and when not! He had strong opinions and was never shy in coming forward, but he was also ready to listen to others and to learn.
Stewart was of the old school of veterinary surgeons with a background steeped in horses and a real passion for the horse. He was an observer, a questioner, a reader and a thinker. He was ahead of his time, recognising the importance of correct foot balance and appropriate shoeing, realising that saddle-fit for the horse was imperative for optimal function and embracing appropriately trained paraprofessionals as part of the team required to promote equine health and welfare. He recognised that learning never ended and his thirst for new knowledge continued unabated throughout his life. Stewart was a gentleman, with high professional ethics. Woe betide anyone who transgressed these principles when he was in practice. He had an amazing memory and, combined with his wit and sense of humour, had plenty of tales to tell from throughout his extensive career.
Stewart was intimately associated with many facets of the equine world, most particularly hunting, working hunter showing, eventing and racing. He supported eventing as a life time member of British Eventing. He was Veterinary Advisor to the Society of Master Saddlers and was recognised as an Honorary Fellow of the organisation. He delivered the inaugural lecture on the History of the Saddle to the Worshipful Company of Saddlers in 1983. Stewart was passionate about education of the horse-owning public and was intimately involved with the British Horse Society. He wrote two editions of The British Horse Society Veterinary Manual and received an Award of Merit for Welfare and Training from the British Horse Society. His contributions to the equine industry were recognised by the award of the British Equestrian Trade Association's Life Time Achievement Award in 2013.
Stewart also played an active role in veterinary politics serving as Secretary to the British Veterinary Association in the 1960s and acting as both Honorary Secretary and Honorary Information Officer for the British Equine Veterinary Association in the 1970s. Stewart was a passionate believer in continued professional development and was an avid supporter of BEVA meetings until very recently.
Stewart provided unwavering support for his wife Jane and her work. Despite suffering a total right-sided stroke in 1999, Stewart's indomitable perseverance and determination shone through. His gait was impaired, but Stewart still found ways to accompany Jane on the majority of her professional visits. They were a formidable team in the nicest possible way, forged from 40 years of working closely together.
As the British Horse Society have said, Stewart's past and continuing contribution to the equestrian world was an inspiration for all of us involved with horses, enhanced by his sense of humour and captivating wit. I have been fortunate enough to know Stewart throughout my entire professional career. His powers of observation, thirst for knowledge, willingness to engage in debate and change his mind, and his overall passion for the horse and equine veterinary medicine have always shone through.
There will be a celebration of the life of Stewart Hastie on 24th April, at 11.30, at 1905 Suite, Whittlebury Park, Towcester, Northampton, NN12 8WP. All are most welcome. Please advise cphastie@yahoo.ca by 6th April if you wish to attend.
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Got Milk? 2016 Milk Trends and Changing of Australians' Tastes
Apparently, as a whole, Australians are choosing almond milk over soy or regular milk (cows will be out of work in no time). The new nut milk 'fad' may not be<|fim_middle|> are available.
Full fat dairy: contains calcium, zinc, protein and other key nutrients
Almond and Coconut milk: are gluten free, lactose free suitable for people with intolerances.
Soy: source of fiber, calcium and a low GI drink
So what else will we decide to milk? According to Bingley-Pullin camel milk may be the new almond milk.
"I've heard it's incredibly nutrient-dense, which is great; however that it can be on the expensive side, so we're unlikely to see it sitting next to soy milk on supermarket shelves anytime soon."
I'll have a strong, decaf, mocha-latte with camel milk please? Gross.
Sorry Alice (the camel), I'll take my full cream cap to go. | as 'faddy' as first thought.
Nutritionist and Vitasoy ambassador Zoe Bingley-Pullin explains:
"I think consumers are becoming savvier about their health and wellbeing options, and are seeking out different types of plant and nut milks to try what's out there and learn what works best for them."
Working as a barista I can tell you just how annoying these milk trends actually are. One in four people ask for almond milk, which would make sense considering one in four families opt for dairy alternatives when doing the grocery shopping.
"Almond milk is increasingly popular because it's one of the newest alternative milks out there and we're learning it's got a beautiful taste profile and is really versatile," says Bingley-Pullin.
Each to their own I guess"¦
"The most common misconception [about milk] is that there's no nutritional value in alternative milks. All alternative milks have nutritional value, but in different ways and you need to learn what your body needs. There are also a lot of misconceptions that we should only drink cow's milk, or only drink plant milks. If you can (if you're not intolerant, that is), there's absolutely no reason why you can't have both cow's and plant milks in your fridge, and an array of different plant milks at that! For me, balance comes from having a real range of foods in your diet," says Bingley-Pullin.
Here are the facts, jack:
Almond milk: low calorie option, isn't as calcium-rich as other milk alternatives – though calcium-fortified options | 338 |
Erehof Opeinde ligt op het oude kerkhof van Opeinde, in de buurtschap Nijtap in de gemeente Smallingerland. Op de begraafplaats staat ook een van de klokkenstoelen in Friesland. Naast de stenen van de door Commonwealth War Graves Commission beheerde graven staan een viertal z.g. pales, de Friese uitvoering van een Nederlands oorlogsgraf. Op de graven welke in beheer zijn van de Commonwealth War Graves Commission staan de volgende namen:
Geschiedenis
Op 27 juli 1942 vloog een Lancaster-bommenwerper, de R 5748 van het 106e Squadron, boven Friesland toen deze werd aangevallen door een Duitse<|fim_middle|> begraven op het Erehof Opeinde, één bemanningslid, Willam A.J. Fuller, wordt tot op heden vermist. Hij wordt herdacht door het in 1992 bij de Christelijke Basisschool in Rottevall geplaatste William A.J. Fuller Memorial.
Erehof Opeinde
Erebegraafplaats in Friesland
Begraafplaats van de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Begraafplaats van de CWGC in Nederland | nachtjager. Het toestel stortte neer op het grondgebied van Opeinde vlak bij Rottevalle. Vier bemanningsleden kwamen daarbij om het leven. Drie bemanningsleden werden | 55 |
Pandemic highlights need to address moral dimensions of climate change, scholars warn
An online conference held by the Baha'i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland provided participants with a forum to examine environmental challenges at a time of heightened consciousness about humanity's oneness and its relationship with nature.
COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND, United States — The current global health crisis and its consequences have prompted renewed warnings about environmental challenges ahead. A recent online conference held by the Baha'i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland provided participants with a forum to examine these challenges at a time of heightened consciousness about humanity's oneness and its relationship with nature.
"The current global health crisis… shows how individuals, communities, institutions, and governments must come together to address a common concern," said Hoda Mahmoudi, holder of the Baha'i Chair for World Peace, in her opening remarks at the conference. "[This] crisis calls for non-partisan, united action based on scientific evidence and ethical considerations. It demands moral courage. The same is true for climate change."
Speakers at the conference, including Maxine Burkett, Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii, explored the need to build partnerships, trust, and shared purpose in facing environmental challenges across the world, while<|fim_middle|> governments must come together to address a common concern. … The same is true for climate change," said Hoda Mahmoudi, holder of the Baha'i Chair for World Peace, at a recent online conference.
Dr. Mahmoudi, reflecting on the conference, describes how assumptions about the economy, consumerism, health, and wellbeing—all of which have enormous social and environmental implications—are now being challenged:
"The foundation of the environmental, economic, and social crises that all peoples face today is really a spiritual crisis. These significant problems cannot be solved without some agreement among the peoples of the world about who we are as human beings: What is our moral responsibility to one another and as trustees of the planet? What principles can we unite around? So when we speak of the oneness of humankind, it is not just about fellowship and kindness, but a call to construct a different world with a totally new approach to resolving problems that, as this virus has shown, are intricately interconnected. After this crisis, we may have an opportunity to take steps in this direction."
All presentations made at the conference may be viewed online.
Providing food security in the face of a global health crisis
How can humanity live in harmony with the planet?
Thinkers challenge social structures, link women's empowerment to peace and progress | ensuring that the focus remains on the most vulnerable.
Richard Houghton, Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, spoke about the decrease in global emissions, acknowledging the tragic nature of the circumstances.
"People are becoming, by necessity, more ingenious and more conservative of their resources. This should provide lessons about what works. … I'm hoping we can use this educational period as a time to take climate change more seriously. What we're doing in response to the virus may carry over to what needs to be done for the climate."
Planned as a virtual meeting months ago in order to avoid emissions produced by air travel, the conference was able to proceed in spite of the health crisis and brought together researchers from Australia, Cambodia, Hawaii, and the United States. Contributors provided perspectives from a range of academic disciplines.
In discussions at the conference, Kyle Whyte, Professor of Philosophy and Timnick Chair at Michigan State University, emphasized that policies around the introduction of new energy technologies must carefully consider questions concerning justice and equity.
Kyle Whyte, Professor of Philosophy and Timnick Chair at Michigan State University, emphasized that policies around the introduction of new energy technologies must carefully consider questions concerning justice and equity, especially those relating to indigenous people and vulnerable groups. He cautioned that "an energy transition which so many people believe is just an inherently good thing" could be looked at 50 years from now as having led to the displacement of entire populations.
He and Melissa Nursey-Bray, Interim Head of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia, both expressed that local communities must be involved in decision-making processes that affect them. Dr. Nursey-Bray said that in "moving towards the future and a global solution, we actually need to look at local place-based responses."
"The current global health crisis… shows how individuals, communities, institutions, and | 374 |
The IR² Flame Detector signals an alarm state by switching an alarm latch on, increasing the current drawn from the supply from 8mA to 28mA and closing the contacts of a Fire relay RL1. These signals from the detector are recognised by the control panel as an alarm signal. The alarm current also illuminates the detector integral red LED. A Fault relay RL2 closes its volt free contacts if the detector has<|fim_middle|> the operation of the detector with either a portable flame sensor test unit or if practical a flickering yellow flame. 9. Reinstate any automatic system disabled during maintenance. 10. Inform all appropriate personnel on completion of the maintenance work and if necessary record this work.
ACCESSORIES A range of accessories and test equipment is available for the Flameproof (Exd) IR2 Flame Detector: Weathershield, part no 29600-228, Flame Sensor Test Unit and case, part no 29600-226.Stainless steel 2 axis adjustable mounting bracket, part no 29600-203 * For a full list of applications for Apollo Flame Detectors, please refer to PP2409, available on request. | no faults and the supply voltage to the detector is the correct value. To ensure correct operation of the detector the control panel must be arranged to supply a maximum of 30 volts DC and a minimum of 14 volts DC in normal operation. To restore the detector to quiescent condition after indicating a fire, it is necessary to extinguish any flames in view and interrupt the electrical supply to the detector for a minimum of one second. Removing the detector front cover provides accesses the detector terminals and configuration DIL switch. The detector is normally configured to latch into an alarm state when a flame is in view. The configuration DIL switch within the detector can be set to place the detector into a non-latching mode. The detector can then also produce proportional analogue current alarm signals i.e. 8-28mA or 4-20mA. In non-latching mode the detector only produces an alarm signal when a flame is in view resetting itself to normal a few seconds after the flame has gone.
The IR2 Flame Detector is sensitive to low-frequency, flickering infra-red radiation emitted by flames during combustion. Since it responds to flickering radiation the IR2 Flame Detector can operate even if the lens is contaminated by a layer of oil, dust, water-vapour or ice. The IR2 Flame Detector is set to respond to low-frequency radiation at 1 to 15Hz (1 to 2.7μm) in order to detect all flickering flames, including those invisible to the naked eye, eg, those emitted by hydrogen fires. The IR2 Flame Detector has two IR sensors that respond to different IR wavelengths in order to discriminate between flames and spurious sources of radiation. False alarms due to such factors as flickering lighting are avoided by a combination of filters and signal processing techniques.
The flame detector is designed to give years of trouble-free operation with minimal attention. However the periodic maintenance steps listed below are essential to maintain reliable fire protection. 1. Inform all appropriate personnel of intention to work on the flame detector. 2. Disable any automatic systems that may be activated by the flame detector if not required as part of the maintenance check. 3. Check that the flame detector's control panel is functioning correctly and shows no faults. 4. Inspect the detector viewing window for any build-up of dust or other contaminants on the optical surface. If necessary clean the optical surface with a cotton wipe wet with commercial liquid glass cleaner. Rinse with clean water and dry with a clean cloth. The detector specification for performance is with a clean optical sensor window. Contaminants like dust, oil and paint will reduce sensitivity. 5. Ensure the detector still has a clear line of sight of the area it is protecting and no obstacles obstruct its view. 6. Check that the detector is securely fitted. 7. Visually check the exterior of the detector for any mechanical or corrosive damage. 8. Test | 596 |
Taking care of babies is not a piece of cake. As if changing their diapers and feeding them are not enough, they make it a point of duty to cry their minds out every time. Just when you think of getting respite, you find their little angelic eyes peeping out, telling you, 'Nah,<|fim_middle|> medications or has allergies.
How to use Essential Oils to help Babies Sleep?
Bedtime Massage: Rubbing Essential oils on your baby's body, paying attention to the back, neck, arms, feet, and tummy.
Using with a diffuser: A diffuser can add the necessary fragrance and also help to purify the room.
Using with their bath water: Adding a few drops of essential oils into their bath water can help calm their spirits.
Discover the oil that works best for your child and you will find a difference in his usual sleeping patterns. Having tried them myself, I can assure that essential oils help babies sleep. Besides babies, essential oils are also great for grown ups who need better sleep.
"Essential oils for newborns and babies should be used minimally and only as-needed for the first 3 months. | Nah, you can't rest yet.' Not only are they affected by the sleeplessness, but you are also affected too. Lack of sleep affects mental health and emotional balance. Sleep is the body's way of keeping our healthiness intact.
Instead of consuming medications or sleeping pills, essential oils are a better and safer alternative for getting a good rest. They have been in use over the years due to their sedative powers and their ability to induce peaceful sleep with no side effects. Essential Oils are not just useful for ailments and other health conditions; they help reduce stress and discomfort that may be preventing your baby from getting sound sleep. I have put together the best essential oils to help babies sleep.
The Lavender oil is a good oil for helping babies sleep due to its relaxing properties. It also has an alluring aroma that your baby will find hard to resist. The lavender oil helps to balance the body system, soothe headaches and calm the anxiety that may be preventing your baby from sleeping.
You can use the lavender oil with a diffuser. Also, mix with the skin care products to help soothe their skin as well.
You can topically apply lavender oil to help babies sleep 20 minutes before going to bed. Just rub 1 or 2 drops of the oil on their wrist, spine, neck, or feet.
Alternatively, you can use the Lavender oil with their bath water. Put ten drops of the Oil and one cup of Epsom salt in the bath water and soak the baby in it for 30 minutes to help calm his body.
This oil has a long history of being used as a relaxing and sedative agent. It helps to calm and soothe the body and can help your baby to get a good sleep. It is very efficient for hormonal imbalances, child insomnia, and to prevent nightmares.
You can use Roman Chamomile Oil with a diffuser. For topical application, dilute 1 or 2 drops with 1 teaspoonful of coconut oil and rub on the baby's neck, back, arm, and feet.
The Bergamot Oil is a citrus-based oil that can help your child sleep peacefully. It has calming and relaxing properties and can be blended with other essential oils for better efficiency.
The Marjoram is more than just another cooking material. It works excellently for soothing a restless baby and can help induce a sound sleep. It is one of the best oils to help babies sleep.
The Peppermint Oil works well as a digestive aid, as it is beneficial for the stomach and liver. Indigestion may be the reason your child can't sleep. The Peppermint also has analgesic properties that help to calm a troubled child, ease headaches and induce a sound rest.
Peppermint Oil can cause severe skin irritation on sensitive skin. I suggest you dilute the oil with a carrier oil before topical usage. Alternatively, you can use with a diffuser.
Gotten from Cedrus atlantica plant, the oil has powerful analgesic and sedative properties that will help your baby sleep calmly.
The Sandalwood Oil is extracted from the sandalwood plant that had to be at least 50 years old. The Oil has a woodsy aroma and is more expensive than the other essential oils. It works effectively for inducing a baby to sleep.
The plant native to Asia may give many a hard time pronouncing. However, it is an excellent option for mothers who want to help their babies sleep. It has a fruity and floral aroma that you will find interesting.
It has an earthy aroma that can help in calming the baby's spirit for the night.
10 drops each of sweet marjoram, sandalwood, roman chamomile, lavender, ylang-ylang essential oils.
Mix the oils and store in a spray bottle, away from sunlight. For use, spray the blend over your sheets and pillows before sleeping. You can also apply topically to the temple, wrist or sole of the feet.
Mix the ingredients and apply topically to the feet, back of the neck, around the toes, or the navel.
Blend the oils with the water and spray around your child's bed. It will help him sleep.
When using essential oils for babies, you have to use with discretion. Most of the oils are toxic and should be diluted with carrier oils before applying directly on the child's skin. Suitable Carrier oils include coconut, jojoba, sweet almond, grapeseed and olive oils. Dilution ratios are usually two drops to one teaspoonful for a toddler and 1-2 drops per 2 teaspoonfuls for babies.
Make sure you buy only therapeutic grade essential oils to ensure its efficiency.
Also, some oils work better for some individual than some others. You just need to find the one that works for you.
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He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Ruby Beall; his children, Michael (Laura) Beall, Barbara Elizabeth Horan and Thomas Paine Beall; 11 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and his first cousin, Senator Daryl Beall. John was also a third cousin removed from Abraham Lincoln. John was preceded in death by his parents; and siblings, Marjorie, Margaret, and Vigil.
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John Edward Beall, 85, passed away December 17, 2019. John was born August 20, 1934 in Williams, IA to Florence (Steele) and Chester Beall. He served in the US Coast Guard from 1954-57 during the Korean War. Following his service, he attended Drake University where he earned his Master's in Psychology and worked as a Mental Health Advocate. John was also a strong advocate for the elimination of shock therapy treatment. He wrote a book with his grandson titled "Beloved Despite", was a lifelong democrat | 208 |
AISSat-1 is a satellite used to receive Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals. Launched on 12 June 2010 from
Satish Dhawan Space Center as a secondary payload, AISSat-1 is in a sun-synchronous low Earth orbit. Initially a development project, the satellite has since passed into ordinary operations. Via downlinks at Svalbard Satellite Station and at Vardø Vessel Traffic Service Centre it tracks vessels in the Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea for the Norwegian Coastal Administration, the Norwegian Coast Guard, the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries and other public agencies.
The satellite was developed as a cooperation between the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (NDRE), the Norwegian Space Centre and the Coastal Administration. The payload was developed by Kongsberg Seatex while the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies built the bus and completed manufacture. The satellite measures cube and weighs . Ownership and operation passed to Statsat in 2013. The satellite has since 2014 been supplemented with AISSat-2 and from 2015 by AISSat-3.
Background
The Automatic Identification System was developed as a navigational aid for shipping traffic, initially primarily as a collision avoidance system. The system became mandatory most commercial ships from 2008. AIS was designed as a terrestrial system with AIS transponders operating on the very high frequency (VHF) range. In addition to ship-to-ship tracking, AIS could be monitored by a series of coastal base stations. The idea for satellite monitoring arose later and was mostly intended for maritime surveillance and control, as well as safety monitoring.
The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment took the first steps towards AIS satellite use in 2003 paper. A main concern was the low transmitting power of AIS, typically one to twelve watts. Simultaneous transmission could also result in data packet collision and thus make all transmissions unreadable. Research later concluded that satellite monitoring of heavily trafficked areas would be near impossible, but that satellite surveying of the sparsely used Arctic waters would be effective. The AIS infrastructure in Norway was built and is operated by the Norwegian Coastal Administration in cooperation with the Norwegian Armed Forces. It was this cooperation which led to the development of the satellite AIS system.
Increased focus on the High North arose following the appointment of Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet in 2005. The AISSats are part of a larger policy to strengthen Norway's grip on the Arctic areas. Norway's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) covers sea areas around Svalbard and Jan Mayen, which in addition to the continental EEZ gives it an area of . Eighty percent of all Arctic shipping traffic passes through Norway's EEZ.
Development
Specific research into what became AISSat-1 began in 2005 as a cooperation between the Norwegian Space Centre, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and Kongsberg Seatex. The initial research concluded that a satellite within an orbit of would be able to receive AIS communication. A particular challenge during this period was the need for an antenna with sufficient length to match the wavelength, which would be difficult with a small satellite profile. As part of the development, an AIS transceiver was attached to the International Space Station to test out the receptivity of AIS signals in low Earth orbit. AISSat-1 was Norway's first non-commercial satellite.
The satellite was regarded as experimental by the involved parties. Design of the payload and AIS components was carried out by Kongsberg Seatex. The project is owned by the Norwegian Space Centre while NDRE was responsible for technical aspects. Once operational, the data was fed to the Coastal Administration. Production was subcontracted to the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) using their Generic Nanosat<|fim_middle|> Earth
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AISSat-1 is built around the University of Toronto's Generic Nanosatellite Bus. The satellite measures cubed. It is solar-powered collected by thirty-six panels and stored in two batteries. There are three onboard computers, each with an ARM7 microcontroller. One operates household issues such as telemetry while one handled attitude control. The third handles payload operations. There are four ultra high frequency antennas for telemetry. Attitude is adjusted through three reaction wheels. The payload consists of a VHF antenna and an onboard computer for storing and processing of AIS data.
Launch
AISSat was a secondary payload which was launched on 12 July 2010 at 03:52 UTC from the First Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. The satellite was carried on board a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation. The main payload of the mission was the reconnaissance satellite Cartosat-2B. In addition to AISSat-1, secondary payloads were AlSat-2A, TISat-1 and StudSat.
AISSat was placed into a sun-synchronous polar orbit with an altitude of . It received an inclination of 97.71° and a period of 97.4 minutes. UTIAS retained responsibility for launch and commissioning, after which operational responsibility was transferred to NDRE. The satellite was designed, built and launched within schedule and budget.
Mission
AISSat-1 was built as an experimental satellite to investigate the feasibility of collecting AIS data from space. The satellite quickly proved to meet its expectations and has since been regarded as an operational satellite. Telemetry including data download is handled from Svalbard Satellite Station. From 2015 a second ground station, at Vardø Vessel Traffic Service Centre, was opened. Since 2013 operation of the satellite passed to Statsat.
The primary operational goal is the gathering of positioning and course information from fisheries and ship traffic within the Norwegian EEZ with the intent of environmental surveillance. The vessel data is used by the Coastal Administration and in particular Vardø Vessel Traffic Service Centre to monitor ship traffic. The data is stored and can also be used to collect accurate statistics on ship traffic in the Arctic. Unlike terrestrial data collection, the satellite information is not made publicly available. A contributing cause is that certain fishers many not want to reveal their fishing positions and could then have chosen to turn off their AIS instead.
The AIS data is used by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries for surveillance of the fisheries fleet to identify illegal fishing. Controls involve checking if ships rendezvous with other ships and when they dock. This information is then controlled with logs. This means of controlling has been an efficient preventative measure. Beyond use in the high north, AISSat-1 gradually sweeps above the entire globe in the course of a twenty-four hour period. This allows tracking of ship traffic in other areas under Norwegian jurisdiction around Bouvetøya and for instance data for combating piracy off Africa.
Data can also be used to identify any ship causing an oil spill. There are more than one thousand annual oil spills and illegal dumping in Norwegian waters. While observation satellites have previously been able to identify spills, the satellite AIS monitoring can normally identify the culprit and the data used as evidence. The Coast Guard, the Custom Service, the Police Service and the Armed Force can utilize the data from the data.
A build-to-print copy of the satellite, AISSat-2, was launched on 8 July 2014. It is intended to be followed by a third satellite, AISSat-3, in 2015. The added satellites are intended to provide redundancy in case of data capturing failure in one satellite.
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The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to that will benefit researchers for years to come.
The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to. What began as an initiative to catalog the field books in our archival collections has transformed into a massive digitization effort that will benefit researchers for years to come.
The Field Book Project began in 2010, when the Smithsonian Institution Archives and National Museum of Natural History teamed up to make field notes by naturalists, scientists, and about expeditions affiliated with the Smithsonian more easily discoverable by researchers. The first step was to create an online catalog of the field notes in our collections. The initial goal to catalog 6<|fim_middle|> to bear by today's scholars. Some previously unrecognized collectors, like Mrs. Katherine Ross (Davis) Galliard (1866-1937), have been identified as a result.
All of this has happened through the diligent efforts of teams of catalogers, conservators, imaging specialists, and interns who we'll miss greatly as these first big efforts wind down and the remaining work gets folded into our daily operations. But first and foremost, our gratitude goes to our principal investigators, former Archives director Anne Van Camp and Botany Collections Manager Rusty Russell of the National Museum of Natural History, who inspired this work and saw the Field Book Project through its first eight years.
As we look forward to the future and the work that remains, it's satisfying to know that with digitization, field observations of biodiversity researchers a century and a half ago can now be carried back into the field by the researchers of tomorrow.
Smithsonian Field Books Collection, Biodiversity Heritage Library. | ,600 field books was reached, then handily surpassed. As a result, biodiversity materials were more easily discoverable to researchers. Another result was a marked increase in demand for the materials. Researchers wanted more field notes cataloged, digitized, and at their fingertips. To meet the demand for further access, the project's scope expanded to include goals of preserving at-risk field books and of conducting high-volume digitization. These efforts were generously funded by funders including the Council for Libraries and Information Resources, Save America's Treasures, and the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
Nine years later, we have surpassed the initial goals and cataloged 9,508 separate field books. With a grant from Save America's Treasures, we've conducted preservation assessments on all of the field books and performed conservation on the most at-risk items. Today, we are quickly approaching 4,200 field books digitized.
We recently wrapped up the project's most recent grant from the Arcadia Fund, cataloging over 2,000 new field books and digitizing over 2,600 field books destined for online access through the Smithsonian Collection Search Center, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and the Digital Public Library of America. Along the way, the Internet "crowd" took a keen interest in our field books, too. For the past six years, they have worked together to transcribe those handwritten resources through the Smithsonian Transcription Center. The effort of these "volunpeers" have made it possible for the full text of 400 field books to be searched, and new data mining and computational analysis techniques brought | 335 |
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After the fantastic opportunity to host the latest Spitfire promotional advertisment at the Horse and Groom staring the magnificient Armstrong and Miller.
We are featured as the "Street Credible" Dobbin and Crim<|fim_middle|> wholesome home-cooked food to its broad range of loyal customers, including business people, embassy staff and visitors who happen to stumble across this hidden gem. There is an upstairs dining/function room.
The menu is traditional and servings are substantial. Popular choices include steak pie, fish and chips, burgers and delicious sandwiches. During the summer months tables are placed outside.
In the early 60s, the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein lived around the corner in Chapel Street and is rumoured to have had many meetings with the "Boys" here.
While you are at The Horse and Groom
We aim to ensure your time with us is relaxing and enjoyable
whether its a visit on your own for a coffee and a read of our daily newspapers
or a beer and lunch with your friends we hope you enjoy your stay and return when you are next passing our way.
© The Horse and Groom, Belgravia, London | per Pub in the posh streets of Belgravia which welcomes 2 RAF chaps out for a beer and discover a pub that speaks their lingo!!!
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The Horse and Groom is open from Monday to Friday, 11.30am until 11pm. Although closed at the weekend it is available to hire for private parties.
Near Hyde Park Corner, tucked away down a pretty cobbled mews behind Belgrave Square, the delightful Horse and Groom Pub is also close to Buckingham Palace and Victoria Train Station. Despite being in the heart of London, this wonderful, traditional pub has extremely friendly staff and a great 'local' atmosphere.
This small one-bar public house serves | 161 |
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Pat Mares of Ruby's BBQ Paved the Way for Austin's Barbecue Scene
A woman way ahead of her time, she was sourcing all-natural beef before it was a thing.
By Veronica Meewes
Courtesy of Pat Mares
Growing up on a working farm prepared Pat Mares for a life in barbecue— though she didn't know it at the time.
"By the time I was three, I was feeding chickens and picking eggs, milking cows when I was six and driving the tractor when I was 11 or 12," says Mares. "So I always grew up around all that. We had cows, pigs, ducks, cooked all our own meats. There was a big German and Czech community, so you could definitely get some smoked meats, but that I didn't have much experience with it until I moved to Texas."
In 1979, Mares moved from Lincoln, Nebraska to Austin for grad school at the University of Texas Latin American Studies department. She met her future husband, Luke Zimmerman, through a mutual singer-songwriter friend, and the two fell deep into the local blues scene, where barbecue was becoming increasingly popular.
Together, they decided to open a barbecue spot right next door to Antone's, Austin's iconic blues venue, and they named it Ruby's BBQ after a juke joint that appeared in the Marlon Brando movie The Fugitive Kind. Ruby's quickly became a pillar of the community and a popular stop for both local and visiting musicians, from Townes Van Zandt to Buena Vista Social Club to<|fim_middle|>0 Pot of Tea?
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"There were some places in Austin but back then, if you really wanted barbecue, you went to Taylor or Lockhart," says Mares. "So we made a lot of trips to Lockhart, where they almost all have brick pits, which you could say inspired us."
Mares sourced all-natural, steroid-free beef through a neighboring co-op grocery store long before that became a thing, and hired a local mason to build a customized brick pit for cooking over indirect heat. They developed a unique method of slow smoking the brisket overnight and created all the recipes for sides together, enlisting the taste-testing help of the barbacks at Antone's, which shared an alley with Ruby's.
"All of us had an idea of when something was done or how it should taste," Mares remembers, smiling behind her signature cat-eye glasses. In those early days, Zimmerman mainly worked daytimes and Mares picked up mostly night shifts, which meant she was doing a lot of grill work, plus setting the overnight pit fires.
"I'm a pretty strong person," says Mares. "I was always a real tomboy, around my cousins and a bunch of guys…and I don't know if they gravitated to Ruby's because it was me hiring or not, but we've always had some really strong women shift managers and pitmasters here."
Mares recalls shifts where her entire staff was female — certainly unheard of in the barbecue world.
"People would comment, 'Oh wow— it's an all women crew today!'" remembers Mares.
When Zimmerman was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2007, he left the restaurant to revisit his love of art, filling his home studio with mixed media paintings, until he passed away three years later. Mares ran Ruby's singlehandedly for 11 years, training countless employees and often putting in over 60 hours a week herself. Just this spring, she decided to retire at 67 and shutter the 30-year-old institution. But the mark Mares left on Austin's barbecue community is indelible.
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L'écorégion appelée par le WWF forêts du sud des Rocheuses centrales est une région montagneuse au centre de l'Amérique du Nord. Cette écorégion, composée essentiellement d'une forêt de conifères, occupe et se compose d'une partie des montagnes Rocheuses.
La zone est centrée sur la zone du parc national de Yellowstone et s'étend vers les zones montagneuses proches comme celle du parc national de Grand Teton. Elle s'étend ainsi sur l'ouest du Wyoming, l'est de l'Idaho et jusqu'au centre du Montana.
La zone se caractérise<|fim_middle|> zone est essentiellement couverte de forêts de conifères comme le Sapin de Douglas, l'épicéa d'Engelmann, le sapin subalpin. En altitude, le pin blanc d'Amérique est très présent.
La zone possède également plusieurs zones ripariennes, des prairies herbeuses, des zones alpines. Dans le parc de Yellowstone, les spécificités géothermiques donnent vie à des microorganismes tout à fait particuliers. La faune est très riche avec par exemple des bisons et des grizzlis.
Le climat se caractérise par de longs hivers rudes et de courts étés. Les hauteurs subissent plus de précipitations, souvent sous forme de neige.
Voir aussi
Notes et références
Liens internes
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
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l'écorégion sur le site du WWF
Écorégion aux États-Unis | par de forts dénivelés entre les montagnes et les plaines environnantes. Le milieu naturel varie donc fortement en fonction de l'altitude. La | 36 |
Forbo's Furniture Linoleum, Desktop, is a natural surfacing material for furniture designs such as desks, chairs, stools, cabinets, doors and displays. The material is flexible and can be applied as a surface on all kinds of constructions. Furniture Linoleum is renowned for its elegance and durability, radiating high quality and finesse. The mat surface and it's warm, soft texture make it a unique furniture surfacing solution.
Furniture Linoleum is produced from a very finely ground linoleum granulate created from pure oxidised vegetable linseed oil and natural pine<|fim_middle|> and SA8000. | rosin, to which wood flour and colour pigments have been added. The natural composition and the special surface finish ensure that Furniture Linoleum is naturally antistatic. The surface actively resists the build-up of static charges and prevents dust or dirt from sticking to the surface.
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Google expert honoured with Distinguished Alumni Award
Dr Craig Nevill-Manning: One of Google's top software engineers<|fim_middle|> than three people. They recognise and celebrate Waikato University alumni who have made an outstanding contribution to their profession, to the community, to the arts or sport, or to more than one of these areas since graduation from Waikato University.
Director of Development Christine Brabender says the awards were introduced to celebrate the achievements of the university's most successful alumni and to demonstrate the heights Waikato graduates can reach. "Past recipients have included Solomon Islands Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua and Lt Gen Jerry Mateparae, Head of the New Zealand Defence Force, as well as several other impressive awardees," Ms Brabender says.
The other two recipients this year are leading businessman Lt Col Tenby Powell and Kiwibank founder Sam Knowles. All three recipients will be presented with a limited edition cast-glass figure created exclusively for the award.
Google expert honoured with Distinguished Alumni Award is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | will receive his Distinguished Alumni Award on August 27.
One of Google's top software engineers is to be officially recognised by the University of Waikato for his innovative research contributions to both computer science and the ICT sector, and for the way he has increased New Zealand's profile with Google.
Dr Craig Nevill-Manning is the founder and director of Google's first remote engineering centre in New York. He led the development of Froogle (now Google Product Search) and played a key role in developing Google Maps.
He is one of three alumni to be given Distinguished Alumni Awards on August 27 at a university function hosted by the Chancellor, former Prime Minister Jim Bolger, and the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Roy Crawford.
"Dr Nevill-Manning is a tireless leader and mentor, and many students and staff at Waikato have benefited from his generosity and advice," said Professor Crawford. "His accomplishments and personal qualities set him among the best of graduates from the University of Waikato."
Dr Nevill-Manning completed his doctorate in computer science at Waikato in 1996, supervised by Professor Ian Witten, before moving to the US for post-doctoral work at Stanford. A brilliant researcher, his work covers the fields of data compression, information retrieval and computational biology. While at Waikato, he also worked on the software behind Greenstone, an award-winning open source digital library project which has been endorsed by UNESCO.
After a stint at Rutgers University in New York, Dr Nevill-Manning joined Google in 2001 as a senior research scientist. Two years later, he set up the company's software engineering centre in New York, which now employs more than 1,000 staff.
Dr Nevill-Manning retains close ties with New Zealand, and has organised Google internships for New Zealand graduates, funding for New Zealand-based research projects, and opportunities for New Zealand academics visiting the US. In 2009, he received a KEA World Class New Zealand award.
He has provided support for digital libraries in Africa using Waikato's Greenstone technology, and has also helped recreate a little bit of Google's famous workplace culture at Waikato, upgrading the facilities in Department of Computer Science's social space to encourage creativity and lateral thinking.
The university's Distinguished Alumni Awards are made each year to no more | 486 |
Pride Month at Die Hard Dice
Happy Pride Month, friends!
Pride month is especially important to us and the members of our team, so, as is tradition, for the month of June we will be donating to charities that serve the LGBTQIA+ community.
This year 20% of the proceeds of all pride products will be divided between two charities, The Trevor Project, and GLSEN.
We're also excited to announce that 100% of the proceeds from our new line of Pride Stickers will also go to these two charities.
GLSEN was founded in 1990 by a group of teachers who wanted to improve the education system to be safe and affirming schools for the LGBTQIA+ community. By providing teaching tools and training to schools, it helps educate and curtail the bullying and discrimination that happens all too often to these children.
To learn more about GLSEN, or to donate directly to them, please visit glsen.org
The Trevor Project was founded in 1998 by the creators of the short film "Trevor". They provide crisis and suicide prevention services to LGBTQIA+ youth under 25. They provide training and resources for the community, and are also focused on research to provide new information to the field of suicidology.
To learn more about the Trevor Project, or to donate directly to them, please visit thetrevorproject.org
Looking for more ways to help? Great, there are tons of ways! Here are some great resources for both LGBTQIA+ youth, and allies.
Check out The Trevor Project's vast library of information on all topics related to gender identity
Learn about the risk factors, warning signs, and ways you can help a loved one that is struggling
Take The Trevor Project's Lifeguard Workshop training course<|fim_middle|>. It was a watershed moment in LGBTQIA+history and is accredited as the start of the modern gay liberation movement. A year later the first Pride, known as Christopher Street Liberation Day, was in New York as a political demonstration to voice the need for equal rights and protection for LGBTQIA+ people and to recognize the one year anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
As Pride has grown over the years, it has become a fantastic way to celebrate queer life and sexuality, but it is important to remember its roots. Less then 50 years ago, discrimination, violence and brutality were something LGBTQIA+ people faced, and sadly still happens today. Pride is a reminder of that history, and the need for full equality.
To learn more about the Stonewall Riots: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots | about suicide prevention
Most importantly, just love and watch out for each other.
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Pride month is national celebration, that was birthed by the Stonewall riots in 1969 | 44 |
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The Plot of Snowpiercer Sean Bean Original Name
Snowpiercer is a post-apocalyptic tale set in a world where a train is the only methods of transport.
On a train that never stops, the last people alive live in a world of their own. The train is divided into classes, where the lower class lives in squalor while the upper class enjoys the very best life needs to offer. When Curtis, a member of the lower class, finds out of a plot to overthrow the elite and take control of the train on their own, he needs to decide whether to participate. With the help of his buddies and an unlikely ally, Curtis will need to fight his method to the front of the train if he desires any possibility at conserving humankind.
Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs star together with Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Iddo Goldberg, Susan Park, Katie McGuinness, Sam Otto, Sheila Vand, Mike O'Malley, Annalise Basso, Jaylin Fletcher, Lena Hall and Roberto Urbina. Steven Ogg, Rowan Blanchard, and Sean Bean signed up with the main cast in the 2nd season and both Chelsea Harris and Archie Panjabi joined the main cast in the third season.
Rowan Blanchard is a young starlet who is quickly increasing to fame. She is best understood for her function as Riley Matthews on the Disney Channel show Girl Satisfies World. It was produced by ABC Studios and stars Rowan Blanchard, Ben Savage, Sabrina Carpenter, Vincent Martella, Peyton Meyer and Mitchell Hope.
She made her film debut in 1984's "Maze" and continued to work progressively in films throughout the '80<|fim_middle|>, a train that travels around the globe, the film follows its guests as they fight for their survival.
The passengers of this train are divided into classes: the rich elites, who live in luxury on the upper levels; and the rest of the travelers, who live on floorings below in squalor.
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Joseph Willock – You Didn't Know This | s and '90s. In recent years, she has starred in such films as "He's Just Not That Into You" (2009) and "Wrath of the Titans" (2012 ).
In Daveed Diggs, we see an artist who defies categorization. He is a rapper, a vocalist, an actor, and a writer, and he has managed to master all of these fields. His work is both effective and innovative, and it has won him important honor and a big following.
In high school, he joined the drama club and began acting. After graduating from Brown University in 2004, he moved to New York City and began working as an actor.
Sean Bean is an English actor best understood for his functions in the tv series "Sharpe" and the films "Goldeneye," "The Lord of the Rings," and "Video game of Thrones." Born in Sheffield, England, Bean started his acting career in 1987 with a role in the Royal Shakespeare Business's production of "Antony and Cleopatra." He has actually considering that starred in many movies and television series, earning a reputation as one of Hollywood's many flexible stars.
Snowpiercer is a 2013 American science fiction action film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. Set in a future where a stopped working climate-change experiment has killed all life on the planet other than for those aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, the film follows its travelers as they combat for their survival. Sean Bean Original Name
Chris Evans leads an all-star cast in this legendary post-apocalyptic thriller set aboard a train powered by a perpetual movement engine.
The crew consists of showrunner Graeme Manson and director Scott Derrickson.
The Facility of Snowpiercer
The series will follow the survivors who survive on the train as they try to reconstruct society.
The world will alter. A new post-apocalyptic society has actually been created, where the only way to endure is by riding the tracks of a huge train that circles around the world. The guests of this train are divided into classes: the wealthy elites, who live in luxury on the upper levels; and the rest of the travelers, who reside on floors listed below in squalor. On board this train are a varied group of characters, all struggling to find a location they can call home.
On a train that never stops, the last humans alive live in a world of their own. The train is divided into classes, where the lower class lives in squalor while the upper class takes pleasure in the best life has to provide. When Curtis, a member of the lower class, finds out of a plot to overthrow the elite and take control of the train for themselves, he should choose whether or not to join in. Set in a future where a stopped working climate-change experiment has actually eliminated all life on the world except for those aboard the Snowpiercer | 624 |
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Witness a breathtaking view of Florida's wetlands on Florida's Forgotten Coast; climb a beautiful lighthouse at St. Marks Refuge. Established in 1931, St. Marks is a habitat for migratory birds and other wildlife. During a hike, you may see deer, wild turkeys, owls, amphibians, reptiles and more.
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Located on white sandy shores off the azure waters of the Gulf Coast, Boca Grande is an ideal escape. Built in 1880, the lighthouse and Museum sits a few feet from | 312 |
Is Human Resistance Futile? Maps Show March Of Drug-Resistant Germs
By Scott Hensley
Published September 21, 2011 at 3:50 PM CDT
A look at the distribution of drug-resistant staph bacteria across the county<|fim_middle|> is most acute in the South, as the screengrab above shows.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a funder of NPR, helped with financial support of the project through its Pioneer Portfolio. The maps update previous work by Extending the Cure.
Scott Hensley
Scott Hensley edits stories about health, biomedical research and pharmaceuticals for NPR's Science desk. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has led the desk's reporting on the development of vaccines against the coronavirus.
See stories by Scott Hensley | shows the problem is worse in the South.
I don't want to freak you out. OK, maybe a tiny bit. Being a little scared might get you to wash your hands more often. And that would be a good thing for everyone.
So just tool around this collection of interactive maps showing the march of drug-resistant germs across North America and Europe. The global health nonprofit Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy came up with the ResistanceMap. The project is called Extending the Cure, and in addition to mapping the problem, it also wants to find ways to keep antibiotics effective and develop new ones.
Here in the U.S., we're doing better than average when it comes to antibiotic-resistant pneumonia with a resistance score of 19. That's compared with, say, Greece, which gets a 90 on a scale of 100, which would be the worst.
But we have nothing to brag about when it comes to drug-resistant staph, or MRSA. The group's analysis shows, for example, that we have one of the highest rates of drug-resistant staph strains, despite some improvement. And within the U.S. the problem | 237 |
Well can you believe it?
We're already on module 18 of Mechanics and Materials Part one.
we're going to define those as principal stresses.
And we're going to show that the shear stress is zero on these principal planes.
So here's where we left off last time.
I applied equilibrium to our stress block.
We came up with our stress transformation equations<|fim_middle|> that the shear stress is zero on the principal planes.
So that completes module 18 and we'll see you next time. | .
we could find sheer stress and normal stress on an arbitrary inclined plane.
you'll note that these equations, we've derived these solely from equilibrium.
And so they're applicable to stresses for any material.
Whether it's linear or non linear, elastic or inelastic, it doesn't matter.
And so since we're talking about stresses we use the forces on the stress block.
But in the future I'm just going to refer from now on to the stresses themselves.
So this is the stress block I'll show in the future.
And so for any plane at an angle theta we find sigma sub n, sigma sub t.
at what angles the maximum values are for the sheer stress and the normal stress.
our structure is likely to fail.
what material properties the type of material has.
And so, this all starts to come together.
minimum normal stresses are going to occur.
And my question to you is, how can we do that?
How can we find that angle?
because that's the mathematical definition of how to find a max or a min.
this term doesn't have a theta so that goes to 0.
This term we've got a cosine 2 theta.
minus since we're going to go from cosine theta to sin theta.
we get minus sigma sub x minus sigma sub y sin 2 theta.
we get plus 2 tau xy cosine to theta.
And so that we want to set equal to 0 for the maximum or the min.
theta which is the same as tangent of 2 theta.
And this is going to be the tangent to the principal plane.
over sigma sub x minus sigma sub y.
And so that is the result.
That's how we can find the angle to the principal planes.
occur, and we're going to define those as principal stresses.
Okay, so here we go with those results.
the principal planes when I took the derivative this is what I found.
side here of my shear stress equation is equal to 0.
note is | 402 |
Phil Steinkamp is well-aware of the growing shortage of truck drivers."Absolutely, there is a demand," said Steinkamp, lead instructor of the truck driver training program at John Wood Community College. "There are a lot of opportunities."A recent report released by the American Trucking Association says the industry needs 50,000 more drivers by<|fim_middle|> the nation's goods are transported by truck. | the end of this year."Over the next decade, the trucking industry will need to hire roughly 898,000 new drivers, or an average of nearly 90,000 per year," said Bob Costello, chief economist of ATA, in numerous published reports.Steinkamp said replacing soon-to-be-retiring baby boomers is one of the industry's chief concerns. That will account for almost half — 49 percent — of the projected new hires in the coming years.The average age of U.S. truck drivers has gradually crept upward to 49 because of the large number of baby boomers — people those born between 1946 and 1964 — involved in the industry.JWCC is hosting an information session about its truck driver training program at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 11, at the Workforce Development Center, 4220 Koch's Lane.The college's next class starts Jan. 16, meeting from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday for seven weeks, plus one week of "pre-session."Steinkamp said an average class consists of about 15 students."The average age of the students is probably around 40, but I've had students from 18 to 72," he said.Steinkamp said the industry has made great progress in recent years in offering a more attractive product.
"The industry realized it needed to become more driver- and family-friendly," Steinkamp said. "Pay scales have improved, and so have benefits."Representatives from the training program will give a brief presentation reviewing admission requirements, registration and career opportunities. People attending also will learn about a 16-credit hour, financial-aid eligible logistics/truck driver training certificate and a new eight-week online class.Steinkamp said the JWCC program offers the latest technology to educate students, including a computer lab and industry-standard equipment certified by the Professional Truck Driver Institute.Some area truck driving firms are now partnering with JWCC. Sharkey Transportation is offering scholarship opportunities by paying tuition with a signed contract to drive for the company for one year. Dot Transportation also offers a scholarship program. Other employers may fund tuition costs.More than 70 percent of | 472 |
Bahrain International Airshow 2010 | Space Agenda, The space related events calendar!
The inaugural Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS) 201<|fim_middle|>10. | 0 will provide a totally new concept to the global aerospace community. BIAS is set to stage one of the most influential and prestigious aerospace hospitality events in the region. This unique Business-to-Business event has been modelled by experts and will cater for the civil, defence and business aviation markets. The show will afford you an exclusive opportunity to focus on your clients and suppliers and to meet with visiting delegations.
The Sakhir Airbase is positioned in close proximity to the F1 Grand Prix Circuit and provides a perfect setting for this high-class and prestigious event. The show will enjoy unprecedented support from its Royal Patrons. Their Highnesses will be hosting guests daily within the Royal Enclosure and facilitating important meetings and hosting delegations. The Kingdom of Bahrain, Civil Aviation Affairs and Farnborough International Ltd are delighted to host this event and look forward to welcoming you in January 20 | 178 |
WALNUT, CALIF. – ViewSonic is instituting a new corporate strategy that will see the company pull out of the all-in-one PC (AIO) and the U.S consumer tablet PC market this fall.
ViewSonic had been one of the first players to enter each of these fields, but the company is refocusing its effort on a new product category it has dubbed SmartDisplays.
Jeff Volpe, ViewSonic's president, said going forward the company's tablet efforts will target two areas.
"ViewSonic has made the strategic decision to focus our future tablet initiatives in emerging markets and niche verticals, where we can best leverage our core competencies to fulfill technology needs in regions and markets presently underserved by the widely saturated supply of mainstream consumer tablets," Volpe said.
Michael Holstein, ViewSonic's business development VP, said several factors led to the decision to leave the tablet field.
"The consumer tablet market is very crowded and while we entered the space to gain awareness, we have pivoted our focus exclusively on the B to B market in the U.S.," he said.
Holstein said the time spent developing and marketing tablet products will not go to waste.
"We've leveraged our tablet experience to create a new category, the SmartDisplay, which we believe is synergistic to our desktop display heritage," he added.
The other aspect of ViewSonic new strategy has the company replacing AIOs with its SmartDisplay line. The first product in the new line is the just-introduced VSD220, which is shipping in October for $399.
Eric Wiley, ViewSonic's product marketing manager, said the move is part of ViewSonic's switch to a post-PC business model.
Wiley said the SmartDisplay concept allows ViewSonic to better employ its display technology and at the same time turn out a product that is half the price of an AIO and requires less user maintenance.
The company is not calling the VSD220 SmartDisplay an all-in-one PC, a category it is now in the process of withdrawing from, but an interactive display.
The dual-touch 22-inch display has a resolution of 1,920 by <|fim_middle|> 2013, he added.
ViewSonic now has two AIOs on the market — the VPC191 and the VA2232 — and several tablets. Wiley said these will be phased out in October and November, and the company will continue to support them until that time. | 1,080 and runs on a Texas Instruments dual-core OMAP 4 processor and has the Android 4.0 operating system.
Although it has many tablet-like features, Wiley said the SmartDisplay should really be considered one as it is not portable and connects to the Internet via Wi- Fi or Ethernet.
"In my mind I think the form factor defines the type of product — this is a stand-alone device with a keyboard," he said.
The SmartDisplay also has three USB ports, a MicroSD card and Bluetooth. There is a 1.2-megapixel webcam and integrated microphone along with SRS Premium Sound speakers.
In addition, a SmartDisplay also has many commercial possibilities, such as retail and stand-alone kiosks, and there will be an enterprise version released during the first quarter of | 163 |
The Clarets have won their last two games.
Sean Dyche has warned Burnley their new-found momentum will count for little in Saturday's FA Cup third-round clash with Barnsley if they do not maintain their standards.
Back-to-back Premier League wins over West Ham and Huddersfield have lifted the Clarets out of the bottom three and seen spirits soar as they prepare for the League One side's trip to Turf Moor.
However, manager Dyche knows nothing is guaranteed as their attention turns to the FA Cup and has called for the same attention to detail this<|fim_middle|> you are trying to do."
Burnley will be without the suspended Robbie Brady following his red card in midweek, but could welcome back goalkeeper Nick Pope, defender Stephen Ward and midfielder Steven Defour from injury with Dyche indicating he is likely to use the depth of his squad.
He said: "We have got a more competitive group now and the team that we put out, I think, can win games and particularly this game. But they have got to deliver a performance." | weekend.
He told a press conference: "I like the idea of the momentum, of course, but we've been in these competitions, we have been up and down and obviously this year more so with the Europa [League] as well, so I think we have adapted to the challenge.
"It's been tough, but you can't guarantee that momentum remains purely because it's literally game after game. There's no guarantee on that.
"We want to re-focus on this game. It's important. We want to keep that mentality and that winning mentality is a really important thing."
Burnley had tasted victory only once in 12 games when they beat the Hammers 2-0 last Sunday, and coming from behind to win at Huddersfield on Wednesday evening only increased the level of confidence within the dressing room.
Dyche said: "It's been difficult, it's been tricky over the last few months, but I think the feel has remained the same and there's been a good feel and a solid feel to the group in the mentality.
"But nothing reinforces it more than wins, of course, because that's what footballers live for. They live to win games – that's part of their lives – as do I as a manager, as do my staff and of course the fans as well.
"Without any doubt, when you are winning, it does add that edge of confidence to what | 286 |
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DESOLVO SENTENCED IN BOSTON
Albert DeSolvo is lead away in handcuffs after being found guilty of multiple murder charges. His attorney F. Lee Bailey disagrees with the verdict, claiming too many questions have been left unanswered. REPORTER AUDIO WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL LICENSING.
Date: 1967 - BLACK/WHITE
Source: Film: 16P
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AEROBICS CLASS IN ACTION - 1
An aerobics instructor leads a class of students in a workout.
Date: October 28, 1985 - COLOR
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VINTAGE LOS ANGELES GAS STATIONS 2
Great color shots of a vintage Coyne and Vizina gas station in Los Angeles. CU's of signage and of old gas pumps with brand names on them.
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SARS BENEFIT- SARAH MCLAUGHLIN
MWS of Sarah Mclaughlin performing on stage for a SARS benefit in Toronto. Sarah holds an acoustic guitar. WS of the concert stage at night with stage lights flashing and a large screen projection of Sarah's performance. WS of The Tragically Hip on stage at the Skydome. Lead singer Gord Downie holds an acoustic guitar and sings. A CU of a large screen projection showing Gord Downie singing is shown. PLEASE NOTE: VIDEO AND AUDIO OF NEWS ANCHORS AND REPORTERS IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING.
Date: July 21, 2003 - COLOR
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WODABI FLIRTING
A made-up and bejeweled man of the Wodabi tribe of Niger flirts with a Wodabi woman. He makes garish faces and winks at her. She modestly backs away into a crowd of people.
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WS of a rock concert at the Skydome in Toronto. Large video screens play back live footage of the band Sum 41 on stage as they perform for the crowd. The camera zooms into the lead singer / guitarist at centre stage singing into the microphone. Concert stage lights and spotlights flash on the crowd as the band performs. The drummer on stage pounds on his drum kit. PLEASE NOTE: VIDEO AND AUDIO OF NEWS ANCHORS AND REPORTERS IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING.
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1963 WORLD SERIES OF BASEBALL
The Los Angeles Dodgers (ex-Brooklyn bums) give the New York Yankees the bum's rush in the first two games of the World Series. In the first game, left hander, Sandy Koufax sets a Series mark as he strikes out 15 Yankees. With the New Yorkers<|fim_middle|>2. The second day is almost a replay of the first. Again--it's fine Dodger pitching and they, not the Yankees, are again the power at the plate. Before it's over the Dodgers are on top, 4 to 1, and lead the Yankees two games to none as they head for the West Coast.
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PROSECUTION RESTS, HAUPTMANN FOUND GUILTY
David Wilentz, the prosecutor on the Lindbergh kidnapping/murder case summarizes the state's case before the jury returns a guilty verdict. Hauptmann is lead away, after posing for final photographs.rnrnNARRATION TO BE USED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY - NO REBROADCAST WITHOUT ADDITIONAL CLEARANCES
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RALLY RECALLS 1953 GERMAN REVOLT
More than 200 memorial services recall the day in 1953 when Germans in the Soviet Sector attempted to revolt and were defeated by Soviet tanks and guns. Vice-Chancellor Erhard and Mayor Brandt lead 75,000 people in a rally before the town hall as a Freedom Torch is lit.
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So here comes summer time, schools are closed, gardens are open, playgrounds are crowded and swimming pools are full. What we have is the sun smiling at<|fim_middle|> going for a swim.
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Buying a Home; Home Loans; Selling a Home; Careers. | our skin and especially our small kids skin, who either gets skin tan or skin rashes or reddening. Even we moms suffer a lot since we too play with our kids on hot sunny days. Or are found inside blue chlorinated swimming pools.
I used to think when we moms met in the playground we either discuss our kids breastfeeding habits or food habits and moms of grown-up kids speak about the kid's habits in school. But when we enter summertime, we moms discuss the skin rashes and the lotions, What we give our kids to wear, so that they are fully protected from the sun rays. We carry kids essential like hats or umbrella, even sunglasses to give them extra protection.
Now here comes a point when we say there are hardly any products specific to kids skin for summer.
Sebamed has launched a new product with unique formula with pH 5.5 which is baby Sunscreen lotion, which protects skin from harmful UV-A/U-VB rays and tanning of your baby's skin.
This pH 5.5 factor is utmost important because our normal pH of skin is 5.5 and if you use a product similar to your skin pH, it heals and moisturizes it to rehydrate your skin and you feel more soft and smooth, this applies to all from infants to adults. The Sebamed lotion comes in two variety with SPF 30 AND SPF 50. The only difference is they both protect you from different UV rays.
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According to miss Bipasha Chakraborty, the speaker from Sebamed, the skin in summer becomes dry and dull due to scorching heat and tanning due to UV rays. So she showed us how should we apply Sebamed on kids skin. The most amazing part of Sebamed baby Sunscreen lotion is that it's a water-resistant product, so now make your kid wear it even when they're | 394 |
Misunderstanding produces a meaningless hot exchange of words. The bitter words that we did not really mean only create more havoc, more misunderstanding. This is how people who love one another deeply in the beginning sometimes turn their love into violent hatred.
How foolish jealousy is! It kills the very thing it professes to love. Jealousy is self-love. If a man loves a woman truly, he will not be able to bring himself to destroy her happiness and love for him by taking her life and thus letting her<|fim_middle|> pull, the more it stretches. The mind-elastic will never break. Every time you feel limitations, close your eyes and say to yourself, 'I am the Infinite,' and you will see what power you have.
Don't look on yourself as a weak mortal. Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain, enough in a gram to run the city of Chicago for two days. And you say you are tired?
Meditation means dropping the consciousness of the body, remembering who you are, and then coming back and ruling the body.
Control of the life force helps the ego to switch off the electric energy from the nerve telephones, and thus prevent the invasions of restlessness-creating, attention-enslaving sensations. To control the life force in the five sense telephones is to practice concentration scientifically.
"Lord, Thou hast given us freedom to forget our daily troubles by nightly visits to dreamland. May we escape from mortal sorrows forever by awakening in Thee."
Friendship is God's love shining through the eyes of your loved ones, calling you home to drink His nectar of eternal unity. Friendship is God's trumpet's call, bidding the soul destroy the partitions of ego consciousness that separate it from all other souls and from Him.
Ordinary life is like a pendulum, ceaselessly swinging back and forth. The peaceful person remains calm until he is ready to work; then he swings into action. As soon as he is through, he swings back to the center of calmness. You should always be calm, like the pendulum that is still, but ready to swing into steady action whenever necessary.
To be calmly active and actively calm—a Prince of Peace sitting on the throne of poise, directing the kingdom of activity—is to be spiritually healthy. Too much activity makes one an automaton and too much calmness makes one lazy and impractical.
Peace is the enjoyment of life; activity is the expression of life. A balance between the activity of the West and the calmness of the East is needed.
In order to go safely through this jungle of life you must equip yourself with the proper weapons.… The wise man who is armed against all forms of warfare—against disease, against destiny and karma, against all evil thoughts and habits—becomes the victor in this adventure. | go to the beyond filled with loathing for him that may last for incarnations.
The mind is like an elastic band. The more you | 28 |
Queen of the Most Holy Rosary
Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel, CFR
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. – Blessed John Paul II, October 29, 1978
Catholics rightly call Mary the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary because the power of the Rosary manifests Mary's great love and protection for all her children. Never will we be disappointed in asking anything from Mary through the recitation of the Most Holy Rosary. Our Queen wishes to draw us closer to Christ through this magnificent devotion, and I am convinced that we just don't pray it enough. What miracles happen when we do!
It is hard to overestimate the true spiritual power of the Rosary. As a staple of Catholic devotions since at least the 11th century, the faithful have seen innumerous miracles from this humble string of beads, and it is helpful from time to time to look again at the devotion of the Rosary to appreciate its significance as one of the most powerful sources of spiritual renewal. Thanks to the influence of my family and the good nuns who taught me in school, I have prayed the Rosary from my youth with great fruitfulness. You will also see all Franciscans wearing the Rosary on their belts, a tradition in our order dating back to the time of St. Francis.
While it is difficult to pinpoint the exact origin of the Rosary devotion, its great popularity came primarily at the hands of St. Dominic, the founder of the Dominicans, in the 12th century. St. Dominic was concerned about a particular heresy of his day that taught that the material world was evil and that the power of the devil was equal to the power of God. People began to think that Jesus was only a mere creature and their faith in the sacraments and the authority of the Church was harmed. Well, a strong saint like Dominic was not going to sit around and let the heretical preachers win the day at the cost of souls, so he began what we might term today a "Rosary Crusade" all throughout Europe, and he converted many souls back to the true faith.
Traditionally, the Rosary consisted of 150 beads representing in a symbolic way the 150 psalms of the Old Testament. As we know, these beads are divided into fifteen "decades" of mysteries where the faithful meditate on the joyful, sorrowful, and glorious moments of the lives of Jesus and Mary. Blessed John Paul II, in his encyclical Rosarium Virginis Mariae (2002), calls the Rosary a "school of Mary," and "a compendium of the Gospel" in which the faithful are "led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love." How beautiful and how true! The Rosary has been a source of profound conversions to the faith, the correction of morals, and the growth in holiness of many countless souls. What most people don't know, however, is that it is also a real protection from disaster and evil.
Perhaps the most miraculous story I have ever heard of the Rosary came out of the terrible event of the nuclear bombing of Japan at the end of the Second World War. In a rectory just eight blocks from the center of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 eight Jesuit priests survived the nuclear explosion unscathed because they were praying the Rosary at that very hour! A half million people died in the bombing, but the eight Jesuits had no lasting injuries from the explosion or negative effects from the radiation. All lived to their natural deaths years later. In fact, the same thing happened to St. Maximilian Kolbe's Franciscan community in Japan when the other nuclear bomb was dropped in the city of Nagasaki days later. It was also untouched by the explosion. Those Franciscans prayed the Rosary daily. If we were to add to this list of miraculous incidents, we could<|fim_middle|> and meditation upon the holy life of our Lord Jesus. As you were privileged to nurture Him during His life on earth so help us to know Him more profoundly by the contemplation of His Mysteries, who lives and reigns with the Father and Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.
[Excerpted from: Fr. Benedict Groeschel, Jesus and Mary: In Praise of their Glorious Names, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.: Huntington, Indiana, 2012.]
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Don't Waste Lent (Have a Plan) | cite the Christian victory over the invading forces of Islam at the battle of Lepanto in 1571, as well as many others. All of these incidents were the direct result of the graces won through the intercession of the Most Holy Rosary.
It cannot be emphasized enough that the seemingly repetitive prayer of the Rosary is not just rote prayer; it is meant to be a contemplation of the very mysteries of the life of Christ from the point of view of the one who knows Him best, His Mother. Those who pray the Rosary regularly, and with true devotion, know that a real peace comes into the lives of all those who are devoted to Mary, Queen of the Rosary. She never disappoints those who turn to her in this most beautiful of Marian devotions. Perhaps today she is inviting you to "contemplate the Face of Jesus" with her in the mysteries of the Rosary—and don't be surprised if your life changes forever.
Dearest Mother and "Queen of the Most Holy Rosary," fill our lives with a fervent spirit of prayer | 221 |
My mother is usually the one who makes poached pears. I have a photo of her in an old family album, holding a platter of them. By the length of her hair, I'm guessing that the year was 1982. My father must have snapped the picture as they were leaving for a holiday party. That was the kind of thing he liked to do. She's standing in the wood-paneled den of the house we lived in until I was 13, wearing what appears to be a sand-colored fur jacket. She must have curled her hair with hot rollers, because it sits on her shoulders in soft loops, and where she's pinned it back above her left ear, you can see the sparkle of her earring. Her eyes are lined in dark pencil, and her lipstick is as red and glossy as a Robert Palmer girl's. She's staring at something just beyond the camera, probably waiting for the flash to go off. The platter is in front of her chest, tilted slightly downward, so you can see the pears in neat rows. For her, that's clearly what the photo is about: a dozen pears standing upright, each carefully peeled, poached, painted in dark chocolate, and topped with a sprig of fresh holly leaves. I like that for my father, the photo is clearly about her.
I had never poached a pear until yesterday. There's no real reason – though I guess it's that, for many years of my life, poached pears were a grown-up thing. They were the dessert that my mother would make for parties, or for dinners with guests who arrived after I'd gone to bed. The fact that the pears weren't for me should have made me desperate to have them, but the truth is, even with their chocolate coating, they were fruit, and as anyone who's been a kid can tell you, fruit isn't a real dessert.
Of course, I'm older now than my mother was when I was born. I'm old enough to poach a pear.
My mother was in town last weekend. On Saturday morning, we went to the market, and because we needed apples for an escarole salad at Delancey, we went to see my friend Wynne. Wynne happened to have some nice pears, so when we left with our box of apples, we also took the four Purple Goddesses up there in the first photo, and a Comice. But I wasn't thinking yet about poached pears, or about the picture of my mother. That's not how things work. It was only today, a day after they were made, as I sat down with a bowl and a spoon and the last pear with chocolate sauce, that I realized there was nothing original about what I was doing, that I thought of my mother in her curls, with her silver platter. She went home on Sunday, but I know she would approve.
I can't remember what recipe my mother uses for her pears, though I think it involves red wine. For mine, I credit Nigel Slater. His books are what I pick up first when I need an idea, and that was the scene yesterday, when I noticed that my pears were rapidly veering toward overripe. He has a number of poached pear recipes, including one that uses Sauternes and one that uses maple syrup and one that's to be served with pomegranate sorbet, but I chose the version on page 1017, because it came with the following enticement: "…[T]he pears are poached in a light sugar syrup till almost translucent and the chocolate comes in the form of a warm, flowing sauce." Warm, flowing sauce!!! DING DING DING.
As poached pear recipes go, this one could be called plain: just pears, water, brown sugar (or golden caster sugar, if you have it), a vanilla bean, and lemon juice. But what I like about it is that you wind up with a poached pear that tastes intensely of pear. The end. You could add some spices or switch out the water for wine, of course, but then you've got a whole other experience. The point here is the pear itself, soft enough to cut with a spoon. Once you've got that, you put it in a bowl, and then you make a chocolate sauce – a ganache, really – with cream, a little coffee, and a sliver of butter, and while it's still warm, you spoon it on top. You can take it from there.
But I should also tell you about something I noticed today, when I ate the last pear. I warmed the leftover chocolate sauce, but the pear was still cold from the refrigerator, and as it turns out, that's a very, very nice combination. The sauce cooled immediately when it hit the pear, and rather than being thin and fluid, it turned to something like well-stirred sour cream, or a very smooth toothpaste. I know that sounds revolting, but it really feels terrific when your teeth sink through it. Think frosting. In any case, it's not my mother's pear, but it's elegant in its way. I like it very much.
Any good, ripe pear should work here, but I particularly like Com<|fim_middle|> into a small, heavy-bottomed saucepan with the coffee and the cream. Warm slowly over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the chocolate has melted. Once the chocolate has softened, stir until it is very smooth. Then stir in the butter. Remove the pan from the heat.
Drain the pears, and put them in bowls or a serving dish. Serve with the warm sauce alongside, so that each diner can pour on as much as he or she wants.
Note: Any sauce left over can be warmed gently in a microwave – be sure to give it a stir every 10 seconds, and don't let it get too hot – or over a double boiler.
My grandmother loved pears, and I have a few ripening in my fruit basket. I will surprise my darling eight year-old girl with your poached pear dessert this Friday night, and I'll tell her a little about her great-grandmother, who died when she was a baby. And thank you, dear Molly, for always using correct punctuation. I wish you would publish the very last sentence of your post on facebook so everyone could finally learn how to correctly use "it's" and "its". You are a food and word genius. P.S. I still have a signed copy of Natalie Goldberg's "Writing Down the Bones" waiting for you on my bookshelf. I will send it to you this week, I promise!
I bought pears this evening! Now I know what they're in for.
What a beautiful post… always inspiring, molly. My favorite part of this was how that photograph was about the pears or your mom, depending on who you are. Lovely.
Those sound so elegant and delicious!
One of the best posts you've made in a long time. Great job and have a lovely holiday.
It's a cold morning here, but one of the first things I did was read your warm, warm post. Perfect.
I could see your mother, all dressed up and holding her queued-up pears.
I've never tried to poach pears, but I will now.
That photo is stunning — and this recipe, too…I love how delightful the simple sweetness of a fruit can be when paired with chocolate. Thank you for sharing your stories, always.
Sounds delicious. So simple and perfect. I love how you described the photograph of your mother, you have such a way with words, Molly. Thank you.
My dad was the one poaching fruit: he'd always use wine and a lot of spices. My mother hated it, but she loved simple pears poached in sugar and water. Your description of the picture brought me back to my childhood memories, my parents getting ready for a party, my mum beautiful with her curls and a makeup she rarely wore.
Isn't the combination of vanilla and pear just made in heaven?
Isn't there a new dog sniffing around the kitchen? Did I dream this?
Sounds wonderful! I love your new banner! I recently came across Nigel's book…I had just been complaining to my husband about the fact that there are so few vegetable books that have recipes for non-vegetarians. And then I saw his. It is not yet mine but I have great hopes that it soon will be. Thanks for this beautiful post.
Molly – your words and photographs are so beautiful. I love the descriptions and the colors and now I need to try these pears.
I love poached pears, I have my very own favorite recipe and I agree, a perfectly ripe pear tastes more like a ripe pear then it did before poaching.
I love thinking about my parents, how they are in love, and their life before me (or before I remember their life). How lovely to remember that photo of your mother with the pears–perhaps we are all hitting the age where we sort of realize we are adults (finally). Kind of a weird stage, but comes with big rewards.
Nigel Slater is the best. I would totally marry him but I dont think he would have me. I love the photography in his books too. so swoonworthy.
What a warm, lovely thing to read on a cold morning. Thank you, Molly.
Those Purple Goddesses are stunning. I've never poached a pear, or eaten a poached pear, but I'm definitely old enough. Thank you for the inspiration!
I started poaching pears a few years ago when I discovered Poire Belle Helene in Nigella's How to Eat, one of my favorite books. It's a lot like this recipe but topped with vanilla ice cream. That can't be a bad thing, can it?
Nigella says she believes Ralph Waldo Emerson was being optimistic when he said "There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat." So poaching one into a state of deliciousness that is hardly ever tasted when eating one out of hand is a very good thing.
I've never poached a pair either, for fear of "messing it up." Random thoughts of overcooking it, or it tasting mealy has kept me away from such a lovely looking dessert. But, now you've given me the courage (promise of chocolate = courage in my book) to do so, and hope to do it this weekend. Thank you!
my mom also has a thing for poached pears. her grandmother clipped the recipe from some grocery store magazine, i think. your version sounds delicious (with chocolate!), but in case you're ever up for a variation, thought i'd share ours: we also poach the pears in red wine, like your mother, but the topping is what makes it: 1 part ricotta and 3 parts vanilla bean ice cream. with more of the wine sauce on top, for good measure. so good!
I'm dying to see the picture of your mom! I also want to try this recipe because all too often poached pears don't end up tasting like pear anymore…so what's the point. This is a must try for me!
I'm not even a "pear" person and this sounds so good!
It must be the season. I poached pears this weekend too (and previously I had only poached pears for French pear tart, which is a divine use of poached pears.) I poached them in some moscato d'asti, planning to serve them with gingerbread or rice pudding, but we ended up eating them on their own, with creme fraiche.
loved this post – thank you so much! also digging the new(to me) photo at the top of your blog. Thanks & have a great one!
I love pears, more so than apples. I use a pear liqueur for a holiday cocktail called a Solemn John. I love both the name AND the drink. I also love a good still life of pears and your photos are beautiful. The Solemn John is 1 1/4 oz Bourbon (I use knob creek), 1 oz pear liqueur, 1/4 oz simple syrup, 3 or 4 oz half and half with a sprinkling of cinnamon on top. I found it in a magazine and have been enjoying it.
My mother used to poach whole, cored pears, stuff the core with cream cheese, and pour chocolate over the whole thing. Only for dinner parties – as they were a bit of work. I still think about them, but haven't found the energy to try it myself.
You should post the picture of your mother! It sounds so beautiful!
Pears for me were like imagined food till I came to Seattle. I am still learning to get used to them, work them into my seasonal expectations. I haven't tried chocolate yet, and I will, but last year bay leaf cream was so nice.
Do you save the poaching syrup? As I plan out making this I'm thinking it would be good in a mixed drink, especially if it tastes faintly of the pear.
I agree so much with everyone who has said what a warm lovely thing it is to read this post. Thank you for such a nice gift on this chilly afternoon.
I too love thinking about photos of my parents when they were just barely grown up, or when they were grown with kids but doing something non- kid oriented … I wonder what those times made me anticipate about my own growing up … and what sorts of similar images or recollections our little dude will have about us.
Do you know if Tender vol2 will be out with US measurements soon? I have US published Tender vol1 and would love to get vol2 if it were published over here.
What a beautiful post. I look forward to receiving your posts in my e-mail because they add a little bit of sparkle to an otherwise ordinary day.
Ooh sounds like you made Poires belle-Hélène! This is my father-in-law's all time favorite dessert and I snuck into his long-time good graces by making it! I love impressive desserts that aren't overly complicated. Thanks for the post!
No photos of my Mom (a fabulous cook) with her cooking, we were all in too big a hurry and waiting for her to put the platter on the table.
Check out that popup store where the old Ballard Library was. They have tons of new cookbooks for sale!
Just delicious, though I was hoping to see that photo of your mother, you did such a lovely job of describing it anyway.
Such a beautiful post. I love the story, especially your description of the photograph and the way it tells us about the relationship between your mother and father. The photographs are absolutely lovely. And, I really want a bite of the pear in your last photograph. You inspire.
Love all of your poached pear thoughts! Thank you.
Bow Street Flowers, there is indeed a second dog in our house. Her name is Alice, and she's about 11 months old. Our vet is fairly sure that she's a wirehaired pointing griffon, and we think so, too. She's pretty terrific.
My mum used to make pears with chocolate sauce for her dinner parties and curl her hair with hot rollers before going out as well – thanks for the wave of nostalgia that swept over me reading this lovely post. Now I must go find some pears and chocolate….
I had the most wonderful pears poached in riesling and covered in a caramel sauce at a B&B this summer. Reading this made me want to make them for myself. Thanks for sharing! Loved the book!
Can't wait to try this! I'd have to say the only time I've poached pears was in a red Lambrusco wine. I simmered the wine and pears with cinnamon, ginger, clove, and a bit of honey and then reduced the sauce when the pears were ready….oh. my. god. I want to put that stuff on EVERYTHING. Give it a try!
That sounds beautifully, Molly! You and Nigel Slater are two of my food heroes.
On the subject of poached pears, I like mine poached in red wine with cinnamon, star anise, lemon juice and sugar – with a dollop of ice cream, or poached in marsala. I have bookmarked your recipe to try next… Love the comforting quality of poached pears!
I love your photography! Please share a photography tutorial with us. Thanks!
I loved how you described that photo, that moment.
Oh, please don't post the picture. Imagining it as you describe it is so wonderful; the real thing should be for you alone — with your audience just doing the imagining.
I poach pears with wine and spices regularly – it's an Italian thing and required when September comes around. But this simple recipe – perfect for a pear-loving heart and then chocolate sauce… chocolate sauce? How sweet that it. And you must know we would all love to see that picture. Or maybe – we're seeing it already.
I love the simplicity/elegance of your photos… and you can never go wrong with a chocolate ganache!
Your reference to toothpaste in the last paragraph made me spit my tea out because I laughed so hard! You are the best. The best!
I absolutely love poached pears! I often have them with Greek yogurt and honey as a quick breakfast.
This recipe looks deliciously decadent!
I applaud your writing here. Details, like those of your mom's curls and earrings, really make this come to life. I went out and bought my own bag of pears this afternoon I was so persuaded to make this recipe!
Lovely post.. you really have a way with words..
I know what you mean about the grown up part.. i look at my toddler and realize that i too am now a grown up..
I have honestly never eaten a poached pear.. I have had poached peaches which my mother would make. I will try this one day very soon. The weather is just right.
It better now really be like toothpaste and sour cream!
I love the idea of using water instead of wine and allowing the pear flavor to be star. With the chocolate, it sounds like the perfect combination!
I just finished reading your book, and I must say that I have recommended it to all my friends as a must-read! 🙂 Your writing style captured me instantly, and I love how you described your fond memories of family, friends, and food with such heart. (I must admit that I teared up as I read about your last memories with your father). SUCH an amazing read, and I'm so happy that I can read more on your blog!
Molly, the description of your mother in the photograph is so amazing. I can feel the love between your parents, and picture them both so clearly, without even seeing the photo.
My mother use to make ginger pear pickles, a recipe I would like to revive soon for my blog. They were one of her favorite recipes, and she would can them, sitting the pears upright in the jars next to cinnamon sticks.
Poached pears — food as art!
What a beautiful story. I make Barefoot Contessa's pouched fruits for the holidays and as gift to friends… but I had never thought of having it with chocolate. I look forward to trying your recipe.
I adore vanilla-bean-poached pears with cinnamon sugar marscapone!
I'm a huge fan of Melissa Clark's recipe for poached pears (it uses maple syrup). I'd never fancied poached pears — they seemed so healthful! — but boy, they are divine.
I love your description of the photo of your mom with the pears. You are such a beautiful writer!
What a beautiful blog. A fellow blogger just recommened that I read your book. So I picked it up and you had me at the first page. I was smiling as I was reading it- I knew it was going to be a delightful book. I am so happy to see that you have another one coming out! Something to look forward to after I finish this one.
…and sometimes it's in the activity of writing, that the words orchestrate themselves into something memorable and resonating and alive. I'm looking forward to your next book. It will be what you hope.
I too wish you had posted the picture of your mom and I too have pears I must do something with. Additionally, I had a slight kitchen mishap last night and the fudge brownies I made, while delicious, were uber soft and runny. I'm thinking Poached Pears on a pedastal of gooey fudge brownie! Thank you Mooly!
You just changed the shape of my entire day. Drool, drool.
Can't wait for the next book, Molly. Be brave. We are all out here waiting to catch it in our arms and give it a big hug.
For something very different, poach them in coffee. When these were cooked for me, I could not work out what the poaching liquid had been!
Molly, I love poached pears, they are so simple but make such exquisite and elegant desserts.
Stewed pears in ice cream (all blended together – a great way to eat them!
This looks wonderful. A more grown up version of a dish I learned while living in Belgium. (That version uses canned pear halves, then simply warms up the syrup from the can with some dark chocolate until melted to spoon over the top.) Can't wait to try it!
Molly – I read this lovely post shortly after it was published and filed it away (knowing I would want to come back to the recipe). I just opened it up again and was surprised to see that the picture of your mom was not there. When I first read your description of her I created such a vivid image of what she looked like holding that platter of pears that I found it hard to believe I never actually saw the photograph. Your description is beautifully written – no photo necessary. Anyway – I do have a question. Would you store the pears in their liquid or remove them before refrigeration. I'm wondering if the liquid would affect their texture after a day or two.
Robyn, thank you! And as for the pears, it should be fine to store them in their liquid for a day or two. I left mine that way for a day, and the texture was still really lovely.
I made these pears three weeks ago and I'm STILL thinking about them. So delicious. I'm buying some more pears tomorrow.
Made these a few days ago. They were delicious. I took a photo and posted a link to your recipe on my blog. Thanks for the good food.
Wow! I first want to comment on your photos'; I truly enjoyed the pictures. The poached pears look fantastic. This has given me an experimental idea. My father has grafted a pear tree in his backyard that carries three different types of pears. I can't wait to pick from this tree and try this recipe.
I found your blog after searching Google for a recipe to poach pears but I have found so much more in your beautifully written blog. The pears were poached yesterday (I think the comment I left then is lost forever in the ether), and we have enjoyed them today. Despite my love of cooking and my advanced years I had never poached pears before -what a treat I've been missing!
I have a passion for cookery books, especially cookery books that are more than a bunch of recipes and I was delighted to see that you had written a book. Even more delighted to source a hb copy (here in the UK) which is now on its way to me. | ice.
Note that the chocolate sauce below is actually half the amount of Slater's original recipe. (His uses 200 grams of chocolate, and so on.) When I tried his recipe, I used only three pears, and in the interest of not wasting ingredients or having a lot of leftovers, I decided to make a half batch of the chocolate sauce. l found that I had more than enough to go around, so I've typed up the recipe that way. It should be fine for four pears. But if you want to be guaranteed a real abundance of chocolate – and I wouldn't blame you – you might want to double the quantities.
Combine the sugar, water, vanilla bean, and lemon juice in a medium (3-quart, let's say) saucepan. Bring to a boil, then turn down the heat and leave to simmer gently. Meanwhile, peel the pears, cut them in half from stem to blossom, and remove the cores with a sharp knife and a teaspoon. Slip them into the simmering syrup, and let them cook gently until they are tender to the point of a knife. You'll see that as they cook, they begin to look somewhat translucent, more yellow than white. That's what you want. They should take anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes to cook, and if some are ready before others, just lift them out and transfer them to a plate. When all the pears are tender, take the pan off the heat, put back any pears that you've taken out, and leave them to cool in the syrup.
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A few weeks ago I turned my TV on in the middle of an ION Television marathon of the program Leverage.
Even though the show originally ran from 2008 – 2012 this was my first time watching.
Since there wasn't really much else on, I decided to watch an episode and see if it was any good. The first<|fim_middle|> to bed and the combination of the two must have triggered a subconscious response, because when I woke up this morning I had an idea for a new Ike short story (not the first time I've gotten inspiration from a dream).
For those who don't know, in addition to releasing my seventh novel this summer, I also plan to release a collection of short stories about Ike before Christmas. I've already written seven stories for the collection, this will be number eight. My goal is to have at least 20.
Ike is developing quite a following so I'm bowing to pressure and giving his fans something to hold them over until book number eight.
So what was my story idea?
If you want to know the story you'll have to buy the anthology when it comes out, but I will tell you that there will be two con-men who think Flagler Beach would make a good place to set up shop…until they run into a complication named Ike.
The "research" for the story has me hoping that my computer's search history is not being monitored by law enforcement.
Interesting side note…con men have been around for a really long time – we're talking centuries, probably longer – but many of the classic cons haven't changed much at all. It's pretty fascinating stuff, and goes to show that, while we may think the human race has advanced over the years – for all intents and purposes human behavior hasn't. | episode had me interested enough to watch the second, and before I knew it I had watched five more.
The show was basically a rehashing of Mission Impossible (one of my all-time favorites), with the biggest change being that the Leverage crew was not employed by a covert government organization…they were a group of con-men, grifters and thieves with a penchant for playing Robin Hood.
I really enjoy the way the team uses confidence (con) games to restore justice after a rich and powerful bad guy has screwed a "little guy".
Flashback…When I was 13 the mother of one of my friends took us to see The Sting (Paul Newman, Robert Redford – 1973). Most of the movie was way over my head, until it ended, and I saw that final puzzle piece drop into place, completing the picture of the ultimate con. I left the theater thinking it was about the best movie ever.
Today, nearly 40 years later, I still think it's one of the best movies ever (Jaws notwithstanding).
Yesterday (April 2) was the 40th anniversary of the night The Sting won seven academy awards, including Best Picture – a fact I shared on my Blindogg Books facebook page's daily "On this day" in history post.
Last night I watched an episode of Leverage before I went | 278 |
As you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of general and panoramic view of the whole human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" I would take my mental flight by Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, through the wilderness on toward the promised land. And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn't stop there. I would move on by Greece, and take my mind to Mount Olympus. And I would<|fim_middle|> they were not going down to Jerusalem, or down to Jericho, rather to organize a "Jericho Road Improvement Association." That's a possibility. Maybe they felt that it was better to deal with the problem from the causal root, rather than to get bogged down with an individual effort.
And I was looking down writing, and I said yes. And the next minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it I had been stabbed by this demented woman. I was rushed to Harlem Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon. And that blade had gone through, and the X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery. And once that's punctured, you drown in your own blood that's the end of you. | see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality.
And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. Tell them not to buy what is the other bread? Wonder Bread. And what is the other bread company, Jesse? Tell them not to buy Hart's bread. As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain; now we must kind of redistribute the pain. We are choosing these companies because they haven't been fair in their hiring policies; and we are choosing them because they can begin the process of saying, they are going to support the needs and the rights of these men who are on strike. And then they can move on downtown and tell Mayor Loeb to do what is right.
Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. One day a man came to Jesus; and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters in life. At points, he wanted to trick Jesus, and show him that he knew a little more than Jesus knew, and through this, throw him off base. Now that question could have easily ended up in a philosophical and theological debate. But Jesus immediately pulled that question from mid-air, and placed it on a dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho. And he talked about a certain man, who fell among thieves. You remember that a Levite and a priest passed by on the other side. They didn't stop to help him. And finally a man of another race came by. He got down from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy. But with him, administering first aid, and helped the man in need. Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, this was the great man, because he had the capacity to project the "I" into the "thou," and to be concerned about his brother. Now you know, we use our imagination a great deal to try to determine why the priest and the Levite didn't stop. At times we say they were busy going to church meetings an ecclesiastical gathering and they had to get on down to Jerusalem so they wouldn't be late for their meeting. At other times we would speculate that there was a religious law that "One who was engaged in religious ceremonials was not to touch a human body twenty-four hours before the ceremony." And every now and then we begin to wonder whether maybe | 532 |
The purpose of the meeting is to discuss opportunity zones and software, and any other items that<|fim_middle|> the public and is made possible through the generosity of AARP Alabama. For additional information, please contact Ashley at 256.549.4699, ext. 2118. | may come before the committee.
East Gadsden Branch of the GPL: Learn to Coupon! When: April 8, 3:30-4:30PM Where: East Gadsden Branch of the Gadsden Public Library For additional information or registration, please contact LaShunda at 256.549.4691.
Documentary Screening: Won't You Be My Neighbor? When: April 29, 7PM Where: Pitman Theater In Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom) looks back on the legacy of Fred Rogers, focusing on his radically kind ideas. While the nation changed around him, Fred Rogers stood firm in his beliefs about the importance of protecting childhood. Neville pays tribute to this legacy with the latest in his series of highly engaging, moving documentary portraits of essential American artists. Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and language. This screening is free to | 201 |
Remember these coronavirus safety tips this holiday weekend
By Yoni Heisler
Published Jul 3rd, 2020 4:46PM EDT
Image: REDPIXEL.PL/Shutterstock
Americans will be out in droves this July 4th weekend, with many planning to gather at beaches, parks, and barbecues.
While the coronavirus lockdown is over in many areas, it's more important than ever to adhere to social distancing guidelines.
The coronavirus is still spreading rapidly across a number of states.
With the July 4th holiday upon us, millions of Americans will be out celebrating this weekend with family and friends at beaches, parks, and barbecues. And even though we're in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic that is quite literally getting worse by the day, the unfortunate reality is that many Americans are tired of being stuck at home and will be out en masse this weekend.
With that said, Biology professor Erin Bromage recently spoke to CNN and articulated a number of safety precautions people should keep in mind over the weekend. Especially now that the weather has warmed up and people are itching to enjoy the outdoors with friends and family, it's more important than ever to adhere to what are essentially some basic safety guidelines.
Bromage specifically tackles some of the more popular July 4th activities and provides advice for each one individually. If you're having a barbecue, for example, Bromage suggests limiting the number of invited guests so that people can easily adhere to social distancing guidelines. Bromage further notes that all gatherings should be held outdoors, which is to say don't bring the party inside in the event of rain.
Bromage adds that social distancing needs<|fim_middle|> this point are seeing an increase in coronavirus cases. All told, the United States this week saw its tally of daily new coronavirus cases shoot past 55,000 for the first time. Florida alone was responsible for more than 10,000 of those new cases.
The grim reality is that we're not anywhere close to moving past the coronavirus in this country. The only good news, at this point, is that the death toll isn't rising alongside the rapid increase in new cases. Many experts attribute this to the fact that most new coronavirus cases involve younger adults who are less likely to experience severe coronavirus symptoms.
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Of course, you'd probably be better off avoiding public places altogether, whether it be a beach, a pool, or a bar.
"I get a little bit afraid there's not a lot of moderation in the US public right now," Bromage says. "It's sort of people locking themselves away or going out and having parties like they did six months ago."
"We need moderation," Bromage added. "Be aware that there's still a threat out there, and if we let our guard down even for just one night, we go into the situation that we're seeing in Texas, that we're seeing in Arizona."
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Do you require 3ds Max VRay Render Settings Interior V-ray Tips and Tricks to enhance your Rendering settings in V-Ray?
Although, it would take you a few hours to get through the whole process of V-Ray, and finally reaching to the ultra-fast rendering settings in V-Ray. It is important to work with the default settings before learning and reaching to the master settings of V-Ray. These V-ray Tips and Tricks will help you become a pro in V-ray.
Let's get started with V-ray Tips and Tricks.
First of all, we are going to work on the interior part. No matter what your interior is, it must have few windows to let the light come from outside for solving the purpose of daylight and a few light sources inside the room for solving the purpose of lighting at night.
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Now you will see primary and secondary bounces, now the question arises what they actually do?
The primary bounces are the final gathering algorithm. It collects all the light in the scene and calculates the final data.
The Secondary bounces are light bounced off the surfaces, producing light in the areas that are not directly exposed to a light source.
The problem that is arising in our scene is because of the usage of the secondary bounce algorithm. The Quasi-Monte Carlo mode is collecting light in such a way that it's starting the tracing from the point in the scene, and checks if there is the way that the light got there from secondary light bounces. It is suitable in the case where lots of light sources are present in the scene.
To solve this problem, set the Secondary bounces to Light Cache. The light cache collects photons on points that are going out of the camera to the scene. This mode is very similar to the Photon Map mode, but it is better because it is optimized so the collected light is in the camera space, does not spread all around, thus saving resources, and concentrates the calculations in the visible area.
The first thing you will notice after the Light Cache is collected that the pre-passes are now much faster, because the light is cached, and not traced for every single pass. Second, the produced image is better and it took much less time than usual.
The daylight version of the image still has some blotchy areas (left side, where the wall and the floor touch), but this is far better and faster than the default settings.
The blotchy effect will be less visible when using actual colored and textured objects. Also, the more geometry you have on the scene, less probability that this occurs because the light will be more scattered.
Increase the Subdivisions in the Light Cache to 750.
Feel free to experiment with render settings according to your architectural models to get a better understanding of your software and its settings. You will get to know how different values effects while rendering.
Note: Texturing your models are going to improve the rendering output and you will overcome with few of the problems you were facing while lighting.
For eg, if you are getting some patches in the corners of your room, and you are not able to get a good render even after tweaking with the light settings, go get your texture changed in the material editor or tweak it a bit.
Hope these V-ray Tips and Tricks helped you in getting the Desired Output.
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You will notice that it took more than 20 minutes to get the render of such a simple scene, and the output is not exactly what you wanted. Right?
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Façades – Handcrafted Side table by Atelier Espenaer
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Unique asymmetrically shaped framework
Classic combination of fine woods with contrasting colors
Designed for multiple purposes
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Façades is a set of two loudspeaker stands made specially for a client as part of our bespoke service . It is not available for purchase, but may serve as a model for a custom piece specially for you.
Each stand is composed of an asymmetric framework with a surface in the bottom part and one on top. As a result of this asymmetry the stands looks different from different points of view, or to put it differently, it has different façades. This distinguishing features is what gives Façades its name.
Even tough Façades is intended as a set of loudspeaker stands, it was designed in such a way to allow other possible uses too, like as side tables or as night stands. This was a conscious choice to extend the lifespan of the stands with durability and sustainability in mind. Even if the clients decide to stop using their speakers, Façades may continue to serve them in other ways.
Each stand is made up of an asymmetrically shaped framework with two surfaces. One surface is located in the bottom part and may serve as a place to put bottles, glasses or decorative items, whereas the other is on top and is meant to support the speakers, but may otherwise serve as a table top. Both surfaces are made out of solid ash and were selected for their beautiful pattern.
The framework itself consists of slender styles and rails made out of cherry. They connect to one another using blind mortise and tenon joints. In specific parts of the framework, the cherry styles and rails that one would expect are intentionally left out, producing the mentioned asymmetrical shape. Espenaer's signature triple sticks, made out of ash, connect the rails at the points where the regular styles are missing.
The top surface is attached to the framework with a shorter, walnut version of the signature triplet sticks positioned in the middle, making it appear as if the surface is partly floating. In the bottom part the surface is fitted inside the frame using a groove and tongue joint.
Crafting history
Façades was entirely crafted by hand using traditional hand tools and techniques. The styles and rails were cut from a board of cherry with a Western-style saw and subsequently flattened and smoothened with a set of Western-style hand planes. The slender triple sticks were cut in a similar fashion out of ash and walnut. All woods are certified and are acquired via a hardwood dealer located in our hometown Amsterdam.
The mortise and tenon joints were all cut by hand using a set of Western-style chisels and dovetail saws. The groove and tongue joint was cut with a combination plane. The rounded ends of the top surface were handshaped using a combination of tools, including a saw, a block plane, and a file.
Façades was finished with three coats of boiled Tung oil.
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Recipes included in this excerpt: -Roasted Broccoli with Parmesan -Mustard Chicken -Classic Apple Tart Melissa d'Arabian, host of Food Network's Ten Dollar Dinners and season 5 winner of The Next Food Network Star, makes good on the $10 promise of dinner for four in her eagerly awaited debut cookbook. For home cooks who care about what they feed their families and want to stretch their dollars, Melissa is the best guide for putting delicious meals on the table. With four young daughters and hit shows on Food Network and Cooking Channel, Melissa d'Arabian focuses on savvy budgeting, efficient shopping, and full-flavored cooking. Ten Dollar Dinners has 140 recipes and more than <|fim_middle|>0 minutes. Transfer the onions to a bowl and set aside.
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What made you choose Gibbon Bridge for your wedding?
We chose Gibbon Bridge due to the beautiful location and stunning gardens. We could really imagine all our family and friends outside enjoying themselves on the day.
The bar area and function room are close together and both spill out onto the terrace.
Our family and friends were able to stay over and be there with us in the morning which made it extra special, not to mention the exclusivity of the venue. Also, the staff<|fim_middle|> watch one without welling up and thinking of what it would be like to have one capturing our own big day. Not only are Roland and Lisa incredibly talented, but they are so professional and it was lovely to have them with us all day. It's important to have people that you feel comfortable with and that make you feel at ease. The 'sneak peak' was brilliant and made us so excited to see the full film. We are so happy that we chose RTP films and would highly recommend them to all future brides and grooms. | are so friendly and attentive and the food is to die for!
For us, Gibbon Bridge was the perfect venue and we are so glad that we chose it.
John and I are building a house together and a year ago it was just a plot of land. On the 21st May 2017, he took me to the plot and we began to mark out the corners of our house…all very exciting. He then took me to stand under an apple tree that would be in our back garden and said he wanted to tell me his plans for this part of the garden. He told me "we are going to get a little table and chairs and we will be able to sit out here for years to come and remember that this is where I asked you to marry me." He then got down on one knee and of course I said yes! This couldn't have been a more surprising, romantic and sentimental proposal and it's so nice that the memory of it is in our back garden!
One of my favourite moments was walking down the isle and seeing all our loved ones together and then seeing John waiting for me. It is a huge moment and it doesn't last for long so I am glad it has been captured on video!
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We chose RTP films to record our special day because the videos that we watched of other weddings on the website were phenomenal. I don't think I was able to | 297 |
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Technicolor Travel: 7 Colorful Destinations
Features & Advice Cherese Weekes May 20, 2014
We've all seen some beautiful destinations that have captured our hearts, but what about those whose splendor are all about their color? We'd like to think that their rainbow effects were designed to create one great happy place. Whether this is true or not, we must admit their vibrant features put a smile on our faces through sunshine or rain. Each of these seven destinations showers us with unspoken vivacity brightened by their colorfully draped décor, proving that too much color is not necessarily a bad thing.
Bryggen, Bergen, Norway
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Dominated by a history plagued by fires, Bryggen proves that beauty can rise out of ashes. Quaint wooden warehouses lined side-by-side honor the significance of its architectural history, but it's their vibrant colors that leave the impression they've somehow been lifted and dipped into huge buckets of paint.
A stroll along this vibrant port not only tantalizes all your sense, not just your eyes, with delicious foods prepared in its restaurants. Shops are also speckled here like rainbow sprinkles on vanilla ice cream, filled with peculiar souvenirs that match Bryggen's eccentric appearance perfectly. Even on a gloomy day you can expect that capturing a view of this color coordinated Hanseatic wharf will turn your frown upside down.
Caminito (La Boca), Buenos Aires, Argentina
When Italian settlers immigrated to Buenos Aires, they set out to make the city feel like home by literally painting the town red. However, their enthusiasm didn't stop with red. And once you encounter the candy-colored alleyway of Caminito, you'll see what happens when creativity gets out of control.
By the bright looks of this street, you may need a pair of sunglasses to observe its colorful houses without squinting. Justifiably translated as "little<|fim_middle|>recks Worth Diving For.
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The World's Most Powerful Passports for 2022 | walkway," Caminito is small but it sure packs a big punch among tourists looking to add a little color to their vacations. There's plenty to admire when in full view of the Crayola-hued buildings that also illuminate the vibrant history on which it proudly stands. With a colorful culture and artistic locals to match, you'll feel as though you've died and gone to tie-dye heaven.
Riomaggiore, Italy
Beautifully etched into a dramatic cliff, Riomaggiore, one of the five villages of Cinque Terre, exudes the essence of Italy tremendously. Not just because of the delicious aromas of Italian cooking wafting through its streets, but by the pastel-colored architectonic structures rising out of its rolling hills.
These buildings are so vibrantly colorful, you might very well think they have been the inspiration behind rainbows. And as pretty as it is alluring, Riomaggiore polychromatic characteristics effortlessly coincides with the romantic French culture. From the tops of its iconic candy-coated structures to the bottom of the blue Golf of Genoa that dazzlingly flows at its feet, you'll witness the magnificence that occurs when colors collide.
Provence Village of Menton, France
If you don't believe in love at first sight, then you haven't laid your eyes on one of France's brightest heartbeats. Arguably the prettiest town in the country, many flock here to bask in the delightful shades of pink, green, blue and red bouncing off of its century-old buildings.
Even mundane days seem nonexistent here because of the psychedelic patterns gracefully illuminating its pocket-size alleyways. When you have a melting pot of vibrant colors and the epic French Flair hovering over you, there's no reason why Menton's multicolored façade shouldn't lift your spirits.
Kulusuk, Greenland
Immersed in the heart of fjords, mountains and icebergs, you may think this small settlement goes unnoticed, but that's far from true. In fact, the mutli-hued vibe decorating Kulusuk allows the charming area to shine amid the whitewashed backdrops of its powdery surroundings.
And with the scintillating Artic Ocean ebbing at its feet, Kulusuk's striking landscape is undoubtedly one unforgettable experience. It seems as though the houses dotted along this hilly terrain were meant to captivate their onlookers, so what better way to stand out among natural beauty than to be dipped, rolled and flipped in primary colors.
There's a reason why the city of Jodhpur is commonly referred to as the Blue City. Well for one, it makes the wanderer feel like they stumbled upon a treasure trove bursting with sapphires. Although we are unclear of the reason why Brahmins have chosen to decorate their homes in this color (some believe that it set them apart from other classes, while others think the blue color keeps pests like mosquitoes and termites away) you won't see a glimpse of another color here.
But whether or not these reasons are true, Jodhpur's distinguished beauty is one that rarely goes overlooked. Plus, they're not many places that can actually blend in with the color of the sea.
Guanajuato, Mexico
Once again we're taking you on an exciting trip to bring you to one of the most colorful cities in the world. Although Guanajuato's streets do lead down eventful paths of history, their vibrant colors make this destination legendary.
Its alleyways and staircases are illuminated with a myriad of colors that go hand-in-hand with the flamboyant Mexican culture. And in the midst of its charming passageways lead to the salivating aromas of Mexican specialties and along its veins which are rich with silver. With every color imaginable used to decorate this city, you can believe it is a feast for all five senses.
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People will listen to you when you listen to them and in this tip, you will learn how to listen effectively. Learn more at www.speaksopeoplelisten.co.uk or buy the book, How to Speak so People Listen.
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People will listen to you when you hold their attention. In this tip you will learn how to prepare your audience and how to keep their attention. Learn more at www.speaksopeoplelisten.co.uk or buy the book, How to Speak so People Listen.
People will listen to you when you grab their attention. �This one minute tip offers you three ways to do that. Learn more at www.speaksopeoplelisten.co.uk or buy the book, How to Speak so People Listen.
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After their arrival at the svelte Ritz Carlton Santa Barbara, attendees will mingle with other conference goers over drinks and hors d'oeuvres while enjoying oceanside views.
Arianna Huffington kicks off The Relevance Conference! Huffington has been a public figure for decades, most notably as co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post. She'll discuss the importance of health and wellness and how treating our bodies and minds well enables us to stay relevant. She'll also give us a first look at some new projects she's working on at Thrive Global.
Day 2 of The Relevance Conference is all about the changing pace of the attention economy: with infinite content chasing finite attention, how do you stand out?
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Randall Stephenson, Chairman & CEO, AT&T Inc.
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CMO Kirk McDonald will share at a high-level what inspired Relevance, and kick off the day with a sizzle, as we begin to share original research Xandr commissioned to understand the relationship between consumers, brands, content and advertising.
Brain science is relevant to each and every one of us. It helps us understand why we operate – and is crucial to creating advertising that's less intrusive and more valuable to the consumer. What does it mean to multitask? How do consumers tune in – and out? Dr. Ali Rezai will discuss why paying attention to the science of attention is no longer voluntary.
The news business is being disrupted. From social platforms to user-generated content, the lines are blurring between content creators and professional journalists. This elite group of media mavens will discuss the challenges of staying ahead in a 24/7 news cycle – and why good reporting, above all else, keeps you relevant.
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman join in a dialogue about their highly anticipated video venture, NewTV (working title), and how they're reimagining the short-form content revolution.
From his legendary career on the New York Yankees to his current post as CEO of the Miami Marlins and co-founder of sports media platform, Players' Tribune, the five-time World Series champion will discuss how he achieved success, and stayed relevant, on the field – and off.
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Athletes are everything these days: media moguls, venture capitalists, even film producers. This talk, featuring talent from across the sports sphere, will discuss the skills it takes to connect to audiences on-and-off the court and field.
Actress and New York Times Best-Selling author Issa Rae, will join Xandr's CMO Kirk McDonald in a fireside discussion about her journey from YouTube sensation with "The Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl" to star of HBO comedy "Insecure" – and how she creates content that resonates with her fans cross-screen.
As the relationships between brands and consumers evolve, how do we find a happy medium between premium, paid subscription models and ad-supported media? Or should we?
Jimmy Smith, Chairman and CCO, Amusement Park Inc.
A dynamic group of CMOs and brand officers will discuss issues impacting brand marketers of the day, from the realities of reaching audiences in a fragmented media environment, to the reason why diversity and inclusion should be a part of every business decision. It leads to happier teams, better work ethic, and more innovation. How much progress have we made, and what can we all do to be more inclusive?
The word "content" is ubiquitous, but what often gets lost that great content is all about great storytelling. These panelists, coming from both TV production and the gaming world, will talk about how interactive storytelling is changing the way entertainment is consumed, and ultimately, enjoyed.
Matthew Weiner dove headfirst into the evolution of mass communication in the middle of the 20th century with the the landmark series Mad Men. With a new original anthology series The Romanoffs for Amazon set in seven countries around the globe and shot on location in three continents, Weiner talks about the globalization of entertainment and how he creates content that resonates, engages and inspires in a fireside discussion with Alana Newhouse, editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine.
Celebrity Chef Blythe Beck will lead an interactive cooking demo.
Day 3 of The Relevance Conference will center on the data side of the attention equation, and how advancements in addressable advertising are revolutionizing TV. Experts on measurement and analytics will debate the issues impacting the industry today, from creative challenges to creating a common currency for digital and TV.
Joanna O'Connell, VP and principal analyst at Forrester, will share data and insights around ways brands and advertisers can truly capture consumer attention. How much is too much personalization? And what does it take to move from an impression-based ecosystem to measuring engagement and attention?
In a Direct-to-Consumer economy, brands are reinventing the way they connect with and sell to consumers, digitally. This trend, captured by the IAB's "Rise Of The 21st Century Brand Economy" study, has massive implications for marketers, sales reps and keepers of the supply chain as the rules are rewritten through the removal of the middle man – in advertising supply chains and beyond.
Consumer attention is the new metric of success in our industry. How are we measuring consumer attention today? And how does attention ultimately affect attribution? This discussion gathers decision makers from leading measurement and data firms to discuss the changing face of TV measurement, and the progress and pitfalls of a single currency.
Amanda Richman, CEO, Wavemaker U.S.
The momentum behind addressable TV, delivering household-specific advertising based on an advertiser-defined target, has reached an important inflection point for both consumers and brand marketers. Where do we go from here?
Data has become the currency that makes advertising work, from understanding the consumer, to better reaching the consumer, and measuring the impact of that exposure. Using data for advertising goes beyond segmentation and profiling. Brands must use data to reach real individuals and customers who are most receptive to their content and messages. Properly refined, data enables brands to reach the right customer at the right time with the most relevant content and advertising experiences. | Chairman & CEO of Wasserman, a world-class marketing and management agency. In addition to leading the team that won the bid for the LA2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Casey's influence is felt throughout the sports, entertainment and lifestyle world. What is his secret to staying relevant in sports media?
Ross Hoffman, chief business officer for popular meditation app Headspace, shares the story of how Headspace helped turn meditation and mindfulness into a $250 | 96 |
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The Revo SuperSignal is priced at £180.
Take a look in the left-hand column above to see where you can get one. | 's wonderfully built SuperSignal hybrid radio not only tunes into terrestrial DAB and FM radio stations, but gives access to thousands of stations from around the world streaming over the internet.
You can also stream music from your smartphone using the latest Bluetooth aptX profile, giving CD quality sound from the SuperSignal (assuming you've high quality mp3s stored on your 'phone).
There's no dock connector - so all Android, WindowsPhone and Apple iDevices are welcome; they can either be connected by a 3.5mm audio jack or via Bluetooth.
DAB broadcasts (including the DAB+ standard, which several countries abroad prefer to use), FM and internet radio stations (including "listen again" and "podcast" content) can all be accessed - the SuperSignal uses the reliable Frontier Silicon portal to look up stations' streams. A little joystick in combination with other, clearly labelled buttons help you navigate various options, with 5 direct-access preset station keys offering a useful shortcut to your favourites.
One distinct advantage of an internet radio is that you don't have to wait for DAB broadcasts to begin in your area - simply use your home broadband connection to stream your favourite stations over the internet, or look up thousands of other stations covering all genres from around the world to get your jazz or soul fix.
Finished in a furniture grade walnut, the SuperSignal is no meanie on audio volume, with 10 Watts through its class D amplifier and Balanced Radiator (ported) loudspeaker technology, providing enough power to fill a kitchen or midsize living room.
A remote control, wi-fi internet radio connectivity and alarm clock with sleep and snooze functions (just touch the aluminium casing to activate the snooze feature, if you prefer) makes the SuperSignal extra handy in either the kitchen or bedroom. In addition, a headphone socket, hi-fi quality line-level RCA phono and 3.5mm audio inputs are all fitted.
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There are also some tools that can make your use of such as Reference Sheet Templates that are also convenient and easy to use. Grade sheet templates, like a Tracking Sheet Template, can be utilized more efficiently if you kept these tips in mind.
You should choose as simple a template as possible. This would make it easier for you to keep track of your records. After all, the job would be simpler if you could monitor a class with one document.
Be specific with regard to names, dates, semesters, etc. This way, all the important data is already listed, and the job of compiling everything is simplified.
Also, have a system for making sense of all the data, so that your work can be made more streamlined.
Of course, there are yet other kinds of spreadsheet templates available on this website. While grade sheet templates are still valuable tools, they are also very specific ones. Even if you happened to be in a different line of work, you need not worry about not being able to find something you can use. | . A Grade Sheet Template comes to mind, as this is a convenient template to have for teachers looking for an easy way to compile and record their students' grades.
While there are several kinds of Sheet Templates in general, grade sheet templates are specifically meant for teachers. After all, there are more uses for these sheet templates than just for business-related purposes. Any job where you can expect to keep records is one that would need these sheet templates, and that includes teaching.
All kinds of Free Excel Templates are used to record data, such as students' grades. In the case of sheet templates, like Balance Sheet Templates, the data must add up properly to prevent recording errors, so here are some ways you can use your grade sheet templates to avoid that.
You should make sure to arrange all your students' names in order.
List their scores properly so that you have an idea of their performance per activity or test.
Use a formula to calculate their total score. Compile individual results and have an overview of their performance.
There are some specific reasons why you might want a grade sheet template. Blank Spreadsheet Templates are much the same, as you can always fill in the blanks. Like Term Sheet Templates, these are preliminary documents so that the final product suits your actual purpose.
The obvious use of these templates is for ease of record-keeping. The template makes it possible to have a flexible framework for any situation.
The template also makes it easier to monitor your students' performance, so students with low performance can receive the appropriate assistance.
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A predictive maintenance model is one that relies on subject matter experts and analytics to detect potential problems and assign a<|fim_middle|> conference somewhere that will feature it in a keynote. | failure date or time. For instance, by accessing bearing temperature from a data historian, a pipeline engineer can note the correlation between bearing temperature and other data points and forecast a pump failure in X days.
Prescriptive analytics would add an additional piece of crucial information. Using a prescriptive model, the same pipeline engineer would also know that if the piece of equipment was operated at a speed reduction of X, then the failure would be delayed by Y, placing the equipment into a previously scheduled maintenance window, still maintaining acceptable production levels, and in the end saving money.
Both solutions rely on two things, subject matter experts, and tons of data. The data historian helps the subject matter expert better understand the process by providing millions of points of raw sensor data for their consumption. Trending tools that allow for quick comparisons of data points spanning months or years of time, and fast statistical analysis are the tools that process and automation engineers need. Whether it's the subject matter expert looking at a monitor and predicting a failure based on a rising or falling trend, or an additional software model that consumes historian data, an easy to manage database is crucial.
We are still at a very early place for prescriptive maintenance modeling. Early thinkers believe a successful model will include AI and machine learning, helping technicians better understand repair options and outcomes.
Another early follower of this trend is Ralph Rio, vice president of enterprise software at ARC Advisory Group.
Essentially, it is too early to try to adopt this model for nearly 99% of the industrial world, but, keep the term in your back pocket, it is only a matter of time until there is a | 327 |
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Jordin Canada would 'love' to…
Jordin Canada would 'love' to re-sign with Sparks
Ahead of the start of WNBA free agency on Saturday, the L.A. native traveled to Mexico to help develop some of the top high school-age prospects from countries across Latin America
Jordin Canada said she would like to re-sign with the Sparks if the opportunity presents itself when WNBA free agency begins on Saturday night, but the former Windward High and UCLA star says she is open to exploring her options. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
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LOS ANGELES — Jordin Canada said she would like to re-sign with the Sparks if the opportunity presents itself when the WNBA free agency period begins on Saturday at 9 p.m. PT.
"Of course," said Canada, who was born and raised in Los Angeles. "That's where I'm from. That's always been a dream of mine to play for L.A. and I got that opportunity last year. God willing, I'll be able to stay another year with L.A. but you never know what could happen so I'm just letting the opportunity present itself with whatever happens in free agency, whether that's in L.A., whether that's somewhere else. I'm just trying to explore my options but ultimately I'm from L.A. so I would love to stay in L.A."
Canada, 27, a former Windward High and UCLA star, was the fifth overall pick in the 2018 WNBA Draft by the Seattle Storm. She helped the Storm win WNBA championships in 2018 and 2020 and earned a spot on the 2019 WNBA All-Defensive First Team. She signed a one-year deal with the Sparks last February.
The 5-foot-6 point guard started 25 of the<|fim_middle|> They've been with each other for (several) years and she's a great asset to a team," Canada added. "She's very valuable. She can play defense. She's a tremendous leader so I know she's going to add a lot of value to the Sparks. I'm super happy for her and excited for her to be in L.A. I know she's coming off of an injury so I'm super excited for her to get back and I'm just happy she's able to have an opportunity to play in L.A. and also continue playing with Curt."
Heading into her sixth WNBA season, Canada believes she has the talent and experience to be a full-time starter.
"I think at this point in my career, I feel very confident in myself that I can come in and start and be a leader on a team," she said. "I've been playing behind one of the greatest point guards (Sue Bird) and got to learn from her in the first four years of my career. Then last year being in and out of the lineup, I think so far in my career, all that I've learned and experienced with being a starter and coming off the bench, I feel very confident that I can come in and I can lead a team and be a starter."
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Canada said she first realized basketball was a global game back in high school. That's when she truly began absorbing the domestic and international opportunities to play professional basketball, and now she is giving back.
Canada joined fellow WNBA players Ariel Atkins and Danielle Robinson earlier this week to mentor and develop teenage girls at the 2023 NBA Academy Women's Camp Latin America in Mexico, which brought together some of the top high school-age prospects from countries across Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada.
"I'm happy to see the growth (in the young players)," Canada explained during a virtual interview from Mexico. "Their smiles, always willing to learn and (they're) taking what we say and really applying it to the scrimmages and to the drills, so it's really special what we're doing here.
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"Some players pick things up quicker than others. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. Everybody learns at a different pace, so it's really just about the person and the individual and how they can pick things up quickly. Here at the camp, there's been a lot of girls who are already very skilled enough and just taking the little things that we say, whether it's dealing with footwork, whether it's dealing with better passing, whether it's getting into your shot pocket a little bit quicker. They're able to pick it up pretty quickly. These girls are super talented."
Canada said working at an international development camp is additional motivation for her to begin hosting her own "Jordin Canada Academy" youth basketball camps in the future in her hometown.
"That is the goal in the future," Canada continued. "I do want to have something like that in the states and hopefully I will be blessed enough to do something internationally (as well). I've been thinking about that actually the last few years, so hopefully, it will come into fruition. That's on my radar."
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John W. Davis is a Sports Reporter at the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Based in Long Beach, he has worked on-air in local television markets as a multimedia journalist/news reporter in Orlando, Florida, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Most recently, he has worked as a community-based journalist covering public health, racial justice, homelessness, development, and gentrification in South Los Angeles and Inglewood. He has also spent several years covering the Los Angeles Sparks and the WNBA as a reporter and podcast host. Davis is a graduate of Central Michigan University, where he received a bachelor's degree in broadcast and cinematic arts. He is also a graduate of Syracuse University, where he received a master's degree in broadcast journalism. Davis is also an adjunct professor at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism.
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WNBA | | 32 games she played in for the Sparks last season. She averaged 9.2 points and 5.5 assists and 1.4 steals in 27 minutes per game for a Sparks squad that had the second-to-worst record (13-23) in the 12-team league and failed to qualify for the playoffs.
"It was one of those seasons where we had to fight through it," Canada said. "We went through a lot of adversity last year, a lot of moving around with coaches and things like that and I think we tried our best at the end of the day. We fought until the end. We were right there. We were only a couple of games from missing the playoffs, so honestly, despite what we went through, I think we still fought hard. We still played hard. It was just one of those seasons where you just go through a lot of things. I think we finished doing our best so that's all I can say."
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The 2023 WNBA season doesn't begin until May 19, but offseason transactions are in full swing ahead of Feb. 1, the day when players can officially sign contracts and offer sheets.
Jonquel Jones, the 2021 MVP has already landed with the New York Liberty in a blockbuster three-team trade. Former first-round draft picks Jasmine Thomas, Allisha Gray and Natasha Howard – have also been traded, and everyone is waiting to see where 2018 MVP Breanna Stewart, largely regarded as the top free agent, ends up.
Canada is an unrestricted free agent, which means she's free to negotiate a new contract with any WNBA team beginning Saturday night.
"I want to go somewhere where I can show and play and have an opportunity to show my leadership and my growth over the last couple of years," she said. "I just want to have fun and compete and play hard. That's what I'm looking for and to have a relationship with my teammates on and off the court as well and have a relationship with the coaches, so that's what's really most important to me. I'm looking forward to having an opportunity to show that."
Canada said the last couple of years have been really "crazy" when it comes to player movement – via trades or free agency – across the league.
"I'm always kind of expecting something crazy to happen and we're already off to a good start with the trades that have been happening so far," Canada said. "It's just interesting to see players move around and what teams are going to look like, so I already know that this free agency is going to be super interesting. It's already been interesting so I take it for what it is and that's pretty much it."
Canada believes newly-acquired Jasmine Thomas is a great addition to the Sparks.
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20:26 Hello. I'm wandering through the grocery store behind michelle. We just left the hospital (research medical center) where we were visiting brandon. He got stabbed twice at a party last night at his girlfriends apartment. He turns 21 next week. His brother scott got stabbed last year at a party out in Blue Springs. These boys trouble avoidance radar needs<|fim_middle|> 60s. Looks like we're getting in line to pay. Later. | some fine tuning. Whoa michelle is rushing across the store to get a birthday card for her sister Billie. She turns 38 tomorrow and we're having dinner in her honor at Bill and Glenda's (my in-laws) at 3:00, so we're also here buying pasta salad to take with us. Jill is spending the night at a friend's house tonight for a birthday slumber party. Jacob is sitting at home whining about being hungry, but he didn't want to come the hospital with us so he has to wait until we get home for me to make him a Chef Boyardee pizza. Michelle is still perusing the cards. I wonder what kind of message she's looking to send this year, funny or sappy. Ah, she's done… Here we go across the store again. They are playing oldies over the speaker system here at the price chopper. Pop stuff from the 50s and | 197 |
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Moser's choice to use Big Pharma as a presence in the story allows his heroes to tackle some topical subjects. One of the best lines goes to Showerman (who also has the film's best role) when Smith reacts to Big Pharma's pricing schemes. Smith expresses surprise, and although you'd not expect such an otherwise intelligent character to have not heard about the inflated cost of medical treatment, the performance lands the line — and its cheeky social commentary — all the same.
In fact, the performances really are pretty great across the board. Notably, Gareth (Phillip Daniel), whose role and identity are best left a secret , does a great job embodying different aspects when the role calls for it and turning on a dime.
Still, as much as the script and performances try to bring extra depth to the thriller plot, Double Blind doesn't manage to make that character work as interesting as the action-oriented assassin plot. It's a race against time that takes its sweet time. By the end of the final twist, it's easy to appreciate what Moser was going for but also feel a little disappointed that the final product does not live up to its initial promise.
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Double Blind features a solid setup: An assassin starts murdering pharma scientists who are pioneering a new medical breakthrough sure to create waves in the massive (and, at least here, evil) industry. Multiple companies are involved; which one hired the assassin? And what of the lone survivor amongst the scientists, now under the protection of special agents Jessica Tucker (Jennifer Jarrett) and John Smith (Christopher Showerman)? It opens with a phenomenal and surprising opening sequence but, despite some good action choreography, descends into personal drama that isn't particularly interesting or engaging.
Writer-director Thomas D. Moser's decision to keep Double Blind black-and-white gives it a moody look — not exactly noir but certainly more visually interesting than had he kept it a color picture. The score, however, is stuck in first gear even throughout the action | 187 |
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Pensacola's Mardi Gras season begins Jan. 5 with a kick-off celebration that is essentially a "parade in reverse."
King cake time is closer than you think.
The Pensacola Mardi Gras Kick-Off Celebration takes place Jan. 5 on Palafox Street, where about 40 Mardi Gras krewe floats will line the downtown street and remain stationary throughout the evening.
"It's sort of a parade in reverse,'' said Danny Zimmern, president of Mardi Gras Pensacola, which coordinates and organizes local Mardi Gras events. "The floats stay where they are and the people walk by."
Floats will be filled with costumed krewe members who will be throwing out traditional Mardi Gras beads, moon pies and other trinkets.
Mardi Gras traditionally begins on the Christian<|fim_middle|> States origins trace to Mobile, Alabama.
"It's part of the culture of our area,'' Bechtol said. "It doesn't make a difference if you're Catholic, Protestant or pagan. It doesn't matter. It's for everyone."
The Pensacola Mardi Gras Kick-Off Celebration will feature a community king cake, a Mardi Gras tradition, as well as a second-line jazz band performing.
"It's a great time, because it's the middle of the winter and not much else to do,'' Bechtol said. "And who doesn't love a parade?"
Even a parade where the spectators do the walking.
What: Pensacola Mardi Gras Kick-off Celebration. Mardi Gras krewes will have their floats on display and free king cake will be provided.
When: Starts at 5 p.m. Jan. 5. Processional and Blessing of the Floats is expected to take place after 7 p.m. | celebration of the Epiphany and ends on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. The traditional date of the Epiphany is Jan. 6, which is Sunday.
"In Pensacola, we try to do it on Saturday,'' Zimmern said of the Mardi Gras kick-off. "It just makes more sense."
Mardi Gras, French for "Fat Tuesday,'' is March 5, but between Jan. 5 and March 5, there are numerous krewe balls and parades, including three parades the weekend before Fat Tuesday.
On Palafox, a Catholic priest will bless the floats and krewes, with assistance from the official Pensacola Mardi Gras "town crier" T. Bubba Bechtol, a well-known Pensacola comedian and speaker.
Bechtol will lead the procession from Seville Quarter to Palafox, and you won't be able to miss him.
"I have a ridiculous staff with a rubber chicken tied to it,'' Bechtol said. "I have this whole costume. But it's not a comedy gig."
Bechtol said Mardi Gras, while celebrated worldwide, is special on the Gulf Coast, especially since its United | 249 |
The following 25 images are the result of my original encounter with the camera and are featured in my first book, The Universe & U. They frame each chapter and encourage you to see beyond the obvious.
Join me in the beginning - I'm done feeling it's the end.
It was love at first sight of a different kind, soul mates reunited.
Divine connection travels beyond the comprehension of your mind to reach the understanding of your soul.
<|fim_middle|> greed, making the golden touch synonymous with the Golden Rule.
When you are looking to repair, you will look past despair, and do what is fair.
America's "soul food" is freedom.
Gratitude is yours to have; it is not something that can be thrown away.
In the land of hashtags, let's make #JOY the place we actually live.
Don't just feed your body. Nourish your soul.
We are at a point in our evolution where love must win for humanity to continue.
The lion heart within you is your power to boldly go together towards a future of peace.
Diversity is the fabric of humanity. Dignity is the thread. | Destiny and free will are partners, not adversaries.
Welcome to the driver's seat of your destiny.
Universal harmony is the orchestration of open hearts and minds.
Life is not a dress rehearsal; prepare to perform as your highest self.
The success of a society is directly related to its ability to nourish all of its citizens.
Food is indeed glorious, and we must insist that a healthy plate is reserved for everyone.
You only get one body - go long.
Existing on minimal sleep is not heroic; it's ineffective.
Internal peace IS your salvation.
As times change, the job descriptions may differ, but your talents will remain the same. Be the first to find the best fit.
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When it concerns the important things that can make or break an occasion, few<|fim_middle|>, you can request wine parings for these tastings if they are appropriate for your event (again, be prepared to pay a fee, it's a small price to pay to ensure you select the best caterer). And when you are sampling the food, also attend to how it is presented, as any catering service who makes the effort to correctly display a sample will most likely be most likely to make that sort of effort on your event day.
You may remain in for a surprise if you work with a BARBEQUE take-out joint to cater a formal ballroom fundraising event. Or if you pick a high-end business occasion catering service to serve a barn wedding. Why? Since these catering services might not be accustomed to preparing and serving food in such a setting.
Much more traditional venues can likewise have restrictions that caterers must follow, like specific setup standards or disposal restrictions for waste food and water, so having a caterer that is familiar with a venue's guidelines can potentially save you lots of inconvenience on event day.
The catering service's agreement need to clearly define exactly what food, beverages and services the catering service will be offering on the designated day( s). Moreover, it must safeguard you from non-performance as much as it safeguards the catering service from non-payment/default, so you may want to think about having a lawyer} look at it before you sign it.
Every detail should be included in the agreement, included chosen menus, variety of servings and/or people to be served, beverage/bar service information (if applicable) and all pricing and additional services.
No caterer in Cremorne with a shred of self-respect and scruples enters into a contract with strategies to bail at the last minute, however you need to make sure there is a cancellation stipulation in your agreement simply in case your caterer needs to cancel.
Nevertheless, do not stop there, as online reviews are not constantly trustworthy (or perhaps genuine); for example, a good catering service might have had a couple of nightmare/hater clients who skew their ratings, while a genuinely mediocre caterer might have padded their online reviews. So see if you can track down some previous customers of the catering services you are considering and connect to them.
Every catering service we spoke with called insurance protection "an offered" for caterers, and you certainly do not want to legally be on the hook for some oversight or mishap that was the fault of your caterer.
Remarkably, how long a catering company in Cremorne has actually been in business may not be as critical in choosing a great catering service as you might believe. | are as crucial as the quality, taste and appearance of the food and drinks you serve. A lot is riding on your decision of which catering service to hire, and if you think this decision truly isn't that crucial, take a look at it in this manner, remarkable catering can rescue an occasion that's on the rocks, however bad catering will often send out guests to the doors.
In addition, because catering is frequently the # 1 or # 2 line-item cost for many occasions, the caterer you choose is also a significant budgetary choice and can influence just how much money you have actually left over to spend on other areas depending upon food costs and amounts.
Include that caterers can differ drastically in their pricing and the types of meals and services they use, and the process of choosing a caterer can figuratively and actually seem like you are comparing apples to oranges.
Of all the event and catering professionals we talked with, this came up over and over and over again, mainly due to the fact that how responsive and interested a caterer is during your preliminary conversations is indicative of how they will carry out during the length of their agreement with you (and more on contracts later).
A potential caterer needs to be discovering as much as they can about you in your very first couple of conversations with them, so you ought to anticipate them to be talking and asking questions about 20% of the time and you providing answers and describing your requirements about 80% of the time.
So when interviewing your Cremorne catering services (and you ought to talk to a minimum of 3 catering services for any event with a reasonable budget), you have to be specific about the type of occasion you are planning and the kind of food and/or presentation you are expecting. Otherwise, you may end up picking a catering service who just isn't really an excellent fit for the type or style of your event.
Practically every catering service has a standard menu or menus to pick from, and many do provide some level of built-in flexibility to adapt these menus to your particular requirements by substituting particular items and/or customizing others.
Nevertheless, the standout catering services will go beyond standardized menu choices and want to create remarkable fare that matches much more particular theme and dietary requirements.
Some people avoid asking to sample the particular items they want for their occasion because it appears like a hassle for the caterer, but it is standard to request for a tasting of what you are meaning to order prior to you sign on the dotted line.
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is looking into new ways it can gather information on the attitudes to working of older people, to avoid "missed opportunities" when policy making.
The study, Planning and preparing for later life: A social survey feasibility study, said the risks<|fim_middle|> the self-employed, the study suggested that a relatively large sample size of 9,000 is considered.
One way in which the DWP could meet these requirements is through "data fusion", in order to " information needs and maximise value from existing data sources". | of not conducting the survey are "substantial", particularly around collating bespoke evidence regarding policies which have already been implemented, including pension freedoms and the causes behind auto-enrolment opt-outs.
Conducted by NatCen Social Research, the study also looks into improving data around optimising pension information, advice and guidance as well as requirements of the self-employed.
According to the DWP, it is also looking to understand why people do or do not choose specific products, how they fit into their retirement plans and how they engage with them.
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