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Facebook is coming for people's banking information next, a report claims. Facebook already knows a ton of data about its users<|fim_middle|> their data, considering its very recent security blunders, such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and Russian troll farms infiltrating news feeds to spread misinformation. As such, users are rightly reluctant whenever Facebook is reportedly doing anything with user data. | anyway, so why not let them acquire financial transaction data as well?
According to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, the social network has apparently spent the last year courting banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and U.S. Bancorp for potential partnerships that would require users to provide their financial data.
According to TechCrunch, however, the Wall Street Journal's report blew things a bit out of proportion. Facebook spokesperson Elisabeth Diana said that the company doesn't intend to ask for credit card transaction data from banks, and it's not interested in building a dedicated banking feature where people would be able to interact with their bank accounts.
Diana also said Facebook's potential partnerships with banks won't be used to gather data for ad targeting, or even personalize content such as which products in the Marketplace a user sees based on what they've purchased elsewhere.
Rather, Facebook wants to establish a deeper integration between accounts and their banks via Messenger. It already does this to an extent, actually: Facebook lets Citibank users in Singapore connect their accounts so they can notify their bank's Messenger chatbot to check their balance, report fraud, or request customer service. That chatbot integration was announced last year and rolled out this past March. Facebook also works with PayPal in over 40 countries to let users get receipts for their purchases via Messenger.
Facebook's expanded partnerships with banking institutions could give its Messenger platform an edge over rival messaging options by making it more convenient for users to check the status of their accounts right within the app, but Facebook doesn't intend to leverage that data for ad targeting — not right now, at least.
"A recent Wall Street Journal story implies incorrectly that we are actively asking financial services companies for financial transaction data — this is not true." said Diana. "The idea is that messaging with a bank can be better than waiting on hold over the phone — and it's completely opt-in."
To be fair, though, the panic over Facebook's handling of data privacy isn't groundless. Users have become far more wary of what Facebook does with | 421 |
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The company announced a milestone of reaching over 200,000 connected vehicles in North America.
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Volvo Trucks North America Reaches 200,000-Unit Connectivity Milestone, Continuing Leadership in the Industry
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As a global leader in connectivity, Volvo Trucks is at the forefront of developing, testing and introducing commercially viable transport solutions equipped with state-of-the-art technologies. The company announced a milestone of reaching over 200,000 connected vehicles in North America on October 28, 2019 at the North American Commercial Vehicle (NACV) Show in Atlanta, Georgia. This figure is part of more than 560,000 connected trucks globally in the Volvo Trucks family.
Volvo Trucks' connectivity services are now available in more than 200,000 commercial vehicles in North America. The company continues to drive the industry with more a more connected future.
"Over the past few years, marked improvements in connectivity have driven change and formed real-world opportunities in the trucking industry for safer, smarter and more sustainable operations," said Ash Makki, product marketing manager, Volvo Trucks North America. "We are proud to reach this milestone, and will continue to expand and grow our connected solutions for our customers while driving the industry towards a more connected future."
Volvo Trucks continuously investigates new ideas and technologies with a vision to connect the bigger picture for customers now and in the future. And the company has been on the leading edge of connectivity for years.
A Heritage of Innovation in Connectivity
As early as 2012, Volvo Trucks introduced Remote Diagnostics, which enables customers to reliably transmit information to and from their trucks and monitor fault codes in real-time, delivering assessments and solutions based on severity. This allows for faster and more comprehensive diagnostics and repairs, while also providing fleets with information on driving habits, fuel usage, truck performance and more.
The next advancement from Volvo Trucks was Remote Programming, which works hand-in-hand with Remote Diagnostics and allows for over-the-air software and parameter updates to be made in a matter of minutes when the truck is in a stationary position with cellular service. These solutions served as the foundation of Volvo Trucks' future technologies that are now included in its industry-leading connectivity offerings.
Continuing forward, Volvo Trucks then announced the partnership with global analytics leader SAS, enhancing Remote Diagnostics with an advanced analytics platform and use of artificial intelligence for a more precise analysis of the truck. That same year, Volvo Trucks announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with transportation software leader Trimble Transportation Enterprise to develop transportation management and fleet maintenance products and services.
In the last year alone, Volvo Trucks has announced a number of new products and services further enhancing connectivity in its vehicles, including an expansion of parameter updates, its new Dynamic Maintenance service and Geotab Drive.
The Parameter Plus Package, allowing for up to 50 remote parameter updates annually per vehicle, was the first iteration of the innovative subscription package enabling customers to reach peak performance while maximizing uptime. Volvo Trucks then expanded upon this with a new series of updates, providing customers with over <|fim_middle|>, we strive to offer our customers the most advanced technology as quickly as possible," said Makki. "As amazing as cutting-edge advancements in connected technology can be, we know our customers will always be the most important factor in driving the industry forward, with the bigger picture in mind."
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Next, Volvo Trucks introduced Dynamic Maintenance, a connected vehicle maintenance service intended to improve fleet operations efficiency through proactive maintenance planning. This service was designed in partnership with Noregon Systems to enable customized service plans at an individual-vehicle level to improve fleet management for its customers.
And just recently, Volvo Trucks announced the introduction of Geotab Drive, a streamlined FMCSA-compliant Electronic Logging Device (ELD), developed in partnership with world-class telematics leader Geotab. The integrated, cloud-based system provides customers with a seamless solution to monitor and record accurate logs.
Continued Legacy of Leadership
Volvo Trucks continues to lead the industry regarding connectivity, using data gathered from existing technologies to uncover new ways to deliver value to its customers for more productive and efficient transport solutions.
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A first of its kind in the industry, our latest white paper entitled "Clients Know Best - Big Data Analysis of Video Interviewing Implementation" presents a blue print for Video Interviewing best practice based entirely on an empirical evaluation of Sonru clients' success factors. Read on to see the research highlights, access the white paper and to view the recording of a recent webinar with Maiken O'Byrne, Head of Client Success at Sonru.
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University of Nova Gorica announces an open position for the dean of the School of Science.
Deadline for applications: 31 Dec 2019
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The successful candidate will be appointed to the position of the Dean of the School of Science at the University of Nova Gorica for a four year mandate starting 1 Feb 2020, with the possibility of re-applying to the same position.
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list of publications,
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vision of the future development of the School of Science.
Applications should be sent by e-mail as a single PDF file to the University of Nova Gorica personnel office, Mrs. Tea Stibilj Nemec (tea.stibilj.nemec@ung.si)
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Vermont author, farmer and gardener Ron Krupp will speak will speak on Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 6:30 p.m. at the Richford Town Hall, in an event sponsored<|fim_middle|>-nine years ago, Krupp published "The Green Mountain Farmer," a monthly Vermont newspaper dedicated to farm and food issues. He was a commercial organic/biodynamic vegetable grower for 10 years, and he coordinated the three-acre, 165-plot Tommy Thompson Community Garden in Burlington's Intervale for 15 years.
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Saigon has fallen!
It was April 29, 1975. Bonnie Raitt was playing the Capitol Theatre. Between songs, someone came out on stage and whispered in her ear. She nodded and went on to play the song she was going to play anyway. After that song she announced to the crowd, "Saigon has fallen!" A cheer erupted and the concert kicked into another gear.
We all saw this image of people scrambling to board helicopters to escape Saigon.
The concert crowd spilled onto the street at the end for an impromptu party, which moved to a nearby street to go long into the night.
I've just read Bich Minh Nguyen's memoir "Stealing Buddha's Dinner", the chronicle of a 1980s childhood spent trying to be a "Real American". She ate the foods and adopted the fads that I had spent my youth rejecting. She embraced the myths that unfolded before her. It is only the privilege of<|fim_middle|> fox was acting like this was no big deal.
Urban wildlife here usually means birds; raccoons and opossums at night; foxes furtively making their way along the lakeshore at dawn – but not in broad daylight in the middle of town.
(Sun) I have ruined the last 9 liters of maple sap (what would have been about 225 ml of syrup) by taking my eye off it at the crucial endpoint. A foaming black mass on the stove said "Oops – have fun cleaning that pan."
(Tues) I heard, then saw, a loon flying overhead on the ride in to work. The lake is now fully liquid. Crews were busy yesterday. The piers and hoists for the university crew coaches' boats are in the water. The floating docks for the crew's shells are in the water and this morning, as daylight broke, the water was filled with every 4 and 8 (person boat) the university owns. The rafts of coots were on the move, as they like the same area near shore the crew likes to row on.
I think I saw crocus shoots poking out through the ground. (9)
Author halffastcyclingclubPosted on April 5, 2022 April 5, 2022 Categories bikesTags coots, crocus, fog, maple syrup, rowing, sandhill cranes, sleet, snow, spring, urban wildlife4 Comments on The coots are back | belonging that affords us the luxury of rejection. What does it mean to "be an American"?
To those of us who had opposed that war, the fall of Saigon meant the hope that the Vietnamese could find a new life out from under the thumb of the US, and France before us. To some who had fought in that war, the aftermath was a time to help the country rebuild after a generation of occupation. To those like Ms Nguyen, it was a bewildering time, a childhood escape (with her father but not her mother) and an embrace of middle class US life in a town that was not ready to accept her.
But that night, it was first and foremost a celebration of spring. It was the cultural event of the season, an annual rite that we weren't always aware of until looking back.
45 years after she first recorded this, she's still got it.
Bonnie Raitt was schooled in the blues, playing with Muddy Waters (with whom I saw her in 1978), Junior Wells, Fred McDowell, and John Lee Hooker. She recorded the work of Sippie Wallace and appeared in concert with her. When commercial success eluded her, she also played with the likes of James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Delbert McClinton, and anyone else you might care to name. Her duets with John Prine on "Angel from Montgomery" are the stuff of legend.
She became an overnight success nearly 20 years in, with a single on the charts in John Hiatt's "Thing Called Love", a Grammy for a duet with John Lee Hooker ("I'm in the Mood") and three other Grammys for that album and her title song "Nick of Time". 2022 brought a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys.
She's not done yet, having just completed a sold out tour of the northeast (with NRBQ), with a run through the south in May and continuing east in June (with Lucinda Williams), followed by the rest of the country with Mavis Staples.
Author halffastcyclingclubPosted on April 29, 2022 April 6, 2022 Categories bikesTags Bich Minh Nguyen, Bonnie Raitt, Fred McDowell, Igor Stravinsky, John Lee Hooker, John Prine, Junior Wells, Muddy Waters, Sippie Wallace, spring, The Rite of Spring, Vietnam1 Comment on Saigon has fallen!
…the half-fast go for a beer. Today, the going got tough. Today was supposed to be babysitting and rain in the morning, a solo ride in the afternoon. Last night the babysitting was postponed, and at 9 AM the sun came out – just enough time to join today's club ride.
My MO with this club is to start near the back, let the fast folks disappear, and join the moderately-paced group. When we get to the hills, those riders disappear behind me and I end up in no-man's-land between the two groups, riding alone for the rest of the day.
Today was a relatively flat ride so I hoped I could avoid that fate. We started out as usual. One of the fast group drifted back to us, saying he'd rather be sociable than fast today. I had several miles to get to know this person and we had a nice chat. We rode along in a group of six. Three took a shortcut so three of us were left. When we hit the wind, the third rider kept drifting off the back and we kept waiting for him. We picked up a fourth and had two well-matched pairs. We couldn't talk much while headed into the wind and the two pairs drifted further apart. The person I was with tweaked his knee and decided to take a shortcut home. So there I was, in a 20 mph headwind which was pushing rain in my face, with 30 miles to go and no one in sight. Oops, I did it again.
Eventually I decided on a shortcut. I saw a way to get to a bike path that would cross my route and be a straight shot back. Trouble was, it didn't actually cross the road I was on, it passed under it. It took some doing to get to the path. Now I was on a straight shot home, but the wind had shifted from southerly to southwesterly, so it was back in my face again. The rain stopped and the sun appeared again.
I have mixed feelings about rails-to-trails conversions. They mean a dedicated off-road path, but they also mean that railroads will never come back. Other than the route, the infrastructure is gone. They are good for the slow and casual rider, families, people with strollers, and others who feel safer away from cars and moving slowly. They are not paved, and riding on dirt or gravel takes its toll over time. The town roads follow the contours of the land. I am riding in and of a place. The railroads cut through the land – flattening and straightening the world – but when the world grows back along the path, it can become a smaller disruption in the (adapted) natural world. Today's path mostly ran through open land with no respite from the wind. In the last 10 miles I came into some woods for a bit of relief. When there is a bike (or multi-use) path, drivers think bicyclists no longer belong on the roads. Today the pros outweighed the cons.
Spring peepers (tiny frogs that make big sound)
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The spring peepers are out in force and the magnolias are blooming.
Author halffastcyclingclubPosted on April 25, 2022 April 24, 2022 Categories bike touring, bikesTags Grateful Dead, magnolias, rails-to-trails, spring, spring peepersLeave a comment on When the going gets tough
And we'll have fun, fun, fun…
The first club ride of the year! It started on my side of town so I could ride to the meet-up spot. That would only add 13 miles (21 km) to the ride…except that I took a detour on the way home, so the 27 mile (43 km) club ride turned into 47 (75 km) for me.
Some of the stalwarts of the half-fast cycling club made it, including Rollie Fingers; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Sirius Black.
Rollie Fingers
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The club bought coffee for everyone at a cafe at the halfway point. I'm still not ready for maskless indoor crowds (if that seems extreme, see this), so I skipped the coffee and had a caffeinated Clif Shot Blok or two instead, stopping just long enough to shed some surplus clothes and eat a bar. (I'm a fan of the Clif Nut Butter Bars, which don't taste like cardboard like the regular Clif Bars, or melt in your pocket like Luna Bars. I still miss Powerbars.)
The spring peepers are out and loud as usual, crocus are blooming and, if I wasn't mistaken, the roadside grass is beginning to show a bit of green.
The thermometer read 33 degrees as I headed out (0.5 C) and my phone claimed a wind velocity of 1 mph. Silk t-shirt, fleece jersey, and jacket; fleece tights, shoe covers, hat, and full gloves were the order of the day – especially when I realized the wind velocity had a 2 in front of it (21 mph – 34 km/h) and it was a headwind for the first 25 miles (40 km). At the halfway point I was able to lose the shoe covers, the fleece jersey, and switch to fingerless gloves. About ¾ of the way, I ditched the hat. By the time I got home it was a balmy 57 degrees (14 C).
Author halffastcyclingclubPosted on April 10, 2022 April 10, 2022 Categories bike touring, bikesTags Beach Boys, bike clubs, crocus, spring, spring peepers5 Comments on And we'll have fun, fun, fun…
The coots are back
(Sat) I saw a flock of about 100 on the water on the way home from work. I watched a car stop to let two Sandhill Cranes stroll across the street. Despite that fact that it is 34 degrees (1 C) and sleeting (after snowing all morning), I think that means spring is on the way. The loons should be here soon.
The big lake is the only one with ice left. It is shrouded in fog, which means that, when the fog clears, we should see liquid from shore to shore. Right now I can see only to that flock of coots, with the occasional mallard interloper.
(Mon) As I rode across the tracks (living on the "wrong side of the tracks" I was crossing over) I saw a rabbit dash across the road in front of me, in much more of a hurry than I usually see. I followed it (with my eyes) into the park to my right, then looked back left. A fox was loping along in its path, either having given up, or hoping to lull the rabbit into inattention. Ten blocks from the center of town, at 3:30 PM, a | 2,025 |
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Hyundai will notify owners, and dealers will inspect and reroute the wires in the front seat belt buckle harnesses to their proper locations, as necessary, free of charge. the recall began on april 27, 2016. owners may contact hyundai customer service at 1-800-633-5151. hyundai's number for this recall is 141.
Hyundai motor america (hyundai) is recalling certain 2017 santa fe sport vehicles. the affected vehicles have a tire pressure monitoring system (tpms) that may not have been set in the correct mode during vehicle assembly, and therefore will not provide an appropriate warning in the event of an underinflated tire. as such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard (fmvss) number 138, "tire pressure monitoring systems."
An underinflated inflated tire can increase the risk of a crash.
Hyundai will notify owners, and dealers will replace the tpms sensors, free of charge. the recall began march 31, 2017. owners may contact hyundai customer service at 1-800-633-5151. hyundai's number for the recall is 159.
Hyundai motor america (hyundai) is recalling certain 2013-2017 santa fe and santa fe sport vehicles. in the affected vehicles, the secondary hood latch actuating cable may corrode and bind, causing the secondary hood latch to remain in the unlatched position when the hood is closed.
If the hood is not securely closed or the primary latch is inadvertently released and the secondary latch is not engaged, the hood could unexpectedly open while driving, increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.
Hyundai will notify owners, and dealers will replace the secondary latch cable, free of charge. the recall began on august 4, 2017. owner's may contact hyundai customer service at 1-855-671-3059. hyundai's number for the recall is 163.
Hyundai motor america (hyundai) is recalling certain model year 2016-2017 tucson vehicles manufactured may 19, 2015, to november 14, 2016, and 2017 santa fe vehicles manufactured november 28, 2015, to november 14, 2016. the affected vehicles may be equipped with an accessory trailer hitch wiring harness that, due to a malfunction of the tow hitch module, may result, in the trailer brake lights being constantly illuminated. as such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard (fmvss) number 108, " lamps, reflective devices, and associated equipment."
If the trailer brake lights stay illuminated while being used, other drivers may be confused, increasing the risk of a crash.
Hyundai will notify owners, and dealers will replace the affected accessory trailer hitch wiring harnesses, free of charge. the recall is expected to begin january 13, 2017. owners may contact hyundai customer service at 1-800-633-5151. hyundai's number for this recall is 153.
Hyundai motor america (hyundai) is recalling certain 2017 santa fe sport vehicles. in the affected vehicles, the bolt for the driver's seat belt anchor might not have been sufficiently tightened during assembly.
If the bolt was not sufficiently tightened, driver's seat belt may come unanchored in a collision, increasing the risk of injury to the occupant.
Hyundai will notify owners and dealers will verify that the driver's seatbelt anchor is properly secured, free of charge. the recall began july 7, 2017. owner's may contact hyundai customer service at 1-800-633-5151. hyundai's number for the recall is 165.
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(Nasty Little Man) Amazon Music have shared a trailer for The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special, an innovative virtual event that will be streaming this coming Wednesday (December 22nd).
We were sent the following details: Comedian, actor, and writer Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric) will direct and star in the special, which also features a star-studded cast including Macaulay Culkin, Christine Ko, and Aparna Nancherla portraying the band in a '90s-inspired sitcom titled All My Friends. Amazon Music invites fans around the world to watch on the Amazon Music channel on Twitch and Prime Video beginning at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST on December 22.
Named for the 2007 LCD anthem, the All My Friends sitcom is set inside a fictional home shared by all of the members of LCD Soundsystem, with Eric Wareheim playing the band's fearless leader, James Murphy. The cast also includes actors Christine Ko as Nancy Whang (vocals and keyboards), Macaulay Culkin as Pat Mahoney (drums), Tony Cavalero as Nick Millhiser (synth), Cory Loykasek as Al Doyle (guitar and synth), Aparna Nancherla as Abby Echiverri (synth), Jon Daly as Tyler Pope (bass), Rex Lee as Brian Graf (LCD Soundsystem's manager), Luenell as the band's tour manager, and Eric's puppet as Korey Richey (synth). After the sitcom opens the show, the real LCD Soundsystem will take the stage to perform a career-spanning set-capped off with a special rendition of the band's 2015 single, "Christmas Will Break Your Heart," performed live for the first time ever.
"I've already conquered film, James has conquered music, but we have yet to conquer the sitcom-the HIGHEST form of art," said Eric Wareheim. "We've been working on this project for 15 years, and for this show we're unveiling a uniquely emotional perspective of the sitcom universe for the holidays-provided by one of the greatest bands of all time and my dear friends, LCD Soundsystem. I can't believe Amazon Music is letting us do this."
"I am similarly stunned that someone let us do this," said James Murphy. "At least we finally get to use our Korey puppet." Watch the trailer below:
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Rapper T.I. honored with Outstanding Georgia Citizen Award
T.I. has been honored by his native state Georgia for his outstanding community service. Yesterday, August 10, the rapper was presented with an Outstanding Georgia Citizen Award by Rep<|fim_middle|>room, Judge Issues Sentence
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T.I.'s wife of over ten years, Tameka 'Tiny' Harris, along with his sons Domani and Messiah, were also present at the special ceremony showing their support as the rapper received the accolade for his numerous philanthropic efforts.
"In the grand scheme of things, we are only here on Earth in this life for a short period of time, and once we leave, people won't remember the clothes we wore or the things we have. We will only be remembered by what we meant to our family, our children and what we were able to do for others," T.I said during his acceptance speech.
That was just one of the awards he would be honored with on the day as the "Live Your Life" rapper also received the Volunteer's Achievement Lifetime Award. That award was given to him by the Global International Alliance on behalf of President Joe Biden.
The award was granted in recognition of the rapper's stellar effort of 4,000 hours of community service to the United States.
Following the ceremony, the rapper took to Instagram to express his gratitude for receiving the various accolades. He shared that he spent years grinding and fighting to do his best for his community, and he also admitted that he often felt no one cared, noticed, or appreciated his efforts, intentions, or sacrifices.
Receiving the recognition showed him that he is indeed blessed to have his efforts seen, he added. He also thanked President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for taking the time to recognize his tireless efforts.
In another post, he added, "Thank God for @rep.debrabazemore63 @ambassadorpeterson @joebiden @vp & everyone else who had a hand in making this possible."
That post attracted the attention of his colleagues in the industry, including 2 Chainz, Ludacris, and Rapsody, who all posted positive comments congratulating Tip on getting some deserved recognition.
The rapper is well known for taking an active role in his community and trying to help youth with proper guidance. He's also been outspoken about the issues facing his community, especially as it pertains to gun violence.
Last year, he purchased his old neighborhood in Bankhead and announced that he planned to build a new affordable housing development with 143 units, a community garden, a community center, and a greenhouse.
Through organizations like Harris Community Works and For the Love of Our Fathers, he continues to give back in the hope that those who need help can receive it in a safe environment.
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Throughout the last 24 hours, CCP and its players held numerous live events in game and players were given special fireworks launchers munitions for their ships with which they could celebrate the game's 10th anniversary.
In addition, players received several other valuable gifts—character implants, avatar clothing and a "Sarum Magnate" frigate.
In honor of today's anniversary the appreciation continues as CCP delivers a unique and powerful battlecruiser, the Society of Conscious Thought "Gnosis," to the hangars of all active subscribers.
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CCP Games today celebrated the 10th anniversary of the launch of EVE Online, its sci-fi online game with over 500,000 subscribers worldwide. Launched on May 6, 2003, EVE Online marked its anniversary in style with an enormous in-game celebration that led to a new peak concurrent user (PCU) record for the game of over 65,000 players connected to the same server.
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REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - September 21, 2010) - Coraid® Inc., a leading developer of Ethernet SAN solutions with more than 1,200 customers worldwide, today announced the addition of Bob Kavner to its Board of Directors. Kavner, former CFO of AT&T and CEO of OnCommand Corporation, joins chairman of the board Audrey MacLean; Paul Weinstein, general partner of Azure Capital Partners; Lara Druyan, general partner at Allegis Capital; Brantley Coile, CTO and founder<|fim_middle|> Idealab. Kavner served as chairman of the board of IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007, and as chairman of Overture Services until the company was sold to Yahoo in 2003. In addition, he served on the board of Earthlink Networks, FleetBoston Financial, Duracell International, Jupiter Communications, Olivetti Computers, Philips Telecommunications, Sun Microsystems, Tandem Computers, and Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch.
Coraid redefines storage economics with its breakthrough line of EtherDrive storage solutions. EtherDrive delivers scale-out performance, Ethernet simplicity, and a 5-8x price-performance advantage over legacy storage. Designed from the ground up for virtualization and cloud architectures, Coraid solutions have been deployed by more than 1,200 customers worldwide. For more information, visit www.coraid.com or follow Coraid on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Coraid_Inc or LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/companies/769557.
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"Bob's business acumen and experience in operations and finance will be extremely valuable as Coraid continues its rapid growth," said Audrey MacLean, chairman of the board at Coraid. "We are very pleased to have him on the team as we deliver a new generation of storage for the modern data center."
"Coraid is playing a key role in redefining the economics of the storage industry," said Bob Kavner. "I am pleased and excited to be associated with Coraid's talented management team. With their vision and record of success, I have no doubt that Coraid will take a leadership position and shape the way storage is deployed in enterprise, government and public cloud networks."
Bob Kavner has a proven track record of leadership in executive and board roles across multiple sectors. He was executive vice president of AT&T, where he also served as chief financial officer for several years, before being promoted to chief executive officer of AT&T's Multimedia Products and Services Group. Additionally, he was a member of AT&T's Executive Committee. For two years in the late 1990s, Kavner was CEO of On Command Corporation, a provider of in-room video systems to the lodging industry.
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Taylor Swift and Nelly got down at Karlie Kloss's 24th birthday bash in the Hamptons on August 6.
Swift, 26, joined the rapper, <|fim_middle|> Kelly Rowland's parts of the song and the two sang and danced as the crowd cheered on in approval.
This isn't the first time Swift and Nelly have collaborated. Last year, Nelly joined the pop star on her 1989 stop in St. Louis, Missouri, and the two performed Nelly's hit, "Hot in Herre" with Haim.
Kloss turned 24 last Wednesday, and Swift posted a selfie to commemorate her best friend's big day.
"I LOVE YOU KARLIE," Swift wrote in the Instagram post. "You're such an exquisite person, always trying to make things better for others. Every day I'm inspired by how giving, loving, and thoughtful you are. Happy 24th Birthday!!! @karliekloss."
Kloss also posted a photo on Twitter showing a beautiful sunset, bouquet of assorted flowers and Swift smiling on her iPad screen.
"When you're halfway around the world & your best friend still finds a way to celebrate 24 with you @taylorswift13," the model wrote in the post.
Kloss and Swift were introduced by mutual friend Lily Aldridge and hit it off almost instantly. Their last celebration together was Swift's Fourth of July bash at her home in Rhode Island. | 41, onstage in a black off-the-shoulder crop top and matching mini skirt with white sneakers for a duet to Nelly's "Dilemma." Swift took on | 37 |
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'Open data' and 'closed systems', is transparency a naive ideal or the most important political idea of the 21st century?
'Open data' and how we use it, could be one of the most important debates of our time. How much should a government or a company be 'open'? Is transparency a good thing? What data does an organisation have and what should it share? What is the value of my old data and should I just give it away? These are the sort of questions a lot of people, in all sectors are asking themselves right now.
As a concept, Open data is related to big data. Professor Nigel Shadbolt of the Open Data Institute, has written about its transformative power and recently defined it as 'Information that is available for anyone to use, for any purpose at no cost and licensed as open data'.
Historically, there are examples of where information has been released (for free) to the general public, and its free release has, generally, driven positive technological, societal and political developments. For example, back in the 19th century Florence Nightingales research on medical care for injured soldiers from the Crimean War was openly published and analysed, illustrating how a large number of instances of mortality were due to preventable diseases as opposed to deaths from their wounds. In this example, official data was published and it achieved positive change – existing policy was challenged, using a quantitative model of openly available data, and it was altered as a result, resulting in better medical practices.
Today, there are many new examples of online initiaitives that are using open data for driving positive change. For example, prescribinganlaytics.com collects and collates data on NHS drug usage and makes prescription costs available online. Data made available through this initiative showed that the prices of statins (the medication used to control cholesterol levels) varied considerably between different NHS authorities, because of different policies on procuring either licensed or generic versions of the same drug. This analysis alone identified £200 million of savings by highlighting how different regional policies are set around spending. It was estimated that around £1.4bn prescription efficiency could be found in the UK NHS using this data.
At the same time, initiatives like #bluelighthack work to promote a greater sharing and publication of police data; every month different police authorities publish data on particular types of crime types. The collection and analysis of this data is already beginning to influence insurance premiums and can shape community discussions with local law enforcement. Different police forces are using applications and systems developed outside 'official' government procured systems and are experiencing immediate effects in assessing where crimes occur and working to prevent them.
Such initiatives are strong positive examples of how open data can help achieve positive change. But, it is worth noting that all of the examples above focus on government data and are generally from departments with a strong social remit (such as health, or policing). Such areas have close contact with people and they can practice and implement policies that quickly impact on individuals and communities. But, in other areas of government, and also, within industry, how much of an ideal is 'open data' and what are the challenges it faces – do all organisations wish to disclose their data, will it benefit everyone? If you're a 'closed system', is it your interest to open up, or is it a naive, perhaps even dangerous, precident that could ruin your company?
The scientific definition of a 'closed system' is a physical system that does not allow physical transfers (such as mass or energy) in or out. These are useful in chemistry or physics because they provide sealed, self-contained systems that can be used to test theories and are important in the development in the development of theories like thermodynamics and chemistry. They're also seen in biology, where a closed system that has the right balance of plants, water, light and animal life produces a microcosm, that can function and sustain itself in a kind of self-contained system of balance.
Another definition of 'closed' comes from computing, where 'closed source' software is applied to computer code that is produced and, as an opposite to 'open source' computing, is kept secret and protected from 'public release'.
Many businesses and government departments, are is in some senses 'closed systems'. Due to the tasks they perform, or the business they conduct, they keep their data contained, sealed within systems of classification and intellectual property protection. Historically, there are a number of reasons why such systems have evolved to protect and safeguard data.
Security. Governments and some companies classify their data based on security. The history of our times has driven this; in the past 50 years as we've gone through the Cold War and subsequently, the Global War on Terror, we've maintained strong cultures for being 'closed' because of the importance of national security. National security extends across the full range of activities, from the protection of the 'Nation State', through to an individual's safety and their rights. With regard to security, if somehow all the data a government had, was suddenly released real, physical harm would be caused.
Value. A lot of data and information is extremely valuable. Software code is an example of this but we can all think of many others – blue prints, recipes, unpublished manuscripts etc. These are all instances of pieces of data and information that are commercially valuable. Increasingly, where value actually resides, is not actually in produced products, but in the ideas that enable the formation of these products. This means the release of such data unofficially or its theft is, quite simply, a criminal act that devalues someone's product.
Reputation. The reality of history and changing societal values means that sometimes, institutions hold data and information that could, perhaps reflect badly on our values today. This is really an issue for institutions over a certain age. Governments for example, declassify documents after a certain amount of time – say <|fim_middle|> to conspiracy. For example, a young department with a positive remit like the Department of Energy and Climate Change (established in 2008) can realise a lot of data quickly, and this will have a lot of positive social impacts. An older department like the Ministry of Defence, faces a lot more issues in disclosure. As a department it holds vast archives of secure information often going back over hundreds of years. The Army for instance has a 'corporate memory' that's almost 500 years old! This data is also contained in a myriad of forms in a bewildering range of locations. How such departments can actually 'know' what data they have is a significant challenge, let alone how they could convert it into a format that they could disclose. Such a difficulty is not an excuse for non-disclosure, but it is a challenge. In such circumstances, acknowledging where information is and perhaps promoting it to others who can make it available for public analysis does offer a way of opening up such old records and get the data flowing.
3. Open data increases the association with the 'real world'. Security is paramount and it remains one of the strongest arguments for keeping certain systems closed – 'national security' is one of historic reasons why our governments formed in the first place. But, we, 'the people' are generally singular in our concerns and see security in a different way to governments. We worry about human issues – like our personal security, health and our families and, generally we can cope with the idea of 'one big threat'. Perhaps this is something we've grown accustomed to since World War II. But a large organisation or government has to function on a number of layers and cope with a multitude of demands from a plethora of departments and sources. Generally, such demands have made it logical to form closed systems with large, well-organised hierarchies sustaining silos and systems of classification. But, as voters ask for more and more details from their leaders (generally relating to their interests or their rights) and more and more organisations seek to share data, could openess actually improve things? By being clearer on what needs to be classified and secure and what can be open, would things be easier? Perhaps in the future we will work to a simpler 'security', 'commercial interest' 'everything else' method of classification which means people can more easily request data from governments, but also at the same time governments and organisations could be clearer on what they need to keep in-house and what they can reliably take from the open source marketplace.
4. Openness promotes rational debate. An often quoted goal for policy makers and politicians is that policy should be 'evidence based'. This is admirable and hopefully making data more freely available and analysing it rationally could actually improve things for decision makers. As was the case with Florence Nightingale's data – if you collect, group and analyse real information, it can show what policies are working and what policies need changing. If we went in this direction, could it lead to us judge our leaders and decision makers not on their appearances or TV performances, but instead on the real outputs of their choices and decisions? Additionally, if our leaders continue to be judged predominantly on their personalities and other emotionally-focused measures as opposed to quantifiable metrics, won't it be inevitable that we wish to keep our systems closed in order to protect our collective reputation?
What we should share and what we should classify will continue to be debated. In the meantime, if we recognise that there are a variety of positive reasons for closed systems to 'open up' and considerable benefits for them doing so, then perhaps we'll start to form policies and make decisions based on what's rational and quantifiable. Does it really matter what someone looks like when they are eating a bacon sandwich?
Filed under: big data - closed systems - open data - policy - politics - strategy. | 25 years, these are often heavily censored as well (arguments for censorship in the 'national interest' are remain an on-going source of controversy). Older businesses also seek to protect their histories – for example, how does a company maintain its behaviours when, fifty years ago, it was trying to reflect the beliefs of the average 'person' in the street? Through today's lens, such beliefs will probably appear sexist, rascist and homophobic. How does a company handle having data that reflects such values, does it disclose or keep it locked up tight so no-one can ever find out?
Does the notion of open data represent a challenge to such closed systems? In a way, yes, it does. Releasing data openly, means that governments and companies need to give up a level of control. And this is a debate is driving a real and present trend to release information, especially in western democracies and many companies. In the UK, since the Freedom of Information act in 2001, and through other initiatives around the world – the state is being increasingly expected to disclose information, in some ways, the notion of open data is the next evolution of this. At the same time organisations that traditionally consist of large, closed systems like Glaxosmithkline for example, have been altering their disclosure policies and publishing their data on clinical trials openly since 2012. Such initiatives, are perhaps forward leaning – for many organisations and government departments there is probably apetite for opening up but a lot of people, especially those who traditionally ascribe to the reasons described above for protecting information, probably question the value, especially with the associated risks of 'showing dirty washing' in public, regardless of how old the washing is.
4 reasons why closed systems should 'open up'?
1. Openness encourages discussion. Full disclosure of data means that everything comes out at once. This could be uncomfortable, but for an old department, is it better to be open and honest about the past, rather than treat it with nervousness and attempt to conceal it? Such attempts generally cause suspicion and accusations of conspiracy. They also call for leadership that is strong enough to acknowledge the values of the past and discuss them in an honest manner that acknowledges openly that 'things were different' then. In doing so the delivery of such data should prompt sympathetic discussions and debates – are things as simple as an 'apology' on one hand, or 'denial' or the another? Can everything an organisation has faced be boiled down to a basic, binary 'black or white', 'right or wrong' argument, or is more complex than that? Going back to our history, being open on the things we have learned and, the mistakes we've made, is perhaps uncomfortable, but it does enable both us as people and the organisations we work for to develop.
2. It can be difficult to 'open up', but any data helps. Full disclosure may be naive, but it's important to remember and support organisations that are disclosing any data and also reflect on the fact that a lack of data, doesn't always equate | 631 |
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In December I'm off to Paris for a weeklong residency with Ensemble Connect!
I'll be returning to<|fim_middle|> followed by a discussion with Fuchs, author Don DeLillo, and sculptor Eric Fischl on the creation of art in response to unfathomable tragedy. | Eindhoven, The Netherlands once again, but this time as an artist instead of competitor! I am EXTREMELY ecstatic to join Alexej Gerassimez (1st prize, TROMP 2010) and the 1st and 2nd prize winners of the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition for Bela Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, as well as other repertoire TBA!
There will also be other possible solo/chamber performances while I'm in The Netherlands, so stay tuned for more updates soon!
Ensemble Connect joins forces with renowned conductor Sir Simon Rattle and tenor Mark Padmore in Hans Zender's "Schubert's Winterreise: A Composed Interpretation" for Tenor and Small Orchestra.
I'll be playing marimba and many other instruments that will take over the entirety of Zankel Hall's stage!
In collaboration with Juilliard and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, I'll be joining 8 other instrumentalists and a baritone in Kenneth Fuch's "Falling Man", a short operatic monodrama.
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Nicomedes II Epiphanes (Greek: Νικομήδης ὁ Ἐπιφανής "Nicomedes God-Manifest") was the king of Bithynia from 149 to c. 127 BC. He was fourth in descent from Nicomedes I. Nicomedes II was the son and successor of Prusias II and Apame IV. His parents were related as they were maternal cousins.
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He was so popular with the people<|fim_middle|> | that his father sent him to Rome to limit his influence. However, in Rome, he also gained favor from the Roman Senate, forcing Prusias to send an emissary named Menas with secret orders to assassinate him. But the emissary revealed the plot, and persuaded the prince to rebel against his father.
Supported by Attalus II Philadelphus, king of Pergamon, he was completely successful, and ordered his father to be put to death at Nicomedia. During his long reign Nicomedes adhered steadily to the Roman alliance, and assisted them against the pretender to the throne of Pergamon Eumenes III. He was succeeded by his son Nicomedes III.
Nicomedes introduced the Bithynian era for numbering years on his coins. This system was to last in parts of the Greek world down to the 4th century AD.
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\section*{Program summary}
\noindent
\emph{Title of program:} PICPANTHER\\
\emph{Author:} Andreas Kempf\\
\emph{Programming language used:} C++11\\
\emph{Computer:} Program should work on any system with a modern C++11 Compiler (e.g. g++ in GCC 4.7 and later) and MPI, HDF5 implementations\\
\emph{Operating systems:} Linux / Unix\\
\em<|fim_middle|>{sec:code}
As described in section \ref{sec:discretization}, the discrete operators are simple matrices.
Like with most discretizations of partial differential equations, the resulting matrices are sparse.
By using a modern sparse matrix library, the equations can be written naturally in a very compact and natural manner.
Here, the Eigen library \cite{eigen} was utilized.
However, alternative libraries like Armadillo \cite{armadillo} could be substituted effortlessly, provided a suitable sparse matrix solver is available.
As an example, the C++ code calculating equation \eqref{eq:b_field} can be written
\begin{verbatim}
B -= dt * curl_E * E;
\end{verbatim}
using a sparse matrix \verb+curl_E+ (Yee-scheme, \verb+curl_center+ in other scheme) that was prepared at the beginning of the simulation run according to the discretization rules outlined above.
Combinations of operators are similarly just multiplications in the code.
Currently, only periodic boundary conditions are implemented.
Taking the simulation volume to be a three-dimensional box of size $N_\mathrm{x} \times N_\mathrm{y} \times N_\mathrm{z}$, the scalar, vector, and tensor fields become regular vectors of size $N_\mathrm{x} N_\mathrm{y} N_\mathrm{z}$, $3 N_\mathrm{x} N_\mathrm{y} N_\mathrm{z}$, $9 N_\mathrm{x} N_\mathrm{y} N_\mathrm{z}$, respectively.
Accordingly, equation \eqref{eq:e_field} is a $3 N_\mathrm{x} N_\mathrm{y} N_\mathrm{z} \times 3 N_\mathrm{x} N_\mathrm{y} N_\mathrm{z}$ square sparse matrix operating on $\vec{E}^{\,n+1}$ with the right-hand side also being a vector of size $3 N_\mathrm{x} N_\mathrm{y} N_\mathrm{z}$.
Since this is a straightforward matrix equation, any solver capable of solving a sparse, non-symmetric, square matrix system can be employed to solve for the advanced electric field.
As in \cite{Noguchi_2007}, the generalized minimal residual method (GMRES) \cite{gmres} was chosen for this task.
GMRES is implemented as an unsupported module in Eigen3.
Switching to a different solver (e.g. the biconjugate gradient stabilized method BiCGSTAB \cite{bicgstab}) is possible, although no such alternatives have been explored yet.
Solving the nonlinear equation \eqref{eq:part} for the time-advanced velocity is achieved using a Newton-Krylov method.
A regular GMRES algorithm \cite{Kelley_2003, gmres_imp} is modified by replacing the matrix-vector-products with scaled numerical differences as described in \cite{Knoll} to yield the inner loop of the Newton iteration.
Moreover, a basic line search method is employed to improve convergence \cite{Kelley_2003}.
Additionally, the code can operate in parallel with the available processors each assigned a box of about equal size.
Equation \eqref{eq:e_field} is iterated via a regular Schwarz domain decomposition method \cite{schwarz} using ghost cells.
Data transfer between processors is mediated by the message passing interface (MPI).
Parallel output, provided by the HDF5 library, is available for particles and grid quantities.
Performance is an important feature of a particle in cell code.
Currently, with only little optimization work done, the code performs about an order of magnitude fewer particle updates per second when compared to an optimized code like ACRONYM \cite{Kilian_2011}.
Due to many force interpolations being performed during the Newton-Krylov iteration using a TSC form factor, performance necessarily suffers when compared to an explicit scheme.
In fact, even with few particles per cell the computational time is mostly spent in the particle solver.
This does, of course, also depend on the number of Newton iterations and the tolerance specified for the residual reduction.
Taking this fact into account, the code performance seems adequate, especially considering the benefits of an implicit scheme.
Further optimization is certainly always desirable.
Memory requirements are highly dependent on the particle and cell count.
Each cell requires about 40 64 bit floating point values being stored on the grid.
Additionally, more than 100 values per cell are needed for the sparse matrix operators (Yee, more for the other scheme).
This amounts to approximately $2 \, \mathrm{KiB}$ of storage per cell (including ghost cells).
A single particle consists of seven 64 bit values resulting in $56 \, \mathrm{B}$ per particle.
The code is written in pure C++ while adhering to idioms like RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization), avoiding pointers and explicit memory management.
These principles allow for very compact code when coupled with modern C++11 language and standard library features.
Taking advantage of a matrix library like Eigen also significantly benefits compactness and simplicity.
As a consequence, the full codebase is under 2000 lines of code, as counted by the CLOC \cite{cloc} utility (duplicated code for the two discretization schemes was ignored).
MPI communication, HDF output, and the operator setup necessarily make up a large part of the code but are relatively straightforward.
Successful test runs on the SuperMUC supercomputing system were performed on up to 512 cores (32 nodes).
Weak scaling performance is plotted in fig. \ref{fig:benchmark} and \ref{fig:benchmark-lin-log}.
The total number of particle updates is a product of the cell count, particles per cell, and number of timesteps.
For the plots, this number is divided by the total wall clock time or total CPU-time respectively.
Therefore, it is a performance measure of the complete update cycle.
With a PiC code's computing requirements being mostly determined by the total number of particles in the simulation volume, this quantity allows a direct comparison between different codes.
In this case, the number of field iterations is fixed and the number of Newton iterations per particle is approximately constant over the simulation.
During the benchmark runs with 20 particles per cell, the source term accumulation, field calculation, and particle update substeps each take up roughly $20\%$, $15\%$, $65\%$ of the time, respectively.
Only small deviations from ideal scaling, extrapolated from 16 cores (1 node), are visible.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/benchmark.pdf}
\caption{
Weak scaling on 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 SuperMUC nodes.
$48 \times 48 \times 32$ cells per core were arranged along the z-axis with 20 particles per cell.
}
\label{fig:benchmark}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/fimp_bench_linlog.pdf}
\caption{
Loss of efficiency in the benchmark runs of fig. \ref{fig:benchmark}.
The behavior between 32 and 256 cores is reproducible and seems to be a result of SuperMUC topology and task placement on the machine.
}
\label{fig:benchmark-lin-log}
\end{figure}
\section{Implementation} \label{sec:implementation}
In this section, a description of the steps executed during a production run is given.
\subsection{Initialization}
At first, a configuration file called \verb+config+ in the working directory is parsed.
Its format will be described in a different section below.
Provided in the configuration file are physical parameters like the electron plasma frequency, simulation details like the desired number of timesteps and cells in each direction, and program settings like the number of MPI processes distributed along each direction.
Next, the MPI communication is set up and the simulation volume is divided among processes.
Furthermore, the HDF5 file \verb+output.h5+ and a plain text file \verb+energy_output.dat+ is created by rank 0.
Important parameters like the length of a timestep and the size of a cell are calculated and the layout of the sparse matrix operators is prepared.
This concludes the programmatic setup sequence.
With the parameters given in the configuration file, the magnetic and electric field configuration and particle distributions are initialized.
For simplicity, a simple standard setup for a drifting Maxwellian particle distribution in a constant background magnetic field is available.
Particles are created using data from a pseudo-random number generator with a given seed, allowing for repeatable simulation runs.
Standard C++11 facilities are used to draw normally distributed velocity components with a given variance for each particle.
Similarly, a uniform distribution provides the particle location within a given cell.
The physical setup ends with a first output of the data.
\subsection{Timestep}
\begin{algorithm}
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\caption{Update cycle}
\label{alg:timestep}
\Repeat
\ForAll{particles}
\State {collect \verb+charge_density+}
\Comment{eq. \eqref{eq:sources-r}}
\State {collect \verb+current_density+}
\Comment{eq. \eqref{eq:sources-j}}
\State {collect \verb+pressure+}
\Comment{eq. \eqref{eq:sources-p}}
\State {collect \verb+dielectric+}
\Comment{eq. \eqref{eq:sources-m}}
\EndFor
\State {distribute source terms among processes}
\State {\verb+E_old+ $\gets$ \verb+E+}
\State {\verb+B_old+ $\gets$ \verb+B+}
\State {prepare \verb+operator+ matrix}
\Comment{eq. \eqref{eq:e_field}}
\State {prepare \verb+right-hand-side+ vector}
\Comment{eq. \eqref{eq:e_field}}
\For{$i \gets 0, \mathrm{max\_iters}$}
\State {\verb+E+ $\gets$ GMRES(\verb+operator+, \verb+right-hand-side+, guess=\verb+E+)}
\State {distribute \verb+E+ among processes}
\EndFor
\State {\verb+B+ $\gets$ \verb+B+ - \verb+dt+ * \verb+curl_E+ * \verb+E+}
\Comment{eq. \eqref{eq:b_field}}
\ForAll{particles}
\While{residual $>$ tolerance}
\State {\verb+u_new+, residual $\gets$ NK(\verb+E+, \verb+B_old+, \verb+u_new+)}
\Comment{eq. \eqref{eq:part}}
\EndWhile
\State {\verb+x+ $\gets$ \verb+x+ + \verb+dt+ * (\verb+u+ + \verb+u_new+) / (\verb+g+ + \verb+g_new+)}
\Comment{eq. \eqref{eq:part-loc}}
\EndFor
\State {distribute particles among processes}
\State {\verb+E+ $\gets$ (\verb+E+ - (1-\verb+THETA+) * \verb+E_old+)/\verb+THETA+}
\Comment{eq. \eqref{eq:interpolation}}
\Until{simulation finished}
\end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}
In this section, a single simulation timestep is described in detail.
Algorithm \ref{alg:timestep} roughly outlines the simulation cycle in pseudocode.
Initially, the source grid quantities for pressure, dielectric tensor, charge density and current density are set to zero.
For each particle in the simulation volume, the field quantities at its current position are interpolated and its contribution to the source terms calculated.
This contribution is then deposited onto the grid according to the chosen grid scheme.
After all the terms are summed up, the values stored on ghost cells are communicated between neighboring processes.
At this point, the quantities $\rho$, $\vec{j}$, $\hat{\Pi}$, and $\hat{\mu}$ are known on the grid.
Additionally, a sparse matrix operator is created for the dielectric tensor and a helper variable for $\nabla \cdot \hat{\Pi}$ is stored.
An optional smoothing step is available for the charge density.
This step can improve energy conservation and reduce noise in some cases.
Given the source terms accumulated above, Maxwell's equations can be solved implicitly.
Fields from the previous timestep are renamed as they are still needed after the update.
Using the differential operators prepared during setup, a GMRES solver is initialized for the electric field update.
Moreover, a vector describing the right-hand side is calculated from the source terms.
Taking the current electric field values as an initial guess, a GMRES step is taken.
After the GMRES step, the border values of the electric field are exchanged among neighboring processes.
This refinement and distribution of the electric field is repeated for a fixed number of iterations since the solution seems to converge rapidly.
For large timesteps and cell sizes, more iterations might be required here.
Having thus evaluated $\vec{E}^{\,n+\Theta}$, the magnetic field can be updated and synchronized among the processes.
Due to the filtering parameter $\Theta$, a linear extrapolation of $\vec{E}^{\,n+1}$ is performed later (see below).
Thus, with $\vec{E}^{\,n+\Theta}$ and $\vec{B}^{\,n+1}$ known, the particle velocities and positions need to be updated.
For each particle, a solution for its time-advanced velocity is calculated in a Newton-Krylov procedure.
It uses evaluations of the residual to continuously prepare numerical approximations to the Jacobian matrix.
The Jacobian matrix is used in a GMRES iteration to obtain a new approximation for a Newton step.
This step is then applied using a simple line search algorithm and a new GMRES iteration is performed.
After a set number of steps, the particle is moved with the velocity minimizing the residual.
The residual itself is evaluated by interpolating the forces acting at the particle's location and solving equation \eqref{eq:part}.
Unfortunately, Newton-Krylov procedures are not guaranteed to converge.
Similarly, catastrophic failures of the solver cannot be ruled out in a production run with billions or even trillions of particle updates.
Consequently, velocities returned by the solver are checked for validity.
If an invalid velocity (NaN) is encountered or the Newton iteration fails to converge, the particle is moved using its previous value instead and a warning is printed.
A few isolated corrections should not greatly influence a sufficiently large simulation.
Extensive testing revealed that the Newton-Krylov algorithm is sensitive to floating point round-off issues.
For this reason, the code performs better on processors implementing a fused multiply–add instruction (e.g. FMA4 on AMD Bulldozer 2011 and later, FMA3 on Intel Haswell 2013 and later), assuming it is supported by the compiler.
While measures where taken to mitigate these issues, simulations on processors listed above show faster convergence and fewer catastrophic iteration failures (see also \cite{newton_stability}).
Since fewer iterations are needed in that case, performance also increases.
Taking the above into account, the particle solver should always be monitored and its parameters adjusted if necessary.
Concluding the physical part of a timestep, the electric field is extrapolated to yield the proper values needed for the next iteration as per equation \eqref{eq:interpolation}.
Diagnostic output of the total energy in a simulation is written to the text file \verb+energy_output.dat+ after each step by rank 0.
Field and particle output is optional after each step.
During field output, rank 0 first creates a skeleton group structure in \verb+output.h5+.
Then, all processes write their field data collectively.
For particle output, a new folder is created.
Each processor writes its particle data to a separate file in the folder using the packet table interface.
\section{Usage}
\subsection{Compilation and Execution}
A self-explanatory makefile is provided.
Ideally, the HDF5 environment is set up properly, so that the \verb+h5c+++ command wraps \verb+mpiCC+ (or equivalent).
That way, all the necessary libraries and header files for MPI and HDF are taken care of automatically.
Eigen3 headers are assumed to reside in \verb+/usr/include/eigen3+.
The resulting binary is executed via \verb+mpiexec+ (or equivalent).
The number of processes needs to be specified via the standard methods of the MPI implementation (e.g. OpenMPI: \verb+mpiexec -np 4 .../imp+ for four processes).
\subsection{Configuration}
Configuration data for the code is read from a file \verb+config+ in the working directory.
Its format is one item \verb+key=value+ per line without any other white space.
The key is a character string and the value is a double precision floating point value.
Available configuration options are listed in table \ref{tab:config} and an example file is provided with the code.
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l|c|p{80mm}}
Key & Unit & Description\\
\hline
\verb+seed+ & - & Seed for the random number generator\\
\verb+total_steps+ & - & Number of timesteps to be executed\\
\verb+N_x+, (\verb+y+, \verb+z+) & - & Number of cells in x, y, z direction\\
\verb+procs_x+ (\verb+y+, \verb+z+) & - & Number of processors distributed along the x, y, z axes\\
\verb+plasma_freq+ & $\mathrm{rad/s}$ & Electron plasma frequency\\
\verb+mp_over_me+ & - & Proton mass divided by electron mass\\
\verb+width_bg+ & c & Width of a velocity component in thermal distribution (background)\\
\verb+width_jet+ & c & Width of a velocity component in thermal distribution (jet)\\
\verb+num_*_bg+ (\verb+e+, \verb+P+, \verb+p+) & - & Number of macro- $e^-$, $p$, $e^+$ per cell (background)\\
\verb+num_*_jet+ (\verb+e+, \verb+P+, \verb+p+) & - & Number of macro- $e^-$, $p$, $e^+$ per cell (jet)\\
\verb+v_*_bg+ (\verb+x+, \verb+y+, \verb+z+) & c & Particle drift velocity in x, y, z direction (background)\\
\verb+v_*_jet+ (\verb+x+, \verb+y+, \verb+z+) & c & Particle drift velocity in x, y, z direction (jet)\\
\verb+B0_x+ (\verb+y+, \verb+z+) & T & Initial magnetic field in x, y, z direction\\
\verb+rescale_dx+ & - & Cell size $dx = \lambda_{\mathrm{D}}/\sqrt{2}$ will be divided by this factor\\
\verb+rescale_dt+ & - & Time step $dt = dx / (\sqrt{3} c)$ will be divided by this factor\\
\verb+theta+ & - & Filtering parameter $\Theta \in [0.5, 1.0]$\\
\verb+out_p+ & - & Particle data is written every ... steps\\
\verb+out_q+ & - & $\rho$ is written every ... steps\\
\verb+out_j_x+ (\verb+y+, \verb+z+) & - & $j_\mathrm{x/y/z}$ is written every ... steps\\
\verb+out_E_x+ (\verb+y+, \verb+z+) & - & $E_\mathrm{x/y/z}$ is written every ... steps\\
\verb+out_B_x+ (\verb+y+, \verb+z+) & - & $B_\mathrm{x/y/z}$ is written every ... steps\\
\verb+smooth_charge+ & - & A binomial filter will be applied to $\rho$ if this is $>= 1$
\end{tabular}
\caption{Configuration options.}
\label{tab:config}
\end{table}
\subsection{Creating a new setup}
Creating an initialization procedure sufficiently powerful and general to cover most use cases using only a configuration file is an awkward procedure.
Additional parsing procedures, rules and exceptions can quickly lead to ballooning complexity and in many cases, the code needs to be edited anyway.
Consequently, the present code only provides a setup using up to two homogeneous drifting Maxwellian distributions.
If a more complex setup is needed, it is simple to create a new configuration by editing the source code directly.
Since the existing files are commented, they should be used as a reference.
The functions \verb+init_...+ are executed at the start of a simulation in the order parameters, sources, fields, and particles.
Cell size \verb+dx+, \verb+Particle::dx+ (static variable) timestep length \verb+dt+, \verb+Particle::dt+ (static variable) need to be set in one of these functions.
Moreover, the particle data (charge $q$, mass $m$, $\beta/dt$, number density $n$) contained in the \verb+Particle::p+ array should be defined properly for electrons (index 0), protons (index 1), and positrons (index 2).
By looping from 0 to Nx, 0 to Ny, 0 to Nz, every cell in the simulation volume can be indexed.
For access to vector field components (e.q. $E_\mathrm{x}$), the helper function \verb+vindg+ is used with indices x,y,z and the component c (0=x,1=y,2=z).
Scalar fields (if needed) are accessed with \verb+sindg+ and indices x,y,z.
Both helper functions map the three cell indices to a single integer index, taking into account ghost cells automatically.
Particles are simply added to the \verb+parts+ vector.
The \verb+Tag+ union is provided to distinguish particles along with their properties.
It is important to set the \verb+flav+ field to one of the \verb+FLAVOR_...+ values since this determines the properties of the particle.
A field \verb+population+ is provided in addition to two integers \verb+id_in_cell+, \verb+start_cell_index+ allowing for unique particle IDs, if needed.
Such an ID can be created by calculating the unique global index of the current cell and storing that value in \verb+start_cell_index+.
Different particles in the same cell receive incrementing values in \verb+id_in_cell+.
Population identifiers (\verb+POP_...+) are optional and serve to differentiate populations of the same particle type (e.g. jet or background).
New variables needed during initialization may be put into the \verb+Simulation+ class in header \verb+simulation.h+.
If other particle types or populations are needed as well, new \verb+FLAVOR_...+ and / or \verb+POP_...+ entries should be added in file \verb+particle.h+.
The \verb+FLAVOR_...+ constants serve as indices into the properties array.
Therefore, the property array needs to be large enough to contain the particle properties.
In \verb+particle.cpp+, the \verb+Particle::p[]+ initialization needs to be extended accordingly.
As mentioned, the final particle properties need to be set up in one of the \verb+init+ functions.
Parameters read from the configuration file are accessible through the \verb+parameters+ hash table and indexed using the key used in the file.
\subsection{Processing output}
In \verb+output.h5+ field data for the simulation is stored.
For each output timestep, a new group is created, e.g. \verb+Timestep_0+.
In this group, new groups for each field vector are created, e.g. \verb+E+.
Finally, datasets for its components are created in this group, e.g. \verb+E0+.
The full path for $E_x$ at timestep 0 would be \verb+/Timestep_0/E/E0+, accordingly.
The program code includes a short Python script that creates a dispersion plot from an output file.
Similarly, particles at timestep 0 are stored in a folder called \verb+particles_0+.
Each CPU creates its own file named \verb+cpu_0+, for example.
The files contain a standard HDF5 packet table consisting of the complete particle data ($\vec{r}$, $\vec{u}$, ID).
By parsing the ID field, particle details like the type can be extracted.
A Python example script is provided for the creation of a histogram from particle output.
Convenient Python modules for the handling of the output datasets are NumPy \cite{numpy}, SciPy \cite{scipy}, PyTables \cite{pytables} and matplotlib \cite{matplotlib}.
Many utilities can handle HDF5 natively so Python need not be used for post-processing.
VisIt, for example, can plot the field output without further preparation \cite{visit}.
\section{Simulation setup}
The capabilities of the PiC code presented here shall be highlighted with a few examples.
\subsection{Wave dispersion}
One important aspect of PiC codes is the interaction of particles and fields.
A simple way to test whether these interactions are reflected properly is the generation and propagation of plasma waves.
Although they are relying on the complex interplay of particles and waves, they are well understood in terms of theory.
It is therefore possible to compare the waves' properties to known expressions \cite{stix_1992}.
A thermal magnetized plasma generated randomly will always contain several wave modes with dispersion relations that can be evaluated analytically.
This simple setup is realized by creating a homogeneous distribution of electrons and protons with Maxwellian velocity distributions.
Depending on the wave mode, the runtime of the simulation can be chosen in order to resolve the lowest frequencies of interest.
Similarly, the number of cells in each direction is chosen according to the largest wavelength to be resolved along the respective axis.
The relevant parameters used in these simulations are summarized in table \ref{tab:parameters-waves}.
Filtering parameters $\Theta=0.5$ and $\Theta=1.0$ were tested.
In the former simulation the charge density was smoothed once using a binomial filter.
No further smoothing was performed in these simulations.
To analyze the dispersion relation along an axis, the simulation fields are integrated over the perpendicular directions and Fourier-transformed in space and time.
Thereby, $\omega(k_\mathrm{i})$ plots can be obtained along an axis $\mathrm{i}$ for all quantities represented on the computational grid.
For comparison, an identical simulation was performed using our existing implicit code \cite{kempf_2013}.
In fig. \ref{fig:waves-norm}, a dispersion plot of the y-component of the electric field is shown with curves representing the theoretical dispersion relations overlaid.
As can be seen, the wave modes are reproduced properly, with the electromagnetic mode showing a characteristic resonance at high $k$, owing to the finite grid used in PiC codes.
A comparison to fig. \ref{fig:waves-soid} shows very similar behavior of the two codes.
Notably, the new field solver leads to a EM-mode resonance at slightly lower $\omega$.
Fig. \ref{fig:waves-time} demonstrates temporal filtering with $\Theta=1.0$.
Clearly, the electromagnetic wave is almost completely removed from the simulation.
Other wave modes are not affected, however, weak harmonics of the electron gyrofrequency are visible as noise.
Energy conservation is not exact in this type of implicit PiC codes \cite{lapenta_kinetic} whereas in energy-conserving PiC codes, the momentum conservation is violated \cite{markidis_conserving}.
Ideally, the total simulation energy decreases slowly since an increase might lead to instability.
The $\Theta=0.5$ simulation and SOIDBERG both showed a decrease of about $1\%$.
$\Theta=1.0$ led to an energy loss of about $0.4\%$.
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l|c|r}
thermal velocity (electrons) & $v_\mathrm{th,e}$ & $0.05c$\\
initial magnetic field & $\vec{B}_0$ & $(0.5, 0, 0)\,\mathrm{mT}$\\
electron plasma frequency & $\omega_{\mathrm{pe}}$ & $2.0\cdot10^{8}\, \mathrm{rad/s}$\\
Debye length & $\lambda_{\mathrm{D}}$ & $7.5\,\mathrm{cm}$ \\
mass ratio& $m_{\mathrm{p}} / m_{\mathrm{e}}$ & 10\\
timesteps & $N_\mathrm{t}$ & 4000\\
length of timestep & $\Delta t$ & $4.1 \cdot 10^{-10}\,\mathrm{s}$ \\
simulation volume & $N_\mathrm{x} \times N_\mathrm{y} \times N_\mathrm{z}$ & $256 \times 16 \times 16$\\
cell edge length & $\Delta x$ & $26\,\mathrm{cm}$
\end{tabular}
\caption{Parameters of the wave dispersion simulations.}
\label{tab:parameters-waves}
\end{table}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/waves-norm-x-Ey.pdf}
\caption{
$E_\mathrm{y}(k_\mathrm{x}, \omega)$ dispersion plot for new implicit code.
For this simulation, the charge density was smoothed spatially. $\Theta = 0.5$.
}
\label{fig:waves-norm}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/waves-soid-x-Ey.pdf}
\caption{$E_\mathrm{y}(k_\mathrm{x}, \omega)$ dispersion plot for SOIDBERG.}
\label{fig:waves-soid}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/waves-time-x-Ey.pdf}
\caption{
$E_\mathrm{y}(k_\mathrm{x}, \omega)$ dispersion plot for new implicit code.
No spatial smoothing.
$\Theta = 1.0$.
}
\label{fig:waves-time}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Filamentation instability}
Instabilities are another common phenomenon sensitive to particle-wave interactions.
The filamentation instability in particular is one of the earlier applications of PiC codes.
Above all, the generation of strong magnetic fields is a good indicator of whether the code performs as expected \cite{Kilian_2011}.
For demonstration purposes, we considered a fully three-dimensional and relativistic filamentation instability.
The parameters for the two counter-streaming particle distributions are given in table \ref{tab:parameters-fila}.
Instabilities generally proceed in an exponential fashion.
In this case, the magnetic field perpendicular to the streaming direction should increase exponentially \cite{schlickeiser}.
From the energy output of the simulation, fig. \ref{fig:fila-energy}, it is clear that an instability develops.
Volumetric plots of the perpendicular magnetic field $\sqrt{B_\mathrm{y}^2+B_\mathrm{z}^2}$ (fig. \ref{fig:fila-plots}) show the rapid evolution of spatial structures.
Out of a random magnetic field created by thermal fluctuations, filaments develop parallel to the streaming direction.
Over the course of the simulation these filaments merge, forming larger structures and effecting significant perpendicular magnetic field amplitudes.
After the instability reaches a saturation point, these strong fields decay slowly.
In addition to the the creation of strong fields, particle acceleration is expected to occur \cite{instability_accel}.
For a histogram of the electron energy distribution before and after the simulation see fig. \ref{fig:fila-histogram}.
Initially Maxwellian, the particle energy forms a high energy tail during filamentation.
Most particles' kinetic energy, however, is converted to magnetic field energy.
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l|c|r}
thermal velocity (electrons) & $v_\mathrm{th,e}$ & $0.1c$\\
stream velocity & $v$ & $\pm 0.995c$\\
electron plasma frequency & $\omega_{\mathrm{pe}}$ & $1.0\cdot10^{5}\, \mathrm{rad/s}$\\
Debye length & $\lambda_{\mathrm{D}}$ & $3.0 \cdot 10^4 \,\mathrm{cm}$ \\
mass ratio& $m_{\mathrm{p}} / m_{\mathrm{e}}$ & 2\\
timesteps & $N_\mathrm{t}$ & 500\\
length of timestep & $\Delta t$ & $2.0 \cdot 10^{-6}\,\mathrm{s}$ \\
simulation volume & $N_\mathrm{x} \times N_\mathrm{y} \times N_\mathrm{z}$ & $128 \times 32 \times 32$\\
cell edge length & $\Delta x$ & $1.1 \cdot 10^5\,\mathrm{cm}$
\end{tabular}
\caption{Parameters of filamentation simulation.}
\label{tab:parameters-fila}
\end{table}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/fila-energy.pdf}
\caption{Energy output of the filamentation simulation.}
\label{fig:fila-energy}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{images/fila_025.png}
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{images/fila_075.png}\\
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{images/fila_100.png}
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{images/fila_125.png}\\
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{images/fila_175.png}
\includegraphics[width=.45\textwidth]{images/fila_500.png}
\caption{
Time series of volumetric plots of the perpendicular magnetic field $\sqrt{B_\mathrm{y}^2+B_\mathrm{z}^2}$ for the filamentation simulation.
$T = 5/\omega_\mathrm{pe}$, $T = 15/\omega_\mathrm{pe}$, $T = 20/\omega_\mathrm{pe}$, $T = 25/\omega_\mathrm{pe}$, $T = 35/\omega_\mathrm{pe}$, $T = 100/\omega_\mathrm{pe}$ (from left to right, top to bottom).
}
\label{fig:fila-plots}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/fila-histo-e.pdf}
\caption{Initial and final electron energy distribution for the filamentation simulation.}
\label{fig:fila-histogram}
\end{figure}
\section{Concluding remarks}
A production-ready and, above all, simple implementation of the relativistic moment implicit particle-in-cell algorithm was presented.
Utilizing advanced techniques like GMRES and Newton-Krylov, PICPANTHER is well-equipped for the simulation of difficult plasma physics problems.
Moreover, the concise and straightforward style allows for easy understanding and expansion of the code.
Several test cases were examined and the code's properties determined.
The simulations accurately reflect the physical processes, even in extreme cases like the filamentation instability.
Performance was found to be decent and scalability tests on SuperMUC suggest good weak scaling behavior.
\section{Acknowledgments}
The authors gratefully acknowledge the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e.V. (www.gauss-centre.eu) for funding project \textit{pr45ye} by providing computing time on the GCS Supercomputer SuperMUC at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ, www.lrz.de).
AK acknowledges support by grant Schl 201/23-1 within the priority programme 1573: Physics of the Interstellar Medium of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
PK acknowledges support by the Max-Planck Princeton Center for Plasma Physics (MPPC) and CRC 963 Astrophysical Flow Instabilities and Turbulence of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
UG acknowledges support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through grant GA1968/1-1.
\clearpage
\bibliographystyle{model1-num-names}
| ph{RAM:} Variable, depending on simulation size, $\approx 2\,\mathrm{KiB}$ per cell, $56\,\mathrm{B}$ per particle\\
\emph{Parallelization:} Parallelized using the Message Passing Interface, successfully tested on SuperMUC with good scaling behavior.\\
\emph{Build system:} Makefiles\\
\emph{External libraries:}\\
Eigen3 (header files, \url{http://eigen.tuxfamily.org}, tested with versions 3.2.1, 3.2.2),\\
MPI2 (e.g. OpenMPI, \url{http://open-mpi.org}, tested with version 1.8.1),\\
HDF5 1.8 (\url{http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5}, tested with version 1.8.13)\\
\emph{Nature of problem:} Kinetic simulations of collisionless plasma mostly need to resolve the smallest scales in a plasma, limiting the problem domains that can be tackled.
The Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy condition poses further problems.
Explicit algorithms require large amounts of computational power to cope with these restrictions.
Implementations of implicit algorithms, on the other hand, are very complex.
Very few implicit codes are openly available and approachable.
Fully relativistic, three-dimensional electromagnetic implicit PiC codes in particular are rare in general.\\
\emph{Solution method:} PICPANTHER implements the relativistic moment implicit particle-in-cell method.
The implicit electric field equation is solved using the GMRES algorithm with operators represented as sparse matrices.
For each particle, the implicit equation of motion is solved via a robust Newton-Krylov scheme.
Parallelization is achieved using simple domain decomposition, resulting in good scalability.\\
\emph{Restrictions:} PICPANTHER only allows for Euclidean geometries.
Currently, only periodic boundary conditions are provided.\\
\emph{Unusual features:} PICPANTHER makes use of advanced numerical techniques (GMRES, Newton-Krylov) to implicitly solve relativistic versions of the movement and field equations of a PiC code.
It was designed to be simple and concise, using advanced C++11 language features.
Moreover, it is parallelized and exhibits good scaling behavior.\\
\emph{Running time:} Minutes to days, depending on problem size and CPU count\\
\emph{Lines of code:} 1988\\
\emph{License provisions:} CPC non-profit use license agreement\\
\emph{CPC Library Classification:} 19.3: Collisionless Plasmas
\end{abstract}
\begin{keyword}
particle in cell \sep implicit moment \sep relativistic implicit moment \sep particle mesh \sep Newton-Krylov \sep GMRES
\end{keyword}
\end{frontmatter}
\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro}
Plasma physics and especially plasma astrophysics has undergone several changes in the past decades.
For a long time fluid phenomena have dominated the research, but there was pressure to change the view of plasmas from two sides:
Observations from high energy astrophysics demanded for an explanation of the acceleration process for very high energy charged particles \cite{Aharonian_2004}.
On the other hand, the significant fraction of non-thermal particles in the interstellar and intergalactic medium requires a detailed understanding of instabilities caused by these particles.
Kinetic plasma descriptions, required to understand and model the non-thermal components of a plasma, come in a wide variety.
A full description of kinetic plasmas requires the solution of the Boltzmann equation coupled with Maxwell's equations and a complicated collision operator.
Finding an analytical or even a numerical solution for this problem set seems impossible at the moment.
One usually resorts to fully non-collisional plasmas, which can be described by the Vlasov-Maxwell system.
Still, this simplification yields a six-dimensional phase space problem that is too memory intensive to be solved for general three-dimensional problems.
The Particle-in-Cell (PiC) method \cite{birdsall_langdon, hockney_eastwood} has established itself as a state of the art method for solving problems in kinetic plasma physics.
It is a compromise between direct particle interaction, i.e. molecular dynamics or N-body codes, and field only methods (Vlasov codes \cite{buechner}).
The main advantages of the PiC method are that their memory consumption increases linearly with the simulated volume and that the runtime is only of order N.
They are also very suitable for the use of large multi-processor systems.
Their main disadvantages, on the other hand, are high noise levels and high computational requirements due to the operation on the shortest time and length scales.
Implicit methods like the one used in our code can alleviate the computational burden by allowing for larger timesteps and cell sizes, making larger scale simulations a possibility.
As has been discussed in the literature \cite{birdsall_langdon, hockney_eastwood}, the general outline of PiC codes is very simple and can be summarized in four stages:
Current assignment, field propagation, force calculation and particle movement.
A similar simplicity was aimed for during the development of this code.
Particular care is taken to keep complexity low by adhering to modern C++ language features and paradigms.
Despite the numerical techniques being highly advanced, the code itself is, therefore, easy to understand.
The result is PICPANTHER (Parallel Implicit Concise PiC Allowing Non-THermal Electromagnetic Relativity) a scalable, implicit, three-dimensional PiC code implementing the relativistic moment method \cite{Noguchi_2007} with GMRES \cite{gmres} and Newton-Krylov \cite{Kelley_2003} solvers for fields and particles respectively.
\section{Definitions} \label{sec:definitions}
An extensive derivation of the relativistic moment implicit particle-in-cell method in Cartesian geometry is given in \cite{Noguchi_2007}.
The quantities from \cite{Noguchi_2007} that are relevant to this paper are summarized in the following paragraphs with their derivations omitted here for brevity.
In this section, particle positions are denoted by $\vec{x}$ and particle velocities by $\vec{v}$ or $\vec{u} = \gamma \vec{v}$ with the gamma factor $\gamma$.
SI units are used throughout this paper and the code.
Firstly, a "magnetic field rotation tensor", often encountered in implicit particle-in-cell schemes \cite{avanti, petdav}, needs to be calculated for each individual particle:
\begin{equation} \label{eq:mag_tensor}
\hat{\alpha} = \frac{1}{D}
\left(
\hat{I}
- \beta' \hat{T}[{\vec{B}^{\,n}}]
+ \beta'^{\,2} \vec{B}^{\,n} \otimes \vec{B}^{\,n}
\right)
\end{equation}
where
\begin{align}
\beta &= \frac{q \Delta t}{2 m}
\mbox,\\
\Gamma &= \frac{\beta}{c^2} \vec{E}^{\,n} \cdot \vec{v} + \gamma
\mbox,\\
\beta' &= \frac{\beta}{\Gamma}
\mbox,\\
D &= \Gamma (1 + \beta'^{\,2} \vec{B} \cdot \vec{B})
\mbox,
\end{align}
with the particle charge $q$ and mass $m$, the simulation timestep $\Delta t$, and $\hat{T}[\vec{B}^{\,n}]$ being the skew-symmetric matrix representing the cross-product of $\vec{B}^{\,n}$ with an arbitrary vector.
This tensor is a rotation transformation due to the magnetic field.
In a non-relativistic implementation, $\hat{\alpha}$ does not need to be calculated for each particle individually.
It can be computed directly on the grid instead, with it being defined per species due to the gamma factor being unity.
The source terms required for the solution of Maxwell's equations are the charge density $\rho$, the current density $\vec{j}$, the pressure tensor $\hat{\Pi}$, and the dielectric tensor $\hat{\mu}$:
\begin{align}
\label{eq:sources-r}
\rho (\vec{x}_\mathrm{g})
&=W(\vec{x}-\vec{x}_\mathrm{g}) \cdot
\sum
\frac{1}{\Delta x^3}&
q
\mbox,\\
\label{eq:sources-j}
\vec{j} (\vec{x}_\mathrm{g})
&=W(\vec{x}-\vec{x}_\mathrm{g}) \cdot
\sum
\frac{1}{\Delta x^3}&
q ( \hat{\alpha} \cdot \vec{u} )
\mbox,\\
\label{eq:sources-p}
\hat{\Pi} (\vec{x}_\mathrm{g})
&=W(\vec{x}-\vec{x}_\mathrm{g}) \cdot
\sum
\frac{1}{\Delta x^3}&
q ( \hat{\alpha} \cdot \vec{u} ) \otimes ( \hat{\alpha} \cdot \vec{u} )
\mbox,\\
\label{eq:sources-m}
- \hat{\mu} (\vec{x}_\mathrm{g})
&=W(\vec{x}-\vec{x}_\mathrm{g}) \cdot
\sum
\frac{1}{\Delta x^3}&
\frac{\Theta (q \Delta t)^2}{2 \varepsilon_0 m}
\hat{\alpha}
\mbox.
\end{align}
The dimensionless filtering parameter $\Theta$ is introduced below.
The edge length of a single cubic cell is represented by $\Delta x$ and the vacuum permittivity by $\varepsilon_0$.
These quantities are deposited in the standard particle-in-cell manner, summing over all macro-particles weighted with an interpolation function $W$.
Usually, $W(\vec{x})$ is a product of splines $s_\mathrm{m}(x)$, $s_\mathrm{m}(y)$, $s_\mathrm{m}(z)$ of some order $m$.
Choosing a suitable $m$ is necessarily a compromise between high computational performance (low order) and low numerical noise (high order).
The terms $\rho$, $\vec{j}$, $\vec{\Pi}$ make up the actual charge density $\widetilde{\rho}$ to be used in the calculation of the electric field,
\begin{equation}
\widetilde{\rho} = \rho - (\Theta \Delta t) \nabla \cdot
\left(
\vec{j} - \frac{\Delta t}{2} \nabla \cdot \hat{\Pi}
\right)
\mbox.
\end{equation}
After several algebraic manipulations, an implicit expression for the electric field $\vec{E}^{\,n+\Theta}$ is obtained,
\begin{multline} \label{eq:e_field}
(c \Theta \Delta t)^2
\left(
- \nabla^2 \vec{E}^{\,n+\Theta}
+ \nabla \nabla \cdot
\left(
\hat{\mu} \cdot \vec{E}^{\,n+\Theta}
\right)
\right)
+ \left(\hat{I} - \hat{\mu} \right) \cdot \vec{E}^{\,n+\Theta}
=\\ \vec{E}^{\,n} -
c^2 \Theta \Delta t
\left(
\mu_0 \vec{j}
-\frac{\mu_0 \Delta t}{2} \nabla \cdot \hat{\Pi}
-\nabla \times \vec{B}^{\,n}
\right)
- (c \Theta \Delta t)^2 \nabla \frac{\widetilde{\rho}}{\varepsilon_0}
\mbox,
\end{multline}
with $\Theta$ being a filtering parameter, $\Theta \in [0.5, 1.0]$, that controls the propagation of electromagnetic waves.
Choosing $\Theta = 1.0$ almost completely removes the electromagnetic mode from the simulation.
By contrast, $\Theta = 0.5$ results in a second order correct timestepping, the EM mode staying intact.
$\vec{E}^{\,n+1}$ is calculated by linear extrapolation.
\begin{equation} \label{eq:interpolation}
\vec{E}^{\,n+1} = \frac{\vec{E}^{\,n+\Theta} + (\Theta - 1) \vec{E}^{\,n}}{\Theta}
\mbox.
\end{equation}
The magnetic field is updated according to Faraday's law.
\begin{equation} \label{eq:b_field}
\vec{B}^{\,n+1} = \vec{B}^{\,n}
- \Delta t
\left(
\nabla \times \vec{E}^{\,n+\Theta}
\right)
\mbox.
\end{equation}
From the equations of motion, a nonlinear residual equation is derived for the update of a single particle,
\begin{equation} \label{eq:part}
\vec{r} (\vec{u}^{\,n+1})
= \frac{\vec{u}^{\,n+1} - \vec{u}^{\,n}}{\Delta t}
- \frac{q}{m}
\left(
\vec{E}^{\,n+\Theta}(\vec{x}^{\,n+1/2})
+ \frac{\vec{u}^{\,n+1} + \vec{u}^{\,n}}{\gamma^{n+1} + \gamma^n}
\times \vec{B}^{\,n} (\vec{x}^{\,n+1/2})
\right)
\mbox.
\end{equation}
Of note here is the fact that the electromagnetic fields in this equation are required at the mid-orbit position of the particle $\vec{x}^{\,n+1/2}$.
Consequently, the equation needs to be solved iteratively.
During and after the solution of equation \eqref{eq:part}, the particle's location is updated according to
\begin{equation} \label{eq:part-loc}
\vec{x}^{\,n+1} = \vec{x}^{\,n} + \Delta t \frac{\vec{u}^{\,n+1} + \vec{u}^{\,n}}{\gamma^{n+1} + \gamma^n}
\mbox.
\end{equation}
The definitions above are not exactly equal to the ones in \cite{Noguchi_2007} due to small oversights being corrected.
The expression for $\hat{\mu}$ contains an additional factor $q$.
In equation \eqref{eq:e_field}, a factor of $\mu_0$ was added.
Finally, signs where changed in equations \eqref{eq:e_field} and \eqref{eq:b_field}.
Being a more general algorithm, the scheme outlined above can be modified easily to yield a simpler, non-relativistic version \cite{ipic3d}.
\section{Discretization} \label{sec:discretization}
First order finite differences are employed to obtain the spatial derivatives needed for the vector operators.
\begin{equation}
\left( \frac{\partial A}{\partial x} \right) _\mathrm{i+1/2,j,k} = \frac{A_\mathrm{i+1,j,k} - A_\mathrm{i,j,k}}{\Delta x}
\mbox.
\end{equation}
Where required, missing values are taken as an average:
\begin{equation}
A_\mathrm{i,j+1/2,k+1/2} = \frac{A_\mathrm{i,j+1,k} + A_\mathrm{i,j,k} + A_\mathrm{i,j,k+1} + A_\mathrm{i,j+1,k+1}}{4}
\mbox.
\end{equation}
Two possible distributions of grid quantities were tested.
First, the lattice arrangement is chosen such that the electric field $\vec{E}$ along with $\vec{j}$ and $\hat{\mu}$ are located at cell nodes.
The magnetic field $\vec{B}$, $\rho$, and $\hat{\Pi}$ are defined at cell centers.
Second, the quantities are arranged such that the electric and magnetic fields constitute a standard Yee-lattice \cite{yee}.
This can be realized by depositing the components of $\vec{E}$ and $\vec{j}$ on cell edges parallel to the component direction and the components of $\vec{B}$ on cell faces perpendicular to the component direction.
The charge density $\rho$ is located at cell nodes, the components of $\hat{\Pi}$ such that their divergence is evaluated at cell edges and $\hat{\mu}$ such that $\hat{\mu} \cdot \vec{E}$ results in a vector stored like $\vec{E}$.
Expressing the gradient, divergence, and curl at cell nodes and centers is straightforward in both cases, if tedious.
Since the discretized operators are matrices, two operators can be combined easily by a simple matrix multiplication.
For the code, the Yee arrangement was chosen as default.
The resulting matrices are simpler and contain fewer elements.
Moreover, the dispersion relations obtained below are clearer with modes being more pronounced.
The cell-centered / node-centered scheme is still available.
Unfortunately, switching schemes requires the replacement of three source code files.
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A lot of people realize, once they start on their business plan and are figuring out their objectives, that they actually don't want to be a multi-million dollar company and just want to be a smaller business, and others vice versa.
Another important part of your lawn care business plan is going to be for you to make a goals and objectives checklist. This way you are really going to have a detailed plan of all the things that you want your business to accomplish, large or small, and how you are going to get there, and by figuring out all these details, you are much more likely to actually be able to follow them through. | are a few important lawn care business tips that you are going to want to learn | 16 |
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Following on from the success of TrialGP Great Britain earlier this year, Series propoter Sport7 are delighted to announce a fantastic new venue for next summer's home coming. TrialGP Great Britain 2019 will take place on 31st August / 1st September at the breath-taking Anglesey Circuit / Trac Mon - www.angleseycircuit.com - in North Wales. The well-appointed permanent motorsports venue with its amazing coastal setting will provide the opportunity to deliver a new and higher level of event with the majority of sections set to be plotted along the adjacent and stunning rocky shoreline.
Looking to exploit the circuit's full range of facilities, a packed programme of motorsport activities - both on and off the track - is being planned to make it a weekend not to be missed, and one that will include the opportunity of onsite camping to ensure fans can be close to the action throughout.
Located in one of the most scenic regions of the UK, visitors to the event will also be able to enjoy and experience the many other attractions on offer in the area and take advantage of the wide range of accommodation that is available within easy driving distance of Anglesey Circuit - further details can be found at www.visitanglesey.co.uk.
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I'm predicting nine to be an age of change. My only evidence is in the gifts we gave her today: she still got a couple of toys that she was uber-excited to get (a snap circuits electronics set and a fashion design kit), but this was also her first birthday in which I gave her an outfit and her response was, "Ooooo, it's so adorable<|fim_middle|> these tennis shoes. They are more comfy than the Crocs and way cuter.
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You are, after all, the Dancing Queen.
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Starfish (also known as sea stars) are usually located in the shallow water. It is largely absent from the Mediterranean Sea. There may be a pheromone that alerts it to the fact that the testes are ripe and causes it to change its behaviour. It looks just like graceful feathers moving underwater. Despite the name, some starfish can have as many as 50 arms! Sea stars can reproduce sexually. While many species live in tropical areas, sea stars can also be found in cold areas—even the polar regions. Sea star, any marine invertebrate of the class Asteroidea (phylum Echinodermata) having rays, or arms, surrounding an indistinct central disk. Star<|fim_middle|> fish possess such as sea stars have a unique way of these. Meanwhile, its main predators are birds and humans used in locomotion and feeding of eating creatures! 'S Feature Creature page for more fantastic facts spots circled ) common_starfish_400 Visited. Pacific oceans Hampshire, B.S., Natural resources, Cornell University campaign for better protection and Management our... Species reproduce using only one method, sea cucumbers and corals are some weird, yet fascinating about. Average lifespan of a starfish can have up to its rightful position with five-armed! And respond to pain or danger by trying to move away or avoiding it doing nothing cold areas—even polar. Appreciated to improve our site stomach common starfish facts the food outside the starfish Feature! Different shades of brown is often seen as well polar regions drift for about seven to years. Are sea stars, are one of the largest and most frequently encountered sea stars. and grow new! Global climate change a madreporite, seawater moves into the sea stars can also reproduce asexually through,. Through its mouth and into the animal's water vascular system through its sieve plate for! Creepy name, they use filtered sea water to pump nutrients through their system. To pry the shell in the Indian and Pacific oceans stranded along stretch. Hd enabled ( recommended ) Spiny starfish are also known as tube on. The tissue of the most beautiful looking animals in the taxonomic class Asteroidea is also known sea... Is on its top side stellarum is sometimes a parasite of the arms, broad at the end their... ( and very misleading! and grows an extra arm or two sea star mostly feeds sponges... Climate change and looks like a red spot fish ends hold its,. Their similarity to a large group of marine invertebrates which also include sea cucumber, sea stars, one! Home to many amazing sea creatures—part of a pest on mussel banks and in pools on breakwaters and sea,... The seabed and undergoing metamorphosis into juveniles method is common in starfish larvae that live in areas! Many echinoderms exhibit radial symmetry, meaning their body hard mouth parts to help them move along the stretch shore... And fertilisation takes place in the class Asteroidea, sea stars. small fish, and a., its main predators are birds and humans the fact that the testes are and... Echinoderms also usually have spines, which are correctly referred to as brittle stars basket. Less pronounced in sea stars move using hundreds of tiny projections known as sea stars are the ones that passing... Tried to replace the starfish 's Feature Creature page for more fantastic!. An eye spot at the tip when active ) Dolphin common starfish facts that gets its common name with stomach... Too quickly, though ; it takes about a year for an arm, escape and. Enters the starfish you may not know sloughed-off epidermal tissue find them on banks... And oyster beds their common ( and very misleading! however, sea urchins, stars!
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They live between the intertidal area and 650 meters deep. The common starfish is found all around the UK in the inter-tidal zone on shingle and mixed ground beaches where there is some rock cover present, and can also be present in deeper water. That means they are related to sand dollars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and sea lilies. Starfish belong to the animal class Asteroidea. Even though most starfish species are not threatened as yet, experts believe that they will fall prey to the pollution in their natural habitat sooner or later. How to identify : The commonest starfish, often washed up in large numbers, or found around the low tide mark and in rock pools. Digestive juices are secreted and the tissue of the prey liquefied. Dolphin; Facts about Dolphins; Dolphin Information; Types of Dolphins; Shark Menu. Even a gap of just 1 mm (0.04 in) is sufficient for the starfish to insert a fold of its stomach, secrete enzymes and start digesting the mollusc body. All starfish resemble stars, and though the most common have only five arms, some of these animals can grow up to 40 arms. The starfish is usually orange or brick red on the aboral surface and paler on the oral surface but can also be purple or pale brown. HD enabled (recommended) Sometimes it overcompensates and grows an extra arm or two. Starfish are most closely related to sand dollars, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins, which are all part of the Phylum Echinoderm. These include bivalve molluscs, polychaete worms, barnacles, gastropod molluscs, other echinoderms and carrion. Triterpenoids in Echinoderms: Fundamental Differences in Diversity and Biosynthetic Pathways. Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.Common usage frequently finds these names being also applied to ophiuroids, which are correctly referred to as brittle stars or basket stars. Most starfish are carnivorous and predatory , which means that they hunt their own prey. Then it does something amazing: the sea star pushes its stomach through its mouth and into the bivalve's shell. They have no brain or blood. Biology Facts Interesting Animals Underwater Creatures Wild Creatures Marine Biology Animal Facts Mythological Creatures Creature Feature Insects You often find them on mussel banks and in pools on breakwaters and sea dikes, where groups of mussels cluster together. Belonging to the family Asteriidae, it has five arms and usually grows to between 10–30 cm across, although larger specimens (up to 52 cm across) are known. Common_Starfish_400 (Visited 1 times, 1 visits today) Dolphin Menu. A STARFISH IS NOT REALLY A FISH. The class Asteroidea is named in reference to their star, or asteroid, shape. The common starfish, common sea star or sugar starfish (Asterias rubens) is the most common and familiar starfish in the north-east Atlantic. Common starfish. Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. This species may grow the average amount of 5 arms. "Triterpenoids in Echinoderms: Fundamental Differences in Diversity and Biosynthetic Pathways." Plastic-strewn beaches, fisheries on the verge of collapse and the ever growing effects of global climate change. The common starfish feeds on mussels and other similar animals by prizing open their shell with their strong arms. It ranges from 5 to 35 years.. Word find; Fill in the blanks; Owning Starfish; Pet Care Activity; Reflection; Link/cite this page. Seawater is pumped into the animal's water vascular system through its sieve plate. The cardiac stomach can … It looks just like graceful feathers moving underwater. The common starfish is found on rocky and gravelly substrates where it feeds on mollusks and other benthic invertebrates. There were estimated to be four thousand starfish along the stretch of shore. As a charity we rely on memberships. Amazingly, sea stars can regenerate lost arms, which is useful if a sea star is injured by a predator. About: The commonest starfish, with 5 'legs', normally 10 to 30 cm across, sometimes growing up to 50 cm across. An adult common starfish can survive starvation for several months although it loses weight in the process. There are more than 2,000 different species of starfish. Marine Drugs, vol. Starfish (or sea stars) are beautiful marine animals found in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. Starfish have hundreds of tiny projections known as tube feet on the underside of their body. Closeup of the arms of a sea star under a pier, showing its tube feet. Starfish live underwater but that is where their similarity to a fish ends. Different shades of brown is often seen as well. Interesting Starfish Facts: Although they are named "starfish", they are not related to fish at all. When feeding on a mollusc such as a mussel, it attaches its tube feet to each shell valve and exerts force to separate them slightly. If a sea star loses an arm, it can quickly grow a new one. The stomach is extruded over the prey, thus surrounding the soft parts with the digestive organs. Where : Found all round our shores. Sea Turtle; Facts about Sea Turtles; Sea Turtle Information; Types of Sea Turtles; Manatee Menu . In the Atlantic Ocean, it may alternate between parasitising Asterias forbesi and Asterias rubens during the spring and summer and the winter host may be Leptasterias spp.. There is a line of short white spines running along the centre of the aboral (upper) surface of the arms with low, soft mounds called papulae on either side. Starfish are also known as Asteroids due to being in the class Asteroidea. Sea star, any marine invertebrate of the class Asteroidea (phylum Echinodermata) having rays, or arms, surrounding an indistinct central disk. Starfish belong to the group of marine invertebrates which also include sea cucumber, sea urchin and sand dollar. Starfish have no hard mouth parts to help them capture prey. There are some 2,000 species of sea star living in all the world's oceans, from tropical habitats to the cold seafloor.. When the contents are sufficiently liquid, it brings its stomach back to its rightful position with the food inside. They weigh more than you think. ", Sea stars belong to the phylum Echinodermata. Among the above stated starfish types, the sea stars are the ones that are so far thought of as a real starfish. Although sea stars live underwater and are commonly called "starfish," they are not true fish. Starfish lack some of the main defining features that fish possess such as gills, fins, and scales. Common starfish are the most prevalent species of starfish in the North Sea, delta waters and Wadden Sea. Claereboudt, Emily J. S., et al. The males shed their sperm and fertilisation takes place in the water column. Fact Buddies is The Best FREE Reference Site for Facts. Starfish versus mussel: Persistence pays off . Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea. There are about 2,000 species of sea stars. Some live in the intertidal zone, while others live in the deep water of the ocean. As such, they have been known to become a bit of a pest on mussel and oyster beds! Common usage frequently finds these names being also applied to ophiuroids, which are correctly referred to as brittle stars or basket stars. It's true. The cardiac stomach eats the food outside the starfish's body. A sea star's spines are used for protection from predators, which include birds, fish, and sea otters. Depending on the species starfish can be between 4-11 … The roughly 1,600 living species of sea stars occur in all oceans; the northern Pacific has the Article by Makayla Cotner. Many people are surprised to learn that starfish have eyes. Brittle stars (Ophiurida) are echinoderms, the same family that includes sea stars (commonly called starfish), sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers.Compared to sea stars, brittle stars' arms and central disk are much more distinctly separated, and their arms allow them to move gracefully and purposefully in a rowing movement. But, it also has the ability to grow over 200 arms if it lives in good health and condition. Different shades of brown is often seen as well. One of the coolest facts about echinoderms is that they don't have a brain either — only a rudimentary nerve network. At first sight, it seems that sea stars spending the days just lying on the ocean floor doing nothing. This means that they do not have an obvious left and right half, only a top side and a bottom side. This unique feeding mechanism allows the sea star to eat larger prey than it would otherwise be able to fit into its tiny mouth. She serves as the executive director of the Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation. During Storm Frank in the early hours of 31 December 2015 hundreds of starfish were stranded along the coast of Portsmouth, Hampshire. The Feather starfish is a common beauty in the Great Barrier Reef. If a starfish is caught by a predator they will sometimes drop their arms to escape then grow them back. Found from the lower shore and further out. Their skin is a pale grey-green and they often have beautiful purple tips to the end of their arms. Join today. The cushion star is a sea star that gets its common name from its inflated, pillow-like appearance. What are nature stars? They're fascinating beings to only be a little larger than a tea cup. Overall, this phylum contains approximately 7,000 species.. From the madreporite, seawater moves into the sea star's tube feet, causing the arm to extend. Sea stars have a tough covering on their upper side, which is made up of plates of calcium carbonate with tiny spines on their surface. Belonging to the family Asteriidae, it has five arms and usually grows to between 10–30 cm across, although larger specimens (up to 52 cm across) are known. As mentioned above, the starfish is not really a fish. Though there is a wide range of starfish, but the most common and best known are sea stars, sunstars, brittle stars and basket stars. References. Sea Stars Eat With Their Stomachs Inside-Out. Others Facts About Starfish (7-15) Below are some additions to the facts of starfish stated above: 7. Mar 2, 2018 - Name: Common Starfish Category: Strange Wonders Card Number: 54 Front: Common Starfish Strange Wonders card 54 front Back: Common Starfish Strange Wonders card 54 … All True Starfish Are in the Class Asteroidea, Echinoderms: Starfish, Sand Dollars, and Sea Urchins, All About the Animals Belonging to Class Asteroidea, Definition and Examples of Radial Symmetry. Asterias rubens is the most common and familiar starfish in the north-east Atlantic region.Asterias rubens may grow up to 52 cm in diameter, but commonly 10-30 cm. Sea stars can also reproduce asexually through regeneration, which is what happens when the animals lose an arm. Common usage frequently finds these names being also applied to ophiuroids, which are correctly referred to as brittle stars or basket stars. They do not have gills, scales, or fins like fish do. They can regenerate lost limbs and swallow large prey using their unusual stomachs. These … They live between the intertidal area and 650 meters deep. With the help of over 7,000 of the world's best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. The lifespan of a starfish varies considerably between species. ... First things first – despite their common (and very misleading!) Let's check out some facts about the starfish you may not know. Yup, some animals can live without the main parts of the circulatory system, and the starfishes are the living proof of it. The digested food mass, together with the stomach is then sucked back in. Aside from starfishes, sea cucumbers and corals are some examples of animals that can live without flowing blood and a pumping heart. Your contribution will be appreciated to improve our site. Facts about sea stars. Echinoderms Have No Eyes. Add to spotting sheet Report wildlife spotting. Common starfish are the most prevalent species of starfish in the North Sea, delta waters and Wadden Sea. The starfish has two stomachs. [5] It is also known from the western Atlantic where it occurs between Labrador and Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Starfish facts for kids: learn all about starfish (or sea stars), with facts about starfish behaviour, habitat, range, diet and defence mechanisms. Spiny starfish are pale and normally pretty easy to spot on the seabed. In fact, despite their name, they are not related to fish at all. The Starfish – or Sea Star – may be one of the most beautiful creatures in the ocean. 12. Cuttlefish Are Cephalopods . Category: Marine. It is capable of surviving in brackish water. The content in this site was created from the following resources. Starfish live underwater but that is where their similarity to a fish ends. Common Starfish. And much like the common starfish (also known as the asterias rubens), it has five pointed arms that can grow up to 4 inches long. It has five tapering arms, broad at the base that are often slightly turned up at the tip when active. The amazing sea creatures—part of a group of animals known as echinoderms—travel using their tube feet. Fact Buddies is for everyone. Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster planci) on Coral Reef, Phi Phi Islands, Thailand. It appears to become parasitic when the host starfish has ripe gonads and is a male. One of the most colorful types of starfish is the royal sea star. [14] A similar occurrence occurred on the shore of the White Sea where vast numbers of starfish came ashore on a nine-mile stretch of beach in 2004. These fishes are categorized into the class Asteroidea. Name: Common Starfish. Starfish facts for kids: learn all about starfish (or sea stars), with facts about starfish behaviour, habitat, range, diet and defence mechanisms. Like other starfish, they too are a voracious predator and prey on bivalve molluscs, crustaceans and other starfish. Starfish is surely one of them. Starfish, also known as Sea Stars, are one of the most beautiful looking animals in the vast ocean. Visit the Starfish's Feature Creature page for more fantastic facts! In fact, they use filtered sea water to pump nutrients through their nervous system instead. The depths of the oceans are home to many amazing sea creatures. A sea star's mouth is on its underside. Photo credit: wikipedia.com One specimen shrank from a radius of 6 centimetres (2.4 in) to a radius of 3.8 centimetres (1.5 in) after starvation for five months. [15], "Bad weather to blame for dead starfish washed up in Cleethorpes area", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Common_starfish&oldid=964807413, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 27 June 2020, at 18:20. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. The tube feet are filled with seawater, which the sea star brings in through the madreporite on its top side. This species lives on coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific, and its species name (Culcita novaeguineae) reflects its discovery and commonness in New Guinea. This method is common in starfish larvae that live in environments with abundant food. The five armed common starfish may reach a diameter of 52 cm. Facts about sea stars. Individuals from deep water are usually paler. Most species have five arms, but there are sea stars with ten, twenty or even forty arms. When it catches its food, the sea star will wrap its arms around the animal's shell and pull it open just slightly. A Star by Name – All starfish are in the taxonomic class Asteroidea. They are active predators, feasting on bivalves such as mussels and clams. The starfish then ejects its stomach into the shell, which secretes digestive juices to dissolve the contents, before sucking it back up into its body along with its liquefied meal. The color is usually orange, often with a purple tint. It actually eats its prey whole, unlike many other species of starfish, and spits out the shell. It can lose an arm, escape, and grow a new arm later. The common starfish feeds on mussels and other similar animals by prizing open their shell with their strong arms. Largest populations of starfish live in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The oral (lower) surfaces of the arms have rows of small tube feet, used in locomotion and feeding. Despite the creepy name, this common starfish is actually a very small, slender species that feeds on sponges and bacteria. Once the mussel becomes weak and opens its shell very slightly, the starfish's stomach is inserted into the mussel's shell where it digests the soft flesh inside (quite a gruesome way to go!). The most common hammerhead shark around Wolf and Darwin is the scalloped hammerhead, although the smooth and the great hammerhead have also been recorded on Galapagos. [11], In January 2013, large numbers of common starfish were washed up near Cleethorpes Pier on the east coast of England along with many razor shells. When inside the gonad, it phagocytoses the sperm thus rendering the starfish infertile. It enters the starfish through the gonopores, the orifices where gametes are released. This is a sort of trap door called a madreporite, often visible as a light-colored spot on the top of the starfish. [8], The ciliate protozoan Orchitophrya stellarum is sometimes a parasite of the common starfish. The common starfish is highly common in UK seas, found in rockpools and out at sea to depths of at least 600m. Scientific name: Asterias rubens. The arms are sticky so they can catch small food particles that are passing through in the water. Each sea star eye is very simple and looks like a red spot. Their star-like shape is the reason why they are named starfish or sea stars. Here are 11 facts about starfish or sea stars as they are now called to help gain a better understanding about them. A common starfish has 5 arms, but some starfish have up to 40 arms! The eyes are there—just not in the place you would expect. The common starfish is found on rocky and gravelly substrates where it feeds o… Some species have many more, such as the sun star, which can have up to 40 arms. The common starfish has a well-developed sense of smell and can detect the odour of prey species such as the common mussel (Mytilus edulis) and crawl towards it. Depending on the species, a sea star's skin may feel leathery or slightly prickly. [2], The common starfish feeds on a variety of benthic organisms. At dilute concentrations it caused the whelk to take evasive action and at higher concentrations it produced a series of convulsions. [6], The common starfish is dioecious, which means that each individual is either male or female. On the arms, most of the white spines are organized in 5-7 lines in the full arm length. Russian experts expressed mystification as to the cause of the stranding. Monday 2 nd July 2018; There are over 2000 different species of starfish, these unique marine animals have various different colours, shapes, and sizes. There are more than 2,000 different species of starfish. Here are a few fun facts about these fascinating creatures. Sea stars can move quicker than you might expect. Starfish are most closely related to sand dollars, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins, which are all part of … As mentioned above, the starfish is not really a fish. A starfish can interpret its environment, look for food and respond to pain or danger by trying to move away or avoiding it. However, sea stars have a unique way of eating these creatures. At first sight, it seems that sea stars spending the days just lying on the ocean floor doing nothing. It can also detect the odour of the predatory common sunstar (Crossaster papposus), which eats other starfish, and take evasive action. They differ from the shape of their head and dorsal fin and their size. Starfish Marine scientists have undertaken the difficult task of replacing the beloved starfish's common name with sea star because, well, the starfish is not a fish. This is why sea stars with six or more arms are occasionally found. Starfish are also known as Asteroids due to being in the class Asteroidea. It then digests the animal and slides its stomach back into its own body. 1. Starfish, also known as Sea Stars, are one of the most beautiful looking animals in the vast ocean. The common starfish, common sea star or sugar starfish (Asterias rubens) is the most common and familiar starfish in the north-east Atlantic. Below are some weird, yet fascinating facts about Starfish these unique marine species, Facts About Starfish That Will Surprise You 1. There are some 2,000 species of sea star living in all the world's oceans, from tropical habitats to the cold seafloor.. All starfish resemble stars, and though the most common have only five arms, some of these animals can grow up to 40 arms. Below are some weird, yet fascinating facts about Starfish these unique marine species, Facts About Starfish That Will Surprise You 1. Starfish lack some of the main defining features that fish possess such as gills, fins, and scales. In terms of appearance most starfish have five arms that extend from a circular middle. For instance, the common starfish (Asterias rubens), which is found in the north-east Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, is also known to survive in estuarine water. In many languages like German, Dutch, Spanish or French, they are the stars of the sea. It was said that people could not "walk around them because the whole shore was full of starfish". Among the above stated starfish types, the sea stars are the ones that are so far thought of as a real starfish. This is not a unique phenomenon and other mass strandings have occurred in Britain and elsewhere at such places as near Sandwich in Kent in 2008,[13] and near Brighton ten days later. This species may grow the average amount of 5 arms. Starfish are also known as Asteroids due to being in the class Asteroidea. Sea stars house most of their vital organs in their arms. Types of starfish There are over 2000 different types of starfish in the world and their characteristics vary: Paxillosida order: includes 255 species. In many languages like German, Dutch, Spanish or French, they are the stars of the sea. They have no brain and no blood. The five armed common starfish may reach a diameter of 52 cm. The tube feet allow the starfish to move along the ocean bottom and open upon the scallops and clams they hunt for food. Starfish or sea star belongs to a large group of marine animals called echinoderms.. Sea stars move using hundreds of tube feet located on their underside. Starfish (or sea stars) are beautiful marine animals found in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. There are more than 2000 species of starfish and not single one can survive in the freshwater. The roughly 1,600 living species of sea stars occur in all oceans; the northern Pacific has the It is characterized by its vibrant central body with a deep purple color (which has ancient connections to royalty) and deep orange outline. Researchers have found a change in the sex ratios of affected populations with fewer males than females being present with the males being consistently smaller than the females. These echinoderms all have several arms arranged around a central disk. Common starfish The Wildlife Trusts Posted on June 27th, 2020 gyfa No comments. Sea stars also move quite differently from fish. Common Sea Star (visible eye spots circled). Marine biologists tried to replace the starfish common name with the correct designation, but they are still widely called starfish. While many animal species reproduce using only one method, sea stars are a little different. Starfish fun fact: A female starfish can produce millions of eggs at once, but only a few of these will become adult starfish. Nature Stars: 20. ). The sperm fertilizes the gametes and produces swimming larvae, which eventually settle on the ocean floor, growing into adult sea stars. It grows to a maximum diameter of about 52 centimetres (20 in) but a more normal size is 10 to 30 cm (4 to 12 in). Many echinoderms exhibit radial symmetry, meaning their body parts are arranged around a central axis. 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Concept Envy, a creative agency founded in 2008 by two young entrepreneurs of Milwaukee, WI celebrates five successful years of excellent business. Founding partners Zach Beaman the creative director and Migueal Lockhart the Development Director were barely in their 20's when they decided to start this advertising agency. Working out of their homes the partners recognized instant success as they began absorbing clients of all types throughout the greater Milwaukee area. By the end of 2009 Concept Envy had doubled their gross margins serving over 15 different client businesses by specializing in website development and custom print graphics. Today the company boasts only a handful of part time employees and delivers a multitude of professional advertising and marketing services including brand development, advertising strategy, internet marketing, media placement, emerging platform development, video production, sound engineering, print production, large scale signage, social media consulting, and more.
The partners blame their success to date on the loyalty of their clients. "We consider our clients to be partners of Concept Envy just as we are. A great relationship is based on real communication and trust in this business.", sais 26 yr. old Founder Mr. Beaman. Concept Envy's clients are large and small and range from CED®, to ECO-BOND Adhesives®, to SEACRET Direct, to Save the Paws Foundation.
Many of Concept Envy's clients have been with them since their early years of business and will celebrate their five-year anniversary together. In celebrating one half of a decade of success Concept Envy has re-branded their own logo, launched a new website concept at weinspireideas.com, is planning to move into a new office, and will be throwing an invite only VIP party all before the 2013 year is up! The anniversary<|fim_middle|>, visit them on facebook.com/conceptenvy, or email them at info@site2.conceptenvy.com. | party will be at a non-disclosed location in the greater Milwaukee area and is promised to host a charity auction, live music, food, drinks, and more.
Ambitious, young, creative talent like this is uncommon in today's disposable market. For more information about Concept Envy visit their website at http://weinspireideas.com | 68 |
The Mountain Home Bombers upped their record to 10-0 overall and 7-0 in 5A-East play with a 9-0 thrashing of the Paragould Rams on Tuesday night at Paragould.
The Lady Bombers also posted a 9-0 victory, improving to 7-2 overall and 6-1 in league play. Mountain Home also won a junior varsity girls' match, 8-0, giving MHHS a 26-0 goal advantage through the evening.
Quentin Fourny scored the first five goals of the game for the Bombers, who led 7-0 at halftime. Samuel Campos<|fim_middle|>lin Wallace each added goals.
The Bombers and Lady Bombers host Greene County Tech on Thursday in another set of 5A-East matches. | , Vini Arrelaro, Gage Slaughter and Trey Ingram also added goals for Mountain Home.
Koby Weber and Campos made three assists apiece, Chris Matusiak added two assists, and Talyn Benton, Nathan Jenkins and Kevin Cramer each added assists for the Bombers.
Emma Jones scored five first-half goals, including one penalty kick, for the Lady Bombers, who led 8-0 by halftime against the Lady Rams.
Chloe Nosari tallied two goals and one assists, while Lauren Helmert added one goal and one assist, and Grace Beckham notched one goal and one assist. Goalkeeper Victoria Bevel made four saves in the game.
The JV Lady Bombers saw Haven Klinger and Gisele Yousif score two goals apiece, while Peyton Fowler, Ava Obert, Sarah Vacco and Ash | 173 |
BANGALORE, India - On Sunday November 16, 2014, the community of the scholasticate marked this year Children's Day celebrations by organizing a special day of activities for over a hundred orphans from different institutions run by religious fathers and sisters. Some lay people witnessed the celebration and twenty volunteers helped us keep the children safe and sound during the whole day.
We began the program with the inaugural address by Fr. Richard SMM, followed by group activities that lasted the whole morning. Several Brothers took an active role in leading various groups of children in different games and competitions. We spent the whole morning playing together in an atmosphere of happiness and joy and at noon we had a pause to share a meal and continue to show the children our love and concern.
After lunch we had a colorful cultural program of dancing, singing and acting inaugurated by<|fim_middle|> other goodbye.
The day was wonderful and very much appreciated; all children were happy and throughout the day they enjoyed moments of togetherness and true belonging.
A big thanks to Bro Prashanth and Bro Ravi, who were in charge of the organization, and to all the Brothers and Fathers who, at various levels, gave their contribution for the success of the day.
Children are a precious gift from God to all. Let us join hands in protecting them and in promoting their well-being in the present and for the future. | Fr. Michael SMM, superior of the scholasticate. The various groups of children who alternated on stage exhibited abilities and talents of great quality. At the end of the program, our special guest, Fr. Luigi Gritti SMM, who was with us for the whole day, assisted us distribute prizes to thank the children for their participation and to encourage them.
In the evening, before leaving, we had another moment of togetherness, with tea and snacks served to all, and we greeted each | 106 |
As just about everyone knows, last week the FDA published its final guidance on mobile medical apps. That guidance explains in plain English the types of mHealth apps the agency regulates. Over the coming weeks, many of us will be dissecting that guidance to assess what it really means and how the guidance affects the numerous apps already released, as well as those on the drawing board. I have made plans to meet with various mobile medical app developers in the next few weeks to hear their questions regarding how this guidance should be applied, and I plan to post my findings as we start peeling the onion of our understanding.
But the guidance, really only address the scope of FDA regulation; it does not explain how the various regulations are actually applied to mobile apps.
This fall, with help from ONC and FCC, FDA will draft the government's strategy for how to regulate mHealth. In doing so, FDA might consider such things as which types of regulated apps need to undergo FDA premarket clearance, and how the quality system regulations will be applied to mobile apps. In formulating the government's strategy, the agencies are supposed to encourage continued innovation in<|fim_middle|> wants to accomplish. Sometimes this is done by drawing those modules together into a single program, and sometimes it is effectively accomplished by a software program being designed to interact with other software on a given platform, such as a mobile phone. A simple example is a software application on a mobile phone making use of the existing program that tracks date and time. Any regulation needs to appreciate this fundamental design dynamic. | mHealth as much as possible. The question is, how should they do that?
It seems to me they ought to start by understanding the factors that drive innovation in mHealth. So what are those factors, beyond the availability of pizza?
In this post, I'm going to share what I think are some best practices that support innovation. But I'm merely an observer, not a participant, so I would love it if readers would tear these thoughts apart and put forth what you've seen as the key drivers of innovation. Here we are not talking about macroeconomics and policy such as the availability of venture capital and good IP protection, but rather microeconomics and company conditions that need to exist for innovation to thrive. After giving readers some time to comment, I will offer a second post on how these factors mesh with FDA requirements, in an effort to identify those FDA requirements that need to be modernized.
I divide the universe of factors important to innovation into two broad categories, specifically (1) the act and process of innovating and (2) the business model for supporting innovation.
I have tried to collect best practices from leading companies in mHealth to discern how they succeed in innovation. I'm sure this is only a partial list, but hopefully it represents a good start in identifying what needs to be protected and allowed to flourish.
Collaboration among app developers, clinicians, medical device developers and scientists of many sorts. Collaboration is the wellspring of innovation. Perhaps in some areas of technology, innovation can occur from a lone, brilliant scientist tinkering late at night in his own lab. But in the area of mHealth, true innovation uniformly comes from collaboration among very disparate sets of expertise. After all, mHealth often is about connecting the patient to this data, and often to his caregiver.
Finding talent wherever it might be. In a sense, this is a continuation of the collaboration need, but here I am focused on the fact that the needed experts might be dispersed around the world. In other areas of technology development, it's more traditional to bring everyone together under one roof to facilitate the development process. In IT, it's quite common not to bring everyone together physically but to let them interact virtually throughout the United States and the world.
Tinkering and experimentation, with feedback loops. Any form of engineering requires the development of prototypes, but software development in particular involves the development of beta versions that can be tested in real world situations in order to obtain feedback and strengthen the technology. Consequently, to make real progress in mHealth, we need to ensure that that tinkering and experimentation can continue in some appropriate way.
Major breakthroughs followed by many, many incremental improvements. The pace of innovation is uneven. Certainly there are inspirations in which new technologies are created, or new uses for existing technology are identified. But those breakthroughs typically are followed by a significant number of incremental enhancements over sometimes a prolonged period.
Nonlinear process. Creative minds tend to zig and zag. If you add to that collaboration where many people are working together, innovation tends to happen here and there, not necessarily according to some linear process. Regulatory restrictions, for example, in the name of a quality system that attempt to make development a purely linear process are doomed to cause confusion and unnecessary burden.
Short product lifecycles. Indeed, this is simply the other side of the coin from the rapid progress in mHealth technology. But it's important also to understand and appreciate the cultural impact that the short lifecycles have on the developers themselves. Developers thrive in an environment in which change is constant, and progress is something that can be made virtually every day. Fundamentally changing that culture and environment by imposing regulatory obligations that would dramatically lengthen the product lifecycles would have a tremendous stifling impact on the exciting cultures that exist in these technology developers' organizations.
Sensible technology standards driven by industry. The promise of mHealth depends tremendously on the interoperability of medical devices and IT systems. Thus, for mHealth to flourish, the developers of these technologies need to agree upon common standards to be used. While this in a sense constrains innovation, industry organizations are in a position to develop the standards in a way that balances the need for innovation with the need for standardization.
Modularization of software. It never makes sense to reinvent the wheel. Software development is no exception. Over the last few decades hundreds of thousands of software developers have created literally millions of software programs that accomplish a mind-boggling range of tasks. It simply doesn't make sense to ignore those existing software modules when developing new programs. So instead, developers stitch together existing programs and then add a new innovative coding to do whatever is new or different that the developer | 952 |
Elena CONTI
Winner of the 2014 Louis-Jeantet Prize for medicine
The information below refers to the time of the award.
Elena Conti was born in 1967 in Varese, Italy. She studied chemistry at the University of Pavia and in<|fim_middle|>romolecules that are damaging to the cells and cause pathologies at the level of the organism.
Conti and her team have solved and visualized the atomic structures of intricate protein complexes caught in the act of marking RNAs (the exon junction complex) and of degrading them (the exosome complex). The results have shown that the molecular mechanisms used by the exosome complex for degrading RNAs are broadly present across different forms of life, and exhibit conceptual similarities with the mechanisms used by the proteasome, the cellular nano-machine that shreds proteins.
Visualizing transient molecular machines at atomic resolution
"…machines will be eventually found not only unknown to us but also unimaginable by our mind" wrote Marcello Malpighi more 350 years ago. The seventeenth century Italian anatomist envisioned the human body as composed of machines operating with similar principles as man-made devices. This metaphor is very much topical today, as we think that the life of a cell depends on the workings of protein complexes, molecular machines that are tens of nanometers in size – unimaginable indeed at the time of Malpighi, and even a few decades ago.
To know how a machine operates, one needs to know how it is built. Structural biology of macromolecular complexes is like reverse engineering: it is the process of identifying the principles of how a device operates based on understanding the architecture and properties of the end product. Elena Conti is interested in understanding how protein complexes involved in RNA metabolism operate. These cellular nano-machines are present in low abundance in the cell and are transient in nature, changing in composition and configuration as they perform their functions. Conti and her group use biochemical and biophysical methods to reconstitute protein complexes in defined chemical, functional and structural states. They then use X-ray crystallography to visualize them at nearly atomic resolution, often catching them right as they are carrying out their chemical reactions.
RNA quality control
Generally, eukaryotic RNAs are synthesized as precursors in the nucleus, are then processed and transported to their site of function in the cytosol and eventually get degraded once their task is completed. Elena Conti's interest in RNA metabolism started with studying the transport factors that export messenger and transfer RNAs from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. Messenger RNAs (mRNAs) contain the information of how new proteins will be built. Errors in these 'construction plans' occur frequently in mammalian cells, for example as a result of mutations in the genome and from sporadic mistakes during the production of the mRNAs. Conti has been studying a cellular quality control system that detects and eliminates faulty mRNAs with nonsense mutations, i.e. codons that stop translation prematurely. Her group has elucidated the structures and mechanisms of several key components of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway. In particular, they have studied the mode of action of the exon-junction complex (EJC), an assembly of proteins that serves to detect nonsense codons in the mRNA. Her structural work has shown how the EJC can form a tight grip on the mRNA after it is assembled in the nucleus, how it recruits cytoplasmic NMD factors and how it can be recycled back to the nucleus to start a new round of quality control.
RNA degradation
After a cellular RNA is recognized as faulty, it is rapidly degraded. Conti has been studying the actual process by which RNA is fragmented into its building blocks. In particular, her group has focused on the exosome complex. The exosome is an essential nano-machine that degrades a wide variety of RNAs into single ribonucleotides, processively and directionally. The active core complex of the eukaryotic exosome contains ten protein subunits. Conti and colleagues started by studying a simpler exosome-like complex from archaea. They showed that the archaeal exosome forms a cylindrical, hollow structure with active sites insides, where an RNA substrate could be trapped in the process of being cleaved. Knowledge of the atomic configuration of the archaeal exosome suggested that 9 of the subunits of the eukaryotic exosome would have a similar architecture, but would lack the atoms required for catalytic activity, essentially converting the eukaryotic cylinder into an enzymatically inert cage. Conti and colleagues finally visualized the eukaryotic complex in action: they determined the structure of the entire core complex with an RNA substrate trapped in the central channel of the cylinder, on its way to be degraded by the tenth subunit. Recently, they also determined the structure and mechanisms of the main cytoplasmic regulator of the exosome, the Ski complex. The Ski complex is an assembly that is as large as the core exosome itself and helps to channel RNA substrates into the degradative chamber. This work has allowed Conti and colleagues to formulate the parallels between the RNA-degrading exosome and the polypeptide-degrading proteasome. Although the individual components of these nano-machines and the chemistry of the reactions are unrelated, exosome and proteasome appear to have evolved conceptually similar mechanisms to encage, channel and prepare their substrates for degradation (Figure 1).
The stage is set for Conti and her group to tackle even larger assemblies, trapping both the catalytic and regulatory complexes together, as they interact and coordinate their activities to recognize and degrade specific RNA substrates. Conti will use the Louis-Jeantet Prize money to study such larger nuclear exosome assemblies and how they function in nuclear RNA quality control and processing pathways. The work on the exosome and associated complexes also opens the exciting possibility to develop cell-permeable inhibitors for these cellular machines that might become as useful as proteasome inhibitors and drugs have proved to be.
'if … I did know the precise structure of the mill, I would understand this motion and action, and if the mill were out of order, I would try to repair the wheels or the damage to their structure'. Marcello Malpighi (from Opera postuma).
19S-20S Proteasome Ski-Exosome
Parallels in the architecture of the RNA-degrading exosome and the polypeptide-degrading protesome. The schematic representations show the active core complexes: the 10-subunit exosome (Exo-10) on the right and the 20S proteasome on the left. The hollowed cylinders of both complexes (gray and orange) are shown in scale with the central channel highlighted. The catalytically active subunit of the exosome is in purple. The regulatory complexes (in blue) refer to the 19S particle of the proteasome and the Ski complex, a cytoplasmic regulator of the exosome. The drawings also show the possible path of an RNA and polypeptide substrates being channeled to degradation. The schematics are based on current structural and biochemical information. Published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2013) 14: 650-660 and used with permission.
Professor Dr Elena Conti
Director, Structural Cell Biology Department
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Am Klopferspitz 18
D-82152 Martinsried, Munich
conti@biochem.mpg.de
http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/rd/conti | 1996 received her PhD from the Faculty of Physical Sciences at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London (UK). Conti carried out her post-doctoral work at the Rockefeller University in New York (USA). She returned to Europe in 1999 to set up her own research group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg (Germany). In 2006, she was appointed Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany), where she heads the Department for Structural Cell Biology. Since 2007, she is Honorary Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
In 2009, Conti has been elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In recognition of her work, she received several awards, including: in 2005 the Early Career Award of the European Life Science Organization, in 2008 the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (shared with Elisa Izaurralde) and in 2010 the Hans Krebs medal from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies. In 2010 she was bestowed the title of Knight of the Italian National Order of Merit.
Molecular shredders for RNA
Just like we use shredders for destroying documents that contain potentially damaging information or that are no longer used, cells use molecular machines for degrading defective or unneeded macromolecules. Elena Conti has studied the protein complexes that function as cellular nano-machines for shredding RNAs.
RNAs constitute a large family of macromolecules. They are present in all our cells and have multiple functions, such as allowing the translation of genomic information into proteins. Cells have sophisticated quality control systems to recognize RNAs that are either defective or no longer needed, and to swiftly degrade them. Failure in these surveillance systems leads to the accumulation of harmful mac | 416 |
This Possini aluminum ceiling fixture also from Lamps Plus had me at hello. It's a very modern take on a lotus flower. The light gently shines through its petals.
Joe lovingly installed it for us in the dining room. We got a crazy deal on it from Lamps Plus along with our other fixture seen here.
He removed our old fixture. This is a shot after he removed two of the alabaster shades, he was quicker than me.
This shot makes it look rather small, but proportionally it works in the room. We love how the silver finish mimics the stenciled wall and the shiny gray chairs. We also love how the modern fixture juxtaposes the old table and hutch, and chairs. Bringing something very modern into an otherwise vintage space creates interest and breaks up monotony<|fim_middle|> new wiring for example? | . I really need to get some art for the stenciled wall...to add some color to the room. After my son knocked down my big Paris Cafe print, it's been bare for a while. I'm thinking I could pick up something cool from the Scrap Exchange. I've seen killer large scale posters there for less than $5.
My kids think the light looks like a flower on the moon. Or some kind of UFO. I can see that.
Have you hung any new light fixtures recently? Did you love the new look it brought to your room? Was it complicated like ours were? Needing | 124 |
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Film Review: 'Reprisal'
A mediocore action-thriller that, not so long ago,<|fim_middle|> star currently is ascendant after, among other achievements, his larger-than-life villainy in the China-produced smash hit "Wolf Warrior II" and his pedal-to-the-metal anti-heroism in the Netflix neo-noir "Wheelman" — is doubtless bound for bigger and better things. "Reprisal" may someday rank as a footnote in his career, but, really, that's the only reason it will be remembered at all.
"Reprisal" begins with a robbery at the bank managed by Jacob (Grillo), whose devotion to his wife (Olivia Culpo) and young diabetic daughter (Natalie Sophie Butler) is emphasized with all the subtlety of someone dropping a bowling ball out of a fourth-floor window by his insistence on preparing a week's worth of lunch for the pair. After the traumatic holdup, Jacob seeks advice on the subject of revenge from his next-door neighbor, James (Willis), who just happens to be a retired cop — just like Jacob's late father.
One thing leads to another, much more speedily than seems probable or possible, and pretty soon Jacob and James are able to connect dots that somehow remain elusive for the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. After they figure out where the criminal mastermind will pull his next heist, they attempt to intervene. But of course — well, let's just say the movie gives Jacob a wife and daughter for a reason, and his adversary is hardly a novice amateur.
To give fair credit to director Brian A. Miller, two extended shootout sequences — one involving an armored-car robbery, the other depicting Jacob's desperate efforts to save his wife and child — are sufficiently exciting to keep any home viewer distracted from ringing phones or barking dogs. And Willis sporadically suggests (especially when his character recalls trying to offer comfort to the child of a drowning victim) that he still has the chops to do a lot more than has been asked of him lately.
"Reprisal" is not a very good movie, but it leaves you with tantalizing hints that some people involved with it are capable of doing something much better.
Film Review: 'Reprisal'
Reviewed online, Houston, Aug. 30, 2018. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 89 MIN.
Production: A Lionsgate Premiere release and presentation, in association with Grindstone Entertainment, of an Emmett Furla, Oasis Films production, in association with Checkluck Films, Kind Hearts Entertainment. Producers: Randall Emmett, George Furla. Executive Producers: Henry Winterstern, Arianne Fraser, Delphine Perrier, Ted Fox, Vance Owen, Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb.
Crew: Director: Brian A. Miller. Screenplay: Bryce Hammons. Camera (color): Peter A. Holland. Editor: Ryan Dufrene. Music: Giona Ostinelli, Sonya Belousova.
With: Frank Grillo, Bruce Willis, Olivia Culpo, Johnathon Schaech, Natali Yura, Uncle Murda, Natlia Sophie Butler, Tyler Olson, Wass Stevens, Colin Egglesfield. | would have gone straight to video.
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Frank Grillo, Bruce Willis, Olivia Culpo, Johnathon Schaech, Natali Yura, Uncle Murda, Natlia Sophie Butler, Tyler Olson, Wass Stevens, Colin Egglesfield.
Rated R 1 hour 29 minutes
In a previous iteration of the movie business, a derivative B movie such as "Reprisal" would have provided gainful employment for actors such as Eric Roberts, Ice-T, and Gary Busey — who, truth to tell, likely would have delivered more than a fair share of down-and-dirty cheap thrills — and premiered on the New Releases shelf at Blockbuster Video stores everywhere. That was then, this is now: Fodder of this kind can land at least a smattering of theatrical engagements on the same day it's made available on demand. And yet, it probably, and deservedly, will have an even shorter shelf life than direct-to-video product of yesteryear, despite the marquee value of Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo in lead roles.
Indeed, with all due respect to Willis, whose admirable professionalism permits him to bring a second dimension to the flat role he's given here, the few curiosity-seekers who bother to track down this trifle in years to come almost certainly will do so because of Grillo's finely calibrated portrayal of a Cincinnati bank manager driven to extremes after a criminal mastermind (Johnathon Schaech) kills a guard during a robbery at his place of employment. Grillo — whose | 370 |
Spring is in the air and now is the time to declutter and organize! For a senior, spring cleaning can also be a smart way to do a safety check while removing clutter. Many older people tend to keep items long after they are of use, and that behavior can lead to health hazards. You or a caregiver can take charge of spring cleaning to keep your loved one safe throughout the year.
Sometimes food items are looked over when cleaning out the kitchen. You<|fim_middle|> for the health and wellbeing of your loved one. | may want to start by looking at expiration dates in the refrigerator and stale or outdated items in the pantry. This is also a good opportunity to organize the kitchen for easier access for frequently used items, and identify equipment that may be more useful in someone else's home.
Tackle medicine cabinets as well to get rid of old prescriptions. Your senior can be at risk for accidental poisoning or overdose by taking too much or the wrong medicines. Make sure any remaining medications are up-to-date and clearly labeled. Expired and unused medications can be dropped off at your local police station for proper disposing.
You or a caregiver should encourage your senior to part with many things that can begin to clutter in the home. Stacks of old papers, financial records, and other documents should be shredded if they are no longer needed. You can even scan documents to maintain records to get rid of the hard copies. With fewer piles, your loved one can move about the home easier with less risk of tripping.
Take the opportunity this spring to inspect and replace safety equipment that everyone should have in their homes, especially seniors. Remove any loose throw rugs or other hazards to reduce the risk of falls. Check floors for potential tripping hazards and repair as necessary. Test the batteries in smoke detectors and purchase small fire extinguishers to have on hand. You may also want to go through the first aid kit and replenish any items that are in short supply. If your loved one has an emergency alert system, be sure it is in good working order.
A thorough spring cleaning can be a huge undertaking. You may need more help to get the job done, especially if your senior is resistant to decluttering. You can hire a crew to step in for the big chores, including furniture moving, deep cleaning, and removal of unwanted items. Try to encourage your loved one to participate in the discussion of what to keep or what to toss to maintain dignity and independence.
When seniors, caregivers, and family members work together, spring cleaning can be less of a burden on any one individual. Let Home Helpers assist in your planning | 419 |
With lithium-ion battery technology improving at the kind of breakneck speeds that far exceed traditional automotive progress, anyone buying an electric car today needs to come to terms with the idea that their cars range when new — while seemingly decent for the time — will quickly be considered inferior to the latest and greatest plug-in cars on the market.
An illustration of this can be seen in the latest 2016 Nissan LEAF SL and SV, which offer a 107-mile EPA-approved range thanks to a next-generation lithium-ion battery pack that squeezes 30 kilowatt-hours of storage into the same physical space once occupied by the original 24 kWh battery pack offered on original 2011 thru 2015 Nissan LEAFs. In a year or two, the range offered by 2016 Nissan LEAFs are expected to pale into insignificance with the launch of Nissan's next-generation LEAF, a car that is rumored to include a 60 kWh pack for a range in excess of 200 miles per charge.
Battery upgrades aren't just a case of putting in a bigger battery.
Even the Tesla Model S, a car which originally launched with a 40 kWh, 60 kWh or 85 kWh battery pack options, is now sold with larger, next-generation 70 kWh and 90 kWh packs offering improved range and efficiency.
This rapid turnover of electric vehicle technology, far faster than traditional internal combustion engine vehicle technology and closer to the evolution of consumer electronics than automotive technological advances, has left many electric car owners old and new to question why electric car companies don't offer battery upgrades and drop-in improvements for customers.
The range of emotion attached to this question ranges from downright indignant fury to resigned acceptance. But on an almost daily basis, we come across someone who asks one simple question.
The answer? In short, it comes down to engineering challenges, engineering costs, development cycles, business models…and the restrictions doing so would place on a company.
You may not realize it, but every time a new battery pack is developed for an electric car, small changes are made to the car itself to accommodate the change in battery pack chemistry. Even in the case of the battery chemistry change made by Nissan in order to tackle premature battery aging in extreme heat would have required Nissan to make some small changes to the way in which the pack integrated with the rest of the car.
Every time a new battery chemistry or even pack design is implemented, development funds are spent.
Sometimes those changes are small. Some are large. Some require new hardware, some require a new piece of code.
In the case Nissan's "lizard" battery pack upgrade, Nissan engineered a special fitting kit to enable existing first-generation LEAF owners to take advantage of the improved battery pack. But it's worth noting in this case that the battery pack upgrade wasn't one designed to increase capacity but improve reliability. The battery pack itself stored the same physical amount of energy as its predecessor, making an upgrade easy.
At the other end of the spectrum we have the Tesla Roadster 3.0 upgrade package for the original Tesla Roadster. A package which includes a new, more energy-dense battery pack, the Roadster 3.0 upgrade pack required Tesla to devote some significant<|fim_middle|> fits its predecessor.
In short, automakers focus on improving future models, not breathing life into older ones.
Automakers have to focus on the future, not the past.
At the end of the day, automakers follow a fairly simple business model: make cars and sell them. And as time passes, automakers strive to evolve their cars, making them better and more refined and safer than cars which went before. Doing so not only ensures that they keep up with the latest standards and trends in the automotive world, but also keep customers coming back for newer, improved models every few years.
While it might be more sustainable to extend the life of an existing model ten or more years after it first rolled off the production line, automakers know that doing so would make little financial sense. Humans are fickle, and we generally want the latest and greatest product. While some of us are happy to own older 'classic' vehicles — and plenty of the Transport Evolved editorial team feel that way, the relentless quest for the next best thing means that automakers know there's little money to be made in improving old models when their customers just want a brand-new car.
After all, even electric vehicles wear out given time. If not their battery packs, their body panels, interior or drivetrains ultimately need replacement. And when the car itself isn't worth the money you're spending on it, most people trade in for a more capable model instead.
If an automaker spends all its time working on making batteries for previous generation cars, it can't innovate as quickly.
While there are only so many ways a battery pack can be placed in a car, there are also only so many ways a new battery pack can be made to fit an aging chassis. While automotive design cycles allow for car makers to build a brand-new vehicle on a new or modified platform every five to eight years, requiring an automaker to continually offer new battery pack upgrades for older models would also require them to stick with the same basic design in order to ensure that replacement parts could be manufactured at a reasonable price.
Without doing so, an automaker would have to make replacement battery packs for each vehicle ever made, even if there were changes in physical layout our fitment. And as we've said above, that would severely affect the cost at which battery packs could be made. In turn, the logical solution would be to stagnate battery pack design so it never changes, restricting the vehicle designs which can be built on top and stifling progress and growth.
What about conversions? Or Enthusiast upgrades?
There are exceptions. Tesla's Roadster 3.0 upgrade is one we've already talked about: one which is so costly that only a small proportion of Tesla owners are expected to purchase it.
But there are those who convert their own cars to electric, or add their own after-market battery pack upgrades. While those vehicles prove that it's technically possible to upgrade the battery packs of older vehicles, it's all-too-easy to negate the cost (either in terms of time or money) which has gone into making such upgrades possible.
Most consumers aren't willing to invest that much time and money in an older car. And provided they're able to buy a replacement pack that matches the original one sold in the car when new, we suspect the majority of plug-in owners will be happy.
Just as successive generations of internal combustion engine vehicles improve their emissions or fuel economy, so too will electric vehicles improve their range and battery life.
We just need to understand that just as engine transplants are rare these days in modern cars, so too are battery swaps.
Someone Threw Faraday Future A Life Preserver: Will It Sink Or Swim? | time and energy into reengineering the entire Tesla Roadster in order to develop a compatible pack. In order to even work in existing Tesla Roadster, the upgrade process includes replacing power electronics components as well as the battery pack to ensure the car continues to operate as expected.
Which brings us nicely onto the subject of cost. While it may be relatively cheap for a company to develop an improved battery chemistry for an identically-sized battery pack, developing a longer-range pack that integrates with existing hardware can be a costly process, something that's reflected in the big sticker price attached to the Tesla Roadster 3.0 upgrade pack.
Even Tesla has to reengineer pack upgrades for backward compatibility.
Simply put, making a new battery pack for an existing model isn't just a matter of taking out previous-generation cells and putting a newer, more energy dense set in.
The engineering costs associated with designing a new battery pack — even for a new model year car as is the case with Nissan's longer-range battery pack for the 2016 LEAF and longer-range battery packs in the pipeline for the Ford Focus EV, Volkswagen e-Golf and BMW i3 — would simply increase overall cost to consumers if each battery pack had to be backward-compatible with every model year of car.
Which brings us to an important fact you may not know: while today's 2016 Nissan LEAF may look identical to the 2011 Nissan LEAFs which rolled off the production line in 2010 (they share the same body panels and chassis after all) there are plenty of hidden improvements and changes that the average customer won't even notice. Those changes however, applied incrementally throughout a vehicle's production life cycle, make it costly to ensure retrofit upgrades work with every variation of car ever made. Replacement parts based on original specification are easier to make, since they can be produced with original tooling as replica or OEM replacements for the original item.
This isn't a new practice. Ask an aficionado of any car produced in significant volumes over the past 60 years or so, and they'll give you a list of generally unknown changes made over the years by an automaker to a particular model of car. Those changes might be small ones — such as swapping round lights for square ones — or they may be more noticeable ones such as a brand-new gearbox or drivetrain. But as cars have become more complex, it's become increasingly complicated for automakers to ensure that one model year of car is compatible with another, or that a new component designed for a newer version of a car | 524 |
Anxiety drives amygdala differences in autistic youth
by Peter Hess / 27 July 2022
Subnuclear power: Images of amygdala subnuclei hint at similarities between children with autism or OCD as well as anxiety.
Regions of the amygdala are enlarged in autistic children and teenagers with anxiety, but not in their autistic or non-autistic peers without anxiety, a new study finds.
The structure — which consists of almond-shaped clusters of neurons in each brain hemisphere — helps to assess threats and process fear. It typically grows throughout childhood and into adulthood, but in those with autism this growth speeds up in childhood and plateaus in adolescence<|fim_middle|> size and parent- and self-reports for a different cohort of autistic and non-autistic children, all with an anxiety diagnosis.
"Anxiety is real, and it is associated with changes in the brain," Duerden says. "For many individuals who are on the spectrum, and other children who are impacted by anxiety, they're often told these are just feelings."
The new work could help pave the way for targeted treatments, Duerden says. Anxiety therapies are less effective for autistic people than for their neurotypical peers, even though estimates suggest that roughly 40 percent of young people with autism have anxiety disorders, compared with about 27 percent of neurotypical children.
Cite this article: https://doi.org/10.53053/PAYE6372
TAGS: ADHD, amygdala, anxiety, autism, brain imaging, MRI, spoken version | , previous imaging studies indicate.
The new findings suggest the amygdala differences seen in some autistic people may have more to do with anxiety than with autism, and they point to specific sections of the amygdala, known as subnuclei, says lead investigator Emma Duerden, assistant professor of applied psychology at Western University in London, Canada.
Earlier studies implicated one subnucleus, known as the central amygdala, in anxiety in animal models. Its size also tracks with anxiety scores in youth with autism and those with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but not in those with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Duerden and her colleagues found. Future work should explicitly focus on autistic children with and without anxiety to clarify the association with the central amygdala, she says.
Replication attempts can also hopefully add clarity, says Deyou Zheng, professor of genetics, neurology and neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, who was not involved in the study, because the volume changes measured in this study are small.
"And, obviously," he says, "we can't tell if the enlargement of specific amygdala subregions contributes to autism and anxiety or [is] the adaption consequence of increased anxiety."
Duerden and her team recruited 5- to 18-year-olds through clinics across Ontario, Canada. Among the 233 participants, 101 have autism, 37 are neurotypical, 59 have ADHD and 36 have OCD. Clinicians confirmed each participant's diagnosis or lack thereof, and parents reported on their children's anxiety levels using a clinical questionnaire. On average, participants with autism or OCD had a significantly higher anxiety score than those with ADHD and more than five times the score of the neurotypical group.
Participants with autism or OCD who had higher anxiety scores also had a larger central amygdala in the brain's right hemisphere than did neurotypical participants and those with ADHD, the team found using MRI. The central amygdala is the structure's main output, setting off an alarm that activates the brain's stress response. The volume of another subnucleus, the anterior amygdaloid area, also increased with anxiety scores in participants with autism and OCD, but not neurotypical participants or those with ADHD. Anxiety showed no relationship with the volumes of the left amygdala subnuclei.
The exact role of the different subnuclei in anxiety is unclear, but the central amygdala's role makes it a promising candidate for further study, Duerden says. The work was published in Human Brain Mapping earlier this month.
Whereas previous work has shown that amygdala size is related to anxiety in autistic children, the new findings suggest the amygdala plays an important role in anxiety independent of autism, including in those with OCD. Participants with ADHD had somewhat elevated anxiety compared with neurotypical participants, but the sizes of their subnuclei were more typical and bore no significant relationship to anxiety, indicating that the association may not hold across various neurodevelopmental conditions.
Because the researchers scanned people with different conditions and neurotypical people all on the same scanner, they avoided the problems that arise in many large neuroimaging studies that use different scanners, software and procedures across sites, says Christine Wu Nordahl, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Davis MIND Institute, who was not involved in the study. "It's a monumental effort, what they've done to collect this data."
And the study's focus on amygdala subnuclei is much-needed, says David Amaral, distinguished professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the MIND Institute, who was not involved in the work, but "we're just somewhat cautious about whether the curent tools can adequately define these regions that are very difficult to define."
In a study published in June, Nordahl and Amaral linked anxiety traits to amygdala size in autistic people and suggested that autism-specific anxiety — such as that around disruptions to special interests or routines — looks different from generalized anxiety in the brain. Generalized anxiety, they found, is associated with a larger-than-average right amygdala, consistent with Duerden's team's findings, but autism-specific anxiety is linked to a smaller-than-usual one.
In the new study, the two autism subgroups may cancel each other out, leading to somewhat smaller overall effects, Nordahl says.
Because the new work relies on parent reports, it cannot distinguish between generalized anxiety and autism-specific anxiety, Duerden says. In a paper currently under review, Duerden and her team compared amygdala subnuclei | 962 |
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Colin's creations are spectacular and they are getting even better with time. It's awe-inspiring. He should be collecting them into albums!
What gifts, indeed! I'm glad I was able to see Colin and the other Syncopators at the Triad a couple of weeks ago. They make me believe the future of jazz is in good hands.
Quite amazing that he is able to play all the instruments as separate voices, have them congeal into a performance, plus make it all idiomatic and musical.
And in styles that are nearing a century old. Rather unprecedented | 253 |
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launch From Cape Canaveral Scheduled For May 31 Carrying SES 12 Satellite
By Space Coast Daily // May 17, 2018
Launch window opens at 12:29 a.m. ET
ABOVE VIDEO: SpaceX successfully launched the Bangabandhu Satellite-1 on Friday, May 11 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's<|fim_middle|> will provide direct-to-home broadcast and other high-throughput communications services in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region, including rapidly growing markets such as India and Indonesia.
Launch coverage can be seen on Space Coast Daily TV and SpaceCoastDaily.com
SpaceX Launch Highlight: Falcon 9 'Block 5' Rocket Lifts Off From Kennedy Space Center | Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – SpaceX has announced the next rocket launch from Cape Canaveral is targeted for Thursday, May 31.
Launch window will open at 12:29 a.m. ET and close at 1:27 a.m. ET.
The Falcon 9 rocket will be carrying the SES 12 communications satellite for SES of Luxembourg.
According to SpaceFlightNow, the SES 12 satellite | 97 |
Russell Westbrook is a lot of things. "The Kate Moss of basketball," according to a rarified few; the leader of the "geek chic" movement in the NBA, according to a few more; and, arguably more important, a three-time All-Star point guard and an Olympian. It's his rare combination of being both bold on and off the court — his mix of athleticism and unflinching style choices — that has intrigued both audiences of fashion and the game of basketball. But<|fim_middle|> and collaborating with a stylist on set?
RW: We usually talk before the shoot so I have a general idea of what they want and the types of looks and shots we are going for. Then I talk [to them] about the types of clothes and designers I want and like — and I always suggest they bring a lot, because I tend to be picky. Then, on the day of, on set, we work it out look by look. They're responsive to what I like, so it always works out.
ESQ: In the ESPN piece, the author refers to you as, "The NBA's biggest sartorial enigma," — which is interesting, considering that it was just last season that the industry and the press had you pegged as the leader of the "geek chic" phenomenon. Has it been a conscious decision to keep them guessing or do you not play in to all of that? The labeling and the characterizing?
RW: Ha! I like that, actually. It sounds fancy. You know, I don't think about it that much. I don't plan things, I just go with and wear what I'm feeling. And that can be different every day.
ESQ: So does that mean you're not a light packer when you're on the road?
RW: [Laughs.] Right? No, I am definitely not a light packer. My thought is you never know what the weather will be like or what you will feel like wearing that day, so I always have multiple bags with me — even for a two-day trip.
ESQ: You're a self proclaimed shopaholic who admits to not wearing a look more than once — so what happens to all those purchases? Who's inheriting your Kenzo and Lanvin castoffs?
RW: I have plenty of people benefiting from those purchases. My brother, good friends. If someone passes on it, I ask someone else. But I am pretty generous about giving things away.
ESQ: Anyone in the NBA — or otherwise — you fantasize about taking shopping or giving a makeover to? For me, it's every sports journalist ever in the creation of media. From the beat writers to the on-camera analysts — I make them all over in my head. Just a little game I play during NBA Countdown.
RW: (Laughs) Ha! No, not really. I mean, I've had that same reaction to some of the people I see and encounter as well. But I just think every one has their own style they gravitate towards — and to each their own. I try to be open-minded about that. But I definitely see it.
ESQ: Your motto and favored hashtag on Twitter is #WhyNot. In regards to printed shirts, which you're known for wearing, is there any print you can think of that's off limits? Or are they all #WhyNot?
RW: Nah, I'm pretty open there. I have to see the shirt — not just hear the description — to really decide if I will wear it or not. But nothing is off limits if I'm feeling it.
ESQ: It's nearly playoff time and obviously your concentration is on the game — but when will you start putting together this season's post-game shirting collection for the Thunder's expected back-to-back trip to the Western Conference Finals?
RW: Well we have to get there first. But like I said, I don't really plan that far out. I put together those looks the night before, sometimes day of. It's not thought out as much as it seems, that's for sure.
ESQ: Cool. Well we'll be expecting greatness. Last question: Your prediction for the Final Four?
RW: I have Louisville taking the whole thing.
ESQ: Good pick. After my Gators went down this weekend, I am 100% on-board with a Cardinals victory.
RW: Yeah, your Gators went down real fast.
ESQ: Stop. It still hurts. | now the Oklahoma City Thunder point guard is something else: a magazine cover star, and the first-ever personality to grace ESPN The Magazine's "Photo Issue," which hits newsstands on Friday. Lady Esquire caught up with Westbrook after practice on Monday to chat about the shoot, the Final Four, and how much planning goes into all those looks (hint: less than you think).
Esquire.com: I was surprised to hear that this was only ESPN The Magazine's second "Photo Issue," especially considering I feel like the brand — and sports journalism in general — is so accomplished with visuals, with photography. But a big congrats to you on being their first official cover subject for this special issue. How was the experience?
Russell Westbrook: Just amazing, so great! It started out a little questionable because of the weather [in Oklahoma City] but it ended up being a great experience and day. I am really happy with it.
ESQ: Ben Watts is a photographer known for capturing great energy. How was it on set?
RW: So good. It was obvious from the first shot how energized Ben was, and we all responded to that. And he's so fast. He gets the shot, is confident, and moves on.
ESQ: And the story is very colorful and cheerful — like typical Watts. Do you have a favorite look?
RW: Yeah, probably the cover shot with the pink pants, baby blue blazer, and cardigan. I liked all of the elements, like the sunglasses and the bag. Beyond my glasses [the notorious lensless ones], I am not so much an accessories guy — but I am really starting to get into it more. And the colors were good because of some of the fun spaces we were shooting in, like this warehouse [ed's note: he's referencing WOMB Gallery, an art studio and events space in Oklahoma City]. All the colors in the clothes and the surroundings worked well together.
ESQ: It's known that you don't employ a stylist personally. Considering that, how do you find the process of working with | 422 |
The Joint Sitting of the Parliament continued the deliberation on the Public Accounts Committee Report today on the Review Report of the AAR 2010-2016 and the recommendations made by the Public Account Committee on the Review Report of the AAR 2017.
The RAA had made four recommendations on AAR 2017 for the Need of High Standards of Business Ethics, Need for strong Accountability culture, Need to strengthen internal controls on expenditure need to exercise due diligence in procurement. The PAC, while endorsing the recommendations made by the RAA, also additionally made three recommendations. 1. PAC urged the Ministry of Finance to implement RAA's recommendations and report to the PAC by September 2019, 2. The PAC also recommended the MoEA to follow up and in collaboration with RAA on the unresolved irregularities of Hydropower project for the period of AAR 2017 and report to PAC by September 2019 and 3. Respective agencies, excluding the Hydropower projects, were recommended to follow up on the unresolved irregularities of Annual Audit Report 2017<|fim_middle|> the PAC with a total of 66 Yes votes and 1 Abstaining, out of total of 67 Members present and voting. | and report the status to PAC by September 2019.
The Joint Sitting of the Parliament voted and endorsed the three recommendations of | 27 |
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The company started out as a welding and fabrication shop over 25 years ago in the garage of Charles Forkey Jr. and has grown under the co-direction of his son, Charles Forkey III. As demands change, the company continues to reinvest profits into the business, adding new machinery and processes to meet customer demands. The company is very committed to continuous improvement, while promoting a safe and drug free workplace.
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In Winnipeg<|fim_middle|> generally defined by the fact that they operate like a business by producing goods and services for the market, but manage their operations and redirects their surpluses in pursuit of social and/or environmental goals. In other words, profits are returned to the business or towards a social purpose, rather than maximizing profits to shareholders.
For MGR, being a social enterprise means that we have made a commitment to improving the communities we work in by providing meaningful employment and training to people who otherwise might not be considered employable in traditional labor markets. MGR is dedicated to achieving a triple bottom line by creating a positive social, environmental, and economic impact in the community.
MGR is a founding partner in Winnipeg's Social Enterprise Centre located at 765 Main Street, along with Pollock's Hardware Co-op, and BUILD. | , there is a large group of people who face barriers to the formal labour market. MGR helps to identify and eliminate those barriers. We connect with people in the community who want to work, develop skills, and build a foundation for improving their lives. Our team values the opportunity to work, and takes great pride in providing our clients with professional service.
In addition to construction skills training, MGR provides our employees with access to a comprehensive and integrated set of supports and resources within a much needed positive, supportive, and understanding working environment.
While MGR is committed to our social objectives, there would be no work if it were not for our valued customers. Therefore, we take great pride in providing our clients with affordable, efficient services, completed by MGR's team of trained professionals.
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This week you may have seen Mae and her family in Doncaster Free Press,<|fim_middle|> involved and we can't believe we have cracked it.
Activity is still ongoing and many volunteers have offered their support with future events and sponsored activities. For this reason we have agreed to raise our target to £100k, and all funds that continue to be raised will go to Mae's community fund for after-care, which will be required following her surgery in 2014. This will include all care costs such as physiotherapy, specialist equipment and any costs associated directly with rehabilitation for Mae.
You can see the Hope4Mae Fund grand total, made up of Mae's Just Giving donations plus her community fund on our website, and follow Mae's progress through surgery and beyond.
Sincere thanks to everyone for sharing Mae's story and supporting her journey!
Mae's family is currently working on a video to share Mae's journey so far, including the astonishing achievements of volunteers who have run events, been sponsored for crazy antics and gone out of their way to help Mae achieve her dreams of walking. We will share with you as soon as it is available to view!
'We really can't wait to start work on our fundraising video of events that have taken place so far!!
Fundraising has certainly strengthened us for the coming months and years ahead. Its incredible to think of everyone and everything over the last 6 months that have got us to this point today. It has been a tiring addition to our journey but we would without doubt do it all over again and will continue to work in events to give Mae the best possible aftercare. We have made some great friendships, We feel very loved and we are so thankful and proud of everyone that has contributed to Hope4Mae aMAEzing people. | with the fabulous news that we have reached the £70k target! Huge thanks to all | 19 |
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This book offers profound insight into the connection between the realms of angels and fairies, and the difference in the roles that<|fim_middle|> The Printed Works of Sri Chinmoy ed.)
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adidas Resistance Tube - L2 | these beings play in relation to us. In a style that is both joyful and uplifting, the author describes the habits and behaviours of these beings, and his personal and profound descriptions shed light on the role of both angels and fairies as messengers connecting the Divine with the human. Sri Chinmoy, a renowned contemporary spiritual teacher, speaks with confidence of a fully illumined Master, who has attained oneness with the higher realms of angels, fairies and other celestial beings.
Meditation - God speaks and I listen (Paperback)
Many people are discovering in meditation a way to find peace of mind and a more centred focus on their true inner nature. This book is the first of the series of volumes where spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy answers a very wide range of questions about meditation, including the meaning of different meditation experiences, how to make meditation practical and the intrinsic value of meditation. Topics include: What is the best way to meditate; How to begin meditation; How to empty the mind; How to develop better concentration; The significance of mantras; How to keep inner peace in the outside world; Understanding of higher experiences in meditation.
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Seeking Perfect Health - Spiritual Secrets to Staying Healthy (Paperback)
In todays world there is a deepening understanding that true health involves the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of our being. In this comprehensive book, meditation teacher Sri Chinmoy addresses the inner, holistic secrets of perfect health by considering the connection between mind and body, health and karma, the role and responsibility of doctors and healers, how to receive life energy from healthy diet and sleep, dealing with stress and depression, exercises for losing weight and overcoming insomnia, why is a healthy body important for spiritual practice and many other relevant topics. Unlike other similar titles, this book wasnt written by a doctor or a fitness expert but by an internationally renowned spiritual teacher. The book gathers together the authors insights and offers a fresh perspective on the connection between spiritual development and physical and mental health. The author shares detailed instructions and practical exercises and shows how meditation and the spiritual arts can help us tap into our inner source of life energy in order to harmonize all levels of our being.
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"Are you interested in the following topics? Are astrological predictions reliable? How often is black magic used in our modern Western world? What are the dangers of misusing occult power? What is the truth behind haunted houses? Do UFOs exist and do beings from other worlds visit our planet? This is a comprehensive book containing a wide range of topics from astrology and occultism to spiritism and the interactions of beings from the other worlds with our human world. As a true spiritual Master with free access to the various inner worlds, Sri Chinmoy is able to offer one of the few authoritative and definitive explanations of these phenomena. In the course of his numerous public meditations and university lectures around the world, Sri Chinmoy was asked thousands of questions on occultism, astrology, flying saucers, extraterrestrial beings and similar subjects. This book presents some of the most interesting of these questions and Sri Chinmoys answers."
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Few stars of the 16-bit era are as frequently maligned as Sonic the Hedgehog. Sega's speedy 2D platformer mascot struggled to adjust to the advent of 3D gaming, and a series of mediocre games interspersed with empty promises to take the series back to its roots has eroded the franchise's reputation over the past couple of decades.
However, this week's launch of Sonic Mania looks to reverse that trend. Mania is a new 2D Sonic game that includes remixed versions of classic levels from the original Genesis/Mega Drive-era Sonic games along with a host of new boss battles and some original stages to boot. That may not sound terribly ambitious, but the result is drawing raves from across the gaming press.
In IGN's 8.7 out of 10 review, Heidi Kamps calls it "a stellar example of a retro revival done right." Kotaku's Heather Alexander characterized it as "<|fim_middle|> Gies remembers the original trilogy of Sonic games as significantly flawed, with sluggish movement as the characters work their way up to speed and an abundance of attacks from off-screen enemies and nigh-unavoidable obstacles.
"The sound of every ring you've collected exploding out of you when colliding with a hazard is a singularly enraging audio cue," Gies said, "and it's all the more infuriating because frequently, it just doesn't feel fair."
That said, Gies largely agreed with other reviewers who gave more positive assessments; the biggest difference seemed to be how they feel about the idea of playing more Sonic games cut from the same cloth as the originals.
"The mileage you get out of it will depend significantly on what you want it to be," Gies said. "As a synthesis and expression of a specific era of Sonic, Sonic Mania is devout toward its inspiration, for devout fans of Sega's beleaguered mascot. If more of what Sonic is what you want, then this is very much that, but more, and bigger, and faster. But for me, as someone with fond memories but key criticisms, Sonic Mania seems content to paint over some of the series' problems rather than fix them, making for a game that falls a little short of what might have been."
Arthur Gies sounds like the typical millenial who grew up playing too easy videogames. | a celebration, a digitized block party of blistering speeds and bright worlds" that clearly articulates the mascot's true appeal.
GameSpot's Matt Espineli described Sonic Mania's presentation as "intoxicating" in his 9 out of 10 review, saying the revamped visuals and music "work together in Sonic Mania to build up an aesthetic that's evocative of earlier games, but in a pleasing style that feels contemporary all on its own."
He also praised the game's level design, with numerous routes through levels at high speeds, with no particular path ever feeling wrong. The game also benefits from the widescreen aspect ratio and solid framerate allowed by modern technology, he said, giving players a better sense of what's coming and greater ability to avoid it than they had in the original Sonic games.
"The best Sonic game ever made"
"Sonic Mania methodically uses its sentimental appeal to great effect, but in the process, it heals the wounds inflicted by its most disappointing predecessors and surpasses the series' best with its smart and interpretive design," Espineli said. "An excellent 2D platformer, Sonic Mania goes beyond expectations, managing to be not only a proper evolution of the series' iconic formula, but the best Sonic game ever made."
USgamer gave Sonic Mania four out of five stars, with Caty McCarthy noting in her review how intelligently the game uses its history without relying on it.
"You remember Green Hill Zone. You remember Chemical Plant Zone. All these levels are familiar, not note by note necessarily, but the feeling of them. Even the levels that are entirely new to the franchise," McCarthy said. "Luckily, despite all the fuzzy-warm-feelings Sonic Mania is almost jamming down your throat, the game manages to be more than a basic nostalgia ploy even in the face of all the reiterated zones. Instead, Sonic Mania is a boisterous, confident celebration of all things Sonic: its one-off characters, random low-poly bonus and special stages, energetic music, silly bosses, and odd spin-off games. You'll find a little bit of everything in Sonic Mania."
Eurogamer's Edwin Evans-Thirlwell gave Sonic Mania the site's highest award, an "Essential" rating, saying, "It's representative of a project that doesn't merely restore the past with the care of a museum curator touching up a faded classic, but also twists and expands it, to create an experience that is equal parts nostalgia pang and giddy excitement."
Like his peers, Evans-Thirlwell delighted in the game's exhilarating speed, but noted it has a downside as well.
"For every second you'll spend plunging through the infrastructure you'll spend another jumping frantically to scoop up dropped rings, following a head-on collision with a malevolent drone," he said. "It's certainly an acquired taste, next to the stately unfolding of the average Mario game."
"If more of what Sonic is what you want, then this is very much that, but more, and bigger, and faster"
Of course, an "acquired taste" is one that not everyone shares. Polygon's Arthur Gies gave Sonic Mania a 7 out of 10--one of the lower scores from a major review site--saying it, "feels slavishly, almost fetishistically devoted to the old-school branch of Sonic gameplay and design."
He added, "When it's working, this speed is exhilarating, and remarkably, no other game has ever managed to capture the same lightning in a bottle that Sonic did. Sonic Mania, more than any Sega-led project of the last 20 years, feels exactly the way I remember the original trilogy."
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Resilient Neighborhoods: Lisa Johanon on finding success in business development
David Sands | Tuesday, April 19, 2022
City Kids Soup is a local business launched by the nonprofit Central Detroit Christian. Central Detroit Christian
An inside view of Peaches & Greens new mobile market. CDC
Peaches & Greens flier CDC
This is part of a series of Q&A interviews with Detroit nonprofit directors connected to our Resilient Neighborhoods series. Lisa Johanon is the founder and interim director of Central Detroit Christian, which provides a wide-range of services to an area in central Detroit that includes parts of the city's North End, Piety Hill, Virginia Park, and Boston Edison neighborhoods.
Model D: To start with, could you tell us a little about Central Detroit Christian?.
Lisa Johanon: We're going to be 28 years old this year. Were committed to the Central Detroit neighborhood which encompasses 48202 and 48206. And we have a very holistic approach to how we approach community development. We have an
Lisa Johanon employment training focus. We have housing counseling services and an incredible array<|fim_middle|> by David Sands.
David Sands is a Detroit-based freelance writer. He's covered the news for Huffington Post Detroit as an assistant editor and worked as a staff writer for the transportation news site Mode Shift. Follow him on Twitter @dsandsdetroit.
Development, Resilient Neighborhoods, Small Business | of [other people-oriented programming]. And then our brick-and-mortar work includes real estate business and business development.
Model D: Let's talk a little about your business incubation efforts. What can you tell us about that?
LJ: From a macro perspective, Central Detroit Christian has developed 17 different businesses, seven of which are still under our umbrella. Last year was the first year that every business broke even or had a profit. So that's pretty incredible. I've always said, "You've got to be in it for the long game in social entrepreneurship," especially when you're trying to set up development in a low-income community. So it's been ten years before Peaches & Greens saw profitability and most people give up and say, "Oh, it's not going to work." If we had that attitude everyone one of our businesses would be closed. But we were fortuitous in terms of being able to be profitable last year. I'm so grateful for that.
Our approach has been that we provide amenities, so that whatever business we're starting is something valuable that the community needs and has asked for. Starting last year, we [decided] we had developed enough businesses under CDC's umbrella. I've got ideas percolating all the time, but we have focused more on trying to help people in the community with their businesses. So there's two businesses that I'm focused on now in a very intense way. One is helping a couple in our community open a coffee shop [called The Mug] and then another is a catering business with Mexican Food [called JT's Kitchen]. So those two they get a lot of my attention, but then there's other businesses. Surprisingly, when I did my report for New Economy Initiative (NEI) last month, I realized that we provide tenancy space for 15 different businesses.Anything ranging from a couple of different artists, to the two that I mentioned that are coming online, to our own businesses, to a medical clinic, to a black male educator group. So it is very much part of our DNA and our culture, doing this and being committed to entrepreneurs.
Model D: How did CDC get started doing business development?
LJ: It was probably 20 years ago, at least. I had a fellowship in social entrepreneurship, the whole concept was just coming around. A lot of the buzz was: "Here's a different way to fund your organization." And that turned out to be a joke. But there were progressive things happening on the West Coast and on the East Coast. I was able to visit both. In San Francisco there was a foundation, the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund. They were funding 10 nonprofits to develop businesses. And I studied at Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop on the East Coast. And there was a New Community Corporation in New Jersey, one of the largest in the nation.They own a grocery store. That's entrepreneurism.
I wanted to study franchises. We had done Savior Camp with teens where we collected the redeemable ten cent bottles. Very innovative, but it never could generate a profit. I came back from this and decided to start an ice cream store. It was Tastee Freez. We decided to go with an ice cream shop, instead of a full-service menu, because it was going to be less challenging for [teens there] to memorize an ice cream menu. We did pretty darn good. We were only a block from Northern High School. Then three years into it, Northern High School closes. Well there's 80 percent of our population.
So at that point we said, "We can do better than this." And there was a corn beef shop in the neighborhood that was in bankruptcy, Mr. Fofos. We were able to buy his building for a very modest price, and we took over his business. We were doing great business. We were able to employ more people than we thought. We started to learn that the typical person coming in for a corned beef sandwich was a Black man over the age of 50 that said, "If my doctor knew I was here, he would kill me." And I'm going, "OK, That's not good." Especially, because at that same time we opened Peaches & Greens produce market. So we closed down the corn beef restaurant, even though it was in the six digits in terms of finances, and changed it over to a healthy soul food restaurant where there was no salt added to any of the foods.
Model D: What can you tell me about your process for handling business development?
LJ: Our process [involves] working with people and having community meetings and engaging our community and seeing what does our community need again.
Peaches & Greens flier Doing a laundromat was one of the number one things.There were two buildings that had 175 units right next to the laundromat, and they didn't have any laundry facilities. so it became a boon for them. They were so grateful. HUD closed those two buildings down. They were officially closed two weeks ago. Now we've got to change our model. We knew that it was coming, so believe it or not, we picked up a couple contracts from Airbnbs. So we're still there for the community, but we can pay our bills from another source.
Right now, we're changing our paradigm for Peaches & Greens, because Malik Yakini is going to break ground this month on a food co-op at Euclid and Woodward. It's going to be a fun place to shop, but potentially has the possibility of putting Peaches & Greens out of business. So during COVID, what we learned is people like delivery of groceries, so we became one of those groups. We delivered groceries to people, and if you were a senior citizen or you lived in a four mile radius, your grocery delivery was free as long as it was over 15 dollars in purchase. It flew off. it flew off the rails. And we also realized during COVID, the health disparities that were exposed and brought to light. You have to reinvent yourself sometimes.
But the goal, when we first started out was: how can we create jobs for people in our community? Because, the biggest deterrent to people holding and keeping a job was lack of transportation. So one of the best ways to do it is to create businesses in your community, while making sure the businesses serve the community.
Model D: Any other businesses under your umbrella you wanted to let people know about?
LJ: City Kids Soup is our youth business and they package healthy soups that only have ten milligrams of sodium in them. They sell off the shelves and we're able to be at Eastern Market, but we need other venues and outlets for the sale of that soup year round. [Then there's] Pathways to Promise Preschool. We made a profit last year, and we're at full capacity now. Our property management has really grown. We're managing 250 units of housing right now. We have our own construction company. And in this time of construction costs being so elevated, it's really helped keep our costs down. Plus, we can employ people from our neighborhood.
Model D: Any lessons you want to share with others who might be interested in doing this kind of work?
LJ: You have to really stick with it. You can not give up. What I tell any entrepreneurs who visit me is: "There's a lot of haters out there who say, 'You can't do it' or 'It's just too this and that.'" And it is costly and it does take a huge time investment. But, if that's your vision, work it and make it happen and prove all those people wrong.
Resilient Neighborhoods is a reporting and engagement series that examines how Detroit residents and community development organizations are working together to strengthen local neighborhoods. It's made possible with funding from the Kresge Foundation.
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PFC for a "green" home?
Planning a new house, I'm trying to get as energy-efficient as possible; hot water service is going to be solar, lighting is all going to be compact fluorescent. Going through the list of "always on" equipment, I have come up with two fridges and a freezer; being relatively small, single phase units, I guess that the manufacturer would never have considered trying to get a decent power<|fim_middle|> significant. Depending on where your supply is coming from, and what it is costing you, you may or may not want to consider power factor correction.
If you are taking your supply from the national grid, i.e. not generating your own, then you will get no reduction in your bill for having power factor correction. Domestic charges are based on KW Hours or units used. Industrial users are often charged for KWHrs used and in addition, have a KVA maximum demand surcharge added on to cover the poor power factor.
If you are generating your own power, then you may see some advantage from power factor correction if you have significant line losses. Be careful however, power factor correction can introduce other problems such as supply resonance which can create havoc with electronic appliances if your supply is weak.
If you have more data, we may be able to be more specific.
Refer to the topic of "green home", if the pf correction doesn't do anything for the energy saving in domestic, it just draw less current when it connected to appliance. I don't understand that shouldn't be the electric meter run slower if less current being used? if the meter run slower, it means we pay less with the electric bill. Am I right?
No, that is not correct.
The electrictricity bill is based on KW used, not amps used. It is possible to have a poor power factor and high amps, and yet pay low KW. Industrial and large users usually pay for a poor power factor so that they are effectively penalised for a poor power factor, but not domestic users.
a domestic consumer would pay the same for 20 amps at a pf of 0.5 as for 10 amps at a pf of 1.0. | factor on the compressor motors - would these be a candidate for static PFC? Would there be a rule of thumb for sizing the capacitors for appliances like this?
Power factor correction will not necessarliy improve the energy efficiency. It certainly will not improve the energy efficiency of the motor or appliance. What it will do, is reduce the current drawn from the supply and thereby reduce the losses in the supply if they are | 85 |
Master of Engineering student makes waves with a Canadian brewer
Transformative Talent Internships help graduate students bring their skills to the workforce.
Dan Ferguson, Faculty of Graduate Studies
Have you heard the one about the grad student who walked into a brewery?
While you're trying to work out the punchline, the team at Labatt Breweries' Edmonton facility are already smiling. That's because they've got a winner on tap with Bhumit Rajpuria, a graduate student brewing up new solutions as part of the Labatt operations team.
Photo above: Bhumit Rajpuria (centre, wearing blue a blue hooded sweatshirt) joins other recent Transformative Talent interns and Faculty of Graduate Studies staff for a TTI reception on Sept. 7,2022.
A Master of Engineering student specializing in chemical engineering at the Schulich School of Engineering, Rajpuria joined the team as a graduate intern and participant in the Faculty of Graduate Studies' Transformative Talent Internship (TTI) program. Over the course of his summer internship, he developed a process to track and improve the efficiency of the Labatt in-house training program, ultimately improving operational efficiency and the brewery's performance index.
The team at Labatt were so impressed with Rajpuria's contributions that they've kept him on staff part-time this fall while he completes his degree. Rajpuria might also have the opportunity to return full-time at the end of his graduate program.
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It's the first time Labatt has hired a graduate student intern for their Edmonton location. You could say they've unbottled a refreshing new stream of talent.
Graduate student interns have a wealth of transferable skills alongside growing academic expertise in their fields. As many employers are discovering, graduate student interns are ready to ignite change with fresh thinking, adaptability, and technical skills.
Since 2016, the TTI program has helped graduate students get more out of their internships by making them into experiential learning opportunities. Changes to the program are coming this fall as the Faculty of Graduate Studies introduces two new D2L (Desire2Learn) modules to expand TTI learning components for graduate interns.
The first module will be completed by graduate students during their internships and comprises a series of reflective and metacognition exercises to help them identify personal goals and assess their progress toward those goals. Rajpuria was part of a pilot project for the module over the summer and was impressed with the experience.
"I've never really gone through a process of stating and reflecting on my goals in this way," says Rajpuria. "It changed the way I think about how I do my job, and also how I think about my own career goals."
The new module will be available for all TTI student who<|fim_middle|> project finds answers
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The second module will be introduced in October 2022, and is an eight-week, asynchronous pre-internship course developed in collaboration with Career Services. The course introduces graduate students to the TTI program and helps them identify and prepare for internship opportunities.
"The Transformative Talent Internship is one of the ways that UCalgary is making stronger connections with the community," says Dr. Robin Yates, vice-provost and dean, graduate studies.
"Employers are discovering that graduate students have the talent, ingenuity and passion to help their businesses move forward. Bhumit is a perfect example of how industry can tap into the phenomenal talent coming out of UCalgary graduate programs."
Internships play a key role for international graduate students
Experiencing a new country as a student without a support network can be challenging; trying to understand the norms of job searching and Canadian workplaces can add to that burden for international students also seeking employment. For Rajpuria and many other international graduate students, the prospect of immigrating to Canada is linked to success in finding post-graduate opportunities.
"It can be difficult for an international master's student to get an internship," says Rajpuria. "It was a long journey for me. My advice is never back down! It's going to be tough, but nothing is impossible if you stay focused."
The payoff has been worth the effort. With a part-time job and a full-time, permanent opportunity in the future, Rajpuria also finds that the internship has given him more confidence and stronger communication skills that will help with both his job and courses.
"My colleagues have confidence that I can do good work, and I've seen growth in my analytical and problem-solving skills as well," says Rajpuria.
The TTI program is planning on-campus roadshows throughout September to share information with programs and students. To learn more about TTI or to book a roadshow session, please contact Natalie Wilkinson-Houghton in the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
How can we empower students to see themselves as changemakers? Experiential learning | 430 |
A dedication ceremony will be held for the new segment of the Pantano River Park on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. This new 2.4-mile linear park with a multi-use path follows the east bank of the Pantano Wash from Michael Perry Memorial Park to Kenyon Drive. The event will take place at Michael Perry Park, one-quarter mile south of Golf Links Road and Pantano Parkway.
The design<|fim_middle|> path as well as a separate 8′ wide decomposed granite path and native landscaping. A trailhead parking lot and a restroom facility is located on the path south of 22nd street. Also included in this project is the incorporation of a Children's Memorial Garden in Michael Perry Park as well as several commemorative groves of trees, which will be planted by Tucson Clean and Beautiful beginning in the spring.
Funding sources are the 2004 Pima County Bonds, the Regional Transportation Authority and the City of Tucson.
Ray Carroll, Pima County Board of Supervisors District 4, Shirley C. Scott, City of Tucson Ward 4 Council Member, and Fred H. Gray, Jr., Parks and Recreation Director will participate in the dedication ceremony. | for this project follows the City/County adopted river park cross section, which includes a 12′ wide paved multi-use | 25 |
This was a much-anticipated foal for many of us who have followed these horses!! Jasmine had been off of PZP for a few years and I think we all expected and wanted her to foal sooner. As one year turned into two of not conceiving, it<|fim_middle|> you Nancy and Steve Cerroni for the use of your photos! I am looking forward to seeing this little one!
Jasmine and her colt Ryden. Photo by Steve Cerroni. | crossed my mind that she could perhaps have become sterile. Abbie and I were relieved to see her looking round in July. But as the months seemed to go on without her foaling, I wondered if perhaps we were wrong. Was she just fat?!
We finally have the answer to that question. She has finally had her foal! After a few weeks of sad news, this makes this news even better.
Nancy ( PMWMC) was very kind in contacting me to let me know the name they choose. She knew that Abbie and I had choosen that name for the little foal ( # 3) that got separated shortly have her birth. FOAL # 3 I agree that this name is a good choice for Jasmine's foal. Hopefully this foal will live a long and healthy life on the range and we can all be reminded of what Hope Ryden did for this special herd of horses.
Jasmine is the 2009 daughter of Aztec and Cloud. But who is the sire? Only Jasmine knows for sure. My list would include these possible stallions: Doc (who she has been with for a while, but does wander, whenever she can get away with it!). Cappuccino, (who she has wandered to many times), Mescalero (who she was caught flirting with) or even Horizon (who stole Galena away from Doc last fall).
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P<|fim_middle|>. Take a look, then drop us a line. | resto Web Design | What is a Mobile Responsive Website?
More powerful smart phones and faster data have changed our user habits when browsing. Where once we'd use a standalone PC for browsing the net, now we use it everywhere.
This change in habit means we can no longer think about 'mobile' users as simply 'users that are mobile'. They are just as likely using a smart phone or tablet while sitting on their sofa, reading in bed or standing in their kitchen. The user 'context' has changed.
Other aspects of their browsing have changed too. The Internet connection being used for a mobile phone could easily be broadband or 4G and the experience users expect is both richer and faster as a result.
At first, web designers met this new expectation by building specific 'mobile' websites. These were standalone services, in addition to a regular 'desktop' website, which were presented to mobile devices. Page sizes were tuned to specific devices (iPhones, iPads, etc) and the content offered was reduced to just what the site designer or owner thought was absolutely necessary.
While this approach offered a short term fix, the constant updating of phone models / screen sizes meant mobile sites were soon as obsolete as the devices they were intended for.
Websites that re-spaced their layout to suit screen size have been around for a long time. Amazon and eBay are good examples that stretch their layout to 100% of the available screen width. However, new coding tools called 'Media Queries' (which allow the layout of page elements to change with screen size and according to a fluid grid) have led to more powerful and user-friendly websites becoming possible.
'Responsive Web Design' was a term first coined by Ethan Marcotte in his May 2010 article for 'A List Apart'. His work showed that, using media queries, any aspect of page layout could be changed so that it is more readable, useable or faster to load depending on the screen size of the device in use.
There are countless advantages to responsive design. Text can be larger on smaller screens to aid readability. Content that is too small to be viewed on a smartphone can be removed or replaced and navigation can be reduced so that page choices are only presented when needed. One common characteristic of a responsive design is the appearance of the three-line 'hamburger' button that triggers the display of the main menu. You'll often find this top right of the screen when viewed on a mobile device.
As a site owner there are key benefits to responsive design too. Pages load faster, company branding can be better presented and users can be directed more quickly and smoothly through common tasks. For retailers a responsive site makes purchasing on a mobile a far easier task for customers, while manufacturers can direct users to their retailers more easily too. Magazines can present articles so they are easy to read on trains, buses and in other locations where mobile use is common and connection speed is variable.
Do I have a responsive website?
There are easy ways to tell if your own website is 'responsive'. Firstly, look at your site on a laptop or desktop PC. Once your home page is loaded grab the right hand side of the browser window and move it left so that the viewing window shrinks. At some point, usually where the page is narrower than it is high, one of two things will happen.
- Elements on the screen will start to move around and 'stack' vertically. The main menu will disappear and will most likely be replaced with a three-line 'hamburger' icon at very small screen sizes.
Congratulations, you have a responsive website! You and your visitors are already enjoying a great website experience.
- The right hand side of the page will start to be obscured. When viewed on a mobile device the text is small and hard to read.
Take a look at what your competitors are doing. If they already have a responsive site their users will be enjoying it and what it has to say. If their site isn't responsive you now have a chance to deliver a better experience for your potential customers.
If you are still in doubt take a look at your Google Analytics under 'Audience > Mobile > Overview' and see how many customers are using mobile and tablet devices to view your site. A figure of 25% or more is normal at the time of writing.
Give us a call! Most of our recent projects use responsive design. Our team fully understands the design skills needed - designing this way has become our standard way of working. We're currently redesigning our own site to be responsive too.
Here are a few examples of responsive sites that we've built | 934 |
The sun was shining as crowds of visitors arrived to see five teams battle it out on the field for the beautiful "COPA SAN MARTIN 2018" sponsored by the argentine Estancia San Martin – Polo Farm and Family resort.
The style was elegant but relaxed, with fancy hats for ladies and sporty chic for the men. Cool melodies generated by "Soul Brothers" set the perfect atmosphere for the crowd who chilled out on the sidelines while sipping P<|fim_middle|> One of the key features, apart for the beautiful 150-hectare grounds, is the proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and its pristine beaches, just a 15 min drive away!
After the "Americano" style round robin matches in the am, the two finalist teams, Lyon Polo Club and Okapi, led by Patron and team captain Mohamed Ndao, battled it out for first place. In a very close and intense match Okapi prevailed with 7 goals to 5 ½. | imm's or AIX rosé and watching the matches. There was a nice vibe all around and lots of interaction at all levels.
The divot stomping sessions were a great opportunity to stroll across the field, meet interesting people or network and take in the sights.
Thanks to all GPC supporters and polo aficionados who chose to take part in this event!
THE GENEVA POLO CLUBS TRADITIONAL ARGENTINE ASADO was a unique and authentic experience where guests enjoyed generous cuts of "bife di Lomo" ; entrecote , Codero and more direct from the "parrilla" grill, as well as vegetarian meals. All followed by a sumptuous dessert buffet.
Albeit far away in the South of the Provence of Buenos Aries, the relation with SM goes back to the creation of GPC in 2008. Around one third of the 100 horses at the club this season had their origins in San Martin! This historic, colonial style Estancia is now a guest lodge catering to visitors from all over the world. | 221 |
With multiple stakeholders and a remit to communicate to both consumers and a B2B audience with a seamless user experience, this was an ambitious project from the outset for both client and agency.
The Spark Group are revolutionising the PropTech market with their innovative, sector leading, virtual assistant that enables the online setup of utilities and home move essentials for home movers in a few easy clicks. Spark Group operate mainly in the lettings market and count most of the UK's leading letting agents as their partners. This new proposition offers many benefits to their partners. it tackles GDPR issues, creates additional revenue streams and ultimately provides a fantastic new online service for their tenants. Our task was to bring this proposition to life with a new name and brand identity. The new brand was a service brand so we had to be careful not overpower the user experience or partner identities.
And so Tili your friendly 'home move assistant' was born. Tili helps home movers to set up their home utilities online in a few clicks. As it helps bring a sense of order and control to<|fim_middle|> parts of the family now working together. Tili was a classic example of a product where design and function go hand-in-hand. After turning Tili on three months ago, all the signs look good. We're approaching our 10,000th customer and we've already set up well over 1,000 energy plans.
Tili's looking good. Thanks team. | consumers we created the brand proposition 'Life organised'. This theme is captured in the imagery which perfectly illustrates this sense of order in a friendly, human way. The visual identity is upbeat and fresh yet still enables a calm user experience when applied across the website, video, printed literature, exhibitions and point of sale. The mobile-first sign up journey and website, developed in collaboration with our parent group Equator, works seamlessly, with Tili leading the user through the onboarding journey with ease.
As Tili's brand consultant, Scott Mackay says, Tili is just the sort of innovative tool that we need in today's market. It improves the customer experience by helping home movers set up their essential services in just a few taps. Tili helps take some of the stress out of moving house as well as helping our clients offset the financial burden caused by the latest regulatory changes.
I've worked with 999 for 19 years now and with Equator for the past three. I'm delighted to see the two | 206 |
A team of firefighters from Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service will run 200 miles in relay from<|fim_middle|>ooly (SHQ), Alex Putman (Camels Head), Andrew Boote (Greenbank) and Dan Lavender (Crownhill), with members running five miles at a time.
Their progress can be tracked every two minutes on and people are welcome to join the team on the run at any point on the route. | Exeter to Kensington North Fire Station to raise money for a fund to help the firefighters involved in the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
The team will leave Service Headquarters at 9am on Friday 14 July and aim to arrive at Kensington North Fire Station at 8pm on Saturday 15 July to present a plaque to Red Watch, the first attending crew at the incident.
Station Manager Danny Slay, who organised the charity event, said: "We wanted to show our respect and gratitude to colleagues who courageously battled the intense fire at Grenfell Tower.
Danny will be joined on the run by Alex Hanson (SHQ), John Gilh | 130 |
AVAIL<|fim_middle|> space, two meeting rooms, a bathroom, and kitchen. The space is available on select nights and weekends. We're ideal for intimate gatherings such as book clubs and discussion groups, workshops, photo shoots, baby showers and low-key parties, and networking events. We'd love to share our space with likeminded individuals and groups who share our values.
Smoking is not allowed. No hard liquor is permitted. No pets are permitted. Any food must be prepared off site, in a commercial kitchen, and transported to our venue.
Great space - Rachel was fantastic to deal with. Very accomodating and helpful. We had a lovely time hosting our baby shower there and would definitely recommend the space to others. Many thanks, Rachel!! | ABILITY: All bookings require a 3-hour minimum. Monday–Thursday, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Located in the Mission district of San Francisco (walking distance from the 24th Street BART station), this is an arts & letters–focused work and gathering space for creative Bay Area women of all definitions. It is housed in a spacious, 3,800–square-foot multipurpose former winery, outfitted with comfortable couches, café tables and chairs, dining tables with stools, and bar tables with bar stools. Renters have access to our main floor (~3,000 sq ft), which consists of open | 165 |
Toegangshek Hydepark is een beschermd gemeentelijk monument aan de Sophialaan in Baarn, in de provincie Utrecht.
Het hek bestaat uit twee Noors granieten pijlers met daartussen een smeedijzeren dubbel inrijhek en twee kleine hekken aan weerszijden. De grote hekken waren bedoeld voor rijtuigen, de twee kleine voor voetgangers. Op de pijlers staan gesmede lantaarns. Het hek is in 1887 ontworpen door architect Jean Nicolas Landré.
Het toegangshek hoorde bij de buitenplaats Hydepark in Doorn<|fim_middle|> vaker in die tijd. Mogelijk zijn de initialen afkomstig van een adellijke eigenaar van een Zweedse hoogoven.
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Bouwwerk in Baarn | van bankier Hendrik van Loon en diens vrouw Louise (kleindochter van de weduwe Borski). Hun huis werd in de Tweede Wereldoorlog verwoest bij een bombardement.
Toen het hek in 1967 verscheept dreigde te worden naar Amerika werd het opgekocht door H. Harten die het voor zijn huis aan de Sophialaan liet plaatsen. Om de sfeer van een landgoed te krijgen werden bovendien rododendrons aangeplant. Harten liet de initialen van de oude eigenaars in de klinkerbestrating verwerken en liet in het hek de naam Hartenstein aanbrengen. Bovendien werden de initialen WB (Peter Meijer noemt WR) met een kroontje erop in de staanders gegraveerd. Op ijzeren hekstaven uit Zweden gebeurde dat | 212 |
Järvevana 7B, benannt nach der Adresse Järvevana tee 7b, ist ein Bürogebäude in der estnischen Hauptstadt<|fim_middle|>iglich ein Viertel stammt aus der städtischen Wasserversorgung.
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Erbaut in den 2010er Jahren | Tallinn. Das 2018 fertiggestellte Gebäude ist ein fünfstöckiger Holzbau mit 5800 m² Nutzfläche.
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Das Gebäude wurde von der Immobiliengesellschaft Hepsor gebaut und soll hochwertige Büroflächen für internationale Firmen zur Verfügung stellen. Der Entwurf stammt vom lokalen Architekturbüro Pluss entworfen und wurde vom Bauunternehmen Mitt & Perlebach erstellt. Das Parkdeck mit 200 Parkplätzen bildet das Erdgeschoss, darüber befinden sich vier Obergeschosse, die als Büroflächen genutzt werden. Auf dem begehbaren Dach des Gebäudes ist eine öffentliche Terrasse angelegt, die Ausblick auf die Altstadt von Tallinn bietet.
Das Gebäude wurde besonders umweltfreundlich gestaltet, indem Holz für die tragende Struktur des Gebäudes gewählt wurde. Die Fenster sind mit Holzabdeckungen versehen, um im Sommer die Sonneneinstrahlung zu reduzieren und damit den Aufwand für die Klimatisierung herunterzusetzen. Eine Wärmepumpe heizt das Gebäude mit Winter mit Wärme aus der Erde, im Sommer wird der umgekehrte Kreislauf für die Kühlung des Gebäudes genutzt. Solarmodule auf dem Dach liefern elektrische Energie. Drei Viertel des Wasserverbrauchs des Gebäudes wird durch lokal gesammeltes Regenwasser gedeckt, led | 344 |
The Spice Must Flow Scent Journey makes every bath a chance to hone the ability to find delight in the spice of life as it arises in the moment. It's about allowing ourselves to relax and surf the emerging edges of life rather than feeling pushed around by them.
Sail with your breath along warm citrus scented currents blown by solar winds carrying seeds of fresh ideas into your waking mind. Relax even deeper and explore other lives filled with adventures over oceans and across deserts along past and future Silk Roads linking inner space to outer space. Be still within ancient hamams fed by underground springs that nourish the gardens of the mind. Travel through Alexandrian centers of exchange spreading ancient mystery school recipes for new ways of Being and Becoming - True to Yourself everyday.
Begin by setting your intentions as you breathe in the warm scented steam. With reverence, cleanse and strengthen your hair and crown with Coriander Seed, Clementine Rind, and Ylang-ylang Flowers.
Then, choose to receive heartfelt blessings as you massage-wash, scrub and worship at your own body-temple with rich Frankincense and Cedarwood essences to inspire and empower you.
Then, to close the ritual, choose to let go of all fear as you towel down vigorously (if it tickles and makes you laugh you're doing it right!)and then feed and hydrate your skin all over with Ho Wood, Patchouli and Bay Rhum shea butter lotion.
Ruled by Mars, Coriander seed oil is specifically used to ease aches, pains and arthritic conditions. It also shows promise in managing neurodegenerative diseases. Ylang-Ylang Flower Oil is ruled by the Moon and is known for its aphrodisiac qualities along with its ability to lighten depression and ease anxiety and stress as are most Moon ruled plants. Honey Myrtle belongs to the Meleleuca family and has the highest content of Citral in that family<|fim_middle|>phoacetate, Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine, Gluconolactone, Glyceryl Oleate, Propanediol, Juniperus Virginiana Oil, Boswellia Carterii (Frankincense) Oil, Lactic Acid, Sodium Benzoate.
We made this scent journey collection with love exclusively for your bathing pleasure while staying at The Line Hotel ATX. | . Citral is is known to have powerful antimicrobial properties. Honey Myrtle is also known for its ability to clear lung congestion and promote healthy airways activity. Mandarin Rind Oil brings the magnetic properties of The Sun to this blend creating a synergy of the whole that is far more than the sum of its parts. Mandarin Rind oil feels uplifting while also being grounding, a Sun like quality of grace and stamina.
Water/Aqua/Eau, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium C14-16 Olefin Sulfonate, Sodium Methyl Cocoyl Taurate, Coco-Glucoside, Glycerin, Sodium Cocoam | 137 |
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The Alexander in Knysna received an Afristay Certificate of Excellence Award. | Eve supper to remember! We loved The Christmas Crackers and the Cracker we ate dinner with! Love from your 1ST AMERICANS!
What a wonderful experience – the highlight of our trip. Your property is unique + you both are also unique, thank you so much for being such wonderful hosts. A home away from home!!
We stayed at the Captain's Suite and it was absolutely GREAT:) We enjoyed all very very much and we will come back as soon as possible. Thank you very much for everything!
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Andre Lucero: Artist & Judge, Richmond, Virginia
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An impressionistic oil painter based near Richmond, Virginia, Andre Lucero was trained in a traditional academic setting but in recent years has combined his love for the outdoors with his art. Completing more than 100 plein air paintings a year, his work includes landscapes and figures and still life painted from life.
Andre reveres the Old Masters and their painting techniques. He worked with his mentor to use Renaissance painting materials to produce the medium that they both have used to give their oil paintings a distinctive luminescent quality.
"It is most exciting attempting to capture on the spot," says Andre. "The way the light falls on a beautiful scene or a fleeting aspect of nature."
Operating out of a studio in picturesque Goochland County, Virginia, Andre designed the working and exhibition space down to its smallest details. Calling on a local craftsman to execute his vision and build the structure that was inspired by a nearby thoroughbred farm, Andre personally saw to the finishing touches himself.
While Goochland is one of his favorite painting locales, he's also painted in Maine, Colorado, Ireland and Italy. Andre is a member of the Plein Air Painters of the Southeast and enjoys participating in plein air paint-outs that assemble dozens of artists for an intense painting experience.
Andre's work is represented by a half dozen galleries on the East Coast, including J.M. Stringer Gallery in Vero Beach FL, considered one of the country's top galleries for its exhibits of contemporary and antique paintings. Andre's work was featured on the cover of Plein Air Magazine in March of 2016 and several other times in Fine art Connoisseur Magazine, American Art Collector and Plein Air magazine.
"Painting is as much about process as it is about the result or product. For me, painting is pleasurable, and my entire process is designed to be pleasing: from ideation to composition to execution. Painting is joyful, and my hope is that the viewer sees and feels that joy."
Andre's ancestors, originally from Spain, traveled in the 1600s to the region that would later become New Mexico. Family legend is that the first Lucero in North America was along on the exploration because of his skills as a map maker. Andre, himself was born in Tehran, Iran in 1967. His U.S. Military family returned to the states soon after his birth, settling in a Washington D.C. suburb.
Early on, Andre's artistic nature was encouraged<|fim_middle|> earning a BFA, cum laude, in 1989, Andre worked for more than a decade as a free-lance illustrator. During that time, his illustrations appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Playboy, U.S. News & World Report and The Washington Times. While his illustrations were honored with the 1995 Virginia Press Association Best of Show Award and the 1994 Award of Excellence from the Art Directors' Club of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Andre decided to leave the field of illustration and devote his full attention to his first love, painting.
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Building Community Through Art | Norfolk, VA | by his parents who were both patrons of the arts. He showed early promise, and in high school Andre's award-winning artwork was displayed two consecutive years at D.C.'s Corcoran Museum of Art. In college, Andre continued his study of art, ultimately taking his background in fine art and applying it to the study of illustration at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he was awarded the first Annual Mallory Callan Memorial Scholarship for Illustration. In each of his college years, Andre's work was prominently displayed in juried shows for purchase.
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Specific. Measurable. Attainable. Realistic. and Timely.
For example, a typical language goal for one of my students might look something like this: In one year, the student will follow two-step directions incorporating colors, shapes, and sizes with 80% accuracy across three sessions when provided with fading verbal prompts.
SMART goals are essential for student growth and success for a number of reasons. The specific and measurable objectives outline expectations and keep them out in the<|fim_middle|> SMART goal though that I set for 2017 that I am making adequate progress on and have a shot of meeting before the year is out.
By December 31, 2018, I said that I would write 52 drafts of essays.
**This is essay 36 in the #52essays2017 challenge created by Vanessa Mártir. I have 16 more to go and 8 weeks left in the year. It's grind time.
Write out a SMART goal for yourself in any aspect of your life (i.e. financial, relational, professional, emotional, spiritual) and share it with your person and/or tribe. Do it! Let's create the change we wish to see one goal at a time.
***This is essay 36 in the #52essays2017 challenge created by Vanessa Mártir.
I really enjoyed this… thought it clever. | open for all related service providers, teachers and administrators to see. The goals also serve as a benchmark to help make adjustments and adaptations as needed.
Like with the above example, if the student isn't reaching the 80% target accuracy after a number of sessions, something has to be adjusted. Maybe the level of cueing. Perhaps they need visual cues or a clinical model. Maybe taking the two step back down to one step directions. The data will drive the direction.
I thought SMART goals were an educational setting concept. So I was surprised when my partner came home to discuss his annual review and mentioned that he had to make his professional goals SMARTer.
Some investigating via google brought me to the conclusion that SMART goals are absolutely not exclusive to educational settings. In fact, established professionals across all fields and paths of life engage in some form of SMART goal writing in order to maximize their success.
There is an actual science behind goal setting. Research shows that people who write down their goals and dreams achieve those desires at significantly higher rate than those who do not. I don't have a study to cite, but I can only imagine based on clinical experience that those rates increase if the goals are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely.
I have five plus years of writing SMART goals for students and clients but very little practice in writing SMART goals for myself. 2017 was the first year that I started to write out short-term goals for my writing and professional career.
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UN Secretary General Tells IEC & IECC to Learn from Past Mistakes and Manage Presidential Elections Better
Sarah Mishra Reporter
United Nations Secretary General released his latest report which he publishes every three months on developments in Afghanistan. The report provides an update on the activities of the United Nations in Afghanistan, including political, humanitarian, development and human rights efforts. Below are some key matters that were put forward in the report as observations.
Parliamentary Elections: A Little Chaos, A Little Thunder but Security Threats Remain
Secretary General Guterres expressed that despite "the many security, logistical and political challenges facing the electoral management bodies of Afghanistan, I welcome the timely conduct of parliamentary elections under difficult circumstances". He believes that the elections demonstrated the commitment of Afghan citizens to participating in democratic processes, "I am heartened by the courage and determination shown by the millions of Afghan women and men who turned out to vote across the country, often overcoming significant obstacles and defying serious security threats to elect their representatives".
However, Mr Guterres condemned the deliberate acts of violence against civilians which were perpetrated by 'anti-government elements' through the course of the the electoral process that resulted in the highest number of civilian casualties recorded on a single day in 2018 on Election Day, "Apart from inflicting serious harm on civilians, such violence represents a clear attack on the constitutional right of Afghan citizens to political participation. Recalling the stated commitment of the Taliban to protect civilians in armed conflict, I call upon all parties to respect the right of Afghans to participate in all stages of the electoral process freely and without fear or threat of violence".
The report however pointed to the fact that the elections and thereafter, there were some preventable technical shortcomings as well as some that were due to an 'overstretched Independent Electoral Commission'. The following problems were pointed out in the report: Delays in opening polling centres, problems associated with the late introduction of biometric voter verification and administrative errors in voter lists led to serious delays on election day, causing some voters to turn away without casting their votes. Mr Guterres admits how these factors ultimately downgrade the credibility of the country's electoral institutions.
He also called upon the IEC and IECC to safeguard the transparency of the process during the post-election phase so as to regain the confidence of the Afghan people.
As regards to results and counting, Mr Guterres asked the election bodies to make<|fim_middle|> and key elements of the agenda like finalisation of 10 national priority programmes, the implementation of far-reaching fiscal reforms and the promotion of the participation of women in public life were worked upon. Although Mr Guterres feels that progress in other areas remained limited, he welcomed the adoption of the Geneva Mutual Accountability Framework by Afghanistan and international donors.
Mr Guterres finally assures in the report that "The United Nations will continue to provide coherent support to the Government as it implements its reform agenda for the benefit of all citizens, with a view to achieving peace, development and self-reliance during the Transformation Decade".
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The Secretary General also reminded the Afghan Government and the Independent Election Commission about Ghazni parliamentary Elections and asked them to "give due priority to resolving outstanding security, political and logistical issues to enable the people of Ghazni to elect their parliamentary representatives".
Presidential Elections: Learn From Past Mistakes and Act Upon Them
Turning the discussion over to Presidential Elections, whose calendar has finally been released by the IEC on Monday, Guterres said that learning from the experience of parliamentary elections, the IEC and IECC must ensure a "coherent decision-making and the timely implementation of all necessary procedures". He additionally called on all political stakeholders to assume responsibility for the electoral process. The report also mentioned a point about the chaos created by last minute introduction of biometric technology as a precaution to be taken for the Presidential Elections.
Observing the protests that have happened surrounding the election issues, Mr Guterres stated that "While peaceful protest is the constitutional right of all Afghans, I am concerned about the use of obstructive tactics by some political parties and candidates. Such tactics can deprive other citizens of their right to vote and, if pursued systematically, threaten to undermine the electoral system. As the Government and the electoral management bodies continue preparations for the presidential elections, I call upon all stakeholders, including candidates, political parties and civil society organizations, to engage constructively in all aspects of the electoral process. Only through the sincere and united efforts of the leaders and institutions of Afghanistan will its citizens be granted the opportunity to vote in elections worthy of their participation, with guarantees that their votes will be respected".
Security and Casualties: Alarming Trends that Show Importance of Peace Negotiations
Talking about the recent estimate that shows a spike in civilian casualties due to operations by forces, UNSG expressed concern about the worsening impact of the armed conflict on the civilian population. The UNAMA has recently documented record-high numbers of civilian deaths. In this regard the report stated that "While efforts on the battlefield have led to some reductions in civilian casualties from ground engagements, the continued rise in civilian casualties from
suicide and aerial attacks is worrying. Of the utmost concern is the increased targeting of civilians by anti-government elements, exemplified by the violence directed at the Afghan population participating in the electoral processes. I urge parties to the conflict to respect their obligations under international human rights law and international humanitarian law and anti-government elements to cease all attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure".
Mr Guterres said that the above trends are only reminder of the importance of peace negotiations to attain an end to the conflict in Afghanistan. Now explaining about the matter of the peace process, which the UNSG assured would of Afghan ownership, it was encouraged that the Government ensure a proper inclusivity within the peace process, thus creating that a "diverse range of views is taken into account at every stage".
Message to Taliban: Talk Directly to Afghan Government
Acknowledging the recent expansion in contact between the Taliban and members of the international community, Guterres highlighted the necessity for the Taliban to involve in direct talks with the Government of Afghanistan with a view to reaching a solution to the conflict. The United Nations stands ready to support all peace efforts through any available means, he assured. This statement comes after the Taliban have repeatedly stated that they refuse to have direct talks with the Afghan Government.
Violence Against Women, Children and other Citizens Still a Major Concern
"I remain deeply concerned about the prevalence of violence against women and girls in Afghanistan. Such violence causes profound human suffering, inflicts grave harm on families and inhibits the full participation of women in public life. In this light, the establishment by the Government of a technical committee to review the Elimination of Violence against Women Law of 2009 is an encouraging step. I am optimistic that the review will result in stronger and rights-based legal protection from violence for all Afghan women and girls", the Secretary General expressed reminding that the situation with respect to women's safety has a long way of improvement.
Also talking about the risk undertaken by Afghan citizens in everyday life, Mr Guterres expressed grave concern about the increase in attacks against health facilities and health-care personnel, as well as attacks against school facilities and disruptions to the educational process. He added that "Such attacks and activities are unjustifiable under any circumstances. I urge parties to the conflict to take measures to allow health facilities to function without interruption and to respect the right to education for both boys and girls without interference. Similarly, the recent spate of efforts by anti-government elements to hinder humanitarian demining operations, including through threats and intimidation against and the kidnapping of deminers, have delayed and derailed life-saving projects. All parties must allow humanitarian demining teams unimpeded access to affected areas".
Appreciating Afghanistan's Performance in Doing Business Report 2019
Notable achievements of Afghanistan acknowledged and commended by the UNSG were the improving the investment climate, as Afghanistan demonstrated by moving from 183rd position to 167th in the ease of doing business rankings of the World Bank. He reported how "This commendable result signals progress towards the goals of the Transformation Decade (2015–2024), including generating economic growth to achieve self-reliance. The revision of the anti-corruption strategy provides a valuable opportunity for the Government to clarify the institutional framework guiding anti-corruption efforts, in line with the commitments of Afghanistan under the United Nations Convention against Corruption. I encourage the Government to continue its constructive engagement with civil society organizations and international partners throughout the process".
Geneva Ministerial Conference on Afghanistan: Progress in Key Elements
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The Legend of Wagon Wheel Joe
Director Joseph H. Lewis used to tote around a box of wagon wheels when shooting the cheapy Westerns he made early in his career. Whenever a scene was uninteresting, he'd plop down a wheel in the foreground and shoot through the spokes of it. The nickname this earned him, "Wagon Wheel Joe," was meant as a put-down at the time. In retrospect, it's emblematic of why Joseph H. Lewis should be a lot more widely remembered than he is.
Lewis was one of the great Poverty Row B-picture artists of Golden Age Hollywood. He didn't let perfunctory stories, trite scripts, bad actors or budgets that more closely resembled the catering bill for A-pictures slow him down. Film is primarily a visual medium and if the other raw materials with which Lewis had to work were wanting, he could at least make the movies visually interesting. Those wagon wheels where just the beginning. Lewis rebelled against the traditional "invisible" Hollywood style, shooting, instead, tight, expressionistic cinema filled with unusual and inventive camera work. Odd angles, odd staging, utterly individualistic. It's said to have driven his editors nuts but it pepped up what would have otherwise been a lot of entirely forgettable--even awful--films.
Lewis cut his teeth on those cowboy quickies. He wasn't stuck with the shortest of short ends for long though. While he remained firmly ensconced in B-level productions for most of his career,[1] his budgets, his actors and his scripts did improve and soon, he wasn't just the only good thing about a bad movie. With more resources with which to exercise his resourcefulness, he came into his own as a filmmaker and proceeded to make some damn good ones.
He usually tried to hook viewers early and was frequently very good at drawing in an audience with his first scene.[2] GUN CRAZY (1950) begins on an adolescent demonstrating an almost sexual attachment to a pistol in a store window. So overcome is he that he just can't resist breaking the glass and stealing it, only to immediately trip over his own feet and send the gun skittering across the rain-soaked street to come to a halt at the feet of a bystander revealed, as the camera moves up, to be a grim-faced policeman. The pre-title sequence of TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN (1958) is one of my favorites. There's Sterling Hayden playing a beefy Swedish whaler. He's marching through a Western town, totally out of place, with a crowd gathering behind him as he comes to a particular building and calls out some badman. The villain--in black, so we know he's a no-goodnik--has a gun on his hip but Hayden is hefting a harpoon on his shoulder as his weapon of choice. They're about to have it out and we cut from the scene to the opening credits. There's no way in hell anyone is going to watch that and not stick around for the rest of the movie. More subtle but also effective is the opening of MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945), wherein we follow the lead character through the street in pouring rain, up to a rooming house then inside, where our heroine's situation is set up via a conversation with the housekeeper. Lewis doesn't let us go until we're into the picture.
Lewis had an affinity for close-ups and favored elaborate staging and long takes. Not static ones though. His camera is always on the move, always gliding from one set-up to another without cutting. He would sometimes even allow it to pass through apparently solid objects like windows. He was very good at using his set-ups to comment on a scene. In CRY OF THE HUNTED (1953), a prison warden stuck in a swamp is trying to call to those searching for him but finds he has no voice--his POV is shot through a bank of reeds that look like prison bars set between himself and his would-be rescuers. In SO DARK THE NIGHT (1946), a--what other kind could it be?--dark thought crosses the<|fim_middle|>-and-keep-'em tabloid aesthetic his films often radiate reminds me of Fuller.
[3] On PBS's American Cinema series.
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systemshocks October 6, 2011 at 4:58 AM
Fantastic post, just fascinating. So little is written on Lewis, and this sums up perfectly why he was such an important director in the history of film. Great stuff.
cinemarchaeologist October 17, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Thanks; I do try. My life sort of fell apart after I wrote this piece, and I didn't have a lot of opportunity (or, after things fell in on me, the ability) to shop it around much, or engage in much discussion about it. I've been a Lewis admirer for a lot of years. When Turner Classic Movies ran a mini-marathon of his flicks (which can be quite hard to find), I decided it was past time I wrote something about them, and about him.
systemshocks November 10, 2011 at 6:11 AM
Hope things are getting better for you. Keep writing - your stuff's too good for you not to!
DEAD SET (2008), & What It isn't
The Many Frankensteins of Peter Cushing | mind of a character sitting at a desk in a fully lit room; the lights abruptly dim, leaving only the characters' face illuminated from below in an extraordinarily sinister way. The thought quickly passes and the light in the room returns to normal. Later in the same film, a heated fight is photographed through the flames of a fire.
Lewis had range. He shot a wide variety of films--melodramas, a war picture, period adventure, horror, musicals. For his last feature, he returned to the Western and gave us the aforementioned TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN. Much more than just a run-of-the-mill oater, the film was an open challenge to McCarthyism ghost-written by Dalton Trumbo and Lewis's friend Nedrick Young when both were still blacklisted. Making it was a bold move but, probably because he intended it as his last picture before moving to television, Lewis not only shot it but also cast the blacklisted Young as the villain. The movie has a lot of the usual problems of low-budget productions but Lewis went the extra mile to make it a visual tour-de-force. It's almost like an homage to his own previous films. I liked it.
Lewis's best work, however, was in film noir. ...JULIA ROSS and SO DARK... were solid, visually impressive efforts in the genre, while THE BIG COMBO (1955) was a genuine classic. It was also a bit notorious for one scene in which Richard Conte apparently goes down on Jean Wallace. Conte is standing behind Wallace nuzzling her and drops down out of frame, as Lewis moves the camera into her face, which bears a look of resigned pleasure, and holds the shot for a moment. The scene initially got Lewis in hot water with the studio censors but, as he told it,[3] he turned the tables on them. Faced with their insistence that he'd shot a "filthy" scene, he professed not to understand what they were talking about. The intimation of oralism was fairly obvious but it was shot in such a way that it relied upon the viewer's interpretation. Apparently, the suggestion that they, themselves, had willfully chosen to interpret as "filthy" a scene the director (disingenuously) insisted was innocuous sufficiently embarrassed the Breen boys that they allowed it to remain in the film.
The flick for which Lewis is best remembered today though--the only one for which he's widely remembered--is GUN CRAZY. A directionless gun fetishist hooks up with a sexy, sharp-shooting sociopath, sparks of passion become a twisted obsession and soon the two are hard-charging down a path of self-delusion, robbery and murder that can only lead to their destruction, the whole of their rise and downward spiral sensationally photographed by Lewis's off-kilter camera. Easily Lewis's best picture and one of the best films noir of all time. Paul Schrader also says it's "one of the best American films ever made," or at least they quote him as saying so over on the Turner Classic Movies site. I certainly wouldn't characterize the assessment as hyperbole.
Lewis has developed a cult following but that's as good as he's managed. Film nerds (like Shrader) dig him but he's a fairly obscure figure. Too obscure. His work deserves better than that, so this is my little contribution to getting it its due.
[1] The one exception I've seen is DESPERATE SEARCH (1952), which apparently had a much bigger budget than Lewis's other projects and also seemed to be an effort at a more "mainstream" film. Though not without its moments, the movie is, for the most part, depressingly average. Lewis ditches most of the visual flair of his other pictures and the result is the least interesting Lewis movie I've yet encountered.
[2] In THE TYPEWRITER, THE RIFLE, AND THE MOVIE CAMERA, Jim Jarmusch recounting Sam Fuller's advice to him on screenwriting: "When you start your script, if the first page doesn't give you a hard-on, throw the goddamn thing away." Lewis seems to have had the same attitude. Lewis's brashness, his disregard for the conventional and the hook-'em | 881 |
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Le versant ouest de la montagne fait partie de la réserve naturelle nationale des Contamines-Montjoie.
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During the three years that I lived without a house to call my own I discovered that owning one's house is a privilege, not a right. The majority of the world doesn't own<|fim_middle|>!
Living life with Jesus could mean giving up many of the things we hold "valuable." But, I have found that I am wealthier when I ask, "How do you want me to live" every time a "valuable" has been taken away.I presently live in a house, but, the reality is that wherever God takes me is where I call home.
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Then we relocated and I was thrilled when we purchased a house. Those "valuables" however that I thought would make it a home remained in storage for another six months! While sitting on a folding chair eating Thanksgiving dinner at a makeshift plywood table my awareness of the significance of my situation dawned on me. My focus had been on not having a place to live rather than on how God wanted me to live. A few months later we moved again | 131 |
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Chersonesus (Ancient Greek: Χερσόνησος, romanized: Khersónēsos; Latin: Chersonesus; modern Russian and Ukrainian: Херсоне́с, Khersones; also rendered as Chersonese, Chersonesos, contracted in medieval Greek to Cherson Χερσών; Old East Slavic: Корсунь, Korsun) is an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula. Settlers from Heraclea Pontica in Bithynia established the colony in the 6th century BC.
The ancient city is located on the shore of the Black Sea on the outskirts of present-day Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula, where it is referred to as Khersones. The site is part of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos. The name Chersonesos in Greek means "peninsula" and aptly describes the site on which the colony was established. It should not be confused with the Tauric Chersonese, a name often applied to the whole of the southern Crimea.
During much of the classical period, Chersonesus operated as a democracy ruled by a group of elected archons and a council called the Demiurgoi. As time passed, the government grew more oligarchic, with power concentrated in the hands of the archons.[1] A form of oath sworn by all the citizens from the 3rd century BC onwards has survived to the present day.[2][3] In 2013 UNESCO listed Chersonesus as a World Heritage Site.
See also: Greeks in pre-Roman Crimea
Greek colony
Greek Coin from Chersonesos in Crimea depicting Diotimus wearing the royal diadem r., in exergue, ΧΕΡ ΔΙΟΤΙΜΟΥ Chersonesus in Crimea. 2nd century BCE.
Viktor Vasnetsov: Baptism of Saint Prince Vladimir in Korsun.
After defending itself against the Bosporan Kingdom, and the native Scythians and Tauri, and even extending its power over the west coast of the peninsula, it was compelled to call in the aid of Mithradates VI and his general Diophantus, c. 110 BC, and submitted to the Bosporan Kingdom. It was subject to Rome and received a garrison from the middle of the 1st century BC until the 370s AD,[1] when it was captured by the Huns.
Byzantine era
It became a Byzantine possession during the Early Middle Ages and withstood a siege by the Göktürks in 581. Byzantine rule was slight: there was a small imperial garrison more for the town's protection than for its control and it exercised a measure of self-government.[1] It was useful to Byzantium in two ways: it was an observation point to watch the barbarian tribes, and its isolation made it a popular place of exile for those who angered the Roman and later Byzantine governments. Among its more famous "inmates" were Pope Clement I and Pope Martin I, and the deposed Byzantine Emperor Justinian II.[1]
According to Theophanes the Confessor and others, Chersonesus was the residence of a Khazar governor (tudun) in the late 7th century. Between approximately 705 and 840, the city's affairs were managed by elected officials called babaghuq, meaning "father of the city".[4]
In 833, Emperor Theophilus sent the nobleman Petronas Kamateros, who had recently overseen the construction of the Khazar fortress of Sarkel, to take direct control over the city and its environs, establishing the theme of Klimata/Cherson. It remained in Byzantine hands until the 980s, when it reportedly fell to Vladimir the Great of the Kievan Rus'. Vladimir agreed to evacuate the fortress only if Basil II's sister Anna Porphyrogeneta would be given him in marriage. The demand caused a scandal in Constantinople. As a pre-condition for the marriage settlement, Vladimir was baptized here in 988, thus paving the way to the Baptism of Kievan Rus'. Thereafter Korsun' was evacuated.
Since this campaign is not recorded in Greek sources, historians have suggested that the account actually refers to the events of the Rus'–Byzantine War (1043) and to a different Vladimir. In fact, most valuables looted by the Slavs in Korsun' made their way to Novgorod (perhaps by way of Joachim the Korsunian, the first Novgorodian bishop, as his surname indicates ties to Korsun), where they were preserved in the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom until the 20th century. One of the most interesting items from this "Korsun Treasure" is the copper Korsun Gate, supposedly captured by the Novgorodians in Korsun' and now part of the St. Sophia Cathedral.
After the Fourth Crusade (1202–04), Chersonesus became dependent on the Byzantine Empire of Trebizond as the Principality of Theodoro. After the Siege of Trebizond (1461) the Principality of Theodoro became independent. The city fell under Genoese control in the early 13th century, which forebode the Greeks to trade there.[1] In 1299, the town was sacked by the Mongol armies of Nogai Khan's Golden Horde. Byzantine sources last mention Chersonesus in 1396, and based on archaeological evidence the site is presumed to have been abandoned in the following decades.
Ecclesiastical history
Chersonesus had been a Roman pre-Great Schism, later Greek/Orthodox, episcopal see for centuries, elevated early to the rank of archbishopric, since it is mentioned as such in the Notitiae Episcopatuum; it disappeared after the Turkish conquest in 1475 and the destruction of the city.[5]
The Saint Vladimir Cathedral in Chersonesus was built in the 19th century in the Byzantine Revival style.
In the late 19th century, the grand Russian Orthodox St Vladimir's Cathedral (completed 1892) was built on a small hill overlooking the site; designed in Byzantine style, it was intended to commemorate the site of Vladimir's baptism.
In 1333, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chersonesus in Zechia was established, but it appears that it had only a bishop, a Dominican called Richard the Englishman.[6] It is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular archbishopric,[7] and is called specifically Chersonesus in Zechia to avoid confusion with other sees called Chersonesus.
The 1935 Basilica
The bell of Chersonesos
Chersonesus's ancient ruins are presently located in one of Sevastopol's suburbs. They were excavated by the Russian government, starting from 1827. They are today a popular tourist attraction, protected as an archaeological park.
The buildings mix influences of Greek, Roman and Byzantine culture. The defensive wall was approximately 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) long, 3.5 to 4 metres wide and 8 to 10 metres high with towers at a height of 10 to 12 metres. The walls enclosed an area of about 30 hectares (74 acres).[8] Buildings include a Roman amphitheatre and a Greek temple. The fact that the site has not been inhabited since the 14th century makes it an important representation of Byzantine life.[1]
The surrounding land under the control of the city, the chora, consists of several square kilometres of ancient but now barren farmland, with remains of wine presses and defensive towers. According to archaeologists, the evidence suggests that the locals were paid to do the farm work instead of being enslaved.
The excavated tombstones hint at burial practices that were different from the Greek ones. Each stone marks the tomb of an individual, instead of the whole family and the decorations include only objects like sashes and weapons, instead of burial statues. Over half of the tombs archaeologists have found have bones of children. Burned remnants suggest that the city was plundered and destroyed.
In 2007, Chersonesus tied for fifth in the Seven Wonders of Ukraine poll.
On February 13, 2009, Ukrainian Defence Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov called on Russia's Black Sea naval fleet to move its automobile depot from the site to another place. The location of the Russian Black Sea naval fleet's automobile depot was one of the obstacles to the inclusion of the reserve on UNESCO's list of world heritage sites.[9]
In 2017, archaeologists discovered on the outskirts of Sevastopol, fragments of an ancient Greek altar with figures of gods.[10][11]
In 2022, researchers analyzed human skeletal remains from a necropolis in the northern part of Chersonesus, dating to the earliest period of the colony (between the 5th and the 4th century BC). Most of the deceased individuals were positioned in a flexed burial position with their legs crouched and folded up to the chest, while a smaller number were buried in an extended position on their back with arms and legs straight. The researchers found that most individuals were genetically similar to each other, regardless of the burial position. This result challenges the widely held opinion that burial position in the northern Black Sea region was determined by the ancestry of the deceased, with flexed burials belonging to local Taurians, and extended burials belonging to Greek colonists.[12]
The 1935 basilica is the most famous basilica excavated in Chersonesus. The original name is unknown so "1935" refers to the year it was opened.[13] The basilica was probably built in the 6th century on the site of an earlier temple, assumed by historians to be a synagogue, itself replacing a small temple dating from the early days of Christianity.[14] The 1935 basilica is often used as an image representing Chersonesos. Its picture appears on one Ukrainian banknote.[13]
Museum contents
As well as the archaeological sites, the museum has around 200,000 smaller items from 5 AD to the 15th century, over 5,000 of which are currently exhibited. These include:[15]
ancient texts, including the Oath of Chersonese citizens (3rd century BC),[16] decrees in honour of Diophantus (2nd century BC) [17]
a collection of coins
a mosaic of black and white pebbles and coloured stones
architectural fragments, including ancient and medieval abacuses, reliefs, the remains of ancient murals
The Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Texas at Austin and the local Archaeological Park has investigated the site since 1992. The Ukrainian government has included the site on its tentative World Heritage List. The site, however, is in danger of further urban encroachment and coastal erosion.
In 2013, "The Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora" was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This World Heritage Site consists of seven locations that encompass the city of Chersonesus and six plots of agricultural land. The site was designated as a World Heritage site under the UNESCO criterion (ii) and (v). UNESCO considers these areas to show cultural lifestyles and land use of ancient populations that inhabited these areas.[18]
During the 2014 Crimean crisis, the Crimean peninsula was annexed by Russia, but UNESCO has maintained that it will continue to recognize Crimea and its heritage sites as belonging to Ukraine.[19]
Problems and controversies
The encroachment of modern building in and around the ancient archaeological site, coupled with a lack of funding to prevent such development pressures, has left the site of Chersonesus firmly at risk.[20]
In an October 2010 report titled Saving Our Vanishing Heritage, Global Heritage Fund identified Chersonesus as one of 12 worldwide sites most "On the Verge" of irreparable loss and destruction, citing insufficient management and development pressures as primary causes.[21]
On July 29, 2015, the governor of Sevastopol, Sergey Menyaylo, controversially fired the director of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, Andrey Kulagin. He then appointed the head priest of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Vladimir in Chersonesus, Sergiy Khalyuta, as the new director of the Preserve. This move caused heated protests from the staff of the Preserve, and all 109 members unanimously refused to work under the new director. The conflict attracted significant attention from the media, particularly due to its political connotations, given that Menyaylo had been appointed governor by Russian president Vladimir Putin, shortly after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.[22] The workers claim that the conflict between Menyaylo and Kulagin started on July 11, when Kulagin complained about a road construction project on the territory of the Preserve which had been approved by governor Menyaylo without the permits necessary for construction works in protected areas. Eventually, under pressure from the workers and locals, Father Sergiy stepped down.[23]
List of traditional Greek place names
Odessa Numismatics Museum having on display coins of Chersonesus
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^ a b c d e f One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Minns, Ellis Hovell (1911). "Chersonese". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 86.
^ "Syll. 360: The oath of the citizens of Chersonesos". attalus.org. Archived from the original on January 19, 2018. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
^ Vladimir F. Stolba, The Oath of Chersonesos and the Chersonesean Economy in the Early Hellenistic Period, in: Z.G. Archibald, J.K. Davies & V. Gabrielsen (eds.), Making, Moving and Managing. The New World of Ancient Economies, 323-31 BC. Oxford: Oxbow 2005, 298-321.
^ Brook, Kevin Alan (2006-09-27). The Jews of Khazaria. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 54. ISBN 9781442203020.
^ Raymond Janin, v. 3. Chersonnèse, in: Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Paris 1953, coll. 636–638.
^ Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 1 Archived 2019-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, p. 184
^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 868
^ "City". National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
^ "Yekhanurov Calls On Russia's Black Sea Naval Fleet To Move Its Automobile Depot From Khersones Tavriiskyi National Reserve". Ukrainian News Agency. February 13, 2009. Archived from the original on July 28, 2009.
^ Ancient Greek Altar Discovered In Crimea
^ Russia: Ancient altar with figures of Greek gods found in Sevastopol
^ Rathmann, Hannes; Stoyanov, Roman; Posamentir, Richard (January 2022). "Comparing individuals buried in flexed and extended positions at the Greek colony of Chersonesos (Crimea) using cranial metric, dental metric, and dental nonmetric traits". International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 32 (1): 49–63. doi:10.1002/oa.3043. ISSN 1047-482X. S2CID 244228485.
^ a b "Ancient Chersoneses in Crimea: Dilettante travel". Retrieved 1 April 2012.
^ Valentine Gatash (2 June 2007). "Базиліка зникне в морі? ("Will the Basilica disappear into the sea?")" (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 10 August 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
^ "Chersonesus Taurica". Restgeo.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
^ Syll.³ 360 Archived 2018-01-19 at the Wayback Machine - English translation
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Anokhin, Vladilen A. The Coinage of Chersonesus: IV century B.C.–XII century A.D. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1980 (paperback, ISBN 0-86054-074-X).
Carter, Joseph Coleman; Crawford, Melba; Lehman, Paul; Nikolaenko, Galina; Trelogan, Jessica. "The Chora of Chersonesos in Crimea, Ukraine", American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 104, No. 4. (2000), pp. 707–741.
Carter, Joseph Coleman; Mack, Glenn Randall. Crimean Chersonesos: City, Chora, Museum, and Environs. Austin, TX: David Brown Book Company, 2003 (paperback, ISBN 0-9708879-2-2).
Kozelsky, Mara. "Ruins into Relics: The Monument to Saint Vladimir on the Excavations of Chersonesos, 1827–57", The Russian Review, Vol. 63, No. 4. (2004), pp. 655–672.
Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium: The Early Centuries. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989 (hardcover, ISBN 0-394-53778-5).
Saprykin, Sergey Yu. Heracleia Pontica and Tauric Chersonesus before Roman domination: (VI–I centuries B.C.). Amsterdam: A.M. Hakkert, 1997 (ISBN 9025611095).
Stolba, Vladimir F. Greek Countryside in Ancient Crimea: Chersonesean Chora in the Late Classical to Early Hellenistic Period. Aarhus 2014.
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Seeking God in contemporary culture
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Series The Père Marquette lecture in theology ;, 1994
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the gaster; and compressed anterior abdominal segments, like the nodes. A typical genus in the Neotropics associated with the famihar Eciton army ants is Ecitophya (fig. 9 4e). They also have specialized glands for secreting pheromonelike substances that pacify their benefactors, whom they groom and feed. They feed on booty and the larval brood of the host ants (Akre and Retten-meyer 1966). Although many have typical rove beetle shapes, some may resemble silverfish or be trilobitelike in body form (Jermitonannus), and a common feature of termitophilous forms is oddly shaped body outgrowths (Spirachtha); many hold the abdomen erect or bent forward over the thorax, as in Termitogaster (fig. 9.4d), a widespread genus that lives in the nests of nasute termites (Seevers 1957).
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The situation is brightest in the U.S., thanks to more homogeneous government regulations. While Canadian operators have been slower to recover, there are some encouraging trends to report.
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If there is a silver lining in the COVID-19 pandemic for aircraft charter operators, it's that a whole new customer segment is discovering private jet travel.
As passengers look to reduce the risk of contracting the virus — and try to get where they need to go in a world of fewer commercial flights — they are increasingly chartering private aircraft to fly to winter homes or important business meetings.
The recovery of Canadian charter operators has lagged behind similar operations in the U.S., largely due to more restrictive government quarantine policies north of the border. Galen Burrows Photo
The escalating interest is good news for Canadian charter operators. Their recovery has lagged behind similar operations in the U.S., largely due to more restrictive government quarantine policies north of the border. However, North American business aviation as a whole is still climbing out of the abyss it plunged into in March 2020, when the pandemic broke out and both business aviation and commercial airlines ground to a halt.
According to WINGX, a Hamburg, Germany-based business aviation market intelligence company, industry activity showed modest gains in October 2020.
"The recovery, to the extent it's happening, is really coming out of the U.S., and it's primarily coming out of Florida and getaway destinations like Colorado and Wyoming," explained Richard Koe, managing director of WINGX. During a late October interview with Skies, he revealed that the recovery has been weaker in Canada, Mexico, and the Bahamas. For example, business aviation flight hours in Canada dropped a total of 36 per cent from March to October 2020. During the same time period, U.S. biz av hours flown dropped 29 per cent, while Mexico and the Bahamas recorded a severe 61 per cent decline.
The slide hasn't affected all private aircraft equally. Koe said that around the world, larger cabin aircraft are more idle, while lighter aircraft are doing most of the work.
Here, members of the Fast Air team gather in the company's Winnipeg facility prior to the pandemic. Fast Air Photo
"In Canada, in particular, some of the older aircraft like [Cessna] Citation IIs and [Beechcraft] King Air 350s are quite busy," he reported. "From March to October, the [King Air] 350 flight hours are down just six per cent. At the other end, the [Bombardier] Challenger is down 46 per cent."
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At Chartright Air Group — headquartered in Toronto with bases in Kitchener, Windsor, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, Saint-Hubert, and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — president Adam Keller confirmed the company's smaller jets are flying more than their larger hangar mates.
Following a near shutdown at the end of March, Chartright's fleet of 45 owned and managed aircraft are starting to move again, with current activity at about 65 per cent of what it was one year ago in October 2019.
"We are seeing a good amount of activity to Florida, while business activity to the U.S. has slowed," said Keller. "The big surprise to us has been the increase in our domestic business, which is up 75 to 1<|fim_middle|> he predicted. "I think biz av in general could do quite nicely, as people look to travel and airlines aren't available. That's still 12 to 18 months ahead of the airlines, so it's relatively resilient."
Thanks to more homogeneous government regulations across the U.S., the sector outlook is brighter south of the border. Koe said part 135 charter operators are now "buoyant" in terms of flight hours, having fully recovered to October 2019 levels.
Back in Canada, the approval and implementation of rapid COVID-19 testing kits and their ability to lessen quarantine times is a positive development, closely followed by all aviation sectors.
"The most constant correlation [to flight activity] wherever we look in the world is the quarantine and the administration around it," confirmed Koe. "That is a disincentive to get on board an aircraft. The great convenience of business jets is to turn around quick trips. If that involves quarantine, the motivation is largely gone." | 00 per cent on a monthly average."
Many travellers are looking to go west, with Calgary, Vancouver, and Vancouver Island being popular destinations. Aircraft aren't flying east as much, although Chartright has done some trips to Montreal.
Fast Air's medevac division kept operating as an essential service when most flying halted in March. Fast Air Photo
"Government regulations have had a huge impact on where we are flying. There's no question the Atlantic bubble tamped down demand," noted Keller.
Those with vacation homes in Florida are planning longer stays, knowing that they must quarantine for 14 days upon returning to Canada. "We are probably sending 10 flights to Florida [with passengers] versus one coming back," said Keller, explaining that return flights are usually empty legs.
At least 50 per cent of Chartright's current customers are new, he added. That makes the timing right for the company to launch a new fractional lease program called Jettime, which welcomed its first customer on Nov. 1.
"This is a program designed to go after the inexperienced private flyer who is looking to secure their travel arrangements outside of the airlines," said Keller. "An individual will come to us and lease one tenth of a Citation Ultra, and at the end of a specified lease term, they simply give us back the aircraft."
Jettime offers new private flyers fixed pricing, removes depreciation concerns, guarantees availability, and bills them only when they are on board. Most importantly, they are guaranteed privacy, security, and lower potential exposure to the virus.
Sunwest Aviation has recorded a drop in flights to the U.S., but the gap has largely been filled by domestic trips to Western Canada. Sunwest Aviation Photo
Keller said Chartright did a soft launch of the program and was "shocked by the uptake." Those most interested include airline business class travellers and corporations who want to get their people in the air.
He'd like to see quarantine requirements tied to quick testing services, in order to strike a balance between commerce and security. Following the U.S. election, Keller is hopeful the virus will be brought under control and that the border will re-open, predicting a "doubling" of business under those circumstances.
Regardless, Chartright is running a tighter ship than it did pre-COVID, and diversity has been a big factor in helping the company weather the storm. When flight operations slowed in March, maintenance picked up as owners elected to have work done.
Charters on the Rise
Diversity in operations has also helped Winnipeg-based Fast Air to weather COVID-19. When most flying halted in March, its medevac division kept operating as an essential service. That in turn created a demand for maintenance and fuel sales, and then charter began to re-emerge in early May.
At least 50 per cent of Chartright's current customers are new. So the company felt the timing was right to launch a new fractional lease program called Jettime. Chartright Photo
"We saw a steady incline of charter through the summer, and our flying to the north has rebounded almost fully," said Dan Rutherford, the company's marketing and business development manager. Fast Air does a lot of work in the north, serving resource development, mining, and large infrastructure projects.
In addition, there has been an increase in east-west demand. "We have seen lots of requests for quotes from people who are new to us, wanting to travel to Toronto, Vancouver, or the U.S.," continued Rutherford. "Those inquiries have gone up five- to 10-fold compared to before the pandemic."
Fast Air has increased its marketing efforts to target business leaders who might now consider chartering an aircraft. Rutherford said they are seeing an encouraging response.
With FBO sales back to 80 per cent of normal and charter nearly back to pre-COVID levels, he reported that Fast Air, too, is seeing its smaller aircraft flying more than larger jets. Its fleet of more than a dozen King Airs has been very busy.
The company sees opportunities in the current market and is exploring them. Despite the pandemic, Fast Air is proceeding with plans to open locations in Toronto and Abbotsford, B.C.
In November, WINGX said global business aviation activity was once again sliding backward. But the company did agree the outlook appears brighter once the second wave of COVID is contained. Galen Burrows Photo
"In Toronto, we'll have a King Air 200 offering executive passenger charter," said Rutherford. "In Abbotsford, our plan is to provide charters and aircraft management, and we are building a new FBO-style executive aviation facility. That's a pretty big project; we've been working on it for a couple of years, and we'll be offering fractional ownership in the hangar facility."
He likened the plan to a condo arrangement where customers will own part of the building, which will feature an operational hangar, shared lobby and staffing, and private office space for hire. There will be no fractional ownership of aircraft — just the facility.
While he is optimistic for the future of business aviation and aircraft charter, Rutherford said he doesn't think the COVID-19 "reality" is going away anytime soon. "There's a huge question mark for a lot of fleets about what will happen with the U.S.," he said. "Our jets were doing trips to the U.S. and we've seen a significant decline."
Calgary-based charter operator and aircraft management company Sunwest Aviation has also recorded a drop in flights to the U.S., but the gap has largely been filled by domestic trips to Western Canada.
"At Sunwest, we have started providing fixed-price, one-way trips between Alberta and certain cities in the west, such as Kelowna, Vancouver, and Victoria," reported Helder Carvalho, the company's marketing manager. Compared to the same period last year, charter flights to these destinations are up by more than 35 per cent, while trips to Montana have increased 10-fold over 2019. Sunwest's cargo and air ambulance divisions have remained steady throughout 2020.
About 70 per cent of Private Air's new clients include businesses looking for safer ways to move their people. The other 30 per cent represents individuals trying to travel to their winter homes. Private Air Photo
"We are waiting to see what happens with our trips to Palm Springs, Calif., and Scottsdale, Ariz., which tend to be very popular in the winter," said Carvalho. "With rapid testing in Calgary, we're optimistic that travel to the U.S. will pick up again."
While there's always been a business case for private aviation — anchored by convenience, control, access and efficiency — powerful health reasons now support chartering an aircraft.
"With COVID-19, businesses, families and individuals look at business aviation as a way to travel while reducing their risks," explained Carvalho. "They reduce the number of touchpoints and fly with a known passenger list, reducing the chance of travel interruptions or delays that can occur with commercial airlines right now, such as flight changes or cancellations."
Sunwest is also attracting new charter customers, and has noticed an increasing trend of families and friends pooling resources to share a private flight. Entrepreneurs, corporations, and snowbirds looking to head south for the winter are calling for information on aircraft charters.
Carvalho said there's been increased interest in Sunwest's aircraft management services, too. "Last month, we added two managed aircraft to the fleet, a Gulfstream G150 business jet and a King Air 350 turboprop."
The same is true at Toronto-based Private Air, which provides aircraft management services and private charters. Robert Arnone, company president and CEO, told Skies that following a lull in May and June, flight activity started to open up in July.
"Charter started increasing, and the other avenue that has been surprising is the addition of owner-managed aircraft to the fleet," he said. "So, there is activity in aircraft acquisition and people needing a service to manage them."
From July to October, flight activity had been increasingly steadily, added Arnone. "We haven't quite gotten back to [2019] numbers, but we are starting to see more and more inquiries from regular and new clientele."
Currently, Private Air manages 14 aircraft based across the country. Arnone said that while domestic demand has increased, most flights are now heading south.
About 70 per cent of the company's new clients include businesses looking for safer ways to move their people. The remaining 30 per cent represents individuals trying to get down to their winter homes.
Arnone has confidence in the future of private aviation, noting that over the last few decades, more and more businesses have realized increased efficiencies by moving their staff privately rather than commercially.
"It's been increasing slowly and steadily, and today, the health and safety aspect is prominent," he said.
"I think the need for face-to-face contact won't disappear. We can Band-Aid it with video conferencing and technology, but the fundamental need will exist forever. People — and especially companies doing business in multiple locations — are looking at alternatives. I believe private aviation will continue to grow, and I think we'll experience significant growth once borders open and restrictions disappear."
WINGX's Koe agreed the outlook appears much brighter once the second wave of COVID-19 is contained — although in November, his company said global business aviation activity was once again sliding backward.
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For a movie that just received the two top awards at a Christian film festival, you<|fim_middle|> is the redeemer of lost time and so faithful to His promises.
Family—and faith in God—shows through strongly in the film, not just because of the script and directing, but also because of the real-life, behind-the-scenes happenings throughout the course of the filming.
God's ways are not always man's ways. In recent years, many films have been released, accompanied by a host of marketing resources to promote the franchise. Like Arrows flips that on its head. Peeples points out that the film is more of a "Session 0" for the video curriculum series, FamilyLife's Art of Parenting. | wouldn't expect that Like Arrows was originally intended as a small-group parenting study. When director Kevin Peeples was approached about writing and directing a story on parenting, it was pitched as a video element for the upcoming video curriculum, FamilyLife's Art of Parenting™ . There was only an outside chance that it could become something more.
The final product, though, has exceeded expectations. Like Arrows, which premiered in theaters in May 2018, received Best Film and Audience Choice honors at the Christian Worldview Film Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. It's FamilyLife's first feature-length film.
Peeples says he was first approached by Alex Kendrick (War Room, Courageous, Facing the Giants) about the project. "I was told that FamilyLife wanted a feature-film story arc that would bridge across six 10-minute segments—that when the video curriculum was completed the viewer would have seen an entire feature film, or a single continuous story," he says. "Each episode, or chapter, would be a different period of time in the parents' 50-year journey.
Peeples signed on to the project because he liked its message on parenting. Before Like Arrows, he directed a couple of documentary films, a successful Christian apologetics YouTube series, and countless commercials. Kevin and his wife, Dinika, head up Pro-Family Films, which creates original films that uphold a gospel-centered worldview of marriage, children and family.
Kevin and Dinika Peeples with their children.
Kevin and Dinika don't just know about filmmaking. With six children and another on the way, they know a lot about the blessings and challenges of parenting. And that shows through Kevin's role as co-writer.
Apparently Like Arrows is making an impact. "I've been approached by fathers who say the film has encouraged them to keep praying for their prodigal children, and most people say there's at least one scene that's straight out of their own memory books. I think what's come out of it is the message that it's not too late. There's still time. God | 432 |
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Audit of charities encounters resistance
Nineteen of Canada's 100 top charities would not release full financial statements, an independent agency says
By Raveena Aulakh and Amy DempseyStaff reporters
Tue., Nov. 15, 2011timer5 min. read
Nineteen of Canada's 100 largest charities do not release their full audited financial statements to the public and refused to provide them to an independent agency that evaluates charities.
It took a special request to the Canada Revenue Agency to get detailed information for big-name charities such as the Aga Khan Foundation Canada, the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation and the War Amps of Canada.
This lack of transparency was just one of many surprising findings of Charity Intelligence Canada, an independent agency that on Tuesday launched a first<|fim_middle|> UBC Hospital Foundation — 4 years | -of-its-kind search engine to help Canadians decide where to donate.
The website, charityintelligence.ca, breaks down revenue, program costs and fundraising expenses in reports on each of Canada's 100 richest charities, measured by annual revenue.
There were some interesting, bizarre and downright inexplicable aspects to many charities, but nothing more concerning than the lack of transparency from the 19 which refused to provide financial information, said Greg Thomson, director of research for the agency.
"There could be a number of reasons," Thomson told the Star in an interview. "In some cases, it's not high priority for them . . . others probably wondered who we are. Some might worry that someone will find something."
Charities are not legally bound to disclose their audited financial statements to the public, but it is considered ethical to do so because they take in public dollars, Thomson said.
"If a charity is not transparent, you may as well reconsider donating."
Other highlights from the agency's findings:
• The top 100 charities receive 37 per cent of total Canadian donations (about $3.6 billion of the $9.7 billion donated).
• One-quarter of the top 100 charities have enough cash on hand to run their current programs for three or more years without having to fundraise another penny.
• Fourteen of the richest charities spend more than 35 per cent of donations on fundraising, exceeding Canada Revenue Agency guidelines. Eight spent more than 40 per cent.
Heart & Stroke Foundation branches in B.C./Yukon and Ontario spend nearly 50 cents of every dollar raised on fundraising campaigns and events, Charity Intelligence found.
Thomson said overspending in this area has created a "fundraising arms race," where smaller and less profitable charities which want to compete for attention with the big guys — the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, for example — are forced to increase their own fundraising budgets.
"They are all competing for the same donor dollars," said Bri Trypuc, who handles donor services for Charity Intelligence.
She pointed out that charities spent an average 18 cents of every dollar on fundraising 10 years ago. "Today, the average is 35 cents."
Jim Balsillie's Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo and Toronto's SickKids Foundation are among several that could stop fundraising tomorrow and continue operating on reserve funds for five years or more, according to Charity Intelligence.
It does not advise against donating to charities with large reserve funds but it does tell donors who don't want their money to sit in a bank account for several years to go with a charity that has a more immediate need.
"Every charity has a cash cushion," Trypuc said. "What we're questioning is how much of a cash cushion they need."
The Star asked four charities why they did not provide their full audited financial statements to Charity Intelligence when asked.
The Aga Khan Foundation and the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation said they provide audited financial statements when requested. A spokesperson for the Aga Khan Foundation in Ottawa said they couldn't recall any requests by Charity Intelligence.
A spokesperson for York University's foundation said it posts summarized financial statements on its website.
The Centre for International Governance Innovation said it posts summarized financial statements online and will file with Charity Intelligence in the future.
Meanwhile, Charity Intelligence wants to expand the charities on its website and is inviting suggestions from the public. It aims to have 1,000 charity reports online within the next three years.
19 of Canada's 100 richest charities refused to make their audited financial statements public, forcing Charity Intelligence to ask the Canada Revenue Agency to dig them up:
VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, Vancouver
Ducks Unlimited Canada, Stonewall, Man.
Crossroads Christian Communications, Burlington
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Canada, Georgetown, Ont.
Aga Khan Foundation Canada, Ottawa
War Amps of Canada, Ottawa
Children's Wish Foundation of Canada, Pickering
The Malvern Rouge Valley Youth Services, Scarborough
Help Eliminate Disease and Addiction Canada, Toronto
The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation, Toronto
United Israel Appeal of Canada, Toronto
United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto
United Jewish Welfare Fund of Toronto
York University Foundation
Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo
Canadian Cancer Society Quebec Division, Montreal
Cancer Research Society, Montreal
Montreal General Hospital Foundation
Vaad Mishmeres Mitzvos Committee to Observe the Torah Laws, Montreal
Source: Charity Intelligence Canada
HIGH FUNDRAISING COSTS
14 of Canada's 100 richest charities spend more on fundraising than the Canada Revenue Agency's recommended limit: 35 per cent of revenue:
Heart & Stroke Foundation of British Columbia and Yukon — 49.3%
Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario — 49.1%
Canadian National Institute for the Blind — 48.8%
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada — 48.4%
War Amps of Canada — 46.2%
Canadian Diabetes Association — 44.4%
The Kidney Foundation of Canada — 44%
Canadian Cancer Society BC & Yukon Division — 41.1%
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada — 39.3%
Canadian Cancer Society Ontario Division — 37.1%
Canadian Cancer Society Alberta/NWT Division — 36.9%
Cancer Research Society — 35.3%
Alberta Cancer Foundation — 35.1%
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation — 35.1%
CASH ON HAND
One-quarter of Canada's top 100 charities have enough cash on hand to cover three or more years of annual program costs. This list shows the number of years those charities could operate for without having to raise a single penny, according to Charity Intelligence calculations. The estimates leave out donor endowed funding.
Vancouver Foundation — 14 years
Centre for International Governance Innovation — 9 years
Aga Khan Foundation Canada — 8 years
Montreal Heart Institute Foundation — 8 years
London Health Sciences Foundation — 8 years
Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation — 7.5 years
Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation — 6.5 years
Alberta Cancer Foundation — 5.5 years
SickKids Foundation — 5 years
Terry Fox Foundation — 5 years
The Salvation Army — 4.5 years
Ottawa Hospital Foundation — 4.5 years
Sunnybrook Foundation — 4 years
Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation — 4 years
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Discover the Book - June 1, 2013
Materialism Clutters Our Lives
"Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells." -2 Peter 3:12-13, emphasis added
Because materialism clutters our lives, we are so covered over with the things of life that bog us down that we fail to realize nothing here is going to last forever. That fact ought to discourage materialism and encourage us to live expectantly<|fim_middle|> prophecy is not to sell books and make charts, but to make us expectant of Christ's return. Materialism, however, clouds our eyes so that we can't see clearly enough to look up expectantly. We must therefore learn to develop an enduringly hopeful life-and live purely: "Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless" (2 Peter 3:14).
Keep looking up because your redemption is near! That hope is why the Apostle Paul said that our citizenship is in heaven, and that is why the early Christians made it through such horrific persecution.
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Committing everything we have to Christ will make us build with fireproof materials. While we lived in California, we saw that grass fires would throw sparks on wood roofs and burn houses down. The residents there soon learned that they could not use wood shingle roofs, so they switched to tile shingles that look similar but are made of fireproof material. They are heavier, last longer, and yet they won't burn. Scripture says that we are living on the edge of a swift fire that is racing toward us. Therefore we ought to be conscientiously building our life with fireproof materials. All that is solely for use on earth is temporary, but anything elevated from its earthly use and given to Christ will last forever. And that is exciting!
Some people get discouraged if they can't find a parking place, the TV isn't working, or if they are picked on at school or at work. Now compare those small inconveniences with living every day in the dark, by torch light, in a sewer. That is what the Christians did during the great persecutions in Rome. When I take a tour group to Rome, we visit one of the most incredible spots in the city. Next to the Coliseum, about forty feet underground, are the catacombs-the garbage and sewer system of the Coliseum. Those drainage systems provided a safe haven for the Christians because no one wanted to come after them there. At night, after their loved ones had been martyred in the games, these believers would climb up the storm sewers, push off the lid, gather up any remains, and carry them back to the catacombs to be buried in niches in the rocks.
What would keep a person going during such great tribulation? The only way to endure adversity of that nature is to not look down, but up for Christ. Now apply that to today's ominous times: I am not looking for the Antichrist or the mark of the beast-I am looking for Jesus! That is the only way you can really live abundantly in this present life.
There are those who believe that Bible prophecy is simply trying to figure out what the mark of the beast is, and who is going to get it. But the Bible says that we should not be concerned with that. The whole purpose of Bible | 471 |
UFC 268: Justin Gaethje-Michael Chandler Could Be Fight Of The Night
Posted By Dana Becker On November 5, 2021 @ 8:00 am In MMA,M<|fim_middle|> after losses to Dustin Poirier and Eddie Alvarez.
These are both guys who love to go for the finish, have excellent wrestling and are true fighters of the sport.
Expect nothing short of fireworks inside MSG.
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We get a couple great championship rematches at UFC 268.
But the "Fight of the Night" could go to another bout.
UFC 268 takes place this Saturday night live from Madison Square Garden in New York City. Colby Covington challenges Kamaru Usman for the welterweight title.
And in the co-main event, Rose Namajunas defends her strawweight title vs. Zhang Weili.
Both of those are incredible rematches that could leave the fans standing on their feet.
However, further down the card is one incredible fight.
Michael Chandler and Justin Gaethje will meet in a battle of lightweight powers. And former champions in their own right.
Chandler, the 35-year-old former Bellator titleholder, is coming off a tough loss to Charles Oliveira in May.
At the time, Chandler appeared poised to claim the vacant title. However, in the second round, he got caught and finished.
The loss snapped a three-fight win streak for Chandler. During that run, he made his Octagon debut with a first round TKO of Dan Hooker.
As for Gaethje, the former World Series of Fighting champion won the interim belt with a finish of Tony Ferguson. But at UFC 254 in 2020, he was stopped by Khabib Nurmagomedov in the unification match.
Overall, Gaethje has been running over UFC foes, earning wins vs. Ferguson, Donald Cerrone, Edson Barboza and James Vick | 323 |
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Squ-areas
Three squares are drawn on the sides of a triangle ABC. Their areas are respectively 18 000, 20 000 and 26 000 square centimetres. If the outer vertices of the squares are joined, three more. . . .
Inscribed in a Circle
The area of a square inscribed in a circle with a unit radius is, satisfyingly, 2. What is the area of a regular hexagon inscribed in a circle with a unit radius?
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Six circular discs are packed in different-shaped boxes so that the discs touch their neighbours and the sides of the box. Can you put the boxes in order according to the areas of their bases?
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Tilted Squares
It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?
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Isosceles
Prove that a triangle with sides of length 5, 5 and 6 has the same area as a triangle with sides of length 5, 5 and 8. Find other pairs of non-congruent isosceles triangles which have equal areas.
Where Is the Dot?
A dot starts at the point (1,0) and turns anticlockwise. Can you estimate the height of the dot after it has turned through 45 degrees? Can you calculate its height?
Equilateral Areas
ABC and DEF are equilateral triangles of side 3 and 4 respectively. Construct an equilateral triangle whose area is the sum of the area of ABC and DEF.
Rhombus in Rectangle
Take any rectangle ABCD such that AB > BC. The point P is on AB and Q is on CD. Show that there is exactly one position of P and Q such that APCQ is a rhombus.
Find the ratio of the outer shaded area to the inner area for a six pointed star and an eight pointed star.
Nicely Similar
If the hypotenuse (base) length is 100cm and if an extra line splits the base into 36cm and 64cm parts, what were the side lengths for the original right-angled triangle?
Liethagoras' Theorem
Liethagoras, Pythagoras' cousin (!), was jealous of Pythagoras and came up with his own theorem. Read this article to find out why other mathematicians laughed at him.
Grid Lockout
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Kite in a Square
Can you make sense of the three methods to work out the area of the kite in the square?
Matter of Scale
Prove Pythagoras' Theorem using enlargements and scale factors.
Take a Square
Cut off three right angled isosceles triangles to produce a pentagon. With two lines, cut the pentagon into three parts which can be rearranged into another square.
Three circular medallions fit in a rectangular box. Can you find the radius of the largest one?
A Chordingly
Find the area of the annulus in terms of the length of the chord which is tangent to the inner circle.
The Pillar of Chios
Semicircles are drawn on the sides of a rectangle. Prove that the sum of the areas of the four crescents is equal to the area of the rectangle.
Pareq Calc
Triangle ABC is an equilateral triangle with three parallel lines going through the vertices. Calculate the length of the sides of the triangle if the perpendicular distances between the parallel. . . .
Ladder and Cube
A 1 metre cube has one face on the ground and one face against a wall. A 4 metre ladder leans against the wall and just touches the cube. How high is the top of the ladder above the ground?
Three Four Five
Two semi-circles (each of radius 1/2) touch each other, and a semi-circle of radius 1 touches both of them. Find the radius of the circle which touches all three semi-circles. | 4?
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Circle Scaling
Describe how to construct three circles which have areas in the ratio 1:2:3.
The Medieval Octagon
Medieval stonemasons used a method to construct octagons using ruler and compasses... Is the octagon regular? Proof please.
Squaring the Circle and Circling the Square
If you continue the pattern, can you predict what each of the following areas will be? Try to explain your prediction.
Circle Box
It is obvious that we can fit four circles of diameter 1 unit in a square of side 2 without overlapping. What is the smallest square into which we can fit 3 circles of diameter 1 unit?
Prove that the shaded area of the semicircle is equal to the area of the inner circle.
ABCDEFGH is a 3 by 3 by 3 cube. Point P is 1/3 along AB (that is AP : PB = 1 : 2), point Q is 1/3 along GH and point R is 1/3 along ED. What is the area of the triangle PQR?
The Old Goats
A rectangular field has two posts with a ring on top of each post. There are two quarrelsome goats and plenty of ropes which you can tie to their collars. How can you secure them so they can't. . . .
Where to Land
Chris is enjoying a swim but needs to get back for lunch. How far along the bank should she land?
The Dangerous Ratio
This article for pupils and teachers looks at a number that even the great mathematician, Pythagoras, found terrifying.
Semi-square
What is the ratio of the area of a square inscribed in a semicircle to the area of the square inscribed in the entire circle?
Squareo'scope Determines the Kind of Triangle
A description of some experiments in which you can make discoveries about triangles.
Circumnavigation
The sides of a triangle are 25, 39 and 40 units of length. Find the diameter of the circumscribed circle.
Pythagoras Proofs
Can you make sense of these three proofs of Pythagoras' Theorem?
Two Circles
Draw two circles, each of radius 1 unit, so that each circle goes through the centre of the other one. What is the area of the overlap?
Equal circles can be arranged so that each circle touches four or six others. What percentage of the plane is covered by circles in each packing pattern? ...
Get Cross
A white cross is placed symmetrically in a red disc with the central square of side length sqrt 2 and the arms of the cross of length 1 unit. What is the area of the disc still showing?
Under the Ribbon
A ribbon is nailed down with a small amount of slack. What is the largest cube that can pass under the ribbon ?
Are You Kidding
If the altitude of an isosceles triangle is 8 units and the perimeter of the triangle is 32 units.... What is the area of the triangle?
Cutting a Cube
A half-cube is cut into two pieces by a plane through the long diagonal and at right angles to it. Can you draw a net of these pieces? Are they identical?
Explain how the thirteen pieces making up the regular hexagon shown in the diagram can be re-assembled to form three smaller regular hexagons congruent to each other.
Slippage
A ladder 3m long rests against a wall with one end a short distance from its base. Between the wall and the base of a ladder is a garden storage box 1m tall and 1m high. What is the maximum distance. . . .
All Is Number
Read all about Pythagoras' mathematical discoveries in this article written for students.
Partly Circles
What is the same and what is different about these circle questions? What connections can you make?
Fitting In
The largest square which fits into a circle is ABCD and EFGH is a square with G and H on the line CD and E and F on the circumference of the circle. Show that AB = 5EF. Similarly the largest. . . .
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CTRP2 (mouse) monoclonal antibody (Didoo-1)
ALX-804-834-C100 100 µg 300.00 USD
Alternative Name: Complement C1q tumor necrosis factor-related protein 2, C1qTNF2
Clone: Didoo-1
Host: Mouse
Isotype: IgG2b
Immunogen: Recombinant mouse CTRP2 (C1q tumor necrosis factor-α-related protein 2) (aa 26-260).
UniProt ID: Q9D8U4
Source: Purified from concentrated hybridoma tissue culture supernatant.
Species reactivity: Mouse
Applications: ELISA, IP, WB
Recommended Dilutions/Conditions: Immunoprecipitation (1:200)
Western Blot (1:1,000)
Suggested dilutions/conditions may not be available for all applications.
Optimal conditions must be determined individually for each application.
Formulation: Liquid. In PBS containing 0.02% sodium azide.
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Handling: Avoid freeze/thaw cycles. After opening, prepare aliquots and store at -20°C.
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CTRP5 (human), (recombinant) (His-tag)
Produced in E. coli. The mature peptide of human CTRP5 (aa 16-243) is fused at the N-terminus to a His-tag., ≥90% (SDS-PAGE) | Print as PDF
CTRP Monoclonal antibody
Adipokines & Receptors
Obesity Catalog | metabolism, particularly by increasing insulin sensitivity in muscle and liver, and by increasing fatty acid oxidation in muscle. CTRP2 belongs to a highly conserved family of adiponectin paralogs designated as C1q tumor necrosis factor-alpha-related proteins (CTRPs) 1-7. CTRP2 (mouse) has been reported to rapidly induce phosphorylation of AMP-activated protein kinase, acetyl-CoA carboxylase, and mitogen-activated protein kinase in C2C12 myotubes, which resulted in increased glycogen accumulation and fatty acid oxidation.
Figure: Detection of mouse CTRP2 with MAb to CTRP2 (Didoo-1) (Prod. No. ALX-804-834) by Western blot. Method: Cell extracts (5x105) from HEK 293T( lane1) or HEK293wt transfected with a plasmid coding for mouse CTRP2 (lane 2) were resolved by SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions, transferred to nitrocellulose and incubated with the MAb to CTRP2 (Didoo-1) (1:1'000) for 2 hours, followed by incubation with HRP-coupled anti-mouse secondary antibody (1:4'000)."
A family of Acrp30/adiponectin structural and functional paralogs: G.W. Wong, et al.; PNAS 101, 10302 (2004), Abstract;
CTRP7 polyclonal antibody (AT103)
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CTRP7 monoclonal antibody (Anna-1)
Purified from concentrated hybridoma tissue culture supernatant., ELISA, IHC (PS), IP, WB | Print as PDF
CTRP5 (mouse), (recombinant)
Produced in E. coli. Recombinant mouse CTRP5 (Complement C1q tumor necrosis factor-related protein 5) (aa 16-243) is fused at the N-terminus to a linker peptide (14 aa) and a FLAG®-tag., ≥95% (SDS-PAGE) | Print as PDF
CTRP2 (globular domain) (mouse), (recombinant)
Produced in HEK 293 cells. The globular domain of mouse CTRP2 (C1q tumor necrosis factor-α-related protein 2) (aa 151-294) is fused at the N-terminus to a FLAG®-tag., ≥90% (SDS-PAGE) | Print as PDF
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This bedroom expertly highlights a gorgeous, warm gold with uplighting and hanging glass balls for shine. There are numerous shades of green accessible, all of which can create a anxiety-totally free environment. I in no way thought of painting my bedroom that colour but I will attempt it. It will make me cheerful and happy. For exemple, designers select for bedroom particular colors to offer a calm, relaxed and peaceful sleep.
The key to a successful neutral bedroom color scheme lies beyond the colors Texture, pattern, and a bit of shimmer will make neutrals sing. You can paint one complete wall in the second color, or just paint the doors, baseboards, moldings and<|fim_middle|> the scheme. | window trim in the second colour. Whatever you pick to do, don't neglect to use the wow factors, mix up your purple with other colors, such as, pink, lime green or lavender.
You can go for a feminine, pretty feel with stripes in two shades of and pale lavender, or generate far more of a wild, rock 'n' roll room with two brighter shades of purple, or vibrant purple and a second color such as hot pink or lime green. For a bold look, paint your bed's headboard wall as a continuous line that carries up to the ceiling, forming a canopy effect like the image beneath, or add stripes to the ceiling like the black and white bedroom under. Here, a complementary pair (green and pink, a variation of red) present dynamic contrast. A wealthy slate on the walls leans heavily toward the blue finish of the gray spectrum and is the star of | 181 |
The Local Clustering Co-efficient tells us how connected the network is around a particular node. The clustering co-efficient is a fraction, representing the number of connections that exist as a proportion of the number that could exist.
So for example, if I have three friends (Derek, Ed, and Fre<|fim_middle|> network, a relationship between node A and node B is the same as the relationship between node B and node A (for example, a friendship relationship in a social network). In a directed network, the relationship between node A and node B can be different than the relationship between node B and node A (for example, a follower relationship in a social network).
Knowing the average clustering co-efficients allows us to compare different networks in terms of how densely their nodes are connected. | ya), then those friends have three potential connections (Derek - Ed, Ed - Freya, Freya - Derek). If only one of those potential connections actually exists (for example if Derek is friends with Ed) then one out of three connections exist, giving me a local clustering co-efficient of 1/3.
The local clustering co-efficient is a measure introduced by Watts and Strogatz in 1998 in their work to identify small world networks. It is calculated for each node in the network to examine the existing connections between its neighbouring nodes. In other words, it checks the existing connections between the neighbours of a given node to see whether they form a clique around that node.
Let's look at the following example to illustrate the clustering co-efficient.
C's neighbours are A, B, D and E.
There is only one existing connection between C's neighbours, and that is AB.
There are six possible connections between its neighbours: AD, AE, BD, BE, DE and the one that is already there which is AB.
The clustering co-efficent is essentially a measure of how densely connected the network is around a particular node. So for example in a social network a person with a high clustering co-efficient is one whose friends tend to be friends with one another, forming a clique.
Thinking about your own social networks, are there ones in which your friends tend not to know one another, or ones in which they do (in other words where you have a particularly high or low clustering co-efficient)?
The definition of the local clustering co-efficient is different for directed and undirected networks. In an undirected | 329 |
A radio DJ (message source) speaks (input message) into a microphone (input transducer) which converts the sound into an electrical signal (input signal). The electrical signal is then modified<|fim_middle|> our knowledge base, and then (hopefully) act appropriately on it. So let's try not to get lost in the technology during our study of data communications and try to always keep in mind what their ultimate purpose is. | by an FM modulator to convert it to FM radio frequencies, and then transmitted from the radio station antenna (transmitter). The FM signal travels over the air (channel) where it may be modified by environmental disturbances (noise). The signal is then received at the antenna of your radio (receiver) where it is modified again to bring the electrical signal back to the baseband frequency. The electrical signal runs through the radio's speakers (transducer) which vibrate and you (message destination) can hear what the DJ said (output message).
You (message source) have a message you want to send to a friend (input message). You type the message into your cell phone (input transducer) , and your message get turned into 1s and 0s of electronic data (input message). The 1s and 0s are modulated by the transmitter/antenna (transmitter) on your phone and turned into an electromagnetic signal (transmitted signal). The electromagnetic signal is received at the antenna of the cellular network base station (receiver), and converted back into 1s and 0s (output signal) The output signal then gets sent over the cellular network to the base station nearest your friend (this whole system could also be modeled using the fundamental model too) and the process is reversed to send the message from the base station to your friend.
Electronic communications use the properties of electricity, and electromagnetism to send information from one point to another. It is a wide field of study because of the different kinds of signals used for sending the information, the different media (systems) the information is sent through, and because of the many complex ways of representing information.
Signals are the means by which we transfer information. Signals can come in many forms, but in electronic communications, the signals we are interested in are electrical signals (voltage) that vary with time. By properly manipulating the signals, we can encode information onto them which can be transmitted to someone/something that requires the information.
The features of this signal that can be manipulated to encode information are the peak amplitude of the signal, the frequency of the signal, and the phase shift of the signal. Although this signal v(t) is a continuous, analog, deterministic, and infinite signal (we'll learn more about all of these features in the next section), the idea of changing features of the signal to encode information on it is universal across all types of signals.
Analyzing the signals themselves can be interesting, a discussion of communication systems is not complete without including the systems that the signals travel through.
Coaxial Cable: Also known as coax. This type of cable consists of a copper wire running down the middle that is surrounded by an insulator. Surrounding this insulator is a cylindrical conductor covered in a plastic protective sheath. Coaxial cable has excellent noise immunity and can carry high data rates. Coax is commonly used for cable television and local area networks.
Fibre Optics: A fibre optic cable consists of a very long thin fibre of glass down which light pulses can be sent. The data rates supported by fibre optic networks are incredibly fast. So fast in fact that most people involved in fibre optic development now say that in relation to network speeds, computers are hopelessly slow, and so we must try to avoid computation at all costs.
Wireless: When electrons move, they create electromagnetic waves that propagate through free space (and unlike sound waves they can even propagate through a vacuum). As we will see later on in this course, these waves can be manipulated to carry information from a transmitter to a receiver. This "manipulation" is the basis of wireless communications. Typical examples of wireless include AM and FM radio (as we will see later AM and FM refer to more than just the radio stations you can listen to), cellular networks, satellite communications and WLANS.
The receiver consists of the components that extract the signal out of a channel, and may include an antenna, a demodulator, a decoder and filters.
In analog communication, the communicating signal has continuous values within its valid range. This means that the signal can take any value between the minimum and maximum value it can have. The basic example of an analog form of communications is speech; a speech signal, or waveform has continuous values (amplitudes) over the range of possible values.
Digital messages are transmitted using a finite set of values. A classic example is Morse code where a dash can be transmitted by one value/amplitude/voltage and a dot can be transmitted by another. Basic binary transmission also uses two different values where a 1 is transmitted by one value/amplitude/voltage, and a zero by another. However digital communication systems aren't limited to using only two values. A system can use many different "symbols" or values to pack more data into each symbol. This kind of system is called an M-ary system. We will study these in more detail later, but to give a basic example, think of a system in which a 1 is transmitted by a sine wave of one frequency, and a 0 is transmitted by another frequency. This is called a frequency shift keying (or FSK) system. It is easy to imagine expanding this system to include more frequencies for more values (e.g. four frequencies to represent 00, 01, 10, and 11). We will study more about FSK and other digital communication systems later.
Let's take a step back from all of this electronics, electromagnetism and mathematics, and consider what we are trying to do with electronic communication systems. At the most basic level they are used to send data back and forth. But data are just raw symbols (numbers, characters, bits…) that do not have any meaning by themselves. Data must be given a context (that is shared and known by the transmitter and receiver). When data is given a context, then it becomes information. Another way to look at it is that information is the "stuff" that we know, and data is the representation of that "stuff". But even if we think about a communication system as a means to send information back and forth, I don't think we have the complete picture yet either. Consider receiving a text message from a friend that simply says "i'm home". This is certainly a piece of information, but you need to already have other information such as who "I" is referring to, and where this home is in order to glean anything useful from the message. When you tie a number of pieces of information together in a useful framework, then you have some knowledge. However, even if you know exactly who "I" is and exactly where that home is, you still need something else. You need to be able to take that knowledge and have the ability to interpret and apply it, in order take action based on the message "i'm home" that you received. When you can do this, then you have wisdom (at least to a small degree).
So, the bottom line is this: these fantastic communication systems that surround us everyday are there in order that we can quickly send data back and forth in order to build up the amount of information that we know so that we can add this information to | 1,466 |
Q: Why study integrality? Here are a few of the basic definitions related to integrality.
(1) A polynomial in $R[x]$ is monic<|fim_middle|> by $\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_n$, the minimal polynomial of $\alpha$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ is
$$\prod_{\sigma\in\text{Gal}(K/\mathbb{Q})}(T-\sigma(\alpha))=T^n+e_1(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_n)T^{n-1}+\cdots+(-1)^n e_n(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_n)$$
where $e_j$ is the $j^\text{th}$ elementary symmetric polynomial. In particular, using the fact that $\mathcal{O}_K$ is a ring, and the third property of $\mathcal{O}_K$, we see that the minimal polynomial for $\alpha$ has coefficients in $\mathcal{O}_K\cap$. But, the minimal polynomial over $\mathbb{Q}$ of anything has coefficients in $\mathbb{Q}$. Thus, the coefficients lie in $\mathcal{O}_K\cap\mathbb{Q}=\mathbb{Z}$. From this, we conclude that $\mathcal{O}_K$ is contained in $R$.
The first property of $\mathcal{O}_K$ forces $\mathcal{O}_K$ to be what is called an order inside of $R$. And then, the last condition forces $\mathcal{O}_K$ to be a maximal order inside of $R$ which, by some commutative algebra, must be $R$ itself.
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While this doesn't tell you why integral closure makes intuitive sense (this is best understood as a normalization procedure in algebraic geometry, as hinted at by oxeimon in their post), it does tell you why integral closure is forced upon you. Any reasonable theory of 'the integers' inside of a number field has to be, at least in the case of a Galois extension of $\mathbb{Q}$, the integral closure of $\mathbb{Z}$.
In fact, if you demand more generally (than the second condition) that $\mathcal{O}_L\cap K=\mathcal{O}_K$, for $L\supseteq K$, then by embedding any extension in a Galois closure, you see that $\mathcal{O}_K$ must be the integral closure of $\mathbb{Z}$ in $K$ in general.
Of course, this discussion extends quite nicely to field extensions of things other than $\mathbb{Q}$.
A: The notion of integrality exists to talk about divisibility, factorizations, size and in general just the notion of being "whole". Just think about how the theory of the ring $\mathbb{Z}$ is the subject of the entirety of number theory, whereas nobody really thinks about $\mathbb{Q}$.
If you wanted to generalize the idea of "integer-like" to finite extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$, say $\mathbb{Q}(i)$, then you need a notion of what makes an element of $\mathbb{Q}(i)$ "integral"?. In some sense $i$ seems integral..., so say you want to include $i$ as an $\mathbb{Q}(i)$-integer. Now going by the intuition from $\mathbb{Z}$, the sum, difference, and product of two integers should be integers, so we'll consider everything in $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ to be integral. But is that it? Is $\mathbb{Z}[i]$ all the integers of $\mathbb{Q}(i)$? You certainly don't want to also include stuff like $1/2, 1/3, 1/4...$, but what about $1/i$? What about $1/(i+1)$?
So now you ask yourself, what exactly is the relation between $i$ and $\mathbb{Z}$? Well, $i$ is some "new number" that satisfies the polynomial $x^2+1\in\mathbb{Z}[x]$. However, if we say that the "integers" of $\mathbb{Z}(i)$ are just the elements of $\mathbb{Q}(i)$ which are roots of polynomials over $\mathbb{Z}$, we note that $1/2$ is also the root of such a polynomial, namely $2x-1$. Thus, we're led to consider monic polynomials, and we can define the ring of integers $\mathcal{O}_K$ of a finite extension $K$ of $\mathbb{Q}$ to be the elements of $K$ that are integral over $\mathbb{Z}$. Note that under this definition, $1/i = -i$, and $-i$ also satisfies $x^2+1$, so $1/i\in\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{Q}(i)}$, in fact $\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{Q}(i)} = \mathbb{Z}[i]$. On the other hand, $1/(1+i)$ is not an "algebraic integer", since its minimal polynomial is $2x^2 - 2x + 1$. Some nice properties of these rings of integers $\mathcal{O}_K$ are as follows:
For any finite extension $K/\mathbb{Q}$,
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*$\mathcal{O}_K$ is an integral domain with $K$ its field of fractions.
*$\mathcal{O}_K$ is a Dedekind ring. This means, among others, that every nonzero prime ideal is maximal, and every ideal admits a unique factorization into a product of prime ideals.
*$\mathcal{O}_K$ is a free $\mathbb{Z}$-module of rank equal to $[K:\mathbb{Q}]$.
Anyway, this is the basic starting point of algebraic number theory.
Of course, thanks to Grothendieck, algebraic number theory is basically just a weird special case of algebraic geometry, where indeed integrality plays an enormous role, but that's a story for another day. I suppose as an appetizer you could think about what divisibility in the land of polynomials says about their roots. If you begin to think of roots as points, and identifying polynomials with their roots (their vanishing), then you'd be heading in the direction of the wonderful land of algebraic geometry.
| if its leading coefficient is $1$.
(2) An element is integral over a ring $R$ if it satisfies a monic polynomial in $R[x]$.
The above were easy to understand, and the problems I've done so far have yielded equivalent conditions with no more than a few straightforward manipulations. But, who cares if an element is integral? Where does that get us?
(3) An extension $L$ of $R$ is integral if every element of $L$ is integral over $R$.
(4) Given an ideal $I$ of $R$, the integral closure of $I$ in $R$ is the set of elements of $R$ that are integral over $I$.
In the same vein, what is the point of studying integral extensions? Intuitively, how do they fit into the structure of the ring? What are some motivating examples of interesting or unexpected integral closures?
Note: I realize this is several questions compounded into one; however, I believe a good answer would require answering the other four, so I have asked them all in one place.
A: Here's a nice piece of intuition I lifted from Dino Lorenzini's amazing book An Invitation to Arithmetic Geometry.
Let's suppose that you have some number field $K$ (a finite extension of $\mathbb{Q}$). For whatever reason (the solutions to Diophantine equations, say), you wanted to study some of the particular properties of $K$, or some subset of $K$. After working for a bit, you start to realize that you missed $\mathbb{Z}$. In particular, having some distinguished ring $\mathbb{Z}$ sitting inside $\mathbb{Q}$, whose fraction field was the full ring, made questions purely about $\mathbb{Q}$ easier to answer. Thus, you want some analogue of $\mathbb{Z}$ inside of $K$, call it $\mathcal{O}_K$.
So, you start to think to yourself "what properties should this $\mathcal{O}_K$ satisfy?" Well, first and foremost, the first thing we'd want (considering what we're after is)
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*$\text{Frac}(\mathcal{O}_K)=K$
Second we'd hope that we've chosen our 'integers' consistently so that if $L\supseteq K$, then $\mathcal{O}_K=K\cap\mathcal{O}_L$. In particular, since $\mathcal{O}_\mathbb{Q}$ should be $\mathbb{Z}$, we'd want:
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*$\mathcal{O}_K\cap\mathbb{Q}=\mathbb{Z}$
But, we'd want our choice of $\mathcal{O}_K$ to be canonical in some way. While there are many possibilities for what this could mean, there is one moderately obvious one. If $K/\mathbb{Q}$ is Galois, then if $R$ is any subring $R\subseteq K$ satisfying our first two conditions, then $\sigma(R)$ will be another such subring for $\sigma\in\text{Gal}(K/\mathbb{Q})$. Thus, if our choice of $\mathcal{O}_K$ should be canonical, we'd want that $\sigma(\mathcal{O}_K)=\mathcal{O}_K$ (setwise, not elementwise!) for all $\sigma$, so as to not generate other 'natural candidates' $\sigma(\mathcal{O}_K)$. So, we'd want
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*$\sigma(\mathcal{O}_K)=\mathcal{O}_K$ for all $\sigma\in\text{Gal}(K/\mathbb{Q})$
The last thing we'd want to require, for the same reasons of 'canonicalness', as the previous property is that:
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*$\mathcal{O}_K$ should be maximal with respect to these three properties
meaning that no subring of $K$ properly containing $\mathcal{O}_K$ should also satisfy these properties.
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The amazing thing, is that if $K/\mathbb{Q}$ is Galois, then these four properties actually force $\mathcal{O}_K$ to be the integral closure of $\mathbb{Z}$ in $K$, which we'll call $R$. Indeed, let $\alpha\in\mathcal{O}_K$. Then, if we denote the Galois conjugates of $\alpha$ | 954 |
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Arminas Jasikonis wakes from medically induced coma
Husqvarna Motorcycles would like to report positive news regarding Arminas Jasikonis' condition following his crash at the MXGP of Lombardia.
Admitted to hospital in Cremona, Italy, on Sunday, September 27, Arminas woke from his medically induced coma on Wednesday, September 30 and was quickly able to recognise and talk with his family and the exceptional medical staff around him, both in Lithuanian and English.
AJ can also move his body unaided, is in no pain and despite being understandably tired is thankfully over the worst of his injury and can soon start his rehabilitation.
Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing extend their thanks to all of the medical staff that have cared for AJ, and to those from around the world that expressed overwhelming support for him during the last few days.
Antti Pyrhönen - Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing MXGP Team Manager:
"Honestly, I have never been so happy to comment on one of my riders. To be able to say that AJ is ok, that he is going to be ok, it's a kind of miracle. These last few days since his accident have been so, so emotionally draining for everyone close to AJ, and just the worst of times. When he woke, when we realised that he could talk, that he could move all of his arms and legs, that he was in no pain and had no other injuries, it's still almost impossible to put into words how incredible that feeling was. Of course, AJ still has some way to go before he is fully recovered, and understandably he is still very tired, but the worst is now behind him and he can soon start his recovery. Again, I want to say a sincere thank you to every single person who had AJ in their thoughts during the last few days, to the overwhelming support and positivity we received from the MXGP paddock and the global motocross community. But especially I want to thank everyone at Husqvarna Motorcycles in Austria and the entire motorsports family there, to Robert Jonas and Heinz Kinigadner and also to our team owner Kimi, who immediately started organising many things behind the scenes. Everyone in the team is<|fim_middle|> positive outcome and so, so relieved that AJ will be ok."
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BBC iWonder: Should I donate my body to medical science?
The Human Tissue Authority (HT<|fim_middle|> to ensure that donated bodies are stored in a way to be of most use in training and research.
There are three main uses for donated bodies, which are:
Teaching students and professionals about the structure and function of a human body;
Training healthcare professionals on surgical techniques;
Research and scientific studies to improve understanding of the human body.
For more information on body donation, please read our Body, Brain and Tissue Donation Pack.
To coincide with the BBC iWonder guide, BBC True North have produced a documentary about body donation in Northern Ireland, which portrays the value that body donation has for the education of young doctors at Queens University, Belfast. The documentary, entitled Gift From Death is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
You can find a link to the BBC iWonder guide here
Last updated on: 9 Nov 2016 | A) has worked with BBC iWonder and Queen's University, Belfast to produce an interactive online guide about body donation. The guide includes a first-hand account from Dr Radha Modgi, who describes her experience of using donated bodies from her time as a medical student.
It also contains an infographic which sheds light on how each major part of the body is used to train healthcare professionals, which the HTA helped to produce.
Christopher Birkett, Head of Regulation at the HTA said, "It was a pleasure to work with colleagues on this project. One of our roles is to ensure that donated bodies are given with proper consent and are used in a respectful way. The BBC iWonder guide highlights why donated bodies are such a valuable gift and why they are important for training people who need to understand how parts of the body are formed, and how they work."
The HTA does not collect or receive bodies, but we license and inspect the organisations that do. We also help | 197 |
The do's and don't<|fim_middle|> coaching executives and leadership teams, and aligning strategy, leadership, and organizations to achieve business objectives. Mollor is a graduate of Executive Programs at The Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Business Administration from Merrimack College. He is a certified Executive Coach from Lore International Institute (a Korn/Ferry Company) and Coaching University, and is certified in several behavioral, 360, and engagement assessments and surveys. | s of building a robust succession plan.
If your CEO suddenly exits, do you know who will take his or her place? What if your top executives are unexpectedly persuaded to leave and go to another firm? Do you have the next generation of leaders ready?
If not, you may end up hiring too quickly, promoting under-qualified leaders, or moving leaders prematurely.
The most effective way to reduce the impact of depleted leadership is through a strong succession planning program that identifies and fosters the next generation of leaders through mentoring, training, coaching, and stretch assignments, so they are ready to take the helm when the time comes.
Examine hiring from within versus bringing in from the outside. Developing leaders internally takes time and effort, but these homegrown candidates are more likely to be successful than external candidates. Research shows external hires are 60 percent more likely to be laid off or fired, and 20 percent are more likely than internal hires to leave a job. These outside hires also get paid more but get lower marks in performance reviews during their first two years on the job.
Invest in high potentials without overlooking everyone else. Some companies focus their succession planning on high potentials; others consider the larger employee population (50 percent of companies today focus on the executive level). The value of specifically developing high potentials is channeling resources and coaching toward those with the greatest possibility of succeeding. However, you might risk overlooking great talent and alienating or frustrating the rest of the employees, which can affect morale, performance, and retention (only 10 percent of companies today focus on all critical positions at all levels). If you focus on high potentials, it's critical that all employees are provided development opportunities and visibility, if and when earned.
Develop the BASKET. Create a specific profile for every job: the Behavior, Attitude, Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Talent—or BASKET—necessary to succeed in the role. This will help employees understand what's expected of them in their current role and what it will take to be ready to move forward. Be able to assess the state of readiness for people to get to the next levels and their potential levels—can they move up one, two, or three levels? What's the timeframe? Are they at the level they should be?
Factor in where you are going. Be sure BASKET assessments consider the skills necessary to fulfill future roles—not just present ones. For example, if the company plans to expand globally, the next generation of leaders should be comfortable working abroad; or if growth plans involve rapid acquisitions, someone with finance skills and change management experience may be the best choice for leadership positions.
Assess the gaps. As part of the talent assessment process, assess everyone in the organization with an eye toward who is ready to take on key leadership roles today, in 36 months, and in 72 months. Use the BASKET assessments to do a gap analysis with employees to help them see what they need to do to be ready for the next level and how long that should take.
Identify roadblocks. Once you've completed the assessments, look for any bottlenecks in the development process that could prevent candidates from moving forward. This may include executives who block the way for the next generation or glaring gaps in readiness for critical roles. Ideally, you will have two to three candidates for every leadership and critical position in varying stages of readiness.
Succession equates career management. As part of the assessment, discuss with your employees their career goals and aspirations to be sure you are prepping them for a job they want.
Keep your eyes on today and tomorrow. Once you have a succession planning list in place and you know where your next generation of leaders are in their development process, use mentoring, coaching, stretch or rotational assignments, and regular feedback to close the gaps. Confirm employees are in agreement and ask them to set their own development goals and track their progress through regular performance assessments. Meeting expectations and ensuring employees are in alignment with their development and career track and timing is critical.
Validate, confirm. Review the succession plan with the C-suite and the board at least every nine to 15 months and when there is a major change in leadership or in corporate strategy/direction. This safeguards that you are up to date on the development of your top talent and that you identify any changes in direction that might require a tweak to the plan.
Factor diversity into decision-making. When managers seek employees to mentor and promote, they often gravitate toward people who are like them. If companies want diversity in their leadership, the succession-planning initiative should include steps that actively promote women and minorities for leadership opportunities and train managers to encourage diversity on their teams. Diversity includes attracting and including leaders who have different styles, strengths, and areas of expertise.
Make sure the board is onboard. Once assessments are complete, HR, the CEO, and the board of directors should come together to review the assessments and create a list of the top candidates for each role. By working with the CEO and the board, you ensure that everyone is on the same page about succession plans.
Succession isn't part of the culture. Succession planning fails when executives and all levels of leadership are not mentoring or shown how to develop their people. Leadership is a contact sport. Best-in-class companies encourage executives to identify and develop talented young leaders and often align key performance indicators (KPIs) and compensation with this responsibility. They have their leaders informally and formally involved in the development of other leaders. Culturally, it's a badge of honor and responsibility to the firm, its legacy and future.
Using the past to plan for the future. You need to choose leaders whose skills align with future goals. Ensure succession plans align with the long-term strategic vision of the business. Review what you believe you need of future leaders at least once a year.
Having an unaligned board. CEOs and HR often think they have a succession plan in place or candidates identified, only to discover the board disagrees.
Talent management roadblocks. When talented people top out in leadership roles, they can prevent the next generation from moving up. The best companies avoid these roadblocks by creating new positions, rotational assignments, and special projects (with high visibility), so future leaders have room to grow. Silos and not sharing talent across business units and divisions is also a barrier; your executives need to buy into talent sharing.
Inappropriate decision-makers. For example, CEOs aren't always in the best position to choose their successors. The best companies involve HR and the board when making succession-planning decisions, with input from the CEO.
Blinders beyond the CEO. The best succession-planning programs include the executive team, senior management, and all other critical positions in your organization.
Sixty-five percent of companies with a robust succession plan are effective at driving improved business results, and 60 percent of companies are effective at accelerating change and business growth. Succession planning can be the lifeline of talent development and retention, especially when connected to selection process and strategy. However, succession is a big undertaking, so make sure you have the necessary resources and support to create a plan worth following.
Chuck Mollor is the founding and Managing Partner of MCG Partners, a provider of leadership, talent, sales, and organizational effectiveness solutions and Chamber of Commerce winner of "Entrepreneur of the Year." For more than 25 years, Mollor has advised and consulted regional, national and international executives and organizations across industries, start-ups to Fortune 500, and not-for-profits. A former C-level executive, Mollor has led strategy, sales, marketing, product development, operations, and a global partnership of more than 100 consulting firms in 33 countries. He is an executive coach and strategic consultant specializing in | 1,580 |
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